NEW WINDSOR, NY — Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG) has acquired Procon MultiMedia Aktiengesellschaft AG (Procon). PRG Chairman & CEO Jeremiah “Jere” Harris and Procon CEO Morten Carlsson jointly announced the acquisition, which was made by MHG Media Holdings (MHG), a PRG subsidiary.
Read More »KIDDERMINSTER, UK — The Music Group signed a deal to acquire the Midas and Klark Teknik brands from Bosch Communications Systems. The Music Group owns the Behringer brand as well as a number of other associated companies and is managed by Uli Behringer and Michael Deeb.
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NASHVILLE — There were a record 23 music performances for the 43rd Annual CMA Awards, heard over JBL’s VerTec line arrays supplied by ATK/Audiotek. Pat Baltzell, principal at Baltzell Audio Design, designed the event system.
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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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