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Germany - Biamp announced at ProLight + Sound the appointment of Claudio Berstein as its newest product application specialist. Berstein will report to Kiley Henner, Biamp's technical support manager, and joins Chris Flanagan, Michael Erwin, Kevin Jacobson, Martin Bonsoir and Antoine Rouget to provide Biamp customers with worldwide support.

"With the addition of Claudio, we continue to expand the level of support that we are capable of providing," said Henner. "Claudio brings a great deal of experience with him, in addition to a love for audio that we knew would make him a great fit for Biamp. We welcome Claudio to the team and are looking forward to great things with him, both on our team and with our customers."

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USA - Providing security integrators with an easier way to order full-featured enclosures optimised for today's most advanced network (NVR) and digital video recorders (DVR), Middle Atlantic Products introduced its new line of Configured NVR/DVR enclosures at ISC West 2007. Each Configured NVR/DVR enclosure is optimised with Middle Atlantic Products' most commonly requested thermal, cable and power management solutions and can be ordered using a single part number, allowing integrators to take advantage of significant cost, freight and labour savings, says the company.

The new Configured NVR/DVR enclosures are specifically designed to address the cable and thermal management needs of NVRs and DVRs. Each enclosure ships with Middle Atlantic Products' solutions for the essentials of any fully-integrated enclosure system.

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Germany - Steinberg Media Technologies launched a new entry-level music studio at ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt this week. Sequel features studio-grade technologies within a "one-window" user interface that promises to "open up music creation and performance to anyone with a computer", and requires no knowledge of music or recording to produce great-sounding songs and mixes in just a few minutes, says the company.

"Sequel is a brand-new and exciting way to experience making music on a computer," states Arnd Kaiser, senior product manager for music technology at Steinberg. "Combining intuitive tools to record, edit, mix and perform music with great-sounding loops, instruments and effects, Sequel is the perfect first step into music production and performance."

(Jim Evans)

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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!

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USA/Australia - ENTTEC has announced the opening of its US sales office. Based in Brooklyn, NY and run by Jeremy Kumin, the sales office will support the growing network of ENTTEC dealers in the US.

Kumin, a veteran lighting designer and programmer, has been using and dealing the ENTTEC products through his company, Tri-Luminary, for some time now. He has worked in theatre, dance, fashion, video, film, special events, and retail store lighting, as well as consulting on new theatres and renovation projects.

ENTTEC reports healthy growth in the last few years. "This US office is just the next step in our growth plan and supporting our sales network in the US is very important to us," says Nicolas Moreau, ENTTEC's founder. "With a string of new high tech products about to be launched this will be a big year for ENTTEC and its partners."

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USA - Crown International's entire line of DSi Series amplifiers dedicated for use in cinema sound systems is now fully 'THX Approved'. The DSi Series joins Crown's current CTs Series and Macro-Tech 02 Series in being recognised by THX as amplifier ranges thoroughly tested and deemed appropriate for use in THX Certified Cinemas.

"The DSi Series marks a true turning point in the advancement of THX approved cinema audio systems as it is the first digitally integrated cinema amplifier that includes the DSP necessary for all loudspeaker processing requirements," says Stephen Morris, Crown director of marketing for cinema, touring and installed sound. "An abundance of crossover features are built into the DSi Series and each amplifier includes 20 presets, 15 of which are perfectly matched with JBL Professional's ScreenArray systems."

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UK - US rock band Nine Inch Nails is currently touring the UK and Europe with a JBL Professional Vertec line array sound system, distributed by Harman Pro UK and supplied by Liverpool-based Adlib Audio.

The tour, which kicked off in Portugal in February, will see the band playing a variety of venues in the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Scandinavia before it moves to Australia and the Far East over the Summer.

Andy Dockerty, head of Adlib Audio, says: "The JBL Vertec line array was specified by the band's front of house sound engineer, Pete Keppler, who wanted to replicate the system he'd been using for their US tour. We have worked with Pete on several occasions in the past and he is always happy with the service he receives from us."

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Finland - Following last week's Bottom Line Design Award, the FogScreen projection screen has been named best nightclub effect 2007 by Club World.

The 19 categories in six fields of the Club World Awards honour every element of a nightclub or lounge, from its design, to its technicians, to its promotion. The winners were determined by a panel of ten industry-veteran, expert judges.

"The nightclub industry has been the fastest growing segment for FogScreen within last 12 months," says CEO Mika Koivula. "Our installations include Harrah's Lake Tahoe, Myst in New York, Long Horn in Louisiana and the Box in Belfast. We expect this growth to continue."

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Meyer Sound has announced the appointment of Hans-Juergen Heitzer (also known as 'Age-Jay') to the position of sales manager, Süden/Osten (Southern/Eastern Regions) at Meyer Sound Germany. Responsible for sales in Germany's southern and eastern regions, Heitzer brings with him knowledge of the entire audio chain in sound reinforcement systems - including digital mixing desks - for theatre, broadcast, and rental companies.

"Age-Jay's understanding of sound reinforcement systems, including digital mixing consoles and everything in the signal path on both sides of them, is of tremendous benefit to our customers," says Meyer Sound Germany managing director Jim Sides. "His knowledge is derived from hands-on experience in every aspect of customer support, including helping applications engineers formulate system specifications, training sound engineers on new

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UK - Harman Pro UK has confirmed the venues for its 2007 product roadshows, which are taking place in mid-May at three different locations around the British Isles: at the Temple Bar Music Centre in Dublin on Monday, 14 May, at the Stanley Theatre at Liverpool University on Wednesday, 16 May, and at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford on Friday, 18 May.

The roadshows allow UK and Irish dealers and end-users the opportunity to check out the latest products from the companies in the Harman Group, including AKG mics, Crown amps, dbx DSP and BSS venue-management systems, JBL loudspeakers, Soundcraft digital consoles, and Lexicon signal processing. Harman will also have some of their product specialists on hand to give presentations on how to get the best out of the new equipment, and to engage in detailed question-and-answer sessions afterwards.

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Spain - Barcelona dealer, Media Waves, has been steadily selling the Chromatec Q-Split into the Spanish market. Q-Split, the quad-quad split, combines up to four SDI video sources into one video output, and also allows source and aspect ratio switching. Additionally, it includes video alarm functions. The 1U rack frame can accommodate up to four quad splitters.

Jean Pierre Delaunay at Media Waves observes, "It's very interesting how different customers have applied this product. In one instance a customer is using it to increase the number of sources available to their multiviewer. Another customer uses the DVI-I output to feed cost effective TFT screens in non-critical areas, thus reducing their spending on SDI video monitors."

Michael Stevens & Partners sales manager, Simon Adamson, explains, "When designing Q-Split we wanted to make a highly space-efficient a

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UK - XL Video UK is again supplying all touring video equipment to Production North for Westlife's sold out Love arena tour, with live video directed by Billy Robinson.

XL Video has worked with Westlife since their first Coast to Coast tour back in 2001. They have always used video elements inventively, and this one is no exception. XL account handler Phil Mercer comments, "It's good to see the band going to another completely new and highly imaginative dimension of video for this tour."

With a central high resolution Barco S-lite LED screen midstage (8 x 8 tiles in surface area), show designer Peter Barnes specified three 45 degree angled strips of XL's new Barco MiTrix 'invisible' low res LED screen per side, mounted on custom frames built by XL Video Belgium. These are criss-crossed horizontally by three banners of half-populated Barco O-Lite, cheque

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USA - The Duderstadt Center on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor boasts a recently overhauled, state-of-the-art audio recording studio.

At the heart of the Walters-Storyk Design Group renovation is a new API Vision console that allows its users to intelligently mix in both stereo and surround formats simultaneously.

David Greenspan, audio resources coordinator at the Center, comments, "We're effectively calibrating our students' ears and brains so that their baseline standard is pristine analogue sound. When they hear other technologies or manipulations, they'll be able to hear and mitigate artefacts. That was reason enough to get an API console. With the Vision however, students are also learning to explore and conceptualise movement in space and timeand to think in both stereo and surround at a fundamental level."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The biggest Glastonbury Festival to date was given the green light this week under an agreement that will protect the event until 2010. Mendip District Council passed a plan to make 27,500 extra places available, taking the capacity to 177,000.

Festival founder Michael Eavis said, "This decision is a real first for us because we have got a full licence - it gives us a bit of breathing space. In the past we have had to jump through hoops, year after year. Now we can plan future festivals safe in the knowledge that it will all be approved."The festival takes place 22-24 June, with confirmed artists including the Killers, The Who, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, the Kooks and Kasabian.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Representing a rich Buddhist tradition dating back to 15th-century Tibet, the monks of the Gyuto Tantric University have been chanting in their singular, multi-tonal style since the university's founding in 1474. On rare occasions, the monks who comprise the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir venture out of their tranquil environs to bring their complex, captivating liturgical arts to the general public. This tour, the first in more than six years, will feature 14 monks, including the Vice Abbot, Omze la.

Meyer Sound has enjoyed a relationship with the Gyuto Monks dating back several decades, and has continued its tradition of providing support for the current US performance dates of the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir. Meyer Sound is furnishing the monks with an audio system comprised of 16 M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers and a pair of 600-HP compact high

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UK - Academy Music Group Holdings have confirmed Live Nation, Inc. (Live Nation) and Gaiety Investments (Gaiety) have together completed the acquisition of a 56% interest in Academy Music Holdings Group (AMG) from RJD Partners.

Bob Angus (Metropolis Music) and Simon Moran (SJM Concerts), leading promoters in the UK music industry, have also considerably increased their shareholding in Academy Music Group to forty four percent (44%), under the terms of the deal.

Academy Music Group owns and operates 12 live music venues across the UK. Its venue capacities range from 250 to 5,000 and include the multi-award winning Carling Academy Brixton (London), Shepherd's Bush Empire (London) and Carling Academy Islington (London), with further concert venues in Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford and Brighton.

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USA - Visitors to the booth of a major pharmaceutical exhibitor at the American College of Cardiology's Scientific Session March 24-27 in New Orleans literally got a glimpse of the future: stunning video images that appeared to rise in three dimensions from the surface of a 40" 3D MultiView display from NewSight Corporation.

NewSight's MultiView displays, now available from PRG Video, allow the viewer to perceive impressive 3D representations spatially, without the need for viewing aids such as 3D glasses. PRG worked with NewSight and Exploria, the video content creator, to adapt the video graphics for best effect in the 3D format. PRG also provided lighting and three Barco R12+ projectors fed by a Grass Valley turbo iDDR Hard Drive for the booth, which was conceptualised by Lou Competielle of Loran Associates.

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Australia - GUZ BOX design + audio has provided an acoustic opinion to determine the suitability of the venue for speech and special events for the MPOWERdome in Fadden. The structure is a large aluminium and fabric structure covering eight indoor tennis courts and a centrally located two-storey building containing reception, pro shop, amenities and a mezzanine café with viewing areas.

The building is approximately 156m long, 38m wide and 13m high and is the largest structure of its type in Australia. It is constructed of large extruded aluminium portal frames with tensioned PVC fabric providing all-weather protection of the sports surfaces. The PVC fabric allows diffuse sunlight during the day and provides a reflective surface for illumination of sport surfaces from specialised light fittings during night-time use.

Preliminary acoustic modelling highlighted long reverb

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UK - E//T//C UK supplied widescreen projection for the RBI Achievement Awards event at Grosvenor House, London for producer Tom Perkins and his client, Reed Business International. After delivering a highly successful circular 'in-the-round' projection for Perkins earlier in the year at the same venue, E//T//C was asked to come up with a new video solution for the RBI event.

E//T//C supplied two of their new Christie 25K HD projectors, two Barco R18 projectors and an OnlyView control system for the show. The projectors were positioned side by side on the balcony of the main room at Grosvenor House, their images soft-edged together to form one large super-bright 70ft wide by 18ft deep image in 16:9 format.

Using OnlyView, E//T//C created 'windows' in the main screen for playback and IMAG video footage (projected via the R18s) to appear during the speech section of the evening,

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Austria - In further demonstration of its global business strategy, AKG Acoustics today announced the addition of a new vice-president of sales, Ralf Tschanun. Heading up the entire global sales team, Tschanun will be based in AKG's Vienna office and will report directly to AKG Acoustics President Stefan Gubi.

"We are very pleased to have Ralf join our AKG team," explained Gubi. "Ralf possesses not only the technical background to understand our unique and evolving industry, but also the business acumen to successfully motivate and inspire his dynamic global sales team."

Commenting on his new position, Tschanun remarked, "AKG is continually striving to make advances in its microphone and headphone technologies, as evidenced by the extraordinary number of patents the company has received in its 60-year history. I look forward to continuing AKG's traditi

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Mexico - From its first season, reality show La Academia (The Academy) has captivated the Latin American public with its star-in-the-making concept, and regularly dominates its time slot. For the show's fifth season, TV Azteca installed a new in-studio sound system based around Meyer Sound M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers.

The format of the show bears some resemblance to the US's American Idol, in that judges select a small group out of thousands of hopefuls to compete in a series of contests and rehearsals, and in the final rounds of competition, public voting determines the winner. The weekly competitions culminate with a concert taped in front of a live audience at Churubusco Studios, one of Latin America's largest and most prestigious film studios.

"We needed a speaker that would perfectly fit the studio's stage in terms of

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USA - Aviom's signature A-Net technology has found a new home in the reality television circuit, providing well received solutions in audio transport. Catapulting Aviom into its new reality role is MTV's hit talent series, Making the Band 4, Nick at Nite's comedian search, Funniest Mom in America 3 and VH1's new relationship show, Rock of Love with Bret Michaels.

As the 22 contestants on this year's instalment of Making the Band vie for a place in rap mogul Diddy's next male R&B quartet, the interaction will be captured through an array of Aviom audio networking products that include AN-16/i-M mic input modules, AN-16/0 output modules and AN-16SBR System Bridge. Throughout the contestants' loft, the gear is connected to more than 40 microphones running over a single Cat 6 cable at 300ft.

On Nick at Nite's Funniest Mom in America 3 the

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