SEATTLE – Karrie Keyes, who has been mixing monitors since 1991, opted for a Midas PRO6 console supplied by Rat Sound for the band's 2010 tour in support of its Backspacer album. This represented a change for Keyes, a longtime devotee of Midas' Heritage desk and other analog consoles.
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VERONA, NY – Clair Global is supporting the latest George Thorogood & The Destroyers tour with a pair of DiGiCo SD8-24s for FOH and monitors – and the gear is also being used for live multitrack recordings slated for release next year.
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NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival draws some 400,000 visitors each year for seven days of music, cooking and crafts. Kingston Audio Services supported the event in 2009 and 2010 with Outline Butterfly and Mantas vertical line arrays and Subtech 218s for the low end.
Read More »TALA, Kenya – Sound Creations recently equipped an event truck with dBTechnologies DVX and Flexsys active boxes for sound reinforcement. Equipped with four DVX D15s, two S20s, two Flexsys F15s and one Flexsys F10 powered speaker, the vehicle is being used for outdoor promotions of products and events in the region.
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LIMA, Peru – Miriam Kolar, a PhD candidate at Stanford's Computer Research in Music and Acoustics program, has been using Countryman's B6 microphones as part of the Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project.
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BOONVILLE, CA – Sacramento Production Services provided audio and staging for the three-day Sierra Nevada World Music Fest 2010, which drew record crowds to the Mendocino County Fairgrounds and featured 19 artists from Jamaica, the U.S., Australia and Brazil. All were heard via Martin Audio loudspeakers.
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PILTON, U.K. – RG Jones Sound Engineering provided Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage audio production for the third year in a row. (The company first worked there in 2007 as suppliers of FOH and monitor control systems.)
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WARSAW, Poland – The Zbigniew Hubner Theatre underwent a major renovation earlier this year, with a full audio refit including a Midas PRO6 into the Scena 100 performance hall by Audio Plus, distributors of Midas and Klark Teknik in Poland.
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EAST HADDAM, CT – The Goodspeed Opera House stages musicals in an intimate setting, giving audience members an up-close look at the detailed choreography and costumes. Goodspeed Musicals' sound team uses compact wireless microphone systems from Sennheiser, and the clip-on mics and transmitters are small enough to stay tucked away and out of view.
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WISEMANS FERRY, Australia – Norwest Productions deployed EAW KF740 line arrays for one of the six main stages at the Playground Weekender music festival, where artists including Bjorn Again and Orbital, among others, performed. Norwest chose the EAW gear for its combination of sound quality, accuracy and ease of rigging.
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LONDON – Ellie Goulding is touring the European festival circuit with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 compact Control Surface managing monitors. Monitor engineer Steve Pattison uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check and move around the venue during the show.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Electrosound handled all the sound production for the main stage and sound distribution for the TV-4 OB truck during the June wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden with longtime partner Daniel Westling.
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