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UK - Still celebrating its fifth anniversary, Alcons Audio will be present at PLASA 2008 with a number of new products and developments. Though this year's stand is still under the headquarters' name, the stand is actually hosted by recently founded Alcons Audio UK.

Main eye catcher on the stand will be the "R-Ray" design study; Becoming an annual "stand feature", Alcons shares a glimpse of R&D projects, by displaying assembled prototype products of which part developments may be applied in future products.

R-Ray shows the study on achieving maximum projection control through a modular point-source cluster, utilizing (pro-ribbon) line-source technology.

Also on show will be the LR7, the latest and smallest member of Alcons' pro-ribbon line-arrays. Billed as

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Hong Kong - The Olympic Equestrian Venue (Sha Tin) is outfitted with a JBL EON system for the racetrack area during the 2008 Summer Games. While the majority of the Olympic events are taking place in Beijing, the equestrian events are being held in Hong Kong.

Managed by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the venue is equipped with world class facilities, including a 100- x 80m all-weather sand area capable of supporting 18,000 spectators and a 5.7k cross-country course. All three events of the equestrian programme, comprising jumping, dressage, and eventing, are being held at the venue.

Dispersed throughout the racetrack area are JBL EON series portable loudspeakers. In total, 14 systems have been installed, providing sound to the competitors, media and Olympics officials located on the field. Other Harman components at the Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Venue include six Soundcraft Com

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USA - Audio-Technica has announced that Fayetteville, Georgia-based Global Sales Management has been presented with A-T's President's Award. The announcement was made by Marc Lee Shannon, Audio-Technica vice-president, sales.

Global Sales Management founders Ralph and Judy Quintero accepted the award, which recognizes a leading manufacturer's representative for outstanding commitment and dedication during the Audio-Technica 2007/2008 fiscal year. The firm is responsible for various territories in the Latin American region.

Shannon commented: "Global Sales Management has displayed exemplary commitment and dedication. We recognise them for their continued contribution to building the A-T brand in Latin America, and we congratulate Ralph, Judy and the staff for their outstanding performance."

(Jim Evans)

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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Europe - Scandinavian AV rental and installations integrator - and owners of Europe's largest fleet of mobile video screens - Massteknik, has added five large digiLED d12N screens to its ever-expanding fleet. These high-resolution screens were out on the road in Europe from day one of the Euro 2008 championships, bringing all the action to the fans on the streets, and are continuing to entertain crowds throughout Europe at concerts, festivals and racing events.

Four of Massteknik's trailers have been installed with 56sq.m digiLED screens, each measuring 10m x 5.6m. The fifth houses a massive 88sq.m screen, which is designed for the larger events. All five screens are 16:9 aspect ratio and utilise the latest digiPRO HD processing technology enabling Hi Def images.

All trailers include a fully integrated TV-production and control room and a non-linear editing system. Several cam

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UK - Two of the UK's leading PA Hire companies - SSE Audio Group and Canegreen - have merged. The deal follows many months of negotiation to find a formula that will deliver the most for both companies and their customers, the companies said.

Canegreen will continue as a trading name within the SSE Audio Group, offering Meyer andEAW alongside SSE Hire's Nexo, L-Acoustics and Adamson products, thereby offering the widest choice of systems to customers from any single UK supplier. Canegreen founders Yan Stile and Pete Edmonds join the board of SSE Audio Group as both directors and shareholders.

SSE's Redditch base will remain as Group Headquarters, with over 35,000sq.ft of warehouse space for the preparation, servicing and storage of hire equipment. The Group will retain Canegreen's London base in Tottenham, enabling the Group to service its hire contracts more effectively in th

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USA - Bon Jovi have taken grandMA on the road. The band's 2006 Have A Nice Day tour, which was the first to carry a HD video system with it for the duration of the tour, employed a grandMA for lighting and video control. Now, Bon Jovi's Lost Highway world tour is concluding with a pair of grandMAs in tow.

"The operation of the grandMA has been similar to the last tour, but we upgraded our equipment inventory with new media servers with custom software," reports lighting director and programmer Patrick Brannon. "Our video house rack remained the same."

Brannon is convinced that: "we couldn't do what we do with any other console. As you learn and start adding bells and whistles on the outboard equipment you just add another parameter to the grandMA. grandMA enables you to build the system you need, because all the parameters are custom.&quo

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UK - JBL Professional is introducing the 8100 Series ceiling speakers at this year's PLASA 08. The 8100 Series comprises full-range in-ceiling loudspeakers with high sensitivity, low distortion, and smooth frequency response.

The 8100 Series lineup includes two models: the 8124, a 4-inch loudspeaker with wide coverage; and the 8128, an 8-inch loudspeaker that offers extended bass response and higher SPL output. Both speakers feature high sensitivity for maximum system efficiency and full-range response, making them suitable for small to medium background music systems. Low-saturation transformers with taps as low as 0.75 Watts allow the use of many speakers on 70V/100V distributed loudspeaker system lines.

"The JBL 8100 Series in-ceiling loudspeakers provide an optimal combination of affordability and quality," said Rick Kamlet, senior market director, commercial sou

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Hong Kong - The architectural style of Kowloon is influenced by the busy commercial activity: the main streets are dominated by contemporary buildings, illuminated night and day to attract the attention of visitors and buyers.

The Toy House, a recently renovated building hosting offices in Kowloon's Canton Road, features a LED installation fitted by K&C Creation in collaboration with the owner. A wall of LED lights, behind 84 square glass panels, transform its façade in a sort of luminous matrix. Each panel is rear-lit by three SGM Palco 3 White LED with 25° lens, apart from the smaller ones, in the top and bottom rows, for which 40° lenses were chosen.

Palco 3 White LED can reproduce a colour temperature that goes from 2,000°K to 6,700°K: the lights behind the translucent cladding thus play on variations of tone ranging from absolute white to amber. During th

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Ireland - Dublin-based Mikam Sound provided full sound production for the annual Live at the Marquee festival held in Cork during June and July. Mikam owner Paul Aungier deployed a compact but powerful Meyer Sound system that rose to the challenging acoustics of a huge tent with a capacity of 5,000.

In recent years, Live at the Marquee has gained a reputation for featuring high profile acts as well as an eclectic mix of music and comedy. This year, the musical bill featured Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Pink, Paul Weller, Neil Young, Dolly Parton, Jay-Z, Massive Attack and Meatloaf throughout the two-week event, along with Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan charming the audience for three sold-out nights.

"This event is a real test for any system because there are so many engineers coming through the FOH position," says Aungier. "They all have their favorite

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UK - At Aberdeen's Moorings Bar XTA processors are helping to ensure that this compact live music venue has top quality sound.

Located close to the centre of the city, the Moorings Bar has a capacity of just 200. However, its owners Craig and Laura Adams have shown commitment to providing the best sound quality for its audience.

Installed by Stonehaven-based Taylored Sound, the all-digital audio system features a Funktion One PA system (complete with delays), controlled by a pair of XTA DP448 processors, fed from a rackmount Yamaha mixing console and all controlled via a PC.

"We have used XTA for the last six years on our rental systems, including DP448s on our own Funktion One PA," says Taylored Sound's Nick Taylor. "The sound quality is always the first thing we look for, then it's build quality followed by ease of use. The XTA units tick all our boxes. We o

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UK - White Light recently brought dramatic life to the Underglobe - the basement of the Globe Theatre on London's Bankside - for a spectacular birthday party that included a concert featuring Sean Escoffery, Lemar, DJ Spoony and others. The latest LED and wireless control technology from White Light's rental stock was used to ensure that equipment could be deployed quickly, unobtrusively and to maximum effect.

The lighting designer for the event, White Light's approved venue manager Steve Richardson, was working towards a brief to crate a "classy, exciting evening which slowly revealed a bit more of itself to the guests as they moved through the various spaces of the Globe."

To achieve this, he extended the Underglobe's existing stage, then built a 7m x 6m box truss around it, with a separate box on the upstage side to allow him to work around the venue's pillars and

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Lebanon - The Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure Centre's Sky Bar, whose roof terrace is open to the stars during the hot summer nights, features a Turbosound installation.

Long-time Turbosound client Thunder Electronics specified weather-resistant TCS Compact series loudspeakers for the project. 12 TCS-121CW, 16 TCS-081CW, eight TCS-20 and eight TCS-215CW have been installed, with control by an LMS-D24 processor and sound from CD decks and DJ mixers.

"Sky Bar opens at 8pm each evening and functions as a chill-out lounge with food and background music," says Thunder Electronics' Louay Agha. "Then at midnight it fires up as a nightclub, with DJ sets and occasional live performances. So the loudspeakers need to be able to cope with a variety of different kinds of music and maintain excellent sound quality at different volume levels.

"Because of our

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UK - APR Audio reports on another successful Glastonbury Festival, supplying EV X-Line and XLC DVX systems for the third year and winning a repeat booking for 2009.

As last year, APR Audio provided sound reinforcement for the Jazz World Stage. This year's system deployed 10x X-Line Xvls and two Xvlt per side, with 10 x X-Subs per side ground-stacked on towers, and another 12x X-Subs on the floor. Front- fills were handled by 6 XLE cabinets.

All amps were P3000RLs running Iris-Net. The FOH console was a Midas XL4 with a Heritage 3000 on-stage with Helix and a Rapide for EQ. Wedges were EV XW15 with drum and side fill provision from X-Array systems.

APR's Matt Gunter was on hand as crew chief and primary system designer for a busy stage that hosted the Fun Lovin' Criminals, Eddy Grant, Buddy Guy and Estelle.

"Jazz World is generally regarded as the musicians' stage,&quo

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UK - For the third year in succession, ShowCAD Control Systems will be exhibiting with Pulsar Light of Cambridge at the PLASA show. ShowCAD will be using and demonstrating version 3.00 of its Artist show control system, which now controls 64,000+ DMX channels and implements many new features for comprehensive control of LED, intelligent and conventional lighting and supports many input/output protocols for interfacing to video servers, lasers, sound systems and a range of AV and industrial equipment.

Artist systems are principally installed in nightclubs. Examples in Las Vegas clubs alone are Jet at The Mirage, Blush at Wynns, The Bank at The Bellagio - and more. Artist is also in control at many and varied non-club sites around the world. Recent "unusual" commissions include illuminated fountain control for Waveney District Council, The Amber Fort son et lumiere shows

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Lexicon is now shipping its PCM96 professional stereo reverb/effects processor. Featuring an array of complex reverb algorithms with related delays and effects, the single rack-space PCM96 integrates seamlessly into the modern studio as a control-only DAW insert or FireWire streaming hardware plug-in, says the company.

Following in the tradition of the PCM60 and PCM70 signal processors, the PCM96 offers a comprehensive selection of Lexicon reverbs and effects, including the return of the Concert Hall reverb. Appearing for the first time are new Room and Hall algorithms, plus an assortment of new mono reverbs and effects. Selectable, reversible reflection patterns, multimode filters, and 'infinity switches' provide additional new capabilities.

With two channels XLR analogue and two channels XLR AES/EBU digital I/O, as well as MIDI, Wordclock, Ethernet and Firewire connectivity, the PC

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UK - Switzerland-based Barix will showcase its range of Audio over IP technology at PLASA 08, including a new, alternative firmware application that can be integrated into all of its hardware devices. The firmware is suitable for studio and central office applications where Barix Audio over IP hardware can be utilised as solid state players, including music on hold applications; and store and forward applications for hotels, restaurants, and retail stores. For in-store media, the Barix Audio over IP solution offers a less expensive and more flexible option than satellite solutions.

The new firmware encompasses a simple BCL programme added to Barix Exstreamer decoders and Annuncicom intercom/VoIP devices to enable a store and forward application. The store and forward application enables local playout at the destination from the Barix device, which communicates with the central s

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France - For the past 10 years, the Ile de France region has supported the Solidays music festival to raise AIDS awareness. A play on the words solidarity and holidays, Solidays is dedicated to both concepts, and its timing in the event calendar means it usually represents the kick-off for the festival season in France.

As this year was the 10th anniversary of the festival, a fifth stage was added and a vast electic selection of hip hop, rock, reggae and techno artists invited to perform. French PA company Melpomen, which has provided PA support for the last decade, was able to utilise three generations of Nexo's Geo Series line array loudspeakers in their FOH systems.

For Nexo, this festival has always been a important platform to illustrate the benefits for larger stages in utilizing FOH systems based on cardioid technology. Out of the five stages, the two larg

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Japan - Well-known for distribution of leading entertainment technology products around the world, the A.C. Lighting Group has announced its first A.C. Lighting office in Asia. The new company, A.C. Lighting Asia KK, is based in Tokyo to promote and support the innovative Chroma-Q LED range and to offer a wide range of products, synonymous with A.C. Lighting.

"We have enjoyed considerable success in Asia over recent years and feel now is the right time to commit additional resources, to offer the full "added value" service of A.C. Lighting to help build our business even further in this key region." say's director Glyn O'Donoghue.

The new company is headed by Ruilin Zhang, a well-known figure in the Japanese entertainment lighting industry. She comments: "A.C. Lighting have a reputation for excellent support and competitive pricing over a wide range of

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UK - The promise of new technologies and applications, plus a dramatically expanded educational programme, has helped drive the PLASA Show to its highest-ever pre-registration figures, with a record total of over 10,000 industry professionals already registered to attend.

With the show a year on since its redesign, the one-floor, two-hall layout has been refined and expanded to allow for new and returning exhibitors, say organisers PLASA Events Ltd.

And with new products topping the 'wish list' of the majority of visitors, there's no doubt that PLASA08 will definitely deliver, according to show director Nicola Rowland. "There's a real buzz building around the wide range of technologies and expertise on offer at the show and how these can be applied across the industry. It's a unique chance to see how projects are being delivered, how lighting, sound and AV systems are bei

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UK - dbx Professional Products - presented at PLASA 08 by Sound Technology - has introduced two new direct injection boxes into the product line. Representing a new category of product offering for dbx, the dB10 Passive Direct Box and dB12 Active Direct Box offer professional signal processing solutions. The aggressive styling of their solid, cast-metal chassis is a departure from the usual utilitarian look of most direct boxes.

The dB10 Passive Direct Box includes all the basic features you would expect from a work horse direct box, but provides additional value not found in budget direct boxes, says the company. Its three-position pad switch easily accommodates instrument, line level and speaker level signals, while further versatility is added with its selectable polarity invert and high-cut filtering functions.

The dB12 Active Direct Box includes all the features of the dB

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UK - Out Board will feature the next generation evolution of its TiMax Audio Delay Matrix, TiMax2 SoundHub at PLASA 08. In its ShowHub 'S' guise, the TiMax2 control software is configured specifically for programming and running shows and events, whilst the RoomHub 'R' version is optimised for more mainstream AV installations needing similar comprehensive audio processing resources but with less focus on real-time showcontrol or audio animation.

TiMax2 SoundHub will be joined by the PLASA debut of Out Board's latest showcontrol product, the TiMax Tracker UWB radar system which makes performers' audio image or other effects automatically follow their position onstage in 3D space.

Out Board will also be hosting the Dolby Lake processor range of loudspeaker management and EQ processor and PC Tablet software, for which the company acts as UK and Ireland distributor. Products from

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