News Archive - August 2013

Exclusive Pre-Show Party and Backstage Tour Offered with PLASA Focus: Austin 2013

All PLASA Focus: Austin visitors and exhibitors are invited to attend a pre-show backstage tour and live music event at ACL Live in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas on Monday, September 9, from 5:00 - 7:00pm. ...

Show Sage Brings Latest Dataton Innovations to PLASA Focus: Austin 2013

Dataton and Show Sage, premium partner for North America, will be joining forces to exhibit at PLASA Focus: Austin 2013. On display will be Dataton WATCHOUT version 5.5 multi-image display and presentation software and ...

Robe PLASA London 2013 Preview

Robe lighting is showcasing nine new products on stand L80 in Hall 5 at PLASA London 2013 exhibition at ExCeL London, October 6 - 9.
Robe is looking forward to the show in its new location at ExCeL London, and will ...

Chauvet Opens West Coast Branch and Showroom

Chauvet, a global supplier of entertainment lighting and trussing, announces the opening of a California-based branch office and satellite distribution center in September. Technical support, training, and demo programs serving the ...

ADJ to Show New Versatile, Value-Driven Professional LED Stage Fixtures at 2013 WFX Show

Churches today are striving to update the look of their services and productions, while cutting energy costs and staying within tight technology budgets. ADJ says it is helping houses of worship achieve this fine balance with a ...

Parsons Audio Expo 2013 Planned for November 14

Parsons Audio of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, will hold its 23rd annual Expo on Thursday, November 14, from 10:00am - 7:00pm at the Dedham Holiday Inn in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Parsons Audio, a provider offering ...

Introducing Lightweight, Heavy Lifting DuraTruss Goliath-Studio Crank Stands

"Weight" is a relative term. The new DuraTruss Goliath-Studio crank stands can be considered lightweight in terms of how easy it is to lift them, or according to the company, how affordable it is to transport them. The secret to ...

Harman's AKG Weekly Contests Put AKG By TIËSTO Headphones in Fans' Hands

As Harman's AKG By TIËSTO headphone line continues to impress aspiring and professional DJs and producers around the world, fans of both electronic dance music and high-quality headphones now have the chance to own a pair of the ...

RCF Announces D Line HD 32-A Loudspeaker

RCF has announced the availability of the HD 32-A, an active, two-way loudspeaker that is the newest member of the D Line family of loudspeakers.
At the core of the HD 32-A is the new ND 840 large format two-inch titanium ...

Harman's Soundcraft Launches "Mixing with Professionals" Program for Si Series Consoles

In response to popular demand, Harman's Soundcraft has launched a new "Mixing with Professionals" program for its Si Series of digital mixing consoles. Building on its successful program for the Vi Series, these "Mixing with ...

Mark Haney Joins CT Touring

CT Touring welcomes longtime industry veteran and video director Mark Haney to the company. Haney, has had leading roles in concert touring for over 20 years and is an award-winning director whose roster includes Eric Clapton ...

Annual MDA: Show of Strength Telethon Features Creative Lighting Design

Production for this year's MDA: Show of Strength event was provided by R.A. (RAC) Clark, longtime executive producer of the Academy of Country Music Awards. Clark served as the MDA telethon's executive producer in 2012 and ...

Dave Cobb, Jonathan Douglas, Jake Barton Join SATE '13 Speaker Lineup: TEA's Design Conference October 3-4

The SATE '13 conference committee, chaired by Aram Ebben of exp, and Stefan Lawrence of Stefan Rules! has released a preliminary program in keeping with this year's "What's Next" theme. Additional speakers and details ...

d&b audiotechnik on Show at CITT

"It's my favorite event of the year. Conferences like CITT are so much fun because they provide an awesome opportunity to meet new people and see friends," raves Trevor Nash of d&b audiotechnik, who recently attended ...

Stage|Set|Scenery: Messe Berlin and DTHG Present a New International Stage Technology Conference

Today, Werner Mocke, director at Messe Berlin and project manager of Stage|Set|Scenery, presented the new concept of Stage|Set|Scenery at the symposium of Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft (DTHG). Taking ...

Bandit Lights Inc. Invests In Robe for Selena Gomez Stars Dance Tour

Knoxville, Tennessee-based lighting, touring, and solutions provider Bandit Lites Inc. has invested in a substantial number of Robe's newest moving lights as specified by creative director and production designer Seth ...

Yamaha Launches STAGEPAS 400i and STAGEPAS 600i for Live Sound on the Go

Yamaha debuted the latest models in its lineup of STAGEPAS portable PA systems -- the Stagepas 400i and 600i -- successors of the Stagepas 300 and 500 compact, portable sound systems. Combining high-efficiency amplifiers, newly ...

Sennheiser Digital 9000 Wireless System Takes Center Court at Elite US Tennis Tournament

The US Open is the final major Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2013, with a purse of $34 million and over 700,000 fans expected to attend between now and Monday, September 9. In addition to drawing international tennis stars such as fifth ...

Chauvet Professional Video Panels Tour with Pitbull

During his recent North American tour, rapper, songwriter, and record producer Pitbull ignited the audience with his high-energy performance not only rapping live, but also incorporating his famous duets with renowned artists like Jennifer ...

London's National Theatre Has Eos-Family Values

In 2009, with its lighting rigs growing increasingly complex and more diverse, the National Theatre in London decided to put several just-launched ETC Eos desks in the driver's seat on its three stages. The staff quickly became dedicated ...

Alcons Audio Goes to eTown

Recognized nationally as a radio music program and broadcast on over 300 stations in North America, eTown (etown.org) completed the renovation of its own 17,000-sq.ft. specialty venue called eTown Hall in Boulder, Colorado last year. The ...

Community R-Series Does Double-Duty for CRC Soccer

Consumnes River College (CRC) is a community college in South Sacramento, California. As a member of the Big 8 Conference in Northern California, CRC belongs to the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) and has an ...

CAD Wireless "Exceeds Expectations" At Park Inn Hotel In Costa Rica

Located in the heart of Costa Rica's capital San Jose, downtown near the bustling business district, the Park Inn Hotel already has seven expansive conference rooms and plans to add four more in the coming year. ...

WorxAudio Technologies Upgrades Its TrueAim Systems Optimization Software

WorxAudio Technologies, a manufacturer of loudspeaker systems for the pro touring and install markets, announces the company has just signed an agreement with AFMG for the use of their new FIRmaker software. WorxAudio has ...

Professional Wireless Systems Brings its Star-Studded Wireless Equipment to Telemundo's Awards Show

For the second year in a row, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound company and skilled in supplying and supporting wireless systems for live and broadcast events, was on-site to support the red carpet and live ...

PR Lighting Fixtures Light Up Miss Sri Lanka Pageant

PR Lighting fixtures were out in force at the recent Derana Veet Miss Sri Lanka 2013 pageant in Wadduwa.
Held at the five-star Blue Water Hotel, a luxury hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean, the ballroom stage was imaginatively ...

2013 PLASA Awards for Innovation Now Accepting Entries

PLASA London 2013, which takes place at ExCeL London October 6 - 9, 2013, announces the launch of the 2013 PLASA Awards for Innovation, and is inviting entries at www.plasashow.com/awards until Friday, September 27. The ...

ETCP Paper and Pencil Testing Offered at LDI2013 in Las Vegas

Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) provides evidence of a recipient's technical proficiency as a rigger and electrician. ETCP certification exhibits professionalism and offers the opportunity to distinguish the ...

Yamaha Training Sessions to Be Held in Chicago and Dallas

Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars (YCATS) will hold training sessions in Chicago on September 10 and 13 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois and in Dallas, Texas on September 17 and 20 at the Sheraton Downtown.

"100 Innovations" Exhibition at Tekniska museet, Stockholm Wins Design Award

The "100 Innovations" exhibition at the Tekniska museet (The National Museum of Science and Technology), Stockholm, Sweden recently won the "Best Program for Targeted Audience" category of the IDCA Awards (International Design ...

Over 1,500 New Robe LEDWash 800s Available in Germany

Robe's LEDWash series continues to break new ground and set more records as a one of the company's best-selling products.
The German market -- consistently one of the strongest in Europe for Robe -- recently benefited from German ...

Allen & Heath's Qu-16 Manages International Athletics Meet

Swiss PA company, Auditech, employed the company's new Allen & Heath Qu-16 compact digital mixer as the front-of-house mixer at an international athletics meet, Athletissima. Held annually in Lausanne, Switzerland, ...

Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Upgrades Assistive Listening Devices with Sennheiser

For almost a century, the 5th Avenue Theatre has been a landmark in the Seattle and broader Northwestern regional arts community, and indeed a springboard for many Broadway productions over the years. Helen Hayes, the "First Lady of the ...

Panasonic Teams with Virginia Tech to Upgrade Lane Stadium and Cassell Coliseum Video Scoreboards

Panasonic Eco Solutions North America announced that it has been selected by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Athletics Department to upgrade the existing video scoreboard structure in Lane ...

PixelFLEX LED Panels Brighten Sunday Service

Thousands crowded into Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee recently for a Sunday service not soon to be forgotten. PixelFLEX LED curtains adorned the church stage with a vivid, bright and high-quality video screen ...

Focusrite's RedNet Systems Help World Revival Church Continue Reaching Out

Thanks to its extensive streaming initiative, the World Revival Church in Kansas City, Missouri, has spread its message to hundreds of thousands of people from the far corners of the world. In its current form since 2001, the ministry of ...

d&b audiotechnik Taps into Fashion

Located at the heart of Milan's fashion district, the new Spazio Gessi is a showroom and meeting center like no other. With world-class Italian brands all around it, Spazio Gessi has literally been dug in underground between two historical ...

Biggest Bar in Asia Suits Up with Harman Professional Audio System

The G+ Club, known as "the biggest bar in Asia" with an area of over 20,000-sq.-ft., recently opened in Hangzhou, China. Even more impressive is the audio system: a full lineup of Harman's JBL Marquis dance club series ...

Theatre in Review: The Awake (kef theatrical productions/59E59)

The lead characters of The Awake have two things in common. One is obvious; the other isn't. The obvious thing: Each of them is living a nightmare in which the line between reality and fantasy has collapsed. Nate, a young ...

PLASA Rigging Conference 2013 Expands Focus to Include Structures

The fourth annual PLASA Rigging Conference will expand this year to focus on structures as well as rigging issues, bringing in experts from both fields to share their knowledge, experiences, and advice. The PLASA Rigging Conference ...

LightFactory Launches LFRemote iOS Remote 1.1

Dream Solutions announces the latest release of its LFRemote for iOS devices. Following the successful launch of the lighting remote for iPad the company has followed up with a new version supporting both iPhone and iPod touch ...

Harman Professional Promotes David McKinney as Senior Director, China Operations

Having successfully managed the establishment of Harman Professional's direct distribution business in India and previously leading the company's first Asia regional sales office, Harman veteran, David McKinney has been ...

Harkness Screens Announces Dazian LLC as Sole Distributor Partner for Event Screens in USA

Harkness Screens, a manufacturer of front and rear projection screen surfaces for live events such as concerts, theatre productions, art exhibitions, theme park rides, and TV studios announces the appointment of Dazian LLC as ...

GLP Announces New Distribution Partner for Mexico

GLP German Light Products, a manufacturer of automated lighting fixtures for the entertainment industry, has appointed Rocketerias Distribuidores S.A de C.V. as its exclusive distributor for Mexico. ...

Theatrixx Appoints Joe Lapchick Director of US Sales

Jacques Tessier, president of Theatrixx Technologies Inc., welcomes Joseph Lapchick as the company's new US director of sales.
"We are very pleased to welcome Joe in our organization. He is well known and respected ...

Symetrix Expands Library of Apps for Jupiter Turn-Key DSP

Symetrix announces the addition of 17 new apps for its family of Jupiter app-based turn-key DSPs. The three different hardware units in the series -- Jupiter 4, Jupiter 8, and Jupiter 12 -- differ only in their input/output counts ...

New Orleans' Civic Theatre Returns to Duty with L-Acoustics

Following an extensive nine-month, $10.5M renovation project, the Civic Theatre, the oldest surviving theatre building in New Orleans, has officially reopened its doors after sitting dormant for more than three decades. To bring the 107 ...

grandMA2 and Clay Paky Sharpys Work Packed Houses at the 2013 Essence Festival in New Orleans

Crowds turned out in record numbers for the 19th annual Essence Festival in New Orleans. A-list artists including Beyoncé, LL Cool J, Jill Scott, Tamia, Janelle Monáe, and others packed venues throughout The Big Easy. The festival was ...

Rascal Flatts Rocks with Bandit Lites on Live & Loud Tour

Rascal Flatts is on the road with Bandit Lites on a tour that includes the legendary American rock band, Journey, NBC's The Voice winner Cassadee Pope, and The Band Perry. Comprised of members Jay DeMarcus, Gary LeVox, and ...

Stanford University's Bing Concert Hall Equipped with Shure Wireless

Recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions, Stanford University celebrated a milestone in performing arts with this year's opening of Bing Concert Hall. The 112,365-sq.-ft. venue provides students, faculty, ...

Chase & Status Count on Robe LEDBeam 100s

High-energy UK drum and bass duo Chase & Status have taken the European festival circuit by storm this summer, with an amazing lightshow designed by Neil Carson, based on a floor specials rig of over 160 lights -- including 60 Robe ...

Theatre in Review: The Cheaters Club (The Amoralists/Abrons Arts Center)

The company known as The Amoralists, according to its mission statement, "produces work of no moral judgment. Dedicated to an honest expression of the American condition, our ensemble explores complex characters of moral ambiguity, ...

New Exhibitors at PLASA Focus: Austin 2013

PLASA Focus: Austin 2013 looks set to be bigger and better than ever with over 50 exhibitors confirmed and organizers PLASA Events reporting a 25% increase in visitor registrations over the debut PLASA Focus: Austin event, of ...

WavesLive Continues Event Series with Upcoming Session at Delicate Productions in Camarillo, California

Waves Audio, the leading provider of audio DSP solutions for the professional, live sound, broadcast, and consumer electronics markets, is continuing its new Master Class event series from WavesLive, the live sound division ...

Design & Drafting Launches New Website

Design & Drafting announces the release of their new website, designed with what the company describes as a fresh new look and user-friendly navigation, updated with the latest information about LD Assistant and support services. ...

ETC and Vari-Lite Shine at King Kong the Musical

Global Creature's new multi-million dollar production of King Kong has taken Melbourne, Australia by storm -- including lighting, sound, stagecraft, singing, costumes, dancing, and an incredibly life-like six-meter gorilla. ...

Cory FitzGerald Pilots impression X4 to Mars

Described by Rolling Stone magazine as among the greatest live acts presently touring, Bruno Mars has been out on the road supporting his platinum Unorthodox Jukebox album -- which officially became the fastest selling album ...

Renkus-Heinz' VARIA Packs a Punch at De Grote Post

The Oostende Post Office, the only public building designed by famed Ghent architect Gaston Eysselinck

Sennheiser Delivers Unplugged Studio Performances during the Newport Folk Festival

Audio specialist Sennheiser once again created a truly unique performance environment at the Sennheiser Sound Lounge at the Paste Ruins during this year's Newport Folk Festival. In cooperation with Paste Magazine, Sennheiser ...

RCF Reinforces Colombian Independence Festival In Miami

The end of July saw more than 20,000 people converge on the grounds of Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida for the Colombian Independence Music Festival.
The open-air, all day event drew electronic and dance music lovers from around the ...

Old Dominion University "The Ted" Arena Upgrades to QSC

The multi-purpose Ted Constant Convocation Center at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, colloquially known as "The Ted," has undergone a comprehensive upgrade with an end-to-end installed sound system from QSC for its ...

Community Provides All-Weather Solution for Mandala Beach Club

Ampere Manufacturas Electronicas S.A.De C.V. has supplied and installed a new outdoor sound system for The Mandala Beach Club in Cancún, Mexico, utilizing Community iBOX and WET loudspeakers. ...

L-Acoustics ARCS Wide Fills In Grand Canyon University Arena

When Grand Canyon University's Antelopes men's and women's basketball teams joined the Western Athletic Conference this summer and upgraded to Division I, GCU Arena was in need of a sound system retrofit worthy of the new division level. ...

Group One Debuts New Gear from Avolites at September PLASA Focus

The expanded Group OneAvolites at the upcoming PLASA Focus show in Austin, Texas, September 10-11, 2013, in ...

On Stage Audio Provides Martin Audio MLA Training

On Stage Audio (OSA), a division of OSA International, Inc. is providing complimentary Martin Audio MLA training at its Las Vegas facility from September 3 - 6.
These intense two-day sessions will provide attendees with the ...

Tomcat Appoints Shawn Sack as Eastern Sales Manager

Tomcat, a manufacturer of aluminum truss, structural components, and custom stages for the entertainment, audiovisual, exhibition, and worship industries and a brand of The Milos Group, announces that Shawn Sack has ...

coolux Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary and New Headquarters

coolux recently completed their move to their new premises, close to the region's largest broadcast studio complex in Cologne, Germany. The makers of the Pandoras Box systems had more than just a successful move to celebrate. ...

Brighten Up the Outdoors with LED DynaFlood Fixtures from Acclaim Lighting

Acclaim Lighting offers DynaFlood LED lighting fixtures, designed for exterior illumination and outdoor signage. Bright and long-lasting, DynaFlood fixtures, along with all Acclaim Lighting products, are the answer for architectural ...

Attero Design Is Now Shipping Audinate's Dante DBAM Brooklyn II Module

Attero Design, the design services arm of Attero Tech, is now shipping the Dante Brooklyn Adapter Module (DBAM). The new DBAM allows OEM users of both legacy Dante modules as well as legacy CobraNet modules (CM-1 or CM-2) to ...

Heavy Duty Gator Frameworks Round Base Mic Stands Now Shipping

Music and pro audio case manufacturer, Gator Cases recently launched the Frameworks line of stands and support systems for microphones, speakers, keyboards, guitars, sheet music, and tablet devices. The line includes a variety of ...

Solaris LED Flare - The Brightest Solution for Eurovision Song Contest

Picture a musical Olympics with two weeks of international competition, climaxing in a final round with 170 million TV viewers, the largest musical show in the world -- more than twice the audience of the Super Bowl! The Eurovision Song ...

Harman's JBL VTX Line Arrays and Crown I-Tech HD Amplifiers Star in 2013 Sunset Strip Music Festival

The epicenter of rock music on the west coast will find you on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California and at no time of year is the iconic street louder than the annual Sunset Strip Music Festival. Featuring artists such as Street ...

MyMix Offers 92 Channels of Flexibility to Long Established Ministry

The Jimmy Swaggart Ministry at the Family Worship Center Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana recently installed one of the largest myMix systems used in a house of worship.
Ethan Miller and Devin Villery of Advanced ...

GDS Supplies Two Stage Manager's Consoles for Flagship Scottish Arts Center

The Beacon Arts Center, opened in January 2013, is one of the finest new arts venues in the UK. It replaces the Greenock Arts Guild Theatre, which served the area well for more than 65 years.
The Beacon is situated at Customhouse Quay ...

SGM SixPacks Go Wild at Roskilde Festival 2013

Denmark's historic Roskilde Festival, which dates back to 1971, is the largest culture and music festival in Northern Europe. Each year it provides a remarkable musical fusion of up and coming artists mixed with famous international acts.

Starlite Productions to Host a Technology Showcase

Starlite Productions announces that it will host a technology showcase at its Moorestown, New Jersey location from 3:00 - 8:00pm on Thursday, September 19, 2013.
This regional trade show and networking opportunity is bringing the ...

Avid Presents "Meet the Avid S3L" Webinar on August 28

Avid and veteran sound engineer Robert Scovill will host a free, live sound webinar, "Meet the Avid S3L." This webinar will focus on the new Avid S3L system, which features an all-new networked architecture. The company says ...

Jeff Klaas Joins Christie as Vice President for Business Products

Christie, a manufacturer of visual technology displays, announces that Jeff Klaas has joined the company in the role of vice president for Christie's business products division. Reporting to Jack Kline, president and ...

PPi Adds Alan Kulbacki as Manager of Creative Services

PPi announces the appointment of Alan Kulbacki as its new manager of creative services. Kulbacki joins the team with over 30 years lighting design and production experience. In most recent years Kulbacki has served as a busy ...

Philips Selecon and Lancelyn Present LED Discussion Seminars this September

LED lighting manufacturer Philips Selecon is teaming up with Oxford and Wirral -based Selecon dealer Lancelyn Theatre Supplies to present a series of Q&A sessions focusing on LED technology at their facility in the UK. ...

Major Brazilian Music Venue Installs Allen & Heath's iLive

A major Brazilian country music venue, Villa Country, has installed an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system at front of house. Located in Sao Paulo, the huge club hosts American country music and sertanejo Brazilian country ...

Al Hoch Joins Lighting and Electronic Design as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Lighting and Electronic Design Inc. (dba LED, Inc.) president and founder Janie Lynn, announces the appointment of Al Hoch as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Hoch will be responsible for business ...

High Resolution Engineering Adds Lightware FR33L Routers to Rental Inventory

High Resolution Engineering (HRE) has completed the upgrade of its Lightware rental inventory with the addition of FR33L modular Lightware routers with HDCP boards. The complement of FR33Ls marks the culmination of the rental ...

Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City Goes Digital with Shure ULX-D Digital Wireless System

A staple in the Kansas City area, the Jewish Community Center of Kansas City has been serving the local Jewish and secular communities since 1914 with a robust offering of community events, educational and athletic programs, and ongoing ...

Arizona-Based Pro Production Services Deploys EAW Greybox-Enabled Powersoft K Series Amps

Arizona-based Pro Production Services is deploying its arsenal of 12 Powersoft K10 DSP+KAESOP power amplifiers, which are under the management of Powersoft's Armonía Pro Audio Suite software, specifically to take advantage of ...

David Perry Puts Harman's Soundcraft Si Expression 3 to the Test

Professional audio engineer David Perry recently purchased a Harman Soundcraft Si Expression 3 mixing console for use on a variety of regional events. A member of Buffalo, New York-based systems integration firm Ronco ...

From Classrooms to Stadium, Meyer Sound Brings Clarity to Texas High School

Located a few miles from Texas A&M University, the gleaming new campus of College Station, Texas-based College Station High School features a wealth of cutting-edge AV systems. More than 130 Meyer Sound loudspeakers are installed in ...

Elation's Rayzor Q7s a Smash Hit on Smash Mouth's Under The Sun Tour

This summer's premier North American '90s group tour -- Under The Sun -- is aptly named, since the five-band show plays in just about every type of venue "under the sun" during its marathon 36-city sweep. Traveling on tour buses ...

Elation Introduces Cuepix Series LED Blinders/Strips with Higher Efficacy COB (Chip On Board) Technology

Elation Professional announces the Cuepix Series, a collection of blinders and strip lights powered by advanced Chip On Board or COB LED technology, known for its higher-density output and superior all-around performance. ...

American Seating to Sponsor USITT 2014 Student Architecture Competition

Michigan-based American Seating, a manufacturer of theatre seating, will sponsor the 2014 USITT Architecture and Theatre Student Design Competition.
The company has pledged $6,000 to cover the costs of the annual competition, ...

Intelligent Lighting Creations to Launch Monthly Product Highlights Program on August 29

Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC) introduces monthly product highlights. The last Thursday of every month, ILC will feature a line of products and invite customers to their shop (2461 East Oakton Street, Arlington Heights, ...

Bose Professional Systems Division to Host RoomMatch Regional Demos

As a resource for system integrators, contractors, and front-of-house engineers, Bose Professional Systems Division will be hosting demonstrations of their RoomMatch loudspeaker systems in live venues for the US, Canadian, and Latin ...

Johnson Systems Inc. Adds DMX 2-Port Mergers

Johnson Systems Inc. announces the expansion of its new series of DMX Mergers. Two DMX 2-Port Mergers versions will be offered; one for portable applications and another designed for DIN rail mounting in permanent enclosures. ...

Harman's Soundcraft Appoints Sean Karpowicz as Product Manager for Si Series Mixing Consoles

Sean Karpowicz has joined Harman where he will serve as product manager for Soundcraft's Si Series mixing consoles.
Karpowicz comes to Soundcraft from VenueMagic, a show control software platform, where he was ...

Lightswitch Celebrates Major Milestone With 20th Anniversary

Lightswitch, a lighting design firm with offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and San Francisco, announces that this month marks its 20th anniversary. For the past two decades, Lightswitch has channeled its ...

ACIR Professional Buys Building, Expands Space

Summer continues to be busy for the staff at ACIR Professional, a provider of professional audio, backline, studio services, lighting, and video. ACIR has shows in Cape May, the Count Basie Theatre, Ocean Grove, New York, along with ...

Full Compass Helps to Bring Kennedy Center Arts Education Program to Madison

The Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. has selected Madison, Wisconsin as the 12th US city for its "Any Given Child" program. The goal of the program is to establish a long-range arts education plan to reach every public ...

Dry Hire Lighting First to Take Delivery of Showline SL BAR 640

High Wycombe-based Dry Hire Lighting (DHL) has become the first UK rental house to take delivery of Showline's new LED linear SL BAR 640 luminaire -- and will soon offer the SL BAR 660 as well. ...

Peter Kroul Joins Leader Light as New European Sales Director

Leader Light's CEO and managing director Julius Szaraz announces the assignment of Peter Kroul as its new European sales director.
Kroul brings many years of sales experience in the lighting industry to this ...

Austria's Bühne Baden Shifts to Lectrosonics Wireless

Located in the northeastern-most state of the nine states in Austria, Bühne Baden -- formally known as Theater Baden Betriebs GmbH. -- is one of the leading theatrical houses in the country. Offering a broad range of performances, ...

Mountain View Baptist Church Rises from the Rubble after Alabama Tornado

In 2010 Sutherland Sight and Sound was contacted by the Mountain View Baptist Church in Phil Campbell, Alabama to do a major audio/video upgrade, with lighting upgrades slated for phase two of the project. Literally, three weeks ...

Outline Provides Sonic Thunder for Miller Lite Oasis Stage at Summerfest 2013

Clearwing Productions, a full service production company specializing in audio, light, stage, and video support for major concerts and festivals, chose an Outline GTO-based speaker system to provide the sonic thunder at the ...

Derrick Saunders, Former Pulsar Sales Director, Passes Away

LSA has learned the sad news of the death of Derrick Saunders, for many years one of the best-known figures in the UK's professional lighting industry. Saunders passed away on Friday, August 16 after a long illness. As sales ...

High End Systems Debuts V2 Hog Software at PLASA Focus

Following the introduction of their successful HOG4 range of lighting consoles at LDI 2012, High End Systems has chosen the PLASA Focus trade show, held in Austin Texas, to debut Version 2.0 of the Hog software. Along with ...

Crown Audio Appoints Craig Lambrecht Business Segment Manager, Commercial Audio and Portable PA

Harman's Crown Audio announces that Craig Lambrecht has been appointed as business segment manager, commercial audio and portable PA. In this role Lambrecht will oversee Crown's commercial audio and portable PA business, ...

DALI Group Appoints Scott Wade as Technical Manager to Support Global Growth

Aiming to provide active participation opportunities to its growing number of members and continuously develop the strength of the digital addressable lighting interface (DALI) technology, DALI Group recently announced the ...

Rapid Reaction to Robe Pointe

Haarlem, Netherlands-based technical solutions provider React Audiovisueel has made its latest investment in Robe moving lights in style, with the addition of 24 new Pointe fixtures and 12 MMX Spots. ...

3G Productions Expands Los Angeles Facility, Strengthens Sales Team

3G Productions, Inc. has expanded its presence in Southern California with a larger Los Angeles facility and a new director of business development and sales, Devon Murray, who will spearhead the company's growth and sales in ...

PESA Names Christopher Thomas New Executive Vice President of Engineering and CTO

PESA, a US-based custom design and manufacturing company for professional audio and video signal distribution, announces that Christopher Thomas has joined the company as executive vice president of engineering and CTO. ...

Phenix City First Assembly of God Looks to GC Pro for Support

Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, has built a strong relationship with Jonathan "JT" Thornton, the worship pastor at ...

Justin Timberlake Uses Audio-Technica Artist Elite 5000 Series Wireless System and AEW-T6100 Transmitter

Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience world tour is the live iteration of the artist's sophisticated The 20/20 Experience LP, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 earlier this year. The record was Timberlake's ...

Countryman Microphone Integral to Performances of Bill "Sauce Boss" Wharton

Slide guitarist / vocalist Bill "Sauce Boss" Wharton's musical act is unlike any other. The inventor of "gastronomical boogie woogie," Wharton performs an engaging mix of his own swampy Florida blues while cooking a big pot of gumbo and ...

SGM XC-5 Strobes Punch Their Weight with Florida Georgia Line

When lighting designer Scott Cunningham first saw SGM's revolutionary XC-5 LED RGB strobes, designed into Taylor Swift's touring set by Baz Halpin, he knew he had to have them for fast emerging country duo Florida ...

PR Lighting XPar 348 Helps Paint the Picture at Motion Notion

Motion Notion is an annual event which has moved around various venues in the Canadian western province of Alberta before setting up base at the Beaverfoot Lodge in Golden, BC two years ago.
Around 4,000 people turned up to the 2013 ...

grandMA2 Rocks Bon Jovi's Because We Can Tour

Because We Can is Bon Jovi's 15th tour, and grandMA2 is playing a key role as the Jersey rockers play 92 dates around the world during an almost year-long gig. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting ...

Peter Keppler Uses Waves Plugins on David Byrne/St. Vincent and Upcoming Katy Perry Tours

Waves Audio is seeing cutting-edge, live engineers turn to WavesLive tools, including Peter Keppler, an in-demand front-of-house, broadcast, and post-production mixing engineer (David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Rufus Wainwright, ...

Whisky A Go-Go goes with Behringer X32

Located in the heart of West Hollywood, the Whisky A Go-Go has served as the launching pad for literally dozens of high profile acts over the years, gaining a well-deserved reputation as "the place to play" in Los Angeles. Recently, this ...

City Theatrical to Host Free Webinar Series on Wireless DMX

Users can learn the skills needed to be a wireless DMX expert by attending City Theatrical's series of free webinars on wireless DMX.
The first of five webinars in this series is "What You Need to Know About Wireless DMX." In ...

Harman's Martin Launches MAC Viper Beam

Harman's Martin new MAC Viper Beam is a unique beam fixture with linear zoom system that projects a very narrow pencil beam of high-intensity light. The final fixture in the MAC Viper family, it is available as an easy-to-install ...

Kevin Twomey Joins Rose Brand as Technical Projects Manager

Kevin Twomey joins the Rose Brand sales and technical teams as a technical projects manager in the LA office. Twomey's background includes over 10 years in technical production in both theatre and feature films. Rose Brand ...

5 Star Speed Challenge at PLASA London with Jack Goff

European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases re-launches its popular "Speed Challenge" on booth K10 at the 2013 PLASA London exhibition at ExCeL October 6-9.
5 Star is also delighted to have British Touring Car Racing ...

Cultural Projects Planner Katie Oman Joins Arts Consulting Group in its Seattle Office

Bruce D. Thibodeau, president of Arts Consulting Group, Inc. (ACG), announced today that Katie Oman has joined the firm as a senior consultant based in the company's Seattle office. She will work throughout the US and ...

PreSonus Offers Third Annual PreSonuSphere 2013 User Conference

From Thursday evening, October 24 through Saturday, October 26, 2013, PreSonus plans PreSonuSphere 2013, the company's third annual user conference. The company says one- and two-day passes will be available at very low prices. ...

Philips Entertainment Exhibits New Luminaires at IBC 2013

Philips Entertainment is powering up its lighting brands -- Selecon, Showline, and Strand Lighting -- for IBC 2013 where the company will exhibit in hall 11, stand G81, September 13-17, at Amsterdam's RAI Exhibition and ...

James Thomas Engineering Launches JT Truss

Having developed its revolutionary new JT30 and JT40 trusses at the start of 2013, James Thomas Engineering announces the launch of its complete JT Truss range. The original JT30 and JT40 square configuration has been extended to ...

SWIT Joins Green Hippo's Distribution Network as Their New Chinese Distributor

SWIT Electronics Co., Ltd is a high-tech enterprise, specializing in developing and manufacturing products for the broadcast industry occupying an area of 16,660sq.-m., in Nanjing National Level Economic and Technological ...

Electrosonic Helps Launch Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit Attraction at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near Orlando, Florida just unveiled its latest blockbuster space exploration attraction, Space Shuttle Atlantis, at what is now the new home of the historic spacecraft. Working in concert with the ...

InterAmerica Stage's SkyDeck Takes on a New Shape

InterAmerica Stage is already well-known within the entertainment industry for their SkyDeck wire tension grid system. SkyDeck components are factory built at InterAmerica's facilities in Sanford, Florida, but the recent ...

Sennheiser and House of Blues Renew Agreement

Audio specialist Sennheiser and the House of Blues, the iconic chain of high-quality performance venues, announced that they have renewed their alliance. Sennheiser will continue to support the House of Blues with premium ...

4Wall Nashville Helps "Rock the South"

4Wall Nashville recently provided equipment for "Rock the South," an annual festival celebrating food, music, and the southern way of life. The headliners for this year's show included talented acts such as Sara Evans, The Band ...

The Week in Review

New Spider-Man Accident: After a couple of years of smooth running, the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is once again experiencing difficulties. Two weeks ago, a performance had to be cancelled because ...

ChamSys Announces the New MagicQ Pro 2014 Console

ChamSys announces the new MagicQ Pro 2014 console -- with 64 universes direct from the console. Most recently the console was used to control a record 56 universes of lighting for Mumford & Sons headlining on the Glastonbury Pyramid ...

GLP impression X4S Makes Touring Debut with Toby Keith

Looking to create a new stage ambience for country legend Toby Keith, long-time lighting designer Seth Jackson has become the first production designer to use GLP's new impression X4S LED wash light. ...

Introducing New Custom Fitted Gator Road Cases for the Soundcraft Si Expression Mixers

Pro-audio equipment manufacturer Soundcraft has released its latest line of digital mixing consoles, the Si Expression series. Available in 16-, 24-, and 32-channel boards, Gator Cases announces custom fitted G-TOUR cases for ...

Group and Non-Member Discounts Now Available for NSCA BPC

NSCA's Best Practices Conference (BPC) series provides a year's worth of training in just one-and-a-half days. The event offers industry-specific networking and discussions with peers about finance, operations, project management, ...

Calibre UK Celebrates 25 Years Milestone

Calibre UK announces their celebration of 25 years of success in the electronics design, creation, manufacture, and delivery of innovative processing, image scaling, scan conversion, and LCD electronics products to market. ...

Eventec Adds to Robe Inventory

Aalsmeer, Netherlands-based technical solutions and rental company Eventec has recently invested in over 80 new Robe moving lights, including Pointes, LEDWash 300s, and MMX WashBeams -- all to keep pace with their busy ...

Farber Sound Powers North Dakota State Fair with Harman's Crown VRACK Amplifier Systems

Great. Big. Fun. That's how the North Dakota State Fair bills itself, and this July it lived up to its name with rides, rodeos, and concerts by Tim McGraw, Journey, Scotty McCreery, Toby Keith, Brantley Gilbert, and other acts. Featuring a ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Uses City Theatrical's Wireless DMX

The new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, has been the most eagerly anticipated opening in London's West End this year. With direction by Sam Mendes, set and costume design by Mark Thompson, ...

Waves Audio Plugins and MaxxBCL Hardware Utilized at Montreux Jazz Festival

Held each July in Switzerland, the Montreux Jazz Festival is one of the world's most famous annual music festivals, hosting top talent in jazz, blues, rock, pop, world music, and more. This year's festival was bigger than ever, and world ...

Hippotizer Reigns Supreme at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Twenty shows, 20 acts, 20 days! Green Hippo's Hippotizer saddled up at Houston's Reliant Stadium and went the distance at this year's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The annual Texas extravaganza featured nightly concerts by some ...

Meyer Sound LEO Reproduces Michael Bublé at London's O2 Arena Like a "Fine Studio Monitor"

For Michael Bublé's 10 consecutive sellouts at London's O2 Arena, front-of-house engineer Craig Doubet mixed the shows for 16,000 fans per night on a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. The system ...

Robert Juliat Lancelots Expand Lighting Inventory at Cotai Arena, Macau

Robert Juliat (RJ)'s distributor for Hong Kong and Macau, Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd, has supplied three additional Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HTI followspots to the 15,000-seater Cotai Arena in Macau. ...

Theatre in Review: First Date (Longacre Theatre)

The one thing First Date has going for it is that it marks Zachary Levi's first date with Broadway; something tells me it's the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Cast as Aaron, a diffident financier trying to get ...

Harman's Martin MAC III Quadray's Multi-Beam Luminaire Provides One-of-a-Kind Lighting

Harman's Martin Professional MAC III Quadray is an all-new, multi-beam effect offering a whole new dimension to the lighting designer toolbox. The MAC III Quadray is tour-tested, having been deployed on Paul McCartney's latest tour < ...

Audinate and Aviom Announce Licensing Agreement

Aviom, manufacturer of the A-16II personal mixer, announces it has licensed Audinate's Dante digital audio networking technology. Integrating the Dante networking solution into its line of personal mixing products allows ...

LED Source Adds New Business Development Manager for West Coast

LED Source, the North American LED lighting solutions provider specializing in architectural, entertainment, and retrofit applications, announces Michael Gold as its new business development manager for the western region of ...

Masque Sound Appoints Stephanie Hansen to Vice President

Masque Sound, a theatrical sound reinforcement, installation, and design company, announces that Stephanie Hansen has been appointed vice president. In her new position, Hansen will continue to implement and drive the company' ...

Cadac Makes Major Increase in R&D Investment

As part of an ongoing and expanding investment program by its Soundking Group parent company in new product design and engineering, CADAC has increased its R&D team at its Luton headquarters to 25 personnel, taking on nine ...

Kramer USA Moves to New Headquarters Facility

Kramer Electronics announces the opening of their new United States headquarters facility, the new home for the Kramer USA sales, marketing, and product development/support teams. The new facility is located in the Township of Union ...

RP Visual Solutions NitWit Training Returns September 18

RP Visual Solutions (RPV) announces the company's first NitWit training in over three years: "Perceiving the Almighty Pixel." This open house will feature presentations by RPV president Randy Pagnan, detailing the latest in ...

VMP Launches 19" 12RU Wall Rack Enclosure

Video Mount Products (VMP), a provider of mounting solutions for the security, commercial, residential, and pro audio/video markets, announces the launch of the new ERWEN-12E 19" wall rack enclosure. The ERWEN-12E is now shipping. ...

Casa Magica Chooses Robe to Support Epic Projections

Tübingen, Germany-based visual artists and large format projection specialists Casa Magica created a spectacular daily evening show -- Lux Eucharistica -- for the 2013 International Eucharistic Congress, staged in Cologne's ...

World Changers Church Upgrades PA System with Powersoft K3 Power Amplifiers

World Changers Church International (WCCI) has upgraded the amplification system in its 8,500-seat World Dome in College Park, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, with 22 Powersoft K3 power amplifiers outfitted with the manufacturer's ...

Danley Sound Labs Loudspeakers and Subs Win the Shootout at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church's New Sanctuary

Lou Jones, president of NBS Media Systems in Charleston, South Carolina, has been working with the members of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church for over twenty years. He helped to design and install their previous three sound systems ...

Martin Audio MLA Compact Keeps Sound Inside Urban Amphitheater

The Red Hat Amphitheater is located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina with the stage facing a large convention center covered with reflective surfaces located next to a parking deck. Just a few blocks to the rear of the stage are ...

Malaysian Holy Light Church Chooses Meyer Sound MINA

Originally founded in Johor Bahru, Malaysia by Presbyterian missionaries from England, the English-speaking congregation of Holy Light Church celebrated its 60th anniversary with the completion of a gleaming white new church building. To ...

Theatre in Review: Soul Doctor (Circle in the Square Theatre)

We've had bio musicals, songbook musicals, and jukebox musicals; we've now entered the era of the halo musical, in which music-industry characters are not so much dramatized as canonized. Last season, we got Motown, which revealed ...

Chauvet Professional and USITT Present LED Seminar at Disney

Chauvet Professional, a brand of Chauvet, and USITT Presents will host the seminar "How to Blend LED with Traditional Fixtures" from 9am to 5pm August 29 - 30 at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. ...

Harman's Martin MAC Viper Quadray -- Four Times the Excitement

Harman's Martin launches it's new MAC Viper Quadray, adding to Martin's award-winning MAC Viper family of moving heads. This unique, multi-beam luminaire has been deployed on international tours, including the Sarah Brightman tour ...

Aeson Launches New RPM Wash 720

Aeson Event Technologies announces the addition of a new fixture to its lineup. The company's 7x15W LED moving head has been upgraded to 20W LED drivers. The company says the light is small in size but packs a big punch. ...

AVI Event Services Bolsters Inventory with Harman's Soundcraft Si Expression 2 Console

AVI Event Services is a technical service provider for corporate events and professional venues based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While the company is responsible for setting up audio/video systems for these events, AVI said its sound ...

Hibino Sound Division Invests in Martin Audio MLA

The Hibino Corporation, a large production enterprise for the entertainment industry in Japan, has made its first investment in Martin Audio's Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) system. With its proven technology across ...

Ampco Flashlight Rental Gets the Robe Pointe

Netherlands equipment rental company Ampco Flashlight Rental has made a major investment in Robe's new multi-purpose moving light fixture -- the Pointe.
The order for 100 Pointes is due to the current demands of the rental ...

Electrosonic Appoints Senior Systems Consultant Les Hill to Orlando Office

Electrosonic has appointed senior systems consultant, Les Hill, to its Orlando office to reinforce the company's commitment to audio-visual service and systems engineering support for Florida's large theme park and tourist ...

Dutch Company Stagelight Expands Adamson Inventory With Energia E15 Line Arrays

Adamson Systems Engineering announces that Stagelight, based in The Netherlands, has joined the Energia partner program.
Stagelight's audio manager Robert de Lorijn first used Adamson's Y-Axis line arrays in 2005 ...

Full Compass Systems Sponsors 12th Annual Opera in the Park

Madison Opera recently staged the 12th annual Opera in the Park for the city of Madison, Wisconsin. This free annual event is a grand musical celebration that presents highlights from the upcoming Madison Opera season, opera classics, and ...

WorldStage Gets Creative at Adobe MAX 2013

Adobe MAX 2013 "The Creativity Conference," took a very creative set design and projection mapping approach to deliver visuals to an audience of some 5,000 Adobe users and software developers -- and over 100K more who watched the gathering' ...

DiGiCo Front of House at World's Largest Music Fest

Over 800 acts on eleven stages over the course of eleven days with nearly 900,000 fans in attendance -- those are the stats for Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin's greatest marquee event, and considered one of the world's largest music ...

Clay Paky Lights the Stage at Vasco Live Kom 013

There was a job to finish: the 2011 tour of Vasco Rossi, the Italian rock star from Emilia, was interrupted owing to health problems. The seven concerts in two large stadiums (four in Turin and three in Bologna) were all sold out, which ...

The Wally Russell Foundation Awards Move to USITT

The Wally Russell Foundation announces the Foundation will be moving its sponsorship and awards to the annual USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Conference and Stage Expo. The announcement was made by To ...

Nicole Kerrigan Joins the Rose Brand Sales Team

Nicole Kerrigan joins the Rose Brand sales team in the New Jersey office. Vice president of sales and marketing Peter Finder says, "Nicole has over 10 years of experience working on entertainment and event production ...

EnvironmentalLights.com Launches Direct DMX Pixel Control Lighting

EnvironmentalLights.com, an online resource for energy-efficient LED lighting systems, recently introduced an innovative line of direct DMX LED pixel control lights. The PixelDMX line of products combines RGB LEDs with circuit board ...

Bag End Introduces its New CD-12 Time-Align Speaker

Bag End Loudspeakers has introduced the CD-12 Time-Align as part of its Venus series, which Bag End describes as the smallest and lightest yet most powerful speakers available. The first in the new series -- the CD-15 -- wowed sound ...

Stampede Continues Its 2013 Big Book of AV Tour with a Stop in Niagara Falls in August 28

Presentation solutions and video conferencing systems will take center stage at the next stop of the 2013 Big Book of AV Tour when Stampede Presentation Products, Inc. brings the tour home to its own backyard at the Seneca Niagara ...

Clay Paky Sharpy Wash Works It for Pet Shop Boys

Lighting designer Rob Sinclair is using Clay Paky's compact yet bright Sharpy Wash 330 as the workhorse fixture for the lighting of the visuals-led Pet Shop Boys Electric World tour.
The new Sharpy Wash luminaire -- ...

Adamson E15 Line Arrays Drive Electric Forest Music Festival

Electric Forest is a music festival held in Rothbury, Michigan that features an electro-themed set of concerts that take place on six stages over the course of four days. Burst Sound & Lighting Systems, based in Detroit, was tapped ...

Flow Festival Goes Wireless with LumenRadio

One of the largest temporary outdoor installations in the Nordic countries, Flow Festival in Helsinki, for the second year in a row, chose LumenRadio's CRMX products to control the lighting.
The very popular music and arts ...

ETC Source Four LED Lights World's Longest Viking Ship

Around 1025 AD, a fierce 120' Viking warship of the Danish fleet rode the northern waves. Excavated in 1997 from a Roskilde fjord bed, the ship has now been partly restored. A massive steel skeleton has been built around its wooden remains ...

Turbosound's Flashline Sets the Mood for Martial Arts Trilogy Concert

World-renowned composer Tan Dun joined forces with pianist Lang Lang and the China National Symphony Orchestra in the rain for a re-interpretation of three martial arts films at an open-air concert for 15,000 people in Beijing's Chaoyang ...

Lighthouse LED Display Lights It Up in Reading

Lighthouse and TS Sports have installed two LED displays and a speed-of-pitch display at FirstEnergy Stadium, the unique, fan-friendly home of the Reading Fightin' Phils of the AA Eastern League. ...

grandMA2 Controls Lighting and Video for Tony Award-Winning Matilda The Musical

The acclaimed Matilda The Musical packs the house at Broadway's Shubert Theatre while backstage a grandMA2 console controls the conventional and moving lights, scrollers, LEDs, and video cues for Tony Award-winning lighting designer ...

GDS ArcSystem Added as Emergency Lighting at Wembley Arena

Wembley Arena in London is one of the premier entertainment destinations in the UK. It is an iconic concert and events venue. Since opening in 1934 as The Empire Pool, the venue has hosted a plethora of major worldwide artists. From the ...

Three PLASA Standards Added to Public Review Page

Three PLASA standards recently have been posted to the Technical Standard public review page at the URL below. The last day to comment for these three standards is October 7. In alphanumerical order, the newly added standards are: ...

Harman's Martin RUSH to Exhibit at DJ Expo

Harman's Martin returns to the annual DJ Expo in a big way with an energizing booth, 615, featuring the new RUSH range of effect lighting. Held August 12-15 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, DJ Expo is the ...

Renkus-Heinz Unveils New Website

Renkus-Heinz, a manufacturer of professional audio and loudspeakers, has announced the debut of their new modernized website. The long-awaited redesign offers up a bold new look and feel, along with better navigation and a different ...

Phillip Peglow Promoted to Associate Principal at Jaffe Holden

Jaffe Holden announces the promotion of Phillip Peglow to associate principal.
Peglow has been with the firm since 2012 and is the director of the audio and video systems group. During his time with Jaffe Holden, Phillip ...

New NEXO STM Line Array Turns Up the Heat on Chesney's No Shoes Nation Tour

Kenny Chesney has always brought country's brightest lights to America, and this heated summer is no different as he taps newcomer and quadruple 2013 Academy of Country Music nominee, Kacey Musgraves, and 2012 ACM Single of the Year winner ...

The Grand Théâtre de Québec Updates with d&b audiotechnik

When Grand Théâtre de Québec decided to update their sound system, one thing was certain: that system was going to be the very best. This is a big theatre, two thousand seats, three balconies; it serves as venue for a wide range of shows ...

Meyer Sound MINA Brings Clarity to Great Ideas at San Francisco's Nourse Theatre

After 32 years at the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco's City Arts & Lectures has moved its presentations two blocks away to the Nourse Theatre. Through a Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeaker system, audiences of up to 1,680 are ...

DPA Microphones in Leading Role at La Jolla Playhouse

Many of today's university theatres serve as teaching facilities for dramatic arts students and as venues for professional productions. To accommodate this dual purpose, the schools often require high-quality equipment. This is precisely ...

Beautiful Church Retrofits with Chauvet Professional

One of the oldest churches in Northern Florida, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church recently saw an upgrade in gear -- the first in three decades -- with the addition of about 20 Chauvet fixtures. A selection of Chauvet ...

WSDG Provides Acoustic, Audiovisual, and Interactive Expertise to Educational Complex

A once grand, but long-abandoned, state building, has been reclaimed as the new Di Tella University Campus Alcorta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A work in progress since 2004, the ambitious re-development was designed and coordinated by RD ...