MONTERREY, Mexico – For the Latin American leg of Spanish pop star David Bisbal's tour in support of Sin Mar Atras, monitor engineer Alberto Liras, who has used DiGiCo D5s and an SD8 on previous tours, decided to switch to a DiGiCo SD9 console, supplied by DiGiCo's Spanish distributor Meyer Sound España.
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LANDSBERG AM LECH and HALVER, Germany – Rain Age GmbH and Go Audio Rental GmbH recently added Midas PRO6 live audio systems to their inventories, purchasing the gear through Midas' German distributor Mega Audio.
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DARWIN, Australia – The Marrara Sporting Complex and TIO Stadium, used for Australian football, cricket, and the biennial Arafura Games, was recently equipped with Community R and WET Series loudspeakers specified by GHD.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Supertramp has embarked on its 70-10 European tour to celebrate its 40th anniversary. With the help of an L- Acoustics K1 line source system provided by German Rental Network agent Sirius Showequipment, the band is performing greatest hits from 11 studio albums.
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LONDON – The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.
Read More »SANT'OMERO, Italy – Wouldn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Perhaps, but they'd be a hard sell on Valentine's Day if Bart and Homer Simpson's names for them – stench-blossoms and crapweeds – took hold.
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DELHI, India – Production crews navigated inconsistent power, organization issues, Dengue fever and other challenges to stage the ceremonies marking the first Commonwealth Games to be held in India.
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PANAMA CITY, Panama – Systems integrator Extended GM recently equipped the 32,000-capacity Rommel Fernandez Stadium with 35 Technomad Noho weatherproof loudspeakers.
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GUANGZHOU, China – The use of a DiGiCo console during the opening ceremonies for the Canton Tower – one of the world's tallest buildings – wasn't the only example of how DiGiCo is raising its profile in the most populous nation on Earth.
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CALCUTTA, India – Allen & Heath's Indian distributor, Sun Infonet, recently completed a series of training sessions in three key locations – Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Calcutta – targeting customers who are ready to move from traditional analog to digital solutions.
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KENT, U.K. – SRD Group provided a sound reinforcement system for a 16,000-capacity outdoor classical music event that made use of Allen & Heath iLive digital hardware and its new DualRack capabilities.
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CARDIFF, U.K. – Capital Sound supported a major event related to the Ryder Cup golf tournament's first visit to Wales recently. The event, called Welcome to Wales, took place at Millennium Stadium. And the tricky part was that it was two events, not one. The crew used three DiGiCo D5 consoles to overcome the two-pronged challenge.
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