Details
UK - Marquee Installations has achieved ISO 9001:2000 accreditation. The Egham-based company provides audio, video and lighting installation services for all applications, including the hospitality, entertainment, education and public sector markets.

Mark Brown, managing director of Marquee Installations comments: "Accreditation is an important consideration for some corporate and public sector clients, but more than that it is an extension of our basic ethos of ensuring a level of service that always meets or exceeds the expectations of all of our customers."

Brown continues: "We had always focussed on measuring quality in the solution delivered to the customer, but ISO 9000 helps by introducing the quality management systems and culture throughout the organisati

Details
UK - When OC Events set out the 2008 circuit for the iShares Cup Extreme 40 Sailing Series their aim was to emulate and surpass the inaugural high-octane, competitive close-quarter racing the previous year. At the same time they wanted to provide an unforgettable VIP experience by creating a greater buzz both on and off the water for the thousands of spectators.

Orbital Sound's brief was to create a sound relay infrastructure at each location on the five-event circuit including Lugano (Switzerland), Skandia Cowes Week (UK), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and new venues in Germany (Kiel) and France (Hyères).

In addition to the commentary to shore and crew inter-comms, Orbital Sound needed to fit out the VIP tent, provide sound reinforcement for the Saturday night DJ and the prize giving on the Sunday.

Orbital Sound's director Tim Sherratt comments: "The idea is tha

Details
UK - Nemetschek North America have announced the 2009 release of their award-winning Vectorworks line of design software, including: Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Machine Design, Fundamentals, and Renderworks.

The Vectorworks 2009 product line features a robust new engine that gives users "superior 2D and 3D capabilities", at speeds that are up to 4-5 times faster for modelling operations. In addition, new features and enhancements were developed with direct input from Vectorworks users, resulting in a new version with enhanced usability, improved 3D modelling, and optimised workflows that will turbo-boost productivity and facilitate collaboration, say the company.

The Vectorworks 2009 product line is powered by Parasolid, the industry-leading CAD/CAM/CAE modelling kernel from Siemens PLM Software. Given the large-scale modelling requirements of the A/E/C

featured content

Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

Details
India - Over 3,000 professionals from the sound, light, music, audio visual and systems integration industries visited the recent PALME India trade show in Mumbai.

By the end of this successful show, it became clear to trade fair organisers, IIR Exhibitions, that the expo may be ready to evolve into its next phase.

After mounting a successful launch campaign in India's Bollywood capital there is now a groundswell of exhibitors asking IIR to repeat the formula in a different location in 2009.

The 2009 edition of PALME India is also likely to occupy a different date in the calendar - away from the Festival season.

Exhibition organiser James Raffoul, said: "We can look forward to the future as PALME India has become a permanent fixture in the Indian industry calendar."

(Jim Evans)

Details
Japan - The night of 23-24 August was a long one in Izu City, Japan, marking the occasion of Metamorphose, the country's biggest all-night music festival. More than 30 acts - mostly electronica - performed on three main stages and several smaller stages. Headliners were The Flaming Lips, Tortoise, and DJ Krush.

Ortofon reimforced the event with systems from Dynacord, including a Cobra line-array set-up.

Mayuri Akama, founder and promoter of Metamorphose commented: "We get more global feedback every year, and that's why we put a more global emphasis on the line-up for 2008. It's not just electronica anymore; we also have jazz, world music, and rock acts performing. No matter where you were or who was on stage, the sound was excellent all the time."

(Jim Evans)

Details
UK - Less than a month after its launch at PLASA 08, DiGiCo's new SD8 console is already out on the road. An SD8 is being used to mix monitors for Art Garfunkel and his band, currently in the midst of a 12-date European trek. Playing to venues of around 2,000 capacity, it's a one truck tour so audio rental company AudioLease needed a monitor desk that was compact, but delivers quality sound.

"Being a one truck tour, space is at a premium," says AudioLease's Steve Sunderland. "With the SD8 we don't need to carry big racks of outboard gear, it's very compact and yet it still sounds awesome.

"I was amazed that there is now a DiGiCo console at a price that means we can use such a technically advanced desk in these kind of venues. It's very difficult to justify £50,000 to £100,000 worth of console for tours like this so, with the SD8, DiGiCo has fill

Details
UK - Allen & Heath, has appointed two new distributors to manage sales, distribution and service of its portfolio in Scandinavia.

Benum Nordic AS has assumed the role of exclusive distributor for the Allen & Heath brand in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Based in Copenhagen with an office in Stockholm, Benum Nordic is spearheaded by Jens Brochner Jensen and Flemming Sorensen. Benum is the largest pan-Scandinavian agency for system integration and equipment supply.

Noretron Audio will manage sales for Allen & Heath in Finland. Based on the outskirts of Helsinki, Noretron Audio is part of the Noretron Group of companies specialising in the distribution of audio, communication, AV, and component and measuring equipment.

"Noretron and Benum were selected because Allen & Heath fits well into the mix of brands they represent and both companies have dedicated and experienced sales

Details
The Netherlands - Alcons Audio's LR7 micro line-array is a passive two-way line-source loudspeaker system. It is a true line-array system, to be used as vertical array, either in stacked or flown configuration, for both portable and permanent installations.

The frequency response of 74Hz (-3dB) to beyond 20kHz enables a full-range deployment without the immediate necessity of additional bass systems. In applications where extended bass response is required, the LR7 can be combined with a pressure-bass or deep-sub system.

Loaded with the RBN401 pro-ribbon driver on a 'Morpher' lens, the system features a 90° or 120° dispersion of choice with seamless coverage, due to the ribbon's all-natural cylindrical (Isophasic) wavefront.

The micro-compact size, combined with the weight-saving all Neodymium drivers, makes the system very easy to handle.

(Jim Evans)

Details
USA - Audio-Technica reports that its SpectraPulse technology was used at the third presidential debate, held 15 October at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.

The Audio-Technica SpectraPulse mtu201 Wireless XLR Desk Stand Transmitter was used with A-T's ES935ML Engineered Sound gooseneck microphone mounted within the conversation table in front of each candidate to pick up the audio from Senators McCain and Obama and transmit it securely, via patented ultra wideband (UWB) technology, with no interference.

A SpectraPulse Digital Receiver Module (drm141) was mounted directly above the conversation table in the lighting truss and connected to the equipment rack via a standard shielded Cat 5 cable.

Larry Estrin, of Studio City, CA-based Best Audio, serves as audio and production communications director for the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). He stated: "The Spec

Details
Canada - CAST Software will give LDI visitors a sneak preview of its newest version of wysiwyg - Release 23. CAST will begin beta testing R23 later this month and targets its general distribution by year end.

The notable advancements on R23 include: new visualization features that deliver the real quality of light - in realtime; variable focus which allows users to focus beams, gobos, video, etc., at any distance; beams moving across objects will produce realtime shadows; hot spots will display a truer representation of the light; and to keep pace with the exploding trend in digital lighting, video content is displayed in beams, enabling users to model digital media fixtures and see the output in realtime.

(Jim Evans)

Details
UK - Lighthouse Technologies, launched its new B10 LED panel at Leaders in Football, held at Chelsea FC, London on 7 and 8 October.

B10 has been specifically developed for the sports market to address the ever-increasing demand for pitch side, or perimeter, advertising screens, which provide important additional revenue for clubs and venues.

Each B10 panel measures 1280mm (w) x 960mm (h) and uses Lighthouse's Enhanced Resolution (ER) technology to give an effective 10mm pixel pitch. 5,000 nits of brightness enables B10 to cope with any level of ambient light, even direct sunlight, and accurate colour reproduction means that advertisers logos can be perfectly replicated, says the company.

An important design modification of the B10 is its rubber louvres, incorporated to protect players on the field should they accidentally run into it during the course of play. Additio

Details
Latvia - Held once every five years, the Latvian Song and Dance Festival transformed Riga for one week this summer. Local audio company KM Sound provided a large complement of self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers for sound reinforcement for the event, successfully meeting the complex sound design challenges along the way.

These challenges were not limited to the sheer size of the festival. "It was very difficult to provide coverage to the auditorium area," notes sound engineer and FOH mixer Andris Uze. "We had no rigging points available, no cranes allowed, plus no place to put a centre cluster, which necessitated many small delay and fill boxes."

Meyer Sound's MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction programme proved to be a great partner for Uze, and helped to create a design of left and right towers of 12 Milo line array loudspeakers per side, with

Details
UK / Czech Republic - Milos has launched a new brochure illustrating its numerous trussing products. Entitled Simple Solutions For Everyday Tasks, the contemporarily designed 14 page book contains a general snapshot and overview of the many potential uses for Milos products worldwide.

The release of the new brochure is linked to the new re-designed Milos website at www.milosgroup.com going live.

(Jim Evans)

Details
Germany - The Halle Münsterland is the largest events centre in the region of Westphalia. 80 years after the first events were staged there, the Congress Hall has made a significant investment in a new sound reinforcement system for its main auditorium, a cutting-edge design driven by an EtherSound audio network via a digital matrix, allowing the settings of different sound reinforcement situations to be retrieved at the push of a button.

Jens Schmidt from installation specialists Trendco and Norbert Sangermann, the acoustics expert from CAMCO responsible for fixed installations, joined forces to design a system tailored precisely to the Congress hall.

For Schmidt and Sangermann, the concept design had to accommodate possible future requirements while offering the clearest possible signal transmission. Decision-makers at the Halle Münsterland focussed strongly on the reliabi

Details
Greece - DiGiCo has moved its Greek distribution channel to newly established company DN'A Systems, which is set to focus its attention heavily on the digital sector of the Greek pro audio market.

"DiGiCo is the top digital console, so this appointment is very important for us," says DN'A's general manager Takis Tsonopoulos. "We want to steer the Greek pro audio community more towards the digital world and teach traditional analogue users, who are nervous about using digital products, that DiGiCo is a very friendly console and will make their everyday life easier and more productive."

Although DN'A Systems is a relatively new enterprise, its founders - Tsonopoulos, sales director Yannis Tatsis, digital and concert sound technician Aris Koyntouris and installation technician Alexios Gkanas - are familiar figures with much industry experience.

"The ski

Details
UK - DMi D&M Installation has introduced a new entry level DVD player from Denon Professional. The Denon DN-V110 replaces the DN-V100 and integrates a raft of features derived from Denon's hi-fi press award winning DVD-1740 consumer player within a professional rackmount model; all designed to provide rich, cinema like replay on today's large scale high definition flat screen displays, says the company.

New to the DN-V110 is the 108MHz/12-bit video DAC with full 1080p video upscaling, providing for full HD specification output of standard definition DVD signals, with a resultant significant increase in picture quality when connected to HD Ready and Full HD displays. Upscaling is performed to 1080p, 1080i or 720p, as determined by the specification of the connected display.

To match the picture quality, a 192kHz/24-bit Burr Brown audio DAC provides high resolution audio decodin

Details
USA - Continental Air Show Productions (CASP) travels the country with a powerful sound system that breathes life into some of the most spectacular air shows around. The main rig comprises two Community RSH462 loudspeakers and 24 more R.25 loudspeakers, along with six R.5 subwoofers. "We mount the RSH462s on man-lifts, on all-terrain forklifts, and even on scaffolding, depending on what's available," says CASP's Dave Olmstead. "We mount the R.25s on tripods about seven feet up, to cover the areas where VIP and sponsors are hosted."

Aside from the near deafening ambient noise, the other challenge is the sheer size of the areas needing coverage. The purpose-built distributed system can cover nearly a full mile of show line. Using a pair of 5.8GHz wireless remote systems, the loudspeakers can be placed anywhere along the ramp where extra coverage is needed. &quo

Details
UK - Absolute Lighting and Events has recently created the look of Liverpool's newest statement club, Cube, using LED lighting effects from Tryka and club lighting from Martin Professional.

Built across four glass-fronted floors, Cube provides a juxtaposition to the raft of small bars in the centre of Liverpool. The lighting design, by Neil Riley, director of Absolute, has worked this position as far as possible. By colour-washing each floor-to-ceiling window as a separate zone using the Tryka K2 LED RGB Strip Module, the message stands tall and is immediate: Cube is far from square.

The club area starts on the first floor, above the ground floor restaurant and pre-bar area lit with original lighting fixtures sourced from Italy and Spain. The first floor seating areas are illuminated using Tryka RGB Module 3 lighting units - in total 250 were used across the first and second f

Details
USA - Crown Audio has appointed Matt Bush to the position of vice president of sales starting in November. Bush joins Crown Audio from sister company, Harman Music Group, where he was vice-president of operations and takes the position previously held by Scott Robbins who was promoted to VP of sales for Harman Professional last month. In his new role, Bush will direct worldwide sales operations from Crown Audio's Elkhart, Indiana headquarters and he will report directly to Mark Graham, president, Crown Audio.

"Matt Bush is a strong business leader, an excellent organiser and an experienced pro audio veteran," Graham said. "We are very pleased to welcome Matt to our team and I am confident that he will grow our sales and strengthen our partnerships with reps, dealers and distributors across the globe."

(Jim Evans)

Details
UK - The Brighton Centre conference venue, has revitalised its long-serving Electro-Voice PA system with the replacement of all the existing amplifiers with EV's latest DSP-controlled P1200 RL Precision Series amplifiers, running IRIS-Net remote control and system supervision software.

Known to many in the UK as the venue for high-profile conferencing, as used by the Conservative Party and the Trades Union Congress, the Main Hall of the Brighton Centre routinely accommodates prestige exhibitions, banquets and leisure events. With its flexible seating, it can accommodate 4,500 seated delegates.

The Main Hall's house PA was installed in the 1980s, a centrally-flown cluster of Electro-Voice loudspeakers which has worked for over 20 years. Brighton-based specialists MBI Sound & Light has maintained the Centre's facilities since that time. "With the important TUC conference lo

Details
UK - Dave Parry of Most Technical specified three Avolites consoles for control and Robe moving lights throughout for his innovative visual and sonic concept at the new 2500 capacity London club, Matter.

Parry was asked onboard by Matter owners and underground music gurus Keith Reilly and Cameron Leslie with whom he's worked on several previous projects. He collaborated closely with architects and interior designers William Russell and Sarah Adams of Pentagram who created an edgy neo industrial aesthetic for the venue which is inside the O2 in Greenwich.

Literally thousands of LED lightsources - primarily from the Philips SSL range including several kilometres of iColor Flex product - are embedded in various architectural features around the venue like walls, pillars and balconies, plus corridors, stairwells, toilets and other public spaces and circulation areas.

All these a

Page 2257 of 3465

Latest Issue. . .