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Shuttlesound has welcomed two new recruits to its team in a move that will strengthen the sales department in the areas of marketing and permanent installations. David Howe, an experienced industry professional, takes on the mantle of Permanent Installation consultant, while Yann Carbonnet, formerly of Shuttlesound’s parent company Telex EVI in Germany, has recently joined as marketing manager where his responsibilities include both brand and company profile.

Howe’s has varied experience in the permanent installation market, ranging from low impedance to 100 volt line to voice alarm systems which, according to Shuttlesound’s senior sales manager, Sean Maxwell, makes him an ideal candidate for the company. "We identified a niche in the market where we really wanted

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Designed as a cost-effective solution specifically for sound contractors, the new ISA Series from QSC Audio features six models, including three low impedance models (ISA 280, ISA 450, ISA 750) rated for 2-ohm operation, and three ‘T’ versions with 25, 70 and 100 volt outputs for distributed audio systems (ISA 300T, ISA 500T, ISA 800T). Versatile loading options and a comprehensive feature set make the ISA Series a suitable power solution for a wide range of permanently installed sound systems. The ‘T’ versions will drive 8- or 4-ohm loads and a distributed system on the same channel simultaneously. This enables a contractor to reduce the number of required amplifier channels by allowing a limited number of distributed speakers to be attached to the same amp as is powering the main sound system.

Housed in rugged 3U chassis, all six models feature rear panel gain

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Out Board Electronics’ TiMax level and delay matrix has been specified for the third consecutive year by sound designer Bobby Aitken, for Raymond Gubbay’s annual opera-in-the-round at London’s Albert Hall. TiMax is in place as the delivery engine for the vocal reinforcement system on this year’s production, Aida. TiMax provides precise source-oriented reinforcement, making it obvious where each voice emanates from, resulting in unobtrusive sound reinforcement that is natural and believable, avoiding the ‘disembodied voices’ syndrome that the connoisseurs find so distracting. Out Board’s Robin Whittaker, who has been intimately involved with the programming and set up of the full sound system used for all three annual productions, commented: "The two preceding productions - of Tosca in 1999 and Madam Butterfly last year - were invaluable lear
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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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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The ML5000, Allen & Heath's flagship live sound VCA console, has been to the dark side of the moon and back. An ML5000, owned by Yorkshire Audio, recently went on tour with Australian Pink Floyd and proved itself to be more than equal to the demands of large scale live performance. The console was designed to compete with much larger desks on a more cost-effective basis, without compromising on quality or function. Indeed, many features are sophisticated enough to be associated with more expensive consoles. These include eight assigned VCA groups as an alternative to using the audio subgroups - each with an AFP/PFL button; full three-speaker balance through the LCRPlus panning system; 128 mute/VCA snapshot memories and a group routing which allows the desk to transform into a spacious eight-group, 16-aux configuration.

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Clay Paky’s intelligent lighting fixtures played a major role in Italy’s recent Sanremo Festival 2001. Clay Paky was the official lighting supplier for the festival and lit the Ariston Theatre with a large number of intelligent projectors, including 48 Stage Zoom 1200s, 60 Stage Light 300s, 80 Mini Scan HPEs and a number of Stage Color 1000 Halogens and Super Scan Zooms. The Stage Zoom 1200s were used both for general lighting and for a high impact effects, with 20 of the units highlighting the singers and other guests when they entered the Ariston Theatre, via the specially made catwalk. The Stage Light 300, powerful, compact and fast moving body projectors, were installed on the large hemisphere of the back wall, where they formed a synchronised ‘moving wall’ of light.

The Mini Scan HPEs, installed in an arc on the platform, around the walls, along the gallery

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Australian manufacturer of architectural lighting control products, Dynalite, has announced that Dimtek Ltd has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Dynalite Products in the UK and Ireland. Dimtek is a joint venture between Dynalite and a company headed by Jon Theis (formerly lighting controls product manager at Thorlux Lighting, a division of FW Thorpe plc). With an experienced staff of sales people and engineers, Dimtec is in an excellent position to offer full customer support, say Dynalite. John Gunton, managing director of Dynalite, said: "Establishing a joint venture office will enable us to better serve and support our valued customers in the UK and Ireland. A direct representation in these areas will also enable us to align our research and development activities with emerging trends in the UK lighting control market."

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PCM has completed its first five-day intensive Rigging School 2001, which proved as popular as ever with 51 attendees. The course attracted a diverse range of applicants - from newcomers to those employed in all sectors of the professional rigging, show presentation, performance and entertainment industry. As with all PCM’s training initiatives, the Rigging School is run on a no-profit basis. The concept of the Rigging School was the brainchild of PCM’s John Jones, a committed and vocal advocate of the furtherance of professional training in the entertainment and production industries. The Rigging School is co-ordinated by PCM in conjunction with several like-minded associate companies - Vertigo Rigging, James Thomas Engineering, MAN Flying Systems, Columbus McKinnon, Rope and Lifting Technology, Rope Assemblies and the Liverpool Community College (LCC).

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More recruitment news from AC Lighting: firstly, Ian Ferguson joins the company’s UK sales division. Ferguson is well known to many people in the industry having spent the past eight years as business manager with Playlight in their London office. With 24 years of industry experience, Ferguson has an encyclopaedic knowledge of equipment and its applications. Phill Capstick, UK Sales Director, stated: "We are delighted to have the opportunity for Ian to join AC Lighting. His experience and skills will make a major contribution to our business development plans."

Strengthening the corporate office staff, meanwhile, is Marie Kent who has been appointed as personal assistant to MD David Leggett. Previously with banker UBS Warburg in London, Marie has an extensive background in senior roles including a period of nine years in Sydney, Australia, working for IBM.

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Christie Digital Systems has announced the first in a series of new ‘Vivid’ projectors, designed for conference rooms, boardrooms, churches, training rooms and other applications. The Vivid line of multimedia projectors complements the existing high-performance three-chip DLP products - the Vista Series. The first projector available in the series is the Vivid Green - producing up to 3600 ANSI lumens, true XGA resolution with the latest in high aperture LCD technology and optical design, all in a 17.2lb (7.8kg) package - a ratio of 210 lumens per pound of weight. Vivid Green can be used in high ambient light conditions, and is aimed at applications in larger rooms. The projector employs the 250W NSH lamp from Ushio (the parent company of Christie Digital Systems), with a typical lamp life of 1500 hours.

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Sweden’s 'Tunes for Millions' tour in Sweden, with its cast of hundreds, includes some of the biggest concert events staged anywhere in the world. This touring choral concert production now plays 14 shows in Sweden's largest cities, to audiences of up to 4000 people. The tour comprises a small symphony orchestra, four well-known Swedish solo artists and a pop band, plus, at each concert, a large choir. Choral singing is extremely popular in Sweden; typically, the choir size would be 150-280 members. At the headline event at the Globe Theatre in Stockholm, it was 5,000-strong. Front-of-house engineer Thomas Malbeck relied heavily on DPA Microphones, using DPA 4011s to capture the choir accurately on a busy sound stage. "We had so many channels, up to 96 in total," explained Malbeck, "that for the choir I had to choose a microphone with very low noise, that's why I spe

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As from April 1st, Martin Professional will pass responsibility for the distribution of its products in Austria to its German subsidiary, Martin Professional GmbH. Martin says the move has been made in order to open up expanding market segments (such as the architectural lighting sector) more efficiently and quickly, and to profit from the advantages of a worldwide sales and service structure. Martin Professional GmbH will work in co-operation with its Austrian trading partner, MTEC GmbH, located in Wels, Austria. For Austrian customers, advantages will include access to a large distribution organization including extensive inventory, enhanced training possibilities, and a far-reaching service and support system. The new distribution structure in Austria will also make it possible to quickly respond to market changes, and to carry through on projects that require long preparation times a

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Following the success of the pre-Christmas Corrs shows at Wembley Arena, where designer Willie Williams utilised Screenco's ‘exploded’ screen as a backdrop to the band, Screenco continued on the European tour throughout January and this month provided the same system for the band’s US debut, with a sold-out show at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. A one-off New York theatre show would not normally have had the budget for a screen of this type to have been flown in especially. However, following a call from Ian ‘Chip’ Calder, the band’s production manager, Screenco’s MD Dave Crump contrived a deal which worked for Screenco, the band and Unitek Displays (the manufacturer of Megascreen, Screenco’s, 25mm LED system). Fortunately, Unitek already had some Megascreen in the US, which had been used for demonstration purposes, and Screenco ar

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Audio-Technica has launched its new European Web site, which includes a number of useful features for musicians, retailers, sound engineers and audio installers. The site includes full specification sheets and the 'technica help desk' section to assist with microphone selection. The site also has a comprehensive News & Press section, which includes an archive of product reviews, application stories and up to date information on new product releases. Other features include an audio Exhibition calendar, a selection of useful audio links and a number of links to UK based audio dealers.

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Stage Light Design was responsible for the lighting of two very different stands - for RM and Intel - at the recent BETT Show, Olympia. RM is the company dominating the market of supplying computer systems to schools. Lighting designer here was SLD’s John Rinaldi, whose brief included continuing the spacious and airy theme of the stand. The stand comprised a large white metal ground support system overhead, with several display/demo areas below, separated by translucent voile screens, all of which were illuminated with chrome-finished Par 30 lanterns and chrome Minuette fresnels from SLD’s stock. The stand’s ceiling was of sharkstooth gauze, up-lit with chrome 500W Pars. SLD also used three of their Clay Paky Mini Scan HPE fixtures to bounce logos and keywords around the stand’s various projection surfaces. For the Intel stand, SLD’s Alastair Crooks provided

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The Brats, or NME Music Awards, held over seven nights at The London Astoria, featured a diverse range of indie bands, all of whom used Shure microphone systems. On drums an eclectic mixture of microphones were used over the course of the shows including Beta91s and Beta52s on kickdrums, Beta98s and Beta56s on toms, Beta56s or Beta57As on snares and SM81s as overheads and on hi-hats. However, the preferred choice for overhead work was a pair of Shure's new KSM44s, which were praised for their smoothness and clarity by all of the visiting engineers who used them. Vocal mics were either Beta58As or Beta57As. Rik Hart, The Astoria's chief audio engineer who oversaw the whole event commented: "Shows like this demonstrate the diversity of the Shure range when it comes to live performance. It's not just SM58s! I was really impressed by the KSM44's and it's interesting to see that, increas

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A company based in the Channel Islands has announced the launch of a product which it claims will "change forever the way sound systems will be built and used." The Linearizer total sound optimiser, from Linearizer Inc, is the result of 15 years of scientific research. Its capabilities include total feedback elimination at all sound levels, live background noise elimination, reduced power amplification requirements, acoustical taming of the most difficult halls, elimination of the need for equalizers and many other commonly-used signal processors, elimination of stage monitoring troubles, simplification of microphone placement, true real-time operation - no delays, notches, or phase shifting, true high-fidelity sound at all times and plug-and play ease of use. Furthermore, the company claims there is no frequency or spectrum shifting, no time shifting, no phase looping, no digi

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Martin Professional held its annual Distributor Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at the historic Danish restaurant Terrassen in hometown Aarhus on March 11. The awards dinner, which bestowed accolades for distributor excellence in the year 2000, was the culminating event of Martin Professional’s Distributor Conference 2001. Martin Professional President and CEO Kristian Kolding welcomed the enthusiastic guests to the ceremony, which included representatives from over 45 Martin distributors (representing 85% of Martin turnover) from around the globe. Sales and marketing director Pio Nahum presented the annual Martin Distributor Awards which included distributor Erikson Pro of Canada collecting the top honor for Martin’s Preferred Partner of the Year. Nahum said: "Erikson Pro deserves this honor because of their outstanding professionalism and excellent performance in an o

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Stagetec held a product day at the Centre in Slough earlier this month. Primary focus was on the Compulite and LSC product ranges, with several new products previewed by both companies. Compulite showed the new CompuDIM 2000 touring version of their high-specification modular digital dimming system. This compact 24 x 2.5kW or 12 x 5kW system includes many advanced features including two DMX and Ethernet inputs, full status reporting both on the built in LCD screen and back to any Compulite desk, RCD protection per module and option of hard wire bypass switches for powering moving lights. New software was previewed for the 4D range with many new features geared to the architectural control market, including an event Scheduler and facility to operate the consoles from macro panels. These new features have already been utilised for lighting control at the BBC Concert Hall in Maida Vale and

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The Palace Theatre in Kilmarnock, Scotland, has just received the kiss of life thanks to a recent lottery grant. A complete sound system refit has been carried out in time for the opening production of the new season - ‘Kiss Me Kate’. The comprehensive new sound system, designed by Graham Bodenham of GB Audio and installed by Northern Light of Edinburgh, brings The Palace into the 21st century, and provides the ability to cope with the increasingly sophisticated technical demands of modern theatre productions. Key elements of the system are a Shermann loudspeaker and amplifier system, a 32-channel Soundcraft K3 mixing console, Yamaha 03D digital mixing console, Sennheiser UHF wireless kits, and a Sennheiser Infrared system. Other kit in the new inventory includes AKG, Audio-Technica, Crown and Shure microphones, Tascam MD and CD players, Denon CD players, Roland EQs and Yamah

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Two live sound engineers, Jon Burton and Mark Jones, have joined forces to launch BSA Live, a ground-breaking training forum for young people interested in a professional career in live sound engineering. Burton and Jones have a combined touring experience of over 30 years and have engineered for a diverse array of top-level artists including Pulp, James, Radiohead, Suede, Bryan Ferry and Morcheeba. The decision to launch BSA Live grew out of the general countrywide lack of interactive live oriented courses. Burton said: "We’ve identified a gap in the market. There are studio courses available but virtually nothing specifically addressing live sound in a hands-on manner. We want to provide an opportunity for young people interested in sound and wanting to make a career out of live audio to get started."

The ‘Foundation in Live Sound Engineering’ course is de

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The UK’s first ever grouping of crowd management companies took place recently, at the International Live Music Conference (ILMC The 13th) in London.

The UKCMA aims to raise standards within the industry and promote awareness of crowd safety issues among legislative bodies in the UK, as well as to foster co-ordination of training and operational standards. The lead is being taken by the inaugural members of the UKCMA, which represents the major players in crowd management. The need for recognised industry standards and a responsible approach to training has been a subject of much discussion within the security and crowd management industry. Whereas currently companies can provide personnel not trained in crowd management, whether it be pit work, minimum force, or response work, the recognition and call from the industry for nationally-accredited standards is one that can no longe

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