WILKESBORO, NC — For the 2013 edition of Merlefest, the performers — including Leon Russell, The Charlie Daniels Band and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others — weren’t exactly new-fangled. But much of the audio gear was. SE Systems provided Nexo STM speakers and Yamaha CL5 digital audio consoles.
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SEATTLE — Symetrix announced that its InfoComm-accredited training programs have expanded, both on site and online, paralleling the worldwide growth of Symetrix itself.
Read More »NEW YORK — As Pippin hits the stage for the first time since its original five-year run on Broadway nearly 40 years ago, show Sound Designers Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm called upon Masque Sound to provide a custom audio equipment package.
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LAS VEGAS — For One Night for One Drop, a technically ambitious charity performance pooling performers from seven Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil shows into a single production on a single evening, Sennheiser played a key role. The show was staged at the “O” Theater here on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.
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INDIO, CA — Rat Sound, located in Camarillo, CA, recently purchased 16 RCF TTS56-A powered subwoofers for their rental inventory. The new gear was quickly put into service at the two-weekend 2013 Coachella Festival, at the event’s new Yuma Tent performance area.
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BOSTON — A benefit concert to raise funds for Boston Marathon bombing victims has been set for the TD Garden Arena here May 30. Performers will include Aerosmith, NKOTB, James Taylor, Jason Aldean, Jimmy Buffett, Carole King, Boston and J. Geils Band, according to TD Garden and Live Nation New England.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Alt-J, a British band that made it onto Rolling Stone’s “Must See Acts” list for Coachella 2013, recently completed a U.S. tour with support from Lance Reynolds at FOH and Ron Sharpless at monitors. Sharpless used a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital console for the band’s monitor mixes.
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NEW YORK — Masque Sound provided a custom audio equipment package including Yamaha’s CL-5 mixing console with two RIO 3224 I/O racks for the Classic Stage Company’s (CSC) revival of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Passion. The limited engagement recently wrapped at Manhattan’s CSC Theater.
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NEW ORLEANS — Sound designer Michael Paz turned to Outline’s iMode technology for the networking backbone at the renovated Little Gem Jazz Saloon, a nightclub/restaurant in New Orleans’ historic “Jazz Alley.” There are two separate performance spaces one floor apart, and Outline’s iMode can be used to monitor, control and run the same program material through both systems simultaneously, Paz noted.
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NEW YORK — The game show, Wheel of Fortune, is celebrating its 30th year in 2013. The producers recently aired a series of episodes that were taped earlier this year in New York’s Madison Square Garden. PRG supported the needs of that week-long shoot with more than 230 VUE Audiotechnik i-Class loudspeaker systems.
Read More »Allen & Heath will be hosting live digital mixing training sessions in booth #742 at this year’s InfoComm show in Orlando FL June 12-14. Product training specialists will be instructing users on Allen & Heath’s newest digital mixer, the Qu-16 and Me-1 personal monitor mixer.
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KERNERSVILLE, NC – Summit Church here recently underwent a technical upgrade that included new 60-inch LED displays, new lighting fixtures and an audio system upgrade. For the latter, Audio and Light (Greensboro, NC) provided Aero Series 2 and Artec gear from D.A.S. Audio.
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