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NEW YORK — For 54 Below, a supper club located below the former nightclub, Studio 54, veteran sound designer Peter Hylenski turned to Masque Sound for an audio system that includes an Avid SC48 digital console, Millennia Media pre-amps, a JoeCo black-box recorder and BSS processors.

NEW YORK — Showtime Sound is providing EAW KF740 loudspeakers, SB1000z subwoofers and KF755 and JF80 units for outfills and downfills to support the wide range of venues on hip-hop artist Mac Miller’s current tour.

ANAHEIM, CA — Extron Electronics, a professional AV system integration products manufacturer, worked with Allstage Pro to equip The Ranch Restaurant & Saloon, a country music and dancing venue located on the ground floor of Extron’s new corporate headquarters here, with a Meyer Sound system centered around MICA line array loudspeakers.

OSHKOSH, WI — For the Country USA festival, staged at the Ford Festival Grounds here from June 19-23, Precise Corporate Staging provided an L-Acoustics rig for artists including The Band Perry, Sawyer Brown, Sugarland, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban.

CLEVELAND, OH — Cuyahoga Community College, a.k.a. “Tri-C,” recently installed an L-Acoustics system in the 800-seat Tri-C Metro Auditorium, including KARA, ARCS II and SB18 components. The venue hosts the Tri-C JazzFest every year, along with other events.

DUBUQUE, IA — Last year, George Rondinelli of Rondinelli Audio purchased an RCF TT+ line array system. He recently added a few more modules, bringing his total to 12. He also purchased the NX line array for smaller events.

LAS VEGAS — In the days before InfoComm, representatives from Danley Sound Labs arranged an impromptu demonstration of Danley Jericho Horn point-source loudspeakers for long-throw applications in the desert adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base. The team rented a 25kV generator and a lift for the demo, which took palce in an undeveloped industrial park.

BERKELEY, CA — Comal, a new restaurant located in Berkeley’s  downtown Arts District, is the first establishment of its kind to create an optimized aural environment using the new Libra acoustic image system and complementary Constellation active acoustic system from Meyer Sound.

BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra has once again tapped DPA Microphones for its nationally broadcast, live Boston Pops Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. Held annually in the Hatch Shell at the Esplanade along the Charles River, the concert and fireworks show hosts nearly 400,000 attendees.

WHITINSVILLE, MA — EAW announced that FOH engineer Martin Frey has endorsed the company’s Red Certified KF740 arrays for main PA loudspeakers and will specify them as first choice on all technical riders. The agreement comes after Frey got the chance to use KF740 main PA system provided by Las Vegas-based H.A.S. Productions (HAS), with whom EAW is piloting the Red Certification program.