San Diego Data Center and Colocation provider, ScaleMatrix leverages audio and production expertise from local audio and event production company, Special Event Audio Services, for all 2012 calendar events. These include local technology expositions, trade shows and conference events. ScaleMatrix sees the value in supporting local San Diego businesses. For more information on ScaleMatrix, visit http://www.scalematrix.com.… Read the rest
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Festival-type events pose a unique challenge for sound mixers in that these events typically span several days, run from morning to midnight, and have the inherent variable of an ever-changing performance roster each with their own engineer, imposed often within very tight time constraints. Mitch Grant of Special Event Audio Services in San Diego is a veteran of staging these types of events, as well as handling production for a range of scenarios from corporate meetings and parties to musical theatre, theme park shows and festivals of various types. For over ten years, he’s been involved in two significant annual jazz festivals, the West Coast and Newport Beach Jazz Party events, held in Southern California. The mid-February Newport Beach Jazz Party featured the traditional jazz festival fare, but this year for the first time, it also included an actual performance of musical theatre. Grant brought in a newly purchased DiGiCo SD8 to handle the diverse range of performances, and to work in tandem with his Nexo Geo S8 line array, and found the console—his first actual DiGiCo purchase—far exceeded his expectations.
“This is usually a slower time of year for me, so there haven’t been that many … Read the rest
BUENA PARK, Calif.─ For one of their largest annual fundraising events, the San Diego Zoo tapped Special Event Audio Services of Oceanside, California to handle audio production. There were special concerns about the volume level coming out of the world renowned Zoo special events area since the famous Old Globe Theatre is just a few hundred yards away. For this event in prior years, the previous production company actually went to the trouble of installing a small speaker under every table.[SinglePic not found]
“I expressed confidence that we could exceed the Zoo’s expectations with our NEXO GEO S8 line array, and the fundraising committee decided to try it,” states Mitch Grant, owner. “Some of the members of this committee had experienced the NEXO system at the Jewel Ball in La Jolla, California a few months earlier and they shared my confidence.” The Jewel Ball is considered to be the premiere social event/fundraiser in San Diego every year, and this event has extremely strict volume requirements as well. “The NEXO GEO S8 line array produced spectacular results at the Jewel Ball to the delight of event organizers.”
The San Diego Zoo system was carefully constructed and positioned using GeoSoft for full … Read the rest
