LAS VEGAS — Celine Dion, five-time Grammy award winner and one of the biggest-selling solo artists of all time, has resumed her residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with her longtime FOH engineer and tour manager Denis Savage and systems engineer Frankie Desjardins. They chose an SSL L500 live console for FOH mixing duties.
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LAS VEGAS — The first of two big shows featuring the Rolling Stones at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena has been canceled, according to a statement on the band’s website. The show was to be staged the same night as the final debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the campus of UNLV three miles away.
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LAS VEGAS — Parnelli Week is here! The forecast for Siena Golf Course on Thursday, Oct. 20 is beautiful – low 80s and sunny. On-site registration is 7 a.m. and the shotgun start is at 8 a.m. sharp. The perfect weather continues for the Parnelli Awards gala at the Rio Hotel and Casino on Saturday, Oct. 22. Last minute tickets can be ordered online through Oct. 20. After that, if any tickets are still available, they can be ordered at the FOH/PLSN LDI booth, #623.
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LOS ANGELES – American Mobile is redefining remote music production for live broadcast with Focusrite’s RedNet as the signal-transport backbone for their remote systems deployed this year to Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and Austin City Limits music festivals. American Mobile is currently adding an additional 64 channels of RedNet MPR8 mic preamps to the audio truck, expanding capability to at least 96 channels to keep up with the growing number of channel counts at complex shows.
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NEW YORK – Vandal – a combination restaurant, bar and lounge – needed an audio system that sounded amazing at lower volumes for dinner service, but also have more powerful acoustics for music performances later in the evening. Plus, the owners wanted a low profile speaker that disappeared into the environment. K-array was chosen.
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MONTREAL – LS Media has become the exclusive Canadian distributor for Avid’s live sound solutions, and it now provides training certification on Avid products. The two-day certification, targeted to sound technicians, sound engineers and Avid live sound resellers, is a practical workshop that provides hands-on training in all aspects of installing, configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting and supporting the Avid VENUE | S6L system.
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NASHVILLE—CTS Audio provided Shure wireless microphones and in-ear monitor systems for the 47th annual Dove Awards, which honored top artists in Christian music. All Shure wireless mics were networked together, along with 20 channels of PSM 1000 in-ear monitors through Shure’s Wireless Workbench software.
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LOS ANGELES —From Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, 2016, thousands of audio professionals made the annual trek to the Audio Engineering Society convention, held this year on its bicoastal rotation at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The extensive technical program of papers, technical tours, workshops, and seminars had a good sprinkling of live audio related topics.
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA – Opened 36 years ago, The Coach House has become an icon on the Southern California music scene. But its legendary status carried with it another legacy: a history of bad sound. The venue contacted ESP Management, who designed a system based around Renkus-Heinz. Touring sound engineers have voiced some of the most enthusiasm for the new system.
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TRENČÍN & PIESTANY, SLOVAKIA – JBL VTX Series speakers and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers help production company RentalLive bring an eclectic mix of music to life at Slovankai’s two largest music festivals, Pohoda and Topfest. System engineers Marek Barabas and Tomas Oravec discuss how they deployed the gear for a diverse group of artists and musical genres at the events.
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LOS ANGELES – Though Maroon 5’s tour started in February 2015, it wasn’t until that summer when a K1/K2 system became available through Sound Image, which has been the tour’s main sound reinforcement vendor throughout. FOH engineer Jim Ebdon has been tweaking the arrangement of the K1/K2 system’s components ever since and continues to do so as the tour runs through March 2017.
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