ORLANDO — Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) has recently repackaged its rental fleet with new equipment, which now provides its customers with a smaller on-site footprint and streamlines load-in/out times.
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BERLIN – The focus of Adele’s Live 2016 tour is not on dancers or special effects, but her voice. Tickets for the show were in such high demand that seating was arranged in a 270-degree arc. The show also features a B stage in the center of the venue. Audio equipment had to comply with design guidelines for clean sightlines. To match all the challenges, Berlin-based sound provider Black Box Music provided an L-Acoustics K2 system.
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LOS ANGELES —Christian Assembly Church in Los Angeles underwent a renovation project, which included a new suite of wireless systems and microphones. Dirk Bolle, IT/Tech support specialist, was determined to find a reasonably priced and reliable wireless system that would eliminate any unwanted, disruptive noises, which had been an issue with the older equipment. So he turned to the Shure UHF-R Wireless System and KSM8 Dualdyne Vocal Microphones to enhance the congregation’s vocal performances.
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LAS VEGAS — The nominations for the 2016 Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year competition are in. The list of top nominees is posted online, and the first round of the Hometown Hero (HH) voting process, which extends through Aug. 8, 2016, has begun! Follow the jump to find the link to the 2016 ballot for audio companies vying for Hometown Hero honors.
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LOUISVILLE, KY — The Summerland tour kicked off July 8 at Louisville, KY’s 4th Street Live entertainment and shopping district, with a new RCF HDL50-A line array system reinforcing 1990s music from Everclear and friends. The RCF system included 16 HDL50-A, an active three-way line array cabinet with dual 12” low frequency, four 6” midrange and two 3” high frequency compression drivers; coupled with eight SUB 9007-AS dual 21” active subwoofers. Eight NX12-SMA active 12” monitors covered the stage.
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MANCHESTER – First Baptist Church of Manchester, TN, has undergone a transformation in the style and energy of its services, and the church’s old sound reinforcement system couldn’t keep up. Audio/video integration firm Centerline Audio Visual of Hendersonville, TN, stepped in to design simple, yet powerful, stereo reinforcement consisting of Danley loudspeakers and Ashly-powered Dante connectivity.
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BERLIN — The Berlin Waldbühne, one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe, has strict sightline rules. For a recent performance of the German Symphony Orchestra’s concert of famous Disney film melodies, it was not possible to use loudspeaker arrays above the stage that were tall enough to cover the entire venue’s capacity of 20,000. To solve this issue, L-Acoustics’ L-ISA live system was deployed.
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MONTREAL — Sound system provider Solotech supplied Yamaha Digital Audio Consoles for the 17 stages during the 37th Montreal Jazz Festival (MJF), which ran from June 29 to July 9. Twelve of the stages featuring them at both FOH and monitors. MJF is held at the Place des Festivals in downtown Montreal with close to 50 concerts daily. More music can be found in local bars, boats, and other miscellaneous venues. Concertgoers could travel from event-to-event, as all ‘outdoor’ concerts were free of charge. Performers included Brian Wilson, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Christian McBride, Chick Corea and Joe Jackson, to name a few.
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LOS ANGELES – When internationally acclaimed virtuoso acoustic/electric cellist, recording artist and composer Tina Guo needs to amplify her acoustic cello, she relies on the d:vote 4099C Instrument Microphone for Cello from DPA Microphones.
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NINGBO, CHINA— The Third Ningbo Fête de la Musiqué took place at the Ningbo Cultural Plaza June 18-19. This was VUE’s first public festival in China. For this event, VUE provided both the PA system and technical support, debuting VUE’s large format al-12 Scalable Line Array loudspeaker system.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Philly Pops, one of the largest standalone pops orchestras in the U.S., needed a miniature mic solution to amplify the string ensemble of the Philly Pops’ 65-piece ensemble. Houser Audio, the Pops’ official audio provider, picked Point Source Audio’s Series8 CO-8WL omnidirectional lavalier mics for the task.
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BELFAST – The Kingspan Stadium, home of Ulster Rugby, has completed a major upgrade of its stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The construction of three covered stands are designed to match the existing premium stand, with a newly specified RCF PAVA (Public Address and Voice Alarm) distributed sound broadcast system, linked to a fire alarm, to create a communications infrastructure that complies with BS5839 Part 8 standards.
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