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DULUTH, MN — Supercharged snowmobile engines issue high-pitched screams at 130 dB, pushed to piston-pummeling extremes as they tear around the track. The crowd is nearly as noisy, loving every minute of it. Being heard above all this is easier said than done. And then there’s the mud, the slush and the dirt. That’s why making live sound reinforcement happen on the World Power Sports Association (WPSA) Racing Sno-X snowmobile and ATV tours — as seen on the Speed Channel and ESPN — requires some tough loudspeakers.

COHASSET and HYANNIS, MA —The South Shore Music Circus and its sister venue, the Cape Cod Melody Tent, stand tall as the last two U.S. continuously operating in-the-round tent theatres. Meyer Sound M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers were recently installed at both historic venues.
 

GREENSBORO, NC — WorxAudio Technologies has introduced the M80i Install Line Array. A member of WorxAudio Technologies’ TrueLine Series, the new M80i is a two-way, high efficiency, ultra compact line array loudspeaker system designed for the most natural sounding reproduction of speech and music program material. This new loudspeaker system is designed for a wide variety of sound reinforcement applications, including corporate/industrial presentation venues, performance venues and clubs, houses of worship, theaters and AV production.

CHICAGO — The 300-seat auditorium in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) hosts a diversity of musical and theatrical styles, from jazz to classical and from pop to avant-garde. Dennis O'Shea, MCA's manager of technical production, recently added a second eight-channel TRUE Systems Precision 8 preamp/DI to the auditorium's reinforcement and archival system so that all 16 recording channels could benefit from the Precision 8s' clean, warm sound.

TALLAHASSEE, FL — In what is becoming a fairly typical problem for many houses of worship, St. Paul's United Methodist Church needed an audio system for a modern style service with electric bands that wouldn’t be visible to the traditional parishioners who valued the sanctity of their sanctuary.

The RSS Digital V-Mixing System incorporates the new RSS M-400 Live Digital Console, configurable digital snakes with remotely controlled mic preamps, for approximately $10,000.

OLD LYME, CT — British rock trio Muse, currently in the middle of their world tour of stadiums, arenas and major festivals, are taking the stage with Sennheiser and Neumann microphones and Sennheiser personal wireless monitors.

DURHAM, NC –– Presented by the St. Joseph's Historic Foundation Inc., the 20th annual Bull Durham Blues Festival was held at the Historic Durham Athletic Park in downtown Durham and featured an impressive lineup of blues and R&B legends. According to Raleigh Music Brokerage’s Cooper Cannady, audio provider for the festival, “the weather was excellent, and on Friday night they set a record for attendance with 12,800 people filling the entire park.

SAN DIEGO — High-end aerobatic planes weren’t the only things that took to the skies at downtown San Diego’s Big Bay for the second-to-last stop of the 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series. L-ACOUSTICS line source array elements were also flying in precise formation at five different locations along the north and south peninsulas of Embarcadero Marina Park, delivering audio reinforcement throughout the event.

MARIAZELL, AUSTRIA — Over 30,000 people flocked to the Austrian town of Mariazell to follow—via giant LED screens—a Mass celebrated by the Pope. BMS Production Group was responsible for the production, commissioned Thomas Millmann's MTR Productions to provide much of the sound reinforcement using systems from Electro-Voice.