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UK - Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale recently approached Maltbury to build a raked stage for the school. QES is a secondary school with specialist Arts Status and, as such, places great emphasis on the quality of its performing arts facilities. Peter Hooper, head of music at the school, gathered a selection of staff from relevant departments who sat down with Maltbury MD Philip Sparkes to discuss all available options. The result of this invaluable meeting was an extremely carefully planned package of equipment, which managed to accommodate a wide spectrum of requirements.

The choice was Metrodeck and the final total was forty 1m x 1m modules, triangles and quadrants. Sets of legs were added to give both flat and raked stages also bolt-on kick-rails and black serge drape

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UK - Wolverhampton-based Ra'alloy recently supplied Brighton Palace Pier with one of its Rapi-stage staging systems for promotional events scheduled throughout the summer months. Following its recent well-publicized fire, Brighton pier management had a very large repair bill and not much time before the peak influx of holidaymakers.

Ra'alloy's new Rapi-stage was seen to fit well with plans to promote the Pier. Copycat acts such as Queen, Shania Twain, Britney Spears and many more were scheduled to perform, aiming to encourage a full spectrum of visitors to the pier. The stage was manufactured in just four weeks and stands 25ft high and is clearly visible from the seafront. Face on the stage measures 50ft wide by 18ft deep.

The system was launched last year and is manufactured from aluminium and fabric. Rapi-stage is a fully integrated roof and deck system, therefore minimizing

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Mexico - d&b audiotechnik has announced the opening of d&b audiotechnik Mexico, headed up by Antonio Martinez Benita, who brings his wealth of experience of the Mexican audio market to the company. The new office is located in the south business and residential district of Mexico City, within close proximity to the city's nightclub scene.

Benita founded Audio Dynamics S.A. in 1991, which supplied high quality audio equipment and was renowned for it excellent service and after-sales support. In the late 1990s, the company specialized in the install market, mainly specifying, selling and installing projects for Hard Rock Café and Planet Hollywood in Mexico, South America and Spain. "The rental market, which is strong in Mexico, has been dominated by US brands since the late 80s," says Benita. "Reliability and the plug-and-play design of some of these brands, along

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UK - The first official international use of HK Audio's Cohedra system will take place in England on 4 September, just a few days before the opening of London's annual PLASA trade show. In Hull at Kingston Communications Stadium, the group Westlife and Friends will hit the stage at 'Foxy & Tom's Big Bash Festival,' sponsored by British radio station 96.9 Viking FM.

With over 12 million CDs sold and several number-one hits in several countries, Westlife is one of the most successful boy bands in Europe. Opening for them at the Big Bash Festival will be successful newcomer Triple 8 and the 5-piece girl band Girls Aloud from the UK TV show 'Popstars - The Rivals.'

For this concert JSS PA Hire in York will be implementing a Cohedra system comprising 48 Cohedra CDR 208 mid/high units and an equal number of CDR 210 subwoofers. Powered by four PR 16 and four PR 8 Power Racks with DFC

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Denmark - Martin's new MAC 550 features unprecedented illumination for a 400W fixture, astounding graphics and gobo animation system - the same as in the MAC 2000 Performance - all housed in the award-winning design of the MAC 2000. The combination of efficient lamp (Osram double-ended HTI 400/D3 - 750 hour lamp life) with new glass reflector technology produces a light output of 9,300 lumens, higher than most 575W fixtures.

In response to market requests for a zoom system in a mid-range fixture, Martin has included a fully motorized zoom in the MAC 550, capable of beam angles from 14-30°. Unlike step zoom systems that offer only two or three different beam angles, the MAC 550's zoom can achieve any beam angle within the range. Lenses inside the MAC 550 come with optical coatings to decrease light loss and improve projection characteristics. The lens system also comes with remo

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Israel - The Kramer VP-724DS is a true multi-standard video to RGBHV scaler that converts video, s-Video, component video (SDTV and HDTV), VGA-through-UXGA, and DVI-D signals to 10 user-selectable pixel rates: VGA (640x480), SVGA (800x600), XGA (1024x768), SXGA (1280x1024), UXGA (1600X1200), 1024x852, 1024x1024, 1366x768, 1365x1024 and 1280x720. It has three additional output modes: 480p, 720p and 1080i in component format with tri-level sync.

In addition, the unit acts as an 8-input seamless presentation switcher, and digitally reprocesses the signal to correct mastering errors, and regenerates the video at a higher line and pixel rate format, providing native-resolution video for LCD, DLP and Plasma displays. It allows scaling of any graphics resolution to any other resolution (scaling for example, a VGA input to an UXGA output, or an SXGA input to an SVGA output, etc), and in

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UK - The Wavefront AL3101 DSP-1K is a powerful audio processor optimized for signal filtering, equalization and dynamics processing. With its 49 MIPS throughput (at 48kHz), 28-bit internal data path, and on-board data and program memory (1K each), the AL3101 offers higher performance than many of the more expensive DSP chips on the market, according to Profusion. The AL3101 is capable of processing a 1024 tap FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter; acting as a compressor/limiter, gate, or de-esser; serving as a speaker crossover or equalizer; or creating a wide variety of audio effects such as chorusing and flanging.

The DSP-1K offers large word size, providing easy, accurate algorithm creation for audio and other high dynamic range applications. The chip also operates stand-alone with a serial PROM (DSP-1KM) or in conjunction with a host microprocessor or microcontroller. Additio

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UK - Leading Australian lighting manufacturer, Jands, will be unveiling its new console, the Vista, at the PLASA show in London (7-10 September). Featuring a major new design that takes advantage of the latest user interfaces, the Vista is a whole new world of speed, ease of use and sheer intuitiveness in lighting desks.

Dispensing with touch screens, keypads and tedious number crunching, the Vista uses a pen and a huge colour screen to give you unprecedented creative power and control over every aspect of your show. For the first time, the Vista incorporates a timeline that lets you see what's happening in your design in relation to time: when lights come on, when they go off, when they change colour and so on. You can jump in at any point to edit, and all the variables such as colours, focus and gobos are there on the one screen.

The Vista also features a generic fixture m

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UK - On Monday July 28th, the theatre charity Theatrecares celebrated 10 years of staging fund-raising cabarets - with a star-studded evening of entertainment at The Venue in Leicester Square. Lighting designer for the event was David Holmes who is currently working with White Light on Mamma Mia! in Holland and therefore turned to White Light and The Moving Light Company for help. White Light supplied a lighting rig that included 25 ETC Source Four profile spots, two Strand SL zoom spots used with Rosco ImagePros, 10 Par 64s, a selection of fresnels, a followspot and six Pulsar ChromaBank LED battens. The Moving Light Company's contribution included two Martin MAC 600s and six Martin MAC 250s; control for the entire rig was from a Strand 520i console, as previously supplied to The Venue for the Boy George musical Taboo.

The cabaret itself featured performances fro

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Denmark - Martin Professional has introduced 'Fingers', a handy hardware interface for its popular software-based LightJockey controller. Fingers is a robust playback and programming wing that makes LightJockey even more intuitive and accessible, say Martin.

LightJockey is a Windows-based lighting controller capable of controlling up to 100 DMX fixtures that can interface either 512 - 2048 channels. It is used extensively for club and DJ lighting control, special events, retail environments and more. Highly customizable, Fingers permits a large number of the LightJockey functions to be mapped directly to physical faders, buttons and jog wheels, providing the user with easy, hands-on, live show and playback control.

Fingers allows easy button control for launching programs, triggering of individual or multiple sequences and latching of specific cues/sequences. Next, previous a

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Malta - XTA DP226 digital loudspeaker controllers were at the heart of a Martin Audio line array system deployed by London's Capital Sound Hire at a one-off concert by Sir Elton John for 15,000 fans in Valetta, Malta recently. The show, part of the Elton John Solo European tour, saw Capital Sound fly in its W8L/W8LC system as a stand-in for the Clair Brothers i4 line array system being used on the remainder of the tour.

The very wide site - measuring some 160m wide by just 70m deep, with the stage on one of the long sides - created an acoustical challenge for production manager Henry Crallan and Capital Sound's techs Ian Colville and Finbar Neenan. With housing next to the arena, achieving coverage across the breadth of the arena without excess noise spill was tricky. The solution was to use two ground stacks of Clair Bros i4 almost at right angles to the stage as outfills to co

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Norway - The CLS DMX65R is a new 19" rack-mounting, digital DMX dimmer, based on noiseless IGBT technology. The unit is 1U high and offers many professional features including 6 channels of DMX512 in a programmable digital dimmer unit and 100-250V 50-60Hz automatic switching. Output is provided by six 5A channels by Neutrik's Powercon as standard. A choice of output connections is available, plus a USB input for PC connection, electronic auto-protection on each channel with auto reset, double fuses on each channel with overload, short circuit and temperature protection.

The CLS DMX65R is fully programmable and offers preheat, maximum and minimum value and dimming or switchpack select, on each channel. A PC program allows the user to program all the dimmer settings from a laptop, including up to 20 scenes that can be run from the dimmer rack, crossfade and pause times on ea

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UK / Korea - Chameleon Audio has appointed Daikyung Vascom as sole distributor for its full complement of products in South Korea. Daikyung Vascom is considered to be the best partner for Chameleon amplifiers, as they will be distributed with compatible quality pro audio products such as Allen & Heath, Sennheiser, Neumann, Genelec and Apogee-Sound.

Director Han commented: "Daikyung Vascom is delighted to be appointed distributor for Chameleon products, as the amps are powerful, well-built units that have unique transformers, giving them a weight, size and performance advantage. The design also offers an extremely impressive damping factor - so vital when dealing with quality speaker enclosures."

Chameleon's sales director, Martin Capp, added: "Having worked with Daikyung Vascom for many years, I know the company to be true distribution professionals in their mar

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UK - Carlsbro Electronics Ltd has teamed up with the world-renowned Barfly to produce local gig guides throughout the UK. In the past, Barfly has helped to expose bands such as Oasis, Stereophonics, Ash and Electric Six, to name but a few. The new guides, which will be A6 format, black and white pocket books, will be distributed by each local venue and via www.ticketweb.co.uk, released mid-monthly.

Direct links will be established between each company's website (Carlsbro's new website is set to be launched at the beginning of November), which will provide info on venues and dates. Jason Woodcock, Carlsbro's marketing and business development manager, commented: "As part of Carlsbro's on-going commitment to keeping music live, Barfly is a natural partner."

This news follows Carlsbro's recent and continued support of the Xposure television series (first showing Thursd

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UK - KV2 Audio is launching its premium EX10 high-output active full-range speaker at this year's PLASA Show. "We designed the EX10 for customers who want the very best sound quality possible in a compact cabinet," says KV2 president, Marcelo Vercelli: "The EX10 is aimed at serious sound contractors, rental houses, small churches and in-house AV departments who need maximum fidelity from an extremely small enclosure."

Vercelli says the EX10 was developed at KV2's Milevsko R&D facility in the Czech Republic, and embodies the company's philosophy of increased dynamic range, very high output and consistent sound character - no matter what the output level. The EX10 employs a new LF transducer with KV2's TransCoil technology and neodymium motor structure that is said to dramatically increase force, lower distortion and provide increased frequency linearity. A new

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UK - The sleepy, south coast backwater of Bosham, seems a strange place to want to set up a new mastering house, but delve a little deeper and it is easy to see why it all makes sound business sense. Cut & Groove is ideally located to mine a rich seam of work, the South Coast Club Scene, the phenomenon that has spawned such mega artists as Artful Dodger, Craig David and Fat Boy Slim.

The duo behind this £200,000 venture is Duncan Davis and Adam Twine who have been immersed in the club scene since their teens. Duncan broke into it at 16 when armed with a couple of cases of albums, he bluffed his way into a DJ residency in Ibiza for the summer with no experience apart from in front of his bedroom mirror, while Adam ran a club on the Isle of Wight.

Though Cut & Groove only opened its doors seven months ago, it is already pretty busy. The facility's offer of a competitively price

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UK - The three climactic Knebworth shows at the tail-end of Robbie Williams' Weekends of Mass Distraction tour added up to be the largest musical event in UK history with a total audience of 375,000 fans. And with five bands on the bill each day (The Darkness, Kelly Osbourne, Ash, Moby and Robbie) they were also the first festival-type UK dates for the DiGiCo D5 FM (Front of House and Monitor) package, in use for all five bands.

The D5 system, supplied by Britannia Row Productions along with an L-Acoustics V-Dosc PA, involved a pair of D5 Live work surfaces at front of house, with Robbie being mixed by Dave Bracey, and another pair on monitors with Martin Waring at the controls, each pair was linked together by a single lightweight digital cable. One desk at FOH and one monitors was dedicated to Robbie while the support bands used the others.

Running the newly introduce

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UK / Austria - MC2 Audio has announced the appointment of dBLuX Distribution as the company's new distributor in Austria. dBLuX is located in Dornbirn in the west of Austria and was founded in September 2001 to deal exclusively in the business to business sector. In this short time this highly motivated young company has established its name country wide as an important distributor for sound, light and multi-media products.

dBLuX carries a wide selection of products to suit all budgets and customers are supported by a high standard of after sales service.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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China - The official emblem for the 29th Olympic Games, to be held in Beijing in 2008, was presented to the world on Sunday, 3 August at a grand ceremony in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. The highly energetic presentation was a festival of optimistic spirit and a showcase for Chinese culture, staged by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG).

Martin Professional equipment played a central role the ceremony with 88 Martin intelligent lights adding to the celebratory atmosphere. The unveiling occurred before a live audience of over 2,000 VIPs with 400 million television viewers watching the spectacular show, which was broadcast live.

Some 48 MAC 200 Profile and 40 MAC 2000 Wash were used to project colour onto the Olympic emblem, as well as the exterior of the Temple of Heaven. The emblem, titled 'Dancing Beijing', resembles a red Chinese seal enclosing

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UK - Following the successful launch of five new products at PLASA 2002, Australian lighting equipment manufacturer, LSC Lighting Systems, will use PLASA 2003 as a springboard to release two new products and launch the much-anticipated Version 1 software for the maXim control desk. The EKO series of fixed installation digital dimmers will be shown for the first time. This new product continues the innovative design concepts from LSC with a unique mounting installation frame - dramatically reducing installation and commissioning time over standard wiring and set-up methods. Its clever backlit touch screen provides quick and clear access to its many functions. The EKO dimmers are available in 6-, 12- and 24-channel configurations, with choices of output circuit capacity.

The production version of the new Minim will be shown on the stand along side its big brother control desks - t

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UK - TC Electronic announced the EQ Station-8, EQ Station-4, EQ Station-2 and the MotoFader-64. Together with a PC/Mac Editor, they form a high-end equalizer system designed for use in demanding touring Monitor and FOH applications, as well as fixed installations in Theatres and Concert Halls. The EQ Station range sets a new standard for live sound equalization.

Coming in 2-, 4- and 8-channel configurations, the EQ Stations are all 2U units featuring the best TC quality AD/DA conversion and the most powerful DSP processing. Each channel includes simultaneously: 6-band Parametric EQ, 29-band Graphic EQ, 3-band Dynamic EQ, Brickwall Limiter and Delay. Internally, EQ Station uses 48-bit processing for wide headroom, analog EQ modelling and no compromise processing. Building upon the heritage of the award winning TC6032/TC1128 Graphical EQ system, the EQ Station is the new EQ standa

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