NEW YORK — New York City Centre’s Augie J. Propersi worked with sound designer Scott Lehrer and Kierkegaard Associates on a full system audio upgrade for the 2,750-seat venue that included the installation of Out Board’s TiMax2 Soundhub as the overall system processor to provide routing, EQ and zone management and more.
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NEW YORK — WorldStage, the company formerly known as Scharff Weisberg and Video Applications Inc., has chosen the Yamaha CL5 digital audio console and accompanying Rio (Remote/IO) stage rack as its new audio console and immediately made them available for audio system rentals and staging.
Read More »SANTA MARIA, Brazil — Authorities have detained four people in connection with a fire that ripped through the packed Kiss nightclub in this southern Brazil city in the early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 27, killing 237. A small pyro display is being implicated as the cause. Early reports suggest that some kind of pyro device ignited foam sound insulation material on the ceiling, and that a crowd of college-aged revelers stampeded and were suffocated within minutes by the resulting smoke and fumes.
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ATLANTA — During the first four days of 2013, more than 60,000 college-aged Christians converged upon the Georgia Dome here for Passion 2013, an annual conference of message and music that not only lifted spirits but raised more than $3.3 million to combat slavery and human trafficking worldwide. To support the event, Camarillo, CA-based Rat Sound Systems provided a sound system that included 108 K1, 96 V-DOSC, 36 KARA and 24 dV-DOSC elements, 40 SB28 sub enclosures, and 31 LA-RAK amplifier racks.
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ATLANTA — The International House of Prayer (IHOP), based here, has been the site of a prayer meeting that has been going, 24/7, since Feb. 12, 2006. It’s also been the site of some energetic performances by religious rock bands — and the target of some neighborhood noise concerns. To correct the problem, Pensacola-based Soundscapes flew three rows of three strategically-aimed Danley SH-100s.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Waves Audio and DiGiCo announced a new audio hardware and software partnership called DiGiGrid at the Winter NAMM show here. DiGiCo’s James Gordon and Waves’ Mick Olesh, pictured here, made the announcement.
Read More »SUWANEE, GA — Kaltman Creations, a manufacturer of RF and EMC spectrum analyzers and antennas along with RF shielding, provided a testimonial penned by Jimmy Nicholson of These Go To Eleven Ltd. Nicholson used his recently acquired Kaltman’s Invisible Waves X RF Command Center for both Peter Gabriel’s So tour in North America and also for pop artist Conor Maynard in the U.K.
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LOS ANGELES — Harold Rubens, known for his work as an FOH engineer for dozens of artists who specialize in Christian music, has been using the Yamaha CL5 Digital Audio Console on several tours in 2012 and early 2013.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus announced that it has teamed up with Fulcrum Acoustic, which was founded in 2008, as part of its move to add PA speakers and studio monitors to its product line. Separately, PreSonus announced that has licensed Audinate’s Dante digital-media networking technology and will incorporate Dante into optional networking cards for several of its new products.
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VANCOUVER, BC — Pulling more than 12,000 fervent fans into Vancouver’s cavernous BC Place, the Contact Winter Music Festival—headlined by Deadmau5—notched a new record as the region’s largest-ever electronic dance music concert. The event also marked the introduction of KiAN Concert Sound Services’ new LEO large-scale sound reinforcement system from Meyer Sound.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX — The Hilton Palacio del Rio here has been equipped with four Symetrix SymNet Solus 8 open-architecture DSP units as part of a modernization plan for 27,000 square feet of meeting space undertaken by Good Thunder Provisioning of Montgomery, TX.
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LONDON — Focusrite has certified Westlake Village, CA-based Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) as a U.S. dealer for RedNet professional audio networking system. End users interested in Focusrite RedNet can obtain the system via GC Pro.
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