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UK - Stage Electrics supplied specialist technical lighting equipment to BBC Radio 1's production of Scott Mills the Musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The production was performed over three evenings from 11-13 August at the Pleasance Theatre.

The regular Scott Mills Show is currently broadcasting live to Radio 1 listeners from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Scott Mills and his team are attempting to stage Scott Mills The Musical.

Stage Electrics is supplying a variety of equipment to the production including Martin MAC moving lights, Source Fours, Martin Mania Oil Effect Units, Teclumen Follow Spot Kits and all associated cabling, dimming and distribution units. Nic Holdridge is the lighting designer for the show.

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UK - Tascam, the professional audio products division of Teac Corporation, has established a dedicated sales and support service for the professional AV sector in the UK. The initiative is intended to promote the advantages of the professional audio company's new solidstate recorder series, which offers digital media storage, playout and network management capabilities for AV installer and integrator applications.

Tascam AV UK, headed up by sales and support manager Gary Maguire, is focussing resources on the installer and integrator sectors to promote the technological and operational advances offered by the new solidstate products in applications currently fulfilled by various disc media, cassette tape and commodity PCs. The new products offer the advantages of Compact Flash (CF) card and USB media with no moving components, file based media management, removable storage devic

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UK - Funktion One's F101 loudspeaker enclosure comprising 1 x 10" bass/mid driver and 1" high frequency device is a larger version of the successful F81. It offers clarity and imaging with a sensitivity of101dB for 1 watt at 1m which is unprecedented for this class of loudspeaker, says the company. The F101 neatly fills a niche between the F81 and the Resolution 1, being suitable for anything from a studio reference monitor to AV presentations and theatre.

The Resolution 3 is an all in one three-way enclosure comprising a special horn loaded 18" bass loudspeaker with 5" voice coil, a new Axhead loaded 10" loudspeaker for midrange and a 1" compression driver for high frequencies. It produces "exceptional SPL for its size with very convincing bass rendering additional sub bass unnecessary". The mid high section can be rotated to facilitate h

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Italy - Wireless Solution Sweden AB recently helped make a monumental concert possible in a delicate setting. Rome authorities rarely give permission for concerts to be held inside the Colosseum but made an exception for Andrea Bocelli to sing in a benefit to help victims of the 6 April Italian earthquake.

Bocelli, together with conductor Marcello Rota and the Symphonic Orchestra of Abruzzo put on a spectacular and emotional 90-minute concert, broadcast live across Europe.

The concert was produced and organised by Four One Music & Events in collaboration with Comune di Roma and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of the Capital. Bocelli sang 12 arias and Neapolitan songs to an audience of several hundred people who paid 1,000 euros ($1,400) a ticket to witness the historical event. The proceeds of the evening were given in support of Abruzzo, to help rebuild the music con

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Australia - ARX Systems has announced the appointment of Korschenbroich based IAD GmbH as its new distributor for Germany.

ARX managing director Colin Park commented: "IAD's Frank Swierzy who I've known for some time approached me and outlined IAD's plans to expand the range of professional audio manufacturers they represent and their presence in the German Professional Audio market generally.

"Frank and I quickly concluded that the ARX product range is a very complementary fit with their new direction. From an ARX perspective IAD offers us a stable distribution platform in the German market, enhanced by their extensive regional rep and dealer base.

"ARX is looking to working with Thomas Schrill, Frank Swierzy and the team at IAD to expand ARX's user base in the all important German market."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Litestructures has announced the appointment of Nippy Industries as a new hire partner. Industry rigging Guru Steven Williams, managing director of Nippy Industries has been involved in many high profile events during his 23 year span in the industry, including The Rolling Stones and Madonna tours.

Nippy Industries has chosen Litestructures to increase their staging by taking a stock of 60 LiteDeck. Williams comments: "We have chosen Litestructures staging due to its versatility and ease of installation. This is rapidly becoming an industry standard product and our association with Litestructures not only gives us flexibility of stock but also compliments our outdoor roofing structures. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with Litestructures over the coming months and years."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The recent A.C. Entertainment Technologies Video & Lighting Open Day was a great success, says the company, with a high industry turnout taking the opportunity to see the company's extensive stockholding of leading video and lighting technologies under one roof.

Specialists from A.C., as well as manufacturer representatives, were on hand to discuss how the two technologies are increasingly converging to provide innovative backdrops, set pieces and other video-based elements. The showcase included video projection and associated equipment, creative LED surfaces and LED lighting products from Christie, Chroma-Q, Element Labs, GLP, Green Hippo, GTEK, Kramer, Martin, Robe and TV One.

Lighting designer Bernie Davis commented: "I was delighted that the A.C. event was on a day I could go as I find these meetings are a good way to get a closer look at all that is new. The eq

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USA - Tomcat USA is introducing a new intelligent pre-rig truss designed to save space and ultimately money - Edge. Its 30" X 24" format optimises truck space by allowing four trusses wide and features stacking spigots. Edge saves space by providing the option of Edge rotating spigots for connection in multiple planes as well as eliminating the need for bulky corner blocks.

Damaged ladders can now be replaced as opposed to the entire section of truss with the interchangeable ladder feature. This feature also accommodates a flat pack choice for air travel. In addition, Edge comes equipped with an internal diagonal slider assembly that adjusts creating space for larger lights or extra lighting positions.

"We built Edge from the well established foundation of conventional Swing Wing, first introduced in 1999, and improved every aspect of the truss. From overall fun

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UK/Cyprus - Cooper Controls reports that the ORB lighting controller, the newest theatrical lighting console from Zero 88, controlled the opening ceremony of the eighth Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) held in Cyprus in June.

Production designer, Ben M Rogers, chose the ORB to control the opening ceremony after receiving a product demonstration at the ProLight&Sound show held earlier this year in Frankfurt. "I have used the ZerOS based consoles for many years now with the Frog 2 making regular appearances in Cyprus for large scale events," reports Rogers. "What was significant about the ORB was the re-structuring of the control surface into a more theatrical style and the numerous updates and enhancements to the already strong operating system."

These recent developments include a colour picker and a full tracking back-up solution. "The track

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics, local distributors for Electro-Voice speakers, amplifiers and processors in the United Arab Emirates, has recently supplied the ZxA5 active speakers to locally based rental firm Epic Events.

The Electro-Voice ZxA5 combines the performance of DVX and ND2 with a high-output, dual-channel, integrated amplifier. In addition to its sonic abilities, the ZxA5 retains all of the functionality of the passive Zx5 in terms of accessories, mounting options, and multi-angle monitors.

"The combination of the 20 pieces of ZxA5 active speakers and Van Damme Ambicore cable is a great addition to Epic Event's rental inventory," commented Chicco Hiranandani, business development manager. "We have heard great feedback from both musicians using the speakers as monitors and from Epic Events on the portability of the system."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The White Light Zone, a dedicated area showing the products, resources and services offered by entertainment lighting supplier White Light - and the companies whose products are distributed in the UK by White Light - returns to London's Earls Court again this September. The Zone will see the debuts of a number of new products - as well as offering visitors the chance to win a number of useful lighting-related prizes.

Product launches will encompass the full spectrum of lighting equipment: Clarity, a new modular control system with powerful support for media servers from LSC, the re-designed Horus cyclight from Robert Juliat (as well as the comprehensive new Robert Juliat product catalogue), the LedCyc9 LED cyc lighting system from LDDE, and a newly upgraded version of the popular Viper smoke machine from Look Solutions.

Two new members of the White Light family, JB Lighti

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UK - SNP Productions is a proactive dealer and specialist for Catalyst media servers, providing sales, hire, training & support in the UK and worldwide. SNP also supplies complete lighting & video control solutions for all areas of the professional entertainment industry.

At PLASA2009, SNP will be demonstrating the power and flexibility of the latest Catalyst media servers, highlighting the myriad of different possible configurations to suit all needs, along with peripheral equipment, plus SNP Productions' own Catalyst System Flight-cases.

Catalyst version 4.2 software will be of interest to all those involved in live visuals and media. New features include an increased number of layers per version - up to 32 layers and 16 mixes for the PRO version, eight layers/eight mixes for the DV versions, four layers/six mixes for Express and two layers/four mixes for Lite.

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Denmark - Aalborghallen, part of the Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre - a multi-purpose conference venue in the Northern Jutland region of Denmark - has taken delivery of a range of ETC dimming and control equipment following a refitting at the end of last year.

S°ren Jørgensen, sales director at ETC's Danish dealer Bico says: "The venue had a short time period in which to swap out its old equipment and install the new, which consisted of an Eos control desk, remote focus unit (RFU) and three racks of Sensor dimming. In all, we installed 280 ways of dimming and four gateways around the building.

"We only had six weeks from getting the request for quotation to completing the installation and training the staff. But because the venue's previous desk was an ETC Expression, which uses the same style of programming syntax, the technical staff quickly got the h

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The Great Green Debate - U2 guitarist The Edge has defended the size and cost of their current world tour. Last month, protests delayed the removal of the custom-built set from Ireland, and it also came under fire from Talking Heads singer David Byrne. The three steel structures cost between £15m and £20m each, offering a largely unobstructed view of the rock quartet. Speaking to BBC 6 Music backstage at Wembley, The Edge said, "We're spending the money on our fans, I don't think there's a better thing you could spend it on."

Despite it being the most ambitious stage set of any band's world tour, topping the likes of Madonna and The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne was not impressed. He slammed the band on his blog and said their world tour costs were "excessive", considering their stance on world hunger. He wrote: "$40 mill

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Canada - Audio-Technica reports that over 3,000 of its microphones will be used at the XXI Winter Olympic Games, coming up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in February 2010. The use of Audio-Technica microphones for the broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games marks the continuation of A-T's Olympic involvement, which has been consistent since the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996.

Olympic Broadcast Services Vancouver (OBSV) is the Host Broadcaster for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, responsible for producing and distributing audio and video coverage of the Games. To generate an international production, OBSV will deploy all cameras, develop graphics, and capture audio at each sporting venue. OBSV will transmit this international production to all radio and television Rights Holding Broadcasters, who will adapt the signal for transmission on their networks. In this way, each na

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Austria - Vienna's Großer Musikvereinssaal has developed an assortment of AKG microphones to provide unmatched sound quality. The Großer Musikvereinssaal, known to many as the Golden Hall, is home to Vienna's Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra's famed annual New Year's Day Concert. With a worldwide television audience tuning in every New Year's Day since 1959, the world-renowned architectural acoustics needed more; they needed a fully stocked sound system complete with AKG C 12 VR's, K 702's and WMS 400 wireless system.

The Golden Hall is more than just a concert venue; it also hosts numerous lectures and public readings. Because it handles so many types of public events, there is a need for a high-quality sound system that is met with four channels of the AKG WMS 400 wireless system. A mobile lectern has been equipped with a CK 33 capsule on a modified GN 50 goos

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UK - Visual Productions is launching Cuelux software lighting control on the UK market. Cuelux is a platform-independent piece of software lighting control that can run on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or Ubuntu Linux. It is a DMX512 lighting controller for intelligent lights, LED, dimmers, lasers and various other effects; the USB-to-DMX adapter cable is available from stock.

Cuelux is designed to suit the entry level market; key to this is its intuitive graphical user-interface. It is specially designed to reduce the amount of time required to learn how to operate the software. Great care has been taken to design Cuelux' 100% touch-screen compliant user-interface to reflect the functionality of the industry standard control boards. Programming the lights through Cuelux' cue-list system is identical to the industry's most sophisticated consoles, says the company.

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UK - Gloria Estefan swept into the UK in late July, headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival at Liverpool's Echo Arena. The tour, intended to be her last, has covered Latin and South America plus European festival dates, and is being supplied with a Midas XL8 Live Performance System and Klark Teknik DN9696 hard disc recorder by Clair Brothers Audio.

By the time the tour arrived in Liverpool, FOH engineer Mark Dowdle had clocked up around 50 shows on the XL8. "I was searching for something that would give me the facilities I need for a show of this size: normally more than 100 inputs," he says. "I've used some digital desks which allowed me a lot of inputs on a small surface but they didn't give me the sound I was used to getting, so I gravitated back to analogue."

As a longtime Midas user, when Dowdle heard about the XL8 he looked into spec'ing o

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UK - Leading manufacturer of transparent LED video, G-LEC continues the PLASA tradition of innovative and pioneering technology with the launch of a new, higher resolution S-drive and a new, lighter 19" rack PSU that is just half the standard height.

The manufacturer of a range of transparent LED video systems, including the Phantom frame system and Solaris, which are fully backed by the company's high standards of service and support, G-LEC supports both existing sales outlets and new customers with standard product always available from stock. The company also offers bespoke solutions, such as the media façade installed at Munich's BMW Museum.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Triple E recently refurbished the masking system for the projection screen in the theatre in London's National Gallery. Situated in the Sainsbury Wing, the 328 seat theatre plays host to a wide range of events including lunchtime talks, lectures, films and study days, as well as private events on behalf of the Gallery's corporate sponsors.

This is the first refurbishment of the multi use theatre since the Sainsbury Wing was built in 1991 and the existing track and motors were not just old, but also unreliable. With such a wide variety of events, and the fact that it's sometimes necessary to swap screen formats within the same event, Jon Sheldon, senior audio-visual technician at The National Gallery, needed a system that was flexible, quiet and accurate.

David Edelstein, managing director of Triple E, said: "We had been working on a new product, Chainbeam, which inco

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UK - GDS (Global Design Solutions) is set to showcase a number of new, innovative products including LiteWare battery wireless luminaries, a candidate for the PLASA09 Innovation Awards and MainsSystem, a 230V version of the award winning BluesSystem. Other featured products being exhibited include MotorControl a four-way, modular motor control system and CueSystem a flexible cue light system for the theatre and event industries.

GDS is a UK Manufacturer with a diverse range of technology based products. Based in Bristol with offices in the US, it has six key brands in its product portfolio specialising in lighting and control solutions.

(Jim Evans)

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