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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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 in Greensburg, Indiana recently upgraded its lighting system with 16 CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR 64 RGBA fixtures.
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 recently performed in Nantes, France for a livestreamed set, featuring a Romain Dronne designed lightshow powered by a ChamSys MagicQ MQ80.
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 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…
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…
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.
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…
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."
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…
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…
With the Dean NashVegas Select Series, Dean Guitars delivers four new models with a classic look.
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 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…
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.
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…
The ISOPODci is a professional audio interface that’s optimized to connect the headset jack of personal mobile devices to professional audio systems.
For those problems without an immediate solution, what does one do? You try your best and evolve as developments unfold.
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…
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…
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…
Kaivalyamurti Swami says a combination of partnership and performance has helped make Renkus-Heinz a leading choice in many of BAPS’ installations.
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…
Local AV integration firm, Sound Connections Group, turned a terrible situation into a practically perfect one with the installation of a single Danley SM96 loudspeaker.
Conn-Selmer, Inc. and BD Performing Arts (BDPA) have announced that The Blue Devils, RCC Indoor and all other BDPA programs will be performing exclusively on marching instruments manufactured and distributed…
Like many DJs who have been sidelined by the COVID-19 lockdown, Brent Schmidt has taken to streaming performances every week, partly to stay busy, partly to reach out to friends…
QSC has announced the premiere of QSC@Home, a comprehensive online launch point dedicated to users’ success across a vast range of solutions and applications.
Shure Incorporated has announced that Mike Knappe has joined the Company as Associate Vice President of Musician and Consumer Audio Product Development.
Taylor Guitars is proud to announce the launch of an exciting new Urban Wood guitar initiative. Developed in partnership with West Coast Arborists, Inc., the initiative gives select trees in…
A leading group manufacturers, including Lectrosonics, Sound Devices, Audio Ltd., Ambient, dB Audio, DPA Microphones, K-Tek, Sonosax, Bubblebee Industries, Schoeps, Ursa Straps, Viviana Straps, and more, are pleased to present the…
The Springs Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado recently underwent an audio upgrade with a Martin Audio WPS system spec’d and installed by Sight and Sound Technologies, the first installation of…
