DORTMUND, Germany — Westfalenstadion, also known as Signal-Iduna-Park, is the 65,718-seat home of Germany’s top soccer team in 2011 and 2012, Borussia Dortmund. RCF worked with ATEIS Germany and Fulfil engineering GmbH on a sound system upgrade that includes 14 RCF TTL 33A custom line array units..
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LONDON — The Wireless Festival, now in its ninth consecutive year, drew record crowds to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with headliners Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, will.i.am, Snoop Dog, A Tribe Called Quest, and Rita Ora. Britannia Row Productions provided a Turbosound Flashline PA system for the Pepsi Max Stage, which also saw appearances by Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah.
Read More »NILES, IL — On Aug. 1, 2013, Shure Inc. president and CEO Sandy LaMantia praised the efforts of Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) in helping to protect wireless microphone users from the loss of available spectrum by introducing H.R. 2911, “The Wireless Microphone Users Interference Protection Act of 2013.”
Read More »PARTRIDGE GREEN, UK – Turbosound, based here, named Sound House Company, Ltd. as its distributor in Japan. Sound House, which has developed an extensive dealer network in Japan, is already a distributor of Behringer-branded MI products. The company has close to 20 years experience in commercial audio and lighting.
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WOODLAND HILLS, CA — American Music & Sound named JMS Marketing as the new reps for Allen & Heath in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Based in Austin TX, JMS Marketing handles the Pro Audio/Video, Sound/Lighting Contractor and Musical Instrument markets.
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MILWAUKEE, WI — With an assist from Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Inc., Clearwing Productions supported the audio needs for Summerfest 2013, which drew 840,356 to Henry Maier Festival Park here over the course of 11 days (June 26-30 and July 2-7). That support included new Yamaha CL digital consoles along with PM5D-RH consoles, M7CL and LS9 consoles for seven of the event’s 11 stages. Yamaha staff also provided support to those visiting engineers who had not yet used a CL console.
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MURFREESBORO, TN — The Audio Engineering Society (AES) recently wrapped its 50th International Conference, and its first dedicated specifically to audio education, at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) here. The conference took place July 25-27, 2013. More than 140 educators and industry representatives met to exchange ideas and experiences at the event, which featured an emphasis on live sound that included an overview of the sector’s history and development by Bob McCarthy, senior education consultant at Meyer Sound (pictured here).
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NASHVILLE — The Blackbird Academy was founded by recording/live sound engineer John McBride and his wife, country artist Martina McBride. The two created the Blackbird Studio complex in 2002, hosting recording artists such as Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Kid Rock, Tim McGraw and many more. Sensing a need for quality, hand-on education for studio engineers, they founded the Blackbird Academy. Following its success, the school will expand with a Live Sound Engineering program, which kicks off in January, 2014.
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CHICAGO, IL — Noted jazz flute performer Michael Mason is now using Countryman Associates’ ISOMAX 2 All-Purpose Microphone for his improvisational artistry. It continues Mason’s 30-year reliance on Countryman mics for his instruments — which now include 14K gold Muramatsu flutes outfitted with 14K gold headjoints from Miyazawa and Nagahara.
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CHICAGO, IL – Sensaphonics named Dr. Heather Malyuk as the company’s new audiologist. Dr. Malyuk has worked at Sensaphonics as a clinical extern for the past year, earning doctoral student of the year honors in audiology from Kent State University. She is also an accomplished fiddle and guitar player who still gigs and teaches professionally, specializing in Old Time Appalachian music.
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LOS ANGELES — For Icon Ultra Lounge, which had been using a rented sound system since it opened in 2011, ACI Pro Audio provided a more permanent setup with RCF gear for the venue’s lounge and rooftop. Components include HDL 20-A Line array boxes, SUB 8006-AS subwoofers and RCF’s P Series All-weather loudspeakers.
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WEE WAA, Australia – To celebrate the release of their latest album, Random Access Memories, Daft Punk planned a performance at a venerable but somewhat obscure three-day farming event in this remote cotton-growing community situated some 350 miles from Sydney. To support the event, Norwest Productions provided the band with an Adamson Energia E15 system. Each of the four arrays consisted of eight Energia E15s with six T21 subwoofers.
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