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UK - Trantec will showcase its extensive wireless portfolio at PLASA09. The spotlight will be on the Trantec S-D7000 professional fully digital wireless microphone system that is already in use at GMTV for their presenters and guests. Features include 24 bit audio resolution, network monitoring for over 60 channels, and users can now benefit from over 20 user channels in an 8MHz TV band.

Trantec will also be previewing its new S6 wireless system which builds on the success of the S6000 range, taking the 19", 8-way concept to a higher level. Trantec has now incorporated a comprehensive user interface on the front panel allowing the user to configure and monitor all channels, with or without an external PC. The internal circuitry of the S6 beltpack and handheld transmitter has

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USA - Apogee Electronics has announced the appointment of Jeremy Stappard to the position of director of sales worldwide. In his new position, Stappard will lead the Apogee global sales team, forecast and plan global business, contribute to marketing, tech-support and operations efforts as well as develop and maintain partner relations.

"Jeremy's experience and leadership in our industry proves him to be an exceptional addition to the Apogee team as director of sales,"" stated Betty Bennett, CEO of Apogee. With the recent announcements of GiO and ONE it's very exciting that during this time of growth we will all benefit by Jeremy's direction and experience.

Stappard is a 14-year veteran of Sony Broadcast, former president of Cal AV Trading Company and was most recently responsible for all distributed/retail product sales in selected territories for Audio Agent.<

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UK - A.C. Audio is continuing its long established success with digital mixing consoles and has recently supplied both an Allen & Heath iLive-T system and Soundcraft Si3 console to Marine Hall in Fleetwood.

Tony Mitchell, technical manager at Fleetwood Marine Hall, stated: "I have worked with A.C. for a few years now for brown box supplies to larger scale installation and fabrication work in all aspects of our entertainment technology needs, and have developed a good relationship with them. As a local authority, it is always important to remember that I'm spending council tax payers' money; when we place an order with A.C., I'm always confident that I will be getting great value for the overall service they provide."

The Marine Hall is a multipurpose venue covering everything from conferences to Rock and Roll, with both amateur and professional clients. After 10 year

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UK - Mojo Barriers UK office has reached a landmark 25,000m of stage barriers installed at events this summer. The barrier supplier has played a key part in maintaining safety over a busy summer of music since starting at the Radio 1 One Big weekend in May, through to providing all of the barriers at Sonisphere.

This new two-day rock festival for 60,000 held at Hertfordshire's Knebworth House on 1 and 2 August was promoted by Monsters of Rock founder Stuart Galbraith's new company Kilimanjaro. With four stages, headliners Metallica, Linkin Park, Avenged Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit and Nine Inch Nails topped an expansive bill of rock acts.

Mojo Barriers director Jim Gaffney worked closely with site manager Steve Hill in creating a barrier layout that was safe for the audience, artists and security teams, installing 600m of Mojo Barrier protection around all four stages

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UK - The introduction of Antari's W-Series transforms digital wireless controlling of stage effect machine navigation into a simple, natural control of the hand, says the company.

"We have been always exploring new concepts and applications for fog machines and this has become Antari's signature. After numerous of testings, we believe that W-Series will become the first choice when thinking about fog machines."

This premium-performance series is specially upgraded for professional users who require true 'Plug-In and Play' operation for stage fog machines.

There are five models in the W-Series. For Fog machines, models W-508, W-510, W-515, and W-530, ranging from 800W to 3000W. One small bubble machine, W-101, is also available. The precision lies with opto liquid sensor, where they are being installed to W-510 and model numbers above. When sensing there's insuffici

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UK - The organisers of the PLASA Show (13-16 September 2009, Earls Court, London) have announced the final shortlist of nominees for this year's prestigious Gottelier Award, which will be presented at the PLASA Show on Monday 14 September.

This will be the third Gottelier Award - named in memory of the former designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, who died in 2006. The Award (sponsored by Lighting&Sound International magazine for which Tony Gottelier was a regular contributor for many years), aims to recognise those who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the development of entertainment technology. Former winners are Tony Andrews of Funktion One (2007) and John Stadius of Soundtracs/DiGiCo (2008).

The seven nominees this year include four notable figures from the lighting world and three from pro audio. This year's nominees are, in alphabetical

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UK - This year, Alcons Audio main focus will be on the LR7 and LR7B, the latest additions to the successful L-series pro-ribbon line arrays.

The LR7 is a micro pro-ribbon line-array system, designed to be used in stacked or as a flown configuration, for both portable and permanent installations. With a width of three CD's and a height of 1.5 CD's, the LR7 is designed for A/V projects, where very compact form factor with perfect line-array throw and imaging are required.

The new LR7B is the low frequency extension of the LR7 system. Sized with a width and height of 3CD's, a single 12" in a dual-tuned, concentric bandpass configuration caters for clean low-mid and broad-band bass response from a micro-sized and weight efficient package.

As usual, Alcons will exhibit a new design study, providing a glimpse of its R+D activities by displaying assembled prototype development

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UK - Le Mark will introduce its latest product offering at the PLASA Show (13-16 September, Earls Court, London). The custom-printed roll-out vinyl stage flooring allows any design or graphic to be reproduced at Le Mark's Cambridgeshire base, the company says.

"Now you can 'walk on water', grass or rocks, play snakes and ladders or even Twister on your own custom printed roll out vinyl show floor," says Le Mark's Stuart Gibbons.

The company uses only Tuchler super compact Consor or Event vinyl dance and stage floors. The flooring comes in 2m wide sections, is fire rated to DIN 4102 class B1 and is safe to use in both interior and exterior applications.

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UK - MSP (Merseysound Productions & Staging) was announced as the winner of Grass Roots' Premier Partner award for delivering exceptional service over the past year. The Liverpool-based company has helped Grass Roots' live event production team produce events both nationally and internationally.

Nick Bender, global head of events at Grass Roots, said: "With each event we need to be able to rely on our supplier partners to help us deliver a perfect experience every time. These awards recognise that MSP consistently go the extra mile for us and demonstrate our sincere appreciation in having such trusted partners on whom we can always depend."

The MSP team were nominated for being excellent ambassadors for Grass Roots and their clients, consistently responding to tight deadlines while exceeding expectations, and donating AV equipment and staff for the charitable event <

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UK - A one-off concert was staged at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, featuring Avraham Fried, a popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community, and David Fisher, best known for his Broadway performance as Jean Valjean in the musical Les Misérables.

Jonathan (Speedy) Cole who was LD for the show, reports: "This Concert was a result of over a year of planning. The producer, Danny Kaizler from Israevents paid attention to every musical detail in the show, so I had to come up with a Lighting rig to allow a reaction of lighting to each and every musical point.

"We had rehearsals in the venue on the Friday, followed by a get in time of 05:00 on the day, having the ability to use the Vector PC, meant that I was able to programme each and every cue off site, using Wysiwyg. As we got in, whilst the crew off loaded the trucks, we ran 130m of n

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UK - When LexisNexis, a supplier in the business information market, decided to revamp the PartnerPoint meeting room at its London office, it approached Projection Advertising for inspiration and guidance. The brief was to transform a rather outdated meeting room into a leading edge media suite.

After exploring various options they were sold on the AdWindow, the projected capacitance touch screen, using Paradigm AV touch foil technology.

It was essential that the system could be used to access information in the LexisNexis annals - claimed to be the largest online archive of legal and accounting resources in the world. A Windows based platform, AdWindow integrated seamlessly into the established network - the core of the company's business - putting information at the user's fingertips.

Projection Advertising provided a turnkey solution which included fabricating custom brac

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UAE - The new Terminal 3 and Concourse 2 at Dubai International Airport were commissioned last October. Prior the grand opening Berlin-based Rahe-Kraft measured all halls for good speech intelligibility of the PA-system. One of the key tools was the portable Acoustilyzer AL1, which saved them a lot of time in their project - the STI-PA measurements could be completed faster than expected.

Rahe-Kraft was appointed to design, predict and commission the complete public address system for the new Dubai airport terminal. The system consists of approximately 4.000 ceiling loudspeakers, 600 passive arrays and about 140 active arrays. Only 18 active DSP-controlled loudspeakers service the huge baggage claim hall (235 x 220m).

The commissioning of the system was conducted by Jakob Kraft personally. Due to the large distances, wired measurements were impossible in many areas, thus a han

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UK - Pearce Hire has continued its ongoing investment in hire stock when it recently took delivery of 20 i-Pix BB4 units, complete with flightcases, along with a full range of hanging hardware and optional lenses.

Pearce Hire MD Shaun Pearce commented: "We've been waiting for the right time to make a significant investment in LED products. With the rapid development of LED fixtures over the last few years we've seen fixtures going out of fashion (and so becoming obsolete) very quickly, so we have found it more cost effective to sub-rent, enabling us to provide clients with exactly the right tool for the job.

"With the i-Pix BB4 we feel we've finally found a well designed fixture that will last. It has excellent output and a variety of lens and mounting options which mean it's adaptable to a large number of applications; as a hire company that is an essential feature

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UK - Causing the biggest stir for many years amongst audiences and industry professionals alike with the sheer scale of its design and construction is U2's current 360° Tour.

The now-famous 'Claw', designed by the combined talents of show architect Mark Fisher and long-time U2 collaborator, show designer/director, Willie Williams, forms a 28m high canopy over one of the largest stages ever toured.

Pivotal to the 'Claw' is a central spire or pylon, 50m high and loaded with 34 PRG Icon 2 'Bad Boy' moving lights and two 600mm mirror balls, which has been developed and fabricated by UK staging company, Brilliant Stages.

"Working with Jeremy Lloyd of Stufish to Mark Fisher's design, we devised a construction that would withstand the rigours of a 44-date, international tour of outdoor arenas and stadia, yet which would also be easy to erect and transport," exp

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The Netherlands - Since its inception 34 years ago, the North Sea Jazz festival has grown to be the biggest jazz festival in the world, this year featuring a relentless schedule for its technical crews, with over 1500 musicians performing in 15 different venues over three days. Fast and accurate communication between technicians was crucial, which is why rental company Ampco specified ASL Intercom systems for the 13 main stages at the event.

Taking place between 10-12 July in and around Rotterdam's Ahoy complex, the festival takes in a wide variety of jazz-related musical styles - from traditional New Orleans jazz, swing, bop and free jazz to fusion, avant-garde, blues, gospel, funk, soul, hip hop, R&B, world and Latin beats. Around 23,500 visitors each day enjoy the diverse music on offer, with the very swift turnarounds between acts meaning technical crews having to be crystal

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UK - RSS will present its suite of digital audio control products, with the M-400 48-channel V-Mixer, plus dedicated Digital Snake, in action mixing a live band. This end-to-end digital mixing solution features an eight-way matrix, global aux mutes, plus easy splits for front-of-house, monitors, broadcast and recording, delivered by REAC over CAT5 or optical cable.

Visitors can get hands-on with the RSS M-48 Live Personal Mixer, a monitoring solution for live performance and studio applications. It offers control over 40 audio sources, easily managed in 16 assignable stereo groups, with level/pan/solo/3-band EQ on each group, built-in reverb, ambient mic and I/Os for multiple headphones, wedges and powered monitors.

PLASA also sees the UK premiere for Edirol's LVS-800 8-channel video mixer, which will be shown alongside the company's full line-up of video and audio capture and

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UK - Two Soundcraft Vi6s have been specified by Academy Music Group to take care of mixing duties at the new £5m O2 Academy Birmingham, which opens on Thursday 10 September, with a sell out performance by Editors.

The Vi6s have the capacity to service FOH and monitor requirements as necessary on the 3,000-capacity main stage, 600-capacity O2 Academy 2 - and a third live room which holds 250.

Adlib Audio has been retained by AMG for this latest development, having installed multiples of Soundcraft's digital desks in AMG's most recent venues, O2 Academy Leeds and O2 Academy Sheffield.

The brace of Vi6's in Birmingham will move easily and quickly around the expansive 45,000sq ft venue, as part of the standard flight-cased touring package.

Commenting on the purchase, AMG's group technical manager, Ed Jackson says: "The new V3.0 software upgrade has taken the desk to

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UK - TOA's NX-100 Network Audio Adapter has been chosen as the hub of a new PA/VA installation at a large chemical plant in Wales. Specialist systems integration firm PAS Sound Engineering selected the NX-100 because of its ability to convert analogue audio into digital packets for transmission over an IP-based network.

Jeff Vaudrey, managing director, of PAS Sound Engineering explains the background to the project: "Our client was an international chemical manufacturer that had a 160-acre site in south Wales. For years their PA system was linked via ageing telephone cables, and we were approached to see if we could provide a solution to the unreliability and poor audio quality which plagued the existing system."

Vaudrey believed that TOA's NX-100 could form the basis of a new system comprising 16 outstations spread across the site, using the client's existing IT net

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UK - With 13,000 students from over 120 countries, the University of Aberdeen is committed to making education accessible to as many people as possible.

The University has been exclusively using Ampetronic designs and equipment for its induction loop systems for several years, with over 100 currently installed, as its AV manager David Walton explains, "In the past, we got whichever company won the tender to do an AV installation to supply and install the induction loop. But we ran into problems because people weren't as skilled as installing them as they thought and we started to have problems with spill from adjacent rooms, and so on.

Recently the university's Fraser Noble Building has undergone major refurbishment, which has included the complete overhaul of five teaching laboratories. As with all such projects at the university, the opportunity was taken to install the

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UK - PLASA09 will mark a milestone for OHM which celebrates 30 years of producing sound equipment in the UK. To honour this anniversary the company has brought back, with newly designed OHM drivers, the SS-3 Smack Stack bass bins; an iconic dance stack delivering "phenomenal bass". Coupling this to the new Ersa Major line array will produce crystal clear sounds to even larger dance club and concert audiences, says the company.

The Ersa Major comprises two10" horn loaded OHM drivers with a coaxial 2" + 1" compression driver mounted on a proprietary waveguide, the system is designed to run in a three way active mode.

The 730mm wide cabinet is undergoing testing prior to a launch at this year's PLASA but preliminary results suggest that maximum SPL's in the region of 145dB can be expected.

Also featured on OHM's stand will be the Ersa Minor compact line

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UK - Arena Television employed their new Optocore system to provide audio broadcast feeds for BBC Two and BBC Three at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The systems were purchased for Glastonbury from Optocore's UK distributor, HD Pro Audio.

To cover the event, Arena provided two OB Trucks for the Other Stage and the BBC Introducing Stage, a large VT truck for the BBC4 and Interactive and Red Button operations and two OB Trucks for BBC2 and BBC3.

The two OB Trucks for BBC2 and BBC3 were each linked via Optocore to the respective BBC2 and BBC3 backstage studios, each feed carrying presenters plus various bands' acoustic sets. A further Optocore run linked the two Scanners to provide full redundancy of the Optocore system. The Optocore systems consisted of 2x 48 in/16 out stageboxes, comprising 2x X6P-16 In, 2x X6P 8/8 and 1x DD32E with 2x DD4ME MADI Interfaces. These were then

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