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Steely Dan with special guest Steve Winwood are touring with a Martin Audio MLA system. Photo: Steve Jennings

OSA Supports Steely Dan, Steve Winwood with Martin Audio MLA

NASHVILLE — OSA International is providing a Martin Audio MLA loudspeaker system on tour with Steely Dan and special guest Steve Winwood. The pressures are there to carry the sound of two artists with two different musical styles. Then there’s the variety of venues with different acoustic properties in each. Add in the weather – where hail stones caused audience evacuations at Red Rocks – and they are putting the Martin Audio MLA through its paces.

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DJ Dojah, performing using the L1 Model II portable line array system from Bose Professional. Photo: Agency Moanalani Jeffrey.

Bose L1 Model II Takes DJ Dojah to Next Level

SAN FRANCISCO – One of Silicon Valley’s premier DJs knows how to get the corporate world and EDM together in the same room, serving high-profile audiences with the Bose L1 Model II portable line array system. Plus, its portability allows DJ Dojah to load his entire sound system into any vehicle.

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Event integrator ATK Audiotek built the PA around two 12-box VerTec 4889 three-way line array elements and two six-box VTX V20 center fill clusters.

JBL by Harman Line Arrays Supply Sound for iHeartRadio Music Awards

INGLEWOOD, CA — VerTec and VTX line arrays from JBL by Harman facilitated the house sound for the third annual iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Forum. There were two main challenges for event integrator ATK Audiotek. First, the system had to evoke the audience’s energy that is so essential to a televised live music event. Secondly, the PA had to produce clear and transparent audio for the show’s dialog sequences.

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Good Sounds of New Stanton, PA, was contracted to design and deploy the new sound reinforcement system at New Stanton United Methodist Church.

New Stanton Church Sings Praises of WorxAudio

NEW STANTON, PA – Good Sounds of New Stanton, PA, was contracted to design and deploy the new sound reinforcement system at the new sanctuary of the New Stanton United Methodist Church. After consulting with church management to ascertain their expectations, Good Sounds’ Owner Dwight Brown specified two WorxAudio TrueLine series X3i-P/D powered, Dante-enabled, line array systems.

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The Ensworth School's auditorium.

Music City School Installs FBT Sound System

NASHVILLE — Nashville’s Ensworth School is made up of a student body that includes children of resident musicians. So high-quality sound is consistently needed, not only to support school shows, but also the many performances given by parents – professional musicians who enjoy the opportunity to raise money for the school. They recently installed an FBT sound system in the school’s auditorium, giving the school the ability do things with the room they’ve never been able to do before – with more volume and clarity.

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Jim Ebdon has been the FOH engineer for Maroon 5 since the early stages of the band's rise to the top.

SSL L500 Has Moves Like Jagger

LOS ANGELES – Maroon 5’s FOH engineer Jim Ebdon is touring with his console of choice, the SSL L500 Plus. “I’m not choosing a console because it looks pretty or because there is a ton of stuff on it that I’m probably never going to use,” he says. “I’m choosing a console because of how it sounds, which is the most important thing.” In particular, Ebdon has been impressed with the onboard processing.

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The new PA consists of two self-powered RL15 loudspeakers and two RL18S active subwoofers.

Flatirons Church Gains Flexibility with EAW Redline

BOULDER, CO – Flatirons Church invested in a new Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Redline system to accommodate its changing audio needs. “When I showed leadership that we could spend X amount of money every time we rent a system or we could just purchase Redline and solve the problem, it was a huge win,” explains Bryce Boynton, church audio director.

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The 14th Dalai Lama's two days of compassionate teachings reached 10,000 people.

Nexo, Yamaha Deliver Clear Sound for the Dalai Lama

[caption id="attachment_124534" align="alignnone" width="800"]The 14th Dalai Lama's two days of compassionate teachings reached 10,000 people.[/caption]

WESTMINSTER, CA—Premiere Production recently provided audio production for the 14th Dalai Lama’s two days of compassionate teachings. With attendance hitting 10,000 at Westminster’s Dieu Ngu Temple, clarity of sound was the big concern. “We wanted to deliver the Dalai Lama’s clear message to the listeners, and the Nexo and Yamaha products provided a good combination of tools for us to do so,” says company owner Robert Pham.

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Rolling Loud stage setup.

D.A.S. Audio Energizes Rolling Loud Festival

MIAMI – LPS Production Services of Miami was contracted to handle the audio logistics for this year’s major hip hop event, the Rolling Loud Festival. Company president Jose Laria discussed the project and his reasons for deploying the D.A.S. Audio loudspeaker systems. “This was a big, outdoor concert event,” Laria explained, “so we needed to ensure that the system we assembled had excellent music reproduction and speech intelligibility characteristics so as to provide clear, even coverage across the entire area.”

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The Barclay Center setup.

Atlanta AV Takes RCF On Tour with New Edition

BOSTON — New Edition is on the road again with all original six members through the end of summer. On tour, they are relying on an RCF TT+ system from Atlanta AV with assistance from Alpha Productions. The touring system includes 32 RCF TTL55-A three-way line array modules for primary coverage, 12 TTL33-A three-way line array modules for outfills and 18 TTS56-A dual 21-inch subwoofers arranged in a cardioid configuration to control low frequencies.

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