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NEW YORK – Last year, acclaimed Hip Hop Artist and Producer J Cole toured his latest Grammy Award nominated studio album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive (titled after his childhood home), to venues across USA and Europe. The tour’s Production Manager and Front of House Engineer Raymond Rogers chose an SSL L500 console for FOH duties and used an SSL Live Recorder to multitrack every show and for virtual sound check.

KENLY, NORTH CAROLINA – The Kenly Gospel Music Hall recently upgraded its sound system with a pair of Martin Audio CDD10 speakers and a CSX112 subwoofer. Pictured here is the ensemble The Redeemed, with Matt Johnson (dobro, banjo and guitar) co-leader with his father Edgar Alberdeen Johnson Jr. (upright bass) the Deacon at Faith Free Will Baptist Church.

LOS ANGELES – At the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards, held at Los Angeles’ Staples Center last week, amplifier manufacturer Powersoft delivered 720,000 watts of audio to more than 18,000 attending music fans, in addition to a viewership of more than 24 million people around the world. ATK Audiotek was on hand to set up and deliver audio services for the gala event.

ANAHEIM, CA – Renowned drummer Dennis Chambers used a combination of DPA microphones on his Pearl drum kit during his solo performance at the Pearl booth at NAMM 2016. Chambers had d:vote 4099D Instrument Microphones on all the toms, one d:dicate 4018F Supercardiod Microphone on the large suspended kick drum, and d:dicate 2011C Cardiod Microphones on the kick drum, snare drum and high hats.

LITITZ, PA — Clair Global has taken delivery of the first two Yamaha Rivage PM10 Digital Audio Consoles to hit U.S. soil, according to Yamaha Commercial Audio. Both consoles are currently being used at front of house and monitors for Carrie Underwood’s “The Storyteller Tour.” Front of House engineer Kirk “Eek” Schreiner, pictured here, praised the console’s sound quality. “The Yamaha PM10 is the first digital desk that sounds analog to me,” he said.

LAGOS, Nigeria — One of Africa’s largest concerts and religious gatherings, The Experience, is an interdenominational gospel concert and word-based gathering organized The House On The Rock Church.
The most recent event, staged Dec. 4, drew as many as a half-million people to Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. Cytech World Communication deployed an Outline audio system including 30 GTO C-12 line arrays, two GTO-DF down-fills, 16 DBS 18-2 subwoofers and four LAB 21 HS infra-low subwoofers to cover the large crowd.  The lineup of inspirational speakers and performers included Don Moen, Donnie McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Micah Stampley, Kim Burrell, Hezekiah Walker, Jessica Reedy and Sonnie Badu.

ATLANTA — With the promise that “three locations will be connected across two cities with a single heartbeat,” Passion 2016 delivered worship sessions, speakers, and praise music through nine Optocore-networked DiGiCo SD7 digital audio mixing consoles at arenas in Georgia and Texas. Rat Sound networked nine SD7 consoles across three different venues for the Christian conference held Jan. 2-4 at Infinite Energy Arena and Philips Arena in Atlanta and Toyota Center in Houston.

CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY – Recently reopened UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) building, one of the nation’s premier institutions for the presentation of cinema, installed a 7.1 Meyer Sound cinema system in its 232-seat Barbro Osher Theater, which hosts both film screenings, lectures and discussions regarding current films and art exhibits. Elsewhere, CAL column array loudspeakers provide sound reinforcement for a large, outdoor LED screen.