ANAHEIM, CA — Sennheiser announced up-and-coming performers at its booth stage at NAMM along with product demonstrations at its booth (Hall A, Booth 6577). The schedule runs from Thursday, Jan. 23 and runs through Sunday, Jan. 26.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Greg Herreman Productions chose Harman components for the NAMM GoPro Stage at the Anaheim Convention Center’s Grand Plaza. Live acts will perform nightly starting at 6 pm from Jan. 22-25. The gear includes Harman’s JBL VTX Series V20 line array and S25 subwoofers along with AKG, Soundcraft and Crown audio components. Featured artists range from The Imagine Party with Sheila E., Johnny Lang, Bernie Williams and Gil Parris to Art Alexakis of Everclear.
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SOLANA BEACH, CA — The Belly Up Tavern, a 600-seat live music venue here, fills to capacity with a roster of artists in genres ranging from alternative rock to rock, reggae, hip-hop, blues, folk, jazz, Latin & more. The tavern’s recent digital upgrade included a Yamaha CL5 console and Rio 3224-D and Rio 1608-D units purchased from Muzeek World, San Juan Capistrano, CA.
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TIGNES, France — Since 1922, students at Oxford and Cambridge universities in the U.K. have participated in a winter trip to the Alps. For the 2013 outing, close to 2,740 students traveled to Tignes, France. Along with skiing and snowboarding, the event featured live music, with support from Bristol, U.K.-based Production Audio’s XLC DVX line array elements and other Electro-Voice gear.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Larry Lucas, director of audio engineering for Anthony James Partners (Richmond, VA) designed an upgrade for the sound system within Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium here. The new point source system, installed by Baker Audio of Norcross, GA, includes eighteen Jericho Horns and six “Rock Monster” subwoofers.
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MIAMI — Shure Inc., based in Niles, IL, opened an office in Miami recently. Led by José A. Rivas, managing director, Latin America, the new location is dedicated to sales, marketing, and business development in Latin America. The office is located at downtown Miami’s Wells Fargo building.
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EDISON, NJ — New England based production house, AudionX, has chosen the Italian made RCF HDL20-A for their new line array inventory.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Game Seven Grill is a barbecue restaurant located in the Gila River Casinos Plaza at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. Before opening in March of 2013, Game Seven Grill underwent a major renovation including new seating, championship décor and a new sound and video system featuring Community CP6 pendant loudspeakers for the interior and R.25-94T loudspeakers for the Grill’s outdoor plaza seating.
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CHICAGO, IL – For location sound professionals, few things are more catastrophic than equipment failures. Such occurrences not only hinder production, it puts the equipment operators in the extremely uncomfortable position of being responsible for the delays—and this can cost someone their job. Knowing “you’re only as good as your last successful project,” the location sound crew behind the scenes of “Oprah’s Next Chapter”—the primetime television show on The Oprah Winfrey Network—relies on Digital Hybrid Wireless Technology from Rio Rancho NM-based Lectrosonics.
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REGGIO EMILIA, Italy — One year after joining Eighteen Sound (18Sound) as the manager of R&D, Steve Hutt (pictured here, right) noted the progress the company has made in its focus on manufacturing, quality and production excellence. A significant milestone took place last June, when 18Sound moved to a new facility with enough space for production, sales, R&D and administration.
Read More »ASHLAND, MA — In a new supply agreement, RF Venue remote antennas, RF distribution equipment, and other accessory products for wireless microphones, IEMs, and intercoms are now available through Professional Wireless Systems, a Masque Sound company.
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VIENNA, Austria — The Vienna Volksoper, a 1,261-seat opera venue that stages close to 300 performances a year, first opened in 1898 but now features a 21st-century mixing console with a touch-enabled user interface — the new POLARIS touch console from Audio Video Mediensysteme, a member of the Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup.
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