Atlanta, GA- June 10, 2009
Graham Marsh, musician, producer, and engineer chooses Avastor hard disk drives.

Graham Marsh has worked with such greats as Lionel Richie, Natalie Cole, Nas, Kelis, Ludacris, Gnarls Barkley and Cee-Lo Green. For the last two years he has been in the studio with Cee-Lo Green recording his new solo album titled “Lady Killer” which is due out at the end of September, 2010. They have spent most of their time in Cee-Lo’s personal Atlanta based studio, Solitaire, as well as Glenwood Place and Nightbird Studios in Los Angeles.

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November 1, 2009

LiveWire is now a factory-authorized dealer for the Avastor line of hard drives, acknowledged by the industry to be the best quality and most reliable drives for audio and video recording. LiveWire has used Avastor on all its projects since 2003. Avastor's unique foam-lined briefcase packaging protects valuable data, as well as providing room for letter -sized documentation.

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Nashville,TN June 4th 2009

Avastor, a leading manufacturer of ultimate storage solutions for audio/video professionals, recently showed its support for the audio industry by donating its latest PDX Bus Powered Pocket hard drives for a prize draw at the Audio Masters Golf Tournament, coordinated by the Nashville Chapter of AES.

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Los Angeles, CA, December 03, 2008—Grammy-award winning recording/mixing engineer, producer and songwriter, Khaliq Glover (also known as Khaliq-O-Vision), who has worked with such leading artists as Patti LaBelle, Prince, Usher and jazz legend Herbie Hancock, needed a drive he could depend on. This is why he decided to go with Avastor.

Recommended by fellow engineer, Dave Hampton, Glover purchased the Avastor HDX triple interface external Firewire drive . . .

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Ontario, Canada, November 11, 2008–The Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART), based in London, Ontario, Canada, offers students a comprehensive immersion program that prepares graduates for professional careers in music recording, live sound, audio for picture and related fields. Avastor’s HDX-400 dual Firewire external hard drives have been the school's drive of choice for storing sessions on the facility’s various digital workstations.

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Toronto, Canada, October 01, 2008—LiveWire Remote Recorders, a state-of-the-art Toronto, Canada-based remote recording and mix facility operated by veteran Engineer and Owner Doug McClement, has chosen Avastor’s HDX800 triple interface internal Firewire drives to store its live recordings. LiveWire Remote Recorders has captured such historic concerts as Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Live at El Mocambo” in 1983 as well as U2’s performance with Mary J. Blige during the Hurricane Katrina benefit in 2005.

Choosing the HDX800 drives was an easy decision for LiveWire Remote Recorders because of its external interfaces for Firewire 800/400 as well  as USB 2.0, making for good cross platform compatibility.

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London, England, August 27, 2008—Bottletop, a UK-based charity that empowers young people worldwide through sexual health education and HIV prevention, has chosen Avastor’s HDX800 triple interface FireWire drives to store all of its London-based recordings for its Brazilian influenced CD. Bottletop has received high praise from a variety of well-known personalities, ranging from former U.S. President Bill Clinton to ex-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for its creative approach to the non profit sector. Its music arm initiates cross-cultural collaborations, bridging the gap between exciting musical styles from across the world.

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Toronto, Canada, August 11, 2008—Sound Ideas, the world's largest publisher of professional sound effects for the broadcast and post-production markets, is making its new Ultimate SFX Collection available on Avastor HDX800 Triple Interface Hard Drives.

Sound Ideas currently offers more than 200 distinct collections to broadcast, post-production and multimedia facilities around the world. In recent years, Sound Ideas has produced multi-platform sound effects libraries, including products that contain the standard red book CD audio format as well as mp3 and .wav files for easier use in multimedia editing studios.

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Nashville, TN, August 5, 2008 — Avastor, a leading manufacturer of ultimate storage solutions for audio/video professionals, recently showed its support for the audio industry by donating its HDX800 and SDX1000 hard drives for a prize draw at the Audio Masters Golf Tournament, coordinated by the Nashville Chapter of AES.

Funds from this annual golf tournament benefited the AES Engineers’ Relief Fund. Major sponsors of this year’s event included Guitar Center as well as Avastor’s Nashville distributor NTS Pro Media. Other sponsors were Rack n Roll rental Co. and Blackbird Studios.

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Burbank, CA, July 29, 2008 – Avastor HDX hard drives are the first choice for Chace Productions, a full-service audio post-production facility located in Burbank, California. Chace relies on the Avastor drives when digitizing audio archive material from a variety of sources including: magnetic sound film, analog tape and early digital audio formats.
Known for using its unique and proprietary technology, Chace has established a worldwide reputation as a leading sound restoration and re-mastering facility for the motion picture industry. Clients include Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, MGM/UA, NBC, and the National Archives and Records Administration, whose projects demand the most professional and innovative technology available.

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Peachtree City, GA, July 21, 2008—Avastor, a leading manufacturer of ultimate storage solutions for audio/video professionals, introduces its new line of SDX portable hard disk drives.  Targeting the prosumer market – as well as the pro market – the SDX line is more competitively priced than the highly popular HDX drive which offers the ultimate in external professional portable storage.

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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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