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BALTIMORE, MD — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) provided AV gear including a QSC sound system to the Perry Hall Family Worship Center, which began construction in 2010 on their new facility in the Baltimore area. The church’s new sound system includes eight QSC WL2082-i dual ILA speaker cabinets and a pair of QSC WL118-sw subwoofers, controlled through a QSC SC28 2X8 System Controller, along with QSC PLX3602 and PLX3102 power amplifiers.

Larry Lucas, director of audio engineering at Anthony James Partners, faced tight budget constraints when tasked with an audio solution for Florida Atlantic University’s new football stadium. He managed to combine price and performance with two Jericho Horn JH-90s, positioned on top of the video board. Daktronics, the video gear provider, also installed the audio equipment.

Chris MacBride, technical supervisor at the 530-seat Markham Theatre for Performing Arts, cited the theatre’s inventory of subminiature microphones and direct boxes from Countryman Associates as boon to the audio quality for more than 300 productions staged at the venue every year.

ELLICOTT CITY, MD — No, this story isn’t really about a mixed martial arts match-up. The Octagon in this case is the shape of the sanctuary for First Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the foe Audio-Video Group faced included problems with overall intelligibility and a tag-team of dead spots. The soundco forced the acoustic problems into quick submission with a ring of eight of Community Pro SLS920 cabinets flown over the stage.

NEWARK, DE — The University of Delaware recently purchased a Harman Soundcraft Vi1 audio mixing console for use at its football games and other major events. IT-University Media Services steered the university toward a Soundcraft Vi1, purchased through New Jersey-based Total Video Products.

TORONTO – Fourteen-inch-thick plaster walls posted a dual challenge for Westbury National Show Systems, Ltd.’s Brock McGinnis, who was tasked with updating the sound system at Toronto’s National Club: Along with the inability to run cable through the historically-significant walls, “it’s very much like having dinner in the middle of a cathedral,” McGinnis noted, of the reverberant acoustics within the 200-capacity, 1,950-square-foot Main Dining Room. McGinnis chose a pair of Iconyx IC8-R columns to meet the acoustic and aesthetic requirements of the installation.

MERRILLVILLE, IN — Brian Wynn of Broadway Music used JBL VerTec line arrays to update the sound system at the 3,400-seat Star Plaza Theatre. The setup includes left-right arrays of eight VerTec VT4888DP-DA midsize powered line array elements each, with a center array of three VRX932LAP powered Constant Curvature loudspeakers. The installation also includes VT4880ADP-DA powered full-size arrayable subwoofers, hung three per side above the stage.

TACOMA, WA — Systems integration firm Electrocom equipped Tacoma’s Stadium High School and Lincoln High School with a combination of narrow-dispersion loudspeakers at multiple points and wireless amplifier solutions using Technomad gear, bypassing the need to cut into concrete and also addressing noise complaints from nearby residential areas.

PHILADELPHIA — The interior spaces and acoustic requirements for the different rooms within the 10,000-square-foot Rumor nightclub differed greatly, but Aurora Sound and Light Design was able to find gear from Harman’s JBL offerings to suit the needs of the different spaces.

RICHMOND, VA — Soundworks of Virginia has owned and operated Turbosound loudspeaker systems since the company’s early days, when company founder and president Steve Payne drove away from a speaker demo in Philadelphia with four TMS-4s in the van. Payne has been a Turbosound customer ever since.

MIAMI GARDENS, FL — Located just a half-mile from the main “antenna farm” of transmitters for Miami’s TV stations, Sun Life Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins, served as a fitting beta-test proving ground for Shure’s Axient wireless system. Bryan Lykins, the team’s recently-hired director of broadcast operations, credited the Axient system for offering “what we need: a scalable, innovative and state of the art technology.”