75 Audio Video Communications Events Scheduled in Cities Across the U.S.

AVI-SPL, a leading provider of audio-video communications solutions, today introduced Tech Briefings, a series of free educational networking events. Each event, hosted at AVI-SPL offices across the U.S., will address the trends and challenges in communication technology deployments.

The first event, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 17, will teach participants how to incorporate unified communications into their companies in order to save time and money. Hosted by AVI-SPL and Polycom, Key Building Blocks of Successful Unified Communications will bring area executives and experts together over lunch to network and learn how this technology can streamline business collaboration and reduce costs. For more information and to register for this event, visit the Tech Briefing event page or call 877-440-6205.

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Lexicon announced that it has received two 2011 SOS awards from Sound On Sound, the internationally renowned music recording technology magazine. The Lexicon PCM96 Studio Standard Reverb/Effects Processor won the award for Best Effects and Processing Hardware, and the Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle won the Best Software Plug-In Processing award. Both awards were presented at the 2011 Winter NAMM Show.

“We are honored that two of our products received prestigious SOS 2011 awards,� said Rob Urry, President of Harman Signal Processing. “The Lexicon team worked hard to ensure that the PCM96 and PCM Native Reverb would set the industry standards for reverb and effects processing hardware and software, and we are proud that our accomplishments have been recognized by our industry peers and users worldwide.�

The Lexicon PCM96 Studio Standard Reverb/Effects Processor delivers 28 industry-standard Lexicon reverbs, delays and modulation effects. It offers a host of more

At the 2011 winter session NAMM show, the Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Bundle was chosen as the winner of the Technical Excellence & Creativity Award (TEC) in the Signal Processing Technology/Software category.

The TEC Awards is the foremost program recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. Presented annually by the TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio, the TEC awards recognizes the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games, and other media.

“When we set out to create a line of Lexicon Plug-Ins, we were committed to our users, who have come to expect the highest level of sonic integrity from our legendary hardware. This award is an honor and a testament to the fact that we accomplished our goal in providing products that offer superior sound quality and functionality,� stated Rob Urry, President, Harman Signal Processing.

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The Grosses Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall), home to the famed Salzburg Festival–one of the most famous performance spectaculars in the world–has revamped its main audio system for the first time in two decades. The upgraded system includes a completely redesigned control room, featuring a Studer Vista 5 digital console. Celebrating the hall’s 50th and the festival’s 90th anniversaries, the Vista 5 was chosen for its optimum recording capabilities, with performance recordings in demand throughout the year.

Working to achieve 5.1-quality sound in the control room, which is fairly small and oddly shaped due to the architectural aspects of the nearly century-old venue, the Vista 5 features a lightweight, high-performance compact operating surface, ideal for the small space. The console is rigged to be mobile and can be easily disconnected and reconnected and transported to areas beyond the hall for performances outside of the festival season.

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A chance encounter at last year’s IBC exhibition has resulted in Danish metering manufacturer DK-Technologies supplying two PT0710M audio and video waveform monitors to PERFORM, a world leader at broadcasting and commercialising sport in digital media.

PERFORM’s Engineering Project Manager Mike Edwards was at the show investigating equipment for two new Avid edit suites the company was building for its OMNISPORT news service. At the entrance of Hall 8 he came across the DK-Technologies stand and stopped to demo the company’s products.

“It really is worth going to IBC,� he says. “Had it not be been for the position of the DK stand, and the excellent demo we received from Andy Page, we would not have known anything about the company’s waveform monitor products and would have only looked at Tektronix and Hamlet.�

Established in 2007, PERFOM has its headquarters in the UK and employs over 470 more