Dance Music Producer Josh Gabriel in Spectrasonics videos

BURBANK, CA – May 13, 2010 – Spectrasonics added to its online Artist Video Series with a new video featuring dance music producer Josh Gabriel creating a remix and DJing live with it, using Spectrasonics’ award-winning Trilian bass virtual instrument. Along with the video, an MP3 download of the remix is also available online, see: 2010/artist-video-josh-gabriel-remix

Other videos in the series include George Duke & Greg Phillinganes, and rock producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Vrenna creating new original music with Trilian. More Artist Videos in the series are set to be released in 2010. Other videos in the series will feature Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Stylus RMX as well. See the George Duke & Greg Phillinganes videos HERE, and the Chris Vrenna videos HERE. more

JPEG2000 Compression to Boost Company’s HD Capabilities

LOS ANGELES, CA – Pacific Television Center (PacTV), a Los Angeles-based independent global transmission and production company, is proud to announce that it will be expanding its bandwidth from OC3 (155mb) to OC48 (2485mb) to support its clients’ increasing HD requirements between London and Los Angeles. more

Duality Used with Alpha Link and Delta Link Units

SINGAPORE – LASALLE College of the Arts has chosen a 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality console, with two Alpha Link units and one Delta Link unit, as the centerpiece of its School of Contemporary Music technical courses. Based in Singapore, LASALLE offers the most comprehensive range of diploma and degree programs in the region covering dance, design, fine arts, film, media arts, music and theatre arts. Housed in Studio C201, Duality provides the flexible signal flow, DAW control and high quality sound necessary for this excellent program. more

DALLAS, Texas — Dallas-based Onstage Systems is one of the latest touring production companies to embrace L-ACOUSTICS’ K Standard platform by purchasing 16 new LA-RAK touring racks, each loaded with three LA8 amplified controllers.

All 16 racks recently went out on the first leg of country music superstar George Strait’s 2010 Tour, which was performed in-the-round at 20 arenas and domes across North America. The LA-RAKs delivered power, processing and control for 72 V-DOSC and 48 dV-DOSC enclosures — split into eight arrays flown around the center stage — in addition to 16 SB Series subs and eight more dV-DOSC for front-fill. more

Chris Bellman and Francis Buckley at Grundman

Mastering with Chris Bellman and Francis Buckley:

Hollywood, CA –May 13, 2010… Equator Audio Research, recognized globally as a leading manufacturer of highly accurate studio reference monitors for mission critical recording applications, is now being used for the third year in a row in the recording and mixing process for the American Idol Ford Music Videos. more

Ontario, Canada (May 13, 2010) – ASK Video Interactive Media, a leading creator of software tutorials on DVD, has released the Tempo Delay Calculator for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Also available in a free desktop version for Mac and PC, this $.99 app allows quick and easy synchronization of digital delay devices to song tempo. Simply enter the song tempo, choose the note type, and the delay setting is calculated in milliseconds for entry into the delay unit. more

NEW MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TV SPOT ABOUT NOT MOVING FIREWOOD HOPES TO PREVENT SPREAD OF DEADLY BUG

St. Paul, Minn., — May 13, 2010 — Woody Stulberg and Sam Sparling are kicking ash!

The two Sound Design students in Chris Cunningham’s film composition class at the McNally Smith College of Music created the sound design and soundtrack for the new Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) TV spot that warns against moving firewood infected with Emerald Ash Borer. more

“After hearing a NEXO demo at last year’s InfoComm exhibition, we were sold on the quality, especially at its price point,� says Edwards. “Once we submitted our initial design to NEXO and Yamaha engineers, we proposed the GEO S12 system to the church instead of a higher-priced system by an another manufacturer.� Four S1210 and two S1230 cabinets are used in each of the three arrays for LCR coverage. A NEXO PS10UV2 cabinet was added to each side array for use in outside seating coverage from the opposite array. This signal is processed using a cross-matrix and multiple delay system to minimize timing inconsistencies. Yamaha Installation Series IF2205 speakers are used as front fills at six locations across the stage front with each pair receiving a separately processed, mixed and timed signal from the LCR buss of the console.

“The final results were exactly as the NEXO prediction software more