DENVER – Jeremy Wecker, audio visual services manager at Sports Authority Field, has been using a Shure Axient system at the home of the NFL Broncos. He credited the new system as being far superior to the previous setup, keeping challenges from severe weather conditions and a chaotic RF environment to a minimum.
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CALGARY – First Alliance Church, which hosts productions involving full orchestras, choirs and bands in addition to its elaborate Christmas musical, recently upgraded with Harman’s Soundcraft Vi6 digital console. Pictured here with the console are, from left, technical associate Wayne Jeschke and technical director Paul Nadeau-Bonilla. They credited the console for both form and function.
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LOS ANGELES – For the second run of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Harmony, staged at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles from March 4 to April 13, sound designers David Patridge and John Shivers turned to Masque Sound for gear including a DiGiCo SD10T digital console, new L-Acoustics dv-DOSC speaker arrays and a Sennheiser Digital 9000 wireless system with eight 9000 series radios.
ROHNERT PARK, CA – AVDB Group recommended Community’s Distributed Design Series loudspeakers for 340,000-square-foot Graton Casino, a Native America casino based in this town not far from the vineyards north of San Francisco. Scott Oosthuizen, AVDB Group CEO, credited the Community gear for sounding better and costing less than other options they had considered.
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UNCASVILLE, CT — Mohegan Sun Casino, first opened here in 1996 by the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut, recently upgraded the audio system at the 350-seat Wolf Den venue with a pair of CL5 mixing consoles from Yamaha — one at FOH and the other at the monitors. The setup also includes Rio 3224-D and 1608-D input/output boxes.
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RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ — Boulevard Pro, based here, recently added a full L-Acoustics KARA package. The company added 36 KARA enclosures (two 18-box main arrays), eight ARCS WIDE constant curvature systems for in-fill applications, five coaxial 8XT as front fills, 16 SB18 subs, and a dozen LA8 amplified controllers housed in four LA-RAK touring racks. The gear joins the dV-DOSC, dV-SUB and 112P enclosures already on hand in Boulevard Pro’s inventory.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) reported that total registered attendance for the 2014 NAB Show was 98,015, an uptick of more than four percent from 2013. Exhibit space was also up more than seven percent from the previous year, with the event comprising 1,746 exhibiting companies spanning 945,000 net square feet of exhibit space.
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KIRKLAND, WA — To record live performances by Northwest University’s Concert Choir, including their yearly choral concert, Steve Smith has been using Audio Technica’s AT5040 and AT4047/SV mics.
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NASHVILLE — For The Band Perry’s first world tour, titled “We Are Pioneers,” FOH engineer Jon Garber is using gear from Radial Engineering to reliably optimize the band’s touring sound, including Radial’s J48, Reamp JCR, ProD8, JPC, JDI Duplex and JDX units. Garber called the Radial J48, pictured here, “the best sounding DI box out there.”
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ORLANDO — LMG, a national provider of video, audio, and lighting gear and services with offices here, recently regained the contract as the onsite, preferred AV supplier at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) here — a fourth term. Pictured here is LMG’s OCCC team.
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GAINESVILLE, GA — Danley Sound Labs detailed several stadium installation projects where its gear has played a key role, including the home stadiums for the NFL Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills. Other recent projects include Juárez Vive, a baseball stadium in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, along with a variety of outdoor stadiums used for college sports and indoor hockey and basketball arenas. Pictured here, Wells Fargo Arena at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.
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OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser is providing space on its website at www.sennheiser.com/spectrum to keep customers informed on wireless microphones and the changing UHF spectrum. While predicting that wireless microphone operation in the 600 MHz Range will remain “status quo” through 2016, the company continues to file comments with the FCC on its customers’ behalf.
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