TEXCOCO, Mexico — The two-day Hell and Heaven Metal Fest that had been scheduled to take place March 15 and 16 at the fairgrounds in this Mexico City suburb has been canceled. State officials cited public safety as the reason for pulling the plug, but town officials and concert organizers, including town spokesman Francisco Vazquez, speculated that politics and economics might have played a role.
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LONDON — Fran Healey, the lead singer of U.K. band Travis, and Marti Pellow, the lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, are the latest in the growing list of vocalists to switch to DPA Microphones’ d:facto Vocal Microphone. In both cases, the artists made the change on the recommendation of their live sound engineer, Tom Wiggans, pictured here.
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SHIJIAZHUANG, China — Sanecore opted to use Allen & Heath’s iLive digital products at the heart of a new audio system installed within an office building for Hebei Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. The new system includes four iDR-16 MixRacks.
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SINGAPORE — Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) recently played host to a congregation of Asia-Pacific sound reinforcement professionals to launch its Anya system to the region. About 200 EAW distributors, FOH engineers, pro audio consultants and rental house representatives from China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia met in Singapore to experience Anya first-hand. The two-day event featured in-depth Anya training, an Anya demonstration, and a tour of EAW installations.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Harman’s Soundcraft is hosting its “Mixing with Professionals” (MwP) training sessions at Prolight & Sound 2014 in Frankfurt. The sessions offer formal training and demonstrations on Soundcraft’s Si Expression range and the new Vi3000 digital live sound console.
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MEXICO CITY — For the first Spanish language adaptation of the musical Wicked, staged at Teatro Telcel here, Broadway sound designer Tony Meola is using Mexico’s first Constellation acoustic system from Meyer Sound. The system, installed by Naucalpan de Juárez-based Teletec, includes Stella-4, Stella-8, UP-4XP, MM-4XP and UPJunior speakers and and MM-10XP subs.
Read More »UDON THANI, Thailand — The staging structure for a free concert held to raise awareness of human trafficking and slavery collapsed at 12:40 a.m. March 13. One of the 11 crew members injured by falling lighting and video structural elements later succumbed to his injuries. The worker who died was identified as Wichit Srichompoo, 35.
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STIGTOMTA, Sweden – PA rental company Parashoot, based here, has been supporting Norwegian singer songwriter Ane Brun’s European tour with an Allen & Heath iLive and ME personal monitoring system for FOH and monitors, respectively. Parashoot, which has worked with Ane Brun since 2007, used an iLive-T112 system, mixing both FOH and monitors on the same console. xDR-16 I/O expander racks were positioned on stage, one left and one right, along with an iDR-16 MixRack. The ME setup includes five ME-1 personal mixers with a ME-U hub as the power and distribution system on stage.
BOGATA, Colombia — Metallica will expand its touring inventory with 76 units of the new MJF-210 stage monitor from Meyer Sound. The band’s new monitors will first be used on its South American tour this spring. The MJF-210 was developed to the exacting demands presented by the Metallica production team. It’s also the lightest self-powered stage monitor in Meyer Sound’s product line.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — For Peter Gabriel’s ongoing Back to Front tour, FOH engineer Ben Findlay and monitor engineers Dee Miller and Richard Chappell have been making use of the three SSL Live consoles provided for the touring production by Britannia Row. They were first used last fall and will continue as the tour resumes in the U.K. and Europe this April.
Read More »KREUZLINGEN, Switzerland — Production companies tpc – technology and production center switzerland ag are once again relying upon Stagetec gear for the live broadcasts planned for The Voice of Switzerland for Swiss Radio and TV broadcaster SRF. The talent show’s live broadcasts are set to be produced at the Bodensee Arena here from March 27 to April 24.
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AMSTERDAM – Shortly before the ISE show here, Bosch Communications Systems invited its international distribution partners to a distributors’ meeting held at the the Pakhuis de Zwijger, a center now used for meetings that was originally built as warehouse space.