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NEW YORK — SLS Loudspeakers will provide the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) with a sound solution in audio support during the organization's 34th Annual Conference, to be held at the Hilton and Sheraton New York Hotels between January 10th and January 13th. This year's four-day show, celebrating jazz, will be outfitted with an SLS line-up composed of 52 SLS RLA/2s, 48 SLS RLA/3s, 10 SLS FF2605s and several SLS LSB8115 subwoofers.

NORTHRIDGE, CA — The Harman Pro Group has announced the creation of a new strategic marketing position focused on integrated systems and coordinated multi-brand communications. According to Blake Augsburger, president of Harman Pro Group, Michael MacDonald has rejoined the company to assume the newly created position of executive vice president, marketing, based at the Group's Northridge, Calif. headquarters.

ZWAAG, THE NETHERLANDS — For the promotion of their latest album Feelin' Good, jazz artists Joe Sample (piano) and Randy Crawford (vocals) have been touring through Europe, accompanied by Joe's son Nick on (contra-) bass and Johnny Vidacovich on drums, reinforced by Alcons pro-ribbon line-arrays.

MERIDIAN, MS — American Idol's Bo Bice visited Peavey on November 28, 2006, as a celebrity judge in the Peavey "Afterschool (Not) Idle" K-12 singing competition finals, the centerpiece event of Lights On Afterschool. Bice addressed the afterschool-program kids, media and state leaders after helping crown Marisa Potate the winner of $1000 in Peavey gear and studio time with backing musicians.

BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound has announced the MJF-212, a self-powered stage monitor loudspeaker designed to meet critical requirements in professional applications, such as use as a main vocal monitor, drum or keyboard monitor or as a sidefill monitor in small- to medium-scale systems. The MJF-212 exhibits flat amplitude and phase responses and full-range bandwidth.

LOUISVILLE, KY — The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, in Louisville, features five Midas mixing consoles (Venice 320, XL200, Heritage 1000, Heritage 2000, Heritage 3000), and recently added a rack of four Klark Teknik DN1248 Plus active analog microphone splitters to its equipment list. An additional rack with a single DN1248 Plus is also on hand. Head audio engineer at the center is Ted Subotky; David Doukas is audio department manager.

ORONO, ME — When the Maine Center for the Arts at the University of Maine (Orono, Maine) announced they were planning a major auditorium renovation in the fall of 2006, Moonlighting Production Services, LLC (Portland, Maine) presented a sound solution to a logistical challenge: the Dynacord Cobra system, which needed to be operational before construction began, and it needed to be easily portable during construction for use in another school venue on a per-show basis. In a nutshell, they needed a line array that balanced big-rig performance with plug & play portability. Nick Pires of Moonlighting explained:

SELANGOR, MALAYSIA — The audience for the annual Citrawarna festival, as well as the dancers themselves, heard music through a large system of Meyer Sound MILO curvilinear array loudspeakers.

COLLEGE STATION, TX — Behind a black mesh screen atop the 11-story video scoreboard at Texas A&M's Kyle Field in College Station sit two tiers of eight parabolic dishes each, which are actually a complement of Meyer Sound SB-1 parabolic long-throw sound beams. When fired up on game day, the 54 loudspeakers in the system carry announcements and the music-punctuated soundtracks for the videos shown on "12th Man TV" (as the Mitsubishi video screen is known).