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LONDON — ADLIB Audio supplied their new Digidesign D-Show Venue live mixing console and new VerTec subs for multiple-award winning Denver-based piano rockers The Fray, along with full audio production and crew for the band's recent UK Tour.

ORLANDO, FL — The 2007 Parnelli Awards gala honored the best and brightest of the live event industry Friday, Nov. 16, at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Fla. The hundreds in attendance constituted a Who’s Who of players in the live event industry, and they all rose to their feet in honor of Lifetime Achievement award winner Gerry Stickells and Audio Innovator award winner Bob Heil. Even the stars paid their respect, with members of Velvet Revolver, Queen and Jimi Hendrix’s band offering their kudos via video. All the Parnelli winners — as voted on by readers of PLSN and FOH — were celebrated in the awards ceremony that honors the best of our business. 

TORONTO — ACS Productions Sound and Lighting Inc. of Ontario, Canada, recently deployed their new M.LINE compact line array rig for Toronto’s version of worldwide festival of the Lady of Lights, or Senhora de Luz.

Line array systems have become the primary loudspeaker configuration for tour sound and many large installations. With the advent of the WideLine WL2082-i Installation Line Array (ILA), QSC offers a professional system accessible to a broader range of house of worship and performance venues.

BERMUDA — Two Allen & Heath iLive-144 digital consoles provided FOH and monitor mixing duties for the 13th Annual Bermuda Music Festival. Audio Incorporated from Roselle Park, N.J., ran sound for the event.

NASHVILLE, TN — For the 14th consecutive year, Audio-Technica has supported the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards by providing a selection of vocal and instrument microphones for its annual awards show.

BARCELONA — When Barcelona-based sound contractor and XTA distributor Adagio SA was commissioned to design the audio system for the 4,000-capacity B3 multiroom dance venue in Dos Hermanas (near Seville), XTA was chosen to deliver the audio processing.  

DULUTH, MN — Supercharged snowmobile engines issue high-pitched screams at 130 dB, pushed to piston-pummeling extremes as they tear around the track. The crowd is nearly as noisy, loving every minute of it. Being heard above all this is easier said than done. And then there’s the mud, the slush and the dirt. That’s why making live sound reinforcement happen on the World Power Sports Association (WPSA) Racing Sno-X snowmobile and ATV tours — as seen on the Speed Channel and ESPN — requires some tough loudspeakers.

COHASSET and HYANNIS, MA —The South Shore Music Circus and its sister venue, the Cape Cod Melody Tent, stand tall as the last two U.S. continuously operating in-the-round tent theatres. Meyer Sound M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers were recently installed at both historic venues.
 

GREENSBORO, NC — WorxAudio Technologies has introduced the M80i Install Line Array. A member of WorxAudio Technologies’ TrueLine Series, the new M80i is a two-way, high efficiency, ultra compact line array loudspeaker system designed for the most natural sounding reproduction of speech and music program material. This new loudspeaker system is designed for a wide variety of sound reinforcement applications, including corporate/industrial presentation venues, performance venues and clubs, houses of worship, theaters and AV production.

CHICAGO — The 300-seat auditorium in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) hosts a diversity of musical and theatrical styles, from jazz to classical and from pop to avant-garde. Dennis O'Shea, MCA's manager of technical production, recently added a second eight-channel TRUE Systems Precision 8 preamp/DI to the auditorium's reinforcement and archival system so that all 16 recording channels could benefit from the Precision 8s' clean, warm sound.