International News

BARCELONA – After Russ Tite, FOH engineer for The Kooks, mixed the band this past summer with Midas Heritage 3000 and XL4 consoles, he decided to stick with the Midas brand for the band's shows in Europe this fall. "We were almost going to take an XL4, but you can't really fit one on a tour like this, so I decided to try the PRO6, and it sounds incredible," Tite said.

TELEMARK, Norway – The Vatnar Leirsted youth camp purchased a Soundcraft Si Compact 24 digital console as part of an upgrade to meet the needs of its expanding worship services. Along with a permanent church with 110 seats, summer Bible camps have been taking place in tents seating 350-400. The new console will be used at FOH and monitors for a new tent that can seat 1,300. The camp's owners, Pentecostal churches of Telemark, host several major events for youth each year. Camp officials cited ease of use as a key factor in the purchase decision.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – PRG expanded its rental inventory with 60 new RockNet devices made by Riedel Communications and quickly put it to use at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where PRG is provided technical support for the opening and closing ceremonies.

LAHTI, Finland – Jan Holm of Helsinki-based Teakon Theatre consultants worked with Studiotec to equip the 1,229-seat Main Hall at the Sibelius Hall Congress and Concert Centre with an upgraded sound system that includes Meyer Sound M'elodie line array loudspeakers.

SCANDICCI, Italy – Powersoft announced it has become a promoter member of the AVnu Alliance, the industry forum that aims at establishing and promoting the IEEE 802.1 Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) standards. The company called the move part of its plan to significantly expand its presence in the install markets, as well as producing future interoperable, AVB-compliant audio networking products.

ERBUSCO-BRESCIA, Italy – The Qi Clubbing nightclub's new restaurant has been equipped with 20 RCF Monitor 88 units. The stage area features eight RCF H 1312 three-way speakers, and the installed sound system has been beefed up with four RCF DPS 3000 and eight RCF HPS 1500 power amplifiers plus RCF DX 4008 and DX 2006 for digital loudspeaker management.

MOSCOW and KIEV – Harman Professional opened an office in Moscow and completed seminars in Moscow and Kiev that drew some 400 participants from Russia, Ukraine and surrounding areas. The October events were the first in a series of targeted, regional, international roadshows organized by Harman's recently-appointed director of knowledge resources, David Scheirman.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Mighty Rock Performance Technology, a rental operation set up to focus purely on Midas digital consoles and associated accessories, has made its debut in Melbourne. The company, an affiliate of Production Works (Hobart, Tasmania), has Australia's first Midas XL8 in its rental inventory.

ARNEDO, Spain – For the upcoming tour of Spain-based metal band Los Marea, Fluge is providing an E15 system from Adamson Systems Engineering. Fluge also worked with Adamson distributor Seesound to provide an E15 system at the Low Cost Festival in Benidorm, Spain earlier this year, which served as the European debut for Adamson's "Project Energia" beta launch.

PAG ISLAND, Croatia – Promologistika provided a total of 48 units of RCF TTL55-A to support a concert by British DJ Fatboy Slim staged on Zrće, a pebble beach on this island along Croatia's Adriatic seacoast. The system included 16 units per side (LR) plus a delay of two stacks with six units each, plus 16 units of RCF TTS56-A (subwoofers).

WEST SUSSEX, U.K. – Flare Audio, which is providing PA and monitors for the U.K. tour for drum and bass duo Nero, turned to 5 Star Cases for a casing system for Flare's Triwave i10 loudspeakers. The idea was to help the crew deploy the speakers quickly and efficiently when flown as main left and right PA arrays inside a venue.