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.
DELHI, India — Local rental company Thukral Productions mixed performances by several folk musicians for a banquet at a members-only club using an Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital mixer. The Jashan-e Diwali banquet and gala took place at Delhi’s members-only Stellar Gymkhana Club.
Read More »SYDNEY — A March 1 performance by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at the Secret Garden Music Festival here was cut short when a roof element fell to the stage. Reports cited damage from heavy rains that had hit the area prior to the performance as the probable cause. The performance area, one of the festival’s main stages, was shut down.
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RIGA, Latvia — JZ Microphones, based here, named Hand in Hand Distribution as the U.K. distributor for the company’s product line, which now includes the HH1, their first dynamic microphone for live applications. The company also noted that Alchemea College of Audio Engineering recently acquired a pair of custom engraved BH1s to replace stolen gear.
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TOKYO — The Miss International Beauty Pageant, staged at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel here Dec. 17, was heard via a K-array system provided by Creve LLC and sourced via Livegear Corp. Creve provided a KR402 system, including a KP102 thin line array for mid-high frequencies and a KMT21 21” sub, both designed for optimal coverage.
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DUBLIN — Singer songwriter David Gray used DPA Microphones’ new d:facto Vocal Microphone for his recent Sounding Out tour of Ireland. FOH engineer Graham Pattison added DPA’s d:facto into the musician’s arsenal of gear.
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VIENNA, Austria – Austria-based Pollmann recently invited over 800 guests to celebrate the company’s 125th year anniversary at an event in the Sports Hall in Waidhofen a.d. Thaya in Austria. Stagesound Event Technology provided AKG microphones for the event.
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CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian audio distributors Al Fanny Trading were called in to help solve the sonic challenges within the Basilica of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus here. They opted for a system based around four of Mackie’s HDA two-way arrayable powered loudspeakers.
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GUANGZHOU, China — Hyper Club opened here last summer with a sound system that includes d&b loudspeakers and Out Board’s TiMax2 SoundHub. System integrator Dragon Studio, working with Out Board’s Hong Kong-based distributor, SWS, included the gear for the club, which blends modern and traditional design elements.
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LONDON — Video artist Isaac Julien’s seven-screen installation, Playtime, is currently on display at the Victoria Miro Gallery here. The installer, ArtAV, chose VUE Audiotechnik’s i-2×4.5 systems to deliver the audio portion of the audience’s AV experience.
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