For the first time ever, Alcons Audio will be participating in the upcoming SIEL SATIS show.

The presence will mark the entry of the Dutch sound system brand into the French market.
Tom Back: ”needless to say, the French market is a tough nut to crack; But with the flow we have in the market, the different sound experience our products offer and the opportunity the combined SIEL –SATIS show offers, we decided to participate. It will be a good platform to get the French high-end pro-audio users informed about Alcons’ pro-ribbon sound-systems.”  read more »

Capacity crowds fill events featuring legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer --  read more »

The Test & Measurement company NTI focuses its long time sales and support presence in the Chinese market by establishing its own subsidiary, NTI China Ltd Co. in Suzhou. For a smooth transition into the new organizational structure, the key management personnel have been retained from the former sales organization.  read more »

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA, October 21, 2008 — Earlier this year, recording engineer, producer and mixer Hugo Nicolson decided to make the big move, from his home base in London to Southern California. It was a strategic decision that would take an already successful career – his credits include engineering Radiohead’s recent In Rainbows LP, which helped revolutionize the business model of the music industry, as well as mixing, engineering and production and programming work for Björk, Dido and several major motion picture scores – to the next level.  read more »

NTIs Minirator MR-PRO is now delivered with an extended mass storage capacity of 512MB, allowing storage of 16 times more tests signals than the previous version. At the same time firmware revision 2.10 is being introduced with additional features for Apple users and for sound installers.

New hardware with extended mass storage RAM  read more »

For a sound company, there are few scenarios more challenging than the ambient noise of an aircraft or two. That probably makes the guys from Continental Air Show Productions either masochists or experts (they'd probably say a little of both). The company spends their days pumping it up loud enough to be heard over the roar of several dozen of the loudest military jets on the planet. To get louder than this you've got to be good, and these guys have proven their ability over forty years in the industry.  read more »

ORANGE, CA, October 16, 2008 -- SKB Corporation, manufacturer of cases for professional audio equipment and musical instruments, has their Studio Flyer 4U model on the road with Michael Abbott, Audio Mixer for The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The 1SKB19-RSF4U Studio Flyer case (based on the original 2U Studio Flyer Carry-on case) enables Abbott not only to safely store and transport the recording equipment of his mixing rig, but to use the Studio Flyer as an integral part of the audio archive system when it is in use.  read more »

Audio-Technica's award-winning SpectraPulse® products use ultra wideband (UWB) technology to deliver the candidates' audio with ultimate security and no interference --  read more »

With its choir of more than 15,000 dressed in traditional garb, large groups of folk musicians and full orchestras providing backing, a full range of art exhibitions and parades, and 100,000 onlookers, no one would argue the Latvian Song and Dance Festival's significance to local culture and national identity. Held once every five years, the festival transformed Riga, Latvia for one week this summer.  read more »

It’s easy to get swept up in the energy of Richard Loring’s African Footprint, a hypnotic dance production that has been captivating global crowds since 1999. Its latest successful run at South Africa’s Lyric Theatre brings precision sound to Johannesburg’s highly discerning audiences, using the clarity of a Meyer Sound M’elodie™ line array loudspeaker system supplied by South African AVL installer Prosound.  read more »