Portuguese Rental Company Invests in Qu-24
Portuguese PA company, ST Sonorizações Tuna, Lda, recently purchased Allen & Heath’s new Qu-24 compact digital mixer to add to its hire stock.
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Allen & Heath Conducts Digital Training In Japan
TOKYO – Allen & Heath held a training seminar in Tokyo that included operation overviews for its iLive, GLD and Qu series digital systems.
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Neil Young Concert Canceled Amid Middle East Strife, Rocket Fears
TEL AVIV — A concert featuring Neil Young and Crazy Horse that was expected to draw more than 30,000 to Hayarkon Park here July 17 was canceled on July 13 by Israeli authorities. Police cited safety risks from a possible rocket attack from the Gaza Strip as the reason for the cancellation.
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Poland’s Gigant Sound Letus Adds GTO Components to Outline Inventory
POZNAN, Poland — Gigant Sound Letus, based here, recently augmented its inventory of Outline loudspeakers with an order that included 48 GTO, 32 GTO C-12, 64 DBS 18-2 subwoofers plus 12 flying frames. The added gear enables the company to split its Outline inventory into eight identical subsidiary systems. Each of these include six GTO, four GTO C-12 and eight subwoofers — powerful enough to handle a range of events, but also easily transported by truck, set up and flown or ground-stacked as needed.
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Community R.5 Loudspeakers Mounted Below LED Screen in Tokyo’s Hachiko Square
TOKYO – Pro sound company Katoya Recording Service, which was commissioned to provide sound for a 24.3-by-17.3 meter LED screen mounted on a roof overlooking the busy intersection at Hachiko Square here, also installed two Community Professional R.5-66T loudspeakers and a Community R.5-HPT.
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The Brothers Four Tour Japan with Adamson Metrix System
KYOTO, Japan — The Brothers Four, founded by University of Washington fraternity brothers and known for their early 1960s hits “Greenfields,” “Seven Daffodils” and “Green Leaves of Summer,” recently completed a 21-show Golden Japan Tour. OTA Audio provided an Adamson Metrix loudspeaker system.
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Celebrity Voices at 2014 Life Ball In Vienna Heard via AKG Wireless Mics
VIENNA, Austria – At the annual Life Ball extravaganza, organized by nonprofit charity AIDS LIFE and held at the Hofburg Palace here on May 31, featured Bill Clinton, Christina Perri and Ricky Martin, among others. The audio crew relied on 100 channels of Harman’s AKG WMS4500, DMS700 and IVM4500 wireless microphone and monitoring systems for onstage vocal performances and announcements.
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Nine Inch Nails 2014 European Tour Gets Adlib Support
LONDON – Adlib supplied an L-Acoustics K1 sound system and Systems Engineer Tony Szabo for the recent U.K. and European legs of Nine Inch Nails’ 2014 European tour. The sound system included a front hang of 14 K1 speakers with four KARA downs and an array of eight K1 SB subs flown L-R near the main hang, plus side hangs of 10 K1 and four KARA downs. On the floor were 18 SB28 subs with KARA fills on top. All speakers were driven by L-Acoustics LA8 amps and controlled using LA Network Manager.
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Riedel Provides Communications Solutions for Red Bull Air Race
WUPPERTAL, Germany – For the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, which ran annually from 2003 to 2010 before returning in 2014 with races held in Abu Dhabi (Feb. 28), Rovinj, Croatia (April 12) and Putrajaya, Malaysia (May 18), relied upon a signal distribution system built by Riedel engineers for video, audio, communications, and data. The MediorNet real-time media network includes seven MediorNet Compact frames and three MediorNet Modular frames. Technicians interface audio signals via MADI and Riedel’s RockNet digital audio network solution in combination with MediorNet to integrate the event’s main mixing console, located in the OB van that provided the big-screen mix for the live audience. Riedel also supplied the wireless video links and HD cameras for the racing planes’ onboard cameras, thus enabling pictures to be delivered from the pilots’ perspectives.
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Chinese Horse Event Relies on Discreetly Hidden K-array Gear
BEIJING – Sennheiser China supplied a K-array audio system for the opening ceremony of Beijing’s 2014 International Akhal-Teke Horse Association Special Conference. One of the key requirements for the event was that the system remain largely hidden from view. Although already sleek in profile, the speakers were disguised as spectators, and as a result almost blended into the scenery’.
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Franz Ferdinand Tours with Allen & Heath’s iLive
ROTSELAAR, Belgium – Franz Ferdinand’s monitor engineer, Tom Howat, selected an iLive modular system for the band’s recent tour. Including an iLive-112 Surface and iDR10 Mixrack with additional PL10 remote controller, the iLive monitor system manages six wedge mixes, five stereo RF IEM mixes and one stereo hardwired IEM mix, three effects sends and two mixes for FOH.
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Berlin State Opera Performs with Mediagroup Technology
BERLIN, Germany — Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup is equipping the fully refurbished state opera house Unter den Linden in Berlin with audio and stage management technology including the company’s Aurus mixing console (pictured here) and Nexus audio network.
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