Archive for October, 2010

Pensacola Florida’s Vinyl Music Hall literally rose from the gutted rubble of a former 3-story Masonic temple in the heart of downtown, transforming itself in a mere two months into a live music destination for national and regional touring acts of all flavors and fans alike.

Dual DiGiCo SD8s—SD8-36 at FOH and SD8-24 at monitor world—are the heartbeat of the club’s audio core, along with a d&b audiotechnik Q1 PA system and Meyer USM-1P stage wedges, supplied by Pensacola’s All Pro Sound. The 40-bit floating-point processor, at the nucleus of DiGiCo console’s stealth processing, enables this cutting-edge music venue to deliver state-of-the-art sound live to a 525-capacity room, but will also enable them to stream archived multitrack performance recordings virally over the web.

“The SD8 more

NEW YORK: The New York Production Alliance introduced its 2010-2011 Board of Directors, Officers and Committee Chairs at a member meeting October 19, hosted by Panavision New York.

“For some time, our primary focus has been advocating for the renewal of the film production tax credits. To continue that work, NYPA

has now established a co-chair leadership structure representing industry and labor, to enhance the effectiveness of NYPA as the only non partisan coalition collaborating on solutions for continued growth of New York jobs in production,” said John Johnston, NYPA Executive Director. “While employment of New Yorkers continues to be NYPA’s top priority, the organization can now direct more resources to its educational initiatives, including the encouragement of sustainable green practices in production. Our committees are reorganized to support this implementation.” Johnston added.

Morty Dubin, Founder and Chair more

Image of S.E.A.’s Uwe Kirchfeld.

Burbank, CA … Royer Labs, recognized globally as a leading manufacturer of high quality ribbon microphones, is pleased to announce the company has reached a new distribution agreement with the German company S.E.A. Vertrieb & Consulting GmbH. The new distribution agreement enables Royer Labs to strengthen the presence of its premium microphone products among musicians and audio professionals throughout the key European countries of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. more

Lawrence Swist, principle of Lawrence P. Swist Designs, a full-service acoustical design and consulting firm specializing in environmental solutions for recording studios, production suites and postproduction facilities, will be meeting attendees at the AES convention in San Francisco, November 5-7.

Swist will be sharing The Recording Studio Insurance Program booth (#1326) on the floor of the annual Audio Engineering Society convention at Moscone Center. Convention-goers will want to be sure to drop by to explore the state of the art with him and review recent projects he has completed for the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase; the United States Military Academy at West Point; and New York City’s Quad Recording Studios.

Swist’s designs have gained wide recognition within the industry as innovative, aesthetically pleasing and highly ergonomic in function. Swist is also well known as a lecturer, master class more

RevEAL at the Emmy Awards

Prism Projection’s RevEAL Color Wash instruments made their red-carpet debut on “The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Red Carpet Special” on NBC. A team from “Access Hollywood” produced the live program, which showcased Emmy nominees and guests as they arrived at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.

“For some time we’ve been interested in moving toward energy-efficient LED technology for daylight/exterior red carpet-type applications, but the consensus has always been that LEDs just don’t have enough ‘punch,’” says Steve Holt, production manager with “Access Hollywood.”

After seeing some “promising advancements” in LEDs at NAB 2010, Holt and his team researched the subject and field-tested fixtures from several manufacturers. “We wanted to know definitively if we could light a red carpet platform for a live network show more

SAN FRANCISCO: Two outstanding presentations will be recognized with Student Technical Paper Awards at the 129th AES Convention at SF’s Moscone Center Nov. 4-7. Convention Papers Co-Chairs Veronique Larcher, and Rob Maher, who also serves as Student Technical Paper Award Coordinator, have announced that the co-recipients are: Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Tobias Ritter, Technical University of Denmark. The award certificates will be presented to the winners during the Opening Ceremonies on Thursday, Nov. 4, 1:00PM to 2:30PM.

Mr. Ritter’s paper, “Modeling Viscoelasticity of Loudspeaker Suspensions using
Retardation Spectra” was co-authored by Finn Agerkvist. Mr. Ritter was born in Germany in 1984. He graduated as B.Eng. from Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in 2008 with a major in engineering physics and as M.Sc. (Eng) from Technical University of Denmark with a major in acoustics. His research interests include electroacoustic transducers, numerical methods in acoustics, psychoacoustics and more

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Sound Devices USBPre 2, an all-new version of its popular USBPre computer audio interface, is now shipping just in time for AES 2010 (Booth 1031). The two-channel USBPre 2 offers professionals a powerful, yet easy-to-use, portable interface to interconnect audio sources to Mac OS and Windows computers over USB. Featuring an entirely new electronic design, USBPre 2 uses the same extended-bandwidth, low-noise microphone preamplifiers and digital converters as Sound Devices award-winning 7-Series Digital Recorders.

The USBPre 2 is ideal for a broad range of applications, including voiceover recording, reference playback and monitoring, and test and measurement. The class-compliant, plug-and-play device accepts mic level, line level, consumer line level and SPDIF digital (coaxial or TOSLINK) inputs. Its microphone preamplifiers have selectable analog limiters, high-pass filters, 48 V phantom power and high-resolution LED meters. Because the USBPre 2 draws its power solely from the computer’s USB port, no additional power source is required. more

The headlines, coming far too frequently, are biting and heartbreaking – another lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, driven to desperation by relentless and hateful bullying, has taken his or her own life. Disgusted with the pointless and unnecessary pain, Pirate has thrown the full weight of its resources behind the The Trevor Project – a nonprofit that offers suicide prevention support and resources for this vulnerable group – starting with production of It Gets Better, a song composed by Jay Kuo and Blair Shepard of Sing Out, Louise! Productions, and an incredible video bursting with hope, promise and joy.

The inspiring song and video, recorded and shot in Pirate’s New York studio with top Broadway talent, is a bold statement of the company’s leadership in the surging movement to combat the ignorance and hate driving these young people to despair.

It Gets Better more

Working with Believe Media Director Gerard de Thame via Mullen, jumP Editor Michael Saia recently blended a pair of beautiful :30s promoting freight rail company, CSX’s, efficient and environmentally sound business practices.

Enviro-Brackets promotes CSX’s ability to move one ton of freight nearly 500 miles on just one gallon of fuel with a custom-crafted thank-you from nature’s grateful denizens. Flora and fauna alike articulate themselves into the shape of the company’s logo as a tribute to its green practices: a herd of pronghorn running along a plain; apples hanging from the side of a tree; fallen leaves on an ocean side hill; and a flock of migrating birds soaring overhead.

Tracks is a masterpiece of symmetry, symbolically evoking the power of CSX to efficiently move cargo by zooming over a series of neatly lined object that could not get to market without the railroad. The camera, more

Railways are the lifeblood for any economy, and Believe Media’s Gerard de Thame, in collaboration with Absolute’s Lead Flame Artist Dirk Greene, illustrate its importance by way of two clever :30s for global freight transportation leader CSX, via Mullen.

“I’ve teamed up with Gerard on a number of projects, so of course I didn’t hesitate when we were asked again to collaborate,” noted Greene, who led Absolute’s team of animators, modelers, and lighters for the project. “He’s a tremendous talent and constant innovator – as demonstrated here – and we work great together.”

Enviro-Brackets promotes CSX’s ability to move one ton of freight nearly 500 miles on just one gallon of fuel with a custom-crafted thank-you from nature’s grateful denizens. Plants and animals gather together to form the company’s bracket-shaped logo: a herd of antelope running along a plain; apples hanging from the side more