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The good news is that modern transducers are capable of higher SPL and mini line arrays of sufficient length can provide excellent sound reinforcement for smaller venues

Source: Small & Mighty: Real World Gear Looks At The Latest Mini Line Arrays

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SURREY, BC – For an indoor/outdoor series of concerts and live video feeds of Olympics events – one of several staged in the Vancouver area during the winter games – Briere Production Group provided a full complement of gear from Martin Audio.
Featured performers included Blue Rodeo, Hot Hot Heat, Marianas Trench, 54-40, Mother Mother, Tokyo Police Club, The Paperboys, Arkells and Sam Roberts, among others.

The concert site at Holland Park in Surrey included an indoor stage (Surrey House) and outdoor venue (Celebration Stage), and the gear list included Martin Audio W8LCs, WSX subs, MA12K and MA 4.2S amps, Dolby Lake processing and Yamaha PM5Ds for FOH and monitors.

UK: Fred Heuves was among the winners at the TPi Awards 2010, which was held in London on 8 February, reports PSN-e. Having started out working with local bands in his native Utrecht in the mid ’70s, Heuves went on to have a profound influence on the European live music industry, co-establishing Ampco and doing much to steer the company through a later manifestation as rental, sales, distribution and product development group Ampco Flashlight.

Source: Ampco co-founder collects Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: The Making Of “Sympathy For The Devil”

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.

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Source: Enter the Dragon

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Source: A Walk Down That Lonesome Road Of DAE Errors

TIRANA, Albania – Prosound Shpk, EAW's Albanian distributor, designed and installed the sound system for a 600-capacity nightclub that reopened recently. Catering to the needs of DJs and live bands, the club, Mumja, has been equipped with eight EAW JFL210 Compact Line Array Modules and four EAW LA400 Subwoofers.
The JFL210s are configured in two arrays of four speakers each, buttressed by the LA400 Bent Horn Subwoofers under the stage. Visiting DJs can hear themselves via a pair of EAW FR129z Compact Full-Range Loudspeakers used as stage monitors.

UK: Trantec S6 wireless microphones were used exclusively during a segment of the recent Royal Variety Performance, reports PSN-e. The 24-channels of S6 for the performance in question – by Whoopi Goldberg and the cast of the musical Sister Act – were provided by Plus 4 Audio.

Source: Trantec Whoops it up at the RVP