NORTHBROOK, IL — The Northbrook Theater recently upgraded their wireless microphone system, installing the AKG DMS 700 system, and selecting an array of AKG equipment that included 12 DSR 700 receivers, 10 CK 77 Microphones, and 25 DPT 700 bodypacks. The theatre will be using AKG’s digital wireless system to drive a series of performances put on by youth, for youth.
Read More »FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Renkus-Heinz, worldwide distributor for Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG)’s EASE, EASERA and EASERA SysTune software, has released an upgrade to the EASE (Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers) modeling software. EASE 4.3 is available as a free upgrade for all users of EASE 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2.
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BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound recently announced its international education schedule for late summer and early fall, with seminars held in Mexico City; Toronto; Los Angeles; Montabaur, Germany; Seville and Madrid, Spain; Duivendrecht, Netherlands; and Osimo Stazione, Italy.
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WEBSTER, NY — Ashly Audio has named John Sexton national sales manager. Sexton, who will be based in Oklahoma, started out in the professional audio industry at Altec Lansing Corporation and has since gained 25 years of experience in various regional, national and international sales and marketing positions.
Read More »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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