CHICAGO – Sensaphonics is bundling its 2MAX and 3MAX custom earphones along with Sennheiser's G3 wireless PM system with its "G3 to the MAX" promotion, which runs through the end of May 2010.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Lexicon is offering a free seven-day trial of the PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle, with seven Lexicon reverbs. The bundle includes plug-ins for each algorithm including: Vintage Plate, Plate, Hall, Room, Random Hall, Concert Hall, and Chamber with hundreds of studio presets from Lexicon's library of sounds.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Michael Abbott and Dr. Fred Ginsburg have been sharing some of their insights for the broadcast and film audio crowd at NAB this week, taking part in Audio-Technica's audio demonstration and instruction events at the company's booth, C1632.
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DALLAS – Brian Speiser, FOH engineer for the Indigo Girls, a folk rock duo that includes Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, has been using the Periscope Series P30/C microphones from Earthworks for miking their acoustic guitars at tour stops that have included the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, Calif., the Lincoln Center Performance Hall in Fort Collins, Colo. and the House of Blues in Dallas, Texas.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Back in December of 2008, the Christian Broadcasting Network, the nation's oldest Christian broadcast facility and one of the largest Christian television ministries in the world, began preparing for Digital TV Transition (DVT) and the clearing of the 700 MHz frequency band.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Avid announced that it will acquire Euphonix. The acquisition adds Euphonix audio and video control surfaces and consoles to Avid's portfolio. Avid will continue to support and sell both Euphonix control surfaces and Avid's ICON solution.
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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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MIAMI, FL – Gloria Estefan joined tens of thousands of Cubans-wearing white and carry Cuban flags-in Little Havana's Calle Ocho to show their support for Cuba's Ladies in White, the peaceful dissidents who were recently attacked by government forces in Havana.
Read More »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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BREDA, The Netherlands – A touring production of Mamma Mia across the Netherlands has translated hits such as "Dancing Queen" and "Voulez-Vous" into Dutch, but the music is pure Abba, heard through a traveling reinforcement system based around 32 Meyer Sound M'elodie line array loudspeakers.
Read More »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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CHARLOTTE, NC – The Knight Theater, a 1,200-seat venue for the North Carolina Dance Theater, the Charlotte Symphony and various music, comedy and touring productions, has been outfitted with a sound system that includes Renkus-Heinz's PNX102LA line arrays plus center clusters of STX4-Series loudspeakers.
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