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UK - Arbiter Pro Audio supplied Over Audio with JBL speaker enclosures for the main areas of Luminar Leisure's new 1,600-capacity 'Liquid' venue in Aberdeen. Over Audio has used JBL and DBX on many previous installations of all types and the Liverpool-based installer's team of engineers and technicians chose them again for this project.

Liquid Aberdeen's main room and dancing area holds approximately 1,100 people and has a huge architectural 'bulkhead' over the dancefloor containing sound and lighting equipment (the latter supplied by Design Intervention). Within the same building, the smaller upstairs room is one of Luminar's popular 'Envy' brand, aimed at the over 25s, which was also kitted out with JBL by Over Audio.

Liquid itself demanded a large volume of sound concentrated

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UK - Trying to match the energy and impact of Robbie Williams on-stage was never going to be easy. The creative team behind his latest 'Weekends of Mass Distraction' tour came as close as possible however with a massive automated video show to complement the set-list perfectly.

Kinesys were happy to provide the expertise and equipment necessary to control this huge undertaking. Eight columns of LED video screen had to travel around a 360° oval track, perfectly synchronized with each other. In order to ensure a high quality picture when all the screens were brought together, millimetre-precise movement was essential. The reverse sides of the screens were lined with lights and so a rotate mechanism had to be included to allow either video or lights to face the audience at any location around the track. Finally the geography of the stage dictated that the columns must be almost to

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UK - SARAS Technology is a new company specializing in the delivery of custom-made RF solutions to the professional audio and entertainment technology markets.

Based in Leeds and set up by brothers Dr. Ashwain and Raj Rayit, the new company has already secured orders from a number of established pro audio suppliers. As one of the first companies approached, broadcast solutions supplier Gearhouse Broadcast quickly recognized the potential of the SARAS Technology service and took full advantage, ordering a custom-designed RF distribution system for a recent episode of the BBC's 'House Call'. This system is now available for rental for other projects from Gearhouse Broadcast's Wembley office.

Gearhouse Broadcast also included a number of SARAS signal booster amplifiers in its channel list for Granada's recent 'I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!' giving SARAS an opportunity

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UK - Stanton has introduced the SA-3 2-channel scratch mixer and the SA-5 Professional Turntablist Mixer. Both mixers are now available from UK distributors Lamba plc and bring a host of features not normally found in their class, as well as the reliability and sound that have become Stanton hallmarks.

The SA-3's intuitive interface starts with two phono, two line and one mic input with volume and mute control, allowing for simultaneous connection of multiple turntables, CD players and a microphone. For smooth, fast mixing, each channel sports independent gain, 3-band EQ and pan controls. A full-featured cue section includes cue pan, cue select, and two headphone outputs. And DJs can further customise their mix with Reverse and Curve adjustments on all three faders.

Optimum sound quality is ensured through the SA-3 contributing to the most durable and smooth cross fader design

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UK - Further expanding its product range, Trantec has introduced a new concept in sound reinforcement with the addition of the S10 Soundfield System. This has been designed at Trantec's South London HQ by its in-house R&D teams specifically to augment the potential of audio in educational establishments. It helps to alleviate the problems caused by inherently poor acoustic conditions in Schools, Colleges and Universities, which can lead to prohibitive learning conditions - particularly for students who suffer from a slight loss of hearing or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

Trantec's S10 minimizes teachers' stress levels by delivering evenly distributed sound across the classroom and enables them to be heard loud and clear over most ambient background noises, without the need to strain their voices. The system has also been designed to promote the creative use of audio as a powe

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UK - Shure Distribution UK (previously HW International) has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Sound Devices products in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

Founded in 1998, US-based Sound Devices produces a range of specialized audio products for field-production, including portable audio mixers, microphone preamplifiers, computer interfaces and recorders. Designed and assembled in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, Sound Devices audio products are designed specifically for audio applications in documentary film and video production, feature film production, sports broadcasting, news-style video production, sound effects gathering, acoustical test and measurement and live music recording.

The Sound Devices range of audio products joins an impressive array of brands on offer from Shure Distribution UK, which includes Shure, QSC Audio, Phonic, PreSonus and Aviom. All these brands

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UK - Duran Audio UK has recently supplied four AXYS Intellivox 2b loudspeaker arrays to Surrey-based installation company Sysco for their installation at the Saga Pavilion, located in the grounds of Saga's headquarters in Folkestone. The pavilion is used for a wide range of events and will be one of the venues for the Folkestone Literary Festival later this year.

Steve Jones of the sound division of the consultancy firm, Symonds Group, recommended the AXYS Intellivox after their survey of the building back in 1999. The pavilion, in contrast to the neighbouring HQ Building, is an architectural statement built of glass and steel with a fabric tent-like roof covering. The result is a reverberant space that poses acoustic problems for its secondary use as a performing arts and corporate presentation space. The choice of Intellivox was based on their ability to control the dispersion

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UK - Scene Change, the video projection specialist, has brought theatre video projection a step closer, Until now, the cost of 'theatrical'-style video projectors - DMX-controlled and with automated positioning - has been prohibitive.

Now Scene Change has introduced BeaMover, a more affordable DMX-controlled video projector which takes a bright (3,000, 4,000 or 5,000 lumen units available with a contrast ratio of up to 800:1) video projector from Sanyo and fits it into an automated yoke, which has positional feedback to ensure accuracy. Five lenses are available for the projector, giving a choice of beam angles. Edge focus and zoom are remotely controllable via DMX.

The BeaMover also offers DMX control of horizontal and vertical keystoning, image flip, projection blackout, unit reset and signal source selection.

BeaMover can simultaneously accept three input signals, with an

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UK - Arbiter Pro Audio and Maverick Presentation Products have recently held three separate Academy training seminars across the country to fall in line with the new department created at Maverick to provide pro audio solutions for its AV customer base. The seminars were designed to offer basic audio training, aimed at demystifying audio products to Maverick's AV customers.

Peter Morrison, audio specialist at Maverick said: "These academies are to help get audio across to a greater number of resellers in the AV market place. All too often resellers shy away from quoting audio under the impression it's too difficult to sell. This is simply not the case and we hope that the majority of people at these events will go away with a far greater understanding of how audio systems are put together. We wanted to show them that they could provide the complete package and be confident

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UK - Bosch Security Systems has announced what it calls a breakthrough in line array loudspeakers with the new XLA 3200 (extended Listening Area) range designed especially to create a clear, fuller sound, evenly spread over a wider area. Greater directivity means more sound is beamed towards the listening area and much less is directed towards the floor, ceiling and walls, minimizing sound reflections and thus optimizing intelligibility.

The XLA 3200 range provides a choice of three models, all fully voice-evacuation compliant (EVAC) for emergency evacuation applications. They also feature a simple new mounting procedure. In re-thinking the technology used in conventional column loudspeakers, Bosch has used advanced filtering and positioning of the loudspeaker drivers (patent pending) to give the XLA 3200 speakers greatly improved audio directivity. The state-of-the-art drivers

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Switzerland - For the ninth consecutive year, US-based manufacturer Shure has been chosen as the official supplier of microphones and wireless systems for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Providing nearly 50 U2 premium wireless systems and over 1,000 additional pieces of audio equipment, such as the company's venerable SM58 and KSM studio condenser mics, Shure will take the stage at numerous festival stages including the celebrated Auditorium Stravinski, Miles Davis Hall, and Casino Barriere. In addition, Shure will also be providing 24-hour, behind-the-scenes technical support for the duration of the festival.

Faced with the challenge of accurately capturing the variety of onstage performances at Montreux, Shure Europe marketing director Ron Marchant said: "With almost a decade of experience to our credit, we've carefully tailored each venue's microphone offerings to the expres

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UK - Steve Morris has joined Switchcraft, Inc as European regional sales manager, based at the company's international office in the UK. Morris will be responsible for Switchcraft's business in northern, eastern and southern Europe and joins the company with a wealth of experience in design engineering, sales development and account management. Switchcraft Inc is a US-based manufacturer of a broad range of connectors, audio and video patchbays and related products for audio, broadcast and post-production industries.

(Lee Baldock)

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France - Digigram, innovator in digital audio network solutions, continues its effort to make its sound cards compliant with the next generation of PCI bus with the shipment of four updated cards operating at the 3.3V standard. The new sound cards, available only through Digigram OEM partners, include the PCX822v2, PCX442, LCM440v2 and VX822. The updated cards will replace the following existing cards: PCX822np, PCX440np, LCM440 and VX820, all of which will be discontinued as of 1 September 2003.

"All Digigram multi-channel sound cards have been updated with a Universal PCI interface, making them compatible with 3.3 V, 5 V, and mixed 3.3/5 V environments," said Digigram managing director Philippe Delacroix. "The updated cards offer equivalent, and in some cases, better performance than the previous cards. Every effort has been made to ensure compatibility with exi

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China - Dynacord Hong Kong is installing a new sound system in the Ningbo Exhibition Centre, in eastern China. Ningbo is the largest commercial seaport in Zhejiang Province, and its new venue will host trade fairs as well as a new tourist attraction. With four main exhibition halls, plus one slightly smaller hall, a conference centre and six diversely equipped business centres, this is one of the largest multi-function complexes in the country.

At the heart of the sophisticated audio system is a Dynacord Promatrix System, which provides safe and precise control over 84 loudspeaker zones, 28 fire alarm inputs, four digital DPC 4520 paging stations for the main exhibition hall and the control room, a CD multiplayer controlled by the DPC 4550, four different sources of background music (selectable via a DCS 409 interface control card) and 32 amplifiers, controlled by the system and

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UK - The traditionally sedate world of ocean cruises is undergoing a revolution. In a move intended to attract a more youthful clientele P&O has just refitted the Arcadia, now re-named the Ocean Village, as an eclectic and vigorous entertainment centre. Central to this reorientation is an entirely new presentation concept by film director and choreographer Micha Bergese (of MBP), the man responsible for the aerial spectacular that proved the most successful and well-regarded element at the Millennium Dome. "What I've done is create a series of four events," said Bergese. "A themed narrative, like Inspector Morse, episodes of discovery, which take place over the course of a one-week cruise. Three are staged within the ship's theatre, the fourth, and arguably the most spectacular, is presented up on the main deck."

There is a strong aerial content to all four e

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Malaysia - D.A.S. Audio's Factor 5 loudspeakers have been installed in no less than 120 McDonalds restaurants throughout Malaysia. The compact two-way systems have been installed in 75 restaurants in the Klang Valley, with the rest located in Penang, Ipoh, Malaca and Johor.

D.A.S. Audio's distributor in Malaysia, Syarikat Instraco, was in charge of the design and installation project and found the Factors to be ideal for the requirements of the McDonalds installation. The installation of the products lasted almost three months. The Factor 5 systems handle background music and paging in the restaurants.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Large format projection specialists E/T/C UK is supplying four 1.5kW HMI projectors for the recording of 'The Big Read', a new television series, made by Lion TV in London for BBC Scotland and broadcast on BBC 4.

The projections, two per show, feature the authors and their respective book covers and is rear projected onto four screens in the studios. They dominate the programme as the primary set pieces, making them an important source of interaction for the presenter. The programme is seeking to establish the UK's top 100 works of fiction. Invited celebrities, politicians and assorted VIPs present the case and cast opinions on individual books. The public can also vote on their favourite books each week, via a website, which is proving very popular.

Producer Richard Shaw approached E//T//C UK looking for a no-fuss solution to show the 80 author and cover pictures in the

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UK - Stardraw.com has announced a new productivity enhancement as part of their Feature per Month update service. Using a current design as a source document, Convert Environment automatically creates new layouts in other environments within Stardraw's design and documentation packages.

Stardraw marketing director Rob Robinson explains: "Stardraw has always used different environments to allow you to present your system documentation in the most appropriate format. For example, engineering layouts are best produced in the Block Schematic environment, while sales presentations benefit from the Pictorial Schematic and Rack Layout environments.

Stardraw has long had a 'Convert to Rack' function which analyzes all the data in your Block Schematic, selects those elements that are rack-mountable and then puts that information into the Rack Layout environment. July's feature, t

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USA - Lycian Stage Lighting has appointed Steve Lerman as director of sales and marketing. Lerman will be responsible for distributor relations, as well as advertising, marketing and promotions and will also be involved in trade show decisions. He comes to Lycian from the wireless telecommunications industry where he spent the last 12 years, most of it spent in developing dealer distribution for Arch Wireless and satellite voice and data provider GlobalstarUSA.

Lerman brings a wealth of distributor development to the industry and also has background in advertising, having run an advertising company in the 1980s. He will be located at Lycian Stage Lighting's office and production facility in Sugar Loaf, NY.

(Lee Baldock)

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UAE - 1 May 2003 saw the opening of Clay Paky UAE, the new branch in the United Arab Emirates founded by the well-known Italian manufacturer of professional lighting. Clay Paky has gained a good reputation over many years in the flourishing Emirates market, and decided to open its own branch there in order to provide more presence and support as it acquires an ever-greater market share. The new branch manager, Egor Popowsky, has extensive experience in professional, architectural and entertainment lighting.

Clay Paky UAE is based in Dubai and has a showroom for presenting its systems 'live', as well as making demonstrations and immediate comparisons with all the various technologies available. Clay Paky UAE is also setting up a selected network of business partners to develop projects all over the country in professional fields such as the theatre, TV, concerts, live events, dan

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UK - TSC Music has welcomed Trevor Phillips, Sandra Platts and Tim Brooks to its UK operations based in Crawley. Phillips joins the Logistics Team, providing essential back-up and support to TSC's network of engineers and agents around the UK. He will also assist with purchasing, together with coordinating stock control and equipment servicing.

Sandra Platts joins TSC's Customer Support Team, working closely with the Projects Team to help coordinate new projects as well as handling sales and service issues, and providing key customer support. Tim Brooks joins TSC's Music Team, where he will coordinate and administer the distribution of music to customers as well as providing customer support by dealing with music enquiries and providing the latest new releases information.

The company's head of development, James Abdool, said: "The appointments of Trevor, Sandra and Tim h

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