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UK - Roland Systems Group will present its popular V-Mixing System, incorporating the M-400 digital mixing console and configurable Digital Snakes with remotely-controlled mic preamps, and a multi-track recording option (SONAR REAC Recording System). New software is being shown for the first time; the M-400 V-Mixer's Version 1.5 update is packed with a number of significant features that enhance the user interface, offering operational shortcuts and speeding up workflow, says the company.Features include: increased flexibility in compressor and gate assignment, addition of eight Matrices, direct channel output assignment for increased flexibility when using personal mixing systems and recording splits, plus various user interface enhancements for accelerated workflow and ease of use

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USA - In addition to working on Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker's Super Bowl appearance, XL Touring Video is also the video contractor on the Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker's 2008 North American Summer Tour, which kicked off the end of May in MI, and wraps up 29 August in Woodlands, TX.

Tom Petty's production/lighting designer, Jim Lenehan has created a design that incorporates threedifferent resolutions of LED along with projection. To achieve the design, XLTV supplied 2200 XL LED Spheres and five Mitirx cubes with 72 Mitrix LED panels in a each cube. The cubes are 4ft in diameter and hung above the stage at different levels and move throughout the show. In addition to XLTV, CW Productions and Ed & Ted are also supplying tour support.

XLTV's project manager, Dave Hyslop says: "The result of Lenehan's vision was a three dimensional wild ride of a visual display. It was gratify

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China - Artistic Licence Asia, which opened its doors in Hong Kong on 1 July 2008, has collaborated with Norm Schwab and Glenn Wade of Lightswitch, San Francisco, on the Coca Cola Pavilion for the Beijing Olympic Games.

A two-storey, 4,000sq.m building, the Coca Cola Pavilion is the largest facility on the Corporate Sponsor Row, located outside the main Birds Nest stadium and providing exhibition space and corporate hospitality throughout the games.

The building houses an exhibition documenting the history of Coca Cola alongside that of the Olympic Games, the "Perfect Serve" hospitality area, a Media zone running automated fixtures including Vari*Lites and High End Systems DL3 digital luminaires complete with video content, and externally, a roof comprised of a material membrane surmounted by the Olympic rings - all of which is lit by 200 washlights from DTS of Italy

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UK - RadioCom is set to show the Telex BTR-80N Narrow Band Two-Channel UHF Synthesized Wireless Intercom at PLASA 08.

The new wireless Intercom system is billed as "a revolutionary product for today's ever changing and shrinking RF environment". Providing 8 KHz of modulated bandwidth, the system allows more users per channel in the cramped UHF spectrum.

The system is based on the award winning BTR-800 wireless intercom system and provides all of the standard features of the BTR-800 system, such as DSP and Intelligent Power Control, plus many more.

When matched with the BTR-80N, the TR-80N and TR-82N beltpacks provide additional features like selectable transmitter power output, selectable receiver squelch control, RF meter display on base station and beltpack displays, remote battery indicators on base station display, low battery tone indicator on beltpack, AC or

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China - To ensure optimal communications during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, RTS hand-configured a huge rackmount array, or 'RIB', with the latest intercom equipment. This will serve as the worldwide communications centre for one of RTS' major broadcast clients at the Olympic Games, thus allowing instant contact between the customer's Olympic broadcast operations, headquarters, and any number of remote locations. RVON VoIP technology and RTS Intelligent Trunking Components make it possible for the RIB's 600 potential users in Beijing to seamlessly connect with over 30 of the broadcaster's matrix frames worldwide.

The communications RIB for the Beijing Olympics includes 600 ports distributed over three ADAM frames, DBX series Dual Bus Expanders, KP-32 classic series keypanels, RVON VoIP products, intelligent trunking components with telephone interfaces, as well as products fr

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UK - Kano is making sure he's being heard loud and clear by using a Sennheiser SKM 935 for his live dates throughout the summer, promoting his forthcoming album, 140 Grime Street.

Fabrice Quirin has been his monitor engineer since last summer and it was his persuading that led to Kano picking up the Sennheiser mic. "I'd used the SKM 935 on a few occasions when I was working for Britannia Row Productions," explains Quirin. "I always had great results with them, especially in monitors.

"I think the 935 works a treat on Kano's vocal," he continues. "He is a bright, loud MC and the high end of the 935 is very soft giving him a smoother sound from the start. The low end is fantastic on these mics. I find it very flattering. Also they can take the volume when set to -30 sensitivity, even though the meter is showing clipping all the way through.&q

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USA - From New York City to Indonesia, the Charlie Hall Band has been on a world tour that's brought them to a variety of venues including large outdoor festival stages, high school and college auditoriums, and a number of churches. While there are five members of this Christian rock group visible onstage, Aviom's Personal Monitor Mixing System has become a vital part of the band.

The monitoring system has been a part of the setup since 2005. According to Dustin Ragland, drummer for Charlie Hall, the system's efficient and portable design has made traveling and having to deal with the PA gear less challenging. "Its compactness has been a major plus," he says. "We previously traveled with a digital mixer and a large splitter, and I was in charge of each mix. This burdened us with having to fly with extra equipment and risking it breaking in transit. The AN-16/i-M r

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USA - As in the past, music fans jammed Chicago's Grant Park for this year's Lollapalooza, drawing sell-out crowds 1-3 August. Seen and heard onstage throughout the event, Shure microphones played a big role at the festival.

Choosing Lollapalooza 2008 to play its first North American gig on the second leg of its summer tour, Radiohead played to a sell-out crowd of 75,000 to close out the first night. Thom Yorke's vocals and guitar helped guide the two-hour set, with the frontman singing into a Beta 87C from Shure.

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USA - Proshow Systems recently added a large JBL Vertec system to its inventory. Proshow Systems has already provided Vertec for numerous events throughout the southeast United States during the summer festival season.

The company specialises in complete technical productions including audio, lighting, backline and crew service. "We strive to ensure that every event runs smoothly and on schedule, while providing a flawless show for each and every audience member," said Michael Faber, director of purchasing for Proshow Systems.

A large part of Proshow's company philosophy is to maintain an inventory that is built around industry-standard equipment. "Our years of experience serving the corporate and entertainment industries enables us to select the right equipment for a given system," Faber added. "Our systems are easily adapted to fit every event or req

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UK - E/T/C London is supplying 90m wide large format image projections for the 2008 Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

It's the fourth consecutive year that the company has been involved in this high profile event, and the first year that the projection canvas has been increased from 60m to 90m wide. This extended area stretches the full width of Edinburgh Castle's walls at the far end of the Esplanade/arena where the performance takes place.

Four of E/T/C's PIGI 6K projectors fitted with double rotating scrollers are being used for the task. Three are covering the width of the Castle wall area, with the fourth focussed on providing 'drop-ins' in the area around the Castle gates, through which all the performers make their entrances.

E/T/C's Ross Ashton designed and produced the artwork for all the key strategic points in the show, which are being punctuated with the high impact pro

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China- Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport is among architect Sir Norman Foster's most spectacular creations. Equal in size to 170 football fields added together, the new terminal is capable of handling up to 64 million passengers per year. Electro-Voice loudspeaker systems - among them, the models ZX1i and Xi-1122 provide the sound reinforcement.

For the Olympic Games, Chinese broadcasting giant CCTV was opted for communications systems from RTS to ensure that sound and images from the Games reach the waiting millions. RTS components - including ADAM and Cronus matrices linked to over sixty KP32 and KP12LK keypanels - form the nerve centre of several of the company's outside broadcast vehicles. In the area of wireless communication, too, Telex BTR700 and TR700 systems will be in action throughout the event.

Systems from EVI Audio are in use in the competition

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UK - At PLASA08 (7-10 September 2008, Earls Court, London), Barcelona-based audio manufacturer Vieta is releasing new and improved control software to extend an installer's control over a sound system constructed from Vieta's Ti Line suite of DIN rail-mounting products.

Vieta-Net Control (VNC) Software Version 2, which includes new features, a better user interface and an easier automatic set-up, allows a remarkable 2-way communication between a variety of local control options and a PC-based master control of the media player and amplifiers, which can be connected directly, connected via a wireless network or connected remotely using the internet.

Local changes to settings on the Ti Line system can be made by any combination of IR remotes, wall switches and unit front panels. These changes will register on the remote PC which provides master control of the system, and can be

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UK- Sunbaba worked with production company Sledge to supply branding for the innocent Village Fete in Regents Park on 2 and 3 August 2008.

The innocent Village Fete has a range of diverse activities suitable to keep all the family amused including musical performances headlined by the James Taylor Quartet, Son of Dave and The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Interactive activities to take part in included alfresco dancing, duck herding and ferret racing as well as face painting, a funfair and giant game of boggle.

Sunbaba's signage was designed to fit in with the light hearted atmosphere of the fete. They produced 198 correx signs which included 10 'things to do while queuing for the loo' information signs, signage for the 'VNP (Very Nice People) secret garden party' and 42 x 'innocent facts'. They also provided 36 PVC signs including directional signage, central tower bran

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UK- When the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) decided to invest in state-of-the-art scoreboards at its world-famous cricket ground, Lord's, it chose Lighthouse Technologies to head up the contract. "We had two scoreboards that had been there for some time and the 16,000 light bulbs of which they consisted needed constant replacement," explains Steve Jones, IT manager at MCC. "We also had a temporary video screen which was brought in for major matches. So when we decided to replace the two scoreboards, the decision was made to add a third and set them all up to be capable of showing video.

"It has been a sizable investment, "but it's part of an ongoing policy of upgrading our facility to ensure that Lord's continues to be the best cricket ground in the world."

MCC hired Gardiner and Theobald as project managers to put out a tender for a full JCT Desig

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USA - Five-time Grammy-winning blues legend Buddy Guy has been singing the praises of Shure microphones, particularly the UHF-R wireless system.

"Without Shure...I don't know," he says. "There are a lot of things I'm doing that I just couldn't do. They're the best you have ever seen, y'know. I'm always confident when I'm using this stuff, and I'm not just saying that. It works."

On Sunday, 20 July, Guy was presented with the first-ever Great Performer of Illinois Award at a ceremony in Chicago at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, which he held up and dedicated to "Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, the late, great Junior Wells - all the guys who helped make Chicago what it is today with the blues." This award came just two days before the release of his latest album, Skin Deep

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UK - Serious Stages supplied three staging structures at the 2008 Latitude festival - one floating - and a pontoon walking bridge across the large lake to link the two main areas of the site. The Festival Republic event is set in the grounds of Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, and has become one of the UK's most sought-after boutique festivals. The Serious team of 16 was led by crew chief Gavin Harper.

Latitude's main stage was one of the new Serious 22m, four-bay Supernova structures, which was covered in white skins for the first time, and decorated around the front with Latitude's signature funky daisies.

This version of the Supernova was constructed with round trussing for a generally gentler and more spherical appearance. The stage space was 22m wide and 14.4m deep, with 11m of headroom and with a backshed at the rear for rolling risers, backline storage and to help facil

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USA - JBL Professional Precision Directivity (PD) Series and Application Engineered (AE) Series loudspeakers are on the job at the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in the National Aquatic Centre in Beijing, to make certain that the sound will be exactly what it needs to be for the array of Olympic games taking place there.

The National Aquatic Centre, also known as the Water Cube, features 52 PD5212/64 12-inch 2-way full-range loudspeakers, eight PD5122 dual 12-inch low-frequency loudspeakers, 12 AC2212/95, and 12 each 2380A 90- x 40-degree horns matched with 2446J 2-inch exit (4-inch voice coil) compression drivers.

Designed by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation with a steel space frame clad with ETFE pillows, the National Aquatic Centre was purpose-built for the 2008 Summer Olympics, with its acoustics specially tempered for the occasion. But with literally hundre

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UK - With the introduction at PLASA 2008 of the KP-32CLD, RTS brings to market the flagship product of a new RTS keypanel. This innovative solution addresses both the primary needs and advanced features required by different customers for finer control of keypanel functions, says the company. The KP-32CLD uses a 4.9-inch, full-colour LCD display to provide feature-rich operating functions. The KP-32 CLD also boasts an ergonomic design with a flat front panel that fits flush within a rack-mount configuration.

RTS will also show the DKP 16 CLD Colour Display Desktop Keypanel. The DKP 16 CLD is the desktop member of the CLD colour keypanel family. Like its rack-mounted counterpart, the DKP 16 CLD is controlled using a groundbreaking full-colour graphic interface.

The DKP 16 CLD sports a host of features that are the new standard among the RTS CLD keypanel family. A USB port, two

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Germany - Last year, the German rental company Veranstaltungstechnik Linke e.K. from Leipzig utilised an Aviom Pro64 digital multicore system in its Classic Open event as a replacement for their analogue multicore system. This year, Aviom will make a repeat performance.

The annual ten-day event, presenting classical and popular artists in the historic city of Leipzig's Market Square, puts heavy demands on both the equipment and the staff. Technical director Peter Linke is managing the event for the fourteenth time this year.

Aviom's Pro64 digital multicore allows for redundant cabling for the critical audio transfer between the stage and the FOH. The 48 input channels on stage are derived from six Yamaha AD8HR preamplifiers, which feed the digital inputs of three Aviom 6416dio Digital I/O Modules.

Utilising two redundant streams of A-Net, via two separate Cat 5e cable

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UK - Avolites' stand this year will show the Diamond 4 Vision and Elite consoles, the full range of Pearls including the Pearl Tiger, Pearl Expert and the new Pearl 2010 console, plus Avolites' new operating system, Titan.

Also being demonstrated is Avolites' ART2000 dimming range. In particular, Avo will be illustrating how racks can be custom configured to client's specific requirements.

The Pearl 2010 sees Avolites introduce a new contemporary streamlined look for its global bestselling console. This will include new graphics and an ergonomically curved front and back, complimenting the physical aesthetics of the Pearl Expert and Pearl Tiger consoles.

Developed from the original D4 Operating System, Titan adds new features to the Diamond 4 and brings powerful features from the Diamond 4 to the Pearl Expert. All Titan based consoles offer powerful functions like Fixture Ex

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Olympic News (1) - The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was undoubtedly one of the most spectacular such events seen and heard in recent history. The occasion provided a tremendous showcase for the world's lighting, sound, broadcast and production industries. Roll on London 2012!

Awards News - Rock band Iron Maiden have asked to be removed from the Vodafone Live Music Awards shortlist after being nominated for the best live return prize. Vodafone said the band had complained they should not be considered for the prize because they said they had never stopped touring. In a posting on their website the band said: "We are not quite sure where we are returning from." Indie group James have now been nominated for the award instead. Iron Maiden, who recently played at Twickenham Stadium, said the nomination was "very flattering". A Vodafone spokesman said: &q

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