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DENVER – Jon Lemon, FOH engineer for The Fray, which has served as the opening act for U2's recent makeup concerts, got the chance to test-drive a small touring package utilizing DiGiCo's compact SD10 together with an SD 192kHz DiGiRack and the Waves/DiGiCo Sound Bundle.

SAN FRANCISCO – Running sound for the Boxcar Theatre's musical show Little Shop of Horrors isn't like your typical musical Broadway production sound setup where all the action takes place on the stage. The show starts in the lobby of the theatre-where it's transformed into Mushnick's floral shop-and proceeds into the streets for "Skid Row." After Skid Row, the audience and cast are brought into the theatre. Organizing the multiple microphones to make all this take place is a major event in and of itself, and it wouldn't have happened without the wireless technology of Lectrosonics.

ALBUQUERQUE – Wicked, which premiered on Broadway in Oct. 2003, now ranks among the top 20 longest running Broadway plays in history. From the start, Wicked's worldwide production crews have relied on Sennheiser's wireless transmitters and receivers, and that tradition continues for the musical's second North American tour.

AUBURN, AL – Wirebox Media supported Auburn University's 2011 graduation ceremony in the school's stadium with a 32-box NEXO GEO S12 line array, 14 GEO S8 speakers and NEXO 4×4 amplifiers. Tim Harrigan of Wirebox designed and simulated the audio system using NEXO's NS-1 software.

DEVILLE, LA – System designer Jim Young, owner of Current Design in Acoustics, cited a noticeable upgrade in sound quality at Philadelphia Baptist Church of Deville, LA, after upgrading with Bag End gear.

COLLEGE PARK, GA – Services conducted by noted author Dr. Creflo A. Dollar, founder of World Changers Church International (WCCI), reaches a local congregation of 8,500 within the church's dome-shaped sanctuary. It also gets broadcast to satellite locations worldwide. One thing that hadn't changed for close to three decades, however, was the church's reliance on entry-level analog consoles for live audio production – until recently, when the church upgraded to digital desks at FOH (DiGiCo SD7) and monitors (DiGiCo SD8).

MORGANTOWN, WV – One of the sound companies supporting Snoop Dogg's 11,000-seat show at the Coliseum of West Virginia University hails from the booming metropolis of Mt. Crawford in west central Virginia, which had a population of 254, according to the 2000 U.S. Census report.

ATLANTA – AEE Productions provided the P.A. for this year's graduation ceremony for Spelman College at the Georgia International Convention Center, where First Lady Michelle Obama served as keynote speaker. The setup included EAW's KF740 line array and SB1000z subwoofers.

LAS VEGAS – The nominations from FRONT of HOUSE readers are in, the regional finalists for the 2011 Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year awards competition have been chosen, and now it's time for you, the readers of FOH, to once again vote on the top regional sound company in five regions of the U.S. and Canada.