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Germany - The international Live Mixing Workshop is coming to the MusikZentrum in Hanover. From 20 to 22 September, sound engineers will have the opportunity over three days to work on all the audio aspects of a live concert - from set-up to the final encore.

The workshop will be held in English and will focus on all aspects of a live gig, including planning and setting up the public address system, miking and frequency manage¬ment, and finally fine-tuning the monitor and FOH sound. Prominent sound engineers and event professionals will assist participants, while the band Rauschenberger will perform the live act. The Live Mixing Workshop is organised by Sennheiser Sound Academy and supported by co-sponsor Yamaha, the SAE Institute and Fischer Amps.

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UK - During the summer months of August, Edinburgh transforms into one of the biggest performance spaces for the world's largest and most illustrious arts festival. Edinburgh Festival which takes place from 29 July through to 5 September presents artists and performers from around the globe.

Stage Electrics is one of the biggest suppliers of technical equipment to the Edinburgh International Festival and Festival Fringe.

This year, Stage Electrics will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of successfully supplying the prestigious Assembly Rooms.

Along side this, the company is supplying more venues than ever before, with over 55 performance spaces in total including the Gilded Balloon, Underbelly, Universal Arts, The World Festival and many other shows and venues around the city.

Adrian Searle head of technical and hire comments, "This year sees the Assembly Rooms cele

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UK - Entertainment supplier White Light has been appointed the exclusive UK distributor for i-Pix, manufacturer of the BB- and Satellite low-energy LED fixtures.

In the five years since the company's creation, i-Pix's products have proved popular with lighting designers for concerts and live events - including forming the core of the design for Radiohead's 2008 world tour, and more recently as a key element of the Kick Off Celebration Concert for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The current i-Pix product line-up includes the BB1 'building block' modular LED light-source, the BB4 LED washlight, the BB7 beamlight/washlight fixture, and the versatile Satellite.

"In our five year history, we have doubled our revenues year on year, and both our product range and expertise have increased," notes i-Pix founder Chris Ewington. "We have worked directly with l

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Canada - The CITT Trade Show will take place at the Halifax World Trade Convention Centre in Nova Scotia on Friday 13 August. The Trade Show floor will be open free to the conference delegates and public New this year, CITT will inaugurate its first Green Lab, an exhibit on green alternatives for the performing arts.

Confirmed exhibitors include: Christie Lites, Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), EPIC Production Technologies, GerrAudio Distribution, JD International, MDG Fog Generators, Ontario Staging, Roland Systems Group, ROSCO, Sennheiser Canada, Show Distribution, Technically yours Inc (TYI) and ZFX Flying.

A limited number of three-minute showcase slots are still available for the New Product Breakfast on Friday August 13 from 8am to 9am.. Book your slot today! Open to Trade Show Exhibitors.

A Conference highlight will be the Annual CITT Awards Banquet on Saturday 14 A

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Germany - MADRIX 2.9 has been made available only three months after releasing MADRIX 2.8 at Prolight + Sound 2010. The latest version of the lighting control software includes new features as well as major improvements in various areas. MADRIX users can update for free

The extra touch screen panel of MADRIX is one of the most used features. From now on, the special user interface can be adjusted more easily to the users' needs. You can choose from 3, 12, 24, 40, or 60 Storage Place buttons per side (A and B). The software automatically scales the user interface to its optimal size and according to the screen resolution.

MADRIX supports a lot of well-known industry standards, such as DMX512, Art-Net II, Streaming ACN, DVI, T9, and the Philips Color Kinetics and Insta/ROBE protocols. The application supports pixel mapping and is both an effect generator and media server with ca

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Europe - Pearl Jam engineer Karrie Keyes has taken a Midas PRO6, supplied by Rat Sound, out on the band's 2010 tour in support of the current Backspacer album.

This marks a digital first for Keyes, who has never before taken a digital console on the road. She has been mixing monitors since 1991 and, in recent years, more usually opted for a Heritage desk.

"In the past," says Keyes, "we have not been able to get (vocalist) Eddie Vedder on a digital because we've not got the sound quality but the PRO6 has really delivered. We have found no issues with latency and the band loves the sound."

Keyes herself quickly felt at home on the PRO6. "I felt pretty comfortable with it after the first show," she says, "and the factory support from Midas is amazing.

"The key to mixing monitors for Pearl Jam is keeping my eyes on Ed and the band

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UK - Paradigm Audiio Visual has appointed Gareth Houghton as sales specialist for the dnp Supernova front projection screens. A self-confessed gadgets and new technology fan, Houghton joins having returned from two years in Australia, after previously working in the print industry.

"All the core skills I acquired in that industry are transferable," he said. "I will be building up customer relations in this market, demonstrating to them the huge potential of the Supernova platform, and proving it to be the most superior front projection solution in the industry."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Audinate has announced the expansion of its US headquarters located in Portland, Oregon. In addition to serving as its US headquarters, the new facility will house its training and support centre.

"Our new training center provides our OEM customers a comprehensive support system and is a reflection of the significant growth we're experiencing," said Lee Ellison, CEO of Audinate. "We are also pleased to announce that Brad Price has been appointed as Sr. technical solution manager.'

Brad Price comes to Audinate with an extensive background in audio engineering, music performance and software product development. Working with GenevaLogic and Netop, he managed the development of networked real-time video software for school classrooms, providing technical communications and direct customer support services. Working with Phoenix Gold, he developed crossovers an

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UK - Martin Professional has appointed Mike Walker as the company's new sales director for the UK entertainment market.

Walker, who started in the position on 4 May, working from Martin UK's new London office, brings a wealth of AV industry experience with him. After working at the video rental company Creative Technology for 14 years, the last five as sales director, he operated his own independent audiovisual consultancy the past two years. His experience spans all segments of the entertainment and live event sectors.

Commenting on his hiring, Walker stated, "It is an exciting time to join the industry and one of the most important manufacturers in it. This is a time of great product development and innovation, including the convergence with video.

"It feels like a natural and logical career progression from video into the lighting and visual solutions business a

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USA - QSC has announced the addition of the CMX Series of power amplifiers to the line up.The new CMX Series amp line offers an economical and rugged power amplifier solution designed to meet the needs of system integrators, says the company. It is based upon the performance found in the award winning RMX Series.

"The CMX Series provides unmatched performance, the right power for the job, and an affordable price point," states Shawn Watts, director of installed solutions at QSC. "Because CMX Amps are built with QSC's proven and reliable power plant, integrators need not worry about return warranty calls that can hurt profitability."

The amplifiers are designed to deliver true and accurate sound performance and feature high-current toroidal transformers and filtering to ensure generous energy reserves, allowing the amplifiers to effortlessly handle high-leve

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UK Tannoy is teaming up with sister audio brands Lab.gruppen, Lake and TC Electronic to jointly exhibit at PLASA 2010, taking place at Earls Court 12-15 September. Located near the main entrance this year at the front of Hall 1, on stand 1-B10, Tannoy will be showing its leading fixed installation and live sound products including the flagship VQ Series (incorporating the latest developments in its 'tour ready' VQ Live guise) and smaller footprint, compact V-Series range of point-source loudspeakers.

Also on show will be the British manufacturer's award-winning QFlex digitally steerable array system, which has been winning favour in the install market as a solution for dealing with challenging and problematic acoustics.

On the power and loudspeaker management front, Swedish manufacturer Lab.gruppen will be exhibiting directly at the show for the fifth year running, with their

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UK - Jamie Oliver's Fabulous Feasts catering team made its debut into the festival food market last weekend at Cornbury Festival.

The Fabulous Feasts menu, designed specifically to suit the family-oriented Oxfordshire audience, was freshly prepared on site from their newly built bespoke temporary catering facility.

Hugh Phillimore, director of Cornbury Festival, comments, "Cornbury is thrilled to welcome Jamie's Fabulous Feasts to their first summer festival. Cornbury is famous for its family audience, its great music and wide range of international food; so it's a perfect fit for Jamie's new events catering company.The Fabulous Feasts team have shown that it is possible to bring fresh, tasty, responsibly sourced food to the public at large scale events like this one."

(Jim Evans)

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Malaysia - Aviom personal mixers are helping to tame the battle between monitors and front of house for the services at Tabernacle of Worship in Seremban, Malaysia. Established in 1983, the Tabernacle's congregation has grown to about 900 worshipers attending its weekend English and Chinese language services.

For years, the church battled with a poor monitoring system that did not effectively meet the needs of the musicians and singers in the worship band. Frustrated musicians complained that they could not hear themselves while the volunteer audio staff said the musicians' high monitor volumes made mixing for the congregation impossible.

As part of an upgrade to its monitoring setup, the church moved to an Aviom personal mixing system, installed by First Live Sound Sdn Bhd and supplied by Coda Audio Services Pte, to help overcome the challenges. With the Aviom Personal Mixers

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UK - AC-ET's Audio division has been selected as an accredited UK sub-distributor for Sound Technology's Harman Professional brand portfolio.The line-up includes AKG, BSS Audio, Crown Audio, dbx Pro, JBL Professional, Lexicon Pro and Soundcraft.

AC-ET has been supplying Sound Technology brands to dealers and end-users in the core production markets for many years. Combined with their sales and warehousing operations in the North and South of England, the strategic alliance provides Sound Technology customers with increased access to stock in the UK .

As part of the agreement, AC-ET holds stock and demo units of key lines in the Sound Technology portfolio, such as Soundcraft's latest Vi1 digital mixing console.

Sound Technology sales director, Greg Niven, comments, "Having enjoyed a close working relationship for a number of years we are very pleased to add AC-ET to our

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South Africa - An Optocore optical fibre system has been on duty in Johannesburg's International Broadcast Centre (IBC) for the duration of the football World Cup, where it has been used for signal distribution for one of Gearhouse Broadcast's major South American sports based clients.

The nerve centre for all television operations and the world's news agencies during the World Cup, the IBC was set up at the MTN Expo Centre.

Gearhouse Broadcast's head of sound, Ryan Campbell, configured a system for the Sports Programming Network based around Optocore converters. Analogue feeds were distributed to the Yamaha M7CL desk, fitted with Optocore YG and YS cards in the audio control room, with fibre distribution between the voice over booth and master control room - via a series of DD32E network devices and Optocore X6 I/O interfaces.

Says Ryan Campbell, "The Optocore rig util

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UK - RG Jones Sound Engineering provided Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage audio production for the third year in succession, after first working on the iconic stage in 2007 as suppliers of FOH and monitor control systems.

The south London-based company, the UK member of the Synco Europe Network, was lead contractor for the audio production. On the busiest weekend of the European festival calendar, with over a million watts of Synco by Martin Audio line array hardware deployed by Synco Network members at festival stages across northern Europe, RG Jones brought in London neighbours Capital Sound to supply the left and right PA hangs, and co-designed a cardioid sub-bass array with a Martin Audio team headed by Jason Baird.

RG Jones audio production manager and FOH engineer Steve Carr ran the crew on-site, with his 'wingman' Damion Dyer and system tech Mark Edwards, assisted b

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South Korea - Italian loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies has announced the appointment of Dongyang Tave as distributor in South Korea. Established in 2001 and now with a 30-strong team, Tave has grown to be one of the strongest distribution companies in South Korea.

"It was clear early on in our discussions that the range of dBTechnologies was exactly what we had been looking for," says Tave president, Se-Keun Lee, who met with dBTechnologies at ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt in this year. "All products are technically advanced and include digital powered speakers; they are at exactly the right quality and price point."

Lee continues, "We have been monitoring the growth of dBTechnologies and its expanding range for some time and feel honoured to have the opportunity to represent this strong and professional brand in South Korea."

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UK - Children's television favourite Peppa Pig is currently on a major UK tour, bringing a first experience of theatre to thousands of toddlers and pre-school children. Coping with an inherently noisy audience without having volume levels too high is a tricky balancing act, but one which front of house engineer Colin Allen and a Yamaha LS9 console are well in command of.

The tour is a genuine ABC of Britain's city and provincial venues, ranging in size from 500 to 1500 capacity. From having actors visibly working the puppet characters to a sound that's loud enough, but not overly so, everything is geared to making the show enjoyable and interactive - but not overwhelming or frightening - to its very young audience.

Designed by Ian Horrocks-Taylor and supplied by Blitz Communications, at the core of the audio system is a Yamaha LS9-16 mixing console, SB168-ES stage box a

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UK - Sennheiser UK has appointed Nick 'Biggles' Pemberton as business development manager for the company's Installed Sound division.

Pemberton joins Sennheiser from the position of digital systems manager at Yamaha Commercial Audio, where he became a familiar face in the industry and used his many years experience as a freelance sound engineer to aid a wide range of customers and end-users.

"Despite his nickname, Nick is thoroughly down to earth and a highly experienced audio professional," says Ken Morrison, business area manager for the company's Installed Sound division. "I'm delighted to welcome him to Sennheiser UK, where I know he will be a huge asset.

"As a well known and respected figure in the industry, he brings the strength of some great relationships within the installed and live sound industries and a vast technical knowledge. He will be wor

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Kenya - Italian-designed dBTechnologies sound reinforcement is a success in Kenya, where local distributor, Sound Creations recently selected DVX and Flexsys active boxes to kit out an event truck.

Decked with four DVX D15, two S20, two Flexsys F15 and one Flexsys F10 powered speakers, the vehicle is to be used for outdoor promotions of products and events in the region. Nipul Shah of Nairobi-based Sound Creations comments, "The dBTechnologies gear was chosen for its clarity; technically it's great. Without much effort the sound travelled almost 100m, with a really good bass. It's really easy to set up, and the price to performance ratio is a bonus too."

Commissioned by Siqqel Holdings, the truck's inaugural appearance was in the town of Tala earlier this month, where crowds gathered for a Mulika Mwizi event. "Everyone was satisfied and the occasion was a

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USA - Christina Aguilera illuminated by Coemar lights participated as special guest on Storytellers, one of the most popular TV shows in the US.

On air since 1996, Storytellers is a programme that bases its popularity on the intimate meetings between the stars and the audience who can ask their favourite stars questions. Over the years the programme has had guests such as Sting, Elton John, Alanis Morissette and Coldplay.

On 13 June it was the turn of Christina Aguilera, with lighting designer Tom Kenny opting for 16 Infinity ACL, 24 Infinity Wash XL and some 50 ParLite LEDs.

(Jim Evans)

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