ANAHEIM, CA – NAMM's Wanna Play? Stage outside the Anaheim Convention Center at the John Lennon Plaza once again drew crowds with well-known and up-and-coming artists during Winter NAMM's four day run. The stage is named for NAMM's "Wanna Play?" campaign, a public awareness initiative designed to encourage more people to play musical instruments.
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MERIDIAN, MS – The First Baptist Church here recently upgraded its sound system with dual Iconyx IC24-R systems, acting on the recommendation made by William Roland, principal at Gracenote Consulting.
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NEW YORK – For Marc Anthony's recently-completed U.S. leg of his Iconos tour, which began in New York City at Madison Square Garden and wrapped up in Chicago at the Allstate Arena, AVS Production Group provided a Yamaha PM5D-EX digital mixing system for monitors.
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LOS ANGELES – 2010 was a busy year for Kings Of Leon, who have been touring since summer in support of their new album, Come Around Sundown, with Midas XL8 live performance systems at FOH and monitors. The tour continues into 2011 with dates in Australia and South Africa before returning to Europe later in the year for more festival dates.
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WOODINVILLE, WA – LOUD Technologies Inc. named Jeff Rocha vice president and general manager, EAW and Anthony Taylor vice president and managing director, Martin Audio. In these newly expanded roles, Rocha and Taylor will assume P&L responsibility for their respective brand, as well as manage all engineering, product development, marketing, manufacturing and sales efforts. In addition, Rocha will lead the EAW design and manufacturing facility in Whitinsville, USA, while Taylor will lead the Martin Audio design and manufacturing facility in High Wycombe, U.K.
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DEATH VALLEY, CA – Legendary sound pioneer and Parnelli Audio Innovator Award honoree Bruce Jackson was killed after his Mooney M020 single engine piston prop engine plane crashed Jan. 29 near Furnace Creek, CA, in Death Valley National Park. The Federal Aviation Association is investigating the cause of the crash and currently lists it as "unknown circumstances." Jackson was alone, flying at 11 p.m. He was 62.
Read More »SAN GABRIEL, CA – Odyssey Innovative Designs, a manufacturer of cases and accessories for the audio market, won an infringement lawsuit against another accessories manufacturer, Rack in the Cases Limited, its affiliates and distributors.
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PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI – Two older churches here – St. Gabriel's and St. John's – shared a common problem. They both had large, reverberant spaces, which caused intelligibility issues, and both hired Lifeline Audio Video Technologies for a solution, which came in the form of SLS Audio's LS6593V2 column line arrays.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA – Blue Microphones named Martin "Marty" Wolf vice president of manufacturing and operations. Wolf, who has experience in supply chain management and operational strategy for companies including Line 6, IRIS International, Inc., L-3 Communications, Inc., Teradyne, Inc. and others, will focus on Blue's global supply chain efficiency and the production of Blue's high-end audio line.
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CHARLOTTE, NC – Club Marigny opened near the end of 2010, bringing the spirit of New Orleans to North Carolina with a sound system designed by Myron Surber, sales and design specialist at SE Systems. Surber used Ashly's 3.6SP signal processing and their new KLR series amplifiers.
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BUTLER, NJ – The owners of Architekt Music chose Shure microphones for the new facility's concert venue, recording studio, and professional music instruction space. "We knew Shure microphones could stand up to abuse in a live setting," said George Roskos, co-owner. "So it was a no-brainer that we'd choose them for our concert venue."
Read More »{mosimage} PORTLAND, OR – Audinate announced that ZP Engineering has become the first Audinate Authorized Distributor and Engineering Partner in EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa).
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