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[59] McCauley Crashes Mansion LOS ANGELES, CA—Nightspot Crash Mansion LA recently opened with numerous McCauley Sound (www.mccauley.com) systems, including SA422-2 loudspeaker systems installed as stage side fills and a center cluster for FOH monitoring. Frozen Liquid by Clive Young CARROLL VALLEY, PA—Ah, winter time the time of year when sound systems stay indoors—not. At least, that’s what Honey Brook, PA-based Liquid Audio Productions (LAP) found recently when it took on a gig providing sound for SnowCross Christian Concert Day on March 1 at Liberty Mountain, a ski resort in Carroll Valley, PA. Headlining the show was Balitmore-based indie band, Ashes Remain. Now, did the act perform inside the lodge, perhaps in a nice, toasty lounge area where steaming hot cups of cocoa might be nearby? Nah—when this band decided to play Liberty Mountain, it meant the mountain itself. Accordingly, Liquid Audio had its gear out in full force—in the full depths of winter. “It was a painfully cold day at the bottom of a ski slope,” sighed Vince Cyrus Sings With Sennheiser Best of Both Worlds Tour, featuring Disney teen sensation Miley Cyrus performing as herself and in character as Hannah Montana, found her using a Sennheiser (www.sennheiserusa.com) MD 5235 dynamic capsule atop the SKM 5200 wireless handheld transmitter nightly. NEW YORK, NY—The QSC World WideLine Tour CHICAGO, IL—The QSC (www.qscaudio.com) World WideLine Tour, offering multiple line-array system demos, system hardware and software training, and hands-on “live mixing” sessions to attendees, will land in Chicago May 13-14. Contact your local QSC rep for info and passes. Emondi, LAP’s owner. Dan Alkive worked as both house mix and monitor mix engineer, while Emondi did triple duty as house, monitor and system engineer. Wesley Emondi, meanwhile, worked as assistant engineer and tech. Delivering the decibels to skiers across the mountain and the band alike was an Allen & Heath GL 2400-424 console, sending signal The crew of Liquid Audio Productions brave the elements in to a variety of Clair Brothers, JBL the name of rock ‘n’ roll. and EV loudspeakers. The monitors were proprietary, and all the tomation, security, audio, video audio gear won’t have to face the elements again until May when it various boxes were powered by and networking. While the crew was cold at Lib- tackles five days worth of the QSC amplifiers. The gig was unusual for the erty Mountain, the gear held up Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. company, which can typically be admirably, and the rest of the Liquid Audio Productions found providing live sound, light- month will find the sound rein- www.liquidaudioprod.com ing and recording services. LAP al- forcement company in hopefully www.myspace.com / so spends its days running a small warmer climes, tackling a number liquidaudioprod recording studio and working in of tavern gigs for local acts, a benthe residential systems field, able efit concert at Villa Julie College, Ashes Remain to install full residential home au- and more. In fact, the company’s www.ashesremain.com Wireless Improving Wired Sound by R. Maxwell LOS ANGELES, CA—For ISP Wedges into Clark Center ARROYO GRANDE, CA—The Clark Center for the Performing Arts recently upgraded its stage with ISP Technologies’ (www.isptechnologies.com) TriWedge floor monitors. years, highend audio cables have been a staple of the recording industry and the products that constitute that segment of the pro audio market. Upscale vendors have used these products for patch bay cables in large-format recording consoles and, similarly, condenser microphones have used high-end cable as a means of better converting acoustical energy into electrical energy, all in the interest of keeping the signal as true as is physically possible to the source. Recently, a trend has developed whereby touring acts are now more often integrating better quality cable into their equipment rigs; while cable is often viewed as a disposable com- modity, a number of factors are changing that perception within the touring community. Interestingly, the widespread adoption of wireless systems for both microphones and instruments such as guitar are placing a new set of demands on the technicians responsible for building touring equipment racks, as well as those charged with running the gear during concerts. With stages getting ever larger and more elaborate, performers are venturing further and further away from the base stations that ultimately feed their equipment. As more guitarists, for example, go wireless in order to facilitate the freedom of movement so commonly required as part of an act’s staging routines, this is necessitating longer cable runs for ancillary equipment such as guitar (continued on page 76) April 2008 prosoundnews.com http://www.mccauley.com http://www.sennheiserusa.com http://www.liquidaudioprod.com http://www.myspace.com/liquidaudioprod http://www.myspace.com/liquidaudioprod http://www.qscaudio.com http://www.ashesremain.com http://www.isptechnologies.com http://prosoundnews.com http://www.ultimateears.com http://www.ultimateears.com

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