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Joining as Full EU members are Swedish company Swefog Technology Group AB (Tel: +46 590 12250). Swefog has been manufacturing smoke and haze generators for use as special effects within theatres, concerts, clubs, TV productions, film productions, showrooms and exhibitions since 1997.

Joining as Corporate members are Coemar UK Ltd (Tel: +44 (0)1233 636 688). Linked with renowned lighting manufacturer Coemar spa, the company supplies Coemar lighting, Antari smoke effects, Pixeon LED technology and Hungaroflash Strobe systems.

Also joining as Corporate members are Lighting Technology Projects Ltd (Tel: +44 (0)1554 740 500). Part of the PA Installations Group, LTP will operate out of Wellingborough and will specialize in architectural lighting and the heritage market.

There are also two

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PLASA members are about to get the benefit of a major new service which will immediately save them money. On behalf of its members, PLASA has negotiated highly competitive terms for those members who process debit and credit card payments. This latest service is offered through Lloyds TSB Cardnet and will give members significant reductions on all their major credit and debit card transactions.

Details of the rates offered are outlined in the table below, and demonstrate that even those companies which handle relatively small amounts will immediately see a benefit. (Switch and Visa Debit cards are charged at 20 pence per transaction).

Users of the scheme will also have the advantage of additional security, at no extra cost, provided by the Card Verification Number Scheme (CV2) and Address Verification Scheme (AVS) - designed to combat the rising fraud now emerging on transactions w

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UK - "The Aqua 30 is the best underwater speaker currently on the market in the UK," comments John Selley, the Amateur Swimming Association’s music controller, following trials at the National Championships in Wigan last year, and during the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Subsequently, the DNH underwater loudspeaker, the Aqua 30 (pictured) has been successfully used by many Amateur Swimming Association affiliated clubs.

DNH World-Wide Ltd, the UK subsidiary of the Norwegian industrial and commercial loudspeaker manufacturer DNH A/S, recently sponsored the medals for the ‘Four Cities Multi-National Synchronised Swimming Competition’ held over Easter at Farnborough. Two Aqua 30s were submerged to a depth of around 1.5m in the 25m pool and were powered by a 24VDC power amplifier, isolated from the main pool power supply. This arrangement gives ex

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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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UK - Metropolis AV has completed a cutting-edge sound, effects lighting and AV installation in Manchester at Lucid - the first of a new genre of multimedia concept venues.The unusual concept was developed by the Canadian-owned MagicCorp Group, and is expected to be subject to a selective roll-out. Metropolis was asked onboard by Lucid’s technical director, Nick Meacham, to implement the technical infrastructure that he’d helped design.

Metropolis’s brief also included the design of an integrated operating system for all things technical in the venue. The Metropolis team was headed by Simon Harris, and included site manager Stuart Clowes, technical director Shane Winterbourne, design project manager Martin Geraghty and installation engineers Shane Stanley and Ian Benstead.

The open plan venue has three levels, including a 1200-capacity Function Room/Showroom;

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UK - CIE-Audio and Armstrong World Industries have announced the launch of the ‘i-ceilings Sound Systems Approved Installer Network (iSSAIN) initiative - the latest development in the i-ceilings (intelligent ceilings) initiative.

A new concept in integrated acoustic ceiling systems, i-ceilings is the latest development from Armstrong, the world’s leading manufacturer of ceiling products. i-ceilings utilizes flat panel speaker technology to provide a unique loudspeaker system which exactly matches Armstrong’s market-leading range of suspended ceilings, to combine their existing aesthetic and passive acoustic qualities with the audio benefits provided by NXT.

Announcing the launch of the i-ceilings Approved Installer Network, CIE-Group marketing manager Chris Edwards explained: "The partnership between CIE-Group and Armstrong World Industries has brought t

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USA - TMB has announced the addition of Tim Baca to the LA sales department. Baca’s career in real-world entertainment started out with a BA in Theater Design at Lynchburg College, Virginia, including a semester at the University College of London. He then went on to work as technical director for the B Street Theater in Sacramento, California, where he oversaw all aspects of production, including lights, sound, set design, and wardrobe (his favorite). Following that, he spent two years chasing skaters as tour electrician for the Disney On Ice roadshow. This gave Tim hands-on experience in lighting, board operation, set design, and all things AC.

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UK - Liverpool-based Adlib Audio has supplied a rocking sound system for The Coral’s first production tour. This was the latest UK leg of an ongoing world tour by one of the hottest bands of the moment. The tour has been somewhat elastic in nature as has extended several times to keep pace with the rise in the band’s popularity.

Adlib’s Dave Kay has been onboard as FOH engineer with the Liverpool-based outfit since last summer, when they supported Oasis at Finsbury Park. The Coral are a unique-sounding band, with musical influences from reggae to rock, Motown to country and western, and Kay naturally jumped at the opportunity to work with them. He describes mixing each song "like it’s a different gig" - from dreamy ballads to hardcore guitar thrash.

With six band members, four of whom sing, it’s vital that the vocals have are prominent i

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UK - London’s City of Westminster College students are to produce a showcase sound and lighting event ‘see the sound’, engineered entirely by students on the BTEC ND Sound Engineering Courses and the C&G 1810 Theatre Electricians Courses.

Students on these courses are training to be sound recording or lighting engineers respectively; they will be in charge of every technical aspect of the event from pre-production to rigging and operating the show, staged at the college’s professional theatre venue, the Cockpit Theatre. "We want to give the students an opportunity to produce, rig, light, record and operate a major event of this type," commented music technology course Tutor Steve Hepworth. "This is the only way you can give students a feel for what happens at a real event, and give them an opportunity to receive invaluable experience. We ha

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UK - With German pro audio company HK Audio having made huge inroads into the UK & Eire pro audio market in recent years, the JHS Event 2003 (which takes place at JHS’s Leeds’ facility from 15-17 June) will present the perfect opportunity for HK Audio to demonstrate the versatility and power of its range.

The main outdoor stage at Event is traditionally flanked by 12 boxes of HK’s stadium-friendly R Series, offering a total of 7.2kW. An HK Projector system will additionally be positioned infield of the main stack, representing a good chance for show visitors to find out what these systems sound like when run at something approaching true outdoor SPLs. Elsewhere on the JHS site, a dedicated HK Audio demo theatre will feature many pro audio systems and components from the HK catalogue, including the successful L.U.C.A.S, E.L.I.A.S and A.C.T.O.R self-powered activ

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UK - On Thursday 15 May, The White Light Group will be holding an Open Day at their headquarters in Wimbledon, south London. Originally conceived as another chance for people to explore White Light’s base following their move there almost 18 months ago, and for customers to bid White Light's Hire Director Mike Crossman farewell as he leaves the company on a round-the-world tour, the Open Day is now expanding into something of a mini trade-show.

As well as staff members from all of the White Light Group companies, including White Light Hire, White Light Sales, The Moving Light Company, The Service Company, Colourhouse, Modelbox and Enliten, the Open Day will allow visitors to explore the latest products from a variety of suppliers and manufacturers including Blackout (with their new LED starcloths), E//T//C (with the latest in large format projection equipment), Howard Eat

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UK - Theatr Clwyd’s rolling policy of equipment upgrade to service its growing roster of tours, has continued with the purchase of its second Yamaha DM2000 digital mixing desk from Shepperton-based suppliers, Marquee Audio.

The theatre is Wales' major drama producing theatre company and arts centre, and is the home of a highly-acclaimed company. Head of sound, Kevin Heyes, says it was always the plan to buy a second DM2000, to add to the desk they bought from Marquee late last year. The high performance digital console offers 96 (24-bit/96kHz) audio input channels, extensive surround production features, integrated digital audio workstation and ProTools control, providing more than nine times the processing power of the Yamaha 02R.

"With 50-60 inputs on some of our big rock ’n’ roll pantomimes, we were filling our 02Rs to capacity," admitted Kevin.

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USA - Multi-lite USA has recruited Thor Sundby as account executive for its recently opened Burbank, CA facility. Sundby not only brings 12 years of sales and management experience with Sunray Manufacturing to the company, but also 25 years of production experience as a gaffer. Also joining the company is Lynda Whelan, whose 10 years of management experience, will prove invaluable in her new role as operations manager.

Owner and president of Multi-lite USA and its parent company, Multi-Lite Germany (one of Europe’s largest specialty lamp distributors), Wolfgang Massow commented: "We are very pleased to announce these additions and are confident that our growing customer base will appreciate the enhanced service their industry experience will provide."

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USA - Theatrical Lighting Systems Inc has opened a TLS,Inc./Nashville branch-office and hired Kelsey Beard as project manager sales. The newest branch will be for sales only with the rental and service aspects of the business continuing to be handled through the company’s Huntsville office.

Kelsey Beard has a range of experience: he was most recently employed as a Certified Home Inspector for Pillar to Post, a franchise throughout the US and Canada. He was previously owner/partner in Beard-Wolf & Associates Inc (1976-1999) - manufacturer representatives for commercial, industrial and residential lighting products. During that time the company grew to achieve over $4m in sales in Tennessee. Beard worked closely with architects, electrical engineers, and owners in the design of lighting requirements of commercial and industrial buildings.

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UK - Many people are referred to as industry veterans, but few musicians can boast a career as illustrious as the latest member of the Audio-Technica endorsee family, jazz legend Acker Bilk.

Bilk’s long career has seen many milestones including the 1960 hit ‘Strangers on the Shore’ - the first recording to simultaneously top both the UK and US charts, a collection of gold and platinum discs for record sales, and the MBE he received in 2001 for services to music. 50 years at the top of his profession have not dimmed Bilk’s enthusiasm for live performance and during preparations for his 2003 UK tour, Bilk’s tour manager and front of house engineer for the past 30 years, Les Squires, called Audio-Technica to see if he could put a couple of microphones which had been recommended to him through their paces.

"Every time A-T put a microphone in fro

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UK - Projected Image Digital has sold a second RADlite digital media server system to live video specialists XL Video, the video hardware suppliers for the final UK leg of Ronan Keating’s ‘2003 Destination’ world tour.

The RADlite was specified by lighting designer Peter Barnes - a great advocate and experimentalist with the RADlite system since first using it last year. Always a pioneer of utilizing video in new and imaginative ways onstage, Barnes has integrated RADlite on the Blue, Will & Gareth, S-Club and Blazin’ Squad tours. This time he went further, evolving its use as a visual effect working with a solo artist. The stage and video design for this final leg of the tour - which started back in 2002 - was a collaboration between Barnes and production manager Iain Whitehead of Production North. It consisted of five vertical upstage panels of Westerha

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UK - Amptown Cases has introduced the SiP plasma screen insert in a new, affordable concept for professional flightcases for plasma screens. The SiP (superior impact protection) cases are an innovative development, produced in-house and only available from Amptown Cases: each plasma screen is held securely in a unique moulded rubber insert. The combination of a durable rubber surface and a softer, shock-absorbing foam kernel protects these delicate plasma screens during transportation, especially in the event of an unpredictable or extreme impact.

A very precise fit thanks to highly accurate moulding technology provides the highest levels of protection. Provision within the flightcase can be made for associated accessories such as stands, wall brackets and even speakers where practicable, making it a convenient way of moving these often awkward pieces of equipment around. Custom

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Finland - LA Audio has recently appointed Noretron Audio as the new distributor for Finland. As a result, LA Audio has already been included in the regular Noretron Pro Audio/Installed Sound Seminar scheduled for 19 and 20 May.

Noretron Audio distributes a range of professional audio equipment, including Audient, AKG Acoustics, Genelec, Turbosound and Lab.Gruppen to a diverse range of customers, including installation, PA hire and broadcast companies, recording studios, post-production suites and theatres. When looking for a new signal processing range, Jyrki Mäkinen, marketing director of Noretron Audio, knew what he wanted: "We try to avoid taking on new lines which are competitive to our current product range - LA Audio offers excellent products for live, studio, broadcast and especially the fixed installation business, with very little overlap. This is very important

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Australia - ARX Systems has released a new addition to its EQ series of graphic equalizers. The new ARX 215 dual channel 2/3rd octave graphic equalizer is ideal for non-critical equalization requirements for sound reinforcement, installation and broadcast applications.

Each channel on the front panel features 15 of the company’s new Extended Resolution long throw, centre grounding sliders, switchable to either ±15dB or ±6dB, for a combination of high fader resolution and maximum cut and boost. There is also 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.

With innovative circuitry and low noise design, the EQ 215 boasts a Signal to Noise of 95dB unweighted, a dynamic range of 120dB and distortion lower than .004% at 100Hz

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UK - Denon has released new software for its DN-S5000 single CD player. The Denon DN-S5000 expands the creative scope for DJs with its cut-and-scratch facilities and hands-on design which makes it act and feel like an analogue turntable.

The upgrade adds further new features which can easily be added to the DN-S5000 - just by loading a CDR. The new Plug Ins include MP3 playback and new Scratch Sound. MP3 playback supports V.B.R & C.B.R, includes Folder/File search, has ID3-Tag display for artist, album and title information, and is Play List Compatible in .m3u form.

The most significant innovation is the spinning platter, which accurately emulates a record deck and with a grooved vinyl disc, the real feel of a conventional record. The software upgrade’s new ‘Scratch Sound’ feature takes the experience even closer to vinyl authenticity. The marker point refere

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Spain - Since 1976 Trui Espectáculos has specialized in providing a total entertainment package in the Balearic archipelago. It also became the first company to offer sound reinforcement equipment to artists visiting the islands when managing director Miquel Jaume Perez realized that when top artists came across from the Peninsula, they had to carry their own production. This posed a double complication - of time (because marine transport could take up to three days) and cost.

Thus Trui Espectáculos decided to invest in its own equipment and contacted distributors, Lexon S.A, who have now been supplying professional audio equipment to them for the past 18 years. Trui’s first acquisition was a 32-channel Soundcraft 200B and this was swiftly followed by two 40-channel Soundcraft 500s - one for PA and other for monitors. Later they acquired a 40-channel Vienna and an SM12 f

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USA - Morpheus Lights has introduced the new ColorFader3 series - adding remote variable-speed DMX fan control, direct push-button addressing and state-of-the-art electronics to the time-tested ColorFader line.

Morpheus’ original ColorFader provided an innovative approach to automated colour control for conventional fixtures with its patented subtractive colour system - the only way to add full CYM colour mixing to conventional lights. The new ColorFader3 series updates the time-tested S Fader, M Fader, XL Fader and 8 Fader models with state-of-the-art control electronics that expand functionality, simplify operation and optimize performance.

An innovative feature of ColorFader3 is remote variable-speed DMX fan control that permits cooling fans to be gradually brought to speed when they’re needed - without the abrupt rush of full-speed fans switching on. Variable-s

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