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UK - Berkshire-based sound rental company Event Sound has joined the ranks of UK mid-format line-array providers, with its purchase of an Electro-Voice XLC system from Shuttlesound.

The upgrade of an inventory which has included two generations of Electro-Voice PA products signals the serious intentions of Event Sound's owners Nick Billinghurst and Jason Spencer, who are now committed full-time to building the high-end rental operation, and adding a sales and installation dimension to the company.

Shuttlesound will supply Event Sound with 18 XLC 127DVX modules with eight Xsubs, and a stock of new Tour Grade amplifiers, which are fitted with RCM26 remote control modules, providing the full complement of IIR filters, signal routing, level control, compression and limiting, and FIR

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USA - Alcorn McBride, Inc. has promoted Tommy Bridges to the position of sales manager.Bridges has been a senior account manager at Alcorn McBride Inc for the past six years and has 20 years of experience in the AV industry, beginning when he sold AV equipment as a manufacturer's rep for Sony, Panasonic, and other industry giants. As sales manager, Bridges will focus on the Western United States and will manage Alcorn McBride's relationships with many of its international distribution partners.

"We are fortunate to be in a growth mode," said Jeremy Scheinberg, COO of Alcorn McBride. "Our customers were the reason 2009 was such a great year for us and Tommy's elevation to sales manager ensures more personalised attention for our loyal client base while the company expands. Tommy really cares about our customers. Not only does he remember everyone he meets, he's tru

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Guadeloupe - L-Acoustics' rental network agent in Guadeloupe, J2C Antilles, has supplied a Kudo/Kiva system for a concert by Lionel Richie at the Baie-Mahault Stadium in Pointe-à-Pitre. The international star, who has sold more than 100m records worldwide and is promoting his new album Just Go, performed before an audience of 15,000.

The system comprised nine Kudo line source cabinets and four SB28 subwoofers per side, a centre cluster of six Kiva ultra compact line source cabinets, and out-fills of three Kivas per side. The whole system was driven by nine LA8 amplified controllers housed in LA-RAK touring racks.

François Chaumeil, L-Acoustics' technical support for France, explains , "The total audience area was 60m wide by 100m deep, with the nine Kudo covering an area from 15m back to 100m. Using Kudo's K-Louver system, the top three cabinets were open at an

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - The first National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural Skills (NSA) annual conference takes place at the Birmingham Hippodrome on 25 February 2010.

This exciting conference will bring together 200 delegates in the context of discussing the current state of the offstage and backstage industry in today's economy, evaluating problems and discussing the solutions to key issues.

The NSA is a network of industry professionals working together to develop and improve the skills of people working in the sector. Their vision is to create an internationally acclaimed technical theatre and live music sector supporting the best stages in the world.

More information and to register for the conference, go to the website address below.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Sting's recording engineer Donal Hodgson recently embarked on a project to record the artist for A Winter's Night...Live from Durham Cathedral - a concert version of his latest album, If On A Winter's Night... for DVD release and international broadcast.

Hodgson selected a wide range of DPA microphones to assist him in this complex task, which presented many challenges. The largest of these was the building itself. A beautiful cathedral dating back to 1093, Durham provided an amazing backdrop to the concert, but its solid stone construction threw up some serious reverb problems. As the concert was also being filmed, clean sight lines were essential.

"The cathedral has a lovely sounding reverb, but it's at least five seconds long," recalls Hodgson. "The only way to make it sound good was to close mic all 38 musicians. The biggest challenge I

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UK - Eat to the Beat provided catering support for the Cirque Du Soleil's spectacular show Varekai, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall on 5 January 2010. Eat To The Beat joined forces with the CDS touring Kitchen Team - an idea that came originally from Varekai's production manager, Jamie Reilly. Now Jamie's idea has come to fruition. Headed by ETTB event manager, Michele Bearsby-Lewis and CDS kitchen manager, Isabelle Turcot, the team will cater for the CDS during their London residency.

Jamie Reilly commented: "Having an opportunity to collaborate with a company like Eat to the Beat is a privilege to learn new methods of working, new recipes and meeting extraordinary people, this is how, at Cirque du Soleil we remain innovative in all different aspects of our business, from the stage to the Kitchen! I am very pleased to have found with Eat to the Beat the op

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Austria - The Four Hills Tournament is the ski-jumping highlight of the entire season, followed avidly by enthusiasts throughout the world. This latest (58th) edition of the tournament, ski-jumping's unofficial world championship, ran from the 29 December 2009 to the 6 January 2010 and comprised four competitions on four different slopes.

Traditionally, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen leg of the tournament (the other venues being Oberstdorf, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen) takes place on New Year's Day and in 2010, for the eleventh year in a row, the task of providing the sound reinforcement was entrusted to the Weilheim-based production company TC Showtechnik. The team led by Martin Schulze and Stefan Rehthaler once again relied on Electro-Voice. The centrepiece of the solution proposed by TC Showtechnik for the event, which was watched live by 25,000 spectators and followed by million

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Singapore - Eight Robe DigitalSpots and a moving light rig have been installed in the main room of the Bellini Grande jazz entertainment and dance club, the latest in a long line of nightspots created by Dennis Foo.

The venue features three bars and a dining room with a capacity of nearly 1400. The decor introduces large black & white chequered tiles and semi circular booths, bringing a chic 1970's society feel to the environment.

The Robe fixtures were specified by Craig Burridge, technical director for St James Holdings, the parent company of Bellini Grande and the project's AV systems and lighting designer.

The lights were supplied by Robe South East Asia, and follow on from the successful installation of over 200 Robe moving lights and LED fixtures into leading Singapore nightclub St James Power Station in 2007, also spec'd by Burridge.

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UK / UAE - SES Entertainment Services, based near London, has appointed the newly formed RFW Trading LLC as its sole UAE distributor for its extensive range of power distribution products.

RFW, owned and managed by Fragille Wade, formerly of Dubai-based Protec, has tied up with SES to sell its products to an already extensive client base in the region.

Fragille Wade commented: "Having worked with SES's products for many years, I was pleased to be able to represent them in the region and supply a market that has an insatiable appetite for quality distribution equipment. There has been a significant gap in the market here for some time which we hope to be able to fill with a wide range of Power Products which we will hold in stock at our new warehouse in Dubai. We will be adding to our product range over the coming months and will be a one stop shop for the production and e

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Teenage Cancer Trust - Noel Gallagher is to play his first solo concerts since quitting Oasis. The guitarist and songwriter will play for the Teenage Cancer Trust, which he has long supported, at the Royal Albert Hall on 25 and 26 March. Other acts announced for the annual run of charity gigs include Arctic Monkeys, The Specials, Depeche Mode, JLS and reformed Britpop band Suede.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Teenage Cancer Trust shows, which are curated by The Who's Roger Daltrey. Announcing the line-up, he said, "When The Who first got together in 2000 to raise money for this brilliant charity, I had no idea we'd achieve so much from these shows. In the last 10 years we've raised over £8.7m, helping Teenage Cancer Trust to open nine more specialist cancer units for young people across the UK."

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UK - Guests at the 2009 EuroHedge Awards were treated to an unusual walkway at this year's Grosvenor House event with PSCo's Infinite Plasmas designed to make a striking welcome.

The EuroHedge Awards celebrate hedge fund managers' achievements throughout Europe. Over 800 managers, investors, and other industry professionals turned out in force for the occasion.

Capitol House Productions installed two strips of bezel-less Infinite Plasmas, the first ran down the hotel's entrance walkway to The Great Room and the second greeted guests once inside. The plasmas displayed event and sponsor branding to catch the eyes of guests as they walked into the event.

Eight new Infinite 4230R Plasmas were used for the event, sourced from PSCo, which has recently updated its videowall fleet with £100,000 of new screens and accessories.

Head of production Amanda Murray comments: "

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USA / Sweden - Audinate has announced that Lake, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lab.gruppen, has launched its new LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processor with Dante networking inside. The Lake LM 26 is the natural successor to the Dolby Lake Processor (DLP) with extensive digital matrix functions including Dante digital networking, which provides seamless compatibility with Lab.gruppen's Dante-enabled PLM Series as well as legacy DLPs.

The new LM 26 will accept audio signals via Audinate's Dante digital audio network at 48 and 96 kHz sampling rates. Automatic input priority switching may be enabled, and the unit can function as both an input matrix mixer and Dante break-in box or break-out box.

"We are very proud to bring LM 26 to market. This new Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processor builds on the Lake heritage and, with its unique and advanced features, takes loudspeaker

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Denmark - Martin Professional has added to its growing range of LED luminaries with the Tripix 1200 and Tripix 300, the first fixtures in a new line of IP65 rated outdoor LED striplights.

Tricolor LEDs (3-in-1 RGB) mixes colour at the lens before it leaves the fixture, resulting in no multicolour fringe shadows, a more uniform distribution of colour and a broader range of color choices, a level of quality that architects, LDs and installers will appreciate, says the company.

Tripix offers an extended colour gamut from pastels to saturates that are difficult to achieve with other tricolor fixtures.

The Tripix range comes with a choice of narrow, medium and wide diffuser options and the module is tiltable for precise optical aiming. The custom-designed lens system gives very narrow beam angles that have been difficult to achieve with tricolor LED fixtures in the past.

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USA - LEDtronics has introduced LED replacements for recessed T-bar fluorescent ceiling luminaires: CLL2X2-400-TPW-001W uses only 24W power and replaces 2ftx2ft standard fluorescent 64W units, while CLL2X2-800-TPW-001W consumes less than 36W and replaces 80W fluorescent fixtures. They operate on a voltage range of 100-277VAC, providing solid-state 5000K pure-white lighting that creates less heat compared to conventional lighting, reducing air conditioning demands in offices, closets, hallways, classrooms, work rooms, conference rooms and other retail or commercial indoor lighting locations.

The LEDtronics luminaires offer up to 300% longer lifespan compared to fluorescent lamps, using up to 50% less energy than standard fluorescent 2ftx 2ft (600mm x 600mm) panels, without compromising on performance. The CLL2X2-400-TPW-001W provides a bright beam of 1,840 lumens, with an efficie

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The Netherlands - Daktronics is showcasing its latest LED innovations at Integrated Systems Europe this week. As a highlight, Daktronics booth features a full-scale LED video display made up of PST-6i-b LED portable display panels, the latest addition to the Daktronics PST modular video display series.

"We are excited to take part in of one of the largest AV tradeshows in Europe, and to introduce the PST-6i-b to our peers at ISE," said Myron Linde, Daktronics mobile and modular manager. "In addition to being the lightest portable LED video panel of its kind, the PST-6i-b uses a high-contrast design to offer viewers surreal image quality and deep, vivid colours."

The newest member of Daktronics' PST product line, the PST-6i-b panel, weighs in at 52kg/sq.m and joins a pair of other newly unveiled PST products, the PST-12 SMD (50kg/sq.m) and the PST-10 SMD (57

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UK - G-LEC Phantom30 frames have been used for an interactive art exhibition at the National Railway Museum in York. For the installation, media artists KMA formed a bridge-like structure across the roof of the exhibition space using 13 2m x 2m screens, each of which comprised four G-LEC Phantom30 frames.

Artist Tom Wexler explains: "It was the railways which first created the need for standardised time across the country, so we came up the idea of an exhibition based on time, place and distance. We placed the 13 screens across the curved roof of the hall, with a thermal imaging camera at each end. The cameras captured people's movement and a few seconds of each person was looped. This was then shown on each screen in turn until the two people's images met in the middle.

"We specified the G-LEC transparent frames because we didn't want the screens to be too 'heavy' o

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Belgium / The Netherlands - At ISE 2010 this week Barco is introducing PlusPAK, a powerful new configuration package for the FSN Series switcher. Specifically designed for the presentation needs of the events market, PlusPAK leverages the field-proven FSN platform with new Universal Output Cards, Multiviewer, DVE, and full 2.5 M/E control.

PlusPAK is a new hardware and software suite comprised of four components - a new Universal Output Card (UOC), the system's new Multiviewer (MVR), a Digital Video Effects Card (DVE) and new software capable of controlling 2.5 M/Es from the compact FSN-150 Controller. Because contemporary presentations are often more complex than single screen, single output, single format shows, PlusPAK answers that requirement with a purpose-built solution.

When combined with the FSN Series' plug-in NIC (8-channel Native Input Card), UIC (2-channel Universa

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USA - This month sees new releases in Tomcat USA's ongoing educational Did U Know? podcast video series - and the extension of Tomcat U.

The current topics are How to Tie a Figure of 8 Knot and How to Properly Inspect Your Truss. Will Todd, product support manager, of Tomcat USA leads both of these informative sessions.

The videos can be viewed and downloaded at www.tomcatglobal.com. These videos arrive just in time to serve as a sneak preview of some topics to be covered during Tomcat's Hoist & Rigging Workshops to be held on 17-20 February 2010 - Space is still available.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Acclaim Lighting has unveiled a new website (www.acclaimlighting.com) that reflects its position as a leading force in providing advanced LED lighting solutions to the architectural market. In addition to offering visitors a complete guide to Acclaim's architectural lighting products, the new site features product information, news, technical support and information on upcoming events.

The most dramatic feature on the home page is the continuous loop of flash photos of some recent Acclaim installations, including the über-chic TAO nightclub, located in the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, which utilises Acclaim's X-Ball, X-Cube and X-Bar product; and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, where Acclaim X-Bar 500s were built into each sequential 24" square cutout that accents the structure's shape.

"Our new website was designed to make it easier for o

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UK - Orbital Sound reports strong sales to the UK club scene, including new systems to London's 229 Club in Great Portland Street, and Brighton's Concorde 2. In London, 229 Club has invested in a substantial new sound system, designed around d&b audioteknik's Q1 line array complemented by Digidesign's recently launched SC48 mixing console, for its 620-capacity main room. In Brighton, Concorde 2 has extended its top-end sound system with the addition of the compact Digidesign Venue Mix Rack System, comprising the Venue Profile console and all-in-one Venue Mix Rack processing and I/O component.

Since opening in 2007, 229 has established itself as one of the UK's leading small to medium-sized venues, attracting acts such as Primal Scream, Keane, Gnarls Barkley and Razorlight. 229 came to Orbital Sound in early 2009, looking for a high quality and reliable sound system that delivere

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Czech Republic - Robe Lighting has announced a series of new appointments in a planned management restructuring exercise designed to position the company for a new decade of growth and expansion.

Robe Lighting has a new operations director and sales director, while LED manufacturer and sister company Anolis gets a new sales director.

"This will help take Robe and Anolis to new levels of quality and excellence, and continue the trends of innovation and service that has made both companies so successful," states Robe's owner/founder and CEO, Josef Valchar.

Harry von den Stemmen takes the position of sales director at Robe Lighting. Von den Stemmen has been an integral part of the Robe management team for the last seven years as international sales manager, and has been instrumental in developing the worldwide distributor network which now spans 120 countries.

John

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