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Hong Kong - Lighthouse LED screens are set to play a key part in the broadcasting of the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany. Renchen-based audio/visual provider Cassiopeia Veranstaltungstechnik is taking delivery of 16 panels of Lighthouse R19 LED screen this month.

"There is a large area of southern Germany where mobile LED screens are not currently available. We wanted the best product to serve that market and fit with our high quality lighting and sound portfolio," says Cassiopeia's Martin Heuberger. "You only get one chance to impress a customer, so it's vital that you get the best.

"Lighthouse is a global player," continues Heuberger. "We are the first to stock their products in this part of Germany and therefore fast technical support was very i

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UK - Absolute Music Solutions will be hosting an expo on 12 November. Music technology equipment from across the industry will be on show and available for demo, including Mackie's Digital X buss mixer, Roland V-drums and Ion electronic drum kits, M-Audio's new stage piano the ProKeys 88, Digidesign's MBox 2 and more.

Ableton will be officially launching the already popular Ableton 5 software, whilst other leading manufacturers will also be there to demonstrate their latest products.

Absolute Music Solutions will be joined by demonstrators from Apple, who will be running a series of Logic demonstrations and workshops in Absolute's new custom built studios, aimed at both new and seasoned Logic users. There will also be the possibility to sign up for further in-depth training on specific gear and for specific applications.

Full details of the event have yet to be confirmed. Mo

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UK - A.C. Lighting was the recipient of dealer awards from both lighting and audio manufacturers at PLASA 2005. Zero 88's Graham Eales, creator of Frog, presented A.C. northern sales director Jonathan Walters and northern sales manager Adam Beaumont with their UK Dealer of the Year 2005 award.

Grant Bales-Smith, UK market manager for Zero 88 commented: "A.C. thoroughly deserve to receive this award, which is in recognition of the support and dedication their sales team has put into promoting the Zero 88 brand over the past 12 months, seeing a significant upturn in their overall Zero 88 sales."

A.C.'s Jonathan Walters commented: "I'm delighted to receive this award on behalf of the whole sales team. A.C. places great importance on being able to provide customers with a quick delivery turnaround, a team of highly trained staff and a full technical backup service,

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UK - Among the many new products launched by Harman Pro UK at PLASA 2005, is the WMS 40 PRO, the latest generation, entry level wireless microphone series from AKG. The WMS 40 PRO provides new features and professional performance derived from the technology of the premium WMS 4000 and WMS 400 systems.

Offering professional performance and a range of system options, the WMS 40 PRO is aimed at low cost, fixed installation, sound reinforcement, and conferencing and presentation applications. New features include frequency selectability - WMS 40 PRO FLEXX - full multi-channel capability, with the ability to use up to nine WMS 40 PRO systems together on intermodulation-free frequencies (up to seven simultaneous channels with the Single and Dual systems), license-free UHF operation on ISM frequency systems, single AA battery operation for transmitters, and dual transmitter operation

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UK - Autograph Sound is gearing up for a hectic few months in the West End, around the Country and in North America. Along with Nick Lidster, Andrew Bruce is, once again, designing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Having had its final flight at the London Palladium on 5 September, it starts previewing at The Empire, Sunderland, in early December, taking in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Edinburgh next year. My Fair Lady - designed by Paul Groothius - is gearing up for a for a five-week stay in Manchester before heading out on a UK Tour.

Meanwhile, back in the West End, Simon Baker is busy transferring Ducktastic! into The Albery Theatre after a successful three week run in Newcastle, closely followed, with the assistance of Alan Lugger, by the new Tom Stoppard play, Heroes at The Wyndhams. Baker then goes to Canada to work on the musical version of

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UK - Kasabian recently returned from the US to home turf and played to a 10,000-strong audience at the Nottingham Playhouse. For sound reinforcement, they utilized a Meyer Sound MILO array system loudspeakers supplied by London-based Capital Sound.

"They are a great bunch of lads," remarks Capital's Paul Timmins, who also serves as Kasabian's production manager. "They are having an absolutely meteoric rise at the moment, and it's great to be able to give them such a fantastic sound system."

The system design was anchored by main left and right arrays of 16 MILO cabinets each: 14 MILOs covering the long throw and mid-floor and two MILO 120 extended coverage high-power curvilinear array units splayed underneath providing downfill for the near field. Two side hangs comprising six MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers each covered the stage-sid

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UK - The new Revolution series of user control panels from Dynalite incorporate an innovative clip-on cover fastening system, providing "the ultimate in aesthetic design flexibility".

Incorporating a button depth adjustment facility, the panels can accommodate covers of practically any flat architectural surface medium from 1.2mm to 6.5mm in depth. "The possibilities are endless," says Dynalite.

To complement the panel face, button caps are available in silver and charcoal grey, providing a wide range of décor matching possibilities. Designed both for commercial and residential settings, the Revolution series panels are available in a range of configurations from single column, catering for one to eight buttons, through to double or triple column designs featuring up to 24 buttons.

Smooth action buttons with LED indicators provide tactile and visua

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USA - Entertainment lighting manufacturer High End Systems Inc. (HES) is now shipping the new Studio Command automated wash luminaire, which debuted at PLASA 2005. Studio Command is now the third automated wash fixture in the HES family.

Richard Belliveau, HES chief technology officer, says: "We designed the Studio Command to provide discerning lighting designers with a new look for their stage. The lenticular array optical system coupled with innovative aesthetics provides a dynamic eye-catching look. These new features combined with a high light output and a large cross-sectional output beam is bound to turn some heads on new shows."

Studio Command's lenticular array optical system is claimed to greatly enhance the homogeneity of the projected light. The optical head is compact and light in weight, while still offering a large diameter exiting beam. The long-life M

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Scandinavia - Paul Whiting has been appointed to the Board of Sennheiser Nordic, a newly formed company that will largely replace the independent business partners who have represented Sennheiser in Scandinavia in the past.

From January 2006, this Copenhagen based organisation will represent all Sennheiser activities in Denmark, Finland and Norway and will provide customers with even closer relationships to Sennheiser. Sweden will continue to be handled by the independent partner Sennheiser AB, Stockholm until further notice.

In a further extension of their global business strategy, Sennheiser has created the Northern/Western Europe Group which will include the new Sennheiser Nordic organisation, Sennheiser Netherlands, Sennheiser BeLux, Sennheiser UK and Sennheiser France. In addition to his board membership of Sennheiser Nordic, Paul Whiting has also been appointed vice-pres

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Germany - The EVI Audio team has been strengthened by the arrival of Klaus Heitzenröder. A graduate in musicology, he has been appointed sales manager (EAME) for Electro-Voice and Blue microphones. In recent years, he has worked as a product manager with an established microphone manufacturer, as well as helping to establish a flightcase business.

"I want to make our products even more successful in Europe, Africa and the Middle East," says Heitzenroedeer. "And I'm confident I can do it, because Electro-Voice and Blue are at the cutting edge of microphone technology and built to the very highest professional standards. Their market potential, therefore, is enormous."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Both Dromore Cathedral and Portglenone Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland have installed discreetly placed and precision-tuned Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker systems.

The Cathedral Church at Dromore, serving a parish of the Anglican-connected Church of Ireland, was built in stages over several centuries. Major portions of the existing structure date back to 1661. "It was a nightmare, really," explains Robert Andrews of Andrews Audio (Portglenone), who designed and installed both systems. "They rebuilt and added on to (the building) to the point where there is absolutely nothing symmetrical about the church. The seating goes off all different ways, so there was no way to use a main cluster with delays in such a reverberant space."

Andrews' solution for Dromore's architectural mélange employs five UPM-1P compact wide coverage loudspeake

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USA - ARRI Inc. has brought on board two well-regarded professionals in the lighting industry - Fred H. Horne and Mike Jones.

Jones' first step into the film business began on American Graffiti (1973), directed by George Lucas. He has since garnered three decades of experience in various areas of lighting. Jones, formerly of lighting and grip rental house 1st Unit, has joined ARRI in the newly created position of technical sales representative. Based out of the Burbank, CA office, his duties include sales, product development, evaluation and troubleshooting. Says Jones: "Working for ARRI is the best place to utilize my talents and apply the knowledge that I have accumulated over the last 30 years."

Horne is now a part of the ARRI Blauvelt, NY team, working as the Northeast lighting sales manager. The position was previously held by Roger Dean, who now covers t

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UK - Projected Image Digital has supplied theatre and performance design college Rose Bruford in Sidcup, Kent with a High End Systems Catalyst Pro version 3 digital media server (software only) and a PixelMAD playback system for running low resolution video sources through LED lighting fixtures.

These were purchased by the college's Lighting department as part of a new investment in digital scenography, a move co-ordinated by Nick Hunt, lecturer in lighting design, and Rob Fowler for PID. The funding came from a 'Knowledge Transfer' scheme, designed to encourage partnerships between higher education and industry.

"With the 'convergence' of video and lighting becoming increasingly common," states Hunt. "We wanted to start building up a laboratory of kit to enable us and our students to explore this technology."

PID also supplied a selection of Artnet boxes

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Europe - The Tyco Fire group of companies are joining forces under the new brand, Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions. The goal is to simplify customer access to the companies' comprehensive range of fire and safety solutions.

Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions' European MD, Ardy Azhir commented: "Our integrated fire and safety businesses in Europe have long been market leaders. Our position today is built on the credibility of these legacy brands - including Mather & Platt in France, Total Walther in Germany, Wormald and Tyco Integrated Systems in the UK and the rest of Europe.

"We chose to rename ourselves because our customers wanted to deal with one name but trade through the same local contacts. This change represents an excellent opportunity to strengthen the image of our business and take us into the future with far greater visibility."He continued, "We a

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UK - London rental company, John Henry's Ltd. (JHL), is employing a new Allen & Heath GL2400 live sound console for the current series of Channel 4's weekly music programme, Popworld. The 24-channel mixer is used to manage the live, broadcast and recording mix for all the artists featured in the new series, which is aired on Saturday morning.

The diverse catalogue of artists featured on the show includes the Doves, the Subways, the Sugababes, McFly, Razorlight, the Scissor Sisters, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé Knowles, the Zutons, the Black Eyed Peas, Lee Ryan, Bloc Party, and Athlete.

"The GL2400 is my board of choice - it's so flexible and has an extraordinary amount of functionality for a mixer of its size. The matrix offers a great variety of feed options, such as IEM and delay fills," comments JHL's sound engineer, Simon Panos."I love the fact t

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UK - For the staging of its annual Quality Awards ceremony and theatrical entertainment, an NHS Trust has called upon the services and expertise of PSL for the fifth year in a row, taking full advantage of the one-stop event production shop, project-managed by PSL's Mark Solomons.

The South Essex Partnership NHS Trust, which provides mental healthcare to its local region, hosted its annual awards show at the Towngate Theatre in Basildon. PSL supplied all production design, sets, lighting and dedicated lighting designer John Montague, sound, vision mixing, a 2-camera DVD shoot plus a confetti cannon for the show finale.

Set designer Oliver Stewart comments: "I have to balance the musical elements with the fact that it is an awards ceremony in a theatrical space, and the design has to work in a multi-tiered theatre."

Video as shown on-stage on two 10ft x 7.5ft

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UK - London's new Absolut Icebar - a joint venture between Absolut, Icehotel and Below Zero London - is a unique environment at -5°C, where everything, from the walls, bar, and bar stools, to the artwork and the 'glass' that holds the Absolut cocktail is made from crystal-clear Nordic ice.

Finding a loudspeaker system that would blend seamlessly into the glacial interior of the Swedish concept provided a challenge that was met by Martin Audio. The UK manufacturer had already produced 'invisible' customized perspex floor monitors for the Eurovision Song Contest in Latvia several years ago, and now they turned their attention to their classic EM26 - which formed the centrepiece of a complete audio fit-out of the four-zone, £1.5m development.

Icehotel partners, Below Zero London, had originally been looking at two loudspeaker options for the overall sound reinforcement via

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UK - Drapes and rigging specialist Blackout was appointed by Somerset House Productions to design and supply the giant projection screen for Somerset House/ Filmfour's spectacular The Summer Screen - a week of diverse outdoor feature film screenings, staged in the Somerset House's majestic 18th century courtyard.

The schedule featured a programme of classic films, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oscar-winning Japanese animation Spirited Away and the metropolitan premiere of the horror film Land of the Dead, as well as music sets from DJs as diverse as Asian Dub Foundation, Osymyso and Four Tet.

Blackout's Project Manager Kevin Monks collaborated with Somerset House's Events Manager John Howes to design and supply the integral giant cinema projection screen to his specifications.

Manufactured by Blackout France, the 17.5 metre x 7 met

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UK - London-based event services company PSL has expanded its sales team with the appointment of David Hudson as head of sales. Hudson brings heaps of experience to the energetic PSL task force, having spent the last two-and-a-half years working for George P. Johnson, the world's largest event marketing company. As business development director, he was instrumental in establishing GPJ's new UK operation; prior to that, he spent 10 years working in the event production industry, always in a sales and marketing role and usually in the live environment.

Hudson says he welcomes the opportunities offered by PSL's wide-ranging skill-set and its massive inventory of technical equipment. With the mainstream corporate sector in his sights, he plans to co-ordinate the company's sales approach, emphasizing the 'one-stop shop' capability that is unique to PSL.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - The Effects Company has announced a supplement to its range of Aromatech essences for the Christmas season. These 'specials' have been blended to reflect the aromas that compliment the season, say The Effects Co, and the range comprises: Christmas Spice, Frankincense and Myrrh, Mince Pie and Mulled Wine. Pine and Cinnamon are also available from the standard range. Mixed boxes of 12 (2 x 6 essences) can be ordered.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Austin, Texas-based based SR provider Big House Sound has augmented its stock of Soundcraft consoles with the addition of a 40-channel MH3 and two new 32-channel GB8s. Aside from already owning a Soundcraft Series FIVE:56, SM20:48 and another MH3:40, the company has also been responsible for putting Soundcraft consoles into several of the city's best known live music clubs.

According to Rod Nielsen, president and co-owner of Big House Sound, the first outing for the MH3 and one of the GB8's was the Shiner BASH in Dallas, featuring Dwight Yoakam, Aaron Tippin, Chris Cagle and Darryl Lee Rush.

"When Spoetzl Brewery originally booked the concert with us, it was supposed to be a much smaller event with lesser-known acts and a smaller crowd," says Nielsen. "Under normal circumstances we would have chosen to use our Series FIVE and SM20. But even though w

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