Company to Offer 24/7 Access to Products and Service

LONDON —Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is pleased to announce it will offer around- the-clock on-site support for broadcasters throughout the 2012 Summer Olympic games. Company experts will be in London to provide the world-class customer service and top-notch support for which Anton/Bauer is renowned. more

DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 22, 2011 — Gepco International and General Cable has appointed top-flight manufacturer representative, Audio Geer, to promote its products in Southern California and Southern Nevada. The Gepco brands will add to Audio Geer’s already impressive line card, which includes Shure, QSC, and Listen Technologies.

“We represent a broad range of truly excellent brands,” said Alan Geer, Principal of Audio Geer. Audio Geer was lacking in the area of wire and cable solutions. Adding Gepco® Brand and SheerWireâ„¢ products provides an extraordinary connection between all of our brands, therefore, adding to the system solutions we offer our customers every day. The fact that Gepco provides both bulk wire and custom cable assemblies provides our customers with a single-source point of contact for all of their connection requirements. It is a perfect fit and we are proud to represent them.â€?

“Audio Geer’s outstanding reputation more

DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 22, 2011 — Gepco International is pleased to announce that it has extended Delco Wire & Cable’s distribution partnership to include North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida.

“With the addition of Delco Wire & Cable as our southern distributor of Gepco audio, video and networking cabling solutions, we ensure that our southern broadcast customers receive first-rate service and support,� said Glen Powers, Director of Sales, Gepco® Brand Products.

“We are excited to be broadening our partnership with Gepco,” said Roger Caynor, C.E.O. of Delco Wire and Cable Limited. “We look forward to supporting southern broadcast customers with Gepco’s industry-leading broadcast products.”

For 37 years, Delco Wire and Cable Limited has been servicing customer’s electronic, communications and broadcast cable needs. Over its history, Delco Wire and Cable has emerged as one of the industry leaders in the development and marketing of more

+ The History Of Recording – From 1 Mic To 24 Tracks & Audio Archiving

NEW YORK: “The goal of the AES Convention Historical Program is to revisit the accomplishments of pro audio past masters within a context which makes them relevant to next-generation audio practitioners,” states 131st AES Convention Chair Jim Anderson. “This year, longtime Historical Events Chair Harry Hirsch has nurtured four events which fully serve that objective.” Scheduled for Oct. 20 thru 23 in NY’s Jacob Javits Convention Center, this year’s convention is expected to attract over 20,000 attendees from around the world.

131st AES CONVENTION HISTORICAL EVENTS:

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI AND THE HISTORY OF ANALOG RECORDING: Presented by Robert Auld - A prolific recording artist from 1917 until 1977 – virtually the entire period of analog music recording – Stokowski’s passion for the art more

100M HDMI Extender with PoE, IR, RS-232, Ethernet and 3D Support

Brea, Calif., Aug 22, 2011 – KanexPro (Booth #309) the leading A/V Connectivity solutions provider is proud to introduce its groundbreaking HDMI® Extender, based on HDBaseT® technology called the “The Long –Runner 5PL� which includes all the five main elements of a typical A/V install: Audio, Video, Power, Control, and the Distance needed for versatility and swift installation. Guaranteed to work with any number of HDMI sources and displays.

Route high-resolution HDMI signals with full HD 1080p from the source up to 330 feet (100m) to your HD display. In addition, it supports PoE (Power over Ethernet) eliminating excess or unwanted power drain and also provides power to the receiver at the remote location, giving the ultimate freedom to the flat-panel or projector from being tethered to the AC outlet.
It provisions full 3D (all formats) and resolutions up to 4Kx2K (4 times the 1080p) with multichannel more

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina – Located in Surfside Beach, part of South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach resort area, the 950-seat Celebration Music Theatre opened earlier this year as a home to world-class live entertainment. The Theatre features the artist tribute show SUPERSTARZ! Live! with entertainers performing hits from Elvis, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Cher, Barbra Streisand and many other stars.

The Celebration Music Theatre occupies the site of a former live-performance venue, where the stage, video, lighting, wiring and other parts of the theatre have now been totally redone. All previous audio and video equipment has been removed to make room for a completely new installation that includes more than 30 HARMAN’s JBL VERTEC® line arrays powered by Crown amplifiers.

Local installation specialist Commercial Audio, Inc. was contracted for the renovation, led by sales and marketing director Adam Hyman and more

CARLSBAD, CA, August 16, 2011 — Studio b., located in Alys Beach, Florida, recently opened their groundbreaking exhibit Light Impressions: A Celebration of iPhone® Photography, which features the curated work of 40 iPhoneographers from around the world, showcased on 40 Apple iPad 2® units. “Never before has iPhone photography been exhibited on this scale and with this level of deference,� states studio b. founder/owner and world-renowned photographer Colleen Duffley. With an iPad 2 assigned to each artist, each unit features 13 photos from the artist’s collection, shown in a slide show configuration, looping at different intervals. Another iPad 2 is used to stream the entire show online at studio b.’s website (www.studiobthebeach.com). The iPad used as the live feed camera is mounted with a WIPAD Control Interface from Xantech, a leader in the field of audio/video remote control and distribution for 40 years.

Studio b., located in Alys Beach, Florida, is currently hosting Light Impressions: A Celebration of iPhone® Photography. Pictured is the iPad used as the streaming live feed camera, mounted with a WIPAD Control Interface from Xantech.

Light Impressions was more

More than 115,000 fans turned out to see Metallica ring Bell Stage’s L-ACOUSTICS K1 rig

L-ACOUSTICS’ top-of-the-line stadium system presides on Bell Stage at 11-day Festival d’ete de Quebec

QUEBEC CITY — Despite its modest beginnings in 1968, the annual Quebec City Summer Festival (Festival d’ete de Quebec) is now recognized as Canada’s largest outdoor performance event. Attracting more than 1.5 million people over its 11-day span each July, this year’s production involved nearly 300 musical performances spread out across three outdoor stages and seven indoor halls.

The primary performance venue for the festival is the Bell Stage, which, from July 7 through 17, hosted everyone from Ben Harper, Elton John and John Fogerty to Simple Plan, Avenged Sevenfold and Metallica, among many others. more

Vizcom Technologies installed a JBL VERTEC line array system at the Heath Ledger Theatre in Perth, Australia.
Photo Credit: Eva Fernandez

NORTHRIDGE, California – In the first fixed installation of HARMAN’s JBL VERTEC® subcompact line arrays in Western Australia, Perth-based Vizcom Technologies recently integrated a VERTEC subcompact line array system at the 575-seat Heath Ledger Theatre in Perth. The Heath Ledger Theatre is part of the Theatre Centre of Western Australia, one of the defining architectural landmarks in Perth. The VERTEC system was sold through Jands, HARMAN’s Australian distributor.

The Heath Ledger Theatre is a traditional proscenium arch stage, measuring 12m wide and 9m high. The proscenium opening can be minimized with a false proscenium and borders. The stage measures 25m from wall-to-wall and 18m from the back wall to the front edge of more

War Time Tunnels

When English Heritage opened the new attraction at Dover Castle, “Operation Dynamo: Rescue from Dunkirk,” it deployed audio-visual and show control technology from AV systems integrator Electrosonic to recreate the drama of World War II’s Dunkirk evacuation.

Situated in the network of 60-meter long secret tunnels, 26-meters underground behind the famous White Cliffs of Dover, the attraction makes extensive use of AV technology to present the events of May 26 to June 4, 1940. In the highlight of the attraction, 23 projectors create giant images that run the entire length of the space augmented by spectacular lighting effects. German fighter planes appear to zoom down the entire length of the tunnel immersing visitors in the action on the Dunkirk beaches, while another scenario shows eerie-silhouetted figures hunched over a table planning more