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Thursday, August 19, 2010
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08/19/10 01:53 PM,
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With the goal of addressing the needs of those whose condition cries out most urgently for spiritual renewal and healing, the Queen of Apostles Renewal Centre nurtures a holistic spiritual development of individuals who seek to improve the quality of their life with God. The centre recently underwent a facility revitalization that included enhanced audio capabilities. Now that the enhancements are in place, the centre’s staff finds it easier than ever to prepare the facility for its guests’ meetings—thanks to…
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08/19/10 12:00 PM,
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The Fountain of Truth Church in inner-city Detroit recently created a safe place for youth to gather that not only keeps them out of trouble, but provides them with genuinely cool activities and events that are physically, intellectually and spiritually engaging. Dubbed the Righteous Youth Church, the space is flexible enough to accommodate basketball and other indoor sports, as well as performances and church services using modular seating that rolls out from the wall. Detroit-area AV contractor Sound Planning Communications…
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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08/03/10 05:32 PM,
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Universal Audio has announced a significant update to its popular UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Packages. All UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD DSP Accelerator Package include the new “Analog Classics” Software Bundle at no additional cost. In addition, the packaging is smaller and “greener”. UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Packages are instant sonic upgrades for Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo or Digital Performer, providing rich, analog sound quality that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with a native Mac- or PC-based system. More…
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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07/21/10 10:30 AM,
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Digital Alert Systems has announced that it will provide a free firmware upgrade to support Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) compliance in all of its DASDEC EAS units. This upgrade, which will now be included as a standard part of all new DASDEC system, is available at no charge to existing customers, allowing them to fulfill the anticipated EAS CAP requirements in a single box. By offering this downloadable firmware update free of charge to its customers, DAS is further reducing…
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Friday, July 16, 2010
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07/16/10 04:25 PM,
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Encompassing most of the greater New Orleans suburbs, the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court recently underwent an extensive renovation of its audiovisual facilities. Among the enhancements to the court’s AV infrastructure, the facility is now equipped with sixteen DM1624 Digital Automatic Matrix Mixers from Lectrosonics. Crescent Multimedia Solutions from Metairie, Louisiana completed the audiovisual overhaul. “There were two primary considerations that influenced our decision to deploy the Lectrosonics DM Series processors,” said Cory Ancar, President and CEO of Crescent Multimedia Solutions…
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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07/14/10 11:02 AM,
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MultiRack is a computer host platform for Waves plugins that runs on either PC or Mac. Designed especially for live sound (since recording applications already take place on a computer), MultiRack hosts software plug-ins that emulate classic or virtual outboard processing, but take up far less space than the physical devices they replace. As its name implies, MultiRack is a plug-in platform with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that organizes plug-ins into multiple “racks” that are configured just like the…
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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07/13/10 10:30 AM,
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Ashly Audio has announced that they are shipping the first batch of pêmas; Protea Equipped Media Amplifier. The pêma integrates Ashly’s open-architecture DSP functionality into their multi-channel amplifiers, all in a two-rack space unit, lowering overall system cost, occupying less space, and improving energy efficiency. Four and eight amplifier channel versions are available at both 125 and 250 Watts per channel. “Pêma changes the way consultants and integrators approach sound system design. With only the addition of input sources and…
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
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07/08/10 02:00 PM,
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Owned by the Heavy Restaurant Group, Purple Café is a well-established wine bar and upscale restaurant in the Seattle, Washington area. It recently added its fourth location in Bellevue, Washington, with space for two additional Heavy Restaurant Group concepts – Barrio a Mexican restaurant and Lot #3 a cocktail and appetizer establishment. Because the owners were dissatisfied with many aspects of the sound systems in the earlier locations, they approached things more carefully this time. They hired local A/V contractor…
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
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07/01/10 04:47 PM,
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Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems has announced the quarter 4 availability of the DSR Series of powered loudspeakers. The new active loudspeaker series takes full advantage of Yamaha’s experience in digital sound design and acoustic technology. The series consists of the DSR112, DSR115, DSR215, and DSR118W subwoofer. The full-range models feature a 1,300-watt power specification (LF:850 watts, HF:450 watts; DSR118W subwoofer rated at 800 watts) with class D amplification, as well as FIR filter processing (FIR-X Tuning). Further, a D-Contour multi-band…
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Friday, June 25, 2010
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06/25/10 07:59 AM,
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InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) recently converted their downtown Dallas, Texas Holiday Inn to a Crowne Plaza. With the shift in brands came a dramatic increase in required meeting/celebration space. IHG undertook a large-scale renovation of the 23-story building and hired Rutherford Design of Northridge, California to design a sound system for the new lobby, plaza, mezzanine, and restaurant/bar. Company owner Richard Rutherford relied on a combination of Symetrix and SymNet processors to deliver all of the complex functionality required of…
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