ATLANTIC CITY — Held in honor of Mother’s Day the following day, the annual Mother’s Day Festival took place May 10 at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. For the third year, ACIR Professional (Mays Landing, NJ) provided audio production services for the 14,500 attendees. This year’s lineup included Charlie Wilson, Gladys Knight, and Heads of State featuring Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, and Johnny Gill.
Read More »TOKYO — Audient Names Japan-based audio company, All Access Inc, as its distributor in Japan. All Access Inc will handle the full range of Audient products in Japan, including the USB interface, iD22 and the 8-channel mic pre and ADC, ASP880.
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Lawo announced a major upgrade to functionality and operation with software version 5.0 for all Lawo MKII mc² mixing consoles and routers. As with all Lawo software releases, version 5.0 is free of charge for all existing customers.
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Focusrite notes that its Saffire PRO 26 is the latest addition to the Focusrite range of Saffire PRO FireWire/Thunderbolt compatible audio interfaces. Designed for use in both studio recording and live performance environments, the Saffire PRO 26 promises a comprehensive 18-in, 8-out, 24-bit/96kHz audio interface with four Focusrite mic preamps.
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SILKEBORG, Denmark — Anders Jørgensen, project manager for Copenhagen-based integrator Stouenborg, worked with Steen Mertz, director of communications technology at Jyske Bank, on what is being called an architectural and sonic showcase of sorts — a new approach to corporate meeting room design that includes the use of Meyer Sound’s Constellation acoustic system at Jyske Bank’s headquarters here.
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BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems, based here, acquired Dev-Audio, a developer of Microcone, a conferencing product that actively tracks and enhance voice quality, adaptively reducing background noise. Dev-Audio also developed the related software application, Microcone Recorder.
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EVANSTON, IL — For Philfest, a bluegrass and folk music festival held annual in memory of former Northwestern student Phil Semmer, who died in 2000, Sound Works Productions provided 10 NEXO GEO S12 (flown), four RS18 Ray Subs (ground stacked) and two NEXO PS10s speakers (for front fills), all driven with their NEXO NX4x4 amp rack. A Yamaha M7CL was used at FOH with an LS9 at monitors. The Deadly Gentleman from Boston headlined, followed by Sunnyside Up and Todd Kessler.
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Harman’s Crown Audio is expanding its DriveCore Install (DCi) Series amplifier range with DCi Network Display 8|600ND and 4|1250ND power amplifiers. Both feature front-panel status displays and AVB (Audio Video Bridging) connectivity.
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WHITINSVILLE, MA — EAW named Ken Dewar as the company’s new Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales director. EAW vice president of sales Rusty Waite made the announcement.
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WILKESBORO, NC — Country music’s Alan Jackson and Merle Haggard and bluegrass icons Dr. Ralph Stanley and Ricky Skaggs were among the 130 acts over four days in late April for MerleFest 2014. As has been the case for the past 26 years, DiGiCo consoles processed much of the music emanating from the festival’s 13 stages. SE Systems provided the consoles.
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LONDON — Multi-instrumentalist Marcus Anderson, who has been playing saxophone with Prince’s band, the New Power Generation, for almost two years, recently released his fifth solo album, Style Meets Substance, featuring Anderson on a range of instruments performing original material that spans a variety of genres. Anderson has been using Harman’s AKG C519 miniature condenser microphone in the studio and on stage.
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Shure is now offering the DC 5900 F, a new flush-mounted discussion unit, to its DDS 5900 Digital Discussion System. Shure says the Shure DC 5900 F is first conferencing unit on the market to use optical sensing to automatically configure the unit’s functionality.
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