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UK - Lighting rental company Siyan has invested in 15 i-Pix BB7 LED wash lights which will be going out on the upcoming Killers tour after they were specified by LD Steven Douglas.

Twelve of these, along with six BB4s were recently used on the London date of Duffy's UK tour, which has also been serviced by Siyan, and designed/operated by Bryan Leitch and Cate Carter.

"They are fantastic fixtures - bright, dynamic and unusual " says Leitch, who was actually specifically looking for a light-source that was similar in shape to the flower/petal appearance of the BB7. As soon as i-Pix' Chris Ewington had demonstrated the power and effect of the BB7, a seven- cell high powered homogenized 10 degree RGB lightsource, Leitch put in his order.

Six went directly onto the KylieX

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UK - Pioneering loudspeaker manufacturer Tannoy makes a welcome return to the PLASA show after being absent for a couple of years. The company will be using the Earls' Court extravaganza as the perfect platform for a first UK demonstration of their newest pro-audio product lines, VQ and QFlex, as well as exhibiting some of the existing V-Series loudspeaker range.

The new Tannoy VQ Series is a range of revolutionary loudspeakers designed for any application where precise directional control, outstanding sonic performance, and high SPL's are critical issues; such as large corporate AV systems, stadiums, large dance clubs, live concert halls, theatres, houses of worship and open-air venues, say the company. Utilising precision engineering and design, the VQ series can produce enough power and clarity to be used individually, maintaining your building's aesthetics, unlike line array

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USA - Bandit Lites has announced that Peter M. Heffernan, a 30-year veteran, has been named president of the firm. Effective immediately, Heffernan will take the reigns and serve as both president and C.O.O., a role he has held for the last 15 years.

This move comes at a time of growth for Bandit and is the logical step in taking the firm to the next level, says the company. Heffernan began his full time relationship with Bandit Lites in 1978 and he has risen through the ranks. He served as lighting director and/ or production manager for a number of artists that toured on the international scene including Blackfoot and Quiet Riot.

Heffernan moved into an administrative position in 1985 and has performed a variety of roles in the last 23 years. He will be working with the staff and management overseeing the day-to-day operations.

(Jim Evans)

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Poland - Fiat Bank Polska in Warsaw recently celebrated its tenth anniversary - with a spectacular event in the famous old Warsaw University of Technology, one of the largest academic schools of technology in Eastern Europe.

The building's grand façade was flooded for the occasion with architectural lighting from four PR Lighting Century Color 2500Ls to create a breathtaking effect.

These fixtures were provided by MEDIAM Sp. zoo, PR Lighting's Polish distributors for an evening which saw a performance by Polish singer, Natalia Kukulska, in front of an audience of around 400.

Mediam were brought in by professional creative agency and production company, Creative Media, with whom they have worked in the past - and the company's in-house lighting designer Maciej Bubula set to work on ingtegrating several PR Lighting fixtures with an LED screen (for the performance by Kukulska

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USA - Mark Engel has been was named president and chief executive officer of Rosco Laboratories. He is only the third president in Rosco's nearly 100-year history. The company was started in 1910 by Sidney Rosenstein, who remained at its helm until 1958. That year, Stan Miller bought the company, whose primary product was colour filters made of gelatin ('gels') and assumed the position in which he has served for 50 years. He remains active as chairman of the board at Rosco.

When Miller bought the company it had four employees and gross sales of under $100,000. Today Rosco employs hundreds in eleven different countries around the world and sales are well up in the millions of dollars. It remains the world's largest manufacturer of color filters, as well as dozens of other products used in theatre, film and television production.

Mark Engel joined Rosco over 16 years ago. Active

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UK - Fleetwood Mobiles has appointed Lise Regan to the new role of sales and marketing manager.

Regan comes directly from managing Livingston Studios where she had overall responsibility for their facilities. Previously she had a long association with Dave Stewart's The Church Studios in north London, managing the studios and frequently travelling with Stewart as his production manager for live shows.

In 2006 she launched her own Producer and Engineer Management company, Innocent Management, to develop new and established producers and engineers and her roster includes Grammy Award Winner Jerry Boys whom she will continue to represent.

Commenting on the appointment, Ian Cooper, director of Fleetwood said: "We are delighted that Lise has joined our team, she brings a wealth of experience with her and a new focus for the business."

In a further move, Fleetwood has

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UK - The Park main stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival was produced by Bristol-based South West Group using recently-purchased lighting and sound equipment from MilTec (UK).

South West Group took advantage of the demanding festival situation to run a live demonstration of the new Lynx line-array system from VMB, also distributed in the UK by MilTec. The system comprised eight Lynx V8 active top boxes, with six Lynx active 218 subwoofers per side, driven through the new Ark 48 system processor.

Operations manager, Mark Bott, explained: "We'd already heard the VMB system at the manufacturer's headquarters in Spain and were suitably impressed with the sound from such a compact system. We wanted to put the Lynx through its paces and the Park Stage was the perfect opportunity. We were allocated a very limited weight to fly from the speaker towers and the VMB line array m

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UK - Adlib Audio supplied sound production and crew for the third consecutive year to Lake Stage, the Film & Music Stage and the Cabaret Arena at the 2008 Latitude Festival.

The Lake Stage was sponsored by the BBC as an "introducing" platform for new, young and hot emerging talent. The tent was a small saddle-span design with relatively low headroom, so the Nexo Alpha PA supplied by Adlib was ground stacked, and comprised two S2 subs, two B1 bass speakers and twoM3 mid-highs.

This was powered by Camco amps with Nexo NX242 system processors, and all bands were mixed from side- stage on a Soundcraft Series 4 console, which was also used to mix six monitor sends.

A standard Adlib outboard FX rack contained a Lexicon PCM 70, Yamaha SPX 990 and 2000s and an Eventide H3000 harmoniser plus Drawmer DS201 gates and DBX 1066 and 160A compressors.

Monitors were 10 Adlib AA1

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UK - Ward Steedsy Associates has become the first PA company in Scotland to purchase an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system. Run by Steven Ward and David Stevenson, the recently formed hire company took delivery of an iDR10 Mixrack and iLive-112 control surface.

"We organised a few shootouts with existing analogue consoles and the affordable digital options. iLive impressed us because not only does it provide all the benefits of digital - such as the use of Cat 5 cables instead of bulky multicores, and a whole host of inboard processing - it is simple to use, easy for engineers to pick up, has a small footprint, is excellent value for money and has fantastic analogue sound quality," comments Steven Ward.

Ward Steedsy Associates provides dry and wet hire of lighting and audio equipment, as well as full event management services, specifically for live music event

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Italy - Rome-based commercial TV station Mediaset has refurbished its TG5 news studio. Director Giorgio Marra, and senior director of photography, Gianni Mastropietro opted to incorporate the Coemar ParLite LED.

The broadcasters made a bold commitment to the fixture - requisitioning 140 of the 36 x 1W Luxeon ParLite LED heads, all fitted with 12° lens; these were supplied, complete with colour frames by Di & Di Lighting & Truck srl, a large rental company based in Rome. Set in Par 38-style cans the ParLite LEDs have been built into the vibrant new set conceived by scenographer Raffaella Galbiati, and mounted on racetrack-shaped truss around the studio perimeter.

TG5 sits alongside, TG4 and Studio Aperto at the historic Centro Palatino site and broadcasts four news programmes each day; the number of journalists on set at any one time defines the number of ParLites used, the

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UK - A.C.'s Audio division has recently supplied Imperial College Union with a new Opus 900 Series wireless radio microphone system.

A.C. Audio sales executive Glen Thompson, who oversaw the equipment supply commented: "Over the last year or two, Imperial College Union have been gradually updating their sound technology to meet with the growing demand from the drama productions and live band nights held at the venue. Already having experience with Opus wireless technology, the Union was keen to purchase three NE900Q UHF quad receivers due to their 1U rack size and known reliability and durability."

Thompson continued: "Rack space can be a huge issue for many sound directors in this modern age, so the NE900Q is a superb solution that has no limiting or negative effects on the sound quality. The union will also have the option of running any brand of microphone wi

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UK - After a successful trial in 2007, The Championships 2008 - more commonly known as Wimbledon Fortnight - saw the hosting All England Lawn Tennis Club elect to replace its longstanding scoreboards on Centre and No.1 Courts with state-of-the-art LED screens.

The new screens meant that the scoreboards could be put to a much wider range of uses, so improved communications between the court control booths and the main screen control room were essential. And these communications were significantly aided by four Yamaha DME4io-C high-performance terminal I/O processors.

Wimbledon-based RG Jones Sound Engineering has been the main audio contractor for the All England Club for over 20 years "At such a high profile event, reliability is everything. A breakdown in communications would cause huge problems," says the company's Jon Berry. "We needed a straightforward devic

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Germany - Through cooperation between Optocore and Neumann, it is now possible to transport, distribute and route Neumann digital microphone audio signals and control data using one digital network - one network connection for all signals with no limitation in distances.

Neumann's recent developments include the Solution D Series digital microphones with AES42 interfaces. A most advantageous A/D conversion, especially developed synchronization technology and the capability of controlling standard microphone parameters and various integrated signal-processing functions remotely ensure that Solution-D meets the most demanding professional audio production requirements, says the company.

Audio signals are available at any point of the network as AES/EBU and MADI as well as conventional analogue format. Optocore has now developed a RJ45 to Sub-D adapter cable, allowing every Optoc

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Show News - Loudspeaker manufacturer Tannoy makes a welcome return to the PLASA show after being absent for a couple of years. The company will be using the Earls' Court event as the platform for a first UK demonstration of its newest pro-audio product lines, VQ and QFlex, as well as exhibiting some of the existing V-Series loudspeaker range.

Executive News - Bandit Lites has announced that Peter M. Heffernan, a 30-year veteran, has been named president of the firm. Effective immediately, Heffernan will take the reigns and serve as both president and C.O.O., a role he has held for the last 15 years. This move comes at a time of growth for Bandit and is the logical step in taking the firm to the next level, says the company. Heffernan began his full time relationship with Bandit Lites in 1978 and he has risen through the ranks. He served as lighting director and/ or production manager f

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Canada - In an effort to support the continuous growth in southern Europe and specifically the Spanish market, Adamson has announced a new distribution deal with SeeSound Spain. The deal was finalised in early June with Adamson president and CEO, Brock Adamson, visiting the SeeSound operation in Barcelona.

As part of a strategy for brand penetration in Europe, SeeSound will now be the official distributor and point of contact for all Adamson related sales and support. All inquiries for Adamson products can be directed to the head of See Sound, Nacho Alberdi, who will be the executor of the Spanish operations.

SeeSound started its new partnership with Adamson by placing a substantial first order for a new Adamson rental partner Fluge which includes 12 Y10s, 32 Y18s, and 24 T21-Subs, as well as SeeSound demo gear, which Includes SpekTrix Series, Metrix Series, and M15s.

On 7 J

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Australia - Dante digital audio networking technology proved its reliability and cost-effectiveness at one of this year's largest public gatherings - World Youth Day 2008. Huge crowds attended the July events in Sydney. Crowd estimates for Pope Benedict XVI's final mass at Randwick Racecourse ran as high as 400,000.

Scott Willsallen of Auditoria was charged with delivering a high quality audio experience to everyone in attendance at both Randwick and the "Super Thursday" opening mass, which drew 140,000 to Barangaroo on Sydney Harbour. He relied on Dante to distribute signal from the mixing desks to speaker towers throughout the enormous audiences.

Willsallen is an expert in designing audio systems for major events. His resumé includes the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2006 Doha Asian Games, 2006 Eurovision Song Contest and the 2003 Rugby

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UK - A famous Grade II-listed building in Leamington Spa has reopened as a vibrant multi-purpose venue, featuring Martin Audio line array reinforcement, following a £3.2m investment.

Dating back to 1926, when it served as the ballroom for the old Bath Hotel, the building still contains the original stained glass windows and the silver and gold leaf detail has all been reinstated.

With Leamington Sight & Sound (LSS) providing all the technical infrastructure (and acting as main A/V contractors), The Assembly has undergone a major transformation, with celebrity interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen helping to turn the former Gala Bingo site into a 1,000 capacity entertainments venue.

Given a brief to provide an infrastructure that would make The Assembly Warwickshire's premier music venue, LSS managing director Ian Potter and his installation manager Colin Bannister

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USA - An Allen & Heath iLive digital console system, iDR-8 digital zone mixer and six remote control PL Series wall plates have been installed at the Children's Theatre of Annapolis in Maryland as part of a full audio system recently completed by installer, Audio Plus.

Anew construction, the Children's Theatre hosts local and regional theatre productions as well as other events. The iLive system, comprising an iDR10 Mix Rack and iLive-80 Control Surface, manages FOH as well as monitor mixing duties, and the iDR-8 manages audio distribution for the main loudspeaker system, monitors, and zone speaker management. There are a variety of Allen & Heath PL wall plates installed at key locations throughout the theatre, providing remote control access of the system.

"The iLive/iDR integration is the perfect solution for theatre as it is infinitely flexible and has a ton of feature

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UK - Stage Electrics has appointed Ben Stephen as its new business development manager for London and the South East. He joins divisional sales manager Chris Patton and fellow BDM's Darren Beckley, Mark Burnett and Paul Roughton.

Stephen previously worked at Stage Electrics' Birmingham branch where he was responsible for hire and sales enquires.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Baldwin Boxall's OmniCare system will be demonstrated at Firex North. Also on show will be Vigil Eclipse2 stand-alone VA/PA system.

Vigil OmniCare is an addressable emergency voice communication system that allows disabled refuge, fire telephones and disabled toilet alarm remote units to be wired in one system. It has been developed in accordance with BS5588, BS5839 part 9 and BS8300:2001 (for the disabled toilet alarm).

The system has two main components: a Master Control Panel and the Remote Units. The Master Control Panel is available in various options: 8-128 way. Control panels also function as slave panels when wired into a Vigil OmniCare system on the ring circuit loop. The Master Control Panel is normally wall mounted within a central control room, with additional panels at other locations for control of local areas.

Vigil Eclipse2 is a wall-mountable voice alar

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UK - Stage Electrics is supplying in house sound and audio visual equipment for the entire run of Lift Festival 2008 which takes place this summer at Stratford and the Southbank Centre. Since 1981, Lift has been recognised as one of Europe's leading arts festivals, introducing theatre from over 60 countries to venues and unusual sites across London. At the heart of the festival is The Lift, a mobile venue and meeting place that hosts performances, exhibitions, workshops, discussions and screenings.

Andrew Sugg, business development manager at Stage Electrics says, 'The project requires a flexible system which can be used for many applications, from live music, dance and film to individual speakers. On top of this, we have also provided additional sound and audio visual equipment for one off special events such as outdoor film showings.

Robin Shepherd-Blandy, technical m

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