LOS ANGELES, CA – Blue Microphones acquired the assets of Summit Audio Inc. Blue Microphones will continue the production of all current Summit product lines, under the Summit name. Customer support, marketing, and sales will be resourced from the Blue Microphones team.
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LAS VEGAS – At Prolight+Sound/Musikmesse and NAB, DiGiCo featured its SD11, the company's smallest console – in size and price; its SD Ten, positioned between the SD7 and SD8; and a limited edition SD8, marking 20 years of production at DiGiCo's factory in Scotland.
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HYDERABAD, India – For a recent Bryan Adams concert that drew 18,000 to the Hitex Exhibition Centre, Sound.com provided Harman gear including Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers and JBL VerTec line arrays.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Sound system designer Bob Heil will be presenting "A History of Live Sound" at the Shimmer Lounge at the Hilton in Las Vegas. The event, coinciding with the NAB show at the Las Vegas Convention Center nearby, is set for April 13 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
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Roger S. Nichols a seven-time Grammy Award winning recording engineer and producer best known for his work with Steely Dan and John Denver, died at home April 9 after a long illness. He was 66.
Read More »Tal Herzberg, a Grammy-nominated producer/engineer who was also one of the first employees at Waves, has passed away. He worked with Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige, The Pussycat Dolls, Counting Crows, Macy Gray, Keyshia Cole and Queen Latifah, among others. Herzberg also performed and recorded as a bassist with artists including The Corrs, Beth Hart and Mya.
Read More »LONDON – British authorities have completed a major crackdown on counterfeit goods, seizing gear with forged Sennheiser and Monster Cable branding from the premises of an organization involved in distributing the illegal knockoffs online. Sennheiser and Monster Cable helped investigators confirm that the illegal goods were, in fact, fakes.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – The Stanton Group named Steve Van Laere, who has been with the company since 2003, senior director of worldwide sales for all Stanton Group brands, Stanton Magnetics, KRK and Cerwin-Vega. In his new role, Van Laere adds responsibility for the Latin America/Canada and Asia Pacific regions to his previous role as managing director of EMEA.
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ZAGREB, Croatia – JSN Comon provided a sound reinforcement system that uses SymNet open-architecture digital signal processing for the 161,000-square-foot Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), an Igor Franic-designed building.
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TUSCALOOSA, AL – Built in 1939 and steeped in 1960s Civil Rights significance, the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium had recently fallen into disrepair. After a renovation, including a new iBOX system from Community Professional, the building reopened as home to the school's Crimson Tide basketball and volleyball teams.
Read More »FRANKFURT, Germany – Harman Professional's HiQnet Performance Manager software, which debuted at Prolight + Sound 2011, is designed to streamline the system design, setup and tuning process for touring and live performance venue sound reinforcement systems, according to Paul Bauman, director of tour sound product application and application engineering, JBL Professional.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Roland Systems Group's V-Mixing System, new M-480 V-Mixer and R-1000 48-Track Recorder/Player, featured at ProLight+Sound, will be presented at Roland's NAB booth #C4345, in Las Vegas. Like the M-400, M-380, and M-300, Roland's M-480, a 48-channel live digital mixing console, is the central component in a full V-Mixing system. Along with a new mixing engine, the M-480 is fully integrated with digital snakes, personal mixing and multi-channel recording components.
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