| Event Safety Summit 2014 | The Event Safety Alliance will host the industry's first Event Safety Summit from December 2-4, 2014 at the Tait Towers' campus in Lititz, Pennsylvania.
The three-day symposium and hands-on workshop, which is funded in part by Fireman's Fund and its managing agent, Take1 Insurance, is designed to increase awareness of the many event safety risks present at live events and teach event producers to address those risks more effectively. It will also focus on the importance of making sure that every live event has the right insurance coverage supporting it.
Visit ESA's Website for a complete schedule and more information. |
| | Feature Story | McCabe's Guitar Shop: An Intimate Space for Quieter Acoustic Music
McCabe's Guitar Shop on Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica, located two blocks west of the Santa Monica Freeway's Centinela Avenue off-ramp, is first and foremost a musical instrument store that opened in 1958 and specializes in acoustic and folk music instruments, offering sales, rentals, repairs, private lessons and classes. Since 1969, McCabe's has presented weekend concerts in a back room with an 8-foot-deep stage, a mixing station built into one wall, folding chairs, and walls that are adorned with stringed instruments. |
| Firehouse Productions Powers iHeartRadio Music Festival 2014
Firehouse Productions deployed Harman's JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers at the iHeartRadio Music Festival providing sound reinforcement for some of the most popular artists in music today, including Taylor Swift, Iggy Azalea, Nicki Minaj and One Direction. The 4th annual two-day festival took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to a capacity crowd of more than 16,000 people. | | | Audio-Technica Provides Microphone Solutions for CMA Awards for the 21st Straight Year
The team of industry veterans responsible for the audio at this year's CMA's again included a who's-who of broadcast audio. Serving as Co-Audio Producers were Tom Davis and Paul Sandweiss; ATK/Audiotek provided the sound system with front-of-house mixers Patrick Baltzell (Production Mixer) and Rick Shimer (Music Mixer); the broadcast music mix was handled by New Jersey/California-based M3's (Music Mix Mobile's) John Harris and Jay Vicari. Stage monitoring was handled by Tom Pesa and Jason Spence. | | | Powersoft Captures Performances at Pennsylvania's Mercyhurst University
For Eric Johnson, owner of Erie-based Fact AV Technologies, Inc., the emotional impact of music is all in the nuance and detail. When he started his small company more than 25 years ago, Johnson set out to raise the standards of live sound for small scale and intimate venues, raising audio quality to levels more typically found in larger halls and higher seating capacity performance spaces. | | | Hawthorn Names DPA As Its Microphone Brand of Choice
Hawthorn, the UK's largest independent supplier of technical production services, has named DPA as its primary microphone brand. Established in 1987, Hawthorn employs over 120 staff from offices around the UK and handles over 1,000 events every year, including gala dinners, product launches, conferences and parties. The company's product portfolio has seen a 4.4 EUR investment over the last two years and now includes state of the art lighting, sound, AV, rigging, staging and drapes. | | | ITI Creates Definitive Martin Audio Club System For Verboten
ITI Audio, designer of award-winning systems for clubs such as U. Street Music Hall in Washington, D.C., have achieved what the company considers to be its "best work" using Martin Audio loudspeakers and line array enclosures at Verboten in Brooklyn, New York. | | | | New Hope Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Installs New Sound System Centered on Ashly Audio Processing » | | | | | New Products | Yamaha Launches RIVAGE PM10 Digital Mixing Console
Yamaha Corporation Japan has launched the RIVAGE PM10 Digital Mixing Console, described as an evolutionary step for Yamaha PM Series Digital Live Sound Consoles. The PM10 system is comprised of the CS-R10 control surface, DSP-R10 DSP engine, RPio622 I/O rack, three types of RY cards, and two types of HY cards provide the flexibility to configure and ideally match the scale and functional requirements of any application. | | | Mackie DL Series Mixers Master Fader Version 3
Master Fader Version 3 is compatible with all DL Series mixers (DL32R, DL1608 and DL806). While some features are specific to the 32-channel DL32R, there are also powerful upgrades for DL1608 and DL806 users. | | | | | | Announcements From Mix | Empire Pro To Host QSC, Shure, and Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Day on Thursday, December 4, in Bell, Calif.
Titled "Modern Technology For Today's Production", the training will cover line arrays, digital consoles, monitors, amps, wireless and digital microphones, and in-ear monitors along with how they optimally work together for applications from small to mid-size production. Presenters will focus on system design, networking, Dante and RF landscape, coordination, and antenna setup as well as best practices, special tools, and tips. | | | | SynAudCon presents 'Making Wireless Work' in-person training in Dallas, Texas, on January 3 and 4, 2015, at the American Airlines Convention Center with instruction from James Stoffo (Radio Active Designs), Karl Winkler (Lectrosonics) and Tim Vear (Shure). » | | | | Avid's Live Sound Webinar On Demand: Introducing VENUE | S3L-X, presented by veteran live sound engineer Robert Scovill. » | | | | Eighteen Sound offers 'Loudspeaker Lyceum' educational videos. » |
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