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Community Welcomes AVCOM as Sales Rep
CLEVELAND, OH – Founded in the late 1960s, AVCOM is a multi-line AV manufacturers’ representative company covering the states of Ohio and West Virginia as well as Western Pennsylvania and Northern Kentucky.
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Meyer Sound Adds Michael Creason and Ashley Hanson to Executive Team
BERKELEY, CA – Meyer Sound Bolsters Product Management Team with Michael Creason and Promotes Ashley Hanson to Design Services Manager.
Meyer Sound has promoted Michael Creason to the newly created position of Product Manager—System Applications and Training, while Ashley Hanson moves to the Design Services Manager role.
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Adamson Launches Blueprint AV Software Suite
PORT PERRY, Ontario – Blueprint AV™ is a multi-use predictive software suite from Adamson that operates both in the 2D and 3D realm. Designed to provide Adamson clients with a user-defined level of detail, the software delivers extreme precision in any operating mode.
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Sound Works Productions Provides NEXO and Yamaha Gear for Chicago NYE Celebration
CHICAGO — Sound Works Productions (Frankfort, IL) provided NEXO and Yamaha gear to support the audio needs of a New Year’s Eve party held in the Grand Ballroom of the Palmer House Hilton. Billed as “Big Night Chicago,” the event, featuring DJ duo Brody Jenner and William Lifestyle, among others, was attended by more than 3,000. Daniel Nickleski, Sound Works’ owner/director of operations, noted that the NEXO GEO S12 boxes helped serve as a solution to the venue’s rigging challenges. The setup also included NEXO PS10s as front fills and delays.
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Masque Sound Continues Broadway Run with Season’s Most Anticipated Revival, The Elephant Man
NEW YORK, NY — Masque Sound, a leading theatrical sound reinforcement, installation and design company, recently provided a custom audio equipment package for the current Broadway revival of Bernard Pomerance’s Tony Award®-winning play The Elephant Man, which is now playing a limited engagement through February 15, 2015 at the Booth Theatre in New York City. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award® winner Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola return to Broadway in The Elephant Man, directed by seven-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis. Based on the real life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man tells the story of a 19th-century British man (Cooper) who became a star of the traveling freak show circuit.
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Roland Professional A/V Names Bormann Manufacturer Rep Firm for Upper Midwest Region
LOS ANGELES — Roland’s Professional A/V Division named Bormann Marketing, Inc. as the company’s new manufacturer’s representative firm for Roland’s professional audio and video product lines the upper Midwest region, including Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Bormann Marketing, Inc. is an award winning manufacturer’s representative firm experienced in serving the needs of resellers, systems integrators, contractors, architects, engineers, designers and consultants in the north-central states.
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New AKG Leadership Team Includes Eric Boyer, Karam Kaul
NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional recently announced a new leadership team for AKG’s professional business. Karam Kaul is director of marketing and Eric Boyer (pictured here) is vice president of worldwide sales. Both Boyer and Kaul are now based in Harman Professional Division’s Northridge, CA headquarters and will work closely with the AKG team in Vienna, Austria led by Martin Thaler.
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Audix DP4 Instrument Pack
WILSONVILLE, OR – Audix Microphones has announced their latest release—the DP4 Instrument Pack, a combination of four essential mics for rhythm sections,sound engineers, and beyond. The new pack consists of the iconic Audix D6 microphone and three i5 microphones in a heavy-duty carrying case. The case also includes three DFLEX mic mounts and three additional cutouts for vocal microphones. The DP4 is a perfect complement of dynamic microphones for close miking of a variety of sources, on-stage or in the studio.
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WorxAudio Technologies Loudspeaker System Deployed at Cedar Grove Baptist Church
CARTHAGE, TX – Recognizing that God’s message is only relevant if it can be heard clearly, Cedar Grove Baptist Church management recently elected to upgrade their sanctuary’s sound system. To ensure the highest levels of speech intelligibility and music reproduction, they chose a compact line array system from Greensboro, North Carolina-based WorxAudio Technologies.
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Eminence Names New Engineering Department Head, Promotes Two
EMINENCE, KY – Eminence Speaker promoted Jerry McNutt to Product Design Manager. McNutt has served Eminence as a Senior Design Engineer for over 17 years, and has been responsible for some of the company’s most notable products and advancements in technology. Two additional promotions within the Engineering department include Matt Marcum and Anthony Lucas. Marcum has been named Senior Design Engineer, and Lucas is now Design Engineer.
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Marshall Bissett Named Chairman of Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors
LAS VEGAS — Marshall Bissett has been named chairman of the governing body of the Parnelli Awards. Bissett, a longtime supporter of the awards program, was one of the first to join the board of advisors. He’s played an increasingly active role behind the scenes in the last few years as a vital part of the production team and one of the show’s writers.
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