Five students of ESAMA (Superior School for AudioVisual Media) in Andalusia, Spain, have been awarded the John and Helen Meyer Scholarship.

The scholarship program was announced in 2007 by Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc., in conjunction with Meyer Sound España, S.A. and ESAMA, to recognize the academic excellence of five first-year students. This year’s awards were presented to David Carrasco Santos, Manuel Lazaro-Carrasco Sierra, Jose Carlos Martinez Salas, Antonio Ramos more

Denver’s Mile High Music Festival was arguably one of the high points of this year’s summer concert season. The two-day event, held at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, featured more than 44 acts on five stages, including headliners Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and John Mayer.

Denver-based Dowlen Sound provided the audio for the three largest stages, including a massive Meyer Sound system for the headliners’ SanDisk stage. more

Off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean lies the coral atoll of Aldabra, home to one of the last vestiges of natural ecology on the planet. Protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982, the uninhabited island is home to a wide array of rare fauna including the world’s largest population of giant land tortoises, and the Indian Ocean’s last surviving flightless bird, the Aldabra Rail.

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With an estimated crowd of more than 200,000 attendees and broadcast to most European countries as well as the USA, Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin is historical in its scope and its impact on upcoming presidential elections in the USA. When called upon by the management of Obama’s campaign to begin planning this very special event, Westfalen Sound was very clear in its choice of equipment—Meyer Sound. “We were very more

For three unforgettable months this summer, Expo Zaragoza transformed the Spanish city into a center of global media attention. Thousands of visitors from all over the world descended on a unique event dedicated to the theme of “Agua y Desarrollo Sostenible”—“Water and Sustainable Development.” Over a hundred countries hosted custom-designed pavilions, many of which featured sophisticated audiovisual technologies to showcase the challenges they face in preserving water. Accompanying these pavilions more

Meyer Sound’s Compass™ control software for the Galileo™ loudspeaker management system has been upgraded to provide easy access to all Galileo features and to streamline system configuration and control of multiple Galileo 616 units.

Compass 2.1 introduces a new tabbed interface, which enables users to monitor the status of multiple Galileo 616 units in a single window. The interface can be scaled to fit any resolution display and the more

Meyer Sound has announced the release of the new self-powered UPQ-2P narrow coverage loudspeaker.

The latest addition to the company’s acclaimed UltraSeries family of loudspeakers, the UPQ-2P delivers the same smooth sonic performance that has made Meyer Sound UltraSeries products the choice for Broadway productions, performance venues and nightclubs. The UPQ-2P’s exceptionally high power output and low distortion, combined with its tightly focused beamwidth, make it an ideal solution for small more

Meyer Sound has added Brian Bolly and Michael Creason to the company’s highly active Design Services department, providing system design consultation and assistance to customers.

Bolly joins Meyer Sound from leading systems integrator AVI-SPL, where he worked closely with acoustical design consultants in systems planning, model design, and testing and measurement. With his excellent fluency with a wide range of hardware and software, Bolly has designed and specified systems for more

The first annual Regeneration Tour has been filling amphitheaters and arenas across North America, as fans turned out in droves for a jam-packed evening of ‘80s rock legends. And they’re getting their money’s worth, with five bands presenting a diverse selection of musical styles and hits, ranging from the electronica of The Human League and the synthpop of A Flock of Seagulls and Naked Eyes to power pop from Belinda more

The grandMA is circling the globe with lighting designer/director/programmer Susanne Sasic for R.E.M.’s world tour in support of the Athens, Georgia-based alternative rock band’s latest album, “Accelerate.” A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in North America.

“We have carried a full-size grandMA for lighting control on all of our shows this year; it is definitely my console of choice,” says Sasic more