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Monitor engineer Matthew Kanaris specified the Sennheiser items for the tour, which includes two SKM 5200-MKII handheld microphones with Neumann KK105 capsules for Lana's main and spare vocal, 12 sets of G3 in-ear monitors and four G3 wireless belt packs for the tour's string section.

"Lana's vocal is the most important part of the show, so we wanted to use a microphone that was perfect for her and was sensitive to the different dynamics in her voice," says Kanaris. "We have always had great results when we used the wired version of the Neumann mic, so we decided to

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As part of this expansion, CRC published an RFP (request for proposal) for sound systems for its new soccer fields. After considering several alternatives, they selected a design from Associated Sound of Sacramento using Community R-Series Loudspeakers.

Associated's design uses two Community R.25-94TZ loudspeakers, located on each corner of the press

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The PLASA Show is regarded as a major international launch-pad for new products. During its history, it has seen hundreds of product innovations introduced to the market - a trend which we expect to see continued at the 2013 event. The PLASA Awards for Innovation aim to emphasise this focus on true innovation. The procedure for entry ensures that all nominated products are vetted to show that they offer something new to the industry:

"The PLASA Awards for Innovation recognise products which advance the industry by demonstrating a new style of thinking, improving technical practice or taking a key step forward in terms of safety."

All successfully vetted products are judged a

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The 2013 programme for the Fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, featured 45,464 performances of 2,871 shows at a total of 273 venues across the city. The programme contained 713 free shows which do not sell tickets but asked the audience to contribute at the end of the show. These shows were not included in the box office ticket sales. Kath Mainland, chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said,"Our

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The original production was the first Broadway show to use a DiGiCo SD7T, with sound designers Acme Sound Partners working closely with DiGiCo, UK rental company Autograph, and local provider Masque Sound. Subsequent touring and productions had fewer demands for the Front of House console so the SD7 was not specified. But associate sound designer Jason Crystal, who has represented the show on these various productions, was very pleased when Loudness Sound Rental & Services, the local audio provider, requested that an S

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The shortlist of nominees is generated from invited suggestions from a panel consisting of PLASA team members, PLASA Regional Board & Governing Body members, regular contributors to LSi and LSA magazines, and past winners of the Gottelier Award.

All PLASA Members and pre-registered visitors to PLASA 2013 are eligible to vote, and will receive an email inviting them to place their vote at the PLASA Show website. Voting closes on Friday 20 September and the winner will be announced at the PLASA Show on Monday 7 Octobe

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Broadcast live in primetime, Premios Tu Mundo is a musical spectacular event that celebrates pop culture and combines the power of television, web, mobile and social media platforms to give fans the final say in what's hot in everything that moves and inspires them, including novelas, music, fashion, movies and sports. The pre-show La Alfombra de Premios Tu Mundo featured celebrities like Eva Longoria, Daddy Yankee and many of Hispanic Hollywood's top celebrities.

"We are thrilled to have once again worked with Telemundo on this event, especially at the American Airlines Arena," says Jim Van Winkle, general manager of PWS.

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Recently partnering with The Bowery Presents, one of the country's preeminent promoters for both emerging and established artists, the intimate 1,150-capacity Civic begins hosting a wide variety of touring acts starting in September, including Russell Brand, The Black Crowes, Passion Pit, Steve Earle, John Waters and many others. Solomon Group - one of the Civic's three partners, along with developers Brian Gibbs

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In other countries Gyllene Tider are best known for lead singer Per Gessle being half of pop duo Roxette. In Sweden, however, they maintain massive popularity. Promoting new album Dags att tänka på refrängen (Time To Think Of The Chorus), the tour featured a DiGiCo SD10 at Front of House and an SD5 on monitors.

The consoles were supplied - along with DiGiCo SD-Racks, microphones and monitors - by rental company Soundforce Scandinavia AB. Anders Molund, the company's audio project manager, is also Gyllene Tider's FOH engineer.

"The SD5 was the first choice console for our monitor engineer Peter Fredriksson. To be honest, I used the SD10 because we are so busy at Soundforce it was the only DiGi

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CPL Broadcast is headed by Lee Gruszeckyj (Lee G) who joined the company last year with the new division in mind. Gruszeckyj has a wealth of experience in the world of broadcast and video, is highly respected in this area and has numerous contacts.

CPL's business has been steadily expanding over the last three years. CPL Broadcast is a related diversification specifically designed to fill and grow a healthy demand in the Midlands area for the appropriate camera, audio, lighting and grip equipment by those working on news shoots, promos and commercials.

The three key factors in establ

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"I have been with the circus for 30 years. In Finland circus began to engage with modern lighting about 20 years ago, sound about 10 years later. I've been looking after the Sirkus audio system for the last four or five years. By profession I'm a performer, but I've worked with sound since

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"The Werner Herzog Theatre is a huge achievement for Telluride Film Festival and the town of Telluride. It will be the festival's most technologically advanced, and its sound system is of the utmost importance to us," says Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the festival. "Meyer Sound is a leader in its industry; its sound quality and innovation is unparalleled. Working with Meyer Sound ensures the festival meets its goal of staying on the cutting-edge, and ultimately gi

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Kai Ulrich, FOH engineer for Garrett, was first attracted to Leo's headroom, which would allow him to eliminate delay loudspeakers for many shows.

"Everything sounds so effortless with LEO," says Ulrich. "You can really feel the headroom, even though the David Garrett show is not very loud. The first time I used the system I was actually completely overwhelmed by the sound, and I am not at all 'brand religious'."

David Garrett's touring Leo system featured up to 12 Leo-M line array loudspeakers per

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To mic drummer Laust Sonne's snare drum, Slot uses a combination of a DPA d:dicate 2011C Twin Diaphragm Cardioid Microphones and DPA d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones, with the former positioned above the snare and the latter below. The d:votes are also used to mike the toms, high hat and cymbals, with reinforcement provided by a DPA d:dicate 4011 Compact Cardioid Microphone positioned underneath the cymbals. He also uses the 2011Cs to pick up Jacob Binzer's lead guitar. The musician has two cabinets that give a great combination of clean and dirty sound so Slot positioned the 201

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Along with his award, Stuttard received a Focusrite ISA One and an sE Electronics mic of his choice donated by two of this year's sponsors. Stuttard said, "It has been an absolutely amazing experience, and to learn from professionals as talented as Greg Haver and Dan Turner (USW) has been a phenomenal opportunity."

Now in its third consecutive year, the course steered 12 selected students from JAMES accredited courses through five days of recording on both analogue and digital systems. This year's tutor Greg Haver commented, "My week with the graduates surpassed all of my expectations. Working with such enthusiastic, well trained engineer

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Covering 92,000m2, the complex is located in the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Woking-based LSI Projects was invited to work with technology consultants CCW Singapore to fine-tune the plans for the sound, lighting and communications infrastructure. Once finalised LSI, under project director Bob Peill and project manager Jakub Krzeminski, supplied, installed and commissioned the equipment, as well as providing staff training.

Two Yamaha M7CL-48 V3

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The deal will see Show Supply, located in Schöhnbühl, Switzerland, become the primary contact for all three brands in the country, with exclusive access to Tannoy professional loudspeaker products, as well as preferred access to all products from Lab.gruppen and Lake.

Chris Häfliger, Director of Show Supply, commented, "We are extremely happy to begin this new partnership with TC Group's professional install and tour brands. Tannoy is an innovative company with many leading product lines, and one which we are excited about working with. Along with Lab.gruppen and Lake, we are sure that these new additions will help us to continue to deliv

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The 400-capacity club is based around an open-air pool complete with swim-up bar, sun loungers and seating areas. Operating as a restaurant during the day, by nightfall the volume and pace are turned up as Hot Mess moves into club mode, with poolside dancing and drinking providing entertainment into the small hours.

The Nexo system was provided by local distributor Light and Sound Design, who designed and installed a system of six PS10-R2 high power cabinets and four LS600 sub bass units driven by NXAMP 4x4 amplifiers, plus two Yamaha MSR400 active monitors. The PS10-R2s have been positioned around the

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Constant Technology were called upon to design, supply and install an audio system, and fortunately budget was not an issue!

"They wanted a system that would sound great, be well distributed and would offer control of all areas independently," commented Con Constantinou, managing director of Constant Technology. "The venue has eight audio zones, including a main restaurant, pastry area and outdoor areas, which is quite a lot for a venue of 400m²."

The pastry kitchen and reception area has fifteen JBL Control 42C in ceiling speakers plus three

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St. Joseph's original sound system used ceiling loudspeakers to cover the sanctuary and had been augmented with loudspeakers in the organ chamber. However, coverage was uneven in many locations and very poor in the back of the church.

Through a referral from another church, St. Joseph's contacted Mike Flaherty of Nelson White Systems in Baltimore. Flaherty recommended a system based on Community's Entasys column line arrays. He had used Entasys in other church sound systems and knew they would provide smooth coverage throughout the sanctuary and p

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The largest dedicated indoor concert space in the area, Echostage hosts anywhere between two and five shows per week. Though the converted warehouse attracts a wide range of world class DJ's and is known for electric dance music, the venue is used for various other live music as well, drawing crowds of thousands. Proud of the clear sight lines on the large first floor dance area, and comfortable lounge seating in the balcony, the team strives to provide everything the fans and artists could need

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To make the recordings, the inputs from a DiGiCo SD8 desk were fed into a Roland S-MADI REAC Bridge which converted the signal from MADI to REAC (Roland Ethernet Audio Connection) to go into the R-1000. The S-MADI REAC Bridge is a bi-directional signal converter between REAC and MADI enabling connectivity between MADI-equipped digital audio mixers/systems to any REAC-based devices. A Roland S-4000 chassis was custom loaded with SO-DA4 output cards and used as an output device from the R-1000 via REAC to break the signal into analogue lines to feed into the Midas XL4 desk in use at F

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Escondido, California-based Sound Image was chosen to providing sound reinforcement for the US portions of the tour. The Nashville office heads up the production.

"When we received the bid, it came down to determining which system would provide the SPL, flexibility and sonic quality the band required," explains Andrew Dowling, systems engineer for Sound Image. "The band needed the ability to do full size sheds and arenas as well as smaller venues."

FOH Engineer Scott Eisenberg and production manager Eric 'Shakes' Grzybowski ultimately decided that the Adamson Energia E15 line arrays would provide everything

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Built in 1997 and run by the local municipality, the 580-seat venue hosts mainly live music and theatre, but also presentations and conferences. After 17 years of near-constant use the audio system needed a significant upgrade because cables, connectors and other components required replacing, plus the PA was no longer sufficient to meet the demands of contemporary shows.

Supplied by French audio specialists Lagoona, the new PA system comprises flown arrays of Nexo Geo S12 and S1230 loudspeakers, plus ground-stacked RS18 subs and PS10 R2 front-fills. The