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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Teri Hogan 05/21/13 02:30 PM,Sound companies handle “one-off” shows every day. It’s usually formulaic, and after a while, we do it by rote. But what happens when the client wants one-stop shopping? This is also known as “full production” or “turnkey service,” and it’s quite a bit more involved than an average show. Generally months of planning and coordination are needed, as well as work with a number of subcontractors. It just can’t be done by the seat of the pants. Normally, when a… View this story
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
PSW Staff 05/08/13 01:50 PM,As it has for the past 26 years, SE Systems of Greensboro, NC recently provided sound reinforcement and support for the annual MerleFest in Wilkesboro, NC, deploying its new NEXO STM line arrays as well as Yamaha CL5 digital consoles. This year’s roster of artists at MerleFest included long-time roots artists like Leon Russell, The Charlie Daniels Band, Avett Brothers, Del McCoury Band, Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Michael Martin Murphey, Peter Rowan, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and the Nitty… View this story
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Gary Parks 02/11/13 07:26 PM,The annual Monterey Jazz Festival is a three-day extravaganza where tens of thousands of music fans enjoy a variety of jazz acts on several stages throughout the grounds. The most recent edition of the festival (the 55th), held late last year, saw stages ranging from two informal outdoor venues featuring simple audio systems in the entry courtyard and the concessions area to the 6,500-seat Jimmy Lyons arena with a concert stage, flown loudspeaker arrays, and full front-of-house and monitor stations.… View this story
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Paul Watson 11/14/12 11:34 AM,The annual Arenal Sound music festival in the small coastal town of Burriana, Castellon, fuses home-grown Spanish talent and a handful of renowned international acts – this year’s headliners included Kaiser Chiefs, Two Door Cinema Club, and the Ting Tings. More than 40,000 came each day to enjoy the performances and party in sweltering heat at this beach resort from noon until 7 am. (Yes, that’s AM!) I attended Arenal this year, and while keeping to a decidedly more reasonable… View this story
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Friday, September 07, 2012
PSW Staff 09/07/12 09:08 AM,Martin Audio MLAs (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) headed a large-scale sound reinforcement system that recently completed a successful tour of duty at Japan’s largest festival, Rock in Japan. Promoted by music magazine publishers Rockin’ On and an annual event for 12 years, the three-day festival featured over 100 of Japan’s leading rock bands and artists and drew a crowd of around 60,000 daily to the venue at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka. Rental company MSI Japan, which has provided front… View this story
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Thursday, September 06, 2012
PSW Staff 09/06/12 06:03 PM,For three days in August, an estimated 100,000 fans converged at the sold-out Outside Lands festival in San Francisco, with the bill including live performances by Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Metallica, and Foo Fighters. This year’s lineup at the Lands End main stage was supported by Meyer Sound’s freshly unveiled LEO linear large-scale line arrays. “Faithfully reproducing music for 65,000 is no easy task, but the Meyer Sound LEO system this year did an incredible job,” states Gregg Perloff, CEO… View this story
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
PSW Staff 08/30/12 06:05 AM,For three evenings in July, 45,000-plus fervent fans gathered at the Lollapalooza festival’s Bud Light Stage in Chicago to hear some of the world’s top musical acts, including Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne, Avicii, Justice, and Franz Ferdinand. To deliver their music with full impact across the 7.5-acre grassy quadrangle, Thunder Audio of Livonia, MI assembled a sound reinforcement system led by 76 Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers. “The MILO system sounded phenomenal, as it always does,” states Thunder’s… View this story
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012
PSW Staff 08/07/12 03:28 PM,New Adamson Systems Energia E15 line arrays were deployed by Energia beta partners MPM and Waveform Audio to provide main sound reinforcement at the Sonisphere festival site in Amneville, France, which featured artists such as Faith No More, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother, Machine Head and others. Chief audio designer Julien Poirot of Waveform notes, “The E15 is just a perfect PA. There is amazing headroom and precision in the low frequency with a very powerful and clean mid/high section. This is… View this story
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
PSW Staff 05/24/12 01:59 PM,The Movement Electronic Music Festival, taking place May 26-28 at Detroit’s Hart Plaza, will feature ab array of Meyer Sound equipment provided by Livonia, Mich.-based Thunder Audio. The annual festival, which drew some 100,000 attendees in 2011, has grown and evolved considerably from its inception as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000. This year, three of five stages will feature Meyer Sound components. “Our company was unaware of Meyer in a practical sense until we teamed up with Thunder… View this story
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PSW Staff 05/24/12 01:00 PM,Powersoft K2 and K3 amplifiers powered 52 EAW KF740 modules at the annual EdgeFest one-day rock festival held at the 30,000-capacity FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco, TX in late April. For the fifth straight year, Dallas-based Gemini Light Sound & Video supplied production for the event, which this year featured The Black Keys, Garbage, Cake, Cage the Elephant, Arctic Monkeys, Neon Trees, Civil Twilight, Switchfoot and Aranda. The main stage loudspeaker rig included 18 flown per side in the main… View this story
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