KISSIMMEE, FL — Concerned about limited parts availability for an older analog console at the 2,000-seat Osceola Performing Arts Center (OPAC), the venue’s manager, Dave Edgar, met with Dan Lee at Signature Systems of Florida. Lee steered Edgar toward an iLive system from Allen & Heath. The system includes an iLive-T112 Surface and an iDR-32 MixRack.
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AUSTIN, TX — Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) worked with C3 Presents, producer of the 11th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival to coordinate 350 frequencies per day across eight stages for artists and the media during the three-day event, held in Zilker Park Oct. 12-14. PWS, a Masque Sound company that supplies and supports wireless systems for live and broadcast events, sent a four-person crew to ensure all wireless microphones, in-ear monitors and show communications were properly coordinated and operating properly.
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FARMINGTON, NM — Sound & Signal Systems opted for Community’s R-Series all-weather loudspeakers for a large-scale audio makeover at Ricketts Field here recently. Along with the need to cover the stadium seating, the goals included muting the noise — and noise complaints — in areas beyond the stadium’s confines.
Read More »NEW YORK — The Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the OCA Alliance have jointly announced that an AES standards project has been founded to consider OCA, the Open Control Architecture, for a public standard for control and monitoring of professional media networks.
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NEW YORK — Starview Satellite of Rego Park, NY provided a Renkus-Heinz sound system for Tir Na Nog on 39th Street in Manhattan that includes a cross-section of Renkus-Heinz TRX and CFX Series loudspeakers as well as PNX and BPS subwoofers.
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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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