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USA - DOE has announced plans for a new consumer education initiative that will be timed to the upcoming changes in light bulb regulation. The initiative will provide greater awareness of the overall benefits of the legislative changes and new, 'greener' technologies, such as LEDs and CFLs.

Joining DOE at the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Market Introduction Workshop in Philadelphia for yesterday's announcement were representatives from GE, Philips, Cree, and Osram Sylvania, as well as major retailers including The Home Depot, Costco Wholesale and Grainger. These partners are already on board to work with DOE in this effort, and its is anticipated that many more will follow their lead.

Millions of people will start paying a lot more attention to the common light bulb in the coming

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UK - A plethora of Midas digital systems were used across this year's three-day T in the Park festival held in Scotland earlier this month. Britannia Row deployed three XL8 live performance systems at FOH on the main stage, while Scottish rental company EFX Audio supplied two XL8s for FOH on the Radio One stage.

Midas digital systems were also very much in evidence as headlining acts brought their own to the festival. These included a PRO6 and XL8 for Dizzee Rascal; FOH PRO6 systems for Faithless and Florence and the Machine and PRO6s at FOH and on monitors for Paolo Nutini. Rap artist Jay Z also arrived with an XL8 system for his appearance on the main stage.

On the Radio One stage, it was in-at-the-deep-end for many of the engineers who were using an XL8 for the first time. EFX set up the two XL8s in tandem, using the 431 active splits to enable them to access all the mics a

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UK - Chauvet has announced the arrival of the Q-Spot 260-LED and the Q-Spot 160-LED. The Q-Spot 260-LED is a moving yoke luminaire equipped with a 60-Watt white LED providing a hard-edged spot output, similar to a 250W discharge fixture, without the costly lamp changes or high energy consumption. The Q-Spot160-LED is a moving yoke equipped with a powerful 20-watt white LED - comparable to a 150-watt fixture, with a lux measurement of 7,641 at one metre, which is 46 percent brighter than the Q-Spot 150-LED which it replaces.

The Q-Spot series is designed for small- to medium-sized installations, as well as mobile applications, particularly those with low ceilings, where heat emissions may be a concern. Both fixtures are lightweight and feature long-life LED light sources, which mean less need to climb ladders for lamp changes and benefit in regard to energy efficiency. Additional

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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USA - Vulcan has been providing entertainers the ability to record while on the road with built-in recording studios as part of custom bus designs for their touring coaches. Clients of the Birmingham, Alabama area-based company range across all mainstream genres of music, from Willie Nelson and ZZ Top, to Garth Brooks and Timbaland. Most recently, Vulcan provided a coach for seminal hip-hop label Cash Money Records, home to best-selling artists including Birdman, Lil Wayne, and Drake.

The recent Cash Money Studio Coach conversion features Genelec monitoring - the Prevost H3-45 Luxury Coach employs a pair of Genelec 1038B Tri-amplified Monitors as the main monitoring system, augmented with a pair of 7070A Active Subwoofers. Cash Money's Studio Coach hit the road mid-June from its home base in Miami.

The new studio has a rear monitoring wall loaded with Genelec 1038B's, as well

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France - L- Acoustics has announced that is holding a series of demonstrations for its new Kara modular line source/SB18 subwoofer system, currently undergoing its pilot phase. The demos will take place at the company's headquarters in Marcoussis, France and Oxnard, USA, and are being held in French and English.

The presentation days will begin with a company overview of L-Acoustics and a tour of the premises followed by an introduction to the Kara/SB18 system, rigging demonstration, listening session, A/B test with dV-DOSC/dV-SUB and a Q&A session to round off proceedings.

"We are very pleased with the great feedback we've been getting from these demo days, especially from dV-DOSC users," says Stéphane Ecalle, L-Acoustics' marketing director. "With a design inspired by the K1 stadium system, Kara delivers a considerable amount of improvements over the pr

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UK - Netherton lies a few miles south of Dudley, in the centre of the Black Country. It is bounded on three sides by canals, the first motorways of the industrial age and now one of the major tourist attractions of a revitalised area that has brushed off its blackened, sooty past and become unashamedly 21st Century.

This fits the new build that houses the Champions Church at Netherton to a tee. Designed by Level 7, the same team that produced the celebrated Waterfront at the nearby Merry Hill canal basin, their church is defiantly 'now' in design. The venue itself echoes the semi-circular shape of the building which, together with the raked nature of the eight hundred and fifty seats in the amphitheatre, presented the audio installation team with something of a challenge.

A d&b audiotechnik loudspeaker system was chosen by Phil Goldsworthy and Tim Mortimer from Wigwam Acoustic

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Serbia / Romania - When Massive Attack's international tour rolled into Eastern Europe in late June, playing the Belgrade Arena and the Bucharest Zone Arena, the audio production at both venues was a fully-fledged collaboration between two of the region's Synco Europe Network members - Audio Konstruktor of Serbia and Paradigma Group of Romania.

The PA consisted of 50 Synco by Martin Audio W8LC line array loudspeakers, flown in hangs of 16 cabinets per side for the main PA and nine a side as outfield, along with 18 Synco by Martin Audio WS318X triple-18" subwoofers. Front-fills comprised six Synco by Martin Audio W8LM Mini line array units with six Synco by Renkus-Heinz 18 RR subwoofers. The whole loudspeaker system was driven by Synco amp racks with XTA processing, together with a Lake drive rack, and delivered more than 140kW of power.

Dave Bracey mixed FOH for Massive A

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South Africa - Three grandMA full-size consoles and a grandMA2 light were used to control nearly 500 high powered light sources for the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 World Cup, staged at Soccer City Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg. The 2010 Closing Ceremony event was produced by the VWV Group, it featured a cast of 740 including 40 elephant operators and 35 principal artists and has been acclaimed as one of the best and most visually exciting World Cup Closing ceremonies to date.

Lighting for the occasion was designed by Tim Dunn and Hugh Turner. Dunn also programmed and ran the show, with all the lighting equipment supplied by Gearhouse South Africa. Tim Dunn and Hugh Turner are both experienced lighting designers. Dunn has numerous spectacular stadium shows to his name, which combined with Turner's vast theatrical experience, made them the perfect visuals team to create a memorab

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USA - Since launching in 2009, EV-Innovation loudspeakers from Electro-Voice have become among the company's most in-demand products for permanent installation, thanks to their combination of audio quality, versatility, and value, says the company.

Lift AV of Renton, Washington has successfully incorporated all three model types currently available from the EV-Innovation family - EVA (Expandable Vertical Array), EVF (front-loaded), and EVH (horn-loaded) - into complete AV design/installation projects at houses of worship in their region. Justin Friesen of Lift AV described two such recent projects in Yakima, Washington - one of which, at Stone Church, is notable as one of the first US installations to utilise all three EV-I models at a single site.

"Stone Church was a full sanctuary remodel with an extensive audio, video, and lighting installation," Friesen explains.

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USA - For the sixth year in a row, Aviom's Personal Mixers have helped performers at the International Drummers for Jesus Celebration hit a high note. With the number of performers ranging from 20 to 100 and very little time between acts for major setup changes, the Personal Mixers allowed those on stage to create their own customised mix while offering maximum flexibility.

Founded in Dallas, Texas, in 2002, with the first international celebration taking place 2004, Drummers for Jesus is a worldwide network of drummers and percussionists who use their music to spread the message of Jesus Christ. The International Drummers for Jesus Celebration, held by members of this network, is a two-day event that includes a concert, workshops, master classes and exhibits, bringing together some of the top drum artists in the world.

"I've been told that the audio logisti

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USA - Historic buildings tend to go through changes over the course of time. All too often that means they meet an unfortunate end, becoming little more than a collection of fading memories hovering over a new parking lot - which was exactly the fate the McPherson Opera House faced, until it was saved from destruction in 1986 by the McPherson Opera House Preservation Company.

One of the most prominent buildings in the downtown core of McPherson, Kansas, the opera house is known for its acoustics and has hosted everything from Vaudeville shows and films from the golden age of cinema through to political rallies and suffrage meetings. Correspondingly, says Michael Dunn of Sounds Great Music, designer and installer on the project, "They wanted a sound system that performers would find not only adequate, but impressive" - One that would provide not only good, natural sound

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UK - Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Vaizey has indicated that the Government's compensation package to those being evicted from the 800MHz spectrum will only encompass 6% of the frequencies being cleared. This puts the large-scale live events, from the West-End to major TV entertainment shows, on notice because it threatens the small businesses that supply them.

The package covers channel 69, but the Government has exploited technicalities to avoid paying out to those high-end users that tune to channels 31-37 and 61-68, which are also being cleared. It is these additional channels that are needed to produce large-scale events like the Olympics.

Save Our Sound UK responds: The excuse the Government has given is that notice of eviction was given. But what seems to be continually ignored is the fact that no precise alternatives were provided or even now have been published.

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Nigeria - Home Front Technology has been appointed VMB's exclusive distributor for Nigeria. The West African company will be distributing both lifts and audio and has taken stock of various models of VMB lifters, ADP Series cabinets and Lynx line array.

One of their first jobs was to welcome Nigeria's new president, Goodluck Johnson on a visit to Akwa Ibom State. VMB has expanded into the African market in recent years with line array in Morocco, Angola, South Africa and now Nigeria.

Home Front Technology's Segun Adekola commented, "We are really pleased to be working with VMB. We have been following them for some time now and really like the product they have been introducing. The systems sound so good and we are sure that soon the line arrays especially will be a formidable part of the Nigerian and African entertainment market."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Black Light is gearing up for its biggest ever Edinburgh Fringe. For 2010, the light, sound and AV specialist is operating across more than 30 venues and working closely with some of the event's biggest promoters and companies. Over the three-week festival the company will be supplying over 16 miles of cabling and enough Prolyte truss to stretch half way along Princes Street.

Black Light has been one of the principal suppliers to the Fringe for over 20 years. In 2010, it is continuing its partnership with the Pleasance, which is running shows in 25 venues across the city. It is also supporting C Venues with their staging, and supplying rigging and staging to Zoo venues: Southside and their newest venue in the Roxy Art House. The company also has an on-going relationship with Dance Base and has invested in the D&B E series audio range in order to service the company's needs.

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UK - When Kingston University's Drama and Dance Department decided it needed to add a bright yet compact fixture to its equipment stock, able to give dramatic colour washes and more without the complication of ordering scrolls or the weight of moving lights, it turned to White Light to supply the new SeaChanger Nemo fixture - the first Nemos to be supplied in the UK, and one of the first to be supplied in Europe.

Building on the strengths of the established SeaChanger dichroic system, which adds colour mixing to existing ETC Source Four fixtures, the SeaChanger Nemo is a new profile spot that uses the LIFI Plasma lamp as its light source. This plasma lamp gives the Nemo 10,000 lumens of light output from just 285 watts of power - more than from a standard 750W HPL lamp - from a source that also has a 15,000 hour life and a very white light, with a colour rendering index value of

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UK - Le Mark's mirror effect stage floor was used in the resent Tampax Mother Nature TV advertisement. The set was built by Cheshire based Pravda 41 who were looking for a highly reflective, mirror effect surface for both the main set floor and also to be used as a supporting background feature.

"Le Mark's StudioTak is a brilliant product, we found it really easy to use and the effect it gave was better than we had expected. We also used a Mirror Effect portable floor in the background, which was suspended from the studio roof to give the set a bright and modern feel. Combining the Mirror Floor with the huge silver sequin screen, white dome lights and white leather sofa gave an ultra clean look. " says Jane Carroll of Pravda 41.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - AC-ET's Video division recently supplied event production company Onebigstar with an InnovaLED display system to provide the video effects backdrop for this year's Glastonbudget music festival in Leicestershire.

Glastonbudget is one of Europe's largest tribute band and new acts music festivals. The event is directly linked with charity Soar Valley Music Centre, which over the years has trained thousands of young people from all backgrounds and given them a route into the industry.

Now in its seventh year, the 2010 festival featured over 130 acts across three days billed as Britpop V USA, Bands of the 80s and International Superstars. Artists included Atomic Blondie, Blings of Leon, Blurb, Coldplace, Dubpeche Mode, Duran The Tribute, Four Fighters, Green Date, Guns 2 Roses, Mercury, Oasish, One Step Behind, Re:Verve, Status of Quo, Stereotonics and The Jam'd.

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UK - SFL Group has installed an L-Acoustics Kiva ultra compact line source system into the New Community Church Central Hall venue in Southampton, used for prayers and worship, New Community training courses, performance and arts events.

Built as a Methodist hall in the 1920s, Central Hall has been owned by the New Community Church since 1989, and the installation was part of an ongoing renovation project. With a seating capacity of up to 800, the tiered venue has seating blocks at both sides of the stage, as well as raised seating at the back of the hall.

"Central Hall has an intimate, inclusive feel, with people sitting around three sides of the stage," says SFL's technical director Mark Payne. "Sometimes the stage is moved forward so it's almost in the round. The installation called for lots of horizontal coverage as it's very wide, plus a lot of vertical cov

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UK - As a parting legacy, retiring head teacher at Farnham Heath End comprehensive school in Surrey, David Hoggins, has presented new incumbent Nick Phillips with a progress technology wing which is light years ahead of anything generally found in the state school sector.

Costing just over £500,000 to develop (with the aid of judicious management of their capital budget and a £100,000 local authority grant), the aptly named 21C technology block took a year to build, and fulfills the Head's dream of providing "complete immersion in an environment where the children can interact wirelessly on any level."

The facility features GestureTek GroundFX interactive floor projection system and GestureTek Screen Xtreme, installed by Digital Vision AV. GroundFX integrates interactive 2D and 3D visuals with sound, thus enhancing the interactive feature and further imme

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Hungary - When Liga TV decided to move into HD production for its new Sport 1 OB van, the console of choice was a 32+8 fader Solid State Logic C100 HDS with an SSL MORSE Stage Box. Liga TV specialises in providing production services for live sporting events, large scale music concerts and other live events. The new OB van is the first to offer HD capabilities in Hungary. The choice of the C100 HDS was based on console features, versatility, ease of use and SSL's reputation for reliability and service.

"When we did research on the audio console for the new HD OB van, the SSL C100 HDS quickly rose to the top of our list," says Vilmos Váradi, chief accountant for Liga TV. "Console features were of primary importance in choosing the C100 HDS. This console absolutely fit the criteria for our live broadcast applications, giving us the power to easily handle events as

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UK Eastbourne Music superstore Bonners is hosting a special ' Meet the Experts' day at their Langney Road location on Saturday 21 August to celebrate a major showroom refit in association with Yamaha .

The day promises a combination of expert advice, live music performances and offers a rare opportunity for local musicians to get top tips from some of the UK's leading music production specialists. All experts will be available throughout the day to discuss and demonstrate recording and music production techniques.

The latest professional audio equipment will be on show including the Pocketrak mini recording studio which "is transforming the way many musicians on a budget record music". The company is even inviting guitarists to bring their personal acoustic instruments along, to try out with the latest technology.

Bonners Music MD Tony White comments, " This i

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