FRANKFURT, Germany — Production Resource Group (PRG), the leading staging equipment supplier for events around the world, staged its Live Entertainment Awards at Festhalle here March 20 with support from a concert system with gear from Harman Professional. The audio setup included Harman’s new JBL VTX line arrays, which served as their European debut.
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OBERHAUSEN, Germany — More than a hundred industry pros from Europe, Scandinavia and the UK attended a demonstration of Turbosound’s Flashline large scale line array over two days on March 13 and 14 at Oberhausen’s König-Pilsener Arena.
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LONDON — Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds world tour recently completed its U.K. arena leg, with Midas XL8s from Britannia Row at FOH and monitors. As the tour moves on to more European and U.S. dates for spring and summer, The band’s FOH and monitor engineers will be adapting to the needs of different performance spaces with other Midas products — first a Midas PRO6, then Midas’ new PRO2C for summer festival appearances.
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OLOMOUC, Czech Republic – Vladimir Foret, program director of the Jazz Tibet Club, noted how the venue’s sound engineer, Peter Svarc, opted for a Harman Soundcraft Si Compact 32 digital audio console to upgrade the older digital console with 16 inputs that had been in use at the club. Among the new console’s benefits, Foret said, is the ability to combine the best of both worlds — analog’s ease-of-use and digital’s vast array of audio processing resources.
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DUBAI — Staged amid occasionally strong winds and sandstorms, the 10th Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival, a week-long event, found support from local AV company Artes Middle East, which provided gear from Midas, Meyer Sound and other manufacturers for the event.
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LONDON — Martin Audio introduced its MLA Compact Multi-cellular loudspeaker array to media and the company’s global distributor network by booking the HMV Apollo Hammersmith for a two-day showcase. The event drew visitors from as far away as North America.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Several Allen & Heath iLive and iDR digital mixers were installed in the new Harpa concert hall and conference center here, which features four main performance spaces. iLive systems including an iDR-16 MixRack and iLive-R72 Control Surface have been installed in the Norourljos recital hall and Kaldalon hall, while a combined FOH and monitor system, including iDR-16 MixRacks and an iLive-R72 and iLive-T80 surfaces, is in use at the Silfurberg conference hall.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre’s amenities include an audio system incorporating more than 160 Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — L-Acoustics’ Turkish distributor, Elit Light & Sound Technologies, has been busy with a number of recent installations and projects in Istanbul using L-Acoustics systems.
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LONDON — CS Audio is currently servicing a sold-out national tour with British Tenor Alfie Boe and a full accompanying orchestra, deploying Harman’s Soundcraft Vi and Si Compact consoles as the heart of the audio system.
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STRATFORD UPON AVON, U.K. — The Royal Shakespeare Company’s refurbished Swan Theatre was equipped with a DiGiCo SD7 console in 2011. The theatre company has since opted for another SD series console, this time an SD9, for its touring shows and West End transfers.
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LUND, Sweden — Rock band Takida has embarked on its spring tour of Scandinavia in support of their fourth studio album, The Burning Heart. Scandinavian rental company Starlight is providing Midas PRO2 consoles at both FOH and monitors positions. Starlight, which purchased the PRO2s from Midas’ Swedish distributor Intersonic, is the first company in the region to use a dual system on a tour.
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