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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario – Ashen White Audio Visual added Kling & Freitag’s Sequenza 10 line array system to its inventory. The new system includes 24 Sequenza 10 N/W full-range elements, eight Sequenza 10 B flown low-frequency elements and 12 Nomos XLC cardioid 3 x 18” sub-woofers, all driven by the K&F integrated system racks using Lab.gruppen FP10000Q amplification. The company also purchased 8 Scena 15 low-profile stage monitors with additional system racks to drive the new monitor package.
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MINSK, Belarus – The new Chizhovka-Arena, one of the largest sports facilities in Belarus, features a Community Professional loudspeaker system. The system includes 238 Community Distributed Design Series ceiling loudspeakers and 432 Distributed Design Series surface-mount loudspeakers.
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POTSDAM, Germany – As part of the National Conference Network City Church Project, pastors from a variety of churches throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland came together discuss the future of the church’s presence in the local community. K-array’s KR202 system provided a flexible solution for the needs of the event, which included spoken-word discussions and a piano concerto.
Read More »WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications will supply all radio communications equipment and services for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The company is providing more than 6,000 radio handsets along with a terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) digital network and a Motorola MOTOTRBO digital radio repeater system. Both the TETRA and MOTOTRBO systems are dedicated, fully monitored, and serviced solutions.
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