HAMPTON, IA — Mark Carey, president/owner of Spencer, IA-based Carey’s Electronics provided Bose RoomMatch loudspeakers and a PowerMatch amplifier to meet the need for intelligibility at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church here. The new gear provides a “nice, tight band of sound for the congregation,” he noted.
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ROME — Andrea Taglia, live sound engineer for Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, owns a selection of DPA Microphones and credits them for sonic transparency. He often sources additional units when he is on tour with Bocelli through DPA’s Italian distributor, M. Casale Bauer. A recent case in point (pictured here): the use of DPA d:screet 4061 Miniature Microphones as close proximity mics for strings.
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NASHVILLE — KEM’s What Christmas Means Tour featured original compositions and holiday classics performed by KEM along with Patti LaBelle and also Ron and Ernie Isley. The tour, with Dec. 2013 stops in Washington DC, Norfolk VA, Durham NC, Detroit MI, Louisville KY and Nashville TN, also featured comedy from Anthony Anderson. Thunder Audio supplied RCF gear.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Planetshakers City Church at the Dallas Brooks Centre in downtown Melbourne, known for its contemporary praise and worship music along with the evangelical spoken word of its pastors, is using d&b audiotechnik V-Series gear.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional, Inc. and Quail Capital Corp announced the formation of Harman Equipment Finance (H.E.F.) to deliver capital to acquire Harman’s Martin Professional lighting products along with the company’s Studer, JBL, Soundcraft and Crown audio gear. H.E.F. promises an easy credit approval process for all Harman Professional products with terms from 12 to 84 months.
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ANAHEIM, CA — At Winter NAMM 2014, QSC Audio Products is introducing its much-anticipated digital mixer line. The TouchMix Series offers musicians, production pros and live performance venues the power and capability of a large format console in a highly portable, fully integrated, affordable and easy-to-use product.
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AUSTIN, TX — For the Unity Church of The Hills in Austin, Texas, a new sound system was way overdue. The church congregation has grown over the years to now require three services on Sunday with different musical styles and audio mixes required in each. For the main sanctuary, the Allen & Heath iLive-T112 Surface with an IDR-64 MixRack commands the FOH position where it orchestrates a new Turbo Sound TCS 1061 line array powered by Ashley NE 2400 amplifiers and a series of Shure ULX-D wireless microphones.
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CORONA, CA – Crossroads Church, a 121-year old congregation located in Corona, CA, recently upgraded its sound reinforcement system with the addition of 24 PowerLight 3 Series PL380 amplifiers and two Q-Sys I/O Frames – all controlled by a Q-Sys Core 500i Integrated Core. The upgrade was designed to support the congregations’ highly energized and impassioned contemporary services that can boast weekend attendances of nearly 8,000 worshipers.
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WINNIPEG – PAG Canada Ltd. added industry veteran Jennifer Carr to its sales team in Western Canada. John McArthur, vice President of Sales & Marketing of PAG Canada, Ltd., announced the appointment just prior to Winter NAMM 2014.
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STONE MOUNTAIN, GA – The owners of Stone Mountain Park hired Atlanta-based Full Spectrum to deploy Symetrix SymNet Edge Dante networked audio DSP system. Plans call for the system to grow and eventually expand to cover all of the park’s attractions via an inexpensive Cat5 network.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Lotus Teknoloji, K-array’s distributor in Turkey and Cyprus, recently installed a K-array solution in the Limonata Restaurant Bar & Lounge. Recently opened in Istanbul’s Akaretler district, the restaurant’s interior design is a mixture of old and new, furnishings from the 50’s and art-deco materials, luxury and taste … with a colorful Bohemian flair.
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MINNEAPOLIS – This season the Donny and Marie Christmas tour brought the Osmonds’ family-friendly blend of music, dancing, comedy and entertainment to audiences across the US. The 15-city arena tour featured the Osmonds performing holiday music, hit songs and more—even mixing in classic clips from 1970s holiday TV broadcasts that hadn’t been seen in decades. The all-out entertainment extravaganza delivered with the help of a HARMAN JBL VTX Series line array audio system provided by Livonia, Michigan-based Thunder Audio.
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