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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
PSW Staff 07/29/09 12:10 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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PSW Staff 07/29/09 09:15 AM, 0 CommentsAfter 17 years of service, it recently came time to overhaul the sound reinforcement system in the sanctuary of New Life Christian Ministries in order for it to keep pace with the church’s ambitious programs. Lee Hartman and Sons of Roanoke, VA, a design/build firm providing A/V solutions, was contracted to handle New Life Christian Ministries’ sound system revitalization, utilizing line arrays and loudspeakers from Greensboro, NC-based WorxAudio Technologies. “The original system was mounted up in the soffit over the… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/29/09 08:17 AM, 1 CommentThe new Biema MAX 10 loudspeaker combines the advantages of wide frequency response and dynamic range with low harmonic distortion and high fidelity. The MAX 10 high-frequency component employs a BMS driver made in Germany, while the rotatable horn provides 50-degree by 80-degree coverage. The 10-inch woofer is mounted in a vented enclosure tuned for optimized low frequency response. An internal passive filter network provides all acoustical crossover and equalization. Inputs and outputs are Neutrik Type NL4, wired in parallel.… View this story
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
PSW Staff 07/28/09 03:07 PM, 0 CommentsScott Shear’s Eccentric Studio in Ravena, New York, situated in the Catskills, is a multipurpose venue that hosts live performances, showcases, recording sessions, and rehearsals. Shear, a guitar player, originally started with the idea of building a place where he and his friends could play music and not necessarily be in a bar setting as well as provide a place to help support the music community with workshops and music camps. He did the majority of the construction of the… View this story
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
PSW Staff 07/23/09 10:50 AM, 0 CommentsThe extensive sound reinforcement system serving the new Lancaster County Convention Center (LCCC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania features network-ready Ashly Audio NE8250 power amplifiers. Interestingly, these amplifiers didn’t exist at the outset of the original system design for this long-delayed building project. “Now that it’s all finished, the preservation of the famous façade is a wonderful aspect of the center, and well worth the hassle during construction,” said Mark Showers, system specialist at Sage Technology Solutions in nearby Mount Joy. Sage… View this story
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
PSW Staff 07/21/09 02:38 PM, 0 CommentsFrench L-ACOUSTICS Rental Network Agent Arpege has deployed its K1 system on Jean-Michel Jarre’s current world arena tour. With branches in Paris and Nice, the rental company joined L-ACOUSTICS’ K1 pilot program in March. Renowned for staging enormous concerts in unusual venues, Jarre’s current spectacle has been created for arenas and stadiums, featuring his greatest hits in a show merging analog synthesizers with huge video projections. As the K1 system is behind the huge video screen used for the projections,… View this story
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Monday, July 20, 2009
PSW Staff 07/20/09 09:27 AM, 0 CommentsThe recent seventh annual Revelstoke Music Festival brought blues, rock, acoustic, Latin and World Music artists together in a sylvan outdoor setting on the Columbia River near the Selkirk Mountains and Glacier Pass in southeast British Columbia, with Northwest Global Entertainment (NWGE) of Kelowna, BC providing focused, high quality audio for the outdoor venue with a wide range Martin Audio system components. The eclectic musical lineup including Donald Ray Johnson, Nuna’Y, Red-Eye Empire, Kyemara, Valdy, Rick Garvin, Blind Spot, Ghost… View this story
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
PSW Staff 07/15/09 01:09 PM, 0 CommentsIn a high-profile international application of JBL touring systems this summer, rental sound company Touring Services supplied an expansive audio system for the Global Gathering Freedom Festival at the Borovaya Airfield in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus in northern Europe. The system included products from JBL’s VERTEC DP Series and HLA Series loudspeaker lines. Major internationally known DJs were featured, including Axwell, Steve Angello, Dubfire, Sebastien Leger, D. Ramirez, Menno De Jong, Micky Slim, Paul Thomas, and Eston. World-renowned… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/15/09 08:37 AM, 0 CommentsFor the second summer in a row, the Mayhem Tour, featuring heavy metal artists, is utilizing ribbon-loaded Versarray 212 line arrays from Peavey Electronics. The Versarray 212 line arrays are supporting all performances on the Jägermeister Mobile Stage—a custom-built, traveling foldout stage housed in a 44-foot trailer—including metal heavyweights Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid and more as the festival crisscrosses the U.S. from July through August. “The Peavey Versarray 212 is a big leap forward for sound reinforcement technology,”… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/15/09 07:14 AM, 0 CommentsSpain-based FOCUS, S.A. recently presented an in-depth seminar and workshop focusing on EAW products and technologies for freelance sound technicians. FOCUS serves as a rental company for many high-profile touring companies in the area, so it is very common for third party and freelance technicians to be setting up and operating FOCUS-supplied EAW units. The seminar was intended to prepare those individuals to properly handle EAW equipment and make educated decisions on the setup and configuration of such products, along… View this story
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