ATHENS — Turbosound loudspeakers are a key part of the ambience in Athens’s luxury Catwalk Café-Bar. The bar, situated near the seafront in Greece’s capital, invited local suppliers Metro Audio Systems to install 10 Impact65T two-way loudspeakers and two TSB-110 sub-bass speakers.
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AMSTERDAM — Sting used four of DPA Microphones’ handheld d:facto vocal microphones on his recent Back to Bass Tour throughout Europe and the Far East. The performances were supported by Sting’s FOH engineer, Howard Page.
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SAN DIEGO — VUE Audiotechnik, based here, reports that avon, an AV firm with locations in Trondheim and Oslo, has deployed VUE products for projects ranging from Credo, a Trondheim-based fine dining establishment, to Norway’s version of American Idol.
Read More »COLOGNE, Germany — Adamson Systems Engineering held a joint technical seminar with Lawo at Tonmeistertagung (TMT), a trade event spanning broadcast, studio and live sound that was staged here in late November.
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SYDNEY — Since acquiring their Shure PSM 1000 Personal Monitor Systems earlier in 2012, JPJ Audio has sent them on a variety of tours including artists such as Pitbull, Macy Gray, Lady Antebellum and Delta Goodrem.
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BOOM, Belgium — Tevean nv recently provided the Heilig Hart (Sacred Heart) church in this Antwerp suburb with a new audio system that includes Community Entasys speakers and VLF212 subwoofers.
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STAVANGER, Norway — The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra has spent the past 14 years wishing for a new home that it could truly call its own. In September, that finally became a reality with the opening of the NOK1.225bn (€165.2m) Stavanger Concert Hall. It features two halls, with DiGiCo mixing consoles chosen for mixing the amplified sound in both.
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WEIMAR, Germany — The Deutsches Nationaltheater here has complemented its purchase of a new Studer Vista 8 console with a TiMax2 SoundHub-R32 system matrix and playback server, replacing an old analog Studer and legacy TiMax Classic matrix which had been in daily use for the past 10 years. The new TiMax SoundHub system was purchased from distributor Pro Audio Technik following on-site demos by the company’s TiMax technical sales specialist Matthias Ziegenberger.
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SYDNEY — A Martin Audio OmniLine system has been specified and installed at Central Railway Station here to conquer a speech intelligibility problem that has persisted for years.
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LONDON — Britannia Row provided Turbosound’s Flashline system for Alanis Morissette at the O2 Arena here recently. The system, which included Turbosound’s TFS-900H line array cabinets and 20000DP four-channel DSP-based amplifiers, was lauded by Morissette’s FOH engineer, Maurizio Gennari, and freelance system engineer Nico Royan.
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FLORENCE, Italy — Omikron Sound e Light, based here, installed a K-array audio system for the recently refurbished Rivalta Café, a gathering spot offering food, drink and music along the banks of the River Arno. The new system includes 12 Kobra KK50vb speakers, four KL12 subwoofers, two KT20 speakers and four KA7-7 amplifiers.
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LONDON — Sound designer Richard Brooker is using a DiGiCo SD7T console with Waves SoundGrid and plugins for the new stage musical adaptation of the film, The Bodyguard, which recently opened at the Adelphi Theatre here.
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