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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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03/25/09 01:14 PM,
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Firehouse Productions, which has a reputation of excellence in providing sound for some of the music’s biggest acts including Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, as well as major television and live events such as Live Earth and the MTV VMAs, has announced that it will purchase 100 Crown Audio I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers for its tour sound projects. “Firehouse is a clear leader in the live sound industry. They have been a long time user of Crown and…
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
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03/12/09 02:08 PM,
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JBL Professional’s VerTec line array V4 DSP presets are now available for Crown’s I-Tech HD series amplifiers. “The V4 release for I-Tech HD is an important milestone that will provide immediate benefits to users due to improved sound quality and a 2 dB increase in maximum SPL output thanks to new industry-standard setting LevelMAX limiting,” stated Paul Bauman, JBL’s Director of Tour Sound Product & Application Engineering. “LevelMAX was a joint development involving JBL, Crown, and BSS engineering and is…
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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03/04/09 08:46 AM,
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In a retrofit project that delivers high-impact, reliable audio to a historical parish, Hercules, California-based Pro Media/UltraSound recently upgraded the sound system at St. Joseph’s Church in Pinole, California with JBL Professional VP Series loudspeakers. The church has been a permanent fixture in the Pinole neighborhood for more than a century, and a constituted parish since 1947. The parish congregation currently consists of more than 10,000 individuals. The church needed improvements in both sound quality and coverage while maintaining a…
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Monday, March 02, 2009
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03/02/09 12:42 PM,
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BSS Audio components were selected to supply control of what is considered to be the largest fixed sound installation project in the Dubai region - a distributed system serving the new Atlantis Hotel, including all hotel restaurants, lobbies, corridors, visitor attractions, and retail outlets within the venue. For the installation, 31 Soundweb London BLU-80 units, 10 BLU-32s, and six BLU-16s were utilized. All of these Soundweb London units offers configurable I/O, configurable signal processing and CobraNet audio and has open…
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Friday, February 20, 2009
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02/20/09 07:38 AM,
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Harman Professional has announced the appointment of three new staff members - Eric Goh, Kit Roche and Raymond Tee - to the Harman Pro Asia team, which has offices located in Kuala Lumpur. Goh has been added to the Asia staff as Regional Sales Director for South Asia; a position in which he assumes responsibility in handling all dealings involving Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He brings strong distribution and sales experience to his role at Harman Pro and…
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02/20/09 06:45 AM,
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BSS Audio has added a cost-effective break-out box to its Soundweb London family of digital signal processors - the new BLU-BOB output expander - which compliments the seven other members of the Soundweb London family and represents a solution to increasing the number of outputs in a Harman HiQnet networked system. The BLU-BOB features eight analog audio outputs on standard terminal block connectors and the 256-channel, low latency, fault tolerant digital audio bus, also found on the BLU-800, BLU-320, BLU-160…
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
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02/05/09 12:46 PM,
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With their mash-up of ‘80s synth pop and contemporary alt-rock, The Killers continue the’ momentum on 2009’s international jaunt in promotion of Day & Age, the band’s third outing. James Gebhard has enjoyed a lengthy tenure with the band as FOH engineer (and for a time, production manager), stretching back to the “early’“days in 2004 when they headlined club dates and played ensemble radio promo fests. Gebhard, who has also mixed for tours with The Strokes, The Vines, Ladytron, and…
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
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01/18/09 01:10 PM,
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At Winter NAMM ‘09, Crown Audio introduced new I-Tech HD Series amplifiers featuring a user-inspired DSP engine co-developed with BSS and Linear Phase FIR filters. The new I-Tech HD Series also incorporates Crown’s Class-I amplifier technology, new software that makes I-Tech HD robust and very easy to configure, a wide choice of input options including CobraNet and the all-new LevelMax limiters (Peak, Thermal and RMS). Developed in conjunction with sister company BSS, the next generation OmniDriveHD DSP Engine at the…
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
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01/08/09 09:43 AM,
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The Harman Music Group has announced the addition of Jay Woolley as marketing director for portable sound, where he will oversee all marketing, promotional, and new product launch efforts for dbx and BSS products sold in the portable sound channel. Woolley will also work on developing the overall strategy for driving sales and new product development for portable sound. He will report to Reed Grothe, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the Harman Music Group. Most recently, Woolley…
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