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Friday, May 10, 2013
PSW Staff 05/10/13 01:12 PM,When planning its new performing arts centre, the Mansfield, Tex., school district faced a dilemma. Though it was determined that both a large auditorium and a smaller performance hall would be ideal for its range of events, their budget could not justify building and maintaining multiple spaces. A solution was soon found in the multi-use Cunningham Performance Hall of the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts, which utilizes a Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system to provide the ideal acoustics… View this story
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Friday, March 08, 2013
PSW Staff 03/08/13 11:31 AM,Over twenty years ago, the city of Ormond Beach, Florida purchased an old church building and had it renovated. The building opened as the Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center, with capacity for 600 in a fan-shaped auditorium and hosts national, regional and local musicians, theatrical troupes and other performing arts events. Since veteran pro audio designer and engineer Marc Schwartz became the center’s director several years ago, he longed to elevate the room’s sound reinforcement capabilities to equal its stellar… View this story
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
PSW Staff 02/27/13 02:41 PM,A daring stage adaptation of Sylvester Stallone’s iconic film, ROCKY - Das Musical opened in Germany to glowing reviews. This scope of dramatic moods is supported sonically through variable acoustics generated by a permanently installed Constellation acoustic system from Meyer Sound. With an investment of nearly $20 million by Germany’s Stage Entertainment GmbH, Rocky is staged in Hamburg’s 1,400-seat Operettenhaus, a Stage Entertainment-owned theatre with excellent technical amenities but very dry acoustics. “I started discussing Constellation with technical management at… View this story
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
PSW Staff 10/10/12 06:26 PM,The Hålogaland Theatre in Tromsø, Norway, is putting its new DPA d:fine Headset Microphones through their paces on a production of Les Misérables, which opened on September 6th 2012. The theatre has replaced its old stock of DPA 4060 omnidirectional miniature microphones with 40 directional d:fine Headset Microphones and 40 d:fine omni microphone booms, which are being used with a new 32 channel Shure Axient wireless system. The microphones were supplied by sound company Lydproduksjon Tromsø AS, in conjunction with… View this story
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Friday, October 05, 2012
PSW Staff 10/05/12 07:48 AM,Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL has installed a new Allen & Heath iLive T112 digital console and iDR-48 mix rackbringing the city’s only larger performance venue current with today’s technology. Built in 1991, the auditorium presents nearly 20 student and faculty directed performances throughout the year. In addition, the 815- seat venue is used by professional and community groups for a large variety of entertainment including symphonies, musicals, lectures and film festivals. The iLive system was… View this story
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
PSW Staff 07/25/12 11:35 AM,Blumenthal Performing Arts’ venues are home to premier Broadway touring attractions as well as the Charlotte Symphony, Community School of the Arts, North Carolina Dance Theatre, On Q Productions, Opera Carolina, Queen City Theatre Company, and The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film. As the cultural hub of the greater Charlotte area, there are high expectations for every type of event that takes place here. That’s precisely why—when it comes to wireless microphone performance—the organization relies on its… View this story
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
PSW Staff 07/24/12 01:27 PM,Sandwell College’s new $119 million Central Campus building in West Bromwich, England, took four years in the planning and provides an exciting new-age space for its performing arts students across the West Midlands. The building boasts a new theatre space and two dance and drama studios that required state-of-the-art technology. As a result the school turned to Stage Electrics to provide the design and installation of the new sound reinforcement systems. Having installed the sound system at Sandwell College’s previous… View this story
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Wednesday, June 06, 2012
PSW Staff 06/06/12 11:52 AM,Hannon Theatre Company (HTC) at Loyola High School, the oldest secondary school in Southern California, has long been recognized for pushing its students to stage theatrical productions that are nothing short of professional-grade. As part of a continuing effort to improve overall quality, the downtown L.A. school chose to dramatically upgrade its technical production facilities this past season with the addition of an L-Acoustics KIVA system. Designed and installed by Electrosonic of Burbank, the new system features a single central… View this story
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
PSW Staff 05/15/12 04:30 PM,In these financially difficult times, maximizing the potential of facilities has become a key issue for the education sector. At the same time as delivering high quality education in line with modern expectations, schools need to ensure that their facilities generate their own revenue. These are the reasons why one Australian primary school has invested in DiGiCo, opening up a new market for the console manufacturer. Helensvale Primary, located on Queensland’s Gold Coast, recently finished a new performing arts centre,… View this story
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
PSW Staff 03/13/12 12:13 PM,In 2011, the Royal Shakespeare Company installed a DiGiCo SD7 console in the refurbished Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon. It proved to be such a success that when the Company needed an additional mixer for its touring shows and West End transfers, they chose another DiGiCo board – this time the SD9. “We have a long relationship with DiGiCo and needed a console to transfer shows that currently exist on an SD7, but would be playing in smaller venues,” says… View this story
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