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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KINGSTON, RI — For the 920-seat Edwards Hall Auditorium on the Kingston campus of the University of Rhode Island, Sudbury, MA-based Adtech Systems specified and installed Bose RoomMatch modules powered by Bose PowerMatch PM8500 amplifiers.
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LONDON and HAGERSTOWN, MD — U.K.-based Capital Sound is teaming up with fellow Martin Audio MLA rental company, Maryland-based MHA, to handle the 2013 Mumford and Sons tour on both sides of the Atlantic.
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NEW ORLEANS — Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), which has assisted the audio crew for 17 consecutive Super Bowl championships, once again partnered with ATK Audiotek and Versacom for the big game between Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers in the New Orleans Superdome on Feb. 3.
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MIAMI — FM Lab, based here, installed D.A.S. Audio Convert, Aero Series 2 and Action Series loudspeakers within Inedit, a new dining/music venue that opened in Hollywood, FL recently. FM Lab owner Fernando Mezzarapa noted that the system met with the establishment’s needs for background music and paging along with live musicians and DJs.
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