SAN PIERO A SIEVE, Italy — K-array announced during their global distributors meeting that Michel Brouard will join the company as corporate vice president of sales. He will focus on the overall growth of the company, including its activities in Asia.
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We recently heard of the passing on Oct. 1 of Dr. Albert Neville Thiele, one of the great names in the development of our understanding of transducers and speaker enclosure design. Thiele, pictured here, left, with fellow audio specialist Richard Small, was 91.
Read More »POTTERS BAR, U.K. —Harman Professional promoted Adrian Curtis to senior director, EMEA Regional Sales Operations (RSO). Curtis, a 21-year company veteran, previously served as head of sales for the company’s Soundcraft and Studer brands. In his new role he will lead sales operations for all of Harman’s professional brands and will report to Scott Robbins, Harman’s executive vice president of sales.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Noting the retirement of Rob Urry after more than 28 years at the company, Harman Professional announced the promotion of John Fitzgerald, pictured here, to vice president and general manager of its Amplifiers & Signal Processing division.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc., which markets the Audinate Dante-MY16-AUD Mini-YGDAI interface card, noted that it been updated to allow remote head amp control. The updated version allows the head amps in the new Rio3224-D and Rio1608-D I/O rack units, developed for the new Yamaha CL console line, to be remotely controlled from an M7CL, LS9, PM5D, DM2000, and DM1000 digital mixing console.
Read More »LOS ANGELES — Creative Technology (CTUS) recently added Wayne Tourville to the company’s audio department staff as audio engineer and frequency coordinator. Tourville, an 18-year industry veteran, has experience with productions involving concerts, festivals, tours, corporate theatre, broadcasts and special events.
Read More »SANTA CLARITA, CA — U.K.-based Calrec announced Oct. 4 that it has opened an office here to support customers in the western, southeastern, and south central U.S. and also western Canada. Dave Lewty serves as regional sales manager and Jake Halverson is the customer support coordinator. Calrec also continues its longtime relationship with Studio Consultants Inc. (SCI) in the eastern U.S.
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BOSTON — Mark Jarrell, owner of Dogwood Audio Sound Company, supported U.K.-based Celtic rock band IONA on its two-week swing through the U.S. this past summer. He mixed the band on a Soundcraft Vi1 and credited the console as a good fit with a variety of venues encountered on the tour.
Read More »FIRENZE, Italy — Powersoft announces it has become an official member of the AMX InConcert Alliance. As such, the AMX modules for Powersoft are compatible and allow for seamless integration of Powersoft amplifiers in typical AMX-controlled environments, including video and other remotely accessible devices. The feature set includes full monitoring capabilities, mute and volume control, preset selection, and power on/off for Duecanali, Ottocanali, M Series and K Series amplifiers.
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LOS ANGELES — Firehouse Productions deployed a full L-Acoustics K1 system for Peter Gabriel’s North American Back To Front trek from Sept. 16-Oct. 14. The tour marks the 25th anniversary of the album, So. On most tour stops, there are L-R hangs of 14 K1 plus six KARA below for down-fill, with adjacent hangs of eight K1-SB subs. Typical out-fills include an additional 10 K1 and six KARA flown per side, paired with eight ARCS and six dV-DOSC below for front- and lip-fill.
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CRESPELLANO, Italy — dBTechnologies named Giovanni Barbieri as its sales and marketing director worldwide. He will be responsible for global brand strategies and sales efforts. Barbieri, who has served for four years as a business development manager for dBTechnologies, joined RCF Group almost a decade ago as export manager.
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MANILA — To celebrate 400 years, the University of Santo Tomas here constructed a sports complex that includes a 54,000-square-foot, 5,792-capacity gymnasium. Crystal Audio installed Adamson’s SpekTrix line arrays — the gear’s debut in the island nation. After testing, installers found that the compact units were powerful enough to change the speaker-to-subwoofer element count in the six main hangs from 6:1 to 4:1. Four supplementary trapezoidal fill boxes were used for the center of the court.
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