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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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04/22/10 06:14 PM,
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Held in Egypt’s El Sawy Culturewheel cultural center, which shares its walls with the 15th May Bridge across the River Nile, the recent five-day Cairo Jazz Festival featured sound reinforcement headed by Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeakers. “The MICA arrays were used because we wanted the power, not so much to simply make it loud but to give us dynamics,” states FOH engineer Hameed Sabry. “We hosted a number of bands with diverse styles that the MICA supported very…
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
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03/18/10 01:13 PM,
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Meyer Sound has announced MINA, the newest and smallest member of the family of self-powered line array loudspeakers that include MILO, MICA, and M’elodie. Designed for live sound and installation applications facing size and weight limitations, MINA carries the same remarkable musicality and intelligibility that define other members of the MILO family loudspeakers of which many thousands are in use around the world today. With MINA, smaller venues such as theatres, ballrooms, and houses of worship can provide their audiences…
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
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07/30/09 02:27 PM,
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Lake Forest, Illinois-based T.C. Furlong recently added a self-powered Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeaker system to sharpen its competitive edge in the event rental market. The MICA integrates smoothly with T.C. Furlong’s other Meyer Sound systems, including the M’elodie line array loudspeakers, and has equipped the 36-year-old audio provider with a new range of tools for the steady flow of projects that require high-quality sound reinforcement. The company’s success story can be traced back to owner T.C. Furlong’s vision…
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Barry Rudolph
07/30/09 01:16 PM,
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1) Adding More Snares to Snare Drums If you’re presented with an “inherited recording” to mix (one you didn’t engineer) with live drums where no bottom mic was used on the snare drum, or the track sheet says “snare” but all you’ve got to work with is a dull thump, try this: Route an aux send bus output from your mixing console to a small powered loudspeaker (or, if you have an extra power amp, a regular small passive loudspeaker)…
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Friday, July 10, 2009
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07/10/09 07:19 AM,
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More than 45 years after their first concert, The Dead (previously the Grateful Dead) recently finished up their first tour in more than five years, performing 22 shows in 17 cities. The Dead’s tour was again supported by Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers supplied by Bay Area associates Pro Media/UltraSound. The system, designed to provide up to 360-degree coverage for the tour’s multiple arena dates, included main left and right arrays of 16 MILO and two MILO 120 line…
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Friday, June 12, 2009
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06/12/09 04:01 PM,
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Meyer Sound has announced the availability of high-resolution measurement data for 13 of its most popular loudspeakers in the GLL (Generic Loudspeaker Library) format, enabling users of EASE design and simulation software to model the interaction of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker systems with the acoustics of rooms. With the release of EASE 4.3, the software can now import and view*** Meyer Sound’s one-degree measurement data in the GLL format which is considerably higher resolution than the EASE SPK file format…
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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05/12/09 08:16 AM,
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After six years, six albums and hundreds of tour dates, Il Divo has made remarkable progress in bringing opera to the mainstream, with several number-one releases backed up by performances with Barbra Streisand, Céline Dion and Toni Braxton. Now the quartet is back for another world tour, backed by a powerful system headed by Meyer Sound line arrays and loudspeakers provided by UK-based Capital Sound. The system comprises left and right arrays of 18 MILO line array loudspeakers each, with…
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
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02/26/09 01:24 PM,
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A powerful Meyer Sound MILO and MICA line array loudspeaker system delivered 11 hours of uninterrupted prayer and music to a crowd of 350,000 at the annual Experience Interdenominational Gospel Concert, reported on its website as the largest concert in Africa and the largest gospel musical event in the world. Staged at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria, the massive musical extravaganza brought together worshippers from throughout Africa to revel in performances by award-winning artists including Kirk Franklin, Donnie…
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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01/30/09 02:15 PM,
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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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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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01/13/09 05:52 PM,
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After more than 15 years off the road, legendary singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen is treating fans to a long-anticipated world tour. Cohen and his nine-piece band, led by renowned bassist Roscoe Beck, kicked off the tour with dates across Canada and Europe. Montreal-based Solotech is providing support for the tour, using a high-performance system featuring Meyer Sound MILO and MICA line array loudspeakers. As FOH Engineer Mark Vreeken explains, Meyer Sound was chosen for flexibility in the face of…
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