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UK - Essex-based sound rental company, Event Sound & Light scored a world touring first when it put out its newly purchased VHD sound system from KV2 Audio on the recent Illegal Eagles UK Tour. The VHD system, launched at PLASA last autumn, is KV2 Audio's new large format active driven speaker system which features what is the first implementation of Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology as part of the speaker control system's delay circuit.

The company supplied a complete VHD system comprising VHD 2.0 mid/high enclosures, the VHD 4.18 Quad 18" subwoofer system and VHD2000 and VDH3200 amplification and control units. Event Sound & Light also supplied a number of KV2 Audio ES1.0, Epak 2500 and EX12 units for in-fills, balconies etc, plus some of its own proprietary CS200 spea

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USA - US-based loudspeaker system manufacturer Renkus-Heinz will showcase a number of key proucts at this year's NSCA exhibition (16-18 March, Las Vegas, USA). Top of the list is the revolutionary Iconyx Digitally Controlled Column Loudspeaker Series - now shipping and dismantling the rules of what can be achieved in the most acoustically challenging environments around the world.

Also on show will be the new CF/CFX Series of high value, high performance loudspeakers, now shipping to both portable and installed sound dealers. The self-powered CF Series incorporates Renkus-Heinz's new PF-1 Intelligent Digital Amplifier, while the CFX Series is designed for use with external processors and amplifiers, say the company.

Also available will be EASE 4.2 - a majoe free upgrade: Acoustic Design Ahnert (ADA)and Renkus-Heinz Inc as worldwide distributor, will preview EASE 4.2 at NSCA in

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USA - For the fifth consecutive year, Visual Terrain Inc. has successfully produced Organ Power In Concert for the Roland Corporation. This event was held at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, California. This is the eighth annual production in association with other Roland activities surrounding The NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Traditionally, Organ Power is staged with both live and videotaped performances.This year, set designer Edward Marks added another challenging element to the staging with raised turntables and serpentine ramps, creating intimacy to the expansive stage.

To meet the logistic lighting challenge of a revolving set, a large part of the solution according to lighting director Jeff Ravitz is careful coordination and flexibility. "Our goal was to create an intimate setting for each performer and at the same t

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Germany - The EV/Blue Cardinal and Raven microphones combine eye-catching retro styling with state-of-the-art technology. The Cardinal is a cardioid condenser designed to capture the detail of both voices and instruments in live sound or studio applications. Employing Class A, discrete ultra-low noise amplifier circuitry, the Cardinal's smooth and detailed performance is sure to please even the most discerning artists and engineers. The Cardinal delivers impressive figures, such as a frequency response of 35 Hz - 20 kHz and 150 dB max SPL.

Despite their resemblance, the Raven and Cardinal are birds of a different feather: the Raven is designed as an all-rounder. It is also the perfect microphone for live and studio instruments. The Raven's cardioid pattern with excellent off-axis rejection serves to reduce to a minimum the risk of feedback. The Raven's frequency response is 45 H

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UK - A.C. Lighting is pleased to announce the promotion of Ian Ferguson to the role of UK (South) sales manager at the company's headquarters in High Wycombe. The promotion follows a period of growth for the company, driven in part by it's diversification into complementary audio sales, bespoke projects installations and exclusive product lines in order to provide customers with a complete one-stop-shop service.

With 30 years industry experience and an encyclopaedic knowledge of its products and applications, Ferguson has played a key role in developing the UK sales team during this exciting expansion period. His promotion recognises this achievement and provides staff and customers with an additional level of day-to-day support and focus to help the business achieve its long-term growth plans.

A well-known industry figure, Ferguson built his career working in the technical de

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South Africa - Two of the biggest players in their respective fields, Gearhouse South Africa and Dimension TV have embarked on a joint venture in the arena of LED screens. The new company, LEDVision (Pty) Ltd, came into operation countrywide on 1 November 2005 and lays claim to the largest product stockholding of the latest high-resolution outdoor product, Lighthouse Ri/o 16 and popular Optiscreen system in southern Africa.

The company says these screens will be ideal for use on a wide variety of indoor and outdoor events from sporting events, corporate communications and product launches to government events and television game shows.

Modular video panel systems can be assembled into customisable large-scale screens to suit any application and were most recently used in SA on the 46664 concerts, the MTV Base 100 Launch, Closing Ceremony of the 10 years of Democracy Celebratio

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UK - HSL is supplying all lighting equipment and production rigging on Bill Kenwright's popular Scrooge The Musical UK tour.

Lighting was designed by Nick Richings and is being looked after and operated on the road by chief LX Tom Wright. HSL supplied the majority of the rig absolutely brand new, "Which is excellent," declares Wright - including Avolites ART2000 dimmers, moving lights from Robe Show Lighting and Martin Professional, City Theatrical auto Yokes, Chroma Q colour scrollers, and a large generic rig consisting primarily of Source Four profiles and PARS, plus regular PARs and cyc units.

Scrooge is the latest in a long list of theatrical productions being serviced by HSL with others including This is Elvis and Festen.

Richings' design starts off relatively dark to match the murky tone of the show. He's designed it with the scope

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UK - A new product from Court Acoustics Ltd, the Vocal Management System has been designed by Stephen Court in a joint venture with Recording Studio Design Ltd, and is "the first piece of kit developed entirely for the vocalist - arguably the most important member of the band, yet traditionally the one person who has no capital expenditure for equipment".

Stephen Court told us: "Ever since we left the recording studios to help our clients achieve the same sound on stage - the quality difference between the studio and a live performance has been a problem, and the singer's voice in particular. Traditionally, in a studio, the vocals are processed through a lot of expensive and complicated equipment. Even if a singer could afford to take all that gear on the road, it would be an almost impossible task to set up. We took samples of singers' voices in both studio and i

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Belgium - Flashlight/APR Belgium has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Laurent Grietens as international sales manager for France, Switzerland and Italy. Laurent was previously founder and director of leading Belgian audio rental company Art System.

Erwin Franck, sales director of Flashlight/APR Belgium, says: "Due to the company's continuing growth and its strength in our local market, we are ready to explore new markets. Laurent Grietens was already looking for an exciting new challenge in new markets and we are delighted that he decided to join us. The fact that we also want to develop and grow new technologies such as XLNT's CyberHoist and Synco audio equipment made the challenge and the opportunity even more exciting for him. With Laurent on board we have all the necessary skills to take this next major step in our commercial activities."

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Ireland - LX2000 Stage Lighting Hire has become the first company in the Republic of Ireland to purchase a Jands Vista console, taking delivery of a T2 for the 2005 Wexford Festival Opera season at the Theatre Royal, last October.

The company specialises in providing a complete lighting service from equipment dry hire through to lighting design, rentals and installations for clients all over Ireland operating in the theatre, entertainment and events sectors.

LX2000's Seamus Reck had been a very satisfied Jands Event 408 user for the past four years, but had decided it was time to upgrade to a newer console with the extra programming power and DMX channels needed to handle the production needs of larger clients.

Reck had seen the Jands Vista launch at PLASA and was extremely impressed by it. Then earlier this year, having decided the timing was now right to upgrade, he came b

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Germany - At the ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt, Kling & Freitag will present the close-to-production prototypes of the new digital speaker controllers CD 24 and CD 44. The digital controllers replace the previous analogue system controllers.

The development goal during the conception of the CD 24/ CD 44 was to set new standards for sound quality and operating safety. In doing so, a high-resolution DA/AD converter (96 kHz / 24 bit) and a sophisticated limiter concept were used. Two fully automated independent limiters monitor and limit the cone excursions and the thermal load of the speakers using a sense connector at the amplifier output. Despite this complex circuit technology, the latency time is only 0.7ms. Every output channel can be used with individually parameter sets (macros) and saved as new pre-sets. The controllers operate with a mains voltage of 90 to 240 volts.

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USA - A sound system that's perfect for DJ's is not generally the ideal setup for live performances, but that didn't stop San Francisco's Mezzanine from trying to deliver both. After three years of dedicated effort to establish itself as a premier venue for DJ talent from around the world, the club wanted to start competing for top-name live acts.

The club's first step was to hire production manager Josh Roberts, whose resume includes A-list names like Ben Harper, Beth Orton, King Crimson and Meat Beat Manifesto. While Roberts was happy with Mezzanine's existing DJ gear, he knew that an entirely different sound system was needed for the club to attract A-level live acts. "We had a four-way Funktion One loudspeaker system that delivered great highs and lows, but they lacked the mid range required for live concert sound," said Roberts. "Besides, it's unnatural to wa

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France - In Grenoble, France, the 4th International Circus Festival provided two of the pioneers of EtherSound-based networking technology with a unique showcase for their products. Nexo and AuviTran collaborated with sound rental company IZO and Yamaha France to provide a sound reinforcement system for the four-day Festival which transmitted entirely over an EtherSound network.

Staged in the Palais des Sports de Grenoble, the focus of the Festival was on two round circus stages, each 12m wide, in a 2,000sq.m hall. More than 16,000 spectators attended the event. IZO provided Yamaha PM5D digital consoles mixing Nexo's GEO S tangent-array systems, powered by Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers, with AuviTran's EtherSound conversion and compatibility management devices ensuring full network capability over optical fibre.

Using an EtherSound network provided some notable advances over tradi

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Denmark - Mach's CI4 and CI6 infill speakers, which, the company says provide "hi-fi performance with clear speech intelligibility in an attractive design", are now available in 100V versions. With up to four individual power settings in 100V mode and the possibility of operating in 8 ohm, the CI4 and CI6 - 100V versions offer flexibility and high quality sound, say Mach.

The CI4 features a 4" mid-woofer and a soft dome tweeter; the CI6 a 6" mid-woofer and a soft dome tweeter. Both are two-way speakers designed with a conical horn to deliver uniform dispersion, to allow for further flexibility in positioning. They have been acoustically optimized to produce a natural, clear sound, say Mach.

The cabinets feature a special mounting system, which Mach claim dramatically cuts installation time in half, while providing the ultimate flexibility (few tools are req

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USA - Pennsylvania-based Community Loudspeakers recently donated morethan six hundred loudspeakers to help with the rebuilding efforts, after the disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Working together with a consortium of church groups, the company arranged for a truck-load of speakers to be distributed to churches, schools and other public facilities in the region.

"We were originally contacted by the Rev. Dr. Bayard S. Taylor Jr., Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church here in Chester," explains Christine Howze, community general manager. "Reverend Taylor put us in touch with Pastor Lewis Ragins of the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport." Community worked with Pastor Ragins to arrange the shipment, valued at well over $100,000, to the Gulfport area.

"We were a bit concerned at first, because our facility had sustained quite a bit of dam

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USA - More news from ESTA's Technical Standards Program: At its meeting on January 20, the Electrical Power Working Group approved the start of a project to write a standard to offer guidance on the inspection of stage and studio luminaires.

The new project, BSR E1.32-200x, Recommended Practice for the Inspection of Entertainment Industry Luminaires, is designed to help electricians conduct regular inspections of lighting instruments. In working on the BSR E1.19 GFCI project, it has become clear to the working group that one of the causes of ground-fault circuit interrupters tripping on stages, in studios, and on location shoots is faulty lighting equipment. Regular inspection would allow faults to be identified and corrected so they aren't risks to personnel or causes of production delays.

Interested parties - who would be anybody who owns, rents, uses, inspects

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USA - In Las Vegas they certainly do things on a grand scale, especially when performing on stage are the world's most popular and successful singers and bands. The closing ceremony of the Radio Music Awards -considered by the American recording industry as its equivalent of the movie industry's Golden Globe Awards - was broadcast live nationwide on NBC in December.

A spectacular show, it was stunningly lit by a battery of Coemar iWash Haloes. Top of the bill were Mariah Carey and Green Day, while the winning team backstage and at the lighting console consisted of Allen Branton (lighting design), Tom Beck, Kevin Lawson and Felix Peralta (lighting directors), Laura Frank (digital lighting director), David Oakes (head gaffer), Darren Langer, Dave Hunkins, McClain Moss, Ken Burns and Steve Chase (show gaffers), Liberty Bock (operations manager). The lighting contractor was upstagin

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USA - At the 30 years' mark, ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls Inc) reports that more ETC Source Four luminaires were shipped in 2005 than in any other year and 2006 will be a company record for the highest number of product releases of any year in the company's history.

ETC has begun celebrating its milestone 30th year with an array of new products and beefed-up favourites. For Source Four fans, the much-anticipated 14°, 70° and 90° field-angle spotlights will be on the market. The new 14° Source Four provides an intermediate-throw field angle to fill the gap between the 10° and 19° luminaires. Short-throw applications such as blackbox theatres and dance lighting will benefit from the 70° and 90° Source Fours, while the Enhanced Definition Lens Tube (EDLT) option, introduced at LDI 2005 and available soon in 19°, 26°, 36° and 50° field angles, makes any Source Four o

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USA / UK - Color Kinetics Inc has announced its latest white light developments - which it says apply to both speciality applications and "the fast-approaching realization of general illumination". The company will expand its IntelliWhite series, introduce new single color temperature white light products, and deliver a comprehensive platform for general illumination in the second half of 2006.

The platform comprises a replaceable ballast, socketed light module and multiple control options, forming the springboard for a new family of Color Kinetics products and enabling broad adoption through OEM relationships. Bill Sims, president and CEO, Color Kinetics, says: "White LEDs are advancing at remarkable rates - enabling completely new applications and fast approaching viability for general illumination. Our platform results from eight years of development, market-te

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USA - 14 Robe ColorSpot 1200 AT's were the hub of Helena Kuukka's lighting design for the Fort Lauderdale Christmas Pageant, staged in the 2.500 capacity First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale.

The show celebrated it's 22nd year by running for two sold-out weeks in, playing to over 50,000 people during the period. It was also broadcast on national TV and to several foreign countries during the holiday season. The show has won 2 local Emmy Awards and is produced into a DVD each year.

Lighting equipment and programming expertise was supplied by locally-based Paradigm Productions, and the show electricians and installation crew came from Majestic Productions.

Kuukka had a 70 ft wide stage and a cast of about 300 to cover, so she needed really bright fixtures, and chose the Robes as key moving light tools for the job, which also included a large conventional rig. "I

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UK - Architectural and feature lighting specialists i-Vision has supplied and installed a highly atmospheric lighting scheme at the Courtyard Hotel in Leixlip, just outside Dublin. The beguiling building right on the banks of the River Liffey was Ireland's first and original Guinness Brewery, back in 1756.

The 40 room Courtyard Hotel contains two top class restaurants and four bars, six conference suites and exterior seating for 1000 people. Attention has been paid to detail in the renovation of the old brewery which has seen the sympathetic addition of a brand new hotel wing. From the outset, they realised that lighting was an essential 'finishing' factor, and vital to the overall aesthetics and feel of the environment.

Working with architect Eamonn McCann and interior designers Eileen Cogan and Bernadette Prior, the Courtyard's general manager Gavin O'Shea was also involved

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