LEESBURG, VA – Cornerstone Chapel installed a new 32-fader Lawo mc²56 audio production console at FOH, greatly expanding their mixing capacity and completing their transition to IP networking. The new console, handling both live performance and broadcast duties, works together with a Yamaha CL5 at monitors and a Waves Super Rack setup.
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LAS VEGAS – AES will co-locate its Fall 2021 AES Show with the 2021 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The physical portion of AES’ hybrid online/in person event will take place at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort (formerly the Hilton), which is adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center, from Oct. 11-13, 2021.
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TAMPA, FL – Sligh Middle Magnet School in Tampa upgraded with a new audio system powered by five Ashly Audio KLR-5000 amplifiers and one KLR-2000. Donovan Audio Designs installed the Ashly components to power a custom Ramsdell Pro Audio stereo line array loudspeaker system.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Brown Note Productions deployed an L-Acoustics K2 system for outdoor concert trek with a drive-in format featuring Aaron Lewis and Sully Erna, the voices of Staind and Godsmack. The P.A. included eight K2 flown per side with eight KS28 in front of the stage for the low end. Produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, the tour included 15 shows across the U.S. from Oct. 1-28.
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NASHVILLE – The Live Events Lift Up Festival/LEVL UP Fest will stream live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Dec. 16 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. Featuring more than 25 artists, it will honor all the backstage pros who help performers “go live,” with funds earmarked for MusiCares, The Roadie Clinic and CMAF.
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MIAMI – VOUS Church has grown rapidly in the last five years, not just with its services in two Miami-area school auditoriums equipped with DiGiCo SD9’s, but in the virtual realm. Production coordinator Jon Wygant is now using a new DiGiCo Quantum338 supplied by 3G Productions for VOUS Church’s iTech Auditorium, which delivers streaming services to 40,000 viewers each week.
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LAS VEGAS – As previously announced, the Parnelli Awards, which have coincided with the Winter NAMM show in recent years, will take a “gap” year in 2021. Instead, as NAMM goes virtual this year with its Believe in Music Week (Jan. 18-22), a retrospective of the Parnelli Awards’ 20-year history will appear in a special section within the Jan. 2021 issues of FRONT of HOUSE and PLSN magazines.
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MONTREAL – The 21st annual MUTEK electronic music and arts festival balanced virtual and live performances at two venues this year, using a hybrid model that depended on Meyer Sound products along with the company’s new spatial sound design and mixing tool, Spacemap Go for iPad.
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CHINA – The Songcheng Group, which has logged more than 8,000 performances seen by more than 35 million people a year with its Songcheng and Romance series of theatrical performances in 74 theaters across China, recently upgraded the sound within six of Songcheng’s 10 Romance theaters with KV2 Audio systems.
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SALZBURG, Austria – Pansound deployed an immersive, in-the-round installation of L-Acoustics’ L-ISA sound system for the 227-seat Oval venue within the Europark shopping mall in Salzburg, Austria. Sound designer Martin Rode (arms crossed) and Pansound project manager Rupert Pichler (in green shirt) are pictured here with the rest of the installation team.
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DOHA, Qatar – Along with a unique architectural design by Jean Nouvel, the new National Museum of Qatar features towering walls of video and an immersive, multi-dimensional audio created using FLUX::Immersive’s SPAT Revolution.
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BERN, Switzerland – The Muehle Hunziken (Hunziken Mill) in Rubigen, near Bern, upgraded the sound system within its 500-capacity auditorium. Audio specialists Schallwerk installed a point source Coda Audio system including APS, SCV-F, HOPS5 and CUE4 speakers powered by LINUS14D and LINUS-10C amps.
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