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EVANSTON, IL – Gand Concert Sound recently provided a 42-box flown NEXO GEO T line array for a concert with Snoop Dog and opening act Kid Cudi held at the Welsh-Ryan Arena on the campus of Northwestern University.

SOUTH BEND, IN – As part of a $24.7 million renovation to the home of University of Notre Dame basketball and volleyball, ESCO Communications, Inc. recently completed a JBL loudspeaker system installation in the Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center. The arena, with a capacity of nearly 10,000, first opened its doors in 1968.

LAS VEGAS – R2W designed and installed a JBL loudspeaker system at Fine Entertainment's 1,100-capacity PBR Rock Bar in the Miracle Mile complex at the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Hotel. The sound system is being used for background restaurant music, televised sporting events and live rock concerts.

WAYNESBORO, PA – Steve Christiano of G.A.D.G.e.T. Media saw some red flags when Hollowell Brethren in Christ Church opted to scrap plans for a new facility in favor of converting the gymnasium into a multi-purpose facility.

NASHVILLE, TN – Cheaper to Keep Her, Je'Caryous Johnson's traveling R&B musical starring Vivica A. Fox and Brian McKnight, chronicles the woes of a man who is about to lose everything to his soon-to-be ex. To support the show, Jet Productions owner Titus Cunningham has far fewer misgivings about the commitment he made to Aero gear from D.A.S. Audio, according to Prosonic AVL owner Edward Hobby, who sold him the gear.

HORSHAM, PA – Bauder Audio Systems, which has provided audio production services to the greater Philadelphia area for more than 30 years, recently expanded its rental inventory of NEXO line array products, including 22 GEO S1210s, two GEO S1230s, eight of the new RS18 Ray Subs and six NX4x4 amplifiers.

ARLINGTON, VA – Part of a $9.6 million renovation and expansion at Cherrydale Baptist Church was an upgrade to the audio system. Following a design from Miller, Beam & Paganelli, Baltimore-based Design & Integration Inc. installed one Tannoy VQ 100, a pair of VS 15HL subwoofers and nine V8s for reinforcement within the main sanctuary, and 12 Tannoy CVS 6 in-ceiling speakers plus five iW 6DS in-walls for other areas of the church.

SAN DIEGO – For their recent North and South American tour legs, The Pixies took along a sound system supplied by LMG Audio Systems with new Lake processing at its heart. Craig Mitchell, account executive for touring sales at LMG, credited the three Lake LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processors for "flexibility and audio quality," and also noted ease of rigging as well.

LONDON – The first Midas PRO3 live audio system to roll off the production line has been sold to the Rambert Dance Company as its touring console. The PRO3 replaces the company's Midas H1000 – also, as it turns out, the first in production. The sale was made by LMC Audio's sales manager JP Cavaco.

MIAMI – Jason Derulo recently completed the first leg of his North American tour supported by monitor engineer Billy Flores, who has also worked with Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu and Taio Cruz. Flores mixed monitors on using a Yamaha PM5D.