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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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06/02/09 08:28 AM,
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A short drive north of Houston, Devasco International in Tomball, Texas specializes in customized welding and metalworking solutions. With a large staff, a 62,000-square-foot warehouse, and plenty of industrial-grade machinery, it’s not among the quietest of environments. Recently, the company installed a variety of Community Professional loudspeakers to handle a variety of sound reinforcement and paging needs throughout the facility. The loudspeakers were specified by Devasco Controller/Treasurer David Scott, who also holds a degree as an acoustical engineer. Fourteen Community…
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Monday, June 01, 2009
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06/01/09 07:48 AM,
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Italian audio system provider Madema SpA deployed a large, multi-array JBL Professional VERTEC system for the recent Primo Maggio festival in Rome, and annual public event that commemorates the Italian Labor Day. Held in Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, the temporary stage for Primo Maggio is traditionally set up in front of the historic Basilica of St. John Lateran, the first church to be built in Rome, with original construction dating to 313 A.D This year’s event drew a…
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Friday, May 29, 2009
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05/29/09 11:13 AM,
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The new administrative complex at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in California, one of the largest tribal gaming facilities in the nation, incorporates a wide range of A/V technology to facilitate productive meetings, including Sennheiser wired and wireless microphones. Neil Shaw of Menlo Scientific Acoustics, Inc., of Topanga, California, designed the A/V system, and Daryl Ballou of Muzak Systems Division, in Fort Mill, South Carolina, installed it. Each of the twelve individuals at the dais has a microphone and…
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
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05/28/09 08:45 AM,
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Held recently on the grounds of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, MerleFest celebrated its 22nd year with four days of music across 11 stages: Americana, Austin Songwriting, Cabin, Creekside, Dance, The Pit, Watson, Walker Center, Hillside, Little Pickers, and The Lounge, with a couple of ‘just get up and pick’ stages. Spearheaded by ‘B’ Townes from Wilkes Community College and ‘Doc’ Watson in memory of his son, guitar picker Eddy Merle Watson who died 24 years ago, the…
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Friday, May 22, 2009
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05/22/09 09:42 AM,
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At the upcoming 2009 InfoComm show in Orlando, Ashly Audio is introducing two new loudspeaker processors to its line of Protea DSP products. The Protea 4.8SP four-input/eight-output and Protea 3.6SP three-input/six-output 1RU digital signal processors offer an extremely intuitive user interface, plus PC control software, and comprehensive DSP, including crossover, equalization, delay and limiter functions. Gain, delay and six filters (each a choice of parametric, low- or high-shelf) may be applied to every input, each of which employs 24-bit, 48…
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
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05/07/09 10:31 AM,
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When Allen & Heath announced the availability of the lower priced iLive-T digital mixing system in January, President Dan Redman of Spinnaker Multimedia Solutions in Malvern, PA, was ready. The day after the announcement, Redman placed the first order. “Our churches had been waiting for a console with these features, at this price point, for a very long time,” Redman explains. “So we were ready to go with it.” The needs of Victory Christian Fellowship in Audubon, PA have been…
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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05/05/09 09:40 AM,
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Sennheiser has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for North America with K-Array, a PA loudspeaker and amplifier manufacturer based in Florence, Italy. The K-Array flagship KH4 two-way, flat-panel line array delivers consistent, high-quality audio in long throw applications. Weighing just over 104 pounds and measuring 44 inches wide by 24 inches high and just 6.3 inches deep, the system is specified as producing 145 dB SPL. The vertical coverage pattern is variable between 7 degrees and 37 degrees, with a…
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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04/29/09 09:39 AM,
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The Knowles Physical Education Center, a large multi-purpose facility on the campus of the University of Wisconsin – River Falls was recently outfitted with a new sound reinforcement systemdesigned and installed by Burnsville, Minnesota-based Intermedia Systems Group (ISG), and featuring Ashly Audio NE-series network and DSP-enabled amplifiers. In addition to hosting graduation ceremonies, which seat 3,000, the Knowles Center hosts indoor track events and physical education classes. When not used for those purposes, the university opens it up to the…
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Monday, April 27, 2009
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Situated just 20 minutes outside Amsterdam, The Mail Company is a bar/restaurant which transposes effortlessly into a 600-capacity dance venue on weekend nights, occupying the site of a former post office in Z, which was converted 21 years ago. Owned by the Hiemstra family in the town of Zaandam, Holland for the past 14 years (and fronted by son, Nick), the venue recently underwent a major overhaul of its interior infrastructure, including the sound system and multimedia to keep it…
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Friday, April 10, 2009
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Producer and engineer Greg Ladanyi, known for his work with Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Don Henley and Toto, has installed a pair of ATC (Acoustic Transducer Company) SCM50ASL Pro active three-way monitors in his studio at Maple Jam Music Group. The one-room facility focuses on pre-production, tracking and mixing for the group’s roster of artists, which include Anna Vissi, Type O Negative, and Hollywood Undead. The SCM50ASL Pro mid-field systems, which each incorporate a one-inch dome tweeter, three-inch custom Super…
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