LONDON — Since its inception four years ago, the Rewind festival has seen the 1980s reborn for two days every year in Henley-on-Thames, while its sister event – at Scone Palace in Scotland – made its debut in 2011. Both enjoy the benefits of great audio courtesy of Capital Sound.
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SEATTLE — Symetrix promoted its former Director of Business Development, Brooke Macomber, to Director of Marketing. In her new role, Macomber will manage the planning and execution of Symetrix’ worldwide promotional efforts.
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JESSUP, MD — API named London-based Source Distribution as its U.K. distributor. Source Distribution, a division of HHB Communications, brings over 35 years of industry experience to the partnership, as well as a client list that includes the BBC, Sky, CNN, and Abbey Road, among others.
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SACRAMENTO, CA — When FOH engineer Darwin Tillery goes out on a fly date for clients like Sheila E, New Edition, or Brian McKnight, he doesn’t worry about what console he might encounter at the gig. “I literally just carry mine with me,” he says. “I have the Allen & Heath R72 rack-mount console with the iDR48 MixRack. They both qualify as carry-ons, so I’m basically carrying a 48-channel digital console onto the plane.”
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TERMOLI, Italy — Lombardi SLR, based here, has become the first full service rental company in Italy to purchase E15’s, joining the growing global team of Energia rental companies. Lombardi SLR’s new E15 system made its debut at the 2012 Umbria Jazz festival in Perugia, headlined this year by Sting.
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LAS VEGAS — Cory Wells, one of the founders of the seminal rock band 3 Dog Night, will be hosting the Parnelli Awards in Las Vegas on Oct. 20, executive producer Terry Lowe announced. The band had 21 top 40 hits, and Wells sang nine of them, including “Mama Told Me Not to Come,” “Never Been to Spain,” and “Try a Little Tenderness.”
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WOODINVILLE, WA — Mackie’s new DLM Series powered loudspeakers each feature 2000 watts of power, Mackie TruSource technology and a full-featured integrated digital mixer/processor. The line includes two full-range loudspeaker models (the DLM8 and DLM12) and a high-output compact subwoofer (DLM12S).
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WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada — Martin Audio named audio industry veteran Sam Spennacchio Eastern Regional Sales Manager for North America. Spennacchio will be responsible for all Martin Audio sales east of the Mississippi.
Read More »PROVIDENCE, RI — Nortek, Inc.’s newly-formed Core Brands group, including the Aton, BlueBOLT, Elan, Furman, Niles, Panamax, Proficient, SpeakerCraft, Sunfire and Xantech brands, will be led by Bill Pollock, who has served as president of Panamax. Dave Keller, vice president of sales and marketing for Panamax/Furman, will handle worldwide sales. Keith Marshall, president of SpeakerCraft/Proficient, will be in charge of channel management, and Paul Starkey, president of Elan, will lead marketing for all brands.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Local production company Universal Sound has been supporting performances here by artists including Billy Ocean and Olivia Newton John with a JBL VerTec line array system from Harman.
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Symetrix’s new Radius 12×8 expands the company’s SymNet platform with a Dante-networkable, fixed I/O, open-architecture digital signal processor.
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Peerson Audio provided an audio solution for Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church here that included two Ashly ne24.24M processors and an Ashly FR-16 network fader remote control.
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