REIMS, France – For the son portion of a Son et Lumiere Spectacular celebrating 800 years at the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, Community's Entasys was chosen for audio quality, SPL, coverage and throw. Called The Dream of Colors, the show takes place three times nightly from May through October at the cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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LOS ANGELES – Matt Napier is monitor engineer for Kylie Minogue and has been with her since the summer of 2010. His mixing console of choice is a DiGiCo SD7, chosen for its ability to expand with the tour's needs. "The SD7 has done a fantastic job so far. It's done everything we hoped for," Napier said, at the end of the U.K. leg for Aphrodite – Les Folies, which proceeded on to the U.S.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – The acoustic challenges at the 50-year-old sanctuary at Ft. Lauderdale's First Congregational Church start with a 55-foot ceiling and stained glass that serves as the back wall of the church. Sound Planning's Dave Armstrong used an Electro-Voice EVH-1152D/64 loudspeaker with horn-loaded woofer to meet the church's acoustic needs and budget constraints.
Read More »ROCHESTER, NY – Lab X Technologies has granted Biamp Systems a license to utilize its IEEE 802.1 AVB Audio Platform for use on Xilinx FPGAs. Lab X's AVB Audio Platform offers manufacturers high-channel capacity audio implementation based on the international standards of networked connectivity.
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FRANKFURT – A network of Midas PRO9 andPRO6 live audio systems and an analog XL4 was used at FOH and monitors respectively for the recent PRG LEA German Live Entertainment Awards held at the Frankfurt Festival Hall during Prolight+Sound.
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ORLANDO, FL – Show System Integrators provided a Soundcraft Vi6 digital console for the new worship and education facility at Harvest Bible Chapel. Looking to upgrade from its previous system in a smaller space, the chapel's sound engineers now rely on the console's 96 channels.
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NEW YORK – More Midas digital consoles are being used on Broadway productions. For Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert at the Palace Theatre, there’s an XL8 at FOH. A Pro3 has been installed at 42nd Street Inc.’s New Victory Theatre. And for the Broadway-bound production of White Noise, produced by Whoopi Goldberg, there are Pro9s at the FOH and monitor mixing positions.
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TEL AVIV, Israel – PA rental company the Mazuz Group was named an L-Acoustics K1/KUDO Rental Network Agent after expanding its inventory with the new gear to meet the growing needs of international touring riders.
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BURNABY, BC Canada – Briere Production Group Inc. (BPG) will move to a new location in July 2011. The company also announced plans for new training programs this fall – digital console workshops (Avid Profile/SC48 and Yamaha PM5D-RH/M7CL/LS9 training) and also RF, audio system set-up and new product demos.
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MUMBAI, India – dBTechnologies named Mumbai-based Sonotone as a new distributor in India. Sonotone will be presenting dBTechnologies products, including the Cromo series, FM12 floor monitors, and a selection of models from the Opera Digital range, as well as the S20 and SUB 18D subwoofers and DVA T4, at PALM India from June 2-4. Pictured here is Karan Nagpal, Sonotone GM, and Martin Capp, dBTechnologies Asia Pacific sales manager.
Read More »SAN BERNARDINO, CA – The annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival, now in its fourth year, will criss-cross North America from July through August with the ribbon-loaded Versarray 212 line-array sound system from Peavey Electronics serving up the SPLs needed from the Jägermeister Mobile Stage, a custom-built, traveling foldout stage housed in a 44-foot trailer.
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CHICAGO – Special Event Services (SES) and On Stage Audio (OSA) partnered to support the May 17, 2011 live production of the Oprah Winfrey Show finale, "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular," at Chicago's United Center.
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