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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LOS ANGELES – Korn drummer Ray Luzier (pictured here) had been using an Aviom personal mixer on tour for the past couple of years. In 2013, when the band set out on tour after the release of their new album, The Paradigm Shift, keyboardist Zac Baird also started bringing an Aviom personal mixer along for the band’s gigs. Although a recent festival gig in Mexico was canceled, Luzier and Baird will be using the gear as the band’s 2014 tour continues.
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TA’ QALI, Malta — The lighting support structure for a concert version of the Maltese rock opera Gensna fell at 10:50 a.m. on March 17 and injured four crew members. One of the workers, Emanuel Ronayne, 48, received life-threatening injuries to the chest; the other injuries were not life-threatening. The accident occurred at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre here. Of the four crew members injured, Ronayne and one other were hospitalized; the two others were reportedly treated on site for bruises and shock.
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ST. LOUIS, MO – For Saint Louis University’s recently-opened Center for Global Citizenship, TSI Technology Solutions, a division of TSI Global, assembled a system consisting of six RoomMatch loudspeakers (three RM9020 and three RM9010 modules) and two RMS215 subwoofers, all powered by three Bose PowerMatch PM8500N amplifiers.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The Yamaha CL Series of digital consoles, widely credited with raising the bar in live digital mixing, were launched in Frankfurt in 2012. At ProLight+Sound 2014, Yamaha launched the QL Series (the QL5 is pictured here). The new consoles inherit such CL features such as all-in-one mixing, processing, and routing capability, but are targeted for small to medium scale live tour sound, house of worship installations, corporate AV and speech applications.
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ATLANTA — DiGiCo announced its 2014 Master Series tour schedule. The company will host hands-on training sessions in Atlanta (March 19 and 20), St. Louis (April 22 and 23), Chicago (April 29 and 30), Phoenix (May 13 and 14) and Denver (May 20 and 21). Additional cities and dates will be announced soon. Pictured here are participants at a recent Master Series event held at UNLV in Las Vegas.
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WICHITA, KS — Along with a new Daktronics center-hung video board, Wichita State University’s 10,500-seat Charles Koch Arena, home of the Shockers basketball and volleyball teams, installed 24 Danley Sound Labs Synergy Horn loudspeakers and four Tapped Horn subwoofers. The new gear is configured in eight clusters that encircle the top ring of the new center-hung video board. Each cluster includes a SH-96, SH-64, and SM-80, with the four TH-118 subwoofers providing low end support.
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SYRACUSE, NY — For an audio upgrade at Most Holy Rosary Church, Brown Sound Equipment Company returned to address the venerable church’s acoustics with a new set of tools, including a 16-enclosure Martin Audio OmniLine array setup and a Mackie DL1608 iPad-controlled mixer to replace a large analog console.
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NEW YORK — For NFL Super Bowl-related events including the Super Bowl Tailgate Party (held at the old Meadowlands Racetrack), NFL On Location Super Bowl Club (at the Izod Center before the game) and the Super Bowl Boulevard extravaganza (Broadway between 34th and 47th Streets in the days prior to the big game), Clearwing Productions provided L-Acoustics KARA and KIVA systems. Pictured here, the Bacon Brothers’ performance during Super Bowl Week.
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