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[ATTACH=JSON]205495.vB5-nodeid=205495[/ATTACH]For a band named after Bastille Day (so named because lead vocalist Dan Smith’s birthday falls on the 14th of July), it seems somewhat appropriate that their front-of-house engineer, Paul ‘Coop’ Cooper, has chosen to use a French loudspeaker brand for their Wild World tour. But his choice of L-Acoustics has nothing to do with …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205464.vB5-nodeid=205464[/ATTACH]LOS ANGELES – February 2017 — In a world where churches are popping up in spaces that once served as anything from a bank to a department store, First Baptist Church of Los Angeles is a throwback to an earlier time when houses of worship were built to be just that. Until recently, the audio …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205417.vB5-nodeid=205417[/ATTACH]NEW YORK CITY – February 2017 — Back in 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. A re-imagining of Puccini’s La Bohème, RENT follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. Twenty …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205338.vB5-nodeid=205338[/ATTACH]MARCOUSSIS, France – February 2017 — Today, L-Acoustics announces the launch of Syva, a new format, high power speaker system featuring six medium-frequency and three high-frequency speakers in a sleek J-shaped progressive curvature format. The groundbreaking transducer arrangement, called segment source*, produces an H/V 140° x 26° (+5/-21°) directivity pattern that is optimized for exceptional …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205297.vB5-nodeid=205297[/ATTACH]SUGAR LAND, Texas – January 2017 — The new Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land is everything you’d expect of a performing arts center in Texas: big, bright and bold. The $84 million venue, which officially opened in the Houston metro area this month with a strong lineup of events including Jerry Seinfeld, Don Henley, …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205166.vB5-nodeid=205166[/ATTACH]MARCOUSSIS, France – January 24, 2017 — L-Acoustics has announced the appointment of industry veteran Jeff Rocha as Head of Market Development for North America. Reporting directly to L-Acoustics, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Laurent Vaissié, Rocha’s remit will be to analyze and develop market strategies for L-Acoustics products in the North American market, collaborating across …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205120.vB5-nodeid=205120[/ATTACH]This year, DiGiCo celebrates 15 years of manufacturing exceptional digital mixing consoles. It has enjoyed phenomenal success, with the D5 Live establishing both the company and the concept of digital mixing. The SD Series followed, delivering a powerful new way of working, with the flagship SD7 becoming the market leader. In 2015, it launched the …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205124.vB5-nodeid=205124[/ATTACH]Putnam, CT – January 18, 2017– Rational Acoustics is pleased to announce that the latest version of the dual-channel Smaart “Di” platform – Smaart Di v2 – will be released on January 24th, 2017. Smaart Di v2 takes the simplified, streamlined two-channel interface from Smaart v7 Di and modernizes it with many of the features …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205066.vB5-nodeid=205066[/ATTACH]Costa Mesa, CA (January 12, 2017) –QSC is pleased to announce the release of firmware Version 1.1 for the TouchMix-30 Pro Compact Digital Mixer, the powerful, 32-channel mixer with advanced professional features which is the latest in the acclaimed series of TouchMix digital mixers. Version 1.1 firmware adds a variety of significant product enhancements, including …

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[ATTACH=JSON]205038.vB5-nodeid=205038[/ATTACH] Cambridge, UK – January 2017… Designed to slot effortlessly into every studio no matter how big or small, JoeCo’s BBWR24B has joined the BLUEBOX range of Workstation Interface Recorders as the most affordable BLUEBOX yet. More than just a high quality interface, the 24 channel BBWR24B is also a trusted, professional multi-track field recorder …