OSLO, Norway — Karl Johans gate, a popular pedestrian thoroughfare, is the site of Sommerservering, or Summer Dining. The 2013 outdoor festivities, which kicked off on June 15, included jazz from The Real Thing. The band’s performance was heard via K-array’s KR402 with Python tops. First Audio AS, K-array’s distributor in Norway, worked with Dinbestefest.no AS to provide the gear.
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PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – For Simon Mansion and Supper Club, part of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino here, Audio Diseño designed and installed a custom, high-SPL sound system that includes Symetrix’ Zone Mix 761 digital signal processor. The audio system is usuall used for background music, but on occasion, the system may be driven up to 96dB.
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LAS VEGAS — For each of MGM Grand Hotel & Casino’s two new super-club venues, Wet Republic Ultra Pool and Hakkasan Las Vegas, Audiotek purchased and installed six L-Acoustics KARA loudspeakers and four SB18 subs. Ireland-based Audiotek worked with Angel Management Group (AMG), which operates the venues, on the project.
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO — Harvest Productions provided two new Technomad PowerChiton 500 amplifiers for the stadium at Excelsior Springs High School here. The modules, hidden from view within the scoreboard, deliver 1100 watts at four ohms to provide quality sound coverage across the stadium seating areas.
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LOS ANGELES – Guitar Center opened its 250th story on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 4314 W. Waco Dr. Waco, TX 76710. The store adopts the company’s new retail format, offering lesson spaces for music lessons, special programs and other opportunities for local musicians.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Waves Audio is seeing a growing number of live engineers who are making the move to the next-generation workflow with Waves plugins and WavesLive SoundGrid. They include FOH engineer Vincent Casamatta (OK GO, They Might Be Giants), who is currently on the road with AWOLNation.
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LAS VEGAS — The deadline to nominate regional sound companies for the 2013 Parnelli Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year award — Aug. 1, 2013 — is fast approaching. In early August, a Hometown Heroes ballot with the names of nominated companies will be posted online and Hometown Hero voting will begin.
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PARIS, France — Every year on the Summer Solstice, hundreds of thousands of revelers enjoy music at stages set around picturesque Paris locations at the free “Fete de la Musique” event. Amadeus — French manufacturer of high-end live sound systems — outfitted the EDM stage with live sound. The system featured the company’s DIVA XL arrays, with its PMX 15 coaxial speakers used as stage monitors/front-fills, as well as the new prototype Amadeus Maestro subwoofer.
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VANCOUVER, Canada – Robert Nevalainen, founder of Gearforce, based here, is also a veteran monitor mixer. In a bid to support the wireless needs of Bryan Adams’ international tours, he has been evaluating RF Venue’s Diversity Fin cross-polarized antenna. For a recent six-city tour through Australia, he got the opportunity to conduct a direct A-B type comparison of the Diversity Fin and other directional antennas.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR – Audinate and Bittner Audio have entered into an agreement to license Dante, Audinate’s digital media networking solution. Under the agreement, Bittner Audio, known for the performance of its power amplifiers, will start producing Dante enabled products.
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EDISON, NJ — RCF USA named Ken Voss manager of installed sound products. Voss, a 20-plus-year industry veteran and music journalist, will also handle media relations for RCF’s U.S. operations.
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SYDNEY – Coda Audio Services recently traded up from their Shure PSM 600 to Shure PSM 1000 personal monitor systems, including 10 transmitting devices and 14 receivers. Managing director Michael Wilkie welcomed the expanded flexibility that the new gear provides, along with an even stronger safeguard against dropouts.
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