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Hamilton Brings Alcons To Broadway

Based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, of the USA’s founding fathers, Hamilton - An American Musical is enjoying enormous commercial and critical success on Broadway, being the hottest ticket in decades. The show has already earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2016 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, but is also nominated for no less than 16 Tony awards.

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DiGiCo S21 gets (The) Used on rock band tour

Sean Palmer, Front of House engineer for US rock band The Used, has been mixing audio for almost two decades. He has recently discovered the delights of DiGiCo’s new S21 digital mixing console, supplied by Clair Brothers, PA rental company for the band’s current album celebration tour. It has, he says, changed everything for him.

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Renkus-Heinz Named Loudspeaker of Choice for Korea's Power Provider

It's rare that a project is so essential that even its identity has to be protected. Yet near to South Korean city of Gyeongju, in the province of Gyeongsang, the recently opened headquarters of one of Asia's largest power companies is so important that its name can't even be printed.

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PBS Affiliate WCNY's Outdoor Theater Calls On Renkus-Heinz CFX Series Loudspeakers

After 50 years in the Syracuse suburb of Liverpool, PBS affiliate WCNY had outgrown their space. So in 2013, the station bought and reclaimed a few old buildings in Syracuse's Near Westside industrial district and created a new Broadcast and Education Center.

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Saratoga Jazz Festival Shines with Renkus-Heinz VL3 Arrays

Mixing a jazz festival is a specialized art, of which Audio Incorporated vice president Mike Sinclair is a master. For the past ten years, the Roselle Park, New Jersey-based firm he runs with partner Stephen Tolve has provided the sound for the annual Freifhofers Saratoga Jazz Festival, with Sinclair mixing front-of-house for many of the acts. "Jazz audiences are totally unforgiving," notes Sinclair.

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Broadcast and Entertainment audio provider Plus 4 Audio invests in an L-Acoustics K2 sound system

One of the most successful companies to supply live audio systems to the UK’s television production and music industries, Plus 4 Audio provides sound reinforcement for broadcast shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, The X-Factor, and The Voice. Their recent addition of an L-Acoustics K2 variable curvature line source system gives them a solution to the rising number of arena shows for television.

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L-Acoustics Flies High With Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna

Ever since the first use of a PA system beneath its domed roof, London’s Royal Albert Hall has been a famously difficult gig for mixing engineers, due to its circular construction, which results in a highly reverberant space. Thanks to L-Acoustics, however, Amaluna is maintaining a grand tradition of great-sounding Cirque du Soleil shows at the venue.

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From Pop To Presidents, Croatia’s Eldra LLC Invests In L-Acoustics

Since 1991 Eldra LLC has been building a reputation as one of the foremost sound, lighting and video rental and sales houses in Croatia. Based in Bregana, near the capital Zagreb and established with the aim of bringing the best technologies to the Croatian market, Eldra’s portfolio includes television shows, corporate events, festivals, high profile tours, even state visits by international leaders.

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Avid Customers Bring Home BRIT Awards with the help of Award-winning Audio Solutions

Winners and nominees embraced Avid Everywhere to create award-winning songs and albums at the U.K.’s most prestigious music awards ceremony

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Axiom Pumps It Up At Counties Fitness

They don't do things by halves at Counties Fitness. Open around the clock and with 40 energy packed classes per week and the largest selection of fitness equipment in South Auckland, the Pukekohe gym can also boast a seriously grown up sound reinforcement system for its main workout studio.

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Kulturhaus Dornbirn opts for an Alcons pro-ribbon solution

Since 1982, the Kulturhaus (“culture house”) Dornbirn, Austria is a popular event center for the entire Vorarlberg region. After an extensive planning and implementation phase, which was administered already in 2013 by the company Tonplan from Dornbirn, the final step of the installation of an Alcons sound system in the main hall of the cultural center took place in 2015.

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Yamaha Scores At Regensburg’s Continental Arena

The Bavarian city of Regensburg is renowned for its medieval centre, nowadays a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But just a few minutes away is one of Germany’s most modern sporting stadiums, the brand new Continental Arena, where a Yamaha audio system has achieved the goal of great sound without the penalty of going over budget.

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DiGiCo helps Söhne Mannheims celebrate 20th anniversary

German band Söhne Mannheims, founded in Mannheim in 1995, celebrated its 20th anniversary this summer with two sold out shows in their hometown. Both show’s audio systems were supplied by Bottrop, West Central Germany-based TDA Rental, with a DiGiCo SD5 at Front of House and two SD7s for monitors.

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Jungle Love: Steve Stays With Yamaha Without A Break

It’s an old truism that ‘if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it’. It’s also true that Yamaha digital consoles very rarely go wrong, which is one reason why Steve Weall, monitor engineer for Jungle and Crystal Fighters, has stuck with Yamaha throughout his career. He has spent much of 2015 touring the world with Jungle, a journey which included stepping up to the CL5.

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Alcons equips Disney Screening Room

WDSMP Munich AlconsWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany GmbH in Munich chose an Alcons pro-ribbon cinema sound system for its in-house screening room. With Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany GmbH (Disney Germany), one of the world's leading companies in the film industry decided for an Alcons cinema sound system. For the in-house screening room, an Alcons CR1 system with subwoofer, surrounds and processing-amplification was acquired.

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Sound and Light Professional, India invests in DiGiCo SD10

Digico indiaFormed in 1999, Sound & Light Professionals (SNL Pro) Mumbai has become one of the largest growing and most respected sound reinforcement companies in India. It provides state-of-the-art equipment for sound, lighting, video and staging, and technical services to the broadest range of entertainment disciplines across India and the rest of the world. The company has recently invested in a DiGiCo SD10 and two D2-Racks, via DiGiCo’s Indian distributor, Hi-Tech Audio Systems Pvt. Ltd.

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Alcons Shines In Steve Martin/Edie Brickell “Bright Star” Musical

Alcons Bright Star productionWhile Hollywood star Steve Martin and singer/songwriter Edie Brickell might seem an unlikely pairing to write a musical, their shared love of bluegrass music resulted in Bright Star, a story of love and loss in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Delicate reproduction of the bluegrass score was vital to the show’s success, which is why sound designer Nevin Steinberg chose an Alcons pro-ribbon sound system.

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Why would Brad Pitt be in Malta?

Audient Brad PittHe’d be at Lito’s Place, working on ADR sessions for his action film, ‘Fury’ (Columbia Pictures) of course. Just as actress Cote de Pablo was, for post-production of Antonias Banderas’ forthcoming movie ‘The 33’ (Phoenix Pictures). These are just two of the projects that have been keeping studio owner Manolito Galea (Lito) busy over the past few months, neatly coinciding with the addition of more Audient gear to the studio that bears his name.

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D.A.S. Audio and Marti Audio at the 55th Cosquín Folk Festival

For yet another year running D.A.S. Audio professional sound systems were on hand to provide top-of-the-line sound for the 55th Cosquín National Folk Festival. The city’s Plaza Próspero Molina played host to the 10,000-plus spectators who descended on the square each “moon”, as the festival evenings are called.

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ASP880s Busy At New Crown Works Studio

AudientFor new business Crown Works Studio (CWS), the purchase of two ASP880 8-channel mic pres turned out to be two of the most useful – and economically sensible - additions to their studio. “The pair of ASP880s are currently in place of the typical large format console and high end converters found in most studios,” says owner and assistant engineer, Ross Wareing, confessing that it was “…something we were very wary of to begin until we heard the ASP880s in action.”

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Spectera achieves its largest deployment to date at Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral hosted one of the most significant moments in the 1,400-year history of the Church of England: the installation of Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman ever to hold the office.

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1 SOUND preserves the beauty of Grace Church while transforming its intelligibility

At Grace Church in Seattle, upgrading the sound system meant solving two equally important challenges: improving intelligibility throughout the sanctuary while preserving the visual character of the space.

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