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By Steve Harvey. Held in Anaheim Jan. 24 to 27, the NAMM Show 2019 is scheduled to feature more than 250 pro audio sessions dedicated to every aspect of production.

By Clive Young. We spoke with dozens of pro audio companies, manufacturers and organizations to find out their highlights of 2018, and just as importantly, explain why the industry should keep an eye out for them in the coming year.

By Steve Harvey. PMC2018 addressed a broad swath of issues related to production music, focusing not only on business issues, such as best practices for securing placements and, equally importantly, getting paid, but also how to maximize composition and production quality.

Together they'll present the Audio-over-IP Technology Pavilion at AES this week.

The guitar giant will be restructured, while longtime CEO Henry Juszkiewicz has been ousted.

Building on last year’s inaugural event, the four-day international symposium returns to Anaheim, CA, to run concurrently with the 2019 NAMM Show.

The conference drew pros and presenters from around the industry to discuss the creation and maintenance of audio archives, as well as explore the Library of Congress facilities and engineers.

Industry moves include promotions and hires at Focusrite Pro, QSC, d&b audiotechnik, Heil Sound, Alteros, Guitar Center, dBTechnologies, Pelican Products, Clear-Com, Avid, Solotech, Lawo and DiGiGrid.

Founded by Bruce Howze in 1968 to develop concert-worthy loudspeakers, Community evolved its market focus from tour sound to MI and now to install, though Howze’s technical leadership has been the one constant throughout.

By Katie Makal. Purported Oil “Sonication” Companies Sell Snake Oil Instead, SEC Alleges.

Industry moves include promotions and hires at d&b audiotechnik, Calrec Audio, Ashly Audio, VUE Audiotechnik, the Business Solutions Group of Guitar Center, Riedel Communications, Solotech, Prism Sound, API, the NSCA Education Foundation, Lawo and QSC.

Ten artists will perform live at the studio on June 2 for 10-song vinyl compilation.

Vancouver’s Pacific Autism Family Network built a music therapy space that addresses all the sensory sensitivities, including sound.

By Clive Young. “The goal is to utilize the best in creative minds to solve our customers’ problems and utilize our strengths in engineering and design.”

Industry moves include promotions and hires at Eighteen Sound, Countryman Associates, Genelec, Renkus-Heinz, Audionamix and CODA Audio USA, as well as the addition of Blue CEO John Maier to the LOUD Audio board of directors.

At the fifth annual Avid Connect event in Las Vegas, new Avid CEO Jeff Rosica said, "I’m really eager to further tighten the bond between Avid and our global community. Together with the Avid team, we’ve accomplished a lot these last few years, but I will tell you there’s still a lot more we can do."

Blockchain as a concept has been making noise (perhaps a low rumble) across the music industry for a few years now, but hasn’t made significant inroads into the pro audio world—yet.

By Clive Young. One could argue that Kelly’s exposure to pro audio distribution early in his career inspired his eventual path, but there’s more to it than that.

Industry moves include promotions at ADAM Audio and Genelec, and promotions at Community Professional Loudspeakers, Full Compass Systems, JoeCo, Group One Ltd., Point Source Audio, Martin Audio and Flare Audio.

By Clive Young. Attack reportedly the culmination of numerous days of harassment by the suspect, who is now in police custody.

By Katie Makal. Matt Dike, co-founder of influential hip-hop music label Delicious Vinyl and producer, has died at the age of 55.

By Katie Makal. Studio owner Brian Cronin is able to return to work following a late-December robbery.

Sennheiser has invested in Dear Reality and acquiring intellectual property from Sonic Emotion.

Industry moves include promotions at Audix and hires at Adamson Systems Engineering, GIK Acoustics, Pro Audio Design, Powersoft, Astro Spatial Audio, Focusrite, Auralex Acoustics and AlltecPro.

By Clive Young. “As a technology-driven company, we are always experimenting with better ways to solve sound reinforcement challenges," says Siegel.

By Clive Young. New Chicago Loop Location to house 150 employees, Consumer Experience Center.

By Steve Harvey. Avid CEO Louis Hernandez Jr. discusses storytelling, creativity in new book.

By Clive Young. While U.K.-based PMC (Professional Monitor Company) has been in business for more than a quarter century, its profile in the U.S. has grown considerably in recent years.

Like many people in the pro audio business, James Lamb started out as a musician.

Craig Johnson speaks to Pro Sound News about his new role as CEO of Full Compass Systems. He joined the company as CEO in December 2017.

By Katie Makal. Legendary music producer and recording engineer Rick Hall, owner of FAME Recording Studios and father of the “Muscle Shoals sound,” died at his Alabama home on Jan. 2 after a long illness.

QSC founders Pat Quilter, Barry Andrews and John Andrews reflect on 50 years of pro AV advances for live sound, cinema and corporate installations worldwide.

RØDE Microphones has released the AI-1, marking its first foray into the realm of USB audio interfaces, available on its own or as part of a new bundle, The Complete Studio Kit.

By Steve Harvey. The BPI, which represents the UK’s recorded music industry, is predicting that the holiday season will add over one million vinyl albums to the year’s total, which is expected to top four million in Britain.

FabFilter is now shipping the Pro-L 2 update to its Pro-L limiter plug-in. This update offers new limiting algorithms, a true peak limiting mode, and other new features including compliant loudness metering, and surround support.

DPA Microphones has acquired UK pro audio distributor Sound Network [no relation to our site, prosoundnetwork.com]. The company has distributed DPA for the last two decades, making inroads for the manufacturer’s products into the UK broadcast, live sound and theater markets.

Samson has launched its full line of AirLine ATX Series Micro Transmitter UHF Wireless Systems featuring what is reported to be the world’s smallest beltpack/clip-on transmitter.

Biamp Systems has been acquired by private investment firm Dallas-based Highlander Partners from previous owner Lomar Corporation. Financial details were not released other than that Lomar will retain a minority investment in Biamp.

Fohhn Audio has introduced its new Focus Venue Beam Steering line array.

ACT Lighting, Inc., an importer and distributor of entertainment technology, has acquired RHC Holdings Corp., better known as RapcoHorizon, a vertically-integrated manufacturer of interconnect assemblies, audio, data and interface products, and specialty industrial wire. RapcoHorizon brands include ProCo, RAT, RoadHog and StageMASTER.

ClearOne’s recently introduced Dialog 20 wireless microphone system are natively compatible with its own Converge Pro 2 line of mixers.

The Recording Academy has announced the nominations for its 60th Annual Grammy Awards, including engineering, mixing, remixing, mastering and production acknowledgements.

Waves Audio is now shipping its latest plug-in, the Waves VU Meter, intended to help users maintain proper gain staging for a clean mix.

Community has expanded its I SERIES family with the new IV6 Modular Vertical Array 600 system. Designed for installed indoor or outdoor applications, IV6 is a scalable, adaptive sound reinforcement system featuring wide-dispersion IV6-1122 array elements (12-inch, 2-way) available in two complementary vertical coverage angle versions (5-degree and 15-degree).

While the annual NAMM Convention in Anaheim, CA has stepped up its pro-audio education offerings in recent years, it will take a dive into the deep end this January 25-28 with the help of the Audio Engineering Society, as both organizations team up to present the inaugural AES@NAMM Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio. Now online registration for the four-day, multi-language event has opened online.