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Friday, July 10, 2009
PSW Staff 07/10/09 07:22 AM, 0 CommentsTurbosound Aspect loudspeakers were utilized to provide sound reinforcement for the Acoustic Tent at the recent 2009 Glastonbury Festival, in support of live performances by a diverse group of artists such as Fairport Convention, Ray Davies, Hugh Cornwell, Georgie Fame, the Penguin Café Orchestra and the London Community Gospel Choir. The system serving the Acoustic Tent, provided by Bristol-based Audioforum and specified and manned by Turbosound Design Engineer Danny Cooklin, was comprised ground stacks of four Turbosound TA-890H, four TA-890L… View this story
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
PSW Staff 07/01/09 08:20 AM, 0 CommentsWhen Production Hire realized the amount of summer festival work and autumn dance events that were available if the company could provide adequate PA coverage, proprietor Mark Neal decided it was time to invest in a new line array system. After evaluating a couple of leading systems, Neal purchased 24 Martin Audio W8L Longbow line array enclosures and gave them a first initiation at the RockNess Music Festival near Inverness this month, where Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, Dizzee Rascal and Flaming… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/01/09 07:23 AM, 0 CommentsAt InfoComm 2009, NEXO marked its 30th Anniversary, and this is also the first full year of NEXO’s transition to becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan, a partnership that provides customers with complete sound system solutions by utilizing products from both lines. Currently, NEXO’s distribution network extends to over 50 countries, with exclusive representation in the North America by Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems. (YCAS). Since its creation in 1979 by Eric Vincenot and Michael Johnson, NEXO has found… View this story
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Monday, June 29, 2009
PSW Staff 06/29/09 07:13 PM, 0 CommentsMuch of the 2009 Glastonbury Festival was spent basking in uncharacteristic sunshine, and contributing significantly to the quality of a weekend already being touted as the best Glasto ever, this year the familiar presence of Yamaha digital mixing consoles had grown to an unprecedented high number. “I’ve been coming to Glastonbury for years in a support capacity and I have never seen so many Yamaha desks on so many stages,” reports Nick Pemberton of Yamaha Commercial Audio. As usual, the… View this story
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
PSW Staff 06/16/09 05:03 AM, 0 CommentsNorth Carolina-based JHE Production Group recently deployed JBL Professional VERTEC line arrays to serve as a big part of the live-event technology provided for the 15th annual Food Lion Speed Street, a three-day festival in Charlotte staged in late May (2009). Food Lion Speed Street is a free event celebrating the NASCAR season, offering live entertainment, fan access to NASCAR’s brightest stars, and vendor displays from sponsors including Food Lion, Coca-Cola, Miller Lite and Chevrolet. Featuring performers like Bell Biv… View this story
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Friday, May 29, 2009
PSW Staff 05/29/09 10:34 AM, 0 CommentsInnovation Productions, a leading U.K. hire company, is now utilizing line array technology for the first time, giving prominence in their rental fleet to a new Martin Audio W8LC system and control. Managing director Andrew Pygott purchased 16 of the mid-high enclosures, along with eight WS218X subs and a pair of DX2 processors, based on recommendation. Innovation has also configured the drive racks to accommodate six new Martin Audio MA5.2K amplifiers, with an MA12K driving the bottom end. These recently… View this story
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
PSW Staff 05/28/09 09:13 AM, 0 CommentsA sound reinforcement system providing by Britannia Row and featuring dual Midas PRO6 digital mixing systems was utilized for the recent two week U.K. tour by Paolo Nutini. The PRO6s were used by Nutini’s Front Of House Engineer Graham ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson and Monitor Engineer Tom Howat, who was also mixing support band The Panics plus additional support acts appearing on the tour. Because the tour consisted mainly of smaller promotional gigs, the entire control system had to fit into a… View this story
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
PSW Staff 05/27/09 11:09 AM, 0 CommentsFor more than 40 years, the Daytona Beach International Festival (DBIF) has served as the official U.S. home to the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). This year’s LSO Pops Concert, “A Celebration of Speed,” featured a fast-paced multimedia musical program set to a 90-minute high-def film, and paid tribute to Daytona as the ‘Birthplace of Speed’ and to the late Bill France, Jr., who pioneered NASCAR. Syntonic Design Group, contracted for the audio production portion of the concert, provided a DiGiCo… View this story
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Friday, May 22, 2009
PSW Staff 05/22/09 07:24 AM, 0 CommentsMore than 15,000 rock fans recently converged on Tucson Electric Park for KFMA Day, the radio station’s annual music festival, with this year’s event featuring metal icons Korn as the headliner joined by rising metal bands such as Hollywood Undead, Escape the Fate, Amberlin, Red, as well as several local bands. Soundwave Audio of Tuscon provided sound reinforcement and support for the festival, with owner Mark Pacheco noting that his company was asked to supply “complete audio not just for… View this story
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