TALLAHASSEE, FL — For Capital City Amphitheater, a new 3,500-seat venue at the Cascades Park here that launches its inaugural season of performances with Tracy Lawrence and Charlie Wilson on April 12 and 13, respectively, Ultimate Sound and Light brought in 12 RCF HDL20-A dual 10-inch two-way active line array modules and six dB Technologies DVA-S30 dual 18-inch subwoofers per side.
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HENDERSONVILLE, TN — Production company 242 Concepts, based here, is supporting George Thorogood and The Destroyers’ 40th Anniversary Tour with 24 of RCF’s HDL20-A line array elements and 12 SUB-8006AS subwoofers. Production manager/FOH engineer Jeff Pitt credited the system for output and voicing.
Read More »NEW YORK — The Rolling Stones postponed seven shows in Australia and New Zealand and flew back to New York after the sudden death of L’Wren Scott, Mick Jagger’s longtime girlfriend. The shows had been set for March 19 to April 5. The band is due to tour Europe starting in June.
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MERCERBURG, PA – For the 600-seat Simon Theater within Burgin Center for the Arts, a 65,500 square-foot facility at Mercerburg Academy, Northern Sound & Light (NSL) provide Shure ULX series transmitters and receivers, and Countryman B3 lavalier microphones. Steve Crick, the college prep school’s director of technical theatre, credited NSL for the help with the audio upgrade, which enhanced a recent production of Legally Blonde.
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NASHVILLE – For George Strait’s two year, multi-city farewell tour, The Cowboy Rides Away, FOH engineer George Olson, pictured here, is saying howdy to R-101, R-121, and R-122 ribbon microphones from Royer Labs. The microphones capture the sound of several key instruments while helping to Olson’s nightly EQ chores to a minimum. Dallas-based Onstage Systems is providing the gear.
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DENVER, CO — To record organist Michael Hey’s Feb. 14 performance on the restored Platt Rogers pipe organ at St. John’s Cathedral here, the church’s music administrator, Alberto Gutierrez, turned to recording engineer Mike Pappas, who used a variety of Neumann digital microphones positioned throughout the venue to capture the recital in 88.2kHz resolution/24-bit digital audio.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Tasked with transforming an existing auditorium at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) into a space better suited for live music and dance, Pershing Technologies senior systems engineer Eric Echols relied upon L-Acoustics gear. The system, installed by Diversified Systems of Kenilworth, NJ, included six KIVA with two KILO LF extension loudspeakers for each side.
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NEW YORK – As landmark soul food restaurant Sylvia’s has grown over the past five decades, its sound system grew in size – but not in quality. Taylor Sound of Long Island, New York recently gave Sylvia’s a sophisticated, yet easy to use commercial-grade sound system centered on a Symetrix SymNet Radius 12×8 Dante networked audio DSP.
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VANCOUVER, BC – This year, for the first time, the National Hockey League (NHL) programmed four regular season games into outdoor venues in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, scheduling the 2014 NHL Stadium Series between the previously established NHL Winter Classic and NHL Heritage Classic series of outdoor games. Tasked with mixing the live musical entertainment at the games in all three NHL series for broadcast on the NBC networks, Ron Reaves called on production provider Clair Nashville to supply a DiGiCo SD10 digital audio mixing console with two SD-Racks. Reaves is pictured here at left with Jason Spence in the NHL Heritage Classic mix room in Vancouver.
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LAS VEGAS — Waves Audio’s WavesLive Master Class workshop series continues with an upcoming free event set for Sunday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cirque du Soleil’s Resident Shows Division, 1151 Grier Drive, Suite C, in Las Vegas, NV 89119. The event will feature a workshop with live mixing engineers Ken “Pooch” Van Druten (Linkin Park, Alter Bridge), Peter Keppler (Katy Perry, David Byrne, St. Vincent) and Jim Ebdon (Maroon 5, Aerosmith).
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