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ToolsOnAir’s Broadcast Suite Helps Blink TV Maintain their Cutting Edge

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London, UK, June 2010….
One of the most well-worn business clichés states that the key to success is to “find a need and fill it.” For London-based Blink TV, that philosophy has been anything but a cliché.

Pro Sales Management Founder Takes the Helm at Former Client

Sun Valley, CA, June 2010….Late last year, music industry veteran Rick McClendon shook things up with the introduction of a whole new business model. McClendon’s Pro Sales Management was the first company in professional A/V to offer outsourced sales management consulting, bringing the sales strategies and expertise of major corporations to small and mid-sized music technology manufacturers. The company’s rapid growth within the professional audio and MI markets has gained McClendon recognition and spawned imitators.

Renowned Guitar Gizmo Company Builds a Better Switcher

VISTA, CA….RJM Music Technology has introduced the Y-NOT, a compact, full-featured A/B/Y unit that allows guitarists to easily switch between, or combine, two outputs. Using the Y-NOT, guitarists can choose between two distinctly different amplifiers, enabling a player to alternate between or combine different sounds in a live or studio environment.

The Y-NOT is designed as a powerful solution for switching a single audio signal between two outputs. Guitarists can use the Y-NOT to switch between amps with clean and distorted signals, or between the individual inputs of a dual-channel amp. Unlike traditional A/B switchers, the Y-NOT’s high-quality audio buffer and isolation circuitry adds no undesirable coloration or noise to the signal, resulting in a pure, unadulterated sound and smooth, transparent switching.

The Hot Shop at Tacoma’s Museum of Glass is a cacaphonous, fast-paced environment. A single Community ENTASYS system has replaced four conventional speakers to meet the museum’s audio needs.

He’s been performing longer than many of his fans have been alive, but Paul Weller’s concerts are hardly a parade of oldies. The legendary Modfather continues to bend and blend musical genres, and with a fan base that spans more than thirty years of hits, Weller’s recent arena tours have been sold out across four continents.

London-based Canegreen have been looking after Weller for much of his career, and provided a powerful backline for the shows, including a massive Meyer Sound line array and a Digidesign D-Show VENUE live sound mixing environment. FOH engineer Ange Jones has been mixing the tour on a 32-fader D-Show Main and Sidecar system with Stage and FOH racks.

Legendary Manufacturer Signs On With High-Powered Sales Consultants

Marvin Caesar, Aphex (L) with PSM's Rick McClendon

Industry veteran Rick McClendon’s Pro Sales Management group continues its unprecedented growth, today announcing the addition of renowned signal processing manufacturer Aphex Systems to its client roster.

Effective immediately, Pro Sales Management will oversee Aphex’s considerable network of factory representatives and distributors, helping to grow the company’s sales reach and market share. As Aphex founder and President Marvin Caesar observes, Pro Sales Management’s range of services is ideally suited to a company like his.

Coordinating with Greenbuild 2009, Habitat for Humanity assembled a small army of volunteers to construct a 3-bedroom, 2-bath house in Phoenix in only five days. The home, made possible through donations from Wells Fargo and a number of participating companies, was designed to have a minimal carbon footprint, generating enough energy to offset energy used by its occupants. Part of that system was a 5kW PV solar system donated by American Solar Electric as part of the company’s Community Outreach Program.

Click below for a short video on the American Solar system.

New Jersey’s Columbus Baptist Church celebrates moving up without moving too far.

For the elders, staff and congregants of Columbus Baptist Church in the Columbus, N.J., suburb of Mansfield Township, their new sanctuary is most certainly something of a divine miracle. The mixed contemporary church, whose mission of “being a lighthouse for our region” underscores
their deep involvement in the local community, had long ago outgrown their original 18th century, 100-seat sanctuary.

Phoenix Mayor to Perform Ribbon Cutting on Nation’s First NAHB Remodel

Among the many exciting events taking place during the upcoming Greenbuild 2009 Convention in Phoenix will be the unveiling of the country’s first National Green Building Standard Emerald-certified remodeled home, verified by the NAHB Research Center.

The landmark residence at 150 W Elm Street in Phoenix will be officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony officiated by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, and is one of many houses remodeled to LEED or NAHB standards by Phoenix-based Green Street Development. The event will take place at 3:00 PM on Friday, November 13.

The current issue of Distributed Energy contains a glowing profile of the new cogeneration power solution at California’s Casino Morongo, the new resort on the Morongo tribe’s 32,000-acre reservation on Interstate 10 in Cabazon. The $250 million resort, which includes a casino, 27-story hotel, multiple restaurants and more, boasts a completely grid-independent 8MW power plant that places zero demand on the local utility company, Southern California Edison. The tribe, which also runs a $26 million water bottling plant operated by Arrowhead, is understandably proud of the place.