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Monday, January 30, 2012
PSW Staff 01/30/12 05:49 PM,A basketball arena at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point has been decked with 20 db Technologies Arena 15 loudspeakers. Beside sporting events, Quandt Fieldhouse is also the venue for commencement ceremonies and hosts a multitude of concerts and assemblies—which can ask a lot of the sound system and the design/build team. Brian Baumann and Kent Laabs of Soundworks Systems Inc. handled the design and installation. They explain, “The audio system needed to be capable of high SPL’s for… View this story
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
PSW Staff 10/20/11 11:40 AM, 0 CommentsIn an ideal world, sonic perfection would be the sole consideration shaping sound system design. In reality, however, it’s a very rare installation in which budget doesn’t play a major role. Fortunately for hockey fans in Duluth, Minnesota, using Electro-Voice EVA line arrays for the brand new AMSOIL Arena turned out to offer the best possible coverage and intelligibility while actually reducing overall purchase and installation costs compared to the alternatives. Home to the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) Bulldogs… View this story
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011
PSW Staff 06/07/11 08:30 AM, 0 CommentsWest coast-based audio-video integrator Pro Media/UltraSound has completed the installation of a large EAW loudspeaker system at Rimrock Auto Arena, which is located within the MetraPark multi-facility events campus in Billings, Montana. The EAW AX Series speakers, SB Series large format subwoofers and CIS Series ceiling speakers are part of a multimillion-dollar total refit of the 12,000-seat arena, which was badly damaged by a tornado in June 2010. According to Demetrius Palavos, senior sales and design engineer with Pro Media/UltraSound,… View this story
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Keith Clark 10/06/10 03:41 PM, 0 CommentsWhen it opened in 1940 with a capacity of 7,000, Cameron Indoor Stadium was the largest indoor arena in the southern United States. Today, relatively unchanged after more than 65 years, it’s one of the smaller collegiate arenas in the nation, but a funny thing happened along the way: Cameron Indoor Stadium has deservedly earned legendary status as one of the truly great places to attend college basketball games. In fact, Sports Illustrated magazine ranks it number four on a… View this story
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
PSW Staff 06/24/10 10:14 AM, 0 CommentsWhen the Oklahoma City Thunder made the 2010 NBA playoffs, drawing Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers as their first round opponent, they knew they would need to step up their game. That thought was applied to every aspect of the team’s operation, on the court and off – including the audio mix. “The Thunder organization contacted me and they were concerned that Ford Center’s sound system wasn’t adequate to handle the playoffs,” said Jerry Hooper, owner of Hooper… View this story
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
PSW Staff 04/01/10 10:33 AM, 1 CommentAt the beginning of 2009 a new arena opened in the Seattle region; the ShoWare Center. Located in the suburb of Kent, the ShoWare Center is a multi-purpose venue that plays home to the Western Hockey League’s Seattle Thunderbirds. Milwaukie, Oregon-based Delta AV and Seattle-based Sparling collaborated in the design of a state-of-the-art JBL loudspeaker system for the new arena. The ShoWare Center has a seating capacity of 6,500, with retractable seating to accommodate other events such as concerts and… View this story
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Monday, August 31, 2009
PSW Staff 08/31/09 11:17 AM, 0 CommentsThe 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour, which culminated in August with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdel Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, was supported by sound reinforcement courtesy of Sound Image of Escondido, California, which provided JBL VERTEC line arrays. The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour reunited one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s, whose 1995 release Tragic Kingdom has sold more than 16 million copies to date. In recent years, No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani… View this story
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
PSW Staff 08/18/09 02:56 PM,Pop music superstar Gloria Estefan swept into the U.K. in late July, headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, on a concert tour that is intended to be her last, also covering Latin and South America plus European festival dates. Clair Brothers Audio is supplying the tour with both a Midas XL8 live performance system and Klark Teknik DN9696 hard disc recorder. By the time the tour arrived in Liverpool, FOH engineer Mark Dowdle had clocked… View this story
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
PSW Staff 07/29/09 01:10 PM, 0 CommentsTwo of rock’s most legendary performers, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, recently reunited to tour North America, with premier rental firm Sound Image supplying JBL Professional VERTEC line arrays powered by Crown Audio amplifiers for the high-profile project. Industry veteran and Clapton’s longtime live sound engineer Robert Collins handled mixing duties at front of house. A sell-out reunion date at New York’s Madison Square Garden last year paved the way for the 2009 “Two Legends, One Live Experience” tour, which… View this story
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Monday, July 27, 2009
PSW Staff 07/27/09 10:32 AM, 0 CommentsNearly 600 drummers got their chance to be in the global spotlight earlier this month, as they raised funds for a leading UK multiple sclerosis charity, setting a new world record into the bargain. And helping to keep them all in time was a Yamaha M7CL console. Part of the National Rock and Pop festival, which also incorporated the Guitarfest and Drumfest trade shows, the “Stick It To MS” world record attempt was hosted by comedian and actor John ‘Jazz… View this story
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