WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA — Blue Microphones has hired industry veteran John Maier as chief executive officer. Maier makes the move after nearly seven years as CEO of TC Group Americas, working with such brands as Tannoy, TC Electronic, Lab.gruppen, TC-Helicon, Dynaudio Acoustics and Linn Electronics.
Read More »NEW YORK — The first Sound 411, a two-day informational event designed to bring together sound professionals and students with leaders in the sound hardware and software industry, was a success, according to organizer Stage Research, Inc.
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LAS VEGAS —Limp Bizkit is back on the road, with their Unicorns N’ Rainbows world tour including shows in 20 countries, including the U.S. The band, which has reunited the original lineup from its 2000 release, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, is making use of Sennheiser wired and wireless microphones across the stage.
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BERKELEY, CA — The Mythbusters build team — Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara — visited Meyer Sound’s Berkeley headquarters as part of their quest to verify the claim that a Russian-made SKS rifle could be set off by the vibration of a high-powered subwoofer.
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SPRINGFIELD, MA — If there’s been a dramatic improvement in the intelligibility of the spoken word and the 125-year-old Sacred Heart Church, it can’t really be attributed to a miracle. Instead, the change has more to do with the church’s replacement of its sound system.
Read More »STAMFORD, CT — Harman International Industries, Inc. announced results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. For the fiscal year 2009, net sales were $2.9 billion, a decline of 30 percent from the prior fiscal year. Net sales for the fourth quarter were $668 million, a 37 percent drop from the $1.1 billion posted in 4Q 2008.
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Heil Sound’s PR 48 large diaphragm dynamic microphone designed for kick drum use has a 1.5-inch diameter element and is mounted in a vulcanized double shock mount, which offers complete isolation within a rugged cast metal housing.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main’s current renovation and expansion plan on the Westend Campus site will take the total capacity of the campus from 10,000 students currently to around 45,000 by 2014, and BFE Studio und Medien Systeme, a Mainz-based integration company, specified Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC16 Digitally Steerable Arrays for three new buildings on campus.
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Les Paul died Aug. 13 at age 94. The news reports will be full of accounts of his invention of "the Log"—a 4×4 length of wood strung up with steel strings that eventually morphed into the instrument that bore his name.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Matt Peskie has joined the Masque Sound sales team with a focus on installations and production. Peskie served as monitor engineer with Avril Lavigne’s Under My Skin tour, production manager for Jars of Clay, monitor engineer for Guster and as tour manager, FOH engineer and monitor tech for many other notable artists.
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MIAMI — The sixth-annual Univision Premios Juventud awards show used Sennheiser’s wireless mics to recognize top recording artists, movie stars, sports figures and pop culture icons. Over 80 wireless channels were used for the podium mics and most of the monitoring.
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VIENNA, Austria —Vienna’s Grosser Musikvereinssaal, also known as the Goldene Saal (Golden Hall), uses an assortment of AKG microphones for Vienna’s Philharmonic Orchestra, including AKG C 12 VRs, K 702s and a WMS 400 wireless system. The mics are also now used for the annual New Year’s Day Concert, which has been telecast each year since 1959, and for numerous lectures and public readings.
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