DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Aqua Sounds supported two major events in Tanzania's largest city with Proel Axiom gear. The events included festivities surrounding the East Africa Football Cup and a major corporate event sponsored by mobile telephone company Bharti Airtel.
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GAINESVILLE, GA – Danley Sound Labs named Chad Edwardson to its engineering and system design staff. He will assist clients with product selection and application details and will work with the Danley R&D team on new product development.
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BOSTON – To commemorate 150 years since its charter was signed, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) staged its Next Century Convocation at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The event organizers called upon Northeast Media (Woburn, MA), which used a Harman JBL VerTec line array system for audio support.
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MEMPHIS, TN – Dave Woolworth of Oxford, MS-based Oxford Acoustics used the Iconyx IC Live digitally steerable array from Renkus-Heinz to meet the sound design goals the auditorium at White Station High School, which has a low ceiling and parallel walls and serves 2,300 students.
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LONDON – Adlib supplied sound equipment and crew for the recent U.K. leg of The Script's Science & Faith world tour.
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Harman founder and chairman emeritus, Sidney Harman, died April 12 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. Harman, whose activities spanned the worlds of professional audio, government (he served as the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce in 1977 and 1978), education and publishing (he became the publisher of Newsweek in Aug. 2010), is also remembered for his philanthropy.
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LONDON – Penn Elcom and Fane Acoustics – both of whom have manufacturing facilities in the U.K. and Asia – announced a global partnership where each will have access to the other's international distribution networks. The agreement is expected to increase the global availability of both companies' products, including loudspeaker components and casing hardware. Both companies have served their respective markets for more than 30 years.
Read More »The audio industry mourned the recent passing of Roger S. Nichols, a seven-time Grammy Award winning recording engineer and producer best known for his work with Steely Dan and John Denver, and Tal Herzberg, a Grammy-nominated producer/engineer who was also one of the first employees at Waves.
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LAS VEGAS – Bosch Security Systems, Inc. has launched the Safe & Sound security and audio tour aboard a mobile trailer that expands to 53 feet long and 25 feet wide when parked. A portion of the 1,000 square feet of exhibition space is devoted to Electro-Voice installed and portable sound systems.
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CHICAGO – Prior to band rehearsals last fall, Cage The Elephant monitor engineer Jay Rigby switched from another digital mixing console that offered plugins to a DiGiCo SD8, with analog-sounding mic pres the initial lure, and compact size and the RME MadiFace card for recording both guarding against switcher's remorse.
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WHITINSVILLE, MA – EAW expanded its Application Support Group (ASG) and named industry veteran Jerrold Stevens as ASG director, effective mid-May, 2011. Stevens, who will work closely with EAW's Strategic Engineering and Manufacturing Group, will serve as technical liaison between EAW's customers, sales force and R&D team.
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