VANCOUVER – Catering to both live and online audiences, the annual TED Conference requires gear that matches its prestige. To meet those needs, the McCune Audio team once again turned to DPA Microphones’ classic 4088 Directional Headset Microphones and d:screet 4060 Omnidirectional Microphone.
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CLEVELAND – As the musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, embarks on its latest tour, co-sound designers David Patridge and John Shivers teamed up with Masque Sound to develop a sound system that would not only fill a variety of venues with great sound, the system needed to be easily portable and capable of fitting into the truck. The L-Acoustics dV-DOSC system is driven by a Yamaha CL5 mixing console at FOH.
Read More »INDIANAPOLIS — Mid-America Sound, one of the companies supporting the concert at the Indianapolis State Fair on Aug. 13, 2011, the night the staging structure collapsed, agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for safety violations.
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FORT WORTH — Author and audio engineer Bob McCarthy received the 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award in Sound Design at USITT’s 54th Annual Conference & Stage Expo here on March 26. USITT Sound Commissioner Curtis Craig presented the award to McCarthy in honor of his many contributions to sound design for live entertainment.
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AUSTIN, TX — Audio pros supporting the 40 U.K. bands performing over a five-day span as part of the seventh annual British Music Embassy lineup at the 27th annual SXSW festival faced a considerable challenge during the 2014 event. Along with scant time for sound checks and enormous and ever-changing input lists as each act performed their 45-minute set, BBC Radio was streaming live to the U.K. for the first time. Allen & Heath gear helped make the whole thing happen.
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MIAMI — Pure Groove Systems announced a partnership with Danley Sound Labs resulting in a new series of nightclub, concert and festival sound systems. The new gear, pictured here, was featured during Miami Music Week in late March at venues including Ice Palace, Cafeina Wynwood, and Surfcomber. The sound systems supported shows including Richie Hawtin’s Enter, Jamie Jones’ Paradise, Pete Tong’s Pool Party, dirtybird’s BBQ, Crosstown Rebel’s Get Lost and Circo Loco.
Read More »DENVER – LVW Electronics installed a Shure Axient wireless management network to meet the needs at Denver’s Pepsi Center, which hosts an array of events ranging from sports to concerts to conventions. The arena needed audio equipment that can produce quality sound and withstand a variety of uses in a crowded RF environment. LVW is using AXT600 Axient Spectrum Manager to deliver wide-band UHF spectrum scanning, spectrum analysis, and compatible frequency coordination, all from a single rack unit.
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ORLANDO – After touring with a major soft drink company and working with Central Florida theme parks, DJ Charles Miles became inspired to create a self-contained mobile entertainment experience by building a complete system on wheels. The gear of choice – RCF loudspeakers for the PA and Pioneer gear for the DJ gear onboard. Why? “The stuff just doesn’t fail,” said Miles. “They are the only speakers that never shut down when it gets hot. We do a lot of outdoor events on the beaches and in the parks, and it gets hot in Florida. We’ve never had one ever go into thermal load.”
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers has opened a new indoor test facility at its factory here. Designed by Charlie Hughes of Excelsior Audio and operated by Senior Measurement Technician, Hadi Sumoro, the new test facility enables loudspeaker measurements with unprecedented accuracy and precision.
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GUANGZHOU, CHINA – To help Chinese manufacturing firm Donlim celebrate 25 years with a concert attended by close to 10,000 people, audio distributor DMX provided an Adamson Energía system. The setup included L-R line arrays of six E15 and four E12 enclosures. A total of 12 T21 subwoofers provided low end reinforcement – six stacked on the left and right of the stage. “The system performed extremely well,” said Adamson Systems’ David Dohrmann. “We were covering an area of 120 x 80 meters and it sounded great in every seat.”
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Frankfurt’s 2014 Prolight+Sound exhibition drew 897 exhibitors from 42 countries from March 12-15. Combined with Musikmesse, there were a total of 2,242 exhibitors, with 110,000 visitors from 142 countries attending. New product launches tend run in cycles, and right now, live sound consoles are hot, hot, hot. Along with an ample assortment of new sound reinforcement consoles (for any budget), there were plenty of upgrades and updates for existing models.
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