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UK - For Velvet Revolver's Belfast Odyssey Arena concert, Concert Sound supplied a system built around MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers.

The main system utilised left and right arrays, each consisting of 13 MILO cabinets and one MILO 120 high-power expanded coverage loudspeaker underhung for downfill. Eight 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers were groundstacked on each side to provide added firepower.

A centre array of MSL-4 horn-loaded long-throw loudspeakers completed the set-up. "The MSL-4s on the ground were for extra side coverage and a little bit of front fill," comments system technician Tony Szabo. "We used eleven MSL-4s in total, just to fill the spaces. Instead of putting a side hang up in the air, we threw a few more fills in there at ground

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USA - Based on the award-winning Eclipse 208, Clear-Com has developed the Eclipse Median to suit systems where space is restricted, such as OB vans. It will be shown at the forthcoming IBC exhibition in Amsterdam. Clear-Com has designed this matrix to incorporate eight interface slots and still provide 112 ports in a small 6RU frame.

The Median differs from the E208 by including eight interface slots to make the Median more suited to facilities where space is at a premium. The eight slots use existing Clear-Com interfaces.

Chris Exelby, managing director for Clear-Com says, "The development of the Eclipse Median shows our commitment to mid-sized applications, which account for a large and very important portion of the broadcast market. The Eclipse Median further demonstrates the flexibility of the easily scalable Eclipse range, allowing us to meet the needs of our custome

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Italy / UK - The iSpot S is a new version of the moving head projector. Flicker-free and self-stabilising, iSpot S is suitable for a range of specialist and conventional applications, but its improved low noise design makes it ideal for TV studios. Features include 12 rotating gobos and a powerful luminous output, articulated movement (pan 530°, tilt 270°), 16-bit beam positioning, DMX512 standard and bidirectional (with DR 1) communication protocol, full range dimming, synchronized or random strobe effect, zap strobe effect and black-out.

Colour is provided from a CMY colour mixing system; a colour wheel with five fixed colours plus white rainbow/multi-colour/slide effects, synchronized black-out and colour change, and proportional CTO. Its easily interchangeable gobos, on two overlapping wheels of six gobos each plus open, provide a wide range of images. Also available are t

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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!

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UK - Drapes and rigging specialist Blackout was recently appointed by London-based events and communications agency Sixth Sense UK to design and supply the production rigging for a multi-media presentation for Unilever UK Foods. Sixth Sense's producer, Sarah Donegan and production manager, Cliff Zenker, along with their appointed set designer, Steve Hicks of Parallel Notion, interpreted Unilever's brief to design a one-day event that would reiterate the vision for the business and generate a feeling of passion and inspiration.

Staged in The Brighton Centre, the Sixth Sense team adhered to Unilever UK Foods corporate guidelines and conveyed Unilever's messages in a celebratory, informative and entertaining way to 650 members of staff from Crawley and factory sites across the UK. The presentation environment was set in the round, which promoted audience interaction and afforded cl

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USA - Two draft standards are available for public review on the ESTA website at the address provided below. BSR E1.20, Entertainment Technology - Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512, is available for public review until 11 October 2005, while BSR E1.24, Entertainment Technology - Dimensional Requirements for Stage Pin Connectors, is available for review until 18 October 2005.

The ending dates noted on the website are when the reviews end; on those dates the links to the review documents will disappear. BSR E1.20 describes a method of bi-directional communications over a USITT DMX512/1990 data link between an entertainment lighting controller and one or more remotely controlled lighting devices. The protocol also is intended to work with the ANSI E1.11-2004 control protocol. It allows discovery of devices on a DMX512/E1.11 network and the remote setting of D

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UK - Blitz Communications, part of the Blitz Charter Group, has been appointed as a preferred AV equipment and services supplier for corporate and private events at the Science Museum in London. The selection was made following a competitive tender, based on Blitz's flexibility, industry knowledge and range of equipment, say the company.

As a listed building with strict health and safety regulations, the Science Museum has rigorous controls regarding the use of external suppliers. Only companies on the preferred suppliers list can work in the building. Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz, explains: "Achieving 'preferred supplier' status at venues as prestigious and popular as the Science Museum should be a business objective for any AV rental and staging company. It speaks volumes about the reputation and capability of Blitz that we have won this tender. It opens up a n

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UK - Lighting Effects Distribution Ltd is home to one of the most comprehensive LED and effects portfolios in the industry. Operating from its base in Ashford, Kent, the company is the exclusive distributor for Ayrton, Alkalite, Antari Smoke Effects, Hungaroflash, Coemar and Marveon LED, while other distributed brands include MoodLight, James Thomas Pixelline, Solar LED, Geni Lighting, a range of self-branded LED products and control equipment.

A visual highlight of this year's PLASA show will be the new Ayrton DreamPanel (50cm x 50cm) modular video-tile, designed for screen-floor applications, which will be built into a concept floor display on the side of the stand, fed from a media server. Lighting Effects Distribution will also give a first UK showing to Antari's new versatile, mid-level series of smoke machines, the Z Series.

The company also operates a projects division

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UK - World famous percussionist Evelyn Glennie OBE will highlight the dangers of workplace noise to human health during a keynote speech at the 'Sound Off' conference at Earls Court on 12 October. Organized as part of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, Sound Off will see speakers from sectors including entertainment, local government, construction, manufacturing and food and drink explain what they are doing to control noise in their workplaces, and the business benefits of doing so.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the minister responsible for health and safety at the Department for Work and Pensions will be on hand to open Sound Off, while the Health and Safety Executive will be launching their guidance on the new Noise Regulations, due to come into effect in February 2006.

Other speakers include senior audiology specialist at RNID, Angela King, chair of the safety co

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UK - LA Audio will give the UK launch of two diverse new products at the PLASA Show, to add to its broad range of pro audio equipment - Can-D and the PC90. Can-D is a headphone delay unit and amplifier for any live application. With delay times of up to 678ms, users can be 226m from the stage and still enjoy the sound of 'time-coherent cans', say the company, who add that a substantial headphone amplifier provides levels up to and including 'painfully loud' - "for all your listening needs".

The PC90 absolute phase checking system incorporates a separate emitter and receiver module, which can be used with its internal speaker and microphone or can connect via XLR to test phase accuracy throughout any audio system. The PC90's unique broadband pulse can detect polarity inversion regardless of time delay or distance. Seconds later, when the job's done, the two modules coup

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UK - Fuzion plc will bring a range of exciting products to its new two-deck stand at the PLASA Show this year, including the FG series from t&m Systems. Comprising four, two-way, full-range speakers (and three matched subs) these speakers are already finding favour in themed bars, music venues and theatres for their versatility and rotatable CD horn characteristics, say Fuzion. All are constructed in premium birch ply and offer great value for money.

From Australian Monitor comes the Installation Series AMC line of amplifiers. This takes the heritage and reliability of the company's AMIS series and integrates its features into a low-cost amplifier format for applications which require reliability, without the more elaborate characteristics of the AMIS series. Available in 30W, 60W and 120W versions the AMC series is essentially a 2U mixer amplifier featuring 100V line and 4 ohm

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UK - Allen & Heath's range of industry-standard Xone mixers were installed on all of the main stages at the recent Glade festival, which took place near Newbury in July, hosting performances from dance music's leading artists across nine arenas.

A spin-off of the popular Glastonbury Glade Stage, this second Glade Festival attracted 10,000 visitors over the three days, covering all genres from techno, house, breaks, psy trance, dub, to ambient. Allen & Heath's MIDI-enabled Xone:92 was installed as standard on all the main stages,including the Main Dance Tent, Breaksday Tent, Origin Stage, and the Liquid Stage.

The Main Dance Tent boasted a line-up of the biggest names in the industry, including Sasha, AFX (aka Aphex Twin), Squarepusher, Speedy J, Carl Craig and Richie Hawtin. Allen & Heath's audiophile valve Xone:V6 mixer was also available on the Arena as a rotary option, and

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New Zealand - In an effort to help students and teachers get the most out of their theatrical endeavours and assist in the development of their abilities to understand and produce great stage lighting, Selecon is producing a series of six wall posters on Lighting the Stage under the project name Switched On.

The first two posters - The Light Fantastic and Getting an Angle on Lighting - have been distributed throughout the UK, New Zealand and Australia this year by participating Selecon dealers. The theme of each Switched On poster is fully supported with an on-line resource containing in-depth explanations and a series of exercises designed to help understand exactly what theatre lighting is, what it does and how you can achieve different looks and moods.

With an emphasis on approach and technique rather than product, the posters and web support con

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USA - XL Touring Video was fortunate enough to be a part of this project from the very early stages. Vince, Nikki, Mick and Tommy went through numerous incarnations of what they wanted on stage with production designer, Justin of Art Fag LLC. The resulting Carnival of Sins Tour was a great representation of the band and the fact that is one of the top five grossing tours speaks for itself. The collaboration of Motley Crue and Justin delivered the goods as evidence by fan reaction, say XL.

The tour consists of custom content by Brian Dressel of OVT, two Barco R18 Projectors and two Barco R5s provided by XL Touring Video. Band management is Alan Zulo, Chris Kasey and Jack Carson and touring on behalf of XL is Rob McShane as video director and Mike Casillas as projectionist.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - An Avolites Diamond 4 console was the control hub for a lighting and visual extravaganza in the Godskitchen Arena at Global Gathering 2005. Avolites consoles - mainly Pearl 2004s - were also in action on the other five arenas and in the Comedy Tent, all lit by Leeds-based Zig Zag Lighting.

This was the first time Zig Zag boss Neil Hunt has used a Diamond 4. "It was an ideal opportunity to put it properly though its paces and to get first hand feedback from my top programmers and operators," he comments. "We needed a desk with large capacity that was reliable, versatile and had Ethernet capability for the PixelDrive. The D4 was the solution - it has all the power and precision to do exactly what we needed."

The Godskitchen Arena rig was designed by Hunt and the D4 Vision was programmed and operated by Matt Holden-Jones, who ran lighting for most of the

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Canada - The Adamson M15 multi-purpose cabinet features a low profile, symmetrical trapezoid design, with a 50° conical waveguide - a combination which allows any two cabinets to work together in a mirror image monitor configuration, say the company. The M15 ships complete with a built-in adaptable rigging system. Optional hardware for pole-mounting, or small format horizontal arrays, is also available.

The cabinet is loaded with a single Adamson ND-15 Kevlar/Neodymium Driver, marking the launch of Adamson's Advanced Cone Architecture: this "breakthrough technology" the company say, makes the ND15 the only 15" driver with zero axial modes in its entire passband, dramatically increasing the linearized mid-range response, while maintaining a solid bottom end - impossible to achieve with a 15" paper driver, say Adamson. The top end is covered by a 4" high

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UK - Leading cellist Julian Lloyd Webber is using a variety of AKG microphones for his new Bossa Nova band, an invigorating project that's breathing new life and energies into classic Latin Melodies and sultry sambas.

Lloyd Webber has long been an AKG advocate, which has been his microphone of choice for his cello both live and in the studio for some years. Currently, Bossa Nova's gigs utilize an all-AKG mic set-up, explains Lloyd Webber's long-term sound engineer, Ben Fitzgerald. These are all supplied via AKG's UK distributor, Harman Pro UK. His favourite for the cello is the classic AKG C414, a superlative quality microphone specially designed for accurate and finely detailed pickup of acoustic instruments.

The band tours their own mics everywhere, so they're a vital element of the show, and then utilise the venue's sound system. "One of the many beauties of using AKG,

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Italy - Global Display Solutions (GDS), the leading designer and manufacturer of industrial displays, has opened an outdoor test facility in Cornedo, Italy, to provide the capacity to rigorously test its outdoor displays in real environmental conditions, offering its customers total quality assurance that its displays can endure all weather conditions.

This new facility allows GDS to track the actual behaviour of the monitor once it has been installed in the field. The displays tested in the new facility are all connected through an intranet system, which allows GDS to collect and compare their data: all temperature, humidity and sun power radiation values are recorded into a server computer. A complicated evaluation of this data allows GDS to map the most reliable thermal cooling system for each display and application. This test also enables GDS to verify the laboratory simula

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UK - Martin Audio will introduce at PLASA a range of high performance ceiling speakers designed to comply with UL2043, UL1480, BS5839 pt8 and IEC60849/EN60849. All have perforated steel grilles, UL94 VO ABS baffles and steel back cans. The range features rising clamp connectors that accept up to 2.5sqmm conductors and are fireproofed by a steel cover plate with a clamped cable entry.

The speakers are available in 25W 4" (100mm), 75W 6.5" (165mm) and 150W 8" (200mm) versions. All are 16ohms with switched 70V line transformers with low frequency characteristics. All models are 2-way designs using soft dome tweeters to give wide dispersion and "excellent off-axis performance". The exceptionally wide dispersion of 4" and 6.5" models makes them particularly suitable for low ceiling areas, says Martin.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - For the sixth consecutive year, ETC has selected a group of high-achieving students which the company will sponsor to attend the LDI tradeshow in Orlando, Florida. This year, for the first time, the group includes a student from the UK.

The students, all enrolled in college study for 2005 in specialities related to lighting design, theatre or entertainment technology, applied for the sponsorship awards earlier this year. Tae-Hyun Kim, a student at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, was researching information on the Source Four Revolution when he saw ETC's call for applications. With an attitude of 'nothing ventured, nothing gained,' he seized the opportunity and proved he had the background to be a great ETC sponsorship choice. Working towards a 2006 MFA in advanced stage and screen practice (lighting design), Tae-Hyun will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to LDI, w

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UK - Pro audio specialists Marquee Audio will once again be networking digital audio at PLASA, this time using the groundbreaking Optocore technology to link multiple digital and analogue consoles.

Also on display will be the latest consoles from Yamaha as well as the innovative Digidesign Venue board, seamlessly linked to a Protools TDM recording system. A number of new 'hot off the press' products are also promised.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Lighting Partners Ltd - owners of the usedlighting.co.uk website - report an exponential growth in used equipment sales.

From humble beginnings running out of a garage in South London, company owners Iain Dennis and David Morgan turned a hobby selling bits and bobs on ebay into one of the fastest growing lighting sales companies in the industry. The partners say that they frequently ship used equipment to clients across the world, including sales to Norway, the UAE, the Czech Republic and Australia.

Earlier this year, they took on a 1,500sq.ft warehouse which they have already outgrown - a further 1000sq.ft will be taken on in September. Two new members of staff have been appointed in the last three months and a further is currently being recruited. Additionally, Lighting Partners has launched a sister website, stagelighting.co.uk specializing in "keenly priced new e

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