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At the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards, held at Los Angeles' Staples Center last week, amplifier manufacturer Powersoft delivered 720,000 watts of reliable, clear audio to more than 18,000 attending music fans, in addition to a viewership of more than 24 million people around the world.

With the NAMM announcement of DiGiCo’s Stealth Core 2 upgrade, you will soon be able to upgrade your current SD9 with the latest processing and application code. This upgrade will be an option for the company’s SD series digital mixers and is due to be released this summer across the range.

As part of a 5-day state visit, Pope Francis arrived in the famous Zocalo square in Mexico City, where a huge stage, surrounded by NEXO STM PA clusters, was prepared in front of the Palacio Nacional and a crowd of 40,000.

If we said that we didn't dream about it in the morning while shaving would be a lie. But, receiving 10,000 likes so quickly... You surprised us! Could we ask for a better endorsement? What a joy to hear 10,000 times “We love you”...

CLAIR Global(Lititz, PA) has taken delivery of the first two Yamaha Rivage PM10 Digital Audio Consoles to hit U.S. soil. Both consoles are currently being used at front of house and monitors for Carrie Underwood’s “The Storyteller Tour”. CLAIR Global is one of the most recognized companies in the live touring and sound installation industries, and most recently expanded into live entertainment production with the development of Rock Lititz, a purpose-built production rehearsal facility.

Together with existing management, Ardian, the independent private investment company, is acquiring d&b audiotechnik GmbH from the investment companies Odewald & Compagnie and COBEPA.

In November 2015, HSBC unveiled ‘the world’s largest interactive sound installation at an airport’ on the 180m long Skybridge at London’s Gatwick Airport. A remarkable project that takes arriving and departing passengers on a sonic journey of 6300km (3900 miles) down China’s Yangtze river in two minutes, Delta Sound played a major role in the installation’s design and installation

NEXO has posted new dates for its popular ETC training seminar programme, including some sessions dedicated to the company’s flagship modular line array design, the STM Series. All Nexo seminars are free of charge to students and, unlike the training schedules of many other manufacturers, the scope of the ETC programme ranges further than just NEXO products.

The Los Angeles Theatre on Broadway and Sixth Street in downtown Los Angeles is especially hot, sweaty and crowded. Today this sumptuous art deco palace built by Charlie Chaplin in 1931 is the location for an episode of TV show Scandal and rehearsals for the camp musical Carrie – The Killer Musical Experience.

Clay Paky Sharpys have one again played an integral role in an epic stunt by trailblazing light artists Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) and lighting designer Matthew Button, who have combined their creative genius to pull off a sensory spectacular for Lexus Europe and international megastar will.i.am.

Showlight is now inviting lighting designers and directors, associates, programmers, scenographers, equipment manufacturers and others to submit their ideas for conference papers for the 2017 programme. Now is your chance to be part of this prestigious event !

Slowly but surely, Dushow continues its march forward, welcoming into the group Fa Musique, Frédéric André's little gem of a company in Rhône. Just three years after a story on the birth of Dushow group, we went back to take stock of this flagship of French service together with the president, Eric Alvergnat. It's always interesting to spend time with a man who prefers to hang PA over having to deal with words.

Clair Global listened to their clients and is now offering their new flagship system: The Cohesion Series. The philosophy that inspired The Cohesion is centered on creating the highest quality and most efficient speaker system. The Cohesion’s unique design allows for exceptionally smooth horizontal pattern control throughout its’ entire range in a very compact package.

Chroma-Q® Color Force 12™ multi-purpose LED fixtures were recently specified by lighting sales and production company, E2i Design, for its seasonal ‘White Christmas’ show at Michigan’s Brighton High School. E2i Design’s Josh Holowicki passionately supports the school’s theater in a number of ways.

Having piloted the mix for every tour the Stereophonics have undertaken since they set out two decades ago (hardly missing a show in the process), their FOH engineer Dave Roden has become perfectly at ease with the Martin Audio MLA system that seamlessly replaced the former W8L Longbow on the last tour