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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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02/24/09 04:52 PM,
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Ampco Belgium has supplied and installed 72 Martin Audio OmniLine micro-line array enclosures in different hang configurations within the five-story high Antwerps Sportpaleis concert and sports arena. “It’s ironic that the smallest line array in the market should open its account in one of the largest, multi-purpose venues in the country,” Ampco Belgium Sales Manager Steven Kemland comments. Built in 1933 and recently augmented with a new building, the main arena holds around 17,000, with the new space offering about…
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Friday, February 20, 2009
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02/20/09 09:57 AM,
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Metropolitan Bible Church (affectionately called, “the MET”) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada recently celebrated the opening of a new facility headed by a stadium-style sanctuary that can seat over 1,200, with plans already set to expand this space to accommodate a congregation of 2,200. The high-end sound reinforcement system serving the room is headed by Electro-Voice very compact XLD line arrays. After confirming the XLD’s performance with EASE data and working with EV’s tech support team to cross-check details, Wall Sound…
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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Hip-hop icon Kanye West had a successful tour across Europe in late 2008, making stops in Brussels, Rotterdam, Manchester, and at London’s massive O2 Arena. After supporting West on previous tours with Meyer Sound systems, London-based Canegreen provided a multifaceted Meyer Sound MILO and MICA line array system for the rapper’s latest shows. Working alongside West’s FOH engineer Horace Ward, systems tech Dan Seal used Meyer Sound’s MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction program to plan out the system configuration and…
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
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01/15/09 04:15 PM,
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L-ACOUSTICS US announces that fellow Oxnard-based company Rat Sound Systems has just joined its K1/KUDO Pilot Program with the delivery of a stadium-sized sound reinforcement system primarily comprised of 48 new K1 enclosures, 16 K1-SB subwoofers, 16 LA-RAK touring racks loaded with LA8 amplified controllers, and 24 SB28 subs. Longtime V-DOSC (and, more recently, KUDO) user Rat Sound now joins New York’s Firehouse Productions on a very short list of North American touring companies to take part in the manufacturer’s…
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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12/30/08 04:01 PM,
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Touring in support of their most recent album, Accelerate, R.E.M. selected Oxnard, California-based Rat Sound to handle sound reinforcement requirements, with Brett Eliason serving as FOH engineer and George Squiers handling monitor mix honors. Clair Brothers sublet two Midas XL8 digital mixing consoles (for house and monitors) to Rat Sound for the tour. “We pushed for the Midas consoles,” Eliason notes, adding, “Having the Midas preamps at the front end and a true 24-bit, 96 kHz digital resolution were the…
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Monday, December 22, 2008
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12/22/08 11:20 AM,
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L-ACOUSTICS’ Portuguese distributor Avitel has installed a dV-DOSC system into the main, 1,0000-capacity multipurpose hall at the Casino Figueira in the city of Figueira da Foz. The casino, which has recently been renovated, is more than 100 years old and features some historic frescoes on its domed ceiling. The main front of house system consists of six L-ACOUSTICS dV-DOSC line source cabinets and two dV-SUB subwoofers per side, each hang being driven by four L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplifed controller racks. Further…
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Monday, September 08, 2008
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A sound system featuring Electro-Voice components has brought a new lease of life to New Mount Baptist Church, which occupies a 100-year old building in Chicago’s South Side. AVI Systems, Inc. completed the system design and installation, balancing state-of-the-art software control with compact, high performance loudspeakers and amplifiers to create a budget-friendly solution. “The church asked me to design a concert sound system rather than a church system,” says Rick Muermann CTS of AVI Systems, Inc. “They have a full…
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