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OXNARD, Calif. – Radiohead, a longtime L-ACOUSTICS user, has returned to the road this summer in support of its latest album, In Rainbows. Firehouse Productions of Red Hook, NY, is serving as the sound provider for the US tour legs, with Wigwam Acoustics of Heywood (Manchester), UK, handling the European dates.

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – Clair Showco of Lititz, PA, recently provided a Studer Vista 5 SR console for country music star Keith Urban’s U.S. tour. The multi-city tour featured Studer Vista 5 SR digital audio consoles in use for both FOH and monitor mixing applications.

OTTAWA, Ontario – The Ottawa Bluesfest has grown into the largest blues festival in Canada and the second largest in North America, annually attracting around 300,000 music fans. Each year, Electro-Voice, Dynacord and Midas equipment from Wall Sound, Inc. (Ottawa) ensures audio performance in keeping with the festival’s international stature. For the 2007 festival, Wall Sound debuted their upgraded EV XLC 127DVX line array system; for this year’s festival, their new EV XLD super-compact line array system made its debut on the River Stage.

Ultimate Ears has introduced new LoudEnough earphones designed for kids. LoudEnough earphones maintain audio quality while setting boundaries to the volume delivered to children’s ears.

SEOUL, KOREA, — A recent installation of Aviom gear at the University of Ulsan ice rink proves that you don’t have to sacrifice sound quality when transporting audio over long distances.  The Korean university wanted a way to send audio from its radio station/studio to remote clusters of speakers in its ice rink over a stretch of some 500 feet/150 meters. Transporting audio signals over such an expanse without sacrificing quality often presents system designers and contractors with a challenge and end users with expensive options.  This project at the University of Ulsan was no different.  

MIDLAND, Texas – Built in 1929 and designated a Texas State Historical Landmark, the Yucca Theatre in Midland, Texas, is home to the Midland Community Theatre and its “Summer Mummers,” a locally-produced and written show that harks back to the golden age of Vaudeville. The Yucca’s new Electro-Voice XLCi 127DVX sound system is ensuring this unique production sounds better than ever for its 60th anniversary in 2008. The EV system was designed by FitzCo Sound, Inc. (Midland, Texas) and installed by Midland Community Theatre personnel (supervised by Technical Director/Sound & Lighting Designer Eddie Taylor).
 

NILES, Ill. – Shure Incorporated announced today that multiple award winning R&B singer and rapper Estelle, who released her new album Shine earlier this year, has recently chosen a Shure UHF-R Wireless System with a KSM9 Microphone as her performance weapon of choice.

KELOWNA, BC – Held at the luxurious Grand Okanagan Resort and Convention Center in Kelowna, British Columbia, the 2008 Telus World Skins Game VIP Gala dinner was hosted by sports agency powerhouse IMG for their sponsors, players, media and VIP clients of this golfing event. With a crew that included FOH Engineer Steve Williams and System Techs Jose Antunes and Matt Perry, Northwest Global provided a system consisting of Martin Audio W8LM and W8LMD Mini Line Arrays with WSX subs; Martin Audio MA 4.2S and MA2.8S power amplifiers with Martin Audio DX1 Speaker Processing. A Midas Venice 320 was also used as the console.

SCOTLAND – ADLIB Audio supplied sound for two stages at the successful T In the Park 2008 festival, staged at Kinross, Scotland; the King Tuts Wah Wah Stage and Slam Stage. Slam Stage’s massive V-shaped dance-orientated tent had a capacity of 20,000. Its shape and scale presented some interesting challenges for ADLIB Crew Chief Hassane Essiahi and his team who worked closely with Sound Engineer Dave Pringle to ensure that all the bands and DJs had the requisite levels of energy and volume to make it rock.