SAUGATUCK, MI – Stewart Independent Production has added Genie Super Tower ST20 lifts to its inventory. SIP uses many brands of line array, so having this option available benefits its clients and most no-fly shows and venues, says SIP’s Shannon Stewart.
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LITITZ, PA – Fifth Harmony’s touring FOH engineer Matt Lawrence is using the Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system from touring sound vendor Clair Global. The dLive’s sound quality is “warm like analog,” he says. “I couldn’t be more excited to go on tour with this band and this desk!”
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GREENVILLE, NC — Unity Free Will Baptist Church recently completed a major construction project that resulted in a new facility. Hi-Tech Electronics of Greenville, NC, designed and installed the various systems, selecting a variety of loudspeakers drawn primarily from WorxAudio’s TrueLine and UltraMax product lines.
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DUBAI, UAE – David Dohrmann, Adamson Systems Engineering’s technical director, Asia Pacific, will present a Thomsun sponsored two-day technical training seminar and S-Series product demonstration in Dubai on Aug. 30-31, 2016.
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LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO — Get It In Writing, a media relations firm to the pro audio/video, music technology and media production industries, announces the appointment of Steve Oppenheimer to the position of US Editorial Director. The move is part of a strategic alliance with White Dog Communications, the media firm founded by Oppenheimer in January 2015, and follows on the heels of a coalition with UK media firm The Inside Story. Through this cooperation, Oppenheimer and White Dog will provide editorial and strategic content for a wide range of Get It In Writing projects and clients.
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NANTES, France – UrbanVoices has been held in the French city of Nantes each July for the past six years and features a 1,000-strong choir of Nantes singers from seven to 89 years old. This year the audience experience was further enhanced with the use of L-ISA Live, the latest sound reinforcement concept introduced by L-Acoustics founder Christian Heil.
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LONDON – As part of the last leg of Ellie Goulding’s European Tour, she performed at London’s O2 Arena. To support the tour, the decision was made to upgrade the keyboard and playback rigs with the latest technology from Ferrofish and RME—both distributed by global audio distributor Synthax Inc. Will Sanderson, MIDI, playback and keyboards technician, played a major role in designing the new system.
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RALEIGH, NC – When Raleigh’s Cornerstone Tavern bought the historic house next door, their newly doubled space needed attention. They turned to A/V integration firm Avant Systems Integration to design and install a sound system to unite the two houses. The solution included Ashly audio processing, amplification and new free customizable iPhone app.
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FLORENCE, AL – Sweet Tree Productions was able to easily outfit the needs of the 10-day W.C. Handy Music Festival with the nearly 100 RCF cabinets in their inventory. Activities were held in many different locations during the July 22-31 fest, at venues including hotels, outdoor stages, rodeos and elsewhere, requiring daily set-ups and tear-downs of stages and equipment.
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Neu-Anspach/Straubing, GERMANY – The German city of Straubing celebrated the 700th anniversary of its city tower with a large festival. Gravity stands, a new brand of the Adam Hall Group, were used on the event’s two stages. With the interchangeable color-ring concept, the Gravity stands can be personalized. In Straubing, the stage crew assigned a certain color to the vocal microphones and a different one for the drum stands.
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VANCOUVER, BC — Delicate Productions provided sound reinforcement for the four-day Pemberton Music Festival. The company, in its first year with the fest, provided Martin Audio and L-Acoustics gear across the three stages.
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BERKELEY, CA — Two acoustically challenged worship spaces are benefiting from new installations of Meyer Sound CAL column array loudspeakers. Mother of God Catholic Church in Covington, KY (pictured here), and the Redemptor Hominis Chapel in Washington, DC, underwent the updates.
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