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MERIDIAN, MS — Crest Audio has introduced the CV-20 live-sound mixing console, a VCA audio solution designed for applications such as front-of-house, monitors and monitors from front-of-house. The CV-20 is available in 24, 32, 40, 48 and 56 mono input configurations with four-band sweepable EQ and fully parametric mid-frequency control on each mono input. A feature set of 12 aux sends, eight subgroup assignments and L/C/R panning to the Left/Right and Mono busses provides audio routing options.

SEATTLE — The Seattle suburb of Bothell, WA, was the site for the May 11 homecoming concert by local hero and American Idol finalist Blake Lewis.  The American Idol crew was on hand to film Lewis and his four-piece band perform in a local park. Mills Music of Seattle supplied the PA; Mills’ Ric Webb manned the mix on the Midas console.

Alcons announced that its first Digital Drive Processors are now leaving the factory. The DDP is an exchangeable signal-processing device, designed to complement the Alcons Amplified Loudspeaker Controllers. The device offers speaker-specific processing and controlling options, enabling the ALC to drive all Alcons pro-ribbon speaker systems in any configuration for any application.

DALLAS, TX — The Granada Theater recently installed a substantial SR system that features the WorxAudio TrueLine Series line array. The two suspended line arrays, each consisting of eight TrueLine V8 two-way, compact line array elements, flank each side of the venue’s performance stage and are accompanied by a subwoofer system consisting of 14 enclosures formed by a combination of TrueLine TL215SS and WaveSeries 218S sub bass loudspeaker systems. Vertically aligned with the flown line arrays, each side of the stage has four 218S subs, with three TL215SS enclosures on top. 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Neumann KM 100 and KM 180 series of small diaphragm, condenser microphones were used in a recent concert of contemporary classical music performed by the avant-garde Italian pianist Marino Formenti to capacity audiences in the Koret Auditorium of the DeYoung Museum of San Francisco.

GAINESVILLE, GA — Danley Sound Labs has introduced a new down-fill loudspeaker to the SH Series. The SH-DFA is an asymmetrical full-range horn designed to integrate with the SH-50 loudspeaker series and fits the exact footprint of the SH-50.  It is nine inches high, with a coverage pattern of 50 x 100 x 50. 

MERIDIAN, MS — Jägermeister has chosen a Peavey Versarray line array sound system and 207,000 watts of Crest Audio power for its mobile stage at Ozzfest 2007. Housed in a 44-foot trailer that opens into a fully self-contained stage measuring 34 feet wide, 16 feet deep and 20 feet high, the Jägermeister Mobile Stage is led by 24 flown Versarray 112 enclosures and 12 Versarray 218 subwoofers. It will be the official second stage at Ozzfest 2007, and will feature The Showdown, Ankla and Daath.

COSTA MESA, CA — The QSC Wideline-8 is a compact, high output line array speaker system. It measures less than 20 inches (508 mm) wide and nine inches (229 mm) high. Each tri-amplified WideLine-8 element uses a pair of neodymium magnet, eight-inch low-frequency drivers.