MELBOURNE, Australia — For Cold Chisel’s performance at Festival Hall here, sound engineer Greg Rosman used the JBL V5 VerTec presets that come with Crown VRACK, an amplifier management rack system solution, to optimize the audio heard via the venue’s in-house JBL VerTec PA system.
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LONDON — Frank Turner, the former frontman for punk band Million Dead, has since embarked on a solo career with more folk-oriented music. His recent sold-out show at Wembley Arena with his band, The Sleeping Souls, was supported by Newcastle-based Nitelites. The audio setup included three DiGiCo consoles.
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DELHI, India — Arjun Bahl of Most Technical India, who coordinated a pre-wedding celebration here recently, brought in Out Board’s Dave Haydon for sound design at the event. Haydon used Out Board’s TiMax Soundhub 3D spatialization effects to enhance the audio support for the event.
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DUBLIN — Singer-songwriter Imelda May and her FOH engineer, Trevor Gilligan, have opted for a Sennheiser e 965 for the artist’s vocals.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Sound quality, reliability and versatility led Darren Russell, managing director Elite Sound and Lighting, to purchase a Soundcraft Si Compact 16 console, a Soundcraft Si Compact 32 console and two Soundcraft Compact Stagebox digital multicore systems.
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ARQUES, France — Vincent Voyron, longtime sound engineer for Canadian singer Natasha St Pier, got the chance to use an Innovason Eclipse for her performance at the concert hall here for the first time, and “wasn’t disappointed — I’d be happy to mix on an Eclipse any time.”
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RISSKOV, Denmark — Kim Johansen of Danish audio company Soundware frequently drops in on a wide range of rental and supply companies. On one such visit, to Victory Tour Production, based here, he found owner Jesper Sørensen, extremely busy as usual. Sørensen wanted to order a DiGiCo but had trouble making up his mind. His solution: All of the above — five different DiGiCo models; six consoles in all.
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PARIS — François Hollande, France’s new president, was inaugurated May 15 with ceremonies that relied upon Innovason’s Eclipse digital mixing console for audio support. Although France’s previous president, Nicolas Sarkozy, had predicted “economic disaster within two days of taking office” if Hollande beat him in the election May 6, there were no sour grapes — or harsh audio notes — during the ceremonial transfer of power.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Midas’ Iranian distributor, Ertebat Sedaye Bartar Co., has sold the first PRO6 live audio system, together with a Klark Teknik DN9696 high definition audio recorder, to the country’s leading rental company, Ardestani Brothers.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovak Republic — Sound specialist Patrik Kvacka is using his new Midas PRO2 console, the first sold in Slovakia, to support concerts by Berlin-based Jazzanova and a U.K.-based jazz and electronic band, The Cinematic Orchestra.
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HELENSVALE, Australia — Dominica Sound worked with DiGiCo’s Australian distributor, Group Technologies, to provide a DiGiCo SD11 console for a new performing arts center at Helensvale Primary School.
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MUNTINLUPA, The Philippines – Soundcheck, an audio contractor based here, has been using Harman’s JBL VerTec line arrays to support events ranging from indoor corporate meetings to outdoor shows for major international touring acts. Jaime Godinez, owner and chief engineer, credited JBL’s new V5 VerTec preset tunings for making an audible difference that clients notice.
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