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>On a stand dominated by a display of the Nexo GeoT system, it is flightcases and supplementary packaging that SSE supply for this PA. Big users themselves in their rental operation, SSE has an unrivalled reputation for the logistical simplicity of its packaging. As UK distributor for InnovaSON, SSE also presented the new Sy80. This desk features 80 motorized faders (an unusually large number for any digital console, making it very 'hands-on') and 48 mix buses, the fact of 80 in/outs and multiplicity of buses making the console suitable for monitors or FOH, and at 94kg including dual PSUs, it's not a bad lift for a touring desk of this capacity.

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>Audient showed a new range of Digiboxes from LA Audio (now an integral part of the Audient brand, but retaining its own established identity). Aimed at the broadcast and studio environment (though not without application for live use), these boxes included AES/EBU channel divider; word/superclock generator and 4-way S/PDIF splitter box, as you'd expect. Audient itself had three new products: the G400, C400 and GC400 are all four-channel devices - gate, compressor, and gate/compressor combinations as the names suggest.

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>The new RVE Dimkit dimming system was launched by ESP (UK). Available in six models, this is a flexible dimming system that you build yourself to suit your own specifications. The system is easily updated by the user. Also new from ESP's sister company Mobil Tech was the AlpTek 6.5m stand, which takes up to 250kg in weight. A further new product from the International range was the StandTek 3000.
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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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>New from beyerdynamic were the Opus 300, 500MKII and 800 series wireless radio microphone systems. Alongside the company's own-brand products was a wide range of distributed products, including Bittner amplifiers, the UK debut of the Renkus-Heinz PNX102 line array, ClearOne's PSR 1212 audio matrix processor and XTA's new DP6I loudspeaker management system for the installation market. Biamp's Audia digital audio platform was showcased, along with two new versions - AudiaSolo and AudiaFlex. Complementing these was Cue's media control system line, while ASL's WS Series digital wireless intercom was also on display.

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>Power Gems' innovative HP575 ballast brings hot restrike capability to discharge lamps. In 1999 the company began to investigate if it would be possible to drive a 575W at high frequency and, furthermore, to be able to hot re-strike the lamp. They had to overcome the problem of acoustic resonance, then build a cold strike prototype to examine the system's performance, before finally designing a new type of ignitor to achieve the hot re-strike, because with a lamp drive frequency in excess of 300kHz, conventional ignitors simply burn out.

The result is a patented 575W ballast with integrated hot re-strike ignitor (a cold strike version is also available) with fewer parts and generating less heat than conventional systems. It does not ordinarily require fan cooling, is light-weight and cheaper to manufacture than its conventional counterparts. Furthermore, tests at Philips in Belgium ha

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>Causing a bit of a stir at Marquee Audio was the Teqsas Reco wireless control system, an 8" touch-sensitive colour screen which will run any computer's software. Once the driver is installed on the computer and a wireless LAN connection established, total remote control is possible. Marquee was also showing the Optocore DD32 system - devised for the transmission of a maximum amount of digital data via optical fibre from a 1U rackspace - as well as Sabine SMW7000 wireless microphone systems (see Audio-Technica).

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>AKG WMS 4000

The AKG WMS 400 is an innovative wireless microphone system which will be welcomed by installers, contractors and sound companies in general. It is an incredibly versatile wideband UHF system with a True Diversity receiver, software control capability, 1200 frequencies in each of six bands - with different bands available for different countries - an innovative battery charging system, and a line of extremely useful accessories which will expand its potential applications.

Optimized for ease of use, all transmitters and receivers provide a backlit display for clear status indication and a turn/push jog control of single-handed adjustments. Frequency presets, auto set-up and frequency scanner functions make it easy to set up a multi-channel system. The frequencies can be set automatically or manually selected fro

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>MilTec presented two new speakers from Ecler - the Philos 10" and Philos 15" polypropylene speaker cabinets, handling 200W and 300W respectively. MilTec's own MTG sb112 is a compact sub cabinet with a single 12" capable of handling 1200W peak (600W RMS).

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>Coef's latest introduction is the MP700, a new version of its zoom and wash automated lamps with attention given to the studio environment by the implementation of noise control: it's a play-off between light output and fan noise from cooling, but they seem to have got their sums right with just a loss of 5% on light output to gain an 80% noise reduction.

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>The iColor Tile FX is, as the name suggests, an effects ceiling tile for installation use. Made by Color Kinetics Inc (CKI), and basically an array of 432 tri-colour LED pixels in a standard 600sq.mm tile, the colour modelling potential of this unit is immense. Controllable by DMX, and with pre-programmed effects, the tile has very high-resolution colour mixing control thanks to CKI's own Chromasic control chip. The Acrylic cover can be personalized (etched with logos, artwork or graphics) and, once sealed, is IP66 rated. CKI's iColor Flex is single 'pixels' of LED nodes on a daisy chain power/data cable. More than a sophisticated Christmas tree light set, the Flex allows all 50 nodes on a string to be individually controlled and coloured. During the course of the show, it was announced that Altman Lighting Inc will license Color Kinetics' patented Chromacore technology for a new line o

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>Stage Technologies

>Visual Creator

Visual Creator brings sophisticated control of motion-through-time out of the realm of specialist applications and makes it available to all. The advantages of theatrical automation are clear. At the push of a button, a modern power flying system can move a substantial load from A to B with pinpoint accuracy time after time. But what about the movement along the way between A and B? To date, most flying systems have been unable to handle the sophisticated motion profiles through time that designers and directors imagine in their shows.

Visual Creator addresses this need: gauzes drifting in a breeze, an automated bouncing ball, an acrobat flying in 3D around the auditorium - all these effects and more can now be drawn as imagined and executed seamlessly with Stage Technologies' standard automation systems.

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UK - Drapes and rigging specialist Blackout was appointed by London based production house, GSP to help realize the set for the launch of Canon's new EOS 300D 6.3 mega pixel digital SLR camera. The event was staged at Sketch, the exclusive, mega-chic London creation of Mourad Mazous (of Momo) and Michelin chef Pierre Gagnai.

Blackout¹s project manager Kevin Monks collaborated with GSP's Jules Stevenson from the outset to design and build a blacked-out freestanding studio, where over 50 EOS 300Ds took centre stage. Suspended on tracks, they were deployed remotely to capture real-time effect images of the guests Matrix style.

The freestanding truss structure measured 10m x 8m, and was initially constructed to GSP's exacting specifications at Blackout's headquarters, before being rigged on site by the Blackout team. Dressed in black serge drape, the box totally excluded a

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UK - Las Vegas's newest addition to it's thriving club scene is Ice. The 17,000sq.ft club boasts six 'Micro Environments', five full-service bars and 4,000sq.ft. of cushioned Brazilian walnut dance space.

Los Angeles-based SJ Lighting was commissioned to design and install the lighting, which included 10 Coemar I-Spots and 10 Coemar I-Washes. The centrepiece of the club is a 20ft circle truss with 8ft horizontal legs and a 40ft wide, 50ft long and 30ft high, self-climbing black ground-supported truss. In addition to the Coemars, eight Atomic strobes and 35 assorted conventional fixtures are also used in the rig, along with 300ft of linear RGB LED lighting by LED Effects and 70 times square fixtures covering the architectural lighting needs of the club.

Lighting designer Steve Lieberman chose an MA Lighting grandMA light to control the clubs lighting. "For the kind of work

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UK - Columbus McKinnon displayed more new products at this year's PLASA exhibition than ever before. Recent optional upgrades to the ever-popular Lodestar electric chain hoist were being displayed for the first time. These include a double brake, which is available as either factory-fitted on new units or as a retrofit kit for existing owners. A direct control Lodestar, which has proven extremely popular since its launch earlier this year will also be available for inspection.

A CM manufactured variable speed Lodestar hoist, dubbed the Varistar will also be making its worldwide debut. This will be shown alongside a sample of the company's new BGV-C1 specification Lodestar hoist.

"Although Lodestars with these features are already available they are conversions of standard units made by end-users or our distributors" comments Adrian Forbes-Black, CM's regional manager

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Glynn Somers has joined the Heritage sales team of Black Box AV, taking responsibility for promoting the company's innovative audio-visual solutions to museums and attractions north ofBirmingham, up to the Scottish Borders. Jonathan Knight, Black Box MD, said: "Glynn's appointment strengthens our commitment to the Heritage sector. When we added Heritage to an already strong presence in high street retail three years ago, we set ourselves a target to become a leading supplier in the sector and have achieved that. As a result we have a strong and prestigious client list. We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service and Glynn's appointment was necessary to maintain that high level of service and achieve further growth'.

Glynn joins Simon Markey and Annetta Park who already service the South of England, Scotland,Ireland and Wales.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - Louisville-based Axxis Inc has become one of the latest North American companies to become an L-Acoustics V-Dosc provider, having purchased a dozen V-Dosc and eight dV-Dosc loudspeakers plus eight SB218 subs and a variety of LA Series amplifier models. Specializing in the corporate event production market, the 30-year-old company has worked with clients including Arby's, Ford, GE, Intel, UPS and United Way.

In the short time since acquiring the equipment, it has already been used for 10 days of concerts at the Kentucky State Fair (Ted Nugent, Joan Jett, Michael W. Smith), at a large Nashville event called Acteens, in nearby Frankfurt for a Toyota Motors event, and as 'stacks and racks' for Sheryl Crow's Louisville tour stop.

Axxis Audio director Blake Harris comments on the purchase: "This has not been an overnight decision: we have been looking at line arrays very

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The Netherlands - UK studio design professional, Munro Acoustics, has been awarded the contract for the acoustical and interior design and fit-out of a brand new Radio-TV complex in The Netherlands.

L1 Radio-TV is a regional public radio and television station that broadcasts to over 1.2million people in its home province of Limburg. Recent growth has enabled the station to amalgamate its operations and design a 4000sq.m broadcast centre to house all of its various media transmissions. The expansive new building will be fitted with two radio 'On-Air' studios, complete with control room and presenter studio, a Radio DJ studio, a 5.1 audio post-production facility with Pro-Tools studio and control room for live productions, three radio journalist production studios, a news TV studio including news and weatherman set, a current affairs TV studio, four TV edit suites and five edit/v

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UK - Live music will once again be played at Alexandra Palace (AP), the North London venue, as it becomes the destination for a live concert by Marilyn Manson on 26 November 2003.

AP is going through something of a renaissance within the music industry at present, and whilst the venue has played host to a wide range of live music events during the last few years, this is the first major touring act to be staged there for almost eight years, heralding a return to form as one of London's leading live music venues. Previous tour acts appearing at the venue included Pink Floyd, Stone Roses and Barry Manilow.

Stuart Galbraith, vice-president of promotions at Clear Channel Entertainment, who is staging the concert, commented: "With the closure of London Arena, and the unsuitability of Wembley, Alexandra Palace now provides the only real alternative in London as a standing venu

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Europe - PMC has announced the appointment of Maurice Patist to the position of pan-European sales manager with responsibility for professional industry sales in Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Ireland and Eastern Europe. The newly created role is intended to provide greater strategic support for PMC's current European sales networks and to develop channels into new territories and market sectors.

A former professional live sound engineer, Patist also brings extensive sales management experience to the position. A career extending over 11 years in the industry including professional sound engineering (in sound touring, theatre sound, event production and for the Royal Dutch Court), and sales management experience in IT, consumer and professional audio, and AV installation markets. Patist has held positions at IBM, Canon and Hecla Electronics. While Sales Director at Sound At Work

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USA - Orlando-based Super Vision International Inc, a world leader in LED, fibre optic lighting and sign products, announced today that it had filed suit against Ocean Bank of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

The suit alleges that the Bank aided and abetted the efforts of Marsam Trading Corporation, Optic Tech International and the Wu Family of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Miami to avoid the enforcement of a court ordered injunction and the collection of a $41.2 million judgment awarded to Super Vision in September of 2002 by an Orange County, Florida jury in case number CI99-9392: the story was reported on this website on 1 October 2002. The Wu Family and their numerous associated corporations in the US and China were found liable on more than a dozen counts in the lawsuit, including Theft of Trade Secrets, Fraud, Violations of Florida's RICO Act, Negligent Destruction of Evidence and Civil

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UK - XL Video's Malcolm Mellows rose to the occasion when asked to supply a crew comprising the best looking and most stylish engineers, cameramen and technicians for live video production at the 2003 Men of The Year Awards for GQ Magazine. "Of course, I was absolutely spoilt for choice," he says, adding that XL's currently manic schedules did actually slightly narrow availability and, therefore, his choice of sexy specimens from the pool of regulars.

The event, sponsored by Giorgio Armani, was held in the Floral Hall at London's Royal Opera House. It was presented by Johnny Vaughan and attended by a host of celebrities and stars and accompanied by copious oozings of glamour and glitter befitting the occasion. XL Video was working for Dick Straker of Mesmer Productions, who co-ordinated the video production for event producers Time-Based Events Ltd, led by Richard Dodg

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