The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio presents the Ninth Annual Mix L.A. Open at the Malibu Country Club on Monday, June 14, 2004, at 10 a.m. For more information, download a flyer at mixfoundation.org/LAopen/LAopen.html or e-mail Karen Dunn, tournament director, at Karen@tecawards.org; phone: 925/939-6149. The foundation also announced that the 20th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards will be held on Saturday, October 30, 2004, at the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco. The TEC Awards honors outstanding achievement in professional audio production and product design. For more information, visit mixfoundation.org.

Register today for InfoComm 04, the premier exhibition and conference for the pro audio/visual communications industry, to be held June 5-11, 2004, in Atlanta. Visit infocomm04.expoexchange.com/ for up-to-date details.

Check in and Check Out the Remix Hotel NYC!
Returning to the SAE Institute of Technology on June 25-27, 2004, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily, the Remix Hotel NYC features technology partners Digidesign, M-Audio, Propellerhead, Ableton, Blue Sky, Cakewalk, Denon, Emagic, Event Electronics, IK Multimedia, Ilio, Mackie, Pioneer DJ, Planet X, Rane, Serato, Sirius, Steinberg, Turntable Lab, Music Marketing, Promo Only and more signing on every day! Speical events, artist appearances and shows being announce online at nyc.remixhotel.com. SAE is located at 1293 Broadway, 9th Floor of the Staples/Daffy's building at 6th Ave at W 34th. Register online today at nyc.remixhotel.com!

Now Shipping: QSC MD Series
Comprising eight models suited for installed sound apps, the new MD (ModularDesign) Series loudspeakers from QSC are now shipping. Designed as a line of arrayable components, the series provides system integrators and design consultants with choices from six full-range, two-way devices offering three coverage patters (60°40°, 90°x40° or 120°x40°) and either 12- or 15-inch LF transducers. The group also incorporates two low-frequency enclosures equipped with 15- and 18-inch drivers, respectively. MORE

Now Shipping: Shure SLX Wireless Systems
Offering Shure's patented Audio Reference Companding technology (which uses a variable compression ratio, eliminating wireless artifacts during quiet passages and a high-quality dynamic range) and a setup with automatic synchronization, SLX Wireless Systems support up to 20 compatible systems (area-dependent). MORE

Tascam Presentation Gear
Tascam's trio of products for the professional presentation market -- the AV-452 presentation mixer/amplifier (pictured), DV-D6500 DVD player and 322 dual-well cassette deck -- offer the ability to be controlled via RS-232. MORE

AMD64 Records Clapton's Guitar Fest
Elliott Scheiner chose AMD's AMD64 technology DAW platform to record Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Sunday, June 6, 2004. The concert features a line-up of legendary guitar players, including Clapton and Doyle Bramhall II, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, James Taylor, ZZ Top, Steve Vai, Robert Cray, Neal Schon, B.B. King and many others and is raising funds and awareness for Crossroads Centre, Antigua, the treatment and education center founded by Clapton in 1997. MORE

DiscLive Finds Success With Pixies
Immediatek Inc., creator of NetBurn Secure digital delivery and copy control solutions, announced that its concert recording unit, DiscLive Inc., successfully used for the first time its NetBurn™ technology in a live concert environment: The Pixies sold-out show at the Brixton Academy (London) available to music fans only a few hours after the performance ended. MORE

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Fits & Starts Productions, LLC is now offering a series of church production workshops. Dubbed the H.O.W.-To™ Tour and scheduled to begin June 5, 2004, the workshops are dedicated to the worship audio volunteer who operates sound systems. The workshops feature a full day of audio training in a hands-on setting at a local venue so that volunteers do not have to travel. MORE

Xlc Compact Line Array Demo Tour
Electro-Voice is currently out on the road demo'ing its Xlc compact full-bandwidth line array loudspeaker system. Upcoming dates: June 22-23 (Seattle); July 6-7 (San Francisco); July 12-16 (Los Angeles/San Diego); August 3-4 (Phoenix); August 10-11 (Oklahoma City); September 1-2 (Philadelphia); and September 8-9 (New York City). For more information, click here.

California Resort/Casino Brings In V-DOSC
The Pechanga Resort & Casino's Showroom Theater, owned and operated by the Pechanga Native American Indian Tribe in Temecula, Calif., boasts a new L-Acoustics V-DOSC concert system, designed and installed by Muzak's systems division and AMT Systems. MORE

SPL Gives Hedden Quick Fix
When decision-makers at Trussville Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.) needed to improve the church's audio system, they brought in Mike Hedden, president of dB Audio and Video (Gainesville, Ga.) to determine a quick fix to the "fundamentally flawed speaker layout and design." MORE

Instant Recognition Key for Midas Console
Midas Consoles Holland, the new distribution model for Midas and Klark Teknik products in the Netherlands, has sold a 32-channel Heritage 1000 console to concert hall and congress center, De Doelen. According to Sander Zijlstra, head of sound at De Doelen, the center hosts more than 600 concerts a year, including each artist's respective engineer. Zijlstra's choice to go with Midas is that "99 percent of engineers are instantly familiar with the control surface and therefore at ease. They know it's going to sound great, and I've yet to meet anyone who would actually turn their nose up at working on a Midas. For the majority, it would be their first choice anyway."