NASHVILLE, TN – The Summer NAMM music products trade show got underway July 21, with more than 400 music products manufacturers, including more than 80 new exhibitors, and more than 11,000 music products industry professionals from 30+ countries expected to attend. The show wraps up July 23.
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NEW YORK – Jim Kaiser, president of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) has announced that Roger Furness, AES executive director since 1994, will step down from his position at the end of 2011. An AES member since 1975, Furness has served as Section Chair, Vice President AES Europe and as AES President. To ensure continuity in all aspects of the AES organization, the Executive Committee has asked him to remain as Executive Director Emeritus throughout 2012.
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Juice Goose's JuiceBox is designed to serve as a solution for those looking for more power distribution options, particularly those who don't have racked equipment. Since a single outlet on an extension cord isn't usually enough, Juice Goose is introducing its new JuiceBox 6, a power distribution box that can be set on the floor far away from a wall outlet, in the middle of a stage or anywhere else where AC power is needed. The company notes that it's like "having a rack mounted power strip without the rack."
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EAW's VF Series family of passive products includes five models of VFR two-way full-range loudspeakers, two VFS subwoofers and three VSM stage monitors. The hybrid VF line combines portable and install features in one package, and can be considered an update to EAW's VR and FR Series with enhanced transducer technology and performance. The boxes' consistent construction allows for a number of configuration possibilities spanning the VFR and VFS Series, including clusters and arrays, matching speaker/subwoofer pairs or standalone units.
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DENVER – Jon Lemon, FOH engineer for The Fray, which has served as the opening act for U2's recent makeup concerts, got the chance to test-drive a small touring package utilizing DiGiCo's compact SD10 together with an SD 192kHz DiGiRack and the Waves/DiGiCo Sound Bundle.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Running sound for the Boxcar Theatre's musical show Little Shop of Horrors isn't like your typical musical Broadway production sound setup where all the action takes place on the stage. The show starts in the lobby of the theatre-where it's transformed into Mushnick's floral shop-and proceeds into the streets for "Skid Row." After Skid Row, the audience and cast are brought into the theatre. Organizing the multiple microphones to make all this take place is a major event in and of itself, and it wouldn't have happened without the wireless technology of Lectrosonics.
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ALBUQUERQUE – Wicked, which premiered on Broadway in Oct. 2003, now ranks among the top 20 longest running Broadway plays in history. From the start, Wicked's worldwide production crews have relied on Sennheiser's wireless transmitters and receivers, and that tradition continues for the musical's second North American tour.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. – Rental company APR Audio provided PA and control systems for the West Holts and John Peel stages at Glastonbury 2011, using Allen & Heath's iLive digital mixing systems at FOH and monitors. The consoles were also networked for audio and control sharing.
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EAW's recent additions to their MicroWedge Series of stage monitors include the MicroWedge8 (MW8) and MicroWedge10 (MW10). The MW8 has an 8-inch woofer and the MW10 features a 10-inch woofer. Both units' coaxial designs pair the respective woofers with a 3-in (diaphragm) coaxially-mounted HF compression driver, and both are designed for impressive size-to-performance ratio, feedback stability, LF output, durability and out-of-the-box performance.
Read More »MONTREUX, Switzerland – For the 45th Edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, held July 1-16 on the shores of Lake Geneva, DiGiCo consoles were in use, enhanced with Waves Audio digital signal processing, extending the strategic alliance the two companies first announced in 2010.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA – Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) named Rick Plushner vice president. Plushner joined the company in September 2005 as general manager of GC Pro. He was promoted to director of sales in 2006, then director of the division in 2008.
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BURY ST EDMUNDS, U.K. – Northern Light recently enhanced the audio quality at the new $30 million apex venue with a permanently installed Martin Audio W8LM Mini Line Array system.
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