AMSTERDAM — Martin Audio’s Dutch distributor, TM Audio have equipped major concert venues in the Amsterdam area with the company’s sound gear. A recent case in point is at Duycker, an Amsterdam rock venue and cultural center, where TM Audio provided a Martin Audio W8LCi compact line array system. Other examples in recent years include Paradiso and Melkweg nightclubs.
Read More »REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy — Matteo Armelini, 32, a rigger who was working with other crew members in preparation for Laura Pausini’s concert March 5 at the PalaCalafiore here, died at the scene when staging elements fell on him from above at about 2 a.m. Two others helping secure the rig for the three-stage set received minor injuries.
Read More »REGGIO EMILIA, Italy — RCF SpA’s Audio Academy is collaborating with the local Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia’s Faculty of Engineering to produce a University course in Sound Engineering.
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BEIJING – Chinese rental company LAB, the country’s first-ever L-Acoustics Rental Network Agent, has purchased a K1 WST line source system from exclusive Chinese distributor Rightway Audio Consultants. LAB’s first use of its new K1 system was for pop singer Jane Zhang at Beijing’s MasterCard Center, part of her Personal Look tour of China.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Auckland’s College Hill Productions Ltd., which supports concerts by major international artists as well as indoor and outdoor music events, TV and radio broadcasts and corporate events, recently added two Harman Soundcraft Si Compact 32 digital live sound consoles to its equipment roster.
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DUBAI, UAE — Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist AR Rahman, prolific writer of film scores (including Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours), a two-time Academy Award winner and member of Mick Jagger’s new band, Superheavy, recently performed at the Dubai Cricket Stadium for a capacity crowd. His performance was heard via Outline Butterfly systems provided by Muscat-based Talentz Centre LLC.
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LONDON — Allen & Heath’s iLive was selected to manage a three week run of performances held at The O2 in London, featuring over 100 bands, including The Feeling, Irwin Sparkes (Hoosiers frontman), and up-and-coming UK artists Nicki Garnett, Belakiss, Laura Steel, and Treetop Flyers. Run by Silent Gig Ltd and supported by PA company The Audio Group, the December Sessions were a series of free performances to celebrate emerging UK talent hosted festival-style on an outdoor stage in the London Piazza at the O2.
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LEATHERHEAD, U.K. — Community Professional Loudspeakers has applied for EN54-24 Certification for its large-scale loudspeaker systems. The company’s gear is also now being tested at Intertek’s recently-opened Life Safety & Security testing facility here. The testing helps ensure that Community Pro gear will help large venues meet intelligible voice evacuation and mass notification requirements.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands – TM Audio provided Museum Speelklok with the combination of audio quality and unobtrusive aethetics that it had been seeking with a IC Live system from Renkus-Heinz. The system, installed into the museum’s central performance space, which had formerly served as the nave for a church, includes four 8-channel ICL-R digitally steerable columns, mounted in one double stack per side, atop matching IC215 2×15″ self powered subwoofers.
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RISSKOV, Denmark — With his first major label release, Behold, Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer is now breaking through as an international artist. Victory Tour Production helped bring the artist’s guitar-based ballads to a wider audience, providing DiGiCo SD11 consoles and Neumann digital microphones for Langer’s recent end-of-year European tour.
Read More »SKJETTEN, Skedsmo, Norway – Norwegian rental company Pro Systemer AS has become a new L-Acoustics Rental Network Agent with the purchase of an L-Acoustics KARA WST line source system and 115XT HiQ monitor system from local distributor Scandec Systemer. The company has added 12 KARA cabinets with eight SB18 subs and four LA8 amplified controllers, plus 12 115XT HiQ active coaxial speakers with two 8XT compact coaxials and four LA8s, to its inventory.
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HAMBURG, Germany — German electro house duo, Digitalism, has been touring the globe this year carrying an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to manage FOH and monitors.
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