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Germany - The reunited Limp Bizkit played a range of festivals, in anticipation of their yet-to-be-released studio album, Gold Cobra, and will hit the road again to play shows in North America, Europe and South America following its release. The band relies on Sennheiser microphones to cut through tremendous stage volume and still deliver the staccato punches they are known for with clarity and impact.

"These guys are all on wedges and side-fills. It's old school with everything set to 'stun'," said George Squiers, monitor engineer. "It is no-joke loud up there." Controversial frontman Fred Durst sings and raps into a Sennheiser SKM 2000 wireless transmitter with an MMD 935-1 cardioid capsule. The 935 successfully cuts through Limp Bizkit's often thick s

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USA / Europe - Jackson Brown and David Lindley are back touring the USA after their success on the acoustic stage at Glastonbury this summer.

Sound engineer is Paul Dieter who comments: "I started mixing live in the 80s, then spent maybe 15 years in the studio. I was just so frustrated with the live sound systems available then. When line arrays came along I was eventually tempted back to live and I'm having much more fun."

Dieter's PA for Browne comes from Schubert Systems in California, a d&b audiotechnik J-Series. "It's a subtle consideration," says Dieter, "Jackson's song-writing is rock and roll for the discerning ear. I try to be manufacturer and sound company agnostic, I don't want politics getting in the way of making the best choice for my client. The combination of J8, J12 and J-SUB loudspeakers must be absolutely correctly balanced; I expect

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UAE - In Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, the Family Foundation has chosen Proel's Axiom array and professional Lighting systems. The Family Foundation was founded in 2006 and is a public non-profit organization with an independent legal, financial and administrative profile.

Its objective is to "stimulate the development of the family, to prepare it for the challenges the future will bring". Among its activities, the Foundation periodically organises lectures and debates on themes concerning the institution of the family, such as the development of women's rights or health programmes.

One of Proel's distributors for the United Arab Emirates, Orient Electronic, which was asked to provide the technical outfit for the Foundation Theatre, was oriented toward professional systems that could ensure high quality performance and a design that could match the style of

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USA - Barco reports that eight of its Galaxy NW-12 projectors are being used to create a 360-degree, 3D stereoscopic theatre to present the new Lights of Liberty show, a permanent exhibit which opened 29 September 29, 2010 at the Historic Philadelphia Centre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed to teach and inspire visitors from around the world, the 15-minute show portrays the evolution of democracy in the United States through storytelling and theatrical illusion.

The Lights of Liberty show is sponsored by Historical Philadelphia Inc., with the support of Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell. Wayne Spilove, chairman of the Board of Historic Philadelphia, commented, "Everybody, including Governor Rendell, has been enthralled by the story and awed by the creative experience. I especially enjoyed working on this adventure with the Niles Creative Group and

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UK - Launched at PLASA2009 and the winner drawn at PLASA2010, DiGiCo's 500th SD8 console competition in aid of the families of John Roden and Jim Douglas, attracted entries from across the globe. The lucky winner is from DiGiCo's home turf - Matthew Cotton, from Southampton, collected his one-of-a-kind, liveried SD8 from the DiGiCo offices on 22 September and he could not be more delighted with his windfall.

"I didn't believe it when David Webster [DiGiCo's marketing director] called to say that I'd won," says Cotton. "It was only when a friend from Entec, who was with Noreen Roden at the show when she made the draw, rang me that I knew it was true."

Monitor engineer Cotton is a fitting recipient for the console as both John Roden and Jim Douglas graced the monitor position of many a high profile tour.

"We're really pleased the console is going to a

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France - Alternative NY hip hop/funksters, the Fun Lovin' Criminals, are currently on tour in Europe for the first time in three years with their new album, Classic Fantastic. Paul Nicholson of Red Square Audio was asked to specify the PA for two of their UK dates - the Arena in St Albans and City Hall, Salisbury. Nicholson opted for a full APG Uniline compact line array system complete with SMX15 stage monitors along with an Eclipse digital mixing console from Innovason.

"Both APG and Innovason make high end systems that, in my role as a consultant, I have no hesitation in recommending," said Nicholson. "It's not just because RSA distributes these brands that I recommend them either. I'm a very proactive engineer who uses different systems all the time, but I genuinely believe that they are the best on the market at the moment.

"It just so happens t

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UK - Following the launch of Flare Audio at PLASA 2010, the company has announced the appointment of its first UK dealer. Mustt Audio based in Sheffield UK purchased a full Stealth Array X4 system with CF182 bass enclosures and Lab Gruppen PLM series amplification to add to their hire stock, the company has taken on official full dealership status.

Flare's Davies Roberts said: 'We are very pleased to have appointed our first UK dealer, Waq (owner of Mustt Audio) totally understands where we are going and we are honoured to have appointed him as our first UK dealer. At the show we received some great comments about our products and demo room from some of the most respected people in the industry; this was extremely encouraging for a brand new company. Following the PLASA show, we are in discussions with a number of large venues including one major installation."

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UK - GDS received another notable accolade at this year's PLASA show. The GDS BluesSystem LED performance working light system was nominated for the Theatres Trust Peoples Choice Award alongside prominent manufacturers including, ETC, Philips Vari' Light, Whitelight, I-Pix, JB Lighting, Robert Juliat and Prism Projection Inc. The award was presented to GDS by the Theatres Trust at its new Ecovenue feature on Tuesday 14 September.

The Theatres Trust's Ecovenue feature was designed to highlight the pioneering environmental efficiency practices being implemented across London venues and featured technologies designed to improve the environmental footprint of theatres. The People's Choice Award was voted for by industry professionals visiting the show and was presented to GDS, for the product that demonstrated the most significant improvement in sustainable theatre technology.

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UK - The people of Sunderland gathered earlier this month for the unveiling of the city's revamped rail station. The £7m renovation has seen new waiting areas, lighting, ceilings, floors and wall panelling installed, but the most impressive additions are the three art installations, one of which is a dazzling new light installation designed by Jason Bruges Studio and supplied by Architainment Lighting UK.

In creating the light wall installation on platform five, Jason Bruges called on Architainment for a custom solution. Architainment supplied 717 Philips Color Kinetics eW Flex SLX fittings with 15 node strings. This warm white string LED solution is a versatile strand of 50 individually controllable white light LED nodes. The durable, flexible form allows for dynamic points of white light to be installed across nearly any interior or exterior surface, including walls, cei

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UK - The long running BBC children's TV show Blue Peter is in its 52nd year this year and continues to go from strength to strength. Richard Martin Lighting continues to support Lighting Designer Lee Allen in bringing a fresh and energetic look to the ever more contemporary show. This week Disney Channel diva Selena Gomez and her band The Scene perform her latest single Round and Round in the Blue Peter garden.

RML's recently purchased Global Design Solution (GDS) Liteware HO-Uplighters were the focal of the music number - 24 of them positioned around the trees, stage and tree house.

"The Uplighters were used to up light bits of the garden and facing towards the cameras for some eye candy for the music number," says Allen. "As always the close up of the guest had nothing behind them but that wasn't a problem I just picked up the lamp repositioned i

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UK - Denon DJ Europe is exhibiting at the upcoming BPM DJ and electronic music event at The NEC in Birmingham, where it showing three major new products - all launched at the recent DJ Expo in the US - for the first time in Europe. Denon is also demonstrating the new MIDI Hybrid mode upgrade to its DN-S3700 direct drive digital media turntable.

The three new products are: the DN-MC6000 integrated digital mixer and twin deck DJ software controller - a complete performance solution for the computer DJ; the DN-X600 ultra high performance two-channel mixer - a traditional style DJ mixer bristling with USB MIDI / audio control and connectivity capabilities; the DN-S2000, a 'throw in the bag' portable hardware controller for the laptop DJ.

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USA - Pop/rock hitmakers Train continues to turn to Audio-Technica for wired and wireless microphone solutions as the band rolls through North America and Europe this fall.

Train's current mic setup includes the following models: Audio-Technica's Artist Elite 5000 Series wireless systems with AEW-T5400 transmitter for lead vocals, AE6100 Hypercardioid Dynamic Handheld Microphone for lead and backing vocals, ATM650 Hypercardioid Dynamic Instrument Microphone for snare, AE5100 Cardioid Condenser Instrument Microphone for hi-hat, ATM450 Cardioid Condenser Instrument Microphone for overheads, and ATM250DE Dual-Element Instrument Microphone and AT4050 Multi-Pattern Condenser Microphone for guitars.

The band's FOH mixer Rob Thomas stated, "This is simply the best sounding microphone selection I've had in years. I love them all. The ATM650 is like a great instrument mic on stero

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UK - Allen & Heath has unveiled the Xone:DB4, a fully digital, high performance DJ mixer with a Quad FX Core DSP engine, providing four FX BPM Loop record engines with channel EQ filters. Other key features are multi-channel USB audio with MIDI, analogue and digital I/O, input source matrix, easy to read OLED display screen, and USB for recalling user set ups.

The heart of the Xone:DB4 is the powerful Quad FX Core DSP engine, enabling each channel to have its own FX bank and BPM detection system, which automatically adjusts all time-related FX and loops to the tempo of the music. There are five basic studio quality FX types optimised for DJ use, comprising delays, reverbs, modulators, resonators and damage, plus each FX type has a patch library of different effect variations that can be assigned to the relevant control. Each FX bank has a dedicated expression control and a rotar

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UK - Lighting designer Tim Routledge has finished two major shows at the homes of rugby in England and Wales - A Concert for Heroes and The Ryder Cup Concert.

Routledge was lighting director for the Help for Heroes concert at Twickenham Stadium. Headlined by Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow. Also performing that night were Enrique Iglesias, Alexandra Burke, Alicia Dixon, The Wanted, Katherine Jenkins, Peter Kay. Creative director was Kim Gavin for Live Nation.

The rig was co-designed by Tim Routledge and Steve Nolan who was also production manager of the show and managed by PRG's Rich Gorrod. The comprehensive rig based around the 'H' stage designed by Misty Buckley was supplied by PRG and featured a large rig of VL3000 spots, VL3500 wash and FX units, GLP Impressions, Alpha Beam 300's, 2 lites, Color blocks and Infinity XL washes.

Routledge was responsible for the lighting o

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USA - Draper has appointed Jentry Wittkamper (CTS) export sales manager for the company.

Wittkamper is responsible for overseeing Draper's international sales force and company dealings with Draper dealers and distributors in more than 100 countries. He has been with Draper for nearly 14 years, and most recently held the position of lifts & mounts product manager.

"I'm looking forward to continuing to grow Draper's sales around the world," says Wittkamper. "It helps that Draper is already recognized as a premier brand worldwide, and we will be building on that reputation with new products and the same high standard of service and product quality."

Draperis a Spiceland, Ind-based manufacturer of projection screens, lifts for projectors and displays, window shades and gymnasium equipment. In addition to its Spiceland facilities, Draper has manufacturing or

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Germany - TOA will present their EN 54 certified VM-3000 series compact public address and voice alarm systems at Security Essen 2010. The company will also show their EN 54-24 certified speakers including the TOA PC-1867FC flush-mounted ceiling and the BS-680FC wall-mounted public address speakers. TOA's fully EN 54-4 certified power supply with the VX-2000DS at its centre will also be on display.

"TOA has an extremely long and solid record in standard compliance," says Wolfgang Pein, director, German sales at TOA Europe. "EN 54 stipulates the product and testing requirements for voice alarm components in fire detection and alarm systems and TOA were first to bring the compliant products to market. They can be found in a number of systems in use today such as the OpernTurm in Frankfurt Germany."

EN-54 aims to improve the communication of installed systems

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UK - Designed, developed and manufactured in the UK, the Cadac LIVE1 compact console, the company's first ever development in the affordable console market, ships in November.

The delivery of the first LIVE1 series consoles to dealers and distributors in the first week of next month, heralds the UK's leading heritage mixing console manufacturer's move beyond its traditional high-end musical theatre and live sound production markets, in which its reputation for product quality, innovation and sonic performance has remained unchallenged for more than 30 years.

LIVE1 is a fully specified, fully Cadac console, that incorporates the company's analogue engineering heritage within a lightweight, compact, affordable design. Available in 16, 24 and 32 channel frame sizes, the LIVE1 exploits modern design and manufacturing techniques to deliver a compact console at a price point that ma

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USA - With 11.6m tickets sold between 2000 and 2009, the Dave Matthews Band was the top touring act of the last decade. Now with its 2010 tour, DMB is picking up where it left off, selling out even the largest arenas and baseball stadiums such as Wrigley Field.

The group's ability to create a genuine emotional connection with its audiences, along with its widely-known support of environmental and charitable causes - from Farm Aid to Hurricane Katrina relief - have undoubtedly played a big role in attracting this loyal fan following. One of the 'newcomers' to the 2010 tour is the Design Wash LED Pro, a compact energy-efficient high-power RGBW moving head colour wash from Elation Professional.

DMB lighting designer Fenton Williams and programmer Aaron Stinebrink are using 16 Design Wash LED Pros, supplied by Theatrical Media Services (Omaha, NE), as colour-changing truss toners.

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USA - Audio-Technica has declared its support for the recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to protect wireless microphones from interference by TV Band Devices (TVBD).

The FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order issued 23 September sets aside two TV channels in each market specifically for wireless microphones. This will allow wireless microphones to operate in those protected channels without interference from new 'white space devices'. In addition, according to the FCC ruling, professional users of large arrays of wireless microphones, such as theatrical performances and music concerts, can apply for extended spectrum coverage via a geolocation database that the FCC is building and that is currently up for bid for management.

This long-awaited FCC ruling is the culmination of over two years of testing and lobbying efforts among competing interests for the white s

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UK - Stylish, glamorous and beautiful set the tone for the 2010 Women's Aid ACT Gala Dinner and fundraiser, which was produced by west London, UK, based creative practice, DesignScene.

The star studded event for 260 top patrons and supporters of the high profile domestic violence charity was staged in the ornate Ballroom of The Dorchester in London's and presented by Neil Fox.

It included live performances by Will Young and the Poofs And A Piano who entertained guests in the reception area. Other highlights were special addresses by Sarah Brown and Duncan Bannatyne, who drew attention to the goals and principals of Women's Aid's 'Real Man' campaign, bringing a new and additional dimension to the evening.

DesignScene was asked to produce the event for the second year running, after bringing a fresh and innovative visual approach to last year's much acclaimed gala dinne

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China - Wireless Solution Sweden participated in the ACE Open House in Shanghai on 17 September, where the new W-DMX G4 range of products was introduced to over 100 professionals from the Chinese market.

Attendees of the open house, which included prominent lighting designers from the television, live event and architectural lighting segments, were given a presentation of the W-DMX G4 product line, detailing its range of innovative new features including Adaptive Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology to dynamically avoid frequency ranges in use by other radios, built-in dual-band 5.8GHz support to allow designers and technicians access to unfettered frequency bands, and support for RDM to allow fixture feedback information through the W-DMX system.

Attendees were also impressed by the fact that all three universes of DMX in the presentation venue were running off W-DMX

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