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UK - Having already produced a range of Kinsman electric acoustic and bass amplification and launching a pair of affordable, user-friendly Kinsman mixing desks last year, JHS now brings two portable multi-purpose PA systems to this popular brand.

Suitable for buskers, schools, corporate speaking and many other applications, the Kinsman KPA08 Portable PA System is a compact, self-contained and easy to transport system that can be mains powered or run from its internal rechargeable battery.

With dedicated Mic, Instrument and Phono inputs, plus USB and SD card connectors with push button controls and LCD display and Bluetooth connectivity, the KPA08 is incredibly versatile. A simple EQ layout of Treble, Middle Bass and Master volume makes it very easy to use, whilst the inbuilt

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USA - Audinate has announced an update to Dante Controller, the free tool used to configure and manage Dante audio networks.

Dante Controller 3.10 brings new features for end-users, allowing them to better manage larger networks with more high channel-count devices while enabling Dante Controller to take full advantage of upcoming firmware changes.

The new Dante Controller 3.10 software allows users to manage Dante networks from laptops connected via Wi-Fi. By simply connecting a wireless access point to a Dante network, adjustments can be made from any location in a facility, unencumbered by cables.

The new Advanced Filter in Dante Controller 3.10 can be used to refine the range of devices displayed, allowing users to easily narrow and refine views when managing large Dante networks. Filter parameters include device and channel names, sample rate, latency setting and

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UK - 7thSense has expanded its media server portfolio with the addition of the Nano-SDI Media Server from the Delta Media Server range. The product, an entry-level media server, is a highly affordable way of introducing uncompressed media playback into workflow for fixed installations, says the company.

John Harding, senior electronics engineer at 7thSense explains, "Users of Nano-SDI will benefit from incredibly easy content management and seamless playlist operation. We developed this as a solution primarily for theme parks, museums, science centres and attractions - venues with a lot of content, a lot of displays, and a need to quickly and easily deliver media without compromise on quality. Already, we're seeing significant interest from those who had previously used media format-specific HD playback servers that are no longer available."

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USA - In response to high market demand for built-in signal attenuation, API has announced the new 512v Microphone Preamp. Incorporating every feature of the 512c, including API's proprietary transformers and 2520 op amp, the new 512v also includes a variable output level control designed to meet the needs of audio professionals using DAW's or other input level-sensitive devices in their workflow.

The 512v offers 65 dB of gain as a mic preamp, 45 dB of gain as a line/instrument preamp, and a 20 dB pad switch that can be applied to the incoming signal (whether mic, line or instrument). The 512v also features a 3:1 output transformer tap switch that produces a lower output level, allowing the user the option of driving the transformer harder to achieve higher levels of saturation.

Also included are front and back panel mic input access, front panel combo-style XLR + 1/4 inch

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USA - ETC's Eos family toolkit now includes even more hands-on control for fast programming on the fly. The new Eos Motorized Fader Wings function as modular add-ons to Eos consoles or systems, allowing users to build the appropriate control desk for any live show.

The Eos Motorized Fader Wings will be released in conjunction with the Eos v2.4 software, which is geared toward the needs of programmers working in broadcast, music and live-event markets, and other complex gigs. The upcoming software update - scheduled for later this summer - expands the types of content that can be placed on playbacks and the types of controls and mapping that can be associated with them.

The Motorized Fader Wings are designed to optimise these new features, including size and rate overrides, faders that can preset to 50 percent for effect rate, and displays large enough to show the customise

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USA - Completed in January 2016, the Hynes Centre in Mercedes, TX USA is a 15,000sq.ft multi-purpose venue located in the Llano Grande Lake Park Resort. Although many touring artists carry a full sound system, the Hynes Centre chose to install its own, permanent system, based on Alcons line arrays. The system saw its first use for an Oak Ridge Boys three-night concert series in January.

Ziwa Corporation, a design/build construction company in Brownsville, Texas, constructed the Hynes Centre. Ziwa project development manager Scott Shull contacted the Oak Ridge Boys to discuss their audio needs. FOH engineer Marko Hunt recommended Alcons line arrays and Shull retained integrator, Third Street R&D, of Hollister, Missouri, to design and install an Alcons system for the venue.

Greg Carttar, Third Street R&D's owner, used nine Alcons LR7/90 Micro Line-Array modules per side supp

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UK - Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment to creative visual design specialist MIRRAD for three stages at the 2016 Barn on the Farm festival, staged in the pastoral gently rolling countryside of Over Farm just outside Gloucester.

Barn on The Farm is forging a serious reputation as a UK festival event for showcasing new and emerging talent and the brightest 'ones-to-watch' after show-stopping performances by artists like Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard, Bastille, Hozier and others all headlining past Barn on the Farm's just ahead of major career leaps.

Organisers Josh Sanger and Matt Keene have kept it intimate with 2,000 tickets and three stages; cutting edge with the lively and energised band line ups; and friendly, encapsulating the true spirit of a festival community - with the bonus of there being plenty of space to move.

MIRRAD became involved for the first

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UK - Serious Stages has been awarded a further three year contract to supply staging and ancillary structures to Forest Live, building on its longstanding relationship with the summer concert programme, June 2016.

Established in 2001, Forest Live is an independent concert series, promoted by the Forestry Commission. Hosted within seven nationwide forest locations, which include Westonbirt Arboretum, Thetford Forest, Dalby Forest and Mansfield Sherwood Pines Forest Park. This year's line-up has seen performances from Rudimental, Kaiser Chiefs, James Bay and Guy Garvey.

For the 2016 shows, Serious Stages supplied two 16m Supernova's to accommodate simultaneous performances at different locations throughout the summer. Serious Stages also installed steps, access ramps, handrails and two flanking single PA masts, as well as a double decker front-of-house tower to accommodate t

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UK - In The Night Garden Live! is a live-action stage production based on the popular BBC children's television series. Taking place in a purpose-built show dome, the production brings the show and its characters to life using full-size costumes, enchanting music, magical puppets and spectacular panoramic projections, allowing its young audience to enter the magical world of the Night Garden.

The show is currently visiting various sites across the UK and, for the sixth year running, WL is providing the lighting and power equipment.

In The Night Garden Live! consists of two shows featuring stories about the main characters of Igglepiggle and Makka Pakka. Andrew Fidgeon is production electrician on the show. He comments, "In The Night Garden Live! is a unique show. Not only are there four performances a day but every show takes place in a purpose-built s

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USA - A procession of over two dozen bands performed on stage at the ninth annual Purple Hatters Ball in mid-June, but this three-day festival has never really been just about the music. Set in a pastoral region of north Florida, and offering sessions in yoga, healing arts and meditation, Purple Hatters is as much about raising consciousness as it is about pleasing the ear buds.

This year's event had an appropriately expansive lightshow, thanks in part to the addition of the Rogue R1 FX-B LED fixture from Chauvet Professional.

Lighting designer John Hollingshead used 12 of the new Rogue fixtures, supplied by The Design Oasis, to create big, sweeping, transformative looks on stage that belied the relatively small size of his rig. The five independently controlled 3-watt RGB LED moving heads in each Rogue fixture, along with some extremely fast pan and tilt movements, helped

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South Africa - Event lighting and set designer Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier has applied the "extra output and great gobo work" of Clay Paky Mythos fixtures to create a dramatic, broadcast-ready design for the Miss South Africa 2016 beauty pageant.

The event was staged at Carnival City in Gauteng and showcased in a two-hour live broadcast on South Africa's M-Net and Mzansi Magic channels. Alongside the competition, a line-up of South African acts entertained the live audience and thousands of viewers at home, including MTV Africa Music Award-winning group Mi Casa.

Cutts worked alongside Centurion-based technical supplier and event production house Dream Sets to deliver the sparkling production for the second consecutive year. He positioned 16 Mythos across multiple arches which framed the main stage.

"The Mythos were used on the main arch because of their punchier ou

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Georgia - The Black Sea Arena in Georgia officially opened its doors on 10 July 2016, with a special opening show. A broad array of Prolyte products was used to install this modern event facility.

The ultra-modern venue, designed by German architects Drei Architekten, is located close to the shores of the Black Sea, its stunning architecture has some nice twists; the open auditorium can be closed within minutes when rain comes up, by means of 168 rotating, translucent facade lamellas, that protect the audience from sun, wind and rain, but once opened allow full view on the beautiful landscape between Great and Small Caucasus.

The auditorium has a capacity of 10,000 seats circular grand-stands. Visitor lounges, VIP areas, four cinemas, auxiliary areas and technical rooms are arranged below these. The auditorium, with a stage width of 36m., is designed to accommodate the lar

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USA - Country superstar Kenny Chesney is taking two Midas PRO X digital mixing consoles on the road as part of his 2016 Spread the Love Tour, including 14 major stadiums. The consoles will provide sound mixing for the band's entire monitor system, and also utilize four DL431 Mic Splitters and two DL451 Stage Boxes. Morris is the production company for the much anticipated Spread the Love Tour.

"Morris has been a longtime supporter of Midas, so when they introduced the PRO X, upgrading seven of our Midas consoles was a natural choice for us," said Morris CEO, Danny Rosenbalm. "As we aim to provide our clients with the best technology available, the increased channel count and upgraded Neutron DSP make the MIDAS PRO X console update a solid investment for our company."

Audio engineer and designer, Bryan 'Opie' Baxley commented, "I've been mixing on Midas PRO Series consoles

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France - About 1,300 health professionals from more than 30 countries gathered together on April 13-14, 2016 in the Lyon Convention Centre for the eleventh Biovision forum, the World Life Science Forum.

The forum was organized by la Fondation pour l'Université de Lyon to debate today's health problems. Eurosono, a company offering high-end technical services for events as well as for permanent installations, was brought in to create the backdrop of the amphitheatre.

Eurosono provided a 59ft tensioned-curved screen that suited the semi-circle room in order to allow all the attendees to see the whole screen. For the panoramic presentation, the agency created a Soft Edge Blending through three Christie HD 14K projectors.

Alexandre Jeannerod, the Eurosono manager states, "We had a double challenge as far as the display because our client wanted to either switch betw

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UK - Every year, the UK office of Yamaha Music Europe sponsors MK17 Music In The Park, a one day, family-orientated live music festival which raises funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. This year's event took place on Saturday 9 July, with Yamaha providing a complete sound reinforcement system and technical staff.

This was the seventh year of the MK17 festival, which takes place in Newton Longville, a few miles from Yamaha UK's Milton Keynes headquarters. The event features acts from the surrounding counties and this year the organisers were very pleased with the 1000-strong audience (close to the permitted limit) and raising £2,500 in donations for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, twice the 2015 total.

Yamaha sponsored the event's Acoustic Stage, providing a complete audio system which included a TF3 mixing console with Tio1608-D i/o rack, an active PA system comprising t

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Europe - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) has supplied a range of ProLights LED fixtures to rental company Lite Alternative, for the European leg of Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams stadium tour - the Brit rockers' seventh series of concerts, launched to support their seventh chart-topping studio album.

Kicking off in Nice, France, on 24 May, the tour continued throughout Europe and featured, as Coldplay's legions of fans have come to expect, only the highest production values - state-of-the-art lighting, pyrotechnics and Xylobands for the audience (wristbands featuring flashing lights that synchronise with the music).

When designing the concept for the tour, lighting designer, Paul Normandale, came back to an old challenge: "I needed an IP-rated wash fixture - as well as a blinder - that would be reliable and crew friendly," explains Paul. "Often in stadium situati

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UK - DiGiCo's Stealth Core 2 is a major upgrade to the Stealth Digital Processing for its SD series digital mixers. Delivering significantly enhanced processing from the audio core of DiGiCo SD series consoles, it takes the range to a new level in terms of both processing channels and functionality.

Available as an upgrade option for existing users and shipping as standard on new consoles, Stealth Core 2 has been updated from the ground up, with the application code upgraded to deliver significantly enhanced facilities. This will future-proof SD series consoles and "continue to keep DiGiCo users one step ahead of the rest".

Stealth Core 2 delivers many benefits, including: An updated user experience, including a brand new graphic interface on console screens; Upgraded FPGA power delivering enhanced processing. And Full Dynamic EQ, DiGiTuBes and MB Dynamics on every channel

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USA - Flatirons Church, located in Boulder, Colorado, recently invested in a new Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Redline system to accommodate the growing needs of their church. They required a solution for the times when attendance to the popular church exceeds seating in the sanctuary - often by as many as 1,000 worshippers. By deploying Redline in the lobby, everyone in attendance has the same worship experience. It also provides them with a system to use for outside events, which are a common occurrence at Flatirons.

"When I showed leadership that we could spend X amount of money every time we rent a system or we could just purchase Redline and solve the problem, it was a huge win," explains Bryce Boynton, audio director for Flatirons Church. "It's a very substantial system that sounds great and can easily produce 100 dB for any event. When we put it up in the lobby? It sound

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USA - The OCA Alliance, the AV industry alliance promoting awareness and adoption of Open Control Architecture (the Audio Engineering Society AES70 standard), has announced the membership of three new member companies. 1602 Group, Archwave, and TOA Corporation have all joined the alliance following its exhibiting at InfoComm16, where it featured a powerful live demonstration of AES70 interoperability on its booth.

Citing the opportunity "to contribute to a more open and efficient transfer of control data between products", Duncan Crundwell, 1602 Group Systems Architect and director, stated, "1602 Group is excited to be part of the OCA Alliance. Starting out in the late 1960's controlling musical instruments we were, as part of Solid State Logic, a founding member of the MIDI specification and have experience in working together with other organizations to improve the end user

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Europe - French electropop band, AIR, have embarked on their summer festival season equipped with a dLive digital mixing system to manage FOH. Specified by FOH engineer, Dave McDonald, and supplied by Belgian PA company, Four Ears Audio, the system comprises an S5000 Control Surface with DM48 MixRack.

The tour marks the first time that McDonald has toured with the new dLive system having been an avid iLive user for many years with acts such as Adele, Florence & The Machine and Frank Ocean.

"The first thing I noticed was the build quality - it's a sturdy beast - and the two touchscreens have a really classy feel, like something Apple would design," McDonald commented.

AIR's festival gigs span Europe and include Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland and Primavera festival in Spain.

"On the Air tour, we are using 14 vintage keyboards on stage, some mono and some stere

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Germany - The Bluetone festival 2016 opted for the new stands from Gravity, an Adam Hall Group brand. The Sportfreunde Stiller, Seiler und Speer, Anastacia were among the artists that attracted over 18,000 visitors to Straubing,

On all six days of the festival, which was founded in 1987, the stands provided solid stability for the artists' performances - and additionally added stylish highlights to the stage. Tobias Lange, Bluetone production manager and managing director of PM Systemhaus, says, "We had already opted for Gravity stands for the Gregory Porter tour as well as the Jazz Baltica festival. They immediately convinced us with their handling and stability."

The PM Systemhaus team was responsible for the production of the Bluetone festival together with local rental company StereoMike. "The musicians' feedback regarding the stands was excellent," says StereoMike hea

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