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UK - Currently playing a remarkable 54 mainly sold-out dates in arenas from Aberdeen and Belfast to Bournemouth and London, comedian Michael McIntyre's current tour is one of the biggest grossing UK tours for several years. Yamaha's LS9 small format digital mixing console is on duty throughout.

The tour is one of striking contrasts. On the one hand the stage is completely bare, there are no gimmicks or props - not even a microphone stand. The entire show comprises 90 minutes of one man wearing a headset mic. The channel count is minimal and the front-of-house and monitor consoles are the babies of Yamaha's digital range.

On the other hand, the size of venues dictates huge hangs of Martin Audio line array, while ticket demand means multiple dates at many of the UK's biggest arena

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USA - Wybron has instated a new five-year warranty, a fourfold increase in warranty duration.

"In this market, in this economy, it's more important than ever that a product works, and works well," said Wybron CEO Keny Whitright. "Extending our warranty to five years ensures that our customers will be using their energy - and our products - in creative ways, rather than having to worry about the state of their gear. This new warranty is simply a matter of passing along the peace of mind that so many of our customers already enjoy."

Under the terms of the new warranty, products must be registered with Wybron, and must also undergo a check-up after two years.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Aviom has confirmed the promotion of Kim Treanor to director of customer service and sales support.

Treanor has a long history with the company, most recently working as the marketing and corporate communications specialist and previously serving as executive assistant to president and CEO Carl Bader. In her new position, Treanor is responsible for overseeing the company's customer, technical, and sales support functions and staff.

"Aviom has always had a reputation for providing excellent customer service and support, but we know there are still lots of ways we can work more efficiently and, at the same time, improve our customer experience. Kim will be instrumental in leading our efforts to define this industry's standard for outstanding support," says Bader, Aviom's president and CEO. "Kim has extensive knowledge of the company and its products and has

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Denmark - Danish company Neets, who manufacture control systems for audio visual equipment, has developed a new power control - 1 relay box. This new power control offers the possibility to save power in installations and help the environment. At the same time, using the power control in your installation minimizes the risk of fire, the company says.

Installed with a Neets Control System, the relay box is designed to cut power from the projector, amplifier, DVD and other audio-visual equipment when the devices are not in use. The power control can cut power from two units at the same time. This gives you the possibility to cut off the expensive standby power.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Production Services Ireland (PSI) supplied technical and production management services and co-ordinated the supply of all sound, lighting and video equipment needed for the 2009 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's 2009 - Ireland's biggest international festival.

This year was the 47th year for the event, a vibrant two week arts extravaganza organized by Queens University and sponsored by Ulster Bank staged in 32 venues in and around Belfast. It featured a wide range of performances including drama, dance, music, comedy, classical, opera, talks and debates, physical theatre and visual arts.

PSI has been involved for 12 years, and before that, the company's Sean Pagel was Belfast Festival's technical manager for some years. He comments: "It's a dynamic and exciting event with many technical challenges, for which we always enjoy putting a strong team

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Singapore - On 24 September 2009, F1 Rocks Singapore kicked off a three-day musical festival surrounding Formula One's only night race on the F1 circuit. During the event at Fort Canning Park, 11 international music stars performed outdoors in front of approximately 30,000 concert-goers. Lighting designer Ross Williams and lighting equipment provider, The Show Company, relied heavily upon the new Vari*Lite VLX Wash luminaires.

"The F1 Rocks concert is quite different from my past projects as there were 11 different acts using the same stage for three nights," said Williams. "This is a challenge and the lighting design and solutions have to be flexible enough to cater to the different needs of the performers."

"Being a front runner in the rental and staging business we are always in the lookout for solutions that will wow us," added Jospeh G

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Georgia - This September, the central square in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, took on an extreme Edge - The Red Bull X-Fighters Exhibition Tour 2009 passed through the historical city to enthrall and awe the locals with an exhibition of extreme sports and live music with an extreme edge.

Freestyle moto-cross, fireworks, flying motorbikes, and instruments played with power tools are just a few examples of the adrenaline fuelled line up that the X-Fighters Exhibition had to offer.

Proel had a high profile at the event, with all of the sound reinforcement, lighting and trussing coming from the Italian manufacturer. The sound system was made up of the high end Edge point source system, in a five-way configuration comprised of the Edge212P mid/high boxes, Edge218SP double 18" bass units and the impressive Edge121SP 21" sub-woofer unit for the extende

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Germany - Riku Mikael Kauppinen is MA Lighting's new regional sales manager for the Russian, Eastern European and Scandinavian market. MA's managing director Michael Althaus welcomed Kauppinen on board and is looking forward to a successful teamwork.

Kauppinen was previously regional sales manager for PRG Distribution. He has been working for more than a decade in various roles in the business including product sales and rental, lighting design and touring.

Kauppinen comments: "I am very thrilled to join MA Lighting. Becoming a part of vibrant MA community and discovering and implementing cutting-edge technological solutions for our industry's growing needs is truly a positive challenge."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Mission Media were approached by Nokia, who asked them to suspend a 6-tonne, 20m by 8.5m video wall in the shape of an arrow 40m above the ground in the shadow of Tower Bridge. In addition to that, it would have to rotate, while footage of the screen would be streamed live to the Internet.

Nokia's unusual brief was for an event to launch the 'Good Things' campaign associated with their global launch of the new OVI Service.

Mission Media contacted Neil Keane of Event production Management & Design (EPMD) who quickly assembled his team of long-term associates. A design for the screen evolved, as did details of the practicalities which would include a ground support stillage to dock the structure when it was not being flown.

EPMD contacted Gavin Weatherall and Damian Weymouth at The Rigging Partnership and Danny Whitemore at Lee Lifting to discuss the practicalities of fly

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UK - Tori Amos has embarked on her Sinful Attraction tour with two Midas PRO6 live audio systems running identical setups at FOH and on monitors.

FOH engineer Mark Hawley and monitor man Marcel Van Limbeek have recorded and toured with Amos for 15 years, and strive to reproduce the sound created in the studio in a live situation. To this end, the very same outboard units used in the original studio recordings have not only been reproduced, but duplicated at FOH and on monitors.

"It's a comfort blanket; it's what I'm used to," says Hawley. "Marcel and I make all of Tori's albums using an analogue desk, and this is the setup we've used over the years; we like the way it colours the sounds. As far as mixing goes it's identical to the mix that comes out of the studio console."

This complex and unusual setup is being assisted by many of the PRO6's featu

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Germany - Ableton has announced Able10 - a season of special offers and giveaways to celebrate 10 years of Ableton. Ableton has come a long way since 1999, and is taking the opportunity to look back on an exciting and successful 10 years, says the company.

A spokesman says, "The Ableton community has always played a key role; the company founders and staff would like to say thank you to all the musicians, producers, performers, DJs, artists, broadcasters, choreographers, engineers and visionaries who have joined the journey so far. Ableton looks forward to sharing the next 10 years with this unusually talented, innovative, inspiring and ever-growing Ableton Live community."

To mark the occasion, and as a special thank you, Ableton has put together a package of special offers, new products and birthday handouts.

For Live 8 and Suite 8 users, Ableton is giving away 1

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USA - TMB has introduced the first products in the ProMolded Assembly range. 19-pin (six-circuit) stage lighting cables, break-ins and break-outs are now available with TMB's ruggedised ProCable and premium ProSeries connectors. In-house retrofit services for conventional non-moulded 19-pin cables are also available, with rapid turnaround.

Comprised of internal polypropylene and outer Santoprene moulds, ProMolded assemblies are fabricated and guaranteed by TMB, offering long life and reliable performance in a variety of applications. The new products will be on show at LDI in Orlando this month.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Blackburn-based rental company HSL has supplied over 250 Chroma-Q Color Block 2 LED fixtures to US lighting design specialists, Innovative Show Design, to provide set lighting for the World Series of Poker Europe 2009 (WSOPE).

Attracting leading players from around the world, WSOPE presented by Betfair, complements the WSOP event, which is held annually in Las Vegas. WSOPE 2009 was held at The Casino at The Empire, Leicester Square and broadcast in the UK on sports television channel ESPN (UK).

For the second year running, Innovative Show Design's president, Christopher Runnells, was hired by Nevada based Poker Productions and ESPN (UK) to design the television and scenic lighting for the event.

Runnells needed a fixture that would not produce a multi coloured shadow and would give him the ability to mix the proper colour temperature of white light.

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UK - The National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural Skills (NSA) has secured £5 million of funding for a state-of-the-art new building in Thurrock, which will enable thousands of young people and Apprentices to access world class training in technical theatre and live music production.

This building will enhance the nationwide activity of a National Skills Academy which is currently delivering through 19 founder Further Education Colleges across the country working in partnership with over 170 employers.

Welcoming the announcement, Tom Bewick, Group Chief Executive, Creative & Cultural Skills, said:"The National Skills Academy is fundamentally important to a live performance sector that generates over £6 billion per year for the UK economy. Initially it will provide world class training in the technical theatre and live music production industries, enabli

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UK - Canegreen has been plain-sailing in London's Royal Albert Hall, supplying a Nexo Geo T tangent-array system for back-to-back shows by Michael Bolton, and a star-studded gala event for the PRS Fund featuring The Faces.

It was the PRS Music Members Benevolent Fund's Helping The Heart Of Music event which grabbed all the headlines, mainly because of the reunion of one of Britain's most iconic bands, The Faces. Three of the four remaining Faces took to the stage, joined by Bill Wyman on bass, with guest vocalists replacing the absent Rod Stewart. Among the singers were Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, Mike And The Mechanics frontman Paul Carrack, Amen Corner vocalist Andy Fairweather-Low, Spice Girl Mel C and Kiki Dee.

For Yan Stile of Canegreen, now part of the SSE Audio Group, this sell-out show was a great opportunity to specify Nexo's distinctive Geo T tangent-array sy

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USA - Continental Air Show Productions travel across America with a powerful Community sound system that breathes life into some of the most spectacular air shows. Dave Olmstead and the crew from Continental Air Show Productions recently completed the Cleveland Air Show, with a rig that covered a show line over 4,000ft (1.2km) long.

A total of 24 Community Professional R.25 loudspeakers were arrayed to cover the crowd, utilising a pair of 5.8 GHz wireless remote systems to streamline the setup and minimise cable runs. A pair of Community RSH462 long throw systems covered the far reaches of the exhibition, and six R.5 subwoofers provided ample power in the low end.

"We mount the RSH462s on man-lifts, on all-terrain forklifts, even on scaffolding, depending on what's available," said Olmstead. "We mount the R.25s on tripods about seven feet up. The R.25, combined

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UK - Entec Sound & Light recently purchased and then promptly employed the new Martin MAC 250 Beam on a House of Worship event at Wembley Arena, the Word at Work Conference hosted by Christ Embassy.

Entec provided lighting, sound, rigging and trussing, media servers, and set video projection for the event. Lighting designer was Entec's Ryan Brown who had six MAC 250 Beams, 12 MAC 700 Washes, 12 MAC 700 Profiles and 20 MAC 250 Washes as well as other automated and static fixtures at his disposal.

The MAC 250 Beam upgrade kit converts any MAC 250 Wash fixture into a punchy new beam effect in only five minutes. Brown chose to use the MAC 250 Beam because "we wanted to achieve beam effects that would render on camera while hiding the fixtures from view," he stated. "I originally had envisioned them for use in 'walk in' looks where they stood a better chance o

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UK - The Marquee Installations group has launched a new division and sales service in the form of its online business, HD Pro Sales. The HD Pro Sales website, which provides easy access to product information and direct purchasing for end-users, went live during October at www.hdprosales.co.uk

Marquee Installations was established in 2000 and has grown to become one of the UK's leading audio, visual and lighting companies. The ISO 9001 certified company, based in Egham in Surrey, comprises of Marquee Installations, providing commercial audio, visual and lighting design and installation services, HD Pro Audio sales and distribution and Marquee Home, which designs and installs systems for the consumer market.

"Many venues and establishments are well qualified to maintain their equipment and systems and handle decisions on additions or upgrades to their audio, video and ligh

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The Netherlands - Since 1977, the Uitmarkt (Outmarket) in the centre of Amsterdam has marked the beginning of the new cultural season. This year's edition took place over the last weekend of August at different locations in Amsterdam and attracted an estimated 500,000 visitors.

Focus Advanced Event Technology from Amsterdam was responsible for audio, video and lighting of 17 different locations with this annual event. The three largest stages featured Alcons pro-ribbon sound systems.

At the Nieuwmarkt, the Province Noord-Holland stage hosted performances of Trijntje Oosterhuis and Acda en de Munnik a.o. The Alcons system at this stage consisted of 18 LR16 compact line-array modules and six LR16B high-efficiency line-arrays bass systems.These systems were amplified and controlled by Alcons ALC4 controller-amplifiers with DDP.

Close to the Muziektheater was the Grolsch

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USA - The Texan Dome at South Plains College (SPC) revealed its newly installed Meyer Sound UPQ-1P loudspeaker system at this year's graduation ceremony.

A replacement of the aged equipment purchased from the University of Texas in 1971, the Meyer Sound system was part of the college's modernisation efforts to draw its athletic prospects' attention to superior facilities that also include a fitness complex built in 2002. "This is our biggest recruiting tool," says athletic director Joe Tubb. "Once we get them here, it's the people that they like. But, you have to get them here first."

The new system also presents a giant leap in the sound quality for public gatherings at the venue, including livestock judging contests and other award ceremonies. "This facility is the showplace for our community and it was due an upgrade like this," says Dr. Kelvin

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UK - Clarion Events has appointed DB Systems and Aztec Event Services to manage the audio visual requirements of its UK shows. DB and Aztec were awarded the three-year contract, which involves 23 shows, following a nine-way pitch.

Among the shows DB will service are Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show, which is the UK's largest consumer travel show, The Baby Show, the International Gaming Exhibition, and the International Caravan & Motorhome Show.

Oliver Richardson, DB's sales director, said: "DB Systems has been working with Clarion Events since 2004 so I'm delighted that we will have the opportunity to build on our already solid partnership.

"As an event organiser, it is crucial for Clarion Events to have complete faith in its suppliers. The type of service provided by DB and Aztec instils confidence because we recognise that quali

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