International News

NILES, IL — The world’s top eight football teams met in Brazil for the FIFA Confederations Cup, the event’s technology team knew they’d need a wireless microphone system that offered rock-solid reliability for the matches, which were all broadcast live to a global audience. To ensure a flawless production, the team looked to Shure’s Axient Wireless Management Network for matches in Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and the championship game between Spain and Brazil at Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.

QINGDAO, China — For Pilot Record’s two-day Inter City Music Festival, staged at the Golden Sands Beach here recently, Real Music Acoustics & Lighting Technology Co. Ltd. supplied an Energia E15 line array system. Twelve E15 line array enclosures per side were hung L-R. Under each array were a stack of six T21 subwoofers sandwiched between double stacks on each side – 10 subs per side..

NAEBA, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival, held July 26-28 at this resort area in the mountains an hour west of Tokyo, is one of the island nation’s largest summer music events. This year, the White Stage was equipped with an Outline large-format line-source rig that included 24 GTO elements, 2 GTO-DF’s, and 18 ground-installed DBS 18-2 subwoofers.

DORTMUND, GERMANY — As the largest football stadium in the German Bundesliga, with a capacity of over 80,000, Signal Iduna Park — home of Borussia Dortmund (BVB) — recently sanctioned a radical upgrade to its public address system. With this upgrade, RCF deployed 14 RCF clusters of 14 TTL33-A MKII line array elements.

MARCOUSSIS CEDEX, France — Robbie Williams’ ‘Take the Crown’ European stadium tour, his first solo tour for seven years, kicked off on June 14 of this year, taking in 11 countries across June, July and August.  Sherif el Barbari, Audio System Designer and System Engineer for Robbie Williams, designed and spec’d the entire PA system around the requirements of the tour.  Britannia Row, who had already serviced Robbie Williams’ tours for almost two decades, supplied the entire L-Acoustics audio equipment for the tour.

WEST SUSSEX, UK — Turbosound’s Flashline and Flex Array line array PA systems were once again centre stage at this year’s Zurich Open Air Festival, held over the weekend of August 29th. Germany’s Flashline rental partner FeedBack Show Systems & Service GmbH provided sound and lights for the three stages.

ZWAAG, NETHERLANDS — Since the start of the 2013 season, the State Theatre in Salzburg, Austria, operates with a sound system from Dutch manufacturer Alcons Audio. The new acquisition was made because the existing sound system was not able meet the increased demands on the in-house sound system.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Led by Bishop Samuel L Carruth, The Holy Light Church Of Deliverance has opened its doors for nearly 50 years for the St. Portsmouth, Virginia community.  With an aging sound reinforcement system installed in the early ‘90s, Vicom was tasked with designing and supplying the house of worship with a complete Harman system, including AKG WMS4500 Wireless mics, Soundcraft Si Performer 3 digital console, JBL VRX932 loudspeakers, CRX918 subwoofers, and XTi 4002 and 6002 amplifiers to ensure the upbeat services were clearly heard among the crowd of devout attendees.

FLERO, ITALY — Around one hundred international guests recently attended a series of open days, product demonstrations and technical workshops hosted jointly by Outline s.r.l. and Cadac in Brescia, near Lake Garda in northern Italy.

HEBDEN BRIDGE, U.K. — Longtime Calrec customer Maryland Public Television (MPT) has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Audio from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its mix of “America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute,” an hour-long concert that was broadcast live on Maryland Public Television in Fall 2012. In order to mix the award-winning production, MPT used both of its Alpha 40-fader consoles, with two operators per console.

PARIS, France — MF Audio, founded in 1998 and based in the North of Paris, is a full service live event production company providing sound, lighting, and staging solutions. Recently, MF Audio invested in a new Adamson Energia E15 PA system to add to their previous investments in Spek-Trix, Y10, Y18, and Metrix systems.

SINGAPORE — The Star Performing Arts Centre here has installed a Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom system throughout its 5,000-seat auditorium. The system also supports the facility’s various function halls along with its broadcast production center.