NAPERVILLE, Ill. – March 1, 2011 – The Compass Church—a 3,000-member, multi-site church located in the Chicago suburbs—selected the K-array KR200S loudspeakers to reinforce the live sound of its diverse and progressive worship services. The speakers are used in the church’s new multi-site location in the gymnasium of nearby Crone Middle School, referred to as the 111 Campus.

Working with Frankfort, Ill.-based integrator Plus One AV, The Compass Church had identified some core requirements the audio system for the 111 Campus would need to overcome. First, the system would need to be extremely easy to set up and tear down each week. Second, since the facility is a gymnasium, the system would need to be acoustically flexible and able to provide superior sound for both spoken word and live music. Marty Fornelli of Plus One AV arranged a competitive shoot-out between more

Altman Rentals is pleased to welcome Jason Perry as a Rental Sales Agent to its staff. “We are very happy to have Jason join our team,� says Randy Altman, owner of Altman Rentals. “His focus will be working with our growing number of film & television rental clients. With our location, inventory and customer support we have been growing in theatre and events as well, but television & film has been very busy. Our customer service is a high priority for us and I know that Jason will be able to offer Altman Rentals’ first rate support to our customers.�
Prior to joining Altman Rentals, Perry handled technical support and customer service for Rosco Laboratories in Stamford, spent 10 years with High Output in Boston and has worked as a freelance Production Electrician. Perry is looking more

Haivision Makes Serial, Network, and Embedded KLV Metadata Support Available for Popular Makito and Barracuda Compact H.264 Encoders

MONTREAL and CHICAGO — March 1, 2011 — Haivision, leading provider of the most advanced video networking, digital signage, and IP video distribution solutions, today announced significant enhancements to the Makito(TM) HD H.264 and Barracuda(TM) SD H.264 low-latency compact encoding appliances. The new real-time metadata capabilities are in response to advanced requirements from military and medical integrators that need to incorporate mission-critical data transmission within the video transport pipeline. more

Main Light Industries, who manufacture and rent a wide variety of fiber optic-based products, introduces the LED-powered LightStar™ fiber optic illuminator, part of DiCon Lighting’s FiberLamp product line. LightStar uses an innovative LED light engine comprised of Red, Green, Blue, and White LEDs for a broad spectrum of color choices as well as reducing the power draw and weight. A key feature of the LED-powered LightStar is that it produces an output comparable to, or greater than, a fiber optic illuminator using a 150-watt metal halide light source. In a white color mix, the LightStar is equivalent to the 150-watt metal halide powered illuminators. By using an LED light engine there is no transmission loss with a color filter, so in deep, saturated colors, the LightStar has a greater output that is equivalent to 250-watt illuminators. more

Electrical Engineer/Automation Specialist, Draper, Inc.

(Spiceland, Ind.)– Draper, Inc. has announced the addition of an Electrical Engineer/Automation Specialist to the company’s Solar Control Products division.
Zac Farber comes to Draper after spending the last 10 years with Somfy, where he worked in research, development and commercial sales.

“Having Zac on board will be a huge plus for our dealers and installers,� according to Jeff Miller, Product Manager-Solar Control Products at Draper. “His expertise will help Draper provide the ideas and products necessary to integrate solar control products into construction projects of all sizes and types.�

“I’m looking forward to working with Draper in this exciting and growing area of building products,� according to Farber. “Window shade automation is being recognized by more and more people as an integral part of a good indoor environment, more

BUENOS AIRES:

Regardless of the on-going movement towards laptop recording, purists with the desire and the means to create full-scale, well-equipped studios continue to pursue their pro studio dreams. A pair of youthful Argentine brothers recently engaged the Walters-Storyk Design Group in Buenos Aires to create a high-end home studio for their Roma & Romma Records label.

Constructing the studio as an annex to the family home required particular attention to acoustic isolation. “Our clients wanted the freedom play and record any time of the day or night without disturbing their family,” explains WSDG-LA partner Sergio Molho. “They retained us for the design-through-construction, and complete turnkey systems integration of a professional studio with acoustically perfect live and control rooms.”

“WSDG has created studios for such artists as Fito Paez, Alicia Keys, more

Whitinsville, MA, USA, February 28, 2011 – On Thursday, February 24, 2011, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama marked Black History Month at the White House with a celebration of Motown music. The event took place in the East Room at the White House, and Chris Anderson, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based Anderson Audio, was asked to spec the project. Anderson Audio is a premier audio vendor in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing professional audio design, consultation and installation. Chris decided to rely on products from EAW® for loudspeaker solutions for the event.

The Motown event is the latest in the music series, “In Performance at the White House.� Performers included Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow, Seal and John Legend, among others, and several Motown legends were in attendance. The event will be broadcast on PBS on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. more

MELVILLE, NY, February 28, 2011 — Korg USA is proud to be a gear sponsor of the U.S.-based charity Guitars Not Guns, which aims to provide guitars and lessons to foster children, at-risk youth and other deserving children in a classroom setting with qualified teachers, as an alternative to involvement in violent activity at school and on the streets.

The charity’s goal is simple: to combat gang violence and other self-destructive behaviors with guitars. By providing children and teens with guitars and lessons in a fun atmosphere, Guitars Not Guns engages the students’ creative potential. They also teach students to care for and tune the instrument, and to that end, Korg USA has twice donated a variety of hand-held guitar tuners to several of the charity’s California chapters for students to use and keep. To date, several dozen Korg tuners, as well as metronomes more

— New worship space for New Jersey church features state-of-the-art lighting and sound, thanks to a close relationship with GC Pro —

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA, February 28, 2011 — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, recently helped outfit the new location of Marlboro, New Jersey-based Monmouth Worship Center with a new state-of-the-art sound and lighting system. GC Pro and Monmouth already had a working partnership at the church’s previous location. When the decision was made to build a new church from the ground up, Monmouth Pastor Joe Hewes knew they would need impressive lighting and sound to match the new sanctuary, and they ended up turning to GC Pro, not merely for the gear itself, but also for design, installation and commissioning of their facility.

Rick Rivera, East Brunswick, more

Ben Shipman, President – AVA Audio Video Associates, Inc

Bluffdale, Utah, USA — Listen Technologies Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of AVA Audio Video Associates, Inc. as the company’s representative for Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, and Southern Illinois.

AVA Audio Video Associates, Inc. will be working Listen’s full line of FM, Infrared, ListenPoint®, and Conferencing products for assistive listening, soundfield, tour group, language interpretation and conferencing applications.

Ben Shipman, President of AVA Audio Video Associates, Inc. and his team bring over thirty five years of sales representation, system integration and worship performance experience. AVA’s mission is to creatively unite customer-driven manufacturers with value-added dealers to provide the end user with superior products and quality service.

Commenting on the partnership, Ben Shipman said, “We are very proud to be a part of the Listen team and to represent the Listen brand. The unique products Listen offers perfectly compliment our other product lines more