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Tuesday, August 17, 2010Behind The Scenes At The 2010 Montreal Jazz Festival
Jeff MacKay 08/17/10 01:50 PM, 1 CommentThe Montreal Jazz Festival (Festival International de Jazz de Montréal) takes over a large portion of the downtown core of this Canadian city every summer, with numerous stages outdoors in a variety of locations as well as indoors in venues ranging from small clubs to two of the city’s premier theaters, the Wilfrid Pelletier and Maisonneuve. This year’s 31st edition of the festival hosted live performances over 12 days and nights by more than 3,000 musicians representing 30 countries, for… View this post
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Clear-Com Intercoms Chosen By Eastside Christian Church To Clarify Team Communication
PSW Staff 08/17/10 08:40 AM, 0 CommentsClear-Com is helping Eastside Christian Church deliver the message of faith to the thousands of congregants attending its services each weekend. The production staff members rely on a 16-port Clear-Com Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom frame and Tempest2400 four-channel wireless intercom system for reliable, high-quality and readily accessible communications across disparately located production areas, ensuring the flawless delivery of audio and video for every service. Clear-Com’s Eclipse and Tempest give Eastside Christian Church staff members a communications pipeline that maintains… View this post
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Canada’s First Nexo Geo T Rig Acquired By Plav Audio
PSW Staff 08/17/10 07:11 AM, 0 CommentsPlav Audio, Inc. of Sherbrooke, Quebec recently purchased Canada’s first NEXO GEO T rig, accommodating the growing number of requests for NEXO systems in and around Quebec. The NEXO line array made its debut at LaFête du Lac des Nations, a six-day festival that took place in Sherbrooke in mid-July at Parc Jacques-Cartier. The event hosted more than 30 musical shows featuring artists from Quebec and abroad. With two shows per evening, the festival entertained over 40,000. Plav Audio’s new… View this post
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Monday, August 16, 2010Crosby, Stills, & Nash Tour With DiGiCo
PSW Staff 08/16/10 09:50 AM, 1 CommentDespite having been through more ups and downs than virtually any other band, 1960s folk-rock legends Crosby, Stills & Nash are still touring. They are currently mid-way through an extensive tour, which has taken in a wide variety of venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe. Helping the band to win over more admirers on every tour is Front of House engineer Kevin Madigan with his DiGiCo D5. “The D5 is my console of choice, I’ve been using DiGiCo… View this post
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Swiss Music Festivals Managed By Allen & Heath’s iLive
PSW Staff 08/16/10 07:07 AM, 0 CommentsAllen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system was used to manage two recent music festivals held in Switzerland. For the second year in a row, Allen & Heath’s iLive digital system was used to mix monitors at Switzerland’s Festival de Loup in Corbeyrier. The two day festival is a celebration of everything Celtic, with Celtic food, folk tales, dance and music, featuring top Irish band, Grada, and top French band, Blackwater. A modular iLive system consisting of an iDR10 MixRack… View this post
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Friday, August 13, 2010Showcase: Digital Consoles On Tour
Mark Frink 08/13/10 01:25 PM, 2 CommentsToday’s concert tours are captivated by the advantages digital consoles offer, and tour production must be lightweight and efficient to take on the current economy. Though many high-profile tours still fill arenas, a second tier is defined by the capacity of a 53-foot trailer, growing and shrinking to fit each venue by picking up local equipment. While digital consoles can also be sourced locally and loaded with a file in seconds, tour engineers often prefer to carry their own for… View this post
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Thursday, August 12, 2010iLive Chosen For World Debating Championships
PSW Staff 08/12/10 10:59 AM, 0 CommentsAn Allen & Heath iLive system was recently used to manage the final of the recent World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) hosted this year at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. WUDC is the world’s largest debating tournament and one of the largest annual international student events, starting with between 150 and 350 teams from across the globe. The PA company selected to manage the event was Art Production Event Technologies, who employed their new iLive system, consisting of an iDR-48… View this post
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Allen & Heath iLive-T Digital Consoles For Brad Paisley Tour’s Water World Stage
PSW Staff 08/12/10 06:28 AM, 0 CommentsOne of the bright spots in the 2010 summer tour season has been the Brad Paisley “H2O” tour, a fan-friendly affair that offers exceptional entertainment value. Two Allen & Heath iLive-T digital consoles were chosen to run the two-hour pre-show concert at the “Water World Plaza Stage” just outside the main venue on a portable stage set-up. Up-and-coming country stars Steel Magnolia, Easton Corbin and Josh Thompson perform, with over 5,000 fans typically attending. To meet the logistical challenge, audio… View this post
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010Clearwing Productions Provides Martin Audio Monitors In Abundance For Summerfest Stages
PSW Staff 08/11/10 02:42 PM, 0 CommentsBilled as “The World’s Largest Music Festival” with 11 stages running for 11 days, Summerfest in Milwaukee had another successful summer run with leading acts such as Gavin DeGraw, Public Enemy, Skillet, BB King, The Roots, and Uriah Heep, among others. Clearwing Productions, the premier production provider for Summerfest for over 15 years, supplied Martin Audio LE700 monitors at four of the 11 stages––the US Cellular Stage, Briggs Stage, Rock Stage (Harley Davidson), and Miller Lite Oasis–– during the run… View this post
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010Turbosound Selected By Open Air European Theatre
PSW Staff 08/10/10 10:59 AM, 0 CommentsAn official opening by HRH Queen Elizabeth II and performances by José Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa have marked the restoration of Scarborough’s historic open air theatre. Originally built in Northstead Manor Gardens in the 1930s and officially opened by the Lord Mayor of London, Scarborough’s open air theatre is to this day the largest in Europe. At its creation, audiences flocked to see Edward German’s popular English comic opera ‘Merrie England’, the first production ever to be staged… View this post
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