BROOKFIELD, WI — Majic Productions has expanded its rental inventory with Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 and GLD-80 digital mixers. The company is led by Mike Jurken, president and CEO, who got his start running his own DJ business 14 years ago, when he was only 12 years old. Pictured here with the new mixers are, from left, Logan Byrne, Majic’s lead sound tech, and Brad Butterfield.
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ROCHESTER, NY – The “new” Sibley Building in downtown Rochester, New York rose out of the ashes of the original Sibley Building, which served as the city’s first department store and burned down in 1906. It has remained an architectural fixture ever since and was admitted to National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The lower levels serve as retail space and help to anchor Rochester’s current downtown revitalization. Its public areas recently benefited from a sound system overhaul that centered on processing, amplification, and control provided by commercial audio manufacturer Ashly Audio of nearby Webster, New York.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Sennheiser is exhibiting a concept microphone developed by its San Francisco-based Technology and Innovation Lab at its booth at Winter NAMM (Hall A, Booth 6577) that uses visuals (laser vibrometers) instead of audio (acoustic waves) to trigger the gates for each drum.
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PORT PERRY, Ontario – For John Legend’s Made to Love tour, Sound Image provided an Adamson Energia E15 PA system. The typical setup includes L-R hangs of 12 enclosures per side with front fill support provided by four SpekTrix enclosures. Sound Image, based in Nashville and Escondido, CA, is also providing eight Adamson Energia E218 subwoofers.
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AUSTIN, TX — Unity Church of the Hills is now using an Allen & Heath iLive T112 with an IDR 64 at FOH to drive a new Turbosound TCS 1061 line array powered by Ashly NE 2400 amplifiers and a series of Shure ULX-D wireless microphones. Jeff Sarich, the church’s sound engineer, worked with Doug Windle at Ace Audio, Hutto, TX, who designed the system.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Black Crowes wrapped their most recent tour of outdoor venues with a December concert reunion finale at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. As with the tour, the concert featured the Tedeschi Trucks band and The London Souls. Delicate Productions of San Francisco provided a Martin Audio MLA loudspeaker system.
Read More »ANAHEIM, CA — Sennheiser announced up-and-coming performers at its booth stage at NAMM along with product demonstrations at its booth (Hall A, Booth 6577). The schedule runs from Thursday, Jan. 23 and runs through Sunday, Jan. 26.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Greg Herreman Productions chose Harman components for the NAMM GoPro Stage at the Anaheim Convention Center’s Grand Plaza. Live acts will perform nightly starting at 6 pm from Jan. 22-25. The gear includes Harman’s JBL VTX Series V20 line array and S25 subwoofers along with AKG, Soundcraft and Crown audio components. Featured artists range from The Imagine Party with Sheila E., Johnny Lang, Bernie Williams and Gil Parris to Art Alexakis of Everclear.
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SOLANA BEACH, CA — The Belly Up Tavern, a 600-seat live music venue here, fills to capacity with a roster of artists in genres ranging from alternative rock to rock, reggae, hip-hop, blues, folk, jazz, Latin & more. The tavern’s recent digital upgrade included a Yamaha CL5 console and Rio 3224-D and Rio 1608-D units purchased from Muzeek World, San Juan Capistrano, CA.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Larry Lucas, director of audio engineering for Anthony James Partners (Richmond, VA) designed an upgrade for the sound system within Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium here. The new point source system, installed by Baker Audio of Norcross, GA, includes eighteen Jericho Horns and six “Rock Monster” subwoofers.
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EDISON, NJ — New England based production house, AudionX, has chosen the Italian made RCF HDL20-A for their new line array inventory.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Game Seven Grill is a barbecue restaurant located in the Gila River Casinos Plaza at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. Before opening in March of 2013, Game Seven Grill underwent a major renovation including new seating, championship décor and a new sound and video system featuring Community CP6 pendant loudspeakers for the interior and R.25-94T loudspeakers for the Grill’s outdoor plaza seating.
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