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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
PSW Staff 02/08/12 12:17 PM,The reopened Islington Assembly Hall in London has selected an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system, comprising iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks with two iLive-T112 Control Surfaces, to manage both front of house and monitors. Originally opened in 1930, the fully refurbished 800-capacity Hall was reopened in 2010 having fallen into disuse for nearly 30 years. The venue now hosts a busy rota of live music, as well as a vast range of events from conferences and parties to vintage… View this story
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
PSW Staff 02/07/12 04:04 PM,Orange County’s 40-year-old Galaxy Theatre changed ownership back in August and has now undergone a significant metamorphosis into two separate live performance spaces: the intimate 350-capacity Constellation Room and much larger Observatory, which can accommodate an audience of over 1,000. One of the primary improvements made to the venue in the process was the installation of L-Acoustics KARAi line source arrays provided by Certified Provider Rat Sound Systems of Camarillo, California. Jon Reiser, along with business partner Courtney Michaelis and… View this story
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Julie M. Clark 02/06/12 03:22 PM,The Philip Glass Ensemble, along with members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Collegiate Chorale symphonic choir, recently performed Glass’ powerful score for the 1982 landmark motion picture “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out Of Balance” as the film screened at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. The two exclusive live performances (and screenings), held on consecutive nights for sold-out audiences at the 2,738-seat home venue of the Philharmonic, presented some sound reinforcement challenges. The hall does not have a house… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/06/12 11:59 AM,The professorship of Mechatronics at the Helmut-Schmidt University and University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg has chosen 16 Adamson Systems B-118 subwoofers for a new sound reinforcement system used as the primary sound projection source with an aircraft passenger cabin model. This experimental loudspeaker rig will be used for studying the effects of noise emissions of the controversial propfan engines inside of the cabin, and the effectiveness of active noise cancelling measures. The B-118 subwoofers are utilized… View this story
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Friday, February 03, 2012
PSW Staff 02/03/12 08:47 AM,The new BYU-Idaho Center at Brigham Young University-Idaho, is a sprawling 435,000-square-foot building that includes a 15,000-seat auditorium outfitted with two DiGiCo two SD7 digital mixing systems as well as six DiGiRacks. The process to outfit the venue with an audio/visual system took roughly three years from conception to completion, spearheaded by senior project engineer Andrew Prager of New Jersey’s Diversified Systems with the aid of BYU-Idaho audio engineer David Mann. As a representative of the venue and its principals,… View this story
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
PSW Staff 02/02/12 04:12 PM,Tied into the upcoming Super Bowl game in Indianapolis, late night television host Jimmy Fallon is broadcasting four shows from the Hilbert Circle Theatre in downtown Indianapolis. It presents a challenge in recreating the studio setup of the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Show,” which is normally broadcast from NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center. Nathaniel Hare, front of house mixer for the show, was tapped as the sound designer for the four dates (three live-to-disc and then a live… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/02/12 11:46 AM,PSAV Presentation Services, the world’s largest A/V rental supplier with more than 800 offices worldwide, many located on-site at major hotels, specializes in providing in-house audio-visual services to the hospitality industry for meetings and events, and maintains one of the largest, most up to date equipment inventories in the industry. Since its introduction, PSAV has been using Crown Audio VRack, a turnkey amplifier rack system that includes three I-Tech HD I-T12000 power amplifiers, a versatile input panel with analog and… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/02/12 09:50 AM,The use of wireless technology from Lectrosonics provided benefits for the recent production of the musical “Gypsy” by the University of Evansville Department of Theatre. “‘Gypsy’ is a story about vaudeville performers turning to burlesque to make a living,” explains Richard Ingraham, a Cleveland, OH-based free-lance sound designer operating under the name RBI Computers and Audio who was brought in to work with the production. “There’s a strip routine in the show and the main character—Gypsy—had the most revealing part.… View this story
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
PSW Staff 02/01/12 10:01 AM,Oslo Audio has become the first rental company in Norway to invest in L-Acoustics KARA WST line source loudspeakers, ordering 24 cabinets from local distributor Scandec Systemer. The KARA loudspeakers are powered by L-Acoustics LA-RAK amplified controllers and supplemented with SB18 subwoofers. “KARA has a flexibility that will enable us to use the system for pretty much all venues in Norway,” says Paal Klaastad of Oslo Audio. “For us the audio performance of the KARA system was never in question.… View this story
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
PSW Staff 01/26/12 07:09 AM,Prospect Theater Company in New York frequently re-interprets classic plays and musicals when creating new works, and such is the case of The Iron Curtain, a new musical comedy set in New York City, Moscow, and Berlin in 1954 about two struggling songwriters kidnapped by the KGB to fix a clunker propaganda musical. Performances of The Iron Curtain late last year took place in The Rose Nagelberg Theatre at the Baruch College Performing Arts Center, with Andy Leviss, a New… View this story
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