Toronto, Canada, July 2010: Sennheiser Canada, premier provider of aviation headsets as well as consumer and professional audio devices, is a proud supporter of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and the Air Cadet League of Canada (ACLC).

The annual support that Sennheiser provides to the Air Cadets is threefold. First Sennheiser contributes an HME 110 aviation headset to each of the winners of the Industry sponsored Power Pilot Scholarships. Second, each of the twelve finalists at the Air Cadet Effective Speaking Competition is presented with the Sennheiser/Adidas PMX 680 earphones. Finally, perhaps least glamorously but most substantively, the cadets are provided with critical information regarding hearing loss induced by a lifetime exposed to loud ambient cockpit noise and how to mitigate these effects using Sennheiser noise reduction technology and other means. more

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Music flows through the veins of composer, producer, musician, and engineer Julio Reyes Copello. The Columbian native has earned numerous Grammy nominations, a Grammy win, nine ASCAP Awards, and wide international recognition. He has worked with industry luminaries such as Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado, Ricky Martin, Taylor Dayne, and Marc Anthony, among many others. In the past four years, at least one of his songs has appeared on the Billboard Lists’ Top Ten. He also produced the recent album for the French superstar Florent Pagny. Copello maintains a well-appointed studio at his Florida residence that is used for tracking, mixing, and post-production. more

ANNISTON, ALABAMA – JULY 2010: Stop any random person on the street and the odds are excellent that he or she will have no idea how to operate a mixing board. It almost goes without saying, right? Despite this, most churches can draw on the knowledge and enthusiasm of a small collection of self-identified “techies” with a history of musicianship and a penchant for the gear that makes music loud. But Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Anniston, Alabama had a long run of bad luck in this regard, to the extent that the FOH chair frequently sat empty and services were sometimes interrupted so that the Father could make requisite changes himself! Integrator Joey Hutto of Sound Solutions in nearby Oxford, Alabama solved the church’s troubles with the introduction of a SymNet-centered DSP audio system controlled by a simple ARC-2 interface located right in the Father’s lectern. more

WEBSTER, NEW YORK: The Rock Bottom Brewery stays in the lead of a very competitive market by virtually faultless delivery of customer expectations: great and varied beer, stick-to-your-ribs food, and an atmosphere that welcomes release from life’s tensions. David Greenberg of Rock Bottom Restaurants contacted No Static Pro Audio Inc. of Los Angeles, California to upgrade the sound quality of its San Diego location, which was breaking the spell of its carefully-crafted atmosphere. more

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON РJULY 2010: Owned by the Heavy Restaurant Group, Purple Caf̩ is a well-established wine bar and upscale restaurant in the Seattle, Washington area. It recently added its fourth location in Bellevue, Washington, with adjacent space for two additional Heavy Restaurant Group concepts РBarrio a Mexican restaurant and Lot #3 a cocktail and appetizer establishment. Because the owners were dissatisfied with many aspects of the sound systems in the earlier locations, they approached things a little more carefully this time. They hired local A/V contractor Morgan Sound, who installed a centralized system for all three retail locations based around two cost-effective, but immensely powerful, Symetrix Zone Mix 760 processors. more

Iroquois, ON, Canada – July 30, 2010 – Ross Video today announced the appointment of Nigel Spratling into product marketing where he will focus on the marketing of Ross Video’s production switcher product lines. more

BUENA PARK, Calif.⎯With over 35 stops on the tour, American Idols Live! kicked off July 1 at The Palace in Auburn Hills, MI featuring the top 10 finalists of season nine, including winner, Lee DeWyze. The tour ends August 31st at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN.

Randy Lane was asked, once again, to take the roll of front of house engineer and, once again, chose a Yamaha PM5D-EX digital console system. more

GearSource.com

(Wellington, Fla.) — Marcel Fairbairn, founder and president of Gear-Source, Inc. and GearSource.com, a leading connection for production and concert equipment, has inked an exclusive sales and marketing agreement with Coemar, a prestigious Italian manufacturer of automated lighting and LED products. GearSource will serve the North American market utilizing its experienced automated lighting sales staff as well as its advanced web-based system, GearSource.com. more

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 2010: It may never occur to some sound designers and acousticians that they are fundamentally land-locked, never to take their work beyond predictable foundations in clay to the romantic world of the open ocean. Not so for Alan Edwards, principal audio designer at Nautilus Entertainment Design, San Diego, California. Edwards wrote the book… er, peer-reviewed paper on the subject, “Audio System Design for Cruise Ships,” which appeared in the 110th volume of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Because of their flexibility, reliability, and well-thought out control options, Edwards now relies on Symetrix’ SymNet open-architecture DSP and interface solutions for many of his designs. more

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: For some twenty years, composer, musician, and sound engineer Brando Triantafillou has been writing, performing, and recording music for advertisements, film, and rising stars in the music industry. His clients include Verizon, Adidas, Nike, McDonalds, Sony, and the U.S. Army, among many, many others. Triantafillou’s production company and well-appointed project studio in Chicago both fall under the oddly delicious name of Soundcake, where two recent additions have found a comfortable home. A new BOCK 195 large-diaphragm FET microphone jumped to the front line amid an enviable collection of other A-list condensers, and a new pair of ATC SCM20SL passive near-field monitors are revealing Triantafillou’s recordings and mixes with “brutal honesty,” leading to finished projects that translate anywhere and everywhere. more