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Monday, March 16, 2009
PSW Staff 03/16/09 03:25 PM, 0 CommentsSound Art Canada recently provided sound reinforcement, including a wide range of Electro-Voice components, for the annual Festival Du Voyageur, Western Canada’s largest winter festival, held in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada. The annual festival celebrates Canada’s fur trading history and French heritage and features 10 days of art, entertainment, and music, with attendance at the 2009 festival topping 105,000. John Loewen, Technical Projects Manager for Sound Art, comments: “Electro-Voice is the only loudspeaker supplier we use for all six of… View this story
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
PSW Staff 03/11/09 09:38 AM, 0 CommentsMaroon 5 and Front of House Engineer Jim Ebdon utilized Royer Labs R-121 Live Series ribbon microphones for guitar miking applications on its recently completed tour, which included dates throughout North and South America, South Africa, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Jim Ebdon, whose resume includes work at the UK’s Surrey Studios (where the first three Police albums were recorded) as well as touring stints with Aerosmith, Annie Lennox, Sting, Matchbox Twenty, and the American Idol tours, discussed how he… View this story
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
PSW Staff 03/10/09 02:24 PM, 0 CommentsPeavey Electronics has endowed a musical-equipment grant totaling $60,000 to support curricula at the Delta Music Institute, a center for interdisciplinary studies in the music and entertainment industries at Delta State University. “The music of the Mississippi Delta has influenced countless musicians around the world, and it inspired my lifelong passion for making the tools that allow us to create music,” said Hartley Peavey, founder and CEO of Meridian-based Peavey Electronics Corporation, one of the world’s largest makers of music… View this story
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PSW Staff 03/10/09 09:43 AM, 0 CommentsThe most notable thing about weekly services at Christ’s Church at Mason (Ohio) is that each service is in a distinctly different style – traditional, contemporary and blended. The church’s 1300-seat sanctuary was recently renovated with a new sound system to handle the contemporary and blended services while a smaller chapel was built to handle the traditional service. Longtime integrator Worship Resources was brought in to develop an appropriate audio design, with an Allen & Heath iLive-144 digital mixing system… View this story
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PSW Staff 03/10/09 08:55 AM, 0 CommentsMidas Consoles Benelux has sold a package of equipment including two Midas PRO6 digital consoles, a Venice 160 console and Klark Teknik Square ONE signal processing to Deltion College in Zwolle, the Netherlands. The Deltion College provides around 16,000 young people with vocational training and education per year, and its technology courses include Stage and Events Techniques Training. “This is equipment you won’t yet see in many real-life theatres; a dream come true for every instructor and every student,” says… View this story
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Monday, March 09, 2009
Jeff MacKay 03/09/09 02:32 PM, 0 CommentsLaunching in late fall 2008 and currently continuing in Europe, Metallica’s World Magnetic world concert tour (in support of the album of the same name) features the band’s long-preferred in-the-round live performance configuration, with more than 200 loudspeakers flown for each arena show. For more than 20 years, two mainstays on the audio crew have allowed the group to continue to pursue the development of its touring system: Front of House Engineer “Big Mick” Hughes and Monitor Engineer Paul Owen.… View this story
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Friday, February 27, 2009
PSW Staff 02/27/09 08:53 AM, 1 CommentDoug Rogers, founder of the EastWest software instrument company, has purchased and re-opened the recording studio located at 6000 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the site of historic recordings by a who’s who of the last four decades, from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra through The Beach Boys to Green Day and Madonna. In the process of restoring the facilities to their former glory and relocating EastWest’s operations to the complex, Rogers outfitted the three principal control rooms with soffit-mounted ATC… View this story
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
PSW Staff 02/26/09 12:24 PM, 0 CommentsA 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… View this story
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Monday, February 23, 2009
PSW Staff 02/23/09 12:44 PM, 0 CommentsEquator Audio Research, manufacturer and designer of Q Series reference monitors that utilize DSP to assist engineers in optimizing for accurate monitoring in any room, has established a sales and marketing office in Singapore. The new office will be headed by Ken Tovich, who stated, “Equator has developed an incredible range of products. Not only do they have a big sound, they actually analyze the room in which they’re playing and then digitally correct the system to optimise the acoustic… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/23/09 10:18 AM, 0 CommentsDubai-based production company Events Productions deployed multiple hangs of Outline Butterfly line arrays to cover the large-scale indoor venue at the Al Maktoum Wedding Celebration hosted last month by the ruling family of Dubai (UAE). To meet the needs of such a huge venue, Events Productions decided to significantly increase its stock of Outline equipment by purchasing more than 80 boxes, including Butterfly Hi-Packs, subwoofers, HARD monitor wedges, and more. Hosted at halls 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the… View this story
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