LONDON – Eliza Doolittle FOH engineer John Delf is using Midas' new analog console with FireWire interface, the so-called "digilog" VeniceF, to support the artist's current performances. The desk is one of the first off of the U.K. production line, and Delf, who had seen one during a PRO6 training day at Midas, snapped it up for his own use.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Allen & Heath's Brazilian distributor, Libor, helped André Zampieri, art and musical director for the nearly 30-year-old band Santa Maria, make the digital leap with an iLive-T112 Control Surface and iDR-48 MixRack at FOH.
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LONDON – Entec Sound moved into London's Royal Albert Hall for the seven-day run of 2011 Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) shows, which kicked off with a comedy night on the Monday followed by a mix of music for the rest of the week including headliners Squeeze, Biffy Clyro, Roger Daltrey, Beady Eye, The Editors and Tiny Tempah.
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MUMBAI, India – The 2011 Cricket World Cup final April 2 at Wankhede Stadium wasn't just between cricket players representing India and Sri Lanka. From the perspective of Mumbai-based E2 Tech, it was also between the 24 Turbosound Flex Array loudspeakers they provided and as many as 40,000 cheering, vuvuzela-ing fans.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Renkus-Heinz demoed the IC2 (IC Squared) high powered, medium format digitally steerable loudspeaker system at Pro Light+Sound, featuring the system in 12 public demonstration sessions and a live demo.
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LONDON – With 80 candles on your cake, you're entitled to a lot of wishes. How about having Sharon Stone and Kevin Spacey host a charity concert at Royal Albert Hall featuring musical guests Bryan Ferry, Shirley Bassey, Katherine Jenkins, the Scorpions, Paul Anka, The London Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Valery, Gergiev Bolshoi and Mariinsky Soloists, the Igor Krutoi Turetsky Choir, Andrey Gavrilov, among others?
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Aqua Sounds supported two major events in Tanzania's largest city with Proel Axiom gear. The events included festivities surrounding the East Africa Football Cup and a major corporate event sponsored by mobile telephone company Bharti Airtel.
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LONDON – Adlib supplied sound equipment and crew for the recent U.K. leg of The Script's Science & Faith world tour.
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HYDERABAD, India – For a recent Bryan Adams concert that drew 18,000 to the Hitex Exhibition Centre, Sound.com provided Harman gear including Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers and JBL VerTec line arrays.
Read More »LONDON – British authorities have completed a major crackdown on counterfeit goods, seizing gear with forged Sennheiser and Monster Cable branding from the premises of an organization involved in distributing the illegal knockoffs online. Sennheiser and Monster Cable helped investigators confirm that the illegal goods were, in fact, fakes.
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ZAGREB, Croatia – JSN Comon provided a sound reinforcement system that uses SymNet open-architecture digital signal processing for the 161,000-square-foot Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), an Igor Franic-designed building.
Read More »FRANKFURT, Germany – Harman Professional's HiQnet Performance Manager software, which debuted at Prolight + Sound 2011, is designed to streamline the system design, setup and tuning process for touring and live performance venue sound reinforcement systems, according to Paul Bauman, director of tour sound product application and application engineering, JBL Professional.
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