AUSTIN, TX — Ken Dickensheets, an audio consultant based here who has designed several recent church installations, has specified systems including Bose RoomMatch loudspeakers and PowerMatch amplifiers. The projects upgraded the audio systems at Austin’s Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church, Austin’s Hope Presbyterian Church and Midland, TX-based First Christian Church.
Read More »SWANTON, VT — AudionX, based here, added RCF HDL20-A line arrays to their rental inventory. Separately, the company also added dBTechnologies’ DVA S30N subwoofer. Founded by technician Chris LaRocque, AudionX has provided production for numerous shows since 2009, from local concerts such as Rock-4-Rescues, UnderCover Music Festival and the Annual “O” Show to large scale festivals and fairs like Mountain Jam Festival and the Florida Strawberry Festival.
NEW YORK, NY – The brick and brownstone building that is home to New York’s Seventh Day Adventist Church has stood on this tree-lined street in Greenwich Village since 1882. Like many of the era’s grand old churches, the acoustics can be magnificent for organ and choir, but the sermons were battling the architecture’s myriad reflective surfaces. To get the combat the reflective surfaces a pair of Renkus-Heinz IC24-R-II digitally steerable column arrays were mounted left and right of the stage to cover the whole room.
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GREENVILLE, NC – Founded in 1964, Oakmont Baptist Church has a rich history of serving the local community with services that are both traditional and contemporary. Music plays a vital role in Oakmont Baptist Church’s worship services and, to ensure the best possible audio quality throughout the sanctuary, the church recently upgraded its sound reinforcement system with components drawn from the catalog of Greensboro, NC-based WorxAudio Technologies.
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RICHMOND, VA — For LIVE ART: Tree of Life, an annual event that recently featured Jason Mraz, k.d. lang, Christina Perri and others, Soundworks of Virginia provided Soundcraft Vi4 digital consoles for FOH and monitor mixing. The event, produced by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), took place within Richmond’s 3,200-seat Landmark Theatre. Pictured here are, from left, Soundworks of Virginia crew members Bryan Hargrave (monitor engineer) and Grant Howard (FOH engineer).
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NASHVILLE — On New Year’s Eve, close to 17,000 “Bassheads” converged at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to usher in 2014 with Bassnectar, the electronic music DJ whose immersive live shows have earned him legions of devoted fans. To ensure an equal experience for all attendees, the 360-degree event featured a rotating stage, as well as the largest Meyer Sound LEO large-scale sound reinforcement system to date.
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INGLEWOOD, CA – The L.A. Forum, also known simply as The Forum, is reopening in a big way Jan. 15 after a $100 million remodeling project – with the kickoff show for the “History of the Eagles” tour, capped off with the world’s biggest record rotating on the roof. Along with hundreds of concerts, the storied venue has hosted NBA championships, Summer Olympics basketball and numerous movie shoots. It was acquired by the Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) in 2012, bringing the venue full circle in a way – it was designed by architect Charles Luckman, who also did Madison Square Garden.
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INDIANAPOLIS – The three-day National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), held once every two years, returned to Lucas Oil Stadium here in 2013, where it was also held in 2011. For the event, held Nov. 21-23, CTS Audio provided a Harman Professional audio system that included JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers. NCYC will return to Lucas Oil Stadium in 2015.
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TORONTO – Red Bull staged the finals for its Thre3Style international DJ competition here in early November. Performing within different venues from Nov. 4-9, the audio reinforcement system needed to combine optimum sound quality with a compact, potable form factor. Nimble Audio Group provided a KR402 system to use as a side fill and two KF12 coaxial speakers used as monitors.
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BRONX, NY––Located on Katonah Avenue that runs through the heart of Woodlawn’s Irish section, Behan’s Public House is a popular stopover in the neighborhood. Following a fire this summer, the pub was totally renovated with a new bar, furnishings, millwork and a Martin Audio loudspeaker system installed by New York City’s Foundation Audio.
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BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. has announced a Trade IN, Trade UP program that will take place January 8 – March 31, 2014. This program is available to all customers who own a Yamaha M7CL-48 (this configuration only) Digital Mixing Console.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – William Kentridge, known for an artistic scope that extends from drawings and prints to operas and charcoal drawn animations, also incorporates artistic audio elements. For his installation, “The Refusal of Time,” which appeared as part of the dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 2012, Kentridge combined sculpture with digital video and multi-layered soundscapes. The installation incorporated PreSonus’ AudioBox 1818VSL as the central audio hub. “The Refusal of Time” has since appeared at numerous museums worldwide, including Rome, Paris, and Eindhoven. New installations are scheduled in Germany, Japan, Australia, and the U.S.
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