ATLANTIC CITY — Held in honor of Mother’s Day the following day, the annual Mother’s Day Festival took place May 10 at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. For the third year, ACIR Professional (Mays Landing, NJ) provided audio production services for the 14,500 attendees. This year’s lineup included Charlie Wilson, Gladys Knight, and Heads of State featuring Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, and Johnny Gill.
Read More »TOKYO — Audient Names Japan-based audio company, All Access Inc, as its distributor in Japan. All Access Inc will handle the full range of Audient products in Japan, including the USB interface, iD22 and the 8-channel mic pre and ADC, ASP880.
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SILKEBORG, Denmark — Anders Jørgensen, project manager for Copenhagen-based integrator Stouenborg, worked with Steen Mertz, director of communications technology at Jyske Bank, on what is being called an architectural and sonic showcase of sorts — a new approach to corporate meeting room design that includes the use of Meyer Sound’s Constellation acoustic system at Jyske Bank’s headquarters here.
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BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems, based here, acquired Dev-Audio, a developer of Microcone, a conferencing product that actively tracks and enhance voice quality, adaptively reducing background noise. Dev-Audio also developed the related software application, Microcone Recorder.
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EVANSTON, IL — For Philfest, a bluegrass and folk music festival held annual in memory of former Northwestern student Phil Semmer, who died in 2000, Sound Works Productions provided 10 NEXO GEO S12 (flown), four RS18 Ray Subs (ground stacked) and two NEXO PS10s speakers (for front fills), all driven with their NEXO NX4x4 amp rack. A Yamaha M7CL was used at FOH with an LS9 at monitors. The Deadly Gentleman from Boston headlined, followed by Sunnyside Up and Todd Kessler.
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WHITINSVILLE, MA — EAW named Ken Dewar as the company’s new Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales director. EAW vice president of sales Rusty Waite made the announcement.
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WILKESBORO, NC — Country music’s Alan Jackson and Merle Haggard and bluegrass icons Dr. Ralph Stanley and Ricky Skaggs were among the 130 acts over four days in late April for MerleFest 2014. As has been the case for the past 26 years, DiGiCo consoles processed much of the music emanating from the festival’s 13 stages. SE Systems provided the consoles.
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LONDON — Multi-instrumentalist Marcus Anderson, who has been playing saxophone with Prince’s band, the New Power Generation, for almost two years, recently released his fifth solo album, Style Meets Substance, featuring Anderson on a range of instruments performing original material that spans a variety of genres. Anderson has been using Harman’s AKG C519 miniature condenser microphone in the studio and on stage.
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SEOUL — Di Au Tech worked with Turbosound senior technical specialist Howard Smart on an installation of the company’s Flashline speakers at Vanguard, a mega-club that opened in Seoul’s Samsung District earlier this year.
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BELLE MAR, Mauritius — Rentacolor Mauritius LTD was called in to design the new system for The Lux Belle Mare resort on the east coast of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Dominique Hardy, technical director at Rentacolor Mauritius, provided One Systems Direct Weather loudspeakers for the project. Pictured here are two 112IM loudspeakers and two 118IM-Sub subwoofers.
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NEWPORT, WA — Sound engineer Bradley Johnson of KRF Audio, based here, owns his own DiGiCo gear and will typically bring it with him when touring in support of Megadeth. Both he and monitor engineer Dave Rupsch (pictured L-R, with DiGiCo’s SD10 at FOH) are relying on the brand for Megadeth’s performances around the world.
Read More »NEW YORK — Sound designer Ken Travis turned to DPA Microphones’ d:screet 4061 Omnidirectional Microphones to close-mic the entire cast of the staged musical, Aladdin, which opened recently on Broadway. The production’s orchestra is also equipped with d:dicate 2011C Twin Diaphragm Cardioid and d:vote 4099 instrument microphones.
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