PHILADELPHIA —St Joseph’s University converted the chapel on their McGuire campus into a multi-use space for students. RJC Designs came up with a dual-system solution, with Community Professional components separately handling the spoken word and music. That approach helped the project tackle a range of acoustic, logistic and aesthetic challenges.
Read More »WINNIPEG — Epic Production Technologies, once a major North American provider of concert and theatrical audio gear as well as lighting and staging, appears to have sharply scaled back its operations. Press reports noted layoffs at company locations in Winnipeg and Burnaby Canada and in Oxnard, CA. Senior executives including Marc Raymond, Ted Fowler and Brian Konechny are also reportedly no longer working for the company.
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NASHVILLE, TN — Adamson Systems and Sound Image drew FOH engineers and others to the Fellowship Church at Two Rivers here Jan. 3-4 for an Adamson Energia demo. It was hosted by Jesse Adamson and Matt Gunn from Adamson Systems and Everett Lybolt and Dave Shadoan from Sound Image. Andrew Dowling, Rob Zombie’s systems engineer, did the system design, setup, and provided a complete rigging overview.
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NORTH READING, MA — Fit Revolution, an indoor cycling studio and “boot camp” fitness-training facility that opened last September in this Boston suburb, didn’t want to be spinning its wheels when it came to the installation of a new sound system. The owners turned to Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), which provided Electro-Voice, Yamaha and other gear.
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COCONUT CREEK, FL — Beachsound provided an L-Acoustics KARA system for the new live music showroom at the Seminole Casino here. The venue, called The Pavilion, is a Sprung structure that was converted into a 1,200-seat performance facility during the casino’s recent $150 million expansion. The system includes KARA and SB18 hangs complemented with ground-stacked SB28 subs and 8XT front-fills across the stage lip.
NEW ORLEANS — Providing audio services for the Super Bowl for the 16th straight year, ATK Audiotek deployed its custom-designed, cart-based audio system for Super Bowl XLVII, held at the Superdome in New Orleans. Once again, ATK Audiotek equipped its carts with Harman’s JBL VerTec line array loudspeakers for the Halftime Show featuring Beyoncé. The carts were also used for when Jennifer Hudson joined the Sandy Hook Elementary School Choir for a rendition of “America the Beautiful,” and also for Alicia Keys, who performed “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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ROSEVILLE, MI — Cornerstone Baptist Church recently upgraded from analog to digital when it installed a Yamaha CL5 Digital Audio Console and two Rio 3224-Ds input/output racks. The church seats 2,000 and has a congregation of 1,300 with a blended worship consisting of full band, orchestra, choir, and worship team.
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LAS VEGAS — For the new Blue Man Group (BMG) production at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino here, sound supervisor Marcus Ross worked with Solotech to provide an audio system with 141 inputs/outputs that includes a d&b audiotechnik J-Series PA, Meyer Cinema Speaker Surround monitors and a DiGiCo SD7 console at FOH. A DiGiCo SD8 was added a few months later to handle additional audio production elements from behind the curtain.
Read More »INDIANAPOLIS — The Saddle Up Saloon and Dancehall, based in Aurora, IL, near Chicago, rode into Indianapolis for a second location that would be featuring a 3,000-square-foot dance floor, stage and three-bar setup. Local integrator Sean Wooldridge installed a QSC system for the Western-theme, 1,200-capacity dance club.
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WASHINGTON, DC — MHA Audio installed a MLA Compact System from Martin Audio within George Washington University’s 1,500-seat Lisner Auditorium. The system includes eight MLA Compacts per side with a center array of six DSX subs under the stage.
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HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, NJ — Alexandria First Presbyterian, whose main sanctuary was built in the late 1800s, is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Blackwood, NJ-based JD Sound and Video installed a sound system featuring Community Professional Loudspeakers’ Entasys column arrays and VLF Series subwoofers.
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RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Boulevard Pro upgraded the 250-seat Little Theatre at Ridgewood High School here recently with a new system that includes two NEXO GEO S1210 line arrays, one GEO S1230 for downfill, a NEXO 4×1 NXAMP and a Yamaha LS9-32 digital audio console.
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