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bruce Springsteen, who recently reunited with the original lineup of his E-Street Band for a tour, used Crown Macro-Tech amps and IQ System technology to drive Audio Analysts' proprietary AALTO(TM) PA and monitor rigs. A single PC laptop located in the FOH mixing position runs Crown's IQ for Windows software and controls over 90 Crown amps, all networked via IQ-PIP-ATN modules. Audio Analysts' PA utilizes 10 racks, each loaded with three Crown MA-3600s and a single MA-1200. Two subwoofer racks sport four MA-3600s apiece, while an underhang rack features several AA-24x6s, custom-built by Crown for Audio Analysts in 1987. Six racks, each loaded with four Crown MA-36x12s, comprise the monitor wedge rig. A single rack containing three MA-3600s and one MA-1200 for Audio Analysts' new AALTO(TM) sidefill prototypes rounds out the monitor amp complement. Monitor racks are located next to the two monitor mix positions, one stage left and one stage right. The Soundcraft FIVE Monitor mixer at stage left drives most of the wedges; the FIVE Monitor at stage right predominantly runs in-ear monitors....Hollywood Quest, Inc., California-based Knutson-McHugh Corp. (KMC), and various Russian and US entrepreneurs are responsible for Star Galaxy Adventure, a 40,000-sq.-ft. space travel/science fiction-themed touring attraction which opened recently in Moscow. The traveling attraction features a themed queue area where a video sets the story; a preshow area where guests journey into space through an intergalactic gateway; the Intergalactic Hub area, the show's main area, where guests can interact with aliens and see an overhead flying saucer laser battle; Kidspace, for the younger set; Electropolis, a video arcade; UFOrium, a shopping bazaar, and a walk-through ET Encounter. The Star Galaxy Adventure team also includes Kolkebeck Consulting, Lexington Scenery & Props, Associates in Media Engineering, MarCAD Design, Canyon Creative, Fessel International, Delta Play, Spirit Consulting, Shafton, Inc., Knight Insurance, Technifex, and International Costumes...South Korea's LG Corporation, a manufacturer of everything from electronics to fashions, recently built a performing arts center in Seoul, installing ETC lighting, dimming, and control equipment. The lighting project design was initiated and specified by Artec Consultants of New York and realized by ETC project management in Asia and Middleton, WI. ETC Obsession equipment, including an Obsession II 1500 DPS lighting control console and Obsession II Remote Control, 10 ETC dimmer racks with a total of 831 dimmers, a custom Unison architectural lighting system, and over 400 ETC Source Four and Source Four Zoom spotlights were installed....Five BSS 9088 Soundwebs play a major role in a sound and lighting installation at Birmingham Rep in the UK. Northern Light was the audio contractor on the project; the specification, which was written by technical consultant Theatre Projects Consultants in conjunction with Northern Light, called for a surround-sound auditorium system controlled through an Outboard Electronics-designed 24-in/32-out Timax system. With a Midas XL4 mixing console also part of the spec, four of the Soundwebs provide 24 lines of processing, which plug straight into the inputs on the Timax. The fifth Soundweb is used for onstage monitoring and effects....When Digital Audio Post (DAP), a Nashville, TN-based production and post-production house, outgrew its old space and moved to a larger location, the company also updated its audio equipment, with two Yamaha 02R digital consoles, Digidesign Pro Tools Mix Plus with Pro Control, 48 channels of Tascam D-88, and M&K 251OP THX monitors with subwoofer, among other items....White Light has been tapped to supply the conventional lighting rig for the new musical The Witches of Eastwick, at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Bob Crowley is the set and costume designer; Howard Harrison is the lighting designer....