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Australia - Australian lighting control manufacturer LSC Lighting Systems has appointed Greg Hughes as sales consultant. The company says this appointment is another strategic step in LSC's plan for growth, enabling increased levels of service for the growing customer base in Northern Australia and Queensland.

Hughes comes to LSC with an extensive background. In his early days he played piano and guitar in several bands whilst also working at the AMP in Sydney. In 1976 he "realised his musical talents were less than ordinary", so he moved on to successfully road-manage bands, often working as their front-of-house sound technician.

After moving to Queensland in the late 70s, Hughes worked with Wickety Wak, DSA Concert Systems and at Her Majesty's Theatre. In 1982, Greg

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USA - Introducing a new standard of high-definition audio in all conferencing applications, Biamp has launched its new TrueSound AEC algorithm. Available immediately in all Nexia VC and Nexia TC processors and AEC-2HD cards for AudiaFLEX, the proprietary algorithm is the result of intensive, yearlong, in-house research and development initiative. TrueSound is the only algorithm that provides integrators and consultants with a powerful, easy-to-implement solution for true wideband, 20 Hz to 20 kHz acoustic echo cancellation, delivering sound that is true to life, says the company.

"If you have HD video without HD audio, then you aren't experiencing the full power of high definition conferencing," says Ralph Lockhart, president, Biamp Systems. "With our new TrueSound AEC algorithm, integrators and consultants who are installing or specifying our Nexia VC and Nexia T

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Norway - Norwegian Cruise Line's (NCL) newest Freestyle Cruising ship, Norwegian Pearl, is a sister ship to Norwegian Jewel and the latest in a string of innovative Jewel class ships. Norwegian Pearl has an abundance of automated, colour-changing lighting from Martin Professional.

Built at Germany's Meyer shipyard, the 2,400-guest capacity vessel boasts an industry first - a four-lane bowling alley; and two NCL firsts - a rock-climbing wall and two Deluxe Owner's Suites. Norwegian Pearl features all the elements of NCL's dynamic modern Freestyle Cruising fleet including multiple restaurants, bars and lounges, boutiques, luxurious accommodations, family friendly areas and the latest in relaxation and fitness.

Guests enter the foyer with its glimmering icicled motif. In the lobby, across from the reception area is a vast, ceiling-to-floor LED screen - the second largest installa

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UK - The second Tech Event, organised by leading AV/IT distributors Maverick and PSCo, will take place at the Mercedes Benz World, Weybridge, Surrey on 17 April. This year's prime objective is to deliver over 20 technical seminar/workshops throughout the day focusing on the convergence of AV and IT, including multimedia distribution, control, and telephony.

Tech Event will feature keynote presentations from industry giants such as Cisco who will outline their vision for a converging world; the event will also host an exhibition of over 30 key manufacturers in the AV/IT industry, offering the opportunity to experience the spectrum of products covering all aspects of the displays' market, the organisers say. It will focus on profiling emerging technologies, emphasising the on-going convergence and synergy with the IT sector.

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Slovakia - Slovakia's top lighting designer Martin Kubanka has once again chosen Robe moving lights as the main workhorses of his design for Hviezdy na Láde(Stars on Ice), Slovakia's version of top live TV production Dancing On Ice. All lighting equipment is being supplied by leading rental house Q-99, who are also supplying a Bose sound system for the series.

The show is a roll out of the Dancing On Ice series that took the UK's ITV by storm. A celebrity and a professional skater pair up and hone their dancing skills on the ice, with 14 hopeful couples starting the series. There's a studio-based judging panel to offer their professional opinion, but the winners are actually voted for by the public via SMS. The Slovakian show is staged at the Koliba Studios in Bratislava, directed by TomᚠEibner.

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Iran - ARX signal processing products featured heavily when newly formed five-piece Iranian rock band Nira performed the country's first two licensed live concerts in the past 18 months. ARX's Iranian distributor ZiroBam supplied the audio system, featuring products from ARX, Martin Audio and Crest Audio - all manufacturers represented by ZiroBam in the Iranian market.

ARX signal processing and interface products used included Sixgate 6-Channel Optical Noise Gates, Afterburner dual-channel dual-band compressors and ARX DI Plus and DI Plus 2 direct boxes. For the 400-capacity venue, six Martin Audio W8LM and two WS2Aloudspeakers were driven by Crest Audio power amplifiers with a Crest Audio console out front.

The two sold-out shows featured covers from Jamiroquai, Arcade and Audio Slave, as well as Nira originals.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - Opened in 1998, Bellagio is located squarely on Las Vegas's Strip, and epitomises the incredible scale and lavishness that has become the city's hallmark. With more than 10,000 blooming flowers and a wide variety of other plant life, plus fountains and themed displays, the conservatory is located in a large atrium with a glass ceiling. The conservatory installs new displays five times a year: spring, summer, autumn, Christmas, and Chinese New Year. The displays feature plantings appropriate to the theme (including sculptures of people and animals made entirely out of flowers), along with scenic elements, active props, and other related items.

Music and sound design are key to creating the conservatory's atmosphere. For each display, sound designer Jason Rauhoff of Goes To Eleven assembles and masters a music programme, as well as sound effects. Original sound designer Jona

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UK - The Palace Exchange is a brand new retail development in the centre of Enfield, which has attracted several new retailers to the town, as well as existing stores extending their shops. A key feature of the 160,000sq.ft area is the Enfield Word Wall, which - measuring at approximately 120m - imposes over the northern side of the development and features passages of conversations from the town past and present.

Hoare Lea specified the lighting, with the concept of backlighting the wall behind the large text, whilst simultaneously illuminating the wall with LED projectors from across the street. Specialists Architen Landrell were drawn in to carry out the entire installation.

A total of over 100 Tryka Strip Module Optic IP67 in a variety of lengths were used on the project, with 27 Tryka IDS-4s - the Intelligent Drive System capable of running large numbers of LED fixtures w

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USA - Vestax has announced its new PMC-280Pro complete with 4 channels and 16 effects with adjustable parameters.

The PMC-280 offers four channels to serve all DJ styles together with aprofessional DSP effects unit on board featuring 24bit 96kHz samplingrate for quality sound warping. Two rotaries are providedon the control surface to adjust two variable parameters for each effect.16 effects are available with algorithms specially designed for DJsmaking the PMC-280 one of the most powerful and unique DJ tools on the market.

The PMC-280 comes with new channel faders and Vestax's exclusive CF-PCV crossfader for smooth mixing and lightning fast DJ battles. Each channelcomes with a three band isolator EQ. 10 inputs are provided including sixLine, two Phono, two Mic, and the output section features two individuallycontrolled RCA stereo outputs and XLR outputs on Master.

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UK - Fuzion plc have taken over the UK distriibution of Compulite digital lighting control desks, dimmers (and associated lighting products) with immediate effect. Under Stagetec Distribution, the Israel-based company's penetration of the UK market has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, claiming hundreds of installations in theatres, TV studios, schools and colleges up and down the country. It has been particularly successful with the Vector range of consoles, the company reports, which are currently used on major TV productions such as Big Brother, X-Factor, Dancing on Ice and many more.

Andrew Stone from Stagetec Distribution, the Compulite UK distributor for the past 11 years, comments: "After many years of distributing the Compulite range in the UK we have been looking for some time into ways of increasing sales in the UK market. After carefu

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Germany - Avolites takes its new Pearl Expert lighting console to Frankfurt for the first time. With over 200 units on order since the console went into production, this is going to be another major selling product from Avo, and will be the main highlighted product on the stand of German Distributor Trendco.

Pearl Expert is a high performance version of one the industry's most popular consoles - with more Submasters, more flash buttons, more power - and optimised for use on larger and more demanding shows and events.

Pearl Expert is based on the Pearl 2004 operating system, retaining the user-friendliness and accessibility of Avolites Pearl consoles. It's powered by the new Intel CoreDuo Processor giving an exceptionally high speed button response which is particularly useful for 'Take Over', and busking with Timed Palettes.

An additional five sub master playbacks make a tot

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Australia - The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has recently installed a dimMA system into their Concert Hall. This is one of the largest theatrical dimMA installations worldwide. Show Technology Australia, who realised the project, opened an office in Brisbane to assure local support.

The installation consists of seven MA Digital Dimmer Racks, each with 72 circuits, distributed throughout the Concert Hall. This rack distribution went away from the traditional central dimmer room design. A large saving was made with the cabling infrastructure, as the racks are now closer to the outlets. There are four racks with four Network dimmer Processors (NDP's) in the ceiling, two behind the side lighting positions each with a back up NDP and one in the basement with a back up NDP. Each rack has a redundant processor capable of controlling 144 dimmer circuits.

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UK - Pyrotechnics specialist company Pyrojunkies reports that it has been flat out since November last year with a number of high-profile tours and events including McFly, the World Music Awards, Pussy Cat Dolls, Shayne Ward, X Factor and Westlife.

Since purchasing Wells Fireworks, the company is now also manufacturing and using Wells Pyrotechnics on all its tours, as well as distributing the Wells range worldwide. The company is looking for more distribution partners around the globe - any enquiries should be directed to the company via the web address below.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - Six Alpha One Falcon 3k Flowers will be used to enhance the forthcoming 79th Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006, presented at the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network on February 25.

Debuting in the US this year, the Falcon has already featured in high profile events such as the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards, and now, the Oscars. Alpha One of Oyten, Germany, designs, constructs and produces a range of professional high power lighting, specializing in xenon, metal halide and LED products. TMB is the worldwide distributor for Falcon and other Alpha One products.

(Lee Baldock)

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Asia - Klotz Digital has appointed Thomas Marcher as the new sales director of Klotz Digital Asia Asia. "Thomas brings with him a wealth of experience in the Broadcast and PA industries and has been in this region for a long time. Thomas's track record in managing sales and distribution organizations and his in-depth market knowledge are valuable assets for Klotz Digital and a perfect match for our regional strategies," says Andre Sauer, managing director of Klotz Digital Asia.

Thomas comes to the company from DIS Thailand where he was the area sales manager responsible for the Asia-Pacific markets. Prior to DIS, he worked for TC Electronics, and was elementary in setting up their China office. "I look forward to working with Klotz Digital," says Marcher. "I watched this company grow over the years and it is now one of the best known brands in the broadc

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Japan - The first Midas XL8 live performance system into Japan is now up and running at the Shibuya-AX live venue in Tokyo, supplied by EVI Audio Japan.

Located in the Shibuya district, home to the city's leading music, cultural and arts venues, Shibuya-AX has a long tradition of being on the cutting edge of sound technology. As such, it attracts leading domestic and international artists and is well-known by Japanese PA companies, sound technicians and music industry personnel. Back in 2004 the sound crew at Shibuya-AX began to discuss a future upgrade to digital technology. Head of sound, Mr Tsutomu Hashimoto, drew up a list of criteria, which first and foremost included the traditional Midas sound quality, as well as Ethernet networking capability and analogue-friendly operation - the latter of which wasn't available on any other digital console. Having heard about Midas' pla

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South Africa - Stage Audio Works has been appointed as the Southern African distributor of Rubber Box products. Stage Audio Works is based in Port Elizabeth South Africa supplying turnkey entertainment and architainment technology solutions in Southern Africa.

Stage Audio Works will be stocking standard pre-built boxes and splitters, custom solutions are also possible. Stage Audio Works will also provide technical support, spare parts and training for Rubber Box products in Southern Africa. The new Powercase from Rubberbox offers industry professionals in Southern Africa a revolutionary design in 19" racking systems.

Stage Audio Works will be showing all the Rubber Box products at the Mediatech Africa tradeshow in Johannesburg in June this year.

Gustav Barnard for Stage Audio Works says: "Rubber Box's products offer revolutionary and high quality power distribution

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Sweden - Leisuretec Distribution has supplied Pulsar Chroma LED fittings for a unique interactive exhibition stand for Swedish automotive company Trelleborg.

Traditionally used in bar, club and hotel installations, Design Company KXK, used the fittings to build a high-tech interactive stand using Pulsar Chroma's & Pulsar control - a unique application opening up design opportunities to the exhibition industry.

The brief from Trelleborg, a World-wide industrial manufacturing company producing thousands of components for the automotive and aerospace industries, was to showcase their range of products in a way that people hadn't seen before.

The stand was revealed at Trelleborg's Investors AGM in Stockholm. The key was to be interactive, using LED and innovative technology to bring the stand to life in colour. Eight boxes each containing real products were constructed using tec

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Germany - Baldwin Boxall Communications Limited will be displaying its latest Voice Alarm products and a new range of microphones at this year's ProLight + Sound Exhibition in Frankfurt - the Vigil EVAS, Vigil Eclipse2 and BDM400 networkable range of paging microphones.

Vigil EVAS is a range of DSP controlled voice alarm products and are the latest addition to Baldwin Boxall's expanding product repertoire. The main unit - BVRD2M - is the feature-rich DSP controlled router. Only 1U in height, the BVRD2M has seven audio outputs, eight audio inputs and six flash stored messages. Adding one BVRD2S slave unit increases the number of inputs by twelve and outputs by sixteen. Up to five slave units can be connected to each master - providing 68 inputs, 87 outputs and 30 messages. The EVAS range can provide a decentralised network and up to 128 units can be linked together - creating a v

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Germany - K.M.E. will present Versio, a new portable series, at Frankfurt, and will complete Pano with the QLM 115.

The new Versio design has a black comb grid with acoustic foam behind to protect the speakers from dust and dirt. Inside the speakers work high resilient drivers developed to the latest technologies, which also contribute to a weight reduction due to neodymium magnets.Each top unit is equipped with a 1" high-frequency driver.

Versio includes the passive top parts VL 8 (8"), VL 12 (12") and VL 15 (15") as well as the active top unit VL 250 (12"). Subwoofers are available in the passive versions VB 15 t and VB 15 w as well as VB 18 and VB 18 w. The 't' describes the subwoofer variant with twin coil and the 'w' describes the integrated passive crossover. Active subwoofer models will follow this year. Each top unit can be used multifunctional

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UK - The University of Derby Students Union Graduation Ball 2007 was held on Saturday 20 January. The Snowball" as it is known is renowned for providing a quality evening for graduating students and partners a great venue with some fantastic entertainment. Last year's event was enjoyed by nearly 3000 students and their guests and included entertainment which in the past has included establishes acts such as Colin Murray, Jools Holland, Happy Mondays and Edith Bowman.

Panda Hire Ltd provided and installed the various Martin products that were used to light the event, and included MAC 500s, MAC 600s, MAC 250 Entours, MAC 250 Washes, MX-10s, Atomics Strobes and two Jem smoke machines.

Peter Davies from Panda Hire Ltd, was the lighting designer for the event, he says: "The MAC 500 and MAC 600 units were ideal for the stage lighting for this event and as such were

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