Whitinsville, MA, USA, August 17, 2009 – Britain’s Top of the Pops (TOTP) has been a BBC institution since 1964, broadcast weekly until 2006 and occasionally as one-off specials in the years since. The latest such TOTP special, broadcast on BBC2 in spring 2009, featured performances from Franz Ferdinand, Flo-Rida, Oasis, Take That, Tom Jones, James Morrison and more, live from BBC’s Studio 4, as part of this year’s Comic Relief charity fundraising special. Aside from the significance marked by convergence of these great artists, a TOTP revival and the world-renowned Comic Relief organization, this program was notable for being the U.K. television debut of the JFL210 Line Array from EAW, a world leader in audio system technology. The JFL210s were supplied and installed by John Henry’s Ltd. (JHL), a leading multi-media sound reinforcement provider for the entertainment more

STOW, OH, August 17, 2009 — Audio-Technica, a world leader in transducer technology, announces that over 3,000 of its microphones will be used at the XXI Winter Olympic Games, coming up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in February 2010. The use of Audio-Technica microphones for the broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games marks the continuation of A-T’s Olympic involvement, which has been consistent since the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996.

Olympic Broadcast Services Vancouver (OBSV) is the Host Broadcaster for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, responsible for producing and distributing audio and video coverage of the Games. To generate an international production, OBSV will deploy all cameras, develop graphics, and capture audio at each sporting venue. OBSV will transmit this international production to all radio and television Rights Holding Broadcasters, who will adapt the signal for transmission on their networks. In this way, each nation will receive unbiased more

Hicksville, NY––A significant evolution of ADAM Audio’s critically acclaimed S-Series, the new SX-Series reference monitors feature completely redesigned transducers, drivers and electronics to enable the most transparent reproduction possible.

All ADAM SX-Series monitors feature the new X-ART tweeter, which provides 4dB higher efficiency, an increased maximum sound pressure level of 3dB, and an expanded frequency response of up to 50 kHz.

Other new components include an ultra-low distortion broadband A/B amplifier with 1MHz internal bandwidth, perfectly matched to the X-ART tweeter for a natural, uncolored sound with high resolution, and new Hexacone™ woofers with more linear excursion to optimize efficiency and accuracy.

The SX-Series consists of six different models ranging from small nearfield monitors to larger midfield monitors. To facilitate operation in any control room situation, the top-line S4X and S3X models are available in both vertical (S4X-V/S3X-V) and horizontal (S4X-H/S3X-H) versions.

Ideal more

BEIJING, CHINA – Linear Acoustic, the leading authority in loudness control and upmixing solutions for digital television, is showcasing its complete line of audio control products at the 2009 BIRTV Convention, August 26-29, 2009 in Beijing, China (Booth 8A13). more

Peabody-Winning Broadcaster Offers Observations on Talent/Engineer Symbiosis

NEW YORK: Peabody Award-winning radio personality William “Bill” McGlaughlin has been named Keynote Speaker for the 127th AES Convention. The long-time host and music director of American Public Media’s popular Saint Paul Sunday public radio program McGlaughlin is a highly regarded broadcaster, educator, composer and conductor.

In making the announcement Convention Chair Agnieszka Roginska remarked, “While the focus of our conventions are largely technical in nature, we are delighted to provide our attendees with an opportunity to enjoy a discourse by a broadcaster celebrated for his performance behind the mic rather than behind the control room window.”

Entitled Talent Doesn’t Push Buttons, Mr. McGlaughlin’s address will consider the relationship between the on-air talent and the audio engineers who insure the high-quality sound and technical support that contribute to a program’s long-term success.

more

LOS ANGELES, CA, AUGUST 17, 2009 — The debut of the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien was full of firsts, including Max Weinberg and the Tonight Show Band’s initial use of Aviom’s Pro16® Personal Mixers as the house band’s monitor mixing system. Dave Winslow, monitor engineer for the band since 2005, first with Late Night with Conan O’Brien and now with the Tonight Show, is very familiar with the group’s needs and how it interfaces with the other elements within the program and the production crew. During the interim, between the wrap of Late Night and Conan O’Brien preparing to take over the hosting duties of the Tonight Show, Winslow worked on another late night talk show where the house band was using Aviom’s personal mixing system. Band leader Max Weinberg and the band’s musical director and guitar player Jimmy Vivino came over and saw the system in action and more

First Neumann Product to be Certified



Pictured (L-R) at Capitol Recording Studios are METAlliance’s Al Schmitt; Neumann/Sennheiser Sales Mgr. Thom Salisbury; Chuck Ainlay, George Massenburg; Phil Ramone, Ed Cherney, and Neumann/Sennheiser Market Development Mgr. Robby Scharf.

The Music Engineering and Technology Alliance has announced certification of the KM D series microphones, designed and manufactured by Neumann, a METAlliance Pro Partner. The alliance is working closely with manufacturers to evaluate, recognize, and certify products which meet the call for quality in the recording arts and science.

“This is a great honor for us,” stated Robb Blumenreder, Neumann/Sennheiser Team Mgr. “The KM D Series of Solution-D microphones represents a milestone achievement in microphone technology for us at Neumann. This certification by the METAlliance certainly validates all of the hard work we put into this product.”

George Massenburg remarked, “Quiet and transparent, more

Small Tree, designer of simple-to-install, inexpensive Mac-based networking and shared storage products, has finished developing its network driver software for the next generation of Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit PCI Express Adapter, based on the Intel®  82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Small Tree’s OS X software driver designed for Intel’s adapters offers a significant performance improvement in 10 Gigabit connections at an affordable price for the Apple marketplace.

Small Tree’s technology is ready to support all the new performance boosting features in the upcoming Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Development was focused on providing reliable real time performance using Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), the protocol chosen most often by Final Cut users to share files. The software has also been optimized to work seamlessly with Small Tree’s GraniteSTOR line of robust, affordable Ethernet-based shared storage products – ST-RAID, abcSAN and EasyAoE.

“Small Tree’s software for the Intel 82599 more

For the finest and most beautiful concert hall in the world, only the best will do, which is why Vienna’s Großer Musikvereinssaal has developed an assortment of AKG microphones to provide unmatched sound quality. The Großer Musikvereinssaal, known to many as the Golden Hall, is home to Vienna’s Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra’s famed annual New Year’s Day Concert. With a worldwide television audience tuning in every New Year’s Day since 1959, the world-renowned architectural acoustics needed more; they needed a fully stocked sound system complete with AKG C 12 VR’s, K 702’s and WMS 400 wireless system.

The Golden Hall is more than just a concert venue; it also hosts numerous lectures and public readings. Because it handles so many types of public events, there is a need for a high-quality sound system that is met with four channels of the AKG WMS 400 wireless system. A more

Ft. Wayne Indiana––The annual July 4th concert performance at the Ft. Wayne campus of Indiana/Purdue University was scheduled to feature four local acts capped off by nationally known country singer Jo Dee Messina and a spectacular finale featuring the Ft. Wayne Symphony Orchestra performing in tandem with choreographed fireworks.

To accommodate all of the performers, Sticha Bros, who’d been contracted for the event by Northern Productions of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, set up a larger 60’ x 60” stage next to a smaller 60’ x 40’ stage in a large field on campus. The audio setup for the crowd out in front of the stages consisted of three hangs of eight Martin Audio W8LC compact line array enclosures, on the outside and between the two stages, with 24 ground-stacked WSX subs and Martin WT3s for sidefill and frontfill, all powered by Martin Audio more