LAS VEGAS – Solotech announced that it has purchased Audio Analysts for an undisclosed sum, and that Audio Analysts staff members and gear will be moving from their home base in Colorado Springs, CO to the Solotech USA facility in Las Vegas.
Read More »{mosimage}WESTMINSTER MA – Dave Rat, president of Rat Sound Systems, is the keynote speaker at this year's Sound Forums Network Expo, which will be held at the Wachusett Village Inn here May 16-17, and followed by a two-day class focusing on Rational Acoustics' Smaart v.7 on May 18-19. Rat's attendance is being sponsored by longtime industry leader Mark Herman's new online media company, Big Buzz Network.
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LUTON, U.K. – Cadac Holdings Ltd named Vincenzo Borrelli to the newly-created position of sales development manager. Borrelli has previously worked for companies including Harman, Mackie, Sound Technology and, most recently, Stage Electrics.
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NASHVILLE, TN – The Nashville Rescue Mission's division for homeless men has been providing food, shelter, medical care and counseling since 1954 – requiring, in return, attendance at worship services. Those services, which include music, are held nightly in a 400-seat chapel, 364 times a year.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – An American Rhapsody, a concert performed at the Hotel Indonesia Kempinski by the 40-piece Jakarta Concert Orchestra and Batavia Madrigal Singers led by conductor Avip Priatna, relied on Innovason Eclipse digital mixing console on monitors supplied by rental company Megaswara with support from Innovason's Indonesian distributor, LaMesa, and engineer Ahmad Rapii.
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OLD LYME, CT – Sennheiser named Peter Claussen president of its Installed Sound division, effective Aug. 1. Claussen, 47, joins Sennheiser from the IT company Höft & Wessel AG, where he served as deputy chairman of the management board. He will assume responsibilities previously handled by Dr. Heinrich Esser, and will also serve as a member of Sennheiser's executive management board.
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AUSTIN, TX – Neon Trees was a featured act at SXSW this year and has been appearing on tour with My Chemical Romance and also a number of one-off fly dates. To meet the band's mixing needs, stage manager/monitor engineer Mike Bangs and FOH engineer Neal Duffy are using a pair of Allen & Heath iLive T112 consoles.
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LAS VEGAS – John Murray, a longtime audio professional who has worked in every facet of the live event industry, has joined FRONT of HOUSE magazine as Technical Editor. Most recently, Murray was Technical Editor of Live Sound for 10 years. He joins a new team that includes Mark Frink, editor, and Mark Herman, consulting editor.
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ORLANDO – Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. and Dan Dugan Sound Design announced plans for an InfoComm debut of the Dugan-MY16 card for current model Yamaha digital mixers and processors including Yamaha 01V96, DM1000, 02R96, DM2000, M7CL, LS9, DSP5D, PM5D, and DME24/64N. Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems will be the sole distributor for the card, which will be available to customers within North America.
Read More »PUTNAM, CT – Rational Acoustics teamed up with Soundtools Oy, E&E and Wigwam Acoustics to provide Smaart sales, support and training for Finland, India, Singapore and the U.K. The appointments were made during the first quarter of 2011.
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LONDON – Audio-Technica gear – including a combination of ES935ML6 MicroLine Condenser Gooseneck Microphones and U851R Cardioid Condenser Boundary Microphones installed in Westminster Abbey, 32 microphones in all – captured the audio of the Royal Wedding, which attracted media attention from around the world and was seen by some 2 billion people.
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AUSTIN, TX – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals, a unique convergence that showcases original music, independent films, emerging technologies and a lot of networking, returned to Austin earlier this year, along with DBS Sound engineer Patrick Mundy, who chose a Yamaha M7CL-48 digital audio console as his main source of audio.
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