LAS VEGAS — A large-format projection on the façade of the clock tower at the Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas was accompanied by a soundtrack heard throughout the piazza on an L-Acoustics ARCS II system provided by AVDB Group. The clock tower is a replica of the one at Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy.
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OLD LYME, CT — For her 2012 MDNA tour, Madonna is using six Sennheiser SKM 5200 mics for each show. The tour, which is filling stadiums, arenas and open air venues across Asia, Europe, North and South America, is also relying upon an extensive Sennheiser wireless microphone and monitoring solution, night after night. And if Madonna gets put to the test for each and every show, so does her gear.
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NEW YORK — A Red Cross fundraising benefit concert, Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, featuring New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, Staten Island native Christina Aguilera and Long Island native Billy Joel, among others, aired Nov. 2 at 8 pm (EST) on NBC-affiliated stations, cable networks and websites. The telethon/webathon event raised close to $23 million in a four-hour span.
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SEBRING, FL — To address intelligibility issues so severe that the church’s own choir couldn’t hear the sermons, the First Baptist Church of Sebring, Florida turned to GC Pro for help. GC Pro installed new gear including a JBL VRX928 line array system configured as a center cluster, with two VRX dual-15-inch subwoofers. The new system also included a new Yamaha LS9 FOH console, Aviom in-ear wireless monitoring for the band, an Ashly NE24.24M matrix processor, a Sennheiser Evolution wireless microphone system and a pair of JBL CBT 70 mini-arrays for the choir’s monitors.
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LOS ANGELES — The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, a supergroup led by Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs, recently completed a 43-show North American tour supported by an L-Acoustics K1 supplied by Sound Image of Escondido, CA.
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NEW YORK — Most of Broadway’s theatres reopened their doors Oct. 31, despite limited mass transit to get show-goers from their rain-soaked homes and into their seats, but Carnegie Hall was being haunted by a ghoulish spectre left in Sandy’s wake that prevented it from opening on Halloween, a dangling rooftop crane on the building across the street. City officials restricted access to the venue and cut off power as a safety precaution.
Read More »NEW YORK — A benefit concert, Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, featuring New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen, Staten Island native Christina Aguilera, Long Island native Billy Joel and New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi is set to air Nov. 2 at 8 pm (EST) on NBC-affiliated stations, cable networks and websites. Proceeds will go to the American Red Cross, supporting efforts to provide relief for those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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NEW YORK — The recently opened Richard B. Fisher Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a seven-story building that houses the 250-seat Fishman Space and Scripps Stage, which can be configured as for a proscenium stage, thrust stage, theatre-in-the-round or a flat floor. Auerbach Pollock Friedlander worked with architects H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture and acoustician Akustiks on the project, which also included the Fisher Hillman Studio, a rehearsal hall/performance venue.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Korea Economic Institute (KEI) here is relying upon an Allen & Health iDR32 mix engine with iLive Editor for news conferences and foreign policy panel discussions. The new system was designed and installed by Michael Yoo, senior system engineer, Genesis Technology, in conjunction with Charles Cassell of Audio Associates.
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VANCOUVER, BC — Monitor engineer Kevin “Tater” McCarthy weighed in recently on the band’s reliance of gear from Radial Engineering — and not just for the audio crew members. In stark contrast to the LP crew’s new exercise regimen, it allows for gain without pain.
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FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Ltd., DiGiCo’s U.S. distributor, based here, recently announced an initiative to promote DiGiCo’s new SD5 console. Group One will take back any make or model large-format analog or digital desk with a credit towards the purchase of a new SD5. Alford Media, Clearwing Productions, Hi-Tec Audio and Beachsound (pictured here) are among the companies taking advantage of the offer so far.
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BOCA RATON, FL — On Stage Audio provided Audio-Technica mics and JBL VRX Constant Curvature loudspeakers for use in all three presidential debates and also the vice presidential debate. Michael Abbott, owner of All Ears, Inc. (Los Angeles) also chose a pair of Yamaha DM2000 digital consoles for audio control at all four events.
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