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Dead & Company
Fifty years on from San Francisco’s fabled Summer of Love, Dead & Company are filling large outdoor venues with throngs of the enduring Deadhead faithful.
With the Grateful Dead name retired after the Fare Thee Well concerts of 2015, three founding band members have been joined three new recruits as Dead & Company, and are performing live again. A recent show at California’s Mountain View amphitheatre attracted 20,000 fans, who were served by a Meyer Sound Leo Family large-scale linear reinforcement system.
Music Inside: festival power
The Music Inside Festival in Rimini this year saw Powersoft X series premium amplifiers serving both PA and monitoring on all three stages at the Rimini Fiera for performances from The Martinez Brothers, Paul Kalkbrenner, Sven Vath, Chris Liebing, Loco Dice, Len Faki, Ilario Alicante and Sam Paganini. The two-day event also saw the new Loud Professional Formula F221 subwoofer used for the first time.
The combination of the two Italian manufacturers was selected by Amandla Productions, who had taken over the Festival’s technical production and needed expertise in large-scale festival sound reinforcement.
Indian Wells Tennis refurb
Set in California’s Coachella Valley, the Indian Wells Tennis Garden boasts 29 regulation tennis courts alongside the16,100-seat Stadium 1 – the second-largest tennis-dedicated stadium in the world. Constantly developing under the ownership of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the facility recently rebuilt and refurbished Stadium 1, including an audio makeover.
The new systems include equipment RTS and Electro-Voice, with Technicomm Industries handling the work. ‘They decided to totally refurbish the main stadium last year,’ says Technicomm Project Manager, Steve Burgess. ‘One goal was to modernise the intercom system to become part of our site-wide Dante audio network, and RTS was one of the few brands with that capability.’
ANU School of Music
The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music has opened a recording studio as the cornerstone of its ambition to become ‘the world’s leading 21st century music school’. Its recording facilities are based around a 48-channel Neve Genesys G96 mixing console – the largest of its kind in Australia.
The Canberra facility offers flexible analogue, digital and hybrid recordings using Pro Tools HDX DAWs, Ampex and MCI analogue tape recorders, a Dynaudio surround-sound monitoring system and an extensive collection of outboard centred on the Genesys.
New Adelphi Theatre
Opened in late 2016, the New Adelphi Building at The University of Salford now provides a stunning new home for the University’s Arts And Media programmes.
Designed by Stride Treglown, the £55m development is extraordinarily well-equipped, even by the standards of contemporary higher education. In addition to a 350-capacity main theatre, the building features a large studio theatre, two TV acting studios, 36 dedicated rehearsal rooms, six recording studios, 12 music ensemble rooms, two dance studios, three floors of dedicated wood, metal, textiles, print and plastics workshops, seven photographic studios, 14 instrumental tuition rooms, a double height 100-sq-m band/live room and a suite of flexible performance and studio spaces.
Fast Moves
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Paul Richardson: Lavoce
Transducer specialist Lavoce Italiana has recruited Paul Richardson to take on the role of Business Development Manager for the Americas. With more than 20 years’ in the audio industry, Richardson’s...Read More...
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Fast News
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Ephesus Experience Museum gets immersive
‘Using L-ISA fits like a glove. It’s a powerful combination of hardware and software together. It was easy to adopt, and we love working with it,’ says Among the most visited cities in Turkey, the...Read More... -
Shure makes Neat move
Shure has announced an alliance with provider of video devices, Neat, to ‘deliver an enhanced meeting experience in large and acoustically challenging spaces’. The partnership is designed to ensure...Read More... -
London’s Storm post house moves to Dolby Atmos
A full service postproduction company in London’s Covent Garden, Storm recently upgraded its flagship audio suite to Dolby Atmos. Known for its ability to offer end-to-end services, Storm can quickly...Read More... -
Florida’s Artis—Naples installs DiGiCo Quantum225
The premier destination for the visual and performing arts in Southwest Florida, Artis—Naples is ‘driven to inspire, educate and entertain by presenting world-class events that enrich the diverse community’....Read More... -
Sennheiser TCC 2 mics chosen by China’s DKU
Located in Kunshan, in China’s Jiangsu Province, Duke Kunshan University (DKU) is a 1,200-acre campus dedicated to world-class educational and research through a range of innovative academic programmes...Read More... -
Hanoi’s Goethe-Institut installs new sound system
Located in the Vietnam capital city of Hanoi, Goethe-Institut is the leading provider of German cultural and educational programmes, promoting the German language and fostering international relationships....Read More... -
Dolby Atmos adopted by Vancouver’s Farm studio
Sometimes known as Gggarth due to his stutter, Canadian music producer and engineer Garth Richardson has installed a PMC immersive monitoring system at his recording studio near Vancouver, British Columbia,...Read More... -
Brainworx builds critical listening studio
Renowned for plug-ins that replicate classic mixing console channel strips and analogue outboard equipment, as well as virtual instruments, Germany company Brainworx called on Dennis Busch from Acoustic...Read More... -
TiMax SoundHub rocks Amadeus production
Tim Ferns from Swiss sound design collective, audiopool, recently placed a 64-channel TiMax SoundHub at the heart of his design for Rock Me Amadeus, Vereinigte Bühne Wien (VBW)’s latest in-house production,...Read More... -
Holoplot X1 Matrix Array over the moon at Lightroom
The Moonwalkers is the latest experience at the Lightroom space in London, following its highly successful opener, David Hockney: Bigger & Closer not smaller & further away. A...Read More... -
Japan’s ARTA showroom chooses Genelec sound
Begun in 1997 to nurture world-class drivers, ARTA (Autobacs Racing Team Aguri) is the product of a collaboration between racing driver Aguri Suzuki and Japanese car parts manufacturer Autobacs Seven....Read More...
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