ORLANDO, FL. – LMG production services recently added the L-Acoustics K2 line array speaker system to the firm’s audio inventory to support its corporate event and concert touring divisions. Pictured here with the new equipment are, from left, Shane Smith, LMG Director of Audio; Kevin Bridges, LMG Executive Director of Technical Services, and Les Goldberg, LMG CEO/President
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NASHVILLE – For 12th and Porter, a live music venue here, Morris Light & Sound installed a new audio system that included a Dante audio networking solution. John Mills, vice president, credited Dante for enabling his team to simplify connection terminations in the digital signal processing racks and eliminate an analog front-of-house snake.
CLEVELAND – CSR (Colortone Staging and Rentals) announces the appointment of Matt Rowe as Operations Manager. Having recently received the preferred vendor contract at the Global Center for Health Innovation and the Cleveland Convention Center, CSR has over the last 12 months carefully grown its professional leadership staff to ensure site-specific success. Accordingly, Rowe will be assigned to the Convention Center.
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CALTANISSETTA, Italy – To optimize the sound within an Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses here, Exhibo installed a K-array KR402 system. Massimiliano De Angelis, Exhibo’s acoustic consultant, credited the system for “allowing us to bring down the reverberation time by more than 6 seconds of T60, in under 1.5 seconds at each point of the room, gallery and platea included, avoiding any acoustic phenomenon of regeneration reactive.”
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CUMBERLAND, RI — inMusic Brands Inc., comprised of Akai Professional, Alesis, Alto Professional, ION Audio, M-Audio, Numark and others, expands its technology portfolio with the addition of three iconic brands: Denon Professional, Marantz Professional, and Denon DJ.
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ARLINGTON, TX – For the traditional services taking place within 75,000-square-foot Trinity United Methodist Church’s 135 by 105 foot (WxD) sanctuary, Electro Acoustics, Inc. designed and installed a system that features Electro-Voice Expandable Vertical Array line arrays. The gear was chosen to enhance spoken word clarity within the organ-equipped church’s reverberant space.
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MENLO PARK, CA — Chris Countryman (pictured) has named Los Angeles-based Empire PRO as an official Countryman Associates distributor. Empire, known worldwide as one of the industry’s top equipment suppliers, has a 28-year history of doing business in the Pro AV marketplace and has partnered with some the top manufacturers in the professional sound and lighting industry.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Skan PA supported the world tour for Icelandic band Sigur Rós with new d&b audiotechnik D80 amplifiers. Skan’s system technician for the tour, Tom Tunney, credited the gear for a noticeable enhancement of the band’s sound quality while keeping power draw to a minimum.
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HEYWOOD, U.K. – Wigwam Acoustics Ltd., which adopted the Midas XL48, is the first UK rental facility to offer the 8-channel microphone preamp within its rental stock. Wigwam, part of the SSE Audio Group, has also long relied upon other Midas/Klark Teknik gear. Pictured here is Alex Hadjigeorgiou, Wigwam’s resident digital specialist.
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SYDNEY – Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer have been touring the world with the Harman Soundcraft Vi4 console. Having used a Soundcraft Vi6 on a previous tour with the band Plan B, FOH engineer John Delf chose the Vi4 primarily for its sound quality along with its good fit with the band’s other touring needs.
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LOS ANGELES – Flogging Molly’s FOH engineer, Kevin Lemoine, has long been an analog stalwart, but his recent tour using the SSL Live console had him reconsidering digital’s benefits – including ease of transport, compact size and light weight – with the SSL console’s pleasing sound quality. “It doesn’t sound like a digital console,” Lemoine says. “It’s very pleasing to the ear.”
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