WASHINGTON, DC – Tasked with transforming an existing auditorium at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) into a space better suited for live music and dance, Pershing Technologies senior systems engineer Eric Echols relied upon L-Acoustics gear. The system, installed by Diversified Systems of Kenilworth, NJ, included six KIVA with two KILO LF extension loudspeakers for each side.
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NEW YORK – As landmark soul food restaurant Sylvia’s has grown over the past five decades, its sound system grew in size – but not in quality. Taylor Sound of Long Island, New York recently gave Sylvia’s a sophisticated, yet easy to use commercial-grade sound system centered on a Symetrix SymNet Radius 12×8 Dante networked audio DSP.
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TORONTO — Lawo North America Corp. has moved its headquarters offices to a new facility in Toronto. The new address is: Lawo North America Corp., 2041 McCowan Road Unit 1, Toronto, Ontario M1S 3Y6 Canada; 416.292.0078 (phone); 416.292.0402 (fax). The company also has separate East and West Coast sales and support operations in the U.S. Pictured here, from left, are Sandra Gama (Accountant), Christian Schniering (Product Support Manager – VSM), Herbert Lemcke (President) and Doug Smith (Engineering Manager).
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VANCOUVER, BC – This year, for the first time, the National Hockey League (NHL) programmed four regular season games into outdoor venues in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, scheduling the 2014 NHL Stadium Series between the previously established NHL Winter Classic and NHL Heritage Classic series of outdoor games. Tasked with mixing the live musical entertainment at the games in all three NHL series for broadcast on the NBC networks, Ron Reaves called on production provider Clair Nashville to supply a DiGiCo SD10 digital audio mixing console with two SD-Racks. Reaves is pictured here at left with Jason Spence in the NHL Heritage Classic mix room in Vancouver.
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LAS VEGAS — Waves Audio’s WavesLive Master Class workshop series continues with an upcoming free event set for Sunday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cirque du Soleil’s Resident Shows Division, 1151 Grier Drive, Suite C, in Las Vegas, NV 89119. The event will feature a workshop with live mixing engineers Ken “Pooch” Van Druten (Linkin Park, Alter Bridge), Peter Keppler (Katy Perry, David Byrne, St. Vincent) and Jim Ebdon (Maroon 5, Aerosmith).
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LOS ANGELES – Korn drummer Ray Luzier (pictured here) had been using an Aviom personal mixer on tour for the past couple of years. In 2013, when the band set out on tour after the release of their new album, The Paradigm Shift, keyboardist Zac Baird also started bringing an Aviom personal mixer along for the band’s gigs. Although a recent festival gig in Mexico was canceled, Luzier and Baird will be using the gear as the band’s 2014 tour continues.
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TA’ QALI, Malta — The lighting support structure for a concert version of the Maltese rock opera Gensna fell at 10:50 a.m. on March 17 and injured four crew members. One of the workers, Emanuel Ronayne, 48, received life-threatening injuries to the chest; the other injuries were not life-threatening. The accident occurred at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre here. Of the four crew members injured, Ronayne and one other were hospitalized; the two others were reportedly treated on site for bruises and shock.
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ST. LOUIS, MO – For Saint Louis University’s recently-opened Center for Global Citizenship, TSI Technology Solutions, a division of TSI Global, assembled a system consisting of six RoomMatch loudspeakers (three RM9020 and three RM9010 modules) and two RMS215 subwoofers, all powered by three Bose PowerMatch PM8500N amplifiers.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The Yamaha CL Series of digital consoles, widely credited with raising the bar in live digital mixing, were launched in Frankfurt in 2012. At ProLight+Sound 2014, Yamaha launched the QL Series (the QL5 is pictured here). The new consoles inherit such CL features such as all-in-one mixing, processing, and routing capability, but are targeted for small to medium scale live tour sound, house of worship installations, corporate AV and speech applications.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The 2014 edition of Prolight + Sound finished strong after four days on March 15, with 897 exhibitors from 42 countries on par with stats from the 2013 event (901 from 41 counties) despite the 2014 event’s month-earlier time frame. Combined with Musikmesse, there were a total 2,242 exhibitors from 57 countries, with a total 110,000 visitors from 142 countries attending the March 12-15 event.
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TEXCOCO, Mexico — The two-day Hell and Heaven Metal Fest that had been scheduled to take place March 15 and 16 at the fairgrounds in this Mexico City suburb has been canceled. State officials cited public safety as the reason for pulling the plug, but town officials and concert organizers, including town spokesman Francisco Vazquez, speculated that politics and economics might have played a role.
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