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UK - Harman Pro UK's product roadshows, which took place last month at three locations around the UK, were a great success, particularly for three visitors who each won a limited-edition AKG C414 microphone while attending, says the company.

This year, the roadshows took place in Dublin, Liverpool and Guildford, and included a prize draw for one of the limited-edition C414s at the end of each day's product presentations, technical Q&A sessions and PA masterclasses.

"This year's roadshows were the best attended ever," said Amanda Chester, marketing manager at Harman Pro UK. "It helps that we are releasing some great new products in 2007, including the excellent mics being produced by AKG in their 60th anniversary year, like the very popular C5 and D5. The venues we

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UK - ChamSys has announced that ID Electronic has become exclusive distributors of Magic Consoles and MagicQ Wings for Iceland.

"ChamSys continues its substantial growth and is delighted to be able to welcome another distributor to the ever-increasing network from around the World," says a company spokesman. This is an exciting time for ChamSys with the appointment of several new distributors about to be announced and confirms the growing popularity of the MagicQ range."

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - 2007 sees German smoke machine manufacturer Look Solutions celebrating its tenth anniversary, selling its fog and haze generators to professionals worldwide.

Instigated by Kirsten Eicher and operating from an office and small workshop storing and dispatching a small product range, Look Solutions soon found it necessary to move into its own large premises in Ronnenberg. Now, with distributors in 31 countries and a subsidiary in the US, Look Solutions is a truly global company.

"Our product range is very different from the small beginnings of ten years ago," explains Eicher. "We now produce machines which will cover all aspects of the market from the Viper range of fog generators to the Unique 2 hazer with its quick warm up time, the adjustable output and the very low fluid consumption.

"We have machines for specialised uses like the massive 9kW-g

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USA - Meyer Sound has released version 2.7 of its free, MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction software. The new version is a major update incorporating a number of improvements to functionality, user interface, and speed, as well as adding data for the UPJunior ultracompact VariO loudspeaker and the Stella-4 installation loudspeaker for Constellation electroacoustic architecture.

MAPP Online Pro is one of a growing family of Meyer Sound software offerings that also includes Compass control software for the Galileo loudspeaker management system, CueStation control and programming software for the Matrix3 audio show control system, and the RMS remote monitoring system.

Among the features added in the new version are an augmented ability to build groundstacked arrays, a solo feature similar to that found in the company's RMS remote monitoring system, and expanded loudspeaker syst

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Italy - Kool and the Gang's show in Turin took place at the Olympic Sports Arena with Lombardi Service, who are presently on the road with Gigi D'Alessio, providing an Adamson Yaxis system for the event. Toni Soddu, Gigi D'Alessio's new FOH engineer, was there as the stage manager and John Ryan, CHIC FOH, did the shooter design and gave Luca Libraro a hand with the system setup.

A total of 24 Y10's with 12 Y10 Subs were used. John Ryan calculated the shoot by fixing the maximum distance, right behind his head before the glass that separates the first seats from the hockey field. "I had practically no reflection from the empty Plexiglas seats and flat surfaces. The sound was evenly distributed throughout the floor," he says.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - With Digidesign's Venue D-Show and D-Show Profile occupying the FOH position on the main Pyramid Stage, this year's Glastonbury Festival was presented with the event's first all-digital festival format.

The Venue environment was specified as the resident system by Simon Honywill, system designer for the control system providers, RG Jones Sound Engineering. His decision was justified when around 85% of the main stage acts, spanning the gamut of artistic performance - from Shirley Bassey to the Arctic Monkeys, Paul Weller to the UK Youth Orchestra - had their sound mixed on a D-Show.

Two D-Shows piggy-backed between the main stage acts throughout the Festival, allowing the incoming sound engineers to pre-programme their mix, and these were output via AES into the master D-Show Profile for digital distribution to the loudspeaker system.

The consulting engineering team cons

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USA - At this year's International DJ Expo to be held 13-16 August at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, N.J, GCI Technologies will be showing a spread of new and established products.

"International DJ Expo is always an important show for us to connect with and educate the mobile DJ and entertainment industry on GCI's latest products and newest innovations," says president Alan Cabasso.

Gemini will be presenting its newly released MPX-40 Professional Touch-Sensitive MP3/CD Player, along with the CDM-500 Professional DJ Station, the latest edition of its GX line of 2-way ABS loudspeakers and new wireless products.

From the Cortex brand will be the rack-mountable HDC line of digital music controllers, including the HDC-1000 and HDC-3000 units along with the DJ industry's first USB-compatible professional digital music turntable, the HDTT-5000.

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Canada - Rapid sales growth, demanding tour support and a huge increase in tradeshow activity worldwide are the driving forces behind Adamson Systems Engineering's new restructuring plan, says the company.

In less than a decade, Adamson Systems has grown from a "family run" business occupying a modest rented location, to a successful international brand manufacturing in its own 37,000sq.ft factory. The days of Brock Adamson and his son Jesse managing the company with the aid of only few office staff are becoming distant memory. Increased marketing and product support has resulted in the creation of more senior positions.

Adam MacGillivray, as sales and support and European liaison, is the main contact for new worldwide factory direct sales and handles support related matters with European support addition Jochen Sommer, who is currently supporting Linkin Park's Europ

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UK The O2 Wireless Festival and Hyde Park Calling have become annual events for London's Hyde Park, as is the use of Turbosound's Aspect system on the second stage. Britannia Row Productions, audio suppliers to the Park's summer season, deployed exactly the same system for 2007.

The system comprised 14 TA-890H three way mid/high enclosures, 18 TA-890L bass enclosures and six TSW-218 18" horn-loaded bass cabinets.

"We're using exactly the same cabinets, same array and the same Dom [Harter] from Turbosound, who came down to help put it in on the first day," says Britannia Row's sound crew chief for the Hyde Park events, John Gibbon. "We decided to stay with Aspect again this year because it worked so well last year and we have the same kind of bands playing. At one point the specification was changed, but as we know what works well in the kayam tent that hous

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UK - Leisuretec Distribution has been appointed distributor for the imerge S3000 Sound Server, an MP3 player with multi-zone output, enabling the download of thousands of tracks with up to four different outputs playing simultaneously.

The unit is designed for retail environments requiring different sounds to be channelled into different zones. The S3000 has a built in web interface to enable track downloads and is easily networkable. Capacity of the unit enables storage of thousands of tracks and unlike CD players - the lasers don't need replacing, says the company. With four size options available from 80 to 400GB, compressed the system will store up to 1500 hours of music. It can also be controlled from multiple locations with separate user interfaces.

"Conventionally, CD players have been used as a source, the S3000 is taking opportunities for the custom installer to

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UK - DMi D&M Installation, D&M Europe's new custom installation division, launched itself to the CI trade at CEDIA EXPO, demonstrating the potential of products across its portfolio of Denon, Marantz, Escient, Opus and Boston Acoustics brands.

The new Denon AVR-4308 AV surround receiver streamed audio wirelessly from Escient Fireball music servers and PCs on the stand.

The Denon AVR-4308 is a 7.1 channel Network AV Receiver, featuring Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity, HDMI 1.3a, DAB, iPod connectivity, selectable USB ports, IP music streaming, support for AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, and all HD surround sound audio formats, HD video and 1080p upscaling, three zone room-to-room capability and seven discrete 140 watt amplifiers.

The new Escient FireBall FP-1 Music Manager, with universal iPod dock, and Fireball SE500 digital music server were also shown on the stand. Ethernet base

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UK - Seventy Outline Butterfly Hi-packs installed by Britannia Row Productions at Wembley Stadium contributed to the success of the Concert for Diana which was transmitted live in 140 countries and viewed by 500 million people.

The Butterfly Hi-packs were used along with 20 Subtech 218, and the system was powered by Outline T Series amplifiers. The system engineer for the maxi-concert was Sherif El Barbari.

This same Outline array will be used again at Wembley Stadium this weekend as part of the sound reinforcement for Live Earth.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - 3M Visual Systems will exhibit its range of wall-mounted and mobile, interactive digital projection systems for the defence industry at DSEi 2007. Featuring Vikuiti Super Close Projection technology, the products are designed specifically with the needs of military users in mind, delivering reliable, high performance audio visual (AV) tools for the most challenging of environments, says the company.

"For mission critical military applications, having the most up-to-date, responsive and robust AV systems that meet every need for presentation, communication and collaboration, whether on-site or over a long distance, whether in a fixed location or in the field, is an absolute necessity," comments Paul Gardner, business development manager, 3M Visual Systems.

"Our portfolio of digital annotation and super close projection products resolve traditional issues suc

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Indonesia - Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) in Jakarta, has recently opened a new multi-purpose hall, installing a state-of-the-art audio system based around Allen & Heath's iLive digital mixing system.

Established in 1994 by the Pelita Harapan Foundation, UPH provides high-quality facilities including TV, photographic and scientific laboratories, and an international-standard sports centre. The University boasts 31 departments and 9,000 students. The latest addition to the campus is the 2,200-capacity Grand Chapel theatre based in the University's Digital Campus, which houses the Faculty of Music.

Local installer, Kairos MultiJaya, was contracted to design, supply and install the sound, lighting and video projection system into the Digital Campus. Central to the installation is an Allen & Heath iLive system, comprising an iLive-112 control surface and iDR10 stagerack, which

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UK - Shuttlesound, the UK distributor of Electro-Voice, Klark-Teknik and Midas products, has boosted its national sales force with the addition of two former pro musicians, both of whom have spent many years in the professional audio business.

Peter West, Shuttlesound's new M.I. sales consultant in the south of England, has worked as a musician for ten years. One of his first jobs was as a sales administrator for Shuttlesound's parent company Bosch. More recently, he spent four years working for Shure's pro-audio division, as well as various other audio and AV specialist companies.

Taking up the role of M.I. sales consultant in the north of England, Tony Cooper has also earned his living as a musician, although his first introduction to the business came through his family, which owned several music shops. Tony has since spent more than 30 years in the pro-audio world - five y

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UK - Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs are one of the moving light brands specified by LD Patrick Woodroffe for the current Genesis Turn It On Again world tour.

The tour features a show-stopping stage design by Stufish (Mark Fisher) based on the shape of a conch shell, with a spectacular, gently asymmetric 55m wide, 3000sq.m Barco MiTrix screen forming its backdrop. At the rear of the screen are seven curved metal 'ribs' of varying heights up to 28m.

Thirty-three of the 50 Robe fixtures are attached to these seven ribs, with the balance of 17 ColorSpot 2500E ATs sited on the floor, upstage of the band's performance platform, and providing a powerful back-lighting source.

The towers were a starting point for Woodroffe's initial lighting design. The idea was that they would encompass the stage architecture, and that lights mounted on special pods rode up and down the ribs to cha

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UK - Central Theatre Supplies is hosting a Selecon Lighting Trade Show on 19 July. The event will be staged between 10am and 4.30pm at the College Theatre, City College, The Butts, Coventry, CV1 3GD.

This free event will gives attendees the chance to see the latest products from Selecon including the new improved Acclaim range, Rama Fresnel and the Performer range of follow spots including the RUA. There will be a series of demonstrations of the Selecon range as well as hands-on opportunities.

Sebastian Barnes from the Midland Arts Centre says, "The day is designed to coincide with a meeting of the, Midlands Technical Forum. Visitors and new members would be most welcome."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - XL Video supplied one of its new HD PPUs, cameras, screens and 30 crew to the Live Earth London show staged at Wembley Stadium.

Broadcast live on BBC One and Two and presented by Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton, the Wembley show featured performances by Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, Keane, Corrine Bailey Rae, Genesis, Duran Duran, Paolo Nutini and many more.

Co-ordinating all the video elements between XL and the various event designers, producers and others involved in screen content, was screen producer Chris Saunders.

Although XL already had also a large video system installed at Wembley for the Princess Diana Tribute concert just six days before Live Earth, this all had to be removed in the meantime. Some kit from that system was then re-installed for Live Earth along with several new and different video elements.

Flanking both sides of

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Greece - One of Athens' few traditional theatres, the Pallas is a gem in the middle of this vibrant city. Built during the 1930s, the Pallas retains its art deco splendour while having just been subjected to a major overhaul. This has included the installation of Midas consoles and Klark Teknik signal processing equipment throughout its three venues, supplied by Greek distributor Omikron Control. The whole procedure was overseen by Omikron's sound system designer Vangelis Petridis.

The Pallas Theatre itself, a 1,500-capacity traditional auditorium, now boasts a Heritage 2000 at front of house, with Klark Teknik Square ONE Dynamics, Square ONE EQ and a DN500 Plus dual compressor/limiter. The adjacent Aliki Theatre has also been installed with a Midas H2000 while the new console in the Mikro Pallas is a Venice.

"It's great to have the Heritage here, and I'm very happy with

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Dubai - Production Technology LLC (Protec), the region's leading event production company, made history in the United Arab of Emirates when it staged the Dubai-leg of Shakira's Oral Fixation Tour, branded as the biggest concert ever in the region and promoted by the locally-based Mirage Promotions.

The concert at the Dubai Autodrome was witnessed by a crowd of 25,000. The Protec team, headed by Rick Wade, provided and installed the show's set-up.

Shakira's tour lighting designer, specified his preferred lighting including, 43 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 575, 10 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200 and 213 Par Cans which was used to light up the 20mx40m stage. In addition, they brought with them 28 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1200 as part of their touring equipment. All of these were controlled by one GrandMA lighting console running the show entirely to time code.

(Jim Evans)

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USA -The new AcousticDesign model AD-S32T from QSC is designed for any environment requiring an unobtrusive loudspeaker capable of delivering high audio output. Ideally suited for restaurants, nightclubs, schools, and multimedia use, the weather-resistant device joins the AcousticDesign Series as the product group's latest, and most compact surface mount loudspeaker, says the company.

Vital to the AD-S32T's high-output, two-way design is a 3-inch low frequency driver outfitted with a polypropylene cone, and a 0.75-inch titanium dome tweeter. Magnetically shielded for use around sensitive video equipment or computers, the enclosure has a power rating of 30W (continuous), 85 dB sensitivity, and extended low frequency range of operation down to 73 Hz.

For use within 70V/100V distributed audio systems, a transformer tap switch selects up to four settings from 30W down to 3.8W. The

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