LONDON — The challenge for Capital Sound, which was tasked with optimizing performances by Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones at London’s British Summer Time (BST) festival in Hyde Park, was to make the audio loud and rich for 65,000 attendees, yet keep noise complaints from nearby residents to a minimum. Martin Audio’s MLA system served as a solution..
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CARACAS, Venezuela – PROmontaje, based here, has taken delivery of a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale reinforcement system, the first to be available in Latin America. The new system was initially deployed at the Vive Movistar Festival in Caracas this summer.
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TOKYO – AS Project Co. Ltd., located in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, has been leveraging Dante functionality for live event sound reinforcement and recording with Yamaha’s CL Series console, Pro Tools HD and Focusrite’s RedNet 5 units – making the soundco the first users of Focusrite’s RedNet in Japan.
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CORNWALL, U.K. – The People’s String Foundation, a 12-member band that performed recently with an accompanying 10-piece orchestra at the Minack open-air theatre here, relied on Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing systems at FOH and monitors. FOH engineer Tommy Williams credited the iLive systems for their compact size, and also for the ability to use an iPad to mix much of the performance, which supported the group’s forthcoming album launch.
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ATLANTA, GA — Atlanta History Center (AHC), founded in 1926, added its 400-seat Woodruff Auditorium in 1975. Cape Dixson Associates Inc. (CDAI) and Sound Design & Innovation (SDI) recently collaborated with AHC on an AV system upgrade that included Symetrix’ Radius 12×8 Dante network audio DSP.
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ANSAN, South Korea — Soundenergy’s Giwook Cha worked with Sunbeom Kim of Soundus, K-array’s Korean distributor, on an audio system upgrade for Do-ha Methodist church here that included a K-array BlueLine KB1 speaker system. Soundenergy also steered the Noryangin church in Bon-dong, South Korea toward K-array gear — in this case, K-array’s Kobra KK102 (pictured here). Both church systems were chosen for sound quality as well as their ability to blend in visually with each church’s interior design.
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MUNICH, Germany – International reggae star Sean Paul recently completed a 10-show blitz through Germany with an Adamson Energia E15 line array system provided by Cobra sound light. The Hamburg, Germany-based sound company credited its recently-added Energia E15 PA system for its sound quality, scalability and ease of rigging.
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Special Event Services (SES) deployed a large Outline GTO-based sound system for the 2013 Justin Moore Outlaws Like Me tour, taking advantage of Outline’s OpenArray 3D Simulation Software and integrated flying hardware system to optimize audience coverage and sound quality. The Outline components included GTO, GTO-DF, Butterfly, Mantas, LIPF and Lab 21 speakers.
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FAIRFIELD, NJ –– Middle Atlantic Products, based here, named BC Electronic Sales as its Commercial AV Rep of the Year. The honor was announced at a sales meeting held prior to InfoComm 2013. BC Electronic Sales represents Middle Atlantic for the commercial AV market in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Southern Illinois.
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TORONTO — Canadian jazz vibraphonist Peter Appleyard celebrated his 85th birthday with a performance at his vintage barn in Nassagaweya Township, Ontario, which dates from 1895. The event was captured for posterity using a mc²56 MKII mixing console from Lawo. The console was also used for the live mix, and to drive a single loudspeaker to provide the pianist and vocalist with a monitor mix of the wind, brass, and bass signals.
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LOS ANGELES and LAS VEGAS — 3G Productions, a provider of live production services, sound equipment rentals, sales, and installed sound, has invested in Riedel gear to support its growing business in live entertainment and corporate events.The new gear includes Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom systems and associated keypanels, beltpacks, and headsets. Pictured here, from left, are 3GP’s Will Taylor, Terry Murphy, Eli Stearns, Keith Conrad and Julio Valdez.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Radial Engineering, which had a booth at Sweetwater’s Gearfest event, was approached by active duty serviceman Leo Smith, who related his experiences using the company’s Bassbone in hostile environments. The company relayed Smith’s experience as a testament to the product’s durability.
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