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WAUNAKEE, WI — The 7th Annual Full Compass Golf Event benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County brought some 120 golfers to The Meadows of Sixmile Creek, raising $8,850.

ORLANDO —DiGiCo announced plans to feature recent additions to its digital console line at the 2009 InfoComm show, including the CS-D5, SD7 and SD8 consoles, which use DiGiCo’s Stealth Processing engine.

ALACHUA, FL — In a bid to address DTV/White Spaces problems, Sabine is now shipping its SWM6000 Smart Spectrum™ Wireless Microphone Systems, which the company calls “immune to a whole host of problems associated with the recent dramatic shrinkage of available UHF frequencies.”

The Protea 4.8SP four-input/eight-output and Protea 3.6SP three-input/six-output 1RU digital signal processors offer an intuitive user interface plus PC control software and comprehensive DSP, including crossover, equalization, delay and limiter functions. Gain, delay and six filters (each a choice of parametric, low or high-shelf) may be applied to every input, each of which employs 24-bit, 48 kHz delta-sigma A/D converters with 128x over sampling.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Salt Lake Acting Company may premiere new, original plays with edgy themes, but when it came time to buy a new mixing console, in-house sound maven Cynthia L. Kehr Rees opted for familiar terrain. She chose the analog Yamaha IM8-32 for its straightforward layout and feature set.

NOBLESVILLE, IN — The South Auditorium of Grace Community Church reveals a vision of what worship spaces of the future might look like — and sound like. “I designed the architecture here as a giant, three-dimensional hug,” said architect Kevin Callahan, and that intimacy extends to the Meyer Sound Constellation system chosen for the space.

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Maybe it wasn’t as dramatic as Kris Allen’s underdog victory over his good friend Adam Lambert, pictured here, but mic watchers watching the eighth season of American Idol might have noticed another surprise this year, the switch from black to chrome mics.

ELKHART, IN — The Bartlett Microphones TM-125 is a supercardioid boundary mic designed for use on the theatre stage to pick up actors in drama or musicals. The TM-125 can also be used to capture the footwork of dance groups and for picking up speech in boardrooms, conferences, pulpits and altar tables.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Evangelical Covenant Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. upgraded its sound system with a Soundcraft Si3 digital console. It was the first time the console had been sold to a house of worship. Evangelical Covenant Church, founded in 1979, serves 750 worshippers weekly.

KEY WEST, FL — Jennifer Batten has never done anything the usual way, which explains why the guitarist/composer is supporting her latest CD, Whatever, with a one of a kind, one-woman multimedia tour.

SEATTLE — The Vera Project is a Seattle music-arts center run by and for youth. By engaging participants at all levels of music production and community organizing, Vera strives to fulfill its mission to foster a participatory creative culture through popular music concerts, arts programs, experiential learning and volunteer opportunities for youth and others.