Massachusetts-based Hanover American Insurance Co. has filed a federal lawsuit against the owner and tenants of Kiva Recording Studio in Memphis, accusing them of insurance fraud and demanding that they pay back more than $2.8 million originally awarded after the studio burned down in an arson fire last November.
If you're a small pro audio-oriented business owner—studio owner, audio engineer, live sound provider, all of the above—you've surely warded off attempted scams, phishing, spoofs and/or hacks in recent times. Anyone who has sold expensive audio equipment via Craigslist has surely seen some hackneyed attempts at scams, but lately my in-boxes have been blowing up with a couple of interesting new ripoffs, so take note and beware. Cynics may be able to shrug off such injurious advances easily, but those who are anxious for some new business activity may be tempted to give these crooks the benefit of the doubt…but don't.
"I don't use plug-ins, I don't use snapshots or anything like that; every single night, I mix by memory—and it's because if I don't do that, I'm not able to respond to what Andra and her band are doing on stage. I believe I'm doing the audience a disservice if I'm not responding to Andra and the band, because if my job is to bridge the gap between the artist and the audience, I have to be able to emotionally and musically engage with what they're doing at any given time." - Caleb Morris, live engineer for Andra Day
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