NASHVILLE – On his recent tour, ex-Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant joined forces with guitarist and Nashville's iconic producer Buddy Miller, a walking compendium of American roots music.
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BOSTON – LMG Inc. might be known more for its corporate gigs than for concert touring. But for the Pixies' North American tour, the company is providing not only LED video and lighting support, but sound gear as well.
Read More »KNOXVILLE, TN – Waves Audio, which recently released its Waves/Abbey Road/The King's Microphones plugin, announce a long-term strategic partnership with Abbey Road Studios. Waves' R&D department will collaborate closely with Abbey Road Studios' engineers to create a series of audio plugins.
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PHOENIX – The two-month Hooligans in Wondaland tour, feature Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae and opening acts Plan B, Patrick Stump and Mayer Hawthorne, wound its way through sheds across North America in May and June, supported by Clair-supplied gear including a pair of DiGiCo SD8s.
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BERKELEY, CA – Berkeley Repertory Theatre is relying on Countryman Associates' E6 Omni and E2 Uni-directional earset microphones, B6 Omni lavaliere models and the Type 10 direct boxes. Sound supervisor James Ballen, who has been handling sound at Berkeley Rep for the past 10 years, specified the gear.
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CHICAGO – Sensaphonics has announced the promotion of three more audiologists into its Golden Circle network. The company remains the only provider of custom in-ear monitoring (IEM) solutions to specifically train audiologists on serving the unique needs of musicians and sound engineers.
Read More »NEW YORK – Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems will hold "Four Days of Training" August 9-12 at Manhattan Center Studios, 311 West 34th St. (between 8th & 9th Ave.) in New York City. Free of charge and open to all audio professionals, the Yamaha "Four Days of Training" will let attendees participate in hands-on demos and training on Yamaha and NEXO products.
Read More »NILES, IL – For the fourth time, Shure has been named one of "Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). The award was established to recognize companies that follow best practices in human resource management. Shure won the same award in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Read More »KNOXVILLE, TN – Waves Audio announced updated SoundGrid capability for consoles from DiGiCo. SoundGrid Version 2 features dual engine support for DiGiCo SD7 consoles running Waves V8 plugins.
Read More »BATON ROUGE, LA – PreSonus has announced that Apple Mac users who wish to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7, better known as Lion, can participate in a public beta-test of its Universal Control 1.5.2 software. Universal Control 1.5.2 makes all StudioLive-series digital mixers and all FireStudio-series interfaces except the original FireStudio (26×26) fully OS X Lion-compatible.
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BUENA PARK, CA – In just a few days, and after over 45,000 downloads of the initial StageMix iPad App for Yamaha M7CL and LS9 digital consoles, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of StageMix 2.0 via free download from the Apple iTunes store.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Following a three-month North American arena tour earlier this year, Kid Rock is now out on his second U.S. sweep in support of his latest album, Born Free. Joined by Sheryl Crow for most of the dates, which run into September, Rock and his entourage are being heard via L-Acoustics' K1 stadium line source system.
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