Archive News 2010
The University of Georgia’s spring ceremony for its undergraduates is a very large and very prestigious affair, requiring a 38-piece GEO T system for 3,700 students and a crowd of 35,000 family and friends. The University has 12x GEO T cabinets of its own, sub-renting the rest from ESI Audio in Tampa, Florida.
First Assembly of God Church in Manhattan, Kansas has renovated its Sanctuary with design and installation services provided by MSM Systems (Lawrence, KS). The church makeover included a complete audio system, featuring NEXO PS15 cabinets powered by NXAMP.
‘The NEXO Guys’, as Gand Concert Sound is now known, have provided a supersized GEO T system for a sell-out show at The Allstate Arena in Chicago. The 72-box system was used for the Live Nation/103.5 KISS FM six-hour concert special featuring Ludacris, Ke$ha, Jay Sean, Trey Songz, Kevin Rudolf, Jason Derulo, B.o.B and Orianthi.
In Incheon, one of Korea's largest cities, the 2nd Presbyterian Church has completed its massive renovation programme with the installation of a new GEO D system, complete with NXAMPS and a lot of PS R2 cabinets, by the A Works Corporation.
Pro Musik in Germany has provided GEO T and S12 line array systems for the 50,000+ RPR1 Rheinland-Pfalz Open Air 2010 festival in Mainz. The event gave engineers a chance to try out new ways of using the NEXO RS18 subs, with 12x 2-sub positions spread out evenly along the front of the stage. "Really formidable", says Reinhard Steger of CAMCO.
Park Technical Production and a NEXO GEO T system helped rising Turkish star Mustafa Ceceli to conquer a crowd of 8,000 in Istanbul's Kurucesme Arena.
A1 Entertainments from Bristol has placed an order for NEXO’s new RS18 subs following a hugely successful trial at the Glastonbury Festival. A1’s Paul Wiltshire confirms that he’s buying four of the French company’s latest subbass units now, and plans to add NEXO’s GEO S12 line array cabinets “in the very near future”.
Still a concert-hall favourite at 71, Kenny Rogers – wearing a crisp white shirt to match the patrician beard – has completed a GB tour, playing concerts in England, Scotland and Ireland with audio production from the SSE Audio Group.
One of the first and toughest tests for NEXO’s new RS18 subs was a variety show staged in Beijing’s GongTi stadium, where 24 units were deployed for the 40,000-strong audience.
The ‘Rock on the Range’ festival in Columbus, Ohio, has seen one of the largest implementations of a NEXO GEO T system ever! Logic Systems Sound and Lighting, Inc. from St. Louis, with sub-hire from ESI Audio in Tampa, provided the two-day event with a main-stage system comprising 36 elements per side.
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