Jun 05, 2013
Revolution is one of the largest and most successful dance/nightclubs in Waterloo, Southern Ontario, Canada. The city has become a leading technology hub of North America largely because well-known high-tech brands such as Blackberry, Sybase, Google, Oracle, Intel, McAfee, NCR Corporation, Electronic Arts and Agfa either grew to prominence or are headquartered there.
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Jun 05, 2013
The Alpha Video Sports & Entertainment Group, the national video integrator for the sports venue industry, has been selected by St. Cloud State University to upgrade and enhance the University's TV broadcast systems for many venues on campus, including the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.
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Jun 05, 2013
The choice of Tannoy's VX Series loudspeakers for Fuku Restaurant's audio system was driven primarily by the requirements of the concept created by Groove Dining Group President, Paul Ardaji.
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Jun 03, 2013
WorldStage recently upgraded the infrastructure and systems at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where it is the exclusive vendor for AV, to reduce set up time for shows and increase system flexibility.
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May 30, 2013
It may not be the Aurora Borealis, but the giant Christie MicroTiles video wall engineered by Electrosonic at the LKAB Visitor Centre in Koskullskulle, Sweden, is lighting up the north.
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May 30, 2013
SHIPPENSBURG, PA—With a clean, modern
design, and well-appointed 1,500-seat
interior, the Grove Theatre at the H. Ric Luhrs
Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg
University in Shippensburg, PA has become
a favorite regional venue for Central
Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland.
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May 28, 2013
Riedel Communications, provider of real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, announced that the Red Bull X-Fighters World Series, the biggest freestyle motocross tour on the planet, is using Riedel radio and intercom systems to ensure clear communications throughout live event production, including the tour's May 11 stop at California's Glen Helen Raceway.
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May 23, 2013
When Holland, Michigan’s Central Wesleyan Church celebrated its 115th anniversary and paid off the mortgage on its current worship center, the church’s leadership team immediately knew what their first project should be: acoustic treatments and a new sound system for their 2,800-seat, fan-shaped main sanctuary.
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May 23, 2013
For Mill Valley School District just outside of San Francisco, a new take on old technology is proving to bring students and teachers into the cutting-edge world of the latest high tech. The district now embraces BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) initiatives, the latest classroom trend, using Mitsubishi Electric's WD380U-EST extreme short throw projectors.
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May 22, 2013
Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) in Canandaigua, NY has a very active music program with classes ranging from classic and modern, to jazz ensemble and chamber wind ensemble, topped off by audio recording and sound reinforcement and live recording programs.
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May 21, 2013
The recent installation of a QSC Q-Sys Core 250i processing and management system has significantly improved sound quality and user control to the bar, restaurant, lounge and lobby areas of the boutique Tribeca Grand Hotel.
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May 20, 2013
Seven Lakes High School has one of the most prestigious theatre programs in the Houston, TX region, while its Performing Arts Center (PAC) plays host to several school and out-of-house productions each year.
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May 15, 2013
In 1999, singer Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto, then a public school teacher, were inspired to start a public high school for young artists and envisioned a school that would integrate the arts with rigorous academics, require a commitment to community service, and help students cultivate a lifelong love of, and dedication to, their artistic passions and crafts.
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May 13, 2013
The 2015 Volkwagen Golf made headlines during its press event at the New York International Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center. WorldStage was tasked by SIAM Productions and George P. Johnson with providing a 3D projection mapping system and other services for the unique reveal, which told the story of seven generations of VW Golf.
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May 08, 2013
Held the last weekend of April in Wilkesboro, NC, this year’s MerleFest included a roster of longtime roots artists like Leon Russell, The Charlie Daniels Band, Avett Brothers, Del McCoury Band, Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Michael Martin Murphey, Peter Rowan, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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May 07, 2013
The world premiere of Warner Bros. "The Great Gatsby" lit up the screen in 3D, thanks to Christie Solaria Series digital cinema projectors, which brought to life the splendor of the roaring twenties in rich, saturated colors and sharp, 4K-resolution.
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May 06, 2013
When Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame opened at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, sports fans flocked to the new 40,000 square-foot space that celebrates the country’s inspiring sports history.
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May 03, 2013
BELLEVUE, WA—The Barrier Mercedes
showroom started out as basic “cost of doing
business project,” with background audio, an
intercom system, and other standard features,
but Madrona Digital proposed a much more
sophisticated AV installation designed to
grow the business.
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May 02, 2013
Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures it caused left Joe W. Brown Memorial Park in east New Orleans under seven feet of water. The water sat for weeks, leaving everything below its depths to rust and rot.
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May 01, 2013
An Allen & Heath digital iLive system was employed by Scottish sound hire company Ward-Steedsy Audio for the recent Red Bull Chasers cycle event in Edinburgh.
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Apr 30, 2013
Maintaining Christie Digital Systems' global presence requires regular planning and strategizing—much of which takes place at the company’s Cyprus, CA USA headquarters.
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Apr 29, 2013
Audio Video Electronics has utilized eight Earthworks ChoirMics in the sanctuary of St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, MN.
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Apr 25, 2013
Concert-goers at York Performance Hall in Anderson University have experienced improved sound quality following the installation of motorized Daktronics acoustical banners.
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Apr 23, 2013
When the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University needed to install a digital display in its lobby to engage, inform and entertain patrons of the Center before, during and after shows, they knew they needed a state-of-the-art display solution that would shine as bright as the performers on stage.
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Apr 22, 2013
For nearly a century, St. Lucy Parish has been a cornerstone of religious life in Campbell, CA. Its congregation grew steadily throughout the 1900s, prompting moves to ever-larger facilities, and culminating in the construction of a 1,200-seat sanctuary in 1967.
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Apr 18, 2013
Clair Brothers Audio Systems has installed a comprehensive VTX system, powered by Crown Audio I-Tech HD amplifiers, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
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Apr 18, 2013
MANSFIELD, TX—The Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, TX, a community of almost 60,000 located on the southern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is a dual-purpose facility that was built at a cost of approximately $42 million.
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Apr 17, 2013
Built originally as a private high school located in a residential neighborhood of Montreal, the school has transitioned to College Regina Assumpta, recently designing a 705-seat concert hall as part of the revitalization of the college.
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Apr 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES, CA—Washington, D.C.’s National Building Museum’s major
new “House and Home” exhibition, running through spring 2017,
presents an array of photos, objects, models, and films that show
visitors the remarkable changes in domestic life over the centuries and
what it means to be at home in America.
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Apr 16, 2013
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, held at Reliant Stadium, is the world's largest live entertainment and livestock exhibition featuring a regular-season world-class rodeo.
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Apr 16, 2013
When the administration at Sheridan College decided to build a new wing of flexible classrooms for its Brampton Campus, they turned to Advanced to install new “classrooms of the future” that would enhance capabilities for professors and students.
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Apr 15, 2013
With six separate vocal choirs, full worship band, and energetic services, First Baptist Church-Broad in Memphis Tennessee presents as a healthy and vigorous place of worship. It's also growing just as vigorously; the new church building has an auditorium that seats fifteen hundred people; as such a new sound system was a high priority.
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Apr 11, 2013
BrightSign has collaborated with The Mill LA and Sonos to help bring “Bugs” to life.
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Apr 04, 2013
PESA, a U.S.-based custom design and build manufacturing company for professional audio and video signal distribution, announced that Georgia Tech Online (formerly Distance Learning) is using a new PESA Cheetah 288XE digital video router.
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Apr 04, 2013
The Alpha Video Sports & Entertainment Group, a national video integrator for the sports venue industry, has been selected to provide a new high-definition portable video production system for the Minnesota United FC, Minnesota's professional soccer team that competes in the North American Soccer League.
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Apr 04, 2013
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce opened its doors in 1923 as the largest theatre on Florida's East Coast. Sixty years later, the theatre closed its doors due to the decline of the downtown area and refusal to convert to multi-screen operation.
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Apr 03, 2013
Over 20,000 watts of QSC K and KW Series Active Loudspeakers are helping to bring an authentic concert experience to the set of “Nashville,” ABC’s new hit primetime musical drama.
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Apr 03, 2013
In business for 42 years, Pittsburgh-based AV integrator Dobil Laboratories has earned a reputation as a leader in providing intelligent solutions and exceptional service and support for the higher education, corporate and house-of-worship markets.
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Apr 02, 2013
The Hun School of Princeton is a private school for students in sixth grade through high school. Located near Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, the school serves five-hundred students from over a dozen states.
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Mar 28, 2013
Berkley East Convalescent Hospital recently installed 100 new in-room patient displays from Panasonic to improve the patient experience and modernize the facility.
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Mar 28, 2013
The Jet Business, the world's first street-level corporate aviation showroom, is further reinventing how business aircraft are transacted by using Matrox Mura MPX Series controller boards to capture and display content for clients on an interactive, 32-monitor video wall.
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Mar 27, 2013
St. Joseph Mercy Oakland (SJMO) is the first hospital in Michigan to adopt Voalte’s latest generation iPhone to improve clinical communication at the point of care.
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Mar 27, 2013
UW-Eau Claire's oldest building, the stately brick façade of Schofield Hall dates back to the beginnings of this storied campus in 1916. In addition to the University's main administration offices, the building is home to the Schofield Auditorium.
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Mar 27, 2013
Northview High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan has a dedicated music and arts building, the Max Colley Jr. Performing Arts Center, which has been open since 1998 and houses a 750-seat auditorium used for concerts, plays, musicals and other events.
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Mar 26, 2013
Back from its acclaimed 2012 run, the tribute concert One Night with Janis Joplin began a four-week stint at the Pasadena Playhouse last weekend with a brand new monitor system from VUE Audiotechnik.
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Mar 21, 2013
Georgia Tech Online (formerly Distance Learning) is using a new PESA Cheetah 288XE digital video router at its Global Learning Center in Atlanta as part of its migration to HD production for its online professional education coursework.
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Mar 21, 2013
From its opening performance by the Berlin Philharmonic in August 1998, the KKL Luzern Concert Hall was recognized as one of the world’s great performance centers. An international landmark, both architecturally and culturally, the complex attracts music fans from around the world to its picturesque lakeside setting.
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Mar 21, 2013
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey—generally known as the Turkish Parliament—recently upgraded the microphone system in its Main Hall, located in the capitol city of Ankara.
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Mar 20, 2013
MultiTouch Ltd has supplied the world’s biggest interactive multitouch installation and the largest continuous array of unlimited touch displays, within Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) innovative digital interactive learning exhibition space.
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Mar 19, 2013
Bethlehem Baptist Church, which celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2011, is a multi-campus church based in downtown Minneapolis, MN. But since its Minneapolis campus' current sanctuary opened in 1991, Bethlehem's style of worship has changed dramatically.
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Mar 18, 2013
John D. Millett Hall on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, OH is best recognized as home to the school’s popular RedHawks basketball and volleyball teams. But the 9,200-capacity venue is also well known as the site for the school’s commencement exercises, as well as concerts and other events from a list of guests as varied as Yo-Yo Ma, Beck, Bill Cosby, The Fray, O.A.R., Béla Fleck, Jay Leno and the Dalai Lama.
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Mar 14, 2013
Client: Translational Research Institute (TRI) for Metabolism
and Diabetes, Orlando, FL
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Mar 14, 2013
Client: Doctor Brandon Winchester
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Mar 14, 2013
Clear-Com, a global provider of critical voice communication systems, is providing the University of Minnesota’s School of Music’s Ted Mann Concert Hall with improved efficiency in its production communications.
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Mar 14, 2013
Designed by architect George B. Post and completed in 1881, the Brooklyn Historical Society’s four-story building is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is an example of living history in its own right.
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Mar 13, 2013
Crestron and ORBIS International, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that works in developing countries to save sight worldwide, have teamed up to outfit the next-generation Flying Eye Hospital (FEH), a MD-10 aircraft donated to ORBIS by FedEx, with Crestron's state-of-the-art technology.
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Mar 12, 2013
The Brooklyn Historical Society is dedicated to illuminating how the past has affected the present and how it will contribute to the course New Yorkers will chart in the future. To that end, it is part library, part museum, and part venue for lectures, meetings, and other events.
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Mar 07, 2013
In April 2012, Brigham Young University’s administration announced that the Marriott Center basketball arena would shortly undergo a major renovation, including improvements to the installed sound system as well as seating changes and an extension to the men’s and women’s locker room facilities.
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Mar 06, 2013
FORT KNOX, KY—Serving as the frontline entrance into what is arguably
America’s most famous Army base, the General George Patton
Museum of Leadership has been undergoing a major facelift, including a
renovation of the exhibit space, the addition of new interactive exhibits,
and the integration of AV systems that not only perform the traditional
tasks associated with a museum, but go beyond.
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Mar 06, 2013
Denver Performing Arts Complex’s Boettcher Concert Hall, home to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, was built in 1978 as the first U.S. symphony hall in the round. While the 2,634-seat performance space’s unique layout continues to remain enduringly contemporary, the venue’s previous PA system has not fared quite so well, recently prompting a full audio system retrofit that included an L-Acoustics amplifier and loudspeaker package.
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Mar 06, 2013
Malang is the second largest city in Indonesia's East Java province, with an ancient history dating back to the 10th century Mataram Kingdom. Within this vibrant and historically rich culture, high technology video is at work at the Southeast Asia Bible Seminary. Known locally as Seminari Alkitab Asia Tenggara (SAAT), the seminary provides a post graduate curriculum of ministry studies and functions as a strategic network for churches and church leaders.
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Mar 05, 2013
Surrounded every day with noise everywhere we go, our hearing has become increasingly adept. Somehow amidst the din we are able to pick out the sound of our mobile phone ringing. We can hear a siren approaching through a fog of traffic. Through noise-cancelling headphones and music, we miraculously detect the flight attendant offering us a bag of pretzels.
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Mar 04, 2013
The Chatsworth campus hosts the high school, which has recently added the Tutor Family Center for the Performing Arts, a high tech 600 seat auditorium and performance space equipped with distributed video in the lobby areas, and a full theatrical sound reinforcement system featuring Renkus-Heinz Iconyx digitally steered loudspeaker arrays.
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Feb 28, 2013
When Caltrans District 7 began the first phase of a multi-phase AV system upgrade at its Los Angeles facility, it contracted with Electrosonic to create a brighter, more reliable video wall for traffic monitoring that takes advantage of the latest in projection technology.
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Feb 28, 2013
CEDIA has partnered with Diversified Exhibitions to offer the electronic systems professional industry a new tradeshow offering in Australia, combining CEDIA EXPO and Integrate EXPO into one event.
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Feb 26, 2013
One Systems, a manufacturer of professional, high intelligibility, direct weather loudspeakers, was chosen for installation at Fort Sam Houston’s Freedom Park in its Returning Home Heroes Amphitheater near San Antonio, TX.
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Feb 22, 2013
Magenta Research, member of the newly formed Gefen Pro AV Group, supplied critical back-end functionality for the new Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) in Missouri.
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Feb 21, 2013
A fixture in Washington DC live entertainment since the Second World War, George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium has hosted an eclectic mix of performers, from Ingrid Bergman to Pink Floyd, along with leading world music artists, local opera and symphony companies and celebrated political dignitaries over the years.
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Feb 19, 2013
A pair of Alcorn McBride DVM-8400HD Digital Video Machines have a key supporting role in “Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Feb 19, 2013
The Rio Rancho Public School District is one of the fastest growing districts in the Albuquerque area, and V. Sue Cleveland High School (better known as Cleveland High) is a product of that growth.
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Feb 19, 2013
Bulgaria’s leading restaurant and hospitality group has implemented a second-generation digital signage system using Harris Digital Out-Of-Home technology. Happy Bar & Grill, and its sister brands Happy Sushi and Captain Cook, now benefit from full HD multi-zone content and messaging tailored to each restaurant, supplied as a managed service by specialist provider Digital Generation.
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Feb 12, 2013
Cornerstone Baptist Church in Roseville, MI, recently upgraded from analog to digital when it installed a Yamaha CL5 Digital Audio Console and two Rio 3224-Ds input/output racks.
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Feb 11, 2013
Specializing in the care of women and infants, Women's Hospital is the premiere facility of its kind in the greater Baton Rouge area. With the recent completion of a new conference facility, the hospital now has improved its capability for handling presentations, training sessions, and related business.
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Feb 11, 2013
The King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will install 140 Barco JAO Smart Terminals for patient bedside applications. The hospital will use the system, which will be set up by local Barco partner Jeraisy Computer and Communication Services Company (JCCS), for patient entertainment and communication as well as clinical access.
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Feb 08, 2013
When projection designer William Cusick wanted to augment his projection design with a unique camera effect for the production of “Bare,” a contemporary rock musical playing at New World Stages in the heart of the Manhattan theater district, he relied on his preferred technology supplier, WorldStage, to come up with a low-cost creative solution.
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Feb 06, 2013
The Saddle Up Saloon and Dancehall, headquartered near Chicago in Aurora, IL, recently expanded its operation, opening a second location in Indianapolis, IN.
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Feb 05, 2013
Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, NJ is a unique institution in that it has a long reputation of fine service to students providing many opportunities to further their performing arts interests. Founded in 1892, the school recently upgraded the audio system in its 250-seat intimate Little Theatre.
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Feb 05, 2013
A high-tech, computer-animated, multi-dimensional Rotunda is the new entrance to Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in Cherokee, NC.
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Feb 04, 2013
There’s a Spyder inside the flagship Miami store of fashion retailer H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) and no one is complaining. Vista Systems’ Spyder X20 is a key component in the huge LED wall control system that’s capturing shoppers’ attention in the new 26,000-square foot store on Lincoln Road in South Beach, one of the largest of the 259 H&M stores nationwide.
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Feb 03, 2013
Music service provider nugs.net offers musicians a turnkey solution
for distributing their live music online.
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Feb 01, 2013
When the administration at Sheridan College decided to build a new wing of flexible classrooms in its Brampton Campus, they turned to Advanced to install new “classrooms of the future.”
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Jan 31, 2013
There are certain projects that stand out, and for Vance Breshears, the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center was one of them.
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Jan 29, 2013
Club Subterraneo at the heart of Providencia, the entertainment sector of downtown Santiago, Chile, is a venue where international acts like DJ Shadow (USA) or Los Amigos Invisibles (Venezuela) rub shoulders with local talent such as Fulano or Villa Carino.
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Jan 28, 2013
SFJAZZ (San Francisco Jazz) is moving into its brand new home, the first freestanding building in the country designed specifically for jazz, with the help of SIA Acoustics, led by Sam Berkow.
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Jan 24, 2013
Imagine a brave world where academics, athletics, and the arts stand shoulder to shoulder. It may sound idealistic, but at College Station High School in Texas it’s the reality, and AV is the great equalizer for all three disciplines.
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Jan 17, 2013
The Bayside Church in Roseville, CA, known to many as the home to house of worship leader and influential musician, Lincoln Brewster, recently upgraded its speaker system for their 2,300-seat main campus location with a NEXO GEO S12 line array, RS18's, and NXAmps.
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Jan 17, 2013
A Powersoft Ottocanali 1204 eight-channel power amplifier is driving a multi-room audio monitoring system at a new limited access corporate security operations center (SOC) on the West Coast of the United States.
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Jan 15, 2013
The Cove Church in Mooresville, N.C., is another example of a worship facility that's made the move to HD. Cove Church is now using a Broadcast Pix Granite 5000 2 M/E Video Control Center to produce image magnification (I-MAG) for its congregation during services, as well as simultaneously stream its services live on the Web.
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Jan 14, 2013
It may not have looked like your grandma’s Empire State Building (ESB), but a grandMA2 enhanced the dazzling pixel mapping of the New York City landmark that launched the building’s Philips Color Kinetics (PCK) LED lighting system.
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Jan 10, 2013
When Fred Parry, publisher of Inside Columbia magazine, was looking to enhance the publication’s in-house cooking class, Culinary Adventures, he wanted his chefs to have instant control of the live video camera so they could easily manage how the classes are presented to attendees. While planning their new kitchen classroom, Parry asked the custom installation team at D&M Sound if there was a system that would give his chefs complete control of the kitchen and provide fast, simple operation of the audio, video, lighting, HVAC, and surveillance systems.
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Jan 10, 2013
The Ohio State Buckeyes football team finished an incredible undefeated regular season with a boost from its new Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. In this first permanent LEO installation in the world, the sound system filled the vast 105,000-seat Ohio Stadium with crisp voice announcements and fan-pumping music over the loud, energetic crowd for all eight home games.
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Jan 09, 2013
As soccer enthusiasm continues to sweep the globe, venerable stadiums are undergoing substantial upgrades to keep pace with 21st Century fan expectations.
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Jan 08, 2013
JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp., has shared that U-TV TV, the in-house television station for U-T San Diego, the newspaper previously known as The San Diego Union-Tribune, is using six GY-HM790 ProHD cameras for ENG and studio work.
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Jan 07, 2013
Donor Alliance upgrades with sophisticated networking — and the ability for surgeons to de-stress with their own music
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Jan 07, 2013
California's San Mateo Union High Schools District is currently in the process of remodeling—and, in some instances, totally replacing—the theaters of six of its high schools: Aragon, Burlingame, Capuchino, Hillsdale, Mills, and the flagship San Mateo location. Theater consulting for each of the venues was provided by San Francisco's Shalleck Collaborative, which specified L-Acoustics loudspeaker systems throughout.
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Jan 03, 2013
FM 97.5 is better known to Philadelphia sports fans as The Fanatic, and recent agreements with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Philadelphia Flyers gave its listeners a new reason to cheer. As of this season, the station will broadcast all 76ers and Flyers games in full FM stereo and full FM bandwidth, a substantial improvement over the previous station’s AM broadcasts.
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Jan 02, 2013
Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, named after the singer’s 2003 hit, “I Love This Bar,” specializes in classic American fare, from food and drink to country music. The chain put a strong emphasis on great sound when specifying sound systems for the clubs, seizing on the rider-friendly MIDAS PRO2 as its console of choice.
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Dec 20, 2012
“We’re literally on the air for 12 and a half hours on football Saturdays,” says Elliott, “and our Shure wireless has proven totally reliable in every way. We typically use ten microphone channels, which are Shure UHF-R®. Most are bodypacks feeding headsets, except the sideline reporters, who use handhelds with SM58® capsules. In addition, everyone monitors on PSM® 900 in-ear systems. That requires five more channels, one for each mix of feeds that the announcers and crew use.”
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Dec 20, 2012
Zest Kitchen and Bar would be near the top of the heap in both the “hip” and “forward-thinking” categories were it located in, say, New York City. But on the high desert of Salt Lake City, Zest’s commitment to local organic produce and liquor, its haut vegetarian menu, and its nightly changeover from conscientious eatery to thumping dance club put it in a category all its own.
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Dec 18, 2012
TULSA, OK—The Broken Arrow
Performing Arts Center (BAPAC)
acts as a cornerstone of the arts
district in the downtown area of
Broken Arrow, the largest suburb
of Tulsa, OK.
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Dec 18, 2012
When The Weather Channel wanted to upgrade the primary studio set at its Atlanta headquarters, it turned to Electrosonic to install a new video wall to replace the previous display the company had provided.
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Dec 18, 2012
Specializing in the care of women and infants, Women’s Hospital is the premiere facility of its kind in the greater Baton Rouge area. With the recent completion of a new conference facility, the hospital now has state-of-the-art capability for handling presentations, training sessions, and related business.
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Dec 17, 2012
Encompass Technologies just completed a major sound and video installation for the sizeable new restaurant/sports bar/nightclub, John Barleycorn River North in downtown Chicago.
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Dec 17, 2012
Northern Arizona University (NAU) recently embarked on a journey to upgrade the multi-purpose Cline Library Assembly Hall. The plan centered on embracing new digital audio, video and control technology to better inform, instruct and entertain students, staff and the general public.
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Dec 17, 2012
Trinity Sound Company (TSC) recently completed an upgrade to the in-house music playback and paging system at Brea Community Center that included a QSC Audio Q-Sys Core 250i processor and two additional CX Series multichannel amplifiers.
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Dec 13, 2012
Home to many of the University of Nevada Las Vegas performing arts groups, the 550-seat Judy Bayley Theater opened in 1972 and features a raked auditorium, a fully-rigged, proscenium stage, and a thrust-apron that can be used as an orchestra pit.
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Dec 13, 2012
Having spent 38 years in the construction business, Bill Smith of Fort Worth, TX decided the time had come to build something for himself and the community. Located in Ft. Worth’s historic near south side, The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge is an architecturally historic Lions Club that Smith gutted and redesigned.
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Dec 12, 2012
People and equipment from the east and west coast offices of WorldStage collaborated to provide a full complement of video, audio and lighting services for A Celebration of Science in Washington, D.C., a new initiative spearheaded by FasterCures and the Milken Institute.
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Dec 12, 2012
New York City’s Birdland is one of the most legendary jazz clubs in the world, an intimate room where aficionados can enjoy the world’s greatest jazz artists in an up-close environment. Perhaps more than most venues, the sound system at Birdland is a vital part of the musical experience.
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Dec 11, 2012
Clair Brothers Audio Systems, headquartered in Manheim, PA, recently completed its largest house of worship project to date at the 140-acre Prestonwood Baptist Church site in Plano, TX.
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Dec 10, 2012
For an audio professional, creating a sound system for a large aquatic center is not a simple task. The combination of high walls, corrugated metal roofs, and an abundance of concrete, glass, and water makes for an acoustical environment that is far from pretty, even before it's packed with noisy revelers.
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Dec 10, 2012
Construction of the Auglaize County Courthouse was completed over a century ago in 1894. Occupying a full city block in downtown Wapakoneta, OH, the building stands true to its original design. Ornate and dignified sandstone frames the two-story structure, which is capped by a clock tower and a recently renovated statue of Lady Justice.
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Dec 07, 2012
The Palace is home to the Florence Gould Theater, an ornate 333-seat jewel box auditorium designed by museum architect George Applegarth. Opened in 1924 as the Little Theater, the venue hosts a regular calendar of concerts, lectures and theater performances.
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Dec 07, 2012
A waterfall array of Christie MicroTiles is inviting customers into the retail stores of Canadian media giant Shaw Communications, where the digital display technology educates customers about the Shaw universe that includes cable television, Internet, and phone service.
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Dec 04, 2012
Visitors to the Oregon History Museum in downtown Portland are reliving the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 with the help of professional video and audio systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS).
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Dec 03, 2012
Nestled amid the soaring, snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains, Sublette County School District #1 serves the students of Pinedale, WY and its neighboring communities. Total enrollment across all grades falls just over 1,000 students.
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Dec 03, 2012
Located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, the largest public university in New England, the 10,500-seat William D. Mullins Memorial Center arena unveiled the replacement for its 20-year-old installed PA system in mid-October.
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Nov 29, 2012
In the sales process, the “closer” is the person who seals
the deal.
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Nov 29, 2012
When The Weather Channel wanted to upgrade the primary
studio set at its Atlanta headquarters, it turned to
Electrosonic to install a new video wall to replace the previous
display the company had provided.
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Nov 29, 2012
An afternoon at the doctor’s office is rarely a pleasant experience.
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Nov 29, 2012
GE, one of the most well-known names in energy research
and technology, recently opened its new $40 million,
200,000-square-foot Grid IQ Global Innovation Center in
Markham, Ontario.
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Nov 29, 2012
With the installation of 40 CAL column array loudspeakers, Memorial Stadium at the University of California, Berkeley has become the world's first sports facility to use Meyer Sound's advanced beam steering technology.
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Nov 29, 2012
Located roughly 23 miles east of Atlanta, First Baptist Church Snellville is a Southern Baptist Church on the go. In their sanctuary that seats approximately 1,500 people, the two weekly Sunday services attract an average of 900-1,000 worshippers each.
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Nov 29, 2012
Based in Orlando, FL, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) for Metabolism and Diabetes is a joint venture between Florida Hospital and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. Housed in a new 37,000 sq. ft. facility that opened in early 2012, TRI is dedicated to the study of obesity, metabolism, diabetes, and the metabolic origins of cardiovascular disease.
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Nov 28, 2012
The striking architectural form of the year-old West Hollywood
Library (WHL) may have attracted the lion’s share of attention initially,
but it is the functionality that’s truly the star of the show.
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Nov 28, 2012
To ensure these future industry professionals would have hands-on experience with the most advanced equipment, Coatesville, PA-based DBS Audio Systems, Inc. installed a Meyer Sound UltraSeries system.
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Nov 28, 2012
Projection screen manufacturer Screen Innovations (SI) has installed a massive Black Diamond Venue projection screen at an acclaimed Austin-area fine dining restaurant. The new 215-inch SI Black Diamond Venue projection screen enhances the establishment’s overall aesthetics, and has contributed to the restaurant’s increased traffic, service offering, and operational profitability, the company says.
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Nov 27, 2012
When the City of Milpitas, CA needed an update for their city council chamber's AV system, RGB Spectrum joined with two other San Francisco Bay area companies who designed and installed the system.
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Nov 26, 2012
An entrepreneur with a wide range of music business interests, Irwin Kornfeld has sparked new awareness for the eighty-year-old Westchester County Center. A major upgrade of the facility’s acoustics, coupled with a state of the art sound system, has landed the WCC and its new “Pepe Infiniti Concert Series” on the radar of booking agents and performing artists seeking viable venues for tri-state concert dates.
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Nov 25, 2012
Electrosonic provided extensive audio, video, and data information support to the County of Santa Barbara’s new Emergency Operations Center.
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Nov 21, 2012
Local AV firm A Sound Experience designed and installed the system around a pair of Symetrix SymNet Edge processors networked together and with a Yamaha CL 5 console via the new Dante protocol.
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Nov 20, 2012
Spyders met Titans when ANC Sports Enterprises selected Vista Systems’ Spyders to power two of the world’s largest video screens at Nashville’s LP Field, home of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans.
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Nov 20, 2012
Mill City Church is a portable church that operates out of the University Center for the Arts building on the Colorado State University Campus, Ft. Collins, Colorado every Sunday.
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Nov 19, 2012
With the Philadelphia area's only 5/8 mile harness racing track and a casino larger than three football fields, Harrah's draws a steady stream of customers coming to play, eat, drink, and be merry.
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Nov 06, 2012
University of North Texas Radio-TV-Film students in Denton,
Texas, recently used Hitachi Z-HD5000 HDTV studio production
cameras to produce three half-hour episodes of an
original sitcom, “Peppuccinos.”
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Nov 06, 2012
Since its founding in 1891, Holy Spirit Catholic Church has held a special place in the hearts of Philadelphia-area residents. In the early years of the twentieth century, the church forged a reputation as one of the few non-segregated churches and parochial schools in the region.
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Oct 30, 2012
The Fresno Betsuin Buddhist Temple Dharma Center's mission is to promote peace and tranquility throughout the world. Working with local system designer Tim McFarland of American Music, the Dharma Center chose the new Line 6 StageScape M20d smart mixing system to bring improved quality and ease of use to their presentations.
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Oct 29, 2012
Professional video and audio systems integration firm Advanced
Broadcast Solutions (ABS) restructured the in-house video production
control room at JELD-WEN Field in Portland, OR, for the
Portland Timbers Major League Soccer team.
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Oct 29, 2012
Manhattan has no shortage of Irish-themed pubs, but Tir Na Nog on 39th Street is a cut above. Step in out of the bustling midtown traffic and you're instantly transported to a High Street local in Galway or Cork. The décor is at once authentic and unconventional, down to the LED-laden 300-year-old Irish rowboat, replete with fishing net, on the ceiling.
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Oct 23, 2012
In 2010, the Virginia Tech swimming and diving teams moved their home to the Christiansburg Aquatic Center after decades at the pool inside War Memorial Gym on Virginia Tech campus.
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Oct 22, 2012
Montreal-based Scéno Plus, renowned for its theatre design work in Las Vegas, Canada, and around the world, recently completed a major, multi-venue project at Revel, the new $2.4 billion casino-resort at the north end of Atlantic City’s famed boardwalk.
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Oct 17, 2012
GE last week opened its new $40-million, 200,000 square foot Markham, Ontario Grid IQ Global Innovation Center dedicated to promoting its next-generation energy management grid.
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Oct 16, 2012
Designed by Alvar Aalto and built in 1982, the Jyväskylä City Theatre is the largest venue of its type in this city of roughly 132,000 people in central Finland. It is home to a broad assortment of cultural activities, including everything from concerts and musical theatre to opera.
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Oct 15, 2012
Electrosonic provided extensive audio, video and data information support to the County of Santa Barbara's new Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which houses a number of technology-enabled spaces designed to help the California county maintain a constant state of readiness.
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Oct 10, 2012
Main Event Entertainment, a family entertainment center based in
Plano, Texas, wanted to visually enhance and transform their customers’
overall bowling experience.
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Oct 10, 2012
Earlier this year, the Maryland-based technology design
and consulting firm RJC Designs Inc. received an exciting
challenge: transform a former chapel on the Saint Joseph’s
University Maguire campus in Philadelphia into a vibrant
multipurpose student center.
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Oct 10, 2012
The Miami-Dade County Emergency Operations Center
(EOC) is the command and control center for this
extreme Florida weather hotspot.
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Oct 08, 2012
Home to the oldest sports club operating in Poland, Cracovia Rink has benefitted from a complete program of reconstruction and refurbishment in recent years, and has now had a state-of-the-art sound system designed and installed by Wrocław-based Tommex Zebrowscy Sp. J.
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Oct 03, 2012
When the management team at Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill was looking to make their new flagship Toronto location stand out from any other restaurant around, they did what they’ve done 15 times in the past and turned to Advanced, an audio-visual presentation products and solutions specialist based in Canada.
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Oct 02, 2012
When Timberlake Church in Redmond, WA wanted to redesign its main stage, it asked FocusWorship for help in meeting its AV needs.
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Oct 01, 2012
Over the years the church's congregation has grown steadily, straining the limits of their small facility. Now, after more than 60 years, the church has been rewarded with a new 500-seat worship center, directly adjacent to the original sanctuary.
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Sep 27, 2012
Josh Walker is a self-described "professional creative." From music and recording to live sound and systems integration, Walker works with bands, musicians, and organizations, helping to create a powerful musical and visual experience.
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Sep 25, 2012
The Wells Fargo Arena is the home of Arizona State University’s basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, and wrestling teams. At six stories high and with over 10,000 seats, it also hosts concerts, graduation ceremonies, and other events.
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Sep 24, 2012
The Widener University Pride football team holds two NCAA Division III National Championships, reaching the semi-finals three more times, and winning more MAC Championships than any other Middle Atlantic Conference team.
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Sep 20, 2012
Barix AG is using this year’s InnoTrans show (September 18-21, Berlin Exhibition Centre, Stand 4.1/224) to highlight a prestigious Brazilian transportation project of its Swiss customer Ortics GmbH that includes more than 400 Barix Annuncicom two-way IP audio components.
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Sep 17, 2012
Campbellsville Baptist Church is located in a town by the same name. The town’s main street is lined with century old brick, stone, and iron buildings with Italianate architecture facades, and the church also fits this classic description.
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Sep 12, 2012
Advanced, a Canadian AV integrator, recently helped CTV/Bell Media with the construction of a video wall display for CTV’s Olympics coverage in London.
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Sep 12, 2012
Kramer is offering a one-day Digital Age workshop, to be held Tuesday, October 16. The workshop will analyze and provide real world digital system conversions. Attendees will leave with drawings and part numbers that can be used immediately to aid in your system designs.
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Sep 11, 2012
The Ranch is the longtime dream and vision of Andrew Edwards, president and owner of Extron Electronics. A passion for food, wine, country music and dancing prompted Edwards to create The Ranch. In developing a live music venue like The Ranch, all sound quality and design was handpicked by Edwards.
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Sep 10, 2012
Hailed as a model for the 21st century library, the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) is one of the most digitally progressive academic libraries in North America.
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Sep 10, 2012
Celebrity baker Buddy Valastro reached out to the team at 360 Media Innovations, who worked with the Cake Boss star to create a customdesigned 35,000-square-foot bakery production center in Jersey City, NJ.
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Sep 07, 2012
The Church of Champions, an international house of worship located in Houston, has deployed Haivision's KulaByte Internet video encoder to enable reliable, 1080p live streaming.
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Sep 06, 2012
The QSC Q-Sys Integrated System Platform is at the heart of the networked audio-visual facilities at the new $28 million Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center, an 85,000-sq.-ft. addition to the Fairplex Exposition Complex in Pomona, CA.
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Sep 05, 2012
Dataton WATCHOUT multi-image presentation software has been used by Niles Creative Group for a colossal 50 by 5 feet high digital video display in the foyer of The Alexandria Center for Life Science, an international hub for collaboration and innovation located the heart of New York City.
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Sep 04, 2012
Community completed around 230 systems installed at multiple venues for the London 2012 Olympics, including the Handball Arena, Basketball Arena, Water Polo Centre, Aquatic Centre, Outdoor Water Sports Centre and the Main Olympic Stadium.
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Aug 31, 2012
In 1960, when local citizen and banker Thomas H. Bowlus directed that his estate be used to benefit a cultural arts center, he may not have imagined that the Bowlus Fine Arts and Cultural Center in Iola, Kansas, would celebrate its 48th anniversary this year and a major audio upgrade.
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Aug 30, 2012
The University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine
(UCF College of Medicine) is truly on technology’s
cutting-edge. Established in 2006, the College of Medicine
is housed in a 168,000-square foot medical education
building equipped with the latest in lab and classroom technology.
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Aug 30, 2012
To accommodate a broad variety of events in the newly renovated atrium at Mount Saint Mary College, located in Newburgh, NY, Audio-Video Corporation of Albany installed a new sound system featuring Harman's JBL CBT Series column loudspeakers and JBL Control Contractor ceiling speakers.
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Aug 29, 2012
Like most of New Jersey's seaside communities, life on this resort island near Atlantic City is affected by the seasons. In the summer months, the sun seekers and beach lovers help to swell the congregation at St. Thomas the Apostle from 1,000 to more than 3,000—well beyond what their existing sanctuary can handle. As Bobby Harper, vice president of sales at Egg Harbor-based ACIR Professional explained, the church came up with a creative solution.
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Aug 29, 2012
SurgeX has revealed its Axess Ready line of IP enabled surge eliminators.
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Aug 28, 2012
Lecture capture is increasingly in demand on college
campuses.
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Aug 28, 2012
The third floor of the men’s building has been retrofitted with a foreground music system centered on the Ashly Pema processor and amplifier.
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Aug 28, 2012
West Virginia University (WVU) is using X20's Xpresenter digital signage platform to drive a new 2x4 video wall.
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Aug 27, 2012
The Swing, a video art installation by Claudia Hart, wasn’t
just designed to provoke, it was designed to hypnotize.
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Aug 27, 2012
Until very recently, most discussions about the monetization
of mobile messaging had been understandably
centered around how to effectively sell advertising
on smartphones and tablet devices.
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Aug 27, 2012
When Amadeus, a provider of advanced technology solutions for the global travel and tourism industry, built its new North America headquarters in Miami, FL, the company wanted an interactive presentation area to show off its technology in a space conducive to customer-employee interaction.
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Aug 27, 2012
RGB Spectrum's MediaWall 4200 display processor was recently integrated by Shanghai Power at their new Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
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Aug 23, 2012
With the opening of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's (BBG) new Visitor Center and gateway, visitors can now orient themselves to the garden, learn about its current blooms and plantings, and browse the event schedule via a series of interactives supported by Electrosonic for exhibit fabricator Hadley Exhibits.
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Aug 22, 2012
The Memphis Zoo received a $500,000 grant under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program administered by the Rural Utilities Service in 2011, which the zoo’s Education Department applied toward a nanotechnology program, dubbed “NanoZoo Connects.”
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Aug 21, 2012
As a non-denominational independent Christian church located in the southern suburbs of greater Detroit, Metro South Church caters to more than 1,500 people during their four Weekend Experiences.
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Aug 20, 2012
Located in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, the epicentre of gay life in New York City, The Out NYC is the city’s first straight-friendly, urban resort. Freshly opened in March 2012, The Out NYC prides itself on offering guests a truly unique experience; one enhanced by a new audio system designed and installed by NYC’s EL Media Group and powered exclusively by Lab.gruppen C Series amplifiers.
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Aug 17, 2012
South Point Baptist Church in Belmont, NC, recently underwent a complete sanctuary redesign that included a new sound system featuring Tannoy QFlex 16 digitally steerable, multi-channel array loudspeakers.
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Aug 15, 2012
Nike Basketball has returned to New York City for another summer tournament that will feature games between the sneaker company’s handpicked squads and the top streetball players from the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Harlem.
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Aug 15, 2012
The installation of Tannoy QFlex 16's at Seattle WA's, Our Lady of Fatima, has allowed the church to eradicate difficulties parishioners had hearing the word, while maintaining the parish's ability to offer historically accurate musical performances.
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Aug 15, 2012
Marshall University’s 9,100-seat Cam Henderson Center is the college’s primary indoor athletic facility. First opened in 1981, the Center was ready for a sound system installation upgrade, which was handled by Newtech Systems, Inc., a systems integrator with locations in Dunbar, West Virginia, Ashland, Kentucky and Lexington, Kentucky.
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Aug 14, 2012
The University of Oregon has deployed an extensive media system bringing together Haivision(www.haivision.com)'s Makito HD H.264 encoder and CoolSign digital signage system to drive displays throughout its 12,000-seat Matthew Knight Arena, the new home of the Oregon Ducks NCAA Basketball team.
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Aug 14, 2012
Ausgrid Stadium in Newcastle, Australia (formerly Energy Australia Stadium), home to the Newcastle Knights, has undergone redevelopment of its Western Grandstand. The stadium features a new audio system, designed and implemented by The PA People, using HARMAN’s JBL Application Engineered (AE) loudspeakers with weatherized treatment for external use (WRX) as well as JBL Control 29AV-1 and Control 25AV loudspeakers.
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Aug 13, 2012
The Centro des Bellas Artes (CBA) in Santurce, Puerto Rico has entered the twenty first century, and that took quite a cultural change to achieve. The Bellas Artes administration had the foresight to recognize what was required, and to embed a plan within the tender document that ensured the contract winner had to fully engage with that process of cultural change.
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Aug 09, 2012
Stretching the length of one city block, Larkin Square features a professional audio system equipped with 25 Technomad loudspeakers. The system supports the "Live at Larkin" summer concert series, a weekly Wednesday evening entertainment
series featuring local musicians and nationally recognized artists.
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Aug 08, 2012
To ensure a high level of speech and music reproduction capabilities throughout the seating areas, Tupelo's Cross Pointe Ministries installed a new sound system with components drawn from the TrueLine catalog of WorxAudio Technologies.
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Aug 06, 2012
Mary Kay broadcasts targeted messages to employees and visitors using the OpenService solution running on Intel processors.
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Aug 06, 2012
The Convention Center, first opened in 1993, was expanded by four full city blocks as part of a 20-year plan to renew Philadelphia's downtown City Center District, a once-struggling area that has seen tremendous economic growth since the revitalization efforts began.
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Aug 03, 2012
Christie revealed that it will be part of the American Red Cross' "Prepare SoCal" campaign, which aims to prepare Southern California businesses and households for natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and other emergencies.
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Aug 02, 2012
Christie has entered a partnership with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s (DFAIT) “Invest in Canada.”
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Aug 02, 2012
Powersoft's green audio power is behind the audio systems installed throughout the Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of Costa Cruises and the largest Italian-flagged cruise ship afloat.
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Aug 01, 2012
After the owners of the New Jersey-based restaurant group Delicious Heights learned how easy it was to manage their restaurant’s audio and video with the ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System in one restaurant, they decided to upgrade their Berkeley Heights, NJ flagship location to ELAN g! as well.
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Jul 31, 2012
It’s the latest trend in high-tech customer interaction.
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Jul 31, 2012
Patients who walk into one of Appletree Medical
Group’s private clinics in Toronto and Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada have a choice.
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Jul 30, 2012
When Hillvue Heights Church of Bowling Green, KY installed a new Meyer Sound reinforcement system based on JM-1P arrayble loudspeakers, the sermon and music no longer sounded the same.
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Jul 30, 2012
WESTMED Medical Group has installed a digital signage solution in its new comprehensive medical office at Westchester’s Ridge Hill in Yonkers, New York.
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