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UK - Summit Steel is supplying rigging to the latest UK and European section of Pink's Funhouse world tour, and also co-ordinated and supplied all rigging and automation requirements for Elton John's Red Piano UK and European tour.

Summit was chosen to supply the Pink tour by the production's head rigger Dave Rowe, who comments, "I was extremely keen to use Summit for the quality and good condition of their equipment and the highly professional attitude of their crew".

Rowe and Summit's Jon Bray spent considerable time in putting the package together which includes over 100 roof points to facilitate the hanging of lighting, PA and video equipment, with 120 Lodestar motors and all the necessary steels to suspend approximately 39 tonnes of kit in the air.

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UK / The Netherlands - Baldwin Boxall's infamous Plug & Socket stand will make an appearance at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in February 2010. This will be the first time the company has exhibited at the Amsterdam show. Visitors to the stand will be able to sample a glass of Harveys Real Ale whilst watching a variety of products being demonstrated.

On the stand will be two products which have recently been added to Baldwin Boxalls range of voice alarm products the BVRD2M4 mini router and the BVRD microphone controller. Visitors to the stand will also be able to view and use the touchscreen control paging station and the increasingly popular OmniCare emergency voice communication system.BVRD2M4 Mini four zone voice alarm router retains many of the features of the well established EVAS BVRD2M router. However, it is small enough to fit alongside a VIGIL2 amplifier and power supp

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UK - Goboland UK Ltd would like to reassure its customers that the recent restructuring of Goboland in Europe in no way affects the service and activities of this wholly independent UK company.

Customers can continue to expect the same level of expertise and commitment they have always received from Goboland UK with fast turnarounds, top-notch artwork and friendly service, says the company.

"We want to be clear on this point," states Goboland UK director Wyatt Enever, "and put a stop to any confusing rumours that might be floating around. Business at Goboland continues uninterrupted."

(Jim Evans)Nov2009/131

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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Belgium - ADB Lighting is showing its newest products at JTSE 2009, from 24-25 November at Dock Pullman Paris - including several products that are on show for the first time in France.

ALC4, the new ADB LED cyclorama fixture for theatre and TV studio lighting, launched at IBC 2009, offers a range of one million DMX-controlled colours including pure yellow and soft ambers and seven levels of preselected white (2700° K to 6500° K). The unit is exceptionally 'green' in terms of energy efficiency, delivering the equivalent of 1250W of halogen power for an actual power consumption of just 160W.

Uniform colour mixing in the LED source eliminates coloured shadows and visible pixels. It provides smooth, flicker-free light output, with no colour or white changes when dimmed, while an optical feedback circuit, per LED source, guarantees consistency in colour, white and light ou

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USA - Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, recently enhanced its sound system with custom loudspeakers from EAW. The stadium opened its doors in 2003 and has since hosted a number of notable sporting events. Eagles fans are notoriously passionate, and an upgrade to its PA system was needed to effectively match and cut through their volume.

A/V consulting firm Coffeen Fricke and Associates developed a complex specification for the stadium's system, and after considering several manufacturers, EAW was chosen, as they could provide that solution and manufacture the product to exacting specifications to meet the installation deadline. The sale was made by Columbia, Maryland-based Audio Associates, and the installation was handled by the Columbia-based Large Projects Group of the A/V integration company AVI-SPL (headquartered in Tampa, Florida).

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Italy - RCF has recently provided the audio system for the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, one of the residences of the Royal House of Savoy, which was built by architect Filippo Juvarra in 1731. This outstanding palace, located in the little town of Stupinigi near Turin, has been awarded World Heritage listing by Unesco.

The project has been designed by the RCF Project Design Office, based on the original design made by Sergio Berno from the EL Engineering Service of Turin. The installation has been completed by Orion Gesta under the supervision of engineer Ivan Catellani.

The main audio system is the RX4000, a completely integrated system for voice evacuation, paging and background music and is EN 60849 CEI 100-55 compliant.

The main control unit manages two more units, located in other parts of the building and are connected to the first through Cat 5e UTP cable. All th

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France - L-Acoustics has awarded the status of K System Engineers (KSE) to system engineers Ulf Oeckel, Sherif El Barbari, Nick Pain, Paul Van Baasbank and Vladimir Coulibre.The K System Engineer (KSE) is a System Technician that has demonstrated the highest level of qualification and expertise in the following areas:Florent Bernard, head of touring support at L-Acoustics, explains, "Ulf, Sherif, Nick, Paul and Vladimir have actively participated in the pilot phase of the K1 systems introduction. The status of KSE is not given out lightly; it signifies to us that they have reached a status amongst their peers as a systems engineer with above average expertise, understanding and implementation of the L-Acoustics K systems standard.

"With this title comes an expectation in the industry that they can be called upon by other system engineers and rental network agents, to o

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UK - With the opening of the prestigious Westfield Shopping Centre in West London, earlier in 2009 exterior media specialists Ocean Outdoor installed three Lighthouse LED screens nearby on the A3220/A402 Holland Park roundabout. The screens have proved an outstanding success and Ocean has now completed the next phase of the project by providing two more Lighthouse screens for Westfield, this time over the dual carriageway section of the A3220.

Despite being one of the shortest A roads in the UK, the A3220 is also one of the busiest, forming a vital link between Clapham on the south and the A40 at White City. So the overbridge at the northeast corner of the Westfield site was the ideal location for further Lighthouse screens to complement the highly successful installation at the Holland Park roundabout, just to the south.

Two screens have been installed, one facing northbound

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UK - London-based Subfrantic Production Services (SPS) added 16 stacks of Turbosound Aspect touring boxes to its original 16 stack Floodlight system around four years ago. A couple of months ago Subfrantic decided to expand further, taking the system five-way and more than doubling its inventory of hire stock.

SPS's Sean Murphy comments, "Our original Aspect rig has been going out two to three times per week since we bought it and we've been getting fantastic results every time, so as our volume of work has been building up it seemed logical to buy some more.

"We only really needed a few more boxes, but in our usual style we decided to go all out and get the system we always wanted it to be. So now we have 36 stacks of TA-890Hs with 16 twin 18" TSW-218s, six amp racks with two LMS-D26s in each, four sets of 3 wide flyware and cabling for days. It's all configure

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Germany - Sennheiser electronic GmbH will integrate its subsidiary K + H Vertriebs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, manufacturer of studio monitors and installed sound products, into the Sennheiser and Neumann companies.

This was announced yesterday by Volker Bartels, spokesman for the Sennheiser Executive Team. "We would like to benefit from the strength of the Sennheiser and Neumann brands in this business area, too. Neumann and Sennheiser are firmly established in the studio and installed sound areas, respectively, and promise a much better market penetration than is at present possible under the brand name of Klein + Hummel."

Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin, will become responsible for the studio monitor business, while an optimised installed sound portfolio will be continued by Sennheiser. "Under these well-known brands, we hope to considerably increase sales

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Switzerland - In Autumn of 2009 Lausanne's vast Theatre de Beaulieu hosted a landmark production of Les Miserables, the first ever version in its native French form to be staged in Switzerland's French-speaking Romande sector. Keen to get it just right for such an auspicious debut, director Gerard Demierre engaged sound designer Thomas Strebel of audiopool to create a cutting-edge source-oriented reinforcement system based around the TiMax Tracker radar tracking system and TiMax2 SoundHub audio matrix.

Sixteen actors wore miniature UWB TiMax Tracker (TT) transmitter Tags which were tracked by six TT Sensors installed around the stage and the auditorium. The TiMax Tracker software used an automatic calibration routine to instantaneously map the stage area in three dimensions based on some simple measured sensors location data. Thereafter the system followed the actors' mov

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USA - Lexicon has launched the Omega Studio Desktop Recording Bundle. The Omega Studio Bundle is a completely integrated computer recording package that combines Lexicon's Omega Studio USB recording interface with Steinberg Cubase LE 4 multi-track audio and MIDI recording software, the Lexicon Pantheon VST reverb plug-in, and an AKG D 88 S lead vocal microphone and mic cable. It contains all the necessary hardware and software components to transform a PC or Mac into a professional 24-bit recording studio and allows the user to start recording immediately, says the company.

The Omega Studio recording interface is built around a mixer paradigm. This interface is an 8-input, 4-bus, 2-output, USB I/O mixer with inserts, instrument input, MIDI I/O, and complete metering and monitoring functions with the ability to record up to 4-tracks at once. The Omega I/O mixer makes it easy to r

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Qatar - Doha-based Creative Communication Group (CCG) supplied the Doha Tribeca Film Festival with light and sound equipment, including KF760 Long-Throw Line Array Modules from EAW.

The festival kicked off on 29 October and lasted for four days, with activities and screening held at several venues. The venue Souq Waqif hosted a special screening of The Mummy (Al-Momia), recently restored by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.

Jalal Dudin, managing partner of CCG, stated: "We used EAW KF760 at Souq Waqif to provide the sound for the screening of The Mummy. The sound quality and surround-sound configuration of EAW speakers projected the movie's sound effects magnificently, especially since it was an open air screening. We have also used EAW KF730 Compact Line Array Modules at the auditorium, which was set up at the Qatar Museum of Islamic Art gal

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Norway - One industry which has become a prolific user of Yamaha's DME range of digital mixing engines is Norwegian cinema, with most of the country's top grossing screens now sporting Yamaha equipment.

The Norsk Film Institute (NFI) features a DME installation and is literally the axle upon which the Norwegian film industry revolves, with over 2000 screenings a year in its Oslo premises. Around half of these are previews of major international releases for press and cinema owners, so having the best sound and vision is a fundamental requirement.

The rest of the industry has been quick to follow the NFI's example, cinema owners seeing the many benefits that installing Yamaha-based digital audio systems bring to their facilities.

Unique Cinema Systems (UCS) is one of Norway's major suppliers to the country's cinema industry and the company, which introduced the Yamaha DME64N

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UK - Having thoroughly enjoyed their union at the recent PLASA show, Red Square Audio and Gearsource Europe have continued working together to increase their respective market goals.

RSA MD Paul Nicholson explains: "Due to the economic downturn I was looking at ways of making what we believe are already extremely competitively priced products, namely the Tannoy VQ Live and the Innovason Eclipse, even more affordable. It's clear that some rental companies are reluctant to enter into finance schemes when interest rates are virtually at zero, yet lenders are still asking for 10% + APR interest on leasing and hire purchase deals.

So, we decided that one particular route to owning new cutting edge audio products would be to offer a brokerage scheme whereby Gearsource Europe could directly manage a deal to move on a customer's existing or redundant equipment in order to release

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Belgium - Night of the Proms is a high profile music and entertainment spectacular which combines popular classical music with pop. Night of the Proms 2009 is the 25th anniversary tour, featuring OMD and marking the first reunion of Swedish rock stars, Roxette. Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation, jazz legend Toots Thielemans and Peter and Zoltan Katona also appear in the show, which will tour for 40 dates across five European countries in front of a total of 600,000 audience members.

Production company, EML, has supplied lighting, sound and large format projection - powered by two ArKaos A10 media servers - for the tour.

Olivier Demoustier, EML's light designer, began by spending a week in a WYSIWYG studio, setting up and testing the show, before taking two days to programme over 3000 cues for the three-hour show and synchronizing them with the live orchestr

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USA - The second annual Rock Our World Awards were presented at ESTA's Annual Dinner on Thursday evening, 19 November, the evening before the LDI show. These awards, which recognize groundbreaking achievement by ESTA members in new products, product applications, or projects were created to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of technology and the designer or integrator who applies the technology in a real world environment.

Almost 30 nominations were received from across the industry and these were narrowed down to a shortlist of 10 finalists for the panel of judges to ponder upon. The judges for this year's awards were Roy Bickel, Tony Giovannetti, Anne Militello, Jason Rudolph, and Wendall Harrington.

The judges panel was chaired by Mike Wood, who said prior to announcing the winners, "The winner might be a product that could change the industry, it could

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UK - International AV company Electrosonic is beginning its second year of registration by certification body NQA, to international environmental standard ISO 14001.

Robert Webb, Electrosonic quality, health & safety and environment manager explains, "As an organisation we continually assess the environmental impact of our operations and include environmental considerations in all investment decisions. We therefore decided to go for ISO 14001 certification.

"NQA has always provided us with the necessary support, tools and techniques. The auditing team are professional, understand our business operations and the culture of the organisation. NQA have helped us in achieving our business aspirations, getting it right first time.

"In the same way that we use ISO 9001 as the basis for maintaining good operational practice, ISO 14001 has provided us with a formal fra

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Finland - Gold Dust gaming club is a new international and modern club concept in Finland.

Medialon Show & Media Control Software has been selected and programmed by Lumia, the leading Finnish AV-automation company, to be the main music, audio and lighting controller of the entire gaming club in both Vantaa and Tampere.

The Medialon system works as a scheduling agent for atmosphere mode changes, and triggers the different shows played in each of the Gold Dust gaming club rooms.

"The Medialon system is the key ingredient. It integrates several different devices into an easy-to-use system where complicated structure is hidden from users", says Timo Hiekkanen, operating and sales manager of LUMIA. "Usability issues were crucial, since the system had to be used by Gold Dust staff, and not by AV professionals."

Medialon Manager is also daily used to start up

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Belgium - ShowTex has launched its new curtain track motor with DMX compatibility. This exclusive system is designed for live precision movement of stage curtains and scenery on the heavy duty track systems including the Rail H100, ShowPipe, UniTrack, Horizontal Chain Track and ShowTrack.

Now curtain movement can also be taken care of instantly at the light board with the rest of the show. The motor has integrated speed control for variable speeds up to 80 cm/second. Also different is its step-less positioning system. That means endless stop points at your fingertips, says the company.

Curtain or scenery movement or position can be adjusted by the slide of a fader through the DMX signal. The durable track motor control has a rope mount system and integrated head pulley. The motor's toothed belt combined with its pulley creates maximum friction for reliable movement.

(Jim Eva

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USA For her current US tour, Miranda Lambert has gone digital.Taking into consideration tour production costs, the need for a console with a small footprint, and a desire to go 'all digital', FOH engineer Jason Macalik and production manager/monitor engineer Chris Newsom - both of whom have worked with Lambert for several years-researched the options. Ultimately, they chose dual DiGiCo SD8s as the desks fully fit the tour's criteria.

Macalik had spent time previously on a DiGiCo D5 on tours with Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts and had always been impressed with the sonics of DiGiCo's consoles. But for Newsom, this was his first foray into digital. "For the most part, I have been on analogue desks with Miranda," he said. "The decision to go completely digital this year was mainly because of our spot on Kenny Chesney's Sun City Carnival Tour.

"We knew th

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