ANDOVER, MA — Fishman announced three new hires: David Bensheimer (senior mechanical engineer, pictured here); Jim Albert (senior electrical engineer, pictured below) and Deb Furman (junior mechanical engineer, also pictured below). The company noted that Bensheimer, Albert and Furman are part of an ongoing commitment to product development and engineering.
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NEW YORK — 54 Below, located a few blocks from Times Square and just below Studio 54, is gaining notice, not just for its famous location and tony architectural and lighting design (by Tony award-winning designers) but for its acoustical design and sound system, too.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Adlib, based here, is expanding its training facilities for manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and others staging seminars, workshops and hands-on demonstrations. The company notes that training events now take place every one to three weeks on a year-round basis, and Adlib expects the events to become even more frequent in 2013.
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VELDHOVEN, The Netherlands — Known to fans as DJ Zany, Raoul van Grinsven, one of the founders of Fusion Records, has been making good use of his PreSonus Studio One Professional.
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Hosa Technology’s USB-200FB series high speed USB cables feature pivoting A connectors for straight or right-angle connections with laptop computers.
Read More »PUIDOUX/ DIEPENBEEK, Belgium — Merging Technologies named Amptec bvba as its distributor in Belgium. Amptec has offices in The Netherlands as well, but Merging Technologies’ distribution in that country remains with longtime Merging partner Maarten Sound & Vision.
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OZARK and SPRINGFIELD, MO — James River Assembly (JRA), a congregation with two churches based here, upgraded recently with two new DiGiCo SD5 consoles along with a new SD10 desk to meet expanding audio production needs.
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DALLAS — For the worship services at its main location and three other campuses in the Dallas area, Gateway Church is using consoles enhanced with Waves plug-ins for audio mixing. Jason Aulds, pictured here, serves as associate director/FOH engineer for services led by Pastor Robert Morris.
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SAN FRANCISCO — In a juried decision, “On the Study of Ionic Microphones” was named “Best Paper” at the 133rd AES Convention. It was presented by Hiroshi Akino, Audio-Technica Corp., Japan, with Hirofumi Shimokawa, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan, and Jackie Green and Tadashi Kikutani of Audio-Technica U.S. Pictured here are, from left, Green, Akino and Kikutani.
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LONDON — Canadian metal multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend presented “The Retinal Circus” (named after an old Vancouver club in the 1960s, famous for psychedelic rock shows) in London’s 3,300-capacity Roundhouse on Oct. 27. Along with those at the venue, others experienced the show online. The performance was supported by gear from Radial Engineering.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Opéra de Lausanne, which reopened after a five-years renovation Oct. 5, presented a new production of The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti. The renovated venue features an Adamson Metrix system controlled and amplified by Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q. The L-R arrays each include three Metrix 5-degree boxes for the main floor level, one Metrix subwoofer for low-end reinforcement and two carefully aimed Metrix 5 degree boxes to cover the balconies. More than 700 VIP guests attended.
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ALAMEDA, CA — Clear-Com named Christian Eberlein as its regional sales manager for DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and Poland. Prior to Clear-Com, Eberlein held positions with Wellenwerker, Atlantic Audio and Behringer.
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