NORTHRIDGE, CA — Leading sound company On Stage Audio recently provided the audio system for the Fox Broadcasting Company's annual Upfront presentation, held May 18 at the Armory in New York City. The event, during which Fox introduced its Fall programming schedule to a crowd of 4,000 potential advertisers, featured appearances by major stars like Kiefer Sutherland, Simon Cowell, Hugh Laurie and Carrie Underwood.
Read More »
CHESTER, PA–A new organ design based upon digital modeling technology from Innova Organs utilizes Inter-M QD-4480 four-channel power amplifiers at the heart of its paradigm-shifting concept.
Read More »
CORNWALL, UK–The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra recently employed an Allen & Heath ML3000 live sound VCA console to manage live recording and broadcast during the Penderecki Festival, an annual three day event held this year in Germany, which honours the renowned Polish composer, Krzysztof Penderecki.
Read More »
BURNSVILLE, MN–EV and Dynacord life safety, paging and pro sound systems are ensuring that the German stadiums used for the FIFA World Cup 2006–the most watched televised sports event in history–are sounding better than ever before, and all in compliance with the stringent European EN60849 standard for the use of sound systems for emergency purposes. Telex Communications is the only major pro audio company in the world able to provide pro sound products with which a stadium can be evacuated and still be compliant with EN60849.
Read More »
STOW, OH — Audio-Technica US, Inc has named Bruce Vanzo as vice president, finance and chief financial officer. Philip Cajka, Audio-Technica president and CEO, made the announcement.
Read More »
BERKELEY, CA–Meyer Sound has announced that LCS Audio co-founders John McMahon (pictured, right) and Steve Ellison (below) have assumed the roles of Executive Director, LCS Series, and Applications Director, LCS Series at Meyer Sound, respectively. In his new role, McMahon will maintain direct involvement with most aspects of LCS Series products, including product development, and management of the Canadian office, while Ellison will work closely with customers, with a particular focus on the consultant community.
Read More »
NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA– The 18th FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Assocation) World Cup got underway at the 66,000-seat Allianz Arena Stadium in Munich, Germany with a colorful, imaginative opening ceremony. Sirius Showequipment, with supporting equipment and crew from regional VerTec system owner Crystal Sound, was required to pre-stage the entire portable sound system, and craft a logistics and technical plan that would move the entire sound reinforcement system onto and away from the arena field while preserving critical competition playing greens.
Read More »
OLD LYME, CT–Pink Floyd front man David Gilmour recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday with a number one solo album, On An Island, and a tour of Europe and the United States. Both legs of the tour utilized Turbosound Aspect modular point source loudspeaker systems, which were supplied by Britannia Row for the European leg, and Rat Sound for the U.S. shows.
Read More »
SHAWNEE MISSION, KS–Avlex Corporation has started shipping its new Superlux S241/U3, a true capacitor cardioid condenser microphone with a half-inch gold-evaporated 3 micron diaphragm, the S241 features a 0dB, -10dB and -20dB three position attenuation switch and a flat, 75Hz and 150Hz three position low-cut filter switch.
Read More »
MILTON KEYNES, UK– SSE Audio Group rocked more than 60,000 heavy metal and rock fans at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, reinforcing legendary performers such as Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Queensryche, Journey, Thunder and Ted Nugent with 85 boxes in a NEXO GEO T line array system at the Monsters of Rock festival.
Read More »I am finding myself in a frustrating situation. I've been doing sound for my friend's band for about a year, and some other local bands have approached me to do the same for them. My dilemma is that these other acts want me to provide more equipment than I currently have. I'm willing to make the investment, but the brands of equipment that fit the budget don't meet my expectations of quality. How can I provide what these clients want, and do it with respectable equipment?
Read More »As I have mentioned here before, my wife is the queen of reality shows. I give a nod of gratitude to whatever power controls such things, as I am fortunate in that she has not gotten into the really bad ones. No Swan or Bachelor or Date My Dad or whatever the true dreck is. But we do get plenty of Survivor, The Amazing Race and American Idol. What can I tell you? Her latest thing, more of a game than a reality show, is Deal or No Deal. If you have missed it, there is a big, tiered stage with a bunch of hot model chicks, each with a briefcase that holds a placard with a dollar figure on it. The player picks one case which becomes theirs, and then starts having the models open cases, hoping for low numbers and that their own case holds the big money. After every few cases, the host calls an offstage "banker" who figures the odds based on the cases already opened and offers to buy the contestant's case for an amount somewhere between the lowest and highest numbers still in play. The host tells the contestant the amount the bank is willing to pay for their still unopened case and says "deal or no deal." Hence the name. The contestant has to decide if they want to take the amount offered, or chance opening more cases and finding out that their own case holds a buck. (Side note, the host is a comedian named Howie Mandel who is, these days, a pretty big deal. In the late '70s, I saw Howie Mandel at the Comedy Store in Westwood, CA and he was way weirder than his current image would suggest. Weird–and funny–enough that I still remember it.)
Read More »