Jon Bormann, president of Bormann Marketing.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – JULY 2011: Symetrix, Inc., a leading provider of signal processing technology for the installed sound markets, has named Bormann Marketing, sales representative for Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin effective June 1, 2011. Coinciding with this appointment, Loft AV, Symetrix’ rep for Illinois and eastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee area), merged with Bormann Marketing, giving Bormann Marketing sales responsibilities for two key Symetrix territories.

Noted Paul Roberts, director of sales and marketing for Symetrix, “Opportunities to add a sales rep firm of the quality of Bormann Marketing are rare. Having Jon Bormann and his team handle the upper Midwest was a real coup for us. Then having Bormann Marketing merge with our current Illinois and eastern Wisconsin rep, LoFT AV, was icing on the cake. Combining the exceptional sales management skills of LoFT AV’s president, Barbara Sjodin, with the powerhouse team that is Bormann Marketing, is more

Meridian’s DSP8000 featured in the new comedy Horrible Bosses from Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema

July 11, 2011—New York, NY—Meridian’s flagship DSP8000 is featured in the new comedy Horrible Bosses, from Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema, now showing nationwide.

The Meridian DSP8000 is the ultimate expression of the art and science of loudspeaker design. Meridian’s flagship digital active loudspeaker sets completely new standards for clarity, dynamics, imaging and realism. It is one of the few loudspeakers in the world that can accurately reproduce both the power and subtlety of a concert grand piano.

About Horrible Bosses
Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis star as three pushed-to-the-edge workers who realize that the only way to make their daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting more

NEW YORK—Since opening its doors in 1981, the Blue Note in New York City has become one of the premier jazz clubs in the world and a cultural institution in Greenwich Village playing host to some of the greatest musicians of all time such as Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, BB King, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, to name a few as well as modern hip-hop and R&B stars, including Lauryn Hill, Mos Def, Common and Lupe Fiasco. Recently the club received an upgraded sound system installed by Petrix.

“The Blue Note installation was a challenge,� states Amit Peleg, owner of Peltrix. “While the acoustical characteristics of the room are good, the audience sits around the stage which is positioned in the center of the room. There is only 15.5 feet from the front of the stage to the more

“Aspiration� supports professional, multi-camera SD/HD/3D productions for a multitude of events

NASHVILLE, July 11, 2011 – The mobile production world for broadcast television, live entertainment and professional AV just got a new set of wheels.

TNDV: Television introduces “Aspiration,� its new 40-foot expanding-side mobile production truck. Aspiration is built to support premium remote video production services for broadcast TV, worship events and corporate video projects; as well as concerts, ceremonies and other live events. Aspiration will cross the country with its advanced SD/HD/3D production workflow featuring up to 12 cameras, a large routing system, a feature-rich production switcher and a comprehensive audio suite among other capabilities.

TNDV built its first truck seven years ago on a shoestring budget, producing mainly worship and corporate projects in the southeastern United States. TNDV gradually upgraded its first truck to an more

Image of Kyle Lassegard.

Buena Park, CA – July 2011… Hosa Technology, the leading innovator of analog and digital connectivity solutions for the modern musician, is pleased to announce the promotion of Kyle Lassegard to the position of Marketing Coordinator. With a background that encompasses studio recording, information technology, sales, and marketing communications, Lassegard’s experience makes him an ideal choice for his new position with the company. He is stationed at Hosa’s headquarters in Buena Park and commenced work in early 2011. more

Three Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-ins To Be Won

OXFORD, UK: To mark the introduction of its new Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in, Sonnox has announced a fun competition on Facebook, where three Pro-Codec’s will be awarded on September 1st !

Following a lengthy collaboration with mp3 creator Fraunhofer IIS, the resulting Pro-Codec software introduces real-time auditioning, encoding and decoding of audio, using Fraunhofer’s professional codecs, within a DAW environment.

“The Pro-Codec represents a huge advance in enabling engineers to precisely audition codecs in real time,” explains Sonnox Sales & Marketing Manager, Nathan Eames. “It’s now possible to make highly informed mix decisions with the knowledge of exactly how it will sound when encoded to various different formats.”

To aid contestants in answering the three basic questions posed on their Facebook page, Sonnox has hinted that all answers are included in a brief but informative product video more

Northside Church

From its start in the basement of a house to using the Vista Spyder X20 0808 digital media processor for audiences up to 6,000 every weekend, New Albany, Indiana’s, Northside Christian Church has come a long way in spreading the gospel. And experience told Ted W. Roberts, director of communications for the church, that the Spyder was the best choice.

“Having owned an event production company, I was familiar with Vista and used some of its earlier products,” said Roberts. “When I came here, the church leadership gave me the latitude to evaluate the equipment we had, what we were trying to achieve, and to make sure we had the right tools for the job. The equipment also had to be user-friendly because we have a lot of non-technical people using it. more

Prism Sound and SADiE will be attending this year’s IBC Convention in Amsterdam with a range of products aimed at the professional broadcast and post production markets.

The company will also be highlighting the important issue of Audio Loudness by showing a new application for its powerful dScope Series III audio analyser that allows broadcasters to verify whether their audio meters comply with ITU-R BS. 1770.

Prism Sound’s critically acclaimed dScope Series III is a flexible and powerful digital audio analysis platform available in a number of configurations, including two analogue-only versions aimed at engineers and production line managers who are currently only concerned with audio analysis in the analogue domain. These variants give customers access to all the power and flexibility of the dScope Series III audio analyzer platform but at a much lower cost of entry.

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