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UK - Clockaudio has appointed distributors for Russia and South Africa.

RTA-Engineering in Russia has, since its foundation in 1998, risen to become one of the leading A/V design and installation consultancies in the country. The RTA sales network extends throughout Russia from its Moscow HQ. Specialising in the design, supply, installation and support of conferencing A/V in command and control rooms, conference centres and boardrooms, RTA is also recognised for its delivery of turnkey solutions.

In South Africa, Clockaudio has been signed up by Audiosure, the professional audio division of the First Technology Group.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Situated in London's Kingly Court (behind Carnaby Street), Michael Newton's new boutique members club Bureau features JBL Control series loudspeakers. These were specified and installed by Colin Pattenden's CP Sound, who were introduced to the project by leisure designers Satmoko Ball, with whom they also worked at another members club, Volstead.

The venue has been designed into four separate sound zones: the central dancefloor, the seated area to one side, the VIP booths and the toilets. The music is distributed using a four-channel zoner.

Four JBL Control 29s are flown over the main dancefloor area, reinforced by two floor-mounted JRX118S bass bins, in special hand-built enclosures. These were specially made by Nottingham-based joinery company, Interwood, to Satmoko Ball's design, and are clad in American Black Walnut veneer with a hardwood lipping. The speaker grille m

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USA - Crown Audio's I-Tech Series of amplifiers was selected by Audio Analysts of Colorado Springs, Colorado for Bruce Springsteen's North American tour. Crown's I-T4000 and I-T8000 amplifiers were used to power JBL VerTec VT4889 and VT4887 line array elements and JBL VT4880 arrayable subwoofers.

Springsteen's tour began in Hartford, Connecticut in February, making 29 stops throughout North America before a 12-country tour in Europe. The tour returned to Springsteen's home state of New Jersey for three performances at Giants Stadium in East Rutherfordin July. The final show will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 30.

Audio Analysts' FOH Engineer for Bruce Springsteen, John Cooper said: "When Bruce performs, he wants to ensure his fans get the best audio experience possible. We turn to Crown's I-Tech Series because we know these amps will deliver the power and pe

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World - Céline Dion is on a year-long world tour following her residency of nearly four years at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. This current Taking Chances tour began on Valentine's Day 2008 in South Africa and by the tour's completion it will have encompassed 120 shows in over 80 cities on five continents, before winding up in Florida in January 2009.

Dion and her crew have long relied on Sennheiser wireless microphones and personal monitoring systems, as well as Neumann microphones. The Taking Chances tour is no exception, with dozens of channels of Sennheiser RF equipment, courtesy of the singer's exclusive sound, video and lighting provider, Solotech, accompanying her on the global jaunt.

The Tour features a seven-piece band, three backing singers and eight dancers, and is presented in a variety of formats, including in the round, according to each venu

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UK - The newest addition to London's Heathrow Airport, Terminal Five is a massive £4.3 billion (US $8.5 billion) project as large as the city's Hyde Park, and is designed to handle 35m passengers a year. A Meyer Sound audio system features in the World Duty Free stores throughout the terminal.

Designed and installed by Bradford, UK-based Pro Audio Systems, the integrated AV system was commissioned by World Duty Free to provide a multimedia marketing and entertainment package for its seven elaborate stores, which feature cocktail bars and beauty events areas. The sound system employs four Meyer Sound UPM-1P loudspeakers, seven M1D-Sub subwoofers, and a total of 74 four-inch cube MM-4 miniature loudspeakers, many of which are custom-painted to match the décor.

Pro Audio's managing director Brian Lumb says: "Aesthetics has been a major consideration. And the bri

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France - An Allen & Heath iLive digital system was employed for the recent Festival Arte Flamenco held in Mont de Marsan, France. Celebrating its 20th year, the festival is one of the most famous of its genre, hosting the world's greatest Flamenco artists.

The main events took place at the Espace François Mitterand, which boasts a large stage for the dance displays. Bordeaux-based Sté Ateliers Lumières managed the AV requirements, selecting a Meyer line array system with an Allen & Heath iLive digital system at FOH. The iLive system, comprising an iLive-144 control surface and iDR10 stage rack loaded with 48 inputs/32 outputs, was connected to a PC equipped with an LX6464 Digigram card for multi-track live recording.

"Some of the touring sound engineers were familiar with the iLive system from previous events, but by the end of the event even the engineers

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UK - Royal Philips Electronics will present its latest innovations in entertainment lighting technology at PLASA08, being held in Earl's Court London from 7-10 September 2008.

At PLASA08, the Philips MSR Gold 1500 FastFit will be on display for the first time, designed in a fixture from Italian manufacturer SGM; the Giotto 1500 family. This new high wattage FastFit lamp concept has an arc gap of 5.5mm and an efficiency of 82 lumens per Watt (which is unparalleled within the industry for this level of lamp wattage), combined with a high colour temperature of 6000° Kelvin and an excellent CRI of 80. Furthermore, the lamp has a flexible power range, dimmable up to 800W.

Since the initial launch of the Philips FastFit system just two-and-a-half years ago, 16 manufacturers have applied the FastFit lamp concept, releasing to date a total of more than 20 fixtures across 10 lamp t

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South Africa - Johannesburg-based DWR Distribution has been appointed as the official South African distributor for UK-based specialist LED fixture manufacturer, i-Pix.

DWR's Duncan Riley says: "The i-Pix range is something totally different to anything else currently offered by LED manufacturers, and I see massive potential for it in South Africa."

Riley initially came into contact with i-Pix' via SA's leading rental and production company, Gearhouse South Africa, who invested in i-Pix Satellite fixtures shortly after they went into production in 2006. "There's a big future for digital lighting and low energy consumption sources," continued Riley " and the time is now right to offer these very robust, highly tourable products to SA's growing production and performance market. The potential is massive - from theatres to TV productions, corporate events

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USA - Dave Matthews Band (DMB) is once again touring the US. This year's tour presents a showcase of state-of-the-art lighting effects including 38 PixelPar 90s and 41 PixelLine 110s. Lighting designers Fenton Williams and Aaron Stinebrink have worked with DMB for many years, and enjoy experimenting with the latest lighting fixtures available.

Stinebrink notes: "We choose fixtures primarily for how they will incorporate into the overall design. We then consider the reliability of the fixtures - this is the one area that PixelRange has always excelled in. PixelRange are great fixtures, well put together and thought-out for touring applications."

Williams continues: "The speed of LED products that PixelRange has offered us, has allowed us to think of toning in a whole new way - and I am looking forward to the continued development of new fixtures. The main purpose

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UK - Designed by leading sports architecture firm HOK Sport, Stadium MK - home of Wimbledon football club - features a two-tier seating layout separated by a 360-degree open concourse; it also boasts UK's first Meyer Sound self-powered system installed in a stadium.

When looking for audio equipment for the venue, club director Pete Winkelman - a former record-company executive who owns the nearby Great Linford Manor Studios - sought advice from two old friends in the music industry, audio consultant Gary Garner and Metallica sound engineer "Big Mick" Hughes. Hughes admits to "not having the slightest interest" in football, but stresses that "just because you're in another world, doesn't mean you should walk away from good sound."

Through the auspices of Hughes and Garner, as well as Taylor, Mich.-based rental company and long-time Meyer Sound user

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Germany - Despite soaring temperatures, there was a massive entry for this year's Corporate Fun Run in Munich. 30,000 runners completed the five-mile course winding its way through the Bavarian capital. Fancy dress was essential and the 150-strong team from Bosch Security Systems once again proved invincible, securing first prize in the Most Original Team category.

The team from the company's production facilities in Ottobrunn, Straubing, and Nuremberg, adorned with blue wigs, Elvis sunglasses and headphones, managed through the ingenious use of themed t-shirts to reproduce the entire signal chain - from microphones, to mixers, amps and loudspeakers - covered by the Business Unit Bosch Communications Systems.

With dance steps custom-choreographed for the occasion and a converted handcart providing a lightshow, sound from Dynacord loudspeakers and refreshments, the fleet-footed

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USA - This year's presidential campaign has seen Senators Obama and McCain on the road across the US, ably assisted by audio prodycts from Shure inc.

In Ohio, Mike Volkerding of Cincinnati-based Frequency City Sound, with the help of Thunderbolt Systems helped move Senator Obama through three different campaign stops in a single day in February. With the first set for a boardroom conference at Cincinnati's Museum Center at Union Terminal, the following two landed at the Fifth Third Arena across town and the Nutter Center in Dayton.

"It was a real foot race," Volkerding says, "with only an hour between each event. That put us in a place where we had to have three different systems in place ready to go at each stop, with crews in place. The boardroom speaking engagement used Shure lavs and podium mics, while the arenas required full-blown PA rigs flown in front of

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The Q2Q Group reports that it has secured the exclusive UK distribution rights for worldwide lightweight truss manufacturer, Eurotruss. Q2Q has long been an established event management company, and after a recent takeover, has further expanded its group outlook to include sales, hires, installations and planning within its client portfolio.

Managing Director of The Q2Q Group Koen van Geene stated that he was" thrilled to be able to take on the sole UK distribution rights for such innovative and modern products".

Eurotruss is one of the leading suppliers of aluminium truss systems on the international market. It offers a wide range of aluminium truss systems Both Eurotruss and Q2Q will be present PLASA 08.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - PLASA has announces launch of the BS 8901 programme - currently the only programme of its kind in the world.

Recent months have seen a landmark development for the events industry with the arrival of BS 8901, a major new standard set to radically transform the events landscape.

Launched at the end of last year and currently going through a series of pilot trials, BS 8901 specifies the requirements for a sustainable event management system. It encompasses all events, from large-scale tours and unique events such as the 2012 Olympics, to music festivals and amateur sporting events. It will take no prisoners, applying throughout the industry supply chain to venues, organising companies and industry suppliers and contractors.

Major event clients such as the London 2012 Organising Committee and the Greater London Authority are already referring to BS 8901 in their tenders. C

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USA - JBL Professional has announced the promotion of Harman Professional veteran, Stephen Morris, to the position of executive vice president of sales, JBL Professional. Morris takes up the position having led group-wide sales and marketing for Harman Professional's cinema business and prior to that held senior sales and marketing roles at sister company, Crown Audio.John Carpanini, president, JBL Professional, says: "Stephen's background in marketing and sales will bring a fresh perspective to JBL Professional. We look forward to working with Stephen to forge stronger connections with members of the professional audio community in all of the vertical markets and geographic territories in which we operate. With his energy and experience, I have high confidence that Stephen will generate new ideas and programs to advance our group's sales performance and that he will make a s

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UK - Introduced in 2005, the Renkus-Heinz Iconyx Digitally Steerable Array Systems product line is being re-introduced in an "R" version, with purpose-designed coaxial transducers, RHAON (Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network) technology and a slimmer, lighter weight enclosure.

The company will also launch IC Live at PLASA08, a new product line that applies the company's innovative Iconyx Digitally Steerable Array technology to live event production.

"Iconyx is one of our most successful products," says Renkus-Heinz vice president of operations Rik Kirby, "we've had lots of opportunities to see how the system performs in applications from cathedrals to cruise ships, courtrooms to corporate auditoriums. As we evaluated the total Iconyx system, we identified significant improvements in many areas."

Inside every Iconyx R model are new co-axial tran

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UK - New LED, fluorescent fixtures and an upgraded moving yoke from manufacturer LDDE will be on show in the White Light Zone at PLASA 08.

Leading the new products is the SpectraLed120 Inground, an enhancement to the SpectraLed footlight fixture developed for the Oslo Opera House. The new product retains the fixture's high-powered five-coloured (RGB-amber-white) LED array and adds motorization, allowing the footlight to vanish from view when not required. When closed, the surface of the fixture can support a load exceeding one tonne.

LDDE will also introduce a new version of its SpectraConnecT5 four-colour (RGB-white) fluorescent batten at a competitive price designed to appeal to architectural projects, TV studios and rental companies.

Alongside these products, LDDE will show two variants of Apollo Design's RightArm motorised lighting yoke. The RightArm Pro is designed to i

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Australia - Barix AG reports that The PA People, a specialist contractor for sound reinforcement, AV systems and communications based in Sydney, Australia, recently used a Barix Audio over IP solution to distribute PA audio across Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. The Barix solution included an Instreamer-100 encoder and multiple Exstreamer-100 decoders to enable real-time, zoned audio streaming and playback to more than 20 PA locations around Sydney and its inner suburbs to provide crowd management in a sea of more than 400,000 attendees.

The World Youth Day 2008 event, which took place 15-20 July, is the largest youth event in the world, with the week-long series of events culminating in a Final Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The New South Wales State Government contracted The PA People to provide the World Youth Day organizers with a city-wide PA system for general anno

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France - After a two year refurbishment, the Theatre des Louvrais in the city of Pontoise, 17 miles northwest of Paris, is open for business once again. And Yamaha equipment is at the heart of its new audio system.

The theatre was badly damaged during the civil unrest which flared throughout France in the autumn of 2005. As a 'public' building it became a target for the rioters and was rammed by a car which was then set on fire, causing extensive damage.

The theatre closed immediately and had to be given a comprehensive refurbishment before it could be used for public performances again.

Overseeing the installation was Regis Lambin of Paris-based audio visual project management company IEC, working with sound design by French specialists Cinograph. They specified a Yamaha DME24N to manage the Amadeus Audio bi-amped line array system in the 500-seat auditorium, driven by four

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UK - 5 Star show is showing a wide variety of its specialist and 'standard' flight cases and products at PLASA 08 including the 'Touring' grade range.

This includes the popular Eurotrucker 3 general purpose road trunk, which will be on display complete with a striking new colour scheme.

The Eurotrucker won't be the only 5 Star case to have a new, unique or different visual appearance. Audio console manufacturer DiGiCo has worked closely with 5 Star to produce a new case for its new SD8 product .

5 Star's CNC machining facilities will once again be highlighted by a top of the range Pioneer VJ console. Pioneer is another brand with which 5 Star has collaborated very closely. The special console case will house the new Pioneer MEP7000 multi-media player, an SVM1000 Audio/Vision mixer and two DVJ1000 players.

A selection of smaller cases will also be displayed, including the n

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UK - Behringer has updated its range of Eurodesk mixers with the new SX series of recording and live sound consoles. First to arrive are the SX2442FX 24- channel and SX3242FX 32-channel mixers. The SX series is designed to meet the needs of studio and live mixing applications, with a comprehensive set of features that combine sonic excellence and a full complement of mixing and sound modification tools, says the company.

Each four-bus mixer features ultra-low noise, high-headroom XENYX microphone preamps. Mono input channels feature three-band, semi-parametric mid-range EQ with Neo-classic "British" response. Stereo input channels provide precise four-band equalisation. Each input has four aux sends; with two sends switchable between pre/post fader, for a flexible mix of monitor and effects applications.

External signal processing racks can be largely eliminated, tha

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