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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
PSW Staff 09/08/09 06:10 PM, 0 CommentsHome of the Canadian football BC Lions and site of several events in the upcoming 2010 Winter Games, BC Place is the dominant sports and entertainment complex in Vancouver. The owners, BC Pavilion Corporation, recently contracted Western Pacific Enterprises GP, one of the largest installers in the region, for a complete upgrade of the luxury suites that ring the stadium. As described by Jan Petersen, Data Division Manager for Western Pacific, the comprehensive project involved “55 suites with 118 loudspeakers,… View this story
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
PSW Staff 09/01/09 03:48 PM, 0 CommentsThe ongoing Coldplay Viva La Vida concert tour has all band members utilizing Sensaphonics custom earphones and Sennheiser wireless systems. Further, all four band members upgraded from the classic ProPhonic 2X-S to the Sensaphonics 2MAX. “Most of the backline crew also have Sensaphonics IEMs,” says Monitor Engineer Chris Wood. “We have found the drivers to be very reliable. I can’t recall having a problem in the eight years we have used them.” A few wedges can still be seen on… View this story
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
PSW Staff 08/26/09 08:15 AM, 0 CommentsFor the second year, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, along with Shure and Martin Professional, will be offering product training for church technicians and musicians enhanced insight into audio, musicianship, lighting, recording, and media presentation. The Worship Arts Technology Summit (WATS) will be held September 14–16, 2009 in Muskegon, Michigan at one of the most beautiful Christian conference centers in the nation – The Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference Center on the shores of Lake Michigan. All skill levels are welcome… View this story
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
PSW Staff 08/25/09 08:16 AM, 0 CommentsThe Southern Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, BC (Canada), recently hosted a live performance by legendary comic Bill Cosby on a Friday night and a high-energy rock concert called “Hot Summer Nights” the following Saturday, with both performances handled by the same sound reinforcement system headed by Martin Audio line arrays, loudspeakers, monitors, amplifiers and processors. Local audio provider Northwest Global Entertainment of Kelowna, BC, was confident in the capabilities of the system to provide premium audio quality for the… View this story
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Monday, August 17, 2009
PSW Staff 08/17/09 12:35 PM, 0 CommentsThe annual July 4th concert performance at the Ft. Wayne campus of Indiana/Purdue University featured four local acts capped off by nationally known country singer Jo Dee Messina and a spectacular finale featuring the Ft. Wayne Symphony Orchestra performing in tandem with choreographed fireworks. To accommodate all of the performers, Sticha Bros, who’d been contracted for the event by Northern Productions of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, set up a larger 60- x 60-foot stage next to a smaller 60- x… View this story
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
PSW Staff 08/05/09 04:43 PM, 0 CommentsBilled as “America’s Biggest Birthday Party,” Fair St. Louis this summer hosted a series of Friday and Saturday night concerts on the banks of the Mississippi River featuring national and local talent, capped off by extensive fireworks displays. The lineup of performers on the Mississippi River Overlook Budweiser Stage included Counting Crows, Train, Sonic Youth, Little Feat, Angie Stone, Gretchen Wilson, Guster, and rapper Lupe Fiasco, all supported with sound reinforcement by local provider Production Solutions LLC utilizing Martin Audio… View this story
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Monday, August 03, 2009
PSW Staff 08/03/09 12:18 PM, 0 CommentsHarman Professional’s two console companies - Soundcraft and Studer - have launched of a range of online facilities and social networking sites. The new Studer website, www.studer.ch, features white papers on Mixing in Surround, Virtual Surround Panning, and how to measure the true quality of sound. A series of tutorial videos can be downloaded explaining and demonstrating operational philosophies of the Vista digital console range. With Studer’s product range now spanning more audio markets, the site also features application-specific areas… View this story
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Monday, July 27, 2009
PSW Staff 07/27/09 04:28 PM, 0 CommentsThis year’s iTunes Festival, relocated to The Roundhouse in North London, features more than 60 artists playing live throughout July, with the wide range of talent including commercial mainstays such as Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol, acoustic performers like Newton Faulkner, quirky performance artists with wide dynamic ranges (like Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan), and some good old fashioned R&B. Sound reinforcement for the festival is headed by Martin Audio W8LM mini line arrays, joined by a range… View this story
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Monday, July 20, 2009
PSW Staff 07/20/09 10:27 AM, 0 CommentsThe recent seventh annual Revelstoke Music Festival brought blues, rock, acoustic, Latin and World Music artists together in a sylvan outdoor setting on the Columbia River near the Selkirk Mountains and Glacier Pass in southeast British Columbia, with Northwest Global Entertainment (NWGE) of Kelowna, BC providing focused, high quality audio for the outdoor venue with a wide range Martin Audio system components. The eclectic musical lineup including Donald Ray Johnson, Nuna’Y, Red-Eye Empire, Kyemara, Valdy, Rick Garvin, Blind Spot, Ghost… View this story
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
PSW Staff 07/14/09 09:55 AM, 0 CommentsAES Executive Director Roger Furness has announced the completion of the second volume of Audio Engineering Society DVD Oral History Project interviews. Conceived in 1997 by long-time AES member Irv Joel, the project was initiated as a critical opportunity for preserving the creative and technical thought process of the originators of professional audio as related by them personally. “Irv Joel has maintained close, on-going relationships with many of the giants of our industry,” Furness said. “In addition to coordinating the… View this story
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