Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

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movate the young generaon to choose AV
as career.”

“It is indeed heartening to see the strides
made by AVIXA in a very short span of me
to uphold the quality
standards and be recognised
by premium instuons and
accreditaon bodies like
NABET; We wish AVIXA well
for all the future
accreditaons as well and
these are steps in the right
direcon,” says Vineet Singh, Managing
Director of HMPL Consulng. “We at HMPL
Consulng congratulate the AVIXA team,
specially the Indian team to achieve this
milestone and we shall connue to
contribute to the successful evoluon and
journey of AVIXA in the region.”

http://www.avixa.org

The QCI/NABET accreditaon:

Authencaon of Quality

QCI is a joint iniave by Ministry of
Commerce and Industry, Government of
India and three premier industry
associaons- Associated Chambers of
Commerce (ASSOCHAM); Confederaon of
Indian Industry (CII), and Federaon of
Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI). Set up in 1997, the QCI is mandated
to lead a naonwide quality movement in
India in industrial sector by involving all the
stakeholders for emphasis on adherence to
quality standards.

The QCI, with its standards constuent body
NABET, authencates quality standards in
diverse segments of life and business, as
mandated by ISO/IEC 17025:2017. However,
it does not accord its endorsement by any
normal choice but by stringent evaluaon
and audit of the company's operaonal
processes before giving its stamp of quality
accordance.

For AVIXA's CTS training and cerficaon
iniave, QCI team comprising Vanita Yadva,
C S Sharma, Shivani Mishra and others
visited AVIXA's headquarters in Fairfox, USA,
and audited their operaonal and training
process before finding a compelling reason
for according its accreditaon. That speaks
of the quality adherence AVIXA brings to its
programmes.

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Dan Dugan Celebrates with Yamaha at ISE

INTERNATIONAL: Nowadays, inventors of

key developments in the modern pro audio

industry are recognised as pioneers,

visionaries, even 'living legends'. Significant

anniversaries arrive with increasing

frequency, but not many enjoy three at the

same me!

Dan Dugan has spent his enre life involved

with audio although, ironically, his first job in

the producon industry was as a lighng

designer. It was when designing the audio

for an early 1970s producon of the musical

Hair that he saw the need for an automated

soluon to control mulple microphones.

Being both resourceful and determined, he

set about invenng one. The rest, one could

say, is history.

Throughout the early 2000s, there were

increasing calls from Yamaha US customers

for Dan's automated mic mixing technology

to be made available in the company's digital

consoles and DME series digital mixing

engines. Posive discussions between Dan

and Yamaha's Marc Lopez, Ma Hasegawa

and Hiroshi Hamamatsu resulted, in 2011, in

the Dugan-MY16 automac mixing

controller card. This enabled a wide range of

Yamaha digital mixing products to add up to

16 channels of automated microphone

mixing.

With the launch of Yamaha's CL series digital

mixers, the company's Masaaki 'Mick'

Okabayashi and Dan discussed the possibility

of incorporang the technology within the

CL operang system itself. Finding it was

possible to achieve using Yamaha DSP, Dan

and the Yamaha development engineers

worked closely to implement it.

Since then, the technology has been

incorporated into Yamaha's enre current

range of digital mixing consoles - from the

flagship RIVAGE PM10 system right through

to the entry-level TF series - as well as the

MTX/MRX series of matrix processors. This

means that all of these products now feature

cung-edge, automated mic mixing as

standard.

“Dan's technology has made a massive

difference to a wide range of producons -

from theatre shows to corporate

conferences, broadcast debates and many

others. We are very pleased to be able to

celebrate these three significant milestones

with him at ISE 2018,” says Nils-Peter Keller,

Senior Director Pro Audio & AV Group at

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH.

“As a fellow pioneering audio company, it is

both appropriate and grafying that we have

been able to work closely with Dan for a

number of years, allowing Yamaha users to

embrace the many benefits of his automated

mic mixing technology.”

“Working with Yamaha has been wonderful

because I've provided the idea, but they've

provided a red hot team of engineers to

realise it in their own DSP, which is prey

extraordinary,” adds Dan. “It's been a very

posive, delighul relaonship and I hope it

will last for a long me.”

http://www.yamahaproaudio.com

Dan Dugan – the inventor of the automac microphone mixer – is celebrang his 75th

birthday this year on with a speciality. It's his 50th year in business, and 35th year of his

laboratory on Napoleon Street, San Francisco. Since 2011 Dan Dugan Sound Design

technology has been a key component in Yamaha's digital mixing systems, so the company

invited him to a surprise celebraon on its stand at ISE 2018.

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Dan Dugan being presented with the cake (le);

Dan Dugan answering a query during the interacon on the occasion.