STOW, OH – Country artist Clay Walker is now endorsing Audio-Technica microphones, specifically the 5000 Series Wireless System with a handheld T5400 microphone, with his backup singers using A-T's Artist Elite AE4100 wired dynamic microphones.
Read More »LOS ANGELES, CA – For its 13th season, Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers (NBA), Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) and Los Angeles Kings (NHL) has been outfitted with a new $3.4 million JBL VerTec system to complement a new Panasonic LIVE 4HD video scoreboard system.
Read More »
LAS VEGAS, NV – The second annual Audioversity Expo, held by Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc., drew more than 500 attendees to the Las Vegas Hilton Aug. 24-25. Building on the inaugural event, which drew 475 to Soundcheck Nashville Aug. 11-12, 2010, this year's event featured training seminars and panel discussions with Stan Miller, Bernie Becker, Al Siniscal, Robert Bull and Monty Lee Wilkes, among others.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, CA – Soundcraft is bringing its "Mixing With Professionals" series to the U.S. for the first time. Gert Sanner, FOH engineer for Deep Purple, who has previously served as seminar leader at Soundcraft's U.K. factory, will travel to the Harman campus in Northridge, CA to discuss his use of Soundcraft digital consoles in a live environment.
Read More »
TORONTO – Adamson Systems Engineering launched its Project Energia, which aims to optimize performance venue sound systems with a variety of new products. These include a series of new loudspeaker systems with networkable Class D amplifier modules, DSP, cable and power distribution, AVB network hardware with software integration of control and three-dimensional simulation and diagnostics.
Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – From Sept. 12-14, hundreds of technology entrepreneurs gathered for TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011, a cyber-world forum and start-up competition. Presenters from Turntable.fm, LinkedIn, Quora, Intuit and Facebook were heard through 18 Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeakers provided by Swank Audio Visuals of St. Louis, MO.
Read More »
AURORA, IL – The Philips Park Zoo has installed an audio system to deliver news, exhibit information and background music to its 200,000 annual visitors.
Read More »
MACHU PICCHU, Peru – In celebration of Machu Picchu's rediscovery by American explorer Hiram Bingham 100 years ago, a concert was held on-site featuring traditional, symphonic and popular music to spectators on the mountainside location.
Read More »
DALLAS, TX – The 2,200-seat Winspear Opera House is located in downtown Dallas near to numerous other performance venues, including the Wyly Theatre and Dallas’ Symphony’s Meyerson Auditorium, as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Theater Projects Consultants and acoustician Sound Space Design provided the audio design for the venue, home to the Dallas Opera.
Read More »
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – This year’s US Open of Surfing, a nine-day broadcast event in which the top surfers in the world compete for $100,000, featured the use of Sennheiser MKH digital microphones. Attended by over 500,000 people and held on a beach stretching 300 yards, the event was supported by Hollywood, CA-based Coffey Sound used the MKH 8060 and MKH 8070 mics equipped with MZD 8000 digital output modules. The mics offered the weather resistance required for a seaside environment that included wind, moisture and salty air.
Read More »
CHESTER, PA – Supergroup YOSO, which includes Toto singer Bobby Kimball, and Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye of Yes, has been touring to support their album Elements with Community’s M-Class monitors. Paul Doty, CEO of tour providers West Coast Sound and Light, served as FOH engineer for the tour.
Read More »
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – David Felberg, violinist and concert master for the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, is using a Lectrosonics UM400 transmitter, an R400A receiver and a customized MI33A instrument cable to help him overcome the challenges of fitting into live mixes seamlessly.
Read More »