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The NFL hired Clearwing to support Super Bowl Week and other events staged in the NYC area. Pictured here, The Bacon Brothers on NYC's Super Bowl Boulevard stage featuring Clearwing's L-Acoustics KARA and KIVA enclosures

Clearwing Supports Super Bowl-Related Events with L-Acoustics Gear

NEW YORK — For NFL Super Bowl-related events including the Super Bowl Tailgate Party (held at the old Meadowlands Racetrack), NFL On Location Super Bowl Club (at the Izod Center before the game) and the Super Bowl Boulevard extravaganza (Broadway between 34th and 47th Streets in the days prior to the big game), Clearwing Productions provided L-Acoustics KARA and KIVA systems. Pictured here, the Bacon Brothers’ performance during Super Bowl Week.

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Michael Sipe

Michael Sipe to Head Western Region Sales for Allen & Heath

WOODLAND HILLS, CA — American Music & Sound (AM&S) named Michael Sipe western regional sales manager. Sipe, based in Kansas City, will work with the company’s dealers and reps. Along with experience gained at BC Electronics, Digital Sound Systems and ShowCore Inc., Sipe is an accomplished musician and graduate of the Berklee College of Music.

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Suspect in Police Chase Plows Into SXSW Crowd; Three Killed, 22 Injured

AUSTIN — A 21-year-old suspect evading a DUI checkpoint led police on a high-speed chase that ended when the Honda Civic he was driving crashed barricades set up for the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival near the Mohawk club at Red River Street and 10th Street in Austin. Dozens of bystanders were hit by the speeding vehicle, which also narrowly missed a police car and officer. Three died.

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Midas PRO X

Midas Announces 144-Channel PRO X Console

FRANKFURT, Germany —  On the eve of the 2014 Musikmesse/Prolight+Sound show, Midas has announced its new flagship PRO X touring console, which builds on the legacy of its PRO3, PRO6 and PRO9 digital mixers. Its powerful Neutron DSP engine is capable of up to 800 audio channels, which can be routed on a point-to-point basis, and that routing can be changed, even on individual automation scenes. MAP pricing is expected to be $41,999 when it ships in late 2014.

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Soundcraft Vi3000

Soundcraft to Unveil Vi3000 Digital Console

FRANKFURT, Germany — At this week’s Musikmesse/Prolight+Sound show here, Soundcraft will unveil its Vi3000 digital live sound console. The new console offers a host of new features including the groundbreaking internal DSP Soundcraft SpiderCore, a new industrial design, 96 channels to mix, Dante compatibility and more.

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Community RSH-462 Loudspeakers at Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in Canada

Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station Installs 254 Community Professional Loudspeakers

POINT LEPREAU, NB, Canada – As part of a facility-wide upgrade, the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station here installed a plant-wide public address system. The facility’s management turned to Backman Vidcom, which provided 250 Community RMG-200AT loudspeakers for the large outdoor spaces and four Community RSH-462s for voice pages across the large yard at the plant.

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Parashoot Supports Ane Brun Tour with Allen & Heath iLive

STIGTOMTA, Sweden – PA rental company Parashoot, based here, has been supporting Norwegian singer songwriter Ane Brun’s European tour with an Allen & Heath iLive and ME personal monitoring system for FOH and monitors, respectively. Parashoot, which has worked with Ane Brun since 2007, used an iLive-T112 system, mixing both FOH and monitors on the same console. xDR-16 I/O expander racks were positioned on stage, one left and one right, along with an iDR-16 MixRack. The ME setup includes five ME-1 personal mixers with a ME-U hub as the power and distribution system on stage.

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MJF-210 stage monitor from Meyer Sound

Metallica Tour Adds 76 Meyer MJF-210 to Arsenal

BOGATA, Colombia — Metallica will expand its touring inventory with 76 units of the new MJF-210 stage monitor from Meyer Sound. The band’s new monitors will first be used on its South American tour this spring. The MJF-210 was developed to the exacting demands presented by the Metallica production team. It’s also the lightest self-powered stage monitor in Meyer Sound’s product line.

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