ROME — Andrea Taglia, live sound engineer for Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, owns a selection of DPA Microphones and credits them for sonic transparency. He often sources additional units when he is on tour with Bocelli through DPA’s Italian distributor, M. Casale Bauer. A recent case in point (pictured here): the use of DPA d:screet 4061 Miniature Microphones as close proximity mics for strings.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Planetshakers City Church at the Dallas Brooks Centre in downtown Melbourne, known for its contemporary praise and worship music along with the evangelical spoken word of its pastors, is using d&b audiotechnik V-Series gear.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Lotus Teknoloji, K-array’s distributor in Turkey and Cyprus, recently installed a K-array solution in the Limonata Restaurant Bar & Lounge. Recently opened in Istanbul’s Akaretler district, the restaurant’s interior design is a mixture of old and new, furnishings from the 50’s and art-deco materials, luxury and taste … with a colorful Bohemian flair.
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OSLO – Ingensteds, a multi-purpose venue that opened here last summer after a major renovation that included a new sound reinforcement system from Trondheim and Oslo-based Avon, now hosts events that range from classical music performances to disco parties and weddings. The new sound system pairs VUE Audiotechnik’s a-15 and a-8 two way systems with dual, soffit-mounted as-215 subwoofers.
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GLASGOW — For a Christmas run of arena shows featuring artists such as Union J, Pixie Lott, The Saturdays, Rizzle Kicks, Naughty Boy, Rudimental, McFly, John Newman and Robbie Williams, monitor engineer Ben Booker used Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 digital rackmount mixer.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. – Soundcraft’s Vi Version 4.8 software is now available for the company’s Vi2, 4 and 6 consoles. New features include significant improvements in stage monitor applications. Vi1 users also benefit from some of the new features, using the same update file, downloadable free of charge from the Soundcraft website. Some of the new features may require the purchase of additional DSP cards for Vi2, 4 and 6 consoles.
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TIGNES, France — Since 1922, students at Oxford and Cambridge universities in the U.K. have participated in a winter trip to the Alps. For the 2013 outing, close to 2,740 students traveled to Tignes, France. Along with skiing and snowboarding, the event featured live music, with support from Bristol, U.K.-based Production Audio’s XLC DVX line array elements and other Electro-Voice gear.
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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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