Music’s Biggest Night® would be nothing without sound. As the world watched their favorite musicians perform and present at the GRAMMY Awards®, AKG was tasked to provide flawless audio through its DMS700 wireless microphone system and corresponding D-series microphones. Held at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 13, the GRAMMY Awards honor those who have achieved recording greatness around the world.

Throughout the telecast, AKG equipment was utilized to deliver key announcements, including the introductions of Ricky Martin and Miley Cyrus, to the live crowd and millions of at-home viewers. Located at two stations during the awards, numerous D7’s and DHT700 handheld mics were in front of the main stage as well as in the satellite stage outside of the arena.

Five-time GRAMMY® Award winner, Usher and his protégé, Best New Artist nominee Justin Bieber both wowed the crowd during their dual performance, wearing AKG more

Convergence India 2011
March 24-26, New Delhi, India
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Founded in 1991, the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival has grown to become one of Colorado’s most popular outdoor music festivals. The recent 2010 event in Snowmass Town Park hosted a wide variety of artists including Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Black Crowes, Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Wilco and other acts. The 3-day festival attracted more than 35,000 fans each day.

Audio Visions has fielded a JBL VERTEC® system at the festival for the past five years. With offices in Omaha and Minneapolis, the company is the Midwest’s largest single-source, full-service production company. For the most recent event, Audio Visions provided a main PA system comprising 12 JBL VERTEC VT4889 fullsize line array elements per side, with an additional six VT4888 midsize line array elements in use for front fill. A dbx DriveRack 4800 loudspeaker management system was in use for front-end processing.

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Houston Northwest Church is one of the city’s major spiritual centers, a Baptist church that can host more than 2,000 congregants. Music is an integral part of their services, which combine a contemporary and traditional feel with music that can range from hymns and gospel to rock and country. To help support this wide variety of musical styles, Houston Northwest Church (HNW) recently installed a Soundcraft Si3 Digital Live Sound Console.

“We needed a new console because our old one was past the ten year mark and showing its age,� said Clint Collins, HNW media director. “It was a 48-channel console and I had every channel taken up with a need for more room to expand. With the old analog configuration I had to have three full racks of outboard EQs, compressors, limiters and other gear, and our patch bay was over 25 bays long. We were long overdue more

Extron Electronics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MTPX Plus 6464, a 64×64 twisted pair matrix switcher for RGBHV, HD component video, standard definition video, audio, and RS-232. It is one of five models in the MTPX Plus 6400 Series of large-scale twisted pair matrix switchers, and incorporates industry-leading features of the MTPX Plus Series with new capabilities, including EDID Minder® for local inputs and outputs, RS-232 insertion from the Ethernet port to all MTP outputs, and switchable video pre-peaking on all outputs. more

KNOXVILLE, TN, February 22, 2011 — Waves Audio, a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, in association with Aphex, is now shipping their modeled plugin version of the original Aphex Aural Exciter®. Officially called the Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter®, the new plugin is based on one of the two original tube-powered prototype units developed by Aphex during the mid-seventies. The Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter modeled plugin delivers all the unique character of the rare hardware unit, with all the advantages of software.

A true groundbreaker at the time, the original Aural Exciter traveled from studio to studio as an exclusive (and expensive) rental unit, bringing its distinctive sound to select sessions by leading recording artists. Highly regarded for its ability to increase and enhance presence, brightness and detail on vocal tracks and masters alike, the Aural Exciter was even credited as more

MELVILLE, NY, February 22, 2011 — Korg USA is encouraging consumers to “Record, Sample and Save!� by offering significant price reductions on two of its popular recording and performance tools.

The hand-held Korg Sound on Sound (SOS) recorder enables musicians to overdub endlessly and take advantage of its built-in effects, rhythms, chromatic tuner, and onboard stereo mic and monitor speaker. Power from two AA batteries offers on-the-go portability, and each take is saved to a microSD/SDHC card as an individual WAV file, so it can be dropped into any DAW. Free CD creation software is also included. SOS will now be offered at $100 less than its original price.

More than just a sampler, the Korg microSAMPLER is a complete sound design studio for creating up-to-the minute loops and phrases. Unlike other Beat & Groove samplers, microSAMPLER is also a keyboard instrument, able to provide incredibly musical results, more

EMERYVILLE, CALIF. – Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading West Coast video and film integration firm, will present an ASG Lunch & Learn seminar focused on high performance storage area networks (SANs) and archives on Thursday, March 10, 2011. The free seminar, “Need High Performance, Scalable, Flexible Workflows with Efficient Archiving?� runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Morton’s The Steakhouse at 400 Post St. in San Francisco. Lunch will be served, and all attendees will be included in a drawing to win an Apple iPad.

The one-hour morning session will explain how a SAN file system provides file creation, storage, and sharing. After lunch, the discussion will concentrate on how data management software can simplify archiving. Both sessions will include recommendations on how attendees can implement their own strategies for data lifecycle management.

“A combined strategy of using a Quantum StorNext SAN file system and data more

Latest Verizon Invoicing Changes Integrated Into OneCall Manage Software Suite

Red Bank, N.J., February 24, 2011— OneCall Manage, international provider of a data-driven decision making for Wireless Management (WM), today announced that its WM software suite updates and analyzes carriers’ invoices, including recent changes on Verizon Wireless invoice format.

Indecipherable invoices riddled with cryptic charges are the hallmark of telecom carrier billing. For WM vendors, a key challenge has been providing technology and service solutions that can download and accurately analyze carrier invoices at any given moment. Without a software suite that proactively accommodates the constant invoice changes, a WM vendor cannot determine erroneous and unnecessary charges effectively.

“If the wireless management software vendor is unable to decipher the latest carrier invoice changes, the customer ends up paying for them without knowing what they are paying for,� said OneCall more

Designed for organizations that want to keep digital signage expenditures at the local P&L level…

MENOMONIE, Wis. – Feb. 24, 2011 – StrandVision LLC today introduced a new approach to contracts for multi-site company, franchise, association or chain customers that seek the volume cost and content sharing benefits of a master agreement while retaining the flexibility for every individual Profit & Loss (P&L) unit to select, manage and pay for their own StrandVision Digital Signage contracts.

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