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LOS ANGELES, CA – The ability to project effectively and with a high level of speech intelligibility – without appearing to speak – has helped Kevin Johnson get appearances on NBC's America's Got Talent, and CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman, and other high-profile gigs. Since 2007, when he started performing at Legoland in California, he's relied upon an E6 Directional Earset microphone from Countryman Associates.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – Schubert Systems Group (SSG), a provider of audio for touring sound for more than 30 years, has purchased one PRO9 and two PRO6 digital consoles by Midas, augmented with the Klark Teknik DN9331 Rapide rack-mountable remotes with motorized faders to operate the console's graphic EQs.

BERKELEY, CA – In a recent episode of MythBusters on Discovery Channel, show hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman worked with Meyer Sound to investigate whether the "big bangs" (gunshots and explosions) heard in movie soundtracks are sonically faithful to the real events. The episode, entitled "Blow Your Own Sail," was aired on May 11, 2011.

AUGUSTA, GA – Quest Sound, which covers the East Coast from Washington, D.C. to the Florida panhandle, has been using a rig built around a Renkus-Heinz CF101-LA modular point source array loudspeaker system to meet the widely varying needs of its clients.

TORONTO – Country music artist Jason McCoy performed at 26 Canadian cities with Sennheiser wireless transmitters and receivers and K-array loudspeakers in support of his fifth studio album, Everything. GV Audio in Regina, SK provided the gear. The solo tour ran from March 4 (Kamloops BC) to April 21 (Halifax, NS).