CompView will award $3,500 in AV equipment to one contestant each quarter through the 2011 AV Technology Makeover Contest. Eligible contestants submit a 2-minute video of their AV technology deficient room for consideration. The videos should be entertaining, short and non-commercial. The focus could be anything from interviews with AV end users, IT/media support, and tours of AV deficient rooms to demonstrations and adventures with AV equipment. Videos will be judged on overall impact, content, concept/originality, entertainment value, and production quality. Manufacturer sponsors include SMART Technologies, Epson and Polycom. See website for details.

WAYNE, NJ – Regent University, a private, faith-based institution that shares a campus with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in Virginia Beach, Va., is keeping better watch than ever over more than 5,500 graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and staff with V.Networks IP-based cameras and network video recorders (NVRs) from JVC Professional Products Company.

Regent University uses JVC V.Networks IP-based cameras to monitor building interiors, including the Student Center, as well as parking lots and other exterior sites on campus.

Now in his 24th year with the CBN/Regent University Campus Police Dept., Lt. Eddie Lawhorn recalled the earlier CCTV system on campus, which only offered coverage inside a few buildings. It included a handful of mostly black-and-white analog cameras that were connected to time-lapse VCRs. A few years ago, as the aging VCRs came to the more

Broadcast Video Expo 2011
Wohler Technologies
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Company Displays HelixNet™ Partyline, Eclipse® Version 5.2, Tempest®2400 Wireless Intercom System, HME DX Series and PRO850

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 8 February, 2011 ─ Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems and Technical & Engineering Emmy Award winner, will bring some of its latest and most advanced intercom innovations to this year’s CABSAT 2011 show (Stand S1-21, Sheikh Saeed Hall 1). Clear-Com will showcase its HelixNet™ Partyline, Eclipse Digital Matrix System Version 5.2 with its new line of V-Series rotary control panels and the Tempest®2400 digital wireless intercom system. Clear-Com will also showcase the HME DX Series and the HME PRO850 wireless intercom systems, products that are now available from Clear-Com after its acquisition by HM Electronics, Inc (HME). Together, these intercom systems offer an easy-to-use, install and configure solution for system integrators.

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JBL is offering a mail-in rebate program for its LSR2300 Series studio monitors through March 31, 2011. The program allows customers to take advantage of the affordability and professional performance of the LSR2300 Series monitors and the benefits of JBL’s versatile MSC1 Monitor System Controller.

Purchasers of either (1) a pair of JBL LSR2328P studio monitors, or (2) a pair of LSR2325P studio monitors with an LSR2310SP subwoofer, qualify to receive a JBL MSC1 Monitor System Controller free of charge—a $375.00 value.

The MSC1 controller allows music and post audio rooms to monitor a range of input sources, using two sets of speakers and a subwoofer. JBL’s ingenious RMC™ Room Mode Correction technology in the MSC1 tunes speakers for maximum accuracy in any room.

“While the MSC1 works with any speakers, the hot setup is the MSC1 connected to a pair of JBL LSR2300 Series studio monitors more

Amanda Ruzza’s open-minded musical approach led her to the Lexicon LXP Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle, used in an unconventional way – as a sonic enhancement to the sound of her 5-string and fretless electric basses. “After installing the LXP reverb plug-in on my computer and quickly dabbling with it to get an idea of what it could do, I immediately used it on some of my previously recorded bass tracks to get some really unique sounds,� Ruzza explained. “By exaggerating some of the levels of its virtual knobs to settings you might not normally use, I was able to create interesting synth-bass solo sounds.�

Born in São Paulo, Brazil to a Chilean mother who loved opera and an Italian father who loved rock and roll, Ruzza developed an eclectic musical ear at an early age. By age 13, she was already gigging regularly in Brazil, and in 2003 began more

C10 HD Used for Live to Air News Programming

NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – NBN Television (Newcastle Broadcasting New South Wales), recently completed the installation of an SSL C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console for use in its “On Air� news studio. As an independent affiliate of the Nine Network, NBN broadcasts its own local news, current affairs programming and sports, and the Nine Network line-up of Australian and international programs. NBN’s C10 HD is a 32+8-fader console with dual redundant power and processing that were critical for NBN’s one hour news broadcast.

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Bose Professional Systems Continues Support of Industry Advancement

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, February 8, 2011 — The NSCA Education Foundation has elected Robert Grubb, North America Manager for Bose Professional Systems, to its Board of Directors. Grubb replaces Mitch Nollman, who previously represented Bose on the Foundation’s Board.

Grubb has been a part of the professional audio industry for more than 25 years. He started out in audio recording and production and over the years has gained a broad knowledge of many vertical markets in the pro-audio industry. Grubb now manages the field sales group in North America for Bose.

Since 1999, the NSCA Education Foundation has created educational opportunities to grow the commercial electronic systems industry. By providing financial assistance through scholarships, student memberships and the creation of an endowment for future scholarship opportunities, the Foundation assists more

— Live music events and special savings mark the opening of GC Louisville Superstore —

— Store features nation’s first on-site Guitar Center Studios, a cutting-edge studio and resource for musicians of all abilities—

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA, February 7, 2011 — At 7:00 p.m. on January 27, 2011, Guitar Center launched a new retail location at 4600 Shelbyville Road in Louisville, Kentucky, kicking off a weekend-long grand opening celebration. The 17,500-square-foot superstore’s opening has brought unprecedented product selection and opportunities to artists in the area, along with the unparalleled knowledge and experience of the store’s dedicated staff. Guitar Center Louisville also features GC Studios, the retailer’s first embedded lesson and rehearsal facility. To celebrate the opening, the Grand Opening Weekend featured exclusive savings, including guitar and drum essentials at up to more

STOW, OH, February 7, 2011 — The Club AE music venue located within the new Stage AE indoor/outdoor concert facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will open in early 2011 with a full complement of microphones from Audio-Technica, a leading innovator in transducer technology for over 45 years. Stage AE, a Joint venture between the Pittsburgh Steelers and PromoWest Productions, is built on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. It was built from the ground up as the city’s largest music club venue and opened on December 3, 2010.

The mic complement for Club AE includes four Audio-Technica AE4100 Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphones; seven ATM650 Hypercardioid Dynamic Instrument Microphones; three ATM450 Cardioid Condenser Instrument Microphones; four ATM350 Cardioid Condenser Clip-On Microphones; one ATM250 Hypercardioid Dynamic Instrument Microphone; and an ATM250DE Dual-Element Instrument Microphone. According to Stage AE production manager Tim Peffer, “Audio-Technica mics are our go-to mics at more