International News

SURABAYA, Indonesia – The Bethany Christian denomination church has installed an L-Acoustics dV-DOSC system into the 4,000-capacity Bethany Manyar Church in East Java.

GENEVA – SEAT S.A., a Spanish subsidiary of Volkswagen's Audi Brand Group, debuted several new car models at the Geneva Motor Show with a performance by Shakira. Pere Capell of BTM Sound specified an Out Board TiMax2 SoundHub for the multi-channel sound system used at the event.

POTTERS BAR, U.K. – Soundcraft has released its Vi1, a console that offers Vi Series sound quality, the Vistonics user interface, the Lexicon FX and the BSS EQs, but in a much smaller shell and at one-third the price. The Vi1 is just over a meter wide and includes 16 motorized channel faders with fixed and user-definable layers, 8 output/VCA faders and 2 master faders.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – College Hill Productions supplied live sound for the recent Big Day Out music festival, which featured performances by Lily Allen, The Mars Volta, Jet, Kasabian, The Decemberists and Fear Factory.

BRNO, Czech Republic – Audioblue used an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for a Mass held during a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city.

AMSTERDAM – The Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show reported 28,489 attendees at the 2010 trade show, a 14 percent gain from 2009. For DiGiCo, the show ended with three more of SD8 mixing consoles added to the inventories of Dutch rental companies.

RADOMSKO, Poland – It is official: using a Telefunken Elektroakustik M 80 vocal mic and a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar, Alex Carlin performed for 32 hours, earning him the new Guinness World Record for "Longest Concert by a Solo Artist." The extended show took place at the Pub Bourbon Street and broke the previous record of 27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds by a French-Canadian known as "Gonzales" in Paris.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, U.K. – The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has opened a new exhibition and visitor center near the house Shakespeare was born. Life, Love & Legacy: A New Introduction to William Shakespeare takes visitors through five zones in an immersive experience, bringing the history of Shakespeare to life.

PARIS – FOH engineer Olivier Lude brought his PRO6 live audio system along for the Mister Mystere tour for French rock singer Matthieu Chedid, aka M. The tour is travelling throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland and will end in June at the Zenith concert hall, Paris.

ZURICH, Switzerland – Swiss distributor Audiotech has installed a Midas PRO6 into the X-Tra Club in Zurich. The club, which hosts a variety of club nights and concerts, has a capacity of around 2,000.