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PHOENIX – Big League stadiums come with major-league RF interference, but that's helped HME Pro Audio get a wireless foot in the door at the home stadiums for the Arizona Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks.

I had a lot of experience working with the HME systems as both an engineer and installer, said AVDB Group's Jamie Gillespie, who helped arrange a demo of an HME Pro 850 wireless intercom system for Mark Tenkely, audio engineer for the University of Phoenix stadium, home of the Cardinals.

UK: The announcement follows a global outcry about the rumoured sale of the iconic London studio, writes David Davies. Little more than a year after EMI Group closed its other celebrated London recording facility, Olympic, 16 February saw a spate of reports suggesting that the label was about to offload what is arguably the greatest jewel in its crown: Abbey Road Studios.

Source: No plans to sell Abbey Road, says EMI

Source: Abbey Road Studios Update

You may recall our post from a while back about popular mashup artist Girl Talk, where we noted all the clearance and licensing hoops he’d have to jump through for his records to be 100 percent legal. Our takeaway? The current sample license clearance process is likely too time-consuming and cost-prohibitive for Girl Talk to make his art legit.

According to some press accounts, Girl Talk and his label, the aptly named Illegal Art, believe that his work is legal under the fair use principle — meaning, there’s exceptions within US copyright law that could protect him from being liable for infringement.

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Sessions feature a hands-on approach, joined by real-world examples that help sound volunteers retain the maximum amount of information in the minimum time. Coming to Kentucky and Virginia in March.

Source: HOW-TO Sound Worshops Announces Upcoming Training Schedule For March

REDDING, CA – The Cascade Theatre, converted from a movie palace into a 997-seat performance space, posed a challenge to Jeff Darling, general manager, and also to George Relles of Eugene, Ore.-based Relles Sound.
Like other refurbished movie palaces, the venue's live acoustics could only be minimally damped without modifying the historic aesthetics, and flown arrays were out of the question.

One look at our gorgeous ceiling murals and you'll understand why we decided against hang points, Darling said. Our donors paid a lot of money to restore that artwork. We didn't want to blemish or conceal it in any way.

Source: My Interview on Musician’s Cooler

For those of you who watched the Grammy Awards on Sunday night (and apparently there were more of you this year than any year since 2004), you may have had a feeling of déjà vu when you saw virtually the same group of stars that clustered together in 2009, 2008, etc. Does this perhaps remind you — at least a little — of the 1993 film Groundhog Day? You know, like Bill Murray’s character hearing “I Got You Babe” every morning?

Now, if you happen to want to hear the same song at the same time every day, that’s fine with us. But sometimes it’s fun to let the needle find a new groove.

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