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UK - The APRS (Association of Professional Recording Services) are to honour a number of renowned individuals with APRS Sound Fellowships in recognition of their special contribution to the art, science and industry of sound recording. They are being presented at the Association's special 60th Anniversary Lunch at The Roof Gardens, Kensington, London, on 27 September.

The first recipients of the Fellowships are:

Chris Blackwell - founder of Island Records, Bob Marley producer and introducer of reggae to the mainstream music public.

Sean Davies - now a well-known audio consultant specialising in studio design, the master of vinyl mastering and audio historian.

Alan Parsons - performer and producer who not only recorded Dark Side of the Moon, but also created the standa

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UK - Martin Audio took the opportunity of presenting their annual awards during PLASA 07 - recognising outstanding achievements in their partner channel worldwide.

This year the recipients, who were honoured with a presentation on the Martin Audio stand, were as follows: International Distributor of the Year: Audiosales, Italy; European Distributor of the Year: Algam, France; Far East Distributor of the Year: Dah Chong Hong, Hong Kong; Record Sales of Tour Sound: Ampco Belgium, Belgium; Record Sales of Installed Sound: Audiotonas, Lithuania; Record Sales of Cinema Sound: Arttech Cinema, Poland; UK Dealer of the Year: LMC Audio; Best New UK Dealer of the Year: Willow SV; Most Improved Territory: SSBC International Co., Taiwan; 25 Year Lifetime Achievement: Rea Sound, Northern Ireland.

(JIm Evans)

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USA - Bandit Lites recently lit Volunteers Crusin' For A Cause homecoming celebration. Coaches, Holly Warlick and Nikki Caldwell road Harley Davidson motorcycles for an 11-day cross-country journey to raise breast cancer awareness.

The Market Square homecoming event was the last stop in a 3,000-mile ride from Berkley, California to Knoxville, Tennessee. The trip also included special events and rallies in Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Dallas, Little Rock, Memphis and Nashville.

Lighting designer, Chris Lisle, chose to use six-Lamp Bar Silvers, Martin MAC 500s, 600s, Coemar LED Pars, and Martin Atomic Strobes. Lighting was controlled by a WholeHog II.

"Lighting design for Crusin' For A Cause was actually pretty simple, but I tried to add some uniqueness to it," explains Lisle. "Because there was a lot of TV coverage, and IMAG for the video screen, I bas

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UK - Large-scale projection specialists E//T//C UK has expanded its London-based team with the addition of Richard Porter.

This follows two exceptionally busy years and an increasing amount of projects now utilising E//T//C UK's video capabilities for their building, monumental, son et lumière and commercial projection requirements, says the company.

Porter has just graduated from Rose Bruford College in Kent, and his area of expertise is digital media servers.

E//T//C UK's Ross Ashton says: "Its great to have Richard onboard - he's enthusiastic, quick to learn and brings a fresh outlook and plenty of creative and technical ideas to the melting pot. We're anticipating an expansion in the video elements of our work as more equipment is constantly coming on line to help produce large projections cost effectively. It makes total sense to invest in more people with skills

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UK - The UK sound equipment industry is seeing a mini resurgence, despite recent jitters on the domestic and world markets, according to business analysts Plimsoll.

"Our summary of the market finds 48% of companies in the sector in a surprisingly confident mood," says David Pattison, senior analyst at Plimsoll. "This has been fuelled largely by their latest results, but we have identified a group of 17 companies which are the driving force behind the resurgence, having increased their sales by 23% and lifted their profitability from 3% last year to 7.4% this year.

"We always knew that for many companies 2007 was a make or break year, but with all the talk of a slow down in the UK economy the figures from this elite group of companies are really refreshing. A lot of hard work during the past couple of years is finally starting to pay off."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The first LED fixture capable of competing against a conventional 575W washlight made its debut at this month's PLASA Show on the stand of German company GLP. And waiting to snap up the first consignment to arrive in the UK were leading theatrical hire companies, White Light and Hawthorn Theatrical.

Ian Kirby, of UK distributor Lighting Effects Distribution, confirmed that the two companies had secured the first GLP Impression compact moving heads to arrive in the UK after they had been previewed at this spring's ProLight&Sound expo in Frankfurt, and then successfully trialed at Live Earth in Hamburg.

German promoter Marek Lieberberg commissioned Cologne-based Showtec to handle the lighting, and they designed 75 of the pioneering heads into their stage grid for the event.

This was all the encouragement Ian Kirby needed. The delighted distributor reports that L.E.D. now

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UK - The Sound Division Group Technical Team assembled a full Public Address specification, ensuring complete audio support to celebrity supermodel, Naomi Campbell at her recent media Press Conference. Held at the Rotary Club's headquarters in Regents Park, Naomi Campbell, accompanied by fellow models Elle Macpherson, Jodie Kidd and Yasmin Le Bon, had come to announce a 'Fashion For Relief' catwalk show and auction in support of this years' UK flood victims.

Naomi Campbell was involved with a previous 'Fashion For Relief' charity event, held in 2005, which raised a million dollars in aid of the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the US. Anticipating an exceptionally high number from the Press and media would attend and in order to achieve optimum, full-range sound coverage within a confined space at maximum capacity, theSDG Technical Team supplied stand mounted EV SX 300 loudspeake

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UK - The London Coliseum has carried out the first upgrade of its dimming system since the completion of its four year restoration programme in 2004, with the installation of an ETC Sensor+ 96 way dimming rack. The complete installation, from receipt of order to re-energising the system, took just eight days, ensuring the house was ready for rehearsals and performances in the new season.

The order for the new rack was received by Fagan Electrical on 30 August 30 and ETC delivered the rack to the Coliseum the following Monday. The Sensor+ rack upgrades the house light dimming system, supplying more than 80 channels, most with an RCD on each channel. Other channels utilise the Sensor+ emergency lighting modules, some dimmed, some relay switching. Control is from an ETC Unison system, which was installed during the refurbishment.

Nick Ewins of Fagan Electrical said, "We had

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UK - DMi D&M Installation has announced two new DVD players from Denon Professional - the DN-V210 and DN-V310. These players feature a host of high end features and professional AV functionality, principal among these being the inclusion of a High Definition Multimedia Interface for feeding uncompressed HD video signals to an HD flat panel display, projector or HDMI specified AV receiver, says the company.

The DN-V210 and DN-V310 are equipped with all of the standard functions required for CI and professional AV applications. In addition, a number of advanced features extend the operational flexibility and range of potential applications for these players: these include Hide OSD, Change Wallpaper, NSTC/ PAL conversion, and different Auto Play and Repeat modes. The DN-V310 includes a RS-232C serial port for additional control and networking capability.

The Hide OSD function all

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UK - As in the past three years, PRG Europe has supplied the lighting and control for the Edinburgh Tattoo, which includes over 120 VL5s, 17 City Colors and seven MAC 2000 performance spots, which carry gobos for the show sponsors, as well as a Wholehog III.

Project manager Keith Duncan explains: "Through my company Amorphous Projects, I supply project management and crewing for the entire site electrics. We install the electrical infrastructure for emergency lighting, sound and the show lighting. I have a core crew of four on site: lighting director and operator Gerry Mott, crew chief Biz Bauermeister and lighting technicians Clive Mitchell and Cara Wiseman, who look after the day to day running of the site."

Project manager for PRG Europe John McEvoy notes: "The Tattoo took the opportunity to test out some new follow spots this year and, after I brought some u

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UK - York College, a £60 million development consisting of a 29,350 sq.m facility at Sim Balk Lane in York, is one of the largest single further education buildings ever constructed. The building consists of a main theatre space and a separate drama/rehearsal studio. The main space was equipped with 96 ways of Compulite CompuRACK digital dimming.

The College wanted to utilise the very latest technology throughout and a Compulite Vector Green control system, complete with iControl riggers control system and WYSIWYG console edition, was specified. The Vector was chosen because of the ability to completely customise the behaviour and syntax of the console to suit a wide range of users and a multitude of multimedia features using the latest software Release 3.15. Its improved theatre style features were a further advantage.

The Vector PC software is available as a free downl

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USA - Wybron has announced that Terry Taylor and John Tabor have joined the company to cement its ability to best serve the house of worship market's lighting needs. Taylor, former head of lighting designs at New Life Church and Tabor, assistant lighting designer at New Life, are two of the country's foremost experts on lighting the worship space.

"I am thrilled that these two successful and high-profile church lighting experts have joined Wybron to support our focus in this vertical market," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "With Terry and John, Wybron is already improving its role of providing churches with the best possible lighting fixtures and retrofit products that benefit the emotional process of worshiping."

(Jim Evans)

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Australia - Following the success of the Colour Your World Conference in March, Mandylights' Greg Yates was again behind the drawing board and then the lighting console for Australia's largest conference - the Hillsong Conference, which saw an abundance of Martin gear in use including the new semi-transparent LC series video screens.

This conference attracted more than 26,000 Christians from 68 nations representing 19 denominations who call the Acer Arena home for five days as part of the annual Hillsong Conference. Considered Australia's largest annual conference, each year it attracts pastors, worship leaders, musicians, community workers and individual believers representing hundreds of churches.

During the conference, the rig has to light everything ranging from the contemporary worship music that Hillsong is famous for, through to ballads from Guy Sebastian and Pau

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UK - Academy Music Group's long-term A/V system suppliers, Marquee Audio, have taken an inventive approach to the installation at its newest Carling Academy venue in Oxford, which opened on 20 September 2007 with New Young Pony Club.

Formerly the Zodiac on Cowley Road, AMG invested £2million into the refurbishment programme and increased the overall building capacity to 1,350, creating three, production-complete performance spaces.

Marquee Audio carried out a site survey and identified where they could overhaul and upgrade some of the existing equipment, re-cabling each room to allow them to be used as part of a site-wide network, for which they are designing an advanced control system.

Marquee Audio's project manager Scott Wakelin said that this installation was not only about what the integrators were able to achieve, but also the forward-thinking approach of Academy

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Germany - On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of one of the world's best-known studio microphones, the exclusive U 87 Anniversary Set is now available from Neumann. This special edition, in a classic style case, is offered with unique product features, the company says. In addition to an elastic suspension and a signed certificate of authenticity with serial number, the set includes an exclusively designed pop screen.

Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of marketing and sales, explains: "Visually, the entire set is very impressive due to the combination of polished nickel parts with the traditional Neumann matte nickel look. The set will definitely increase in value over the years."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - PLASA07 saw the launch of the new Twenty Clamp from Doughty Engineering. The Twenty Clamp received an overwhelming welcome from end users and distributors alike, says the company.

Manufactured from pressure die cast aluminium the Twenty Clamp has been designed to eliminate truss damage usually associated with Steel Hook Clamps.

This neat and compact clamp has a SWL of 20 Kg and can be secured to tubes of 48 - 51mm diameter with just two turns of the Doughty knob. Luminaries are secured via a captive M10 or M12 bolt in the base of the clamp.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Modelled after the US Capitol building, the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta with its gilded dome and monumental neoclassical structure was considered the perfect expression and symbol of the "New South" when it was built in 1889. More than 100 years later, it's still an architecturally impressive and symbolically important building for one of the country's fastest growing states.

However, at night, the building and dome lost much of its lustre with a lighting scheme that created uneven lighting. The rotunda was primarily lit with 400W high-pressure sodium lamps from an extremely steep angle, resulting in deep shadows above the curve of the dome and at the upper cupola. A mix of lower wattage metal halide lamps and high-pressure sodium lamps combined to create hot spots and uneven colours on the stone and gold leaf.

"The overall result was somewha

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The Netherlands - TM Audio, part of the Ampco Flashlight Group, has sold a complete Martin Audio Wavefront W8C rig to Korean traditional percussion group, Dulsori, after the group appeared on this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and WOMAD world music festival. These performances formed part of a complete European tour.

The demand for natural amplification of their dynamic drum performance matched perfectly with the Martin Audio Wavefront characteristics.

The sale was the result of a team effort on the part of the AFG, and was co-ordinated by Dieter van Denzel, Ampco Pro Rent's production manager at WOMAD. Playing through the Martin Audio Synco system supplied by production company (and Synco partners), RG Jones; the ensuing sales enquiry was routed back to TM Audio's Jaap Pronk in Utrecht, who processed the order.

Dulsori purchased four Martin Audio W8Cs and f

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USA - Reflecting ever-increasing use of LED sources to light sets and stages around the world, Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions, the new entity formed by Philips' acquisition of Color Kinetics, has announced the adoption of its new tour-friendly lighting system, ColorBlast 12 TR, by the industry's leading supplier and integrator of entertainment technology equipment - Production Resource Group (PRG).

To provide a one-stop solution for its customers, PRG also purchased the complementary power/data supply, PDS-750 TR, designed by City Theatrical, specifically to withstand the rigours of the touring world.

To date, the integrated LED lighting system has already been supplied for the concert tours and corporate events of Aerosmith, Gwen Stefani and Astra Zenica, and television productions including 1 vs. 100, the Daytime Emmy Awards, and the presidential candidate deb

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Sweden - Wibban Produktion has purchased a Soundcraft Vi6 digital console from distributors Septon AB, to bolster its hire fleet. Owner of the production company, Micke Viberg, confirmed the order at this month's PLASA Show in London.

Wibban are no strangers to Soundcraft technology, having already been involved in the sale of a system to Uppsala Stadsteater north of Stockholm. Micke Viberg first saw the Vi6 on a Harman Pro roadshow back in March and knew it would be perfect for the wide range of shows his company produces - including an annual season in a Stockholm amusement park. "I liked the console's sheer simplicity and overview in being able to see exactly what you are doing, as well as the sound and FaderGlow system," he said.

Described as a "third-generation" console due to its joint development with sister console company Studer, the Soundcraft boa

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