NORTHRIDGE, CA – JBL Professional named Ralph Quintero vice president of sales. Quintero rejoins JBL Professional after more than six years with Global Sales Management, an audio systems consultancy Quintero founded.
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ABU DHABI, UAE – Bond Communications, an AV system integration firm, faced a tall order with the sound upgrade for a large ballroom within the seven-star Emirates Palace Hotel. The new system needed to fill a 265-foot-by-80-foot, 2,800-capacity space and work discreetly in three separate, divisible modes.
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CHIOS, Greece – Focus Studio, based on this Greek isle, recently purchased two iLive digital mixing systems for PA services during the summer, and also for studio work.
Read More »VANCOUVER, BC, Canada – Audio-Technica, which has supported the Olmpics since the summer games of 1996, continues this winter. More than 3,000 A-T microphones will be used at the XXI Winter Olympic Games.
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LONDON – Adlib Audio's Richy Nicholson served as FOH engineer for the New York-based Emo band, Brand New, for both the band's last two U.K. and European tours and for a recent one-off show at Wembley Arena. Adlib also supplied gear and additional crew for the show.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – Most of the performers on the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards programs used PMs, according to Sensaphonics. Of the 16 Grammy performance segments, nine featured artists using Sensaphonics earphones.
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LOS ANGELES – JBL loudspeakers were used in both the arena and the listening room of the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards telecast on Sunday, January 31 at the Staples Center. JBL LSR Series studio monitors, VerTec line arrays and VRX portable line arrays were used once again for the program.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA – Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. and Audinate have announced an informational Webinar on March 3 that will provide technical info on the new Dante-MY16-AUD card and Dante solution.
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FUZHOU, Fujian, China – L-Acoustics' Chinese distributor Rightway Audio has supplied the Fujian Broadcasting and TV Center with a dV-DOSC sound reinforcement system for its multi-functional studio theatre. The theatre, which measures close to 10,000 square feet and seats 1,069, hosts large-scale drama and musical TV productions, both live and recorded, as well as conferences and parties.
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LOS ANGELES – The 52nd annual Grammy Awards presentation was also the 13th year in a row where Audio-Technica mics played a role. For the live show and broadcast, more than 250 A-T mics were used, including an array of hard-wired mics and the company's Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF wireless systems.
Read More »FAIRFAX, VA – InfoComm launched the InfoComm-Recognized AV Technologist certificate program to help employers verify the basic level of entry-level AV personnel and to provide industry newcomers and non-technical personnel a way to showcase what they have learned.
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Audinate announced that Lake's new LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processor has Audinate's Dante networking inside. The Lake LM 26 is the successor to the Dolby Lake Processor (DLP) with digital matrix functions including Dante digital networking, which provides compatibility with Lab.gruppen's Dante-enabled PLM Series as well as legacy DLPs.
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