COSTA MESA, CA – QSC Professional appoints Equipos y Cintas as its distribution partner in Mexico, as the company continues to expand globally with new distribution partnerships. Equipos y Cintas marks 30 years of experience as a distributor.
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MIAMI – To launch the new 1 Hotel South Beach, Starwood Capital invested in a $2 million audio system upgrade. Advance Home Theatre installed the new system. Dante networking now connects 23 Ashly Pema combined matrix processors and multi-channel amplifiers for system-wide connectivity inside and outside of the renovated luxury hotel.
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PHILADELPHI – “Cirque Goes to the Movies” was created specifically for the 65-piece Philly Pops orchestra and required first-class sound design to meet the challenge. Andre Houser, founder and chief engineer of Houser Audio, executed the sound design exclusively with VUE Audiotechnik loudspeakers, with the al-Class of Scalable Acoustic Linearity Arrays at the heart of the event.
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LAS VEGAS – At InfoComm 2016 recently, Shure Inc. named Excellence Marketing Inc. its Sales Representative of the Year. Based in Eden Prairie, MN, Excellence Marketing Excellence has been a Shure sales representative since 2007.
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LAS VEGAS – Sake Rok restaurant features a wait staff that double as singing and dancing emcees. To capture the energy and vitality of a true live concert, ATI president Robert Athey turned to Powersoft’s X8 amplifier to drive the entire main sound system. The system is able to switch from normal operation into “performance mode” at the push of a button, making it easy for any Sake Rok staff member to activate when the time comes for the wait staff to break into their routine.
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LONDON – Capital Sound Hire Limited provided DiGiCo SD10-24 digital mixing consoles for Beverley Knight’s UK theatre tour this past spring. Paul Timmins, Capital Sound’s general manager, says the gear was spot-on for the one-truck tour with the limited budget. “The SD10-24 consoles offer compactness and quality at a price that works for the theatre touring market, something that is crucial for clients and rental providers in the current climate, where artists need to make money and audio suppliers need to see return on their investment.”
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ALLEROED, DENMARK – Danish band Lukas Graham is using DPA’s new d:facto Linear Vocal Microphone – along with a range of DPA microphones – during its current European tour. The band’s production manager and FOH sound engineer Frank Frank Grønbæk says,“The difference was immediately apparent – the original d:facto was good, but this capsule was much better at handling high end frequencies and gives us absolutely no issues with feedback.”
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LAS VEGAS — October may still seem like a long time away, but the planning for the 2016 Parnelli Awards is already revving into high gear, with the first round of voting for regional Hometown Hero sound companies already underway and nominations for most of the other Parnelli Awards categories less than two weeks away. And as in years past, the live event industry is stepping up to support the 2016 Parnelli Awards gala (Oct. 22) and golf tournament (Oct. 20), with more than 30 sponsors announced by mid-July.
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OLD LYME, CT – Sennheiser is in its second year of helping train the next generation of women in audio with SoundGirls.org camps. Held four times over the summer in cities throughout the U.S., the Live Sound Camps teach youth the basics of live audio from top professionals in the industry. The week culminates in a full live show that the campers run on their own, featuring local bands.
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BACKANG, Germany – d&b audiotechnik has joined the AVnu Alliance, the industry consortium that fosters the adoption of AVB/TSN (Audio Video Bridging/Time Sensitive Networking) protocols and an open ecosystem of certified products.
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NASHVILLE – Audio vendor Sound Image supplied an Eastern Acoustic Works Adaptive Performance sound reinforcement system for the Chevrolet Cruz Park Stage, one of three venues in the recent CMA Music Festival in Nashville. The stage featured left-right hangs of 12 Anna per side supported by eight Otto subwoofers – 16 total – under each array. Up-and-coming artists were featured on this stage.
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