BRASILIA, Brazil — Capital Inicial, a post punk/New Wave band that established early momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, has continued to ride that wave of success through the 2000s to the present day. FOH engineer Luis Mazzei has been optimizing the band’s sound with a different kind of Waves — the studio plugin software — since 2001. He was an early adopter of the company’s Soundgrid for live performances as well.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — Dutch PA company SoundWorks supplied 28 Allen & Heath ME-1 personal monitor mixers for singer Lee Towers, who recently hosted concerts over several nights at the New Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam.
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LONDON — The London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) made the Guinness Book of Records with a staged performance featuring 1,169 voices. FOH engineer Raphael Williams and monitor engineer Nikoma Bell mixed the performance on 96- and 64-channel Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, respectively.
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LONDON — Hillsong Church, a Pentecostal megachurch with worship sites located around the globe, is using a Riedel intercom solution to support weekly services at the Dominion Theatre in Central London. It includes Riedel’s Performer digital partyline intercom and Acrobat digital wireless intercom.
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LAGOS, Nigeria — Paragonis Multimedia Productions, brought in to provide technical support for the fifth Port Harcourt Carnival, a.k.a. CarniRiv, got an assist from their collection of PreSonus StudioLive consoles. Paragonis has purchased 10 of the consoles for rentals and installations.
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil— Pro audio distributor ProShows, based here, recently concluded a six-month marathon of sorts, conduction 500 workshops featuring the Behringer X32 digital mixer. The workshops showcased the functional versatility of Behringer’s flagship mixer and focused on both live and studio applications for the X32.
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GATESHEAD, U.K. — The Gateshead International Jazz Festival was staged at the Sage Gateshead, a music center here, on April 5-7, 2013. The final performance paired Ruby Turner and The Brand New Heavies. To augment the festival sound system, Nitelites brought in RCF TT+ gear.
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LONDON — Jamie Orchard-Lisle introduced folk singer Sam Lee to DPA Microphones’ d:facto vocal microphone. Lee, who was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize in 2012, has since adopted it as his go-to vocal mic for live gigs in 2013.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Ward-Steedsy Audio provided and used an Allen & Heath digital iLive system for the Red Bull Chasers bicycle event staged here recently. The system helped the audio crew overcome the challenge of having three PA systems with local inputs at each system mixed and distributed to all three systems simultaneously.
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HELSINKI, Finland — Finnish string quartet Meta4 has invested in four DPA d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones, which they are using to capture the sound of two violins, a viola and a cello.
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PERTH, Australia — His Majesty’s Theatre here installed a Riedel digital intercom system to prepare for Australia’s “digital dividend,” which mandates the release and eventual auction of 126 MHz of contiguous RF spectrum. That move affects wireless microphones, in-ear monitors, and RF communications systems.
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LIÈGE, Belgium — For an upgrade to the sound system within the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Royal Opera of Wallonia), Riva Audio and XLR sprl provided a full L-Acoustics system. The setup includes 20 KIVA cabinets (two six-KIVA arrays in front of the curtain and two four-KIVA arrays to serve the lower seats) plus eight SB18 and 14 8XTi as infills. Two four-KIVA arrays round out the new design for the 1,440-seat venue.
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