SAN RAMON, CA — Percussionist/singer/songwriter Carlos Elizalde, an integral member and founder of Ruckatán, a Latin, Reggae and World music group, is known for his dynamic and animated performing style. He is performing this year with AKG’s WMS4500 Wireless Microphone System with D7 microphone, plus the AKG IVM 4500 In-Ear Monitor Set. He credited the Harman gear for its mobility and reliable sound quality.
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NEW YORK – Masque Sound supplied a custom audio equipment package for Lincoln Center Theater’s newest production, Act One. An adaptation of Moss Hart’s classic autobiography, the play chronicles the playwright and theater director’s struggle to escape poverty and forge a career in theater. Among sound designer Dan Moses Schreier’s biggest challenges: to make the non-reverberant room “feel alive.”
Read More »NILES, Ill. — On April 16, Shure, based here, celebrated its longstanding alliance with McFadden Sales, marking 75 years since Bill McFadden and S.N. Shure met for the first time in 1939 and McFadden became a sales rep for Shure.
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ORLANDO, FL. – LMG production services recently added the L-Acoustics K2 line array speaker system to the firm’s audio inventory to support its corporate event and concert touring divisions. Pictured here with the new equipment are, from left, Shane Smith, LMG Director of Audio; Kevin Bridges, LMG Executive Director of Technical Services, and Les Goldberg, LMG CEO/President
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NASHVILLE – For 12th and Porter, a live music venue here, Morris Light & Sound installed a new audio system that included a Dante audio networking solution. John Mills, vice president, credited Dante for enabling his team to simplify connection terminations in the digital signal processing racks and eliminate an analog front-of-house snake.
ARLINGTON, TX – For the traditional services taking place within 75,000-square-foot Trinity United Methodist Church’s 135 by 105 foot (WxD) sanctuary, Electro Acoustics, Inc. designed and installed a system that features Electro-Voice Expandable Vertical Array line arrays. The gear was chosen to enhance spoken word clarity within the organ-equipped church’s reverberant space.
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LOS ANGELES – Flogging Molly’s FOH engineer, Kevin Lemoine, has long been an analog stalwart, but his recent tour using the SSL Live console had him reconsidering digital’s benefits – including ease of transport, compact size and light weight – with the SSL console’s pleasing sound quality. “It doesn’t sound like a digital console,” Lemoine says. “It’s very pleasing to the ear.”
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DETROIT – Recording in the middle of a busy convention space with a crowded RF environment presents a unique set of challenges. Armed with a Shure FP Wireless System, VP68 and SM58 handhelds and a WL183 lavalier microphone, automotive blogger Horatiu Boeriu was able to record interviews with BMW designers despite heavy background noise.
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WAYNE, NJ — The Beth Israel Worship Center, in its present New Jersey location since 2008, recently called on Dominick Campana of Pro Sound Associates in Guilderland, NY to upgrade its main sound system. Based upon the needs of the congregation and staff, Campana installed a complete QSC sound reinforcement system including WideLine-8 line arrays, PowerLight 3 Series amplifiers and an SC28 Digital Signal Processor.
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