OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT - FEBRUARY 2009: UK singer/songwriter Adele has plenty to be happy about after winning Grammy Awards in the prestigious categories of Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her hit song “Chasing Pavements” on “Music’s Biggest Night,” which was broadcast by CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 8th. The twenty year-old, who describes her music as “heartbroken soul,” also performed her chart-topping single on the 51st Annual Grammy Awards broadcast using a Neumann KMS 105 nickel-plated wired vocal microphone. more

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 2009: SuperControl Recording Studios, set up by a trio of musicians to provide engineering and production services to fellow independent artists, has become the first commercial facility in Southern California to install an API 1608 discrete analog recording console. SuperControl has been open for business since January of 2008, when the partners moved into a previously outfitted and acoustically-designed space located at the renowned Bill’s Place rehearsal studios in North Hollywood. more

GARDEN GROVE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2009 — Pantel (www.panteltv.com), the worldwide leader in outdoor weatherproof TV and monitor solutions, is proud to announce that it will launch its line of weatherized outdoor flat panel mounting solutions and accessories to the digital signage market at the 2009 Digital Signage Expo (DSE), held in Las Vegas, Nev. from Feb. 24-26 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth #1853. more

“The images produced by the TITAN looked fantastic right out of the box.”
- Bill Schuermann, Senior Design Consultant with HFP Acoustical Consultants Inc.

ATLANTA, GA (February 16, 2009) - The John Cooper School, a college preparatory school in The Woodlands, Texas, recently unveiled their brand-new Performing Arts Center that uses a Digital Projection TITAN 1080p-500 for video and presentation content. The TITAN is one aspect of a robust audio and video environment that took over two years of planning and integration to bring to fruition. more

The BDM-01 is a brand new bass drum microphone equally at home in the studio and on the road. The condenser capsule is hand built by Milab in Sweden and provides superb attack and high-frequency response, especially when compared to dynamic capsules, which can be found in most bass drum microphones.

The electronics have been specifically designed to handle the power of the most hard-hitting drummers - the BDM-01 takes 155 db without audible distortion. The dynamic range, frequency response, sensitivity and pop filters have been optimised for the sound and power of the bass drum and other bass instruments. more

UHF-R® Still a Mainstay for Live Performance

LOS ANGELES, CA, February 13, 2009 — Opening the GRAMMY® Awards this year with “Get on Your Boots,” a track from their forthcoming album, U2 set the tempo for live performances at this year’s ceremonies with Bono stepping into the spotlight using a Shure UHF-R wireless microphone equipped with an SM58® capsule. UHF-R continued to cut a wide swath across the wireless frequency spectrum throughout the evening, with a combination of SM58 and KSM9 handheld transmitters chosen by a lengthy list of performing artists, including Jennifer Hudson, Coldplay, Kid Rock, Carrie Underwood, John Mayer, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Keith Urban, M.I.A., T.I., Kanye West, and Jay-Z. more