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UK - d&b audiotechnik will be showing the latest additions to its E-Series range of loudspeakers and the new D6 amplifier at ABTT 2008.

"The E8 and E12 loudspeakers and the E15X subwoofer will all be on display," said Stephen (Oggi) Hogg who heads d&b's UK distribution. "These new loudspeakers will be of particular interest to all our friends and colleagues in the theatre fraternity; from our perspective they are the successors for the C6 and E9, performing with the same vocal presence, versatility, musicality and precise pattern control to which we have all become accustomed.

"The use of new materials and driver technology makes for a design that is lighter and remarkable both visually as well as functionally." Hogg continued "The D6 of course, mai

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USA - TobyMac, Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Trin-i-tee 5:7, and the David Crowder Band may have been among some of the top honorees at the 39th annual GMA Dove Awards held at the Grand Ole Opry House, but it was Natalie Grant who stole the show when she was named Female Vocalist of the Year for the third consecutive time, and performed her hit Bring it All Together live with country icon Wynonna Judd using Shure UHF-R wireless.

"To hear my name nominated in such company is such a huge honor," Grant told the Shreveport Times, humbly paying tribute to all the other artists singled out for kudos at the event. "My microphone used to be a hairbrush, and my audience used to be stuffed animals. I hold loosely to it all. I may be the flavour of the moment right now, but at some point it will be someone else's turn."

Having traded-in her hairbrush thi

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Spain - Every year for two weeks, the small city of Vinarós in Castellón, Spain, is transformed with the celebration of the Carnaval de Vinarós, a huge fiesta featuring vibrant shows with various themes. Sound reinforcement for this year's recently-concluded Carnaval was led by EAW KF Series line arrays and SB Series subwoofers.

E.J.R. Systems S.L, a sound and lighting rental company based in Benicarló, headed the sound reinforcement effort, collaborating with production suppliers Dodinuf and Yapadú Produccions on a main system featuring 32 KF730 Series small line array modules joined by 16 EAW SB1000z double-18" subwoofers.

"Day after day, I honestly enjoy my job more," states Eduardo Soriano, sound technician and co-owner of Yapadú Produccions. "I'm working with an unbeatable team of world-class brands such as EAW, as well as Lab.gruppen and Dolby L

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UK / Ireland - Sound Technology plc has announced the acquisition of Harman Professional Group's distribution business in the UK and Ireland from Harman International Industries, Inc.

The agreement transfers to Sound Technology a strong team of sales professionals and exclusive distribution rights for JBL Professional, Crown, Soundcraft, AKG, dbx, BSS Audio and Lexicon products in the UK and Ireland.

"Sound Technology is a premier pro audio distribution business in the UK and Ireland with strong market knowledge and a commitment to selling systems across Harman's served vertical markets," said Blake Augsburger, Harman Professional's CEO. "This direct-to-third-party shift provides Harman the entrepreneurial drive necessary to support its international go-to-market strategy".

"We are thrilled to be representing the legendary professional brands of Harm

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Australia / Singapore - Australian-based manufacturer ARX has announced that it will be exhibiting at the inaugural Eventech 2008 exhibition at the Singapore Expo, 25-26 June 2008 (Stand A6) and will be exhibiting for the first time in Asia their new range of USB Audio Interfaces.

These are the USB DI box - a USB-to-analogue transformer isolated audio input interface, and the ePre 2 USB - a true plug-and-play Digital-to-Analogue dual channel mic/line pre-amp to USB interface. Also on the ARX stand will be several additions to its popular AudiBox series of audio tools and its range of signal processing products.

ARX's managing director Colin Park said: "Eventech is a new and exciting exhibition for the Asian region with what looks to be a unique networking format for both exhibitors and more importantly show attendees. ARX's Singapore-based Rob Yeo and I are looking forwar

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UK - One of north London's best-known concert venues, the Mama Group-owned Kentish Town Forum, has been hosting live performances since the early 1980s, featuring a diverse array of artists. In recent years there had been concerns about the venue's sound quality, so a new Turbosound audio system has been installed.

"My job was to deliver products so that the venue can do its business successfully," says Archie McIntosh, director of VMS Live, who the Mama Group brought in to oversee the Forum's refurbishment. "I've used Turbosound Aspect in other projects and it was good to have the chance to use it in such a wonderful venue as the Forum."

The main front of house system comprises both ground stacked and flown elements. Four Aspect TA-880L low frequency, three TA-880H mid/highs and two TSW-218 subs per side are complemented by a pair of TA-500 Aspect Wide cab

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UK - Adele, the young British soul singer who began the year as the winner of the BBC's Sound of 2008, is currently undertaking her biggest UK tour so far. And an essential addition to her touring package has been a range of microphones from Neumann and Sennheiser.

According to front of house engineer Dave McDonald the Neumann KMS 104 was always going to be an essential part of Adele's audio makeup.

"I've been touring for the last year with Air," he explains, "and we were using the Neumann KMS 104. It takes the vocal and really throws it to the back of the hall with clarity. When I started working with Adele I said, 'let's get you one of these, it's the right mic for your vocal'. The KMS 104 just has this depth. It goes right to the bottom and the high end of the vocal and it's crystal clear. That's what I always want. I don't want to be messing around f

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UK - An Avolites Pearl Expert has been specified and installed to control all lighting in the main room at The Regal, Oxford's new 1000 capacity multi purpose venue.

Technical director Kieran Hayes has been the driving force behind the Regal project over the last three years, which has seen the Grade II listed former cinema, opened in 1927, restored to its original Art-Deco splendour, and enjoying a new lease of life as an entertainment hub. Situated on Oxford's vibrant Cowley Road, the venue is already hosting a variety of dance nights, tours and live bands.

When it came to lighting, Hayes consulted Dave Parry of Most Technical and asked if he could help them with spec'ing and procuring a cost effective lighting rig that would give the requisite quality and dynamics.

Parry suggested that flexible control was a key element in accommodating the Regal's lighting production req

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Germany - Presented in March and October for popular and classical music respectively, Germany's Echo Awards are the high points of the country's annual music industry calendar - and this year XTA system processing has helped rapper Bushido to walked off with two.

The Echo Awards are given each year by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of the country's recording companies, and reward the highest selling artists of the preceding 12 months.

2008 was the third year in which Bushido has won Echo Awards and, with three major live tours having been undertaken in 2007 alone, it is unsurprising that he came top in both the Best National Live Act and Best National Hip-Hop/R&B artist categories.

Berlin-based Complete Audio provides the audio system for Bushido's live shows, using two XTA DP448 and one DP226 processors to control a large Martin Audio PA system.

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UK - Wireless microphone manufacturer Trantec, has appointed Rob Moore to the position of Northern Field sales executive.

Rob comes to Trantec from a 15 year career at the Music Factory Entertainment Group where amongst other roles, he headed up MastermixDJ, a service that provided DJs with access to the best in equipment and advice.

Commenting on his appointment, Moore said: " I've long been an admirer of the quality and innovation that goes into Trantec products, and joining a major player in the wireless mic market is a great opportunity for me. I don't know of any company that understands their target audience better than Trantec. They've engineered their new microphones for serious users and I'm happy to be a part of an organization that's truly focused on delivering quality products."

Trantec's head of sales and marketing, Mark Parkhouse added: "Rob's ex

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USA - LEDtronics has introduced a new Micro high-power LED flashlight. While continuing the durability of its predecessors, the new Micro FlashLED is more powerful than most LED flashlights on the market today, says the company. It has a one-watt, 80-lumen LED chip that emits over 4,300 end foot-candles (4300cd) of bright Cool White (8000 Kelvin) light.

Micro FlashLED operates on three standard, replaceable, AAA-cell-type alkaline batteries. Since LEDs are 80-90% more energy efficient than incandescent lamps, the unit operates 20 - 30 times longer than the comparable incandescent flashlight, providing up to 96 hours or four days of continuous illumination at a diminishing light output rate. It retains 50% of its light output after one hour of continuous use.

Micro FlashLED features a push-button switch in the back of the unit to operate the LED light. It measures 4.5 inches lo

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Belgium / UK - ADB Lighting Motorised WARP automated zoom profile spotlights have been chosen for the £20m refurbishment of The Spa Bridlington in East Yorkshire, UK, which reopens this month. The refurbishment, designed to transform the 112-year building into a fully equipped multi-purpose live performance venue, includes completely new lighting and audio systems.

Alongside the Motorised WARP 12-30° 800W fixtures deployed in the Edwardian Spa Theatre is a large number of ADB F101 1.2kW fresnels, installed in both the Spa Theatre and the 1700 capacity (theatre style) 1930s Art Deco Royal Hall. All the fixtures were supplied by LSI Projects.

The historic venue will host its first show on May 31 with a sold-out gig by Yorkshire band The Pigeon Detectives, followed by a Raymond Gubbay Classical Gala on June 1, a Business Week Celebration Dinner on June 3 hosted by cele

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China - To mark the forthcoming Beijing Olympics, on 30-31 May large-format projection artist Paolo Buroni and Stark Srl will create what they claim to be the largest multi-projection ever attempted - on the new, 234m high CCTV (Central Chinese Television) building in Beijing. During the pre-Olympic event, which will take place in front of the highest Chinese authorities and the Italian Ambassador, more than 45,000sq.m of the four façades of the gigantic, modern building will be frescoed.

Created for sportswear giant Nike, the multi-projection is among the most complex and demanding ever performed, say Stark. The technical difficulties in achieving such a project in the urban centre of Beijing represent a technical and artistic challenge.

Paolo Buroni says: "This operation fits perfectly into my artistic career made up of invasions into, and virtual transformation of, th

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Australia - Entrepreneur Justin Hemmes has opened the luxurious $150 million Sydney leisure complex, The Ivy - a flagship for the Merivale Group of hotels and bars, to which he is the heir.

Located in the city centre, The Ivy had its soft launch in December 2007 and in the Spring of 2008 moved into full operation, with a series of restaurants, bars, cocktail lounges and live music.

The complex features 14 bars, nine restaurants, boutique hotel, swimming pool (with a dance sound system), gardens, penthouses, nightclub, cafes, delicatessens, ballroom, office space and retail outlets. It also houses a 1000-capacity function room and can cater for up to 3,000 people in total at any one time.

Providing an audio network that would place more than 40 zones on the same backbone presented an exacting task for system integrators Avsound Productions Pty. Installation contracts manager,

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UK - For the Dancing on Ice 2008 tour, LD Durham Marenghi used 46 Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1200 and 20 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300, the new moving light beam launched this year.

Marenghi comments: "The main spectacular element of the television show, and likewise the tour, is the projection of the light onto the ice, even if the surface of the ice is four times larger on tour. There are five television cameras which film the presenters, the judges, the skaters and the 10,000 spectators at the ice rink."

Marenghi says he used Alpha Beam 300 lights mainly to light the perimeter of the rink, as the 'VIP' skaters are not experts and need to be able to see the edge of the skating area clearly during their performance. "The Alpha Beam 300 are ACL type projectors and provide incredible light. Moreover, they proved to be totally reliable and very practical for intens

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USA - TSC Productions, owned and operated by Brendon Grimes, recently purchased an iLive-144 64-input x 32-output system. Based in Florida's Emerald Coast, TSC Productions' iLive has served mixing duties for a wide variety of events ranging from outdoor festivals to Ultimate Fighting events to touring acts at the various spring break fueled clubs in the Destin/Fort Walton Beach area.

"The iLive has been a fantastic console for our events," says Grimes. "The layout is like an analogue console, so it is very familiar and any of our engineers or guest engineers can get up and running with it in five minutes. Also, the iLive sounds amazing, the preamps are beautiful and really, really clean. We have done several events with the iLive including the LoCash Cowboys at the Block, the Ying Yang Twins and Bubba Sparks at the Nightown Club, Ultimate Fighting at the Emerald C

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Another busy news week has seen Sound Technology plc confirming its acquisition of Harman Professional Group's distribution business in the UK and Ireland from Harman International Industries, Inc. The agreement transfers to Sound Technology a strong team of sales professionals and exclusive distribution rights for JBL Professional, Crown, Soundcraft, AKG, dbx, BSS Audio and Lexicon products in the UK and Ireland.

Clay Paky has announced the nominations for the 'Knights of Illumination' Lighting Design Awards that are to be awarded in association with the ALD and the STLD at the annual ABTT dinner in London on 11 June 2008. The awards are being supported by Clay Paky to recognise the UK's outstanding contribution to live performance and television. The awards are unique in honouring work across such a wide range of music, theatre, opera, dance and television.

On the personnel front,

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Hungary - An expansive new leisure complex in the centre of Budapest has been equipped, site-wide, with digital audio processing from BSS Audio. Billed as 'Budapest's first centre for gastronomy', Symbol is located at the most prestigious area of Óbuda - 150m from Kolosy Square.

Although the neighbourhood has been upgraded in recent years, the premises - containing the seven separate units that constitute Symbol Budapest - has remained true to its traditions dating back more than 200 years.

Covering a total area of nearly 3,000sq.m, all the activity is arranged around the courtyard - with the Bombay Bar in the centre and terraces for all the surrounding venues. To one side is the Café & Lounge, to the other the Puskás Pancho Sport Pub, an elegant memorial to the late Puskás Öcsi. The 220-year-old preserved Cellar Restaurant is available for private functions, while

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UK - The Brighton Coalition, a new seafront venue boasting live bands, DJ sets and live comedy has installed a Turbosound Aspect Wide reinforcement system.

"The venue was formerly the Beach Club, which had a Turbosound Floodlight system," explains Alastair Dixon, aka Big Al, a Brighton-based freelance engineer who managed the new installation, which was supplied through local company MBI. "They wanted to relaunch the venue and move away from house music, making it more of a multipurpose live sound set up. It's very band orientated now."

With a 500 capacity main room coupled to a 100 capacity café, the Coalition has already announced the launch of the new Brighton Club NME. Brighton visitors can also look forward to shows by major stars such as hip hop's Sway and BBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Cameo.

The new system comprises four Aspect Wide TA-500 three-way

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Australia - ARX will be exhibiting at the inaugural Eventech 2008 Exhibition, Singapore Expo, 25 - 26 June 2008 and will show for the first time in Asia their new range of USB Audio Interfaces.

Also on the ARX Booth will be several additions to the popular AudiBox series of Audio Tools and range of signal processing products.

ARX's managing director Colin Park says: "Eventech is a new and exciting Exhibitionfor the Asian region with what looks to be a special networking format for both exhibitors and more importantly show attendees. ARX's Singapore based Rob Yeo and I are looking forward to meeting up with many of the ARX users in the region during the two day show."

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UK - Lighting designer Mark Cunniffe utilised 24 of i-Pix brand new BB7 fixtures - a seven cell high power homogenized 10 degree RGB wash light using a custom Lamina light engine - to light the portico and columns of the main entrance to St Paul's Cathedral, London for the recent City Salute event.

With only six 13 Amp power outlets available to drive architectural lighting for the whole Cathedral exterior - due to cabling issues preventing the use of generators - Cunniffe's only option was to use LED lightsources. This BB7 fixture consumes just 210 Watts at 240 volts, and proved ideal for the task.

The 24 units were floor mounted, and illuminated the upper and lower Portico columns of the Cathedral's main façade. Cunniffe also used a variety of other LED fixtures for the project which involved highlighting St Paul's full entrance facade, commenting that the BB7 was &q

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