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"My goal was to give the touring crew a system with a lot of flexibility, so they could adjust coverage angles for theatres of all shapes and sizes," explains Harada. "With the M'elodie centre cluster and MICA side arrays, they have all the power they need for bigger houses, along with reliable consistency of sound-a quality at which Meyer systems always excel."

Inspired by a 1956 recording studio jam session by Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Million Dollar Quartet captures

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Reporting to Meyer Sound education manager Gavin Canaan, McCarrick's responsibilities also include supporting Nashville manager and touring liaison Lee Moro in organising Nashville-based events and maintaining operations.

McCarrick comes to Meyer Sound with extensive experience in live sound and production, including key mixing, audio tech, and rigging duties involving Meyer Sound systems on tours with Metallica, Celtic Woman, Rod Stewart, and C

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As Audiobahn's Tony Hersch explains, the new sound system design called for versatility. "Unlike some of the more traditional Catholic churches, St. Bede offers a mix of traditional and semi-contemporary services, with a choral and live musical accompaniment, as well as traditional organ and choir," he says. "So ultimately we had to design a system that offered more than simply spoken word intelligibility - it had to offer good musicality as well."

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Soundhead Company MD and FOH engineer Tim Ehrenfried, who only recently added the PRO2 to his inventory, explains, "In the past I have had excellent experiences working with XL8 and PRO6 consoles, and I knew I wanted that great warm Midas sound for the event in recognition of the calibre of international acts performing. But the PRO2 at FOH gave me the added advantage of all the features of the big consoles in

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Grammy award winning artist Imogen Heap performed a new Heapsong that she wrote during the course of the event. The song titled Me the Machine was written and then performed live using just her hands through musical gloves. The gloves are a prototype musical interface that Imogen has been developing over the last two years with her team of engineers. With them, Imogen can directly interact and control a virtual orchestra by "utilising tens of thousands of unique motions".

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Hugh Jones, managing director at HPSS, said, "The PRO2 is intuitive and accessible and in the smaller venues where the support has to be mixed on our boards it takes just 10 to 15 minutes to get the house engineer working comfortably with it. In acoustic scenarios in particular the set-up is so simple...you only need to do about six things with it and you're ready.

"Feedback has been very good", he continues. "We recently held a demo day at the HPSS warehouse and invited some engineers to come and try out the console. One of the engineers turned up with a show file that he had previously engineered on a

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Royal Rock - Robbie Williams has been added to the line-up for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace on 4 June. "If this doesn't get me a knighthood, nothing will," the star joked on his website. "I can't wait for the show." His Take That bandmat

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It's Olympic year at last and PLASA is taking the opportunity to celebrate the enormous contribution made by our industry to the extraordinary events in the city this year, including educational sessions exploring some of the most impressive technical aspects.

In addition, a brand new audio professional development programme is being launched this year, with master-classes from the biggest international names in system design, production, recording, mixing and broadcasting.

With over 100 free to attend training sessions, seminars and specialist conferences, there's only one place to be this September!

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"We searched for a long time to find the right person to represent SSL in the global install and integration markets, so it is simply great to have Mark on the team," says Jim Motley, head of business, workstation partner products for SSL. "With Mark on board, we have someone with a proven track record of establishing new routes to market. This capability is a key element for us and we are confident that he

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The waterfront venue aims to provide what it describes as "a true Florida experience", with exotic/local plants and trees, Key West styled structures, hand-built chickee huts and fresh Florida seafood. With the live stage - along with everything else - being in the open air, it is important that Guanabanas not only keeps sound levels down to permitted levels, but can prove it has done so.

"Residents will complain to the police if levels are too loud," says the venue's Matt Cahur. "We chose the Hera/Argos combination because the Argos limiter does a great job of limiting the sound levels to the thr

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Robinson, a veteran pro audio manufacturers' representative and installation team manager, joins Community after many years with Harman Corporation, where he held positions as national sales manager for Selenium and Western regional manager for Crown Audio.

"We're very excited to welcome Loren to Community," said Julia Lee, director of sales and marketing. "His expertise in installed sound and his solid track record in management are ideally suited for the growth Community is presently experiencing."

"I'm thrilled to be working with such a legendary company like Community," added Robinson. "This is an amazing group of people with an amazing history, and they're still breaking new ground tod

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The event included a 90-strong symphony orchestra and a 400-strong choir. Reinforcement was also provided for the Queen's speech and further live feeds from inside the Cutty Sark. Over 50 input channels were used as a well as several groups and matrixes to feed to the four zones around the site. The iLive T112 was used for the main mix and zone matrixes and the iLive T80 was used for a separate live recording mix for later publication.

Johnny Palmer, production manager at SXS co

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The course took place at Orbital's purpose-built Brixton training facility, with the students guided through the essentials of theatre sound by course leader Richard Carter, supported by Orbital's technical director, Bill Addison.

Richard Carter explains the course's rationale: "This course is very much about combining a solid grounding in theory with practical skills, aiming to cater for a varied mix of skill

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The programme has been specially curated by some of the industry's leading talents, giving visitors a unique opportunity to broaden their specialist knowledge and take part in discussions about innovative projects and cutting edge techniques.

"One of the benefits of hosting a Focus event in Nashville is the depth of professional industry knowledge that is intrinsic to the area," comments PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths. "Being able to tap into that regional passion for live entertainment and to share it in a common space is something which will not only benefit the local entertainment technology community in Tennessee, but also the surr

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In this unique year for London and the rest of the UK, PLASA is taking the opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the extraordinary contribution made by the lighting and sound industries to the London 2012 Olympics. As PLASA Events Manager, Sophie Atkinson, comments, "The record breaking surge in pre-registrations for the show this year is enormously encouraging and goes to show that people want to come to PLASA 2012 to reflect on their industry's input in the 2012 Olympic story and experience th

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Guided through exhibitions by a personal electronic multimedia guide, visitors see how policy decisions are made and how they influence Europeans' daily lives. All signage and media is presented in 23 languages, which had an enormous influence on how AV techniques were used throughout the centre.

Electrosonic won the bid for the project in an open Europe-wide competitive tender; the scope of w

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Built in the mid 19th century, the Holy Trinity was Tunbridge Wells' first parish church. After its final religious service in 1972 its Grade 1 listed status ensured safety from demolition, and by 1975 a public petition had secured permission from the Church Commissioners to produce a plan for community or public use. An appeal committee raised £50,000 and five years later it reopened as The Trinity Theatre arts centre complete with a raked-seating auditorium: growing popularity soon saw an art gallery, licensed bar and computerised box office added.

Its latest upgrade sees the venerable space take on the very modern mantle of digital cinema, although a cursory gaze at the vaulted balcon

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The main system comprises two 12 Fohhn PT-9 line array systems, flown to the left and right of the altar and stage areas, in combination with two bass arrays each including eight Fohhn PS-4 high-powered subwoofers. Four AT-10 Arc series speakers function as front-fills, with eight XM-4 wedges used for on-stage monitoring. The system is powered by a number of Fohhn DSP amplifiers.

Fohhn loudspeaker systems have also been installed in smaller worship areas and childcare facilities on various floors of the 10-storey building. Six worship rooms on the seventh floor have each bee

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The annual event, hosted by the Penang State Tourism Development and Culture Office, was held at Penang's Botanic Gardens. It featured 18 bands from as far away as Colombia and Mongolia as well as from neighbouring Indonesia, South Korea and the Philippines.

The DPAs - 10 DPA d:vote 4099D clip mics for drums and two 4099V clip mics for violins - were specified by the festival's technical director Niall Macaulay for their ability to be deployed across a variety of musical instruments thanks to their mounting accessories for piano, guitar and bass, as well as drum and violin.

"This was my second time working with DPA 4099s," says the festival's monitor engineer, Desmond Lee. "I did a jazz festival las

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"The Peavey 6505 Series has earned its place in rock history as the guitar amplifiers of choice for a wide range of top rock and metal artists," said Hartley Peavey, founder and CEO of Peavey Electronics.

The Peavey 6505 has helped define the down-tuned sound of modern metal in the arsenals of artists like Machine Head and producers such as Colin Richardson, Andy Sneap and Jason Suecof, who have produced the most enduring metal and hard rock albums of the past two decades.

"The 6505 was the first amp you could plug into for that heavier, thrashier tone," said Sneap.

One of the keys to bringing metal's new lows to the masses was Peavey's patented Resonance circuit, wh

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The audio distribution comprises RCS 003 ceiling speakers, which have a wide frequency response, with very low-frequency body, designed for ambient sound at a moderate volume.

The volume of the zones is controlled from the POS terminal of the box, thanks to an application specifically designed for these restaurants.

To date, systems have been installed in restaurants in Madrid, León, Jaén and Seville. More installations are scheduled.

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Midas's technical support manager, Jason Kelly, who oversaw the upgrade, explained that he had a fairly comprehensive list of criteria that needed to be met by the new systems. "The first point was that they had to be small," he stated, "partly because space is at a premium in the room, and also because with five sets of loudspeakers on at once during a trainin

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"The MSL-3s had served us well since the mid-80s," says Larry Bryan, TPAC's chief audio engineer. "But we were ready to step into the 21st century with the latest Meyer Sound line array technology."

As typically deployed, the system comprises left and right flown arrays of 16 M'elodie loudspeakers each, plus six deck-stacked 700-HP subwoofers, eight MINA line array loudspeakers spaced across the stage lip as front-fill, and a Galileo loudspeaker management system with a Galileo 616 processor for drive processing. The system was provided by Blackhawk Audio of nearby White House, Ten

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Maurice Salloum, sound engineer and co-owner of Life, chose the sound system as well as the right company to complete the installation. Having a long-term relation with Beirut-based Hi Fi Service, Salloum knew he is in safe hands: "I wanted an unparalleled system for our venue," he says, "a system that can generate high SPLs and at the same time produce an excellent sound. Additionally, I needed a system that could be used as an indoor system during the winter season and that could be moved outside during summer, when the club shifts to the open air area."

Oussama Mansour Abou Faraj, manager of Hi Fi Service reports, "I proposed using a Dynacord VariLine system. We have