Over 100,000 music fans were in attendance to hear EAW®’s KF Series cover all the sonic bases, including jazz, soul, hip-hop, rock, Latino and world fusion music

Whitinsville, MA, USA, July 2, 2010 –The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival has become one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive music festivals. The 2010 event, which took place March 5th through March 7th, saw over 100,000 music fans come to hear almost 200 performances by artists including John Legend, Bob James, Lee Ritenour, Toni Braxton, George Duke, Kenny “Babyface� Edmonds and more. Regardless of the genre of music, the EAW® stages sounded full and clear thanks to world-class sound from the renowned KF series of line arrays. more

— As part of its ongoing sweepstakes series, GC Pro highlights Focusrite’s Liquid Saffire 56 FireWire Digital Audio Interface, a $999.99 value —

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA, July 1, 2010 — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, announces the latest in its ongoing series of online sweepstakes at www.gcpro.com. The new contest is now live and will run through September 30, 2010, shortly after which a brand new contest will begin. more

KNOXVILLE, TN, June 30, 2010 — Waves Audio announces the launch of a new ongoing monthly feature titled “Processing Waves,� which spotlights key users of Waves processing products in the live, music/recording, post production, gaming and broadcast market sectors. Processing Waves features short notes on some of the latest industry professionals using Waves in the studio and on the road. The following is the first of these features. more

⎯MSM Installs NEXO and Yamaha Audio System⎯

BUENA PARK, Calif.⎯First Assembly of God Church in Manhattan, Kansas has recently renovated their Sanctuary with design and installation services provided by MSM Systems (Lawrence, KS). The church makeover included complete audio, video, lighting, and acoustic systems. more

Medellín, Colombia – July 2010… Held on May 17th, the Pentecostes 2010 outdoor event drew thousands of attendees from all over Colombia. It was particularly notable this year-do, in part, to the robust sonic performance of a sound system drawn from the Aero Series 2 catalog of Valencia, Spain-based loudspeaker manufacturer D.A.S. Audio.

Evento Totales and FrancoSound (owned and operated by Jader Montoya and Amilkar Franco respectively) are two well-known sound companies in the Colombian professional audio sector. Both firms service the live sound/pro touring market and also operate equipment rental divisions. Together, they pooled their talent and resources to assemble a high performance sound system that made this year’s event among the most memorable in recent history. more

Modern Drummer Magazine’s #1 Rock/Pop & Studio drummer selects Ultrasone’s HFI-580 headphones

Murrieta, Calif. – (July 1, 2010) – Ultrasone Inc., distributor for German headphone manufacturer Ultrasone AG, is proud to announce that Kenny Aronoff, one of the world’s most influential drummers, has selected its HFI-580 headphones. Kenny is internationally renowned for his work with legendary artists and groups such as John Mellencamp, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Jon Bon Jovi Elton John, Willie Nelson and many more; to see who else Kenny has recorded with, go to www.KennyAronoff.com Along with the many sessions Kenny has been a part of lately, he has been working for the last year on an iPhone APP called Mix Me In. more

— Studio Devil products are now always in stock at end-users’ favorite authorized Studio Devil retailers —

KNOXVILLE, TN, June 30, 2010 — Waves Audio announces that Studio Devil Virtual Tube Amplification will be joining Waves’ pioneering Virtual Stock Software Distribution (VSSD) fulfillment program, as an alternative means of product distribution. Now, the complete range of Studio Devil products will always be accessible to end users, through their favorite authorized Studio Devil retailer, and they will never be “out-of-stock.� more

— $9.99 USD price extends to July 31, 2010 —

MELVILLE, NY, June 30, 2010 — Korg announces that it has extended the special $9.99 introductory price for its iElectribe virtual analog beatbox iPad® app, available from Apple’s App Store (inside the iTunes store). The $9.99 USD price is now in place until July 31, 2010, after which the regular price of $19.99 USD will take effect. more

NEW YORK, NY – Creative Group, the industry’s premier full-service post production facility, recently delivered the audio mixes and video editing of comedian Robert Klein’s latest HBO special, “Unfair and Unbalanced,” which premiered Saturday, June 12, at 10 p.m. more

Johannesburg, South Africa – July 1, 2010… Lawo’s mc²66 digital audio console is at the heart of the world championship sound gathering, mixing and international distribution operation in Johannesburg, where broadcast audio engineers have had to cope with a problem unique to the host country – the vuvuzela!

South Africa, the “Rainbow Nation�, has invited the world to their vibrant staging of the planet’s biggest football tournament. Overall responsibility for the production of the event’s international video and audio feeds lies in the hands of the Swiss company Host Broadcast Services (HBS), as it did for the 2006 tournament in Germany. The international feeds are supplied to broadcasting companies around the world, for use in their own reports and programs. more