Industry Leading A-16IIs Used Throughout Venue’s Three Theatres for Various Performance Styles

AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 7, 2011 — Aviom’s Personal Mixing System (ISE Booth 1E114) has become the perfect partner to the orchestras that play at New National Theatre Tokyo (NNTT). The quick and simple setup associated with the Aviom system allows the theater’s technical crew to move the monitor mixing system easily between the three stages located at the venue.

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REEDSBURG, WI, FEBRUARY 7, 2011 — Sound Devices’ CL-9 Controller, the latest accessory for Sound Devices best-selling 788T Digital Recorder, has been nominated for a Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Technical Achievement Award in the production category. With the addition of the CL-9, the already powerful 788T becomes a complete mixing/recording system.

“We are honored to once again be nominated for a CAS Award.� says Sound Devices Managing Director Jon Tatooles. “Through innovative accessories and our constant firmware updates, Sound Devices is able to offer new and existing 7-Series recorder customers great features and functionality. The CL-9 is the perfect complement to the 788T as it enables the recorder to become a complete mixer/recorder product for critical sound-for-picture and music productions.�

Acting as a dedicated mixing surface for Sound Devices 788T, the CL-9 is a compact, linear fader controller that features enhanced monitoring. The CL-9 is equipped with eight 100mm ultra low-latency linear faders and rotary input trim controls with ring LED metering for fast, smooth and precise critical gain changes. When a CL-9 is connected, the 788T gains a sweepable, single-band parametric EQ for each of its eight inputs with variable frequency, gain and filter Q. Additionally, the CL-9 adds input pan to the 788T.

A wide range of 788T menu-based controls are accessible with the convenient knob controls on the CL-9, such as output level control of the six outputs, dedicated L/R and Aux 1/Aux 2 output level controls, track-record enabling for each of the 12 record tracks and one-touch soloing of inputs or tracks.

Bus-powered by the 788T, the CL-9 is connected by a single USB cable. Additional monitoring features are available by connecting the headphone output from the 788T to the CL-9. The 788T can also be connected to a Mac OS or Windows computer running Sound Devices’ Wave Agent File Librarian. When in the Metering Mode of Wave Agent, all 12 record tracks and 788T time code values can be remotely monitored with available record and stop controls.

The CL-9 is designed with an aluminum and stainless steel chassis for the exceptional durability and low weight portability that Sound Devices is known for. It has been tested for the same environmental extremes as Sound Devices field mixers.

The awards will be presented at the 47th annual CAS Awards dinner on Saturday, February 19th at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Sound Devices, LLC designs and manufactures portable audio mixers, digital recorders and related audio equipment for feature film, episodic television, documentary, news-gathering, and acoustical test and measurement applications. The twelve-year-old company designs and manufactures from its Reedsburg, Wisconsin, headquarters with additional offices in Madison, WI, and Highland Park, IL. For more information, visit the Sound Devices website, www.sounddevices.com. more

Miami, FL––Founder-owner Harold Cummings and his company Drummer Boy Sound Productions recently provided an entire Martin Audio system for a concert by leading Gospel artist Fred Hammond at the Jesus People Ministries Church in Miami Gardens.

Hammond, one of the top Gospel Artists in the world who was once featured in the group Commissioned, takes a keyboard player, drummer (musical director Calvin Rogers, a well known artist in his own right), bass, guitar and percussion players along with three background singers.

Asked to provide sound and staging, Harold says, “We transformed the existing stage into a larger set up for the band with Martin Audio LE1200 and LE1500 stage monitors and four W8LMs and 1 W8LMD per side flown from a Genie lift along with 4 WS218X subs, 2 ground-stacked two per side. We also used Yamaha PM5Ds for monitors and FOH.�

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Lexicon announced that it has received two 2011 SOS awards from Sound On Sound, the internationally renowned music recording technology magazine. The Lexicon PCM96 Studio Standard Reverb/Effects Processor won the award for Best Effects and Processing Hardware, and the Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle won the Best Software Plug-In Processing award. Both awards were presented at the 2011 Winter NAMM Show.

“We are honored that two of our products received prestigious SOS 2011 awards,� said Rob Urry, President of Harman Signal Processing. “The Lexicon team worked hard to ensure that the PCM96 and PCM Native Reverb would set the industry standards for reverb and effects processing hardware and software, and we are proud that our accomplishments have been recognized by our industry peers and users worldwide.�

The Lexicon PCM96 Studio Standard Reverb/Effects Processor delivers 28 industry-standard Lexicon reverbs, delays and modulation effects. It offers a host of more

Competition for students and fundraising dollars is stiff among America’s colleges and universities. Given that, institutes of higher learning often rely on polished videos for recruitment and fundraising efforts. For Pepperdine University’s production team, working on such projects had become a chore instead of a challenge because of its inability to efficiently share projects and assets across multiple workstations.

“Having a shared storage solution is very important to any production facility with more than one workstation,” said Allen Haren, multimedia manager and senior broadcast engineer for Pepperdine University. “It is also imperative that any solution has some form of data security, such as a RAID, or nightly backup. For too many years we were operating outside these criteria and we were at severe risk of data loss and production setbacks.”

In addition to improving workflow among multiple editors, the production team’s shift to HD cameras and more

At the 2011 winter session NAMM show, the Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Bundle was chosen as the winner of the Technical Excellence & Creativity Award (TEC) in the Signal Processing Technology/Software category.

The TEC Awards is the foremost program recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. Presented annually by the TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio, the TEC awards recognizes the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games, and other media.

“When we set out to create a line of Lexicon Plug-Ins, we were committed to our users, who have come to expect the highest level of sonic integrity from our legendary hardware. This award is an honor and a testament to the fact that we accomplished our goal in providing products that offer superior sound quality and functionality,� stated Rob Urry, President, Harman Signal Processing.

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The Grosses Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall), home to the famed Salzburg Festival–one of the most famous performance spectaculars in the world–has revamped its main audio system for the first time in two decades. The upgraded system includes a completely redesigned control room, featuring a Studer Vista 5 digital console. Celebrating the hall’s 50th and the festival’s 90th anniversaries, the Vista 5 was chosen for its optimum recording capabilities, with performance recordings in demand throughout the year.

Working to achieve 5.1-quality sound in the control room, which is fairly small and oddly shaped due to the architectural aspects of the nearly century-old venue, the Vista 5 features a lightweight, high-performance compact operating surface, ideal for the small space. The console is rigged to be mobile and can be easily disconnected and reconnected and transported to areas beyond the hall for performances outside of the festival season.

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AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 — Aviom (ISE Booth 1E114), the exclusive developer of the world’s most powerful audio transport protocol, A-Net®, is pleased to announce that Gary Lee has been appointed the Director of Global Sales, a new role that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Aviom sales organization as a whole.

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Quick and Easy acoustical treatment for a studio up to 10′x14′.

The 1014 AcoustiKit™ is specifically designed to provide the necessary acoustical treatments for a studio control room or a critical listening environment with dimensions up to 10’ wide by 14’ deep. This kit contains 48 pieces of 1’x1’ Cutting Wedge® studio foam to treat the front wall and the first reflection points on the ceiling and side walls. The 1’x1’ dense blade design allows you to create an anechoic parquet pattern or an aesthetic personally tailored to your preference. The Bermuda Triangle Trap® provides broadband absorption and prevents bass build up in the rear corners. This is the only kit to include the patented Model F Art Diffusors®. These professionally designed binary array sound diffusors scatter the sound and aid in creating a space that sounds more

Larger Channel Count Allows Dedicated Internal Mixing of all Projects

BERLIN – EMP Music Publishing, a Berlin-based company that creates music tracks for television and radio programs, as well as commercials, has installed a Solid State Logic AWS 948 with an XLogic X-Rack in its Fake Palm Studio facility. Because of the 948’s greater channel count, EMP can now internally mix orchestral and live music tracks that were recorded in larger studios. The console delivers the signature SSL SuperAnalogue™ sound combined with routing flexibility and control of resident DAW systems.

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