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MANCHESTER, U.K. – The final show in a tour for former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown took place at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena, and rental companies Metro Audio, STS and Viking Sound collaborated with a sound system featuring Turbosound's Flex Array PA system.
The 20,000 seat venue would seem to call for a large format line array, but Paul Collis, STS's director, noted that the Flex Array proved to be more than up to the task at hand.

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For those of you who watched the Grammy Awards on Sunday night (and apparently there were more of you this year than any year since 2004), you may have had a feeling of déjà vu when you saw virtually the same group of stars that clustered together in 2009, 2008, etc. Does this perhaps remind you — at least a little — of the 1993 film Groundhog Day? You know, like Bill Murray’s character hearing “I Got You Babe” every morning?

Now, if you happen to want to hear the same song at the same time every day, that’s fine with us. But sometimes it’s fun to let the needle find a new groove.

You only have until midnight this coming Monday to do your part in helping save wireless microphone and monitoring systems from eventual extinction

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LAS VEGAS – The Killers recently wrapped their Day Age U.S. tour, the first to feature Martin Audio's W8L Longbow line arrays. Delicate Productions and British soundco Capital Sound provided audio support.
Delicate Productions' Alan Behr, who served as audio crew chief, worked with FOH engineer James Gebhard, monitor engineer Clarke Laplante, and audio techs BJ Hemmingsen, Fumi Okazaki and Harm Schopman, who later replaced Laplante mixing monitors.

The main PA for the tour featured Martin Audio W8L Longbow line arrays with a main hang consisted of 24 W8L Longbow modules, with 24 flown Martin Audio W8LS subwoofers for the low frequencies. Downfill was supplied by Martin Audio W8LD, 4 boxes per side, with a side hang of up to 24 Martin W8LC. Martin Audio MA4.2 amplifiers powered all speakers.

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For those of you who watched the Grammy Awards on Sunday night (and apparently there were more of you this year than any year since 2004), you may have had a feeling of déjà vu when you saw virtually the same group of stars that clustered together in 2009, 2008, etc. Does this perhaps remind you — at least a little — of the 1993 film Groundhog Day? You know, like Bill Murray’s character hearing “I Got You Babe” every morning?

Now, if you happen to want to hear the same song at the same time every day, that’s fine with us. But sometimes it’s fun to let the needle find a new groove.

A solution that has the different formats “playing nicely” together at portable church site

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