MEXICO CITY – One of the biggest entertainment industry events on the Mexico City media calendar, the annual Lunas del Auditorio Awards held in the city’s Auditorio Nacional, celebrates the best live talent, productions and performances from across Latin America. Along with top stars appearing onstage, the new Midas XL8 digital mixing system made its debut at FOH.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Demonstrating JBL Professional VERTEC line arrays, audio company Altincizme Sound & Light Systems supported international pop star Shakira’s concert in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of her “Oral Fixation” tour. The tour, in support of Shakira’s album of the same name, began in June 2006 and included major concert events presented to sold-out audiences in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America.
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NEW YORK – Radio City Music Hall, a New York City landmark for 75 years, has installed 11 Dolby Lake Processors. The processors are being used for zone control and optimization of a newly installed JBL VerTec sound reinforcement system as well as existing under-balcony speaker, front fill and Dolby movie surround networks at the prestigious 6,000-seat, multi-purpose, indoor theatre.
Read More »WADSWORTH, OH – Online Marketing has officially acquired Adamson representation for Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania.
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Provider Series LLC introduces the new PSL6 series of lavalier and theatre-style microphones. The PSL6 lavalier microphone is designed for speech and theatre applications. The small size (3mm capsule) and weight are designed for applications requiring minimum visibility and comfort, like video, television and stage productions.
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M’elodie is the latest self-powered loudspeaker from Meyer Sound. It is a ultracompact, high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker is the newest generation of the M Series family. According to the company, M’elodie brings the simplified rigging of the MILO loudspeakers, along with a high power-to-size ratio in a compact package.
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PARIS — The Opéra Bastille Paris was inaugurated in 1989 as part of the French Revo-lution Bicentenary celebrations. Always a visionary in audio technology, the Opéra Bas-tille was the first to work with an analog console featuring remote total digital recall. During a recent technical overhaul, the opera integrated Optocore and Yamaha as the basis of the system.
Read More »IPSWICH, U.K. — Celestion and Group One Ltd. are celebrating their 10th anniversary as partners with an impressive 25% year-on-year increase in distribution sales. Group One has operated as primary distributor of Celestion premium guitar, bass and professional audio speakers to dealers and retailers in North America since October 1997. Both companies expect this relationship will continue for many more years.
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ELKHART, IND. — As Crown International has transitioned to a lean manufacturing approach over the past few years, the company’s endeavor has not gone unnoticed. As a result of streamlining its manufacturing, Crown recently had the distinction of being a tour site for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) 2007 International Conference in Chicago.
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DALY CITY, CA — The Goo Goo Dolls have been touring the world since the band released its 2006 album, Let Love In. At the tour’s audio helm is Engineer/Mixer Paul Hager, who previously worked with Avril Lavigne, Pink and The Donnas, among others. Hager was attracted to the Digidesign VENUE live sound system due to its Pro Tools integration, and eventually got the band to switch to VENUE for the tour.
PRAGUE — Jazz piano player Chick Corea arrived in Prague to give a concert at the prestigious Smetanova Hall. RentalPro provided a NEXO GEO S8, CD12 front-of-house PA and a PS Series stage monitoring system. Although undemanding in terms of inputs — just 12 — sound reinforcement was controlled by an EtherSound network.
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NEW YORK — Grammy-winning rock vocalist/guitarist Dave Matthews joined guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Tim Reynolds for a short summer tour of three theatre dates, which culminated with an intimate acoustic set at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The duo’s lengthy set, recorded for the Live at Radio City Music Hall album, entertained the crowd via a Meyer Sound MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker system.
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