HILLSDALE, MI — Hillsdale College, based here, opened a 76,000-square-foot athletic facility in February, the Margot V. Biermann Athletic Center. AVTek, based in Battle Creek, MI, specified and installed the facility’s sound system, which includes D.A.S. Audio’s Aero Series 2, Artec and Arco gear.
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MINSTER, OH — Stage Right Productions helped tackle the challenging acoustics within St. Augustine’s Catholic Church and improve vocal intelligibility with Community’s Entasys 200 loudspeakers and dSpec Loudspeaker Processor.
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MEMPHIS, TN — For First Baptist Church – Broad’s new 1,500-capacity facility here, Elite Multimedia specified a sound system that includes d&b Q-Series and E-Series speakers and 18S-SUBs driven by D6 and D12 amplifiers.
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MONTREAL — GO multimedia inc. designed a sound system for College Regina Assumpta’s 705-seat concert hall that includes a main PA consisting of four NEXO GEO S1230, eight NEXO GEO S1210 and two RS18 Ray Subs. Three NEXO NXAMP4x4 amplifiers power the system.
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BUFFALO, NY — For the 400-capacity social hall within Campbell Student Union at SUNY Buffalo, AVL Designs of Penfield, NY specified an audio system upgrade that included Danley SH-60P, SH-50P and SH-95P loudspeakers and a pair of DBH-218 subwoofers. Ronco Specialized Systems’ Rochester, NY office handled the installation.
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SEATTLE — Symetrix took a moment recently to note a few details about its ongoing support for a charitable program that provides up to 200 meals each month for families in need. More details from Symetrix about that program follow.
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LAS VEGAS — The 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMA) show was again broadcast live from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on CBS this year. The evening was hosted by country music artist Blake Shelton and Shure endorser Luke Bryan, pictured here, who won the evening’s biggest honor, “Entertainer of the Year.”
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ROME — The 134th AES Convention — and the first to be staged in Rome — is set to take place May 4-7 at the Fontana di Trevi Convention Centre.
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LOS ANGELES — Wayne Forman, owner of Waynos Catering, died April 7 after a battle with cancer of the kidney. He was 52. Waynos Catering supported live concert tours for Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP), Pearl Jam, Def Leppard, REM and Eric Clapton, among other artists, and also provided on-location meals for crews filming Scent of a Woman, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Meet Joe Black and Unfaithful.
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FRANKFURT – Renowned manufacturer of studio consoles and processing tools, Solid State Logic, has launched “Live,” the first SSL console for live sound production at Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound 2013. “Live” brings SSL’s unique approach to audio quality and console ergonomics to sound for the stage. SSL has been at the leading edge of analogue and digital audio console innovation for over 35 years. Like so many multi-award-winning, groundbreaking and much loved consoles for Music, Broadcast and Post production SSL has created through the decades, Live promises to bring something very special to the party.
Read More »FRANKFURT, Germany — Powersoft and Audinate announced a licensing agreement to incorporate Audinate’s Dante media networking into Powersoft’s amplifier products.
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OXNARD, CA — L-Acoustics, which has trained more than 2,200 technicians around the world since the introduction of its K Systems Standard in 2008, announced that it would be building on that achievement with the establishment of its L-Acoustics K Systems Engineer (KSE) Accreditation Program.
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