FORT COLLINS, CO — Shaped Music, a full service event production company, provides sound, lighting, staging, backline and staffing for a variety of events. The company recently added RCF’s HDL20 system to its rental inventory to fill a market niche suited to the needs of its customers. The gear gets deployed at events such as the one pictured here for Shaped Music client Left Hand Brewery.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Waves Audio noted that Sunil Karanjikar, FOH engineer for A.R. Rahman, has been using a setup consisting of a Soundcraft Vi6 console with Waves plugins, a DiGiGrid MGO optical SoundGrid-to-MADI interface, a Waves SoundGrid Server One and a Waves MultiRack SoundGrid plugin host on a MacBook Pro 15 for the India-based composer/singer-songwriter/music producer’s live shows.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — Mosaic Church, which opened a new fan-shaped, 750-seat sanctuary in 2012, recently upgraded with a sound system from Danley Sound Labs. Matthew Grabe worked with Joel Moak, Danley’s western region sales manager, on a center mono system comprised of two Danley SH-96HO loudspeakers, splayed to cover either side of the room, paired with two end-fired Danley TH-118 subwoofers.
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CHICAGO — When it came to looking for a total audio solution for the gymnatorium at the British International School of Chicago, Skokie, IL-based Sound, Production and Lighting turned to RCF and Danley for the solution.
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WEBSTER, NY — Ashly Audio appointed LVX Marketing as its rep firm for northern California and northern Nevada. Between them, LVX President Ed Ulibarri and LVX CEO John Hernandez (pictured here, L-R) have more than 50 years of experience working with professional audio manufacturers, and their combined experience in the retail market extends even beyond that.
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MANAUS, Brazil — Manaus based sound rental company SPA recently invested in Allen & Heath’s dLive digital mixing system, adding the flagship S7000 Control Surface and DM64 MixRack to its gear offerings. The SPA team is pictured here in the Amazon Theatre in Manaus after a live DVD recording.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Optocore and BroaMan recapped some of the highlights from the company’s booth during Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. Noted for its slot car scale racetrack, the booth featured milestones from the company’s 20-year history right up to the present, including news about the companies’ products targeting the Broadcast, System Integration and Concert market sectors. As for the latter, the big news was Wigwam Acoustics’ use of Optocore to support the AV needs of Coldplay’s forthcoming 2016 tour, which kicks off May 24 in Nice, France.
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PRAGUE — Italy-based Outline named Primaton s.r.o. as their exclusive distributor for the Czech and Slovak Republics. Primaton, based in Prague, is affiliated with LightNeq, which distributes brands from MA Lighting, Robe, ARRI, Doughty and other lighting products. The company had been looking to complement its support of shows in the region with high quality audio products. Pictured here, from left, are Luca Giaroli, Jan Smejkal, Pavel Lenoch, and Lorenzo Sassi.
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LAS VEGAS — The new T-Mobile Arena recently opened with a gala event featuring Las Vegas natives The Killers, Wayne Newton, Shamir, Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil, among others. Delicate Productions made use of a Martin Audio MLA system to ensure consistent coverage throughout the new venue. The Killers setup included 16 MLA and 2 MLD cabinets per side for the main hang, 20 MLA Compact per side for outfills and 32 MLX subs. Delicate’s crew used an MLA system that had been set up for a soft opening performance by Martina McBride the week before by 3G Productions.
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BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — Paul Carrack, whose voice is heard on Squeeze’s “Tempted” and other hits, including his own hit, “Don’t Shed a Tear” from his solo album, One Good Reason, toured the U.K. earlier this year with a P.A. system centered on ProAudio Technology’s VT20 line array system. Isophase Audio provided the gear for the 34-date tour. At stops like the Birmingham Symphony Hall, the setup included 32 VT20 elements and eight VS18 subwoofers for the main P.A. with four HT16 Tops for near fills. Only two Delta 20.4-DSP amplifiers were needed to power the 32 VT20 main array elements.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Richard Fernandez will be honored with the 2016 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award. During an enviable 40-plus year career in the live entertainment business, Fernandez served as tour manager for the Faces, the Eagles, Bob Dylan, the New Barbarians, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills & Nash and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers among others, traveling around the world and back scores of times.
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