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UK - LGH Rigging Services, has expanded its services by opening a new branch in the Midlands.

"As a part of the company's long term strategy, expansion into the Midlands enables us to serve our nationwide customer base better" explained Paul Fulcher, operations director, LGH Rigging Services.

LGH Rigging Services was established at Three Mills Island Studios in London's Docklands in 1997 as a specialist equipment resource to provide the whole event and entertainment industry with stringently tested, high quality rigging equipment and service via hire or sales solutions, say the company.

Staffed by personnel with strong experience in dry hire, sales, testing and inspection of rigging and associated equipment, the operation has grown rapidly to become one of Europe's l

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USA - Fall in Manhattan means cooling weather, falling leaves and the Audio Engineering Society convention. The latter is an event always eagerly anticipated at Meyer Sound for the opportunity it presents to show the company's products to, and interact with audio professionals at literally every level of technical knowledge, from cable jockey to chief engineer.

The upcoming 119th convention being held at New York's Jacob Javits Center is of particular interest to the company, with AES's increased focus on live sound. Meyer Sound comes to the show with a full slate of acclaimed products like the 2004 TEC award-winning Milo high-power curvilinear array and 2005 TEC award-nominated Milo 120 high-power expanded coverage loudspeaker, plus the newest talks of the town: the Mica compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker, 600-HP high-power subwoofer and Galileo loudspeaker manage

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UK - SDD Sound & Light has today announced that it has appointed Nigel Clark its new operations manager. Nigel will oversee the company's rental activities following their expansion into its new facility in Thorpe. His duties with SDD will be to not only ensure the continued smooth running of the rental department but to manage the introduction of the many software based control systems that will be added during the coming years expansion programme.

Nigel joins the company from Siemens UK where he ran the video communications department. Prior to this, he worked for Bear Productions and was responsible for the management of the studio facilities. He brings with him a wealth of studio and live event experience coupled with extensive knowledge of the IT systems employed in the entertainment industry.

"SDD were our service partner at both Bear Productions and Siemens" s

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UK - Following the success in 2004, Stage Electrics is once again utilizing the great space at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) in Cardiff for its 2005 Tradeshow on Wednesday 5 October.

In 2004 the day attracted over 100 visitors from as far afield as Lincolnshire and London, Stage Electrics are looking to build on last years popularity. Once again the RWCMD Bute Theatre will be transformed into a 'mini PLASA' with the help of a team of hardworking students. Their work is assessed and contributes towards one of four production placement grades for the 2 year of their studies.

Stage Electrics' major suppliers will be demonstrating their latest products and services and offering hands on experience and advice. Exhibiting at the show will be: Martin, Rosco / DHA, Zero88, Strand, ETC, Pulsar, Selecon, RCF, Audio Technica, Lee, Mackie, Prolyte, Teclumen and Apollo.<

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UK - Outline COM.P.A.S.S., history's first robotized loudspeaker enclosure, won the Award for Product Innovation at London's PLASA Show.

Outline's COM.P.A.S.S. is the first robotic speaker enclosure. It can be used alone or combined with other elements to form a vertical line array. Thanks to a sophisticated mechanism moved by five motors, the system can adjust vertical and horizontal directivity simultaneously from 60-150 degrees on the horizontal plane and from 0-15 degrees on the vertical plane, which can be operated via remote software. The judges marked it out for its high level of innovation and that fact that it had delivered a solution long overdue."

Outline was the only manufacturers exhibiting Sound Reinforcement systems that received an award this year and is also the only Italian audio company that has received the PLASA Award so far (no less than twice - for

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UK/Ireland - The UK and Republic of Ireland V-Dosc Network Partners have all been involved in another highly successful season in 2005, say L-Acoustics. The eight official UK V-Dosc Partners Autograph Sound Recording, Britannia Row Productions, Celtic Sound, Delta Sound, Efx Audio, Skan Pa Hire, Tourtech, and Wigwam Hire have undertaken a varied mix of touring, festival, corporate, and theatre work including: Coldplay, Glastonbury Festival, Microsoft Tech-Ed, Pavarotti, REM, Mamma Mia! World Tour, Duran Duran, The Isle Of Wight Festival, Liverpool Pops, T In The Park, Jamiroquai, Doves, among the most significant.

The V-Dosc system is still referred to as the standard audio reference tool. Many of the most respected engineers and production managers continue to use V-Dosc due to benefits such as: WST technology, comprehensive technical support and the V-Dosc Network. The seamles

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Canada - The Global Meetings and Incentive Exhibition (EIBTM) announced on 16 September that Vivien, Cast Software's Event Design application, is the winner of the EIBTM 2005 WorldWide Technology Watch award.

Vivien was judged by the following criteria: Innovation/Uniqueness, Impact on the Meetings Industry, and Completeness of Concept. This prestigious award includes a booth at the EIBTM 2005 show in Barcelona, Spain, where Cast Software can be found on stand D258 from 29 November - 1 December.

"We are honored that our software contribution to the event and meetings industry has been recognized by EIBTM. This award also suggests that our peers have great confidence in the direction we are heading and in our ability to provide extraordinary design solutions that meet the needs of event planners and designers," says Gilray Densham, president & CEO of Cast Software.

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uk - dAFTdATA has had a hectic twelve months leading up to PLASA 2005, which saw the launch of its new mDMX product.

PLASA 05 saw the introduction of the 5.8 GHz frequency range to compliment the established 2.4 GHz frequencies that eDMX currently works at. eDMX is now the only system on the market which allows the user to send the signal wirelessly at both 2.4 and 5.8GHz - to ensure connectivity at all times.

PLASA 05 also saw the launch of the new mDMX system that will be available from Avolites in the New Year. mDMX currently allows for up to four universes of DMX to be modulated down the mains cable up to 400m. dAFTdATA expect to be able to increase the capacity in the new year in addition to supporting video over mains as well.

The partnership with Avolites to incorporate dAFTdATA's WENDI system into its eDMX product has seen eDMX used for wireless DMX data transfer wor

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UK - Allen & Heath chose PLASA 2005 to announce its Distributor of the Year 2004/5, awarding the company's Chinese distribution partner, Eastern Acoustics Development (EAD). The award was presented to EAD's director, Y K Cheung, by Allen & Heath's sales director, Bob Goleniowski, and managing director, Glenn Rogers, at a champagne reception held on the company's stand during the show.

The award recognizes the best overall performance by an international distributor during Allen & Heath's 2005 fiscal year. Allen & Heath's sales director, Bob Goleniowski, commented: "It gives us great pleasure to make this award to the EAD team, which has displayed great enthusiasm and dedication to the A&H brand. PLASA 2005 has been the launch pad for several new innovations into the digital market, and we know that with distributors such as EAD behind us, Allen & Heath will continue to grow

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USA - Rock Star: INXS - this summer's hottest new reality series - teamed Australian rockers INXS with reality TV guru Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice), and followed the band's search for a new lead singer. The show combined unscripted drama, performance-driven competition and used weekly contestant elimination to decide a winner who would join INXS for their next studio endeavour and world tour.

As part of the show, the competition gave finalists an opportunity to record a single with the band in Los Angeles-based Westlake Studios. For these recording sessions, INXS's technical director Steve Jones needed a monitoring system that would be both compact and provide plenty of output - allowing the band to work up new songs live and loud with the Rock Star contestants.

After careful research, Jones decided that the ideal stage monitoring solution would be a Mackie system b

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UK - PLASA has announced the launch of a new National Rigging Award, designed to give riggers across all sectors of the industry a recognized framework by which their knowledge and expertise can be measured.

Initiated by the rigging sector, who looked to PLASA to further develop the template for a National Rigging Certificate, the Award has become vital in a climate where there is a growing focus on health and safety, and an increasing expectation from the insurance sector.

For the last 10 months, PLASA has been working with government bodies and members of the rigging community on the development of the Certificate, a consultation process which has been underpinned by the formation of the PLASA Rigging Advisory Group.

The Group is now working on the fine details of the criteria and assessment process, but once finalized, the scheme will include a tiered progression structur

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UK - Cwmbran based Zero 88 Lighting Ltd, one of the Europe's leading lighting control companies, has sponsored Creative Lighting Design (UK) with one of its new Jester lighting consoles.

Creative Lighting Design is currently undergoing a UK wide tour, carrying out Lighting workshops for students as well as INSET training courses for teachers in schools and colleges. These workshops compliment the students in their GCSE and A'level studies by giving them hands on experience and understanding of the working of stage and theatre lighting.

The high spec Jester was handed over to Jon Watson during the workshop recently held at Croesyceiliog School, Cwmbran. Mr Watson says: "The console will make a huge difference to both students and teachers at the workshops. The Jester is probably the best piece of equipment on the market for the price. It offers schools, colleges and smalle

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UK - When chart-topping band McFly needed quick access to an outdoor space for an impromptu sound check, it was UK cable specialist VDC Trading that was able to provide the solution.

The company offered the band the use of its yard in North London to conduct the sound check, enabling them to perform in Covent Garden where they subsequently launched their new album, Wonderland.

Chris Hill, managing director of Wigwam Hire, which is handling sound for the band's forthcoming tour, says: "We were rehearsing at John Henry's for the tour, but when it was decided that the band would play in Covent Garden to launch their new album, we realized we needed somewhere outdoors to test the levels. I called my friends at VDC and they offered to lend us their yard. It worked brilliantly. If it hadn't been for VDC we'd have been stuck."

Niall Holden, VDC's managing director,

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uk - Metropolis AV's new met 3 LED lighting products have been specified and installed at the new London clubs management Ltd's fifty London landmark venue at 50 St James Street.

The designed by fashionable architect of the day Benjamin Wyatt, was first opened as a casino in 1827 and in its latest incarnation, it is rated as one of the best and most popular private members clubs in London.

The venue has recently undergone complete refurbishment, with an interior design by Jeffrey Beers that has injected new vitality into the building. The look is of the sophisticated end of 1980s retro, offering a spectacular gaming room, private gambling facilities and five floors of upscale bars and restaurants plus the fifty below club lounge downstairs - all aimed at entertaining both gamblers and non-gamblers alike.

The sound and lighting installation was undertaken by touch media, whos

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UK - Software providers Stardraw.com unveiled Stardraw Control RC2 (Release Candidate 2) for the first time at the recent PLASA 2005. Billed as a software-based, unified framework that can control any remotely-controllable product from any manufacturer over any protocol, Stardraw Control RC2 is the final pre-release version of the application which is scheduled for final availability later this quarter.

Stardraw Control generates standalone, customized control programs. Like other Stardraw applications it is fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use; with a drag-drop interface and intuitive design environment, installers are able to configure systems and control them without having to write a single line of code. Utilization of Microsoft.net technology means that control programs are portable and can run on any Windows-enabled device, from PC to PDA.

Stardraw Control's open arc

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UK - A.C. Lighting announced its status as an Official Sponsor of A1 Team Great Britain participating in the inaugural season of the A1 Grand Prix, the World Cup of Motor sport.

The unique concept, which is the brainchild of Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum, will bring together the two worlds of business and motor sport and see the national pride of at least eighty per cent of the world's population represented on the grid during the 12 race series.

A.C. will be using the sponsorship association to increase its overseas business derived from new or existing markets represented by the 24 other participating countries. A1GP is the ideal platform for the company to promote its brand and services on a global level, and provides a dynamic environment for sponsors and countries to network at a business-to-business level.

Phill Capstick, the company's sales director, commen

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Hong Kong - Organized by Haymarket Publishing's AV Magazine and now in its fifth year, the AV Awards has become one of the AV industry's most important annual events. Lighthouse Technologies has been announced as one of the finalist in the Manufacturer of the Year category, the award for which will be presented to 'the manufacturer who has shown the most marketing, technological or application innovation'. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony held at London's Hilton Metropole on 10 October.

Lighthouse's cutting edge LED technology can be seen around the globe and has been used in prestigious installations such as the Coca Cola screen in London's Picadilly Circus, ClearChannel's NYC subway portal digital signage network, the set of the Queen's We Will Rock You show in Las Vegas, London, Cologne and Melbourne as well as hundreds of large scale events includin

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UK - RNID will be challenging employers to take hearing damage more seriously at the 'Sound Off - Noise Reduction at Work' conference. The conference will promote the introduction of tighter Noise at Work Regulations and is taking place at London's Earls Court on 11-12 October 2005. RNID, the largest charity representing the nine million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK, will be highlighting the dangers of noise in the workplace through a series of talks from RNID specialists.

Noise is one of the most underestimated workplace risks. The 'Sound Off' conference comes at a key time, with new tighter Noise at Work Regulations coming into force in April 2006. The conference will highlight what these regulations mean for organizations and offer practical advice on controlling noise in the work place.

Brian Lamb, RNID's director of communications, and Angela King, RNID's sen

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UK - EFX Audio, one of Scotland's largest PA Hire companies, placed a major order for a 24 box Logic System Ethos Array at this year's PLASA show. EFX's John Ramsay and Steph Fleming placed the order via Logic System dealer The Warehouse during the busy show for Logic System, where many orders for product were taken from UK customers and export customers alike.

Ramsay commented: "Ethos is incredibly well built, and engineered to perfection; it's a great sounding system that does exactly what it's mean to. Chris Scott designs great boxes, he's a very straight talking guy, no bullshit and that's reflected in his products."

Logic's Chris Scott added: "EFX are using the Ethos system first at Glasgow's live venue The Garage and along with The ABC in Glasgow and Edinburgh's The Liquid Rooms all now with Ethos Arrays it means we've got a great presence up in Scotland.

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UK - Leading RF manufacturer Trantec announced that its exclusive Japanese Distributor Otaritec has supplied a 32-channel S6000 radio mic system on the Japanese tour of Tony award winning musical - Blast!

The tour commenced in Tokyo's Orchard Hall and was directed by James Mason and produced by William A Cook. As a hugely vibrant production, it delivers a feast of colour, sound and movement. Comprising 54 brass, percussion and 15 visual performers, Blast! is a unique explosion of music and theatre.

Featuring as part of a sophisticated sound system, the Trantec S6000 system was specified by sound designer Mark Wood. Trantec's Richard Ganley collaborated with Woods and Otaritec's Mr Fukatsu from the early planning stages to ensure that all aspects of the system integrated seamlessly.

The restricted 18 MHz (2 x 8 MHz of available RF bandwidth in Japan makes the su

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UK - Stage Electrics London is holding a Martin MAC700 demonstration afternoon on Thursday 6 October.

This will give users a chance to have a hands on demonstration of Martin's latest and quietest moving head say the company. A compact, light, quiet fixture with power and optical precision beyond its peers is what Martin set out to achieve in the MAC700 Profile.

Fully equipped with all the industry standard Martin features, the MAC700 Profile also combines a full CMY colour mixing system supplemented with an eight position colour wheel and a gobo animation system for dramatic projection effects.

Numbers are strictly limited so please call 020 7939 3000 to reserve your place, doors open from midday.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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