The Music Group named Barry Mitchell VP of Prosumer Division Customer Management for the Americas. He brings more than 20 years of experience in music and consumer electronics to the position, most recently as director of merchandise (guitar accessories) for Guitar Center, Inc.
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LOS ANGELES – Harman’s JBL loudspeakers were once again put to use at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. ATK Audiotek provided the main PA system for the Awards ceremony, which featured four arrays each containing 12 VerTec VT4889 fullsize line array elements, plus two arrays of six VT4880A fullsize arrayable subwoofers each. An additional 12 VRX932 Constant Curvature loudspeakers were used for front fill. The Staples Center also features a permanent JBL VerTec line array system, which ATK Audiotek also put to use.
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LAS VEGAS – Audio engineer Rob Mailman, who uses as many as 75 audio inputs during a typical show for Santana show, credited DiGiCo’s SD5 for helping in his need to transition from analog to digital. “ It means I can worry about mixing the show and not try to remember how to run the console,” he said, addint that was especially crucial for a dynamic band such as Santana. “It is a constant remix, every song, all night long. I may remix the same song two or three times depending on the direction the band goes in.”
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PASO ROBLES, CA — 3G Productions provided a d&b audiotechnik sound system for the Vina Robles Amphitheatre’s May through November season of performances last year. The L-R setup includes V8 and V12 loudspeakers with T10 front fills and a cardioid sub array using B2-SUB loudspeakers. Brown Note Productions and its president, Ryan Knutson, also played a key advisory role as the project got underway.
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PETALUMA, CA — James Lamb, president of Point Source Audio, has been named first commander of the California State Military Reserve (CSMR) Band. Lamb, who plays the trumpet and also composes and arranges music, was appointed as a Warrant Officer in the State Military Reserve in August 2013. He is now coordinating support for California’s three three National Guard Bands, based in Sacramento, Oxnard, and Los Alamitos.
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BARRINGTON, IL — TC Furlong helped the Willow Creek Care Center install a music playback and paging system within a new $10 million building on its main campus. The system includes Symetrix gear.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Harman Professional named Jay Woolley director of marketing communications for its Amplifier and Signal Processing business units. Woolley will lead the company’s marketing communications efforts for Harman’s Crown Audio, BSS Audio, dbx, Lexicon, and DigiTech brands. He reports to Marc Kellom, senior director of marketing and engineering for Harman’s Amplifier business unit.
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HANNOVER, Germany — In January, 49 international design experts assessed 4,615 entries from 55 countries to the annual iF Design Awards 2014 competition, with a range of design categories that extended from product design to communication designs and packaging. One of the winning entries in the competition’s Product Design category was Yamaha, for its CL Series Digital Mixing Consoles.
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KIGALI, Rwanda — To accompany an expansion of the Stade Amahoro here, with a seating capacity that will grow from 30,000 to 50,000 by 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa-based Prosound installed a distributed system consisting of 112IM full weather loudspeakers from One Systems.
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NEW YORK — The first national tour of the Tony award-winning Broadway musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, is getting support from Masque Sound, which provided a DiGiCo SD10 console, both Meyer Sound and D&B speaker rigs, and wireless gear from Sennheiser.
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PORTLAND — Earth, Wind & Fire originally formed more than 40 years ago, in 1971. Three of the original band members, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, and Ralph Johnson, three of the original members of EWF, continue to tour the world along with 10 other performers in support of their 21st album, Now, Then, Forever, released last fall. New, custom in-ear monitors from 1964 Ears, based here, are meeting the band’s on-stage monitoring needs.
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BANGKOK, Thailand — The College of Music at the Mahidol University here has equipped its new performing arts center with audio, communication and media technology from Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup.
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