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USA - Stanton has introduced its new SMX-401 three-channel DJ mixer, a completely redesigned 10" professional mixer which Stanton say boasts a wide range of intuitive controls, high quality sound and components including Penny & Giles crossfader.

The SMX-401 has three phono inputs, six line inputs and two mic inputs with independent EQ. Each channel sports Gain control, bright input LED meters, a three-band EQ with full Kill capability, as well as Pan knobs. A full-featured Cue section includes PFL, Cue Pan, and dual headphone outputs for tag-team mixing.

Professional DJs will appreciate the SMX-401s three-band Kill switches for channels 1 and 3, conveniently located next to the P&G crossfader. For creative mixing, the SMX-401 also offers an Effects loop with ¼" Send

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Latvia - Latvian Television (LTV) is producing this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Riga on the 24 May, with an estimated worldwide television audience of 200 million. Swedish specialist company Spectra+ will be achieving its Eurovision hat-trick this year, with its third Eurovision project, and will be working alongside Latvia’s leading lighting company, Riga-based Company NA Ltd, a supplier of technical equipment and knowledge with a strong reputation throughout the Baltic.

Spectra+ and Company NA’s mission includes supplying lighting, video and rigging equipment for the event, including technical co-ordination and technical crew. Spectra+ and Company NA crew members will be working on site for approximately one month prior to the event.

Swedish television, SVT chose Spectra+ as the official lighting supplier and technical co-ordina

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Sweden / Denmark - On 11 June in Stockholm, and 12 June in Copenhagen, Master of Light seminars is hosting a seminar with lighting and production designer Marc Brickman. Brickman's credits over his 25 year career include Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Barcelona and Nagano Olympic Games Ceremonies, Steven Spielberg's ‘AI’ and the new ‘Cat in the Hat’ movie. Current projects include the new touring production of the Blue Man Group and Matchbox 20.

Each day’s programme will consist of two half-day seminars: in Stockholm, these will take place at the premises of VLSC, and in Copenhagen at Seelite. Admission to each seminar costs 1950SEK in Stockholm and 1950Dkr in Copenhagen. A 5% discount is available for bookings of five or more people from the same organization, and a 10% discount for bookings of 10 or more people from the same or

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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

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Denmark - The new D-PAC MP-152 utilizes the latest developments in transducer and cabinet design to provide a compact and easy-to-handle multi-purpose box. The low profile (37cm) of the cabinet makes it ideal for use as a wedge, and it can be configured for either passive operation or bi-amped through a DSP, where D-PAC audio recommends the Ashly 4.24C (4-in/8-out) for outstanding price/performance ratio. The exceptional low weight (20kg) is accomplished through the use of neodymium drivers, and the carefully selected crossover point ensures a point source reproduction with the advantage of a true horn-loaded compression driver, giving controlled and non-beaming dispersion, eliminating hotspots that are a typical cause of feedback. The high SPL is reached by use of a special 15" driver with interleaved voice coil for improved heat dissipation and double demodulation rings for

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UK - Enttec has released a new firmware version of its DMXStreamer V1.2 - which incorporates a solar clock to allow the calculation of sunrise and sunset times anywhere in the world all year round. With this new feature users can schedule shows to start or stop at sunrise or sunset. By combining different scheduling options, the DMXStreamer can accommodate virtually any scenario: for example, show A - run on Monday two hours before sunrise and stop on Friday at 2300; show B - run on Saturday at sunset and loop six times; show C - run on Sunday at 30 minutes after sunset and run till Monday (when show A starts).

According to Enttec, the DMXStreamer is the only device in the world that offers such advanced scheduling options. Features at a glance include up to 20 hours of recording from any DMX512 source; 26 shows; scheduling options - time of day, sunrise, sunset, day of week, po

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USA - Creative Studio Solutions Inc (CSS) of Denver, Colorado, has been chosen to design, build and install Entercom’s new suite of broadcast studios at its new facility at The Denver Technology Center. Entercom currently operates four broadcast radio stations in the Denver area. CSS will design and install a total of 12 new studios for Entercom - four on-air studios, four production studios, three news studios, and a live room.

CSS’s CEO and chief engineer Andrew Rosenberg says that this project is exciting for him and his staff. "There is nothing better than getting involved in the studio design process from the ground up. We are honored that an organization with Entercom’s reputation for excellence has chosen CSS to do this project."

CSS is primarily utilizing Wheatstone technology and its related products for this project. CSS will also be using

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UK - Scream Studios, the rehearsal and recording facility group, is taking an all-EV approach for its prime showcase studios in south-east England. Scream, which began in 1991, expanded from its original site in Carshalton to a second operation in Croydon, and its latest location is in Brighton.

The recently-opened Brighton complex, which houses seven rehearsal rooms, also has a 100-capacity showcase room, linked to a recording studio and video editing suite. This has been equipped with an Electro-Voice RX sound reinforcement system "that can take the loudest of the loud" according to owner Aide Aires.

The new room has already been used by a wide variety of artists, from the 40-piece Carnival Collective, to Status Quo and Gary Moore. Apart from a highly individual design scheme, which features an 8ft tank with floating droids and cyborgs, the room uses two EV RX112/7

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UK - AutoPatch Europe is offering transmitter/receiver modules to provide point-to-point transmission of signals including Y/C with stereo audio (up to 300m), composite video (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) with stereo audio (up to 300m), RGBHV (up to 100m), for cost-effective routing and distribution of video and stereo audio throughout a facility. In addition, there is a modular CAT5 Matrix System, up to 32 inputs x 32 outputs, providing true flexibility in a CAT5 installation.

CAT5 cabling with RJ-45 connectors provides a convenient and cost effective alternative to coaxial cable: CAT5 is lighter, more flexible, and a fraction of the cost of coaxial video cable. The result is an all-in-one solution for routing and distributing professional quality video and audio that reduces installation and cable costs in less rack space, say AutoPatch.

(Lee Baldock)

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Spain - LA Audio has appointed a new distributor in Spain, Lexon SA, taking over the responsibilities of sales and marketing the LA Audio brand in this territory. Lexon was established in 1977 with offices in Sarriá, Barcelona, and Santibáñez de Béjar, Madrid. Its primary business is the import and distribution of professional audio and video products for fixed installations, rental companies, contractors, consultants and engineering companies. Lexon also supplies specific products to the broadcast sector, as well recording and post-production in studios. It operates in the whole of the Spanish territory, including the Canary and Balearic Islands, with over 1,300 regular customers. Other than LA Audio, Lexon distribute BSS, Cedar, Schoeps and many other recognized brand names.

Eva Thullen, assistant manager of Lexon, says: "We are very happy about taking the LA Audio li

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UK - Trantec has appointed Rob Piddington as UK sales manager. He will have overall responsibility for UK sales, concentrating primarily on the pro-audio sector of the market place (hire and broadcast). Rob’s vast experience in the Radio Microphone sales arena, having worked previously with Sennheiser UK for over 10 years, will be invaluable to Trantec, according to general manager Tony Reid. "We are all very excited about Rob joining us, as we see this as the beginning of a new era for Trantec. It also coincides nicely with the launch of our new S6000 system."

(Ruth Rossington)

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UK - Reading-based Blinding Light supplied Studio Due Mini City colour changing luminaires to TV lighting director Bernie Davis for a special edition of the BBC’s ‘Songs of Praise’ called ‘The Big Sing’, staged at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

Their seminal role in the show was to light the acoustic ‘mushrooms’ in the Albert Hall’s roof, in a series of beguiling, rich saturated colours. The mushrooms - normally a dull off-white - are a vital ingredient of the Hall’s sound, but a constant source of aesthetic distraction to anyone working on visuals. By transforming them into a feature, the mushrooms become an integral part of the live experience of being ‘on location’ in one of the world’s most architecturally spectacular venues.

16 Mini City fixtures, complete with their optional wide-angle

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UK - DHA Lighting has announced that it is now offering same day service as standard for the creation of monochrome glass gobos in all of its standard sizes. Until now, monochrome gobos have taken three working days as standard. This new level of service means that DHA Lighting now offer the fastest monochrome glass gobo service in the UK.

Monochrome glass gobos allow far more complex designs to be created than with traditional metal gobos - in particular, images can be created without the ‘tagging’ required to hold metal gobos together, or the gobos can contain high-quality photographic half-tone images. DHA’s monochrome glass gobos are produced to a resolution of 3600dpi as standard on heat-resistant, aluminium coated borosilicate glass.

The new same-day service has undergone extensive testing over the last few months. "This testing has proved highly s

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Ireland - The selective heats for this year's competition to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest were held in the style of 'Pop Idol' and 'Fame Academy' with contestants being gradually voted out of the competition by TV viewers across the country.

Mickey Joe Harte, who performed with an AKG WMS40 handheld radio microphone won the overall competition with a landslide victory of 1.3 million votes - and that from a population of just over 3 million! The WMS40 was provided by Declan Reynolds of Reynolds of Raphoe in County Donegal who said: "We used the WMS40, even though we had many other far more expensive radio mic systems available to us. The WMS40 was not only the simplest system to set up, but also the performance totally belies the low price tag. This performs as well as most radio mic systems costing three times as much money, and was immaculate on the nig

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UK - The eighth annual HMV Football Extravaganza kicked off this year at the Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel, raising £339,000 for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity. Canegreen Commercial was the sound consultant for the event, providing expertise and PA equipment for production company Zafer Associates.

The assembled 1,400-strong audience were there to raise money for the music industry’s favourite charity, the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity. In the process they honoured the career of Tony Adams MBE, and bid for a host of football memorabilia, hospitality and media packages. Canegreen Commercial’s Andrew Frengley designed the sound system and controlled proceedings as the stage manager for the event: "This is the fourth successive year we have worked with Zafer on this event. It is a relatively straightforward system for us to put in place now as

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USA - In rock and roll, there is no substitute for reliability. After years of searching for dependable digital cable for its oceanic research, the US Government found the solution in TMB’s ProPlex, a unique product with its roots in concert touring.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) studies marine mammals worldwide using a custom towed hydrophone array spanning over three miles. Previously, expedition scientists could not find good data cable that was also rugged enough to withstand the constant use in rough seas and extreme temperatures. Chief scientist Jay Barlow explains: "We are using a new hydrophone array this year, made in our own lab using modified ProPlex CAT5 cable from TMB (thanks to TMB’s OEM sales department). We've towed this one for over 1,000 miles now, and results are excellent: flow noise is less than with arrays we

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UK - Allen & Heath has released a valve board as an option for the recently launched and highly successful Xone:V6 DJ/Club mixer. The Xone:V6 valve board consists of a high quality double-sided fibreglass PCB carrying six premium grade double triode valves in cathode-follower configuration.

Each valve becomes an integral part of its corresponding channel's pre-amplifier, adding the classic valve sound and ‘warmth’ to any signals that run through it, say the company. Careful circuit design ensures that noise and headroom are not compromised and enhances the even harmonics associated with thermionic valve technology.

Installation of the board is simple - the outer casing of the Xone:V6 is removed and the valve board ‘plugged’ in without further modification. The Xone:V6 mixer has been enthusiastically received by DJs and clubs worldwide and commended for

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The Netherlands - ESS project manager Rob Smalldon and his team were presented with a unique challenge when they were asked to build a marque for telecommunications giant Orange, aboard a Dutch canal barge.

The unusual request came from Park Avenue Productions, who were organizing a launch event for the Orange brand in The Netherlands. Fortunately, ESS had developed technology for the ‘Orange Experience’ in Bucharest the previous year, and was able to reapply some of the equipment used then. "We modified the original system with new 200sq.m front and back sheets and designed a brand new base unit of steel beams," said Smalldon. "The base unit interacted between the barge and the other components ensuring stability of the tall, sail-like marque (which measured 15 x 15 x 3m), even in adverse wind conditions." The entire structure was built in Amste

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UK - For the second year running, evoke productions were approached to creatively brand the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Using a combination of custom lighting, projection and effects, evoke transformed the exterior and front of house areas of the Ocean venue in Hackney for this high profile event.

evoke used a mixture of moving and generic fixtures, fitted with custom multi-colour and high definition glass gobos manufactured by Rosco, to create an ever-changing environment. Control was provided by a Rosco Horizon system - a Windows-based PC lighting console.

According to Jon Stones, director of evoke, the Horizon was ideal for the project: "With the challenge of having fixtures spread over six levels, three rooms, and the also the exterior of the building, we required a system that would allow us the flexibility to move around the space easily while programming,

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Australia - ARX Systems has released the new EQ 260 dual channel 1/3rd octave graphic equaliser. Following in the steps of the EQ 60, the EQ 260 is ideal for all critical Sound Reinforcement, Installation and Broadcast applications.

Each channel on the satin grey front panel features 30 of ARX’s new extended resolution long-throw, centre grounding sliders, switchable to either ±15dB or ±6dB, for the ideal combination of high fader resolution and maximum cut and boost. Additionally, there is a gain level control with up to +10 dB of gain; a Clip LED to indicate circuit overload, a sweepable 20-200Hz High Pass filter, and an In/Out hardwire bypass switch with optional transformer output.

The EQ 260 boasts a signal-to-noise ratio of 95dB un-weighted, a dynamic range of 120dB and Distortion lower than .004% at 100Hz, 1kHz and 10kHz.

(Lee Baldock)

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Spain - KV2’s Spanish distributor Letusa has staged the first ‘live’ demonstration of KV2’s much anticipated ES Series at the Pro Audio 2003 exhibition in Madrid. Letusa were first introduced to KV2 at this year’s NAMM show and were appointed distributor for Spain and Portugal at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt. "We are very proud of having Letusa as the first KV2 Audio distributor in Europe, as their enthusiasm and support to us has been incredible since the first meeting at the NAMM Show," says Alex Pagliani, sales director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at KV2 Audio.

Under the rules of the ‘shoot out’ each company had three 12-minute segments throughout the day, with no time allowed to tweak the boxes. Fortunately, KV2’s ‘Audio Twins’ were on hand in the shape of Andy Austin Brown and Jonathan Reece-Farren.

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USA / Asia - Columbus McKinnon, the leading manufacturer of hoist and chain products in North America, has appointed Don Dimitroff has been appointed to the newly-created position of entertainment sales manager in North America. In his new position, Dimitroff will be responsible for sales and support of the complete line of entertainment hoists, rigging products, and accessories. Additionally, he will conduct CM Motor Schools, hands-on seminars designed to familiarize workers with the proper techniques for inspecting, troubleshooting and repairing CM Hoists.

Dimitroff joined Columbus McKinnon as a customer service representative in 1996 and since then has held numerous titles within the organization. Most recently, he was a customer service supervisor while simultaneously handling a variety of duties on the entertainment side of the business.

CM has also announced that Stuart

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