DENVER – On tour with The Lumineers, Monitor Mixer Brad Galvin’s console of choice is a DiGiCo SD5, provided by Sound Image in the US and SSE in Europe. “My last console did a job for me, but when it comes to input count and scalability as far as I/O or outputs go, DiGiCo has to be my go-to,” he reveals. “You can also get DiGiCo boards anywhere around the world…”
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LAS VEGAS – Martin Audio offered InfoComm 2016 attendees new product launches and demo experiences recently in Las Vegas. New products included new color and finish capability for its CDD Series – including a special chrome finish version. Also unveiled were the new CDD-WR weatherized series for outdoor venues, the CCD-LIVE! series for the US market, and an introduction to Martin Audio’s new Managing Director Dom Harter.
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ATCO, NJ – For more than 50 years, New Jersey’s Atco Dragway has set the scene for many of the memories most cherished by Northeast drag-racing enthusiasts. Its quarter-mile strip sees action more days than not (in addition to weekend events, weekday events are commonplace), making Atco Dragway one of the busiest in the country. However, the thunder from the engines was, until recently, the only full-frequency effect at Atco; all of the sound reinforcement squeezed its way into the world through anemic paging horns. Now, fully-weatherproofed, full-frequency Danley OS-80 loudspeakers backed by Ashly processing and amplification keep up- if only sonically- with the dragsters on the dragway.
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ZAGREB, Croatia – Community Professional Loudspeakers has appointed Hust d.o.o. as its distributor for Croatia. Founded in 1994 in Zagreb, Hust is one of the leading Croatian distributors and manufacturers of professional audio, electronics and control systems. Brands distributed by Hust include Biamp, TOA, Apart, Univox and Screenline.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Bellota is the sixth dining establishment in the Bay Area—a trendsetting center for food and tech innovation—to install Meyer Sound’s Constellation to create the ideal acoustic environment, aka. to “tune the buzz.” “Constellation is a flexible system that creates balance,” says Jonny Raglin, who managed the Bellota project for The Absinthe Group, where he’s director of bars. “It allows us to create different atmospheres at different times. We’re able to make it romantic and quiet in a certain portion of the space, and lively in another part of the space at the same time.”
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CHICAGO – As musical director, bandleader, and announcer for The Late Late Show on CBS, improvising vocalist, comedian, and actor Reggie Watts is a busy guy with a lot to keep track of on stage. To monitor his band, “Karen,” while interacting with host James Corden and taking direction from the control room, he uses Sensaphonics 3D AARO Active Ambient IEM System on stage. The patented system uses microphones embedded in custom soft silicone earphones to add controlled ambience to the in-ear mix, which includes the band feed, host James Corden’s mic, and the IFB feed from the control room.
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LAS VEGAS – RCF has recently been awarded the contract to provide sound reinforcement for the upgrade and expansion of the Las Vegas Fremont Street Viva Vision LED display canopy that covers the four city block stretch in uptown Las Vegas. A total of 50 clusters — 350 total speakers — will be used in the installation. Each cluster is comprised of six HDL20-A dual 10″ two-way active line array modules with one SUB8005-AS active 21″ subwoofer custom mounted on a steel frame and flown below the canopy.
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MOSCOW – Community Professional Loudspeakers has appointed AVC LLC as its distributor for Russia, to operate in parallel with its long-time distributor Arsenal Music. AVC, established in 1994, is focused on supplying and supporting projects with distributed background and foreground music, as well as announcement systems including PAVA (EVAC).
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LISBON, Portugal – Gabisom Audio Equipment from Brazil deployed Martin Audio’s premier MLA rig on the World Stage for the first time at the recent five-day Rock in Rio Festival in Bela Park, Lisbon. With 112 MLA, eight MLD, 60 MLX subs and 24 MLA Compact, this became the largest deployment of MLA systems on a single stage, eclipsing both Glastonbury and Hyde Park main stages.
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FRANKFURT – The Museum of Communications in Frankfurt, Germany, recently invested in Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 digital rackmount mixer with AR2412 remote IO rack to manage its varied events calendar. The Museum of Communications hosts various events throughout the year, including regularly changing exhibitions, private functions, concerts and conferences. The venue needed a new console that could manage a variety of functions, including live sound and broadcast feeds, for a diverse event program ranging from jazz bands to panel discussions.
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OLD LYME, CT – With the forthcoming changes in spectrum allocation in the US and Canada, audio specialistSennheiser anticipates customer needs with the release of a new frequency variant of its popular evolution wireless ew 100 G3 and ew 300 IEM G3 series. Starting in July, the wireless microphone and monitoring systems will be available in an A1 variant, which covers the frequency range from 470 to 516 MHz.
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MANCHESTER, UK — Manchester based audio specialist tube UK took sonic excellence to new levels with the design and installation of a d&b sound system for Manchester’s lively Albert Hall venue. The challenge was big. The main hall had been forgotten for 40 years. And the multipurpose nature of the entertainment program made “covering all bases” the mantra.
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