International News

FLORENCE, Italy – Powersoft is offering an NWare plugin for Peavey's MediaMatrix NION System. NWare software controls MediaMatrix digital signal processors and peripherals. The new plugin lets users control and monitor Powersoft K Series and Duecanali amplifiers through a single graphic user interface within NWare software.

FALKENBERG, Sweden — Late May saw Swedish truck body manufacturer SKAB Group treat its employees and their families to a company party. With DiGiCo SD8 and SD8-24 consoles mixing the performances, the party went with a swing, not to mention some heads-down boogie.

LONDON — Mike & The Mechanics, the side-project formed in 1984 by Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford, recently played London’s Royal Albert Hall to launch their 2011 Hit The Road tour. Featuring a new lineup which includes UK R&B star Andrew Roachford, the tour coincides with the release of their first album in six years entitled The Road.

PARIS — On-Off, supported by Midas distributor EVI Audio France, used a Midas digital network consisting of three PRO6s together with three DL431 mic splitters for La Nuite Africaine at the 80,000-capacity Stade de France. The event featured 18 bands including Alpha Blondy, Manu Dibango, Mory Kanté and Magic Systems.

LIVERPOOL and NEWCASTLE, UK — Adlib's specialist sales division, a certified provider for  L-Acoustics, has sold a KARA PA system, fully flight-cased and complete with LA8 amplifiers, to sound, lighting and AV rental company Nitelites.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – RG Jones Sound Engineering has equipped the chapel at Cambridge's Trinity College with its first sound reinforcement system since it was founded in the mid-1540s. It includes 127 Harman's JBL Control 52 ultra-compact satellite loudspeakers, accessed via a BSS Soundweb DSP design to optimize the sound broadcast from seven fixed microphone positions at the lecterns.

CORNWALL, U.K. – Evosound Pro Audio managed PA requirements for the recent Night Surf event held at Lusty Glaze in Newquay, Cornwall, using its Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to run FOH and monitors for bands. The event featured headline performances by Reef and The Kooks.

READING, U.K. — Wavelength Entertainments Ltd have made the strongest statement yet about their intention to standardize on RCF solutions for the wide range of parties, high level corporate events, charity and fresher balls they support, with the purchase of four TT08-A, four TT25-A and four TTS28-A subs from the Italian company’s Touring and Theatre range.

SARDINIA, Italy — The annual Sun and Bass Festival, featuring bass and drum heavy electronic sounds and syncopated beats, is getting support from Proel Edge and Turbosound audio gear.

LONDON — Wigwam Acoustics has taken delivery of five brand new Midas VeniceF “digilog” consoles with FireWire interface for the festival season. One of the VeniceF's has been supplied to Coldplay, providing audio splits for recording throughout their summer festival run. Two of the consoles are being used at the Hampton Court Festival and another two at the Isle of Wight, both in June.

LONDON — U.K. vocalist Clare Maguire recently completed a tour of the U.K. carrying a dual Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to manage FOH and monitors. Partly rented from PA company SRD Group, the system included an iLive-80 Control Surface and an iDR0 miniRack at FOH, digitally split from an iDR-48 MixRack and an iLive-R72 Control Surface at monitor position.

SPLIT, Croatia — As its name might suggest, pricing of gear is an important consideration for Sasan “Ciro” Cirkovic, owner of Cash Sound, based here. But so were “a really good sound” and “a stable platform,” according to Cirkovic, whose company supports a wide range of live events including concerts by Croatia’s biggest artists and international stars.