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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AUSTIN, TX – Austin’s Circuit of the Americas (COTA), the 3.427-mile Formula One racing track that drew 117,429 spectators to watch the U.S. Grand Prix last November, worked with AV consulting firm Acoustic Dimensions and Ford AV to evaluate, design and install a system that included Community’s R-Series loudspeakers.
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CHICAGO, IL – This summer The Jungle Book has swung into Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, enchanting audience members with its song and dance routines set against the backdrop of the Indian jungle. To give this new stage musical’s sound an authentic feel, sound designer Ray Nardelli turned to Masque Sound for a custom audio gear package.
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MUMBAI, India – Harman India recently announced that it has signed vocalist and performer Sunitha Sarathy as an AKG endorsee. Based in southern India, Sarathy is noted for her prowess performing Indian contemporary music, western classical music and other western styles and in church choirs as a gospel singer.
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DUBUQUE, IA – The University of Dubuque, with an enrollment of 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students, recently finished construction on its new Performing Arts and Campus Center. The backstage paging system includes a single Symetrix SymNet Solus 8 open architecture, fixed I/O DSP paired with four Symetrix ARC-2e wall panel remotes.
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LONDON – Singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ellie Goulding has switched to a DPA d:facto Vocal Microphone after trying it for the first time at the Chime for Change concert, which took place in London in June. Currently touring in the U.S. to promote her second album, Halcyon, Goulding is now using a wireless version of the microphone for all of her concerts.
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MILWAUKEE, WI – Summerfest, held here June 25-29, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest music festival for the past 15 consecutive years. Clearwing Productions supported the 46th annual event with more than 340 L-Acoustics loudspeaker enclosures.
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