CHICAGO – For the Manifest Urban Arts Festival, a pre-graduation celebration showcasing the talents of Columbia College Chicago students shortly before they receive their diplomas, Technotrix of Calumet City, IL provided Martin Audio to support the audio needs of three outdoor stages.
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WARSAW, Poland — For the 2014 Freedom Day anniversary concert marking 25 years since the shift in Poland from communist to democratic rule, Gigant Sound Letus provided its new Outline GTO sound system. The event, staged in Castle Square here on June 4, was attended by U.S. president Barack Obama, former and current Poland presidents Lech Walesa and Bronislaw Komorowski, close to 50 other European heads of state and various members of European royalty.
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ESCONDIDO, CA — Sound Image, based here, recently acquired a VUE Audiotechnik al-4 Subcompact Line Array System and hs-25 ACM powered subwoofers. The gear is supporting this year’s Thornton Winery Champagne Jazz Series in Temecula, CA.
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FRANKLIN, TN — Sound contractor CTS Audio, one of the first adopters of JBL’s VTX Series line arrays, recently bolstered its inventory with the purchase of 108 V20 line array loudspeakers to its inventory, plus another eight V25 loudspeakers and a number of VTX F Series F12 loudspeakers. Pictured here, from left, are CTS Audio’s Brooks Abbott and Gage Waltz; JBL Professional’s George Georgallis; and CTS Audio’s Mark Kimmel, Duncan Ferguson, Trent Stegink and Jon Schwarz.
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EUGENE, OR — At a recent Lee Brice concert at the University of Oregon, George Relles Sound provided its new Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system. The system impressed Brice’s FOH engineer, Wayne Pauley. George Relles’s recent purchase included 14 LYON-M main and six LYON-W wide-coverage line array loudspeakers, adding to an arsenal that includes six 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements and a Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system.
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FAIRFAX, CA — Audio veteran Mark Haynes passed away on the morning of July 8th, 2014 after a long bout of fighting complications and infections stemming from knee surgery. He began his audio career in the early 1970s with Showco, Inc., one of the pioneers in large-scale sound reinforcement, where he toured nationally and internationally as FOH engineer for Alice Cooper, The Band, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker and other headliners.
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LAS VEGAS — Each year FRONT of HOUSE Magazine honors regional sound production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional sound production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. The best part about this is that FOH readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best.
Read More »PHILADELPHIA – An unoccupied bus that had been used for crew members on the Styx/Foreigner tour caught fire July 2, and as that fire spread, it was hot enough to ignite another of the tour’s unoccupied crew buses parked nearby. Firefighters arrived on the scene and doused the flames within minutes. No one was injured.
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As Fitz and The Tantrums progressed from the LA club scene to larger stages, they also upgraded their in-ear monitoring, eventually settling on custom IEMs from Sensaphonics. “We were looking at all the major brands, and they all had great sound quality,” said monitor engineer Aaron Glas. “So it came down to comfort, isolation and fit. It was the soft silicone earpieces and personal service from Sensaphonics that won the band over.”
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For his enviable high-profile gig —he’s currently playing in the horn section with Prince– tenor saxophonist Keith Anderson relies on the AKG C519 professional miniature clip-on condenser microphone. The AKG C519 microphone clips gently onto the bell of a saxophone, trumpet or any other wind instrument. Its tight cardioid polar pattern makes the C519 ideal for use near monitor wedges, and its flat 20Hz-20kHz frequency response makes it ideal for woodwind and brass instruments. The C519 can be used with a variety of wireless body-pack transmitters.
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CALGARY – Eliminating the need for lavalier or handheld microphones, Meyer Sound’s Constellation acoustic system is clarifying communication for energy company Enbridge. In environments where speech communication is essential, the voice lift feature of Constellation enhances speech intelligibility by generating precisely articulated and directed early reflections.
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