LONDON – Ed Furguson, sound manager for the London National Theatre, who also served as associate sound designer for the musical The Light Princess (pictured here), worked with Simon Baker to determine a piano microphone solution that would meet the needs of both the venue and the production. After extensive tests, they opted for Earthworks’ PM40 PianoMic.
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BELGRADE, Serbia – Live Monitor Engineer Daniel Gonzales has been using the Waves Mercury and SSL 4000 Collection SoundGrid bundles when mixing monitors for Beyoncé. He credited the plug-ins for helping him to “compress things subtly and take the edge off many of the inputs; this way I can even out Beyoncé’s mix and create space for the ‘loud’ moments while keeping her vocal on top the entire time.”
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HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — Martin Audio recently opened new MLA facilities here that include 7,675 square feet of space for production and assembly areas, including quality control and testing, and close to 2,000 square feet for office space.
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WESTBURY, NY – For her current world tour, jazz singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux and her supporting band members are using Sennheiser and Neumann microphones, with Peyroux opting for a Neumann KMS 104. Peyroux and her band are touring throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Far East and the U.S. in support of the artist’s latest album, The Blue Room.
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LOS ANGELES – Javier Colon, who won the first season of The Voice, has been using the Tonebone PZ-Pre acoustic instrument preamp from Radial Engineering. “Before I had the PZ-Pre the sound quality of my acoustic guitar would always vary from venue to venue,” Colon said. “The PZ-Pre allows me to dial-in my acoustic once, and bring those settings with me wherever I go.”
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DENVER – Jeremy Wecker, audio visual services manager at Sports Authority Field, has been using a Shure Axient system at the home of the NFL Broncos. He credited the new system as being far superior to the previous setup, keeping challenges from severe weather conditions and a chaotic RF environment to a minimum.
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CALGARY – First Alliance Church, which hosts productions involving full orchestras, choirs and bands in addition to its elaborate Christmas musical, recently upgraded with Harman’s Soundcraft Vi6 digital console. Pictured here with the console are, from left, technical associate Wayne Jeschke and technical director Paul Nadeau-Bonilla. They credited the console for both form and function.
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LOS ANGELES – For the second run of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Harmony, staged at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles from March 4 to April 13, sound designers David Patridge and John Shivers turned to Masque Sound for gear including a DiGiCo SD10T digital console, new L-Acoustics dv-DOSC speaker arrays and a Sennheiser Digital 9000 wireless system with eight 9000 series radios.
ROHNERT PARK, CA – AVDB Group recommended Community’s Distributed Design Series loudspeakers for 340,000-square-foot Graton Casino, a Native America casino based in this town not far from the vineyards north of San Francisco. Scott Oosthuizen, AVDB Group CEO, credited the Community gear for sounding better and costing less than other options they had considered.
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VIENNA – As part of the full refurbishment of the Kammerspiele Vienna, Salzbrenner Stagetec installed a portable Polaris touch console. The console operates in combination with a CAS Mix which has been in operation at the Viennese theatre for the past ten years. One of the first productions to make use of the console was a staged production of the musical, Catch Me If You Can (pictured here).
UNCASVILLE, CT — Mohegan Sun Casino, first opened here in 1996 by the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut, recently upgraded the audio system at the 350-seat Wolf Den venue with a pair of CL5 mixing consoles from Yamaha — one at FOH and the other at the monitors. The setup also includes Rio 3224-D and 1608-D input/output boxes.
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SINGAPORE — MediaCorp TV Theatre has taken delivery of a new Aviom A360 personal mixing system from Coda Group Pte Ltd, the regional distributor for Aviom. The system includes eight A360 Personal Mixers, one AN-16/i-M Mic Input Module, one AN-16/o v.4 Output Module, and a D800 A-Net Distributor that distributes both power and audio to the personal mixers. This sale also marks the first batch of D800 A-Net Distributors delivered in Singapore.
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