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Denmark - Pascal A/S, the OEM design and build company, based near Copenhagen is expanding, and moving to larger premises.

The new address is: Pascal A/S, Literbuen 10B, 2740 Skovlunde, Denmark. Phone: +45 36 99 19 44. Web: www.pascal-audio.com.

Pascal is a producer and developer of amplifier modules for integration into high-power professional loudspeakers. They specialise in providing powerful solutions for the professional loudspeaker manufacturers which serve the international PA touring and systems installation market.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - An LED-powered version of Elation's popular Design Spot 250 Pro DMX moving head, the Design Spot LED is "loaded with all of the performance features required to deliver an unforgettable light show". Yet, at the same time, it's also "a no-nonsense practical fixture that saves energy, lowers shipping costs (because of its light weight) and simplifies maintenance".

At 48.5 lbs./22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot 250 Pro, yet produces a light output comparable to a 250-watt discharge lamp. It also offers the easy maintenance typically associated with LED fixtures, since its extended lamp life is 50,000 hours.

Like the original Design Spot 250 Pro, the new Design Spot LED features a variable Frost Filter, which allows it to function as a hybrid spot/wash effect. Other features include a motorised iris, motor

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France - For the past 12 years, Cyber Fest Noz has taken place in Brittany as one of the major cultural events for Bretons. For seven hours on 22 May, multiple bands had Breton people all over the world dancing via the Cyber Fest Noz website.

This year, over 200,000 people were connected via the Internet to the event, which took place at the Music Hall in Rennes. To transmit the concert via the Web, broadcast staff used eight high definition cameras, as well as a package of Martin lighting and control gear provided by rental company MES of Nantes at the request of SIWA director Jose Nedelec, who handled technical direction and audio for the event.

Lighting designer was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles who chose to use a Martin Maxxyz Compact lighting controller along with three MaxModules: MaxModule Button, MaxModule Submaster and MaxModule Playback. The Martin ran

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USA - Two-time Grammy winner Maxwell makes his much anticipated return to the stage this month, sharing the bill with Soul/R&B singer-songwriter Jill Scott. The spring-into-summer co-bill tour - which comes on the heels of the successful BLACKsummer'snight, Maxwell's first recording in eight years - will make whistle stops in major US arena markets through the end of June.

Both Maxwell and Scott's monitor needs are in the hands of a DiGiCo SD7, provisioned by Clair Global. For Maxwell's Clay Hutson - who has employed DiGiCo consoles extensively on tours with artists such as Garbage, Marilyn Manson, Pink, Prince and Velvet Revolver - this was his first opportunity to lay hands on SD7. For Jim Roach, who has worked with Scott for 3+ years, as well as Brian McKnight Joe Cocker, Keisha Cole and Boney James, his previous experience on DiGiCo consoles was limited to one-off, fl

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Norway - For many years LSC has been associated with the Eurovision Song Contest, supplying TDS 48-channel touring dimmers, e24 dimming systems and DMX distribution.

For this year's event, The National Broadcaster of Norway, NRK utilised a maXim M supplied by Multitechnic in Oslo for Stage Motion control, drapery, silks and drop downs.

The maXim finished up controlling a Kinesys K2, Chain Master products as well as six Wahlberg DMX controlled Winches, six Wahlberg DMX controlled curtain rollups designed specifically for the ESC and three DMX Beamslides.

(Jim Evans)

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Ukraine - Coemar has helped to unearth new stars in Eastern Europe. Successfully Got Talent, the talent show for amateur artists, has just finished in Ukraine, duplicating the success of the previous year which attracted 13m viewers.

For one evening the various contestants were illuminated by the same lights as those used for the great world artists, a deliberate contribution to the show by the lighting designer Maksim Balashov who used various Coemar projector models in order to create different atmospheres and emotions.

The impressive lighting installation created entirely by the Italian company, comprising over 120 projectors, illuminated a whole range of talents - dancers, singers, musicians, actors and many others.

Fixtures included the follow spots Testa 2500 and Testa 1200, and every moment of the performances was highlighted by 60 iWash 575, 30 I Spot 1200 and

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UK - HSL supplied all stage lighting equipment and crew to the Israeli Opera production of Verdi's Nabucco, staged at a new purpose-built open air site in the middle of the desert on the World Heritage site of Masada Mountain, by the Dead Sea in Israel.

HSL was brought onboard by Jerusalem and Tel Aviv based Stage Design, who supplied all the technical infrastructure for the high profile six-day event, and built most of the site. It was the first time the two companies had collaborated, which happened after HSL came highly recommended by several contacts.

HSL's project manager Mike Oates says, "We were delighted to win the contract. Working with the Stage Design team has been a real pleasure. They have the same vision and dedication to providing great service, cutting edge technology and top people as we do."

HSL sea freighted all the gear - which included o

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UK - White Light teamed up with regular collaborator event production company Private Drama to transform the Raphael Gallery at London's V&A Museum on behalf of clients Deloitte.

White Light's lighting designer Jason Larcombe designed a system to capture the atmosphere of the evening, lighting a performance stage and backdrop, and reinforcing the V&A's distinctive atmosphere in order to create a magical look and feel to the museum for the guests.

To enable the transformation, White Light made use of its extensive equipment stock, including some of its latest vision and media LED equipment which was applied to create a flexible and exciting backdrop to the range of performances, each differing in style and focus. White Light also introduced a range of automated LED equipment, accompanied by battery powered and wireless control systems allowing the lighting to extend to the far

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UK - When Raymond Gubbay staged his opera in-the-round Carmen spectacular in London's O2 Arena for the first time this summer, TiMax was called upon to help stitch together the audio as it has done successfully for the past 10 years of Gubbay's Royal Albert Hall productions. For a performance on such a large scale it was considered especially vital for the audience to localise to the individual performers if the English-translated libretto was to come across clearly.

Sound design was as usual the responsibility of Bobby Aitken, who consulted with Robin Whittaker of TiMax developers Out Board on how to appropriately scale up their Royal Albert Hall distributed source-oriented reinforcement concept. Chris Ekers handled system engineering and management with Autograph's Jim Douglas looking after supply and installation. Front of house engineer was Paul Stannering.

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Italy - Hollywood Service chose Proel Audio systems and Turbosound - in combination with 33 Powersoft amplifiers K series - to power the last edition of the World Alpine Rockfest!

The small town of Tridentine in northern Italy hosted a big international event in which many ski champions - such as Bode Miller and Davide Simoncelli - challenged each other to a ski-show, captured by many international TV stations.

Proceedings concluded with a performance by Placebo at the Concert Stadium, built on the Olympic slopes.

The finish area was powered with 16 Proel Axiom AX3210P, 16 Sub Edge 121SP, six Powersoft K10 digital amplifiers and two DSO480 digital processors.

For the sound inside the big structure built at the end of the ski run, they relied on eight Axiom 2265P, eight AX1115SP, two fly bar, three Powersoft K4 digitaql amplifiers and one DSO480 digital processor.

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Australia - Production Audio Services (PAS) has been appointed master distribution partner for Digigram throughout Australia.

Nancy Diaz-Curiel, channel sales manager APAC Digigram comments, "PAS was an obvious choice since their market coverage pretty much matches Digigram's core businesses." Diaz-Curiel also noted that the newly appointed distributor will be able to provide Digigram's customers with valuable expertise since at PAS "each business area is supported by a dedicated team of sales engineers, support personnel and a motivated management team".

"We felt that Digigram's very innovative products, be it state-of-the-art sound cards or advanced IP audio codecs such as the IQOYA range, would be a perfect fit in our product portfolio. Production Audio Services strongly believes that the Australian market deserves quality options when it comes to e

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China - Visitors to the Shanghai Expo have an opportunity to experience the performance of Genelec loudspeakers set amongst the best culture and technology of Finland. Many countries from across the World have pavilions at the Expo with each of the 190 participating countries showcases its art and design expertise.

China is expecting to receive almost 100 foreign leaders and up to 70m people from across the globe to visit the Expo. On 27 May a special Finland Day was held at the show with a special focus on music. Over 100 artists filled the day with performance styles ranging from folk, through to orchestral and electronic music, all with a Finnish flavour. As part of the day, the Sibelius Academy provided musicians to play the some instrumental parts of the music with Genelec loudspeakers delivering the sound.

"We are enjoying the experience of being involved in the Fin

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South Africa - Electro-Voice loudspeakers have been chosen to provide sound reinforcement in nine of the 10 arenas hosting the 2010 World Cup Finals which kick off this week, and in six of them the stadium announcers will also be using Electro-Voice wireless microphones.

Electro-Voice's partner in the region, Prosound won the commission to install the sound systems in nine of the 10 stadiums being used.

"Ever since founding the firm over 37 years ago, I have worked closely with Electro-Voice," says Prosound MD Terry Acres. "And with good reason - Electro-Voice systems are reliable, robust, evince exceptional mechanical quality and deliver clear and balanced sound. In short: they're the ones that best meet our requirements."

Over 2,300 Electro-Voice and Dynacord loudspeakers and a variety of EV REV-D wireless microphone systems have been installed in the s

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UK - The end of May saw East London enjoy one of its most colourful events, the Baishakhi Mela, with over 110,000 people keen to welcome the Bengali New Year. This record-breaking crowd enjoyed one of the hottest days of the year so far. AP Security's staff were on hand to ensure that everybody kept a cool head.

Baishakhi Mela is the biggest Bengali event in Europe and features a mix of a colourful parade, live music, DJs, dance, costume, arts, crafts and the best Bengali food outside of Bengal itself.

It was AP Security's second year providing staff at the event, the company's long working relationship with both the Metropolitan Police and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets ensuring that its safety and stewarding was seamlessly integrated.

"The Mela is a complex event and all our staff need to have a very clear understanding of what's required," say

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USA - Christie has added two new LCD projectors to its extensive product line-up - the Christie LWU420 and the Christie LW555. The LWU420 targets professional users demanding WUXGA high resolution and the LW555 fills the need for an affordable WXGA high brightness widescreen projector, says the company.

The Christie LWU420 is a 4200 lumens projector with WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution, making it suitable for small to medium sized venues including video conference rooms, meeting rooms and training rooms.

"With the Christie LWU420 we have an extremely high resolution product that is both compact and has the highest brightness in its category of LCD business projectors," said Christie business products product manager, Frank Anzures.

The 5500 lumens Christie LW555 projector features native WXGA resolution (1280 x 800), centre lens design with a fully motorised lens sh

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USA - Ten-piece Texas soul band, Memphis Train Revue, has employed a new touring sound system designed around Allen & Heath's iDR-32 MixRack, connected to a laptop in place of a mixing surface.

"Eliminating the mixing console frees up a significant amount of floor space, and that can be the difference in getting the gig, whether it's a club, theatre or ballroom," says James Duvall of Creative Engineering & Solutions in Austin, Texas, who manages the house and monitor mixes for the band. "It saved us a lot of money, too."

The iDR-32 MixRack provides all the inputs, outputs, processing and routing for the band.

"I love the fact that the iDR-32 gives me all those features in a rack-mount box that I can hide under the stage. I don't carry any outboard gear at all, and there's no sacrifice in functionality. When I was designing the system, I figured, why

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USA - Midas and Klark Teknik have launched a raft of new products at InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas.

The new products were unveiled at a press launch held yesterday, and comprised two additions to the PRO Series, the PRO3 and PRO9; the XL8i; a new range of Midas digital snakes and new digital audio format and sample rate converters from Klark Teknik.

The PRO9 tops the Midas PRO Series, providing an 88 channel input count and 35 buses, while the "cost-effective" Midas PRO3 will allow more touring riders and professional installations to take advantage of Midas' digital features.

The XL8i is a top-of-the-range addition Midas' digital audio line-up created with the install, theatre and house of worship market in mind.

All the new systems use exactly the same technology and components as the XL8 and PRO6.

Additionally, a full range of standalone Midas digital snake and

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USA - Barco is demonstrating a new enterprise collaboration platform at InfoComm. It comes with less cost and risk, in return for more flexibility and compatibility, says the company. This new system is compatible with any type of third-party flat panels, projectors and display systems.

Barco's new collaboration box, the XDS-100 enables quick and efficient decision-making in the meeting room by allowing users to display, drag and resize several sources on-screen simultaneously. These sources can be connected physically or pulled from the network, and even include other desktop computers. Because XDS works in a Windows interface, there is no need to learn new user protocols, and all operations happen with mouse and keyboard.

"We find that not just the biggest companies benefit from this technology. Collaborating in real-time with everything on screen at the same time, inst

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USA - Audio-Technica is exhibiting the ATCS-60 IR (infrared) Conference System from its contractor-exclusive Engineered Sound range of meeting/conference room offerings at InfoComm 2010.

The ATCS-60 is a fully self-contained wireless distributed audio system using infrared communications technology, designed for corporate, government and educational applications. The system offers "many impressive and practical features, providing ease of setup and operation, and eliminating the need for microphone wiring and ceiling speakers".

(Jim Evans)

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UK - DiGiCo has introduced the DiGiCo/Waves SoundGrid for engineers who want instant access to the benefits of Waves technology.

SoundGrid provides up to 16 low latency Waves stereo processor racks on the SD8 and SD9 - and up to 32 on the SD7, which is suitable for Front of House or monitor use.

The plug-ins include Mercury, SSL 4000 Collection, GTR3, JJPAnalog Legends, Studio Classics Collection, The API Collection and Gold, while other popular options for the DiGiCo console include L2 Ultramaximizer and C4 Multiband.

In addition to these benefits, the DiGiCo SoundGrid is also simple to use. Console-based MultiRack software allows you to set up, control, recall, snapshot and save Waves plug-in configurations processed on the dedicated, rack-mounted external server over a Stealth-Waves Ethernet connection, says the company.

The SoundGrid module itself is fitted inside the

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USA - Audio engineers using Apple Macintosh computers will have something to celebrate at InfoComm 2010, as Yamaha launches a Mac-compatible version of the M7CL V3 Editor and LS9 Editor applications.

The new version, to be available from August, means that the many Mac users in the industry will benefit from the most up-to-date features and capabilities for use with the M7CL and LS9 mixing consoles, says Yamaha.

"We are delighted to release M7CL V3 Editor and LS9 Editor for Mac to our console users around the world," says Kazunori Kobayashi, general manager of Yamaha's Pro Audio Division.

"The release of M7CL V3 Editor and LS9 Editor for Mac, as well as the recent introductions of the digital stage box friendly M7CL-48ES and Version 3 upgrades to the M7CL series, reflects the feedback from our customers, incorporating relevant upgrades to give both existing an

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