BEAVERTON, OR – Biamp Systems named Rob Houston product manager for unified communications (UC) products. Based in Beaverton, Houston will report to Director of Product Management Shell Haffner and be responsible for the strategy, development, and promotion of the company’s UC solutions.
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MONTREAL — Claude Régimbald, who joined Solotech in 2012 when it acquired Specs Audio, the company he founded in 1979, has been named director of business development for the Quebec region. Prior to his new role with the company, Régimbald served as as general director of Solotech’s offices in Gatineau, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario.
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WEBSTER, NY — Ashly Audio named Ed Czarnecki as its applications engineer, a new position. Czarnecki will report to Scott Leslie, Ashly executive vice president.
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SAINT PAUL, MN — John Markiewicz, managing director of Audio Logic Systems (ALS), took a counterintuitive approach in devising a solution for the visually beautiful but sonically challenging environs of the Our Lady of Victory Chapel at St. Catherine University. The solution included gear from d&b audiotechnik’s xC-Series.
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NILES, IL — Shure announced that its ULX-D Digital Wireless Systems are now available in the 900 MHz ISM frequency band. Targeted for use where UHF “TV band” spectrum is limited or congested, ULX-D 900 MHz features components and accessories optimized for use within regional variations of the 902-928 MHz spectrum, generally known as the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band.
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BURLINGTON, MA — Canadian live sound companies are embracing Avid’s VENUE | S6L mixing system, with Apex Sound, Gearforce, Solotech, Sound Art, Westbury National, and others in the process of adding the desk to their inventories to meet anticipated rental demand.
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QSC announced that with the release of its TouchMix Control Android App, the company’s TouchMix digital mixer can be controlled by virtually any wireless tablet or smart-phone device.
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CLAREMORE, OK — McClelland Sound helped First Baptist Church upgrade its audio system to support both classic and contemporary worship service formats within the church’s 1,500-plus seat sanctuary, which has a broad fan shape. McClelland Sound provided four Danley SH-60 full-range boxes in a tight-pack cluster above the front of the stage with a Danley TH-412 subwoofer behind it.
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AudioTools is a measurement app that provides a comprehensive set of tools on your iOS mobile device. The modular system can measure/display SPL, RTA, FFT, speaker polarity, Audio Scope, CLF viewer, recorder, generator and more and more modules can be added as needed. Improvements in v 7.7 include a LARSA filter design option for digital filters for DSP processors to correct loudspeaker response, with the ability to create filters automatically or manually. Also new is ability to save screenshots to Dropbox or locally.
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The TX series are two-channel, Class-D amplifiers featuring Power Factor Correction (PFC) along with universal 100 to 260 Volt SMPS power supply that translates to a higher output power with lower power consumption. PFC also improves audio quality by generating lower harmonics of the mains frequency. The series includes five models with power ranging from 750 W/channel into 2-ohms to the TX5200, with 3,300 W/channel. The TX amps are shipping now.
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RCF adds the TTL6-A to its Touring & Theater range. This three-way, active line source features two 12-inch woofers, four 6.5-inch cone mids and a 2-inch compression driver on an asymmetrical waveguide for cascading two TTL6-A’s for wide coverage. Two independent Class-D amps provide 550 watts to each woofer, 700 watts to the mids and 400 watts to the HF driver. Onboard 32-bit floating-point RDNet DSP provides crossover/transducer alignment, system EQ, soft limiter and driver protection. Remote monitoring, custom EQs, high/low pass, solo and mute for each section, are all available on RDNet.
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Smaart provides the capabilities of an extremely powerful hardware-based acoustical analyzer for feedback suppression, channel EQ, room tuning and more, all in an affordable Mac or PC software package. New functions in the V7.5.2 include configuration management, target curves, a Quick Compare (trace subtract) to live TF traces function and live IR plot screen sizing options, as well as improvements in fractional octave smoothing, coherence-weighted averaging, integrated averaging and more.
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