| 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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| | Mix Regional | | The Mix Regional section for Mix's September 2014 issue focuses on Miami. Send us your studio news: updates, sessions, new rooms, as well as club performances and installations. Let the Mix audience know what is going on! Send photos and descriptions to mixeditorial@nbmedia.com. |
| | Feature Story | DiGiCo, Allen & Heath, Calrec Announce Formation of a New Pro Audio Group
DiGiCo announces that after consulting with Electra Partners over the past 18 months, it has combined with two other British console manufacturers, Allen & Heath and Calrec, to create a new professional audio group. Within the group, each company will retain its particular skills, customer relationships and brand identities. James Gordon will become Group CEO supported by managers from across the new group. |
| Elbow In North America
UK pop-rock band Elbow—Guy Garvey (vocals), Mark Potter (guitar), Pete Turner (bass), Craig Potter (keyboards) and Richard Jupp (drums)—played 12 dates in North American clubs in spring 2014, sandwiched in between arena concerts in the UK (including London's O2 Arena) and festivals in Russia and Europe. The band embarked on their first U.S. tour since 2011 to promote their 2014 release, The Take Off and Landing of Everything, the band's sixth. |
| Clair Bros. Audio Systems Announces Clair Solutions
Clair Bros. Audio Systems Inc. in Manheim, Penn., announces a new trade name and logo for its audio, video and lighting (AVL) integration division. Effective immediately, the trade name Clair Solutions will serve as the company's sole representation in the AVL integration industry. | | | Cher's Dressed To Kill Tour Includes Three DiGiCo SD7 Consoles
Cher recently completed the first North American leg of her Dressed to Kill (D2K) tour, which is scheduled to resume in Albany, NY in mid-September and run through early November, encompassing a grand total of 74 shows. The tour features three DiGiCo SD7 consoles supplied by Black Box Music of Berlin, Germany... | | | Journey, Steve Miller Band Tour with Meyer Sound LEO, LYON
Meyer Sound reports that rock legends Journey and the Steve Miller Band are touring North America this summer with the Meyer Sound LEO family of products, including the compact LYON linear line array loudspeakers that the company launched this year. The equipment choice for the 40-city tour was driven in large part by Journey's FOH engineer, Jim Yakabuski. | | | Suffolk Theater in New York Installs Renkus-Heinz Sound System
After a lengthy renovation project, the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, New York, recently reopened as a multi-use, state-of-the-art dinner theater with flexible seating, digital projection, and a surround sound system featuring Renkus-Heinz PNX and TRX Series loudspeakers. | | | Imelda May's North American Tour
Irish rockabilly artist Imelda May's new album, Tribal (Verve Records), won't be released in the U.S. until the fall, but it's already reached into the Top 5 in Ireland and the UK. | | | | Preliminary Technical Program is Now Online for the 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention » | | | | Event Tech Deploys Harman Professional Equipment at the USO's 4th of July Pitbull Concert at The White House » | | | | Belushi's Comedy Club Installs PreSonus StudioLive AI Series System » | | | | Delicate Teams with Martin Audio MLA for Latin Radio Concert » | | | | Amadeus Installs Sound Reinforcement System for New Cultural Center in Le Mans, France » | | | | Bose RoomMatch System Installed at First Wayne Street United Methodist Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana » | | | | DPA Microphones Capture The Kyteman Orchestra » | | | Masque Sound Returns to the Berkshire Mountains to Celebrate 60th Season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival »
| | | New Products | VUE Audiotechnik AL-4-SB
The new al-4-sb Flyable Isobaric Subwoofer ($2,995) from VUE Audiotechnik features rigging options for suspension above or behind al-4 line arrays in a variety of configurations. VUE also offers a flyable end-fire grid that allows quick assembly of sophisticated al-4-sb end fire arrays for improved directionality and reduced low-frequency energy onstage. The al-4-sb is equally adept in portable applications. Integrated rigging allows quick assembly of ground-stacked arrays, while a 20mm socket accommodates up to four al-4 acoustic elements on a pole with the optional U-bracket. At the heart of the al-4-sb are two precision-engineered, long-excursion 15-inch transducers that feature neodymium magnets and large 4-inch (100mm) diameter voice coils for high power handling and reduced power compression. | | | More Live Sound Products »
| | | | Announcements From Mix | | Clearwing's Vendor Showcase takes place in Milwaukee on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. » | | | | Master Mix Live in Las Vegas offers a premier recording and soundstage facility for touring and recording artists. » | | | | Meyer Sound presents user training videos for LYON Line Array System. » | | | | Eighteen Sound offers 'Loudspeaker Lyceum' educational videos. » | | | | PreSonus and SAE Institute announce a series of free StudioLive AI digital mixer training sessions, hosted at all seven SAE locations in the U.S.; these sessions are open to the public and will be held monthly on Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. local time. » | | | | Until August 31, Sennheiser customers can trade in old wireless gear for up to $200 cash back on select new Sennheiser Wireless Systems. » | | | | SynAudCon announces fall in-person training schedule: Sound Reinforcement for Technicians (SRT; Charlotte, N.C., on September 17-19, 2014, and again in Dallas, Texas, on October 6-8, 2014); SynAudCon Digital (Phoenix, Ariz., November 17-19, 2014) » | | | | Harman's AKG partners with Global Rockstar to award AKG microphones and wireless systems to the top three fan-voted winners of Global Rockstar's online music contest; submissions are accepted until September 30, 2014 » |
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