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Tony Awards to Drop Sound Categories?

Tony Awards to Drop Sound Categories?

NEW YORK — On June 8, Brian Ronan and Steve Canyon Kennedy received Tony Awards, respectively, for “Best Sound Design of a Musical” (Beautiful – the Carole King Musical) and “Best Sound Design of a Play” (Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill). On June 11, the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Award Administration Committee announced that both awards categories would be omitted from future Tony Awards ceremonies. The move prompted a considerable amount of shock and dismay in the audio community and beyond.

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Eden High School Pumps Up Home Games With Ashly Gear

EDEN, New York – When it came time for a new sound reinforcement system, Eden High School turned to Ashly Audio. The new system includes an Ashly ne4400 4-in x 4-out Protea DSP System Processor and a four-channel Ashly nX 1.54 amplifier, which packs four channels of 1500W output into just two rack spaces.

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Bose Accessory Cards for ControlSpace, PowerMatch Systems

Bose continues to expand the functionality of its ControlSpace and PowerMatch digital audio processing and amplifier systems with several new input and output accessory cards. The new ControlSpace cards, each for the ESP-00 II engineered sound processor, include the ControlSpace 4-Ch Mic/Line Input Card II; ControlSpace 4-Ch Line Output Card II and ControlSpace General Purpose I/O (GPIO) Card II. For PowerMatch amplifiers, the PowerMatch AES3 8-Channel Input Card offers a direct connection from digital audio mixing consoles.

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Yamaha QL5 Digital Console

Yamaha QL5 Digital Console

Two years ago, Yamaha unveiled its popular CL series mixers to much fanfare. Here was a solid digital console with a great feature set, including Dante interfacing, onboard preamps, Dan Dugan automixing, Rupert Neve-designed signal processing and the fast GUI of Centralogic control. The CL Series was an immediate hit.

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Martin Audio Names Bash Akhtar Operations Director; David Morbey Product Manager

HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — Martin Audio named Bash Akhtar as its new operations director and David Morbey dedicated product manager. Other recent appointments include Andy Weingaertner (EMEA sales), Robin Dibble (product support engineer team), Alan Josey (finance director), Carl Davies (junior mechanical design engineer) and Nicole Thorne (sales admin support, North America).

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Participants in the Sensaphonics Gold Circle seminar for audiologists gathered in the control room at Mystery Street Recording Company, Chicago. From left: Dale Radke (Hearing Consultants, Kittery, ME); Sensaphonics sound engineering consultant Joe Tessone; Eric Nelson (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY); Analise Ludwig (Minneapolis, MN); Theresa Bartlett (Virginia Hearing Consultants, Norfolk, VA); Helene Levenfus (Cedar Audiology, Lyndhurst, OH); and Sensaphonics President Dr. Michael Santucci.

Sensaphonics Trains Five New Gold Circle Audiologists

CHICAGO — Sensaphonics conducted a two-day seminar on in-ear monitoring at its headquarters here and also at Chicago-based Mystery Street Recording Company May 22-23. Five participants successfully passed the company’s Gold Circle training seminar. Pictured here, from left, are Dale Radke; Sensaphonics’ Joe Tessone; Eric Nelson; Analise Ludwig; Theresa Bartlett; Helene Levenfus; and Sensaphonics’ Dr. Michael Santucci.

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Pictured here, from left, are Gino Pellicano, Peter Maguire and Dave Salmon, along with Jonas Domkus (inset).

EAW Adds Four to Customer Support Team

WHITINSVILLE, MA — Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) has hired Gino Pellicano, Peter Maguire and Dave Salmon (pictured here, L-R) along with Jonas Domkus (inset) to bolster the company’s customer support infrastructure.  Pellicano and Salmon join the EAW Application Support Group (ASG) as Application Support Specialist and Application Support Coordinator respectively. Maguire has been named Customer Support Manager while Domkus takes on the role of US Field Application Engineer.

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Pictured here, from left, are Sergio Pinto (NEXT-proaudio sales manager), Noemi Baschera ( Phoebus Key Account Manager), Antonio Correia (NEXT-proaudio CEO), Tommaso Baschera ( Phoebus Sales Manager), Andre Correia (NEXT-proaudio Assistant Manager), Gianluca Froio (Phoebus Engineer ), Andrea Maenza (Phebus Engineer).

NEXT-proaudio Names Phoebus S.P.A. Distributor for Italy

RIO TINTO, Portugal — NEXT-proaudio, based here, named Milan, Italy-based Phoebus S.P.A. as its exclusive distributor in Italy. Phoebus S.P.A. is an established supplier of AV gear for conferences and other events, and by taking on NEXT-proaudio gear, they are further expanding into the pro audio market. Pictured here, from left, are Sergio Pinto (NEXT-proaudio sales manager), Noemi Baschera ( Phoebus Key Account Manager), Antonio Correia (NEXT-proaudio CEO), Tommaso Baschera ( Phoebus Sales Manager), Andre Correia (NEXT-proaudio Assistant Manager), Gianluca Froio (Phoebus Engineer ), Andrea Maenza (Phebus Engineer).

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