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NILES, IL — Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena was host to the 2013 CMA Awards, known as “country music’s biggest night,” with a live ABC telecast and a venue packed with fans. For the sixth straight year, artists Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley co-hosted the awards, which honored both youth and experience, with a three-hour string of hit songs and unusual collaborations all using Shure’s premium condenser microphones.

BLACKSBURG, VA – Systems integrator Daktronics recently upgraded Virginia Tech University’s Lane Stadium with new Harman’s JBL VLA Series loudspeakers along with BSS and Soundcraft gear. The stadium seats 66,233 and is home to the Virginia Tech Hokies football team. The goal of this renovation was to ensure a high output system and even coverage from seat to seat.

NEW YORK – For the 14th annual T.J. Martell Foundation Family Day, held recently in Roseland Ballroom, Audio Production Services (APS) provided dBTechnologies DVA line arrays for a roster of artists including Jason Mraz, Ed Wheeran, Austin Mahone and Emblem 3. APS owner Simon Nathan hung L-R DVA line arrays  of two T12 and three T4 enclosures per side.  Four T4 boxes provided front fill; two S-30 subwoofers and two DM12 monitors handled the low end.

LAS VEGAS — Odds are pretty good that the 2013 Parnelli Awards, set for the Mirage Las Vegas Nov. 23, will break all previous attendance records. How good? Well, for starters, the total number of reserved tickets has already exceeded the total attendance for any previous show.

NASHVILLE, TN – One Systems, Inc., was awarded patents by the United States Patent Trademark Office for its new horn and driver design, “Equivalent Throat Technology” and “Inside/Only Voice Coil” design. Both patents are the result of designs by Mike O’Neill, One Systems chief engineer.

LAS VEGAS – 3G Productions designed and installed an audio system for the hip-hop dance crew Jabbawockeez’ new show, Prism, featured at a new 850-seat theater at the Luxor Hotel and Casino here. 3G specified a d&b audioteknik system for the space that includes 12 Q-Subs, 6 V12s a side and eight E8s for the 5.1 surround.

AUSTIN, TX – For the Austin City Limits Music Festival, held for the first time on two consecutive weekends Oct. 4-6 and 11-13, Thunder Audio provided a Harman JBL VTX line array system powered by Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers. The system included 36 VTX V25 flown 18 per side with eight V25 cabinets per side for the outside hang. For the low end, Thunder Audio provided 48 VTX S28 subwoofers in two hangs of 12 each on either side of the stage, with 24 ground-stacked S28 subs across the front of the stage. The system was powered by 86 Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers networked and controlled with JBL HiQnet Performance Manager.

LAS VEGAS — When the first-ever Life Is Beautiful music, art and food festival, took over 15 square blocks of downtown Las Vegas on Oct. 26th and 27th, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) was on location providing frequency coordination for the more than 80 musical acts, performers and media outlets throughout the two-day celebration.

ROSENBERG, TX – For 12,000-seat Guy K. Traylor Stadium here, home to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District High School football team, Stafford, TX-based Firetron provided a new system that includes JBL CBT Series column loudspeakers from Harman. The setup includes four JBL CBT 200LA-1 column loudspeakers on each long side of the stadium, with four behind the home team stands and four behind the visiting team stands. The system is powered with Crown IT6000 amplifiers with BSS BLU-100 processing.