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Friday, March 02, 2012
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03/02/12 12:27 PM,
Hal Leonard Books is now shipping Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools ($16.99) by Glenn Lorbecki. This book is part of Hal Leonard’s Quick Pro Guides series and is designed to be a companion guide to help readers get the most from their software. In Mixing & Mastering with Pro Tools, multiplatinum engineer/producer and certified Pro Tools trainer Glenn Lorbecki shows, step by step, how to achieve excellent mixes using Avid’s award-winning software. This focused guide will help unlock the…
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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02/28/12 03:41 PM,
Alfred Music Publishing is distributing “Working with Audio,” a fundamental guide to understanding the principles, technology, and techniques of audio production from Course Technology PTR, a division of Cengage Learning. Written by respected principal in audio production and author Stanley R. Alten, Working with Audio covers the basics of audio production techniques in radio, TV, music, and new media, with details on the fundamentals of sound and recording, acoustics, equipment, editing, and mixing. Because the material is not medium-specific, readers…
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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02/23/12 03:32 PM,
The NSCA Business & Leadership Conference Committee has announced a growing list of industry leaders sponsoring the industry-specific business management conference to be held in Dallas, March 1-3. More than 200 of the leading representatives of this industry will gather in less than a month to discuss the rapid speed of conducting business in today’s competitive environment where adapting to your customers needs and evolving your business to earn profits is critical to survival. Many of the industry’s manufacturers and…
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
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02/11/12 12:13 PM,
Preserving our hearing is critically important, but that’s not what motivated me to write this piece. Really, I just can’t stand bad sound! To a certain extent, it used to be somewhat excusable if a live show was loud and didn’t sound all that great. Sound reinforcement systems have come a long way in the past decade alone, but ‘back in the day’” good clean power was harder to come by, and loudspeakers just were not designed to produce high-fidelity…
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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02/10/12 03:14 PM,
Participants in the Peavey MediaMatrix Certification two-day technology training course now earn 7.5 hours of credit toward the renewal of their InfoComm Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) certification. MediaMatrix Certification training courses instruct AV industry designers, consultants, contractors and end users on best practices for designing, deploying and implementing MediaMatrix audio distribution, processing and control systems. Peavey will offer its two-day MediaMatrix basic and advanced system design seminars in 16 North American locations in 2012. Go here for a schedule of…
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02/10/12 03:00 PM,
“Incident in New Baghdad,” nominated for an Oscar this year in the Best Documentary Short Feature category, was scored by Emile D. Menasche, author of The Desktop Studio, Your Sound Onstage, and Home Studio Clinic (Hal Leonard Books), who recorded the soundtrack for the film in in his home studio using his MacBook Pro. Menasche says, “I worked closely with producer/director James Spione on the soundtrack. It was a real collaboration. We recorded the soundtrack in my home studio using…
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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01/12/12 07:45 AM,
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An Audient ASP8024 console has been delivered to Capital University in Columbus, OH, and is now the centerpiece for the studio in the Music Technology Area. Fitted with the fully integrated Dual Layer Control module, this mixing console was chosen to help facilitate the teaching of signal flow to Music Technology students of all levels. Chad Loughrige, head of the Music Technology Area, explains, “Since the ASP8024 is used in a teaching environment, ease of use is of the utmost…
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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01/10/12 10:23 AM,
The Crane Institute for Music Business at SUNY Potsdam will be presenting an interactive roundtable forum during NAMM 2012 exploring career opportunities in the music education and music products sectors. The open forum discussion called “How to Get a Job In the Industry” will be hosted from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 in the NAMM Foundation Learning Lounge located inside the Anaheim Hilton’s California Ballrooms A and B, and will be moderated by NAMM president…
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
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01/03/12 10:51 AM,
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Hal Leonard Books has published The Ultimate Live Sound Operator’s Handbook ($39.99) by Bill Gibson, an updated second edition with new text, photos, illustrations, and video examples to specifically address the important concerns faced by modern sound operators of all types. This revised edition of The Ultimate Live Sound Operator’s Handbook by Bill Gibson focuses on each aspect of live sound in a way that is straightforward and easy to understand, breaking the process down into principles and practices that…
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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12/13/11 09:03 AM,
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Sennheiser announced that its Live Production Sound Academy (LPSA) will once again be held this year in Anaheim, prior to the Winter NAMM show. Due to the success of last year’s event, the workshop has been extended to two days and will take place at the Anaheim Marriott. The workshop will cover the skills needed to successfully engineer both large and small live productions — including required elements for planning, configuring and operating a large-scale PA system. The course content…
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