MINNEAPOLIS — Southwest Christian High School (SWCHS) recently hired Audio Video Electronics (AVE) to upgrade their aging sound system. AVE installed the new system, which includes an Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital console, just in time for the high school’s production of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.
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STAMFORD, CT — Harman International Industries Inc., based here, announced that Copenhagen, Denmark-based Aktieselskabet Schouw & Co., corporate parent of Aarhus, Denmark-based Martin Professional, agreed to sell Martin to Harman for EUR 110 million (currently $146 million in U.S. dollars). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in Q1 2013.
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — The Carnival festival tradition has expanded from Trinidad and Tobago on the two days prior to Ash Wednesday to other dates on the calendar, and locations in the U.S. Earlier this year, the festive celebrations of Caribbean culture took place here, and also in Brooklyn, NY and Miami Gardens, FL with NYC-based Advanced Audio, Miami-based Master Sound Productions and D.A.S. Audio all playing a key role.
Read More »ANAHEIM, CA — The 2013 NAMM Show, set to take place at the Anaheim Convention Center here Jan. 24-27, has expanded beyond its traditional focus and now counts Harman, Avid, Chauvet, Bosch, Sennheiser, Shure, Korg, Tascam, Yamaha, American DJ and Behringer among its exhibitors. The conference will also include a wide array of training and demonstration opportunities for live entertainment technology professionals.
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JUNO BEACH, FL — Florida Power & Light (FPL), which often uses the atrium at its headquarters here for small and large assemblies, recently contracted with Peerson Audio, Jupiter, FL, for something more than a temporary, speaker-on-stick solution. Allen Peerson installed QFlex steerable array loudspeakers from Tannoy.
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SEATTLE — The Triple Door, a 300-seat, vaudeville style theatre originally built in 1926, has been making good use of a sound system that includes a selection of Sennheiser evolution series microphones (e600, e800 and e900 instrument and vocal microphones), a Yamaha PM1D 96 channel digital console and a JBL VerTec series medium-sized line array loudspeaker system.
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COLUMBUS, MS — Audio Communications Consultants of Memphis, TN included One Systems 115RW and 103IM speakers as part of the renovation project for Poindexter Hall at Mississippi University of Women (MUW) here.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — Technical Services Group designed and installed the AV system within a new conference facility at Women’s Hospital here, which specializes in the care of women and infancts. The new audio system includes an Aspen Series digital audio processor from Lectrosonics.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM — For nearly 60 years Milne Stadium has been home to generations of Albuquerque’s local sporting events. Recently the 6,500-seat arena received a wide-ranging makeover, including a new playing surface, new paint and stucco and a new audio system featuring Community R-Series loudspeakers.
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NAPERVILLE, IL — For a recent Andy Grammer concert within North Central Illinois College’s 825-seat Wentz Concert Hall here, Frankfort, IL-based Sound Works Productions provided a NEXO GEO S12 system that included 10 GEO S1210s, four RS18 Ray Subs, four PS10s and three 4×4 NXAMPs along with three RS18s for sidefills/drum subs, two 4×4 NXAMPs and a Yamaha M7CL digital console for monitors.
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BREA, CA — Trinity Sound Company (TSC) recently completed an upgrade to the in-house music playback and paging system at Brea Community Center that included a QSC Q-Sys Core 250i processor and two additional CX Series multichannel amplifiers. The new, lower-cost DSP system controls multi-zone paging and playback.
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LOS ANGELES — FOH engineer Jeff Peterson is using one of DiGiCo’s recently-released SD5 consoles for X Factor, now in its second year in the U.S. Monitor mixer Jason Batuyong is using an SD10, and the crew has also incorporated a pair of SDRacks connected via an Optocore fiber optics network into the sound setup for the show.
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