LIVERPOOL, U.K. — For “Memories of August 1914,” commemorating a century since the start of World War 1, Liverpool’s City Council combined spectacle with poignancy with the use of giant marionettes. Adlib provided sound gear for the seven main performance sites near the city’s center.
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SEOUL, South Korea — This year’s Ultra Music Festival (UMF) Korea drew 100,000+ to the Olympic Stadium Sports Complex here with some of the world’s top DJ and EDM artists. The audio setup included Adamson Energia line arrays at the Live and Main stages.
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IBIZA, Spain – Ibiza’s Space nightclub celebrated 25 years with special events staged at the venue’s outdoor Flight Club arena. Project Audio provided a mega Funktion-One sound system powered by Full Fat Audio amps with XTA processing and a Cadac CDC four digital compact console for control.
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ZNOJMO, Czech Republic – Dancefloor, s.r.o., a locally-based distributor and integrator, installed Community R.5 audio systems in two venues here – a 6,000+ seat Winter Stadium and a nearby Sports Hall used for a variety of indoor sports.
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LONDON — An Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system recently managed FOH on a tour marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Rick Wakeman’s landmark concept album, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. FOH engineer Ian Barfoot is pictured here with the system at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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SINGAPORE – EAI, based here, received training in late July to optimize their deployment of Martin Audio’s MLA multi-cellular loudspeaker system for upcoming gigs, starting with a talent show that was expected to draw 6,000 to Expo Hall 1 at venue partners Singapore Expo & Max Atria this summer. Pictured here is the Expo AV team with Martin Audio MLA components.
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CORK, Ireland — Il Divo and The City of Cork Symphony Orchestra teamed up to bring the music of Broadway to a capacity crowd of 18,000 gathered at Musgrave Park here in late June. Dublin-based EQ Events supported the five-hour show with a dozen GTO C-12 enclosures per side as the main PA, with small clusters of Butterfly modules used for outhangs and delays.
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SYDNEY — Rockdale Town Hall, a regional arts and cultural hub used for a variety of events including concerts, variety shows and business functions, recently underwent a major upgrade that included JBL’s VRX line array system and Soundcraft’s Si Expression Console provided by The P.A. People.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Live at Edinburgh Castle, a 2.5-hour multi-act concert that was televised live on the BBC, preceded this summer’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Britannia Row Productions provided two SSL Live consoles for the multi-faceted Live at Edinburgh Castle event.
Read More »OXFORD, U.K. –Solid State Logic (SSL) is offering its Live Console Operator Training Days at company headquarters here Sept. 17-18, Oct. 1-2 and Nov. 5-6. The one-day courses are designed to serve as an introduction to the SSL Live console and will include hands-on experience for all participants. While offered at no cost, the free events do require advance registration.
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SPLIT, Croatia – The Ultra Music Festival was powered by 100s of RCF’s TT+ Series products. The main PA consisted of two hangs of 20 TTL55-A dual 12” three-way active line array elements with a straight cardioid array of 42 TTS56-A dual 21” active subwoofers electronically curved via the algorithm in RCF’s proprietary RDNet to achieve a wide and smooth sub-frequency coverage. Additionally, eight HDL20-A dual 10” active line array modules were utilized for front fills. Sidefills comprised an array of six TTL55-A (left) and 10 TTL55-A (right) while two delay towers situated 200-feet back were covered by hangs of 8 TTL55-A.
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MECHELEN, Belgium – The combination of TiMax Image Definitions and its TimeLine facility allowed sound designer Guido Olischlager to keep pace with the moving audience seating used in 14-18 Spektakel Musical.
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