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France - Loudspeaker system manufacturer Nexo has announced that a new series of GEO training seminars has been scheduled to take place at the company's Paris headquarters in April. The previous series was fully booked, and high demand is expected again, so interested parties are advised to contact their Nexo distributor as soon as possible.

Seminar 1 is called 'GEO On the Road' and is dedicated to users (sound engineers, system designers, operators and rental companies) of GEO systems and will last two days (8-9 April 2004). Seminar 2 is titled 'GEO In Fixed Installations'; it is dedicated to specifiers and designers and will take place over one day (7 April 2004).

Capacity for each session is limited to 10 persons, and applications are registered through Nexo's distribution ne

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UK - Blitz Communications, one of the UK's leading providers of AV equipment, has introduced a unique product-independent, 590 cubic metre widescreen demonstration environment at its Elstree headquarters in London.

Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz Communications, said that the widescreen environment, complete with three Barco RLM G5 DLP projectors and a seamless 10m screen, has been designed and fitted in response to client demand over the last few years. "Blitz has recognized that event organizers and production companies have seen a decrease in the production value of events over the last few years, and we see widescreen seamless vistas as a way of bringing back creative production standards and as a USP in providing presentations."

"Blitz is not aligning itself to one particular widescreen product and as a result the facility has been designed to disp

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USA / Switzerland - Shure Inc and the Montreux Jazz Festival have agreed to extend their long-running relationship by signing a three-year partnership agreement carrying through the Festival's 40th anniversary in 2006. Entering its tenth year of cooperation, Shure will continue as official supplier of microphones and wireless systems and remain as principal sponsor of the annual Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition.

As official supplier, Shure will provide a wide range of microphones and wireless, personal monitoring, and conferencing systems to support both artists and press events during the festival. In addition to equipment, Shure will provide 24-hour, behind-the-scenes technical support for the duration of the festival. "Shure's dedication to the festival is outstanding," noted Christoph Stahel, executive production manager of the festival's main venue, Stravinsk

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UK - On Saturday 28 February, the entrance of LAMDA in West London was festooned with balloons to welcome guests to a joint celebration of Triple E's 20th anniversary and managing director David Edelstein's birthday. As a past student of the Academy, Edelstein's connections continue to this day, with Triple E last year providing curtain and tracking for five of the rehearsal studios at LAMDA. The black box studio was transformed for the evening with the addition of a stage, complete with trussing, tracking and lighting, and colleagues from all areas of the entertainment industry - technicians, theatre consultants and acousticians, and colleagues from the ABTT - joined with family and friends for an evening of conversation and good wine. While the food was definitely 21st century, the entertainment was designed to take people back to their youth - The Upbeat Beatles made the evenin

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USA - Super Vision International Inc, a leading manufacturer of fibre optic and LED lighting, has announced that is has filed a law suit in the Federal District Court in Orlando, Florida, seeking past due royalties and damages in excess of $10.5 million against Color Kinetics Inc of Boston, Massachusetts, for past and current infringement violations of U.S. Patent #4,963,687 on 'Variable Color Lighting System'.

The patent, developed by inventor Richard Belliveau, provides for broad coverage in its claims for patent in the use of networked, centrally-controlled, addressable colour changing lighting systems incorporating pulse width modulation and variable digital control circuitry which can vary the intensity of individual lamp elements to generate unlimited colours.

Color Kinetics was notified by the patent owner on several occasions in the past that the owner believed that C

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Germany - The latest addition to Electro-Voice's range of powered speakers is the SbA760 subwoofer, which is rated at 760W, and provides an ideal complement to the new SxA360. This new and extraordinarily powerful specialist in the bottom end of the sound spectrum is equipped with a stereo crossover, a 760W power amplifier and the EVS15FR long-excursion low frequency driver. The SbA760 extends the acoustic output all the way down to 40Hz.

Despite its immense power, the SbA760 is notable for its compactness as well as its simple and intuitive handling. The enclosure, which is robust and designed to withstand rough use on the road, is kitted out with four rollers and a scratch-proof Futura coating.

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UK - Entec Lighting supplied The Australian Pink Floyd Show with the lighting rig for their sold-out performance at Cardiff Arena last weekend - a precursor to their first four-week US arena tour, to be followed by another two months in the UK and Europe.

The Australian Pink Floyd Show is among the best known and most successful tribute bands in the world. David Gilmour, Pink Floyd's guitarist, is a fan of the band and has seen the show three times. In November, he joined thousands of Pink Floyd fans at the Royal Albert Hall for a show described as "Truly embracing the Floyd legacy".

This year the band step up their live performance schedule and stature with new lighting and sound production. Lighting designer Dave Hill was brought in to work with long-standing LD Steve Ellerington, and to come up with a new visual picture for the bigger venues. The new lighting rig

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USA - Electrosonic was responsible for the audio-visual systems integration design and installation at the new Ford Rouge Factory Tour. For the first time in over 20 years, the Ford Rouge Factory Tour is re-opening in 2004 with an all-new state-of-the-art presentation venue offering two multi-screen theatres, numerous touch-screen interpretive displays, and an 80ft high observation deck overlooking the world's largest "living roof" (made out of a carpet of plants that are used to collect water and help insulate the building) on the Dearborn Truck Plant. Ford Motor Company is partnering with 'America's greatest history attraction', The Henry Ford museum, which will operate the new visitor centre and plant tour. The experience is being created and produced for Ford by BRC Imagination Arts under the creative and content direction of The Henry Ford.

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USA - At the 13th Ibero-American Summit in November last year, Shure ConferenceONE discussion systems were chosen to facilitate the historic meeting of heads of Spain, Portugal, and all Latin American countries. Among the dignitaries at the summit, which took place in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, were the King and Queen of Spain and the vice-president of Cuba. This meeting represented the first installation of Shure's new conference system in Latin America.

All leaders participated in-group discussions utilizing a 25-channel standard ConferenceONE discussion system. Combining a mixer, amp and high-quality loudspeaker with an innovative, fold-out telescoping microphone arm, ConferenceONE makes setup and use exceptionally easy and delivers superior audio quality. According to Raul G. Alcocer Montero of Alcocer Servicios in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, both organizers and sound en

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UK - The SM500 Ultima is the first mixer in the new Ultima range from Citronic. The design is based on the popular SM450 and comes with a host of enhanced features designed to meet the needs of medium-sized installations. The dual microphone facility features a comprehensive Mic override system ideal for radio microphones, 3-band equalization, balanced and unbalanced inputs and individual on-air buttons.

There are 4 CD, 3 Line and 3 Phono inputs routed to the four heavy duty music input faders via input gain, and shared EQ controls for level matching. Channels 1 and 2 share a 3-band equalizer, as do channels 3 and 4, which is then routed to their respective ends of the on-board VCA crossfader.

The music channel 3-band EQ can be internally installer defeated to prevent any additional EQ being added by the DJ once the sound system has been set. The SM500 Ultima also offers the m

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USA - Industry veterans Gary Mass and Nick Freed have teamed up with Gear-Source president Marcel Fairbairn to form a new venture - Rental-Source - modeled in part after Fairbairn's successful web-based business, Gear Source. Rental-Source will serve today's production needs with a 'single source' method of locating production equipment of all types.

With backgrounds in manufacturing and production, managing partners Gary Mass and Nick Freed will head efforts to solve the many man-hours spent sourcing equipment for production purposes. Working in tune with an extensive worldwide vendor base and an easy-to-use web design for locating the most cost-effective, and logistically suitable rental equipment, Rental-Source promises to ease the ever-growing process of completing a production.

"Over the past 10 years or so, we've noticed an incredible incline in the need for product

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UK - Fostex has announced the launch of the cost-effective FR-2 field memory recorder. Although specifically designed for high quality location recording, the FR-2 is equally at home in TV and radio documentary applications, broadcast and sound effect acquisition, say Fostex.

The FR-2 has been designed for flexibility and records industry-standard Broadcast Wav Files (BWF) to either PCMCIA 1.8" hard drives or Type II Compact Flash cards. The FR-2 incorporates many features that have resulted from Fostex's wide experience in digital location recording - such as a 10 second pre-record buffer, battery power, on-board limiter and phantom-powered, balanced mic inputs.

The file-per-take system developed on the industry acclaimed PD-6 and DV40 machines, is a welcome feature to a recorder within this price range. The FR-2 also features scene and auto take naming, which makes keep

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UK - Adlib Audio has won a competitive tender to design and install an audio system for the main venue in the new £13 million refurbishment project at the Villa Marina leisure complex in Douglas, Isle of Man. The Liverpool-based company will be supplying a JBL VerTec 4888 line array system and dbx drive rack system control to the 'new' 1,500 capacity Royal Hall. The JBL and dbx elements will be supplied to Adlib by Harman Pro UK. Adlib is also supplying Crown amplification and Soundcraft consoles, and will be building a customised JBL-loaded sub bass system to fit under the stage.

Adlib's Andy Dockerty has designed and specified the system. He is working to the brief to provide top quality live production facilities for to all types of performance - music of all genres from rock to cabaret to comedy. With his vast experience in the live concert touring industry, Dockerty and h

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South Korea - MA Lighting has announced the sale of the 500th full-sized grandMA console. The desk, serial number 500, was purchased by Seoul-based Hansam System Co Ltd, MA Lighting's distributor in Korea. Introduced to the market in 1999, the grandMA enables the precise and powerful control of extensive light shows, including LEDs and video sequences.

In recent years, MA Lighting has developed a complete grandMA product family, with more than 1,200 of these lighting systems currently in use worldwide. The product range also includes the grandMA light, the grandMA ultra-light and the grandMA replay unit, as well as the additional software tools grandMA offline, grandMA remote control and grandMA 3D. The grandMA family is a flexible, open system that offers a new control philosophy for lighting designers and operators, say MA Lighting.

Using Ethernet networking technology, the

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UK - With a reputation for good sound, comfortable surroundings and a bar stretching along the side of the venue, Club West OneFour at The Fox, West Kensington, achieved status as an international venue for hosting launches of new groups and artists some years ago. The venue can cater for 300 guests, has a well-equipped large stage and hosts every type of music from rock bands to jazz bands, classical to country, from the well-known to the up and coming new bands.

The venue was redeveloped in October to improve the club's amenities and this has now been followed with the installation of a full new FOH system, supplied and installed by Opus Audio. The new system comprises an Opus XS234 loudspeaker management system and three Opus HD Series high definition power amplifiers driving four Opus SB218 sub-bass and two Opus CS1000 active mid/high loudspeaker systems.

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UK - Having enjoyed the company's busiest ever February in the corporate events sector, Shaun Pearce, managing director of Pearce Hire, has heralded the return of economic growth as corporate events re-establish their importance in the marketing and communications strategies of businesses. He commented: "Just as events seemed to have gained their place within the corporate world three years ago the worldwide economy pushed them off the agenda. Fierce competition over recent years has focused suppliers to deliver higher standards; we have been continually monitoring the market and our forward planning has enabled us to keep pace with the upturn and service event requirements at short notice this Spring."

At the start of the year, says Pearce, the company's order book gave no indication that during one week this February the Pearce Hire team would have been working on ev

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USA - Event production company massAV has appointed Stephen Santomenna as director of production. In his new position he will lead massAV's growth in large event staging, live events and production. Santomenna has over 20 years' experience in the industry, having worked on Broadway and staged events on five continents. Prior to massAV, Santomenna served as an executive producer and director of technical services for Preston Productions, facilitating the management of events for EMC, API, IBM and PTC-User. His background also includes various positions with Image Engineering, Trinity Repertory Company and as a contract designer, technician and project manager.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - 12 High End Systems ColorCommands are enhancing the weekly worship message at the Fellowship of the Woodlands in Woodlands, Texas. ColorCommand is a dichroic colour-mixing Par/washlight fixture that offers complete freedom from gels and colour scrollers.

Dave Marks, the media minister, LD, technical director and set designer, says the ColorCommands are a big asset to the 4,400 capacity venue. "We have 300 dimmers, but mostly I use the 12 ColorCommands. They are awesome. I absolutely can't imagine doing what we do without them," Marks says.

It's "divine intervention," Marks claims, that plays a role in their successfully executed set designs, which vary each week to enforce the message from the minister. The four-person production team making it happen includes Marks and a carpenter, audio director and video director. "The ColorCommands save a hug

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UK -Theatre sound specialist Orbital was appointed by The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) to design and supply a sophisticated system for the 28th Laurence Olivier Awards. Under the stewardship of producer Adam Spiegel, the event was staged in London's Park Lane Hilton.

Since its inception in 1978, The Olivier Awards have recognized distinguished artistic achievement in London theatre. Spiegel said: "This year's event was a resounding success and the live music and sound was particularly enjoyed by all those attending. We were very grateful to the Orbital team for doing such an excellent job."

For the first time, a new awards category for Best Sound Design was introduced and awarded to Mike Walker for his work on Jerry Springer - The Opera - finally recognizing sound design as an artistic discipline in its own right, alongside others such as lighting design a

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Greece - Audio-Technica microphones will be used by Athens Olympic Broadcasting S.A. (AOB) in the broadcast of the 28th Olympic Games, from August 13-29, in Athens, Greece. Media representatives will cover the 16-day event for a worldwide audience of billions. AOB is the host broadcaster for the Games, responsible for producing and distributing audio and video coverage.

The use of Audio-Technica microphones for the broadcast of the 2004 Olympics marks the continuation of A-T's Olympic involvement, which began with the Atlanta Games in 1996 and has included Sydney in 2000 and Salt Lake City in 2002. "All eyes and ears will be on Athens in 2004 when the Olympic Games begin, and the demands of the multitude of settings in this event call for Audio-Technica mics," says Michael Edwards, Audio-Technica product manager in the US. "The durability and dependability of A-T

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UK - KV2 Audio reports the first installation of its ES system for the Edwards chain, courtesy of Orritt Electronics in Liverpool. Trailing a concept dubbed "Club Edwards" the owners wanted to enhance the existing sound system at their Liverpool venue, with something that would still look discreet, but allow them to compete on a more equal footing with some of the legendary clubs in the city.

After an extensive look at the marketplace Dave Orritt, of Orritt Electronics, realized KV2's ES system would be the perfect product for this application, and immediately arranged a demo. The clients didn't take much convincing, and within a few weeks their concept turned to reality. From a practical point of view, the amplifier room was a long way from the speakers and since the initial first fix, many walls had been plastered and cable routes blocked off. The flexibility of the

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