Frankfurt, Germany-March 24,2010–Allen & Heath and Audinate announced at Prolight &Sound that they are collaborating to introduce Danteâ„¢ networking modules for the iLive digital mixing series. Dante will be incorporated into Allen & Heath’s range of audio networking plug in cards, which slot into the iDR MixRacks and allow iLive to interface with a variety of common audio interface and networking standards, increasing inventory flexibility and system integration. more

Innovative Audio Restoration Plug-ins To Refurbish Historical Archives

PARIS: INA, the French National Audiovisual Institute, is a repository of the French radio and television audiovisual archive. Featuring a search tool indexing over 100,000 archives and 20,000 + hours of historical programming, in 2006 INA introduced www.ina.fr as a free online consultation website for students, journalists and researchers. To ensure the highest possible sound quality for these historic broadcasts, Vincent Fromont of the Institute’s Restoration/Mastering Audio Department recently acquired six Sonnox Restore Suites. more

WATCHUNG HILLS, NEW JERSEY – MARCH 2010: Watchung Hills Regional High School, which serves some 2,000 students in central New Jersey, recently added a beautiful, state-of-the-art 1,000+ seat theater to its complex. In addition to plays, concerts, talent shows, and the like, the new theater also hosts less colorful, but vitally important, regional school board meetings. Greater New York’s Audio Incorporated provided all of the programming and tuning services for a comparably sophisticated sound system, which includes a SymNet 8×8 DSP capable of transparently auto mixing four microphones and a computer input. It’s perfect for said board meetings and movie presentations. more

FRANKFURT, GERMANY (MUSIKMESSE) – MARCH 24, 2010: Today, Metric Halo announced the immediate availability of the new LIO-8 multichannel A/D/A converter, processor and interface. Based on Metric Halo’s ULN-8 technology platform, the LIO-8 is perfect for the audio professional that needs archival quality conversion, processing and interfacing. Equally at home in a mastering suite, mix suite or in a recording studio with external preamps, the LIO-8 provides conversion performance that is as stunning as that provided by the ULN-8. more

CAMBRIDGE, UK ─ Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, is pleased to announce that the France 2 television network, part of the government-owned France Télévisions, has outfitted its new HD OB van with Clear-Com’s Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom system, six IP-enabled V-Series 12-lever user panels and one V-Series 24-lever panel. The broadcaster, which transmits news, sports and entertainment programming to viewers throughout France, first used the Clear-Com systems to help facilitate coverage of the recent RBS 6 Nations Rugby Tournament. more

Multi-industry 4G/LTE ecosystem now has 37 members worldwide and fourteen completed solutions concepts; also extending reach to Asia in 2010

CTIA Wireless, Las Vegas, March 24, 2010 — The ng Connect Program, co-founded by Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), today announced that ten new members have joined the program, bringing new areas of enablement including assisted- and self-service solutions, cloud-based IT services, video security and video conferencing as well as expertise in 3D and virtual reality, digital signage, and online education technologies. The multi-industry organization, dedicated to creating network-ready applications, services, content and devices for emerging Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, has grown to include 37 companies – more than doubling its initial membership in its first year. more

— New recorder features X-Y stereo microphone capsule and SD/HDSD card storage —

MUSIKMESSE, FRANKFURT, GERMANY, March 24, 2010 — Korg has added a new handheld recorder to its MR Series of DSD digital recorders – the MR-2 High Resolution Mobile Recorder. With many new and requested features, the MR-2 is a true workhorse.

As with all of Korg’s MR recorders, the MR-2 records in the ultra-high fidelity DSD format, using a 2.8 MHz sampling rate, which captures every sonic detail while preserving the ambience of the original recording location. Using the included AudioGate software, this original datastream recording can be re-purposed into nearly any audio format with minimal fidelity loss. For job-specific recording, the MR-2 can also record in any of the popular multi-bit formats, from MP2 and MP3 up to 24-bit/192 kHz. more

Duality Satisfies Client Demand for Large Format Sessions at Central London Studio

LONDON, UK – Dean St. Studios has installed a 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality console in Studio 1. Carrying on the creative tradition of this famous space (formerly industry legend Tony Visconti’s Good Earth Studios and creative home for David Bowie and T. Rex), Duality compliments the stunning acoustic design by world famous Eddie Veale and the creative talents of the Dean St. team. more

— Audio-Technica continues to be the microphone of choice at the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony —

STOW, OH, March 16, 2010 — For the 13th year in a row, a broad range of Audio-Technica microphones was selected to outfit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. A-T supplied over 50 mics to capture the audio for this widely celebrated musical event, which took place at New York’s Waldorf Astoria. The 25th annual induction ceremony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was held on March 15, 2010, with inductees including Swedish pop group ABBA, British progressive and pop/rock legends Genesis, British invasion hitmakers The Hollies, reggae vocalist Jimmy Cliff, garage rockers The Stooges and non-performers David Geffen, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Elie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell. The show was broadcast live on Fuse and www.fuse.tv. more

FRANKFURT, GERMANY — Aviom, the exclusive developer of the world’s most powerful audio transport protocol, A-Net®, is pleased to announce that its Pro64® Network Manager™ PC application will be demonstrated at Musikmesse/Prolight+Sound 2010 (Hall 8.0 Stand J70D). While the Pro64 Series is uniquely designed with a simple front-panel user interface that makes it possible to create sophisticated audio networks without PC-based programming, the company has now introduced a software control application for those users who desire a centralized control and status monitoring option. more