NASHVILLE — Studio Instrument Rentals (SIR) has been providing high-quality gear and production services in major cities around the US for decades. Another facet of its dynamic business in cities like New York and Nashville has been high-quality rehearsal studio rentals. This past fall, SIR Nashville overhauled and upgraded its rehearsal rooms with the help of Powersoft amplification.
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SANTA CLARA, CA — ATK Audiotek, the live-sound provider for the Super Bowl for the past 18 consecutive years, got an assist for the halftime show featuring Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars on Feb. 7 from a dozen RedNet D16R AES3 I/Os for Dante audio-over-IP networks. Pictured here is a view of a portion of ATK Audiotek’s audio networking infrastructure setup at Super Bowl 50 to serve the halftime show. Focusrite RedNet D16R AES3 I/O’s are a prominent component of this setup.
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LOS ANGELES — Empire Pro’s EPU (Empire Pro University) training program continues with an Educational Training and Product Workshop set for the company’s facility at 5675 Mansfield Way, Bell CA in the Los Angeles area. The event is the company’s 18th in-house event workshop, and it will take place May 5, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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LOS ANGELES — British metal band Iron Maiden is relying on a Meyer Sound LEO Family loudspeaker system to power its “Book of Souls World Tour.” The band’s performances have been filling arenas around the world since the six-month, 35-country tour began in February. FOH engineer Martin Walker chose LEO speakers for power and clarity for Iron Maiden after mixing Judas Priest’s 2014-2015 world tour on the system.
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NEW YORK – For a month-long residency at the United Palace Theatre in New York’s Washington Heights, Audio Spectrum deployed an L-Acoustics system consisting of three K1-SB subs flown over 10 K2 enclosures per side, supplemented by SB28 subs ground-stacked below, plus X8 coaxials as frontfills and ARCS II enclosures as outfills. The speaker setup managed to rise above the cheers of the Bachata-focused band’s enthusiastic fan base.
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HARRISBURG, PA — Anderson Audio recently added an Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Anna Adaptive System to their inventory. Owner Chris Anderson took note of EAW’s Anya system when it first debuted, and when the more compact Anna system was featured at AES, it clinched his decision to complement the range of audio offererings to customers with the new sound system.Anderson is pictured here second from left with EAW’s Jim Newhouse, Rusty Waite and TJ Smith alongside the new Anna rig.
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NEW YORK — For Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof, the audio system supplied and installed by Sound Associates includes d&b audiotechnik V7P point source loudspeakers for those in the ground-floor orchestra section and two rings of E6 for delays under the deeper parts of the large balcony and E4s for lip fills. Working with longtime design assistant/collaborator Alex Neumann and d&b’s Adair Mallory, sound designer Scott Lehrer made use of d&b’s ArrayProcessing to allow for even audio coverage for every seat in the theater.
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FORT COLLINS, CO — Shaped Music, a full service event production company, provides sound, lighting, staging, backline and staffing for a variety of events. The company recently added RCF’s HDL20 system to its rental inventory to fill a market niche suited to the needs of its customers. The gear gets deployed at events such as the one pictured here for Shaped Music client Left Hand Brewery.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Waves Audio noted that Sunil Karanjikar, FOH engineer for A.R. Rahman, has been using a setup consisting of a Soundcraft Vi6 console with Waves plugins, a DiGiGrid MGO optical SoundGrid-to-MADI interface, a Waves SoundGrid Server One and a Waves MultiRack SoundGrid plugin host on a MacBook Pro 15 for the India-based composer/singer-songwriter/music producer’s live shows.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — Mosaic Church, which opened a new fan-shaped, 750-seat sanctuary in 2012, recently upgraded with a sound system from Danley Sound Labs. Matthew Grabe worked with Joel Moak, Danley’s western region sales manager, on a center mono system comprised of two Danley SH-96HO loudspeakers, splayed to cover either side of the room, paired with two end-fired Danley TH-118 subwoofers.
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CHICAGO — When it came to looking for a total audio solution for the gymnatorium at the British International School of Chicago, Skokie, IL-based Sound, Production and Lighting turned to RCF and Danley for the solution.
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PRAGUE — Italy-based Outline named Primaton s.r.o. as their exclusive distributor for the Czech and Slovak Republics. Primaton, based in Prague, is affiliated with LightNeq, which distributes brands from MA Lighting, Robe, ARRI, Doughty and other lighting products. The company had been looking to complement its support of shows in the region with high quality audio products. Pictured here, from left, are Luca Giaroli, Jan Smejkal, Pavel Lenoch, and Lorenzo Sassi.
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