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Austria - AKG has announced the release of the redesigned C 3000 condenser microphone, suitable for recording or live applications. The C 3000 has been proven as a trusty and reliable workhorse for more than 15 years, says the company. The new C 3000 maintains the popular characteristics of the C 3000, however a new sleek and classy finish showcases AKG's new corporate design.

Commenting on the redesigned C 3000 product marketing manager for recording and broadcast at AKG, Thomas Stubics, says: "Since 1993, the C 3000 has become a standard for a wide range of applications. The only thing our customer wanted us to change was the appearance, so we included AKG's new Corporate Design, which has also been included on recently launched products like the proven D 5 hand-held vocal

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UK - Swansea's National Waterfront Museum has invested in a rolling programme to replace its current projector system with new Panasonic Projectors, used for the public display areas throughout the Museum.

The contemporary and stylish development built on Swansea's Waterfront attracts visitors from across the country to learn more about Wales' story of industry and innovation via interactive AV systems and digital displays.

The Museum is housed in an original and listed waterfront warehouse linked to a new, ultra-modern slate and glass building. The Museum uses cutting edge AV equipment to create interesting and engaging ways of displaying information and March marked the start of upgrading and replacing the current system.

Several Panasonic PT-D5700s have been purchased and installed by the Museum's technicians, with a total of 31 projectors to complete the update of the cu

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UK - MilTec (UK) Ltd will be exhibiting a wide range of LED products at the PLASA Focus exhibition in Leeds.

Featured on the stand will be the StageWash range of LED pars. With a massive 108 Watts of LED power in a compact housing, these units give unmatched light output in their price range, says the company. The StageWash 108 has 36x 3W LEDs with a 25 degree beam and the 108T tricolour unit gives a beam angle of 38 degrees. Both units are suitable for professional and school stage applications.

Also on display will be the PixStrip LED screen and PixFloor video dance floor. These units are designed for club installations and corporate rental work, being easy to install and strike after a show. The PixStrip screen uses ultra-bright 3mm LEDs, ideal for use in bright foyer and atrium situations.

MilTec will also be showing from the ranges of followspots and high-load wind-up t

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UK - Baldwin Boxall has announced a charity happy hour to be held every day on its stand at Firex between 2:00-3:00 pm. The stand has been designed as an old English Public House, with Baldwin Boxall staff handing visitors a glass of Harvey's Real Ale. During the Charity Happy Hour, visitors will be asked to make a donation in exchange for a drink.

The charity chosen is RAFT (Restoration of Appearance & Function Trust). RAFT is an independent charity working to prevent and improve the treatment of major traumas such as burns, wounds and cancers of the skin. This is achieved through medical advances in medical research and reconstructive plastic surgery.

Baldwin Boxall has supported the charity in previous years, holding golf days and the like. This is the first time the company has used the exhibition stand to raise money. Staff are optimistic that visitors will agree that the

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UK - The National Theatre's award-winning, puppet-led production, War Horse, has transferred from the National's Olivier Theatre to the New London Theatre in the West End.

Adapted from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is set at the outbreak of World War One and tells the story of Joey, the beloved horse of young Albert, who is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. But Albert cannot forget his horse, and embarks on a treacherous mission to the trenches to find him and bring him home.

The story is told by actors working with spectacular life-size puppets created by the Handspring Puppet Company who, along with designer Rae Smith, won an Olivier Award for the show last year; the design is completed by an Olivier-award nominated lighting design by Paule Constable.

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Spain - Yamaha has appointed Manuel Rivera to the position of commercial audio manager at its Iberia office, based in Madrid.

After a long career as an engineer in the Spanish professional audio industry, Rivera joined Yamaha in 2003 as head of the service department in Madrid. There he was tasked with carrying out a major restructuring, making significant improvements to customer service levels.

"This is a time when the new, closer Europe requires new and innovative approaches to business," says Rivera. "In my new role I am determined that we will work hard as a team to enhance Yamaha's industry leadership in the Spanish and Portuguese professional audio markets."

"Manuel brings a fresh and dynamic leadership to our operations in Iberia," adds Nick Cook, European marketing director for Yamaha Commercial Audio. "His product skills have ben

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UK / USA - With just days to go to Light Relief and Behind the Scenes By Design Day on 24 April, it's not too late to join the host of international designers who have come together to raise money for these two industry charities. This year, for the first time, Light Relief is joined by the US and Canadian charity, Behind the Scenes, resulting in a record number of designers donating their day's royalties, plus many leading lighting designers and others in the industry are giving individual donations.

Already pledging to donate their royalties for 24 April are the lighting designers of some 40 international shows, many of them - like Howard Harrison's Mamma Mia! and Mary Poppins - in several different productions. Joining Rick Fisher, Ken Billington and Ken Posner, the day's co-sponsors, are Neil Austin, donating his royalties from the Frost/Nixon US tour; M

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Germany - Sennheiser and Klein+Hummel introduce a jointly developed new solution for wireless sound reinforcement in the classroom. The K+H CAS100 is a self contained, fully integrated unit with two universal option slots compatible with Sennheiser Evolution wireless microphone receivers and the K+H CD player.

With a wide range of frequencies available, Evolution wireless is able to support numerous adjacent classrooms without interference between systems. The CAS100 also offers connections for a wired microphone or any other external music or playback source. It may be initially installed to support media playback and later upgraded with wireless microphones when needed. A protective rear cover guards against curious hands while the front panel controls are streamlined and simple to operate.

K+ H is part of the Sennheiser group, located in Wedemark, Germany.

(Claire Beeson)

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Italy - Located on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, the town of Arzachena is a regional administrative centre located near Costa Smeralda, the venue for the upcoming G8 summit being held between 8-10 July. One of the facilities for media briefings that the globally powerful politicians may use is the just-completed Arzachena Auditorium Comunale, which features a state of the art Yamaha audio system.

With the respective heads of state/government of the USA, Russia, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Canada attending, the G8 Summit will see the attention of the entire world focused on Sardinia. With this in mind reliability, audio quality and unsurpassed post-sales support are all key requirements of any facilities which may be used in connection with the summit. At the Arzachena Auditorium Comunale audio system, installation company Italtecnica Snc - Rubano (PD) chose Yam

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USA - Seminal rock band Fleetwood Mac is touring North America with high flying Martin Professional LC Series LED panels incorporated as dynamically dominate set pieces.

Production designer is Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc. of Minneapolis who handled lighting, set, video and content for the tour. "I decided early on that I wanted a clean, simple look that complemented the band," he says, "and I wanted to use technology in a way that enabled us to create modern versions of retro themes. We wound up using a lot of high tech equipment to try and make it look low tech."

He commented on the decision to use the Martin LC panels in the design, "I spoke very early on to Brad Haynes at Martin US about incorporating EvenLED (LED panels) into six large scale curved light boxes that are the centerpiece to the design but ran into some logistical obstacles

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USA - Colorado funk band Funkiphino has developed a new working paradigm centred around Aviom's Pro64 and Pro16 system capabilities and intuitive interface.

"We're a 13-piece funk band and our sheer size limits the places we can play," says keyboardist/manager Chris Fischer. "Our relationship with Aviom equipment turned into an evolution in our working model, replacing first our outdated, feedback-ridden floor monitoring system and, in its final form, actually changing our front-of-house mix system. I think that is quite remarkable for a monitoring/communication system."

The beginning of this evolution involved using Aviom's Pro16 Personal Mixers to upgrade the monitoring system. According to Fischer, "We were playing in venue after venue where the engineers were simply in over their heads. We had enough instances where we had horrible, nightmare monit

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Czech Republic - Barack Obama's only public speech on his first visit to Europe as US President took place in the historic and beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic. He addressed a crowd of 30,000 in Hradcanske Square, framed by the dramatic backdrop of Prague's medieval castle which dominates the city. Czech full service production company, Rental Pro, was awarded the tender to supply all of the audio, staging and screen equipment for the event, which included two Innovason Sy48 digital mixing consoles running a Nexo GEO loudspeaker system, all over an EtherSound network.

Tomas Ourednicek from Music Data (Innovason's exclusive distributor in the Czech Republic) was responsible for designing the successful system configuration. "The White House team made it very clear to us that failure of any kind - even the slightest hiccup - was not an option," recal

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The Netherlands - The Department of Pediatric Oncology at Amsterdam's Emma Children's Hospital, which is attached to the University of Amsterdam's Academic Medical Centre, boasts an unusual facility: a TV studio in the basement from which programmes are produced by and for children suffering from cancer.

Equipment from RTS, including a digital Cronus DSP intercom matrix and two keypanels (KP12 and KP32), ensures smooth production. The modular structure, easy handling and numerous DSP-controlled functions offered by RTS systems contribute significantly to the quality of the programs produced by Emma TV.

RTS supports the project by providing Emma Children's Hospital with equipment for the studio as well as its know-how virtually free of charge.

(Jim Evans)

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Israel - Compulite has announced that Creative Stage Lighting is now the North American distributor of its products which include the Vector series of lighting consoles (which are available to Creative Stage Lighting's Dealer Network immediately).

"The Creative Stage Lighting approach taking on new products, along with its strong dealer network has made CSL a natural choice for Compulite. We are delighted to establish together a significant presence for our products in the market," said Compulite CEO Yehuda Shukrun.

"This relationship with Compulite is very exciting and rounds out Creative's portfolio of the high quality products we distribute." said CSL president George B. Studnicky III.

Creative Stage Lighting recently announced its hiring of Michael Nevitt as product manager. Nevitt's responsibilities at CSL include supporting Compulite products sold i

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UK - CIE-Group, one of the UK's leading providers of commercial audio equipment to the professional installation market, have announced the launch of the brand new 'LB-5A' Digital Audio Store, as part of their newly designed and relaunched 'Clever Little Box' range.

This new incarnation of the best-selling Clever Little Box unit incorporates the latest MP3 technology to store and replay recorded voice messages, music and tones as part of a full PA system in security/safety, retail, museum/leisure and advertising applications, say CIE.

Audio files are stored in MPEG format on an internal USB memory stick with an 8-hour capacity, allowing content to be easily changed or replaced using standard Windows/Mac file management software.

Configured into three Groups of five Messages, five Chimes and five Tones (reconfigurable to individual requirements), the 15 channels can be indivi

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USA - When Tampa's Journey Christian Church made the decision to invest in a new facility, it chose Guitar Centre Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Centre that focuses on the needs of professional users, as its partner to provide a wide range of A/V products, support and consultation. As part of Journey's new facility, GC Pro collaborated with the church's leaders in choosing and supervising the installation of systems that covered all aspects of A/V technology.

Audio systems include a JBL Vertec VRX flown line array PA system including subs, a large complement of both wired and wireless microphones from Shure and Sennheiser and acoustical control elements from Primacoustic, which were integrated with sanctuary design elements to produce both beautiful and practical solutions to deal with the complex acoustic nature of the space.

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UK - The 12 100m steel masts of London's O2 Dome can be seen from far and wide. Jutting from the venue's iconic 365m wide roof, the masts have been set aglow in colour changing light from Martin Professional Exterior 1200 Wash luminaires.

O2 owners, AEG Europe, sought a new lighting scheme for the successfully revived multi-purpose venue. After an original lighting proposal proved cost prohibitive, Philips Lighting was contacted and their creative director Rowena Preiss tasked with creating a new solution based around the latest technology and energy savings.

Animation and colour wash schemes across the roof were subsequently proposed but the vastness of the structure made those solutions impractical. "We decided to concentrate the colour inside the masts which are fundamental to the design of the Dome," Preiss says. Although the original intent of the owners was to

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The Netherlands - Rotterdam's centuries of history as a major international port make it a fascinating place to visit, and nowhere sums up the city's appeal better than the Rotterdam Port Experience, a new visitor attraction that opened its doors late 2008.

Located on the waterfront under Rotterdam's spectacular Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam Port Experience (RPEX for short) uses various projectiondesign 1080p HD projectors in four areas: the entrance lobby, elevator and two cinemas to wow tourists, local schoolchildren, retired former port workers and business people alike with a series of multimedia displays designed to showcase the city's unique history, diversity and range of trading activities.

Rob Haarlem, managing director of DEP B.V., was hired to turn the RPEX team's creative ideas into technical solutions, and was ultimately responsible for the multimedia infrastructure o

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UK - The A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. stand (S-D2) at the PLASA Focus show in Leeds will feature new innovations from leading brands including Chroma-Q & GLP and product highlights from the ranges exclusively distributed by the company in the UK.

The A.C. Lighting division will be displaying a selection of products from the Chroma-Q LED range. Following the success of the Chroma-Q Color Block LED fixture with rental companies and end users alike, the manufacturer has combined the product's core elements of modularity and versatility with new single colour RGBA optics, 530 lumens output (almost double the original model) and theatrical grade dimming to create the exceptional feature set of the Color Block 2 fixture.

Other Chroma-Q LED products featured include the Color Punch fixture for a 'punchy' light output from an extremely compact unit. In addition, the stand feat

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UK - Purple Audio has been selected to provide sound to both stages at the new Indie Guitar festival for 2009. The festival located in Ascott Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire will feature some great artists including Starsailor, British Sea Power, Holloways and many more including a headline act yet to be announced.

Davies Roberts (managing director, Purple Audio) told L&SI: "I am extremely pleased that this new festival chose the high quality audio route instead of using the cheapest. This shows that they have the right attitude towards making their festival a success long term."Purple Audio will be supplying a Funktion-One Resolution 5 system to the main stage along with a Funktion-One Resolution 4 system to the second stage. The new Funktion-One RM18 stage wedges will feature as monitoring for the festival, along with Midas and Audient analogue sound desks.

(Lee Baldoc

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New Zealand - System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian recently took the stage with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra (APO) to reinterpret his first solo album, Elect the Dea, a pairing that presented the arrangements quite differently from those heard on the record.

"My belief is that music is a universal medium," Tankian said not long ago, perhaps offering at least a glimmer of insight into his performance with the APO. "It's a wave. It's an energy. And, it's a way for us to communicate. I think music comes from the universe, and it's not something that songwriters create. At best, we're skilled presenters."

Performing live, Tankian has chosen Shure wireless products for everything from his guitar and vocals to in-ear personal monitors.

"I like to move around a lot onstage, so being wireless is extremely important," he explains. "I

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