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Ioan Allen, senior vice president of Dolby Laboratories, will present a 76-year chronicle of feature film stereo optical soundtrack development as a 129th AES Convention Historical Event. The two-hour event is scheduled for Thursday, November 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Dolby Theater, a short ride from the Moscone Center.

Production music company 615 Music in Nashville announces that it has acquired noted production music company Kingsize Music, based in New York City. Since 1996, Kingsize Music and its principals—Peter Primamore, Jay Stollman and Freddy Shehadi—have been providing high-quality, award-winning music for television and film. Randy Wachtler, 615 Music CEO and founder, made the announcement.

Dangerous Music in Edmeston, N.Y., is shipping its new stereo Dangerous BAX EQ ($2,529 MSRP). The single-rackspace unit is designed as a broad-stroke sonic sculpting tool with a unique signature for use in mastering and as a final mix bus shelving EQ.

Sound development company Sonic Reality in Sunrise, Fla., has released a new sound library: Neil Peart Drums, Vol. 1: The Kit ($199 MSRP), a software re-creation of Peart's Drum Workshop (DW) drum kit that uses Sonic Reality’s expandable Infinite Player library for software such as FXpansion’s BFD2 and Native Instruments’ Kontakt. Peart, a member of the band Rush, collaborated with Sonic Reality and producer/engineer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains) to bring the authentic sound of his custom-designed “Snakes and Arrows" DW drum set into the digital domain.

Blue Microphones in Westlake Village, Calif.,welcomes Stacey Moran as its Vice President of Marketing. Moran will be responsible for Blue’s overall marketing strategy and messaging of the Blue brand. She will also be working closely with the product development team in establishing strategic plans, along with executing the launch process and marketing for each product.

MOTU is now shipping the MasterWorks Collection audio plug-in bundle ($295) for Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase and other Mac OS X hosts (Version 10.5 or 10.6) that support RTAS, Audio Units and VST3 audio plug-ins. The bundle includes three audio processors: MasterWorks EQ, MasterWorks Leveler and ProVerb.

Mix Profiles Electric Lady Recording Studio 40th Anniversary in Business

Mix executive editor George Petersen remembers Audio pioneer and innovator Keith Elliott Barr—perhaps best known as the founder of Alesis Electronics—who was found in his home in Vancouver, Wash., on August 24, 2010, and had passed away due to an apparent heart attack.

Guitar Center announces a management succession plan that the company says it will implement during the fourth quarter of 2010. Under this plan, Greg Trojan, presently President and Chief Operating Officer, will assume the position of Chief Executive Officer. Trojan will also remain a member of Guitar Center’s Board of Directors. Marty Albertson, presently Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, will step down as Chief Executive Officer but will remain as non-executive Chairman of the Board.

Phonic has released a major upgrade for its Summit digital mixing console that offers performance enhancements for the unit's reverb effects and dynamic processors, and also upgrades its link and delay functions.

Mix magazine managing editor Sarah Benzuly reviews the Papa Roach release 'Time for Annihilation...On the Record and On the Road' for Mix magazine's online Cool Spin CD reviews.

Aphex in Sun Valley, Calif., has appointed pro audio veteran Jim Bailey to the position of Product Manager. In his new position, Bailey will oversee the development of Aphex's core line of professional audio and broadcast products, as well as the company's expansion into other markets.

API in Jessup, Md., announces that the company's Lunchbox has been awarded trademark status by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Granted on July 13, 2010, the registration helps recognize API as the creator of the format and allows API to more effectively market the lunchbox frame, which can hold up to six of the 500 Series models.

NetworkSound in San Jose, Calif., announces the stand-alone, single-rackspace 16-channel Mamba ANADAT analog-to-ADAT converter and Mamba AES-Analog analog to AES/EBU converter ($TBA). Both units operate at 24-bit/44.1 or 48 kHz and are upgradeable to 24-bit/96 kHz.

Beth Caldwell remembers Jon Bergen, a notable music industry figure and co-owner of Bender Music Group, who died in a car accident on Sunday, August 15. Bergen was 37.

Sennheiser announces the SKM 5200-II wireless handheld transmitter, which offers an expanded switching bandwidth of up to 184 MHz. The SKM 5200-II is Sennheiser’s latest addition to its wideband wireless systems.

Royer Labs in Burbank, Calif., introduces the R-101 ribbon microphone ($895 MSRP). Offering high SPL (sound pressure level) capabilities and extremely low residual noise, the R-101 is designed for both studio and live sound reinforcement applications.

The founder of Cerwin-Vega, Eugene Czerwinski passed away on August 6, 2010 at the age of 83. We were recently contacted by noted recording engineer/producer Drew Daniels, who wanted to share some of his memories of Gene Czerwinski in his own words.

Shure Incorporated announces that a team from Drexel University won the company's sixth annual Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition. The four students—Chris Pollock, Monika Arielle Julien, Justin T. Chapman and Lenard Reuben Skolnick, with faculty advisor Cyrille Taillandier—won this year's contest with an original composition by Sonni Shine entitled “Just Like Ice.”

Three more audiologists graduated from Sensaphonics' Golden Circle audiology seminar in Chicago. The seminar is a two-day training event that provides audiology professionals with the specialized knowledge and hands-on training required to serve the unique needs of musicians and audio engineers.