International News

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.

VERONA, Italy – Amo Pavarotti is the first official traveling museum show on the life and works of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who died in 2007 after more than five decades of success as an opera singer. After a New York preview, the exhibition opened here at the Arena Museo Opera in Palazzo Forti earlier this year. F&G Group supported the exhibition with K-array speakers..

OSLO — More than a quarter century after installing eight UPA-1 and two USW-1 conventionally powered loudspeakers in 1986, the The Oslo Concert Hall (Oslo Konserthus) in Norway again turned to a Meyer Sound solution when it came time for an upgrade. AVAB CAC supplied and installed a MICA line array loudspeaker system..

MANCHESTER, UK — Liverpool’s new East Village Arts Club has been equipped with an array of Turbosound loudspeakers as part of a £1.5m refurbishment. MAMA & Company — which also runs venues such as the Jazz Cafe in London and The Ritz in Manchester along with the Global Gathering, Lovebox, and Wilderness festivals — worked with Dimension Audio on the venue’s three defined spaces, which each required individual approaches.

LONDON — Turbosound’s Flashline Mini compact line array and large scale Flashline line array system will be set up for hands-on demos at 3 Mills Studios in London on Oct. 6 and 7, 2013. Attendance is by invitation only, however, so those interested are encouraged to RSVP at their earliest convenience.

PASAY, Philippines — Touring in support of its new album Living Things, Linkin Park brought its high-powered alt-metal-rap-rock to the Philippines, performing at the SM Mall of Asia Arena on August 13. Audio for the 20,000-seat arena was supplied by Manila-based tour sound contractor SoundCheck with a massive sound system featuring 128 Harman JBL VTX Series line array loudspeakers and subwoofers powered by 30 Crown VRACK amplifier systems.

JUÁREZ, Mexico – The Hardpop Club here draws prominent DJs and electronic musicians around the world. Over the past two years, the club has worked with North Carolina-based Clarity, Inc. to optimize its sound system. The changes including switching out its old sound system with new gear from Danley Sound Labs in a bid to obtain copious headroom, crystalline fidelity, and honest, chest-crushing bass.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – For the the Interceltic Festival, held here, along with other festivals across Switzerland, various audio engineers relied upon several Allen & Heath iLive, GLD and Qu-16 digital mixing systems this past summer. Pictured here, A&H’s iLive was used to mix the audio system for Farafina, at the Festival des 5 Continents.