FRANKFURT – A network of Midas PRO9 andPRO6 live audio systems and an analog XL4 was used at FOH and monitors respectively for the recent PRG LEA German Live Entertainment Awards held at the Frankfurt Festival Hall during Prolight+Sound.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – The roar of the crowd fills soccer arenas around the world – but none as loudly, perhaps, as Galatasaray SK's new 52,650-capacity, multi-purpose Turk Telekom Arena, where an SPL of 131.76dB was recorded.
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BONN, Germany – Kuchem Konferenz Technik worked with RCF Germany to equip the Terrace Bar at the five-star Kameha Grand Hotel here with 22 of RCF MQ80P-S speakers. The MQ80P-S model is IP55 and well-suited for outdoor use.
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SANTIAGO, Chile – FOH engineer Rick Pope is out on the Jamiroquai tour with a Midas XL8 live performance system at FOH, supplied by Britannia Row and operated by Britannia Row's Warren Grimsley, who is out for the first time with the system. Originally on the tour as PA tech, Grimsley was promoted to his position with little training on the XL8, but picked it up in no time.
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YAROSLAVL, Russia – As the ancient Russian city of Yaroslavl was celebrating its 1,000th anniversary, a new cultural entertainment complex called Hill Hall was opening in its midst.
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VENICE, Italy – World-famous Saint Mark's Basilica, visited every year by 1.5 million plus people, has been equipped with a new sound system that includes 40 RCF loudspeaker enclosures and no fewer than 10 of the company's new VSA 2050 digitally steerable vertical line arrays. Marco Mazzon, founder of the company of the same name, installed the system.
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HAMBURG, Germany – ASC (Amptown System Company) provided a new sound system for Hamburg's acoustically-complex St Michaelis church that includes Iconyx digital beam steering systems from Renkus-Heinz.
Read More »FRANKFURT – Hartman+Mathais Partnership incorporated Dante technology into Goethe University's Frankfurt Campus. The installation project involved the Westend and Riedberg campuses, and the Riedberg campus was the first project in Germany to use Audinate's Dante solution as the audio network.
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BLACKTOWN, Australia – Bowman Hall hosts concerts, wedding receptions, meetings and other events within a large, reverberant and asymmetric space with galleries on each side of the long axis.
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GAVLE, Sweden – Swedish sound company Center Stage, founded by former Spectra Stage & Event Technologies technicians, Robert Berglund and Mikael Andersson, in 2007, has expanded its inventory with its first Soundcraft Vi1 digital desk, purchased from local distributors Septon AB.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – An American Rhapsody, a concert performed at the Hotel Indonesia Kempinski by the 40-piece Jakarta Concert Orchestra and Batavia Madrigal Singers led by conductor Avip Priatna, relied on Innovason Eclipse digital mixing console on monitors supplied by rental company Megaswara with support from Innovason's Indonesian distributor, LaMesa, and engineer Ahmad Rapii.
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LONDON – Audio-Technica gear – including a combination of ES935ML6 MicroLine Condenser Gooseneck Microphones and U851R Cardioid Condenser Boundary Microphones installed in Westminster Abbey, 32 microphones in all – captured the audio of the Royal Wedding, which attracted media attention from around the world and was seen by some 2 billion people.
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