LONDON — While on tour with 5-piece indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, sound engineer Chris Leckie, relies on Harman’s Soundcraft Vi Series consoles for all FOH and monitor needs. Since releasing their debut album, Employment, in 2005, Kaiser Chiefs have been busy touring both Europe and the North America.
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ROME — AES has announced that its 134th convention will take place at the Roma Eventi – Fontana di Trevi Conference Centre here May 4-7, 2013.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — FOH engineer Dan Lewis mixed a recent show at Heaton Park here featuring Beady Eye. He chose Midas’ PRO2 digital console for the event, crediting the console for sonic “warmth.”
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CARHAIX, France — The four-day Les Vieilles Charrues, one of France’s largest, was held July 19-22 with headliners including Bob Dylan, Sting, The Cure, Portishead, LMFAO, Kasabian and France-based artists including Thomas Dutronc, Zebda, Orelsan, Amadou et Mariam and many others. Sombrero & Co. brought three Innovason consoles to the site for the event.
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MAIDENHEAD, UK — Oxfordshire-based RealSound and Vision installed a Community sound system for Cedar Sports Management Ltd. at Bar Sport, a sports bar based here.
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SANTURCE, Puerto Rico — Daryl Bornstein, an independent audio consultant, worked with SAVI in New York to provide a new sound system centered on d&b audiotechnik gear for the three performance spaces within Centro des Bellas Artes (CBA), along with Midas consoles for the two larger rooms and a Yamaha desk for the smaller black box theatre.
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WEST MIDLANDS, UK — Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) recently took delivery of a Yamaha CL5 digital mixing console, adding it to the company’s inventory, which also includes Yamaha LS9 and other desks. The CL5 system was supplied to CPL by the Birmingham office of LMC Audio Systems Ltd.
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MOSCOW — City Sound put Allen & Heath’s new GLD digital mixing system into service for BMW Group’s recent launch of its 6 Series Gran Coupe to Russia.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — For a new nightclub here, Richie, Akhan SES Isik Ve Gorsel Sistemler Tic designed and installed a sound system centered on One Systems’ 208CIM full-range speakers and 118Sub-W subwoofers.
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SZEGED, Hungary — At Dóm Square (Cathedral Square) here, it’s become an annual tradition to turn the 12,000-square-meter area of open space into a 4,000 capacity outdoor entertainment venue. This year the space was transformed for a production of the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde. ES Audio supported the event with Innovason and Neumann gear.
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VILLARROBLEDO, Albacete, Spain — For the second year, Acústica supported the Viña Rock Native Art Festival here with a sound system from D.A.S. Audio. The event drew some 200,000 with acts including Barricada, Ojos de Brujo, Rosendo, Huecco and Barón Rojo. The setup included 36 large D.A.S. Aero 50 line array systems and 36 D.A.S. LX-218A subwoofer units.
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LONDON — After an intensive market evaluation of well over a year, leading British rental company Capital Sound has made a significant investment in Martin Audio’s award-winning Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA).
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