Masque Sound's new touring division - Masque Live - is headed up by long-time sound designer and touring audio engineer, Lucas "Rico" Corrubia Jr. First out for Masque Live was a tour with R&B supremo Brian McKnight, using R-Type consoles for FOH and monitors, plus L-Acoustics V-Dosc loudspeakers powered by Camco amplifiers and proprietary Valvotronics tube preamps, limiters and parametric equalizers. Sound engineer Glen Odagawa said: "It is the closest thing to mixing in a studio I have ever experienced. After mixing on Masque's system, I have been so spoiled, I can never go back."
Two new shows are set to open around the US this month, complete with Cadac J-Types and sound systems supplied by ProMix Electrotec. In Los Angeles, Baz Luhrmann's Tony Award-winning Broadway production of La Bohème opens at The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, moving across the Atlantic to London later in the spring. Second on the bill is Fiddler on the Roof - opening at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre and starring Alfred Molina as Tevye. ProMix Electrotec also supplied a brand new 101-slot J-Type for the Broadway production of Wicked, which opened at The Gershwin Theatre in October 2003. Sound design is by Tony Meola, with the show featuring a cast of 34 performers, with a 24-piece band. The J-Type console is specified with a combination of 35 programmable stereo and mono dual-input modules, 48 standard dual-input modules, 67 motor faders and 14 groups, housed in two frames and controlled with Cadac's Sound Automation Manager (SAM) software.
Cadac is represented in the US by GLS Marketing on the West Coast, headed up by president Greg Hockman with Ron Thomas as general manager. The company was established in 1981 and operates out of Huntington Beach, California in support of Southern California, Southern Nevada, Hawaii and Arizona territories. On the East Coast, Tom Bensen represents Cadac out of New York - a familiar face in the pro audio industry, Bensen has over 25 years' experience across a wide variety of leading brands.
(Lee Baldock)