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ICD @ The Campbell Bar

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Loud Luxury @ Common Ground Montauk

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Common Ground Montauk

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Horn Blower Cruises

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World Pride at The Javits Center

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12 Stories DC Wharf

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Circle Line Cruises

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Stage 48

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Over the past 25 years we've had the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most prominent corporations and performers at world class venues in major cities around the world.  Our collaborations get people talking!

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10.04.2019

Global Audio Supports New York World Pride Event

Global Audio Systems provided audio, lights and staging for the NY World Pride Event at New York City’s Javits Center.

Global Audio Systems provided audio, lights and staging for the NY World Pride Event at New York City’s Javits Center, the first time the event has been held in the US. Featured artists included Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Kygo, Brandy, Billy Porter, J Hart, DJ Paulo and the casts from Stomp! and Cirque Du Soleil.

Discussing the unique concert/dance festival/rave, Global Audio’s Jason Ojeda explains, “the event was held in the Javits Center’s main halls A and B for over 15,000 people. We built  the main stage that was 200 ft. wide. We also brought in the world’s leading lighting designer Steve Lieberman from SJ Lighting, a longtime friend who did a fantastic job. The lighting system had over 250 moving fixtures with a lighting truss that was 390 ft. at its widest span.”

“In terms of the challenges, there wasn’t a very high ceiling so we couldn’t get a large array in the space plus we wanted to create a nightclub environment with what was essentially the world’s largest dance floor. So we needed to provide more of an intimate night club sound than the typical concert sound.”

Commenting on the show, Jason concludes: “It worked out great. We only had 16 hours to get everything set up in addition to the room acoustics in what was a big cavernous cement space. Once the sound system was up and tested/tuned we opened up the large partitioned wall to reduce slapback in the room, and that allowed us to transmit the sound freely between both open spaces which eliminated the reflections.

“Global Audio mixed the show and it sounded absolutely amazing. There was uniform coverage for the whole crowd with no drop off areas. The balance from front to rear and side to side was extremely smooth.

“Bottom line, everyone was pleasantly surprised at how good it could sound at Jacob Javits Center and the way we distributed audio in the space allowed it become a more intimate experience and achieved the goal of sounding like a night club.”

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07.16.2019

Public Records- The New York Times “No Noise Complaints Here”

Dance music purists in New York City were dealt three devastating blows on New Year’s Day.

The venerable nightclubs Cielo and Output were shuttered, and their Funktion-One speakers, considered among the best in their class, were silenced. In addition, the custom sound system at Analog Brooklyn, an industrial club in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, was carted away. (Analog remains open and has since installed a new sound system.)

Those three rooms were, each in their own way, three of the best sounding in New York City, said Barbie Bertisch, a D.J., promoter and host of Classic Album Sundays, a roving listening party.

Although the clubs went quiet, it did not mean an end to spaces with excellent sound. If you want to hear music on a superior system these days, skip the deafening nightclubs and go instead to one of the newfangled audiophile bars that have popped up in New York City, offering cocktails, craft beer, food and state-of-the-art sound.

The newest spot is Public Records (233 Butler Street, Brooklyn), a bar, vegan cafe, magazine shop and performance space in a distinguished brick building at the end of the Gowanus Canal. The front room features 20-foot-high ceilings with a glass atrium over the bar, and a wall of windows that bathes the space in light.

Just as impressive is the four-point sound system made with of vintage speakers and horns and mounted in a chest-high Douglas fir box. It was built by Global Audio Systems, a sound and lighting company in SoHo. A brochure describes each speaker as having a “slot tweeter, vintage Altec horn, compression driver, 15-inch front horn drivers and Void Acoustics Nexus XL subwoofers.”

“A sound system made up of high-quality components can reproduce things that your Apple earbuds can’t translate, or your Beats by Dre has to overcompensate with,” Ms. Bertisch said. “Good sound is honest sound.”

For Craig Bernabeu, the president of Systems by Shorty Designs in East Brunswick, N.J., honest sound means “a sound that envelops you and hugs you with a very full low end, a relaxed mid-high and sweet top end.”

“You can have a conversation over the music pumping without raising your voice or leaving with ringing ears,” he added.

Mr. Bernabeu installed the audio system at Nowadays (56-06 Cooper Avenue, Queens), an indoor party space that grew out of the popular Mister Sunday dance gatherings. Housed in a former kitchen cabinet factory, Nowadays feels more like a homey lounge than a modern club, with lots of houseplants, Mexican blankets for those who prefer lounging, and dining booths that invite conversation.

Eamon Harkin, one of the Nowadays owners, said its hi-fi system aligns with current music tastes: “Why are people obsessed with vinyl? Why are producers obsessed with old mixing boards, and musicians obsessed with vintage gear? Because it gives you character and warmth.”

That warmth can also be found at Bierwax (556 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn), a craft beer bar near the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights that boasts a wall of 5,000 vinyl albums. On the weekends, you may find well-known D.J.s like Bobbito Garcia or Large Professor pulling from its deep record collection.

These audiophile bars take their cues from Tokyo, where places like JBS and Bonobo cater to patrons with discerning ears.

Those bars, in turn, have their roots in New York night life in the 1970s, including the powerful system built by Richard Long at the Paradise Garage and crystalline sounds that Alex Rosner made for the Loft, the roving dance party started by David Mancuso.

A more intimate vibe can be found at Mezcaleria La Milagrosa (149 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn), a 15-person speakeasy hidden in the back of a Mexican grocery store, behind a freezer door. Along with small-batch mezcal and a disco ball, La Milagrosa has floor-standing speakers by Klipschorn powered by McIntosh amplifiers.

Those seeking more space make their way to Magick City (37 Box Street, Brooklyn), a community art space in Greenpoint with 1,000 square feet of what it calls “acoustically luscious performance space” for live music, yoga and art happenings.

And, thanks to an oak dance floor salvaged from the Roseland Ballroom, it’s also a good spot for late night dance parties.

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04.30.2017

Bryant Park Events

“Union Square Events was thrilled to recently host the first event in our two new exclusive venues in Bank of American Winter Village at Bryant Park!”

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