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This Wednesday, August 4, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Eastern), the Sennheiser Sound Academy will offer a session on key practices, topics and trends in the installed sound/systems integration business at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Times Square, New York City. This seminar is intended for worship leaders, system operators, mixers and technicians.

In 2007, the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing and BMS/Chace, a leading media data management firm, partnered with the Library of Congress to create both a standardized approach and a software model for gathering and managing metadata for recorded music. The resulting metadata standard, dubbed CCD (Content Creator Data), and accompanying studio collection application, were previewed June 14 and 15, 2010, in New York City at the DDEX (Digital Data Exchange, LLC) Plenary and NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) Digital Task Force meetings.

Warner Music Nashville (WMN), the Nashville-based music operations of Warner Music Group Corp., announces that Rod Riley has been named president and CEO of Word Entertainment, WMG's Christian music division. In his new role, Riley will oversee Word's entire operation, including A&R, sales and marketing, music publishing, distribution, church resources and artist services.

MOTU has released DP Control, a free application that allows Digital Performer users to control DP over a Wi-Fi network using an iPhone, iPad or third-generation iPod Touch. Built specifically for use with Digital Performer Version 7.2 or later, DP Control gives users easy access to the most important transport and mixer functions for tracking, mixing and live performance.

Audio post facilities The Surround Factory in North Hollywood, Calif, and Arvintel Media Productions in Marietta, Ga., which have worked in partnership over the past 10 years dubbing films, cartoons and commercials into English and Spanish, announced that they have "gone paperless" by adopting Apple's iPad to display scripts for voice-over talent. The Surround Factory states that the two facilities had discovered Avatron Software's Air Display software, which allows an iPad to act as a wireless display for a Mac OS X computer.

Mix magazine interview with front of house and monitor engineers on mixing for Sting and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tour

Focusrite announces the ISA428 MkII ($1,799.99 MSRP) 4-channel mic preamp and A/D converter, which the company says will supersede the existing ISA428. Like its predecessor, the ISA428 MkII features four of Focusrite's transformer-based ISA preamps, which are found in the Focusrite Forte console, as well as the same analog circuit board as the ISA428.

San Francisco–based mastering engineer John Greenham has quietly amassed a wealth of album credits for artists in numerous musical genres.

L-Acoustics in Oxnard, Calif., announces that Montreal-based production company Solotech has become the first Canadian company to join the manufacturer's K1/KUDO Pilot Program. Solotech, which has V-DOSC/dV-DOSC/ARCS rig for more than a decade, has maintained a long association with Cirque du Soleil and supported tours for Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Leonard Cohen, Andre Rieu, Michael Buble and Diana Krall.

The Waves Masters on Tour event series held special sessions featuring legendary mixer Chris Lord-Alge on the evenings of Saturday, July 17, 2010, at Sterling Audio in New York City’s Chelsea Market, and Monday, July 19, 2010, at Sweetwater Music in Fort Wayne, Ind. For more than 20 years, the Grammy Award–winner has mixed artists including Green Day, U2, Nickelback, Foo Fighters, Bon Jovi, Pink, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band, All American Rejects and others.

The xpressor 500 (approximately $840 MSRP) is elysia's new stereo compressor available in API's 500 Series format. It features a discrete audio path that constantly runs in Class-A mode and is said to combine a clear and open sound with a lot of punch.

Solid State Logic reports that producer Jerry Boys recently built a personal studio in his home in Bodmin, UK, installing an SSL Matrix console. Boys began his career assisting at London's Abbey Road Studios before moving on to Olympic, Sawmills and Livingston.

JoeCo in Cambridge, UK, announces that the new digital Lightpipe variant of the 24-track BlackBox live recorder (price TBA) is now shipping. The BBR-1A enables capture of multichannel audio from digital mixing consoles that support Lightpipe (Toslink) inputs and outputs.

Audio-Technica designed the new AT2021 cardioid condenser microphone ($139 MSRP) for home studio and live applications. The AT2021 is said to offer an extended frequency response, high maximum SPL and wide dynamic range.

CAD Audio in Solon, Ohio, has named Glenn Roop as Executive Director, Business Development. In this new capacity, Roop will be responsible for developing new products, marketing and sales promotions to expand the scope of existing markets for CAD Audio.

Cakewalk announces the availability of Rapture/Rapture LE Version 1.22 and Dimension Pro/Dimension LE V. 1.5 as free updates for registered customers. Both updates include Mac OS X 10.6 and Windows 7 compatibility, improved Windows 64-bit VST compatibility and performance improvements.

The Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy in Santa Monica announces a sponsorship agreement with the Harman Professional Group (HPro)'s leading audio brands AKG Acoustics, JBL Professional and Lexicon. As official P&E Wing sponsors, AKG Acoustics, JBL Professional and Lexicon will participate in a variety of activities throughout the year.

AES 129th Convention Co-Chairs Valerie Tyler and Jim McTigue and the Committee Chairs are developing events for the 2010 Convention scheduled for November 4-7 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center (dubbed "Your Bridge to the Future"). In addition to the popular Workshop, Broadcast, Live Sound, Master Class, Papers, Educational and Historical programs, a new dedicated track on Product Design, a series of unique Tech Tours and Special Events are being prepared to highlight this annual gathering of the pro audio world.

Mix magazine Senior Editor Blair Jackson reviews Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'Mojo' (Reprise) for Mix magazine's online Cool Spins CD reviews.

Mix executive editor George Petersen remembers Albert Leccese, the co-owner and vice president/director of engineering at Audio Analysts in Colorado Springs, lost a five-year battle with lung cancer and passed away on July 17, 2010, with his family at his bedside.