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Friday, October 14, 2011
PSW Staff 10/14/11 01:14 PM,Ever since the introduction of line arrays, it has become harder for subwoofers to keep up with the efficiency of tall columns of coupled transducers in large full-range systems. This has helped drive transducer and amplifier manufacturers to produce increasingly powerful low-frequency components. Multi-kilowatt dual-18 enclosures are now the standard. However, while flown full-length line arrays do a superb job of getting full-range sound to the back of enormous venues, stacked subwoofers – even with their advantage of half-space coupling… View this story
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Monday, August 31, 2009
PSW Staff 08/31/09 11:17 AM, 0 CommentsThe 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour, which culminated in August with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdel Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, was supported by sound reinforcement courtesy of Sound Image of Escondido, California, which provided JBL VERTEC line arrays. The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour reunited one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s, whose 1995 release Tragic Kingdom has sold more than 16 million copies to date. In recent years, No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani… View this story
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
PSW Staff 08/27/09 06:12 PM, 1 CommentThe Fillmore Charlotte, a 20,000-square-foot venue at the North Carolina Music Factory’s entertainment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Fourth Ward neighborhood, stays true to the tradition of the original Fillmore theaters. The venue, which opened this past June with Georgia acoustic rocker Corey Smith headlining, has the Fillmore’s trademark red velvet draperies, ornate chandeliers, custom lighting and vintage concert posters. The building, once a historic Charlotte manufacturing site, was reinvigorated by Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promoter, with Soundcraft… 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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Thursday, August 13, 2009
PSW Staff 08/13/09 03:59 PM, 0 CommentsRat Sound Systems is the sound company for the current concert tour by Blink-182, providing its new L-ACOUSTICS K1 loudspeakers and subwoofers, as well as all other audio gear and support. The equipment complement includes 24 L-ACOUSTICS K1 and 8 K1 subwoofers as well as 24 KUDO, 24 SB28, 8 Rat Sound Supersubs and 12 L-ACOUSTICS dV-Dosc. All are powered by L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplifiers. Blink-182 is back on the road for the first time after their recent four year hiatus,… View this story
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Friday, August 07, 2009
PSW Staff 08/07/09 12:47 PM, 0 CommentsCrossword Christian Church in Riverside, California recently upgraded its sound reinforcement capability on a large scale replacing the systems in its sanctuary, courtyard, and children’s wing with an assortment of Electro-Voice equipment from CBC Technical of Murrieta, California. Crossword’s new sanctuary system includes five EV Phoenix PX2152 loudspeakers in a flown left-center-right configuration (including a central cluster of three), with two Phoenix EV PX2181 subwoofers on the ground at stage left and right, as well as Dynacord VL262s compact double-six-inch,… View this story
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
PSW Staff 07/21/09 03:38 PM, 0 CommentsFrench L-ACOUSTICS Rental Network Agent Arpege has deployed its K1 system on Jean-Michel Jarre’s current world arena tour. With branches in Paris and Nice, the rental company joined L-ACOUSTICS’ K1 pilot program in March. Renowned for staging enormous concerts in unusual venues, Jarre’s current spectacle has been created for arenas and stadiums, featuring his greatest hits in a show merging analog synthesizers with huge video projections. As the K1 system is behind the huge video screen used for the projections,… 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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Thursday, July 16, 2009
PSW Staff 07/16/09 10:35 AM, 0 CommentsEngland’s Eurohire Sound and Light, a long-established turnkey supplier for Europe’s events and entertainment industries, recently decided to bolster its inventory of stage monitors and processors, selecting a complement of products from EAW, including more than 20 MicroWedge Series MW15 stage monitors, a pair of MicroSub stage monitors/subwoofers, and four UX8800 digital signal processors. With the purchase, Eurohire now holds the largest European rental stock of EAW MicroWedge monitors, a line of products developed by EAW in close partnership with… View this story
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