DURBAN, South Africa — Prosound provided a Midas PRO1 for the recent run of Beauty and the Beast performances at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre here. Megan Levy of DarkHorse Productions had never used a PRO1 before, but quickly found her way around the console, crediting the PRO1 for being “theatre-friendly” and also for its sound quality.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Expo Center Norte, a 98,000-square-meter exhibition and convention center that opened in 1993, upgraded with Community Pro’s R-Series. Soundvision performed the upgrade.
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OSLO, Norway — For the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert, held here last month, AVAB-CAC provided two Midas XL8s at FOH and four Midas PRO9s at monitors for Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Hudson, Seal, and the 55-piece Norwegian Radio Orchestra, which was conducted by Nick Davies. AVAB-CAC’s Asle Nilsen also specified Midas’ DL431 mic splitter and AES50 tie lines, and the PRO9s were used to create multiple stem mixes of the performance, which could then be accessed from the combined network by the other consoles.
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LONDON — Three-piece U.K. all-girl vocal group Stooshe is now using a pair of Harman’s Soundcraft Vi1 digital audio consoles on the road. The band’s popularity soared after sales of its debut single, “Black Heart,” reached more than 500,000, which led to a dedicated monitor engineer being brought in to the fold to join John Delf at FOH.
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PARIS — The largest MLA Compact rig to date recently made its French debut at the Paris Bercy when a capacity crowd of 17,000 attended a six-hour marathon concert, La Nuit de l’Outremer (The Overseas Night). Franck Sono, the first French production company to acquire the new MLA Compact Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array System 36, deployed the system.
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QSC Audio Products announced that Salo Loyo, the keyboardist for Luis Miguel, has joined the company’s K for Musicians group and has recently used the company’s K Series gear for shows in the Americas and Spain.
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LONDON — Rental company Entec provided a d&b audiotechnik sound system for Skunk Anansie FOH engineer Paul Ramsay to support performances in the U.K. and Europe. The system, for 1,200- to 12,000-capacity venues, includes up to 16 J8, 16 V8 and eight J12 speakers along with 16 B2 and eight J-Infra subs and also four Q10s and four Q1s for infills and outfills, all powered by d&b D12 amps.
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HAMBURG — Rocky, a musical production produced by Stage Entertainment, Sylvester Stallone and the boxers Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko, made its debut here in mid-November with support from Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup technologies for sound reinforcement and monitoring, including Aurus and Crescendo consoles linked to a Nexus network.
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MAIDSTONE, U.K. — For No Saints’ Wonderland nightclub, which opened here on a site formerly occupied by Liquid, Mark Damon of Essex-based Cosmic Electronics provided a sound system using RCF’s Acustica series gear including four pairs of the new H1312 covering the dance floor.
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LONDON — EM Acoustics, which has followed up on the 2009 launch of the company’s HALO line array system with their HALO Compact line array system, announced Sound By Design’s use of the gear at London’s Royal Albert Hall in October followed by Stage Electric’s use of the compact arrays for the 750-seat Great Hall within the Queen’s Building, formerly known as the People’s Palace.
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AMSTERDAM — After putting DPA Microphones’ new handheld d:facto Vocal Microphone through its paces on her recent tour, Dutch singer and vocal coach Margot Giselle credited the vocal mic for its “natural” sound quality.
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SHANGHAI, China — Expatriates from Germany marked Oct. 3, German Unity Day, with a celebration at the Hotel Intercontinental Expo here on Oct. 8. The German Consulate sponsored the event, which included a speech by consul general Wolfgang Roehr along with live music. Event sponsor Sennheiser and Real Live provided microphones and two K-array Redline series systems for the event.
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