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World - For Michael Bublé's Crazy Love world tour, monitor engineer Craig Brittain is employing a DiGiCo SD7 console.

"I switched to a DiGiCo D5 at the beginning of our last tour, two and a half years ago. I fell in love with the sound, the versatility and flexibility of it," says Brittain. "At the time I happened to catch a glimpse of the then-unlaunched SD7 under lock and key in a back room at DiGiCo. So when audio company Solotech suggested purchasing one for me to use on this tour, the decision was a no-brainer."

The show's monitor setup is complex, with 90 inputs and close to 60 outputs. "We have an intricate talkback system, click tracks and various other things, which pushes up the count," says Brittain. "With that number,

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Norway / USA - Building upon its presence in providing projection display solutions to specific niche markets, Norway's projectiondesign has created a new visual simulation specialist team.

The impetus for this move is based on strengthening regional support and the new team comprises Mike Raines, Håkon Andersen and Javier Delgado, totalling more than 40 years of combined experience in the training and simulation fields.

Chris Axford, director of international sales & marketing at projectiondesign, says: "We already have a strong regional sales force, partner network and education scheme in place and the addition of this new team is a significant step forward. They bring the right industry knowledge and experience that will significantly reinforce and grow the success and niche market use of our high performance projectors."

Based in Orlando, FL, Mike Raines will

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USA - The 2010 Tony Awards were announced in New York City last night, with the Donmar Warehouse's production of Red leading the pack with six awards - more than any other single play or musical production. Red won best new play, best director (Michael Grandage - artistic director of the Donmar) and best featured actor in a play (Eddie Redmayne). Other members of Red's British creative team also came out on top, with Christopher Oram winning for best scenic design, Neil Austin for best lighting design of a play and Adam Cork for best sound design of a play. Austin, who earlier in the month won the Drama Desk award for his work on the same show, was actually nominated twice in the category, the second nomination for the Donmar Warehouse's Hamlet.

The musical La Cage Aux Folles, which began life at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, south

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UK / Poland - During the last month Ohm has completed a series of successful road tests of the new Ersa Major line array.

Over the May bank holiday weekend in England, Ersa Major was used at Premier League Stoke City's Player of the Year event in the Britannia Stadium which was an enjoyable and successful experience for thousands of supporters.

The sound system comprised of 16 Ersa Major mid/high cabinets and 12 PUKK-218 subs, amplified with Ohm CFU amplifiers. Witnessed by a number of Ohm's worldwide distributors and sound production companies the 68,000 watt system gave" a completely even sound coverage and excellent clarity, exceeding everyone's expectations".

At the same time in Poland the ERsa Major was also getting good results in a series of concerts with many top international acts, including ex-Genesis guitarist Ray Wilson and leading Polish band LZ

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UK - Prolyte is a Gold Sponsor of the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference (ITEAC) currently being staged in London.

Promoted at the event, Prolyte Theatre Products is a strategic alliance of partners Prolyte Products Group, Silicon Theatre Scenery and Silk Production Design, focusing on the theatre market.

"We have valuable know-how to offer to this audience of architects, consultants, installers and theatre professionals; not to lecture, but to add to and share with the already existing knowledge. This conference offers a special mutual leaning opportunity for the benefit of our customers and end-users" states Michiel van der Zijde, product manager for Prolyte Theatre Products.

The presence of Prolyte Theatre Products as Gold Sponsor at the ITEAC is supported by a team of sales and technical representatives who will be attending the confe

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USA - The deadline for nominations for the third annual ESTA Rock Our World Awards is 1 July 2010. The awards recognise groundbreaking achievement by ESTA Members in new products, product applications, or projects. These awards were created to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of technology and the designer or integrator who applies the technology in a real world environment.

The awards are an outstanding marketing and promotional opportunity for nominees and winners. Finalists and winners are featured in Protocol, multiple press releases distributed to industry media, on the ESTA website, and at the LDI show and ESTA Dinner.

Contestants for the 2009 awards showcased a wide variety of new products and product applications from the simplest problem solver to complex uses of technology that extended the boundaries of the entertainment technology field. Pro

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UK - Musician and producer Mr Hudson has just completed a successful headline UK May tour and is now the support for Jay Z on his sold out arena shows, before performing at a selection of festivals including Isle of Wight and Wireless.

His monitor equipment already featured a Sennheiser G2 in ear system, which, says monitor engineer and stage manager Jimmy Nicholson, are an industry standard. But when Nicholson started working with Mr Hudson in April of this year, his familiarity with the company's equipment prompted the addition of Sennheiser microphones to the audio inventory.

"We are using a combination of G3 and G2 935 mics, and G2 IEM systems. In addition, I'm using a Net-1 and a laptop running Wireless Systems Manager," says NIcholson.

"I specified all the equipment in use except the IEM systems, which Mr Hudson already owned - in the absence of the G3 o

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South Africa - Johannesburg- based DWR Distribution has hosted the first Philips Vari-Lite technical training sessions in South Africa, a five-day intensive course led by Vari-Lite's technical trainer Todd Kessler from Dallas, USA.

The course saw 11 people become certified Vari-Lite technicians, including five from DWR, whose Duncan Riley organised the workshops following recent significant sales in the region, including to rental company, Gearhouse South Africa and the newly kitted out Supersport HD Studio at M-Net, where VLX Wash luminaires were supplied by AV Unlimited.

DWR has built its success and reputation on providing the very best service and technical support, so as soon as the sales were confirmed, it became essential to train up their own team. Says Riley, "We also realised that there was a demand for training from the companies who will be involved with using

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UK - An innovative lighting scheme based on a system used by American fire and rescue trucks will provide the finishing touch to the refurbishment of one of Edinburgh's most famous landmark buildings. The system, designed by Edinburgh-based lighting company Black Light, comprises 14 lamps that will illuminate the upper level and copper dome of the Usher Hall. The new lights will be hidden when not in use and will be deployed using a system of pneumatic masts like those used on the roofs of emergency vehicles in the USA.

"When we were handed this project we looked everywhere for the right technology and found the perfect solution in America. The air-powered mast system we've chosen has successfully established itself as a necessity in Fire Departments across the States," says Craig Collin, Black Light's technical manager. "Although we're using it in a slightly diff

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USA - Bosch Security Systems Communications Systems Division has announced the addition of two new product marketing managers to its Burnsville, Minn.-based team.

Mark Andersen has been appointed product marketing manager, Bosch Public Address. Sally Neubauer has assumed the position of product marketing manager, ProSound-Retail.

Both will support the Americas Region by developing and implementing marketing strategies for their respective product lines, acting as focal points for the voice of customer in the process. Both positions report to Brian Divine, sr. product marketing manager, ProSound.

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UK - Hawthorn will be exhibiting at ABTT once again this year. They will be featuring some of the latest additions to their hire stock, including ETC's Congo lighting desk.

Hawthorn's installation team have been installing ETC control and dimming equipment, including Congo desks, into many venues and been very impressed by their reliability and flexibility. Head of installations Alan Jackson, said, "This allows us to provide additional support to our customers and add servicing of Congo's to our ServiceSafe portfolio."

Hawthorn's hire manager, Dave Slater, commented, "We've received nothing but praise for the Congos from a variety of venues, so adding them to rental stock was the logical next step; there's already been a lot of interest from our customers."

Alan Jackson, head of installations at Hawthorns, will be on the stand this year to discuss Service

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Indonesia - L-Acoustics' Indonesian representative Tri Tunggal Abadi has installed a Kudo line source system into the new Gerej Bethany Suko Manunggal, one of Indonesia's largest churches. Located in Surabaya, Jawa Timur, the church can accommodate gatherings of more than 3,000 people.

The system consist of two hangs each of 10 Kudo cabinets and four SB28 subwoofers, making this the first church installation in Indonesia to use Kudo with flown subs. Three 12XT coaxials are used for front-fill, with two 112P for the pastor's monitor system and two 108Ps as stereo keyboard monitors. The system is driven by one LA4 and 12 LA8 amplified controllers.

During the installation phase, Tri Tunggal Abadi carried out extensive acoustic treatment to absorb and diffuse two long, parallel reflective walls, which were causing much reverberation in the room. Germain Simon and Cedric Montresor

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UK - Ateis UK is reinforcing its commitment to the audio installation sector with the appointment of a new sales executive to concentrate on this market. Matt Collman has joined the company to take charge of its non-voice alarm products.

As installation audio sales executive Collman is responsible for Ateis' professional installation product ranges, which include the new Echo Cancellation System, UAPG2 DSP audio network, IP-based products and the Magellan counter intercom system.

Collman previously worked at Harman UK in its service sales support division. Most recently he was with games company Atronic, handling pan-Europe sales.

Commenting on his new role at Ateis UK Collman says, "I've wanted to move back into the pro audio market for a while and spent some time researching Ateis and its expanding product range. Ateis ticks all the boxes in presenting a challenge to

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UK - Artistic Licence has announced the release of a new range of exterior / interior LED products called Flexi-Strip.

Flexi-Strip is a range of standard LEDs on a flexible circuit board, encapsulated within a flexible, clear silicone tube. Rated at IP67, the encapsulated housing protects Flexi-Strip's LEDs from moisture, dust and damage making it suitable for both internal and external applications, in dry or wet conditions. Each strip is backed by a self-adhesive tape so it can be attached quickly and easily in any location.

Flexi-Strip comes in a variety of colour options, full colour RGB, warm white and cool white. The RGB colour mixing versions comes in Bright and Super-Bright intensities.

For control, a direct voltage feed (12V) can be used for continuous illumination or an Artistic Licence Rail-Pipe can be added to allow dimming via DMX.

Rail-Pipe can be controlled

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USA - Unveiled this week at Infocomm in the USA, the new S-MADI REAC Bridge from the Roland Systems Group "opens the door to a multiplicity of digital connection opportunities" for REAC products such as the V-Mixing Consoles, M-48 Live Personal Mixer and Digital Snakes.

Inspired by high levels of interest in the M-48 personal mixer system from manufacturers and users of large-format consoles, notably the team at DiGiCo, engineers at Roland have designed a bi-directional signal converter between MADI and REAC, (Roland Ethernet Audio Communication), the proprietary protocol developed by Roland to meet the market's need for a point-to-point 24 bit/ 96kHz, low latency digital audio transport.

The S-MADI REAC Bridge enables connectivity between any MADI-equipped digital audio mixer/system and any of Roland's REAC products, enabling the use of the award-winning V-Mixing Co

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China - Hong Kong's Ocean Park reports that 3m visitors have ridden Ocean Express in the first 10 months.

Theme park design company, Sarner, was responsible for the creative and technical implementation of Ocean Express, which is a fully immersive show that has already captivated and visitors whilst transporting them from the Waterfront to the Summit at Hong Kong's Ocean Park.

Once guests embark the submarine-like carriages, they are 'transported' below sea level and fully 'submerged' deep into the Ocean thanks to underwater visuals and cleverly created programming from Sarner's technical team who made use of sophisticated audiovisual technology, animation and surround audio effects. The mesmerising visuals are viewed on 42 ceiling mounted Samsung LCD screens which look like windows into a colourful and true-to-life underwater world.

Although the passengers fee

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China - Global Infusion Group (GIG) are now fully Licensed and operational in Shanghai, China. Following five years of research, which included two years of negotiations and 6 months of design and build, their new catering kitchen and restaurant was approved by the Chinese authorities last week and opened for business.

The GC Brasserie, (taking its name from the initials of the German Centre where it is based in the Pudong region of Shanghai), is a beautifully designed modern interpretation of a traditional French Brasserie.

Whilst the 100 cover restaurant with its adjoining BBQ and Beer Garden is serviced by its own dedicated kitchen, the impressive facilities extend a further 400sq.m, built to the latest catering requirement under Chinese law. Already these facilities have been put to work with clients queuing up for the outside catering services offered by GIG Asia. Already

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Cyprus - The Four Seasons luxury hotel in Limassol has finished a complete renovation of its sound system, counting on D.A.S. sound systems to help get the job done. This complex is equipped with 300 rooms, six restaurants, four bars, several multipurpose conference rooms, a spa and a shopping area, among other amenities, as well as several swimming pools, Jacuzzis, terraces and a private beach.

The installation was carried out by FSD Electronics. Their technical staff, led by Andreas Loizou, chose the D.A.S. Variant and Reference systems to properly set up the resorts various lounges and restaurants.

The D.A.S. Variant powered compact array systems were installed in the main multipurpose room, which comes equipped with a small stage for live performances. A total of eight Variant 112A systems accompanied by six Variant 18A subwoofer units were installed, forming a powerful sy

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USA - Wireless Solution Sweden once again joined the lively crowd of Coachella, California's fastest growing music festival.

The three-day Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival held 16-18 April in Indio, California near Palm Springs used the W-DMX system to achieve otherwise impossible cabling for an event of this size.

The production company for the site lighting at Coachella was Visions Lighting of Placentia California run by Todd Roberts. The system consisted of a single W-DMX BlackBox S-1 transmitter and 20 receivers controlling 20 7kW Falcon moving lights from A&0. The lights were mounted on 30ft towers, surrounding the festival area. An 8dBi omni antenna was at the transmitter, and each receiver had a 24dBi grid antenna. The longest distance was 2033ft.

Roberts comments, "The W-DMX system worked perfectly, this was our third year using it since it's proven

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UK - Mid-May saw BBC Radio 1 stage its annual Big Weekendtwo-day festival, this year in Bangor, Wales. Featuring some of the contemporary music scene's biggest acts and most well-known Radio 1 DJs, an equally high profile was enjoyed by Sennheiser UK.

For the UK festival season's first major outdoor event, the company worked closely with audio providers Britannia Row and Adlib Audio to supply equipment and on-site support to the main and second stages throughout the weekend.

All main stage presenter microphones were SKM 5200s with KK 105 heads, while all main and second stage in-ear monitors were ew 300s. An A5000-CP antenna and Vulcan launch system were also deployed on the main stage.

Artists using Sennheiser equipment included Cheryl Cole (custom SKM 5200) and main stage headliner Florence and The Machine (SKM 5200 and 2000 Series IEMs); Faithless (SKM 945 G3), Diz

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USA - Barix AG announces that Calvary Baptist School and Church, located in the Houston metropolitan area, is using Barix Audio over IP equipment as a core part of its multi-zone voice and audio scheduling system for K-12 classrooms. The campus is also installing a Barix Annuncicom 1000 two-way IP audio device to stream music and announcements to eight outdoor zones during school days and worship-oriented events.

Calvary Baptist School has approximately 225 students spread across seven buildings, some of which mix elementary, junior high and/or high school classrooms. The school was seeking an audio and notification system capable of distributing scheduled events, including bells and announcements, to seven distinct zones. The zones are segregated by grade levels instead of buildings, which required an intelligent system that could clearly recognize the specified PA points withi

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