Midas Consoles Middle East has dispatched three Midas desks to rental company Creative Events in Doha, Qatar. The order – worth over half a million UAE Dirhams – consists of a Heritage 3000, Legend 3000 and a Verona. The growing company has been steadily investing in new equipment and this latest addition to their portfolio makes them an even stronger player in the region. (more…)

Midas has again been hitting the great outdoors, providing a huge range of international sound engineers with control surfaces which combine the familiarity of use and reliability that ensure they remain the mainstay of major festivals and summer events.

SSE provided its standard festival package of two Midas Heritage 3000s at front of house and two XL3s on monitors across a wide range of UK festivals, including the main stages at Reading and Leeds, Download, V07, Oxegen, T in The Park, Summer Sundae and Cropredy. (more…)

Funeral for a Friend‘s FOH engineer Clem Bennett is using a Midas Heritage 3000 for the Welsh band‘s biggest tour to date. The tour began in the UK and Europe in April before heading out to the US, returning to Europe for summer festivals then continuing onto the Far East and Australia, and wrapping up the year with a headline tour of the UK in December, finishing in Cardiff on Dec 22. (more…)

New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), founded in 1988, is India‘s first and largest private producer of news with over 1000 employees, current affairs and entertainment television. NDTV is home to the country‘s best and brightest reporters, anchors and producers; 23 offices and studios across the country host India‘s most modern and sophisticated production and news gathering facilities. (more…)

The Oregon Symphony starts its annual concert season in style at the end of each summer, celebrating popular classics in the heart of the community with outdoor performances staged in Portland‘s public parks. (more…)

Belgian rental company DEE Digital has added a Midas XL8 Live Performance System to its inventory. Formed a year ago as a subsidiary of established rental and production company Dee Sound & Light, DEE Digital has been set up to address the growing demand for digital console rentals. (more…)

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 2007: Klark Teknik showed a pre production unit of the DN 9696, the industry‘s first high resolution hard disk recorder aimed at the live performance environment, on stand J33 of the PLASA show.

In developing the DN9696, Klark Teknik has responded to a changing market, which is experiencing live recording as a new revenue source. (more…)

Cascade Sound debuted their new DVX woofer-loaded Electro-Voice XLC line array system at this year‘s Oregon State Fair in Salem, which featured sold-out shows by classic rockers Heart and Steppenwolf, country artists Joe Nichols and Craig Morgan, and “American Idol” Daughtry. (more…)

A self-proclaimed audio and technology fanatic, Montoya brings over 15 years of system design experience–in both the pro audio and high-end home audio worlds–to his new position.

“Juan‘s comprehensive experience and training in multiple areas of audio will prove invaluable as we address new concepts in systems integration with new technologies,” says Thomas Hansen, VP Sales, The Americas, Bosch Communications Systems. (more…)

The Klark Teknik business unit of Telex Communications UK Ltd has purchased the assets of the SuperMAC and HyperMAC audio networking business previously operated by Sony Oxford, a division of Sony United Kingdom Ltd, effective September 2007. The assets include all the SuperMAC and HyperMAC technology implementations currently available from Sony Oxford. (more…)