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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.

ARLINGTON, TX – As a global set of conferences operating under the slogan ‘ideas worth spreading,’ TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conferences focus on the convergence of the three fields that comprise its name. The TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations, and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. Recently, the TEDxUTA event was sponsored by The University of Texas at Arlington and, to help ensure consistent audio quality for this real-time streamed over the Internet event without a maze of cables, a pair of DNTBOB 88 Dante breakout boxes from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics were placed into service.

NASHVILLE — For this year’s CMA Music Festival, held at Riverside Park here June 6-9, Morris Light & Sound provided new NEXO STM line arrays, PS15s, RS18 Ray Subs, 4×4 NXAmps, 45 N-12 line monitors, Yamaha CL5 digital consoles and Rio3224 input/output boxes, all connected via a Dante network.The event drew a record 44,000 the first day and more than 162,000 for the four-day span.

NASHVILLE – PreSonus is hosting an open house event with a live music performance by Briana Tyson on July 11 at Ben’s Studio here. The event is from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and featured products include StudioLive AI-series PA speakers, StudioLive 32.4.2AI digital mixers, Studio One 2.6, the ADL 700 tube preamp/channel strip and Eris-series studio monitors.

YONKERS, NY – Dan Rooney’s Café & Bar, a Pittsburgh, PA-based landmark since the early 1900s, has been recreated for the latest expansion of Empire City Casino, which is, itself, an outgrowth from the venerable Yonkers Raceway horse racing track here. The new pub’s sound system, installed by Pittsburgh-based Dobil Laboratories, includes gear made by D.A.S. Audio, including a LX-212A, Convert 12A and Road 12A components.