International News

CAYMAN ISLANDS – AI Rentals supported the staged live music events associated with the 11-day Pirates Week Festival that ran from Nov. 6-16 this year with an arsenal of audio gear including speaker components acquired earlier this year from Spain-based D.A.S. Audio. The main stage PA system featured of two hangs of 8 Event 210A loudspeakers plus two more for infill (mounted on the subs). Those subs were 16 Event 218A enclosures positioned in a single line across the front of the stage and delayed to make a virtual arc. Outfills consisted of two additional Event 210A hangs. There was also a single delay stack comprised of four Event 210A enclosures. Sidefills and drumfill consisted of Action 118A bass enclosures with Action 15A systems. D.A.S. Action 12A enclosures served as stage monitors.

ONTARIO, Canada – With two headline shows in Ontario, Alice In Chains recently completed its North American tour, where the band performed in theaters and arenas with capacities ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 seats. Having stocked Harman inventory for 25 years, live production company Creative Audio provided full production elements for the show including JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD power amplifiers.

DUBAI, UAE – Adamson Systems distributor Thomsun Trading recently delivered new line array systems to Dubai-based Stagecraft Events and SAS Event Production. Adamson’s David Dohrman is pictured here (center) with the Stagecraft Events team.

LONDON, UK – Orbital Sound supported freelance sound designer, Sebastian Frost’s setup for the launch of the Jaguar XE at Earls Court recently. The 90-minute production included a musical theatre-style show with a cast of performers, a a 30-piece orchestra and 17 new and vintage automobiles on a 53-by-30-meter stage. Frost made use of an Orbital-supplied TiMax SoundHub audio showcontrol delay-matrix to sweeten the sound for the 3,000 attending the event within the proscenium theater.

ALLEROED, Denmark – DPA Microphones has reorganized its distribution channels in South East Asia by appointing new distributors in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan. The appointments reflect the company’s ongoing commitment to develop new business channels and support DPA’s influential customer base.

BUDAPEST, Hungary – When the Palace of Arts, Budapest and Hungary’s new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than a hundred years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and claims no peers in the whole of Central Europe. The recent addition of a DiGiCo SD10 mixing console to its audio inventory is helping to ensure this exceptional status is maintained into the future.

BLACKPOOL, UK – When BBC’s flagship Saturday night Strictly Come Dancing entertainment show relocates once a year from Elstree Studios to the coruscating Blackpool Tower Ballroom, all the production infrastructure likewise heads north, with the OB recording trucks set up in a co-opted scanner park. With the hit show now in its 10th year, BBC Studios and Post Production’s Andy Tapley, and lead Sound Supervisor, Tony Revell, evolved an elegant workflow in Blackpool, mixing the show entirely on three HARMAN’s Studer digital consoles. For the first time on a Strictly OB, the topology was based on a conjoined Vista 8 and Vista 5, alongside a Vista 1, which handled the surround sound mix within Red TX’s reconfigured Red II 3D/7.1 OB truck. This also housed a dedicated grams area.

SAINT-BRIEUC, Brittany, France — Contemporary musical theatre La Citrouille has upgraded its technical infrastructure with the purchase of two new Soundcraft digital desks from Harman distributor Eurolive. The newly released Vi3000 will principally be used for mixing the wide range of performances and events hosted at the venue, while the smaller Si Expression will handle monitors.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has a way with lions and other big wild cats, and to support the audio needs for a documentary on his activities for British Sky Broadcasting’s Sky 1 TV, location sound recordist Sebastian Dunn has been using Digital Hybrid Wireless technology from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics.

BEIJING, China – In an effort to support the most influential economic forum in the Asia-Pacific region, local Harman distributor ACE recently provided sound reinforcement for the welcome banquet of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Beijing. ACE supplied a full range of Harman audio equipment and technical support, featuring a JBL VTX line array system, Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers, Soundcraft Vi6 mixing consoles, and BSS BLU-800 signal processors.