International News

AMSTERDAM – Calrec Audio’s Artemis Ray digital audio console and RP1 Remote Production Unit will make their European debuts at IBC2017.

MEDELLIN, Columbia – Maximo Nivel Producciones provided a Martin Audio MLA Mini system for the Corona Sunset Sessons global music festival recently held at Medellin’s Botanical Gardens.

PARIS – For the third year in a row, Lawo provided IP-networked audio consoles for celebrations of France’s national holiday, “Bastille Day.”

GERMANY – FOH engineer and production manager Ross Pallone utilized 24 RCF HDL 50As, 18 SUB 9007-AS, six TT052A and four TTTL 6-As for audio coverage during Alan Parsons German tour in May.

ISRAEL – Israel’s Kolot Ramim Sound & Light has made a significant investment in a new E-Series loudspeaker system from Adamson Systems Engineering, continuing a long and successful partnership between the two companies.

PARIS – L-Acoustics’ new Syva sound system was selected for the Louis Vuitton Autum/Winter 2017 Fashion Week held in the Cour Marly of Louvre’s Museum.
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Held in the stunning Cour Marly of the Louvre’s museum, the Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2017 show at the recent Paris Fashion Week featured Vuitton’s models showing off the fashion house’s new collection amongst white marble statues from the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV. Usually, the specification for such a show’s audio is that it should be heard and not seen, but on this occasion, L-Acoustics’ new Syva system took a starring role.

Audio company De Préférence has collaborated with Louis Vuitton for many years and has become a master of invention, conjuring up new ideas for each event.

“Each time the Vuitton team does a show, they want something different,” says De Préférence’s Alain Français. “But one thing is always the same – they never want to see the loudspeakers! This means I’m always looking for new equipment and new ways of hiding the cabinets.

“For this show, taking place in an exceptional space with so much history and impact, we considered and tested a lot of different options. Because the Cour M

NICE, France -The Black Box installed an Allen & Heath dLive S Class digital mixing system as part of an audio equipment upgrade.

AUSTRALIA – JPJ Audio supplied The Wombats 10 year anniversary tour with a control package including an Avid Profile for FOH and another for monitors.

LONDON – Audio specialist tube uk has invested in a new Sennheiser D6000 radio mic system … which debuted on the world premiere of Israeli artist Yael Bartana’s compelling live performance experiment ‘What if Women Ruled the World?’, which played for four nights at Mayfield depot at the 2017 Manchester International Festival (MIF).

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SACRAMENTO, CA – Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic World Tour launched with a European/U.K. tour leg that ran from late March to mid-June 2017, and starting with a July 15 show in Las Vegas, the artist and his band and crew are trekking through North America until late November, when they head to South America. Chris Rabold and Ramon Morales are using DiGiCo SD7 consoles at FOH and monitors.

SINGAPORE – DPA Microphones’ d:facto™ Vocal Microphone and d:vote™ Instrument Microphones were selected for The TENG Ensemble’s outdoor concert at Fullerton Square.

HELSINKI, Finland – Finnish club, Kaiku, recently upgraded its audio system to a complete Danley Sound Labs system.