SAFETY HARBOR, FLORIDA – MAY 2013: Marko Hunt is closing in on four decades behind the mixing console, and he has spent the last thirty-two of them with The Oak Ridge Boys – first at monitors and then later at FOH. Before securing that enduring gig, Hunt cut his teeth touring with the Little River [...]

Service to Include Credits for Songwriters, Background Performers, Producers and Engineers LOS ANGELES (May 7, 2013) — As the music business gathered at the annual NARM and Digitalmusic.org’s Music Biz 2013 Conference today, The Recording Academy® — a membership organization internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards® and for advancing creators’ rights — and Rhapsody International, [...]

MILAN, ITALY – MAY 2013: A new studio in Italy features a 16-channel API 1608 as the main attraction for a one-of-a-kind studio experience. INDIEHUB, located in Milan, is a “co-working” facility with a primary focus on creating music. Here, engineers, producers and musicians can rent space using either their own equipment (such as a [...]

WEBSTER, NEW YORK – MAY 2013: With founder Billy Thompson’s invention of the “Loud Amp” in the early 1970s and the introduction of its path-breaking MOS-FET amplifier technology in the early 1980s, Ashly Audio established itself as a company that would lead the industry in technological innovations. It continues that tradition with the new Ashly [...]

Old Lyme, Conn. – May 8, 2013 – RUNA is a Celtic roots band that fuses music from Ireland, Scotland, Canada and the U.S., creating refreshing contemporary arrangements of traditional, Celtic-based material. Now an internationally touring band that routinely plays at large national concert halls such as Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the band quickly emerged from [...]

Valencia, Spain – May 2013 … The new version of the D.A.S. Audio website is here. The sound reinforcement manufacturer has launched its fully-renovated website updated with everything that the company’s extensive product catalog has to offer. The new version of the D.A.S. Audio website meets the increasing demand from clients and prospective D.A.S. Audio [...]

— 246th Guitar Center location features on-site lessons and repair services, along with GC’s vast inventory selection — Westlake Village, CA (May 7, 2013) – On the evening of Thursday, May 2, 2013, Guitar Center held the grand opening of its new location in Mesquite, Texas, located at 2021 N. Town East Blvd. Suite 400, [...]

— New remote production truck is equipped with a 5.1 surround array of Genelec 8130A Digtal Monitors and a SE7261A subwoofer to match the Genelec monitoring in place at the ministries’ own post-production facility — NATICK, MA, May 6, 2013 — Kenneth Copeland Ministries recently rolled out its first high-definition remote production truck, fitted with [...]

  The sound team at the Parco Della Musica Auditorium in Rome recently turned to DPA Microphones’ Reference Standard 4017 Shotgun Microphones to record the audio for a specially commissioned double DVD of two operas that were being performed as part of the Santa Cecilia Opera Studio, a master programme devoted to Bel Canto. With [...]

Cannes, FRANCE – May 7, 2013: Audio specialist Sennheiser will support The American Pavilion at the Cannes International Film Festival during its Conference Series this year in Cannes, which will feature panels and one-on-one interviews with the film industry’s leading talent and entertainment personalities. Over the course of the 12-day festival, which is the most [...]