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Switzerland - Schertler Group has announced the release of TIM and TOM; two compact, high-performance, active analogue 2.1 amplification systems that are designed for both acoustic instrument amplification and for general PA use in a range of venues. Each system comprises a powerful active subwoofer and two passive satellites.

Timis a 600W (350 +125+125) system that is designed for use with acoustic instruments and in jazz or DJ sets. This system also forms an efficient compact PA for use in small to medium sized venues such as piano bars, gyms, conference rooms or ballrooms.

Larger sibling Tom has a 1000W (500+250+250) output. This system has been specifically developed for use in medium to large sized indoor and outdoor venues, providing powerful coverage for a range of mo

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Australia - ARX Systems has announced the release of their new SuperSplitter transformer isolated one input to three outputs passive splitter.

ARX's managing director Colin Park said, "Here at ARX we're excited about adding the new SuperSplitter to our popular AudiBox range.

"Our new SuperSplitter is a transformer isolated one input to three outputs passive splitter. It is ideal for splitting one audio signal three ways in applications where complete Galvanic isolation is required. Galvanic Isolation using transformers is the classic method used to prevent Ground Loops and Hums, providing noiseless signal routing, Broadcast Split feeds, Remote Recording splits and many more applications."

The SuperSplitter is available as either a single channel or dual channel unit and allows phantom powering of microphones and direct boxes via the direct out to input XLR, and feature

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USA - The Atco Dragway opened in Atco, New Jersey over 50 years ago and has thus been the setting for many of the memories most cherished by Northeast drag-racing enthusiasts. Its quarter-mile strip sees action more days than not (in addition to weekend events, weekday events are commonplace), making Atco Dragway one of the busiest dragways in the country.

However, the thunder from the engines was, until recently, the only full-frequency effect at Atco. All of the sound reinforcement squeezed its way into the world through anemic paging horns. Now, fully-weatherproofed, full-frequency Danley OS-80 loudspeakers backed by Ashly processing and amplification keep up (if only sonically) with the dragsters at Atco.

"We've been working with Atco for years, but I was only recently able to convince them of how much better the fans' experience would be with full-range loudspeakers,"

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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USA - UK-based singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding is currently in the middle of an extensive tour that kicked off in Europe in January with Adlib Audio and includes two North American legs extending into late June, with European and US festival dates plus shows in Australia and New Zealand keeping her on the road through mid-October.

The Delirium World Tour's North American dates, with audio production handled by Eighth Day Sound, include a full complement of DiGiCo mixing consoles - an SD5 at front-of-house with an SD10 available for opening acts, and an SD7 at the monitor position.

FOH engineer Joe Harling, who has been touring with Goulding for two and a half years, first started using DiGiCo desks three years ago. "I find that their routing flexibility and features such as two insert points per channel allow me to achieve what I want. They have a very neutral sound, whic

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Australia - Celebrated hip hop lighting designer Paul Owen - who has illuminated performances by Wu-Tang Clan, De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash and The Streets - used a range of lighting control equipment from British manufacturer Avolites for the recent Restrung tour by Australian rap act Hilltop Hoods.

A live version of the trio's second orchestral album, Drinking from the Sun, Walking under Stars Restrung, the ambitiously grandiose tour took place in April and quickly sold out. It stopped at all five major Australian cities and featured the symphony orchestras of Sydney, Queensland (Brisbane), Adelaide, Melbourne and West Australian (Perth).

Owen made good use of Avolites' high-performance Sapphire Touch lighting console running Titan v9, which he used to create a stunning array of spectacular visual effects for the tour's larger shows.

"I really loved using the

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UK - Penn Elcom has supplied around 250m of Osram Linearlight Flex short pitch power flex LED tape as part of a new, greener and more efficient lighting scheme for one of the UK's best-known university library buildings, The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford.

The striking neoclassical circular landmark, now Grade I listed, was designed by James Gibbs and constructed between 1737 and 1748 to house the Radcliffe Library (as it was known until 1860). It was funded from the estate of Dr John Radcliffe (1650-1714), arguably the most successful English physician of his day, who left his trustees a large sum of money with which to purchase both the land for the new building and an endowment to pay a librarian and purchase books. It was officially opened on April 1749.

Much more recently, Richard Francis of Oxford based electrical contractors Monard Electrical was asked to work on the in

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Malaysia - The long-awaited Anugerah Juara Lagu 30 event was held on 24 January 2016 at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam. AJL is an annual music competition, which has been organized in Malaysia by TV3 since 1986.

Besides enjoying the performances by the artists themselves, the audience were impressed by the lights. The swirls and beams from the lighting fixtures formed a show within the show. The crowd saw a total of at least 190 lights, installed throughout the stadium, perform in unison.

The lighting designer skilfully coordinated the lights to merge harmoniously with each other. The most prominent and notable fixtures were the lights from the Clay Paky range. Acoustic & Lighting were able to spot 70 Sharpys installed around the stage and stands. Furthermore, a total of 20 Clay Paky B-EYE K20s, 22 Alpha Wash 1500s and 10 Alpha Spot HPE 1500s were used throughout the event, a

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UK - Hawthorn has been awarded the contract to supply lighting and video equipment for New Order's festival tour, which kicked off at Sonar Music Festival in Barcelona on Saturday 18 June. The band are continuing their tour, consisting of 11 dates, visiting festivals such as Glastonbury, Latitude and Electric Picnic.

The concert touring division in Hawthorn is drawing upon its wide range of hire equipment, supplying lighting to specification, including Martin MAC Viper Profile, Clay Paky Sharpy and ETC Source 4 Profile fixtures.

Lighting is controlled using an Avolites Arena console. Glux 10mm LED panels and a 30-inch mirror ball will also feature in the package, along with two Hawthorn technicians who will accompany the tour.

The kit provided by Hawthorn supplements the existing equipment provided by the festivals.

Mick Freer, head of concert touring at Hawthorn,

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The Netherlands - Ampco Flashlight Rental BV (AFR) has made a another substantial investment in Robe moving lights - with the purchase of 80 x DL7S Profile LED fixtures and 80 x LEDBeam 1000s.

The new order was delivered via Robe's Benelux distributor, Controllux and the lights have been busy ever since on a wide variety of projects - from TV shows to major live events.

AFR's lighting operations manager Marco de Koff explained how Robe has been on their radar for some time, but it was 2010 when they started looking more closely at the brand with the launch of the Robin range, including the MMX Spot and the LEDWash series.

'It was clear that Robe was taking a very innovative route in its product development, a trend that's continued and impressed a lot of people," says Marco.

As AFR has started receiving more artist rider and event design requests for Robe they have

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UK - FBT Audio UK has moved to new warehouse and office premises in Rochester, Kent, following a period of exceptional growth, says company MD, Mark Parkhouse.

"Sales of FBT audio products and JTS microphones have increased so much during the past year that we had run out of space in our previous facility," he said. "What we needed most was a considerable increase in warehouse space so that we can make more products available for quick delivery. We have particularly increased stocks of FBT's growing installation and touring range of products, enabling us to offer next day, and even same day, delivery in some cases."

FBT AUDIO UK is now located at Unit 16, Stirling Park, Laker Road, Rochester Airport Estate, Rochester, Kent ME1 3QR. The company's telephone numbers remain unchanged: Phone: +44 0203 598 5162 - Fax: +44 0203 598 5163.

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Ireland - Global flightcase hardware and premium 19" racking manufacturer Penn Elcom is launching Penn Elcom Ireland, a new all-encompassing facility and operation which will spearhead expansion in a growing market and be headed by the charismatic Rory Winston.

Penn Elcom chairman and founder Roger Willems stated: "The Irish pro entertainment industry market shows definitive signs of recovering from the economic dip, there are many installations and other projects happening and flourishing! It's been our intention to open a base there for some time, but then circumstances converged to make this a really opportune time."

These circumstances include Rory becoming available to run Penn Elcom Ireland and also the 7000sq.ft warehouse facility in south County Dublin coming on-stream, so with these two plusses, Roger activated the plan. Stock of Penn's extensive standard flightca

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UK - Philips Lighting's entertainment division will be at the ABTT Theatre Show 2016 this week on stand A11, showcasing the latest stage lighting and control from Philips Strand Lighting, Philips Selecon and Showline. On display from Strand Lighting will be the latest addition to its range of control tools - the Philips Strand 500ML Lighting Control console and the NEO console.

Designed to control dimmers, LED fixtures and moving lights, the Philips Strand 500ML's user interface is quick and easy to navigate and provides designers and programmers with 24 faders, each of which may be used as a master, submaster or playback.

Lighting designer Mark Wynn-Edwards, whose portfolio includes Lamb and Jamiroquai, comments that he is highly impressed with the Philips Strand 500ML:

"I have been using the Philips Strand 500ML for a while now on a broad range of projects," he expla

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USA - VUE Audiotechnik debuted the al-12, the newest and largest addition to the company's successful al-Class of scalable line array systems, at InfoComm 2016.

Designed for large-scale applications, the al-12 is designed for higher efficiency, increased power handling and reduced power compression. VUE incorporates proprietary transducer designs in each al-Class acoustic line array element. Every individual component development project carefully weighs the design trade-offs to optimize parameters for maximum output capability and heat dissipation, frequency response linearity, duty-cycle reliability, and minimum size and weight.

One of the distinguishing features of the al-12 is its ability to integrate with other al-Class elements thanks to VUE's Acoustic Linearity principles. CST (Continuous Source Topology) enables VUE al-Class line-array elements to function seamless

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UK - More than 70 of Martin Audio's new CDD installation loudspeakers, featuring patented Coaxial Differential Dispersion driver technology, have been installed by Middlesex Sound & Light (MSL) in a London based leisure hospitality venue, called Swingers. Built around two nine-hole crazy golf courses, Swingers also features a dining area with street food, a two-tier clubhouse and five bars.

Run by the Institute of Competitive Socialising (ICS), it not only hosts corporate crazy golf sessions for the business world - bringing the outside indoors - but then transforms the 16,000sq.ft of space into a more upbeat vibe after dark, with nightly DJs. It is described as an environment of "competitive socialising".

MSL are just one of a number of integrators who have made the CDD their 'go to' solution since its launch in Frankfurt 15 months ago. Director Darrel Olivier says that a

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UK - Supporting technical theatre educational institutions is close to the heart of everybody at PRG XL Video. The company offers training and technical support to a number of universities, drama schools and colleges around the UK.

When Geraint Pughe from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts contacted joint head of theatre market, Peter Marshall, with a request for a long-term loan of some moving lights for students to experiment with and train on, PRG was happy to help.

Peter Marshall commented, "We were delighted to support Mountview, as we have previously done with many colleges, with a combination of Arc and LED sourced automated lights, namely the very popular Vari*Lite VL3000 spot and the GLP Impression LED RZ120 RGB zoom wash light."

Geraint explained, "It's important for us that all lighting students have access to up to date lighting technology in the classroom,

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USA - The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival wrapped its fifteenth weekend of music and good vibes as one of the country's top musical events of the year. Taking place over 9-12 June, a 700-acre field swelled to a population of 85,000 in a feat that literally made it the state's seventh largest city for a weekend.

Bandit Lites once again worked with Lambda Productions to provide a lighting package for the weekend that featured a line-up including Pearl Jam, Dead & Company, LCD Soundsystem, J. Cole, CHVRCHES, Jason Isbell, M83, Halsey and Chris Stapleton.

Bandit's production manager Dizzy Gosnell designed the mainstage festival system to accommodate the three daily closing headliners systems, as each brought along a large portion of their own touring system which occupied a 40'w by 30'd footprint above the performing area.

Working in conjunction with their lighting design

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UK - The Lighterman, a new pub, dining room and bar on Granary Square in London's Kings Cross offers relaxed all day dining and drinking, with views over the square as well as Regent's Canal. To capture the mood of the day and to create a vibrant evening atmosphere, the venue has installed a high quality Bose sound system, with discreet Bose FreeSpace 3 cube speakers offering music over all three floors.

With music being a key factor in the overall customer experience, the system was installed by Bose pro partner Tateside to offer managers on each of the floors overall control of the source music and volume. There are four iPads, each loaded with the Bose ControlSpace Remote app, which is designed specifically to give intuitive wireless control across multiple devices to end users wherever networked Bose system electronics are installed.

At The Lighterman, a Bose ControlSp

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UK - Specialists in delivering high octane sound for international EDM events, Capital Sound returned to the award-winning We Are FSTVL site at Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster over May Bank Holiday, fielding their premier Martin Audio MLA system on the three main stages.

The production company last worked with promoter Reece Miller on the two-day event back in 2014, and with production values ramping up they were recalled this year by festival production director, Simon Barrington (of Sibar Productions), with whom they have collaborated on Above & Beyond shows (and last year's Wild Life Festival).

This year, with Fatboy Slim and Steve Angello headlining an all-star cast of international DJs (including Sven Vath, Richie Hawtin, Craig David and Armand van Helden) the upgraded stage enabled them to support a greater speaker payload and hence the additional MLA elements gav

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Russia - Belgian engineering specialist WIcreations has designed and supplied motion control, customised staging and hardware / infrastructure for Russian singer and superstar Philipp Kirkorov's current tour which features a spectacular show design by renowned creative director, Franco Dragone.

WI has previously worked with Dragone on several projects, explains project manager Koen Peeters, and for this one the show creators turned to them to provide solutions for several staging conundrums, all of which had to be delivered in an extremely short timeframe.

With the tour starting in Russia, crew visas, paperwork and transportation needed special attention, in addition to all the engineering and physical creative work!

The first WI element of the project was to create 14 aluminium flying wings and a kinetic system to make them move. All of these flying elements have an i

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Russia - An Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system recently managed a special concert in the Philharmonic Hall of Astrakhan, in the southern region of Russia.

The system, consisting of an S5000 Control Surface and DM48 MixRack, was equipped with Dante, Waves and MADI network cards, and managed both FOH and monitor sound, as well as providing a multi-channel recording.

The concert was performed by Makhov's Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, named after its first artistic director and conductor, Vyacheslav Makhov. Based in Astrakhan, the orchestra tours musical festivals all around the country, and staged a special home coming performance.

Leonid Butakov, conductor of the orchestra, said: "dLive has an amazing sound! It is unbelievably soft and velvet smooth. I was so comfortable working on stage that I didn't even notice when our performance was over. I've never

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USA - After their 'difficult second album' hit the number one spot in the UK, US, and Canada, you could say that The Lumineers have officially gone global with Cleopatra. The critically acclaimed, two-time Grammy-nominated folk trio from Colorado are currently selling out venues across the US and Europe. Keeping everything sweet at side of stage is Brad Galvin, mixing monitors on his trusted DiGiCo SD5.

The Lumineers are Wesley Schultz, Neyla Pekarek, and Jeremiah Caleb Fraites - and their music is making serious waves all over the globe. Playing intimate, fan-friendly venues has, says Brad, been a real treat to witness.

"It's a real breakthrough, as there's always serious pressure with album number two, but they've knocked it out the park in my opinion, and the fans seem to love it," says Brad, who first became acquainted with The Lumineers while working with the D

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