News Briefs Latin America 1998

Mexico City-based Abreu Producciones has opened a new office in the city of Merida in Yucatan, Mexico. The new company is named Light and Sound Productions, and is managed by Raúl Abreu. "...one of the world's largest inventories of Meyer Sound Self-powered speakers." Read More »

Tosca at Rome's Olimpico Stadium

After the extremely successful "first" with Turandot at Rome's Olimpico soccer stadium last summer, the eternal city's Teatro Dell'Opera staged Tosca at the same venue this year. They kept the winning combination: a Meyer Sound system supplied by L'Aquila-based rental firm Agorà, and a sound team consisting of John Pellowe (of Pavarotti and Three Tenors fame) as Head of Sound/FOH engineer, and Daniele Tramontani, system designer and SIM operator. The event, held on the stadium's north curve, drew total crowds of almost 100,000 over six nights. Read More »

Ricky Martin Thrills Manila

MANILA - When Latin pop superstar Ricky Martin took the stage in Plenary Hall of the Philippines International Convention Center, the packed house of fans reacted with predictably unrestrained emotion. Read More »

News Briefs Western Europe 1998

Famous comedian, Gerd Dudenhoeffer is touring Germany from September 1998 to late 1999. His rig is supplied by HD Buehnetechnik, and the system consists of 6 - UPA-1Ps, 2 - UPA-2Ps and 2 - CP-10s. When using SIM System II and the CP-10 for the Sennheiser Radio mic, they find it possible to have 6 dB more gain before feedback. Read More »

News Briefs Eastern Europe 1998

Krzystof Dabala of KOD Audio (Meyer dealer in Poland) reports that Fotis Sound supplied a Meyer sound system for the 40th Annual Jazz Jamboree, October 19 - 25, 1998. Jamboree artists included Ray Brown, Joe Lovano, Kevin Mahogany, John Scofield, Mike Stern, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Eddie Palmieri, Dr. John & Lounge Lizard. According to Dabala, the audience remarked it was the best sounding Jamboree Festival ever! Read More »

Meyer Hosts Largest SIM School to Date (Spanish version)

During the week of November 2, Meyer Sound hosted the largest SIM School ever held in the world. Held at their Berkeley headquarters, the course was organized for Meyer's Latin American customers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Twenty four students attended the course that was taught by SIM veteran Bob McCarthy with the assistance of five Meyer employees. Read More »

News Briefs Middle East 1998

Eltek recently announced that they will install 6 MSL-6s, 8 MSL-4s, 10 UPA-1Ps and 6 UM-1P Self-Powered Loudspeaker Systems into an open space at "La Cité Sportive." The venue, which is located in Beirut, will host the world-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti on June 12, 1999. Attendance at the concert is expected to attract approximately 20,000 concert-goers. Read More »

Puccini in the Fobidden City: "Turandot" Staged in Beijing

Some 30,000 people attended a most extraordinary artistic event: the staging of Pucinni's 1924 opera, "Turandot" in Beijing's Forbidden City. Read More »

Opera Comes to the Arena, Bocelli's 1st N.American Tour

A young tenor from rural Tuscany, blind from the age of 12, nonetheless earns a law degree and begins a remarkable career playing in piano bars to pay for his singing tuition fees that leads him in five years to international stardom as both a pop interpreter and operatic recital artist. Read More »

HD-1 Studio Monitor Certfified by THX for New Program

Meyer Sound is pleased to announce that its High Definition studio monitor, the HD-1, is THX approved for use in the new THX Certification Program, THX PM3, which includes multi-channel mixing and monitoring rooms. Read More »

On Tour, Ragamuffin Style

The Ragamuffins' touring year, which ran through November, began August 30th when the band played at a fund raiser in Wichita, KS for the foundation with which the late Rich Mullins was deeply involved for the last three years of his life: Compassion International. Read More »

Newport Jazz Festival

Meyer Sound took to the high seas of summer, cruising the Atlantic aboard the venerable luxury liner QE2 as it set sail for the third annual Newport Jazz Festival at Sea. The event took place August 10 through August 17. Read More »

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Take 650 secluded acres of forest and meadow, add a seasonal tent town complete with three stages and a sound system to please more than 6,000 enthusiasts, and throw in performances by the Indigo Girls, Sweet Honey in the Rock and the Topp Twins. What you've got is the annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, held this year from August 11th through August 16th deep in the north woods. Read More »

Montreux Jazz Festival Travels the World

The Montreux Jazz Festival moved beyond the shores of Lake Geneva with three dates in New York's Central Park this Labor Day weekend. The Jazz Festival had shows in the Boathouse and at the SummerStage featuring all-Meyer sound systems. Read More »

Festival Viva la Radio

Every year in Monterrey, Mexico, the media group Multimedios Estrellas de Oro, which owns more than 100 radio & TV stations, newspapers, and movie theatres, organizes a large outdoor music festival called "Festival Viva la Radio." The festival takes place at the Stadium of the University of Nuevo Leon which, for this event holds just over 40,000 people. Read More »

Meyer Sound Mexico Expands Into Monterrey

Monterrey, Mexico-- On August 19, 1998, Meyer Sound Mexico opened its new office in Monterrey with a celebratory party for over 600 band members, production managers, disco and club owners. Read More »

Good Sound for a Good Cause - Pavarotti & Friends Charity Concert

Modena, Italy - Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, appointed "Special UN Envoy for Peace" by Kofi Annan, played host to an all-star cast at the 1998 Pavarotti & Friends charity concert, with War Child, to receive funds for building a Children's village in Liberia. Read More »

Meyer at the Universidad de Lima, Peru

Z.U.M. is a unique space, purposely designed to host the entire gamut of entertainment events. A new and truly multi-functional 2,100-seat venue on the campus of the Universidad de Lima (Peru), ZUM (standing for, multi-purpose auditorium, in Spanish) is a below ground-level auditorium, malleable enough to host basketball or volleyball games, video conferences and seminars, and concert music. In other words, all sorts of events requiring amplified as well as unamplified sound. The inaugural program on May 27th of this year was a performance of Carl Orff's racy and exhilarating cantata, "Carmina Burana," with the university-based Orquesta Filarm—nica de la Universidad de Lima, vocal soloists, and the Coro Nacional. Read More »

What your peers are saying about the HM-1S

As Brant Biles, 5.1 Engineer and Producer for artists including Boys II Men and Bonnie Raitt, explains, "Mixing is the most subjective step towards the final released product in the professional recording process, especially with the advent of 5.1 mixing. Like the mix, the choice of reference monitor can make or break your final product." Read More »

Meyer Fills Largest Order in Company History: Expo '98 in Lisbon

Nearly 500 Meyer Sound loudspeakers are being used for sound reinforcement at the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition (Expo '98). Five years in the planning, this international extravaganza features participation from almost 150 nations and runs from May 22 through September 30. Over 300 loudspeakers from the new Self-Powered UltraSeries join a variety of other Meyer Self-Powered and conventionally powered equipment shipped to Portugal from all corners of the globe for the Expo. Read More »

Meyer Nominated for Three TEC Awards

Meyer is pleased to announce that three of our professional audio products have been nominated for 1998 TEC awards by Mix Magazine. Read More »

Stories and Interviews from the Montreux Jazz Festival

Meyer Sound has played an integral role with the Montreux Jazz Festival for 11 years. Supplying the sound systems for three halls and the outdoor café gives us the perfect testing ground for our engineering team. We bring together a stellar crew of veteran audio engineers and our newest equipment, with outstanding musicians in this phenomenally beautiful setting. Read More »

N.Y. Times Praises Sound System for Met in the Parks

"...This year, courtesy of a $100, 000 grant, an improved sound system was tried out. And with an in-house engineer from the Met controlling balances, the quality of amplification was about as good as one could expect at an outdoor classical music event. The sound was surprisingly clear, warm and present without being overbearing..." Read More »

Meyer Subwoofers Prove Light Years Ahead of Competition for NASA

Boeing Corporation held a "shoot-out" style comparison between subwoofers from Meyer and other leading speaker manufacturers. The intent was to find a subwoofer durable and loud enough to use in NASA simulations. After putting each brand through the same rigorous testing, Boeing engineers realized that there was only one speaker left standing without a blown driver...Meyer's. Read More »

Meyer Chosen for Delaware Church Upgrade

For a house of worship known locally as "the most rockin' church in Delaware," choice of a sound system is key. This April, the Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church made their choice and installed an all-Meyer system based around Self-Powered UPA-1P loudspeakers. The system was designed and supplied by Acoustic Works of Arlington, Virginia. Read More »

News Briefs Pacific Rim 1998

Rene Cruz of EFX, a Manila rental company, reports: EFX was awarded the contract for Buhay!, a series of 100 performances at the Shangri-La Plaza Mall in conjunction with the 100-year Centennial Celebration of Filipino Independence. The performances are scheduled from May 3 through June 11 and encompass live bands, stage plays, ballet, and philharmonic and choral concerts. Read More »

News Briefs Australia New Zealand 1998

Congratulations to Jands Production Services! They were awarded Audio Production Company of the Year at the EnTech 1998 show, sponsored by Connections Magazine, in Sydney, Australia. The Mascot, New South Wales company carries a variety of Meyer equipment in their rental stock, including MSL-4 loudspeakers and 650-P subwoofers. Jands' Wynn Milson also received the EnTech award for Best Live Audio Engineer. Read More »

Seoul's Sejong Cultural Center Installs New Sound System from Meyer and Avix Trading

One of the largest multi-purpose halls in Asia, the Sejong Cultural Center (Seoul), has just completed installation of a new sound reinforcement system based around self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound, Inc. The sound system was designed and installed by Meyer's distributor in Korea, Avix Trading of Seoul, in collaboration with Meyer's technical support staff. Read More »

The Self-Powered UltraSeries - The Best-Selling Series in Meyer Sound's 20-year History

Q: What do Walt Disney World, Kitaro, and the Fillmore Auditorium have in common?
A: The Self-Powered UltraSeries. Read More »

Introducing the PSW-6 Self-Powered Subwoofer System

For decades, sound designers and engineers have wrestled to contain low frequencies. Traditional subwoofers present technicians with a handful of problems - extraneous sound on stage, muddied audio quality, leakage into the microphones. Read More »

New "Armadillo" Auditorium Opens with Self-Powered Meyer System

The SECC's new 3,000 seat Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, Scotland, opened its doors with a Meyer Self-Powered loudspeaker system installed by U.K.-based company Northern Light. Nicknamed "The Armadillo" for its unusual hull-shaped design, Clyde Auditorium is the sixth multi-purpose hall at the SECC to use Meyer Sound equipment. The system for the three-level venue features Meyer's versatile new UPA-1P loudspeaker, and is used for both vocal and musical reinforcement. Read More »

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1998

This year's New Orleans Jazz Festival (NOJF) featured a dazzling array of talented performers, diverse musical genres, and Meyer Sound equipment during its run from April 24 through May 2. Three Meyer dealers supplied equipment for venues showcasing the numerous jazz, blues, and rock acts participating in the festival. Read More »

News Briefs North America 1998

Five months after its much-heralded opening, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) continues to lure metropolitan audiences and performers across the water to Newark. Jazz star Wynton Marsalis, opening a Jazz at Lincoln Center concert in March at NJPAC's Prudential Hall, told the audience, "You should be very pleased with this hall. It looks beautiful, and it sounds great, too. We don't run into that very often-- and we play all over the place. This is a great room." The 2,750-seat space contains a variety of Self-Powered Meyer equipment. Read More »

PSW-6: The First Directional Subwoofer in History

A new sequence of comprehensive outdoor tests verified that Meyer Sound's new cardioid subwoofer, the PSW-6, exhibits unprecedented directional control across more than two octaves, from 27 Hz to 125 Hz. This is the first time ever that a speaker manufacturer has achieved such a profound degree of low frequency directional control. Read More »

The Moderna Museet - Stockholm, Sweden

The newly-opened Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, was opened in February by King Carl Gustaf on the island of Skeppsholmen. The museum's new home was designed by world-famous award-winning architect Jose Rafael Moneo. Moneo, who's most famous work in his home country is the National Museum of Roman Art in Merida (Spain), was also responsible for the addition to the Fine Arts Museum in Houston and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. In 1996, he won his profession's highest honour, the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Read More »

The Lion King on Broadway

The legendary Lullaby of Broadway has turned to a clear, melodious roar as "The Lion King" continues to enchant audiences with its Hakuna Matata ("No Worries") presentation. The elegant Disney musical, replete with puppets and masks, is being staged at the renovated New Amsterdam Theater. Built in 1903, and famed for its elaborately carved lobbies and promenades, the New Amsterdam was once home to the Ziegfeld Follies. Read More »

The Thames Festival

"The newly-launched Thames Festival, which took place on and around the riverbanks between Lambeth and Southwark bridges, was opened by a spectacular wire walk over the river from Bernie Spain Gardens by the Oxo Tower to the Victoria Embankment.... Read More »

k.d. lang On Tour: A View from the Road

In support of her album, "Drag," chanteuse k. d. lang finished a whirlwind four-month tour of North America and Australia that began last September at Portland Oregon's Rose Garden Arena and ended with a week at Sydney's new Star City Casino in their 2000-seat Lyric Theater. FOH engineer and production manager Grant McAree is in his 14th year at the helm, during which time he has faithfully used Meyer loudspeakers for her show. Sound was again provided by A-1 Audio of Hollywood for the American leg of the tour, and Australian production was provided by Jands Production Services. Both companies also worked on 1995's world-wide 120-show 'All You Can Eat' tour and are Meyer dealers. Read More »

Meyer Congratulates the Grammy Winners

Congratulations! Meyer Sound would like to congratulate the Grammy winners. Read More »

Meyer Successfully Tests Unique Cardioid Subwoofer Design

Meyer Sound recently completed preliminary testing of a revolutionary self-powered subwoofer that exhibits unprecedented directional control of frequencies below 150 Hz. Conducted outdoors at Meyer's Berkeley headquarters, the tests clearly establish the viability of the concept and provide a framework for final development. Meyer's new PSW-6 subwoofer will be introduced in late spring of this year. Read More »

Powered UPA's at the Nagano Olympics

When the world's ice hockey players faced off at the February, 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, even those spectators seated farthest from the action heard the unmistakable scrapes of blades on ice. Each time a player tried for that slap shot, or a determined goalie rushed to stop a puck, the visual thrill of the game was augmented by a sound system chosen specifically to deliver crisp clear sonic quality in large venues. Read More »

Meyer Introduces New Self-Powered Ultra Series at NAMM '98

Based on the original UPA speakers and their widespread success, Meyer Sound will introduce the new Self-Powered Ultra Series at NAMM in January, 1998, its official debut. The first product releases will be the UPA-1P and UPA-2P speakers, the USW-1P subwoofer, and the UM-1P Stage Monitor. Meyer will also feature their newest studio monitor, the HM-1S, at the show. Read More »

Meyer's New Self-Powered UPA Speakers Win 1997 Sound Product of the Year Award

Meyer Sound's UPA-1P and UPA-2P Self-Powered loudspeakers won the prestigious "1997 Sound Product of the Year," awarded by Theatre Crafts International (T.C.I.) Magazine. The golden plaque was presented by editor, David Johnson, at a ceremony held in New York City on December 12, 1997. This year's Sound Products of the Year were selected by a panel of industry professionals in conjunction with the editors of TCI. The winning UPA-Ps are flagship models from Meyer's new Self-Powered UltraSeries, officially launched in December, 1997. Read More »

The Blue Man Group

When the theatrical producers of a New York and Boston runaway success ask a sound designer to design their third "smash hit" city, the designer listens with open ears and baited breath. At least I did, when Blue Man Group requested I give them a new sound for their installation in Chicago at the intimate, 625-seat Briar Street Theatre. Read More »