DENVER — Bassnectar filled the stadium that is home to the Colorado Rapids soccer team in the Denver suburb of Commerce City with its EDM beat on July 30. Brown Note Productions supported the concert with a d&b audiotechnik sound system for some 24,000 attendees.
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PORTLAND, OR – Ear Trumpet Labs is a small family business which handcrafts each microphone in a workshop in Portland, OR. When it celebrates its fifth anniversary this fall, its year will include high sales growth, placements with a slate of top artists and a new product launch.
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SOUTH GREENSBORO, NC — The Church On 68 recently replaced their sound system because of its uneven coverage. Selah Media Productions designed and deployed the new system, drawing from the catalog of WorxAudio Technologies to bring new energy to its services.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The Event Safety Alliance announces two upcoming training classes for live event professionals. One is in Las Vegas on Thursday, Oct. 20, one day before the LDI 2016 tradeshow opens, while the other is on Monday, Nov. 28, one day prior to the Event Safety Summit in Lititz, PA.
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NEW YORK – The ESTA Board of Directors has honored two groups of volunteers with the Volunteer of the Year Award: the Technical Standards Program’s Stage Lifts Working Group and the ETCP Subject Matter Experts for the Portable Power Distribution Technician Certificate.
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LANCASTER, CA — Audio Visual Live has been stocking up on its inventory of VUE Audiotechnik gear. The company, known for its support of HBO Boxing and other high-profile events, recently took delivery of VUE’s al-12 Large Format Line Array System. Pictured here, from left, are Ken Berger CEO, VUE Audiotechnik and Dennis Layton, president of Audio Visual Live Inc. The photo was taken at InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas.
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IVINS, UT – The Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Utah’s Padre Canyon has moved from its old dV-DOSC system to a new Kara rig. While the dV-DOSC sonically covered the venue’s seating area and kept sonic energy off the rock walls, the Kara system has improved on that, according to Deward Timothy, Poll Sound’s owner and president.
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NEW YORK — Masque Sound is providing a custom audio equipment package for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Paramour’ now running on Broadway. The biggest challenge faced – and solved – by the designers was the acoustics of the Lyric Theatre itself. The theatre has been beautifully renovated but had some acoustical hindrances. Masque Sound solved it with a custom PA system of KV2 Audio speakers, along with other gear.
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LAS VEGAS – The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) and the Entertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA) have agreed on a joint copyright that will allow a second edition of The Event Safety Guide to be developed as an American National Standard (ANS). To take on the project, a new working group is being created within ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) called the Event Safety Working Group (ESWG). Leading the new group will be co-chairs Dr. Donald Cooper, Executive Director of the ESA, and Richard Nix, Special Project Manager for ZFX, Inc.
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NASHVILLE – The Stillery recently installed a system consisting of Bose RoomMatch and FreeSpace speakers lets the music move seamlessly between a downstairs main dining room and an upstairs bar and live-music venue. South Central AV’s Nashville office designed and installed the system.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Finnish FOH engineer Janne Röning (Chisu, PMMP, Zen Cafe, Jonna Tervomaa, Reckless Love, Santa Cruz) chooses Waves eMotion LV1 mixing console and DiGiGrid for touring performances by pop artist Chisu, a 12-time Finnish Emma-Gala Award Winner.
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