BUENA PARK, CA – Monitor engineer Robert Bull is known for mixing artists such as Martina McBride and Michael McDonald as well as television shows such as Nashville Star. Bull has mixed on it all, both analog and digital. When he needs to take the digital route, he requests the Yamaha PM5D.
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BALTIMORE, MD – Event Tech named Chad Houseknecht, longtime production manager at Nightclub 930 in Washington, DC, as the production and rental company's new warehouse operations manager. The company also named John James, another industry veteran, production manager. James has been involved in the technical side of special event production – designing audio, lighting and temporary power systems – for 20 years.
Read More »CONCORD, CA. – D-Tools recently launched an online forum for users of D-Tools' System Integrator software. It provides D-Tools customers and manufacturer partners with a platform to communicate with other software users and the D-Tools support team.
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Waves Audio's Bass Rider plugin is designed to ride bass levels automatically. A companion to Waves' Vocal Rider plugin, Bass Rider promises perfect bass levels without changing the natural sound of users' bass. Optimized especially for the frequency range and envelope characteristics of bass instruments, Bass Rider covers all the "basses:" DI, amplified, acoustic, synth, upright, etc.
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LAS VEGAS – FRONT of HOUSE readers have just a few days more to vote the 2011 Parnelli Awards, including Sound Company of the Year, Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year, FOH and Monitor Mixer of the Year and all the other individuals, companies and Indispensable Technology products nominated for a Parnelli Award this year. The votes will then be tallied and awards presented Oct. 29 at the Peabody Orlando at 8 p.m., following a cocktail reception at 7 p.m.
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WOODLAND HILLS – American Music & Sound named Dave Hetrick national sales manager for BeyerDynamic, Fostex, and Alpine in the U.S. Hetrick is a singer/songwriter/musician with experience in the recording and engineering world. Prior to AM&S he was director of worldwide sales for KRK/Cerwin Vega Group.
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SELLERSVILLE, PA – DSB Audio Systems designed and installed an upgraded audio system for the Sellersville Theater that includes four Meyer Sound JM-1P arrayable loudspeakers. The venue, built in 1894, seats 300.
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MIAMI – HED South and Michael Chafee Enterprises provided a low-cost solution to help the performing arts department at Miami Country Day School (MCDS) enhance the sound of the new audio system at the school's amphitheater with a Symetrix Automix Matrix 780 processor.
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TARPON SPRINGS, FL – AV integrator CSI used Ashly Audio ne8800 DSP with a WR-5 NE remote base and a Bosch steerable Vari-directional array to update the sound system at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was built in 1942.
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LOS ANGELES – Sennheiser's MKH 8060 shotgun microphone, used with the MZD 8000 digital output module, captured the audio of arriving guests at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards Show's red carpet area outside the Nokia Theater. An EK 2000 portable receiver, SKM 2000 XP handheld transmitter and e935 dynamic cardioid microphone module was used for celebrity interviews.
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QATAR – Soliflex consultant Fredrik Setterberg equipped digitally-steerable IC Live systems for two 25,000-capacity soccer stadiums in Qatar. Soliflex and Al-Tamas provided each of the the two open-air venues with 16 IC-Live arrays and two subwoofers connected via RHAON. A MediaMatrix NION NX handles distribution of the Yahama-mixed audio to the system's 11 zones. All the loudspeaker processing is performed with RHAON.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL – Entertainment Arts upgraded the audio system at First Baptist Church here with an Allen & Heath M-Dante card to enhance their iLive digital mixing console. Audinate's Dante provides 64 channels of bi-directional signal routing between iLive's MixRack I/O center and an external Ethernet device via a single Cat-5 cable.
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