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The Venue SC48 features an all-in-one design, with all I/O, digital signal processing and tactile control into one compact console. The unit also features support for professional audio plug-ins and built-in Pro Tools LE® integration. It also introduces workflows for user efficiency, allowing them to focus on the mix.

POINT CLAIRE, Quebec and OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for North America with K-Array, a PA loudspeaker and amplifier manufacturer based in Florence, Italy. K-Array’s offerings include the new KH4 self-powered, two-way, flat panel line array.

DREXEL HILL, PA — For nearly six decades, Drexelbrook has been used for weddings, proms, trade shows and corporate retreats, and the venue has also served as the locale for some of the early episodes of TV’s American Bandstand. Toner Sound helped with a major redesign of the venue’s sound system using Community’s Cloud6 ceiling speakers.

NORTH LAS VEGAS — The new Aliante Station Casino & Hotel is being touted as “a resort for locals,” but that doesn’t mean the facility is getting its gear at pawn shops and swap meets. Station Casinos, which launched the $675 million joint venture with Las Vegas Sun publisher Greenspun Corporation and operates 18 properties in southern Nevada, calls Aliante’s Access showroom its “crown jewel,” and has equipped it accordingly.

SPRING, TX — Northside Christian Church recently called upon Sound Technology Consultants and Hairel Enterprises to install a new sound system in their new worship facility using loudspeakers and subwoofers from EAW.

MIAMI — The recent grand opening of Will Castro’s Unique AutoSports South was hosted by Miami Heat’s Jermaine O’Neal and featured appearances by Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Jonathan Vilma of the New Orleans Saints, Shawn Merriman of the San Diego Chargers, Dorrell Wright of the Miami Heat and Miami’s DJ Irie, among others.

INDIO, CA — More than 200,000 fans attended the back-to-back Coachella Music and Arts and Stagecoach Country Music Festivals. Standout performances at the two multi-stage events included two and a half hours with Paul McCartney and sets by Leonard Cohen, Brad Paisley, Kid Rock and more than 150 other artists.

SACRAMENTO, CA — The Vietnamese Martyr’s Catholic Church (VMCC) has installed a Renkus-Heinz Iconyx digitally steerable audio system for its 900-seat sanctuary, with a CFX121 system covering the Great Hall that’s used as an overflow area for larger meetings and performances.

FLORENCE, SC — With a full-fledged praise band at the heart of its expanding music program, Gospel Temple Worship Center, led by senior pastors Timothy and Becky Howell, called upon Templeton Sound Systems, Orangeburg, S.C., for the audio system at its new facility with a system featuring line arrays, subwoofers and stage monitors from WorxAudio Technologies.