MONTREAL — Michael Golden, executive vice president of JAM Industries, VP of Erikson Music/Korg Canada and son of JAM Industries founder Marty Golden, passed away May 11 after a two-year battle with cancer. He had just turned 50 in February.
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DUBAI — Outline has named the Professional Projects Division (PPD) of Oasis Enterprises, the electronics-oriented subsidiary of the Al Shirawi Group of Companies, as its distributor based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Outline CEO Giorgio Biffi and Oasis Enterprises/PPD GM Basel As Aref announced the new distribution partnership.
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PESA expanded its PESA PRO line of professional AV routers with the new PRO-3GSDI-1616 Routing Switcher. It supports all common SMPTE and ITU standard serial digital video signals, as well as embedded audio and other ancillary data required for HD-SDI and DVB/ASI sources.
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COLUMBIA, MD — At the Merriweather Post Pavilion within Symphony Woods here, Sweetgreen restaurant group hosted an all-day music festival featuring Avicii, Kid Cudi, The Shins, Explosions in the Sky, Fitz and the Tantrums, A$AP Rocky, Fun, Delta Spirit, Zola Jesus others. Called the Sweetlife Music and Food Festival, the event was supported by MHA Audio, which relied upon their Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) audio system for sound reinforcement.
Read More »BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound is offering the company’s first live webinars on AVB (audio video bridging), the non-proprietary IEEE AV networking standards built upon the ubiquitous Ethernet protocols. The newest addition to the Meyer Sound worldwide education program, these webinars will be led by John McMahon, executive director, digital products. Three have been set for June 5, 2012.
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TAMPA, FL — Magnum Audio Group recently provided new sound systems for three sports venues at the University of South Florida (USF): a 4,500-seat baseball stadium, a 1,500-seat softball stadium and a 750-seat soccer stadium. Magnum’s Randi Crooks equipped the two larger venues with Community Pro’s WET W2-2W8, R1-66 and R.5-99 loudspeakers along with R.5SUB subwoofers. For the smaller soccer stadium, just the R1-66 and R.5-99 loudspeakers did the trick.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — The Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (LASERS) brought in Technical Services Group (TSG) to design and install an easy-to-use sound reinforcement system for a boardroom and conference center. TSG deployed an ASPEN processor setup from Lectrosonics.
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LAS VEGAS — An industry band, The Drunk Unkles, is set to perform at Gilley’s Saloon in the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino during InfoComm 2012. The group, which will be playing June 14, will be raising funds for the NSCA Education Foundation.
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HUNTINGTON, NY — Maryland Sound International designed and installed a new sound system as the former Inter-Media Arts Center (IMAC) Theater was renovated and re-emerged as the Paramount Theater. MSI, led by project manager Ryan Beck, installed a JBL VerTec powered line array system from Harman.
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FRISCO, TX — Gemini Lighting, Sound and Video deployed the new EAW KF740 Zero Degree Adapter to “flat-front” the top four modules of each main array for EdgeFest 22, which was staged at the FC Dallas Stadium here April 22, 2012. The festival featured performances by The Black Keys, Garbage, Cake, Cage the Elephant, Arctic Monkeys, Switchfoot, Evanescence, The Ting Tings and Dead Sara.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Sound quality, reliability and versatility led Darren Russell, managing director Elite Sound and Lighting, to purchase a Soundcraft Si Compact 16 console, a Soundcraft Si Compact 32 console and two Soundcraft Compact Stagebox digital multicore systems.
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ARQUES, France — Vincent Voyron, longtime sound engineer for Canadian singer Natasha St Pier, got the chance to use an Innovason Eclipse for her performance at the concert hall here for the first time, and “wasn’t disappointed — I’d be happy to mix on an Eclipse any time.”
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