HOUSTON — Sound Productions and Covenant Communications provided and installed a Yamaha AFC3 (Active Field Control) System for the 400-seat Denney Theater at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) here recently. The new system includes 20 speakers with four mics in the main auditorium.
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HOLLYWOOD, FL — Sound Media, a sound and lighting production company based here, has expanded its inventory of Turbosound products this year with eight TFA-600HW (100-degree dispersion) Flex Array elements along with eight NuQ-8DP and four Aspect TA-500 loudspeakers. The new gear joins the TFA-600H system the company purchased in 2011.
Read More »LOS ANGELES — American DJ reported that it had received a final judgment of $619,392 plus interest in their trademark infringement case against V2Go Technology Corporation and American Audio Laboratory, Inc. Attempts to reach a representative from V2Go for comment were unsuccessful; a phone listing in El Monte, CA for the company, (626) 582-8098, was not in service, and a web search for American Audio Laboratory, Inc. yielded results indicating that the firm had been dissolved after less than four years of operation.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. — Dominic Harter has rejoined Harman to head up Soundcraft’s global sales operation, following the promotion of Adrian Curtis to VP Sales of the Harman Professional EMEA sales team. Harter, who first joined Harman in 1998, has spent the last 10 years with Turbosound, where he was director of R&D before becoming sales director.
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan — Allen & Heath has appointed a new distribution partner in Taiwan called Seapower. The company has close contacts with Allen & Heath’s Chinese distributor, Sanecore, and therefore has access to a wealth of product knowledge and experience with the brand.
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LUTON, Bedfordshire, U.K. — Cadac Holdings Ltd. named David Kan CEO and Nick Fletcher director of research and development. Kan, who has a business management background in Malaysia and the U.K., joined Cadac affiliate Soundking Europe in 2009. Fletcher has been a member of the Cadac engineering team for more than 20 years.
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LONDON — Sound designer Richard Brooker is using a DiGiCo SD7T console with Waves SoundGrid and plugins for the new stage musical adaptation of the film, The Bodyguard, which recently opened at the Adelphi Theatre here.
Read More »GRONINGEN, The Netherlands — Tau Audio Solutions, which has served as a distributor for products in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg for 15 years, announced that it has been named exclusive Benelux distributor for Ashly Audio Inc. products as well.
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FRAMINGHAM, MA — Croatian émigré Tajci has been filling venues ranging from small church spaces to 1,000-seat auditoriums with inspirational music supported by a Bose L1 Model II portable line array and T1 ToneMatch audio engine.
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FORT WORTH, TX — Chris Jordan of Electro Acoustics worked with construction industry veteran Bill Smith on an ambitious project: to restore an architecturally significant Lions Club and relaunch it as the Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge. Jordan, who worked on the venue’s acoustics and audio system, steered Smith toward a Midas PRO2.
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LONDON — Stage Electrics continues to invest in pro audio equipment for their rental department with the recent purchase of two Yamaha CL5 digital consoles plus four RIO 3224-D and two RIO1608-D racks.
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LONDON — For the Relentless Energy Drink Freeze Festival, which brought two days of top-flight snowboarding, skiing and live music to southwest London’s Battersea Power Station in late October, Capital Sound provided a Martin Audio LC system with 218 subs for the main stage. The event featured Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, DJ Shadow, Mark Ronson and Zane Lowe, among others.
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