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USA - Thern Stage Equipment has announced the availability of its next-generation Clew Winch line sets. These improved line sets boast new features designed for superior performance and security, says the company.

These completely engineered systems eliminate the potential hazards inherent in systems using components from various suppliers that may not be designed to work together. In addition, standard clew winches now include dual compartment, grooved drums to accommodate redundant haul lines for enhanced security and load control. Winches also include a positive load holding brake and a lock-out function to provide secondary security by locking the drum to the frame when the load is stationary.

The new 2500 pound Clew Winch series, incorporates an improved gearbox design, to

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South Africa - Rosco has supplied 90 linear metres of its black/white Dance Floor and a number of dance mats to Johannesburg's newly opened The Dance Space as part of a sponsorship deal with South Africa's The Dance Forum.

The Dance Forum has been a major force in South African contemporary dance for the past 21 years, facilitating major projects such as the 12-day FNB Dance Umbrella Festival, a dance platform for young artists entitled New Dance and a Young Choreographers Residency Programme.

In wide ranging future plans, The Dance Forum intends to develop a series of workshops, debates, collaborations, master classes and residency programmes for professional practitioners as well as encourage collaborations between dance organisations and choreographers across Africa and the rest of the world.

Yet throughout its existence there has never been one singl

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UK - Edirol is updating the R-09HR field recorder with free v2.0 software to include many features requested by their user base.

The new v2.0 software makes the unit an even more rounded and complete recording package, and includes some great additions for journalists, musicians, songwriters, hobbyist recorders, says the company.

The first big new feature is on-board wave editing. This means that an external computer is no longer needed to edit R-09HR recordings as both Divide and Combine features are included. This adds a level of 'in-the-box' flexibility that will benefit all sorts of users who will now be able to create professional edits on location - wherever they are.

A new chromatic-tuner has also been added with two display modes. This is designed for the many musicians who use the R-09HR to record live performances. Now they can tune up with the R-09HR before they p

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Australia - Audinate has announced that its Dante networking solution, the Dante-MY16-AUD card, has won the 2009 EDN Innovation Award in Australia for Best Application of Field Programmable Logic. The Dante-MY16-AUD card is the latest in the series of advanced implementations of patent pending Dante networking solutions.

The Dante-MY16-AUD card uses a single field programmable logic device to offer a full implementation of Dante. The Dante-MY16-AUD is compatible with MY16 slots on all Yamaha mixing consoles, power amplifiers, and DSPs. The card, developed by Audinate, is available worldwide from Yamaha and its distributors.

"We are honoured to be recognised for innovation by EDN. We specifically chose the Xilinx FPGA implementation because it also gave us flexibility in the future to upgrade and enhance our Dante networking solution," said Chris Ware, VP of Engineeri

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UK - Harman International has announced the successful completion of an advanced networked audio system at Turf Moor, the stadium of English Premiership football club, Burnley FC. The club management engaged acoustic consultants, AMS Acoustics and integrators ETA Sound to design and install a fully integrated PA/VA compliant public address system that would put Turf Moor system in the same league as Europe's leading stadium systems.

The resulting system, designed and controlled using Harman HiQnet System Architect features components from Harman Professional brands including JBL, Crown and BSS Audio.

AMS Acoustics had already implemented an earlier first phase upgrade last season to bring three stands into VA compliance. During the course of this exercise the capture of a full range of measurements was required and the resultant data, after analysis, was used as the cornerston

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USA - Over the course of seven decades, the Sturgis motorcycle rally has grown from a small regional affair in 1938, into an all-out biker extravaganza.

The first Sturgis motorcycle rally in 1938 was a relatively tame affair, and remained so until well into the late 1960s, when films like Easy Rider and Hunter S. Thompson's book Hell's Angels fuelled the rise of the outlaw biker mystique. Since then, the festival has taken on a life of its own, and for a few weeks out of the year this pastoral community of 6,000 in South Dakota's Black Hills becomes the Harley Davidson capital of the world, with attendance estimates of upwards of 700,000 (slightly more than the population of the entire state).

On tap, for the musical portion of the festivities this year, were Aerosmith, George Thorogood, Toby Keith, Billy Squier, Lita Ford, Tesla, Hinder, Saving Abel, Buckcherry,

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Germany - This summer, Berlin's State Opera (Staatsoper unter den Linden) presented the third Opera For All event (Oper für alle) to more than 50,000 spectators who filled the city's historic Bebelplatz. A Meyer Sound system featuring the Milo line array loudspeaker and the UPQ-1P loudspeaker provided sound reinforcement for the public simulcast of Richard Wagner's landmark opera Tristan and Isolde, followed by an open-air concert of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and Romeo and Juliet Overture on the next day, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the State Opera's general music director.

The free-of-charge classical music event was supported by Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and was attended by German President Horst Köhler, who said, "Opera For All opens up opera to wide parts of the society. Opera must not only be high culture for the wel

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USA - Tomcat USA has confirmed the return of its Hoist & Truss Workshop for the 2009 LDInstitute. Space is still available for the workshop that will take place on 18 &19 November 2009 in conjunction with the LDI Show in Orlando, Florida.

During the course of the ETCP recognised workshop, participants will receive training from industry experts. Day one consists of a full day of motor instruction taught by Herb Hart of Columbus McKinnon. During this, participants will disassemble and reassemble a one ton CM Lodestar and receive instruction on troubleshooting and maintenance.

Day two includes a half-day course on truss design, use and theory taught by Will Todd, product support manager for Tomcat USA plus a half-day course on fall protection led by Bill Sapsis, president and founder of Sapsis Rigging.

This is the first time Sapsis has taught a session in conjunction with the

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UK - HSL supplied all lighting for the Stereophonics homecoming show at Cardiff Castle, Wales, last weekend - including eight of the new Robe Robin 300E Beam moving lights, which made their UK show debut, specified by LD Tim Routledge.

The gig celebrated the band's forthcoming album Keep Calm & Carry On, and Routledge was asked to light this and a warm-up gig at the Electric Ballroom in London following a TV special he designed for them last year at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, for which he won a Welsh BAFTA Award.

Blackburn-based HSL has supplied a number of Routledge's recent projects, and he was keen for them to also do this one. "The variety of kit that HSL has available is really impressive, as is their attention to detail and willingness to customise gear and accommodate non-standard requirements," he says. The project was managed for HSL by Mike Oates.

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Austria - When German superstars Die Ärzte played two sold-out stadium shows in Linz, Austria, their lighting designer Lui Helmig spec'd 130 Robe moving lights as the main work-horses of the rig for the spectacular show.

Die Ärzte's live performances have a reputation for dazzlingly spectacular light-shows and this one was no exception. Helmig arranged the fixtures - a mix of ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs and ColorSpot and Wash 2500E ATs - across nine 'finger' trusses above the stage, and on a front truss.

On the floor were 12 ColorWash 2500E ATs and six ColorWash 1200E ATs, used for aerial beam work, effects and low level cross stage lighting - all adding a bit of additional drama and dimension to the stage.

The design also incorporated GLEC video screens hung in between the trusses, and Helmig tried to make the stage as open and accessible for sight-lines all around

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USA - Bosch's Communications Systems Division has partnered with the NSCA Education Foundation to establish the Monte Wise Scholarship, an ongoing scholarship named in fond remembrance of Monte Wise - "one of the pro audio industry's great personalities and mentors" - who passed away on 30 September 2009. Monte was systems applications specialist, pro sound, for Bosch's Communications Systems Division.

"Monte touched many lives over the course of an exceptional career," says Daniel Nix, VP of sales, Americas, for Bosch's Communications Systems Division. "He was a mentor to many, and helped take hundreds of individuals and companies to the next level with education and technology. We were humbled by the amount of inquiries we received in the wake of his passing, from friends and colleagues asking 'Is there anything we can do?'

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USA - FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), the international governing body of football, announced yesterday the appointment of producer Kevin Wall and his company Control Room as executive producer of the Official Kick-Off Celebration Concert of the 20100 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Kicking off the FIFA World Cup on 10 June 2010 at the newly-renovated Orlando Stadium in Soweto/Johannesburg, this historic three-hour live concert event will showcase the music, sport and visual pageantry of South Africa. The event will feature musical performances by major international superstars and popular African artists collaborating together, along with special appearances by past and present football legends, and will be broadcast to networks around the world. All net proceeds will benefit 20 Centres for 2010, the official campaign of the 20

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UK - An RSS M-400 48-channel digital console, complete with Digital Snake, and Cakewalk Sonar and REAC software, has been used to record a live album for up-and-coming indie rockers The Joy Formidable.

Backstage at north London's Garage venue, Roland Systems Group technical wizards Martin Thomas and Simon Kenning had good reason to admire the super-compact footprint of the RSS M-400 digital console, which enabled them to fit an entire live recording set-up as well as two engineers and a three-piece band into a 10'x 8' dressing room.

The RSS technology maintained a low profile in the club. The use of a single S-4000 Digital Snake stage box meant that the live recording team caused less than minimal disruption to the venue and the band's FOH engineer, yet was able to capture a live performance in 48kHz 24-bit broadcast-quality audio. Using the S-4000 Digital Snake 'standalone',

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USA - Introduced at the AES Convention at the Javits Center in New York City this week, Laser-Accurate microphone transducer technology from Schwartz Engineering & Design (SED) "revolutionizes the concept of the microphone".

David Schwartz, president of SED and developer of Laser-Accurate technology, believes that existing microphone manufacturers will be best positioned to take microphones to the next level by combining the Laser-Accurate technology with their vast design and manufacturing experience.

"Rather than start my own company again to manufacture products based on this technology, I see the benefit in letting already established professional audio manufacturers license it and apply it to their own designs," says Schwartz, who founded CompuSonics in 1984 and grew it into a leading developer and manufacturer of digital audio workstations and digital

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Belgium - Square Brussels, a new event space in the Belgian capital, recently purchased Studer Vista 5 and Vista 5 SR consoles as part of the sound reinforcement system for its auditorium. Belgium-based company Play, based in Nazareth, installed the consoles, which were purchased through Studer's Belgian representative HeynenNV.

Square Brussels offers 13,500sq.m of meeting rooms, exhibition space and a state-of-the-art auditorium. The venue is in the heart of Brussels and is located only 300m from the Royal Palace and next to the Museum of Arts and the Royal Library.

"The Studer Vista 5 and Vista 5 SR with its Vistonics interface are highly intuitive and very easy to use, which is perfect because during a live performance, the operator should be totally concerned with making the sound perfect as opposed to worrying about which button he is pressing," says Jos Jorisse

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UK - Adlib has designed and installed an L-Acoustics dV-DOSC sound system into Manchester live music venue, Band on the Wall.

The landmark 350-capacity venue on Swan Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester's city centre has just been completely renovated, restored and reborn by registered charity Inner City Music with the help of a £4 million combined award from the Arts Council England, Manchester City Council and Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the venue into a 21st century centre of music with strong community ties.

The system was designed by Adlib's Roger Kirby who says: "We all agreed that dV-DOSC rig would work best in the space offering a detailed high frequency and solid low end response, with the system also having adequate headroom for the eclectic programme of live events that are planned."

The music will encompass a wide range of musical g

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Ireland - An Outline system reinforced the proceedings at Dublin's Storehouse 13, St. James Gate that marked 250 years of production of Guinness. To commemorate the occasion, Storehouse 13, which is a large hop store, was converted for one night into a live stage and TV studio.

3,000 ticket-winning guests were entertained by Sir Tom Jones, Estelle, Dizzee Rascal and Kasabian. The sound system - supplied by Britannia Row - was Outline's Butterfly: 12 CDH 483s per hang plus six Subtech 218s, powered by Outline's T9 amplifiers and controlled via Dolby Lake processing.

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Russia - Moscow-based L-Acoustics rental network agent Spin Music provided sound reinforcement for The Greatest Voices of Russia which took place at Sobornaya Square in the Kremlin.

This special event featured the Russian national orchestra and leading singers Anna Netrebko, Paata Burchuladze, Julia Gertseva and Sergey Skorokhodov, who performed Russian classical music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Bortniansky, Prokofiev and Kastalsky.

Two hangs of 12 Kudo line source array cabinets were used for the main sound system, with two stacks of Kiva ultra compact line source array units and Kilo low frequency extensions for side coverage. Two Kiva speakers were also deployed to cover the front rows. Six SB218 subwoofers per side were set up in cardioid configuration to reduce low-end bleed on stage.

"Working on a square surrounded by cathedrals is

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USA - House of Blues, Nashville, a four-studio recording facility formerly known as East Iris Studios, recently installed a Solid State Logic Matrix console to act as the centrepiece of the newly renovated Studio C.

House of Blues has worked with everyone from Miley Cyrus, Indigo Girls and Kid Rock to Faith Hill, Amy Grant and Dolly Parton. The studio complex is split between two buildings with the main Studio A and Studio B reserved for larger tracking and mixing projects and with Studio C designed to attract smaller budget projects that will benefit from Matrix.

"We had an engineer in the other day who tracked his project in a large studio, and tried to mix entirely in the box in his private studio," says Mike Paragone, studio manager for House of Blues, Nashville. "When we started, we brought up just two channels through Matrix and he was blown away by the so

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Germany - Loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies reports that working directly with employed representatives is proving to be a successful distribution strategy in some territories, with Benelux & France paving the way, and more recently Spanish and UK markets adopting the approach.

UK sales over the past year have been managed by Dave Kelland, an industry stalwart who draws on many years' experience in the pro audio world, having worked with numerous PA companies and prior to that, as a freelance sound engineer.

Kelland's sales success, coupled with the release of the Opera Digital and DVX professional speaker series' this year has led to the appointment of Richard Soper, who joined the team on 1 October as area sales manager for the south of England.

"Richard's bright, confident demeanour and previous experience in a technical sales role at Amber Sound stands him in

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India - Harman Professional held a training seminar with Hi-Tech Audio Systems Pvt in New Delhi last week. The conference, which was held from 1-3 October was the first in a series of training seminars that will be held throughout India and was comprised of lectures in theory technology and integration coupled with hands-on demos and project work groups.

Last week's seminar was organised by Harman Professional¹s distributor, Hi-Tech Audio Systems Pvt and included presentations by regional sales director Sushil S. John that focused on the release of upcoming Harman products. In attendance were all of the master state dealers, dealers, rental companies, and AV integration companies from the North of India, which totalled 75 people.

"The seminar in New Delhi was a great success," John said. "Not only were we able to showcase different products and review our compa

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