Sound Image News
Sound Image selected to provide installed Sound and Video for the Musical Instruments Museum
Phoenix, AZ May 2009
Under construction for an early 2010 opening The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) will be a world class destination. The two-story museum will have 180,000 square feet, with 75,000 square feet of exhibition space. It will include an auditorium, a conservation laboratory open for viewing, a recording studio and galleries where visitors can see and hear instruments being played on video. Musicians will occasionally perform, and museum-goers will have an opportunity to try some of the instruments. The lead architect is Rich Varda. The museum’s mission is to celebrate the similarities and differences of the world's cultures as expressed through music — a language common to us all.
Sound Image is honored to be selected as MIM’s integrator.
Congratulations to our 2009 ACM Award Winners
Las Vegas, NV April 2009
Taylor Swift
Album of the Year for Artist
Album of the Year for Producer
Special crystal milestone award for getting young people back into country music.
Top selling artist of the year in both country and pop music.
Rascal Flatts
Top Vocal Group of the Year
Julianne Hough
Top New Artist
Top New Female Vocalist
Brad Paisley
Male Vocalist of the Year
Vocal Event of the Year
Best Video of the Year
Trace Atkins
Single of the Year
Spotlight: Impressive Directivity of Meyer Sound Loudspeakers Proves Essential at Tucson's Faith Tabernacle
Tucson, Arizona 2008
The first thing that visitors notice when they enter Tucson's Faith Tabernacle Church, where a Meyer Sound system was recently installed, is the view. Directly behind the pulpit, the vast wall of glass looks out onto the majestic visage of Mount Lemmon and the Coronado National Forest, making for a breathtaking and inspiring visual.
With the installation of the Meyer Sound system, the sound inside this stunningly beautiful architecture now matches the view. The church struggled for years with out-of-control reverberance, until it turned to the Tempe, Ariz. offices of Sound Image for help. As Sound Image's Eric Johnson explains, the church's new Meyer Sound system has gone a long way in addressing the room's issues. "The room had a tremendous amount of upper-midrange reflectivity, and intelligibility was next to nil when the music got going," says Johnson.
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Sound Image’s Mike Sprague promoted.
Escondido, California December 19, 2008
Sound Image announces the promotion of Mike Sprague from Production Supervisor to Director of Touring. Mike will be responsible for the Management of Sound Image accounts as well as bringing in new clients. The announcement was made by Dave Shadoan, President and Ross Ritto, CEO of Sound Image last week.
Mike joined Sound Image in June of 2004 when he reduced his extensive touring schedule of the last 25 years. Mike was Aerosmith’s Monitor engineer for 10 years and also worked with Kiss for 4 years, Mike still works with Rage Against The Machine when they do their occasional shows. Mike’s history also includes with then Silver Fish Audio from 1980 to 1983 (Silver Fish Audio became Sound Image in 1983) and toured with Jimmy Buffett while working closely with Ross Ritto.
Sound Image congratulates our clients as winners in the 2008 American Music Awards.
Brad Paisley- Favorite Male Artist, Country Music
Rascal Flatts- Favorite Band, Country Music
Taylor Swift- Favorite Female Artist, Country Music
Sound Image receives award for "Sound Company of the Year" in the 2008 Parnelli Awards
Las Vegas, NV, October 25, 2008
At the 2008 Parnelli Awards, Dave Shadoan was present to accept "Sound Company of the Year" once again recognizing the Rascal Flatts tour with Sound Image. Dave dedicated this year's award to Mr. Jim Douglas, Sound Image's Director of Touring who passed away in September from Cancer.
Sound Image congratulates Russell Fisher as a Parnelli Award recipient for "System Tech of the Year" for his work with Toby Keith.
Sound
Image’s Jim Douglas Passes
Escondido,
CA (September 24, 2008)--Jim Douglas, director of tour sound for audio
provider
Sound Image, passed away from Cancer on Monday, September 22, at the
age of 61.
Born in Scotland, Douglas spent nearly 40 years in the touring
industry,
becoming an influence and friend to generations of audio pros around
the globe.
Jim
Douglas - August 17, 1947 to September 22, 2008
Below is a tribute by Sound Image president David Shadoan.
Our
friend Jim was a gentleman, father, husband and friend. His large
stature and
quiet style were two items you could never miss about his presence. He
filled
you with a sense of confidence--the kind of confidence you can only
feel from
someone who truly knows his business, is determined to get the best
results
every time, and can still be a gentleman while doing it. This is no
doubt what
caused him to be a monitor engineer and confidant to some of the great
music
makers of the seventies, including Ted Nugent, Paul McCartney,
Foreigner and
Aerosmith.
Jimmy's
career began in the 1960s, working with Jack Bruce as an assistant,
soundman,
tour manager and more, handling the myriad of details that went into
those
early days of touring.
Jim's
work on the road with Electrosound in the 1970s as a top monitor
engineer and
crew chief took him around the world on the some of the largest music
tours of
the day. He was never full of himself, and always had time to mentor
and help
people on his crew who sought to better themselves. Let it be known
that Jim
was not a push-over. He demanded the best of himself and therefore
those around
him on his crews. If you did not meet his high expectations, he
certainly was
not ashamed to let you know it--and typically, you were a better person
for it.
Jim
found his way off the road during the 1980s, joining the management
team at
Electrosound as a key individual in charge of operations. His time on
the road
immediately brought him respect from all on the team, and allowed Jim
to
organize the company operations to a new level. He had the uncanny
knack of
being able to track untold amounts of equipment, cable, microphones,
consoles
and cases with no more than a few pads of paper and a pencil. No
computer
necessary--just the innate talent achieved from all those many years of
doing
shows.
Jim
was the strong rudder that steered Electrosound (Electrotec) through
the 1980s
and into the 1990s, when PRG acquired the company in 1999. During 2000,
Jim met
with Dave Shadoan and was hired to assume the position as Director of
Tour
Sound at Sound Image. It did not take long for Jim to establish himself
as an
integral part of the Sound Image management team. He was instrumental
in
bringing many of his industry friends into the Sound Image family,
including David Gautrey, George Barnes, Son Nishimura and
Martin Ruiz, as well as many established sound engineers and their
clients.
Our
friend Jim was an example of what we should all aspire to be; he was a
man of
high integrity, strength, dedication and one who was always there when
you
needed a hand.
Jim,
we will miss you. The world was a much better place with you in it.
Sound Image congratulates our clients as
2008 CMT Music Award recipients
Rascal Flatts- “Group Video of the Year”
Taylor Swift- “Video of the Year” & “Female Video of the Year”
Kellie Pickler-“Breakthrough Video of the Year” & “Tearjerker Video
of the Year”
Brad Paisley-“Comedy Video of the Year”
LeAnn Rimes-“Collaborative Video of the Year”
Sound Image Updates Shadow Mountain’s Sound
System
 ESCONDIDO, Calif., --– Southern California Sound Image
Inc. (http://www.sound-image.com/), a designer of advanced audio-video
systems for stadiums, resorts, casinos, hotels, theme parks,
corporations, churches and museums, today announced completion of the
new audio-video system at Shadow Mountain Community Church, installing
the upgrade project in just three weeks.
Shadow Mountain is a 2,000-seat community worship center featuring
contemporary live music on Saturday nights, and a 200-member choir with
a 35-piece orchestra on Sunday mornings. With a variety of music
genres, Shadow Mountain’s Technical Director, J.B. Bowling said, “We
used Sound Image because of their expertise in versatile, large-scale
audio-video system installations. We wanted a system capable of
handling our live bands and choir, two totally different styles of
music, while covering the almost 180 degrees of seating area.” Working
with Bowling, noted San Diego audio system consultant Vance Breshears
from Sound Technology Consultants designed and specified a proprietary
cross-matrix EAW audio system. 
Sound Image Turns Up the Volume Creating a
Totally Digital Experience at Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa’s
“Rock’s Lounge”
ESCONDIDO, Calif., -– Southern California Sound Image Inc.
(http://www.sound-image.com/), a designer of advanced audio-video
systems for stadiums, resorts, casinos, hotels, theme parks,
corporations, churches and museums, today announced completion of a new
totally digital audio-video system for Red Rock Casino, Resort &
Spa’s Rock’s Lounge” in Las Vegas, NV.
Rock’s Lounge is a 7,000-square-foot venue featuring live entertainment
five nights a week, routinely hosting bands such as Gnarls Barkley,
Average White Band, The Family Stone, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Yellow
Brick Road and Zowie Bowie.
Rock’s Lounge opens directly onto the casino floor, creating the first
design challenge faced by Sound Image. The venue’s overall sound level
needed to be controlled so it would not overpower the gaming room where
high rollers concentrate on winning.
Sound Image Completes AV System for the
Ages
TEMPE, Arizona -- Celebrating over 37 years of delivering world-class
communication solutions, Southern California Sound Image Inc.
(http://www.sound-image.com/) today announced the completion of a
future-ready AV system in Christ’s Church of the Valley in Peoria, AZ.
Best known for its dazzling audio
reinforcement for entertainment superstars like Eric Clapton, Rod
Stewart, Jimmy Buffett, Brooks & Dunn, and Toby Keith, Sound Image
worked closely with Sound Technology Consultants of El Cajon, CA to
bring the new AV system to life.
The core development group was senior
associate Jeff Miller of Sound Technology Consultants and the team at
Sound Image AV Installation and Technology in Tempe, AZ.
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