International News

DUBAI, U.A.E — SLS Production of Dubai recently provided concert sound reinforcement services for Dubai Desert Rock Festival 2009, the 10th year for the concert series, with this year’s show placing an emphasis on heavy metal acts. As in years past, the Festival featured an extensive range of JBL VERTEC line array models.

FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Renkus-Heinz IC LIVE marked 30 years with a look ahead at Frankfurt Pro Light+Sound’s Concert Sound Arena earlier this month — with three demos a day for its digitally beam steerable array.

JOHANNESBURG — Gearhouse South Africa supplied sound for the 2009 Coca Cola Zero festival at Riversands Farm and the Lourensford Wine Estate in Cape Town. Oasis and Snow Patrol headlined the event, which also featured Panic at the Disco and six Africa-based bands — The Dirty Skirts, Zebra & Giraffe, Casette, Foto na dans, aKing and One Day Remains.

LLANELLI, U.K. — Vaughan Sound Installations (VSI), in conjunction with Whitehead Building Services, installed Community’s R.5 stadium speakers, with control via a TOA VX system manager, plus power amplifiers and power supplies for the public address system at the new stadium here, Parc y Scarlets, which replaced 130-year-old Stradey Park.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The 2009 Cape Town International Jazz Festival has emerged as a major event, drawing 60,000 over two days to the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

FRANKFURT, Germany — If Alcons Audio had any qualms about exhibiting at ProLight + Sound in the midst of an economic downturn, they have since been dashed by what the company is now calling its “most successful PL&S show” yet.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves Audio, a provider of digital signal processing solutions, launched its Waves Hybrid line, a series of plug-ins for its console/processor models (SSL 4000 Collection, V-Series, The API Collection, The JJP Collection).

LONDON — Aviom has named Nick Williams international marketing and sales director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Most recently EMEA sales director for Harman Pro, Williams has also served as the European sales manager for Tascam and as managing director/co-owner of Music Connections Hertfordshire.

BANGALORE, India — Although V&P Sound PVT. Ltd. has stepped into the digital age with a Soundcraft Vi6™console for recent events, many of the independent engineers mixing for performers at the annual Rock Ethos festival here last month haven’t. So V&P Sound provided Soundcraft MH2 and MH3 analog consoles for their benefit.