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UK - Marquee Audio has returned to Shoreditch's club/live music hybrid, Cargo, three years after carrying out the original fit-out, to reinforce the sound system. Matt Smith, technical manager of the Cantaloupe Group's venue, said that Marquee was called in when it was felt that certain areas of the venue needed boosting. "In particular, we needed to upgrade the bass amps and add front-loaded 15" bass bins, to achieve a faster, tighter bass response from the system. We knew this would allow the existing speakers to concentrate on a narrower bandwidth, thus giving more clarity across the full audio spectrum."

Cargo also wanted to add more power to the existing set-up in the main room. To fulfil these requirements Marquee recommended QSC PowerLight PL4.0 (2 x 1400W) a

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc, the LED lighting effects innovator, has announced the completion of a preferred stock financing round totaling $13 million. The round was led by Needham Capital Partners, with participation by new investors, such as ThinkEquity Investment Partners, and existing investors, such as SAC Capital Advisors.

The company says it intends to use the net proceeds from the financing for continuing technology and product development efforts, an expansion of its sales force, growth in its diverse markets and channels, and the continued support of its intellectual property portfolio. "This additional funding will strengthen the company's balance sheet and support our efforts to continue improving our technology, market and intellectual property position in intelligent LED illumination," said George Mueller, chairman and CEO. "We're committed to growing

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Spain - With the objective of reinforcing its presence worldwide, D.A.S Audio has appointed Mónica Ramírez as media coordinator. Qualified in Communication Sciences, she will be responsible for all communication with the specialized media on both the national and international levels. Ramirez's previous experience includes work as a writer for numerous Spanish newspapers and magazines. For the last two years she has been working in the company's marketing department and has been responsible for press relations with the Spanish media.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK / USA - Bandit Lites is supplying full lighting production to US cult heavy rock band Dream Theater's 'Train Of Thought' world tour. This has just completed the first of three 2004 European legs - all serviced from Bandit's European base in Bedford.

Lighting and video designer Benoit Richard used Bandit on Dream Theater's last tour in 2002, and was keen to continue his working relationship with the UK office. Tennessee Bandit Lites Inc will be looking after the tour in other territories. With 55 potential songs to choose from - 'Change of Season' currently being the longest at 23 minutes - and a different three-and-a-half hour set list each night, it was important for Richards and video design associate Robert Baldwin, to have a fluid, organic and flexible show at their fingertips.

Three LED video screens define the upstage area, Richards has designed the lighting rig to co

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UK - The Annual General Meeting of the Production Services Association (PSA) was held recently at the Novotel Hammersmith in London and saw the appointment of two new members to the council - Lee Charteris of StageAccess.com and Mick Bowles, a freelance event, site, production, safety and licensing manager.

The meeting was followed by the PSA conference, which included important announcements on the new National Rigging Certificate and the PSA's proposed Safety Passport scheme in association with the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. The day's activities were followed by the Annual TPi Awards dinner where it was announced that the magazine's owners, Mondiale Publishing, would be seconding Total Production magazine's co-founder, Andy Lenthall, to the PSA to be their full-time general manager. At the same time, Mondiale will be contracted to the PSA to manage the accoun

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UK - An innovative exhibition, sponsored by Shell, has been in place on the Thames riverside in the heart of London for the last few months - an outdoor sound and light installation, powered by wind energy, intended to celebrate the natural forces of the planet. The exhibit stretches for some 600m along London's South Bank. At its heart is a full-size wind turbine, which generates the power to operate lighting, sound and effects units. Nexo PS8 compact loudspeakers are hidden in more than 40 trees, playing original music co-ordinated with the light and mist effects.

Sound design for the Shell Electric Storm was developed by Robin Whittaker of Out Board, and the system features Out Board's TIMAX system, a large number of digital processors to provide network capability, and an Apple Macintosh computer to respond to the atmospheric sensors and change the remixes according to the w

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USA - French manufacturer InnovaSON reports increased success for its digital mixing consoles in the US houses of worship market, with Shadow Mountain Ministries of El Cajon, California and the Christ United Methodist Church in Sugar Land, Texas among those grasping InnovaSON technology.

Shadow Mountain recently upgraded its 2,500 seat main worship centre with a new InnovaSON Sy80 digital mixing console, taking care of both FOH and monitor duties for a full band, a 35-piece orchestra, 160-voice choir, praise team and numerous soloist, groups, speakers and guests. The worship centre is the focus of the Shadow Mountain campus which with up to 40 events each week, has a worldwide potential audience of millions, broadcasting services and sermons to over a thousand TV and several thousand radio stations around the globe.

Technical director Timothy Hunten admits he has his hands ful

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France - Digigram, the innovator in digital audio network solutions, has sold its 40% share in Audemat-Aztec, manufacturer of measurement and monitoring equipment for broadcast applications, to the remaining shareholders of Audemat-Aztec.

"This move will help us to concentrate on what we do best: providing high quality digital audio solutions for the broadcast and public address markets." said Digigram's managing director Philippe Delacroix. "We have many exciting product developments in the pipeline that demand all our attention and energy. Although Audemat-Aztec will continue to develop products using Digigram technology, the commercial and technological overlap with the Audemat-Aztec's product portfolio isn't big enough to justify our continued minority involvement."

The sale of the Audemat-Aztec shares further strengthens Digigram's financial position,

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UK - To coincide with Brilliant, the V&A's first contemporary lighting exhibition, Lighten Up will be an evening of debate and demonstrations exploring lighting design, to be held on Friday 27 Feb from 6.30 - 10.30pm. Featuring lighting in jewellery and clothing and a duvet that gradually gets brighter in the morning to wake you up, amongst other innovative designs, Lighten Up promises to be an evening of invention that shows the potential of contemporary lighting as one of the most diverse and experimental areas of design today.

Demonstrations will explore the possibilities of light technologies and materials with inventive designers Ulrike Oberlack (jewellery) and Rachel Wingfield (textiles). Experiment with fabrics and forms to create your own lights assisted by Big William (design students and graduates from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University).

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UK - Turbosound, the British-based manufacturer of live performance and installed sound loudspeakers, is releasing its innovative new sound reinforcement system at Frankfurt ProLight & Sound 2004 (Hall 8.0, Stand J52). Turbosound's most efficient loudspeaker design to date, the new system is easily scaleable to suit specific acoustic and venue requirements ranging from small clubs and auditoria, to the largest arenas and stadia.

The new system comprises a set of proprietary transducers, which operate over four individual frequency bands, and are divided between two identically-sized modular enclosures. It incorporates many patented designs, with the key element being the deployment of equal-path-length multi-cellular horns, or 'polyhorns', to create a phase-coherent wavefront. The system permits individual wavefronts to coincide seamlessly with the physical curvature of an array

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China - Billed as "the largest and most comprehensive light and sound event" in China, Calm Expo 2004 is set to be 30% bigger than the previous year, according to the organizers, IIR. Occupying a total indoor exhibit area of 55,000sq.m and building additional halls outdoor, the show has grown rapidly with many exhibitors returning for bigger exhibit space, say IIR.

The event will see over 800 exhibitors from more than 30 countries, giving visitors a chance to view the latest offerings in the professional audio, lighting, AV and music industries from the industry's top companies. Calm Expo 2004 is expecting to attract over 55,000 visitors over a span of four days. The last event attracted 50,000 visitors from all over China. Calm Expo is featuring a new show segment - Audio Visual Systems Integration (AVSI). AVSI presents one single market access point featuring the lat

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UK - Canegreen Commercial supplied the PA system for the 2004 NME Awards, held in London's Hammersmith Palais recently, where Radiohead achieved a double swoop of awards for Best Video and Best Album, as did Kings of Leon for Best New Band and Best International Band, with other winners including Arthur Lee for Living Legend and Ozzy Osbourne for Godlike Genius.

Canegreen Commercial was tasked with ensuring speech and music could be heard by a room full of loud (and possibly drunk!) rock 'n' roll stars. Andrew Frengley, MD of Canegreen Commercial, designed and co-ordinated the system set up for the show's event director Paul Corrick of production company, Reality, the pair having worked together on numerous projects in the past, including last year's NME Awards. Corrick commented: "Andrews' ability to solve problems made Canegreen Commercial the obvious choice to ensure we

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UK - Lighting&Sound International magazine's latest L&SI Network event - a backstage tour of Cirque du Soleil's Dralion at the Royal Albert Hall - took place last week and was a huge success. Places on the tour, limited to just 30, were snapped up quickly, with attendees coming from all across the UK, including Northern Ireland and Scotland, to take part. Following the tour, the attendees stayed on to see the matinée performance of the show.

The tour included a behind-the-scenes look at the lighting, sound and set elements of this highly complex production, but by far the most fascinating element was the rigging, by Summit Steel, which has allowed Dralion to move seamlessly from its familiar big top environment to the RAH. To get an idea of the complexity of the rigging set-up and view the forest of flying points required, L&SI's visitors were taken right up into

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UK - The A.C. Lighting North Tradeshow returns to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on 11-12 May this year, following another hugely successful event in 2003. The show is an important exhibition in the industry calendar for buyers in the Midlands and the North of England, providing the regions with a definitive showcase of today's entertainment technology market under one roof.

Following last year's highly popular format and the increasing level of interest shown in the event, visitors to this year's show can expect an even bigger list of exhibitors attending from A.C. Lighting's stock-holding of leading lighting, audio and associated equipment manufacturers. As well as the chance to catch up on the latest product innovations from these brands, visitors will also have the opportunity to receive hands-on demonstrations and gain expert advice face-to-face.

A range of free pro

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Germany - Camco will launch three key products at the ProLight & Sound show in Frankfurt (31 March - 3 April), including a new top-of-the-range model in their acclaimed Vortex Series of power amplifiers.

The Vortex 200V is Camco's new flagship, the latest addition to the company's line of pioneering digital amplifier products. Specified at more than 3kW per channel RMS at 4 Ohms, the Vortex 200V delivers voltage at the output of 200V per channel. It shares the standard features of the Vortex Series, such as on-board Remote Control; power transistor control with emergency shutdown in case of extreme malfunctions; reliable over-voltage protection; thermal protective circuitry for the transistors, and hum-free operation in case of extreme under-voltage (instead of sound-deteriorating limiters).

Camco's Tecton Series, launched last year, is a range of power amps featuring the lat

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Germany - ChainMaster Bühnentechnik is set to significantly heighten its profile at trade shows both inside and outside Germany in order to improve communication with contractors and others interested in its products, the company reports.

As well as attending a greater number of trade shows, the company will also increase its stand size at the ProLight & Sound (Hall 8.0 Booth F74) in Frankfurt by 40%. As Frank Hartung, ChainMaster's managing director, explained: "We want to be able to show our chain hoists and chain hoist controllers in action, whilst at the same time retaining enough room to conduct an unhurried dialogue with our customers in comfort. This was not possible with the booth design we had before."

This year, ChainMaster is presenting a new-look catalogue at ProLight&Sound, and will be demonstrating not only the highly successful BGV C1 chain hoists, V

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Germany - Shure Europe and Shure Distribution Germany have announced that the highlight of this year's ProLight & Sound exhibition will be the European introduction of the brand-new SLX Wireless Systems for professional installations. Suited to installed sound applications and working bands, the new SLX Wireless Systems feature Shure's patented Audio Reference Companding technology. As well as an innovative setup, complete with automatic synchronization, SLX supports up to 12 compatible systems per frequency band (country dependent).

SLX easily integrates with other Shure products like in-ear monitoring systems, automatic mixers, audio processors and the new ConferenceONE discussion systems to provide flexible and powerful audio solutions for virtually any application, say Shure.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - Symetrix has introduced the Express Series of DSP devices to the SymNet family. Available in two different versions, Express hardware is aimed at stand-alone applications with three new models, and CobraNet-capable applications with four more.

Standard Express hardware is intended for use in stand-alone applications where a single DSP will suffice. Models include a 12x4 for multiple microphones or sources, a 4x12 for paging or speaker processing, and an 8x8 for more complex input and output routing. All Express Cobra models include an eight-channel CobraNet license, and are otherwise identical to the standard Express hardware. Express Cobra provides interconnectivity with compatible hardware from Symetrix and other vendors. I/O configurations in the Express Cobra series include 12x4, 4x12, 8x8, and 4x4.

Each Express unit is individually-addressable over Ethernet. The onb

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UK - Cadac has released the latest version of its Sound Automation Manager (SAM) software (v1.07), incorporating new multi-console control capabilities, support for multi-lingual versions, and enhanced MIDI facilities. The new release also includes additional tracking and remote control features.

Over 20 man-years' of development time has gone into SAM software, say Cadac, with the latest release providing integrated support for all Cadac consoles and products, as well as cross-console compatibility and conversion facilities for seamless show portability. SAM is freely available to any interested user, via the Cadac website.

SAM's ability to support multi-lingual operation was a priority for Cadac's Philip Jones, explaining: "In order to get the best out of any system, you need to be able to use iteasily and intuitively in your own language. This requirement set us thinki

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UK - PCM's Projects team has been embracing education again - this time around in an interesting installation at the City of Norwich School, where the company designed and specified a bespoke trussing flying system for the school's assembly hall, which dates back to 1910. PCM's project team of Tony Griffiths and Tony Dickson - along with Pfaff Silberblau's Pete Ashford - worked closely with locally based lighting and sound installers Embee Lighting, led by Mark Bailey. As a specialist supplier, Embee was asked by the School's buildings contractor Environ Ltd (formally ABB), to tender for the supply and install of new lighting and sound equipment for the hall. The idea was to transform the limited-use hall into a multi-purpose venue.

The hall's voluminous roof void was an obvious 'dead' space to try and utilize in the name of technical production. However, the roof had no weight

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UK - Cerwin-Vega Professional's ProStax Series, first previewed at last September's PLASA Show in London, is now in full production, and shipping through UK distributor, Lamba plc. The range, featuring five all-new systems with heightened levels of performance, is tailored to the needs of live sound, DJ and music playback professionals.

The ProStax Series is comprised of three, three-way, full-range trapezoidal enclosures as well as a floor monitor and bandpass subwoofer. Members of the line include the PSX-123, a single 12" three-way system, the PSX-153, a single 15" three-way system and the PSX-253, a dual 15" three-way system. The line is rounded out by the PSX-122, a single 12" coaxial which doubles as a floor monitor/ two-way stage system with pole mount and the PSX-115 15" bandpass subwoofer.

"ProStax Series represents a singular level of pe

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