FAIRFIELD, NEW JERSEY - FEBRUARY 2010: Creative Realities, Inc. (CRI) is a marketing firm staffed by experts in business and theater who work together to create remarkable customer experiences for their clients from the retail, hospitality, entertainment, healthcare, education, and general corporate sectors. While CRI’s work may be fairly described as technology-driven art, a well-defined business result always moors what at first may appear to be pure spectacle: brand awareness, brand allegiance, word-of-mouth advertising, and the like. CRI frequently works with audio, and its engineers rely on SymNet open architecture DSP systems to turn flights of fancy into perfectly-executed realities. more

GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 2010: Danley Sound Labs, home to legendary innovator Tom Danley and manufacturer of the world’s most faithful loudspeaker and subwoofers, welcomes respected acoustician and pro audio renaissance man Doug Jones, to the part-time role of technical consultant. Many may remember Jones from his monthly column that appeared in Live Sound International magazine. more

WEBSTER, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 2010: Even amid trying economic times in an industry that has, by all accounts, taken it on the chin, Ashly Audio continues to grow and support its popular and expanding product line of cost-effective, network-ready DSPs and amplifiers with the addition of Todd K. Smith to the position of western regional sales manager. Based in Colorado and reporting to John Sexton, national sales manager, Smith will oversee and expand markets west of the Mississippi for Ashly Audio. more

COLUMBIA, MARYLAND - FEBRUARY 2010: St. John Baptist Church (SJBC) in Columbia, Maryland recently completed construction of a wonderful new sanctuary on a recently-acquired forty-acre tract of land. The new building sits just over a mile from SJBC’s previous location and contains all of the amenities that the church has longed for in its nearly forty-year journey from start-up to establishment. Included in that wish list is a wonderfully articulated sound system centered on four Danley SH-50 full-range loudspeakers that evenly blanket the fan-shaped room without appreciably exciting the walls or ceiling. Neil Shade of Acoustical Design Collaborative designed the system, and Baltimore’s HP Electronics installed it, with oversight from Joe Schwartz.

Shade designed SJBC’s new system as an exploded cluster of four separate hangs. Room treatments, including wall and ceiling panels, helped tone down the sonic effect of the drywall that formed the basic structure of the walls, more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 2010: For anyone who has ever gone clubbing till dawn in this brave new century, superstar female vocalist JES is undoubtedly the voice of some fantastic memories. Steeped in the world of electronica and rocktronica, JES exploded onto the dance music scene in 2003 as the singer of Motorcycle’s “As the Rush Comes,” which held the number one position on Billboard’s “Hot Dance Airplay” chart and was the most-played dance song of that year. It was the fourth most-played dance song of the decade, according to Billboard’s recently released “Decade End Chart,” which also reports her solo release “Imagination” at #46 for the decade. more

MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE - JANUARY 2010: In addition to the distinction of a degree from one of the pro audio industry’s most highly-regarded educational programs, the future graduates of Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Recording Industry now benefit from the school’s 2009 installation of an analog, 48-channel API Vision surround sound console. Aligned with the School of Mass Communication, the Department of Recording Industry is home to some 1,500 students seeking both Bachelors and Masters Degrees with sequences in Music Business, Production & Technology, and Commercial Songwriting. Many of the industry’s leading figures stepped confidently into their first jobs clutching diplomas from MTSU, and the program’s continued commitment to relevance and effective teaching maintains its top-tier status. more

POINTE CLAIRE, QUEBEC, CANADA, JANUARY 2010 - With a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, seventeen top-ten singles, and eight Juno awards spanning fifteen years in the spotlight, Jann Arden commands a large and loyal fan base across Canada. The multi-platinum artist is currently touring with her band in support of her eighth studio release, Free, with dates, often across multiple nights, in more

GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA - JANUARY 2010: If you are one of many who post on various audio forums, you may know about the Danley Sound Labs, DIY subwoofer offer. For several months, legendary loudspeaker manufacturer, Danley Sound Labs, has been offering its DTS10 subwoofer as a DIY kit (no kidding). This is a LIMITED TIME OFFER. Keep those last three words in mind as orders keep coming in at amazing rate and the company may have to select an end date. So, act now. For a fraction of the price of a regular Danley home theater sub, the DIY DTS10 45″ x 60″ x 16″ delivers bass down to 11 Hz at chest-crushing SPLs with the robust fidelity for which Danley is renowned. And with the owner’s very hands responsible for its assembly, pride of ownership coupled with performance will soar to the ceiling as friends’ jaws drop to the floor. more

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - JANUARY 2010: To suggest that Marty Stuart’s forthcoming album, Ghost Train, is a return to his roots, is nonsense, as he is one country singer/songwriter that has never strayed far from those roots. Even Stuart’s string of commercial hits in the 1990s were less about calculating hooks than they were about the affections of a fickle public - affections that shifted for a time toward authentic country. Stuart cut his teeth backing the likes of Lester Flatt, Doc Watson, and Johnny Cash. Ghost Train is a return to his roots, not in its content, but in its process. Stuart and longtime engineer Mick Conley went into legendary RCA Studio B, which is now literally a museum, to cut the tracks in the very first room that Stuart ever recorded in, back in the early 1970s, when he was playing with Lester Flatt. To highlight that beautiful recording more

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JANUARY 2010: Symetrix is pleased to announce a major software upgrade to its cost-effective and uniquely powerful Zone Mix 760 fixed-architecture DSP system. The original member of Symetrix’ expanding Integrator Series, the Zone Mix 760 helped redefine sound system expectations and sophistication for restaurants, hotels, night clubs, and a wide range of other venues. It continues to win contracts that deliver exceptional functionality, intuitive user interfaces (using Symetrix or third-party hardware controllers), and trouble-free set-ups. In addition to numerous features that speed and simplify programming for busy integrators including copy and paste, graphical EQ response shaping, and enhancements to storing presets that now include output routing, the software upgrade substantially improves performance “under the hood” with features like site file storage and improved network connections. The software is available at no charge from http://www.symetrixaudio.com/repository/zm760_ver3.0.exe

The Zone Mix 760 derives more