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USA - In response to recommendations and requests from customers, J. R. Clancy has announced the addition of two new models to its PowerLift motorised winch line.

J. R. Clancy now offers the PowerLift Variable Speed 0-20 fpm motorised winch with a load capacity of 2,000 pounds. The new winch fills the need expressed by users and consultants for a motorized winch with no "bounce" at the start or end of a move, says the company.

In addition, Clancy has added the PowerLift Fixed Speed, 20 fpm motorized winch with a load capacity of 1,200 pounds.

"Some projects require short battens with only a few lift lines," said Tom Young, J.R. Clancy's vice-president of marketing. "PowerLifts use 3/16-inch lift lines, with a recommended working load of 525 pounds. Thi

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USA - Excitement Technologies Group (ETG) has completed its move to new facilities near Dallas, TX. The laser / special effects group didn't have to travel far from their former location.

Along with more breathing room, their new address (4301A Lindbergh Drive, Addison, TX 75001) offers several notable amenities. According to president Kelly Sticksel: "We're very excited to move into this new building. With dedicated R & D space for our special effects department, we can better push the edge of the envelope - without one technician pushing it into the workspace of another one."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - XL Video supplied video equipment and crew to two high profile performances at the 2008 Greenwich & Docklands International festival in London. The event presented a free programme of street and outdoor entertainment throughout the area, including Runand Time Is Like Flowing Water. Technical Manager for both events for the Festival was Richard Williamson.

XL's project manager Paul Wood comments: "This is the first time XL has been involved with this event. It was great to be involved with creative projects such as this, and it's good to see artists incorporating and experimenting with video in inventive ways."

Staged at The Queen's House next to Greenwich Maritime Museum, Runtold the history of running, with the help of dancing, choreography, music and HD video.

XL supplied four Barco FLM HDR18 projectors, two Doremi HD video hard drives a

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USA - Known as America's National Park for the Performing Arts the Wolf Trap venue, Vienna (VA), has installed two grandMA full-size in its Filene Center. Wolf Trap's typical season includes performances ranging from pop, country, folk and blues to orchestra, dance, theatre and opera as well as performance art and multimedia presentations. Its larger venue Filene Center is a 7,000-seat indoor/outdoor theatre.

"We had other desks and needed an upgrade so we acquired three grandMAs, one of them a replay unit, and four MA NSPs as our house lighting control system," reports Wolf Trap's head electrician Henry Parks. "Performances here start at the end of May, and we do approximately 100 different shows until mid-September. Basically, we have a large conventional rig with lots of Color Faders and SeaChangers; we have around 1,500 conventional fixtures and about 40 multi

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UK - London-based production company Event Concept has boosted its AV capabilities by offering the latest live digital sound, live video and media production services as well as VJ and DJ performances.

Commenting on the company's expansion, managing director Mark Beaver said: "We have excellent relationships with the industry's top sound and video suppliers and we will continue to partner with them on our larger projects. More of our clients are taking their events to full production level, needing a much wider range of services, so it makes sense that we have the skills and equipment under one roof to offer a more efficient, integrated solution where possible."

The AV team is headed by Jamie Corteen, former director of 2 Bit TV, a live video performance and events production company. Corteen is supported by AV production designer Jonny Stewart, formerly Head of Vide

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UK - Wembley Stadium played host to the Foo Fighters for two nights, which saw a packed stadium with upward of 80,000 strong crowds and support acts including Supergrass and members of Led Zeppelin as special guests performing with the band.

Having just got back from filming The Champions League in Moscow, Spidercam was brought in by Splinter Films, specialists in music and live events, to cover the massive concerts. Both nights' shows were filmed and the result was ready for cinema release at the end of the month, and will also be available for MSN broadcast and on Blu-ray DVD.

The stage design which included a B-stage that wrapped round the front of house control position was joined to the main open stage by a thrust walkway that ran almost the length of the pitch. This extensive performance area called for a different approach to filming and Spidercam provided full 360 degr

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Romania - Bosch's Digital Congress Network (DCN) Next Generation conference system was installed in the Romanian Palace of Parliament building for the 2008 NATO Summit conference. The conference hosted around 3,000 delegates, including 24 Heads of State, 26 Prime Ministers and over 80 officials having ministerial rank. Around 3,500 journalists also attended.

The conference system was installed in five different rooms inside the Palace of Parliament building. The spacious Unirii Hall was used as the main conference room, accommodating 65 delegates, around 200 listeners and 46 interpreters with 24 interpreter booths (each with two or three interpreters).

The main racking system serving the Unirii Hall comprises two DCN Next Generation central control units, two audio expanders to provide recording for different audio channels (for local and European Broadcast Union recording), a

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Italy - Agora, the largest rental company in Italy and sound provider of world-renowned artists such as Eros Ramazzoti, Laura Pausini, Luciano Ligabue, Ennio Morricone, Claudio Baglioni, Renato Zero and Zucchero, has recently invested in 54 units of additional L-Acoustics Kudo system, together with L-Acoustics LA8 amplified controllers. This Kudo system completes Agora's large inventory of 600 L-Acoustics Dosc enclosures.

Wolfango De Amicis, director of Agora, says: "With the addition of Kudo - LA8 to our rental inventory, we have now a very flexible system that can be used one day in a concert and the next day at a major outdoor event, in complement to the V-Dosc system or alone. Vittorio De Amicis, my brother, Daniele Tramontani, L-Acoustics CVE, and myself have been pleased by the sound quality that Kudo - LA8 deliver, and impressed by the LA8 presets. The digital amps g

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UK - DiGiCo has enlisted the services of Mick Anderson Consulting.

"Part of what we do at Mick Anderson Consulting is to give clarity of vision. Sometimes, when you're deep in the middle of something, it's very difficult to have the time more than anything else to stand back and say 'where are we going?," says Anderson.

"For DiGiCo, this comes under the heading of international business development. These skills are nothing that DiGiCo doesn't already have, but the company is growing very fast, so they're doing exactly the right thing: where they require a little expert help, they're bringing it in from the outside. We have a lot of contacts, we know the markets, we know the product categories well and therefore we can come in fast with help and information."

"It's nice to have someone who knows the industry well, who I've known for a long time and w

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France - French lighting and sound company Arpege has recently completed the installation of a Nexo GEO D system at the newly refurbished Casino-Theatre hall in Toulouse, a highly-regarded entertainment complex within its region. The building includes a casino, three restaurants, three bars, conference rooms, and a large theatre of 1200 seats. At the end of 2007, a tender was put forth for a complete audio upgrade within the theatre.

Successful installation and rental company Arpege proposed a solution which they felt would provide a versatility and ease of use that the in-house engineers were seeking. For the Arpege team, this venue of 1200 seats presented many intricacies; with 150 events already announced for the coming year, the theatre required a system that would be versatile enough to handle all the different types of events as well as manage the challenging acoustics of

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UK - Baldwin Boxall Communications has added a call response system to its product portfolio. CallCare has been introduced following increasing requests from its customer base, says the company.

CallCare is designed for use in all types of private, commercial, residential and public sector buildings and enables a member of the general public, a member of staff or a patient to call for assistance by a single button press or pull cord. The system confirms a call has been generated by means of a light and sounder, reassuring the caller and ensuring that a response is provided. CallCare is fully addressable, easy to install and is hard wired for totally reliability (only requiring two common wire connections).

Comprising of a display controller (up to 32- or 99-way) and a choice of alarm triggers, the system can be used for a large range of applications. The control units feature

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USA - New Birth South Metropolitan Church, a new build 4,000-seat worship facility in the south metropolitan area of Atlanta, GA, features a digital audio network built around three Innovason digital mixing consoles.

The new premises boasts a technologically sophisticated AV system including three Innovasaon digital consoles on an EtherSound network connected to a PC equipped with an LX4646ES soundcard from Digigram for digital multitrack recording.

According to NBSMC's technical director, David Patrick, the idea from the beginning was to go digital. "For a large multifunction installation like ours, the practical and economic advantages offered by a digital system are too numerous to ignore," he noted.

(Jim Evans)

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Czech Republic - Anolis ArcControl 1024 is a fully programmable DMX controller, designed to offer comprehensive and intuitive control of all Anolis fittings and third party DMX controlled luminaires.

It is designed for a wide range of applications including commercial and residential installations - restaurants, bars, hotels, modern interiors, lightscapes, retail outlets, point-of-sales, illuminated signs and exhibition stands.

Anolis ArcControl 1024 is a totally stand-alone wall-mounted system. It requires no additional equipment to control DMX fittings, and fits neatly into a 47 mm deep back box. Surface mount and frame mount options are also available.

It features a comprehensive library of all Anolis luminaires and other effects for easy installation and programming. The LCD display and scroll-wheel combined with the real time astronomical clock enable more complex seque

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UK - Projected Image Digital (PID) working closely with lighting design practice Mindseye Lighting has specified, supplied and installed 437 nodes of Element Labs VersaPIXEL, 437 custom polished, lacquered aluminium tubes and control for a dynamic light sculpture in the foyer of the Rotunda in Birmingham.

The distinct cylindrical Grade II Listed 266 ft tall high rise tower was designed by James A Roberts and originally completed in 1965 as a 25 storey office block. Last month, it was re-opened as a high profile residential development featuring 232 luxury apartments and a complete makeover by designers Urban Splash and architects Glen Howels.

London-based Mindseye Lighting was asked to come up with a dynamic eye-catching feature for the entrance to bring life, personality and vitality into the space. They contacted PID following a referral from LED manufacturer Element Labs as

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UK - Monacor UK has announced its latest range of cost-effective solid-state fixtures for its expanding img Stage Line. LED replacements for many of the conventional entertainment spots are now available - including the 'Flower' effect that was introduced in the mid-1980s, the company says.

Monacor's RGBL-40DMX 'Flower' is a space-filling dot pattern effect using the RGB colour mix (plus white) to produce high luminous intensity in different colour combinations. From the three primary (RGB) colour sources different mixes can be created from the 392 super-bright LEDs (140 red, 105 green, 84 blue and 63 white), say Monacor.

Also available is the LE172LED 'Double Flower', which has twin clusters of 46 super-bright LEDs (16 red, 15 green, 15 blue) producing two self-controlled cones of flower effects - activated to the beat of the music from its own integrated microphone.

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UK - HSL continues its long standing relationship as a lighting supplier to Granada Television Studios in Manchester with a selection of LED fixtures for ITV's new late night interactive Bingo Night Live.

Recorded in Granada's Starlight Theatre space and aired between midnight and 1 a.m. on ITV1, the series features a set designed by Julian Healey, with lighting designed by Neil Yates. It has kicked off with a selection of celebrity presenters including Melinda Messenger, Michael Underwood and Nichola Dixon.

Lighting has been co-ordinated by Taras Kochan who also programmed and is operating the console for the show and HSL's TV project manager, Sean McGlone.

HSL's kit on the show includes 24 JTE PixelPAR 90s and 18 PixelPAR 87s, all of which are used for various set dressing effects, plus 90 ChromaQ dB4 LED modules. These are used for up-lighting 'Bingo Central', a fu

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UK - Audient is among the impressive list of manufacturers that have been chosen to kit out ATRiuM, the ultra-stylish £35 million University of Glamorgan campus in the centre of the Welsh capital, which is now into its third term of teaching tomorrow's creative industry professionals.

The newly established Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. The specially-designed building contains cutting edge technology and industry-standard studios. At the heart of the School's eight recording studios sit two Audient consoles: an ASP8024 and the ACS8024.

"Our experience with the first Audient desk purchased in 2003 has been so good that another Audient was the obvious choice for our expanded facilities: this time a 36-channel A

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UK - One of Plymouth's newest nightspots, the 45 Degrees Lounge Bar, has opened its doors to reveal a custom-built audio system, all controlled by a single Rane RPM88 Digital Signal Processor.

Located in Union Street, Plymouth's main club district, 45 Degrees is a bar and club with four different zones - a front bar, rear bar, dance floor and VIP room. The responsibility of creating easily controllable audio in all four zones fell to installation company Clockwork Audio.

"Basically we needed to find a good control system for the four different zones," says director Dave Monk from Clockwork Audio. "We needed a high-quality, reliable DSP unit to control it all. They needed a remote control unit as well, so we put an SR4 remote panel behind the bar."

"The owners at 45 Degrees didn't know what type of equipment they wanted," adds Director Zhev Liber

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Germany - Although Germany fell at the last hurdle in Euro 2008, the German branch of international staging experts Stageco achieved a strong result at the competition.

Vienna's Fanzone, organised jointly by the city of Vienna and the tournament organisers UEFA, which provided entertainment and screenings of matches on big screens. Stageco was asked to provide the structures for the main stage itself, in Rathausplatz, a large Communications Centre, the Supervision EM 2008 (a public video viewing support) and a huge experiential marketing zone for the public, Meinl's Kaffewelt, welcoming 12,000 visitors per day.

Stageco Germany had no fewer than five project managers working on the Vienna Fanzone, including Stageco Germany's managing director Werner Herbst, who project managed the structure in Rathausplaz. Here, the company provided its Micro Arch stage, which hosted a variety

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Sweden - The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio recently announced that Lab.gruppen's PLM 10000Q has been nominated for a Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Award in the Amplifier Technology category. The TEC Awards, sponsored by Mix magazine, is the world's most prominent forum honoring outstanding achievement in professional audio production and product design. Winners will be announced in San Francisco on 3 October during the Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention.

Conceived from the outset as a comprehensive drive system for any type of loudspeaker, the PLM 10000Q utilises proven Dolby Lake Processor technology and expands upon it with a suite of load verification and performance monitoring features. Its power amplification builds on the foundation of the road-tested FP+ and fP Series providing the same sonic signature. The PLM Series establishes new benchmarks

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UK - Waterloo Sunset rehearsal studios in London features a comprehensive Turbosound wedge monitoring system and has recently taken delivery of further Turbosound cabinets.

Owned and managed by equipment rental specialists Music Bank, users of Waterloo Sunset's facilities range from A-ha to Will Young, with Paul McCartney, Kylie, Queen, Muse and Madonna just a few examples of the calibre of artiste who rehearse their live shows there.

In addition to a considerable number of TFM-450 wedges and a range of TMS-3 mid-high cabinets, the facility has recently taken delivery of a pair of TA-500DP digitally powered Aspect Wide cabinets and TSW-218 subs.

"Waterloo Sunset's four (North, South, Blue and Green) rehearsal rooms are all equipped with the very highest standard of equipment and the Turbosound wedge system delivers exactly what artists need - high quality on-stage sound

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