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UK - Lifting, and rigging sales specialists Lift-Turn-Move exhibit at their second ABTT, highlighting Lodestar motors, a new range of hoist control systems, rigging accessories and their latest training initiatives.

LTM offers a range of lifting and rigging equipment including the Lodestar and Prostar electric chain hoists, which are being highlighted at the show. The Lodestar is now the entertainment industry standard hoist and these products can be found on most tours, events and in many venues around the world. High integrity hoisting systems are also available including equipment to BGV C1 German safety standard. Special features include double brakes, load sensing and multiple limit switches. Variable speed units and manual or computerised controllers are available to monitor

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UK - Denon has further raised the bar for scratch mixing technology with the announcement of the new DN-X1500S professional mixer. When its forerunner (the DN-X1500) was released in 2004 it broke all kinds of barriers with features and functionality says the company. It also introduced Analogue Devices SHARC processors to the DJ world - a feature that has been maintained in the enhanced performance of the DN-X1500S.

Denon had been turning increasingly to SHARC processing as the preferred platform across their product portfolio, and the DN-X1500S has become the latest to benefit. Based on 32-bit super Harvard architecture, which hinges on a high performance fixed- and floating-point processing core, this DSP engine enables the DN-X1500S to achieve optimum clarity.

The advanced DN-X1500 had been introduced to complement the DN-S5000 and DN-S3000 single CD/MP3 players, the recent

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UK - Proel (International) has unveiled a range of signal processors that comprises of six models: the Digicurve - a dual channel graphic/parametric equaliser with remote control software; the Dualcomp - a dual channel dual band compressor/limiter with remote control; the Exaverb - a stereo digital effects processor with tap delay; the Predator - a dual channel automatic and manual feedback eliminator with remote control software; the Raptor - a dual channel automatic feedback eliminator; and the Zetaverb - a stereo digital effects processor with tap delay and remote control software.

All units boast class-leading electronic and audio performance, come at affordable prices and with red casing and satin finish control knobs, says the company.

Typical of the range, the Predator feedback eliminator offers a frequency response of 20Hz-20kHz +/- 0.5dB, MIDI interface : MIDI - USB -

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USA / UK - Theatre Projects Consultants has announced that leadership and ownership of the firm has been transferred to a new generation of leaders. "For the past few years, we have been planning this ownership transition of the UK and US companies to the younger members of our team, and we feel that now is the right time for that change," said Richard Pilbrow, founder and chairman.

The transition allows key members of staff to take on both leadership and ownership of Theatre Projects Consultants and provides for ownership to extend to other members of the firm in the future, the company says.

The UK team will be led by David Staples, Alan Russell, Jerry Godden, Mark Stroomer, Marion Daehms and Andrew De Rosa. Staples comments: "Theatre Projects has been at the leading edge of theatre planning for almost 50 years. This transition allows us to build on that wealt

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UK - Over the past 20 years, Texas' rocky, bluesy style and Sharleen Spiteri's potent, souly vocals have helped carve out their special niche, cultivating a diverse fanbase.

Adlib Audio is supplying a JBL VerTec PA for the tour, which is being engineered by Andy Dockerty at FOH and Marc Peers on monitors. Dockerty has worked with Texas since 1993, and says it's the only band guaranteed to get him out of Adlib's Liverpool HQ!

New for this tour, they are running a Shure KSM9 radio mic on Spiteri's vocal, which seems to be working well, with a combination of BSS 901 frequency conscious gating, and dbx160A compression. Her vocal in the mix is the bottom line, and Dockerty says it's excellent for substantiating the rich, gritty resolution of her voice. He used a VerTec 4888 system on their 2005 theatre tour, and has gone with the VerTec 4889 system for this tour - powered by Camco

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UK - In an impressive bid to deliver inclusive and accessible theatre, the new Leicester Performing Arts Centre will reveal its stage and backstage areas to the street outside. The new venue, under construction in the heart of Leicester City, is part of the overall plan to revitalise and regenerate the city centre and will become a symbolic landmark for cultural industries in the East Midlands. The innovative, glass building will allow people to see inside the building from the outside including backstage activities such as sets being built.

The centre will include two auditoria, totalling 1,000 seats, and will be fitted with the latest theatre technologies, including complete automated power flying from Stage Technologies. The system will include BigTow winches and a MaxisID control system operated by Nomad control consoles.

The Leicester Performing Arts Centre, due to open i

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UK - South London based PA company Systems Etc debuted its new Electro-Voice XLE compact line array system at London's Hackney Empire on a live music/DJ night featuring the Groove Armada Sound System.Supplied by Shuttlesound, this is the first XLE system in the UK, and Systems Etc owner Bernard Mani has customised it with EV's new 2 x 15" subs - nominally part of the XLC range - and an ideal match for Systems Etc's dance music clients. The new rig was also used at the Evolution Festival in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the UK's largest free outdoor festival, at the end of May, over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Founded by Bernard Mani in 1996, Systems Etc has been carving its niche in the London club and live scene since 1996, providing state-of-the-art fully integrated audio-visual systems. In 2001, the company took over Eskimo Noise, creating an even larger output potential, a substan

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Spain - Projected Image Digital has supplied, installed and commissioned 60 Element Labs VersaTube LED fixtures in a stunning basement bar lighting scheme at the Hard Rock Café in Barcelona.

This follows on from PID's work with Paula Reason of Cadmium Design and Steve Inwood, Hard Rock International's director of European Development at the Hard Rock Café in London. Here they supplied a customised VersaTile installation for the back wall of the basement bar.

PID's David March says: "We were delighted to working with Paula, Steve and the Hard Rock Team again - they are always up for pushing technology to new and interesting boundaries."

The award winning Barcelona site is the busiest HRC venue in Europe - situated right on the aorta of Plaça de Catalunya. Such was the success of the VersaTile installation in London, that it was decided a similar featu

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UK - Electronic ballast manufacturer Harvard Engineering has appointed LichtFocus as its sole Netherlands agent. LichtFocus is part of the specialist lighting group Lichtned and has been in business for five years. Harvard's range of electronic ballasts will complementLichtFocus' existing agencies for professional lighting brands including We-ef, Antares, Martini, Rossetti and Uni-Q.

Michael McDonnell, commercial director at Harvard Engineering says: "LichtFocusimpressed us with their technical knowledge and enthusiasm. Their sales operation combines a network of professional lighting planners with direct customer accounts, so I am confident that our range of compact, high performance, ballasts will be made available to the widest possible audience."

Rick ter Wee of Lichtfocus adds: "The Harvard brand is growing fast across Europe and I am delighted to have secu

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UK - A.C. Lighting is an official race sponsor of the Arden team for the GP2 British Grand Prix, which takes place at Silverstone this weekend (9-11 June). GP2 features cars running at speeds only a few seconds shy of F1 pace and is designed to equip every member of every team with the experience, knowledge and determination to succeed in Formula One.

Arden finished second in the overall Team Championship of the inaugural GP2 season last year. The sponsorship emphasises the natural affinity between Arden and A.C. Lighting, with both companies operating at the forefront of new technology in their industry sectors. The company believes the race will provide a dynamic environment for A.C. to network with other sponsors and countries at a business to business level to promote its products and services.

A.C. Lighting's Special Projects division also reports that it supplied a Litec

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Two-and-a-half years on from its re-entry onto the international pro audio manufacturing stage, RCF has made some serious ground. Lee Baldock visited the company's headquarters in northern Italy to find out more . . .

Italy - When Arturo Vicari bought his old company RCF back from the receivers in December 2003, there were no guarantees that it could be successfully re-established.

The veteran manufacturer which had existed prior to its sale to Mackie in 1999 was no more; Vicari and his reassembled team were faced with the task of regenerating a successful manufacturing concern with the quality product, the global distribution network and, more importantly the goodwill necessary for survival in a highly competitive marketplace.

For the initial core of workers who returned to the factory in the northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia to start again from scratch, the future mus

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The Netherlands - At the star-studded UNICEF gala in The Hague on the 25 March, AVEQ Rental & Sales supplied the equipment and expertise for the entire production - relying on systems from Electro-Voice.

It was the top social event of the year in The Hague. Celebrities from the cultural, sporting and political worlds thronged the atrium of the town hall to have a good time and donate money to a worthy cause. UNICEF was delighted to make a net profit of 143,500 euros - money that will be used for charitable purposes.

To heighten the mood of generosity among the guests, the UNICEF team had organised a high-calibre live programme that included not only local and national acts such as Jim, Told U So and Frank In Person (F.I.P.) but also the legendary disco group of the Eighties Sister Sledge, who made sure the dance floor was packed and stayed that way. Their much-appreciated set

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France - Colorbank LED is the first LED-fitted strip-lighting fixture to join Chauvet's best-selling Color Bank line of wash lights. Unlike its three-halogen predecessors, this wash light is fitted with a total of 304 long life diodes housed in four pods and offers full RGB mixing capability. It is also DMX-512 programmable and produces a more concentrated, richly coloured flood, making it ideal for runway lighting effects. Like other Color Banks, it is highly portable and effectively washes walls, scenic painted drops as well as dance floors and stages.

The diodes offer the advantage of low power consumption and heat emission. Multiple units can be daisy-chained for runway lighting over a long distance. Built in colour change programs can be triggered as well as chase and fade functions through a long row of connected units via DMX and in master/slave mode. All functions, inclu

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UK - Yamaha Commercial Audio has announced the appointment of Richard McLean, who joins the team in a newly-created office-based sales support role. Working from Yamaha's UK premises in Milton McLean, Richard will be the central point of contact for all CA dealers and act as an overall facilitator handling pre and post sales enquiries, as well as booking orders.

A gigging musician, McLean first started working for Yamaha Kemble upon graduating from University in 2004. Prior to the appointment within Commercial Audio, he worked in Yamaha's Central Operations department in a dealer support role. The main focus of the new position, the company says, is to create a constant first point of contact for customers for all aspects of Yamaha's Commercial Audio Business and to reinforce the 'local service, global support' promise.

This will cover all enquiries ranging from a checking sto

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UK - Serious Stages supplied one of their 25 metre two bay Space Roofs for the main stage at the new Hedgestock Festival at Knebworth House, compete with 8.4m wide x 15m high video and PA wings.

The exclusive new style 2-day corporate event with music - headlined by The Who as part of their Teenage Cancer Trust work - describes itself as a 'festival of networking' for the Hedge Fund Industry - with the adage "because conventions don't have to be conventional".

Serious was asked onboard by production manager Nick Fisher with whom they've worked on several projects. Fisher was brought in by organisers Albourne Partners to co-ordinate the supply of all the technical production and infrastructure, which also included Entec (sound) and PRG (lighting).

The Serious team of 20 crew and riggers was led by Aleksis Zarins. The site build started 14 days in advance and was com

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Italy - Proel, the Italian leader company in audio/lighting systems, consumer electronics, musical instruments and accessories manufacturing, is proud to announce that Fantasy Sound International has been appointed as the exclusive distributor in Taiwan.

Under this multi-year agreement, Fantasy Sound International will sell and co-promote all of the various Proel product lines: stage equipment and accessories, sound reinforcement, lighting, trussing, Die-Hard cables and Tamburo drums.

Also included in the distributor's portfolio, is Proel Installation division, featuring audio, trussing and lighting products for large fixed installations and conferences.

Luigi Paoloni, the Proel International export manager says: "We are very excited about this new agreement. Fantasy is a highly dynamic and professional company and we strongly believe that they are the right choice as p

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UK / India - Charter has supplied 16 radio mics and engineering support for the Sport Relief Celebrity cricket match in Bombay filmed by the BBC, with just three days notice. The match in aid of Sport Relief, between a UK all-stars team and a Bollywood Megastar 11, required a radio mic on every player on the cricket pitch and contracted a local company to provide the necessary equipment. At the last minute it became clear that that many radio mics could not be made available in the time within the available budget. Tim Hunt, a freelance sound man who has worked with Charter on such programmes as Springwatch knew that Charter were radio mic experts and introduced Kimberley Littlemore, the BBC producer responsible for the programme, to Colin Bowman, audio engineer at Charter Broadcast.

With just three days to spare, Charter set about bringing together the 16 radio mics and

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UK - Digidesign's Venue live digital mixing environment is enabling the famous Montreux Jazz Festival to celebrate its landmark year by moving exclusively into the digital domain. On its 40th anniversary (coinciding with the 70th birthday of its founder Claude Nobs) the Festival has proudly announced that Digidesign has agreed to become the official Montreux Audio Sponsor, signing a three-year contract.

Digidesign will install the D-Show digital mixing console, FOH Rack (with digital mix engine and embedded control computer), Stage Rack unit with recallable, remote-controlled preamps and multi-channel digital snake in the FOH and monitor positions of the three major auditoria used for the world-famous Festival - the Stravinski Hall, Miles Davis Hall and Casino Barrière - along with full Pro Tools HD rigs so that operators can seamlessly integrate a Pro Tools workstation with Ve

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UK - Avolites exhibits at ABTT 2006 which it sees as the UK's most important annual theatre exhibition.

Sales director Steve Warren, says: "It's a great chance to catch up with all our existing theatre users, and also introduces us to lots of potential new clients."

Avolites products of particular interest for theatrical applications this year are the lighting consoles - particularly the Diamond 4 Elite, and the Pearl 2004. Also prominent will be the revolutionary eDMX wireless DMX data transmission system, and the ART 2000i installation dimmer, which is the fixed installation version of Avolites' ART 2000 digital dimming series.

Standard Avolites ART2000 touring racks are also a favourite with touring theatre shows, where tight schedules and the rigours of the road demand robust, reliable and well engineered equipment.

Avolites' eDMX transfers DMX data across a

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The Netherlands - This May saw VisualDMX testing the wits of contestants vying for the big € 100,000 cash prize on the Dutch National Lottery's monthly game show: De Staatsloterij.

Producer Endemol asked Visual Productions to programme a special facility in the VisualDMX software that would enable it to control a new game based on the Labyrinth principle. Two 18 square metre platforms of MultiLEDs floor were supplied by Blue Magic rental and project house, located close to the Studio Aalsmeer used for filming the show.

Utilising the ever popular Matrix Mania software feature of VisualDMX, the software was programmed to enable a complex route of touching squares travelling from one side to the other of the LED floor, to be hidden from sight until the contestants step on the correct path. VisualDMX was linked via MIDI to a show control system; in the event of a contestan

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UK - At the coming ABTT show, Alcons Audio will be exhibiting their line of theatre loudspeakers and controller-amplifiers. A feature of all products is Alcons' proprietary pro-ribbon technology, which is a radically different way of reproducing mid and high frequencies, resulting in HiFi sound quality with truly unsurpassed clarity and (speech)intelligibility at full theatre sound pressure levels, says the company.

The Alcons technology is in use on shows such as: Beauty and the Beast, Rembrandt, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Dancing, The Rocky Horror show, to name a few.

For point source systems, the traditional way of reinforcing theatre sound, Alcons will exhibit the VR8 and VR2, both 2-way passive systems, each with its own pro-ribbon driver.

Making inroads in the theatre market, the LR14 line-array system will be on the stand. The system can be used in stacked and flown

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