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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Robert “Bob” Zildjian, founder of the Sabian Cymbal Company and a prominent figure in the global percussion industry for six decades, died on March 27 at his home in Brunswick, Maine after a brief battle with cancer. He was 89 years old. Endowed with a sharp intellect and a cutting wit, he applied his boundless energy to expanding the percussion industry in the years following World War II, first at The Zildjian Company, founded by ancestors in Turkey, and later at Sabian Cymbals. He often remarked, “The business is the family, and the family is the business,” and the lines between his personal and commercial life were blurred.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Northview High School wanted to move from an analog to digital mixing console, and also to increase the number of inputs for the school’s 750-seat auditorium within the Max Colley Jr. Performing Arts Center. Bob McLaughlin at Central Interconnect provided a Soundcraft Si Performer 3 console from Harman.
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AUSTIN — Management at the Cedar Street Courtyard music venue here hired consultant Steve Durr, who turned to Bose’s configurable RoomMatch gear for a combination of sonic pleasure for venue patrons while minimizing the audible noise heard by neighbors.
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By George Petersen
MIDDLETOWN, WI – Longtime pro audio industry veteran Earl “Buzz” Goodwin passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 after a long bout with cancer. He was 62. Born on January 1, 1951, in Lynn, MA, Buzz developed a love for music very early in life and was a talented guitarist/singer/songwriter both as a solo artist as well as with bands such as Silverado, which he co-founded in 1973 with Carl Shillo. Silverado signed to RCA Records in 1976 with the debut album by the same name and had some chart successes with followup LP’s on RCA and CBS.
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ROCKWALL, TX — Lake Pointe Church is make use of more than 150 channels of Sennheiser wireless technology at four campus locations here. The Southern Baptist megachurch, serving a congregation of more than 10,000, has a growing collection of Sennheiser G3 wireless systems and mics.
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RED BANK, NJ — For a Feb. 1 performance at the Count Basie Theatre of Masters of Illusion: Live, the live touring production associated with TV’s Masters of Illusion: Impossible Magic, ACIR Professional provided engineer Stephen Bonamassa along with a Yamaha CL5 and two Rio3224-D input/output racks for use at front of house.
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RICHLAND, WA — CCI Solutions designed and installed a new sound system for Columbia Community Church, which had completely remodeled its multi-venue, 1,800-capacity church facility here. The P.A. system centers on a pair of Tannoy VQNET 100 loudspeakers and a VNET 215HL subwoofer flown between them.
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TROIS- RIVIÈRES, Quebec, Canada — An annual telethon broadcast live by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s French Public Television Network enlisted the services of L’Audi-C Sonorisation, based here. The 54th Noel du Pauvre fundraiser took place at the Salle J. Antonio Thompson Theater in Trois- Rivières.
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