SANDNES, Norway — PAP Stavanger, Svakstrøm and Kran Elektro Service installed a new L-Acoustics KARAi system at the Sandnes Kulturhus in western Norway. The cultural venue was seeking a consistent-sounding system that could handle higher SPLs. Norway’s L-Acoustics distributor, Scandec Systemer AS supplied the system.
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CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — Idol Puerto Rico, the Caribbean island’s version of American Idol in the U.S. and Pop Idol in the U.K., is now in its second season, now accompanied by another extension of the franchise, Idol Kids Puerto Rico. Ricky’s Audio Corporation of Arecibo, PR handles audio production for the show, and has supplied a new Yamaha CL5 digital audio system for the live mix to direct TV audio feed.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia — A DiGiCo SD8 is the latest mixing console purchased by Colombian company Grupo Hangar, which provides technical production services to events in and around the city of Medellín, including the Feria de las Flores (Festival of the Flowers), a high-profile, week-long event.
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LONDON — As the Torch Relay made its way around the UK in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, DPA Microphones were part of the production gear package supporting a total of 70 evening celebrations as well as the daily ceremonial lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the Games themselves.
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ISTANBUL — Elit Light/Sound Technologies provided an L-Acoustics sound system for Date Restaurant & Designers’ Corner, which recently opened in a vintage building here. Kaan Ozcan, manager of the retail outlet that combines for food, fashion and entertainment under one roof, credited L-Acoustics for delivering “excellent sound in a small package. It is ideal for the space and versatile too — ideal for our needs.”
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A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd’s audio division has supplied one of Yamaha’s CL5 digital mixing consoles — along with two Yamaha Rio I/O rackmount units — to Sterling Event Group (SEG), based here.
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SYDNEY — Owen Ironside, sound designer and production engineer at the 500-seat Theatre at The Concourse here, used DPA Microphones from DPA’s Australian distributor, Amber Technologies for a series of 14 sold-out shows pairing the English National Ballet and Australia’s Willoughby Symphony Orchestra. The series was part of this year’s Diamond Jubilee festivities marking the Queen of England’s 60th year on the throne.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — Altincizme, an audio rental company based in Istanbul, recently provided a pair of Soundcraft Vi Series consoles as part of the sound reinforcement system for three concerts at Istanbul’s Harbiye Open Air Theater featuring Turkish pop singer Sezen Aksu.
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MANILA — To celebrate 400 years, the University of Santo Tomas here constructed a sports complex that includes a 54,000-square-foot, 5,792-capacity gymnasium. Crystal Audio installed Adamson’s SpekTrix line arrays — the gear’s debut in the island nation. After testing, installers found that the compact units were powerful enough to change the speaker-to-subwoofer element count in the six main hangs from 6:1 to 4:1. Four supplementary trapezoidal fill boxes were used for the center of the court.
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ZHONGSHAN, China — Pledging a total investment near $50 million, Music Group founder and CEO Uli Behringer outlined a plan for a 50-acre complex housing the company’s R&D and manufacturing operations here. Behringer projected that a total of nearly 5,000 employees would be working on site, with a total 3 million square feet of automated factory space and plans for completion by 2014.
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KAZAN, Russia — Innovason distributor Imight supported the audio needs for a concert at the Kazan Agriculturalists Palace here with an Eclipse GT digital mixing console from Innovason handling the FOH mix. The concert featured French tenor Roberto Alagna, Bolshoi Theatre soloist Venera Gimadieva and the Tatarstan state symphony orchestra conducted by Alexander Sladkovsky.
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LANCING, U.K. — Flare Audio Ltd announced that it will close its PA rental business, Purple Audio Limited, later this year in a bid to strengthen its focus on the manufacturing side of its business, saying that the new focus could create opportunities for potential rental partners and distributors worldwide.
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