MOORESTOWN, NJ – Starlite Productions will host Yamaha and NEXO demonstrations featuring the NEXO S12 line array, PS15 speakers, the new 45 N-12 line monitors and Yamaha Installation Series speakers on Tuesday, May 24 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with presenters from Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc.
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LOS ANGELES – Matt Napier is monitor engineer for Kylie Minogue and has been with her since the summer of 2010. His mixing console of choice is a DiGiCo SD7, chosen for its ability to expand with the tour's needs. "The SD7 has done a fantastic job so far. It's done everything we hoped for," Napier said, at the end of the U.K. leg for Aphrodite – Les Folies, which proceeded on to the U.S.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – The acoustic challenges at the 50-year-old sanctuary at Ft. Lauderdale's First Congregational Church start with a 55-foot ceiling and stained glass that serves as the back wall of the church. Sound Planning's Dave Armstrong used an Electro-Voice EVH-1152D/64 loudspeaker with horn-loaded woofer to meet the church's acoustic needs and budget constraints.
Read More »ROCHESTER, NY – Lab X Technologies has granted Biamp Systems a license to utilize its IEEE 802.1 AVB Audio Platform for use on Xilinx FPGAs. Lab X's AVB Audio Platform offers manufacturers high-channel capacity audio implementation based on the international standards of networked connectivity.
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ORLANDO, FL – Show System Integrators provided a Soundcraft Vi6 digital console for the new worship and education facility at Harvest Bible Chapel. Looking to upgrade from its previous system in a smaller space, the chapel's sound engineers now rely on the console's 96 channels.
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NEW YORK – More Midas digital consoles are being used on Broadway productions. For Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert at the Palace Theatre, there’s an XL8 at FOH. A Pro3 has been installed at 42nd Street Inc.’s New Victory Theatre. And for the Broadway-bound production of White Noise, produced by Whoopi Goldberg, there are Pro9s at the FOH and monitor mixing positions.
Read More »SAN BERNARDINO, CA – The annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival, now in its fourth year, will criss-cross North America from July through August with the ribbon-loaded Versarray 212 line-array sound system from Peavey Electronics serving up the SPLs needed from the Jägermeister Mobile Stage, a custom-built, traveling foldout stage housed in a 44-foot trailer.
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CHICAGO – Special Event Services (SES) and On Stage Audio (OSA) partnered to support the May 17, 2011 live production of the Oprah Winfrey Show finale, "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular," at Chicago's United Center.
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WESTMINSTER, CO – Chris Jacobs, owner of Jacobs Audio, needed to update his aging analog mixing console inventory. The APB-Dynasonics Spectra Ti met his needs, both in terms of features and price.
Read More »BURNINGTON, MA – Avid announced the availability of Pro Tools MP 9, with features including Automatic Delay Compensation and MP3 export capability. The product is available standalone, or bundled with the M-Audio MobilePre, Fast Track Pro or Fast Track Ultra interfaces.
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STARKVILLE, MS – Hartley and Mary Peavey, who run Peavey Electronics Corporation as founder/CEO and president, respectively, encouraged nearly 2,400 spring graduates of their shared alma mater to live with passion and give back during separate commencement addresses on April 29 and 30.
Read More »BELLINGHAM, WA – InfoComm International approved Roland Systems Group (RSG) training for Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) renewal credit. Roland offers five courses for a total of 4.5 CTS Renewal Units toward maintaining CTS, CTS-D and/or CTS-I designations.
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