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Creative Technology joined Pump House Productions International to assist mobile telecom giants MMO2 with the staging of their recent AGM at the Hilton Metropole in Birmingham’s NEC complex. Spread across three suites (configured as main auditorium, overspill and an exhibition area), Creative Technology rear-projected Powerpoint data in 16 x 9 aspect ratio using a Christie Roadster X10 DLP projector. They also provided Digibeta playback and Sony D30 fixed-point cameras with long lenses. The TX to screen was mixed through an Extron SGS 408 Data Vision Mixer to maintain picture quality.

In addition, CT was called on to look after the board members on the top table. The board desk was equipped with Sharp 10" TFT monitors for a variety of sources including live camera and graphic

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Lamba added some star quality at this year’s PLASA Show, when recent chart act XPress 2 made a date to visit the company’s stand. The dance trio - Rocky, Diesel and Ashley Beedle, who recently hit the number two spot with Lazy (a collaboration with Talking Heads’ David Byrne) - took the opportunity to confirm an endorsement deal with Stanton Trackmaster II cartridges. Much of the considerable time spent by the three musicians at Lamba was devoted to a demonstration of Final Scratch, where they stood in rapt awe as Stanton demonstrator, B-Side, put it through its paces. Diesel said that the record’s success had greatly enlarged their audiences (they had just returned from a major festival in Japan). "Sometimes people expect you to spend two hours sounding like Lazy - all dark, druggy and tribal."

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Never known to turn down a challenge, the White Light Group chose one of the busiest weeks of the year - immediately after supplying 10 stands-worth of equipment to the PLASA Show, running its own stand at PLASA and loading out the rigs for several West End shows including Contact and Our House - to hold an Open Day at their headquarters in Wimbledon, south-west London. The reason? To mark the first anniversary of the move to the new building.

For visitors who hadn’t previously made it to Wimbledon, the Open Day allowed White Light to demonstrate its greatly expanded facilities and improved access; those who had already been were able to see how the office and warehouse facilities had been fine-tuned over the first year, and to inspect the newly-finished demonstration area. Visitors were also able to play with the very latest lighting products, many making their fir

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MoonBurst Structures Ltd, the Sheffield, UK-based company has supplied equipment and services to the World Summit On Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa through their technology partner, Gearhouse South Africa Pty. JOWSCO, the organizer of the world environmental summit in Johannesburg, used Tensile 1 to house the Ubuntu Village Exhibition. Tensile 1 is the UK designed and manufactured structure, which holds the Guinness world record for 'World’s Largest Portable Event Venue'. The exhibition runs alongside the summit, which is staged 10 years after the Rio earth summit. The structure has a surface area of 14,500sq.m and houses the whole of the exhibition which includes many national pavilions. The exhibition runs for three weeks and has had an average attendance of 20,000 people per day. The structure is floored throughout and the 18m internal height allows the u

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No stone has been left unturned to bring you the most comprehensive insight into everything that took place at Earls Court 1 in September.

Abstract, winner of the Best Large Stand award for its atmospheric club environment, showed the new VRX bar scanner fixture, which is wall-mounting - obviating the need for any complicated or obtrusive rigging. Its motorized mirror, which flips round and up-lights by day, skews round to emit from the front (or side) by night. Abstract also showed its light screens, which have a mirror finish when off, and any of 10 different colours when illuminated. There’s been a revolution at AC Lighting: they’re now applying their unique expertise to handling audio equipment. AC Audio lists over 50 leading brands, and it will be interesting to see how this affects the traditional audio dealer establishment. On the lighting side, there were two signi

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Pro audio specialist Audient has sold an ASP-8024-24 recording console to Latvia's only Radio Station for use in its new Outside Broadcast Van. The sale, via Amptown Sound & Communication Baltic division, Audient's dealer in Latvia, represents the first sale of an Audient console in the Baltic States. The purchase also signals a change in concept for the radio station from digital to the Audient analogue console. Andris Uze, managing director for ASC Baltic Division says: "I first saw the ASP console two years ago at an AES exhibition and I immediately realized its potential in terms of price and good design."

He continues: "I decided to recommend the ASP console for the OB-Van because I have not found anything comparable on the current market as most analogue consoles of this quality are much more expensive. The ASP is able to fit in a limited cabin space without losin

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Crestron have extended and upgraded their award-winning 2-Series control systems, using a new Dual-Bus control engine, based on the 257 MIPS, 32-bit Motorola ColdFire processor, as the core of their redesign. As a result, the 2-Series is an ideal solution for control, distribution and automation of audio, video, lighting, security and HVAC in any application.

Onboard 36MB memory is enhanced with a 4GB expansion slot that supports off-the-shelf Type II compact Flash memory and the IBM Microdrive hard disk drive, allowing on-board storage of programme and touchpanel files, room and equipment profiles, firmware, upgrades, databases and schedules.

With this radically new Dual-Bus architecture, blinding speed and massive memory, 2-Series systems are built for high performance, secure Internet communications and dynamic expansion capabilities. The Dual-Bus system also allows for upgrades t

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Martin Professional, Inc has announced that Michael Nevitt, an authority on lighting control and a respected lighting designer, programmer and instructor, has joined Martin US as control products segment manager.

Nevitt’s network of contacts in the lighting design community will bring to Martin added input and exposure to the professional lighting console market. His main responsibility will be to provide sales, technical and training support for the company’s range of lighting control products with initial responsibility focused on launching Martin’s new professional console, Maxxyz, which hits the market in the coming weeks.

Among his wealth of experience in automated lighting, Nevitt was lead instructor at the Automated Lighting Academy in 2001 and has served as resident lighting designer for 13 seasons at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Michigan. H

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Digigram, the digital audio network solutions specialist and French national broadcaster Radio France, a pioneer in radio digitalization, have announced at IBC 2002 a technological partnership to implement innovative audio networking solutions as part of Radio France’s digitalization program. Digigram's expertise in digital audio networking, especially it's mpX Platform launched at IBC 2002, will help in the design of new IP-based architectures for Radio France stations France Inter, France Info, France Bleu and Le MOUV' radio stations.

"We are proud to join a pioneer like Radio France in its efforts to build a new kind of network centric broadcasting infrastructure," said Digigram managing director Philippe Delacroix. "Radio France’s selection of the new mpX Platform as a cornerstone of their IP architecture proves that Digigram has the vision to provide the

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Since taking delivery of the first six Klark Teknik DN9340 ‘Helix’ digital equalizers in early July, EFX Audio of Edinburgh have been busy putting the new units to use. The most recent outing was at Scotland’s answer to the Reading and Leeds festivals, the Mean Fiddler’s Gig on the Green in Glasgow. Like their southern counterparts, Gig on the Green was a two-day festival with headliners Prodigy, The Offspring and Slipknot on Saturday and Pulp, the Strokes and Jane’s Addiction on Sunday.

EFX managing director John Ramsay chose to use the Helix units on the monitor system on the main stage where he had two Midas Heritage 3000 consoles complementing the Midas XL4 and Heritage 3000 out front. "The DN9340s performed fantastically well," said Ramsay. "This was the first big gig we’ve used them on and we’ve been patting ourselves on th

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The theatrical sound design and rental specialist, Autograph Sound Recording, was recently asked to join the UK's most prolific producer, Raymond Gubbay and his creative team, at London's Royal Festival Hall for the staging of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. A breathtaking neoclassic production, not seen on a West End stage for more than 15 years.

Terry Jardine, sound designer for Follies and Autograph's managing director, chose a new and unique loudspeaker product for this show, the Insider 665. A line source product from Sweden, manufactured by LLW, the Insider 665 was being used for the first time in the UK, typical of Autograph's innovative approach to new products. This new Swedish loudspeaker has been designed to handle wide and long distance coverage in large indoor venues, synchronized with pure sound reproduction. Six cabinets a side were used at the Royal Festival H

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DHA's years of experience in the field of image projection have enabled the development of a unique custom slide service, to complement its existing service offering specialist large-format slides and its extensive custom and catalogue gobo services.

"Responding to the success of Rosco's Image Pro (I-Pro) gobo slide projector," said managing director Diane Grant. "September sees the introduction of three new types of custom-made mounted slides, developed specifically with the I-Pro in mind. For use with the ETC Source4, the Selecon Pacifc and the Strand SL, each of the three options - bubble jet, bubble jet with silver mask and ciba transparency with silver mask - projects a full colour image to rival the resolution of a colour glass gobo and at a fraction of the cost!"

Ideal for projecting a full colour image during a short presentation, the bubble jet slide is o

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At the PLASA Show on Tuesday 10 September, EAW’s '2002 Installation Company of the Year' Award was presented to Light Sound FX of Coleraine, Northern Ireland. On hand to accept the award from Phil Price was LSFX’s managing director Darren Gardener. He said in accepting the award: "This is a great tribute, not only to us at LSFX, but to the products and the back-up we receive from the EAW team." Phil Price added: "This has been a great year for EAW contracting products and obviously there can only be one winner - Darren and his team have done a great job."

(Lee Baldock)

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When Presentation Service Providers (PSP) were asked to provide AV reinforcement for a British Gas employee motivational roadshow, they sensed that Screenco’s Mini Mobile 2 would be the ideal display medium to reinforce the action. Easy to rig, and with the high brightness offered by the 10sq.m, 15mm LED display, PSP provided a three-camera (D35) PPU, with component vision mixing - augmented by the PPU which is inherent to the Mini Mobile 2 truck.

With audio reinforcement from a Nexo rig, this enabled them to capture the audience response - in the live outside auditorium. Here, small teams gathered to answer questions via a keypad driven audience response unit and participate in a game constructed within a Crystal Dome-type building under the production control of Triple A. The show itself visited British Gas car parks in Northampton, Birmingham and Manchester, and at each venue

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Producer Harley Medcalf and the Australian production team responsible for ‘Barry Humphries: A Night With Dame Edna’ was interested in creating a very special effect for this latest comedy tour. The production, which opened in Miami on 10 September, required a 30ft x 30ft backdrop, which was completely white for the purposes of the lighting designer. An assortment of coloured lighting, automated lighting and projections were to be directed at the drop. The drop also had to be durable, lightweight and manageable for extensive touring and ease of set-up and strike. In addition to these standards, the production team wanted the white backdrop to transform to a photo-realistic portrait of Dame Edna on cue! Realizing that there is only one studio that could deliver all of these effects, Harley contacted LA-based UV/FX Scenic Productions. The result proved to be breathtaking.

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A new state-of-the-art ‘IBBISS’ Help Point system, designed for use within the London Underground tube network, has just had its ‘Development Progress Demonstration’ functionality tests by leading integrators/installers and London Underground Infracos. This latest Help Point system comes from a new manufacturer, IBBISS Ltd (Interalia Baldwin Boxall Integrated Security Systems). IBBISS is a joint venture between two leading communications manufacturers, Interalia and Baldwin Boxall, who believe that the system will soon become the first choice for many Help Point installers.

In late 2001, various parties approached Interalia and Baldwin Boxall and requested that the two companies join forces to design and manufacture Help Point systems. Of course, they listened with great interest and in November 2001 three presentations were hosted by IBBISS Ltd to London Underg

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When the organizers of the Panasonic Mercury Music Prize announced the nominations for this year’s event, at a press conference at London’s Royal Commonwealth Club, they asked Avesco Group company Creative Technology to provide all the audio visual support for the event.

Project manager Matt Hunter then involved fellow Avesco company MCL-London to handle the audio, and his colleague Simon Waters to provide a sophisticated playback rig, providing separate audio feeds from the digital mixing desk to the cameras. CT provided two 37" Hitachi plasma displays, which were used as relay monitors, and a Barco i6 high-resolution daylight screen, cut into an aperture - raised on a platform and suspended from behind as an integral part of the set design created by Frames Design and Build Ltd.

Cameras were supplied by the television companies but using Beta playback, CT flipped b

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Zero 88 Lighting has awarded their North American distributor, A.C.T Lighting Inc, with their prestigious International Dealer of the Year Award for the second year running. "A.C.T Lighting's hard work and commitment has raised the brand profile in the US over the past 12 months", commented Zero 88 brand manager Tim Burt. "We have developed a close partnership with the company who provide ongoing support, training and marketing for us in the competitive US market."

Zero 88's Frog range of consoles have been extremely successful in the US market, providing easy to use and low-cost moving light and conventional control in a number of different formats, depending on the needs of the user. The Frog range currently comprises the Frog, Fat Frog, Leap Frog, Bull Frog, Mambo Frog and Frog Box.

(Lee Baldock)

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Lamba plc, UK distributors for Stanton products, scooped two top awards in DJ Magazine’s T-Scan Awards, which were held during the recent PLASA Show at the fashionable Momo Restaurant in London’s West End. The revolutionary Final Scratch was rewarded in both the MP3 Hardware and Most Innovative Product categories, and Stanton Magnetics’ export manager, Laurent Cohen was on hand to collect the awards.

Final Scratch allows bedroom DJs to enter and control the digital world. Its patented technology allows real-time manipulation and scratching of digital music files such as .wav and MP3 - from conventional analogue decks. Using any standard turntable and mixer set-up, a DJ can manipulate digital sources by hand, and with vinyl, while out on the road a DJ can now carry his entire system to a gig in a travel bag.

Certainly Final Scratch proved to be a popular winner, as D

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With two and a half years of technical sales at CIE Group behind him, Chris Fearn has moved to one of the company’s principal suppliers, Wharfedale Pro. In an expansion of the company’s sales force, Fearn becomes northern area sales manager, including Scotland, with responsibility for the installation market and MI markets. "This is an exciting time to be joining, with the launch of the powered EVP-S range, which is aimed at several different sectors of the market," said Fearn. "I will also be seeking to get the Programme 50 and Programme 52 more exposure in the installation market."

Prior to CIE, Chris Fearn worked in AV and domestic audio as part of a career that has so far spanned 12 years in the industry. Wharfedale Pro sales manager, Dean Davoile, commented: "This appointment is in line with our UK expansion strategy and will enable us to provi

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After more than 20 years supplying sound, screens, lighting, power and other specialist services to all types and sizes of events, Oxfordshire-based event services supplier ARB is restructuring its operation to keep pace with the shifting dynamics of the events industry. The company is now gearing up for further substantial changes within the industry by improving and developing the range of products and services required to meet the demands of the 21st century.

Having steered the company through its acquisition last year and a successful 2002 summer season, Bob Boote has decided to step down. He leaves the company in an excellent position to capitalise on this growing market, with a new management team in place committed to continuing ARB’s increasing impact and reputation within the events market. Peter Boott (no relation) who will continue as managing director, commented: &quo

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