Harry Connick Jr. Monitors Go Digital with Midas PRO6

LOS ANGELES – With a large all-acoustic band that includes strings, brass, reeds, bass and drums in addition to his own acoustic grand piano, Harry Connick Jr. requires great fidelity in the monitor system. After years of relying on Midas' analog consoles, production manager Ted Jonas of Jonas Productions recently switched to digital.

MIAMI – Drummer Boy Sound has added an Allen & Heath iLive-T digital mixing system, comprising an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface, to its rental inventory.

NEW YORK – Longtime FOH engineer and production manager Terry Friedman (Village People, Grace Jones) has, in recent years, stepped off the tour bus to improve audio systems at schools, houses of worship, and other establishments in New York City through his company, Noise and Distortion. For recent projects at Brearly School and Temple Shaaray Tefila, he relied upon Symnet digital signal processing equipment.

CHICAGO – Sensaphonics is bundling its 2MAX and 3MAX custom earphones along with Sennheiser's G3 wireless PM system with its "G3 to the MAX" promotion, which runs through the end of May 2010.

SALT LAKE CITY – Lexicon is offering a free seven-day trial of the PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle, with seven Lexicon reverbs. The bundle includes plug-ins for each algorithm including: Vintage Plate, Plate, Hall, Room, Random Hall, Concert Hall, and Chamber with hundreds of studio presets from Lexicon's library of sounds.