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MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems recently hosted a recital for Madison Music Foundry students. The event filled the company’s 4,000 square-foot theater for the day with performances by the students, who ranged in age from 5 to 60, performing solo or ensemble pieces from Hendrix to Bach.

LAS VEGAS — The 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMA), broadcast live from Las Vegas on CBS and hosted by Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton, featured 24 performances across two venues. Most involved Shure wireless systems.

[caption id="attachment_103471" align="alignleft"]Travis Rogers[/caption]LOS ANGELES — While on tour with jazz-fusion group Return To Forever, chief sound engineer Travis Rogers relies on a Harman Soundcraft Vi6 digital console for front of house mixing. He credited the digital console for sonic clarity and warmth, and also for its ease of use.

RIVERSIDE, IA — Sound Concepts owner Marvin Smejkal updated the audio system at the Riverside Casino’s Events Center with four Renkus-Heinz CF101LA modular point source array speakers. The new gear serves a dual purpose: as a primary voice reinforcement system for smaller events and as center in-fill for larger PA rental rigs.

ROCKWALL, TX — Wes Hartley, media pastor at Lake Pointe Church, said he’s heard a dramatic difference before and after the church’s 5,000-capacity main campus auditorium was equipped with a new audio reinforcement system based around 56 Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeakers, especially in terms of even coverage.

ATLANTA — Alfred “AL-Tee” Williams is one of the busiest live-sound mixers on the Atlanta music scene. The veteran engineer has run the mix for a wide range of artists including Kool and the Gang, The SOS Band, Rachelle Farrell, Angie Stone, Bobby Brown, and a host of others. His desk of choice these days is the PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Innovason’s focus at Prolight+Sound 2012 was on Pandora, a new “box of tricks” integrated into Innovason’s flagship Eclipse GT digital console. Pandora is a new way of panning that promises audibly better results across the listening field than traditional stereo panning.

BELLEVILLE, IL — St. Matthew United Methodist Church’s thorough renovation of its technology systems in 2009 included a switch to digital at FOH, with a DiGiCo SD8 as its main audio console. Continuing its digital progression, the house of worship recently added an SD9 with D-Rack (connected to the SD8 via DiGiCo’s Little Red Box), replacing an analog desk at the hub of its video production suite to handle the increased complexity of its productions.