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USA - High End Systems has announced the release of version 2.5.0 software for Wholehog control systems including the Wholehog 3, Road Hog Full Boar, Hog iPC, Road Hog and Hog 3PC.

Version 2.5.0 provides Road Hog console owners with the ability to add a third monitor through the use of a Iogear brand USB to VGA adapter. The adapters are available worldwide from computer stores or directly from HES dealers.

"We are pleased to expand the functionality of the Road Hog console in a simple and low-cost manner," says Brad Schiller, HES director of control systems development. "The Iogear device allows users to easily add a single external monitor or Road Hog Playback Wing."

Also included in this release are Showpix libraries, several other features, an updated us

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Germany - In mid April the Dynacord Concert Sound Academy attracted over 40 participants from seven European countries. The programme included workshops dealing with the IRIS-Net integrating software platform in connection with Dynacord Power H power amplifiers, and seminars on various loudspeaker systems (Cobra 4 and 2, Xa2), the multi-function VariLine loudspeaker system, and the use of FIR filters.

These were followed by 'hands on' sessions that permitted the sound professionals attending the course to form their own impressions of the practical advantages of the systems on view. Academy participants were also given a full tour of the works and were able to inspect the production and test facilities at EVI Audio's European headquarters in Straubing.

Export sales manager Frauke Jungbluth, who, together with Dynacord product managers Uwe Peppler and Martin Traut, was responsi

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UK - Commercial audio specialist Ateis UK has announced that it is set to host the first UK-based training session for its Messenger range of active line array loudspeakers, which will be staged on 17 June Wigwam Acoustics' Lancashire-based HQ.

Wigwam is Ateis UK's first reseller of the Messenger digital line array column series, which are recognised for their exacting speech intelligibility in reverberant environments.

"Wigwam has enjoyed much success with the range and is excited about offering this training day to all designers, engineers, installers and rental specialists wanting to learn more about Messenger's potential across all commercial, ecclesiastical and auditoria application environments," say the company.

Most notably, Messenger has been deployed in Liverpool's Cathedral to offer a precise and effective solution in one of Europe's largest and most cha

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UK - Light Tape UK Ltd is the exclusive distributor, in the UK and Ireland, of Light Tape and associated products including, Light Tape Animated Sign, manufactured by Electro-LuminX Inc.

"The Light Tape, ground breaking electroluminescent lighting solution, is a unique wafer thin light bulb which is set to revolutionize the use of light in Entertainment, Display, Exhibition, Signage, Safety, Sport, Point of sale advertising and architecture, to name but a few areas of application," say the company.

Light Tape is similar to neon but its flat, uniform appearance gives an ultra modern twist to the more traditional form of decorative lighting solutions used in Night Clubs, Clubs and Bars. It offers versatility of application as it is not bulky and so can be fitted just about anywhere providing the right kind of lighting to compliment whatever mood is required, according

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USA - Technomad Associates, LLC reports that Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro has selected Technomad outdoor weatherproof loudspeakers to provide voice and music for live sports coverage in its new 2,500 seat stadium.

The stadium, home to the MTSU Blue Raiders teams that play in the Division One Sun Belt Conference, is the newest venue within the university's Murphy Center Complex, which comprises all the athletic venues on campus. According to Josh Hoevelmann, electronic equipment engineer for MTSU Murphy Center, the Technomad Berlin loudspeakers rival the larger PA systems used for the football and baseball stadiums on campus.

"Everyone I talk to on campus is surprised at the audio quality and power output we're achieving from just two loudspeakers," said Hoevelmann. "The output is extremely clear even at mid-field, and it's not overbea

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UK - Jands Vista T2 consoles helped worshippers celebrate Easter at Europe's largest all-night worship event, attended by 30,000 people at London's ExCel, and a separate event at Wembley Arena.

Worshippers packed out ExCel's main hall for Festival of Life, an event supported by over 150 churches in the UK.

Reading-based production company SFL Group provided the complete technical solution and production management for both events. This included over 120 speakers of d&b audiotechnic with Yamaha digital control surfaces, Barco projection and control systems, acoustic draping and stage lighting.

Brighton-based Tamplins Stage Lighting was engaged by SFL to provide the stage lighting element.

Lighting designer Sam Tamplin comments: "Last year I was looking for a more powerful desk to handle our growing show control needs and entered a competition to win a day's free

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UK - Def Leppard's new album Songs from The Sparkle Lounge was launched amid a blaze of publicity when the band played a one-off gig at the Islington Carling Academy in London in front of an invited audience of music industry folk and fans.

The Red TX mobile recorded the concert for promotional broadcasts and for a 13-minute electronic press kit that Universal is issuing to the media to promote the band's album and forthcoming tour.

Mike Kaufman, from production company Live Nation, commissioned Red TX to handle the audio recording. He says: "We needed an experienced team and you don't get much more experienced than the team behind Red TX. Choosing them for this project was a no-brainer."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Currently touring in support of Warpaint, their latest release on the independent Silver Arrow label, The Black Crowes have Scott "Scooby" Sherbin at the front-of-house mix position and Drew Cansalvo at monitors. Working in tandem to craft a stage plot relying entirely on Shure input, the pair draws upon an eclectic mix of traditional rock 'n' roll microphone elements along with newer catalogue offerings .

Given a choice, personally I would put SM57s on everything," Scott Sherbin says. "Ask me how to mic an elephant, and I'd just put a 57 on him. First and foremost, this is a rock 'n' roll band. That means they were born and bred with SM57s and SM58s. We don't ever want to lose sight of that fact, but at the same time we want to augment those sounds. Given the volume we're producing, we need something that steps out and allows us to change for so

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UK - Cambridgeshire-based Out Board recently chaired a seminar workshop at AES 124 in Amsterdam on the subject of directional amplification and live sound automation. The seminar featured contributions from a number of distinguished, international guest-panellists and attendees.

Directional amplification, also referred to as Source Oriented Reinforcement (SOR), describes a practical technique to deliver amplified sound to a large listening area with even coverage while providing directional information to reinforce visual cues and create a realistic and non-contradictory auditory panorama.

The session included audio demonstrations of the fundamental psychoacoustic techniques employed in an SOR design and its limits discussed. Workshop chairman, Out Board's Dave Haydon, outlined the history of SOR; from Steinke & Fels pioneering work with their Delta Stereophony System in the m

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Belgium - Candela and Ampco Belgium, sister companies in the Ampco Flashlight Group, have completed a large-scale integrated lighting, video and audio installation at the Royal Bowl complex in the centre of Louvain-la-Neuve, southeast of Brussels.

Created by owner Phillippe Baeijens and Architects 4A, and with visual design by Luc Peumans' Painting With Light, the Royal Bowl was designed to combine a bowling alley with a restaurant and dance area. In the words of Candela project manager Geert Custers, "They created a bowling venue of a type never seen before in Belgium - a place where people could enjoy a complete night out."

The installation covers the venue's bowling lanes, restaurant, bars and dance floor with an integrated system that puts lighting, audio and video under the control of an E:cue system, commanded by a pair of ELO touch screens, programmed by Custe

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UK - XL Video supplied video production for three stages and 18 crew for Radio One's 2008 Big Weekend at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, which kick-started the UK summer Festival season.

The action-packed line up included Madonna, The Kooks, Usher, The Fratellis, Scouting For Girls, Goldfrapp, The Enemy, The Zutons, The Wombats and many more. The event was project managed for XL by Des Fallon and crew chiefed on site by Carl Martin.

The main stage visuals were designed by Paul Normandale, for which XL supplied 40sq.m of Lighthouse R16 LED screen, rigged left and right of the stage, plus 24 panels of Martin LC2140 screen onstage.

Two delay projection screens inside the tent were fed by two Barco R12 projectors. For the outside delay video, XL supplied one of their Barco B10 trailer-based LED screen systems.

The XL package also included a three Sony D50 camera system for the m

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USA - Four grandMA consoles comprise the heart of lighting and video control for the new Heart of the City tour co-headlined by Grammy Award winners Jay-Z and Mary J Blige and playing dates across North America.

"Flexibility and reliability are what make the grandMA control system perfect for us," reports Artfag, LLC's Patrick Dierson, the lighting director for both artists. "We have both main and full-tracking backup consoles for lighting and video.The lighting consoles are networked into a PRG Series 400 system, which provides both power and data distribution for the show. A laptop in the dimmer pit runs grandMA onPC software to help facilitate everyday system checks before the FOH consoles are brought online."

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USA - Danley Sound Labs is turning its Synergy Horn and Tapped Horn technologies up to eleven with the launch of the SH-96 at InfoComm 2008. The SH-96 combines eleven drivers - four 15" woofers, six 5" mid-range drivers and a single 1.4" high-frequency compression driver - in a single enclosure.

Sensitivity of the SH-96 is 103dB with a power handling capability of 2800 watts RMS and a frequency response of 50Hz - 18kHz (+/-3dB). The enclosure, constructed from braced Baltic birch, is 26.5" high by 45" wide and 25" deep, and weighs 215 pounds.

Its first installation will be in the renovation of the IMAX theatre on Navy Pier in Chicago, followed by the Morrison Center at Boise State University.

Mike Hedden, president of Danley Sound Labs noted: "The laws of physics are impervious to the current trends of an industry lost in a sea of digital b

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USA - Aviom has announced its new Sales & Technical Training Programme. To kick off the initiative at this year's InfoComm show, Aviom's consultant liaison and training manager Jeff Lange will lead two manufacturer's training sessions: Audio Distribution Applications with Aviom's Pro16 Series and Audio Networking with Aviom's Pro64 Series. In addition, Aviom will run an Audio Distribution & Networking Solutions for Houses of Worship course each day in the Technologies for Worship Pavilion.

Aviom has identified training as a top priority in 2008. "There's a lot of interest in audio distribution and networking, but there's also a lot of uncertainty and confusion," says Lange. "Good, reliable information is critical to helping consultants and contractors make good design decisions. This year's training programme marks the beginning of an ongoing

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UK - The RSC's The Histories Cycle project was first mooted in 2006, an extraordinary two-year ensemble project to stage Shakespeare's epic history cycle of eight plays - Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts 1-3) and Richard III.

Charting over a century of turbulent English history, this ambitious project reached its climax in the spring of 2008 in London's Roundhouse venue. One of the RSC's own DiGiCo D5T consoles ensured that the sound for this complex series of productions was delivered flawlessly.

With a sound design by Andrea J Cox and operated by Sarah Hollyman and Ed Borgnis, the audio system was necessarily intricate to accommodate regular performances of eight different plays in the same venue - sometimes with three different performances running back-to-back in a single day.

However, the D5T's internal matrix and snapshots ha

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UK - The Arcola Theatre in Hackney has been nominated for a major national prize at The Charity Awards 2008, the UK charity sector's most prestigious award scheme. Chosen from a long list of entries, the theatre, which provides high calibre, accessible theatre and aims to become the world's first sustainable arts venue, has been shortlisted in the Animals and the environment category. It is hoping to pick up the coveted award at an awards ceremony in London on 19 June.

The annual Charity Awards ceremony, sponsored by the Charities Aid Foundation and The Times newspaper, is the most high-profile event in the charity world calendar. Now in its ninth year, the awards recognise excellence in the management of charities, acknowledging the outstanding work and achievements of all charities, big or small, from across the UK and the tireless commitment of the people behind them. The ch

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UK - Martin Audio's new W8VDQ compact, three-way system combines line array and differential dispersion technologies to provide an advanced solution to the requirement for even coverage over wide angles and throw distances, says the company.

The system has been designed to provide a short-throw horizontal dispersion of 120°, narrowing to 100° as the throw increases. The vertical differential directivity (VDQ) creates progressively more HF output as throw distance increases. The resulting dispersion pattern is ideally suited to covering audiences located on flat, or gradually sloping surfaces.

Designed for passive or bi-amp operation, and combining a Hybrid quad 8in LF and MF configuration with quad 1in HF - the system achieves a maximum SPL of 131dB (continuous), 137dB (peak).

Aimed at a wide range of applications, from live and theatre sound to fixed installations,

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UK - Production rigging, structures and motion control specialists Vertigo are celebrating their contribution to the refurbished London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, Central London, which won a major industry award at the 2008 Museums & Heritage Awards, presented earlier this month at Church House in Westminster by journalist and broadcaster Simon Calder.

London Transport Museum won the 2008 Permanent Exhibition Award for its New Permanent Galleries - and was also shortlisted for the Educational Initiative, Use of Technology and Classic Awards.

Vertigo undertook a variety of projects at the museum in preparation for its reopening in November 2007. Vertigo's chief rigger Matt Davies managed on-site projects that ranged from erecting the structural steel frame for the combined exhibition structure in the Museum's main display space, to suspending artifacts at high level inc

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UK - Sunbaba provided over 150sq.m of stage and fencing branding for the Africa Day festival in London's Trafalgar square, taking place during May bank holiday.

The Africa Day festival is a free annual event held in the Trafalgar Square and celebrates the contribution of London's African communities to the capital, including African arts, theatre, live music, food, stalls and crafts. The event was this year headlined by Manu Dibango, with a host of other artists including Bassekou Kouyate, Emmanuel Jal, Kanda Bongo Man and Gina Yashere.

Sunbaba provided seven custom-made full colour Ultramesh panels, with Keder and Eyelet finishing to brand the Star Events Group Morbit stage for the event, working with their extensive library of stage specifications to ensure the branded fitted perfectly for event organisers Bliss Events Management Ltd.

Technical director Trevor Booth explai

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USA - Pop-rock band The Jonas Brothers took grandMA along on their most recent tour. Band kicked off their Look Me In The Eyes tour in Tucson. They will be back in the spotlight with the Burning Up summer tour, which commences 4 July in Toronto.

"The Jonas Brothers' Look Me In The Eyes tour started as a theatre tour then blew up and became a sold-out arena tour," notes John LaBriola who served as the tour's lighting director and programmer as well as lighting, set and video designer. "Initially there was going to be a modest amount of video and LEDs and not many other lights, then the show got bigger and added movers and additional LED panels.

"The goal was to make it video-heavy with a big, industrial look. When you look at the stage the main thing you see are the LED walls." LaBriola tapped two grandMAs for lighting and video con

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USA - The 2007 GE Edison Award was presented to Enrique Peiniger and Jean Sundin of Office for Visual Interaction (OVI), based in New York, for lighting the United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. The personalised Steuben crystal award was presented by GE Consumer & Industrial at a gala reception at Bellagio in Las Vegas.

The GE Edison Award competition, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, is open to those lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE light sources (lamps and/or LEDs) in a lighting design project completed during the previous calendar year.

Situated on a promontory overlooking the Pentagon, the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol, the Air Force Memorial takes its place among the capital city's key monuments. Lighting is critical in establishing the nighttime identity of each of these structures. Soaring t

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