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DiGiCo SD9, a.k.a. “Red Snapper”

DiGiCo SD9, a.k.a. “Red Snapper”

DiGiCo unveiled their new SD9, also called the "Red Snapper." Made from rolled and anodized aluminium rather than steel, it is strong and light – the whole desk weighs less than 110 lbs. It has a D-Rack digital stage interface and CAT5E digital multicore, and has the capability to record up to 56 channels direct onto a multitrack recorder or DAW.

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Roland Systems Group S-0808 Digital Snake

The S-0808 Digital Snake is an 8in/8out compact, lightweight digital snake that supports multiple power options including battery-power, embedded-powered over REAC and power over Ethernet (PoE). The inputs offer remote controllable preamps, phantom-power, 24-bit 96kHz A/D conversion as well as choices of XLR, TRS line and even Hi-Z capability to reduce the need for direct boxes.

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NAC Technologies Provides NEXO and Yamaha for Third Project at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square

CLEVELAND – The Palace Theater, a part of the Playhouse Square complex and Cleveland Theater District that originally opened in 1922, now seats 2,700 for a variety of touring productions and concerts. NAC Technologies senior audio engineer Rick Galbraith and company owner Dave Cooper recently designed and installed a new sound system including 63 NEXO S12s and subs, NXAmps, and a Yamaha M7CL-48 digital console.

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Digidesign Becomes Avid

DALY CITY, CA – Once upon a time there was a company called Avid widely known in the video editing world. And Avid owned a company called Digidesign that made software called Pro Tools for audio editing. We in the live tribe began to care a few years ago when Digidesign unleashed the VENUE system and the addition of processing plug-ins changed our working environment forever.

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Linear Names Mark Terry President of Newly Formed Group

CARLSBAD, CA – Linear LLC announced the creation of a new audio, video, and control group combining Niles Audio, Xantech, and ELAN Home Systems into a single business unit based here. Mark Terry has joined Linear as president of the new unit. Reporting to Terry are Bob Farinelli, president & CTO, of ELAN Home Systems; Frank Sterns, president of Niles Audio; and Graham Hallett, president of Xantech.

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Sarah Heil Appointed Heil Sound President

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL – Sarah Heil has been named president of Heil Sound Ltd., a dynamic microphone manufacturing company that her husband and company CEO, Bob Heil, founded in 1966. Sarah Heil now heads up the two divisions, Pro and Amateur Radio, that make up Heil Sound.

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Clear-Com Bought by HME

POWAY, CA – After more than 40 years providing products that allow production personnel to communicate on the gig, Clear-Com is so pervasive that many in the audio tribe refer to all comm as Clear-Com regardless of who makes the gear. Few were even aware that for the past decade-plus, Clear-Com has been part of the Videocom division of The Vitec Group-a technology group that is deeply into video and lighting.

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