Join Robert Scovill, Senior Specialist for Live Sound Products, as he shares the past and the future of the groundbreaking Avid VENUE | S6L Unified Live Sound Platform. Discover how this creative and powerful development approach stands to reshape the manufacturing, performance, and interconnectivity of professional audio products for years to come.
Wednesday May 6, 2020 1:30pm EST – Register here
Every Friday in May at noon CDT, the Shure Pro Audio team and special guests will walk through various aspects of a production workflow. Please join us to discuss how your peers plan and execute their events. And, as always, come with questions for our team and special guests. For an updated schedule, visit www.shure.com/webinars.
Register for series
Join Martin Audio tomorrow April 29th for the next webinar in their series, covering the VU-NET control and networking software. With sessions presented by Simon Purse at 9am and 4pm and Joe Lima at the newly added later time of 7pm, there is a session to suit all time zones. Find out more and register here
With much of 2020’s global tradeshow calendar all but wiped out, there are very few chances in the near future to get together and highlight the new and noteworthy additions to the international pro audio industry’s arsenal. To help to tackle this, Martin Audio have decided to take matters into their own hands and host a dedicated virtual tradeshow, putting the spotlight on the new additions to their portfolio.
Much like their famed Open Days, the virtual tradeshow will offer an overview of the Martin portfolio suitable for end users, distributors, rental companies and integrators. The event will be webinar-based across a number of time slots on Wednesday May 20th to ensure that people in different time zones can come together for the show.
As much of the world follows safe-at-home and social distancing guidelines and mandates, the Audio Engineering Society is bringing the AES Europe Convention directly to attendees. Originally scheduled to take place in Vienna, Austria, the AES Virtual Vienna Convention in now set for June 2 – 5, 2020, with an online format. The AES Virtual Vienna Convention is a front-row-seat to the AES event experience, utilizing live streaming, on-demand audio/video/multimedia presentations, interactive Q&A and forum dialogs to realize the personal connection and emotional feedback that is at the heart of AES live events. All Access registration for this first-of-its-kind AES live event is available for just $50 for AES members ($175 for non-members), with additional discounts available for currently enrolled audio students.
Join DPA this week as they air educational interviews with sound engineers as they discuss the industry and its challenges.
Tuesday, April 28
18:00 CEST / 12:00 pm EDT
DPA Live Talk with Production Sound Mixer Daniel S. McCoy
Daniel is a supersonic storyteller. 20+ years of passionate work in cinema sound, documentary production and creative arts in science and fiction have amplified his passion for producing and staying on the forefront of original storytelling.
Avid today announced that aspiring creative people around the globe have now downloaded Avid’s free Pro Tools® | First, Media Composer® | First and Sibelius® | First more than two million times. Avid First tools were made to give new generations of artists essential experience and a career foothold by learning the same tools that professionals use every day to edit, record and compose the most popular films, television and music enjoyed by people everywhere. Downloads of Avid’s “freemium” offering have more than doubled since 2018, enabling many creators to enjoy producing music and videos with industry-leading tools for free—ultimately having the option to upgrade to any of Avid’s affordable paid subscription plans.
Since Avid initiated the First product offerings, Pro Tools | First music creatives who are just beginning their journey in recording, engineering and production can record, mix and collaborate using the industry-standard tool. With Media Composer | First, beginner video editors get all the features and functionality they need to tell great stories, while learning the industry’s leading professional non-linear editing tool. For music composers, Sibelius | First is a powerful notation tool for music composition, transcription and reviewing.
In a move to give residential dealers easy solutions to break into the light commercial market, BlackWire Designs, a leading distributor in the custom installation market, recently announced that the company is offering Yamaha’s CIS line of audio products for small- to medium-sized commercial installs. For Yamaha installations with mixed AV control, BlackWire is also offering an exclusive, newly released driver that integrates MTX series units with Control4 automation systems.
“Now more than ever, it’s important for our customers in the residential market to branch out beyond their comfort zone and take advantage of new opportunities,” said Kevin Luther, owner of BlackWire Designs. “Our goal is to provide residential dealers with ready-to-go solutions as well as sales design services, which they can utilize to better serve their customers.”
A.C. ProMedia takes a look at Modular Players and how AUDAC’s Innovative Technology plays an integral role in crystal-clear audio reproduction. AUDAC sets itself apart by using technology that creates solutions in its products making products easier to use, install, and enjoy.
MODULAR PLAYERS
Modular players have a flexible architecture that offers a truly versatile solution. Easily adapted to any project-specific configuration for up to four audio sources. The wide variety of available SourceCon™ modules with simultaneous operation possibilities for all four modules makes it a compact multi-source system which is the perfect expansion for any multi-zone audio system.
UK Loudspeaker manufacturer PMC has appointed Sweetwater Sound as a full-line US dealer for its entire range of professional studio monitoring products.
Established in 1979, Sweetwater Sound is the leading online musical instrument and pro audio equipment retailer in the US and has experienced unprecedented growth for over a decade. It is a perfect fit for PMC because it is always looking for the best products to offer its dedicated customer base.
