USA – The National Independent Talent Organization (NITO) and several partners with a big stake in the safe return of live events are launching a campaign for vaccine awareness. It’s called Vax4Live.
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MINNEAPOLIS – After becoming the first company in North America to take delivery of a new DiGiCo Quantum225 console, Reach Communications quickly put it to use for a live-streamed show by Yam Haus at First Avenue in Minneapolis. The console is pictured here with FOH engineer Adam Bufis (left) and Yam Haus band members.
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MUNICH – Integrated Systems Events, which had planned an ambitious program with regional in-person events throughout June in Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and London, announced April 30 that it would have to cancel the events planned for Munich and Amsterdam due to uncertainty about Covid-19 restrictions in Germany and the Netherlands.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – New Life Church upgraded its main worship space, dubbed The Living Room, with a new Meyer Sound LYON line array system supplied and installed by Second Opinion Audio. Technical Director Evan Duran praised the new system’s uniform coverage.
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FOSTER CITY, CA — It might be scaled back to 150 worshippers right now due to Covid, but that did not stop the 700-seat Central… Read More »Bay Area Church Chooses d&b A-Series with ArrayProcessing
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Launched in January of this year, Lawo’s new second-generation mc²36 audio production console — an incredibly powerful yet compact mixer — is now even… Read More »Lawo Debuts mc²36 in Compact 48-Fader Layout
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SAN FRANCISCO – Jon Johannsen, audio engineer for the San Francisco Symphony, detailed the networking challenges of capturing the orchestra’s music when members couldn’t play together as an ensemble due to Covid-19 restrictions. He noted that Luminex’s Araneo software serves as an essential tool for overseeing the network.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), which opened its Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) application portal April 8, but then closed it hours later due to technical difficulties, announced recently that the portal had been thoroughly tested and would reopen on April 24 before shifting the portal opening date to April 26. The portal appears to be now open and working.
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MANILA – Favor Church is using the Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer and Waves plugins to mix the church’s live services, at front of house and monitors, as well as for streaming its live online broadcasts.
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LAS VEGAS – Leading off their press release with three words – “Intermission is over!” – Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group announced a return to the live stage in Las Vegas this summer, with shows welcoming live audiences as early as late June, and touring productions following in late 2021 and early 2022.
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PORTLAND, OR – St. Mary’s Cathedral turned to Alpha Sound for an AV upgrade that included more than 20 mics from DPA Microphones. The new mics include 4097 and 4098 goosenecks, 4099 CORE instrument mics, 4080 cardioid lavaliers and 4006C and 4011F pencil mics.
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NASHVILLE – March 2020 will be remembered as the start of a disastrous year for just about everyone in the live event industry. But for Basement East in Nashville, that month was memorable not just for Covid-19, but for a midnight tornado – and the remarkable survival of much of the Meyer Sound speaker system in the storm’s aftermath, which was put back into service with an assist from PRG.
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