CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers has appointed Kim Muurholm Juergensen as APAC (Asia-Pacific) Sales Manager. He joins Community from Shure Asia Limited, where he held management roles in business and market development. Juergensen entered the pro audio and AV industry 15 years ago and has worked with Jebsen & Jessen Marketing (T) Ltd. in Thailand, E-way Ltd. in China and Danish Interpretation Systems A/S.
Read More »
OAKLAND, CA – Oakland’s landmark Fox Theater is a Moorish Deco movie palace whose reincarnation as a multi-use performance space required a sound system with great flexibility and intelligibility. That’s why Northern California’s independent music promoter, Another Planet Entertainment (APE), has installed a Meyer Sound Lyon linear sound reinforcement system in the 2,800-capacity venue.
Read More »
LAS VEGAS––In preparing for a series of iconic, in-the-round performances by George Strait at T-Mobile Arena, in-house engineers worked with production engineers from VER to design a massive, 14-cluster JBL by Harman VTX line array system to provide a remarkable level of coverage, fidelity and intelligibility. A large, six-cluster JBL by Harman VTX line array system serves as the permanent centerpiece for delivering concert-quality sound performance at the new T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas.
Read More »
CHARLOTTE, NC — Mike Mitchell, a long-time volunteer and part of the production team at Elevation Church has no small task being the producer’s eyes and ears in the auditorium, and communicating during the live productions at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. “When I first used the CM-i3 headset, it was transformational,” proclaimed Mitchel. “The ability to hear better and protect my hearing at the same time has improved the way I approach my role in the production process.”
Read More »
CHICAGO – Sensaphonics, who call themselves “the Experts in Safe Sound,” held its first Gold Circle seminar session of 2016 in Chicago. Designed to help audiologists better serve musicians and sound engineers, the two-day Gold Circle seminar held May 20-21 featured practical and technical class instruction at Sensaphonics headquarters, then concluded with a hands-on demo featuring a live band to teach the basics of live sound and in-ear monitors.
Read More »
CARACAS, VENEZUELA ― Corporación Video, DPA Microphones’ Venezuelan dealer, recently made a large sale of the brand’s mics to TH Producciones, one of the country’s active broadcast production companies. Corporación Video specializes in both systems integration and sales to the region’s broadcast, recording, production and rental industries. Included among the DPA products are several d:fine Headset, d:screet 4061 Miniature and d:facto Handheld Microphones.
Read More »
WUPPERTAL, Germany — When tens of thousands of students and young adults gathered in January for Passion 2016, organizers relied on Riedel Communications equipment to enable seamless delivery of coordinated sessions, speakers, and worship music across the event’s three sites in Georgia and Texas. U.K.-based logistics and event management company Black and White Live used Riedel’s MediorNet real-time media network, Artist digital matrix intercom system, Trunk Navigator software, and an 800-mile fiber network to support the tightly choreographed event. With this infrastructure, Black and White Live linked TNDV mobile production trucks and supported signal transport and communications across Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta, Infinite Energy Arena nearby in Gwinnett County, GA, and the Toyota Center in Houston.
Read More »
DURHAM, NC––RMB Audio owner Cooper Cannady needed to come up with a viable alternative when informed that Duke University wanted no PA systems on Brooks Field visible to graduates, parents and friends for commencement ceremonies. So a unique MLA Compact/MLA Mini system was deployed to provide consistent coverage from the first row of the graduating class seated in front of the stage all the way back to the uppermost seats in Wallace Wade Stadium.
Read More »
NEW YORK — When Bright Star, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s highly anticipated musical made its Broadway debut March 24 at the Cort Theatre, it was the culmination of a long, successful journey for Sound Designer Nevin Steinberg and Masque Sound, a theatrical sound reinforcement, installation and design company. The two first collaborated on the show for its world premiere in 2014 at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre before moving to the Kennedy Center for its pre-Broadway run this past winter. The Cort Theatre offered one of the biggest audio challenges when moving the show to Broadway.
Read More »
LAS VEGAS — d&b audiotechnik introduce its software plug-in for the Q-SYS platform from QSC, enabling the comprehensive control and monitoring of d&b amplifiers and loudspeakers from any Q-SYS Core. The new product launches at InfoComm 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Read More »
WINSTON-SALEM, NC — In today’s post-rock music world where genre-bending has become the norm rather than the exception, touring companies require concert sound systems that are both impactful and articulate while still being road-friendly in terms of transport and deployment. Those challenges recently influenced a decision by Special Event Services (SES) of Winston-Salem, NC to specify to a system combining L-Acoustics’ K1 and K2 systems for an extensive North American run with The Avett Brothers’ True Sadness tour.
Read More »
LAS VEGAS — Each year, FRONT of HOUSE honors regional sound companies with our Hometown Hero awards. These awards honor the best small companies in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. FRONT of HOUSE readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best. We are looking for your ideas on the best regional sound production company in the U.S. and Canada. Let us know your faves (and, yes, you can nominate your own company).
Read More »