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Switzerland - The opera house in Zurich has installed a new communications system from Riedel Communications. Riedel delivered a flexible system combining Artist digital matrix intercom and Performer partyline technology.

At the heart of the installation at the opera house is a Riedel Artist 64 digital matrix intercom system. Due to its redundant power supplies and CPUs the installation provides maximum system stability. A total of 11 Artist 1000 control panels are used.

A C44 Performer digital partyline system interface provides the seamless integration of 10 Performer beltpacks. Riedel Performer combines the flexibility of traditional partyline technology with digital audio quality and provides excellent quality of speech transmission.

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UK - Following the launch earlier this year of its radio controlled LED lights, R.A.T. (Music Stands) is extending its suite of radio controlled accessories. Responding to customer demand, and after identifying further unmet needs in the market, the company has developed two new components to add to its RAT Radio System portfolio. These will debut at PLASA 2010.

The Radio Controlled Power Pack consists of a radio controlled socket and a rechargeable battery, enabling completely wireless control over any 24V appliance plugged into the socket. Other voltage outputs are available to order.

The Radio DMX Bridge Receiver eliminates the need for DMX cables when controlling any DMX enabled device. The transmitter and receiver form a wireless bridge between any wired DMX outlet and the DMX input to the device. The only requirement at the device is a mains socket or a battery to power

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Germany - With the completion of Lawo's new production facilities, consoles from Innovason, the French manufacturer of digital live systems, will be assembled at the Lawo factory from July 2010. Relocating the final assembly of Eclipse consoles to Rastatt, Germany, is Innovason's response to the growing demand for its latest console, says the company.

According to Innovason's product manager and customer service director, Hervé de Caro, the move offers significant benefits to Innovason customers. "With the increased demand for Eclipse, we had reached the limits of our manufacturing capabilities at our own premises in Plougoumelen. The move to Rastatt will significantly increase both the speed and efficiency of the production process. We will also be able to take advantage of the fact that Lawo actually manufactures many of its own components, which are naturally of t

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UK / Spain - SES Entertainment Services, the UK's leading manufacturer of power distro, has appointed Bofill & Asociades in Madrid as the sole distributor for its products in Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearics. Gordon Cooper of SES commented: "Having worked with Bofill in the past, we realised that there was great potential in appointing them as our distributor, and this has already been proven by way of a steady influx of orders and some very big enquiries for our range of permanent panels. The team at Bofill understand the market and already have a good portfolio of clients and other manufacturers, and we are very pleased to be able to sign this deal."

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On The Fringe - The Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, has begun its three-week run in Scotland's capital. More than 21,000 performers will take part in 2,453 shows at about 250 venues across the city and beyond. Organisers are hoping to build on the 'staycation' success of last year's box office record 1.8m tickets sold. It is the 64th time the city has hosted what Fringe chief executive Kath Mainland calls the "greatest show on earth".

Mainland said ticket sales were strong and she was looking forward to a "successful" festival. She added, "We live in uncertain times. I think the thing about the Fringe is that it is an entirely open access arts festival. We don't decide who should take part in it. We don't decide how big it should be. We don't decide what the make-up should be. It will be interesting to see how it responds

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UK - Multiform will be displaying their latest products on the stand of Apollo Design Technology their US distributor at stand 2-R24 at PLASA 2010. They will be represented by Markus Grimm from Adelto Europe who handles their European distributor sales. Products include the following:

The MultiSpot HP uses an array of 9 pcs. of the new 3W MulTriCell LED devices, it delivers 27W of solid state lighting power, while "perfecting Multiform's UCO (uniform colour output) approach, leaving the days of visible red, green and blue LEDs behind". The lens panel with 36 mm Clear Pass lenses has a beam angle of 30 degrees, to suit most applications. The MultiSpot HP uses temperature controlled fan cooling and a silent switch-mode power supply meeting all regulatory approvals as well as the four-channel DMX control.

The MultiBeam HP marks Multiform's top-of the-line model for indo

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UK - Belfast-based Production Services Ireland (PSI) supplied lighting for the two main venues of the 2010 West Belfast Festival (August Feile) which is Ireland's biggest community festival.

This followed on from PSI's work for organisers Féile an Phobail for their Spring Festival and Comedy Festivals earlier in the year. PSI's Sean Pagel says, "It was a great pleasure to work on this event and come onboard right at the start. This gave us the chance to demonstrate how investment in production values can really enhance the look and feel of an event."

PSI designed and supplied lighting for The Marquee in Bank Square in central Belfast and for all the action taking place in Andersonstown Leisure Centre as well as for a selection of other one off venues including schools, community centres, youth clubs and a monastery.

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USA - Audio-Technica has announced the appointment of Mark Donovan to the newly created position of sales engineer - installed sound, reflecting the company's continuing dedication to the installed sound market sector. The announcement was made by Audio-Technica US vice president of sales Marc Lee Shannon.

In his new position, Donovan will work closely with Shannon and the rest of the sales team, serving as Audio-Technica's primary technical resource for installed sound contractors, consultants and architects.

"On behalf of the Audio-Technica sales department, I welcome Mark to the team," stated Shannon. "Mark has a true passion for audio and a wealth of experience, and we look forward to working with him to continue to penetrate the installed sound market sector. He is a real asset to A-T and our customers, and we are lucky to have him on board."

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Italy - Link has announced the first multi-protocol digital snake system to implement Dante into their DGlink Stage Box system. Audinate's Dante solution provides a self-configuring, plug-and-play digital audio network that uses standard Internet protocols. Dante is a scalable solution that works on both 100Mbits and 1Gigabit Ethernet and coupled with Link's unique hybrid approach, "offers the end user a distribution system that will improve audio quality and simplify setup," says the company.

"The addition of Dante significantly enhances the audio transport capabilities of our system while making it more flexible," stated Marco Piromalli, president of Link. "And we've come to recognize the many benefits Dante has to offer the marketplace".

The DGlink digital audio distribution system leverages a long lineage of eurocable analogue/digital cables,

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Australia - Wireless Solution Sweden will be showing the newest revolution of Wireless DMX control, W-DMX Generation 4 to Australia during Integrate 2010 in Sydney. The product will be demonstrated with the ULA Group, W-DMX exclusive distributor in Australia, 24-26 August at the Hordern Pavilion and Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park.

Training courses for W-DMX will be available three times daily during Integrate 2010.

Visitors to the ULA booth will learn about how the new G4 product line brings new features to the award-winning W-DMX line of products.

ULA operates not only as the exclusive distributor and importer of W-DMX (along with some of the world's leading entertainment and architectural lighting brands) but in fact as a working partner. Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solution says, "ULA has been an extremely strong partner to W-DMX for a long time, and our

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UK - After a year of substantial growth across European markets, TOA Europe has a host of innovative products to demonstrate at PLASA 2010, all of which are being seen at the show for the first time.

Sure to attract attention is the Type H line array loudspeaker, the most compact, aesthetically pleasing and affordable line array TOA has ever built, which barely a year after its release is already finding favour in large, reflective public spaces where intelligibility is difficult to achieve and hanging space is at a premium.

Also on display is TOA's modular audio-mixing system, the D-2000, which can be expanded up to a massive 128 input/output configuration. This makes it suitable for venues such as hotel conference suites, convention centres, sports halls and places of worship, where future expansion in the form of new rooms or extensions need not be at the expense of adding

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UK - At PLASA 2010, Harting is featuring its range of connectivity solutions specially tailored to communication and control applications in lighting, sound and automation systems for the theatre, concert and indoor/outdoor event sectors. In addition to new additions to its industrial connector family, Harting is also featuring a new Ethernet-based switching technology known as Fast Track Switching.

A key product is the Harting Han(R) family of heavy-duty connectors, which are increasingly being used on concert stages and in theatres. At PLASA, two new products within the Han(R) family are being introduced: the Han-Yellock(R) industrial connector series and the Han-Eco(R) range of high-quality plastic connector housings.

The new Han-Yellock(R) connector series incorporates a number of features that make it suited to use in stage automation, concert lighting and power distribut

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USA - The largest Optocore single ring network ever installed is currently in use in the Cirque du Soleil's Viva ELVIS production at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

Optocore's president, Marc Brunke, and North American director, Bill Coons, originally demonstrated the Optocore system to Cirque du Soleil sound designer Jonathan Deans and Matthew Ezold, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander's audio video systems consultant for Viva ELVIS. Based on feedback given during the demonstration, Optocore accelerated development of a server-based topology allowing simultaneous control from multiple client operators. As a result, "Optocore's flexibility and control options allowed us to consolidate multiple primary and backup switching matrices into a single routing engine," said Ezold

"We're the first to use client-servers," says the show's assistant head

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UK - Network Rail, which runs, develops and maintains rail tracks, signaling and other infrastructure such as tunnels and bridges - together with18 of the country's biggest and busiest stations - has chosen fire telephones and induction loop systems produced by Current Thinking for inclusion in its St Pancras Thameslink Box project.

Many rail stations on the East Coast Main line are already equipped with fire telephones and induction loop systems produced at Current Thinking's Sunderland factory and managing director Tony Smith says Network Rail's (PADS) endorsement follows installation of its products at St Pancras International, as well as Stratford, Ebsfleet and Ashford International stations.

He explains, "We're delighted to have received this recognition from such an important organisation as Network Rail. In fact our equipment is already in use in many different sit

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UK - If you are an acoustic consultant, facilities manager, architect or anyone involved in the manufacture, specification or installation of voice alarm systems, you will have heard of EN54 part 16, the new European standard covering voice alarm systems, including control and indicating equipment (VACIE), along with amplifiers, processors and similar hardware, and EN54 Part 24, which covers loudspeakers.

Its introduction is causing headaches - and considerable expense - for the UK and European manufacturing sector. The UK is one of only three of the EU's 27 member states where EN54 is yet to become law, but that will change in April 2011.

The complexity of the EN54 regulations, and the demands it places on manufacturers for testing, are onerous, especially in systems incorporating equipment from different manufacturers.

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Norway - First opened in 1878, the Byscenen in Trondheim is as much a part of the cultural landscape of Norway as the fjords are of its coastline. The latest round of refurbishments saw the standing room capacity of the theatre actually reduced from 1,500 to 600.

The sound reinforcement system newly installed by avon a|s: is based around a XLD compact line-array system from Electro-Voice. It features six EV XLD281, 10 EV XLD291 and four EV XCS312 (subs) as well as four Xsubs, driven by 10 EV TG7 amplifiers and controlled using IRISNet software.

"I love the versatility of the XLD," comments Thomas Denstad, Byscenen's technical director. "We have, for example, two flown subs per side. This means that for shows that do not require an immense amount of low-end pressure, I can dispense altogether with the Xsubs. Here, we present virtually all musical genres, from the

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UK - Stage Electrics were contracted by Bristol based Conference Connections to assist with a launch event for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, which took place in the city.

Stage Electrics video department supplied and installed a 6.9m x 4m (63 Panels) indoor LED video screen. During the event the video screen was used to display a variety of presentations and videos.

Normally LED video screens are vertically flown from trussing or ground stacked. However, this event required the screen to be horizontally displayed, thus showing the video content lying flat projecting towards the different atrium levels.

Assembled carefully in the middle of the ground floor atrium of the building, on specially designed legs, the video screen could be viewed from every angle when looking over the circular first floor balcony. In total 80 legs were attached to the modular screen and levelle

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UK - White Light has helped d touring ballet company English National Ballet update the low smoke effect used in many of its productions, supplying three of Look Solutions' Cryo-Fog high-output low-smoke machines to replace the MDG machines ENB previously used.

"We purchased the Cryo-Fogs to replace our previous machines, which were becoming expensive to maintain and keep in peak operating condition," says ENB's Dave Richardson. "We had seen Look's machines on the White Light stand at PLASA last year, were impressed with their performance and with the price; we've now switched over to using them entirely."

Cryo-Fog consists of a fog generator, a fan and a cooling chamber plus space for a five litre fluid container all built into a single, compact flightcase. Cryo-Fog uses liquid CO2 to cool the incoming smoke from the machine, ensuring that no smoke is emit

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Italy/Sweden - Mid-July saw health & lifestyle products company Herbalife hold four-day Extravaganzas in Italy and Sweden, with up to 13,000 delegates at each. Featuring high production values, Yamaha digital mixing consoles controlled the audio.

Staged as part of the company's lavish 30th anniversary world tour, the events took place in Turin's Palaisozaki Arena and the Stockholm Globe Arena. Each was a mixture of conference, training sessions, team meetings, awards presentations, live entertainment and high profile 'geeing-up' for the delegates, a highlight being the company's own version of Pop Idol. As such, both events required audio rigs which could deliver both clear speech and high quality music to every seat in the house, all at impressive volume levels.

Sussex-based Dimension Audio provided the audio rigs for both shows, with Yamaha digital audio consoles a ce

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Singapore - Featuring live performances by several of the region's best known musical acts, giant screen broadcasts of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and an outdoor bazaar, the recently completed Beerfest Asia 2010 was a resounding success. The celebration provided festival attendees the opportunity to find and enjoy beers from around the world. Live music was a key attraction and to ensure the audiences would be treated to the most robust and musical sound available, the live sound reinforcement setup consisted of a substantial loudspeaker system from D.A.S. Audio.

Ron Koh, technical support representative for D.A.S. Audio Asia, was on-site and provided logistical support for this year's Beerfest. He reports, "This year's Beerfest took place at the Marina Promenade. This is an outdoor venue located on the Singapore Grand Prix F1 tracks that overlo

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UK - Herwin Acoustics has recently completed the installation of a PA and lighting system, along with a 3.5mwide- screen electric screen and projector at Pioneer Youth Centre in St Albans.

The youth centre, founded in 1965, is run by Youth Connexions Hertfordshire in conjuntion with a management committee and has a long history of association with music -n The 60's band The Zombies formed there and current post-hardcore band Enter Shikari played many of their early gigs here in the noughties.

Herwin Acoustics is run by Paul Herwin who, with a previous life as a performing musician, is an associate member of the Institute of Acoustics and is still actively involved in live sound engineering for jazz artists such as John Surman, Richard Galliano, John Abercrombie and Jack DeJohnette. Herwin Acoustics' strong musical background has been put to use in building recording studios an

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