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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
D.A.S. Audio Aero Line Arrays, Subwoofers Deployed Bahia Brazil Music Festival
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08/03/10 12:46 PM,
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The recent SÃO JOÃO DA BAHIA, an annual festival Bahia, Brazil, attracted both regional and nationally recognized musical performers, including Gilberto Gil, Elba Ramalho, Geraldo Azevedo, Candlebox, Dominguinhos, Leonardo, and Alceu Valenca, with Salvador - Bahia-based sound company Arena Áudio Eventos providing D.A.S. Audio line arrays and other D.A.S. components. “This event attracts huge crowds,” explains Alberto Viana, Managing Partner for Arena Áudio Eventos. “We had audiences in the range of 50,000 people each day at the main stage in…
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Waves Multitrack To Be Deployed By Ken “Pooch” Van Druten For Asia/Australia Tour By Slash
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08/02/10 05:26 PM,
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Guitarist Slash, touring Asia and Australia later this summer in support of his solo effort along with a band including Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, will be supported by house engineer and Waves Live Division Product Specialist Ken “Pooch” Van Druten, who will be deploying either Waves MultiRack or SoundGrid for Yamaha, depending on each venue’s FOH platform. Most recently on tour with Linkin Park, Van Druten has decades of experience as a first-call live sound engineer. MultiRack is the…
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Current Tour By Imogen Heap Taking Advantage Of Avid VENUE & Pro Tools In Multiple Ways
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07/30/10 12:11 PM,
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Grammy-winning artist Imogen Heap (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical) who’s also a classically trained musician, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, has enlisting the help of two Avid VENUE digital mixing systems—and her fans—to help in her latest charity efforts on her current “Ellipse” world tour. In a move that leveraged the reach of her fan-base, Heap went online to audition musicians, interact and collaborate with fans, and even have fans vote on set lists for each date, all in preparation for her…
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
JBL VerTec Line Arrays Take Center Stage At Serbia’s Exit Festival
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07/29/10 12:05 PM,
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Studio Berar, Serbia’s leading production company for professional audio, video and lighting systems, recently deployed JBL Professional VerTec line arrays for the 2010 Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival, which is one of Europe’s largest and most popular every summer, took place July 8-11 at the Petrovaradin fortress near the Danube River, drawing 165,000 music fans from around the world over the 4-day span. Studio Berar was awarded contracts to support three of the largest stages of the…
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Multiple Midas Digital Consoles Support Scotland’s T In The Park Festival
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07/29/10 06:43 AM,
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A plethora of Midas digital mixing systems were used across this year’s three-day T in the Park festival held in Scotland earlier this month. Britannia Row deployed three XL8 live performance systems at front of house on the main stage, while Scottish rental company EFX Audio supplied two XL8s for front of house on the Radio One stage. Midas digital systems were also very much in evidence as headlining acts brought their own to the festival. These included a PRO6…
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Solotech Becomes First Canadian Company To Join L-Acoustics K1/KUDO Pilot Program
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07/28/10 09:11 AM,
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Montreal-based Solotech, known for supporting A-list international clients like Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Leonard Cohen, Andre Rieu, Michael Buble and Diana Krall, has now become the first Canadian company to join the L-Acoustics K1/KUDO Pilot Program. Solotech elected to purchase a larger than standard complement of enclosures consisting of 56 K1, 32 K1-SB and 32 SB28 subs, 48 adjustable KUDO and 28 LA-RAK touring racks each loaded with three LA8 amplified controllers. “I first heard K1 when Radiohead came through…
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
EAW KF740 Line Arrays Supply Coverage For Large-Scale World Cup Fan Watch Venue In South Korea
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07/27/10 06:27 PM,
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The official cheering club of South Korean soccer, “The Red Devils,” named Seoul’s COEX Mall as its official 2010 FIFA World Cup cheer venue, and it was outfitted with LED screens, stages and sound reinforcement systems, one of them fronted by new EAW KF740 line arrays. Elan Korea and TFOS Plus, two leading touring companies in Korea, called upon Chung-Bo Sound, EAW’s Korean distributor, to provide sound for the event. “EAW was used on two of the three stages. We…
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Martin Audio Longbow Line Arrays Serve Pyramid Stage At Glastonbury Festival
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07/26/10 07:18 PM,
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RG Jones Sound Engineering provided Glastonbury Festival’s Pyramid Stage audio production for the third year in succession, after first working on the iconic stage in 2007 as suppliers of FOH and monitor control systems. The south London-based company, the UK member of the Synco Europe Network, was lead contractor for the audio production. On the busiest weekend of the European festival calendar with more than a million watts of “Synco by Martin Audio” line array hardware at festival stages across…
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Friday, July 23, 2010
The Toronto Jazz Festival Main Stage Supported By Sennheiser, Neumann, & L-Acoustics
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07/23/10 08:20 AM,
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The Toronto Jazz Festival takes place every year during the ten days that bridge June and July. A significant number of artists participate, performing in venues located throughout the Canadian city to some 500,000 attendees from around the world. This year, the largest acts performed at the 1,200-seat Nathan Phillip Square main stage, where FOH engineer Brad Mulligan ran an Innovason Eclipse digital console. An L-Acoustics dV-DOSC line array system provided amplification throughout the venue, while a large collection of…
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
All Access: A Look At Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy Tour
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07/22/10 02:53 PM,

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Guns N’ Roses recently brought the ongoing Chinese Democracy tour to Centenario Stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay, drawing an enthusiastic crowd estimated at more than 30,000 people that were well-served by a widespread sound reinforcement system. Three of the region’s sound companies united for this large-scale undertaking, including Leggio Sonido, Marti Audio, and Compañía Uruguaya de Sonido, who pooled a significant amount of audio equipment together for one of the most notable rock concerts to hit Montevideo in recent memory. The…
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