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“USITT Presents” Seminar Set for Meyer Sound HQ on Aug. 16

Mauricio Ramirez

“USITT Presents” Seminar Set for Meyer Sound HQ on Aug. 16

BERKELEY, CA – “USITT Presents,” a series of one-day seminars that began with a Meyer Sound-sponsored event in Nashville, TN in February, followed by events sponsored by Studio Gear (Milwaukee, in March) and Chauvet (Miami, in June), will be hosted by Meyer Sound again at company headquarters here on Friday, Aug. 16. Instructor Mauricio Ramirez will lead the daylong session covering system design principles. The event will include hands-on use of Meyer Sound’s MAPP Online, SIM 3 audio analyzer and other tools.

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Starboy frontman, Matt Bowden (left), with chief engineer, Stu Fu, and the GLD-80.

New Zealand-Based Starboy Tours Europe with Compact GLD

CORNWALL, UK — Stu Fu, chief engineer for Matt “Starboy” Bowden, a New Zealand-based rock musician who puts on elaborately staged, theatrical performances, opted for an Allen & Heath compact GLD-80 digital mixer to support a series of shows in Eastern and Central Europe this summer. Fu lauded the digital desk’s ability to eliminate the need for a long roster of outboard gear.

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Cerwin Vegas P1500X Speaker

Cerwin-Vega P-series

Cerwin-Vega’s P-Series, promising high levels of power, bass, and clarity for DJs, solo acts, ensembles, bands, presenters and others, includes the P1500X (with 1500W peak power, 15″ low-frequency driver, 1.75″ high-frequency driver, and built-in 3-channel mixer; pictured here) and the P1800X sub-woofer (with 2000W peak power and 18″ low-frequency driver).

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Aphex Audio Xciter App Update

Aphex updated the company’s Audio Xciter app for the Android platform of smartphones and tablets, giving Android users the ability to listen to WAV, M4A, WMA and AAC files with sample rates from 8kHz all the way to 48kHz. Additionally, MP3 files are now supported at bit rates of 96 kbps to 320 kbps.

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The Ideal City with K-array

Team Teatret Incorporates K-array Speakers in Unique Theatrical Structure

HERNING, Denmark —Team Teatret, a theatre company, built a cube-like structure in the pavilion of the MCH Messecenter Herning exhibition center here for its one-man production, Dokumentaristen. Ingvar Cronhammar, the theatre company’s sound engineer, chose K-array gear for the unique performance space, including 12 KP52s, four KMT21s, two KMT18s and a KA10 amplifier.

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Jay Easley

SSL Names Jay Easley VP of Live Consoles in USA

OXFORD, U.K. — Solid State Logic named industry veteran Jay Easley vice president of Live Consoles in the Americas. Easley, most recently with Midas/Klark Teknik, will work closely with the company’s U.S. operation, SSL Inc., to assist with the studio console company’s push into North and South America’s live music marketplace.

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James “Bonzai” Caruso Featured Speaker at IADT Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, NV – Four-time Grammy Award winning recording engineer, producer, arranger and song writer, James “Bonzai” Caruso, is the featured speaker at the inaugural “Inside the Studio” at IADT (International Academy of Design & Technology) Las Vegas on July 11, 2013. Sponsored by the IADT Audio Production department, the open forum Q&A and “meet & greet” session is at the school’s new industry-standard recording and mixing studio, Vegas View Recording.  The event is free and open to the public.

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Lectrosonics DNTBOB 88 Dante Breakout Box Streamlines TEDX Conference

ARLINGTON, TX As a global set of conferences operating under the slogan ‘ideas worth spreading,’ TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conferences focus on the convergence of the three fields that comprise its name. The TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations, and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. Recently, the TEDxUTA event was sponsored by The University of Texas at Arlington and, to help ensure consistent audio quality for this real-time streamed over the Internet event without a maze of cables, a pair of DNTBOB 88 Dante breakout boxes from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics were placed into service.

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