SHANGHAI — The record-setting LED Skydome at Harmony Times Square in Suzhou Industrial Park is an impressive sight, with 20 million LEDs covering a 500-meter-by-32 meter canopy above shops and restaurants at street level.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — The artist lineup at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival was as esoteric as ever, particularly in the Acoustic Tent, equipped this year with a Turbosound Aspect rig.
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MILAN, Italy — With a stage name that means “curly hair” in Italy’s Apulian dialect and a recent album called Le Dimensioni del Mio Caos, the artist known as CapaRezza may revel in unruliness. To keep his sound in line for the thousands who turned out for his recent performance at Milan’s Indroscalo sports complex, however, GM Music once again used Proel’s Axiom and Edge systems.
Read More »LONDON — British indie rockers the Doves are currently on tour in support of Kingdom of Rust. FOH engineer Paul Ramsay specified a DiGiCo SD7 for the bigger venues in U.K. and Ireland and an SD8 for the smaller club venues in the U.S. Monitor engineer Ian Barton has been using an SD8 for the entire tour run.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — The less-than-a-year-old Midas PRO6 live audio system made its debut at the Glastonbury festival this year, joining the XL4 and Heritage systems already in use.
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LONDON — British rock artist PJ Harvey and monitor engineer Ben Booker recently completed a European tour using Allen & Heath’s iLive-T digital mixing system.
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STRASBOURG, France — The Theatre National de Strasbourg (TNS) was recently equipped with an Outline loudspeaker system made up of Doppia II point source enclosures.
Read More »ELKHART, IN — Bartlett Microphones, developer of the TM-125 and TM-125C stage-floor microphones, appointed two new dealers on both sides of the Atlantic: 10 Out of 10 Productions Ltd. in the U.K. and Church Audio Supply in the U.S.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, U.K. — Sound engineer Walter Jaquiss recently joined forces with Adlib Audio and Lighting for the latest John Barrowman tour, and two Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles were used for the production.
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PARIS — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. marked the 30th anniversary of NEXO loudspeaker systems. This year is also the first full year of NEXO’s transition to becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — Audio rental company RG Jones Sound Engineering marked its third year overseeing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury by supplying a Synco package including Synco by Martin Audio W8L Longbow main PA line arrays and Martin Audio delays, a Synco cardioid sub-bass array and a Synco stage monitoring and drum fill system.
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AMSTERDAM — The Levenstroom (Livingstream) church’s large congregation recently moved to a new building equipped with extensive in-house AV and media production gear and an audio system that includes a pair of DiGiCo CSD5 consoles, one at front of house and the other in its studio facilities.
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