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Friday, November 27, 2009
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11/27/09 07:30 PM,
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Rental firm Idea Musica Service of Latina in central Italy recently provided a DiGiCo SD8 digital console and DiGiRack to meet the criteria of a sound design conceived by AudioProgetti of Cavenago Brianza (Milan) for the latest concert tour by Italian singer/songwriter Gianluca Grignani. AudioProgetti Technical Manager Gabel Guagliumi explains the design: “Idea Musica’s brief was to put together a complete touring control system with 56 input channels and 24 outputs, a single core for audio input\conversion (avoiding the additional…
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Monday, November 23, 2009
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11/23/09 10:08 AM,
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AGC Ehitiki, the largest production rental company in Cyprus, celebrated it’s 20th anniversary with the acquisition of a DiGiCo SD8 console. Based at large premises in Kaimakli, close to the center of the island’s capital city of Nicosia, the company was founded by Loris Demetriades, who still takes a very hands-on role in the day-to-day running of the business. “There was a clear market demand for us to offer DiGiCo consoles to our clients, so this was the ideal time…
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Monday, November 16, 2009
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11/16/09 04:36 PM,
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In a departure from his recent stadium tours, Meeuwis’s current appearances to promote his NW8 CD, recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios, are in theatre-sized venues across Holland, where engineers Michiel Lukassen (monitors) and John van Heertum (FOH) are finding the DiGiCo duo the perfect solution. TM Audio, DiGiCo’s distributor in The Netherlands sold the consoles to Rent-All, the production company behind the current tour. “The Meeuwis crew used to be committed analog guys,” says Jaap Pronk of TM Audio.…
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Keith Clark
11/16/09 06:21 AM,
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The recent Worship Facilities Conference and Expo (WFX) in Charlotte provided an excellent format for church sound and technical personnel to take advantage of well-conceived, targeted educational sessions as well as to have a look at some of the latest in audio gear and technology. The expansive trade show floor played host to a range of leading manufacturers who utilized the show to introduce and demonstrate recent developments to an audience growing both in terms of size and technical savvy.…
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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11/03/09 02:33 PM,
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After a five-year hiatus, the long-running quartet Phish reformed earlier this year, culminating in a new release (“Joy”) and subsequent 27-date national tour. During the first leg of the tour, FOH engineer, Garry Brown made the decision to switch mid-stream to a DiGiCo SD7. After an exhaustive A/B comparison of his current console and the DiGiCo SD7, he decided to move to the SD7. Aside from a brief outing with the band Third Day in 2004 on a DiGiCo D5,…
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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10/28/09 08:09 AM,
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The Worship Facilities and Conference Expo will feature the latest hardware and software offerings from DiGiCo and MC2. WFX, presented by Church Production and Worship Facilities magazines, will offer 60+ updated conference sessions on everything from architectural design and fundraising, to mixing sound and social networking, an expo hall with 200+ exhibitors, plus tours of nearby churches. DiGiCo Offerings: SD8-24: The power, finesse and clarity of DiGiCo digital mixing with Stealth Digital Processing. Featuring 60 channels mono or stereo (equivalent…
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Friday, October 23, 2009
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A DiGiCo SD7 mixing console was recently added by S-Service Pro, a high-profile rental company in Moscow, Russia. Established over a decade ago, S-Service Pro provides production services to many of Moscow’s highest profile live events, including outdoor festivals, arena and theatre productions, fashion shows, corporate events, exhibitions, trade shows and parties. The SD7 was handed over by DiGiCo’s Russian distributor, Aris Pro, at the beginning of August and was immediately put to work by S-Service on a festival headlined…
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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The new DiGiCo EX-007 is designed to substantially increase the number of available faders and the number of channels controllable at any one time on an DiGiCo SD7 digital console - and from a distance of up to 100 metres (330-plus feet) via a cost-effective CAT5 cable connection. It is possible to augment an SD7 with two EX-007s, each acting as control panel to provide 24 faders and two additional touch screens, as well as metering and other standard functions,…
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Friday, September 25, 2009
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The New Bedford (Massachusetts) Festival Theatre recently staged a two-week run of the musical “The Producers” at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, featuring original costumes and sets from the Broadway performance. Jason Choquette, on vacation from his main gig as touring sound engineer for the “Phantom of the Opera”, designed the production’s sound system with a DiGiCo SD8 at its core following a chance meeting with DiGiCo U.S. Sales Manager Matt Larson. Choquette met Larson during the Minneapolis ‘Phantom’ run…
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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With the DiGiCo SD8, the compact footprint of this entry-level console, coupled with the power of its Super FPGA processor, made it an instant hit, with record numbers sold since its launch. Now, as the world of corporate events begins its renaissance, DiGiCo has once again produced a product to suit the industry’s changing needs - a console with an even smaller footprint but with no reduction in functionality or number of inputs and outputs. At under a meter (3…
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