International News

HELSINKI, Finland — Systems contractor Pertti Krautsuk of Workland specified eight of JBL Professional’s CBT100LA column enclosures as part of the sound system for the Latokartano Sports Hall.

BELFAST — Lisburn-based Zest Audio has recently completed the installation of a Community sound system for the demonstration facilities of Lightstep Technologies at their Belfast headquarters. Lightstep works to simulate life-threatening situations so people have a better chance of surviving if they are unfortunate enough to ever face the real thing.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The 120 year-old Berns Salonger restaurant and entertainment venue has been updated with three separate Alcons Audio sound reinforcement systems. Club 2.35:1 is located in the Berns Salonger basement and features video screens behind black glass. To match the visuals, local audio specialists Electrosound chose a 7.1+1 surround Alcons system.

TRONDHEIM, Norway —The Olavshallen concert hall has been equipped with a Midas XL8 digital mixing console, supplied by Midas’ Norwegian distributor AVAB CAC. The XL8 will be used to host a range of musical events at the 1,250-capacity venue.

NEW DELHI, India — As many as 50,000 students from across Southeast Asia flooded into the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus for the seven-day Pulse festival featuring rock bands Sonu Nigam, Euphoria, and Motherjane.

DUBLIN — Allen & Heath’s Irish distributor, Rea Sound, has reported the recent sale of eight iLive-T series digital mixing systems to customers in Ireland, including various combinations of iDR-32 and iDR-48 MixRacks with iLive-T80 and iLive-T112 Control Surfaces.

LONDON — The Star Wars saga is looming large via Star Wars: In Concert, where a live symphony orchestra and chorus performs John Williams’ film score beneath HD projections from the six Star Wars films on a 60-by-30-foot screen. FOH mixer Steve Colby is using Studer’s Vista 5 SR digital live mixing console for the tour.

VIENNA, Austria — Bamboo flute prodigy Pravin Godkhindi has been performing since he was six years old. Now, with his own band, he uses the AKG WMS 450 wireless microphone system and IVM 4 PM system.

TILBURG, The Netherlands — Rent-All has provided DiGiCo SD8 and SD7 consoles for FOH and monitors for Guus Meeuwis’ current tour through the Netherlands.

BEDFORDSHIRE, U.K. — Cadac Holdings, Ltd. announced the death of Mark Ray, 49, on Nov. 9 during a visit to New York. Ray, who had fronted Cadac's sales and marketing activity around the world for nine years, died from a heart attack.

DONETSK, Ukraine — Jazz-Club Service purchased the first Midas PRO6 console in the Ukraine from local distributor Cortmi Ltd. The rental company first used it for the Ukrainian tour of Russian singer Grigoriy Leps, and, more recently, a 40-date tour across the Ukraine by Russian pop singer Philipp Kirkorov.

MELBOURNE, Australia — FOH engineer Mark Hawley and monitor man Marcel Van Limbeek have recorded and toured with Amos for 15 years, and strive to reproduce the sound created in the studio in a live situation. To this end, the very same outboard units used in the original studio recordings have not only been reproduced, but duplicated at FOH and on monitors.