OVIEDO, Spain — Adagio Pro provided Martin Audio OmniLine line array elements to provide coverage for the 2,144-seat main auditorium within the new 50,951-square-foot Congress Palace here. Mediacom 95 and GMI performed the installation.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Adlib, based here, is expanding its training facilities for manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and others staging seminars, workshops and hands-on demonstrations. The company notes that training events now take place every one to three weeks on a year-round basis, and Adlib expects the events to become even more frequent in 2013.
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VELDHOVEN, The Netherlands — Known to fans as DJ Zany, Raoul van Grinsven, one of the founders of Fusion Records, has been making good use of his PreSonus Studio One Professional.
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LONDON — Canadian metal multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend presented “The Retinal Circus” (named after an old Vancouver club in the 1960s, famous for psychedelic rock shows) in London’s 3,300-capacity Roundhouse on Oct. 27. Along with those at the venue, others experienced the show online. The performance was supported by gear from Radial Engineering.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Opéra de Lausanne, which reopened after a five-years renovation Oct. 5, presented a new production of The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti. The renovated venue features an Adamson Metrix system controlled and amplified by Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q. The L-R arrays each include three Metrix 5-degree boxes for the main floor level, one Metrix subwoofer for low-end reinforcement and two carefully aimed Metrix 5 degree boxes to cover the balconies. More than 700 VIP guests attended.
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LONDON — Forty years after Jesus Christ Superstar opened at London’s West End, a touring production of the latest revival for the musical headed out in late 2012 to arenas throughout the U.K. Sound engineer Roger Lindsay used a Midas XL8 to mix the musical’s sound at the FOH position.
Read More »TEMPE, AZ — Benny Benassi’s recent North American tour, dubbed the Rough Road Bus Tour, may have presented the Italian DJ/producer with desert landscapes far from his native Italy, but the audio gear aboard his bus was from RCF, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy — which also happens to be Benassi’s home town.
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HERNING, Denmark — The 2012 edition of the Giro d’Italia bicycle stage race started off not in Italy, but in the middle of Denmark. But if that posed a logistical challenge for event organizers, another Italian export served as a solution, as far as the audio system to announce the winners of each of three stages was concerned. K-array and its Danish distributor MAVT provided a system centering on K-array’s RedLine 402.
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ABU DHABI, UAE — NMK, Midas’ Middle East distributor, has provided a PRO6 console for the Heritage Theatre here, a 550-seat multi-purpose venue used for drama, dance, lectures and conferences.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — ASL Systems has supplied the University of Melbourne with a Clear-Com Tempest2400 wireless intercom system for use in their theatre named “The Open Stage.”
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LUND, Sweden — Lund Cathedral in Sweden, which dates back to 1080, is the country’s oldest and largest church. Svensk Musik TTS AB recently expanded the church’s permanently installed RHAON-equipped Iconyx digitally steerable system with the addition of an additional IC16/8-R-II active array above its altar.
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RASTATT, Germany — “The Origin of Sound,” a recent seminar series led by Lawo’s Marcel Babzadeh on behalf of the company’s console brand, Innovason, took place at six different venues across Europe. The tour covered ways to improve the way classical music sounds via a live PA system.
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