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USA - Solid State Logic, a manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, is pleased to announce the hiring of Quinton Nixon as product specialist. Quinton will be based out of SSL's Los Angeles office.

Quinton comes to SSL from TC Electronic, where he served as product specialist. Prior to that, Quinton was a freelance recording and post-production engineer based in Atlanta, following three years as a staff engineer at Doppler Studios.

As product specialist, Quinton's responsibilities will include product demonstrations to SSL retail partners, in-store clinics and tradeshows. He begins this undertaking with the recent launch of Duende, SSL's new DSP-powered processing rack unit for audio workstation users.

"I was a recording engineer in Atlanta and always ha

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Denmark - TC Electronic is announcing the immediate availability of the MD3 Stereo Mastering package for Pro Tools|HD. Ported from TC's processing flagship System 6000, the MD3 includes two first-class algorithms, MD3 Multiband Dynamics and BrickWall Limiter. The MD3 Stereo Mastering Package for Pro Tools|HD is shipping now.

MD3 features a multiband 48-bit internal resolution structure, and offers a 3-band compressor and expander, a 4-band parametric equalizer, and a limiter in one powerful algorithm. MD3 can be configured for stereo or dual mono processing, and used on single sources as well as composite stereo mixes. Alternatively, stereo material may be processed in the MS domain, or MD3 may take in MS signals and convert them to stereo with processing taking place in either the LR or MS domain. BrickWall Limiter is a stereo/dual mono limiter with new features and technology

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UK - Charcoalblue theatre consultants has confirmed that it is working on the plans for the redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. The company has recently expanded its operation, taking on three new staff members plus two additions to its board of directors.

Since 2004 Charcoalblue, created by Andy Hayles, Jack Tilbury, Jon Stevens and Gavin Green, has also been working on the RSC's new Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.2005 saw commissions from English National Opera and Bristol Old Vic, in addition to being appointed by the National Theatre to work on its new studio redevelopment with Haworth Tompkins Architects. Following this, Aldeburgh Productions appointed Charcoalblue as theatre consultant for a second concert hall space at Snape Maltings, and to Newcastle Theatre Royal for a renewed flytower.

This year Charcoalblue was awarded the

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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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Malaysia - Hong Kong-born Jacky Cheung (not to be confused with Jackie Chan, whom he has starred opposite in movies), is often idolized for his huge number of film credits but he first achieved phenomenal success as a singer of CantoPop (Cantonese and pop) music. In fact, Cheung's concert ticket and CD sales indicate him reigning as the world's most popular Chinese language singer for nearly 15 years.

In 1997, Cheung launched his own lavish production of an updated traditional musical, Snow Wolf Lake, which quickly sold out an unprecedented 43 consecutive shows at Hong Kong's mammoth stadium. In late 2005, when Cheung's new touring version of the show arrived in Malaysia, local rental company SES Sound and Light welcomed him with a world-class production package that included a brand new system of Meyer Sound MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers.

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UK - FocusTrack, the database system for tracking and documenting the use of both moving and conventional lights in shows, is now available in a new version - version 1.200, launched on 8 May. The new version adds a number of new features and refinements to FocusTrack, which has been put to use on numerous high profile shows since its launch in 2005. Many of the new features are based on user feedback from these productions.

Leading the list of new features are improved displays with alternate row shading and with new options to highlight each new set of focus groups, channels or cues. Individual lamp-focuses can be flagged to draw attention to those requiring regular focussing. New 'QuickFind' buttons allow direct access to particular focuses, lights, cues or more. New Photo Shoot and Focus Loop functions make it even easier to step through a rig either photographing focuses or

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UK - Trident is adding a sunlight readable large format 32-inch LCD panel to its portfolio. The W32L300 display features transflective technology to allow viewing even in bright daylight, making it especially well suited to retail applications such as shop windows and estate agents.

The new WinMate transflective coating is a patent pending innovation that equips TFT LCDs with a reflective mode of illumination without compromising transmissive illumination. The display reflects ambient light passing through the LCD cell and employs the reflected light as its illumination. The stronger the ambient light, the brighter the LCD appears. As a result, the display can be viewed under all lighting conditions, including direct sunlight, regardless of the LCD's original brightness.

The new open-frame display has a 31.5-inch (800mm) diagonal viewing area with 16:9 aspect ratio. It has a t

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UK - Centre Stage Engineering will be introducing their new Tri-Band Hoist and control system at this year's ABBT Show on the 14 and 15 June. This is a truss-mounted unit that has been designed with economy, safety, ease of installation and versatility in mind. It is aimed at venues such as schools, universities and theatres that do not require the sophistication or complexity of a full-blown power flying system.

It incorporates two braked geared motors, a four-way limit box with BGV-C1 rating and optional encoder and a safe working load of up to 500kg. Its control system provides fixed or variable speed up to 10 metres per minute via a touch screen HMI unit and a switching power matrix enables two inverters to control up to 10 hoists via a single 13A or 6A 240v supply. It can be mounted either directly onto a grid or fixed to roof steels so that no lateral load is placed on the

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USA - Amerex Corporation of Trussville, Alabama has installed an Allen & Heath iDR system to manage audio matrixing and distribution of important operational and safety functions including fire and tornado alarms, telephone paging, and the shift-break alarm.

Designed and installed by Larry Bounds and Barry Henry of the EBS group, from Odenville, Alabama, in conjunction with Amerex's in house system technicians, the iDR-4 system also includes the optional PL-8, a four input/output logic contact closure unit.

"We chose the iDR because the programming of the box is very simple and the processor is very solid. We were able to install the system very quickly without any of the employees knowing," says Bounds. "We have also used the iDR in many other installations and we have found it to be a flexible and reliable solution."

The Amerex Corporation is the leadin

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UK - Welsh rockers The Lost Prophets co-headlined at the two venue Give it a name festival with American angst emo band My Chemical Romance.

The festival lighting systems at both venues were exact duplicates of each other - with a pretty standard four horizontal truss set up featuring an array of moving lighting, strobes and generic fixtures. Each band had the opportunity to add to the rig, but the only one that took advantage were - The Lost Prophets.

LD Mark Scrimshaw, who has been in the business since 1990, had six mega pods hung from the upstage truss. Within each of the pods there were six PixelLine 1044s and an Atomic strobe. Each of the pods was hung on two motors and at various points during the set - the pods were moved up and down to various pre-set positions creating a constantly moving blinding wall of light.

Scrimshaw enthuses: "I was looking for a

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USA - Dutch dance virtuoso Tiësto was so taken by Pioneer's new DJM-800 mixer when he laid his hands on one for the very first time at club AgeHa in Japan that he wouldn't leave without carrying it away with him. Convinced of its greatness, Tiësto bagged the sample mixer from AgeHa's DJ booth and whisked it away to the Miami Winter Music Conference.

Once in Miami, Tiësto used the DJM-800 MIDI assignable digital mixer alongside four new Pioneer CDJ-1000Mk3 decks. Performing at two events held at the intimate Mansion club - including a special album launch party for his new In Search Of Sunrise 5 mix compilation, titled Los Angeles. This landmark mix was released via Black Hole Recordings on 27 April and to support its release Tiësto embarked on a three-week-long tour of Asia. In May he begins his tour of North America and will hit the Netherlands and the UK in June, wh

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Australia - Robe ColorWash and ColorSpot 1200 AT moving lights were used to light the Mercedes, Holden, Ford and Dodge-Chrysler, Smart Car, Nissan, Honda and Hyundai stands and displays at the 2006 Australian International Motor Show.

The Motor Show - a flagship event for the automobile industry - toured from February to April, visiting all of Australia's major cities. It showcased the latest in automotive design and technology including futuristic prototypes and concept vehicles, and hosted an array of demonstrations and entertainment venues.

Robe's Australian distributor Universal Lighting and Audio (ULA) worked closely with the country's leading production company, Clifton Productions in producing technical and creative solutions for all of the booths. In February, Clifton underwent massive expansion with the purchase of 100 Robe AT series luminaires enabling them to servic

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UK - Visitor attraction integration specialists Sysco are presently using multiples of Christie LX LCD projection, to reinforce major exhibitions in London's premier museum.

Sysco's expertise was called upon recently when the British Museum wanted to stage its current Michelangelo Drawings - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to follow the evolution of some of the world's most celebrated artworks.

The exhibition traces 60 years of Michelangelo's stormy life, from intimate studies made when he was in his early 20's to the visionary Crucifixion scenes carried out shortly before his death. Featuring 90 drawings the exhibition pulls together one of the world's largest collections of Michelangelo's work in 30 years (including three studies for the fresco in the Sistine Chapel).

Design company Metaphor was tasked with helping audiences make the connection between the three 90cm high

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USA - Poseidon, the new remake of the 1972 film, stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, some High End Systems Studio Spot 575 automated luminaires and two Wholehog 3 consoles. The Warner Bros. Pictures release promises to make a big splash in movie theatres and IMAX theatres starting 12 May.

Studio Spots were specified in the upside down nightclub set for various reasons, says programmer Scott Barnes. "I went with the Studio Spots because I needed the lights to be fairly small and I wanted to do a Gobo Shake (a special effect in Studio Spot) to simulate that the head is jammed or broken. John Seale, the director of photography, loved this feature.

"For the nightclub we just used three Studio Spots. It was a small rig. Before the ship rolls over, there are a number of establishing scenes. One of these scenes is in the nightclub on the ship. This was

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Hungary - Eleven audio professionals gathered in Budapest early this year for Hungary's first Meyer Sound training seminar on source independent measurement and the SIM 3 audio analyzer system. The intensive five-day course was taught by Mauricio "Magu" Ramirez, Meyer Sound's senior technical seminar instructor, with logistical support of the event entrusted to Makkay Imre of Chromatica, Meyer Sound's Hungarian distributor.

"After finishing this seminar, I felt like the proverbial blind man who has his sight restored," says Komjáthy Árpád, chief engineer for Expander 2000 Ltd., one of Hungary's largest rental companies. "Now I can see what I hear!"

Imre adds: "Attending a seminar led by Mauricio is always a great pleasure. He has an exceptional talent for helping his students learn quickly and in a practical manner."

The course mate

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USA - Solid State Logic is pleased to announce the hiring of Donovan Stark as partnership manager. Based out of SSL's Los Angeles office, Stark is primed for further development of the company's successful retail channel programme. He will focus primarily on the AWS 900+ console and the XLogic range of rack mount products, including Duende, the legendary console manufacturer's Firewire audio processor for workstation users.

Donovan comes to SSL after three years as accounts manager with GC Pro, the pro audio sales division of music retailer Guitar Centre, where he was the top AWS 900 salesman. Donovan contributed to the success of the AWS 900, making sales to such customers as David Kershenbaum and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Donovan's responsibilities will include support and development of SSL's expanding XLogic dealer network, AWS 900+ sales support for Guitar Center and GC Pr

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USA - BCi announces the release of a unique software upgrade for such a small DMX-512 console: dmXact.

The dmXact software has just finished beta testing at Element Labs following their request for this new capability for use on their video servers. Element has ordered six units for their use in sales and support.

Prior to this time, DMX users wishing to see real DMX output values were generally challenged by the use of a cursor based DMX test device or a full-featured console. With the advent of the dmXact chip, this powerful tool is now placed in the palm of any Pocket Console user.

dmXact allows the user to choose, from one of four methods, how they wish to see the output of the Pocket Console: DMX real values from 0-255; DMX % values from 0-100%; binHex values from 0-FF; No output readout. These choices are easily selected by depressing the last or next buttons while in

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Germany - Software for clubs, DJ's, bars, lounges, shows and conventions, the keywords for this comprehensive lighting controller software are simple handling and an intuitive user interface, says the company.

The two effect pipelines for programming effects, as well as an output window offers direct and intuitive access to lighting effects. Madrix can be used for DMX remote-control by any DMX console (DMX-IN). Madrix can be controlled even more simply with a mouse, keyboard or monitor. With a soundcard and the Music2Light effects, it performs a 100% synchronised light show.

Using Madrix, RGB or RGBW light matrices can be controlled. Madrix makes it simple to program effects, colours, gradients, tickers, bitmaps or videos. Madrix is a user-friendly software package for triggering small and big LED- installations through DMX512.

A free demonstration can be downloaded from www

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USA - For more than 15 years, Ronan Chris Murphy has proved himself to be one of the most sought-after producer/mixers of hard jazz, progressive rock and experimental music. Over the past five years, Murphy has spent much of his time working from his own Culver City-based Veneto West Studio. Having engineered and produced over 200 albums for others - including some 15 records for King Crimson and various offshoots - Murphy, an accomplished guitarist and composer, is now turning his attention to his own solo project, which benefits from an all-star backup band of Levin on bass and Chapman Stick, Keneally on keys, and both Mastelotto and Bozzio on drums.

Seeing that Bozzio's percussion setup spans 16 feet and includes literally dozens of drums and cymbals, Murphy and co-engineer Dan Richards chose to run the drummer's entire kit through 15 channels of A-Designs Audio microphone pr

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UK - Zero 88 has appointed Peter Kirkup as product support coordinator, a role in which he will assist the Zero 88 sales team with product training and technical support. Peter has recently completed the BA in Stage Management course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Previous graduates from the college include Lorna Parsons who manages sales order processing for the team.

In addition to his formal education Peter has already amassed wealth of industry experience. He has been involved with productions in the Bristol & Cardiff areas for the last six years. He also launched the online industry forum the Blue Room in early 2003 and continues as one if its key moderators.

Kirkup was a big user of Zero 88 products even before university and has been actively specifying our products to local amateur groups (especially the Frog range) after attending a Zero 88

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Northern Ireland - Between 7.00pm on Tuesday 2 May and 9.00am on Wednesday 3 May 2006, a break-in occurred at the premises of Park Audio at 41 Sydenham Road, Belfast. A large amount of sound equipment was stolen together with a vehicle belonging to the company. The vehicle has since been recovered. Park Audio is appealing for any information that may lead to the recovery of the missing equipment.

Anyone with any information relating to the above incident is asked to contact Glenn at Park Audio on 02890 805805, or the Belfast Harbour Police on 02890 553000. Park Audio is offering a financial reward for information leading to the safe recovery of the stolen equipment.

Details of the equipment are as follows: 16 Crest Audio CD3000 power amplifiers and 6 Crest Audio CD2000 power amplifiers - all housed in 6 x 12U racks; 2 Community RS220 loudspeakers; 2 Community FB1

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UK - Large format projection specialists E//T//C UK debuted their new multi-screen video control software - OnlyView - on a projection show onto Senate House in London, for the Royal National Institute of The Deaf (RNID) last week. Onlyview was UK launched in March, and this was the first show to combine both methods of projection for a single creative result.

The Onlyview system, was working in conjunction with PIGI projection running on the established OnlyCue control system. Merging the two control systems and projection formats allowed E//T//C UK to produce a dynamic moving montage of images and information for the press launch of the RNID's new hearing test phone line - part of their Breaking The Sound Barrier campaign.

The video and film artwork and creative concepts were produced by Jason Bridge working with production company Pull Creative. The large white build

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