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WINTER PARK, FL – Fast-growing, nondenominational Action Church turned to Crown Design Group with two recent installation projects that centered on L-Acoustics Kara(i) and ARCS WiFo sound systems. The projects, at two of the church’s four locations, included a Kara(i) long throw system in the church’s main Winter Park location as well as an ARCS WiFo medium throw system for its smallest, in Sanford, FL.

LOS ANGELES – Weird Al Yankovic is bringing his pop song parodies to North American venues this summer, expanding from just the parodist and his… Read More »Weird Al Yankovic Hits the Road with a Pair of DiGiCo SD5 Consoles

LINCOLN, NE – After a demo, Jon Sauer, technical director at Berean Church, turned to Lincoln-based live event production company Inspirmedia to provide Allen & Heath dLive S7000 systems for FOH and monitor positions within the church’s 2,400-capacity auditorium.

HOUSTON – LD Systems helped ZZ Top kick off their 50th Anniversary tour with three shows in Texas supported by an L-Acoustics K Series loudspeaker system. LD Systems crew chief/systems engineer Julian Gates described the setup for the shows in Dallas, Houston and Austin that took place in May and also featured Bad Company and Cheap Trick.

AUSTIN, TX – The Lake Travis Independent School District turned to Austin-based Big House Sound for an assist with an audio upgrade for three theaters, and the soundco provided DiGiCo SD-Range consoles for the different performance spaces, including a 1,500-seat concert hall (SD7), 250-capacity black box theater and 275-seat recital hall (SD9 for each).

LAS VEGAS – The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Karrie Keyes, longtime monitor engineer for Pearl Jam and co-founder of SoundGirls, a nonprofit dedicated to the empowerment of the next generation of women in audio, will receive the Parnelli Audio Innovator Award at the 19th annual ceremony on Jan. 17, 2020.

DALLAS – Country artist Thomas Rhett’s 2019 “Very Hot Summer” North American tour launched in Montreal in late April and will wrap up at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Oct. 12. Spectrum Sound is supplying d&b audiotechnik KSL and GSL line array systems for the trek. Pictured here, from left: crew members Chris Clark, Trey Smith, Shawn Eacott, Wesley Crowe, Ashley Burns and Jeremy White.

STANFORD, CA – Stanford University has completed the first phase of a major upgrade program of sound reinforcement systems across its campus athletic venues. A total of 85 column array loudspeakers provide focused power and clear intelligibility in distributed and point source solutions for stadiums large and small.

MILWAUKEE, WI – The 2019 edition of Summerfest, billed as the world’s largest music festival, kicked off recently for its 52nd year with 130 headliners… Read More »Summerfest 2019 Revs Up with Assist from Clearwing-Supplied JBL/Crown Gear

NEW ORLEANS – For the new 3,500-seat sanctuary at the relocated Franklin Avenue Baptist Church (FABC), Mankin Media Systems designed and installed a long-throw L-Acoustics Kara system. The setup includes three hangs of 11 Kara(i), six floor-stacked KS28 subs plus arrays of four SM18i subs flown next to the left and right Kara hangs. Two short throw X8 extended-bandwidth loudspeakers provide frontfill, while a pair of medium throw ARCS Wide speakers flown behind the SB18i serve as choir monitors.