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UK - John Hickinbotham, known to his associates as 'John Jig', returns to UK-based James Thomas Engineering as client liaison co-ordinator. This is part of the company's current management restructuring, and follows the departure of Mervyn Thomas.

Jig returns to the company after three years working in IT, previous to which he worked at JTE for 20 years. He will be working alongside the sales and product development teams for both Pixel Range, and JTE's core trussing, metalwork and lighting fixture business. His focus will be on ensuring that JTE stays at the forefront of technical innovation - an element that's helped keep the company a market leader in the production industry for over 25 years.

Jig commented: "It's really great to be back. It's hugely exciting to be part

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UK - Martin Professional launched a new range of Mach speakers during the recent PLASA show at Earls Court in London. David Caulfield (MD) and Clive Bailey (UK Sales) of Martin Professional also announced that Leisuretec Distribution has been appointed to distribute this new Mach product into the installation sector.

Caulfield commented: 'Leisuretec Distribution are very well positioned to penetrate the installation sector with this fabulous new Ci series of speakers, already supplying a large customer base of installation companies with audio, visual & lighting products. It makes sense that Leisuretec should offer Mach / Martin products too'

Nick Spalding, managing director for Leisuretec Distribution added: "We are excited with this new arrangement. The Mach, Jem and Martin Professional brands are readily recognized as market leading products and it is very pleasing to

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UK - DHA Lighting, manufacturer of gobos with over thirty years experience in the field, is looking to expand its extensive gobo library with a new Designers' Collection - a range of gobos inspired or created by lighting designers.

If you have the perfect gobo, the gobo you've always needed or wanted, lodged in your imagination, then now is the time to get the idea to DHA. Submissions in any form are welcome, whether a rough description, an adaptation of an existing gobo or a fully formed design on paper or in electronic format. The range will include metal, glass and coloured glass gobos, so just about any design can be realized.

The new Collection will be launched by DHA early next year, listed in a new Designers' Collection section of the DHA gobo library with the gobo's creator fully credited. Pricing will be as DHA's existing gobos, with the new gobos available from stock

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UK - Centre Stage Engineering was recently awarded ISO 9001 certification as it commits to further improve customer satisfaction. The company also reports that it has been appointed as a recognized designer and installer by Gala Systems of Canada for its unique Spiralift drive transmission system used in stage elevators.

The recent doubling of the factory floor space to accommodate a stand-alone, in-house manufacturing and fabrication facility, means that the company can now tackle a wider range of projects, while the company also looked to the future with the recent appointment of a young design engineer to the team at the start of the year, along with the establishment of a contributory company pension plan and a mechanical engineering apprenticeship scheme.

Current projects include the supply and installation of all the stage machinery at the new prestigious Perth Concert

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China - d&b audiotechnik (China) Ltd was established in Hong Kong in October 2004, and is the result of a co-operation between d&b audiotechnik and its existing distribution partner for the region since 2002, Sound Works and Supplies. d&b audiotechnik China will take on the task of providing the distribution and support for the whole of China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Through this office d&b intends to provide its customers with a more convenient and faster before and after sales support for its range of professional reinforcement systems. Mr. Freddie To, the sales and marketing director for the new company commented: "d&b audiotechnik is an established and well respected brand in Europe, who are totally focused on the complete system approach."

This approach encompasses loudspeakers, control electronics and mechanical accessories that are totally compatible, as well as

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USA - Super Vision International (NASDAQ: SUPVA) recently announced that it will introduce its new colour changing LED lighting system this month in Las Vegas at LDI. The Entertainment Lighting Show. The new SaVI line of intelligent LED lighting products include architectural lighting fixtures that are designed for commercial interior and exterior applications as well as nightscape and underwater lighting applications.

The SaVI line of fixtures include the SaVi Accent, a linear lighting system for coves, accent and backlighting, SaVi Flood for larger scale wall washing and colour floodlighting, SaVi Spot for accent lighting of smaller illumination areas, nightscapes and underwater use, and the SaVi Tube, a visually exciting special effects linear lighting system.

Mike Bauer, vice president of sales and marketing stated: "Architectural and retail lighting is being revoluti

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UK - PLASA's Technical Office has announced that the long-awaited German safety standard, BGV-C1 Staging and Production facilities for the entertainment industries, is now available in an official English version. This standard was first introduced in 1998 and its English translation has been eagerly anticipated for many years.

PLASA, working with its German counterpart, the VPLT, is now offering a downloadable PDF version of the translation, absolutely free, from the web address below.

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USA - American DJ has introduced the Mega Flash DMX, a powerful DMX-compatible strobe light with 800W of output. Compact and pocketbook-friendly, the brilliant Mega Flash DMX out strobes similar fixtures in its price range by as much as a brightness factor of four.

Small and compact, the fixture weighs 5 lbs. and comes with a durable, high-tech plastic case that protects it from damage during transport, setup and breakdown. The Mega Flash DMX lets users change strobe speeds and adjust dimming from 0-100 percent via a standard DMX lighting controller. Speed- and dimming-control knobs are also located on the rear of the unit for DJs who want to operate the Mega Flash DMX without a controller. The fixture also can be set to operate in sound-active mode, in which it will flash along to the beat of the music.

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UK - Induction loop specialist Ampetronic has announced two new appointments to accommodate the increasing demand for induction loop systems in new and challenging environments. Julian Pieters assumes the position of managing director, with Ken Hollands becoming commercial director. Ampetronic's founder, Leon Pieters, takes on the role of technical director.

Julian Pieters joins Ampetronic from Cambridge Consultants, one of the foremost consultancies delivering turnkey product and technology development programmes. His management experience there, plus an INSEAD MBA, makes him ideally suited for his new role. Hollands, meanwhile, has a strong technical background and extensive international sales and marketing experience within the advanced technology and communications industries, working for companies such as Marconi and JDS Uniphase. During his career, he has successfully de

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USA - Together with recently appointed US distributor, Audio Exchange International (AXI), pro audio manufacturer Audient will be using this month's AES exhibition as a platform to launch some of its latest products and strengthen the brand in the US. Audient's recording range is amongst an array of high-end US- and European-based audio products distributed by AXI, who are exhibiting in San Francisco on booth 426.

The AES show also sees the US launch of Audient's brand new digital equaliser and dynamics processor - NEO. This expandable DSP-based system comprises a two-channel master and two- or four-channel slaves, controllable within one network. Features include a graphic and parametric equalizer, high and low-pass filters, shelving EQ with compressor, limiter and dynamic equaliser, digital delay and optional RTA.

Sales and marketing director Luke Baldry says: "There

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UK - ChamSys celebrated the launch of its new MagicQ consoles at PLASA 04 with an innovative demonstration of its powerful distributed client / server architecture. Media clips were selected from thumbnails displayed on the MagicQ touch screen.

The MagicQ 100 console controlled a Hippotizer media server with live retrieval of the media thumbnails onto the console. "Being able to select media clips from thumbnails on the touch-screen of your lighting console has to be the way forward." pointed out VJ and LD Francis Martin, "I cannot understand why companies supplying both products for several years have not already done this."

MagicQ is ideally suited to controlling media servers with all their associated control parameters through the eight separate encoder wheels. And with full Cue Stack capability on every playback fader it becomes easy to control highly

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New Zealand - Grease, the original stage version of one of the highest-grossing musical movies ever, opened in Wellington's Opera House with Christchurch based Redd Acoustics providing audio with a little help from an XTA D2 dynamics processor.

The musical was born in a disused Chicago tram shed in 1971 as an experimental amateur show and by 1979 it was the longest-running show on Broadway and a hit movie. The Wellington Musical Theatre version met the challenge with a PA comprising ElectroVoice loudspeaker cabinets and M-Audio Monitors handled the band foldback along with the XTA processing.

XTA's SiDD (Seriously Intelligent Digital Dynamics) is already assisting in London's West End and on Broadway, but the multiband D2 Dynamic EQ was used on the Christchurch job. Systems and theatre engineer, Glen Ruske of Redd, comments: "The XTA D2 is fantastic for theatre work. It w

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UK / Spain - Xtreme Audio Visual, the Clacton-on-Sea-based sound and lighting installation company which won the key contract to fit out the Guru superclub in Valencia, has created a new open-air dance terrace at the venue, featuring an ElectroVoice dancefloor system in keeping with Guru's use of EV and Dynacord products throughout the venue. All EV and Dynacord product was supplied by Shuttlesound, the UK distributor, to Xtreme AV.

Nirvana, the latest space, has been created by removing all the walls, leaving just the roof so that it works as a covered terrace. The VIP room has been integrated with the terrace, and both areas are integrated with the rest of Guru's rooms via the BSS Soundweb network which Xtreme installed last year. There is an ElectroVoice RX system for the main dancefloor, featuring four RX218s and four RX212s, two RX112s and four RX115s. This system is power

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UKBosch Security Systems scored another major success for its DCN Digital Congress Network system when it was chosen by the Irish government to provide high quality international and portable conferencing facilities at various regional venues throughout the country during Ireland's Presidency of the EU. Featuring portability, the new DCN Concentus system provides multi-lingual translation facilities using the latest Integrus infrared audio language distribution system for secure interference-free audio distribution in any language at the touch of a button anywhere in the debating chamber.

Another Bosch DCN system is already used every day in the main Irish Parliament in Dublin so the Irish government know its capabilities very well. It is also used in many other EU parliaments including Brussels and the new Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh.

Provided and installed by

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Italy/USA - LDR recently announced the launch of the new Canto 250HR ceramic followspot, the result of cooperation between Philips Lighting and LDR. The new Canto 250HR is based on the new ceramic lamp from Philips, which provides 3200 K and a CRI>90 whilst using only a quarter of the power consumption of a 1KW halogen lamp.

The ST250Hr lamp offers all the benefits of ceramic technology for applications that until now have been the preserve of halogen lamps. This followspot features a well defined beam, a large side handle to control pan and tilt movement and a double microswitch interlock for safe bulb replacement. The fan-free cooling system makes it ideal for TV studios and theatre applications. Lamp, iris, mechanical dimmer, spigot, colour frame and 2m mains cable are included as standard, and a five-colour colour changer is available as an optional extra.

The new Canto 25

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Czech Republic - Apogee Sound International, the US manufacturer of sound reinforcement products for the pro audio industry, has announced that the new Sazka Arena in Prague, Czech Republic, has installed 98 Apogee APL Series powered loudspeakers. The Apogee system consists of 90 Apogee APL-500DSP and eight Apogee APL-800DSP loudspeakers, networked and controlled by Apogee Digital Audio Management (ADAM) software. The new arena was designed and built in just 28 months to be ready for the opening of the 2004 IIHF World Hockey Championships in Prague.

The Sazka Arena's Apogee system was designed by Soning, one of the Czech Republic's leading consulting firms, as were other audio/video and broadcast systems in the venue. According to Andrej Hronec, owner of AudioPro, Apogee's distributor in Prague, Soning focused heavily on the latest technologies to ease the normally difficult ta

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Japan - Asahi Kasei Microsystems (AKM), a leading supplier of audio ICs for professional and consumer markets, recently introduced the AK4113 - a 192 kHz digital audio interface receiver (DIR) with a wide sampling rate. The six-channel input AK4113 supersedes the four-channel AK4112B, which has been widely used in AV amplifiers as a cost-saving version of the AK4114 without transmission functions. It supports wide sampling rates from 8kHz to 216kHz.The AK4113 is fully compatible with AES3, IEC60958, S/PDIF and EIAJ-CP1201 standards for AV amplifiers, DVD receivers and DTVs. It also supports 24-bit 192 kHz PCM data and Non-PCM data streaming like Dolby Digital/MPEG etc.

Like the AK4114, it features a Q-subcode buffer for audio CD, built-in 40-bit channel status buffer and incorporates a non-PCM detection function for identifying DTS-CD data. Compared with the AK4112B, the AK4113

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Italy - The premiere of Shark Tale - Dreamworks' and distributor UIP's latest animated creation - was staged in spectacular style in Venice's historic Piazza San Marco (St Mark's Square) as part of the 2004 Venice Film Festival. Show producers Bob Collins and Sean Glen of Me3 Productions from California brought in UK-based technical production specialist Andy Peat Associates and Venetian production company TESE to realize this major feat of technical production.

This is the first time a show of this nature has been granted permission to take place in the Piazza San Marco, a world heritage site and home to thousands of pigeons. The audience was joined by the film's star 'voice-over talent' including Will Smith, Robert de Niro and Angelina Jolie, along with the film's producers and directors. In addition to the 500 VIPs, approximately 5,500 local guests also enjoyed the evening - free -

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UK - Automation specialist Kinesys has completed the design, specification, and installation of a new automation system for the mother grid at the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham. According to Kinesys, this makes the NIA one of the safest and most flexible venues for rigging in the UK.

With an increasingly diverse schedule of events, the hall's rigging upgrade was prompted primarily by general health and safety concerns. Working closely with the venue's head of rigging Paul Rowlands and rigging and motor supplier Bridgehouse, Kinesys' Dave Weatherhead devised a customized control system to the venue's initial brief.

A major challenge was that all Kinesys' distro racks, patchbays and control gear had to be mounted within the grid itself. This was for neatness and to minimize cable runs, for which Kinesys also developed a series of customized cable trays that run neatly with

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Russia - The organizers of the Musikmesse/Prolight+Sound St. Petersburg exhibition have announced that in future the event will be organized solely by Messe Frankfurt's Russian partner, Lenexpo. The decision was taken by the organizers, Messe Frankfurt GmbH and Lenexpo Exhibition and Trade Fair Company, and communicated to the exhibitors and other interested parties at the end of September.

Last year, the second trade fair for musical instruments and accessories, lighting, sound and event technology in the Northwest Region of the Russian Federation, enabled around 300 exhibitors to make contact with some 8,000 visitors at the exhibition centre in St. Petersburg. Nevertheless, the results of this edition showed that the expectations of Messe Frankfurt in terms of event growth and profitability were unlikely to be fulfilled in the medium term. "Musikmesse/Prolight+Sound St.

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France - Loud Technologies Inc. announced the appointment of Impact Evénement as the new distributors of the EAW and EAW Commercial brands in France with immediate effect.

According to EAW's European sales manager, Sean Martin, Impact is ideally placed to represent the EAW brand in France. "We are all very eager to start doing business," confirmed Martin. "From our perspective, Impact's set-up and structure is superb with imposing premises on the outskirts of Paris. Their distribution expertise is already second to none, and their audio expertise is guaranteed with the appointment of ex-EAW representative Bruno Ghidionesco to the Impact team. As distributors of high-end lighting equipment, Impact already has strong relationships with many of EAW's key customers in France, and of course, as EAW is the only audio line they represent, we can be sure that there are n

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