VIENNA, Austria – Harman Professional named Kent Iverson director of marketing and product development for AKG. In his new position, Iverson is responsible for all product management and marketing and reports directly to AKG general manager Jürgen Bopst.
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SYDNEY — Opera Australia, which garnered plaudits from last year’s introduction of the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, a series of productions that take place on the harbor waterfront, recently presented Georges Bizet’s classic, Carmen. The audio included 3D processing from Iosono.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Northview High School wanted to move from an analog to digital mixing console, and also to increase the number of inputs for the school’s 750-seat auditorium within the Max Colley Jr. Performing Arts Center. Bob McLaughlin at Central Interconnect provided a Soundcraft Si Performer 3 console from Harman.
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AUSTIN — Management at the Cedar Street Courtyard music venue here hired consultant Steve Durr, who turned to Bose’s configurable RoomMatch gear for a combination of sonic pleasure for venue patrons while minimizing the audible noise heard by neighbors.
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VIENNA, Austria — For the Regions of Climate Action (R20) conference that took place here Jan. 31-Feb. 1, local broadcast company RadioMax hired freelance audio engineer Andreas Putz, who made good use of his Allen & Heath iLive-112 modular surface and iDR-48 MixRack loaded with a Waves network card.
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By George Petersen
MIDDLETOWN, WI – Longtime pro audio industry veteran Earl “Buzz” Goodwin passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 after a long bout with cancer. He was 62. Born on January 1, 1951, in Lynn, MA, Buzz developed a love for music very early in life and was a talented guitarist/singer/songwriter both as a solo artist as well as with bands such as Silverado, which he co-founded in 1973 with Carl Shillo. Silverado signed to RCA Records in 1976 with the debut album by the same name and had some chart successes with followup LP’s on RCA and CBS.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA – Harman Professional named Vince Grieb Senior Director, Operations for its Loudspeaker SBU. Grieb will report to Bryan Bradley, VP and GM of Harman Professional’s Loudspeaker SBU.
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ROCKWALL, TX — Lake Pointe Church is make use of more than 150 channels of Sennheiser wireless technology at four campus locations here. The Southern Baptist megachurch, serving a congregation of more than 10,000, has a growing collection of Sennheiser G3 wireless systems and mics.
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LONDON — FOH engineer Barry Bartlett used Turbosound’s Flashline line array speaker system for the Young Voices Arena Tour earlier this year. Longtime Turbosound partners Britannia Row Productions provided the gear.
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KATOWICE, Poland — For a recent concert at the saucer-shaped Spokek Arena featuring former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash along with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, Prosound and Music Cook provided sound reinforcement gear that included Harman’s JBL VTX line arrays.
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RED BANK, NJ — For a Feb. 1 performance at the Count Basie Theatre of Masters of Illusion: Live, the live touring production associated with TV’s Masters of Illusion: Impossible Magic, ACIR Professional provided engineer Stephen Bonamassa along with a Yamaha CL5 and two Rio3224-D input/output racks for use at front of house.
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