With a 30-plus year professional career as a drummer, engineer and producer, Jonathan Mover has been creating award-winning music with a variety of artists, such as Aretha Franklin, Joe Satriani, Shakira, Alice Cooper, Julian Lennon and Fuel to name a few. Additionally, as the owner and operator of Skyline Recording Studios NYC, Mover has had the opportunity to use the market’s best available equipment. It is here that he continues to work with the world’s top musicians using an array of progressive audio technologies that includes two AKG Perception 820 Tube microphones. more

Premier Sound Services of Baton Rouge, Louisiana recently provided the sound reinforcement system for a Lionel Richie concert as part of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation’s 25th anniversary benefit gala. The system featured a variety of audio products from Harman Professional, including a Soundcraft Vi6 digital console at the front-of-house position. The concert took place at the Baton Rouge River Center and served to raise money for the Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. more

Live F.O.H mix engineer Richard Barling used a SADiE LRX2 location audio workstation on the recent three-week Friendly Fires tour of the United States.

“The LRX2 performed very well,� Barling says. “I used it to both multitrack record the shows and ‘virtual soundcheck’ at soundcheck time. We ran 28 channels from stage, four lines of music and intro at F.O.H and two audience mics. In total, we recorded 36 channels every night via the two fibre optic MADI cables linked to a Soundcraft Vi6 local rack with MADI outs and one wordclock cable. The audio sounded great.� more

For any company operating in the worldwide market collaboration and communication tools are key to effective decision making at all levels, be it during a meeting in a specific location or for larger company wide interactions. Transat A.T., one of the world’s largest integrated international tour operators, understands perfectly that collaborative thinking and thorough discussion are necessities for all decisions and therefore puts a high priority on ensuring that people have all that they need to work closely together; which includes having the right technology. For all, everything starts in the meeting room: the central place of focused collaboration and decision-making. more

Little Ferry, New Jersey – PureLink has been known for manufacturing and providing the most reliable and top performing Integrated DVI and HDMI Matrix Routers since 2004. Recently PureLink’s new Modular Digital Matrix Router has been garnering a significant amount of attention due to multi-format to any multi-format with a switching time of under 20 milliseconds. more

As it has done for the past three years, Los Angeles-based Swing House Productions provided live audio services and event production for performances at the Rusty Spurs club in Austin during the South by Southwest festival. This year, however, Swing House made a change by drawing from its own audio inventory for the festival, deploying a Soundcraft Vi4™ console for Rusty Spurs’ indoor stage and a Soundcraft GB4 console for a smaller stage in the outdoor area. more

COPENHAGEN — L-ACOUSTICS’ Danish distributor Moto Audio Sales has extended the system it installed into the Danmarks Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, adapting the venue for other uses including rock concerts.

Moto Audio Sales, which has worked with DR on sound design for the concert hall since 2004, initially delivered and installed an L-ACOUSTICS announcement system of KUDO line source and 12XT and 115XT HiQ coaxial speakers, as the venue was designed first and foremost for acoustic classical music. After completion of the concert hall, it became clear that there was a requirement to stage other styles of musical events. Last autumn, Moto Audio Sales was asked to redesign and extend the PA system to make it suitable for amplified music. more

With the advent of flat panel TV, you can now hung it onto the wall much like a picture frame. However most people are not utilizing the benefit of having a wall hung TV. Take for example this reasoning; you wouldn’t place a plain picture or painting on the wall, you get a frame for it to make it look nice and then you hang it on the wall. Then why would you place a plain TV onto the wall? Don’t mount it to the wall framed it to the wall with the all new UNIVERSAL FRAME MOUNT. more

METAlliance held its first ever METAlliance Academy event, titled, “In Session With The Guys,� at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles on March 19-20, offering invaluable instruction from some of the world’s most successful producer/engineers. The control rooms used for the event were equipped with JBL LSR6300 Series studio monitors, the first studio monitors to receive METAlliance certification. more

HardWire®, a leading manufacturer of guitar pedals and a Harman International brand (NYSE-HAR), is pleased to announce that guitarist Bill Kelliher from the Atlanta-based heavy metal band Mastodon is using HardWire® pedals both in the studio and currently on tour. more