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TALLAHASSEE, FL — In what is becoming a fairly typical problem for many houses of worship, St. Paul's United Methodist Church needed an audio system for a modern style service with electric bands that wouldn’t be visible to the traditional parishioners who valued the sanctity of their sanctuary.

The RSS Digital V-Mixing System incorporates the new RSS M-400 Live Digital Console, configurable digital snakes with remotely controlled mic preamps, for approximately $10,000.

OLD LYME, CT — British rock trio Muse, currently in the middle of their world tour of stadiums, arenas and major festivals, are taking the stage with Sennheiser and Neumann microphones and Sennheiser personal wireless monitors.

DURHAM, NC –– Presented by the St. Joseph's Historic Foundation Inc., the 20th annual Bull Durham Blues Festival was held at the Historic Durham Athletic Park in downtown Durham and featured an impressive lineup of blues and R&B legends. According to Raleigh Music Brokerage’s Cooper Cannady, audio provider for the festival, “the weather was excellent, and on Friday night they set a record for attendance with 12,800 people filling the entire park.

SAN DIEGO — High-end aerobatic planes weren’t the only things that took to the skies at downtown San Diego’s Big Bay for the second-to-last stop of the 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series. L-ACOUSTICS line source array elements were also flying in precise formation at five different locations along the north and south peninsulas of Embarcadero Marina Park, delivering audio reinforcement throughout the event.

MARIAZELL, AUSTRIA — Over 30,000 people flocked to the Austrian town of Mariazell to follow—via giant LED screens—a Mass celebrated by the Pope. BMS Production Group was responsible for the production, commissioned Thomas Millmann's MTR Productions to provide much of the sound reinforcement using systems from Electro-Voice.

NEW YORK — Already a smash Hollywood movie, the Broadway stage production of Legally Blonde The Musical has received high marks across the board for both cast and crew. Bringing the musical into spotlight is the sound delivered by a powerful system featuring Meyer Sound MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers.
 

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The QSC WideLine is a full range line array loudspeaker system designed for use in a wide range of venues. The WideLine reportedly features an open, natural sound quality and  wide 140° horizontal coverage pattern.

Allen & Heath launched the ZED-14 stereo mixer, the first in a new range of small format, USB-equipped mixers for live performance.

BERKELEY, CA — When Steely Dan resumed touring after decades off the road, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker carried their devotion to audio quality with them from the studio to the stage. For their current Heavy Rollers Tour 2007, the band retained Taylor, Mich.-based Thunder Audio to provide a system built around Meyer Sound’s self-powered MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker.