SUMTER, SC – Built from 1850 to 1852 on land donated by American Revolutionary War General Thomas Sumter, the Church of the Holy Cross is a National Historic Landmark, and "the speaker system needed to be ‘invisible,'" noted design consultant Adam Dox of Advanced Video Inc., Columbia, SC. To meet both aesthetic and audio requirements, Dox opted for eight Renkus-Heinz TRX 81/9 loudspeakers.
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ORLANDO, FL – St. James Cathedral's recently-completed $10 million renovation was more extensive than most church upgrades. Antonio Aguerrevere, senior director of design and construction services for the diocese of Orlando, suggested that the project might be more accurately describes in terms of being a new build.
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MIAMI – For three Miami-area Salvation Army churches, Dave Armstrong of Ft. Lauderdale, FL-based Sound Planning used Electro-Voice loudspeakers to back up his promise to deliver a sound system that promises to deliver, above all else, intelligibility.
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EDINA, MN – Pinstripes ventured from Chicagoland to the Twin Cities recently, offering a dining experience that includes Italian cooking, diversions ranging from bowling to bocce courts, and banquet and party space for up to 600 guests. For the Minnesota location, GMK Intergrated Systems' audio support included Symetrix Jupiter hardware and "app-based" software for system processing in the banquet rooms.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Consistent audio coverage was a priority at Equitana, not just for the 50,000 human visitors to the three-day event held at the Melbourne Showgrounds, but for four-legged listeners as well.
Read More »Owsley "Bear" Stanley, longtime sound engineer for The Grateful Dead, died from injuries sustained in an auto accident March 13 in Canberra, Australia. He was 76. Known as an early developer of LSD and also for the creation of the Grateful Dead's dancing bear icons, Stanley is also credited with audio innovations including the "Wall of Sound" used at Grateful Dead concerts in 1974, a precursor to line arrays.
Read More »SALT LAKE CITY – The AVnu Alliance held an AVB plugfest recently at Harman Professional's Signal Processing Group in Salt Lake City. Harman and five other manufactures participated in the plugfest, giving engineers from the different companies a hands-on opportunity to test connectivity, interoperability and interfaces.
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DELHI – For a society wedding with 2,000 guests, the entertainment included Canada's Cirque Eloize acrobatic show with surround sound enhancement provided by a TiMax SoundHub-S. The spectacle included synchronized animated audio and video on the dance floor.
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NASHVILLE, TN – In 2009, Lady Antebellum earned a Grammy Award for Best New Artist; this year, they picked up Best Album of the Year. For two years, the still-relatively "new" band has had a relentless performing and touring schedule, with an assist from Sennheiser 935 capsules on all of the stage vocals, as specified by FOH engineer Brett "Scoop" Blanden.
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SURABAYA, Indonesia – The Evangelist Graha Bethany Nginden Church has been equipped with an L-Acoustics K1/KARA WST line source system provided by L-Acoustics' distributor in South East Asia, Sennheiser Electronic Asia, and Tri Tunggal Abadi.
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EMINENCE, KY – Eminence Speaker LLC promoted Josh Martin to technology sales manager. He will be responsible for a new technology that the company calls D-FEND, which provides programmable control over key performance characteristics of passive systems and loudspeakers.
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BRENTWOOD, MO – Ironman Sound Industries (ISI) has moved to new offices near the intersection of I-64 and Hanley in Brentwood, Missouri. The new address is 1005 Hanley Industrial Court, Brentwood, MO 63144.
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