OSLO, Norway — For the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Concert, held here, AVAB CAC deployed two Midas XL8s at FOH. One FOH console was dedicated to the needs of the 55-piece Norwegian Radio Orchestra. The second took care of the in-house band and international performers including Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Hudson and Seal. In addition, four Midas PRO9s were used as monitor consoles.
Read More »NAIROBI, Kenya — For the fourth annual Nairobi Rock Fest, headlined by African rockers Skinflint, Ed Williams of EdTheMix provided a Turbosound setup that included TFA-600H, TSW-218, TQ-445 and TMW-115 speaker and subwoofer components at PA and monitor positions.
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ARE, Sweden — SkiStar, based here, recently upgraded the lighting and sound systems offered to guests on the slopes. The audio system upgrade included Technomad loudspeakers.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — For Club Subterraneo, an 8,600-square-foot nightclub here, Audiomusica provided a sound system from German speaker manufacturer d&b audiotechnik.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — FOH sound engineer Ian Barfoot specified d:facto and other DPA microphones for Rick Wakeman’s recent tour, which included shows at the Gran Rex Theatre here and other venues in three South American countries — Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
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LONDON — An Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system is currently on a national tour of the U.K. with the musical, Bugle Boy, which traces the life, career and mysterious disappearance of the late bandleader and composer Glenn Miller. The system is based around an iLive-T112 Control Surface and an iDR-48 MixRack fitted with a MADI network card.
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LONDON — All of Orbital Sound’s recently acquired Yamaha CL5 consoles were out supporting close to 30 pantomime productions in the U.K. in Dec. 2012 and early January 2013. The soundco has also provided gear from Shure, d&b audiotechnik. Productions ranged from First Family Entertainment’s Peter Pan at the Manchester Opera House to Qdos Entertainment’s Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates at the Birmingham Hippodrome.
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SHANGHAI, China — At the 2012 World Music Shanghai Festival, which drew close to 12,000 people to six different locations over a six-day span, Sennheiser China provided crew and gear including K-array KH15, KO70, KR402 and KR202 components. The crew included close to 10 technicians and sound designers for Sennheiser’s local tech partner, Real Live.
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BRISTOL, U.K. — Stage Electrics, a supplier of lighting and sound equipment to the U.K.’s entertainment industry, has seen solid demand for DiGiCo digital audio consoles. The company has supplied SD8, SD9 and SD11 mixing consoles to more than 10 venues across England.
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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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