FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Renkus-Heinz named Scott Leslie president. Prior to Renkus-Heinz, Leslie served as vice president of engineering at JBL Professional. He has also worked for Sun Microsystems, Tektronix, and Altec Lansing. Leslie is also founder of Evidant Corporation, providers of Business Intelligence for IT solutions, where he has held executive level positions since 2002.
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MANILA — Allen & Heath named JB Music as its exclusive distributor in the Philippines to support the growth of the brand in South East Asia. The company chose JB Music on the basis of its dealer network, service department and in-house technical expertise.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR — Audinate named Steve Greenall director of sales for Europe. Greenall, who resides in the UK, will also be responsible for leading sales activities in the Middle East, Africa and ASEAN countries, supporting the industry’s growing reliance upon Audinate’s Dante media networking solution across the AV industry.
Read More »SOLON, OH — CAD Audio added three additional rep firms to its sales network: Quest Marketing, dB Marketing, and AMP Sales.
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LAS VEGAS — 3G Productions, based here, handled audio production for Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes’ Loud and Unplugged Tour in 2012, and plans on rejoining the artist for 2013 as well. For control, the console setup includes a DiGiCo SD10 with Waves SoundGrid bundle along with an SDRack via Optocore for FOH engineer Jose Amable Frometa and another SD10 and SDRack at monitors operated by Anselmo Rota and systems engineer Jonathan Daly.
Read More »SILVER SPRING, MD — Juice Goose named Taub Sales, based here, as its representative for the Middle Atlantic region of the U.S. The company credited Taub Sales’ principals, Mort and Steve Taub, as “well respected, experienced professionals who will be providing regional front line and back office support for Juice Goose throughout the commercial audio video, MI and related markets.”
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VENICE, FL — Creative Sound Solutions provided an X3-P compact line array from WorxAudio Technologies to meet the coverage and audio quality sought by congregation leaders at First Christian Church here. Rob Robinson, general manager and co-owner of Creative Sound Solutions, managed the project and discussed its challenges.
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DANVILLE, CA — Graham Cooper at Leo’s Professional Audio headed up the audio crew that tackled the challenge of improving the sound system at The Village Theater, a 245-seat venue that’s been a fixture here for more than 150 years. Working with Rocky Giannetti from Fault Line Sales, Cooper specified Tannoy VX 8, VS 15BP and VX 12 loudspeakers.
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SAN DIEGO, CA — Sound engineer James “Jimbo” Neal recently chose a pair of VUE Audiotechnik h-15 active systems for the final leg of the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Extravaganza tour. Neal’s objective was to augment the existing Sound Image stage monitors with a compact, high-output side fill system.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Maryland Sound International’s (MSI) Matt Snyder knows as well as just about anyone that the White House Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony involves more than a mere flip of a switch. MSI has handled sound for the event for the past decade, and Snyder has been involved for 23 years of the White House’s 90-year tree-lighting tradition.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman named Rex Reed, pictured here, director of engineering for Harman Signal Processing (BSS Audio, dbx, Lexicon, DigiTech). For its U.S. RSO division, Harman also named Marc Lee Shannon senior manager, business development; Scott Robbins executive vice president of sales; and Jim Ure business development manager, installed sound, Eastern region. Harman also named Anton Pukshansky territory sales manager for Southern California and Southern Nevada. And in Europe, Harman named Dominic Harter head of global sales operations for Soundcraft.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional, which had announced several key staff appointments earlier this month, also recently named Bryan Bradley vice president, general manager of its Loudspeaker Business Unit, including all aspects of JBL Professional (pictured here). The company also named Jaime Albors senior director of global sales operations and Andy Flint senior manager, Portable PA Marketing, Loudspeaker Group.
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