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Shure Inc. in Niles, Ill., reports that the producers of this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards used Shure products exclusively for the telecast and live-sound production of the event, including several wireless microphone and personal monitor systems. The event was held on April 26 in the 8,000-seat BankUnited Center in Miami, Fla., and was broadcast live to 2.4 million viewers by Telemundo.

Black Box Analog Design announces the Black Box Microphone Preamplifier ($2,500 MSRP). Handcrafted in Ventura, Calif., the Black Box mic pre was designed by Eric Racy and Robert Wainscott, who implemented an entirely analog audio path; custom, hand-wound Cinemag input and output transformers; hand soldered point-to-point wiring; independently controlled Pentode and Triode tube stages (as well as independent Pentode/Triode “Tone Boost” switches; a 350-volt linear power supply; and the ability to shape the frequency response without the use of an EQ.

Peavey Electronics announces that its new MuseBox, developed in collaboration with Muse Research, is now available from dealers throughout North America. MuseBox ($1,400 MSRP; $1,000 street) offers an extensive library of studio-quality sounds and effects for electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, vocals, and drums, and runs them in a compact package made of steel and aluminum.

Shure Incorporated in Niles. Ill., announces that a team from Middle Tennessee State University has won this year's Grand Prize Winner of Shure's eighth annual “Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition.” The three-student team of Taylor Bray, Jeff Braun, and Grant Hartford, with faculty advisor Associate Professor Michael Fleming, won this year’s contest with an original composition by aspiring singer-songwriter Rebecca Roubion entitled “Falliday.”

elysia in Nettetal, Germany, announces the nvelope 500 ($1,049 MSRP; $975 MAP), a two-rackspace 500 Series stereo dynamics processor that is capable of making subtle or drastic changes to a sound by altering its impulse structure, providing direct control over the envelope of a signal by shaping the intensity of its attack and sustain.

Michael Conner Mixes Three Evenings with Paul Simon, Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center Using HARMAN’s Studer Vista 5, Soundcraft Vi6 Digital Consoles

A new software and firmware update is now available for KRK’s ERGO Room Correction System. ERGO is an audio recording interface and room correction system designed to measure and analyze phase and frequency problems within a listening environment.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman named Women's Audio Mission (WAM) in San Francisco as one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Women’s Audio Mission is recommended for a grant to support “Girls on the Mic,” the organization's project that trains and mentors more than 400 middle and high school girls a year in music production and the recording arts.

This month’s “Confessions of a Small Working Studio” features studios that have built their businesses on mixing the old with the new. Specifically, they are using futuristic technology to breathe life into past recordings. Find out how audio restoration facilities are not only helping to restore vintage albums and other music-related media, but also historic audio for museums and libraries, and even forensic audio to help aid in criminal investigations.

Avid's latest version of Sibelius First ($119.99; multi-seat five-packs are $299.99) offers an easy, intuitive way for aspiring composers, songwriters, arrangers and students to write and share music. Sibelius First combines the Sibelius Student and Sibelius First notation products into a single music composition tool; upgrade options for Current Sibelius First and Sibelius Student customers are $39.99.

HARMAN’s Crown Audio in Elkhart, Ind., is shipping its new flagship I-Tech HD 4x3500HD DriveCore Series 4-channel power amplifier. The 4-channel I-Tech 4x3500HD incorporates Crown’s sixth-generation Class-I engine with DriveCore technology to deliver 3,500 watts per channel burst into 2 ohms, and offers a 4.3-inch TFT LCD with capacitive touchscreen, exclusive HARMAN HiQnet System Architect 2.0 control functionality and V5 DSP preset support for JBL Professional’s newly-launched VTX Series V25 plus VERTEC Series line array loudspeakers.

Line 6 Inc. in Calabasas, Calif., is now shipping its new XD-V55 digital wireless handheld, lavalier, and headset microphone systems ($629.99 MSRP). Designed for professional vocalists and active performers, XD-V55 systems are available in desktop or rackmount formats, feature 12 channels, a range of 300 feet, a half-rackspace desktop receiver with externally mounted antennas, and a heavy-duty metal chassis, and offer sophisticated microphone modeling technology with a proven fourth-generation digital wireless platform.

A new panel has just been announced for Mix Nashville 2012: Anatomy of a Hit: Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem.”

For reliable network audio transport, Lectrosonics has developed the SPNDNT network processor to expand the ASPEN digital matrix processor family. The new network processor is a full featured DSP processor that can address both the ASPEN and Dante matrices and add mixing, gain and delay functions to the digital audio signals.

On Wednesday, May 9, Avid will present a Webcast titled "Tracking with Pro Tools|HD Native and ICON," in which Avid’s Tom Graham, Brian Carter, and Gil Gowing will share their tips and insights into tracking and mixing a full rock trio using a host-based Pro Tools|HD Native system and ICON D-Control. There will be two presentations: one at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time) and one at 6 p.m. Pacific time (9 p.m. Eastern, 1 a.m. on May 10 GMT).

HARMAN’s Soundcraft will bring its free “Mixing with Professionals” program to New York City on Tuesday, May 8, at Dale Pro Audio, and to Reading, Penn., at Sigmet Corporation, on Wednesday, May 9. Veteran front-of-house engineer Monty Lee Wilkes will host the workshops.

Mix magazine senior editor Blair Jackson interviews producer Marhsall Altman about recording Risa Binder's debut CD release, Paper Heart, along with engineer Eric Robinson, in Nashville's Smoakstack Studios.

Mix magazine senior editor Blair Jackson interviews producer Marhsall Altman about recording Risa Bender's debut CD release, Paper Heart, along with engineer Eric Robinson, in Nashville's Smoakstack Studios.

Mix Senior Editor Blair Jackson Reviews Risa Binder's CD Release, Paper Heart, on Warehouse Records