News Archive - January 2011

StageCo Sued Over Tower Collapse

StageCo has been sued in Texas state court by Christie Lites for damages sustained when a 90' lighting tower erected by StageCo collapsed prior to a nationally televised motocross event at the Fort Worth Stockyards in June, ...

LOUD Appoints New Pro-Audio Leadership

LOUD Technologies Inc. has appointed Jeff Rocha vice president and general manager, EAW and Anthony Taylor vice president and managing director, Martin Audio. In these newly expanded roles, Rocha and ...

Philips Vari-Lite Continues to Expand In the Middle East

Philips Vari-Lite has announced delivery of 42 VL3500 Wash and 30 VL3000 Spot luminaires to Production Technology, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for use on lighting productions throughout the Middle East. Since ...

Dura-Flex is REACH-Compliant

Creative Stage Lighting has announced that Dura-Flex cable meets REACH environmental and safety standards.
REACH, the European environmental safety standard, restricts harmful and hazardous materials including ...

Lectrosonics to Co-Sponsor Wireless Theatre Presentation

Lectrosonics is co-sponsoring the forthcoming webinar "Wireless Theatre: Optimizing Systems for Vocal Clarity." Schedule for Tuesday, February 8 at 2pm Eastern / 11am pacific is free (after registering). ...

LAB X Technologies Issues AVB IP License to Avid

Lab X Technologies has issued a solution integration license of its AVB Audio IP Platform to Avid for development of an IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB)-based technology. Showcasing their AVB proof of concept at Integ ...

Waves Is Now Shipping V8 (Version 8) Plug-ins

Waves Audio, the provider of digital signal processing solutions, is now shipping V8, the new version of Waves plug-ins.
One of Version 8's most exciting highlights is that several classic plug-ins will be getting facelifts: ...

Sontronics Launches New Drum Mics

At this year's NAMM Show, Sontronics announced a further move into application-specific miking with the release of three condenser microphones designed specifically for drums: the DM-1T, DM-1S, and DM-1B. ...

Wildfire Inc. Supplies UV Fixtures to Tokyo Disneyland for Toy Story Mania!

Wildfire Inc., the maker UV (ultraviolet, aka "black light") effects for theatre, themed entertainment, and visitor attractions, has supplied Tokyo Disneyland with 137 Wildfire long-throw 250W UV lighting fixtures (model LT ...

AVS Production Group Chooses Yamaha PM5D-EX System For Marc Anthony Tour

Marc Anthony recently completed the US leg of a tour in support of his latest album of Spanish ballads, Iconos released in 2010.
The U.S. tour began in New York City at Madison Square Garden and wrapped up in ...

Soundcraft at Niagara County Community College Theatre

Ronco Specialized Systems, Inc. recently installed and revamped the theatre at Niagara County Community College's (NCCC) in Sanborn, New York with a Harman-based audio system, leading with a Soundcraft Si3 digital ...

Gearhouse SA Celebrates New Age Friendship

Over 40,000 excited cricket fans packed the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa, to see India clinch victory over the Proteas (South Africa) in Sunday's Standard Bank International Pro20 cricket tournament, in ...

Trinity Lutheran Church In Minnesota Updates with DiGiCo SD9

There has been a slew of house-of-worship installs in major metropolitan areas of the country utilizing SD8 and SD9 consoles of late, but DiGiCo consoles of any variety aren't limited exclusively to the bright lights of the big ...

Point Source Audio at t Lanier Charter Career Academy

Lanier Charter Career Academy (LCCA), in Georgia's Hall County, is a unique vocational training opportunity open to all high school students in the district. The hospitality industry factors prominently in the regional economy so ...

Audinate and ZP Engineering Extend Collaboration

ZP Engineering has become the first Audinate authorized distributor and engineering partner in EMEA.
"We're very excited that ZP Engineering has stepped up to become our first authorized distributor and engineering ...

Analog Way Promotes New VP Americas

Analog Way, the designer and manufacturer of image converters and presentation switchers, announces the promotion of Alexander Schöpff to the position of VP of American Operations.
As of March 1, Schöpff will head up ...

RapcoHorizon Company Secures 27 New Artist Endorsements

The RapcoHorizon Company, a manufacturer of audio/video interfacing and cable equipment, announces that 27 performing artists, including Drive By Truckers, the Charlie Daniels Band, Matt and Kim, Underoath and the Randy ...

Robe on Czech/Slovak Got Talent Series

The Czech and Slovak Republics pooled their resources in the rollout of the Got Talent TV series which was staged in Exhibition Hall Z of the Brno Exhibition Centre, Czechoslovakis, and by the Slovakian lighting designer < ...

Vari*Lite Gives to The Gift of Christmas

As worship leaders prepared for the Christmas season, many were creating elaborate and beautifully designed productions that rival touring productions normally seen from the likes of a Broadway production house. When Prestonwood ...

Theatre in Review: The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre/Lucille Lortel Theatre)

The emergence of the New Woman and the mania for divorce rocks New York society in David Auburn's gloss on Langdon Mitchell's 1906 comedy. Originally a vehicle for Mrs. Fiske, one of the era's great leading ladies -- her ...

Theatre in Review: Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi Newhouse Theatre)

"The time to make up your mind about people is never," wrote Philip Barry. They're words that Jon Robin Baitz has seemingly taken to heart in Other Desert Cities, and the result is, far and away, his best play in ...

Martin MAC 101s for Riverside Studios, London

Riverside Studios, on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, was looking for a suitable alternative to PAR cans and scrollers, "something equating to an expensive show run hire," according to Ruari Cormack, ...

PR Lighting at French Quarry

The French company, Budillon Rabatel has invested €15million ($20.5m) in upgrading its alluvial quarry at Izeaux, in southeastern France. For the special inauguration, the company called upon sound, light, and video specialists,

Midas Digital Systems Installed into Guangzhou Opera House

Located in the new city of Pearl River, the Guangzhou Opera House has become one of China's three biggest theatres. Constructed from 12,000 tons of steel on a 70,000 sq. m. site, the Opera House includes 1,800-seat and 400-seat ...

Clay Paky in Switzerland on Notre-Dame de Paris and the Starlight Circus

Notre-Dame de Paris was staged at Palazzetto Fevi, Locarno, Switzerland by the SFG Biasca gymnastic company. It was performed by 52 gymnasts and six actors, who sung live over original backing tracks by Riccardo ...

Mumford & Sons Hit the Road with VENUE

With 2011 Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song ("Little Lion Man"), Mumford & Sons have gone from complete unknowns to hot property in less time than it takes some bands to record an album. The West ...

Ashly Audio's KLR Amps at Club Marigny, Charlotte, North Carolina

Club Marigny in Charlotte, North Carolina styles itself after the raucous district in New Orleans of the same name. Marigny opened near the end of 2010 under the banner, "Laissez le bon temps rouler!" (Let the good times roll!) ...

Santa Barbara Sound Design Handles Broadcast Mix for Celebrity Holiday Telethon

Founded by Kenny Loggins over 30 years ago, the Christmas Unity Telethon is a broadcast annual fundraiser that raises money to provide food and life essentials, as well as Christmas presents and toys, for the ...

Martin Professional Entrusts Video Capture for Media Servers to DELTACAST Products

Under a new agreement signed with Belgium OEM video I/O card supplier DELTACAST, Martin Professional will be using the DELTA-hd and DELTA-dvi video capture cards in its Maxedia PRO and Maxedia Broadcast media servers. ...

Clear-Com Opens New Office In China

Clear-Com has established a new office in Beijing, China, located at Room No.518, Tower A, He Qiao Plaza, No.8A, Guanghua Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R.China. 100026.
This company says the investment demonstrates its ...

Grass Valley Taps Aengus Linehan to Lead Global Services

Grass Valley has named Aengus Linehan, a veteran of the IT and communications services industry, as senior vice president of the company's global services business unit. Linehan will be responsible for all aspects of the ...

AKG Voted Best Microphone and Headphones at SOS Awards, NAMM

AKG earned two 2011 SOS Awards during Winter NAMM. Voted Best Microphone and Best Headphones by readers of the publication Sound on Sound were the AKG C414XLS and AKG K240.
"The SOS awards provide an ...

Symetrix Automix Matrix 780 and Room Combine 788 Now 64-Bit Compatible

Symetrix has announced a new, freely available release of the programming software for two of its fixed-architecture processors, the Automix Matrix 780 and the Room Combine 788. Along with a few small changes, the update makes the ...

Stewart Audio Selects Pacific AV for Sales Representation

Stewart Audio, manufacturer of amplifiers and audio equipment for a wide range of sound reinforcement applications, has selected Pacific AV for sales representation in the Southern California and Southern Nevada territory. ...

Richard Ocean Leaves Branam Enterprises

Richard Ocean is on the move after a productive time at Branam Enterprises, Inc. Two major accomplishments during his tenure there are the coalescing of the strategic partnership between All Access and Branam ...

Shure at New Jersey's Architekt Music Venue

The owners of New Jersey's new Architekt Music chose Shure microphones across the board - for the facility's concert venue, recording studio, and professional music instruction space.
"We knew Shure microphones could stand ...

Riedel Communications at Asian Games 2010

Riedel Communications installed a comprehensive communications system for the Asian Games in Guangzhou. Riedel provided the venue communication system as well as the intercom for the opening and closing ceremonies, ...

Adamson at Vancouver's Chan Centre

Since its opening in 1997, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts located in Vancouver, British Columbia, features three unique venues: The Chan Shun Concert Hall, which seats 1,200; the black box Telus Theatre holds 275; ...

Clay Paky at Doha's Tribeca Film Festival

In its second year, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival once again relied on Clay Paky Alpha moving fixtures, and the products' biggest stockholder in the Middle East, Creative Events (CCG).
CCG provided more than 1,300 ...

Kings of Leon Select Midas XL8 for Tour

2010 was a busy year for Grammy-winning Kings of Leon, having toured since the summer in support of the new album Come Around Sundown, with Midas XL8 live performance systems at the front of house and monitors ...

Yamaha at Shore Fellowship Church, New Jersey

Over the past ten years, the community encompassing Shore Fellowship Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey has grown from 300 to over 1,500 congregates. Recently, under the direction of John Redding, worship pastor ...

EAW KF740 Loudspeakers Added to Peak Hire Ltd.'s EAW Inventory

Peak Hire Ltd., based in Cheltenham in Gloucester, England, continues to expand its EAW inventory with the addition of 18 KF740 three-way line array modules. The announcement was made by Peak Hire's managing director, Kar ...

DiGiCo SD9 at Conservative Party Conference, UK

As its first conference since David Cameron became prime minister, the 2010 Conservative Party Conference feature the DiGiCo SD9 console.
Sound reinforcement for the event, held at Birmingham's ICC's Symphony ...

Theatre Projects Completes Work on New World Center, Miami Beach

Theatre Projects, in collaboration with Gehry Partners and Frank Gehry (partner in charge), has completed its most recent feat in theatre design, with the opening of the New World Symphony campus this week in < ...

Martin's LightJockey 2 Gets Repackaged; Hardware Replacement Program Active

Martin Professional's PC-based lighting software, LightJockey 2, is now shipping with the new Martin One-Key protection device, one Martin USB DUO DMX and the MSD5 MC Edition 3D visualizer.
Martin also announces a LightJockey ...

New Product Range for LTM

Entertainment lifting equipment supplier LTM -- Lift Turn Move Ltd. - has announced two additions to its product range: The C-Force manual chain block and C-Force beam clamp.
These new products are all black in color, ...

JoeCo Releases Latest Update to BlackBox Recorder

JoeCo has just released the latest software update (V2.1) for its award-winning 24-track live recorder, BlackBox Recorder. The update includes a number of significant new features that focus on increased safety and flexibility. < ...

DWR to Distribute Philips in South Africa

Johannesburg-based DWR Distribution has been appointed as the sole South African distributor for the Philips Selecon and Strand ranges of products.
DWR already distributes several premium brands, including Vari*L ...

J. R. Clancy Rigging Selected for University in Saudi Arabia

When Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, opens its campus to students early in 2012, its three theatres will be equipped with J. R. Clancy, Inc. rigging systems. ...

GDS Provides Custom Solution for Théâtre du Châtelet,

GDS, the UK-based manufacturer of entertainment technology products, was recently commissioned to deliver a custom stage manager's console for Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet. The brief was to provide the theatre with a ...

Midas PRO6 Marks a First in the Middle East

Leading Dubai-based events and audio company Se7en Productions has selected a Midas PRO6 for its new high-definition (HD) OB truck, making it the first OB truck in the Middle East be to fitted with a Midas digital ...

EAW Speaker Systems Chosen To Reinforce Pope Benedict XVI

Barcelona, Spain-based production sound company FOCUS, S.A. provided a massive EAW speaker system for the tens of thousands of people who recently turned out to witness Pope Benedict XVI consecrate the city's ...

Dutch Pop Orchestra Uses NEXO Alpha at Detroit Music Hall

Guido's Orchestra, from Holland, has taken the Netherlands by storm and now has the U.S. in its sights. With a recent two-week tour, the orchestra, led by violinist Guido Dieteren, features talented young musicians and an ...

LumenRadio at Aviva Stadium, Dublin

LumenRadio's CRMX RDM wireless system was recently used to provide some extra excitement at a sold-out rugby game in the international Magners League at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. The newly rebuilt stadium is home of ...

JBL at Mountain View Community Church, Ramona, California

The gear supplier, Sound Image, recently installed a JBL VRX Constant Curvature line array system in the Mountain View Community Church's (MVCC) main chapel; with a capacity of 600, it is the largest church in Ramona ...

WorxAudio Technologies Loudspeakers Deployed At La Crescenta Presbyterian Church

As is common at many churches these days, the worship services at La Crescenta Presbyterian Church in La Crescenta, California, have evolved into a combination of traditional and contemporary programs in an effort to be relevant ...

Michigan's Scenic Prop and Design Forms Relationship with IATSE

Hollywood has come knocking for Michigan-based Scenic Prop and Design. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has officially formed a manufacturing relationship with the Madison Heights-based company that ...

HA-Rental is First to Invest in Philips Selecon PL3

HA-Rental, based in Zwolle, the Netherlands, is the first rental company in the world to invest in the Philips Selecon professional LED luminaire range -- the PL3 -- for its rental stock. ...

Artistic Licence Launches Two-Play XT

Due to the popularity of Two-Play, the two-universe Art-Net recorder and playback controller, Artistic Licence Engineering has released Two-Play XT, a sophisticated new development which supports both DMX and Art-Net ...

Peavey Architectural Acoustics Debuts All-New Digitool Multiprocessors

Architectural Acoustics by Peavey debuts three new models of the venerable Peavey Architectural Acoustics Digitool multiprocessor series.
The Digitool is now available in the following models: the MX16, featuring eight inputs ...

NAMM Preview for Dante-Enabled BlackBox Recorder from JoeCo

At the NAMM Show in Anaheim, the UK-based company JoeCo Limited previewed a version of the upcoming Dante-enabled BlackBox recorder, which is due for release in the coming months. A BlackBox player was used to feed a ...

Theatre in Review: The Importance of Being Earnest (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines)

You rarely get universal agreement among the members of the Broadway press, but last week's reviews for the Roundabout revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest constituted one big love letter to Bri ...

Earthworks Celebrates 15th Anniversary with 15-Year Warranty

Earthworks, Inc., the world's only manufacturer of high definition microphones for recording, live sound, and test/measurement applications, reports that November 2010 marked the company's 15th anniversary. To celebrate, it is ...

Carver Professional Launches New Products at NAMM

At NAMM, Carver Professional released its new lineup of products, including the new Xr Series professional power amplifiers and a line of powered speakers.
The Xr Series is specifically designed for high-power sound reinforcement ...

AFMG Becomes German Distributor for EASE, EASERA, and SysTune

Berlin-based AFMG, creator of EASE, the software for acoustic simulation, assumed the German distribution of its software packages EASE, EASERA, and SysTune as of this month. This decision joins sales of AFMG's complete software ...

ARX USB DIs at Australian Open Tennis Grand Slam

Darren McKenzie, from the Melbourne, Australia-based production company The Loft Productions, used ARX's USB - DI USB digital-to-analog transformer-isolated interfaces at the recent Australian Open Tennis Grand ...

Hippotizer Continues Its Run on X-Factor

Green Hippo provided the elaborate visual display and live footage for the UK-based talent competition television series The X-Factor's 2010 edition.
X-Factor's lighting programmer, William Peachment from, Little ...

Clay Paky Alphas at New Kazakhstan Venue

Clay Paky Alphas were recently installed inside the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre, an enormous marquee erected in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan.
The center is the new reference point for the civil life of the ...

SymNet Processors Deliver Audio Solution at the Visia Dubrovnik 5D Theatrum

Visia Dubrovnik 5D Theatrum (VD5T) celebrates the rich heritage of Dubrovnik, Croatia, with state-of-the-art experiential technology, including a 3D projection theater with vibrating seats and wind effect plus the ability to ...

Aviom Supports Digital Audio Arts Degree Program at University of Lethbridge, Alberta

The University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada, recently installed an Aviom Pro16 personal mixing system to serve a multitude of functions for the school including music recording, theatre production, and traditional ...

Countryman Associates Helps HP Pavilion Resolve Nagging Audio Issue

A personal computer can be a rather hostile tool if it's not interfaced with the right equipment. Such was the case at the HP Pavilion at San Jose; working alongside a variety of broadcast quality capable sound sources, the laptop ...

PRG Launches Media Services Group with Acquisition of Pow! Pix

Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) has acquired New York-based Pow! Pix. The acquisition marks PRG's entry into the rental of post-production equipment and services, specializing in on-site editing for live event and ...

Lectrosonics Introduces New Website

Lectrosonics' website has just completed a substantial upgrade. Featuring a bold new graphical design, improved menu and navigation structure, and enhanced search capability; the new Lectrosonics website is designed to mark ...

Crest Audio Launches Pro-Lite Series with Pro-Lite 2.0 Amplifiers

Crest Audio has debuted the Pro-LITE Series power amplifiers with the Pro-LITE 2.0 and Pro-LITE 2.0 DSP, featuring an incredibly lightweight, efficient design with high power and stable performance into 2-ohm loads. ...

Avid Unveils Academic Pricing for Pro Tools and Sibelius

Avid has announced global academic pricing for Pro Tools Version 9 and Sibelius Version 6, giving college-level students, educators, and academic institutions around the world up to 50% savings and access to the same music ...

Lab X Technologies Promotes Chris Pane VP of Business Development

With a continued focus on expansion and growth in the audio/video connectivity industry, Lab X Technologies has promoted Chris Pane to vice president of business development. "Chris' move to VP of business development is one ...

Theatre in Review: Flipzoids (Ma-Yi Theatre Company)

Flipzoids is basically a play about an old lady on a beach, and it's our good fortune that she's played by Ching Valdes-Aran. As Aying, an aging Filipino woman who has been unwillingly brought to Southern California ...

Grass Valley Unveils New Leadership Team

Following its acquisition by Francisco Partners, Grass Valley, the maker of video and broadcast gear, has announced a new executive team which will be headquartered in San Francisco, ...

Neutrik USA Introduces Multimedia Connector Series at Winter NAMM 2011

In an effort to meet the burgeoning demand for USB, FireWire and HDMI connector solutions from the professional audio industry, Neutrik USA introduced a rugged new line of multimedia data connectors at this year's Winter NAMM ...