MIAMI – Sound engineers Eddie “El Brujo” Caipo and Brad Divens are now relying on a range of DPA Microphones for Enrique Iglesias’ current tour, after testing them out with a demo package offered from the company. Caipo handles mixing monitors and Divens serves as FOH engineer.
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LAS VEGAS – 3G Productions chose Martin Audio MLA for the star-studded Cosmic Meadow Stage during the three-day celebration of lights, colors, dance, costumes and music at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. With leading DJs such as Zedd, Martin Solveig, Paul Van Dyk, Knife Party, Swanky Tunes, Chris Lake, Flux Pavilion and more, Cosmic Meadow demanded a world-class sound system that could cover the crowd consistently with full frequency audio at the highest decibel levels.
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AZUSA, CA — Azusa Pacific University (APU) has extended its deployment of Riedel Communications gear with the purchase of four new MediorNet MicroN 80G media distribution network devices that enable the university to link sites across its Azusa, CA, campus in a decentralized routing matrix. Complementing APU’s existing MediorNet Modular real-time media network, Artist digital matrix intercom, and RockNet digital audio network systems, the MicroN devices support uniquely flexible, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage signal processing, routing and distribution.
BOOM, Belgium – Dee Sound & Light recently invested in an SSL L500 Plus live digital console and a stock of ML 32.32 Stageboxes. Since then, the console – the first L500 in Belgium – has been busy covering a number of large tours around Europe.
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BUENA PARK, CA—Greg Lukens of Washington Professional and Jose Perez of Yamaha Professional Audio will hold three, two-hour presentations on the new Yamaha Rivage PM10 Digital Audio Console on Wednesday, Aug.10, 2016. The event is free of charge and open to all.
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UPMINSTER, U.K. — Known for delivering high-octane sound for international EDM events, Capital Sound returned to the We Are FSTVL site at Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster, deploying Martin Audio MLA system on the three main stages. The production company last worked with promoter Reece Miller on the two-day event back in 2014, and with production values ramping up, they were recalled this year by festival production director, Simon Barrington, with whom they collaborated on Above & Beyond shows and last year’s Wild Life Festival.
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SEATTLE – After working with various PAs for years, each with some level of compromise, tap dance professor Tim Hickey found an ideal solution that worked on all counts for Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts: Mackie’s portable Reach Professional PA. Hickey has two tap classes with 16 students each. “Tap dancing can get pretty loud,” he notes, “so we need a more powerful system than the ballet, jazz and modern dance classes do. The Reach has 720W of amplification, and even with 16 tap students in a room with a wooden floor and walls lined with mirrors, it cuts through loud and clear.”
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BEAVERTON, OR – Biamp Systems’ expands its product management and global sales teams with two appointments. Joshua Beltran moves to product management, and Michael Hooper is appointed North Texas area manager.
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ALLEROED, Denmark – DPA Microphones named Kalle Hvidt Nielsen as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1, 2016. At that time, Nielsen will succeed interim CEO Thorsten Reuber, who has managed the company since Jan. 25, 2016. Nielsen brings more than 15 years of experience in directing technology-focused Danish companies. He comes to DPA Microphones from Topsil Semiconductor Materials A/S, where he has held the CEO position since 2011.
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ISLE OF WIGHT, UK – Wigwam Acoustics supplied a new Meyer Sound Leo family system at the main stage of the Isle of Wight Festival. The new system effortlessly powered performances by headliners such as The Who, Faithless, Stereophonics, and Queen + Adam Lambert. The system’s linear characteristics coupled with precise directional control kept the festival grounds rocking while significantly reducing bleed into nearby residential areas.
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NAPA, CA – Bay Area-based Delicate Productions provided full production including staging, lighting, video and audio on all five stages of this year’s Bottlerock. For the Miner Family Winery Stage, Delicate deployed the new VUE Audiotechnik al-12 system for its inaugural run with FOH engineer Sebastien Poux. Over at the Jam Cellars’ stage, the VIP skyboxes were outfitted with VUE Sound via Dante. William “Snoopy” Fuquay of WFA Audio was in charge of the h-8 with Dante setup and ran the sound with Delicate Productions’ networking guru Jacob Choplin.
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