MANAGUA, Nicaragua — International Sound’s Licenciado Ramon Rodriguez provided d&b audiotechnik components for the multi-level 1,200-capacity Teatro Nacional here last fall. The setup includes T-Series including the T10 in a flown LCR configuration. The L-R hangs also include 27A SUBs from the d&b xA-Series flown immediately behind them. More T10s are stacked L-R at stage level atop d&b V-Series V-SUBs.
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SEOUL, South Korea – Blue Noise Family, a prominent live event production company based here, has added an Adamson Energia system to their inventory. The company recently purchased 32 E15 line array enclosures along with 24 E218 subwoofers. The new system will support the continued growth the company has experienced.
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BERLIN, Germany — Live FOH, broadcast, and monitor mixing engineer Antonius Kern is part of a growing trend of live audio professionals using tools from Waves Audio’s WavesLive division, a leader in all live sound market segments and an innovative developer of solutions for live platforms. Kern’s credits include German TV productions Popidol, Popstars, The Voice of Germany and The Voice Kids, and music acts such as Patrice, Max Herre, and Joy Denalane.
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AMSTERDAM – Pure Groove Systems is gearing up to support Lost in a Moment, due to take place July 20 at Sportpark Riekerhaven here. The company, which also recently supported the Lightning in a Bottle transformantional festival in Bradley, CA, notes that the Lost in a Moment event will be an “11-hour musical journey based on the challenging and innovative Berlin sound.”
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GAPYEONG, South Korea – The ‘Light of Life’ Chapel, made from more than 600 trunks of Russian red pine that a Korean businessman gathered over the course of 10 years, is an architectural wonder but an acoustic challenge, particularly when the installation requires that the audio gear be heard but not seen. Soundus, K-array’s Korean distributor, provided a system that includes four KP52 ultra slim wall mount speakers that were hidden within the beams, with three KAN200s also wrapped around the shape of the buildings’ structure, in particular the cylinders extending from the roof.
Read More »LUGANO, Switzerland – Stagetec equipment supported TV broadcasts of Estival Jazz, a festival produced by Swiss broadcaster RSI, which tagets the Italian speaking portion of Switzerland. The outside broadcast vehicle with its integrated Aurus console was patched directly to Studio A of the RSI TV station in Comano, 10 kilometers away, via fiber optic cables. The signals from the musicians were routed to the Aurus sound control room in Studio A via this line, mixed there and routed back to the OB. From there the mix was integrated into the TV program. The festival took place July 10-12 at Lugano’s Piazza Riforma.
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LONDON – Fresh off the Franz Ferdinand tour, monitor engineer, Tom Howat took the same iLive modular set up of an iLive-112 Surface and iDR10 MixRack with additional PL10 remote controller on a short UK tour with Paolo Nutini. The tour began with BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival in Glasgow in late May and culminated in a performance at London’s Roundhouse on June 3.
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ROSKILDE, Denmark – Seeking to minimize bass spread from the Apollo stage, organizers of the Roskilde Festival chose Funktion-One speakers. The system comprised 24 Funktion-One Resolution 5 Touring speakers, configured in left and right clusters of 12. The all-important bass reinforcement came from 12 Funktion-One F221 and eight F218 enclosures.
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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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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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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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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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