International News

LONDON — d&b audiotechnik features its “teeny weeny” E4 and E5 loudspeakers at ABTT 2012, held in London’s Old Truman Brewery, along with similarly-sized speakers in its installation-ready White range. The company also presented its mid-sized V-Series, and d&b’s Oran Burns presented an educational session, “Can You Hear Me at the Back?”

LONDON — The 1,000-boat Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant along the River Thames in London, witnessed by millions of television viewers around the world on June 3, saw Delta Sound line the route from Putney Bridge to Tower Bridge and on down to Greenwich, with hangs of Harman’s JBL VTX line arrays.

SANTIAGO, Chile — dBTechnologies has sold its 20,000^th DVA T4 unit since launching the product five years ago. dBTechnologies presented Audiomusica, the company’s Chilean representative, based here, with a Golden DVA T4 award, honoring the rep firm not just for its link to the milestone unit but also for its overall sales success. The commemorative DVA T4 unit has the serial number 20,000 imprinted upon it.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Edinburgh Lighting & Sound School is using Allen & Heath’s MixWizard3 16:2 as the main training console for its new Production and Technology course, and an iLive digital mixing system was used for training purposes on one of the modules. First year students on the year-long course have just graduated, and all fifteen graduates have received job offers, including one student who has been employed by Autograph Sound, and is currently working on Damon Albarn’s new Dr Dee opera.

LIVERPOOL, UK — Adlib’s audio division has designed and installed an Adlib FD sound system into Eric’s, a live music venue here that is once again open for business.

ROME — As many as 750,000 fans packed Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni for the 23^rd annual 1st May concert. Limelite, working with the event’s producer, Anyway srl, provided lighting, video and audio support for the eight-hour RAI-televised event, including Outline GTO and Butterfly systems.

KUALA LUMPUR — Digital Aid, a.k.a. D8, recently become an L-Acoustics Rental Network Agent with the purchase of a KUDO WST line source system with SB28 subwoofers from local distributor Sennheiser Electronic Asia.

MEXICO CITY — In support of Vive Latino, a three-day music festival here on three stages, Ruben Alvarez with Representaciones de Audio handled frequency coordination. He credited the new Axient Wireless Microphone System and the PSM 1000 and PSM 900 personal monitoring systems from Shure for helping overcome challenges posed by the various wireless systems used by all the performers and media assembled for the event.

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands — Story Sound BV, based here and led by Michael Story, is an early adopter of Harman’s JBL VTX line array series. The company recently purchased 24 V25 line array elements and 26 S28 arrayable subwoofers, plus a variety of Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers. This is largely to accommodate the increasing amount of theater work the company is now supporting with sound design and reinforcement.