Line 6 Shares New Safety Information Regarding Relay G10T Transmitters
Today (May 7), MMR received a safety notice from Line 6 regarding safety information for their Relay G10T Transmitter.
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Danley Adjusts Former Grocery Store Acoustics for Immanuel Baptist Church
Regional AVL integration firm Paragon 360 of Springfield, Missouri, designed and installed a complete AVL system for City Center. A Danley Sound Labs sound reinforcement system leverages Danley’s legendary point-source pattern…
PRS Guitars Announces Virtual 'Experience PRS 2020' Event Celebrating Their 35th Anniversary
The PRS Guitars 35th Anniversary “Experience PRS” event that was planned for this weekend, May 8-9, is going virtual.
Shure Celebrates #SM58Day With Livestream Event
Every year, May 8 serves as a day of celebration for the Shure SM58 Dynamic Vocal Microphone. This year, to celebrate SM58 Day, fans are invited to join Shure to…
ADJ House Party Contest Offers Prizes For Creative Lighting At Home
This spring, ADJ is hoping to do its part to inject a little fun into social distancing. Through its new ADJ House Party Contest, the company is encouraging lighting users…
Gibson Launches Four-Part Live Interview Series With Eddie Kramer onFacebook Live And GibsonTV
Gibson has announced that their new four-part, live interview series “Ask Eddie Kramer, Presented by Gibson” will premiere this Thursday, May 7 at 6 p.m. CT on Gibson’s Facebook Live and on GibsonTV.
Sound Kalcha Reflects Power of Mwamuka with CHAUVET DJ
Supporting a performance by Gospel singer Margaret Mwamuka last year at Zimbabwe’s F.O.G. Auditorium was a design that featured over 50 CHAUVET DJ fixtures supplied by Audiosure of South Africa.
Breedlove Guitars offers ‘A Cure for the Quarantine Blues’ Program for Dealers
With deep discounts on select models, Breedlove Guitars now offers “A Cure for the Quarantine Blues,” a program designed to assist dealers as they prepare to reopen or resume shipping…
KRUTZ Introduces New Resource for Strings Teachers
KRUTZ, Inc. in Kansas City has launched Global Strings Alliance, an online platform to unite and empower strings teachers, students, and parents with free, trusted resources, in response to the…
Celebrating Music Making in the Time of COVID – Global 'Make Music Day' to Go Virtual This Year
Make Music Day, the worldwide music celebration held each June 21, the summer solstice, is going virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers officially announced today.
Gibson Virtual Guitar Tech Service Launches Worldwide
Gibson has launched a free, virtual, and fully-interactive guitar tune-up service, the Gibson Virtual Guitar Tech Service. A global experience, the service matches players worldwide with Gibson’s team of professional techs in real-time to cover basic tune-ups…
Murphy’s Production Services Powers ‘COVID-19 World Tour’ With ChamSys
The looks he’s created for his wryly named “COVID-19 World Tour” use a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console and a ChamSys SnakeSys R8 Artnet to DMX Node 5 for each…
Audio-Technica’s ‘Basic Recording Techniques’ Tutorials Teach Users the Fundamentals of Professional Recording
As part of Audio-Technica’s ongoing series of resources that help users adjust to the circumstances brought about by the health crisis, the company now offers its video tutorial series “Basic Recording…
Shure Donates $79,000 Worth Of Earphones To Chicago Public School Students And Teachers
As students and teachers continue with their transition to online learning, ensuring the right tools to learn from home can be a challenge. Shure has stepped up to help its…
AMR Welcomes Pirkle As Chief Science Officer
Audio Media Research™ (AMR), a next-generation audio technology company focusing on advanced audio and music technologies and product development, is pleased to announce that Will Pirkle has joined the company…
GC Skips Bonds Payments
According to an article published by Bloomberg on April 27, Guitar Center, Inc. (GC) is in talks with its creditors after missing payments on two of its bonds.
Post Malone’s Recent Tour Employs L-Acoustics
Post Malone’s second leg of his North American trek in early February used an L-Acoustics K1/K2 loudspeaker system, supplied and deployed by Detroit-based provider Thunder Audio.
The Temple Gets Lockdown Lighting Magic with CHAUVET DJ
The Temple in Greensburg, Indiana recently upgraded its lighting system with 16 CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR 64 RGBA fixtures.
Trade Regrets: Ray Hennig
On May 2, NAMM's Dan Del Fiorentino sent the following message: Ray Hennig the Texas music retailer who sold Stevie Ray Vaughn his first Fender Stratocaster passed away on April…
Mass Hysteria Streams Recorded Show Powered ChamSys
Mass Hysteria recently performed in Nantes, France for a livestreamed set, featuring a Romain Dronne designed lightshow powered by a ChamSys MagicQ MQ80.
Genelec Hosting Louspeakers Webinar on Tuesday, May 5
On Tuesday, May 5 from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. ET Genelec will be hosting an exclusive online tutorial, “G*Connect Webinar: Choosing the right loudspeakers,” hosted by Andy Bensley, regional…
Yorkville Sound Partners wth Starfish Medical to Produce Canadian-Made Ventilators
Yorkville Sound is now dedicating their engineering and manufacturing expertise to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with Starfish Medical, Yorkville’s design team is engaged in an open-source ventilator…
Hal Leonard Announces Enhanced Program for Retailers to Benefit from Website Sales
The Hal Leonard Shopping Cart program, where consumers shopping on halleonard.com “check out” by selecting a retailer of their choice, has transferred millions of dollars a year in sales to…
Trade Regrets: Joe Keith
On April 30 we received the following from NAMM's Dan Del Fiorentino: Long time music retailer and RPMDA past president Joe Keith passed away yesterday.
L-Acoustics Creations Appoints Fichte Business Manager
For 35 years, L-Acoustics has provided the pro audio industry with premium solutions for live events worldwide. L-Acoustics Creations, a new division of the company, brings this concert-grade technology to…
NEW NAMM U Webinar - COVID Retail Recovery: How to Reopen for Business
Following up on his popular NAMM U webinar, Bob Phibbs (a.k.a., "The Retail Doctor") returns on Thursday, May 7 for an online session about reopening a music retail business in the "new normal."
Bedell Guitars Holds the World’s Largest Brazilian Rosewood Library
Along with key Co-Hippies, he established the Tonewood Certification Project, which promises no clear-cut woods will be used in Bedell instruments and that any living trees will be “individually harvested…
ddrum's Dominion Standard Shell Packs
The Dominion Standard Shell Packs from ddrum are the latest addition to the resurrected 2020 Dominion Series. These four Dominion Standard kits, each in the popular 5-piece configuration, offer newly…
NashVegas Select Series Models from Dean Guitars
With the Dean NashVegas Select Series, Dean Guitars delivers four new models with a classic look.
The HexHider Tool
The HexHider magnetic hex tool is an affordable 3mm Allen key created to address the need for a wrench to unlock a Floyd Rose-equipped guitar.
Hosa Pro Guitar Patch Cables
Hosa Pro Guitar Patch Cables improve upon the previous patch cable version by incorporating a new pancake REAN connector that keeps the ruggedness of Hosa Pro and maximizes the limited…
RockBoard’s MOD Brace
The RockBoard MOD Brace is a simple solution for securely mounting heavier MOD patchbays, such as the MOD 75, MOD 150, and MOD 4 in RockBoard pedalboards.
ARC System 3 Software from IK Multimedia
IK Multimedia’s ARC System 3 is the third generation of its innovative acoustic correction system that enables producers and engineers to mix better, faster, and more confidently by correcting poor…
Whirlwind’s ISOPODci Audio Interface
The ISOPODci is a professional audio interface that’s optimized to connect the headset jack of personal mobile devices to professional audio systems.
Locked Down: MI Retail Response to COVID-19
For those problems without an immediate solution, what does one do? You try your best and evolve as developments unfold.
Apocalypse Wow
By the time you read this, the coronavirus outbreak may or may not be peaking. What is for sure is that this bio-nightmare has been the most challenging thing to…
What Lessons Have We Learned from COVID-19?
Growing up, my father was a high-standards jazz musician, a saxophonist, and most definitely a jazz purist. He was the first to teach me the love of music and the…
Well Enough Alone
Amidst all my solo isolation binge-watching, binge-reading, nearly-nonstop-album-playing, guitar practicing, social distancing, and bizarre sleeping/eating patterns these past many weeks, it has been encouraging and inspiring for me to see…
BAPS Partners with Renkus-Heinz
Kaivalyamurti Swami says a combination of partnership and performance has helped make Renkus-Heinz a leading choice in many of BAPS’ installations.
The MusicPro Café Launches Third Webcast
Hanover Insurance, MusicPro Insurance, PreSonus, Discmakers and Merchly will create an online show where selected musicians are paid by the host and sponsors for their performances, and can receive tip…