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LANCASTER, OH – DiGiCo has signed on with the second half of the 36-city HOW-TO Church Sound Workshop 2010 tour as the featured digital console sponsor. Attendees will get hands-on training with DiGiCo's SD9 for the tour's remaining 18 dates, starting with a visit to Lancaster, OH on Aug. 7 and moving on to Alabama, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Sound engineer Mike Sokol is leading the workshops.
You have to be very pleased any time a
manufacturer of top-quality audio gear recognizes the value of the worship
marketplace and believes in education strongly enough to support our national
workshops, said Hector La Torre, managing partner for Fits Starts
Productions and producer of the HOW-TO Church Sound Workshops.

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SAN FRANCISCO – The 129th AES convention, set for Nov. 4-7 at Moscone Center, is using the theme, Your Bridge to the Future.
We look forward to a strong
turnout this year, and our committee members are developing a program that no
serious industry member will want to miss, said convention co-chair Valerie
Tyler. We are extremely fortunate to have attracted an extraordinary committee
this year, added co-chair Jim McTigue.

Along with returning workshop,
broadcast, live sound, master class, papers, educational and historical
programs, a new program on product design has been added, and AES is also
planning to add tech tours and special events to the agenda.

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BBR1A adds ADAT I/O– JoeCo, the Cambridge-based company whose Black Box Recorder took the live recording world by storm last year, have announced that the BBR 1A (the digital-input version of the same device) is now shipping.

Source: Digital Black Box Recorder shipping