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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RF-intermodPRO™, a new software product that aids in calculating, predicting and identifying intermodulation interference of wireless devices, has been introduced by Kaltman Creations LLC under the Invisible Waves™ product banner. The PC-based product refines and simplifies the process of identifying intermodulation distortion (IMD) frequencies in a given RF spectrum and is available as a standalone PC-based software product or as a plug-in option for the Invisible Waves RF Command Center. The intermod software is designed for professional audio wireless microphone users, AV installers of wireless devices, frequency coordinators, and broadcasters.
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LOS ANGELES — FOH engineer Jeff Peterson has been using a DiGiCo SD5 console at FOH for some high-profile televised events recently, including CNN’s Heroes: An All-Start Tribute (pictured here) and Spike TV’s Video Game Awards (pictured below).
SEATTLE — Symetrix has been an active participant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots Program for 25 years — which is more than long enough for some of the original recipients of the toys in the early years of Symetrix’s sponsorship of the program to grow up and join the Marine Corps themselves. The program collects new, unwrapped toys each year to distribute as Christmas gifts to needy children in local communities.
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LONDON — Three-piece U.K. all-girl vocal group Stooshe is now using a pair of Harman’s Soundcraft Vi1 digital audio consoles on the road. The band’s popularity soared after sales of its debut single, “Black Heart,” reached more than 500,000, which led to a dedicated monitor engineer being brought in to the fold to join John Delf at FOH.
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PARIS — The largest MLA Compact rig to date recently made its French debut at the Paris Bercy when a capacity crowd of 17,000 attended a six-hour marathon concert, La Nuit de l’Outremer (The Overseas Night). Franck Sono, the first French production company to acquire the new MLA Compact Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array System 36, deployed the system.
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KELOWNA, BC, Canada — In late 2012, Willow Park Church presented the 21st annual “Living Nativity” holiday production. Along with the efforts of more than 500 volunteers, the annual presentation has long relied upon Countryman Associates’ E6 Omni Earset microphones. The mics are also used for the church’s weekly worship services.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional named Marc Lee Shannon senior manager, business development for its USA Regional Sales Office (RSO). In this role Shannon will focus primarily on sales efforts for AKG professional audio products and will also be involved in brand promotions for other Harman Professional companies. He will report to Mark Posgay, Harman’s senior director, US Sales.
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