NASHVILLE – Nashville’s 2,300-seat Ryman Auditorium recently purchased two Yamaha Rivage PM7 Digital Audio Consoles. The venue’s FOH engineers, including Les Banks and Kevin McGinty, are pleased with the upgrade, and both are taking advantage of the PM7’s on-board Premium effects, Silk feature and Dante networking capabilities. Clair Solutions installed the consoles.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Sound Image San Francisco supported 11 of the 20 stages at the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Rally held June 23 and 24, using its entire inventory of VUE Audiotechnik gear for seven of the 11 stages, including the main stage located at the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall. The annual event celebrates the energy and diversity of the LGBTQ community.
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IGNACIO, CO – Music Masters provided PreSonus and WorxAudio audio gear for a fundraising event featuring country music singer/songwriter Ned LeDoux. The event, staged April 7, was held at Sky Ute Resort and raised funds for Hope Community Christian Academy in Ignacio, Colorado. Music Masters’ Brian Willyard flew WorxAudio XL1 line arrays complemented by TL218SS super subs on the floor, with PreSonus StudioLive 328AI and 18sAI subs used as stage monitors.
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FOGGIA, Italy – Centro Cultura Musicale provided an assist in the form of Outline Vegas 12 CX and Stadia 100-30 long-throw DPRWG loudspeakers for 17,368-capacity Pino Zaccheria soccer stadium in Foggia, Italy. The new system, designed by CCM’s Francesco Ferretti, is used to play recorded music before matches and to make various announcements to the spectators.
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MILWAUKEE, WI – Clearwing Productions deployed JBL VTX A12 loudspeakers, Crown amplifiers and Martin MAC Encore fixtures at the 2018 Summerfest music festival. More details… Read More »JBL Professional and Martin Lighting Soar at Summerfest 2018
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MARION, KS – Valley United Methodist Church recently completed an audio upgrade with the installation of a new sound reinforcement system featuring a pair of Ashly… Read More »Valley UMC Powers Up with Ashly Audio Amplification
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BRADLEY, CA – PK Sound supplied gear and crew to support The Do LaB’s Lightning in a Bottle festival over Memorial Day Weekend. The event, which featured Sofi Tukker, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals and the Glitch Mob, among others, was heard via PK Trinity line arrays and delays for the main stage acts. FOH techs Rory Stewart and Ian Hicks helped look after the needs of the performers and 10 guest FOH technicians.
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PLANO, TX – For The Box Garden, an indoor/outdoor performance venue that’s part of the Legacy West development in Plano, TX, Nautilus Entertainment Design (NED) designed a sound system that makes use of Vue Audiotechnik’s al-8 Acoustic Linearity Line Array System. Facility Solutions Group (FSG) installed the system.
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LAS VEGAS – From June 2-8, InfoComm 2018 drew 43,000 AV pros to the Las Vegas Convention Center – 10 percent more than the last time InfoComm was held in Las Vegas, in 2016. Many were there to eye the latest in video tech and, on the audio side, intercoms, automation panels and transducers. For those mostly interested in live sound production, this year’s technology push seemed to be centered on mixing consoles.
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LAS VEGAS – The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Brock Adamson will receive the Parnelli Audio Innovator Award at the 18th annual ceremony in Anaheim, CA on Jan. 25, 2019. “Brock has been a major exporter of loudspeaker technology for 35 years,” says Terry Lowe, Parnelli Awards Executive Producer and publisher of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines. “From Port Perry, Ontario, he’s kept his company on the leading edge of pro audio technology and market trends. Adamson produced the first line array designed and manufactured in North America, and he holds dozens of patents, making him one of the most influential speaker builders that our industry has ever had.”
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LAS VEGAS – The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Yvan Miron will receive the Parnelli Visionary Award at the 18th annual ceremony in Anaheim, CA on Jan. 25, 2019. After starting to put together mobile stages in the 1980s, he formed Stageline in 1988. Today, Stageline stages are in 45 countries and used for 20,000 events a year, and the company’s rental fleet is 115 stages strong.
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NEW YORK – The 72nd annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway musicals and plays staged during the 2017-2018 season, was held June 10 at Radio City Music Hall, hosted by Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles and broadcast live on CBS. Top award winners included The Band’s Visit (10), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (6) and Angels in America (3). The 2018 event restored Sound Design as a Tony Award category for musicals and plays, honoring Kai Harada and Gareth Fry, respectively, for their contributions to The Band’s Visit and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two.
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