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UK - London's Albany Theatre has invested in a new grandMA2 ultra-light console to replace their old lighting desk. The Albany in Deptford east London, is a busy producing and receiving house, and one of London's leading performing arts venues. The decision to go with grandMA2 was made by head of production Fiona Greenhill and technical manager Ben Wallace.

Hosting many one night theatre shows and a host of interesting music gigs, they wanted a multi-functional console that would be good for busking and fast programming 'on-the-fly' as well as for handling detailed pre-programmed shows.

grandMA was initially recommended to the Albany by lighting designer Lawrence Stromski, and originally they thought it would be beyond their budgets, but then Greenhill and Wallace took the oppor

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Hong Kong - Sa DingDing, a Grammy nominee and winner of the BBC Radio 3 World Music Award in 2008, performed two concerts at the Hong Kong Star Hall for the 38th Hong Kong Arts Festival. Shalom AV Technology provided a Meyer Sound Milo line array loudspeaker system for the event.

Named by The Times as the Asian Björk, Sa DingDing sings in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Mandarin. By mixing traditional Chinese melodies and Buddhist prayers with electronic instruments, she has inspired many with a spiritual musicality reproduced by a Meyer Sound system.

"Milo was used because it not only provides the power we needed for the size of venue but also gives us the dynamics," states Roland Chan, concert engineer of Shalom AV Technology.

To cover 3,600 spectators in the four-level Star Hall measuring 30,000sq.ft, a Meyer Sound system with 16 Milo and four Milo 120 line array

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UK - The first Mic to Master training weekend of 2010 attracted an enthusiastic audience when it took place earlier this month at Deep Blue Sound in Plymouth.

More than 40 students, engineers and producers attended the two-day event, which was organised as a joint initiative by high end recording and broadcast equipment manufacturer Prism Sound/SADiE and JAMES, the education arm of the Music Producers Guild (MPG), the Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS), and the UK Screen Association.

Phil Harding, chairman of JAMES, said, "It was a fantastic weekend that attracted good support from the industry and delivered key insights into some very pertinent topics. Many of those who attended expressed their delight in being able to learn from professionals who were willing to share their expertise and impart some useful tricks of the trade."

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UK - Occupying the former Neve premises in Litlington, Cambridgeshire, Absolute Professional Audio offers a wide range of sound demonstration, design, installation, commissioning and training services. At the heart of the company's premises is a state-of-the-art studio, where a Yamaha 02R96VCM is providing much-needed versatility.

The company moved to the new, larger Litlington premises from nearby Melbourn because of ongoing expansion. A major attraction of the new building was a studio featuring a live room and two edit suite/control rooms, which had seen very little use and was in immaculate condition.

"It was a fantastic opportunity to create a high quality demonstration and training facility and also to set up a cutting edge recording studio," says Absolute Pro Audio's Phil Darke. "The first thing I did when everything was wired up was to mic up the new Yam

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Italy/UK - Proel (International) has announced the UK launch of the Xenia range of Italian designed install loudspeakers for use in a wide range of environments where high quality sound needs to be complemented by a stylish, contemporary appearance.

The tough polypropylene housed Xenia series utilises high-definition soft dome tweeters and high-efficiency woofers providing superior audio quality and reliability, says the company. An important plus for installers is that the 3" and 5" models in the range, come with an innovative bracket design, designed to aid installation during building construction.

The Proel Xenia mounting system allows installers to attach the mounting bracket to the wall and fasten the cables into a connection at the rear, making Xenias suitable for installation during a first fix, when there is still dust being created and work going on in the

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China - Community Professional Loudspeakers and its Chinese distributor, Sanecore Audio, recently hosted the first SynAudCon seminar to be presented in China. Christine Howze, vice president of Community and a big advocate of SynAudCon's audio education seminars, approached SynAudCon in 2009 with the concept of presenting Audio Principles & Applications to audio professionals in China. With SynAudCon on board, the event and seminar logistics were coordinated by Howze, Sanecore's Chinese sales president Jun Zhu and SynAudCon owners Pat and Brenda Brown.

The two and a half day training was held at the IAG Club in Shenzhen. More than 50 participants, consisting of Sanecore audio engineers and audio professionals from all over China, enjoyed the presentations by Pat Brown. The course was offered in English with Chinese translation provided by Tao Zhang, a US based technical a

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UK - RTW has announced the European debut of its TouchMonitor series. The TouchMonitor TM7, with a 7" touch screen and the TouchMonitor TM9, with a 9" touch screen, will be on display for attendees at AES London 2010 this weekend.

"With the launch of the TouchMonitor series, RTW is defining an entirely new category of product that will not only help audio professionals meet current loudness standards, but does so in a more interactive, intuitive way," says Andreas Tweitmann, managing director, RTW. "We are excited to share such a sophisticated, powerful solution with our friends in the audio industry."

In addition, the TouchMonitor's inventive modular software components allow it to be customised so the user only purchases what is absolutely necessary, making this new series of audio meters a truly cost-effective solution, says the company. Furthe

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UK - Having enjoyed enormous success at the recent PLASA Focus Show in Leeds, entertainment lighting supplier White Light is now bringing the same extensive range of lighting products from the many manufacturers it distributes in the UK to the 2010 ABTT Theatre Show in London next month.

Making one of its first public appearances in the UK will be Robert Juliat's Aledin LED profile spot which will be shown alongside the award-winning RevEAL colour-mixing LED washlight that is already attracting great attention in this country, plus the JB A7 Zoom moving LED washlight.

Other LED technology on show will include the LDDE LedCyc9 cyclorama lighting panel, and the Coemar StageLite LED FX asymmetric floodlight. Both products will be shown alongside others from their respective ranges, including Coemar's Infinity Spot M, ACL M and Infinity Wash S moving lights, and LDDE's SpectraWow+

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UK - With his strong marketing background, Aztec Event Services MD, John Robson, immediately seized the opportunity to fill a gap in his company's rental fleet after seeing the Christie MicroTilesT launch at February's ISE Show in Amsterdam.

"I surround myself with good technical people, but my strength is seeing opportunities - that's my niche," he says. "There was clearly a buzz surrounding MicroTiles, and I could see immediately it was the product I had been looking for."

Aztec was originally formed in 1989 but Robson took over one of its divisions following a successful MBO in 2006. Around half their work is in the exhibition sector and while they see opportunities for MicroTiles in this area. Last year they also set up a creative arm, Aztec Digital, enabling them to develop their own media.

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UK - Summit Steel supplied a wide selection of its SmarTmast range to the Royal Windsor Horse Show, which were deployed around the main arena to provide an elegant solution for the flying of video displays and PA and lighting points.

Summit were working for equestrian event specialists and show producers Horse Power, and have supplied the show for the last five years, during which time its rigging requirements have steadily grown in scale.

This year, there were additional technical requirements, utilised for both the Horse Show and for the Windsor Tattoo, which was staged on four of the five evenings of the Horse Show.

Two 6 x 4m LED screens, each weighing approximately 1.2 tonnes were positioned at the ends of the arena - one straddling the warm up paddock entranceway, and the other at its opposite diagonal corner. These relayed competition and public information as well as

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Germany - Late during the evening of 17 May 2010, only a few days after his 98th birthday, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fritz Sennheiser, audio pioneer and founder of today's Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, passed away. The audio industry has lost a huge figure, not only in terms of his technical expertise but also in terms of his humanity.

Through his company Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser had a crucial influence on the development of sound transmission technolo¬gies and was instrumental in forging many ground-breaking developments in electro¬acoustics and transmission technologies. Under his guidance the first shotgun microphones and open headphones were created and he oversaw important developments in wireless radio and infra-red transmission.

It was completely natural for Fritz Sennheiser to give his developers the "creative and technical freedom" they required. His humanit

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UK -The Trantec stand at The ABTT Theatre Show next month will focus for on the Channel 38 ready, 'Racked'n'Ready' systems - The S5.3 system, packed with a powerful set of features, offers "12 channels of pure value for money"; the S5.5, 24 channel system and the S4.16, an entry level 16-channel system.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The 2010 Classical BRIT Awards was broadcast live from Earls Court with a Midas XL8 handling front of house for the first time, provided by Britannia Row Productions. Sound designer and live sound coordinator Derrick Zieba specified the XL8 after using it for the 2010 BRIT Awards in January, demonstrating Midas digital mixing systems' rapid uptake for large televised events.

"This is a very exacting audience of industry professionals, who are used to hearing the best possible quality of recordings," says Zieba. "We wanted to match that quality, but also to lift their experience above that so that they know they're listening to a live orchestra. The XL8 does this imperceptibly; it effectively vanishes while delivering an incredibly complex mix to every corner.

"I've been doing the Classical BRITs here for six years, and the sound of

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UK - Concept Audio, a technical event supplier based on the South coast and specialising in large scale events, concerts & tours has recently acquired an Allen & Heath iLive console from LMC Audio Systems.

Danny Schurer, company director at Concept Audio, comments, "Having worked with most digital desks on the market, we felt that the Allen & Heath was the best value for money whilst being the most intuitive to use in the environments we were going to employ it in."

Currently providing technical production for the Warner's 2010 Strictly Come Dancing tour,

Concept Audio are using the iLive for this as well as various other projects during tour breaks, including the upcoming Madehurst Festival in Sussex. Martin Daley, sales manager at Allen & Heath, who visited Concept Audio personally to demo the iLive comments, "Danny and the team responded enthu

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New Zealand - Team Hybrid, a team of budding filmmakers, have used their DPA 4017mk2-R Shotgun Microphone at the regional finals of V48Hours, New Zealand's largest annual film contest.

Team Hybrid's boom operator, CJ Withey, recently purchased his 4017mk2-R from DPA's New Zealand distributor, Amber Technology NZ, taking advantage of the mic's new features. This includes improved RF immunity, a further reduction in perceived high frequency noise and low cut filter modification, with the lower -3 dB point changed from 300 to 120 Hz. Like its predecessor, the shotgun comes complete with a kit of Rycote weatherproof systems.

V48Hours attracts thousands of moviemakers, from experienced film directors to enthusiastic newcomers across New Zealand. This year, 700 teams pooled their talents to create a short film in just one weekend. Teams are assigned a genre at the star

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Canada - Visual Productions has confirmed Montreal based Theatrixx as its distributor for the Canadian market. Theatrixx is known in Canada as both a distributor of lighting, video and audio equipment as well as an international manufacturer for its cable and AC distribution systems.

During Prolight+Sound, Theatrixx CEO Jacques Tessier began to envisage the potential for Cuelux - the platform independent software lighting controller - on the Canadian market and on his return to Canada placed his initial stock order, confirming the Distribution deal.

On Theatrixx' appointment as Visual Productions distributor, Tessier states, "This line of products is offering tremendous amount of possibilities for learning lighting programming for beginners as well as doing highly sophisticated programming for experienced designers; for both live and permanent installation. With the Visua

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USA - Lee Rose was the innovative lighting designer for the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards; an event that celebrates the best in hard rock and heavy metal. Featuring artists such as Rob Zombie, Slash, Dave Grohol, Lemmy Kilimister of Motörhead, and many more, Rose had to create an environment that matched the vigour of performances. To generate a vibrant force of energy he chose to use the MAC 401 Dual by Martin Professional.

Rose has used the MAC 401's previously on both the ABC Disney Christmas Parade special and Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eveand stated, "For this show I had the concept of an updated 'wall of light,' like was done with PAR-64's in the heyday of heavy metal tours. I knew, from my previous experience, that I wanted to build this 'wall' with MAC 401's."

He created the spectacular look by hanging three rows of 14 fixtures

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Italy - A blend of rock, folk, classical and Celtic music is reviving the legend of King Arthur under the Infinity S lights by Coemar.

Excalibur, the Celtic rock opera created by Alan Simon, boasts a cast comprising icons from the '70s and '80s. In fact, there are over 100 international stars in this show including Alan Parsons, founder of the Alan Parsons Project, John Helliwell of Supertramp and Martin Barre, guitarist with Jethro Tull.

After the success of 2009 at Kaltenberg Castle in Germany with an audience of over 17,000, the show is now on tour in 12of the most important cities in Germany and Switzerland and is already scheduled to be performed in other European countries in the summer of 2011.

Swordsmen, knights and dancers in medieval costume perform on a stage with central dais designed in the form of the legendary sword. A spectacular lighting installation

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Portugal / Germany - During the recent visit of Pope Benedict XV1 to Portugal, approximately 220,000 people attended an open air mass held on 14 May in the northern city of Porto. Fohhn PT-9 Waveline line array and Linea Focus LF-220 electronically steerable loudspeaker systems were used to relay sound in the main stage and VIP areas during the mass.

In the large open space close to Porto's City Hall, two towers each with 12 PT-9 line array speakers were positioned approximately 30m from the sides of the main stage, providing coverage for between 60,000 and 80,000 people. In front of the stage, two Linea Focus LF-220 electronically controlled column speakers provided direct sound for approximately 1000 VIP guests. Such were the crowds that in neighbouring side streets additional loudspeakers were used to relay the mass to those unable to reach the main area.

Uli Haug, Fohhn Au

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Qatar - Creative Events, a major rental firm based in Doha, Qatar has acquired a fourth Midas console for their inventory. The company already boasts a Heritage 3000, Legend 3000 and a Verona. The new purchase is their first Midas digital console in the form of the PRO6.

"Creative Events already owns more than one digital console but this is their first Midas console that is digital," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing manager. "After they were able to compare the audio quality from their inventory of digital consoles, the conclusion is that the Midas PRO6 is significantly superior."

(Jim Evans)

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Denmark - Hasseris Kirke in Aalborg, Denmark has an established reputation as a centre for re-invigorating the Protestant Church through music. "Our church is interested in developing new rhythmic music for services, so we invite composers from all over Europe to come and visit the church with their compositions," says Mogens Jensen, organist and musical director at Hasseris Kirke. "We are concerned with nurturing a creative environment. By finding new music through folk songs or contemporary composition we are creating music that relates to people today, making the path to church smaller, shorter, easier."

Smaller, shorter, easier is a suitable mantra for Jensen's path to achieving that special musical environment. "The church is barely 50 years old and is stone built in the traditional style for this part of Northern Jutland. I chose a d&b audiotechnik

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