Tim McGraw’s Live Your Voice tour uses a ribbon-loaded Peavey VersArray line array system for the two stages—Frito’s Style Sonic Stage and McGraw’s VIP Stage—as spec’d by engineer Dave Albro and A2 Devan Skaggs; Albro mixes on a Crest HP-W board.
Neil Diamond‘s U.S. tour is employing monitor mix/live recording engineer Bernie Becker and sound designer/front-of-house engineer Stan Miller; the outing features a Professional Wireless Systems GX-8 and GX-4 amp/combiner to help with the wireless demands of the tour, which includes AKG D5 dynamic head and IEM system…An Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system has been purchased by Scotland-based P.A. company Ward Steedsy Associates…PA Plus Productions deployed an in-the-round SR setup for “Songwriters” night at the Avalon Theatre (Niagara Falls, Canada), with six line arrays each containing eight JBL VerTec elements, powered by Crown iTech amps…The New Opera House Oslo features a networked Aurus/Nexus audio system provided by Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup…The first UK install of Martin Audio‘s OmniLine Micro line array was in the new Kingly Club in London; the scalable system was spec’d by Bernard Mani, head of London intergration company Systems Etc.