MILFORD, NH — After a seven-year hiatus, Garbage released their fifth studio album, Not Your Kind of People, in May this year. The band has hit the road in support of the album’s release and is taking the new Earthworks WL40V along for the ride.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Baltimore-based Design and Integration, Inc. provided four Iconyx IC16-R-II arrays from Renkus-Heinz for the rotunda within the U.S. Capitol building. Each is located at 90 degrees apart along the room’s circumference.
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HARRIMAN, TN — At the Princess Theater, a 1920s-vintage movie theater that was refurbished to serve as a multi-purpose performing arts and education center, Allen Sound of Nashville provided an Allen & Heath GLD mixer. The venue now hosts concerts, movies, dance performances, community and educational events and local church services.
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DULUTH, GA — The second Railroad Revival Tour, featuring bands riding vintage rail cars and performing at outdoor venues set up along the train tracks, has been cancelled, according to a message posted on the tour website.
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO – The Open Control Architecture (OCA) Alliance, the industry collective developing a media networking system control standard for professional applications, today announced that it has been officially incorporated as a non-profit trade association.
Read More »NASHVILLE — Tour Supply, Inc. and JH Audio have announced a strategic partnership that will include having JH Audio sales reps “embedded” within Tour Supply’s offices in Nashville and in New York City. JH Audio also has direct access to Tour Supply clients in Los Angeles at Center Staging’s rehearsal facilities.
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We recently heard of the passing on Oct. 1 of Dr. Albert Neville Thiele, one of the great names in the development of our understanding of transducers and speaker enclosure design. Thiele, pictured here, left, with fellow audio specialist Richard Small, was 91.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc., which markets the Audinate Dante-MY16-AUD Mini-YGDAI interface card, noted that it been updated to allow remote head amp control. The updated version allows the head amps in the new Rio3224-D and Rio1608-D I/O rack units, developed for the new Yamaha CL console line, to be remotely controlled from an M7CL, LS9, PM5D, DM2000, and DM1000 digital mixing console.
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BOSTON — Mark Jarrell, owner of Dogwood Audio Sound Company, supported U.K.-based Celtic rock band IONA on its two-week swing through the U.S. this past summer. He mixed the band on a Soundcraft Vi1 and credited the console as a good fit with a variety of venues encountered on the tour.
Read More »FIRENZE, Italy — Powersoft announces it has become an official member of the AMX InConcert Alliance. As such, the AMX modules for Powersoft are compatible and allow for seamless integration of Powersoft amplifiers in typical AMX-controlled environments, including video and other remotely accessible devices. The feature set includes full monitoring capabilities, mute and volume control, preset selection, and power on/off for Duecanali, Ottocanali, M Series and K Series amplifiers.
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LOS ANGELES — Firehouse Productions deployed a full L-Acoustics K1 system for Peter Gabriel’s North American Back To Front trek from Sept. 16-Oct. 14. The tour marks the 25th anniversary of the album, So. On most tour stops, there are L-R hangs of 14 K1 plus six KARA below for down-fill, with adjacent hangs of eight K1-SB subs. Typical out-fills include an additional 10 K1 and six KARA flown per side, paired with eight ARCS and six dV-DOSC below for front- and lip-fill.
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ADDISON, TX — Greenhill School, based here, needed a sound system makeover quickly for a 9/11 observance ceremony. GC Pro and integrator Trinity Group International (TGI) got the job done quickly, with TGI installing the GC Pro-provided QSC WideLine line array sound system – two hangs each with subs attached below – within a single day.
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