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Friday, March 27, 2009
PSW Staff 03/27/09 11:37 AM, 0 CommentsChrist’s Church, in the German town of Velbert, North Rhine Westphalia, recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the laying of its foundation stone, and to celebrate the historic occasion, the church decided to invest in a modern sound system based on Martin Audio OmniLine line arrays driven by Crest Audio amplification with processing via an Architectural Acoustics Digitool MX programmable digital processor. Christ’s Church, Velbert is reputed to be one of the most significant ‘Jugendstil’ or art nouveau churches in… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • News • Installation • Line Array • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer -
Thursday, March 05, 2009
PSW Staff 03/05/09 04:31 PM, 0 CommentsMexico City’s Auditorio Nacional, honored with the top slot in Billboard’s Touring Awards in 2007 and topping Pollstar’s rankings of theatres and auditoriums by posting total ticket sales of over 995,000, has just implemented a new high-end audio system featuring 60 Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers - the largest MILO system owned by any theatre or auditorium. The Auditorio seats an audience of nearly 10,000 and is the Western Hemisphere’s largest auditorium that is not a religious institution. Size… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer -
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
PSW Staff 02/25/09 08:35 AM, 0 CommentsThree large theatres in Germany have recently installed intercom systems from Riedel Communications. While the State Theatres in Meiningen and Dresden chose Riedel’s Performer 32 intercom matrix/stage management system, a Riedel Artist 64 intercom matrix is used at the opera house in Halle. Next to the Semper Oper, the Schauspielhaus is the biggest theatre in Dresden. Its program consists of classical plays and musical theatre productions. The backbone of the intercom system at the theatre in Dresden is a Riedel… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Installation • Monitoring • Remote • Stage -
Monday, February 23, 2009
PSW Staff 02/23/09 02:42 PM, 0 CommentsRenowned violinist Tim Kliphuis recently chose to utilize a DPA 4099 instrument microphone for all of his live performances. Kliphuis, who acquired his new DPA mic from UK distributor Sound Network, is a prolific performer whose music is a boundary-crossing fusion of gypsy jazz, classical and folk. He notes that he has switched to the DPA 4099 because he found he couldn’t rely on the acoustic quality of microphones usually provided by venues. “I’ve played as far afield as Syria… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Microphone • Sound Reinforcement • Stage -
Thursday, December 18, 2008
PSW Staff 12/18/08 02:38 PM, 0 CommentsDutch violinist and conductor André Rieu recently brought the world’s largest transportable set to stadiums across Australia, staging an unparalleled classical spectacle for anticipating audiences. The stunning production included a 125-meter-wide stage with a 600-square-meter ice skating rink, a gold coach pulled by six white horses, and a full-size reproduction of Vienna’s famed Schönbrunn Castle, replete with golden ballroom and gilded chandeliers. Montreal-based Solotech met Rieu’s demand for sonic excellence with a sound system headlined by Meyer Sound loudspeakers, based… View this story
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
12/11/08 08:52 AM, 0 CommentsAl Galladoro, a master of the clarinet and saxophone, passed this week at the age of 95. Born in Chicago in 1913, the son of an immigrant, Galladoro picked up his father’s clarinet when he was 5, and by the time he was 14, Galladoro had embarked on an 9-decade career that took him first to New Orleans and then to New York City. Galladoro thrived in an era when music was performed live on stage or broadcast live into… View this story
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