FRANKFURT, Germany – Renkus-Heinz demoed the IC2 (IC Squared) high powered, medium format digitally steerable loudspeaker system at Pro Light+Sound, featuring the system in 12 public demonstration sessions and a live demo.
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LONDON – With 80 candles on your cake, you're entitled to a lot of wishes. How about having Sharon Stone and Kevin Spacey host a charity concert at Royal Albert Hall featuring musical guests Bryan Ferry, Shirley Bassey, Katherine Jenkins, the Scorpions, Paul Anka, The London Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Valery, Gergiev Bolshoi and Mariinsky Soloists, the Igor Krutoi Turetsky Choir, Andrey Gavrilov, among others?
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Aqua Sounds supported two major events in Tanzania's largest city with Proel Axiom gear. The events included festivities surrounding the East Africa Football Cup and a major corporate event sponsored by mobile telephone company Bharti Airtel.
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LONDON – Adlib supplied sound equipment and crew for the recent U.K. leg of The Script's Science & Faith world tour.
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HYDERABAD, India – For a recent Bryan Adams concert that drew 18,000 to the Hitex Exhibition Centre, Sound.com provided Harman gear including Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers and JBL VerTec line arrays.
Read More »LONDON – British authorities have completed a major crackdown on counterfeit goods, seizing gear with forged Sennheiser and Monster Cable branding from the premises of an organization involved in distributing the illegal knockoffs online. Sennheiser and Monster Cable helped investigators confirm that the illegal goods were, in fact, fakes.
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ZAGREB, Croatia – JSN Comon provided a sound reinforcement system that uses SymNet open-architecture digital signal processing for the 161,000-square-foot Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), an Igor Franic-designed building.
Read More »FRANKFURT, Germany – Harman Professional's HiQnet Performance Manager software, which debuted at Prolight + Sound 2011, is designed to streamline the system design, setup and tuning process for touring and live performance venue sound reinforcement systems, according to Paul Bauman, director of tour sound product application and application engineering, JBL Professional.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – For a tour for Ozark Henry, which is touring arenas up to 6,000 capacity in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg through spring and early summer, FOH engineer Tom Janssen and monitors mixer Marcel Cortleven are using Soundcraft's Vi platform for the first time.
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LONDON – Westminster Abbey, which hosts the Royal Wedding later this month, recently commissioned the installation of new speech reinforcement, induction loop and CCTV systems, along with ancillary video, audio and data distribution facilities. The project included the installation of Martin Audio OmniLine micro-line array loudspeakers.
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FRANKFURT – Proel is previewing its four-model HPX amplifier line, including the HPX 900, HPX1200, HPX2400 and HPX2800, with output ranging from 900 W to 2800 W using power stages in Class AB and Class H and switching power supplies, at ProLight + Sound 2011.
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VINA DEL MAR, Chile – The 52nd annual Viña del Mar Song Festival drew some 15,000 visitors a day recently to the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater to hear Nelly Furtado, Simply Red, Sting, and other international artists perform and, in many cases, compete. The production crew relied upon Riedel Communications for the wired and wireless communications infrastructure.
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