LUQA, Malta — For the new Sky Spirit Fitness Lounge here, Futuretech installed a sound system that includes Powersoft’s multi-channel Ottocanali amplifiers. The gym’s owner, Stefan Farrugia, cited power efficiency and the compact size of the units as key selling points.
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CALABASAS, CA — Yamaha Corporation will acquire Line 6, Inc., the companies announced Dec. 20. Yamaha will operate Line 6 as a wholly owned subsidiary with Line 6’s operations continuing as before and its management team remaining in place. Takuya Nakata, president of Yamaha Corporation, lauded the deal, along with Line 6 CEO and president Paul Foeckler and Line 6 co-founder and chief strategy officer Marcus Ryle.
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LONDON — More than 80 people were hurt, four seriously, in a ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre here on Dec. 19. The 775-capacity theatre, which first opened in 1901, was nearly full when the ceiling fell a little after 8 p.m., according to reports. The staged production, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, had been underway for about 40 minutes when it was halted amid the fallen debris and dust.
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MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems added Michelle Grabel-Komar to its executive staff. Grabel-Komar joins the company as Vice President of Product Planning & Procurement. In this role, she will oversee the Purchasing, Product Management, Planning and Merchandising departments.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Adlib supported fast-rising electronic duo Disclosure with two Midas PRO2 consoles for their latest UK tour and, for sold-out Brixton Academy performances, a complete L-Acoustics V-DOSC system.
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FORT WORTH, TX — Luke Byford, assistant director of musical productions for the School of Church Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently miked 17 Steinway Grand Pianos for Keyboards at Christmas, a holiday show staged within a 3,500-capacity performance space at the school. Along with 51 d:vote 4099 Instrument Mics — three per piano — DPA loaned the school two d:facto Vocal Microphones for the soloists who accompanied the pianists.
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HASTINGS, MN — Event Pro Inc., based here, recently added a new Yamaha CL5 Digital Audio Console and Rio3224-D and 1608-D input/output boxes to their rental inventory. The purchase was facilitated by Metro Sound and Lighting, St. Paul, MN. Pictured here are, from left, Larry Fisher, Metro Sound & Lighting; and Neal Wallace, Event Pro, Inc.
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DURHAM, NC — For 685-seat Baldwin Auditorium, on the campus of Duke University here, Jaffe Holden (Norwalk, CT) provided an acoustics design and sound reinforcement system that included self-powered Meyer Sound MINA line array elements. The system was installed by Greensboro, N.C.-based Audio & Light.
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NEW YORK — PRG has handled sound reinforcement for the annual Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony for more than two decades, and for the last 18 years, freelancer James Lovell, 58, has been an audio crew member as well. Lovell was on his way to New York to help with the setup for the 2013 ceremony when the Metro North passenger train he was riding on Dec. 1 derailed. Lovell was one of four passengers killed.
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO — The Open Control Architecture (OCA) Alliance recently added Focusrite and RCF Corp. to its roster of members and released OCA version 1.2 to AES for review as part of the X210 standardization of OCA.
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ORLANDO, FL — The band 38 Special has followed Martina McBride, Willie Nelson, REO Speedwagon, Trisha Yearwood, Barenaked Ladies, Cheap Trick and Heart in cancelling their upcoming performance at Orlando’s SeaWorld amidst intense public pressure fueled by the documentary film Blackfish. 38 Special’s announcement came after more than 1,500 people signed a change.org petition to encourage artists to cancel on SeaWorld’s annual “Bands, Brew, and BBQ” concert series.
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LONG BEACH, CA — This week we were saddened to hear of the death of journalist and self-described “PR Maven” Diane Gershuny, who lost a lengthy battle with cancer last Monday. She was 53.
Unwilling to give up during her struggles with this disease, she nonetheless continued to create some great journalistic offerings including photos and articles in FRONT of HOUSE on last year’s Barbra Streisand tour and more recently, a detailed Production Profile on Taylor Swift’s “RED” tour in the September 2013 issue of FOH.
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