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UK / Switzerland - Swiss digital signage hardware manufacturer SpinetiX has appointed Tukans to distribute its HMP100 Hyper Media Player within the UK.

"We're very proud of our comprehensive, high-quality and stable product portfolio and our track record in exceptional integrator and end user support. The addition of SpinetiX will allow us to deliver significant return on investment for our customers, an important differentiator in the channel," says Andrew Popley, managing director at Tukans.

Serge Konter, marketing manager at SpinetiX adds, "This appointment plays a key role in SpinetiX's channel and partner plans. We will be working actively with the highly experienced and dedicated team at Tukans with a special focus on specialist integrators and partners who

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UK - Pearce Hire provided a triple service of temporary power, lighting and audioin January to the final of the Cambridge 800 events, which have taken place across the year to celebrate the 800 years of Cambridge University.

The show entitled Transforming Tomorrow spanned three consecutive evenings during which over 20,000 members of the public were invited to see Cambridge in a new light through a walking tour, starting from Senate House and leading to Kings College First Court building, adorned with ETC's stunning projections and combined with architectural lighting and audio provided by Pearce Hire.

Pearce Hire's managing director Shaun Pearce said, "We were proud to be entrusted as the central technical supplier across this prestigious series of events which celebrated such a landmark in Cambridge's history. All events have been managed to consistently high sta

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Venezuela - In one of Venezuela's largest annual live music events, rental sound company Grupo Zonico provided an extensive audio system for Coca-Cola Solid Fest 2010 at Hipdromo La Rinconada in Caracas.

JBL Vertec line arrays comprised the main PA system for the four-day event, which included performances by leading international and local artists for crowds averaging 20,000 per day. With separate themed event days presenting rock, urban and Latin artists, performers at the festival included Korn, OscarD Leon and Luis Fonsi.

Grupo Zonico deployed a main PA system featuring two array hangs, each comprising 15 Vertec VT4889-1 full-size line array elements and three VT4887ADP compact powered line array elements with DrivePack technology. The system also included 26 VT4880A full-size arrayable subwoofers, with an additional 12 VT4887ADP loudspeakers provided for front-fill

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Denmark - ETC's Selador Series of LED fixtures received their first major European outing at the COP15 Climate Change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. At the end of the summit, the attending world leaders were invited to the Royal Danish Theatre for a performance of the ballet Napoli by August Bournonville.

In among the house rig of ETC Source Four Revolutions and Vari-Lite VL3500Q moving lights, lighting designer Mikki Kunttu used Selador Vivid for sidelights and cyc lighting and Selador Lustr for lighting set pieces. He comments, "When we first started planning the show lighting, we talked a lot about how to make the production as 'green' as possible. We even considered getting rid of conventional lighting completely, but this proved to be impossible. Using LED for sidelights was something new for me and they worked really well - I was very impressed.

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UK - Early 2010 saw some of rock music's brightest new talents take to the road around the UK and Ireland on Kerrang! magazine's Relentless Energy tour. Comprising 11 shows in two weeks, with four bands playing each night, it was a tight schedule for the production crew. But with Yamaha M7CL and LS9 consoles on duty, it was a straightforward job for the tour's monitor engineers.

Stourbridge-based Stage Audio Services supplied the tour's audio equipment and technical crew. Monitor engineer Chris Wright manned the M7CL for opening bands My Passion and Young Guns and Welsh rockers The Blackout brought their own monitor tech who used the M7CL. Headliners All Time Low carried an LS9 and had a flexible approach - a backline tech or even a band member undertaking monitor duties.

"I really like the M7CL's user interface. It's very straightforward to use and easy to

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UK - UK loudspeaker and amplifier company OHM(UK)Ltd has appointed David Hackett as their fairground representative.

As a member of a well established Lancashire Showman's dynasty, David has long been an OHM user and an advocate of good fairground sound. Recently handling over the day to day running of his rides to his son David Junior, David has started promoting OHM around the fairgrounds in the UK.

"Fairgrounds bring a unique set of problems for the sound provider," says David. "The system must supply high quality music reproduction and clear safety announcements to the public whilst on the ride without interfering with adjacent attractions. I have used OHM for a number of years and I am pleased to become a dealer of their products."

"We have always been interested in the fairground sound business and now is an ideal time to be promoting British b

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China - Barco once again deployed its technology in bringing Chinese Central Television's annual New Year's Gala 2010 to life.

The spectacular gala event is broadcast annually on the eve of Chinese New Year by state-run China Central Television (CCTV). It is estimated that this year's show, held on 13 February, captured some 96% of the Chinese television viewing audience on the mainland and had more than 700 million-plus viewers worldwide, including large numbers of people watching the show live via the internet.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which has grown into a genuine cultural phenomenon since its inception in 1982, runs more than four hours and features a colourful assortment of diverse entertainment, including pop songs, dances, crosstalk, stage comedies and drama, acrobatics and other folk arts.

For this year's show, CCTV deployed a High Definition LED

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UAE - The Mubadala Development Company, sponsor of Etihad Airways' Scuderia Ferrari Formula One in Abu Dhabi, recently held its signature dinner at the Emirates Palace. The dinner was arranged inside the world's largest freestanding Dome Truss, built from Eurotruss elements. For control, lighting designer Paul Smith chose a grandMA2 system consisting of one grandMA2 full-size console and one grandMA2 light console, two MA NPUs (Network Processing Unit) and grandMA2 onPC software.

Mayar Abbas, managing director of Dubai Artistic Innovation, who delivered the lighting equipment together with InHouse Productions reports: "The grandMA2 was chosen as the lighting designer felt it was the best console for the job. The advanced programming functions were extremely useful, as well as the networking, allowing the grandMA2 light and grandMA onPC to become full tracking backup console

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USA - Touring artists, production managers and lighting designers can now get a hands-on look at dozens of the newest lighting and control products from Elation Professional at Music City Lab, courtesy of Theatrical Lighting Systems (TLS, Inc.). Located in downtown Nashville, Music City Lab was started by video screen manufacturer XL Video to give industry professionals the opportunity to view cutting-edge video, lighting and audio gear to help spark their creativity in designing tours and production events.

As a lighting partner in Music City Lab, TLS created an Elation showroom at the facility, featuring some of the lighting supplier's leading products and technologies. Included are Elation's EWDMX wireless DMX control system, Impression RGB LED moving head, Platinum Spot 5R with Philips MSD 5R lamp technology, Design Beam 300 spot/wash/beam projector, and Opti Tri Par RGB LED

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Germany - Following a successful NAMM 2010 showing, Behringer has decided to provide an experimental new Virtual Booth beginning 24 March at www.behringer.com. The virtual exhibit is set to launch in late March following a major partner event in China with 100 distributors, dealers and press in late February.

Chairman Uli Behringer said: "This online feature is a simple, high-tech solution that will allow visitors to view all of our new products, and gain valuable information on the brands without ever leaving the comfort of their living room."

Behringer continued: "Attending multiple trade shows can be costly and time consuming for our dealers. We believe this is an innovative alternative that just makes perfect sense. We also encourage customers to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and to check out the new product demos on YouTube."

At the upcoming Mus

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UK - The ISCE reports that it has received a record number of bookings for its seminars at ISCEx2010 (2 March). The programme includes: Andy Scott, SigNET AC on The Regulatory Reform Order (Fire Safety) 2005; Rupert Moon, ProAudium on The pitfalls of project managing, from specification to handover - relating to VA contracting; Anthony Smith, current tThinking on switching amplifier topologies - exposing the sub classes; James Kennedy, Peavey Electronics on Digital audio networking - which technology?

The exhibitors include: Ampetronic, Ateis UK Ltd, Baldwin Boxall Communications, BC Technology, Cloud Electronics, Communication Technology, CUK Audio, Current Thinking, DNH World-wide, Duran Audio, EAW, Fuzion plc, Gent by Honeywell, Ikon AVS, Institute of Acoustics, Neutrik (UK), Rackz, RCF, RK Sound Engineering, RW Salt Communications, Sennheiser UK, Shuttlesound Telex Communica

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Italy / Germany - Clay Paky has revealed its new product line-up for next month's ProLight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt - including the company's first LED screen product. Mirage LED curtain display will be on show in Frankfurt. Mirage is a semi-transparent LED display with video technology. The LED layout has a distinctive "fish-bone" structure, where the horizontal bars with the SMD LED are alternated with void areas, allowing an outstanding degree of transparency. The display structure is modular, consisting of square 640 x 640mm modules, and the circuitry is fully sealed, allowing both indoor and outdoor use.

Mirage is specifically designed for the rental market, featuring a robust structure and a quick, tool-less connection system that allows it to be assembled and hung on a truss system in a few minutes. Roadies and riggers will appreciate the light weight at ju

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics, distributors for Electro-Voice speakers until April, amplifiers and processors in the United Arab Emirates, have recently supplied new rental firm G-Force with the EV XLC line array cabinets.

"The XLC system is a great product from EV, we have a number of customers that are using the system in a variety of events," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing manager. As we have resigned from our position as a distributor of EV products this sale will be our last XLC system."

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - When Meyer Sound returns to ProLight&Sound this March, a new self-powered loudspeaker will be unveiled with features that will attract installation, corporate AV, and theatre professionals, says the company. Meyer Sound will also show off two recently debuted loudspeaker products, the CAL steerable column array loudspeaker and the JM-1P arrayable loudspeaker, along with an expanding line of low-voltage installation solutions.

At the AVnu Alliance panel on 26 March, Meyer Sound digital products executive director John McMahon and other industry heavyweights will discuss the emerging AVB audio/video bridging networking standards. The D-Mitri digital audio platform - the first Meyer Sound product to leverage the AVB technology - will be featured on the booth. Attendees can also learn more about D-Mitri at the Manufacturers' Forum on 24 March and the CAL steerable column a

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UK / Germany - Power amplifier specialist Chevin Research returns to the ProLight&Sound show in Frankfurt this year with a renewed focus on its sales and marketing efforts and with some new additions to their product range.With all international sales and marketing now handled by Andy Simmons at Audio Marketing Services, Chevin is looking at reinforcing their distribution network in preparation for the new products and technologies that will be introduced through the coming year. Martin Clinch, MD at Chevin Research, commented: "With the product plans that we have for this year we needed to 'up' our game on the sales and marketing front and Andy was the perfect fit. He brings his experience of the pro audio market to Chevin which is invaluable to us and we look forward to an exciting year."On the product front the Frankfurt show will see updates to the well known Q Serie

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Germany - Peavey Electronics has confirmed that it will be sponsoring the Agora Stage at the Frankfurt MusikMesse 2010, with a full complement of audio equipment from all the Peavey Electronics brands including Peavey, Crest, Mediamatrix and Architectural Acoustics. This year's headline acts on the Agora Stage are Monte Montgomery and Davy Knowles.

In fact, there will be two stages this year, both fully equipped with a Peavey Versarray line array system powered by Crest Pro 200 Series amplifiers. Featuring ribbon drivers, neodymium woofers, angle-adjustment technology and multiple rigging options, Versarray represents Peavey's entry into the line array market. Each stage will benefit from a Crest CV 20 48-channel console to handle FoH duties and a Crest HP-Eight (40 frame) to run monitors.

The stages are side by side and are being run as A and B stages, flip-flopping from one

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USA / Germany - Chauvet will bring five new products for production as well as clubs and DJs to ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt next month.

The COLORado 1 Tour is designed for touring professionals, features RGBW colour mixing from 42 1W LEDs. Colour temperature presets range from 3,200 K to 10,000 K. It responds to three, four, five, six or 11 channels of DMX control. Five distinct dimming curves provide smooth dimming to closely match conventional sources. PowerCon connectors as well as direct DMX in and out provide faster and easier connections.

The COLORado 2 Tour, also directed at touring professionals, boasts more and higher powered LEDs (48 2W and 3-watt RGBW LEDs with 15° or optional 30° lenses) than the COLORado 1 Tour, while offering the same improved dimming capability.

The COLORado Batten 72 Tour is a 39-inch long linear wash fixture equipped with 72 1W RGBWA

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Japan - Robe DigitalSpot 3000 DTs have been installed into the new Ibaraki Wedding Hall in Kenkyu Gakuin. The venue is a new-build venture operated by the company K.K. Felice in the busy commercial district of Kanto, 60Km north of Tokyo.

There are two wedding suites in this guesthouse style venue, each consisting of a chapel, garden and dressing room (called the Bride's Room), with a Banqueting Hall accommodating approximately 120 seated guests. This allows two weddings to take place simultaneously.

When it came to lighting, the owners were looking for something contemporary and completely different to make their venue stand out from others - the wedding market in Japan is fiercely competitive, and there are more than six other wedding facilities - including hotels - with the facilities to host weddings in the same business complex.

They approached Robe's Japanese distributo

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USA - Zinman Software has announced the release of PocketLD v2.0 which allows lighting professionals in theatre, film and TV to calculate the FC/LUX and beam/field Diameters for over 2000 fixtures and lamps.

V2.0 adds the functionality for users to edit the existing library, create their own fixtures and organize these fixtures into an improved Favorites List. New fixtures included in the library include Dedolight, K5600 and Kobold.

Developer Michael Zinman says: "This is our most ambitious update for PocketLD since it was released two years ago. I'm so happy with these changes and I'm confident our world-wide user base will find the new functions a great add."

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - At Frankfurt this year, Trantec's focus will be on the Channel 38 ready, S6 wireless system which builds on the success of the S6000 range, taking the 19", 8-way concept to a higher level. Trantec has now incorporated a comprehensive user interface on the front panel allowing the user to configure and monitor all channels, with or without an external PC. The internal circuitry of the S6 beltpack and handheld transmitter has been redesigned and upgraded, extending the frequency capability to a massive 80MHz.

Trantec will also be exhibiting S-D7000 - the world's first professional fully digital wireless microphone system that is already in use at GMTV for their presenters and guests. Features include 24 bit audio resolution, network monitoring for over 60 channels, and users can now benefit from over 20 user channels in an 8MHz TV band.

Other products on show incl

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USA - When Hurricane Gustav hit Baton Rouge in September of 2008, the damage effectively shut down the city for several days. At Southern University and A&M College, damage to 29,500-seat A.W. Mumford Stadium was significant but manageable. "It seems like a pretty minor issue but the truth is, losing the revenue generated by a home football game is significant," notes Henry L. Thurman III, director of the physical plant for Southern. "We had lost the entire sound system from our scoreboard as a result of the storm, and had to get it replaced inside of two weeks."

To manage the problem, Thurman contacted Tim Landry Sound Construction of nearby Mandeville, LA. "Mumford Stadium is a classic horseshoe shape," notes Tim Landry. "The scoreboard is at the open end and has to cover the entire stadium. That's a throw of over 400ft to the far end. The fi

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