Ad info:http:// foh.hotims.com Bosch Communications Systems has announced the addition of Johnson Knowles to its team as eld applications engineer. Prior to this appointment, Knowles spent 18 years with leading Johnson Knowles Dallas-based architectural acoustics design and consulting rm Russ Berger Design Group — a company he helped found — and brings experience and expertise to his new position, primarily in the eld of architectural engineering and the design of broadcast and recording facilities. Knowles also has experience in designing broadcast cabling systems for sports facilities. Some of Knowles’ major clients include NBC, ABC, NPR, CMT, MTV, NFL Films, World Wrestling Entertainment and Sony Music. He has undertaken studio design work for a wide range of artists, including Whitney Houston, Don Henley, Steve Miller, John Fogerty, Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. Knowles will be based in Dallas. Crown Audio has named Matt Bush to the position of vice president of sales starting in November. Bush joins Crown Audio from sister company, Harman Music Group, where he was vice president of operations, and takes the position previously held by Scott Robbins, 14 On the Move who was promoted to vice president of sales for Harman Professional. In his new role, Bush will direct worldwide sales operations from Crown Audio’s Elkhart, Ind.headquarters, and he will report direct- Matt Bush ly to Mark Graham, president of Crown Audio. Bush joined The Harman Music Group in 1987. He has served in leadership roles in engineering, manufacturing and operations and has more than 24 years of experience in the design, manufacture, service and supply chain of electronic products. Bush has served as the vice president of operations of HMG since 2001, is the architect of HMG’s hybrid manufacturing and global supply chain strategies and directed all supply chain functions, including a U.S. manufacturing facility, o -shore manufacturing, customer service and distribution centers in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Crown Audio has also announced the promotion of Bradford Benn to director of application engineering. In this role, Benn will be responsible for leading application engi- NOVEMBER 2008 www.fohonline.com neering e orts in the U.S. and internationally. He will report to Marc Kellom, vice president of marketing. Previously, Benn served as business development manager where he focused on the creation of sales tools and was heavily involved in the evolution of System Architect and HiQnet. He began at Crown as a product integration manager and has served in other roles, including director of product application support. N promoted to more senior sales positions within the company. During this time, he helped grow the sales in all geographic and vertical markets and was responsible for organizing and managing sales partners across the globe. An early initiative that Robbins will spearhead will be the start-up of Harman Professional’s new sales o ces in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ramzi Shakra JBL Professional has announced the has recently joined appointment of Rich- Electrosonic Inc. ard Ruse as western as senior market- regional sales direcing manager. He will tor. Ruse, a pro audio be in charge of the veteran with exten- marketing e ort in sive industry experi- the U.S. and also supence in recording, MI, Bradford Benn porting the rest of xed install and tour Richard Ruse Electrosonic Group Ramzi Shakra sound, joins JBL Professional e ective immedi- worldwide. Formerly ately and reports to Stephen Morris, JBL Pro- marketing director fessional executive vice president of sales. of Doremi Labs, he Ruse joins JBL Professional from Com- has experience in the pass Business Solutions, a sales and mar- strategic positioning keting consultancy he founded and led. and management There, as president/owner, he supported of technology prod- an array of pro audio video and technoloucts.gy clients. Prior to Compass, Ruse was di- In other news, rector of worldwide sales and marketing Leonardo Freitas Leonardo Freitas for KRK studio monitors, and before that, has been appointed to the new position of director of sales, independent accounts associate vice president of product distribu- at Line 6. Ruse was also worldwide sales tion. He will be based in Burbank and report and marketing at SWR Engineering and directly to Electrosonic President Jim Bowie. Eastern/Western’s regional sales manager Freitas was formerly regional director for Latin America at Tandberg. at Alesis Studio Electronics. Yamaha Com- Harman Promercial Audio fessional has an- Systems, Inc. has nounced the promo- announced the aption of Scott Robbins pointment of Jona- from senior vice presthan Peirson to the ident of sales, Crown position of district Audio, to group- manager responwide vice president sible for the Cali- of sales with the fornia and Hawaii Jonathan Peirson speci c mandate Scott Robbins sales territory. In his new position, Peirson to work with brand-level sales executives to reports directly to Paul Furtkamp, national strengthen existing sales operations and to sales manager. grow Harman Professional’s sales presence in Prior to joining the YCAS sales team, emerging markets. The announcement was Peirson most recently held the position made by Michael MacDonald, Harman Profes- of director of sales, western region for sional executive vice president of marketing JBL Professional, where he worked since and sales, to whom Robbins reports. 1995. Prior to JBL, Jon held various po- Robbins holds a bachelors degree in Orsitions at Anchor Audio, including vice ganizational Management and joined Crown president of marketing where he began Audio’s service department in 1987. He was his career in 1984. Common Courtesy At the end of a gig, it is a nice courtesy if you zero-out the console to leave it for the next user. Of course, if it is very likely you will be the next user, you may gamble on leaving things half-zeroed so that EQ settings and preamp gains are left for the next performance. Of course, a good and e cient console operator should be able to dial in EQ and rough gains very quickly from a zero-ed out console. And zeroing before the gig helps familiarize yourself with the console if you have not been on that brand/model for a long while. And feeling all those controls and faders may provide a clue how well maintained the console is before mixing. Loose controls and sticky faders may provide a scenario of how to defensively drive the console to avoid crackles and pops before the show goes on. — From Mark Amundson’s “Theory and Practice” column in the August issue.
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