Archive for July, 2011

Coinciding with its 10th anniversary and a record-breaking sales year reflecting ongoing growth and expansion, Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, announces the appointment of Rick Plushner to the position of Vice President, effective immediately.

Plushner joined the Guitar Center organization in September 2005 as General Manager of GC Pro. At that time, the GC Pro division employed 18 staff members. His directive was to grow GC Pro’s sales force and develop the infrastructure to enable GC Pro to work in tandem with Guitar Center stores. Rick was promoted to Director of Sales in 2006 and then Director of the division in 2008. Over the past six years, GC Pro has grown into a profitable division with four times the sales that it had in 2005, as well as a team of 75 employees.

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— As part of its ongoing sweepstakes series, GC Pro highlights Sterling’s ST69 microphone, a $1199.00 value —

Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, has launched its latest online sweepstakes at www.gcpro.com. The new contest, featuring a Sterling ST69 Multi-Pattern Tube Condenser Microphone, is now live and will run through September 30, 2011, shortly after which a brand new contest will begin.

Several times a year, GC Pro management selects one particular product from a high-end gear manufacturer to feature on the website and give away as that sweepstakes prize. This latest contest features a Sterling ST69 microphone, a $1199.00 value. The ST69 is an excellent choice for recording engineers and musicians looking for a superior studio microphone. A combination of new and traditional technology, blended with Sterling’s Disk more

Shotgun Software announced today that international visual effects company Pixomondo has standardized on the Shotgun web-based production management and collaboration system. It is the center of Pixomondo’s worldwide production pipeline that spans 11 studios and more than 600 employees in Berlin, Beijing, Burbank, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Los Angeles, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Shanghai and Toronto.

“What Shotgun does for us is to literally get everyone on the same page,” said Pixomondo Managing Producer John Parenteau. “It centralizes the entire production – schedules, shot status, playlists, etc., and updates made anywhere are immediately available to everyone. 80% of our projects are worked on at multiple facilities, and with Shotgun it’s like working with another department, not another country. Shotgun has taken a lot of the stress out of production and has brought people together.”

Pixomondo began testing Shotgun as it considered the ‘buy vs. build’ decision after expanding beyond what more

KNOXVILLE, TN, July 26, 2011 — Waves Audio, the industry-leading developer of professional audio digital signal processing technologies and the recipient of a 2011 Technical GRAMMY® Award, announces updated SoundGrid capability for consoles from DiGiCo, the renowned U.K.-based manufacturer of some of the world’s most popular, successful and groundbreaking digital mixing consoles. The update, SoundGrid Version 2, features dual engine support for DiGiCo SD7 consoles running Waves V8 plugins.

Since Waves and DiGiCo formed a strategic alliance in 2010, DiGiCo users are able to run Waves’ award-winning reverbs, equalizers, compressors, limiters, delays and more, directly from their DiGiCo SD series consoles. Perfect for front-of-house, monitor, broadcast, and theater applications alike, SoundGrid gives users instant access to the industry’s leading audio processors, directly from the industry’s leading consoles. And to make things even simpler, Waves SoundGrid-compatible plugins come pre-loaded into DiGiCo consoles, eliminating the need more

NASHVILLE, TN, July 27, 2011 — Endless Analog announces that it has appointed Effretikon-based firm Audistro as its exclusive dealer in Switzerland for the CLASP™ (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor), the critically acclaimed pro audio product that invisibly merges real analog tape with Pro Tools and other DAWs. Founded in 2006, Audistro is a high-end audio equipment distribution/sales company serving the professional audio/broadcast market in Switzerland, offering anything from individual pieces of gear to whole-studio solutions and consulting services. As CLASP’s exclusive dealer in Switzerland, Audistro Owner/CEO Martin Korth will bring the renowned CLASP to the Swiss audio community.

Korth first discovered CLASP at AES in New York in 2009, but did not experience a full demo until the 2011 London convention. He states, “KMR, CLASP’s U.K. dealer, was holding a demo at the legendary Air studios, and I attended. I was just blown away. Seeing it in a more

Wirecast extends input support with integration of LiveU, Teradek, Matrox, Viewcast and Axis; adds Lion support and more

Telestream®, the leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced the release of Wirecast® 4.1 live video production and streaming software.
Wirecast 4.1 adds key partner integrations and new features that provide more choices for getting content into Wirecast, including remote, multi-channel, and wireless IP transmission. Additionally, Wirecast 4.1 is Mac OS X Lion compatible. Wirecast and Wirecast Pro webcasting software provide live switching, production, and streaming capabilities that enable Mac and Windows users to easily and cost-effectively create real-time and on-demand video broadcasts for the Web. more

Broadcaster Takes First Step Towards HD Production

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – KNME, New Mexico PBS, located in Albuquerque, recently began a facility-wide upgrade to all-HD production with the audio component centered on a Solid State Logic C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console. The console was chosen to manage the audio needs of a variety of programs from simple talking head-type news presentations to multi-microphone panel discussion productions. The C10 HD provides KNME with improved workflow, depth of features for high-end applications, ease-of-use for a wide range of operators and is 5.1 ready to facilitate future surround productions.

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LinkColor

Framewright, Inc., the New York City-based firm offering DTV production and postproduction, engineering and supervision, has announced the release of LinkColor, a Mac program with a simple user interface, designed to control Blackmagic Design’s HDLink Pro and HDLink Pro 3D. HDLink Pro is a 3D LUT hardware device for adjusting HD-SDI video, as well as other formats for display or recording.

“Framewright developed LinkColor to more effectively fulfill the inherent capabilities of HDLink Pro for electronic imaging for film and television,” says Abby Levine, the HDTV pioneer who founded Framewright. “Most of today’s digital workflows are achieved with digital cameras set up to record either Log or Raw files or tapes. These files are expected to be color corrected and otherwise adjusted in postproduction. In order to more accurately view a ‘finished’ version of these more

Houses of Worship Technology Leaders Meet Industry Leaders in Chicago

(Burbank, CA) Createasphere – the industry-leading company that brings together experts, exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees to share a vested interest in understanding and shaping the future of the industry – has concluded its first Executive Marketplace for Houses of Worship (HoW) in Chicago this week. During the event, decision makers from leading worship facilities around the country participated in solution-focused meetings with entertainment technology experts from manufacturers and solutions companies. The Executive Marketplace presented a unique opportunity for in-depth meeting and analysis of the media needs of sanctuaries as well as networking events, educational sessions and keynote presentations. Createasphere’s Executive Marketplace took place at the O’Hare Embassy Suites on July 20 and 21.

The invitation-only event kicked off with a keynote on July 20 from Dan McGraw of Seven Dials Media. McGraw, who has more

CRASH+SUES, the award winning Minneapolis-based creative design, CGI, animation, editorial and color correction company, has signed Nathan Keech as executive producer.

Keech brings over a decade of experience and a broad perspective of the industry to his new role, having worked in virtually every phase of the business. His knowledge of both production and postproduction traverses the commercial, broadcast, film, emerging media and corporate arenas, providing CRASH+SUES with the well-rounded skill sets needed to helm its diverse mix of work.

A founding partner and producer at Look Media Productions/MN in 1999, he went on to launch Keech Media, earning a dozen TELLY Awards and other accolades over the span of his career.

Heidi Habben, president of CRASH+SUES, notes, “I’m very excited about Nathan joining our team. Not only does he have an engaging personality, he also brings the ideal mix of business and hands-on more