Details
Following on from the success of the last three year’s events, Tomcat UK has announced that it is hosting its fourth annual Hoist & Rigging Workshop on May 30 to June 2, 2001. This year’s workshop has been extended from three days to four to enable extra tuition to be included, specifically in the area of fall arrest, and to allow the participants to have more ‘hands-on’ instruction. The tuition will be held at the Pacific Road Theatre, Birkenhead, UK. As well as the fall arrest tuition, performed by Steve Jervis of Protecta International, Wally Blount from Columbus McKinnon will again be providing instruction on the Lodestar range of electric chain hoists. Nick Brown and Pete Smith of Unusual Rigging will be giving their usual entertaining class on rigging practice

Details
The 2001 PLASA AGM, along with the popular AGM Dinner, will take place on Thursday 14 June in the historic setting of Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. Set in 500 acres of parkland and dating back to 1150, this former Cistercian Abbey is now a thriving hotel and conference centre. In a slightly revised format for 2001, the day will include an opportunity for members to meet with key representatives of PLASA’s various operations in a number of small, hour-long ‘break-out sessions’. These will be organised as follows:

- PLASA Show - members of the Clarion Events show management team and members of the PLASA Exhibitor Forum will be on hand to discuss PLASA Show-related issues.
- Membership Services - PLASA’s head office staff dealing with membership services will be joined by consultants from certain of our service providers and members of the PLASA Executive Commi

Details
Matrix Audio Developments, the pro sound audio amplifier specialist, has launched its brand new MZA1 modular zoning amplifier. Ideal for shopping centres, restaurants, airports and large domestic installations, the MZA1 is fitted with a number of innovative features. Contained within a 4U 19" master main frame, the MZA1 features slots for up to eight amplifier zone modules, each rated at 50W rms per channel at 4 ohms. There is a music source and microphone selection on each zone module, as well as two microphone and four stereo music inputs. The MZA1’s versatility is exemplified in its ability to be used with the F1 compact loudspeaker system.
featured content

Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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

Details
Bob Dean has joined LGH Rigging Services as commercial manager. He returns to LGH Group plc, having held the post of branch manager of the Slough Lifting Gear Hire location for three years. He has worked as a project manager in Malaysia and as a contracts manager, working on such key contracts as Canary Wharf DS5. His appointment is a further step in the continuing development of the LGH Rigging Services business - a specialist in the field of rigging equipment hire, offering, in addition, comprehensive operator training capability.

Details
The well-appointed showroom at Dial HQ was packed. No less than three PAs - Bose, Martin Audio and ASS - stood arrayed before us at the far end; above, hung from Tri-lite trussing, were the latest lamps from Abstract, Clay Paky and Opti. Was this to be a light and sound shoot-out?

Well, no - and the clue to why lay in the neat little Sanyo video projector (700 lumens yet barely bigger than a desk diary) tucked neatly in amongst the lighting gear. "This is to witness the birth of a new AV control," Andy Blackwell of Dial Sound and Lighting confided.

None-the-wiser, we settled in as the presentation began; music played and lights began to dance in harmony. We are informed that all the elements of light and sound were being controlled by a single piece of software. Nothing revolutionary there, but then the screen rolled sedately down from the trussing. It wasn’t so much

Details
Lee Baldock and Steve Moles report from Germany on the latest audio developments from the Pro Light & Sound exhibition . . .

This year’s Pro Light & Sound exhibition seemed even busier than usual, perhaps partly due to the PL&S halls being rearranged to spread virtually the length of the site, so that what once took 2 or 3 minutes now takes 5 or 10. There were probably many who missed the relative ease of the previous layout, but the point, of course, is that the visitors turned out in force and went home satisfied - albeit in more pain than usual. So to business . . .

Acoustic Line, part of Seeburg Professional PA Systems, presented the TSMSat+ to augment the TS series. This is a highly compact ‘fill’ speaker built to go with the TS Mini Sub+ and is based around a 10" mid driver with a 1" compression onto a very compact horn flare, making for a sma

Details
At the end of February, Stage Electrics completed the final phase of its move into a brand new purpose-designed building in the Avonmouth area of Bristol. L&SI was one of the first to visit the new facilities . . .

For the company, a major player in the theatre, leisure, conference and presentation markets, the move to a new 60,000sq.ft headquarters is a fitting way to mark 21 years in the business.

For the last three of those, the move to a new facility has been part of MD David Whitehead’s daily agenda. One which he has worked towards ever since he identified the site on the Avonmouth industrial estate, close to the M5 access routes, as being ideal for his purposes. It has been well worth the wait; at last, under one roof, come all the personnel and all the products that were previously spread across six separate facilities. And it doesn’t take a genius to understand w

Details
Stuart Cunningham has joined the Tannoy sales team to provide support for external sales engineers and customers, both overseas and in the UK. Cunningham will ensure that customers have a main point of contact to quickly answer any queries and provide a link to the sales staff when they are travelling. He has recently graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in Marketing and Psychology and will be based in the Tannoy Pro sales office in Coatbridge.

Details
At Telex EVI Audio, Jürgen Meier has taken over the role of distribution manager for fixed installations from Claus Peter Sterling, who has retired from the post after nearly 27 years. Meier is responsible for all sales and marketing activities in the European electro-acoustics and movie theatre installations market (including Germany) as well as for Pro Sound in the domestic German market. For the past five years, Meier has worked in the cinema field as sales and project manager for projection and sound reinforcement installations.

Details
Sennheiser UK has announced a fundamental restructuring of its management team. The new structure sees equal prominence given to five areas of management responsibility with the appointment of key personnel to the newly-created positions of director of engineering, finance, marketing, operations and sales. Dave Hawker is appointed director of engineering with responsibility for all technical aspects of the company’s operations, including service, technical support and special projects. Lesley Alaway becomes director of finance, while Phil Massey is director of operations responsible for operations, systems and IT management.The greatest changes are to the previously integrated sales and marketing functions: John Steven joins Sennheiser from as director of marketing from KGa Press+Communications, the company’s PR agency, where he held the position of account manager for four y

Details
Lightfactor Sales, UK distributor for Apogee Sound products are holding an Open Day on Thursday 24 May in order to demonstrate the diversity of this range of quality pro audio products. The event will be held at Lightfactor’s new demo facilities located just inside the M25 in northwest London. The demo room has been relocated, rebuilt, expanded and remodelled - within the same building - to reflect the constantly evolving product portfolio represented by Lightfactor. The Apogee Open Day will feature hands-on and working demonstrations of the full product range, including the new ALA-9 line array concert series loudspeakers (launched spectacularly in the UK by Lightfactor earlier in the year at Bovingdon Airfield), F-series amplifiers, ACS Contractor speakers and the popular AE range of cabinets. The demo will also include the UK-debut of Apogee’s new APL series of self-powere

Details
Manchester-based STS Touring Productions have used their recently-purchased Nexo PS10 loudspeakers for a sun-baked pantomime in a 4000-capacity outdoor arena in Dubai. Using their existing Turbosound Floodlight as main system, Paul Collis, who has developed the company’s reputation for sound design, had no hesitation in specifying the new Nexo’s to complement the Floodlight on this prestigious job. STS is a multi-faceted company, offering production and sound design/hire services, as well as holding possibly the biggest Backline Hire department outside London. Alongside STS, Paul Collis also runs ‘Beat The Street UK’ on behalf of ‘Beat The Street’ based in Austria. They are a major tour bus supplier, providing fleets of Nightliners for, among others, Deep Purple, Status Quo and most recently a 12-bus flotilla for Britney Spears.

Paul Collis said: &qu

Details
David Kirk, the former PR manager at Allen and Heath, has recently returned to take up a new role as New Media Manager. Kirk left the company in February 2000 to feed an interest in the opportunities created by the internet and electronic communication. He subsequently worked as content manager for LeisureHub.com, a business-to-business exchange for the leisure industry. Last month, he returned to the A&H fold after a new position arose allowing him to use his enhanced media skills in the pro audio industry.

Details
A collaboration has begun between the Gateway School of Recording (GSR) and Munro Associates. Having been involved in many education projects over the years, Munro has realised that design and layout of studios for education purposes, although, different to mainstream commercial design, must provide operational expertise to the students as well as a learning environment. Gateway has pioneered the successful blending of sound education practice with real ‘hands-on’ experience for anyone studying sound recording, music technology and music business studies. Over its 25-year history, it has designed courses from one week entry level to Higher Education qualifications, with many of ex-students going on to successful careers in the sound and music industries. Combining these two areas of expertise will give clients, wanting to incorporate future training needs as part of their pla

Details
Tannoy has opened a new Belgian office in Mechelen, from where it will distribute its portfolio of products to the studio, broadcast, and fixed installation sound reinforcement markets. Tannoy Belgium, a subsidiary of UK-based Tannoy Limited, has also been appointed as the Biamp/Advantage distributor and will offer Biamp system control products, Chevin amplifiers and Astatic microphones to provide complete solutions for AV dealers and audio contractors. Mario Clabots joins Tannoy Belgium as a sales engineer and brings a wealth of knowledge of the AV and corporate audio installation worlds to the company. He will be responsible for Belgian dealer sales and establishing an enhanced network of Tannoy resellers in Belgium. In addition to Tannoy’s established loudspeakers, customers will be able to specify and purchase the recently launched ranges of high quality installation microphone

Details
Hz Audio has announced a facelift to its DPX 600 and DPX 1100 amplifiers. The company says its DPX units now feature Hexfet output stages, which has increased their power to 400W to 750W per side respectively, and are consequently re-named DPX 800 and DPX 1500. Other new features include bridge mode capability, dual input/output on balanced XLR, an extra Speakon output for 4-way speaker cables, and improved heatsink and internal airflow resulting in up to 30% better cooling. mailto: doug@hzaudio.demon.co.uk

Details
The Farum Center, one of Denmark’s leading hotel and sports complexes, has undergone extensive refurbishment recently. As well as a modern design brief, the Farum Centre was also equipped with the latest technology with particular focus on the sound system. Ascon, the company in charge of the audio requirements, opted for a complete Dynacord Promatrix system in the various conference rooms, three restaurants, fitness and aerobic rooms and the public areas. Ib Sigismund of Ascon integrated a constant voltage system into the Promatrix paging consoles, providing the user with complete flexibility of audio distribution, be it throughout the centre as a whole or zoned into specific areas, including the 16-zone conference centre and hotel, the 32-zone Farum Arena (the biggest sports hall in Denmark). Electro-Voice loudspeakers are utilised for the central cluster and the cinema system in

Details
Following the successful launch of the Frog range of desks earlier this year, Zero 88 recently held a competition, the prize for which was a brand new Fat Frog lighting console. The competition generated a great deal of interest, both online and at the tradeshows with people entering from across the world. The eventual winner was Dave Godin, technical manager for the Royal Opera House. In addition to his work at the ROH, Dave is heavily involved with activities in the education sector, providing training in lighting and staging. On 3 May, the Royal Opera House is relaying ‘Othello’ via an LCD screen to a free outdoor audience on the Piazza, Covent Garden, and Dave anticipates using the Fat Frog for curtain calls on the stage in front of the screen. Our photograph shows Dave Godin receiving the Fat Frog from Cheryl Ryan (Zero 88) at the recent ABTT show.

Details
Midland Sound & Light has purchased a new Soundcraft Series FOUR front-of-house console for The League of Gentlemen, who have added a sell-out run at London’s Theatre Royal to their successful UK touring credentials. MSL has provided a Renkus-Heinz CE3 touring system for the show, adding the new Series FOUR console, supplied by Marquee Audio, to the production rig when it arrived in the West End. Working with MSL is sound designer Oliver Gross, who mixes the show, together with second engineer Dan Sepke, both graduates of LIPA.

The show is loud, delivered at levels more commonly found in touring rock ‘n’ roll, and it is also full of action. Gross has 53 cues, which are all manually triggered from his three CD players, one of which is routed to the effects speakers on stage. Gross comments: "The Series FOUR is a very flexible desk. Being able to route the aux send

Details
Leicestershire-based Hawthorn Theatrical has acquired Allen & Heath's flagship product, the ML5000, in order to handle the varied demands of the corporate events environment. Nick Key, Hawthorn's project manager, was impressed by the flexibility of the dual function FOH/monitor mixer which features 16 auxes, eight audio groups and eight mute group matrix, with in-ear monitoring (IEM) facilities. The enhanced feature set includes LCRplus for more realistic aural editing and VCAs, both essential in theatrical environments. The innovative group/aux structure also proved to be a winner as it offers quick configuration and intuitive control. Combined with two 24-channel sidecars, this provides outstanding capabilities with the option of up to 96 channels, if needed.

Equally vital to Hawthorn's decision to choose the ML 5000 was the question of dimension. The lightweight design - described a

Details
SeeLite A/S has taken over the Rental Division from Martin Group's Danish subsidiary Martin Denmark. The take-over is retroactively effective as of 1 April 2001. SeeLite states that the move is concordant with Martin Denmark's strategy to concentrate solely on its sales activities, and also with SeeLite's aim to unite the best resources for lighting design, production and product in Denmark. The company adds that the take-over is, moreover, a consolidation of the informal cooperation established between the two companies over the past months, an example of which is their collaboration for The European Song Contest which takes place in Copenhagen on 12 May. Under the terms of the agreement, Martin Group's President/CEO Kristian Kolding will join the board of directors in SeeLite.

The move means that SeeLite has cemented its leading market position in Denmark within lighting rental, desi

Page 1348 of 3465

Latest Issue. . .