PHILADELPHIA — The Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation renovated several Philadelphia-based hockey rinks in recent years. The refurbishments include Community R1-94 loudspeaker systems installed by Bruce Johnson of A.V. Rental Services, Inc.
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AUGUSTA, GA — First Presbyterian Church, which dates back to the days when Thomas Jefferson was President, upgraded its sound reinforcement systems recently with an assist from media consultant Brandt Fincher and wireless technology from Lectrosonics.
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NEW YORK — The Signature Theatre Company, based here, has installed a Riedel digital intercom system at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the company’s Frank Gehry-designed home situated off-Broadway on 42nd Street. The installation includes the Riedel Artist digital intercom matrix and Acrobat Digital Wireless Intercom system.
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MIAMI BEACH, FL — Audio Video Lighting Innovations designed and installed the sound systems for South Beach-based Gale Hotel, an 87-room resort that restores the Art Deco stylings of two properties originally built in 1941 by architect L. Murray Dixon — the Gale South and Regent Hotel. The audio systems are powered by Lab.gruppen amplifiers.
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NASHVILLE — More than 20,000 watts of QSC K and KW Series Active Loudspeakers are helping to bring an authentic concert experience to the set of Nashville, ABC’s new primetime musical drama.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX — The 2013 Winter Jam Tour featured 10 Christian artists and 44 stops on its run through the eastern U.S. from Jan. 4-March 30, with more than half of its arena dates sold out. (The tour also now includes a West Coast leg, which kicks off in November.) For the eastern U.S. dates, Blackhawk Audio provided a sound system centered on a Meyer Sound MILO line array.
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MONTREAL — SF Marketing Inc. (SFM), a distributor of EAW gear, recently launched the Canadian EAW Touring Systems network website at www.cets.ca. CETS aims to facilitate communication among the members of the Canadian EAW touring systems community and to develop a comprehensive national registry of EAW touring systems in Canada.
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PRINCETON, NJ — Reid Sound Inc. upgraded the sound system in the Hun School of Princeton’s 350-seat proscenium theater, used by and for the school’s 500 middle- and high-school-aged students. The installation included a pair of Danley Sound Labs SH-50 loudspeakers for the center cluster, a pair of Danley Sound Labs SH-95s on both sides of the proscenium and a single Danley TH-118 subwoofer.
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LAKE PLACID, NY — For the new Conference Center at Lake Placid, Starr Entertainment Group designed and installed an AV system that includes Ashly ne8250 eight-channel network amplifiers. They deliver 250 watts of power to 104 zones of distributed audio speakers.
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Symphony resumed mediated negotiations with Musicians Union Local 6 on March 29 after the orchestra’s East Coast tour, including stops in New York’s Carnegie Hall and Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center, were canceled due to a labor dispute.
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MILFORD, NH — In May 2012, FOH engineer Lachlan Carrick joined Gotye (a.k.a. Wally de Backer) on his world tour, and he brought Earthworks Gear along for the ride. Carrick opted for a dozen Earthworks mics to cover the instruments on stage, and he’s using an additional Earthworks M30 measurement mic in the FOH booth for analysis.
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NEW YORK — Sound designer John Shivers and collaborator David Patridge turned to Masque Sound for a custom audio equipment package for Kinky Boots, which is slated for an opening night April 4, 2013 at Broadway’s Hirschfeld Theatre.
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