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The Netherlands - Bosch Security Systems' CCS 900 Ultro Discussion Unit has been awarded a red dot award. This international design award is one of the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world, with more than 12,000 submissions from more than 60 countries. The award-winning products are put before an international public in the red dot design museum.

Bosch only recently introduced the advanced, compact CCS 900 Ultro Discussion System that makes it easy to manage meetings and is suitable for small- to medium-scale meeting areas, such as town halls, local business centers and courtrooms. Its discussion unit is designed to complement any interior, from new, ultra-modern buildings to traditional, centuries-old structures, says the company.

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UK - Adlib Lighting and Sound continue to service international comedy acts with the latest supply of full technical production for US ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. According to Pollstar, Durham was the top-grossing stand-up act in North America for the past two years as well as being the most successful touring comic in the world for 2009.

The sound design and spec was an open brief and Adlib's James Neale was asked to demonstrate his multiplexing abilities by designing and tech'ing the system as well as taking on FOH/monitor engineering duties.

Neale decided on a JBL VerTec PA, primarily because of its ease of use as a combined flown and ground stacked system. He knew that in the City Hall shows, he would have to split the arrays into these two positions to preserve the site lines and ensure that the seats around the sides of the stage had uninterrupted views - and this

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UK - SSE Audio Group will provide equipment and crew to many of the UK and Ireland's highest profile festivals this year. But this is the first year the company is going 'all digital' at festival monitor positions, a decision made possible by the acquisition of additional Yamaha PM5D-RH consoles.

The company has recently bought four more PM5D-RHs to add to its Yamaha rental stock, which now comprises ten PM5D-RH, two DSP5D, four M7CL-48, five LS9-32 and three LS9-16.

"Previously we've always had analogue consoles on festival monitors enabling us to cater for the wide variety of engineers who need to use them," says SSE's Alex Penn. "This will be the first year we've switched over to using only digital consoles, but it's a decision we haven't taken lightly, as all our setups need to be instantly accessible for any engineer to walk up to.

"The PM5D-RH is su

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South Korea - Opened in 2009, Chunma Art Centre at South Korea's Yeungnam University is a multi-cultural space which hosts a wide range of productions, ranging from the local to international. The installation of Alcons audio systems in its two main performance spaces has ensured that, whatever the event, all enjoy uniformly quality sound.

Located in the city of Gyeongsan, Yeungnam University is one of the largest South Korean universities outside of the capital, Seoul. The Chunma Art Centre has been built to an extremely high specification; It consists of seven stories above ground and two stories below ground, and it is one of the most technologically advanced arts centres.

For performances, the Art Centre comprises the Grand Hall with a seating capacity of 1,899 and a multi-purpose stage that can accommodate most types of performances, and the medium-sized Chamber Hall with

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Italy - A Dog On Tour Service, based in Cuneo, Italy, is a pro audio rental company that specialises in live rock, pop and jazz events. Owner Pier Francesco Leardi officially founded his company in 2007, but has been an HK Audio user since 1990.

Back then Leardi was working as a technician in a recording studio when he bought his first HK Audio sound reinforcement system - one that is still up and running today.

Knowing the reliability of his old system, Pier Francesco Leardi had no qualms about investing more heavily into additional active and passive HK Audio systems once his own company had finally been founded.

The HK ConTour Array system acquired by A Dog on Tour Service consists of four CTA 118 subwoofers and four CTA 208 mid/high units.

Leardi comments, "I have always been very satisfied with the quality of HK Audio products -especially with my good old 1990 sy

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UK - A special networking opportunity is offered by the combination of the Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference and the ABTT Theatre Show to be held in London from 13-17 June. This international conference focuses on the business of planning, building and equipping theatres and other venues for the performing arts and is held only every four years. Attracting specialists from all over the world it engenders communication between architectural, acoustic, engineering and technological disciplines and is extremely well supported by the manufacturers and suppliers to these industries. The three-day conference in the Central Hall Westminster is followed by two days of the ABTT Theatre Show exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Halls in nearby Victoria.

Led by Stage Technologies, many other important firms sponsor this event because it brings together such a wide range of p

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UK - Blackbox Recorder manufacturer JoeCo has announced the addition of four new companies to its international distributor network. Cairo-based Alpha Audio will distribute the products in Egypt, PT Kairos Multi Jaya in Jakarta will handle Indonesian sales, Sounddog Inc. in Seoul is the new South Korean distributor and Quanta Systems will represent JoeCo in Brazil. All have been appointed following successful meetings at this year's Frankfurt Musikmesse.

Launched during 2009, the award-winning Blackbox Recorder is currently represented in over 30 countries. The rack-mounted recorder attaches to any live console and enables up to 24 channels of 24 Bit / 96 kHz audio to be recorded, in Broadcast WAV format, onto a regular FAT32 formatted USB2 hard drive, or USB flash drive, without the need to take a computer to the performance.

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UAE - The Dubai World Cup 2010 incorporated the opening of the iconic Meydan Grandstand and Racecourse - the new home of the Dubai World Cup. An extension of the programme has meant that the meeting now stages a total of eight races, making the meeting worth a phenomenal US$26.25m.

Creative Technology were asked by lead creative agency M-is, to supply a turnkey audio visual solution for this international event, providing over 17 tonnes of equipment from CT's London office and utilising a variety of equipment and resources from its Dubai operation.

Creative Technology provided the events with a wide array of equipment ranging from cameras, vision mixing and a high resolution replay system to LED screens and high powered projectors. One of the events leading up to the main Son et Lumière, was an evening with Sting, where CT supplied a four camera, vision mixing and engineering

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UK - Video control solutions specialist SNP Productions has moved to new, larger and improved premises in Milton Keynes.

The move follows a busy year in 2009 and positive signs that 2010 will be even busier, providing hire, sales, training and support for video control solutions. The new warehouse and office space is modern and very flexible. It provides a larger office area and more storage facilities.

SNP has set up a dedicated training, prep and programming area. This allows clients and freelancers working on SNP supplied shows and events to visit, work on their material and programme elements of their shows prior to arriving on-site. SNP's Simon Pugsley says, "Being able to set-up and configure a media server system saves valuable time during production rehearsals. This also ensures that the correct equipment is supplied and tested before it leaves the warehouse."

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Germany - The Klimahaus 8°Ost in Bremerhaven looks like a giant droplet that a Bremen-based architect has placed upon the port facilities. It is a glass palace with a certain similarity to the Allianz Arena in Munich. The building is 125m long and 82m wide, a 1.5 kilometre path leads through the exhibition space of 11,500sq.m, running from Bremen via Switzerland into the deserts of Africa, the Antarctic and back via Samoa, Alaska and the Hallig islands. The journey follows the eighth degree of longitude, which not only gave its name to the project and marks its location, but also indicates the thematic aspects of route, places and climate zones.

Amptown System Company (ASC), responsible for the technical implementation was honoured with the Sinus System Integration Award 2010 in the information category for its sophisticated installation of audio, light, video, media and con

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UK - The International Nursing Research Conference, organised by The Royal College of Nursing, will bring some 500 nurses and practitioners to the North East. Delegates from Europe, USA, Israel, Hong Kong and New Zealand will make the journey, descending on The Sage Gateshead, where they'll discuss the latest medical research and developments.

Event production partner, R&B Group, who have worked with the RCN for some 15 years, will be providing their expertise again this week when the three-day event comes to town. The team will be responsible for audio-visual and presentation support for over 240 speakers. As well as providing daily video programmes about the event.

Project Manager Gavin Frost comments: "Having worked with the RCN for over 15 years, it's a challenge to keep each event fresh and creative and indeed to top expectations from the previous year but it keeps m

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Norway/UK - Norway's projectiondesign has recruited Matt Horwood as regional manager for the UK and Ireland. Horwood will be based in the UK office and work with Iain Ambler to build on the company's success into the specialist market and add focus to the Pro AV channel.

Horwood arrives at projectiondesign from Epson UK, where he had led a sales team covering specialist resellers and end users in the AV channel. Prior to that, he spent five years working in sales for the Pro AV reseller Reflex.

"I wanted to focus specifically on the AV channel and am very taken by the 'value add' and 'high quality' specialisms that are key components of projectiondesign's established brand," comments Horwood. "The company has significant growth plans and a strong foundation on which to build them, so the challenge is extremely attractive."

Chris Axford, director of intern

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UK Recently shown at PLASA Focus, the new Chroma-Q Color Charge LED fixture is a 600 lumen, battery powered, wireless DMX fixture which is suitable for any indoor temporary lighting application where wiring is a challenge or where install speed is critical, transforming a venue in minutes.

The Color Charge fixture's environmentally friendly design includes a recyclable long life battery cell and an interchangeable LED head for upgrading in the future. The nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) power cell delivers up to 30 hours usage from a single charge and provides up to 1,000 charges; approximately double the life of lead-acid batteries. The fixture also features a built-in mains charger that enables it to continue to be used while charging, and a gas gauge showing the percentage and hours of usage remaining.

The Color Charge features Wireless Solutions wireless DMX control and synchi

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Germany - At prolight+sound a logo on the Neumann stand alerted visitors to the fact that microphone manufacturer Neumann is now applying its electroacoustic expertise to the other end of the audio chain.

A few months ago it was announced that Neumann would add studio monitors to its product portfolio. This range is based on the products of the Klein + Hummel company.

Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of marketing/sales at Neumann Berlin says, "In the history of the company, Neumann stands for far more than microphone technology. Over the decades we have also produced record-cutting equipment and studio consoles, for example. Our expertise in transformer design - for the microphone - as well as in signal processing and digital audio technology, has already been demonstrated. In addition Neumann has a leading role in the area of high technology, which is successfully implemen

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UK/USA - Midas and Klark Teknik will be launching a raft of new products at InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas.

Additions to the Midas digital range as well as new standalone audio distribution systems and networking products from Klark Teknik will be unveiled.

The new arrivals will make Midas' digital technology more accessible to an even greater range of budgets and applications, as well as increasing connectivity, both within the Midas/Klark Teknik network and with regard to third party protocols, says the company.

"This is the biggest multi-product launch ever for Midas and Klark Teknik" says managing director John Oakley. "More people than ever will be able to use our products, with new consoles offering on the one hand more power and on the other lower cost entry to Midas mixing. They will also discover the versatility of our audio networking systems and how eas

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France - L-Acoustics has announced the launch of the Kara/SB18 Pilot Programme, having unveiled the concept at Frankfurt Prolight+Sound 2010.

The Kara/SB18 Pilot Programme will primarily involve existing members of the L-Acoustics Rental Network - in particular dV-Dosc owners interested in advanced field testing of the new system for corporate and special events through to concert applications.

The initial companies taking part in the scheme are UK-based rental companies SFL and Plus 4 Audio, French events specialist Impact Evenement, Wilhelm & Willhalm from Germany and global production company PRG, all of which are located near L-Acouistics headquarters and offices to facilitate close collaboration with the R&D team and technical support. Emphasis will be put on preset validation, system configuration and design, rigging and general system set-up and operation.

"We ar

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UAE - Robe UAE is a new operation launched by Czech Republic based lighting manufacturer Robe lighting to distribute and market their Robe and Anolis brands across all sectors in the United Arab Emirates.

The new office is in the Makateb Business Centre, Abu Dhabi. "We chose Abu Dhabi because business for events and shows here is very strong and expanding at the moment, and we want to be where the buzz is," says Elie Battah, Robe's Middle East regional sales manager, who will be the main initial point of contact there.

Robe already has a strong presence in the UAE, but with the increasingly complexity of some of its products - like the Digital series - it has become important to have direct manufacturer contact with the clients, and easy access to all the facilities needed to set up training seminars and full technical demonstrations, together with the full back up o

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USA - TT electronics OPTEK Technology's LED module strips and flexible LED light strips have been employed by Adirondack Studios in the design and fabrication of the Changing Earth exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibit includes a Magma Crawl display - a crawl-through fiberglass tunnel that uses a sequence of programmed lights and heating elements to simulate the flow of lava through the earth.

"With the design of not only the lava display on the inside of the tunnel but the eruption meter on the outside of the lava tunnel as well, it was imperative that we utilized high bright LEDs with a significant degree of controllability," said Jerry Panza, electrics foreman for Adirondack Studios. "OPTEK's LEDs are not only extremely reliable - we ran them for two and a half months non-stop (50K+ hours) and not a single LED dimmed or faile

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Uruguay - On 18 March Guns N' Roses brought their Chinese Democracy tour to the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo. Performing to an enthusiastic crowd estimated at more than 30,000 people, the outdoor concert employed a sophisticated sound reinforcement setup consisting of a large quantity of Aero Series 2 and Aero loudspeaker models from the catalog of D.A.S. Audio.

Three sound service companies united for this undertaking: Leggio Sonido (directed by Jorge Leggio), Ariel Marti's Marti Audio, and Victor Lampariello's Compañía Uruguaya de Sonido. Together, these three firms pooled a massive amount of equipment together and pulled off one of the most memorable hard rock concerts to hit Montevideo in some time.

Jorge Leggio, director of Leggio Sonido, reportsd, "This was an outdoor concert where the crowd was situated on the soccer field, in an area about 100m wide b

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France - An installation at the National Engineering School (ENISE) in Saint-Etienne is enabling students to gain a new take on visualisation techniques, thanks to a 3D solution from Norway's projectiondesign.

Conceived, designed and installed by systems integrator Immersion, the system uses projectiondesign F12 1080 DLP projectors and INFITEC stereo 3D hardware. Each projector is built into a custom-made rear-projection housing so that they are physically 'locked' into position. The projectors fire directly onto a vertically mounted, 2m wide Stewart rigid rear-pro screen, and onto a custom-built mirror and horizontal Stewart 'table' screen setup.

The result is a seamless 'L-shaped' projection surface that gives viewers a greatly enhanced three-dimensional impression of whatever image is being displayed. This in itself is a notable achievement, but the project is unusual in ot

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Belgium - Icelandic volcanoes notwithstanding, Innovason's Belgian distributor Amptec celebrated 20 years in business with a major 'open house' event which counted over 600 visitors over three days from 21 April. Visitors were treated to a factory tour and the opportunity to hear bands playing on stage, and then the opportunity to attend several different workshops during the day.

During the evening, guests were rewarded with a party and a concert. At the heart of all these proceedings was an Innovason Eclipse digital console which mixed the bands, recorded them, and then sent out the recordings over an EtherSound network directly to each workshop where participants could make comparative microphone listening tests, or try their own hands at mixing.

Innovason's Matthieu Le Failler managed the network and 'babysat' the various freelance engineers who were mixing the bands. He e

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