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NAMM
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THE LIFE AHEAD WITH METRIC HALO
Sound Mixer Maurizio Argentieri Relies on Futureproof Metric Halo Interfaces for Critically-Acclaimed Sophia Loren Film, The Life Ahead SAFETY HARBOR, FLORIDA: The Life Ahead stars celebrated actress and octogenarian Sophia Loren in a performance that many are predicting will...
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Like All of the Other NYC-Area Studios They Frequent, Tony Shanahan and Stewart Lerman Now Have the Inspiring, Fatigue-Free, Translatable Sound of ATC Monitors
Tony Shanahan and Stewart Lerman are friends and fellow music industry insiders who share Hobo Sound Studios in Weehawken, New Jersey. Shanahan has variously produced, engineered, written, and played bass with Michael Stipe, Ryan Adams, Robert Plant, Faith Hill,...
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Songwriter/Producer/Engineer DJ Bless Runs a Virtual “Metric Halo Console” with Metric Halo Production Bundle of Plugins
SAFETY HARBOR, FLORIDA: DJ Bless, who often goes by his darker alter-ego Sutter Kain, was a songwriter and producer first and only became known as a mix engineer when other musicians needed his help to achieve his signature “Ghetto...
Business
NAMM Believe in Music Week Wraps Up
NAMM's Believe in Music week in mid-January attracted 93,226 attendees from 187 countries.
Business
2021 TEC Award Winners Announced
The annual TEC Awards, honoring the best in professional audio and sound production, went online to announce this year’s winners.
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Danley Sound Labs’ Jericho J7 Horn Lands in Singapore
Bartley Christian Church Becomes the First Venue in Singapore to Benefit from the Power, Articulation and Small Footprint of a Danley Sound Labs J7 Jericho Horn SINGAPORE: Founded over half a century ago by twenty-five original members, Bartley Christian...
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Eleven ATC Monitors Define Decades of Tom Petty’s Box Set “Wildflowers & All The Rest”
Relying on Eleven ATC Monitors, Producer/Engineer Ryan Ulyate Unifies Decades of Tom Petty’s Demo, Live, and Studio Recordings Into Wildflowers & All the Rest Box Set in Stereo and Dolby Atmos LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Producer/Engineer Ryan Ulyate has been...
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Daking Introduces the USA-Made, Dual-Mono, Single-Rack Space Mic Pre IIT
High-End Boutique Performance at a Surprisingly Affordable Price LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 2021: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of the world’s best professional recording equipment, is pleased to introduce the new Daking Mic Pre IIT, which combines two of Daking’s stand-alone...
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Engineer Matt Barnes Digs In with Metric Halo’s Musically-Useful Plug-Ins
LONDON, ENGLAND: Headquartered in London, Matt Barnes is a sought-after recording and mix engineer with a deep skill set and humility enough to keep expanding it. He engineered Krept & Konan’s Revenge Is Sweet, which made it to the...
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Bridgewater Church of the Brethren Goes from “Two Out of Ten to Ten Out of Ten” with New Danley Loudspeakers
BRIDGEWATER, VIRGINIA: The deep history of Bridgewater Church of the Brethren in Bridgewater, Virginia stretches back into the late 1700s, when the first Europeans migrated into the area. Centuries of branching and growth led to the construction of the...
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Sound and Flexibility of ULN-2 Interface Converts Theatrical Producer Michael Moritz Jr. to a Metric Halo Fan
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: With a deep pool of talent, a wealth of high-stakes experience, and the kind of personality that lifts others up, Michael Moritz Jr. is a much sought-after music director and music supervisor in the New...
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TransAudio Group Introduces the New MUTEC REF10 SE120
MUTEC Improves Upon Its Industry-Leading REF10 Audiophile 10 MHz Reference Master Clock with an Advanced Oven-Controlled Quartz Oscillator LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 2020: TransAudio Group, the U.S. distributor of the world’s finest high-end professional audio recording equipment, is...
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Introducing the New Danley BC215 Directional Subwoofer
Delivering Tom Danley’s Famous Low-Frequency Output in a Flexible, Scalable Design GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA: Danley Sound Labs has always been into bass. Tom Danley has a history with producing some of the most unique subwoofers in the industry and the...
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Bettermaker Unveils Very-Limited Edition Darthlimiter
Celebrating the Sale of 1,000 Mastering Limiters, Bettermaker Comes Up with the Very Cool-Looking, Very Awesome-Sounding, Very-Limited-Edition Darthlimiter LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Borrowing a certain heavy-breaking, distance-choking intergalactic villain’s timeless style, the very-limited-edition Darthlimiter celebrates 1,000 Bettermaker Mastering Limiter units...
Music Production
Jed the Fish Nets Ocean Way Monitors
Edwin Fish "Jed" Gould III, known to listeners of KROQ-FM in Los Angeles as Jed the Fish, has installed a pair of Ocean Way Audio's HR3.5 reference monitors in his L.A. studio.
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Wellspring Community Church Installs Danley System in New Sanctuary After Hearing a Danley System in Neighboring Church
RUSKIN, FLORIDA: “You can tell a successful church just from the vibe,” said Mark Salamone, sales manager at All Pro Integrated Systems. “The first time I visited Wellspring Community Church in Ruskin, Florida, they had a red movie theater...
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A Relatively Small Number of Danley Sound Labs Gear Gives Pensacola Christian College Far Better Audio Performance than Gobs of Its Previous Products
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA: Pensacola Christian College teaches over 4,500 students at its beautiful Pensacola, Florida campus. Its students gather in the nearly 6,000-seat Crowne Centre frequently for community-building, events, chapel, for concerts, and church services on Sunday morning, and Sunday...
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Evolving Style and Expectations Make Danley the Best Choice for Cary Alliance Church
CARY, NORTH CAROLINA: The history of Cary Alliance Church in Cary, North Carolina stretches back to the 1970s, and the church has occupied a few different properties and worship spaces in that time. Although arguably not the “churchiest” of...
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Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church Dramatically Improves Intelligibility with Just Two Danley SBH10 Column Speakers
LA PLACE, LOUISIANA: After holding services in makeshift spaces for literally decades, the parishioners of Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church were elated to finally have a 700-capacity church of their own in La Place, Louisiana. The year was...
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Skip Welch Appointed New Danley Director of Sales and Marketing
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA: Danley Sound Labs, manufacturer of maverick acoustician Tom Danley’s patented point-source loudspeaker and subwoofer designs – is pleased to announce that Skip Welch, currently Director of Sales, will leverage his experience and perspective in that role to...
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Daking Adds Jensen Transformers in the New Comp IIT Minimal-Parameter/Maximum-Sound Compressor
LAS VEGAS NEVADA: TransAudio Group, the U.S. distributor of Geoff Daking’s beautiful-sounding analog processors and other high-end professional recording equipment, is pleased to announce the release of the Daking Comp IIT. The release follows closely on the heels of...
Business
TEC Awards Nominees Announced
Despite the pandemic, the 36th annual TEC Awards will be held as scheduled in January, and now the nominees have been announced.
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Bettermaker’s Revolutionary Plug-in Control of Its World-Class Analog Compressors, Limiters and Equalizers is Now Patented!
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of the world’s best professional recording technology, is pleased to announce that Bettermaker from Poland has obtained a U.S. patent for its DAW plug-in control technology. “Bettermaker produces hardware compressors, limiters and...
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Revamped Subwoofer Pros Studio Sub2 Series Deliver Upgraded Low End with Improved Back Panel Interconnects and Low Pass Options
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of Subwoofer Pros and other high-end professional audio recording equipment, is pleased to announce the newly-revamped line of Subwoofer Pros Studio subwoofers. Designed specifically for mission-critical professional recording and mixing work, the...
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Danley Loudspeakers and Subs Contribute to a Phenomenal Renovation at South Coast Christian Church
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA: South Coast Christian Church in San Juan Capistrano, California, delivers an upbeat, contemporary service to an energetic congregation. However, its aging sound reinforcement system was holding the ambitious worship team back and preventing the full...
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Love Joy Church Finds a Lot of Love and Joy in Its New Danley Sound System
BUFFALO, NEW YORK: Love Joy Church has been serving the spiritual needs of its Buffalo, New York congregants since the early 1980s. It has grown considerably from its modest living-room-based, Bible-Study roots and today occupies a beautiful 600-person sanctuary...
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Amsterdam’s Doka Nightclub Opts for Danley Speakers and Subwoofers
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Doka nightclub inhabits the basement of the colorful and eclectic Volkshotel in southeast Amsterdam, Netherlands. With a maximum capacity of two-hundred festive souls, Doka set out from the beginning to be a place where real music lovers...
Business
NAMM Show 2021 Replaced by ‘Believe in Music Week’ Online
With the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to rage on, NAMM reimagines its January convocation as an online event.
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Bassist, Singer and Songwriter Roland Guerin Finds the Spark of Life in a Metric Halo LIO-8 3D Interface with Four Mic Pres
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA: Roland Guerin is an astounding bass player, an emotive singer, and a gifted songwriter based in New Orleans. While Guerin travels in all musical genres, he’s best known in the world of jazz. He cut his...
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For Today’s Fast Workflow It’s the New Analog Daking Comp II for Musical-Sounding Compression with Minimal Setup
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of the world’s finest professional recording equipment, is pleased to announce the release of Geoff Daking’s new Comp II compressor. With an analog sound that is unmistakably Daking, the Comp II is...
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Clair Brothers Slovakian Rental Partner, Stage One, Adds C12 Loudspeakers to Its Arsenal and Shines at the Cultural Nestville Open Fest
HNIEZDNE, SLOVAKIA: The Nestville Open Fest is a two-day multi-genre cultural and entertainment festival that takes place in the picturesque village of Hniezdne in the district of Stará Ľubovňa. For many years, visitors have come to experience the magic...
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Metric Halo Plug-Ins are Grammy-Nominated Mix Engineer Jesse Ray Ernster’s Secret Weapon
SAFETY HARBOR, FLORIDA: Regarding his chosen profession, Grammy-nominated mix engineer Jesse Ray Ernster pleads that he really had no choice. “My dad produced and mixed in a studio in our house, so growing up I was surrounded by instruments and...
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ATC Working from Home Sale: April 10 – May 10 • Amazing Savings on the SCM25A and SCM45A Nearfield Monitors
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of ATC monitors and other top drawer professional audio recording equipment, is excited to announce an extremely rare ATC sale. Recognizing that many audio professionals are shifting to a strict work-from-home schedule in...
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Tweed Recording Re-Opens in Athens, Georgia as a State-of-the-Art Educational Facility with Danley Sound Labs’ New Studio 2 Nearfield Monitors
ATHENS, GEORGIA: Tweed Recording is the lifelong project of engineer, producer, and musician Andrew Ratcliffe. An impassioned devotee of pro audio gear with organic soul, Ratcliffe founded Tweed Recording in Oxford, Mississippi in the 1990s and has been amassing gear...
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Working Remotely – TransAudio Group Maintains Its Pro Audio Supply Chain Amid COVID-19 Disruption
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of high-end professional audio recording equipment, announces that it is able to maintain near-normal operations amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. Our hours of operation (7am – 4pm Pacific) remain in effect, and all...
Gear and Technology
MXL Ships Revelation II Microphone
The reinvented Revelation II microphone follows in the footsteps of what the company says is arguably “the greatest microphone that MXL ever made.”
Music Production
Eddie Kramer to be Focus of New Rock Documentary
Legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer will be the focus of an upcoming documentary, From the Other Side of the Glass.
Business
Summer NAMM Cancelled; TEC Award Noms Moved
With Summer NAMM cancelled, the TEC Awards’ nominees announcement has been moved and the Music City Center is readying to become a hospital.
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Simple, Beautiful, and Unobtrusive: A Single Danley SM100 Provides Clear, Intelligible Audio for Grace Primitive Church
PEARL, MISSISSIPPI: Grace Primitive Baptist Church in Pearl, Mississippi supports a close-knit community of believers with very traditional services. Spoken word and sung vocals are the focus, with occasional support from backing tracks. Its long, rectangular sanctuary can accommodate...
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Subwoofer Pros Release Ultra Compact “Studio Sub 10” with Response Down to 16Hz
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, the U.S. distributor of high-end, professional recording equipment, is pleased to announce the new Subwoofer Pros Studio Sub 10, an ultra-compact 12” x 14” x 11.5” subwoofer with remarkably low distortion, an even frequency...
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Clair Brothers kiTCurve Loudspeakers in Australia’s J Noosa Community Theatre are Helping Turn the Location Into a More Popular Destination
NOOSA HEADS, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: The J Noosa opened its doors on October 27, 2006 and quickly became a functionally and versatile youth and commercial event space for the Noosa Community and the Sunshine Coast. But the true soul of this...