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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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08/26/09 12:18 PM,
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Boulder, Colorado’s Looking Glass Arts, which provides high school students filmmaking and acting tools, techniques, and craft combines top-flight equipment such as Sennheiser microphones, headphones and wireless packages with a teaching style that that purposefully melds technical skills, art, and philosophy. “As the tools have become cheaper, I’ve watched one art form after another,” Looking Glass Arts Co-founder Mickey Houlihan remarks. “Sound engineering is a great example – people used to devote their lives to understanding the tools and developing…
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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08/25/09 04:17 PM,
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Worship Facilities Conference & Expo (WFX) announces its enhanced Conference Program for WFX Charlotte, scheduled to take place October 27-30, 2009 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Presented by Church Production Magazine and Worship Facilities Magazine, WFX is the leading event where church leadership teams connect with tools and technology to create meaningful places and powerful worship experiences. The WFX Charlotte Conference Program offers over 60 sessions, providing the education and training to help teams of church…
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08/25/09 03:11 PM,
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Rational Acoustics has appointed SonoTribe Audio Consultants as the official providers of Spanish language Smaart Training Classes for Mexico and Latin America. Founded in 2007 by Oscar Gamas and Salvador Castaneda, SonoTribe provides system design and analysis services for a wide variety of clients across Latin America in addition to teaching classes in audio theory, system design and implementation. Prior to founding SonoTribe, Gamas and Castaneda were employed by Meyer Sound in the design and education departments respectively. Together they…
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08/25/09 02:24 PM,
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The Christian Life Assembly (CLA) Church in Langley, British Columbia is a tech-savvy multi-campus congregation that offers both media streaming and podcast downloads of its services from its website. When the church began an extensive upgrade of its facilities last year, a new sound reinforcement system for its 1,500-seat sanctuary was high on its list of priorities. The new system is headed by three EAW KF730 compact line arrays, SB730 compact line array subwoofers and SB1000z large-format subwoofers supporting program…
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08/25/09 09:55 AM,
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A group of industry-leading audio/video (A/V), consumer electronics and silicon companies today (August 25, 2009) announced the launch of AVnu Alliance. AVnu is an industry forum dedicated to enhancing professional-quality audio/video by promoting emerging IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) networking standards for a broad range of markets including professional AV and consumer electronics. The founding members of the AVnu Alliance include Broadcom Corp., Cisco Systems., Harman International, Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics, and Xilinx In addition to the founders, Avid Technology,…
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08/25/09 08:31 AM,
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Universal Audio has appointed Scott Church to the newly created position of Director of Product Management. With more than ten years of product management and recording education experience, Church is a strong strategist and adept manager. Most recently, Church held the position of Music Creation Product Manager at Digidesign, where he determined the market and customer requirements that led to the design, definition and implementation of Pro Tools 8. Church has also held positions at Connect for Education and Steinberg,…
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08/25/09 07:16 AM,
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The Southern Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, BC (Canada), recently hosted a live performance by legendary comic Bill Cosby on a Friday night and a high-energy rock concert called “Hot Summer Nights” the following Saturday, with both performances handled by the same sound reinforcement system headed by Martin Audio line arrays, loudspeakers, monitors, amplifiers and processors. Local audio provider Northwest Global Entertainment of Kelowna, BC, was confident in the capabilities of the system to provide premium audio quality for the…
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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08/24/09 03:47 PM,
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Steinberg Media Technologies has released a set of updates to its software and hardware solution consisting of Cubase 5, MR816 CSX and CC121. The added capabilities include substantially extended control options for CC121, workflow enhancements for MR816 CSX/X as well as functional additions and refinements to Cubase 5. The updates further deepen the integration of the three components within the context of the Advanced Integration technology centred on the Cubase 5 Advanced Music Production System. All three updates are available…
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08/24/09 02:41 PM,
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Audio-Technica has announced that Patterson, New Jersey-based On the Road Marketing has been presented with A-T’s prestigious President’s Award. The award was presented by Marc Lee Shannon, Audio-Technica Vice President, Sales, to Doug Brown, On the Road Marketing President. On the Road Marketing received this honor at an awards ceremony during this year’s InfoComm Expo in Orlando, Florida, to honor its dedicated force of manufacturer’s representatives. Doug Brown, Principal of On the Road Marketing, accepted the President’s Award, which recognizes…
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08/24/09 12:32 PM,
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The new Mackie Thump TH-15A is a two-way, self-powered portable loudspeaker. It incorporates a proprietary Class-D Fast Recovery amplifier that pushes 400-watts of power to the high-frequency 1-inch compression driver and 15-inch woofer. Proprietary Mackie Active processing (based on the company’s popular SRMv2 Series), including a precision crossover and driver time-alignment, provides total optimization for maximum system efficiency. The TH-15A also features a user-adjustable 3-band EQ for tone control, providing an available 15 dB boost or cut at 80 Hz…
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