ANAHEIM, CA — Martin Audio named Marshank Sales as its sales rep of the year. The award was presented at Winter NAMM here last month. Pictured, from left, are Rob Hofkamp of Martin Audio and Gary Marshank and Paul Hugo of Marshank Sales.
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NASHVILLE — Californian dubstep musician/producer Lorin Ashton, better known as Bassnectar, returned to Bridgestone Arena here for New Years 2013, packing the place with more than 11,000 “Bass Heads.” LMG Touring, which also supported the 2012 NYE gig at the same venue along with Bassnectar’s 32-date fall tour, provided an L-Acoustics K1 system, with 72 SB28 subs for low end support.
Read More »CHICAGO — Creative Technology (CT)’s new Intercom & RF Department has added the Riedel Artist digital matrix and Performer digital party line intercom from Riedel Communications to its inventory.
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RED BANK, NJ — For a New Year’s Eve 2013 concert at the Count Basie Theatre, here, Egg Harbor Township, NJ-based ACIR Professional supplied a Yamaha PM5D at FOH and a new Yamaha CL5 at monitors. ACIR also used Whirlwind cabling, Shure, Sennheiser, Audio Technica mics and Radial and Countryman Dis. The main PA consisted of 22 d&b audiotechnik Q1 boxes with six B2 subs.
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GLENVIEW, IL — Gand Concert Sound (GCS), based here, supported noise pop duo The Sleigh Bells at the University of Chicago over the holidays. Their stage setup consists of a wall of Marshalls and an iPod carrying rhythm tracks. GCS provided a pair of Yamaha PM5D Digital Audio Consoles and a 12-box flown NEXO GEO S12 rig with six NEXO CD18 subs. Alpha side fills and PS15 wedges rounded out the rig that was powered by NEXO 4×4 amps.
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BROOKLYN, NY — When Brooklyn Tech High School needed to overhaul the outdated audio system in its 80-year-old, 3,100-seat auditorium, school officials called on Masque Sound. Working with Midland Electric and Criterion Acoustics, Masque Sound provided a system incorporating gear from d&b audiotechnik, Peavey, Crestron, Blackmagic and L-Acoustics.
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SANDUSKY, OH — Management for the Cedar Point amusement park here turned to Washington Professional Systems (Wheaton, MD) and Audio Design Solutions (New Market, MD) to renovate the sound system at the Midway area within the 364-acre park. Eric Choucroun and Chris Evans relied upon One Systems speakers for efficient, even coverage.
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QUAPAW, OK — For its recent addition of a six-story tower with 155 additional guest rooms, restaurants, event spaces, and spa services, Downstream Casino Resort sought out A1 Audio of nearby Branson, MO for a new sound system. The installed system includes Community D4, D6, D8 and D4LP loudspeakers, Yamaha DME-N series processors and an AMX system with iPad control. Five dual-channel Ashly KLR-3200 amplifiers power the entire system.
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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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