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KT demonstrated Helix RCS (remote control software), together with V2.02 of the Elgar Library Manager Shell. The RCS software allows access to all of the functions of the Helix digital EQ from a PC, via the 'FastNav' page that shows every function of every channel. The new wireless tablet PCs are supported.

Elgar provides a single place to store, load and edit Add-Ins such as Helix RCS and the Heritage 1000 Library Manager, creating a framework within the PC that allows the Add-Ins to communicate with the relevant piece of hardware. The latest release, V2.02, features the Elgar Comms Manager, which allows multiple Add-Ins to be run simultaneously.

Helix can link to the DN6000 real-time audio analyzer to provide auto-EQ functions if required, and the NAMM launch of the Midas Siena adds

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Fifty Line' is a compact, active, long-throw PA system in three modular units: the FL10 passive HF speaker, with horn-loaded 10" woofer and B&C 1" coaxial compression driver; the FL15 mid/bass unit, incorporating one 500W/RMS power amp and one 300W+100W/RMS power amp used to power the FL10 via a four-channel speaker cable; and the FL18 sub, driven by an 18" B&C woofer with an internal 600W/RMS class-H power amp.

The PU 901 M/L UHF wireless microphone system is digitally controlled with detachable antennae, 16 selectable frequencies, multi-channel capabilities and digital code squelch. Up to eight PU 901 systems can be operated simultaneously in a single TV channel, while an optional active antenna splitter - the AS 6 - is available for multi-channel installations. Hand and pocket transmitters are powered with a standard 9V battery; operating time exceeds 30 hours.

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USA - Composer Brian Wilson was honoured recently as the Grammy MusiCares 2005 Person of the Year. To celebrate his musical, humanitarian and philanthropic accomplishments, a special all-star tribute concert and silent auction was held 11 February at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

Delicate Productions of Camarillo, California, supplied the good lighting vibrations with a package featuring High End Systems equipment. LD David 'Gurn' Kaniski and crew chief Andy Figuroa took charge of the rig of 18 Studio Beams, 16 Studio Color 575s and 12 Studio Spot 575s. A Wholehog 2 console with a Wing was specified for control. The Palladium rocked out with performances by Backstreet Boys, Barenaked Ladies, Jeff Beck, Michelle Branch, Jamie Cullum, Earth, Wind & Fire, India.Arie, John Legend, Darlene Love, Shelby Lynne, Fred Martin & The Levite Camp, Michael McDonald, Red Hot Chili P

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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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UK - When Umbaba opened to a select clientele recently, it completed a trio of exclusive London West End venues equipped from the ground up with ATC transparent reference monitors. Overseen by acoustician Nick Whitaker, the Umbaba system came about as a development of the PA they had designed and installed at Aura and Chinawhite. The guiding influence had been Freddie Moss, who has a strong financial stake in both Aura and Chinawhite, and was introduced to the ATC sound by Whitaker himself.

ATC's method is to use recording studio quality loudspeakers in slightly greater numbers to give enhanced sound performance and extended listening comfort. "The major advantage in the greatly reduced distortion over a PA-type system," says ATC's R&D engineer, Ben Lilly. "Distortion is the major cause of listener fatigue and discomfort."

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Australia - Australian hospitality entrepreneur, Geoff Haywood, has renovated one of Perth's 19th Century classic pubs, the Brisbane Hotel, appointing club specialists, Megavision, and audio suppliers, TAG, to install a new audio format.

The resurrected venue is a fusion of new design elements and classic tradition. From an audio perspective the main hospitality area splits into two zones - the Long Bar and the Beer Garden. Globally connected and able to be operated as a single system, each area can also run independently and has been custom-designed to best meet the expected use.

All the audio system zones are controlled by an 8 x 16 Allen & Heath iDR-8 digital mix processor with settings addressable via wall panels - including the eight fader PL-6 - via laptop, or using the iDR's TCP-IP address over the web.

Strategically located between The Long Bar and The Beer Garden is

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UK / Italy - The International Audio Group (IAG) has announced the acquisition of the Italian Coef brand of lighting products to its portfolio of leading audio brands. Formed in 1997, IAG comprises well known brand names such as Wharfedale hifi, Wharfedale Pro, Quad hifi and Quad Industrial. With its worldwide distribution network including subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Australia, America and Hong Kong, the Group says it has both the manufacturing expertise and strategic positioning to develop the Coef brand further.

IAG says it will continue to manufacture the existing range of Coef-branded products for the architectural, entertainment and theatre markets but above all will inject considerable investment into research and development of new products to address the needs of those markets. However, the company will cease to operate in Italy.

In recent years, say the compan

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UK - The Sage Gateshead, the stunning new £70m home for live music in the North of England, is at the heart of the regeneration of Tyneside. Funded by the largest Arts Lottery grant outside London, The Sage Gateshead is the first building for the performing arts to be designed by Foster and Partners and aims to be an inclusive, open-for-everyone music venue. It includes two concert halls, the Northern Rock Foundation Hall for rehearsal and performance and a 25 room Music Education Centre designed to pioneer a fresh approach to musical discovery. Theatre Projects Consultants (TPC) was responsible for the technical design, working with acousticians Arup Acoustics.

Hall One, with a capacity of 1650, is the largest of the two concert halls and uses retractable acoustic curtains, as does Northern Rock Foundation Hall, whereas the unusual design of Hall Two called for acoustic banne

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UK - Birmingham-based AV installation company Argus Services is creating something of a benchmark for sound reinforcement systems among the leading football clubs in the UK, having recently installed Martin Audio's AM Stadium Series loudspeakers cabinets at three Premier Division clubs.

The latest to install the specially-designed weather-proofed cabinets is West Bromwich Albion FC. Argus has added seven AM15 cabinets to the main stand at West Brom's Hawthorns stadium. Jerry Matthews of Argus explains that "it's a deep tiered stand, and, although there was already a single row of speakers at the front, the further you went up the rows, the less you could hear. We've had to mount a row of Martin Audio AM15s about 25ft up the stand, just about where the directors sit!" All the AM15's have been suspended on custom-built brackets. "These enable us to do everything fr

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UK - Michigan-based Thunder Audio has invested in DiGiCo D5 Live and D1 Live digital mixing consoles for its current tour with Garbage. With 25 years' experience in sound and light rental, Thunder Audio is a premier audio and full production company in both the US and the rest of the world, and they have chosen to invest in DiGiCo as their first foray into the world of digital audio mixing.

"We always said that we would take the digital plunge when it was necessary," says Paul Owen, vice-president of Thunder Audio. "We chose to go for the D5 and D1 Live with fibre optic split because of DiGiCo's excellent reputation and the request for these particular consoles on the Garbage tour. We know that we're going to have them rented out for the coming 12 months and that makes for a very sound investment."

Geoff Lissaman, DiGiCo's vice-president - Concert Sound,

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UK - The Brit Awards, now celebrating its 25th year, saw Shure hard-wired and wireless mics plus personal monitoring being utilized. Many artists chose to use the combination of Shure Premier Wireless with a Beta 58A capsule. Those included four Brit nominee, Natasha Bedingfield who performed Chaka Khan's disco classic 'Ain't Nobody' with her brother Daniel. Another stunning duo to use Shure Premier Wireless were Jamelia and Lemar who performed a raunchy version of Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love'; both urban artists were nominated for several awards. Winner of Best UK Solo Artist, The Streets was another Shure wireless user delivering his recent UK number one track 'Dry Your Eyes'. Furthermore, arguably the highlight of the evening, Robbie Williams and Joss Stone chose to use Premier Wireless whilst performing Robbie's 'Angels', for which he received the Best Song Award. Joss

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UK - SDD Sound & Light has just completed the updating of lighting control hardware and software for the Magna Carta Arts Centre in Staines, Surrey. The centre plays host to a wide range of events from pantomime, concerts, musical theatre through to school drama festivals. Technical expertise is also wide ranging from users who have worked in the West End to school age children. Needless to say, with this in mind it was important that a new lighting desk should be easy to understand and yet powerful enough to satisfy the needs of the users.

Remaining with Strand products was the obvious choice and with the increasing number of clients using intelligent lighting in their productions, SDD finally settled on the 350 channel, 520i to replace the ageing Strand LBX. Clive Walker, the Arts Centre manager, said: "Our relationship with SDD goes back to the early years of the centre

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USA - For the eighth consecutive year, New Life Church in Colorado Springs is preparing for its popular Easter production of The Thorn, with a new setting and lighting design in place. The 8,000+ seat New Life Church Worship Center features a state-of-the-art lighting system to augment the variety of services and productions planned for the venue. Terry Taylor, lighting director for the facility, consulted with Peter Maurelli from Barbizon Light of the Rockies in Denver to decide on the perfect arrangement for the church's busy schedule. Naturally, The Thorn was a major focus.

With the new Worship Center in place to showcase the performance, Taylor needed the lighting to be perfect. The decision was made to install the Wybron Autopilot II system with 22 x.Spots in the ceiling and four on the floor, plus eight High End Systems 575 Studio series in the ceiling, for

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UK - XL supplied two of its new DP HD35 projectors and a newly released Barco Folsom Encore SC control system along with a digital three-camera PPU for Pizza Hut's 2005 sales conference in the Monarch Suite of the Hilton Metropole in London. The conference was followed by an awards dinner and dance. The event was produced by Beki Gaskin working for Breeze Marketing; XL's project manager was Greg Rice and Mel Davis handled the event production management.

The two projectors - each displaying 1920 x 1080 pixels - were rigged for rear projection using a soft edge overlap, and giving a full screen display area of 3200 x 1080 pixels across the 12m wide asymmetric surface. Gaskin has produced the show for the last nine years and this year wanted to attempt something radically different. The highly flexible Barco Folsom system enabled her to break the mould not only in live video effe

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Denmark - A large quantity of DPA Microphones including 14 DPA 4011 cardioid mics, 10 DPA 4022 compact cardioid mics, eight DPA 4006 omnidirectional mics, 32 4061 miniatures and 22 4066 miniatures are in use at the new Danish Opera House in Copenhagen. The opera house, which is one of the most advanced in the world, was inaugurated with a gala performance on 15 January 2005.

The new venue is a gift to the people of Denmark from Danish businessman Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, and home to the Danish Royal Theatre, with whom DPA Microphones enjoys a close relationship. The Danish Royal Theatre has assumed technical responsibility for the venue, and the mics were specified by Claus Wolter, head of sound for the Royal Danish Theatre and Opera. "I have to believe in the quality of every single piece of equipment we use in our daily work, and that's why we always have different type

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UK - The National Theatre has just completed a refit of the main proscenium loudspeaker system in the Lyttelton Theatre, using Opus Audio Developments loudspeakers, amplifiers and controllers. Adam Rudd, Sound Supervisor for the Lyttelton, together with members of his team, went through a lengthy evaluation process to find the system that gave them the most natural sound quality and best coverage.

Adam Rudd explains, "We've had various systems in the Lyttelton over the years, but never one we were completely satisfied with. Up for evaluation were the usual systems you'd list for top quality theatre and Alan Lochhead also approached us with the Opus products. I have to say that there was some scepticism before the listening tests but it soon became clear that the full Opus system of loudspeakers, amplifiers and controllers were in a league of their own as far as accurate, n

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USA - For the eighth consecutive year, Audio-Technica microphones was extensively deployed by the Grammy Awards show for star performances, and to provide backline signals for the major international broadcast event, televised in both HDTV and surround sound on the CBS High Definition Television Network.

Michael Abbott, audio coordinator for the 47th Annual Grammys, stated: "We are pleased that Audio-Technica has continued its support for the 8th year as a Grammy manufacturing partner. I would also like to commend A-T on the 5000 Series Wireless. Its high-fidelity and solid performance made it a go-to wireless for artists and engineers alike."

Audio-Technica's Artist Elite 5000 Series Wireless Systems were used for front-line vocals by artists such as: Gwen Stefani, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, Johnny Van Zant, Blind Boys of Alabama, Melissa Etheridge and John Ma

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USA - Industry veteran Jack Schmidt is retiring from Strong Entertainment Lighting, but he's not leaving the lighting industry. He is now principal in a company called Special Lighting Solutions, which offers services specifically aimed at the people who own, use, specify, and service followspots - particularly Strong Entertainment Lighting products. Schmidt will offer architects and consultants the benefit of 30+ years in the industry (the past 20 as Strong Entertainment Lighting's followspot product sales manager), in training technicians on the maintenance of Strong spotlights, as well as hands-on technical support and advice.

For facility planning and management, Special Lighting Solutions offers:
5A plan review specifically aimed at ensuring that the followspot positions in your facility are located and outfitted to offer the most flexibility and utility;
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UK - Seasoned pro audio technical salesman, Tim Shaxson, joins DiGiCo's sales department as technical sales to work alongside sales director James Gordon. Shaxson joins DiGiCo from HHB Communications where he spent 12 years as Senior Pro-Audio technical salesman and was consistently one of its highest achieving team members. His appointment comes during a period of exceptional growth in the digital mixing console market and the expansion of its sales department is a reflection of DiGiCo's continued confidence and increased demand.

"We had been looking for a suitable addition to our sales department for sometime and Tim's experience in the industry and relaxed customer style make him the perfect fit for DiGiCo," comments Gordon. "Tim is going to be focusing his activities on promoting Soundtracs and DiGiCo consoles both nationally and internationally in conjunction

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UK - Following on from the success of last year's series of Theatre Lighting Workshops, Selecon UK has announced further sessions for 2005. These technical lighting workshops, organized especially for professional theatre technicians and lighting designers, offer a hands-on experience and the opportunity to have a closer look at Selecon's unique range of Award-winning theatre luminaries.

Venues and Dates for 2005 are: 21 March at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge; 24 March at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle; and 5 April at the Clywd Theatre, Mold, North Wales. The sessions will last from 10.30am to 3pm, with lunch included. The workshops are free to all theatre technicians and lighting designers.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Baldwin Boxall will launch its feature rich Vigil 'EVAS' master and slave units at the forthcoming ProLight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt (6-9 April 2005), International Fire Expo in Birmingham (16-19 May 2005). A DSP processor-based routeing matrix designed for the voice alarm/voice evacuation market, the Vigil 'EVAS' is designed to meet all current, and even future, standards for Voice Alarm systems, including BS5839 part 8 and EN60849, say the company.

This new product comes in the form of the BVRD2M master and separate BVRD2S slave, both of which are housed within a 1U 19" rack-mounting format. The BVRD2M has eight electronically balanced inputs and seven electronically balanced outputs. Inputs 1 and 2 have an 'all call' processor bypass as well as a dedicated in-built 'all call' fail safe emergency message generator in the event of a processor failure. The BVRD2M

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Canada - An Adamson SpekTrix compact line array system has been permanently installed at the new Cats Theatre in Tokyo, Japan. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats has enjoyed successful theatrical stagings across the globe, and although the Broadway and London productions have completed their extended, record-breaking runs, the popularity of Cats in Japan has never faded.

Running in the country since 1983, Cats, performed in Japanese by the Shiki Theatre Company, has been presented in a number of major cities including Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Shizuoka, Hiroshima and Sendai. Pulling in more than 5.7 million people over the course of almost 6,000 performances in Japan, the musical has returned to the city of Tokyo after an absence of eight years.

The specially-designed Cats Theatre can accommodate a capacity of 1,200 on two levels of seating. The s

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