Peachtree City, GA, June 18, 2008 – With an unprecedented music career spanning over 40 years, Clarence McDonald has produced and recorded such artists as Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin and James Taylor. Knowing that he would need a reliable and reputable storage drive for his highly anticipated album, Clarence McDonald & Evolution, McDonald naturally chose Avastor’s HDX-800 Triple Interface FireWire drives.

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London, England, May 28, 2008 – James Lewis, one of the UK’s rising producers, engineers, mixers and songwriters in genres ranging from indie rock to dance, continues to choose Avastor’s HDX-800 triple interface drives for tracking via Pro Tools. Working with such artists as Arctic Monkeys, The Pistolas and Simon Webbe, whose single “Ride The Storm” was produced and mixed by Lewis and chosen as the main title track for Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer, it’s no wonder why Lewis required a drive that would outlast the competition.

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Hollywood, CA, May 8, 2008 – Dane Leon, guitarist for the Hollywood- based hip hop/rock band, downRising, is entrusting all the hard drive back-ups for its new self-titled album to Avastor’s HDX-800 triple interface drives.

The group, which has performed at top LA venues such as House of Blues and The Key Club on the Sunset strip, has had the honor of having one of its songs selected for the Gardener of Eden soundtrack, which was produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Nashville, TN, April 21, 2008 — When it comes to providing its customers with effective storage solutions, Nashville’s premier rental company, Rack-N-Roll, always chooses Avastor.
 
Founded by leading Recording Engineer Rob Dennis, Rack-N-Roll, which also provides full live production and studio facilities in addition to a sales division, uses the Avastor HDX-800 for its storage purposes. The HDX-800 is an external FireWire drive created specifically to meet the demands of the digital content creation community. 

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Peachtree City, GA, March 24, 2008 – Starstruck Studios in Nashville has been the recording facility of choice for some of country and pop’s biggest names, and with the need for failsafe and robust storage solutions, the studio has made Avastor the hard drive of choice for its most commercially successful clients.

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Peachtree City, GA –February 30, 2008—Situated in the artistic community of Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA, Kingsize Soundlabs offers a unique recording environment with an array of vintage, as well as the latest state-of-the-art technology, which appeals to the alternative music scene. With high-profile alternative music clients including Jesus and Mary Chain and Australian band The Vines, protecting the recorded sessions is essential, and Avastor HDX FireWire hard drives are the number one choice for sessions that track directly to drives or require back up.

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Las Vegas, April 14, 2008 –Avastor, one of the fastest growing companies supplying digital storage solutions to audio/video professionals, is now offering the HDX-1500 SATA Quad interface drive. This addition to the Avastor HDX product line, which provides unrivalled flexibility and performance for professional audio/video workstation users worldwide, will be making its NAB 2008 debut.

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Composers Create Music for Film, TV, Commercials, and Games

Los Angeles, CA, December, 2007 – The composers at Mutato Muzika, the production company founded by Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh, have found Avastor hard drives to be the ideal choice for producing, archiving and backing up the more than 200 projects created at the studios each year.

“Avastor drives are rock solid and extremely reliable,” says senior composer Albert Fox. “I have all my projects and backups on these drives. In the past we’ve had drives from a number of big name manufactures fail on us, but Avastor has a perfect track record.”

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Co-production Mixer Eric Johnston Goes Live with HDX Drives

Los Angeles, CA, November, 2007 – Co-production Mixer Eric Johnston has the responsibility of all playback of music beds and voiceovers for the hit series “Dancing with the Stars.”  His Avastor HDX-800 hard drives provide the reliability to meet the demands of an extremely complicated live show broadcast from CBS Television City in LA.

“The Avastor drives fit in very well with the work flow,” he explains. “The beauty of a live show is you know when you are up and you known when you’re down.  For instance, when Marie Osmond fainted on the air we all had to suddenly jump through hoops to make sure we got off air, got a commercial up and then came up with a backup plan to get back on the air.  You think on your feet.”

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Educator Jose “Chilitos” Valenzuela Recommends the HDX-800

Santa Monica, CA, November 2007 – Joes “Chilitos” Valenzuela is celebrating the 15th Anniversary of his AudioGraph International training center.  A mixing engineer, author, educator, and magazine editor known throughout Latin America for bringing his understanding and practical training in ProTools, he also publishes in English and is now offering a wealth of cutting edge bilingual training courses at his studios in Santa Monica. 

Valenzuela endorses Avastor hard drives, especially the triple interface HDX-800,  for all of his courses in Music Production, Post-Production, Digital Sound Editing, Sound FX Design and DVD/CD Mastering. “We use Avastor drives in all of my ProTools certification courses,” he explains.  “Students get the opportunity to use them and experience first hand a drive that can withstand rigorous sessions and provide a workhorse reliability that is consistent and dependable.”

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HDX-800 Hard Drives Are the Choice for Audio/Video Centers

London, UK, October, 2007 –The Strongroom Studio Group, AIR Studios, Breathe Post Production, and the Strong Hire rental division have chosen Avastor hard drives as their storage media of choice. “We chose Avastor drives, especially the HDX-800 triple interface Firewire 800 model, because of the professional feature set that is unmatched in the audio and video industries,” explained Phil Sisson, Strongroom Studio Manager.

AIR Studios, founded by Sir George Martin, is comprised of eight studios, including the renowned Lyndhurst Hall scoring facility.  Strongroom Studios features four major recording studios, eight programming rooms, and three 5.1 mix rooms.  Breathe Post Production provides a full range of post production services, including Offline, Online, HD, and Graphics. The Strong Hire rental division offers a broad range of digital audio and video equipment for rental, specialising in Pro Tools systems, and also provides location recording.

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Up-and-coming Singer/Songwriter Chooses HDX Drives

Los Angeles, CA, October, 2007 – Talented singer/songwriter and producer Gussie Miller recently switched to Avastor hard drives for all of his projects. “I switched to Avastor after a catastrophic hard drive crash that cost me $3,500 to re-record and restore material for my new album,” he explained. "I haven't had a glitch since."

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HDX Used for Internal Storage and for Delivery to Clientele

London, England, September, 2007 – The superlative technical team at Ascent Media’s London facility has unanimously chosen Avastor as it’s preferred media storage solution.  In particular, the Avastor triple interface HDX 800 is the top choice for encoding and distributing audio and video material throughout the Soho post-production center and for delivering finished masters to its clientele. The scope of the data stored on the Avastor drives ranges from standard definition or HD video to audio files containing 5.1 mixes and transfers from restoration projects.

Justin Burns, Technical Manager Content Distribution, explained:  “When it comes to dependable digital storage, there is no margin of error tolerated here at Ascent.  We like the clean, efficient design of the Avastor firewire drives and have found that they perform superbly...

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Former Rock Star Now Recording Major Label Artists

Holland, August, 2007 – Studio owner Arnold Muhren was a  founding member of The Cats, one of Holland’s most successful groups, scoring five European #1 hits and forty Top 40 hits. Today he operates the only SSL studio in Holland with its own residential facilities.  Based around a Pro Tools HD system, Muhren is typically recording up to 96 tracks at 24-bit/48kHz exclusively to Avastor HDX-800 hard drives, both for tracking and for delivery to clients.

“The professional build quality, extremely quiet cooling fans and robust pro-packaging makes this a master Firewire drive that is unsurpassed in reliability,” explains Muhren.

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Engineer/Owner Martin Bohm Records Hit Musicals with HDX-800 Drives

Vienna, Austria, August, 2007 – Chief engineer and co-owner of MG Sound Studios has chosen Avastor hard drives for his location recording of Vienna’s lavish theatrical musicals.  “Avastor is a pro solution for serious on the road recording,” he remarks.

MG Sound, founded in 1989, houses five full recording and audio post production studios and is the largest independent studio complex in Austria.  Two studios house large format SSL consoles and all rooms are equipped with Pro Tools HD systems.  Over the years, MG Sound has hosted sessions with U2, Meatloaf, Placido Domingo, and Marianne Faithfull, among hundreds of other artists.  Bohm and his remote recording team have recorded the productions of such hit musicals as “Elisabeth,” “Romeo and Julia,” and the most recent blockbuster, “Rebecca,” which premiered last year in Vienna. 

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Santa Monica, CA, August, 2007 – In addition to mixing new releases for both major established artists and emerging acts, Bob Clearmountain is also called upon to go back to archival analog multitrack masters and mix projects for new releases in today’s high-res digital formats.  In a recent case, tapes from nearly two decades ago were put on his multitrack deck and discovered to be unplayable.

“Bruce Maddocks did a great job,” explains assistant engineer Brandon Duncan, who works at Clearmountain’s Los Angeles Mix This! studios. “We came in at the last minute and it was a rush thing – we needed them yesterday.  Bruce was very accommodating and professional, got the job done and everything was good.  Bob was very happy with the transfers and was able to complete the job without a hitch.”

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Producer / Engineer Records Orchestras, Jazz and Rock Dates

Heidelberg, Germany, July, 2007– Jakob Haendel, Latin Grammy® award-winning engineer and owner of Haendel Classic Audio, has chosen Avastor HDX-800 external Firewire drives for recording classical orchestras and jazz/rock concerts worldwide. 

“When I am recording ,” explains Haendel, “I want to concentrate solely on the music as I am reading the score and not have to worry about transfer rates. The Avastor hard drives give me the performance and the security I am looking for.”

Using high-quality, multi-channel Stagetec Reference Mastering A-D converters, Haendel routes 64 channels of digital audio into his Pyramix workstation via MADI.  Tracking to an internal SATA RAID setup, the Avastor HDX-800 drives are used as back-up and for deliverable masters.  In addition to his PC, Haendel uses a smaller Toshiba notebook system capable of recording up to 24 tracks directly onto the Avastor HDX-800 drives via Firewire 800.

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New High Performance HDX Drives Are First Choice

Los Angeles, CA, June, 2007 – Dave “Hard Drive” Pensado is one of the most successful mix engineers working today, consistently delivering finished work that dominates the charts.  His recent hits include Nelly Furtado’s album Loose; Christina Aguilera’s album Back to Basics; Pussycat Dolls, PCD; Mary J. Blige, Breakthrough, Macy Gray, Big; and Rich Boy’s new album Rich Boy.

“Everything about the Avastor HDX hard drive has been thought out,” explains Pensado.  “And although many people think a drive is just a drive, they are not all the same.  Everything about Avastor has been optimized for the professional.”

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Los Angeles, CA, May, 2007 – For the second year in a row, top audio professionals convened at The Village Recorder to share their tips and tricks for making great home studio recordings and teaching the essentials for making a successful career in audio engineering / producing.

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Cambridgeshire, UK, April, 2007 – After rigorous testing, SADiE has authorized the Avastor line of high-performance hard drives for use with its entire line of digital audio workstations.  In today’s working environment of higher and higher track counts and sampling rates, the Avastor drives were thoroughly tested using the SADIE PCM H64 and H128 (64 and 128 channel recorders).  Additional recordings were made to SADiE’s LRX2 portable multi-track recorder, where the Avastor HDX800-250GB performed flawlessly recording to the system maximum of all 64 channels of 24 bit audio via the USB2 interface.

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Leading Remote Recording Operation Goes All Digital

Carlsbad, CA, April, 2007 - "We took the last Studer multitrack out of the truck two months ago," says renowned remote recording engineer Guy Charbonneau.  "It was a little spooky for me, but now it's Pro Tools as the main recorder and  strictly Avastor hard drives.  On request, we still offer analog multitrack and DASH recording.  Our first dates with ProTools only were for Lily Allen for Capitol Records, and our second was MusiCares ‘Don Henley’ with Elliot Scheiner engineering.  Thanks to Avastor, we now feel totally confident without a tape back-up."

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“Touring The Angel” World Tour played to more than 2.5 million people in 31 countries

London -- October 25, 2006 -- Avastor HDX series hard drives were chosen as the master hard drives to record Depeche Mode on every date of their just concluded world tour. The first live recordings happened April 27, at San Francisco’s Shoreline Amphitheater and after numerous dates across the United States, Mexico and Europe concluded August 1, in Athens, Greece. Depeche Mode in collaboration with Live Here Now recorded 50 dates, this ambitious project is being released as limited edition CD’s and digital downloads.

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Hollywood, CA -- October, 2006 -- Tal Herzberg - a four-time Grammy nominee- often doubles as producer, recording engineer, editor, mixer, musician and programmer for such notable artists as; Black Eyed Peas, Mary J Blige, Pussycat Dolls and Enrique Inglesias to name but a few.  Working closely with producer Ron Fair of Geffen Records, Tal handles the tasks of recording and editing on Protools HD3 and is regularly based at The Record Plant in Hollywood, CA.

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London -- September 15, 2005 -- On July 2, 2005 an estimated 3 billion people watched the Live 8 concerts staged in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Philadelphia – as well as Barrie (Canada), Tokyo, Johannesburg and Moscow.

Sir Bob Geldof and the Band Aid Trust organized the concerts to focus attention on the continuing poverty, famine and disease that is still a major problem in Africa. The concerts attracted major artists – the London concert alone, in Hyde Park included a reformed Pink Floyd (which included Roger Waters re-united with the band for the first time since 1982, U2, Paul McCartney, The Who, Sting and Coldplay.

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New York City -- September 9th 2005 -- As many as 38 million American viewers watched a benefit concert in aid of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region of the US.  Approximately $30million was raised for the Red Cross and Salvation Army relief efforts-as a result of this concert.  The concert- staged at Sony Music Studios in New York City as well as Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, was shown commercial free by every major US broadcaster as well as via cable, Internet, radio and in over 155 international territories too.

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Peachtree City, GA -- August 10, 2005 -- Avastor Inc begins shipments of its new HDX 500 gigabyte portable FireWire hard disk drives.  With the addition of the HDX 500 GB capacity drives.  Avastor now offers more external hard drive configurations than any other external drive manufacturer.  The new drive not only allows for a half terabyte of storage but gives you the 500 gigabytes in a single drive; this does away with the connection problems associated with psuedo 500 GB drives that combine two 250 GB drives using a RAID configuration.

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