NEW YORK: Because so many audio professionals use Apple products in their everyday work, the Audio Engineering Society has launched a pilot initiative in conjunction with the Apple Association Member Purchase Program. AES President Jim Anderson reports that an agreement has been reached to provide US AES members with special savings of up to 17% on the latest Apple products and accessories. “We are exploring the possibility of more

LOS ANGELES⎯Patrick Mundy may be fairly new to the live sound game, but not digital mixers. He previously worked in studio recording and became familiar with them during that time and credits his audio recording mentor, Dave Fridmann, with providing him the tools to go out and mix live. Fridmann told him that the secret to a good studio sound was live sound. more

Indiana based Grace Community Church has invested in a range of Vista lighting control solutions as part of a multi-million dollar expansion of its worship facilities. Models purchased include the full-size Vista T2, the portable Vista S1 and the playback-only Vista M1 consoles. This is to expand the church’s capacity to three weekend worship auditoriums, to accommodate as more

Now approaching its 30th year, Nottingham-based Rock City — originally set up by Director George Akins, and today probably the UK’s longest-surviving independent venue — has commissioned a brand new sound and lighting infrastructure.

NOTTINGHAM, England — To keep pace with modern tour riders, and the growing move by the medium-sized venue market to offer bands the opportunity to leave their production in the truck, visiting sound engineers can now more

PRG Lighting’s newly purchased Nova-Flower 2Ks are being utilised on the phenomenal U2 “360″ world stadium tour, as part of show director/designer Willie Williams’ amazing lighting design.

Seven of the fixtures - specially developed by Italian manufacturer Novalight for the tour and now in full production - are positioned around the stadiums in the audience bleachers, pointing back at the stage. Say’s PRG’s group asset director Paul more

Lighting designer Tom Kinane used 60 i-Pix Satellite LED ‘bricks’ to illuminate the set and stage for the third series of popular daytime TV quiz, “Wogan’s Perfect Recall”, which is being recorded in studio TV2 at Pinewood, Middlesex, UK.

Kinane has been a big fan of all i-Pix products and uses them on many of his shows. He likes the new BB range, but also still more