From Jimi Hendrix & Alicia Keys To Fito Paez, MTV & Hoffman La Roche

MIAMI: Since 1969, the Walters-Storyk Design Group (www.wsdg.com), has created over 3000 recording studios and professional audio production environments for clients, ranging from Jimi Hendrix, Alicia Keys, Green Day and Bruce Springsteen to international corporations, broadcasters, such as MTV (Argentina,) and PBS; Jazz At Lincoln Center and other performance venues; and studios for such Latin stars as Fito Paez (Argentina), Ivette Sangalo (Brazil) and Daddy Yankee (Puerto Rico). By joining forces with Maxicon, a 10-year-old Miami-based Audio/Video design and installation company, WSDG Miami establishes a unique ability to provide world-class architectural /acoustic design and audio video integration services to a diverse clientele. more

Innovative DB-16 Functions As RF “Decongestant”

LAS VEGAS: Comedic magicians Penn & Teller are putting Professional Wireless Systems’ RF “Decongestant” wizardry to good effect for the latest permutation of their long-running live show. The Penn & Teller Theater in the Las Vegas Rio Hotel recently served as the PWS DB-16 beta site, and the real-world results of this innovative new filtered receive/multi-coupler have proved genuinely amazing. more

Innovative Mega Playground Workflow System Accelerates Barry Levinson/Al Pacino HBO Film to Debut April 24

NEW YORK: Accomplished DP Eigil Bryld discovered a prototype of Mega Playground’s innovative DP Dailies thru DI process while working on the 2009 Jeff Daniels/Ryan Reynolds Paper Man. at the West Village production/post production complex. “When Playground CTO Terry Brown and principal Eitan Hakami demoed their new dailies thru DI solution for me, I found it a fast, cost-effective process for providing a consistent creative look for digitally printed dailies from original camera negative,� he says. more

Innovative Audio Restoration Plug-ins To Refurbish Historical Archives

PARIS: INA, the French National Audiovisual Institute, is a repository of the French radio and television audiovisual archive. Featuring a search tool indexing over 100,000 archives and 20,000 + hours of historical programming, in 2006 INA introduced www.ina.fr as a free online consultation website for students, journalists and researchers. To ensure the highest possible sound quality for these historic broadcasts, Vincent Fromont of the Institute’s Restoration/Mastering Audio Department recently acquired six Sonnox Restore Suites. more

Platinum Engineer Al Schmitt Will Chair Sound Industry Charity Tournament At Malibu C.C.

Walnut Creek, CA – March 9, 2010 — Some of the world’s most renowned music producers and engineers, along with professionals from the pro audio industry’s leading production facilities, manufacturers and distributors will converge for the 15th Annual TEC L.A. Open, to be held Monday, May 17, at the Malibu Country Club. Returning as Honorary Chairman is famed recording engineer Al Schmitt, a member of the TEC Awards(c) Hall of Fame and recipient of 20 Grammys (r), as well as the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. more

Special DP Dailies Discount Through April 2010

NEW YORK: Mega Playground, a leading West Village-based post-production complex has launched a comprehensive new website, http://www.mega-playground.com.
In conjunction with the new site, company principal Eitan Hakami has initiated a special reduced rate for the facility’s proprietary DP DAILIES DI quality workflow process. Featured in articles by many leading trade magazines, available in the site’s Press Section. DP DAILIES has been recognized as an innovative, cost-effective breakthrough in speed and quality for film and TV video dailies. more

Conferences: Nov. 4-7 / Exhibits: Nov. 5-7 At SF’s Moscone Convention Center

SAN FRANCISCO: AES, director of convention management, Chris Plunkett has announced that the 129th Audio Engineering Society Convention Exhibitor Application has been posted at www.aes.org/events/129/exhibitors.With conferences beginning November 4, 2010, and Exhibits open Nov. 5 -7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, plans are well underway for a stellar event. more

The Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo 2010 says, “Our mistake is your gain!” No, they don’t have a warehouse full of surplus sofas, but they have erred in some communication on the date early bird registration closes-so to be fair, the early bird rates will stay on the registration page till through Thursday, Feb 25. more

Ben Folds Keynote Address Set For March 5th

NASHVILLE: Attendees of The Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo 2010 March 5-6 are in for a treat as artist, writer, engineer, producer and studio owner Ben Folds kicks off this year’s event with the opening keynote address. Set for Belmont’s Curb Event Center, just steps away from the heart of Nashville’s legendary Music Row, NRW+E has also announced a number of exciting new panelists and presenters. more

NEW YORK: Food Network has been creating tastefully prepared, highly entertaining programming since 1993. Originally owned by Providence Journal, and then A.H. Belo Corp, the innovative network was acquired by The E.W. Scripps Company (now Scripps Networks Interactive) in 1997. After establishing such household icons as Emeril Live, and Iron Chef America, it has gone on to create such signature programs as Alton Brown’s Good Eats and Rachael Ray’s Thirty-Minute Meals. Food Network currently serves its appetizing 24/7 menu of recorded programming to over 99 million households around the world. more