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Australia - ARX Systems, the Australian pro audio manufacturer, has announced the release of the new V.8 Pro Audio Product Guide CD-ROM, featuring full and updated details on all current ARX products, including the new AudioBox audio interface series and Driveline column array loudspeaker series. The new CD also includes an updated Technical Resource Section covering audio applications and general audio information. To see a copy of the new CD-ROM, please just email your postal address to ARX at the e-mail below.

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UK / Brazil - Midas-Klark Teknik has announced the appointment of Pride Music Ltda as the new distributor of Midas and Klark Teknik products for Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, Pride Music is Brazil's largest distributor for professional audio, lighting and MI products and already carries a number of internationally renowned brands.

According to Telex's Franck Fabry, director of export sales to the Americas: "Pride Music has been operating for 15 years as a true value-added reseller of pro audio products and has extensive experience in the sales, support and service of electronics equipment in Brazil. They only supply products that can be supported in-house by their team of manufacturer-trained technicians, which means that our customers in Brazil can count on full service and support from engineers that have been trained at the factory in Kidderminster. This policy enhances th

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To make this years summer a little hotter Tchibo, the German coffee company invited three legendary soul ladies to form a comeback on stages in Hamburg, Munich and Oberhausen.

Whitney Houston was of course star of the show, no less remarkable was the re-appearance of her cousin Dionne Warwick, the Burt Bacherach voice of the swinging sixties, and Nat King Cole's daughter Nathalie who had turned her father's jazz songs into nineties pop hits. This melange of rich soul voices sold out crowds at Hamburg's Color Line Arena, the Olympia Hall in Munich and the Kvnig Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen.

For these German summer soul events a total of one hundred d&b audiotechnik loudspeakers in various configurations were supplied and rigged by Yousound Showtechnik of Augsburg, Germany, ensuring clear, faithful reproduction of the Divas brilliant performances. "We chose d&b equipment for this

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USA - John Wiseman, current VP of business development and worldwide sales, will move into a consulting role with lighting manufacturer High End Systems Inc. In this role, he will continue to work with key accounts and maintain industry relations.

Wiseman said: "Through my career at High End Systems, I have been privileged to sell the most cutting edge technology products to the market and have built the best worldwide sales team in the lighting manufacturing industry. While it's time for my next adventure, I will maintain an on-going business relationship with the company."

CEO Frank Gordon stated: "John and I have shared a long-term professional relationship. I look forward to continuing the partnership and the expertise he brings to the company."

Wiseman remains a director on the HES Board.

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USA - D-Tools Inc. president and CEO Adam Stone, announced that Steve Collard, current chief financial officer of the fast-growing software manufacturing company, will expand his management duties to assume the role of chief operating officer, effective immediately.

"The depth of experience, financial leadership and vision Steve brings to our management team at this important juncture of our growth plan makes this a logical next step for the company," said Stone.

D-Tools is the industry's leading provider of software solutions for audio/video and control system design, installation, job costing, project management and billing for designers and system integrators for both residential and commercial applications.

"The company has been positioning itself for enormous growth, especially in the commercial application sector, with the planned introduction of several

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UK - James Thomas's Pixel LED division launches four new products at PLASA 2004 following the brand's most successful year to date. Sharing the stand with its core business colleagues from both American and British manufacturing operations, along with the new Pixel products being launched, the JTE team will be showing a selection of the industry standard JTE products, including trussing, ground support systems and its diverse range of theatrical lanterns.

Firstly the PixelPAR 24ec (enhanced control), a high power projector, utilizing twenty-four 1-3W Luxeon emitters in RGB and amber, thus providing a full spectrum output. The lightsource is the same as the popular PixelPAR 90(A) architectural fitting, and the unit uses the same streamlined mechanical housing. Taking advantage of new 3W blue and green LEDs combined with the 1W red and, for the first time, an amber emitter. The st

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Malaysia - Spanish manufacturer D.A.S. Audio offered a series of concerts coinciding with the 16th PALA 2004, which was held from 15 - 18 July in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. During the three days of the show, the new line arrays were on hand for demos at an outdoor stage adjacent to the fairgrounds. Six Aero-48 large format line array systems were flown on each side of the stage and bass reinforcement was provided by six Aero 218 Subs. Stage monitoring was provided using D.A.S. ST-32 co-axial floor monitors. Demos were also provided using the Aero-28 compact line array systems, comprising of four CA-28 mid-high units and 2 x CA-215 for low frequency reproduction.

The D.A.S. Malaysian distributor, Syarikat Instraco Sdn. Bhd., was in charge of organizing the line array demos. Providing factory support was D.A.S. engineer Joan La Roda, who helped out with the final adjustment of the

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UK - Rock Solid Ethernet is a new book by Artistic Licence managing director, Wayne Howell. Ethernet technology is becoming commonplace in entertainment technology. This means that end users, specifiers, designers and engineers need to know the rules: What can you do? What can't you do? So what can you get away with?Rock Solid Ethernet is split into three sections, discussing the technology from the perspective of end users and specifiers, system installers and manufacturers and designers. Subjects covered range from making an RJ45 cable through network topology to the use of radio links. This book is laid out in a style that allows the reader to quickly find the answers to their questions.

Howell commented: "Over the past few years I have looked for a concise reference on the subject of Ethernet. Somewhat to my surprise I was unable to find what I wanted! There are many go

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Greece - Creative Technology London were contracted by Jack Morton Worldwide to provide a turnkey video solution for the spectacular Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Andrew Hawker, CT's technical director, worked on the project for a year, and was responsible for designing and installing the projection system. Using eight Barco XLM25HD video projectors, images were projected onto eight floating 'rock fragments' during the 'Allegory' section of the opening ceremony, played out to a narrative and soundtrack of Mahler's 3rd Symphony.

'Allegory' was the most technically-challenging part of the ceremony, and took the audience on a journey through landmark periods of Greek history - spanning thousands of years - using sculpture as a metaphor.

When the galaxy of floating rocks surrounding the central feature of a cube rose into the air, the faces of the rock fragmen

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UK - DHA Lighting, specialists in entertainment and architectural lighting, will introduce the Derksen Lightbrush colour-mixing architectural washlight system at this year's PLASA Show.

Lightbrush is a modular, colour-mixing system that uses three coloured (red/green/blue), energy-efficient fluorescent tubes to allow the creation of 16.7 million colours. Ideal for providing even washes of light and colour, Lightbrush can be successfully used where the throw available for lighting is less than 500mm.

Available in lengths from 636mm up to 1546mm, they are all housed in lightweight, rugged aluminium cases and designed for indoor or outdoor use. Cube and tower configurations are also available. Lightbrush units are controlled by Lightbrush controller modules, which may be programmed using the Lightbrush hand-held remote unit or controlled via the DMX512 lighting protocol.

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USA - Originally called 'The Palace', Avalon has some serious history in Hollywood, having played host to everyone from Charlie Chaplin in the 20s to the Beatles, Culture Club, Nirvana and many others. It was made most famous by Jerry Lewis who produced his TV show from the venue for many years. Basically a theatre, it lends itself very well to staging productions, the high ceilings providing a great canvas for a light show, and still has the original hemp pulley system.

As Richie Worboys, who was commissioned to refit the club said: "When I was commissioned I picked ShowCAD Artist for the venue as my experience with it for the last seven years has been fantastic. The software approach makes it the ideal choice for a nightclub installation - not to mention the price and flexibility."

This flexibility extends to allowing users to build their own front-end control surf

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UK - The Scottish Parliament has chosen Bosch's advanced congress sound management and communications system for the new Holyrood parliament building in Edinburgh which opens later this year. The innovative new building will feature a fully digital DCN Digital Congress system from Bosch Security Systems to provide high quality digital sound management with electronic voting, multilingual translation facilities as well as 'Smart Card' reading for automatic identification and authentication of members.

Additional features include Infra-Red and Inductive Loop audio facilities for enhanced audio communication for the hard of hearing, plus high quality sound reinforcement for both the main chamber and press and public galleries. The system allows simultaneous translation into various languages including Gaelic as well as other EC languages when hosting international events. The Infr

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Spain - Since its launch, the Aero line array system is rapidly becoming the choice of an increasing number of sound engineers worldwide. The Aero system has seen action in concerts and live events in Korea, El Salvador, Ecuador, Italy, Argentina and the US. Most recently, the stage was in Mongolia, one of the world's most exotic travel destinations.

Mr Orgoin Bayar, owner of the leisure centre 'UB Palace', the largest in the capital of Ulaan Baatar, was impressed with the performance of the Aero systems he had seen at the Frankfurt Pro Light and Sound show. After comparing the D.A.S. system with many others, he decided on acquiring the first line array system in Mongolia, buying 20 x Aero 48 large format line array modules and 12 x Aero-218 Sub low frequency systems. On 10 July the system debuted at the 'Naadam Festival', the largest live event in Mongolia. The outdoor event wa

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UK - CP Sound, Staines-based creative lighting and sound specialists, has completed the second stage of an installation at the popular Waxy O'Connor's concept bar in Birmingham.

This follows the original audio design and installation that was completed by CP Sound in 2002, including JBL speakers, a Rolec computer music system and RSE amplification. The entrance area has been jazzed up with the addition of five MADColor MBI 150 colour changing fixtures, controlled by a Raving MAD DMX controller, specified for its simplicity and ease of operation. Push button control offers a pre-selection of different lighting modes - 'mood', 'chill', 'dance' and 'mad'.

CP's Colin Pattenden recommended the addition of a JBL sub bass speaker to boost sound 'feel' inside the entrance. Downstairs in Waxy's main Church Bar, Pattenden and his team added four HTI 150 Arc discharge Power Flower lighti

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UK - Polaron plc has strengthened its position as a leading European lighting controls company with the addition of the iLight Group. The AIM-listed, broad-based technology group has acquired the entire share capital of iLight Group Ltd, with the purchased finalised on 1 September 2004. The iLight group, which contains the market leading lighting control companies' iLight Ltd and Zero 88 Lighting Ltd, is now part of Polaron's control systems division.

David Kerr director and majority shareholder of iLight Group Ltd, has agreed to join Polaron Controls Division board of directors as non-executive chairman. Commenting on the acquisition, Joe Stelzer, CEO of Polaron plc said: "In line with our stated strategy at the time of our Aim listing in March, this acquisition strengthens our controls division with an enlarged portfolio of products and specialised sales and R&D teams th

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UK - Stardraw.com and Dove Net Technologies have announced that background music provider Muzak has opted to standardize its proposal-generation and audio systems design and documentation procedure on Stardraw A/V and The Project System. Originally known for its infamous 'elevator music', today Muzak provides sophisticated music, voice and sound systems to over 350,000 clients worldwide. Drawing from a vast library of over 1.5 million CDs, the company has an ever-evolving pool of original music programs that can be tailored to the client's specific requirements. Over 100 million people hear Muzak every day, be it in Gap or McDonalds or countless private homes and businesses.

The Project System brings to the table a flexible estimating platform that will be used by the National Accounts Division of Muzak to speed up its estimating process on system installations around the count

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UK - Beyma will present new models at the PLASA 2004 Trade Fair with its solution for Line Array design as the main innovative product. The new items included in the Beyma 2004 catalogue provide a response to the growing demand for very light and powerful loudspeakers.

The greatest innovation is the WL5, which Beyma launches to the market as the best solution for the high frequency design of Line Array Systems. This model is composed of two components: A specially designed high frequency compression driver, based in the CP-755/ND but in a much more compact size for optimum assembling, with 108dB and 80 W AES, and a simple but effective wave guide which transforms the circular aperture of the compression driver into a rectangular surface, without excessive angle aperture to provide minimum vertical dispersion to the acoustic wavefront. The design fulfills the curvature requiremen

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Germany - Introduced at the ProLight+Sound 2004 exhibition in Frankfurt, the Line 212-SP, with integrated active electronics and the new SW 215E and SW215E-SP subwoofers, are now available, say manufacturer Kling & Freitag.

Like the passive version, the Line 212-SP is available as a 65° and a 90° version. One unique feature of the Line 212 Systems is the patented FLC technology which causes a targeted dispersion pattern which already begins in the lower frequency spectrum. If necessary, the horn-loaded extremely compact full-range system Line 212 can be supplemented with additional subwoofers. The new double 15" subwoofer SW 215E, also available as an SP version (self-powered), is especially well-suited for this. Using stacking foot grooves on the top and the side of the SW 215E, the Line 212 systems can be set up for stand-alone or cluster use. Both systems can be opera

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Germany - The Compulite Vector console has recently been used on the RTL television production of The Dome 31. Filmed 3 September at the Frankenhalle in Nuremberg the three hour mega show, which has run four times a year since 1997, featured over 30 of the top German up and coming pop stars. The line up included UK groups Faithless and Blazin' Squad and US band Maroon 5.

With a stage of 450m2 and an audience of 10000, the shows producers wanted the best in lighting as well as the best performers, so lighting designer Dave Davey was called on to ensure the show was the most spectacular yet. With an extremely hectic schedule, Davey recruited Nigel Catmur as Show lighting director, Ross Williams as Catalyst operator, Russell Grubiak to run the audience lights and Bill Peachment to run all the moving lights on his Compulite Vector system.

The moving light rig consisted of 33 Marti

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UK - Creative Technology has commissioned its first digital portable production unit. Managing director Mark Elliott says that while this is the first to be developed, the company's intention is to build up to half a dozen of the units over the next 12 months. "We are taking our lead from the broadcast world," he stated. "Although our analogue PPUs still work extremely well, the new system will give us greater functionality in a smaller package, and added portability."

After extensive evaluation, CT decided on the Grass Valley Kayak from Thomson as the hub of the new system. The Kayak DD 1ME (mix/effects) digital vision mixer, he says is proving very popular in the rental staging environment in the US. "Although it has the added whistles and bells, the ergonomics will be familiar to traditionalists - it's a very approachable desk."

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