Sep 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Sensaphonics founder and audiologist Michael Santucci is the new lead audiology advisor to Hearing Health Science Inc., a start-up company specializing in hearing research and therapy. HHS is set to launch Soundbites™, a patented nutraceutical supplement that has shown clinical promise in preventing noise-induced hearing loss. Used with hearing protection, its inventors claim Soundbites has the potential to reduce hearing loss by up to 50 percent.
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Sep 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Rehearsal facility Soundcheck Austin (sister company to Soundcheck Nashville, where the Mix Nashville event is being held in 2012) installed Allen & Heath iLive-T112 digital mixing systems (one for each of its six rooms) and an iLive-T80, providing full digital mixing setups. Operations manager Greg Morton selected the boards and is responsible for fulfilling the needs of incoming clients, including, most recently, Lauryn Hill and Edie Brickell.
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Sep 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Baltimore SoundStage, a new performance space, will open at 124 Market Place in Baltimore’s inner harbor on Labor Day weekend. The new venue is as collaboration between New York City’s HighLine Ballroom and the management team responsible for opening Baltimore’s Bourbon Street live music venue. The room will have a scalable capacity of 500 or 1,000 for standing room shows and 500 for seated shows.
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Sep 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Due to the location of jazz club Blue Note’s stage, house engineers must contend with three mixing zones to compensate for the position of the instruments onstage. Petrix owner Amit Peleg, who was brought in to handle the system upgrade, knew that he had to go with DSP-based amplifiers, selecting Yamaha TXn amps (with custom DPS settings) and two dbx DriveRack 4820s. In addition, the club upgraded its Yamaha M7CL digital consoles to Version 3 software (allowing for multitrack recording) and StageMix. The entire sound system is digital; the only points of conversion are A/D at the stage box input and back, and D/A at the output of the amplifiers. Everything in between is digital either via EtherSound or AES/EBU. The system is completely networked for both signal and control.
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Sep 1, 2011
On the [opening dates for] U2 shows, the main end of the P.A. had two lefts and two rights—flown side by side—so one system was doing all the vocals and all the guitars, and the outside system was doing all the drums, bass, keyboards, etc. Normally, on my left and right I would have a Waves hardware piece, the BCL—the one with the Renaissance Compressor, a Maxx Bass and an L2 Ultramaximizer....
Aug 15, 2011
New San Francisco live music venue BeatBox is the first club
on the West Coast to feature Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers. BeatBox occupies a completely renovated warehouse and features a 25-foot
ceiling, a private mezzanine, exposed brick, exposed steel latticework and
a long line of skylights that can be unveiled when desired. The 30x10-foot stage is completely modular: It can move to different locations
and take on different configurations, such as a tall stack for a DJ or
a long thrust for a fashion show....
Aug 9, 2011
Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel (Cherokee, N.C.) recently underwent a new sound system install, handled by PXS Audiovisual Technologies (Covington, La.) and overseen by director of engineer John McGovern. The venue's production supervisor, Ryan Hargis, says this on the d&b audiotechnik J Series install: ...
Aug 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, a 420-seat, 13,000-square-foot performance hall in Stowe, Vt., hosts a variety of music, dance and theater performances, as well as lecture and video presentations, and cinema screenings. Acentech (Boston) designed the A/V systems and acoustics of the space, which is particularly well-suited to unamplified and lightly amplified music gigs. ...
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