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Neutrik Donates Connectors to Music Resource Center
Music Resource Center student Vernon Christmas works in the center’s newly rewired control room for Studio A. Neutrik recently provided an assortment of its...
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AKG U.S. Names Dino Virella National Sales Manager
AKG Acoustics introduced Dino Virella (pictured) as its new national sales manager in the United States. Based in AKG’s Northridge, Calif. office, Virella will...
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Maidstone Studios to Install Studer Vista 8
The Maidstone Studios in Kent, UK is set to install a 52-fader Studer Vista 8 digital console in its flagship Studio 5 (pictured) to...
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PreSonus FaderPort Now Supports SONAR
The PreSonus FaderPort USB automation and transport controller ($229) now supports Cakewalk SONAR. The FaderPort is Mac and Windows compatible and also supports Pro...
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Studios Piccolo in Montreal Installs Solid State Logic Duality
Studios Piccolo co-owner Dominique Messier pictured at the Duality console. Studios Piccolo in Montreal, Quebec—named Studio of the Year in six of the past...
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Rapco International and Horizon Music Merge Into One Company
Rapco International and Horizon Music Inc. have merged to form The RapcoHorizon Company, located in Jackson, Mo. Both companies have manufactured and supplied audio...
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House of Worship in Minnesota Installs EV NetMax System
Audio Logic Systems of Bloomington, Minn. recently installed an EV NetMax/IRIS-Net digital system control matrix at Grace Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, Minn., the...
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Engineer Michael Wagener Installs ADAM S3A Studio Monitors
Engineer Michael Wagener (pictured)—whose credits include Metallica, Dokken, Skid Row, Janet Jackson, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne—has installed ADAM Audio S3A studio monitors in...
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Yamaha’s Akira Nakamura, Designer of NS-10M Speaker, Retires
Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Inc. announces the January 2007 retirement of legendary speaker designer Akira Nakamura (pictured). Since 1965, Mr. Nakamura has led the...
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Manhattan Producers Alliance Names General Director and CEO
The Manhattan Producer’s Alliance (MPA) has named Matt Grippo (pictured) to the post of General Director/CEO. Grippo comes to the MPA as a recent...
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Apogee Supports Macy Gray’s M:Gray Music Academy
Apogee Electronics is a Gold Partner sponsor of Macy Gray’s M:Gray Music Academy, a non-profit organization in North Hollywood, Calif. that aims to offer...
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Concept AV in Berlin Installs Fairlight HD DREAM Factory System
Concept AV, a professional film and video production company in Berlin, Germany, has purchased a Fairlight HD DREAM Factory system, which comprises a compact...
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Sennheiser Now Shipping Evolution 602 II Microphone
Sennheiser has added the e 602 II ($289) cardioid dynamic microphone to its evolution Series. The e 602 II succeeds the e 602 and...
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David Bock to Acquire the Rights to Soundelux Microphones
David Bock, designer and co-founder of Soundelux Microphones, is acquiring the rights to the Soundelux Microphone company. The acquisition is scheduled to be finalized...
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Black Eyed Peas’ George Pajon, Jr. Purchases Six A-Designs Mic Preamps
Guitarist George Pajon, Jr. (pictured), who for the past eight years has been an integral member of the multiple Grammy Award–winning Black Eyed Peas,...
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Crown Forms New Strategic Quality Team and Builds Test Lab
Crown International in Elkhart, Indiana established a Strategic Quality Team earlier this year and upgraded its factory to include a Reliability Test Lab equipped...
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England’s Video Sound Services Deploys LightViper for UK Reality Show
The X-Factor judges, from left: Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell FiberPlex’s LightViper VIS-1832 fiber-optic digital snake has been deployed for the internationally...
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XO Audio Announces XO Wave Beta Version 0.19.0
XO Audio announced the release of XO Wave Beta Version 0.19.0 Mac OS X software for audio production and post-production, including CD mastering, editing,...
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Palms Casino Resort Plans New Concert Theater
The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev. recently unveiled plans for a multimillion dollar, state-of-the-art concert theater named The Pearl. The venue is...
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Megatrax Releases Amusicom’s ‘Investigation’ Series Music Libraries
Amusicom has created a four-CD series of music tracks especially designed for mystery programs with its new Investigation Series. The CD-ROMs feature a variety...
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Atlantic Records Co-Founder Ahmet Ertegun Dies at 83
Photo credit: Norman Jean Roy Ahmet Ertegun, founding chairman of Atlantic Records, passed away on December 14 in New York City at the age...
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Moscow’s Tonestudios Installs Merging Technologies’ VCube Network
From left to right: Binar Project Engineer Igor Ponevazh, Binar General Manager Igor Kovalev and Tonestudios Senior Specialist Pavel Doreuli. Tonestudios, a post-production facility...
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Miami’s Drummer Boy Sound Delivers Audio for Family Fun Night
Miami-based Drummer Boy Sound deployed Dynacord Cobra compact line arrays and EV monitors, amps, mics and fills for Family Fun Night, a Halloween 2006...
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Guitarist Rob Harris Uses sE Reflexion Filter
Guitarist Rob Harris (pictured), whose credits include Kylie Minogue and Beverley Knight, and who has performed and recorded with Jamiroquai since 2000, is using...
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Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus Opens Nashville Studio
In The Grip’s drum area, Auralex pArtScience SpaceCouplers are mounted on the left and on the ceiling; Custom ProPanels are on the right. Rascal...
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NEP Broadcasting Covers World Golf Championships
NEP Broadcasting’s International Events Group (IEG) assisted IMG Media in providing coverage of the 52nd annual World Golf Championships – Barbados World Cup live...
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Japan’s Osaka School of Music Orders SSL Duality Console
In April 2007, the Osaka School of Music (OSM) in Osaka, Japan will install a Solid State Logic Duality console. As part of its...
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FogoLabs Re-Creates Cowboy Junkies Album
Production/post-production facility FogoLabs selected Holophone’s H2-PRO surround mic to capture audio for an upcoming HD concert DVD, a re-creation of the Cowboy Junkies’ performance...
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Russ Berger Design Group Expands NFL Network’s Studio
During the off-season, Russ Berger Design Group (RBDG) coordinated an expansion of the NFL Network’s Culver City, Calif. broadcast/production facility so that this season’s...
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JDM Mobile Launches the Beluga Truck
JDM Mobile—a remote broadcast and recording company with offices in Atlanta, Nashville and Orlando—launched an all-digital truck. Named after the Beluga whale, the JDM...
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InnovaSon Sy80 Consoles Used in Major Greek Festival
The 38th Thessaloniki Song Festival took place in the POAK Sports Arena in the city of Thessaloniki in northern Greece in early November 2006....
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Avlex Superlux D112/C Harmonica Mic Now Shipping
Avlex Corporation is now shipping the Superlux D112/C ($150), a dynamic microphone designed especially for miking the harmonica. Avlex states that the mic is...
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Midas XL8 Completes First Live Broadcast in North America
Solotech of Montréal, Québec—a company that provides maintenance and repair, manufacturing, installation, and engineering and design services—deployed a Midas XL8 digital console for the...
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AES Nashville Creates Audio Reference CD
The AES Nashville section has released an audio test CD titled AES Nashville Reference Test CD, which is available through Quantegy for $12. The...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Announce 2007 Inductees
Of the nine original nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which were announced in October, five have...
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MOTU Ships Public Beta Windows Vista Drivers
In advance of Microsoft’s release of Windows Vista, its next-generation operating system for the PC, MOTU is shipping a public beta release of Vista-compatible...
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SIRIUS Satellite Radio Chooses Apogee’s Rosetta 800
SIRIUS Satellite Radio in New York City, home to Howard Stern, NFL Radio and Eminem’s own hip hop station, relies on Apogee Digital’s Rosetta...
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Sony Music Studios Unveils New Mastering Service
Sony Music Studios in New York City, a division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, announced Sony Music Studios Internet Mastering (SIM), an Internet-based mastering...
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Fairlight Announces Partnerships with Serato and IK Multimedia
Fairlight announced that Serato Audio Research of Auckland, New Zealand has joined Fairlight’s DREAM II Partner Program as a Platinum member. Using Fairlight’s open...
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Simply Red Tours Germany with Electro-Voice X-Line System
Satis & Fy, a sound reinforcement company based in Ascheberg, Germany, provided Electro-Voice X-Line line-array system and Tour Grade amplifiers for Simply Red’s 2006...
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Online Extras for December 2006
Read extra online material from Mix Magazine for December 2006 including how-to tips and techniques from our sound reinforcement editor, interview with front-of-house engineer...
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StarCity Recording Company Acquires ATR Analog Recorder
Pictured at StarCity Recording Company with the ATR 104 are Mike Spitz (left), president of ATR Services, and Jeff Glixman. StarCity Recording Company in...