NEW YORK — Paul Simon and Wynton Marsalis teamed up with special guests including Aaron Neville for three nights of live music at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Michael Conner, Paul Simon’s FOH engineer, handled the mixing duties, using a Studer Vista 5 and Soundcraft Vi6 for the performances, which required more than 100 inputs.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Sound Image co-founders Dave Shadoan and the late Ross Ritto will be honored with the 2012 Parnelli Audio Innovator Award at the annual gala dinner here in Oct. 2012.
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GOODLETTSVILLE, TN — Danley Sound Labs Jericho JH-90s are used primarily for outdoor installations in stadiums and other big venues, but Scott Oliver, director of contracting and engineering at Professional Audio Solutions, Inc. took a pair of the JH-90s inside for an installation at the First Baptist Church of Goodlettsville, TN.
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AUSTIN, TX — The British Music Embassy returned for its fifth year at South by Southwest (SXSW), once again occupying Latitude 30 club. The March 12-17 lineup included Django Django, Maverick Sabre, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Jonquil, Ben Howard, Slow Club, Twin Atlantic, and Clock Opera. Cato Music supported the venue with gear from American Music and Sound (AM&S), including Turbosound, Allen & Heath and beyerdynamic products.
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HORSHAM, PA — DBS Audio Systems’ Dave Brotman provided a Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeakers for Yuong-Sang Presbyterian Church, which offers sermons and songs in Korean.
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NEW YORK — Audio engineer Jody Elff is supporting Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble tour with 4088 cardioid headset and 4061 omnidirectional miniature mics from DPA Microphones.
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NASHVILLE — When it was ready to upgrade the Meyer Sound MSL-3 loudspeaker system that had served the 2,472-seat Andrew Jackson Hall for more than two decades, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) here chose Meyer Sound again, this time a system based on the M’elodie line array loudspeaker.
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RALEIGH, NC — North Carolina State University’s athletic administration chose Davidson Audio Visual of Winston-Salem, NC to outfit the new Dail Outdoor Tennis Stadium and renovated Paul Derr Track and Soccer Field with audio gear. Davidson AV, in turn, chose speakers from One Systems.
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NEW YORK, NY — Edwin Diaz, owner of E&A Sound, recently upgraded the audio system at The Latin Quarter (i.e., LQ) with D.A.S. Audio’s Aero 12A powered, two-way, mid-high line array modules. Diaz said the compact speakers proved a good fit with the club’s space constraints and high SPL needs.
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CHICAGO — The 3,600-seat Lyric Opera of Chicago, which closed its season with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1927 masterpiece, Show Boat, used a Meyer Sound system that included 10 M2D line array loudspeakers, 16 MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers, two CQ-1 loudspeakers, one 700-HP subwoofer, a Galileo loudspeaker management system and two MPS-488HPe power supply units.
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CALABASAS, CA — Line 6 is shipping its new XD-V55 digital wireless handheld, lavalier and headset microphone systems.
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PORTLAND, OR AND RIO RANCHO, NM — Lectrosonics has developed the SPNDNT network processor to expand the ASPEN digital matrix processor family. More than a simple network interface, Lectrosonics calls it a full-featured DSP processor that can address both the ASPEN and Dante matrices and add mixing, gain and delay functions to the digital audio signals.
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