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Crown Powers Just Give Me Jesus
FOH Staff | News | December 5, 2006TORONTO, CANADA -- PA Plus Productions, Inc recently deployed 80 Crown I-Tech 4000 amplifiers at Toronto's Air Canada Centre for Just Give Me Jesus, a Canadian multi-denominational Christian women's gathering. Read More... -
Rhode Island Theatre Refits, Reopens with EAW
FOH Staff | News | December 5, 2006WOONSOCKET, RI -- The Grand Hall of the historic Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, RI recently received a new sound reinforcement system featuring a selection of EAW components, including AX Series full-range loudspeakers, EAW Commercial CAZ Series power amplifiers and an MX8750 digital signal processor. The system also includes a Mackie Onyx 4880 house mixing console. Read More... -
JBL Revs Up Auto Show
FOH Staff | News | December 4, 2006SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -- Sao Paulo-based R4 Som recently provided a VerTec line array system for the 24th Salao Internacional do Automovel 2006 (International Automobile Expo). The event took place at the Anhembi Exhibition Park in Sao Paulo. The event featured 155 exhibitors and drew more than 620,000 visitors over a two-week period. R4 Som, a full-service sound reinforcement company, provided its client Toyota with in-booth audio production services. Read More... -
'Mama' Gets New Pair of Sennheiser Mics
FOH Staff | News | December 4, 2006NEW YORK -- "Don't Tell Mama," a piano bar in New York City that uses an interactive entertainment experience, has acquired a new pair of Sennheiser wireless mics. The singing wait staff encourage the crowd to clap along and often single out patrons for impromptu duets or solos. Read More... -
Alan Pasqua Takes To Road
FOH Staff | News | December 1, 2006NORTHRIDGE, CA -- Pianist/composer Alan Pasqua has purchased two EON G2 powered 15-inch loudspeakers for use as stage monitors on a two-week tour through the West Coast of the United States. Read More... -
Delirium Takes to New Heights
FOH Staff | News | December 1, 2006MONTREAL, CANADA -- Created and directed by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, Cirque du Soleil's Delirium is a mixture of theatre, music, dance and multimedia that uses a 136-foot wide, 80-foot high stage that bisects the arena, dividing the audience into two halves, one on either side. The sound system created by audio designer Yves Savoie was conceived as dual, opposing setups to cover both sides of the stage, using a total of 96 Meyer Sound MICA curvilinear array loudspeakers. Each side sports three towers of 16 MICA cabinets, along with two columns of five 700-HP subwoofers. Six M1D curvilinear array loudspeakers per side act as frontfill for the first few rows of floor seating, with a handful of CQ-1 wide coverage main loudspeakers added to fill in some front corners. Read More... -
Marilyn Hits Munich
FOH Staff | News | November 30, 2006MUNICH, GERMANY -- The world premiere of Marilyn – the Musical took place at the Gärtnerplatz Theatre in Munich, using a networked (EtherSound) Camco-powered NEXO GEO S sound reinforcement system. Read More... -
New Sub Sets Sail
FOH Staff | News | November 30, 2006WATERLOO, ONTARIO -- The WS218X high performance sub-bass system provides bass and definition for theatre sound systems, club sound reinforcement and special effects sub-bass applications. Read More... -
New Wireless Microphone Systems Available
FOH Staff | News | November 29, 2006SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- TOA Electronics, Inc, manufacturer of commercial audio and security products, has announced the arrival of their new UHF wireless microphone systems, the 5000 Series and 200/300 Series. Currently in stock, the new wireless systems are for houses of worship, schools, fitness clubs and other applications. Read More... -
iLive Debuts at Children's Benefit
FOH Staff | News | November 29, 2006CORNWALL, UK -- The world famous Eden Project hosted BBC coverage of the Children In Need fundraising evening, employing Allen & Heath's new iLive digital mixing system to manage audio for two musical events. Read More... -
Fellowship Church Seeks Consistency
FOH Staff | News | November 29, 2006DALLAS, TX -- Under the leadership of pastor Ed Young, Jr, Texas' Fellowship Church has experienced exponential growth over the past five years, with typical weekly attendance surpassing the 20,000 mark, and to accommodate growth, Fellowship expanded from its primary campus in Grapevine, Texas (adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport) to satellite campuses around the metro area: two in nearby suburban communities and one in the Arts District in downtown Dallas. Read More... -
Sound Academy Set For December 6
FOH Staff | News | November 28, 2006OLD LYME, CT -- Audio professionals who regularly work with RF systems are seldom at a loss for advice, but most of that advice sounds vaguely like a magic incantation. "Set the offending channel to twice the value of your oldest living relative, rub two coins of different value below the receiver, tap the transmitter with a wooden pencil, and chant the name of the person who will use the wireless connection backwards five times." Cut through the hearsay and half-baked theories at an RF seminar organized by Sennheiser and Live Sound Magazine, led by RF engineers Volker Schmitt and Joe Ciaudelli. Read More...
