BEIRUT, Lebanon — Buddha Bar, a global chain with venues from Kiev to Monaco, Sao Paulo and Casablanca, is known for playing a wide variety of music. Elie and Maya Louaizi, owners of SPL-Sound Pressure Level (SPL), chose Alcons for the new venue in Lebanon’s capital.
Read More »NEW YORK — For the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts, Music Mix Mobile used plug-ins from Waves to meet the challenge of taking live recordings straight into post-production with all the processing parameters intact. The Oct. 29 and 30 concerts were aired on HBO starting Nov. 30.
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CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian War Memorial (AWM) recently embarked on a major exhibit, recording and reproducing the exploits of Australian pilots in the skies over the Western Front in France and in the Middle East.
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ST. PAUL, MN — Sound Image recently used a Studer Vista 5 SR console for country music star Taylor Swift’s tour throughout North America. The tour included 52 concerts that sold out within minutes, prompting a second leg of the tour to be added for 2010.
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SEATTLE — Flamingo Audio Owner Brad Walker comes from a music recording background, and his company still does plenty of that at their Seattle-area facility. But their real bread and butter these days comes from systems installation and live sound.
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Carl Massano, creative director at SKB Corporation, passed away on Dec. 2, 2009 after a lengthy illness. A graduate of Queens College, CUNY, Massano founded Massano Design with his wife, Carolyn, where he began producing graphics for SKB Corporation. In 1992, SKB acquired Massano Design.
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SANTA BARBARA, CA — MV Pro Audio president Michael Marans announced that Brad Strickland has joined the company as director of sales. Strickland, an audio industry veteran working on behalf of Korg USA, Ilio and others, has spent many years involved in sales, market development, advertising and promotion, artist relations and logistics and planning.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — DiGiCo and Group One Ltd. announce the relocation of its southern California office, which has been operating since 2003, to Las Vegas. The new office, led by Taidus Vallandi and Amy Vallandi, is at 1542 Juniper Twig Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89183; 702.269.8202; 310.531.7342 (Fax); 310.980.6356 (Cell.)
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APOPKA, FL — Jerry Harvey, a designer of personal monitors who had his beginnings with Van Halen and established Ultimate Ears, may have founded a new company in 2007, JH Audio, that dealt with aviation headsets. But Harvey, a pilot since 2003, is circling back to the world of live sound.
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Waves Audio is now shipping Vocal Rider, the first of Waves’ series of new Mixing tools. Vocal Rider automatically rides the levels of vocal tracks. Instead of manually riding a console fader, or drawing in every level change on a DAW track, Vocal Rider does it automatically.
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SALT LAKE CITY —The Harman Music Group promoted Craig Paller from vice president, domestic sales, to group-wide vice president, worldwide sales. Paller will be responsible for strategic planning and sales initiatives for BSS Audio, dbx Professional, DigiTech and Lexicon Professional.
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BALTIMORE — The Church of the Redeemer, which dates from 1858, features soaring ceilings and ornate wood and glass. Like other 19th century structures, it can take your breath away — but it can also hinder intelligibility and musical performances for listeners in the back pews with a reverb of well over a second.
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