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KRK Kares Equips Notes for Notes Studios Nationwide

N4N’s most recent studio is powered by Sony Music Group at the Boys & Girls Club of Metro LA’s Watts/Willowbrook and was stocked with KRK Classic 7, Rokit 10-3 G4, and Rokit 5 G4 studio monitors, as well as the brand’s KNS 8402 headphones.
N4N’s most up-to-date studio is powered by Sony Music Group on the Boys & Girls Club of Metro LA’s Watts/Willowbrook and was stocked with KRK Classic 7, Rokit 10-3 G4, and Rokit 5 G4 studio displays, in addition to the model’s KNS 8402 headphones.

Santa Barbara, CA (May 1, 2023)―For the previous 17 years, non-profit group Notes for Notes (N4N), an advocate for music in public faculties, has constructed recording studios nationwide, all outfitted with KRK displays by the producer’s charitable arm, KRK Kares.

N4N’s most up-to-date studio is powered by Sony Music Group on the Boys & Girls Club of Metro LA’s Watts/Willowbrook and was stocked with KRK Classic 7, Rokit 10-3 G4, and Rokit 5 G4 studio displays, in addition to the model’s KNS 8402 headphones. With KRK Kares’ newest donations, each Notes for Notes studio is now outfitted with KRK at each degree, giving youth at 26 studios throughout 13 states the power to supply, document, and blend like the professionals whereas studying the ins and outs of music creation.

“Both KRK and Gibson and subsequently KRK Kares and Gibson Gives have been there for almost all of our progress, offering a number of the most essential gear for our studios,” shares Notes for Notes CEO and co-founder Philip Gilley. “KRK has offered tools for our services since studio quantity three. Monitors and headphones are core staples of any recording studio, and we wouldn’t have been capable of full these builds with out them. In reality, we all the time be sure that we’ve obtained these good huge, brilliant, yellow cones entrance and middle in any respect our mixing stations.”

The Watts/Willowbrook Clubhouse additionally options a number of Epiphone guitars and bass guitars, MESA/Boogie California Tweed amps, and a number of guitar pedals from Maestro Electronics.

Gilley provides that it’s not simply the recognizability that makes KRK merchandise a super match for N4N. “Obviously, there’s a top quality facet to contemplate when selecting KRKs, however there’s additionally one thing to be stated for the truth that this gear is attainable to younger individuals,” he explains. “The identical goes for different Gibson manufacturers, like Epiphone, Kramer, and Gibson guitars. Youth at our studios develop into accustomed to those manufacturers once they’re first studying and rising, and these are the manufacturers they may attain for once they can afford their first guitar or pair of displays. Providing gear that’s inside their monetary attain is essential to us.”

Schools or non-profit organizations which have a music-based mission can go to Gibson Gives’ Give Music web page to be thought of for the KRK Kares giving program.

Gibson Acquires Mesa/Boogie

Gibson acquires Mesa/Boogie
Cesar Gueikian, Randy Smith, and James “JC” Curleigh.

Nashville, TN (January 6, 2021) – Gibson Brands, parent company to the Gibson guitar, has acquired guitar amp manufacturer Mesa/Boogie, becoming, in the words of Mesa/Boogie founder Randy Smith, “Gibson’s custom shop for amplifiers.”

The acquisition marks the first major purchase by Gibson Brands since the conglomerate emerged from bankruptcy in 2018. In recent years, Gibson sold off most of the brands from its Gibson Pro Audio division, including the Stanton DJ brand, Cerwin-Vega Pro and Cerwin-Vega Home in July, 2020, opting to focus on its core competency of guitars and related products. The Gibson Pro Audio division is now centered around KRK Systems.

Smith, 75, started Mesa/Boogie 51 years ago in a converted dog kennel under the redwoods of Northern California, creating the company as a boutique amplifier manufacturer whose products are now found in studios and on stages worldwide. Smith will join Gibson as master designer and pioneer of Mesa/Boogie.

Gibson Sells Cerwin-Vega to…Cerwin-Vega

“At Gibson, we are all about leveraging our iconic past and leaning into the innovative future, a quest that started over 100 years ago with our founder, Orville Gibson,” says James ‘JC’ Curleigh, president / CEO of Gibson Brands. “This is a perfect partnership based on our collective professional experiences and passion for sound.”

“Mesa Boogie, led by Randy, has been in service to sound without compromises since the very beginning, and that’s a perfect fit for us,” adds Cesar Gueikian, CMO of Gibson Brands. “We are looking forward to being the best custodians of Mesa Boogie’s iconic heritage that we can be, and at the same time, a steward of its future. We are honored that Randy and the Mesa Boogie team have trusted us to lead Mesa Boogie into the future. Together, we will continue to pursue our mutual quest of sound, quality and craftsmanship and to push the boundaries of how guitar sound is delivered and experienced.”

Mega/Boogie • https://www.mesaboogie.com

Gibson • https://www.gibson.com/

InMusic Acquires Stanton from Gibson

InMusic acquires StantonFt. Lauderdale, FL (June 5, 2020)—inMusic has acquired Stanton, the long-running DJ brand, from Nashville-based Gibson Brands, Inc.

In business for more than 70 years, Stanton has evolved with the DJ and turntable market over time, having developed lines of replacement stereo cartridges aimed at DJs, controllers and Final Scratch DJ tools.

Now it joins other DJ brands in the inMusic stable, including Numark, Rane and Denon DJ. Jack O’Donnell, CEO of inMusic, noted in a statement, “inMusic continually redefines the landscape for expressive DJ performance through unparalleled innovation and a dynamic response to the demands of its customers. With Stanton joining the home of the world’s premier music and audio technology brands, inMusic’s ground-breaking advancements in engineering, design and technology guarantees Stanton’s place at the forefront of this performance-driven industry, in the world’s true home of DJ.”

Gibson first acquired Stanton as a package deal in 2011 when it purchased the Stanton Group, which at the time consisted of Stanton DJ, Cerwin-Vega and KRK Systems—the latter two which are being retained by Gibson. The acquired brands became the foundation of Gibson Pro Audio, part of Gibson Brands’ ill-fated push into consumer electronics and other areas of the MI marketplace. Since going into and emerging from bankruptcy in 2018, Gibson has focused on rebuilding its core guitar brands.

inMusic • www.inmusicbrands.com

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