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NAPA, CA – For the BottleRock Napa Valley festival, held here May 8–12, 2013, Delicate Productions provided their Martin Audio MLA system. The main stage setup included a  L/R hang of 16 MLA and 4 MLD downfill cabinents, 12 W8LM front fill, 24 ground-stacked MLX subs and 16 MLA Compact enclosures. Delicate also provided an MLA Compact system with DSX subs for the second stage, Martin Audio W8LC for the third and comedy stages and a smaller trapezoid WT3 system for the local stage.

MONTREAL, Canada – Solotech recently purchased its third Meyer Sound Leo linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. The system adds to Solotech’s growing rental inventory of more than 2,000 Meyer Sound loudspeakers. Solotech was the first rental company to invest in a LEO system, purchased to support the  ongoing Michael Jackson: Immortal World Tour, now nearing three years of production.

TINLEY PARK, IL — Gand Concert Sound (GCS) supported a June 29 music festival staged at the 28,000-capacity First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre here that featured the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bush, Silversun Pickups and other bands. GCS provide a Yamaha CL5 console and NEXO GEO T system for the event, which was sponsored by Last.fm and local radio station Q87.7.

BOILING SPRINGS, SC – The First Baptist Church here recently upgrade its 1,100-seat sanctuary’s sound system with Bose RoomMatch gear.  Systems designer Jim Deal, who utilized Bose Modeler Sound System Software, specified Bose RoomMatch RM5505, RM5510, RM7010, RM9010, RM12040 and RM12060 speakers along with RMS215 subwoofers and six PowerMatch PM8500N amplifiers to power the system. MusiCraft Sound & Video helped with the installation.

MELBOURNE, Australia – P!NK’s 140-date The Truth About Love arena tour is impressing audiences around the world with the artist’s aerial acrobatics along with her voice. The stunts posed a challenge to monitor engineer, Horst Hartmann, who worked with Sennheiser on a solution that includes a SKM 2000 mic with a MD 9235 head along with a custom-made in-ear with an integrated microphone.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — As important as it was to provide flawless audio support for a recent televised Monster Jam truck event held at MetLife Stadium here recently, stadium A1 Michael Ward also used the event as the first big test for a Shure Axient wireless system, which is being considered for use when the stadium hosts Super Bowl XLVIII in Feb. 2014. “The wireless performance was flawless,” Ward confirmed.

BERKELEY, CA – “USITT Presents,” a series of one-day seminars that began with a Meyer Sound-sponsored event in Nashville, TN in February, followed by events sponsored by Studio Gear (Milwaukee, in March) and Chauvet (Miami, in June), will be hosted by Meyer Sound again at company headquarters here on Friday, Aug. 16. Instructor Mauricio Ramirez will lead the daylong session covering system design principles. The event will include hands-on use of Meyer Sound’s MAPP Online, SIM 3 audio analyzer and other tools.

ANAHEIM, CA —Acoustic Dimensions, TC Furlong and AMT Systems provided a Meyer Sound Constellation system with MICA line arrays for Eastside Christian Church, which offers its congregation a 1,765-seat auditorium here in a space formerly occupied by Boeing Defense Systems.

NASHVILLE – Live sound engineer Matt Fitzgerald is using a DiGiCo SD10 console for monitor mixing on this year’s Frampton’s Guitar Circus tour, which features a long list of accomplished guitarists along with Peter Frampton. Clair Global providing the consoles and full stage package.