| Mix Presents Sound for Film | Immersive Sound: From Production to Playback
Immersive sound—Taking Hollywood by storm and rapidly spreading around the world, Dolby's Atmos and Auro Technologies' Auro-3D advanced surround sound formats are impressing audiences with fully enveloping, more natural sound environments for cinema and home theaters. And audiences love it! Speakers in the ceilings, all around the room. Music and effects like you've never heard them! Not since the advent of 5.1 discrete surround in the early 1990s has there been a more exciting technological breakthrough in film sound production and playback. And it's just getting started. Join Mix in the only event of its kind, as we break down the technology and art of Immersive Sound.
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| | Sixth Annual MPSE Charity Golf Tournament | Join us on Sunday, September 7, 2014 for the 6th Annual MPSE Charity Golf Tournament benefiting the MPSE Ethel Crutcher Scholarship Fund, providing student scholarships to tomorrows filmmakers.
The fiesta themed event is hosted at the bea...utiful Angeles National Golf Club! Come play on the greens or off, you are sure to enjoy fun games, contests, great wines, new friends and your chance at cash prizes. If nothing else, play the Fireman's Ball Drop; participants need not be present to win!
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| | Feature Story | 137th AES Convention Calendar of Technical Program Events is Now Online
An extensive calendar of Technical Program events is now online for the 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention, which will take place Thursday, October 9, through Sunday, October 12, 2014, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. AES137 will offer dedicated program Tracks in the fields of Broadcast and Streaming Media, Game Audio, Live Sound, Networked Audio, Recording and Production, Product Design, and Sound for Picture, as well as Historical Events sessions, Standards Committee meetings, Tech Tours and more. |
| Clearwing Productions Deploys DiGiCo SD Series Consoles On Six Stages at Summerfest 2014
With more than 800 national and regional acts performing on 11 stages spanning over 11 days at this year's "Big Gig," as the locals call it, Milwaukee's Summerfest once again proved why Guinness World Records has named it the world's largest music festival for the past 16 consecutive years. Held at Henry W. Maier Festival Park on the city's scenic Lake Michigan shoreline, the 47th annual bash hosted some of the world's biggest artists, including Bruno Mars, Outkast, Lady Gaga, Usher, Brad Paisley, OneRepublic, Dave Matthews Band, Luke Bryant, Nas and Ludacris, among many others. | | | d&b audiotechnik's D80 Amplifier Puts OCA In the Field
d&b audiotechnik announces that its D80 amplifier, launched in January 2014, is the first product to incorporate Open Control Architecture (OCA) in the field. Developed by the OCA Alliance of companies that includes Bosch, Yamaha and d&b audiotechnik, OCA is a method of communicating over Ethernet. OCA is an open public communications standard, and it aims to become a common language that all pro audio manufacturers can use. | | | A/V Specialist Rupert AG Murray Is EDMMC Sound Co-Creative Consultant
Rupert AG Murray, a specialist in A/V systems and acoustics, is co-creative consultant with Todd Konecny at the 2014 Electronic Dance Music Master Classes (EDMMC) in Las Vegas, one of the hottest EDM locations in the country, in conjunction with LDI. EDMMC will explore the artistic, technical, and practical challenges of designing and programming for this burgeoning musical phenomenon. | | | Sound Image, Jimmy Buffett Celebrate 40 Years On the Road Together
For 2014, San Diego's Sound Image is celebrating 40 years as Jimmy Buffett's live sound provider with a new touring system for Buffett's This One's For You tour. The live sound rig includes 80 Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers driving 52 JBL VTX V25 line array loudspeakers and 24 S28 cardioid-arrayable subwoofers. | | | New Products | Sennheiser 'Praise Pack' Microphone Bundle
Praise Pack ($349) is a new microphone bundle from Sennheiser that is focused on the small- to mid-size house of worship (HOW) market. The new bundle comprises four e 835 dynamic vocal microphones along with four pouches and mic stand clips, which are snugly packaged in a specially embroidered, road ready Gator case. | | |
