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

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

Old Lyme, Conn.– July 6, 2011: Audio specialist Sennheiser continues to bring invaluable broadcast technology experience to audio students through its collaboration with major sports broadcasters and higher education institutions. David Polster, a music production major in the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University in Athens, spent three days last month shadowing Fred Aldous, a veteran audio consultant and senior mixer for FOX Sports during the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, NC.

Polster’s “classroom” was the Coca-Cola 600: the longest race sponsored by NASCAR and one of the largest sporting events in the world with nearly 200,000 spectators and a nationwide television and radio audience. Polster’s onsite education experience began on Friday, May 27, just two days before the main event.

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Equator Audio Research Technical Advisory Committee Member Gerhard Joost and the New Equator D5 Studio Monitor

Top Recording Professional Aids D5 Development

San Diego, California June, 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 Gerhard Joost has joined the Equator Technical Advisory Committee.

Gerhard comes to the Equator Technical Advisory Committee with a long list of successful Music, Film and TV projects to his credit. He has worked with Michael Jackson, Salt & Pepper, and Usher to name a few. Gerhard is one of the hardest working engineers in our industry and has some of the industrys best ears. Currently Gerhard is the Chief more

SuperAnalogueâ„¢ Sound Perfect for All Styles of Music

SHREVEPORT, LA – Blade Studios, the newly opened name-sake studio for super drummer and co-owner Brady Blade, was built to bring the New York/LA recording experience to the growing recording and film industry in Louisiana. To meet that design expectation, Blade chose a 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality SE as the centerpiece for Studio A. Duality’s signal routing flexibility combined with sophisticated DAW control addressed the needs of all working styles, while providing SSL’s benchmark, industry standard SuperAnalogue™ sound quality.

Pictured are Blade Studios’ partners; Chris Bell, chief engineer (seated on left); Brady Blade, studio name-sake and co-owner (on right) and Scott Crompton, executive producer and CEO (standing).

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New York–June 21, 2011: In her ascent towards becoming a top voiceover artist, Joan Baker’s success has taken root on two basic principles: “know your voice” and “choose the right equipment.” After getting her start by doing cartoon character voices on cable television, Baker’s talent was quickly spotted by several top voiceover agencies, giving her a platform from which to drive her own success and become aligned with the right tools of the trade. One her first decisions was to use Neumann microphones.

Since then, Baker has built her career not only on doing traditional voiceover work for clients like CNN, the Tribeca Film Festival and The Biography Channel, but her career has blossomed in other areas such as narrating audio-books and teaching aspiring voiceover artists how to take the next step in their own careers. In her book, “Secrets of more

Academy Award-Nominated Feature Film and Animation Studio Calls on IMT to Deploy Isilon Scale-Out NAS to Consolidate End-to-End Production Workflow, Simplifying Big Data Management to Accelerate Workflow Productivity

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) has announced that LAIKA, the studio that produced the Academy Award(r)-nominated Coraline, has deployed EMC Isilon(r) scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its end-to-end animation and computer graphics (CG) workflow, simplifying big data management to increase artist collaboration and accelerate project completion.

LAIKA and Focus Features, responsible for “Coraline,” are re-teaming for LAIKA’s next two projects. The first of the duo, “ParaNorman,” will be released nationwide in August, 2012. Following the groundbreaking “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, is only the second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. In the comedy thriller, a small town comes more

Production Company Relies On 788T and USBPre 2 to Produce High-Quality Videos and Train Thousands in Video Production

ORLANDO, FL, JUNE 16, 2011 — With roughly 2,000 members in 40 different countries, Pixel Corps serves as a guild for content creators and trains professionals globally on key aspects of production. In the fast-paced world of video production —from compositing to matchmoving to rotoscoping, Pixel Corps runs the gamut in production and training. A significant portion of the company’s business comes from producing Internet videos for corporations, as well as creating podcasts and voiceovers. In order to accomplish its many projects, Pixel Corps employs Sound Devices® 788T® Multi-Track Digital Audio Recorder and USBPre 2® Microphone Interface for all of the company’s audio needs.

“On our projects that require audio, we always use a Sound Devices component,� explains Alex Lindsay, Pixel Corps founder and chief architect, a 20-year veteran of more

ORLANDO, FL, JUNE 15, 2011 — Sound Devices, experts in portable hard-disk recording for audio, is presenting its first portable video recorder at InfoComm 2011 (Booth 2274). Sound Devices brings its audio recording technology to video with the introduction of the PIX line of recorders, consisting of two products — PIX 220 and PIX 240. more