Las Vegas, NV – January 2009… Located on Freemont Street in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, The Las Vegas Country Saloon is a “good ole’ down and dirty country bar” that sports Jack Daniel’s barrel seating, kitschy western art, live music, and cowboy-hat-wearing, liquor-pouring waitresses who aren’t afraid to use the Saloon’s two best features—the stripper pole and the mechanical bull. When it’s time to party—and in Sin City, when isn’t it?—this is the place to be. And to keep the festivities loud and proud, the club recently installed a new sound system drawn from components in the D.A.S. Audio catalog. more

ProMedia Training, the leader in modern accelerated audio and multimedia training, is pleased to present an all-new intensive Pro Tools 8 Career Program, February 6 - April 18, 2009, at its state-of-the-art Training Center in Dallas, Texas. Featuring music producers and sound designers, James Creer, Johnny Marshall and David Rosenblad, these pros will delve deep into using Pro Tools 8 for music and sound design production, as well as offering insight and training tips/tricks for working with Digidesign’s world-renown production software.

In three months, ProMedia’s Audio Career Program will provide aspiring engineering professionals with a proprietary Pro Tools centric education and the credibility they need to start a career in the music and audio post-production industry. Plus, they’ll receive a complete, self-contained mobile Pro Tools studio worth $6500, providing them with the equipment they need to create and pursue opportunities. Upon successful completion, they will receive three Certifications from Digidesign and Waves, a ProMedia Certificate of Completion and have a professional portfolio.

ProMedia’s Audio Career Program provides an intensive environment in which to accelerate learning and develop creativity and skills needed in today’s audio marketplace. The value of ProMedia’s Audio Career Program can be found in our modern, accelerated audio curriculum, designed to offer enrollees an affordable, well-rounded practical education using contemporary production tools. We focus only on what students need to be creative and start a career as an audio engineer in a modern audio environment. ProMedia Training’s faculty of engineering professionals have significant industry recognition including a dozen Grammy Awards, hundreds of Platinum and Gold Albums and multiple Emmys, and have successfully trained thousand of engineers. Our program is designed for today’s audio industry, can be completed in just 3 months, and costs 50%+ less than competing programs.

About the Trainers:

James Creer:

James Creer brings over two decades of experience in music production and education. Starting as a well-recognized, young MIDI expert in the 80’s, James grew into a multi-talented musician, engineer, producer and educator. His real world experiences range from professional recording and touring musician to engineer/producer to Full Sail Course Director and educator. James has been a Digidesign enthusiast since the days of Sound Tools and continues to be a leader in the world of Pro Tools HD. His credits include The Genitorturers, Sam Rivers, Steven Segal and Astro & Gylde.

Johnny Marshall is a music producer, composer, keyboardist, and post-production sound designer with over 25 years of professional experience. He owns Marshall Sound Design, a music production and sound editorial company in Dallas, Texas. As a music producer, he has worked with artists from Phil Collins, Pantera, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and ZZ Top. Recent projects include Texas country singer/songwriter Gary Kyle, producer/composer Amin Emam, Latino artist Orlando Salinas, and Manny Trevin, an upcoming alternative singer/songwriter. As a post audio sound designer, he mixed the “Tiger Woods” documentary, recently awarded A&E’s “Biography of the Year”, and garnering an Emmy nomination for “Best Sports Documentary”. Other recent projects include feature films such as “The Imposter”, “Confessions Of An Action Star” and “Shroud”. www.marshallsounddesign.com

David Rosenblad has 20+ years working as a sound designer, composer, music producer, sound editor and recording/mix engineer. He is president/owner of DRM Productions, Inc. and its companion studio facility, Sir Reel Sound in Dallas, TX. His company provides comprehensive post audio services for documentaries, feature films, episodic television, TV/radio commercials, and music projects. He’s worked with a wide arry of artists such as Herbie Mann, Freddy Fender, the deathray davies, Everclear, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Allan Holdsworth, Cheap Trick, The Flaming Lips, Maynard Ferguson, and Brave Combo; and clients including PBS, HBO, MTV, HDnet, History Channel, Think Film, New Films International, and many others. Current film projects include sound design for the PBS documentary, “Nowhere But Texas 2”, “Get Out” an ongoing series for HDnet, and for feature films including “Angela’s Body”, “The Significant Other”, and “From The Dark”. Recent TV/Radio spots include work for Toyota, and Castle Park and Silver Springs theme parks. www.drminc.com

For course specifics, go to: www.promediatraining.com

About ProMedia Training

With locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Nashville, San Diego, and New York, ProMedia Training is the leader in modern accelerated audio and multimedia training. In addition to individual instruction at professional facilities, the company provides on-site training for corporations, allowing industry professionals to upgrade their skills in their own working environment—some of which include MTV, HBO, and Turner Broadcasting; Dolby Labs, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Loyola University. The faculty includes Grammy and Emmy Award winners that have worked on hundreds of gold and platinum albums with such artists as U2, Aerosmith, Ricky Martin, Steely Dan, Ozzy Osbourne, Outkast, and Dixie Chicks. ProMedia Training partners with manufacturers such as Digidesign, Apple, Propellerhead, and Waves. ProMedia Training is the leading authorized Digidesign Pro School, having certified more students than any other organization. For more information visit: www.promediatraining.com

Revolutionary New Console Brings Together Mixing Console, Router and Workstation Control in a Powerful, Portable Package

ANAHEIM, CA—At NAMM (Booth #6907, Hall A), Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles and provider of creative tools for music, broadcast and post production professionals, will showcase the acclaimed Matrix studio integration console. This represents an ideal opportunity to experience a ground breaking console first hand. more

ANAHEIM, CA — Some product presentations are better heard than seen, as is the case with Auralex’s GRAMMA (Gig and Recording, Amp and Monitor, Modulation Attenuator) demo at this year’s Winter NAMM show. Visit Auralex (Booth 6794, Hall A) anytime throughout the convention, to witness total acoustic isolation through its best-selling GRAMMA isolation riser.

The demonstration will incorporate a side-by-side comparison of two Gallien-Krueger amps – one using the GRAMMA and the other without – giving attendees a clear audible difference, even on a noisy trade show floor, of the value of using Auralex’s GRAMMA to decouple your amplifier. more

Hollywood, CA, January 12, 2009 – SonicPool, one of Hollywood’s leading post facilities, specializing in audio and video finishing, edit suite rentals, and full post-production services, has announced its current and most recent TV, feature film and documentary film projects. The announcement was made by John Frost and Patrick Bird, co-founders, SonicPool.

SonicPool just provided the audio mix for the recent, 35th Annual “People’s Choice Awards” video clip packages for client CBS Television. That telecast was presented in Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2009. This is the third time that SonicPool has provided these services for this telecast.

The company is currently providing online and color correction for the documentary film “Official Rejection,” from filmmaker Paul Osborne. The film follows aspiring filmmakers along the film festival circuit, and takes a lighthearted but realistic look at the politics, pitfalls, costs and toll of life at these fests. Says Osborne, “The film’s goal is to demonstrate exactly what happens once you finish your movie—the reality of today’s film festival landscape, and the emotional roller-coaster those who dare venture onto it find themselves riding.”

And, SonicPool is currently also providing the online and color correction for a feature film trailer, promoting the indie feature film “Moscow, Belgium” for client Sweet Spot Entertainment. The comedic drama film’s storyline: A fender bender sends a single mother and a much younger man on a collision course toward love in this comic drama. Set in Belgium’s blue collar neighborhood of Moscow, the film’s heroine, Matty, has nothing but harsh words for Johnny when the trucker inflicts a dent in her car. But soon she sees a whole different side of him. Can their relationship survive a secret about his past?

ABOUT SONICPOOL:

Launched in Hollywood in 2001, SonicPool was co-founded by post production specialists John Frost and Patrick Bird. Each of the men currently serves the company as a President and CEO.

SonicPool is comprised of 14 SD & HD Offline and Online Edit Suites, two Theatrical Mix Stages and two additional Mix Suites, as well as a complete Machine Room Services with all the standard SD & HD decks. The company’s post production services include Audio and Video Finishing, edit suite rentals, and media duplication. SonicPool’s creative services include radio production. Additionally, the company offers its clients production office space rentals to accompany Offline Edit Suites.

SonicPool’s clients run the full gamut of the entertainment and broadcasting industries, which clients ranging from major studio releases, independent feature films, TV programs, and radio, to DVD menu sound design, TV commercials, gaming, mobile and Internet projects.

SonicPool is located at 6860 Lexington Ave, Hollywood, CA, 90038.

The phone is 323/460-4MIX, and the web address is: www.sonicpool.com

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Demonstrating how creatively-designed sound systems featuring highly-configurable, great sounding components can make a club’s reputation and also enable business models that optimize the venue’s real-estate investment, NYC IT-Club, Santos Party House, features advanced sound systems designed and integrated by TimbreTech Audio Services that support DJ/club and live performance and multiple events and ‘showtimes’ in

one evening. Club sound icon, Jim Toth, designed a live system around a Soundcraft Vi6 console at Front Of House that is easily locked off and run remotely via a laptop in the DJ Booth when one of a host of top DJs is performing in the house. Toth credits the Vi6 with the versatility to transform the club from a top-notch live sound venue into a premium club with unprecedented ease — and with the console’s category-leading Vistonics user-interface, Toth explains that visiting engineers typically require just

five minutes to become comfortable and proficient with the board.

“The Soundcraft Vi6 is a remarkable console because it systematically addresses the hierarchy of engineer needs: first and foremost, it sounds great; secondly, it’s extremely intuitive and sensibly designed; thirdly, it’s eminently configurable and lastly, it’s bulletproof,” Toth said today. “I feel extremely comfortable putting this console at the core of my system!” Underscoring this confidence, Toth placed a Soundcraft Vi4 at the monitor position running 6 JBL SRX 712M 12” monitor wedges powered by Crown XTI 6000 Series amplifiers. The live system features JBL VerTec VT4887DP Series line array elements, with JBL VerTec VT4880 subwoofers. Featuring integrated power and DSP, Toth’s use of the VerTec VT4887DP loudspeakers allowed him to set the level and EQ of each cabinet individually — a key advantage in configuring the array for the room requirements and also a welcome advantage among visiting engineers.

The dance system is where Toth — a self-admitted compulsive audiophile — has his most fun and extracts his greatest satisfaction! He returned to his roots as the system designer of Eighties club-land icons like Peppermint Lounge and Mars and built a 24-foot horizontal array of custom designed 5-speakers that spans the length of the room and delivers an amazingly even coverage. Each 5-way featuring 24” and 15” drivers in a line spaced with minimal interference or cone filtering because they’re spaced apart very carefully. Bass is supplied by the same JBL VerTec VT4888 subwoofers.

“The coverage of this system is amazing. It has power, consistency and control that helps set the personality of the club,” says Ron Castellano, owner of the club. “There is nothing raw about it. Instead, it’s very HiFi and sophisticated but there’s massive power there if the DJ needs to accelerate!”

The power that Castellano refers to is delivered by a battery of Crown I-Tech 4000 and 8000 amplifiers with built-in DSP, which Toth believes saved the owners considerably in terms of outboard gear that was not required and the simple cost of housing and maintaining racks of processing equipment.”

“The DSP functionality of the I-tech is amazing not just from a control perspective but also from a cost perspective,” Toth notes. “There is no way we could have gotten this sound or this control without spending a fortune on outboard processors. What’s more, to have this level of programming and control integration helped determine how creative I could be with the system design — and ultimately how good the place sounds! For 30 years, I have only used Crown amplifiers — I have looked at alternatives when new amps come along but I’ve never been given a strong enough reason to switch — now

with the DSP technology that Crown is putting in the amps, I have even more reasons to use them!”

Santos Party House has a smaller, second room downstairs for which Toth designed a system comprising custom cabinets and VT4880 subwoofers with two monitor arrays hanging conventionally with eight cabinets on each side of the DJ booth. Toth observes with no small amount of satisfaction how some visiting DJs matrix between the monitor and dance systems, and mix straight from the line arrays.

Toth has built a successful business with remarkable built-in resistance to the booms of troughs of 30 years of the entertainment business and Castellano is quick to offer a reason. “Stubborn is not a word one would use. Uncompromising is a better description of Jim’s commitment to perfection when it comes to audio design,” Castellano says. “He understands that managing the details is critical in every business, but especially the entertainment business and he provides concierge-level attention to detail and considerable style to boot!”

Today, TibreTech Audio Services provides club design services but Toth also runs a very successful audio for special events business and regularly runs projects including fashion shows, balls, store openings and concerts for Victoria Secret, UBS, PRADA, Lauder and MOMA. “It’s not that we’re selective in who we’ll design for,” Toth explains. “It’s simply that if we’re being asked to put our name on an event or club system, we need it to look and sound like one of our systems! The Harman components from Crown, JBL and Soundcraft are key elements to our systems!”

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Stage Audio Productions Inc. Selects The WMS 4000 And IVM 4 For The Worldwide “Glow In The Dark” Tour

Demonstrating the versatility and performance of AKG wireless technologies, the WMS 4000 wireless system and the IVM 4 in ear monitoring system were recently deployed on Kanye West’s most recent world tour that visited 40 cities and six continents. The critically acclaimed “Glow In The Dark” tour featured performances by renowned artists Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna, N.E.R.D, and Nas. The yearlong tour began in Seattle and continued throughout Latin America, Asia, Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

“Since we would be touring the globe for a year, we needed wireless systems that were durable and reliable and we are confident that AKG products would provide us with everything we needed for the “Glow in the Dark” tour,” said Darcy Khan, Touring Account Executive For Stage Audio Productions Inc. “After spending some time searching for clean frequencies, HPF, and EQ’s for the belt packs, I was able to save all of the presets on my laptop into separate folders specifically assigned to each city where we would be performing. This feature was a tremendous time saver on the road as it allows me to easily access the file and have all of the saved settings at my fingertips.”

The WMS 4000 wireless system offers users with countless features including an advanced backlit display on the transmitters and the receiver, remaining battery life readout, silent mode, pilot tone status data transmission, environment scan and rehearsal functions, and auto setup frequency search. The WMS 4000 can be integrated into a Harman HiQnet™ system with the optional HUB 4000 Q. With the PC control software System Architect™ the WMS 4000 can be remotely controlled and monitored from a PC. The setup and configuration of the frequency management of the entire wireless system is incredibly easy within System Architect with tools like RF Monitor, Device Manager, Environment Scan and Auto Setup.

The IVM 4 system enables technicians to connect 16 IEMs to one antenna creating a clean tech area that is conducive for a high profile show like the Glow In The Dark Tour. Clean frequencies can be searched within the system for the 16 IEMs and 4 HUB wireless 4000 Q units with the HiQnet feature as well.

“Among the countless features of the IVM 4 is the rechargeable battery for the in-ear monitoring system,” Kahn continues. “The rechargeable batteries are a great asset for a year-long tour as I never had to buy or change a battery. I never had to worry about a power failure as the system simply requires you to drop the belt packs and the handhelds into the re-charger, which fully charges them within one hour.”

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