NEW YORK — The Electric Zoo Festival rocked Randall’s Island in the East River here over Labor Day weekend with wall-to-wall sound and light, growing from a total draw of 26,000 in its first year (2009) to more than 100,000 over three days in 2012. Sonic Lab Audio, Integral Sound and Eighth Day Sound supported the festival with d&b audiotechnik gear for all four stages.
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LOS ANGELES – Madonna’s MDNA Tour is drawing capacity crowds to stadiums around the world. The show features 11 musicians, 22 dancers, multiple costume changes, a novel staging and graphic design and an audio system from Eighth Day Sound that includes two DiGiCo SD7s at Front of House and another on monitors. The SD7 is a step up for monitor engineers Matt Napier and Sean Speuhler, who were using a D5T on Madonna’s previous Sticky & Sweet Tour.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Train’s California 37 tour has been rolling along with gear provided by Delicate Productions, including Martin MLA system, DiGiCo SD10 consoles for FOH and monitors, Martin Audio 5.2 amplifiers and Sennheiser G3 IEM personal monitor systems. The tour crew included Train’s FOH engineer Rob Thomas and monitor engineer Rob Greene, along with system engineer Phil Reynolds and system techs Kenny Kaiser and Russ Cunningham.
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AKRON, OH — Although a 34-speaker setup had been proposed for Bridgestone Americas’ 260,000-square-foot worldwide technical center here, Audio Video Interiors was able to cover the space with just three Renkus-Heinz Iconyx steered arrays.
Read More »ARMONK, NY — Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG) announced Sept. 27 the corporate structure of PRG in Germany has been changed — PRG and Showtec are now one company. PRG also announced management shifts as the operations under the formerly separate companies continue to merge. PRG first announced that it was acquiring Showtec in late March, 2011.
Read More »NASHVILLE — Brad “Porque” Baker, 58, longtime sound man at The End in Nashville, died Aug. 31 due to complications from sleep apnea. Prior to… Read More »In Memoriam: Brad Baker, 58
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LOS ANGELES — The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) has solidified plans to move forward with publishing an Americanized version of the widely-used U.K. guide of best practices in the event production industry, The Event Safety Guide – also known as The Purple Guide.
Read More »CHICAGO — Ticket holders arriving for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performance on Sept. 22 were turned away as they learned that the musicians union called for a strike. The stalemate over pay and health benefits threatens scheduled concerts later this week, along with a tour to New York and Mexico in early October. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra also canceled concerts through the end of September as the result of an ongoing pay and benefits dispute. The musicians there have been locked out since early September, effectively canceling the first full month of their 2012-2012 season.
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BOSTON — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) equipped the Salty Pig restaurant in downtown Boston with seven JBL Control 67P/T full-range pendant loudspeakers in the main area of the restaurant, five CBT 50LA column loudspeakers around the outdoor patio area and two Control SB210 compact subwoofers inside and out.
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MIAMI — Latin pop artists Marc Anthony, Chayanne, and Marco Antonio Solis teamed up for the 14-city GIGANT3S tour in August and September. FOH engineer Jose A. Rivera, Jr. used A-Designs HM2EQ HAMMER dual-channel tube equalizer and HM2 NAIL compressor/limiter across the stereo mix buss for the shows.
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LONDON — Among the clubs recently installing JBL Marquis Dance Club Series loudspeakers are the Blue Martini in Las Vegas, NV; Boogie Nights within Atlantic City, NJ’s Tropicana Casino and Resort; and, pictured here, Club MUTE in Seoul, South Korea.
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POITIERS, France — Futuroscope, a multimedia theme park, marked 25 years with a musical celebration that included an outdoor production of Dogora. Agora Audio mixed the event on an Innovason Eclipse console and used an Innovason Sy80 for monitors. Along with the consoles, Agora Audio provided the main P.A. and microphones (including 16 KM 184 D digital mics from Neumann) for the event.
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