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To accommodate its growing community , Zion Mennonite Church in Schanzenfeld , MB has expanded its facility and equipped it with a new Renkus-Heinz sound system designed and installed by Golden West Sound Design of nearby Altona .
The main floor of the church seats 614 and the balcony seats 204 , with 90 more seats in the choir loft . “ Acoustically , the space is horrible ,” admits Myron Dyck of Golden West Sound Design . “ ICONYX speakers ’ horizontal coverage is fantastic , and this is a fairly wide church … If we had used a traditional single array in the centre , or any point-source approach , we would need multiple speakers and more wiring and amplifiers . With just one pair of ICL-F-DUAL-RNs , we have a much cleaner installation , and they ’ re slim and visually unobtrusive .”
Kendrick Lamar is currently touring North America in support of his double-platinum DAMN . album . For the DAMN Tour , FOH engineer Kyle Hamilton specified a complete VUE audiotechnik sound reinforcement system , supplied by Escondido , CA ’ s Sound Image .
The system includes left and right VUE al-12 line arrays consisting of 20 elements each , with two auxiliary side-hangs of eight elements each . As well , 36 VUEDrive V3 systems engines provide power and processing for the arrays . A Digico SD7 handles the FOH mix with a pair of VUE h-12s serving as nearfield monitors . Prior to the tour , VUE provided Hamilton with an opportunity to audition the al-12 array at a special demo site . “ The accuracy was the first thing I noticed ,” says Hamilton . “ I put up a session that I knew needed some work in one particular area . Right out of the gate , I heard it . I ’ ve never had that happen with a PA at the scale of the al-12 . And output was equally impressive . Whatever level I wanted I got , and with room to spare .”
PHOTO : JAMES LAWRENSON
OPRY AUDIO CREW ( L-R ): MARK THOMAS , BOB BUSSIERE , JEFF ENT & NIC FADDY
New York City-based concert promoter The Bowery Presents ( TBP ) recently opened its latest live music venue , Brooklyn Steel , a new 20,000-sq . -ft . space in East Williamsburg , NY that is outfitted with L-Acoustics K2 line arrays . A gantry crane retained from the former steel fabrication business enables the flown arrays to be repositioned , along with the movable 50,000-lb . steel and concrete stage , to scale the audience area according to the expected attendance at each show .
TBP ’ s in-house team designed and installed the L-Acoustics loudspeaker system while Mark Friedman of Long Island City-based See Factor supplied the speaker set-up as well as the rest of the new club ’ s audio complement , including a 56-channel Digico SD10 console at front-of-house with a 56-channel SD9 available for monitors .
The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville , TN is maybe the most iconic venue in country music . Each performance is made up of official Opry members and guest artists who together represent multiple generations of artists as well as the broad spectrum of country music styles . Recently , The Opry installed a new Yamaha Rivage PM10 digital audio console from Nashville ’ s Clair Solutions for the monitor mix position , which replaced the PM1D that had occupied the position for 10 years .
“ The audio team is very comfortable with Yamaha products . Most importantly , in comparison to the other consoles we looked at , this desk was designed for the monitor position , where we felt the other manufacturers ’ products were more focused on front-of-house applications ,” says staff monitor mixer Bob Bussiere .
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