NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional named Bryan Bradley vice president, general manager of its Loudspeaker Business Unit, including all aspects of JBL Professional. Based here, Bradley reports to Harman Professional president Blake Augsburger. Prior to Harman, Bradley served as COO of Alfred Music since 2009.
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BRISTOL, U.K. — Stage Electrics, a supplier of lighting and sound equipment to the U.K.’s entertainment industry, has seen solid demand for DiGiCo digital audio consoles. The company has supplied SD8, SD9 and SD11 mixing consoles to more than 10 venues across England.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA —Harman Professional Jaime Albors senior director of global sales operations. Reporting to Scott Robbins, Harman’s Executive vice president of worldwide sales, Albors now oversees all Harman global sales office operational activities.
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DURBAN, South Africa — Prosound provided a Midas PRO1 for the recent run of Beauty and the Beast performances at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre here. Megan Levy of DarkHorse Productions had never used a PRO1 before, but quickly found her way around the console, crediting the PRO1 for being “theatre-friendly” and also for its sound quality.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional named Andy Flint senior manager, Portable PA Marketing, Loudspeaker Group. In his new role, Flint will handle the Portable PA market for Harman Professional’s Loudspeaker Group and its JBL Professional products, and will lead the development of new marketing and product strategies for this segment. He will report directly to Mark Gander, head of marketing for the Loudspeaker Group and its JBL Professional brand.
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LOS ANGELES — Batman LIVE sound designer Simon Baker, in conjunction with Clair Global, chose an audio setup for the touring stage production that includes a DiGiCo SD7T at FOH with a D5 local rack and DiGiCo stage racks connected via 500-feet of fiber optic cable.
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ALLEROED, Denmark — DPA Microphones, based here, named its Spanish distributor, SeeSound, to also distribute DPA products in Portugal. Barcelona-based SeeSound was founded in 2004. The expansion of its distribution agreement with DPA Microphones to Portugal was made effective Jan. 1, 2013. Pictured here is Nacho Alberdi, CEO of SeeSound.
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LAS VEGAS, NV — As an independent sound engineer, production manager and head of Man In Motion Productions, Mark Woodcock has worked with artists ranging from Merle Haggard and Godsmack to Rob Zombie and Gavin Rossdale. On his two most recent front of house gigs, mixing for Richie Sambora’s solo tour and for long-time client Bush, he opted to go with Midas digital consoles.
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NEW DELHI — Outline s.r.l., based in Italy, named White Eagle Entertainment Ltd. (WEE), based here, as its exclusive distributor for India. WEE has 20 years experience and now handles commercial and professional audio design, sales, installation and maintenance and is headed by CEO Arun Kalra.
Read More »SEATTLE — Guitarist, singer and songwriter Winston Norrish recently upgraded to Soundcraft Si Compact 24, crediting its compact size, flexibility and ease of use for live shows with his band, Norrish Reaction.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Expo Center Norte, a 98,000-square-meter exhibition and convention center that opened in 1993, upgraded with Community Pro’s R-Series. Soundvision performed the upgrade.
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OSLO, Norway — For the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert, held here last month, AVAB-CAC provided two Midas XL8s at FOH and four Midas PRO9s at monitors for Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Hudson, Seal, and the 55-piece Norwegian Radio Orchestra, which was conducted by Nick Davies. AVAB-CAC’s Asle Nilsen also specified Midas’ DL431 mic splitter and AES50 tie lines, and the PRO9s were used to create multiple stem mixes of the performance, which could then be accessed from the combined network by the other consoles.
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