REGGIO EMILIA, Italy — One year after joining Eighteen Sound (18Sound) as the manager of R&D, Steve Hutt (pictured here, right) noted the progress the company has made in its focus on manufacturing, quality and production excellence. A significant milestone took place last June, when 18Sound moved to a new facility with enough space for production, sales, R&D and administration.
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VIENNA, Austria — The Vienna Volksoper, a 1,261-seat opera venue that stages close to 300 performances a year, first opened in 1898 but now features a 21st-century mixing console with a touch-enabled user interface — the new POLARIS touch console from Audio Video Mediensysteme, a member of the Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup.
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EINSIEDELN, Switzerland — For last summer’s production of Welttheater, a once-every-seven-years tradition, Tom Strebel of Basel’s audiopool used the TiMax2 SoundHub audio localization matrix system from Out Board to make the audio experience as comfortable as possible for an audience confronted with some odd visuals, including live performers suspended in the air.
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NASHVILLE, TN –The Komyo-ji temple in Kamakura, Japan, holds occasional music concerts in its main hall. Micro Tacs, a local pro audio rental company, recently provided an On Point Audio sound reinforcement system for a jazz concert held at the temple.
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AMNÉVILLE, France — One of France’s largest and most impressive live music events — The Lorraine de Choeur 2013, held in the Galaxie d’Amneville — featured a 2,000-member choir, soloists, a 50-piece orchestra and electric band. For virtual sound checking and recording a whopping 224 channels of audio, the choice was four JoeCo BlackBox BBR64MADI systems.
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LONDON — For Jessie J’s Alive Tour, monitor engineer Andy “Baggy” Robinson used a DiGiCo SD5 for the British singer/songwriter along with her three backing vocalists and her four piece band. The Jessie J Alive Tour completed its U.K. leg in November and is heading the U.S. for a three-month trek in 2014.
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CORNWALL, UK — Supergrass frontman, Gaz Coombes, has just completed a UK tour with an Allen & Heath iLive digital system at FOH, ME personal mixers managing monitors, and Dante for recording.
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VERONA, Italy – Electro-Voice systems provided the sound reinforcement for “Opera on Ice” in Verona’s historic amphitheater. The 2013 show drew 12,000 to the live spectacle. The sound system was the responsibility of Backstage PA. Among the systems used were XLD line-array elements, Xsubs, CP3000S and CP4000S power amps, and DC-One and Dx46 controllers – all from Electro-Voice.
Read More »COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Dozens of New Years revelers were reported injured when an outdoor platform’s structural elements failed. Hundreds of people reportedly fell a few feet to the ground, and at least 30 were treated at local hospitals for fractures, cuts from broken glass and burns.
Read More »SYDNEY — Promoter One Cube Entertainment cited “a major technical production issue” as the reason for calling off the inaugural New Year’s Eve music festival at the new Wet ‘n’ Wild Sydney water park in Prospect, NSW, a Sydney suburb, less than 24 hours before the event.
Read More »MELBOURNE, Australia — To help Melbourne visitors and residents ring in 2014, the city is organizing four “night live sites” that are envisioned as “entertainment nests” dotted around the city. Each “nest” is featuring music, visuals and pyro effects. SAE Audio is playing a key role.
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WEJHEROWO, Poland — Gdansk-based Outline distributor Ambient System supplied and installed an Outline sound reinforcement system within the Kashubian Philharmonic Hall here. Along with use within the 400-capacity auditorium, the system needed to be able to be moved outdoors to support larger events.
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