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Thursday, June 24, 2010Behringer Appoints Italo Trading LLC To Enhance Distribution Network In Latin America
PSW Staff 06/24/10 08:03 AM, 0 CommentsBehringer has announced the appointment of Italo Trading LLC, an independent sales organization owned and operated by Daniel Costa Salomao, to play a pivotal role in the restructure and management of Behringer’s distribution network in Latin America. “Behringer is proud to be associated with Italo Trading and is convinced that this relationship will play a key role in expanding our success in this region. Latin America is and always has been a valuable market for our business, and drawing upon… View this post
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010Enhanced Electro-Voice XLC Line Arrays, FIR-Drive Deployed For Multi-Metal Music Tour
PSW Staff 06/23/10 02:56 PM, 0 CommentsVerona, Wisconsin-based Intellasound Productions recently provided sound reinforcement for a multi-headliner tour featuring Drowning Pool, Five Finger Death Punch, Hellyeah, Lacuna Coil, and Seether that recently stopped at the 6,000-capacity La Crosse Center in La Crosse, WI. Intellasound deployed its Electro-Voice XLC line arrays for the event, bringing in (32) XLC127-DVX mains and (24) Xsubs, all powered and processed via (30) Tour Grade TG-7 amplifiers equipped with RCM26 IRIS-Net control / DSP modules. This high-SPL proving ground was also the… View this post
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Countryman Chosen For Worry Free Performance On Carrie Underwood’s “Play On” Tour
PSW Staff 06/23/10 11:55 AM, 0 CommentsRandy Lane, the front of house engineer for the “Play On” tour, is the guy responsible for ensuring great sound and glitch-free performances. To help ensure the best possible sound for a number of stringed instruments, Lane depends on the Type 10 DI from Countryman Associates. Lane is a veteran FOH engineer. In addition to his current duties with Ms. Underwood, his credits include work with the Spin Doctors, Three Doors Down, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Julio Iglesias to… View this post
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Tech Tip Of The Day: Playing Live To Click
PSW Staff 06/23/10 09:14 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: Our band has been doing some work in the studio lately and we’re about to go on the road. So, obviously we’ve been rehearsing like crazy! Anyways, in the rehears we realized that the keys and drums need to stay with a click. Problem is, every click we use bleeds because the drummer uses headphones instead of in-ears. Is there anything we can do? A: Admitedly, this is a challenging problem. As you mentioned, the… View this post
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DPA 4099V Chosen For Australian Violinist’s Tour
PSW Staff 06/23/10 08:26 AM, 1 CommentAustralian violinist Marcus Holden recently acquired a DPA 4099V clip mount for his Australia tour with Scotland the Brave, a musical tribute to Scotland, and also with the Sydney Theatre Company production, Spring Awakening. “The first thing I noticed about the 4099V was the amount of gain you can get before feedback occurs,” he says. “The sound is incredibly natural; it brings out the real tone of the instrument and totally minimises breath and surround noise.” “For someone who plays… View this post
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New Martin Audio Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) For Top Hip-Hop Artist In Germany
PSW Staff 06/23/10 07:33 AM, 0 CommentsThe first tour of duty for the new Martin Audio MLA (Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array) has been a recently series of concert dates by German hip-hop band Fettes Brot, with the largest venue of the series being the new Lanxess Arena in Cologne. Europe’s largest and most modern multi-use arena (with a maximum of 18,000 seats) for concert use, Lanxess Arena was configured for an audience of more than 14,000. With hangs of 16 MLA modules per side (and no delays),… View this post
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010Viva Elvis! A Detailed Look At Sound For A Cirque du Soleil Homage To The King
Mark Frink 06/22/10 03:36 PM, 0 Comments“Viva Elvis” portrays the life of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” with his songs, including his Tupelo, MS boyhood, Army enlistment, movie career, marriage to Priscilla and Vegas comeback, running them all through Cirque du Soleil’s psychedelic blender that includes the requisite acrobatics and more dancing than usual for a Cirque show. The usual pre-show antics are replaced by a couple dozen bobby-soxers who mingle and flirt with the audience before a gold-record curtain “pops the clutch” with a… View this post
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Renkus-Heinz Introduces CF/CFX Modular Point Source Line Array At 2010 InfoComm
PSW Staff 06/22/10 12:06 PM, 0 CommentsSee PSW’s comprehensive 2010 InfoComm coverage. Renkus-Heinz introduced at 2010 InfoComm the new CF/CFX Series, a modular point source line array loudspeaker system. Designed for power, and portability, the CF/CFX Series is designed to meet the needs of today’s small and mid-sized venues such as auditoriums, theaters, night clubs and houses of worship. The array is flexible, with the ability to be flown, ground-stacked or pole-mounted. The CF/CFX Series is designed to deliver the performance and pattern control of a… View this post
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Meyer Sound Named The Official Sound Supplier For The 2010 Montreal International Jazz Festival
PSW Staff 06/22/10 10:28 AM, 0 CommentsMeyer Sound has announced it was named the official Sound Supplier of the Montreal International Jazz Festival which runs from June 25-July 6, 2010. While Meyer Sound equipment has been used at the festival in previous years, 2010 marks the first season that Meyer Sound’s Berkeley-built sound systems will be used exclusively throughout all festival venues. Montreal-based Solotech, which has provided Meyer Sound equipment to the festival for over a decade, will continue to provide festival-wide audio systems and support.… View this post
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Community Professional Loudspeakers Chosen For A Historic Installation In Delaware
PSW Staff 06/22/10 09:50 AM, 0 CommentsThe Grand Lady of Market Street has been a landmark in Wilmington for nearly 140 years. Opened as the Grand Opera House in 1871, The Grand has a history of hosting operas and symphonies, vaudeville and burlesque, movies and live performances. In its early years, performers including Ethel Barrymore, Buffalo Bill Cody and John Philip Sousa graced its stage. For most of the twentieth century the 1,208-seat hall operated as a movie theater, eventually falling into disrepair and closing its… View this post
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