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Friday, July 10, 2009
Turbosound Aspect Heads Sonic Elements At 2009 Glastonbury Festival Acoustic Tent
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07/10/09 07:22 AM,
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Turbosound Aspect loudspeakers were utilized to provide sound reinforcement for the Acoustic Tent at the recent 2009 Glastonbury Festival, in support of live performances by a diverse group of artists such as Fairport Convention, Ray Davies, Hugh Cornwell, Georgie Fame, the Penguin Café Orchestra and the London Community Gospel Choir. The system serving the Acoustic Tent, provided by Bristol-based Audioforum and specified and manned by Turbosound Design Engineer Danny Cooklin, was comprised ground stacks of four Turbosound TA-890H, four TA-890L…
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Meyer Sound MILO Key To Sound Reinforcement For Latest Concert Tour By The Dead
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07/10/09 06:19 AM,
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More than 45 years after their first concert, The Dead (previously the Grateful Dead) recently finished up their first tour in more than five years, performing 22 shows in 17 cities. The Dead’s tour was again supported by Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers supplied by Bay Area associates Pro Media/UltraSound. The system, designed to provide up to 360-degree coverage for the tour’s multiple arena dates, included main left and right arrays of 16 MILO and two MILO 120 line…
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Retrofitting A Stadium-Wide Sound Reinforcement System At Turner Field
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07/09/09 07:26 AM,
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Turner Field, home of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves, originally opened as the Centennial Olympic Stadium for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Following the games, it was converted to a baseball park, with was part of the plan all along, and the Braves moved in at the start of the 1997 season. A new stadium-wide sound reinforcement system for the 49,000-seat venue, implemented this past off-season, features a distributed approach, utilizing custom-built loudspeakers that would easily be installed in…
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Classic Center In Georgia Gets An Audio Upgrade With NEXO GEO Line Arrays
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07/08/09 09:11 AM,
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Located in downtown Athens, Georgia, The Grand Hall at the Classic Center was built as a meeting, special events and performing arts venue, and recently, Technical Services Audio Visual (TSAV) of Athens installed NEXO GEO S12 line arrays at the 3,175-seat venue to upgrade sound reinforcement quality. “Until now, the only installed sound in the room was an overhead 70-volt system for background music and paging,” states TSAV’s Steve Gore. “Previously, they had to use a crew to rig a…
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Martin Audio AQ Loudspeakers Deliver Sonic Quality At London “Digital Gallery”
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07/07/09 07:03 AM,
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Bar Sequence, a unique interactive video bar, has opened in Islington’s Essex Road with Martin Audio architectural AQ loudspeakers handling all of the audio output. Owner Aria Ariantalab has spent close to £1million fulfilling his dream to create a 75-capacity environment (with separate pavement seating) in which everyone from media creatives to gamers interact in a social environment. A former electronic engineering lecturer and technology consultant, Aria recognized that a ‘digital gallery’ would fill a unique space in the Capital’s…
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Pro Media/UltraSound Chooses Meyer Sound To Support San Francisco Opera Simulcast At AT&T Ballpark
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07/06/09 08:02 AM,
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“Opera at the Ballpark” returned to San Francisco at AT&T Park last month with a free simulcast of Tosca, setting a new ballpark attendance record for the San Francisco Opera with an estimated 27,000 viewers. For its fourth simulcast, Bay Area rental house Pro Media/UltraSound turned to Meyer Sound loudspeakers, subwoofers and processing to meet the unique task of presenting a live performance from the stage of the War Memorial Opera House to a crowded sports stadium. David Bowers of…
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Electro-Voice Unveils EVA (Expandable Vertical Array) Loudspeakers For Installed Sound Applications
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07/06/09 05:03 AM,
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Electro-Voice has introduced the EVA (Expandable Vertical Array) series of loudspeakers for installed sound, a debut that came at 2009 InfoComm in Orlando. Part of the EV-Innovation (EV-I) family, EVA offers the benefits of concert line arrays in a new, simpler format. EVA modules can quickly and easily be assembled into full-bandwidth line arrays with well-defined coverage, without the rigging and drive complexities of conventional concert line array products. EVA is a modular system, with four two-way models available to…
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Top-Flight Sound Reinforcement For A Raucous Week Of Concerts At Arizona’s Annual Cyclefest
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07/03/09 11:08 AM,
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Fifty weeks out of the year, WestWorld in Scottsdale, Arizona is an equestrian center and special events facility, but during Arizona Bike Week (ABW), held in early April of this year, the ABW Cyclefest turns WestWorld into a raucous concert venue. A 27,000 square-foot tent is erected on the premises and dubbed the HandleBar Saloon, and it’s where the majority of the concerts take place during Bike Week. Arizona Bike Week, which actually spans 10 days, is an annual event…
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Architectural Acoustics By Peavey Debuts PHR Series Ceiling Loudspeakers
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07/03/09 08:15 AM,
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Architectural Acoustics by Peavey introduced the new PHR Series loudspeakers, designed specifically for compact, in-ceiling operation in permanent installations, at the 2009 InfoComm show in Orlando. The Architectural Acoustics PHR Series ceiling-mount enclosures are designed to provide high-intelligibility voice, program music and versatile signal reproduction in commercial, industrial and institutional applications. A tap selector switch allows for easy system tuning and configuration for 70-volt or 100-volt distributed systems, and a full selection of taps up to 60 watts (model dependent)…
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New JBL Control CRV Loudspeaker Provides Combination Of 70V/100V Transformer And Weather Resistance
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07/03/09 05:14 AM,
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The new JBL Professional Control CRV loudspeaker, introduced at 2009 InfoComm in Orlando, affords numerous mounting options and a wide range of configurations, providing a wide variety of solutions in terms of coverage, appearance and mounting. Immediately noticeable is the Control CRV’s unique, contemporary, quarter-round design that makes a modern design statement, adding to any venue’s visual aesthetics in either a wall-mounted or corner-mounted configuration. In addition, this sleek appearance serves a notable functional purpose, as the Control CRV is…
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