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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Apogee Sound Used for 59th Annual
Golden Globe Awards
Beverly Hills, CA– For the fifth straight year, the International Ballroom at Merv Griffin's Beverly Hilton Hotel was outfitted with an all-Apogee sound system for the prestigious
Golden Globe Awards.
Veteran sound engineer Bruce Burns of Burns Audio in Sun Valley, CA, supervised the deployment of the system. The Apogee speakers utilized for the show were partly from a permanent installation put in two years ago by Thomas Gregor Audio Associates, and partly from rental stock. Burns brought in additional AE-3s, AE-5s, and AE-10 subwoofers to augment the hotel's inventory of four AE-9s, six AE-2s, five SSMs, four AE-11s, and four FS-2 Stage Monitors. Apogee SA-800 power amplifiers drove all speakers.
FOH engineer Randy Faustino, who has handled this task for the previous three years, was the man behind the console. Faustino has often mixed on Apogee equipment including work with The Jerry Lewis Telethon and The Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Phil Allen of Phil Allen Sound Design tuned the system using Apogee's CORREQT optimization system. CORREQT (Computer Optimized Room Resonant EQualisation Technique) utilizes a combination of equipment and methodology to integrate a sound system into the specific acoustical environment that system is to be used in. "The remote computer control of the Apogee D-1 Digital Processors aided greatly in tuning the system quickly and efficiently," reports Allen. "The show was a great success. We were able to achieve uniform coverage to all areas of the room, which is particularly challenging in a low ceiling environment."
Burns stated, "The Apogee system provided excellent results. The center-stage Schoeps 'pop-up' microphone was clear and intelligible everywhere in the room, which is a hallmark of Apogee
products. The executives, producer, and air mix personnel were all very pleased with the quality of sound."
This year, Russell Crowe and Sissy Spacek received Best Actor and Best Actress Awards, respectively, for Motion Picture - Drama, while Harrison Ford took home the coveted Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award.
Apogee Sound International, LLC, is known worldwide as a manufacturer of sound reinforcement products designed for the professional audio industry. For more information, contact Apogee Sound International, LLC., 2180 South McDowell Boulevard, Petaluma, CA, 94954, U.S.A.; 707-778-8887, fax: 707-778-6923, e-mail: , web site:
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Apogee's AE-5s were brought in to augment the existing Apogee equipment at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the 2002 Golden Globes
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