Image of Philippe Guichard.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada – July 12, 2011… Lawo, recognized globally as a leading manufacturer of digital audio networking and console systems for production, post production, broadcast, and related applications, is pleased to announce the appointment of Philippe Guichard to the newly created position of U.S. Product Support Manager. Guichard’s appointment coincides with the opening of a new Lawo support / demonstration facility in New York City that Guichard will head. His appointment takes effect July 2011. more

Jon Bormann, president of Bormann Marketing.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – JULY 2011: Symetrix, Inc., a leading provider of signal processing technology for the installed sound markets, has named Bormann Marketing, sales representative for Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin effective June 1, 2011. Coinciding with this appointment, Loft AV, Symetrix’ rep for Illinois and eastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee area), merged with Bormann Marketing, giving Bormann Marketing sales responsibilities for two key Symetrix territories.

Noted Paul Roberts, director of sales and marketing for Symetrix, “Opportunities to add a sales rep firm of the quality of Bormann Marketing are rare. Having Jon Bormann and his team handle the upper Midwest was a real coup for us. Then having Bormann Marketing merge with our current Illinois and eastern Wisconsin rep, LoFT AV, was icing on the cake. Combining the exceptional sales management skills of LoFT AV’s president, Barbara Sjodin, with the powerhouse team that is Bormann Marketing, is more

Mumford & Sons perform on the Strummerville stage

At the 2011 Glastonbury Festival, Peavey provided an array of audio equipment for the unique Strummerville stage, a showcase celebration created to invoke the spirit of the late Joe Strummer by offering aspiring musicians the opportunity to play live to the masses at the U.K.’s definitive live music event.

Peavey designed the sound system for the Strummerville stage—which featured guest spots from Mumford & Sons, Emmy the Great and King Blues—to deliver high-quality audio as compactly as possible to an intimate audience. more

NEW YORK—Since opening its doors in 1981, the Blue Note in New York City has become one of the premier jazz clubs in the world and a cultural institution in Greenwich Village playing host to some of the greatest musicians of all time such as Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, BB King, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, to name a few as well as modern hip-hop and R&B stars, including Lauryn Hill, Mos Def, Common and Lupe Fiasco. Recently the club received an upgraded sound system installed by Petrix.

“The Blue Note installation was a challenge,� states Amit Peleg, owner of Peltrix. “While the acoustical characteristics of the room are good, the audience sits around the stage which is positioned in the center of the room. There is only 15.5 feet from the front of the stage to the more

New 7.1 Surround Demo Room at DTS Features Focal Professional Monitors

The DTS Demo Room featuring Focal “Twin6 Be� monitors in 7.1 Surround

Champlain, NY – July 11, 2011 – Audio Plus Services, the distributor behind Focal Professional products in North America, announced today that DTS(tm) Digital Entertainment has installed a new 7.1 surround system featuring seven Focal Twin6 Be monitors and dual Focal Sub6 powered subwoofers. The demo room at DTS headquarters in Calabasas, CA is used to demonstrate a wide range of DTS technologies, from pre and post processing and multi-channel Blu-ray content, to lower bit-rate streaming for digital delivery.

“The Focal Twin6 monitors are accurate and revealing, allowing us to demonstrate our audio technologies without compromise,” says Ronny Katz, Director of Digital Media at DTS. “Everyone who gets a listen to the 7.1 surround is quite impressed.” more

Three Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-ins To Be Won

OXFORD, UK: To mark the introduction of its new Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in, Sonnox

has announced a fun competition on Facebook, where three Pro-Codec’s will be awarded on September 1st !

Following a lengthy collaboration with mp3 creator Fraunhofer IIS, the resulting Pro-Codec software introduces real-time auditioning, encoding and decoding of audio, using Fraunhofer’s professional codecs, within a DAW environment.

“The Pro-Codec represents a huge advance in enabling engineers to precisely audition codecs in real time,” explains Sonnox Sales & Marketing Manager, Nathan Eames. “It’s now possible to make highly informed mix decisions with the knowledge of exactly how it will sound when encoded to various different formats.”

To aid contestants in answering the three basic questions posed on their Facebook page, Sonnox has hinted that all answers are included more

Image of Kyle Lassegard.

Buena Park, CA – July 2011… Hosa Technology, the leading innovator of analog and digital connectivity solutions for the modern musician, is pleased to announce the promotion of Kyle Lassegard to the position of Marketing Coordinator. With a background that encompasses studio recording, information technology, sales, and marketing communications, Lassegard’s experience makes him an ideal choice for his new position with the company. He is stationed at Hosa’s headquarters in Buena Park and commenced work in early 2011. more

Now Shipping With Cardioid, Omni, and Hyper-Cardioid Capsules, Plus Dual Power Supply

Pictured is the new TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik ELA M 260 Tube Microphone Stereo Set configured for recording guitar.

TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik of South Windsor, CT, is introducing at Summer NAMM the ELA M 260 Tube Microphone Stereo Set, which comes complete with 3 capsules for each microphone, plus one dual power supply and flight case.

The Stereo Set was first introduced in1958 by Gotham Audio as a package for the Neumann U-47 and U-48 microphones that were distributed in the United States. TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik liked the idea, so 53 years later, the concept is reborn.

Each microphone in the Stereo Set features 3 capsules (260 cardioid, 261 omni-directional, and 262 hyper-cardioid), and the new M 960S provides power to both more

Equator Audio Research Technical Advisory Committee Member Elton Ahi and the New Equator D5 Studio Monitor

Top Recording Professional Aids D5 Development

San Diego, California July, 2011. Equator Audio Research, recognized globally as a leading manufacturer of highly accurate studio reference monitors for mission critical recording applications, is pleased to announce that acclaimed recording professional Elton Ahi has joined the Equator Technical Advisory Committee.

Elton comes to the Equator Technical Advisory Committee with a long list of successful projects to his credit including his engineering work on the Oscar winning movie Last of the Mohicans. Elton has recorded and/or mixed an extremely long list of successful, well-known movies www.imdb.com/name/nm0013941/ and television shows. He has also successfully engineered various POP and other forms more

Symetrix Zone Mix 760 handles the audio for the stellar A/V system at Boston’s Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill – the newly-opened, second location at Liberty Wharf on Boston Harbor.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – JULY 2011: A beloved household name in Boston, Jerry Remy is a former Red Sox second baseman and the longstanding commentator for all of his former team’s games. Last year, he partnered with the Cronin Group Restaurants to create Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill just outside of historic Fenway Park. The venture was so successful that the group recently opened a second location at Liberty Wharf on Boston Harbor. An adjacent public dock with fifty slips allows patrons to arrive by land or by sea. Like its predecessor, the new location promises a game-day experience that rivals Fenway itself, with a 32-foot more