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UK - Pearce Hire has continued to expand its dry hire operations into 2011 with the appointment of a dedicated hire manager.

"Jim Brown will be responsible for dealing with the requirements of Pearce's increasing dry hire customer base, delivering them to the highest standards," says managing director Shaun Pearce.

"The company has invested in a significant range of lighting, power distribution and audio equipment and Jim will manage our continually expanding inventory, ensuring optimum service levels through efficient stock control and ongoing maintenance and testing at the company's Peterborough HQ."

After years of touring as an audio freelancer, Brown began working with Pearce Hire in 2010.

Other advances shaping Pearce Hire's start to 2011 see Dan She

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UK / The Netherlands - TV One will be demonstrating their new LM-1920R and LM-1520R at ISE 2011 next month.

These are colour LCD Monitors for the professional market. Their respective sizes are 19" and 15" diagonally and they are housed in rack mount housings that tilt up or down to optimise the viewing angle. This is particularly beneficial when circumstances necessitate that the monitors be mounted above or below normal eye level. Also included is an integrated swivel stand on the rear of both units to allow table top use if desired.

Both models feature high brightness, Active Matrix LCD Displays with wide viewing angles, PIP and POP. They are flicker-free, low radiation, space saving, feature low power consumption. NTSC and PAL Television Standards are supported and automatically detected, says the company.

Both models have two composite video, one YC, three ste

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USA - Elation Professional has introduced the Antari F-3 Fazer. This new DMX-compatible 800W water-based dry fog machine comes integrated in its own steel flight case. The F-3 Fazer's case design also makes it easily stackable, so it can be packed up and transported with no fuss and hassle - and ready to roll anytime the show goes on the road, says the company.

Featuring Antari's pump system, it produces "a fine, dry fog with minimal fluid consumption". For example, just one liter of fog liquid will provide five hours of continuous fogging, so each bottle of fluid lasts longer and less time is spent re-filling the machine.

"The Antari F-3 Fazer is an advanced water-based dry fog machine that's ideal for a variety of applications," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional, the exclusive North American distributor for Antari products. &quo

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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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Korea - Proel Group exhibited at Kosound+Stagetech, held at the end of the last November in Gyeonggi-Do, Korea, at Kintex, Korea International Exhibition Centre.

Proel Group took part in the show through its subsidiary Proel Korea, which also presented a broad range of Turbosound products. The company says it received "great feedback" after the Axiom line array demo.

"This is the first time we have taken part in the Kosound+Stagetech," says Agatha Moon, managing director of Proel Korea. "We were absolutely pleased with the success of the event and with the feedback we received on Proel and Turbosound systems - we definitely plan to come back next year."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Positioned as "the digital mixing solution for all sizes of sound company or user", the Soundcraft Si Compact Series was launched at NAMM 2011.

At the show Keith, Watson, Harman's marketing director for mixers said, "We've had a fantastic reaction to the 24 fader model launched at PLASA in September. Being 19" rack mounted, the 16 is our response to massive demand from our clients in live sound including Houses of Worship, installed systems, theatres and corporate events."

With full DSP functionality built-in to a small-footprint chassis, the Si Compact range provides up to 40 inputs to mix in three frame sizes. Motorised faders with Soundcraft FaderGlow operate on two layers, but the main difference from similarly priced mixers is the provision of a full encoder set for all the functions on a channel, from input gain through EQ and dynamics to b

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UK - XTA has introduced the DP548 Dynamic Audio Processor. "You can think of the DP548 as 'a DP448 on steroids', but that only paints part of the picture," says XTA sales & marketing director, Bill Woods. "Think of a standard DP448 - fully loaded with a 28-band EQ, eight parametric EQs and delay on every input; high pass, low pass, nine parametric EQs and delay, plus a combination of two limiters, including the look-ahead "D-Max" limiter on each output.

"Then add three bands of Dynamic EQ on every input, a variable knee compressor on every output with full control over ratio, threshold, attack and release times. On top of all that, include full matrix mixing of any input to any output or mix of outputs and provide memory recallable dynamic EQ for the first time via AudioCore, and that is the power and potential of the DP548."

Woods continues,

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Canada - The University of Lethbridge in Alberta recently installed an Aviom Pro16 Personal Mixing System, to serve a multitude of functions for the school including music recording, theatre production and traditional campus events. Primarily purchased to support the University's new educational and commercial studio, the A-16II Personal Mixers are also included in the curriculum for the school's new Bachelor of Music in Digital Audio Arts programme.

The Aviom Personal Mixers afford students the ability to quickly and easily create their own cue mixes from content provided by an SSL Duality Console. Because the A-16IIs simplify the job of monitor mixing, they allow the production students to place their full attention on recording procedures.

"The Aviom Personal Mixers take away the need for beginner students to worry about monitor mixes, giving them time to focus on othe

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UK - X-Factor's lighting programmer William Peachment from Little Mouse Productions once again integrated several Hippotizer media servers for the most recent X-Factor set up, working with four Hippotizer systems and using a total of seven outputs.

All machines were networked via HippoNet and controlled remotely by Green Hippo's ZooKeeper control software. The individual monitors on each machine allowed the operator, Russ Grujbiak, to easily see and access all outputs.

Using one Hippotizer HD, one HippoCritter and two Hippotizer Stages, Peachment controlled all video and digital lighting via these four systems.

The Hippotizer HD fed the centre screen from one output and the side screens from the second output, with these screens going via a scan converter to the vision mixer so that they could be switched. The HippoCritter with its one output was used to drive the two Olite

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World To celebrate the launch of Adam Hall's new LD Page on Facebook, the company is offering the first 1,000 LD Page followers the chance to win a pair of LDPR12A Active 12" Speaker Cabinets (RRP £900).

To be entered into the free prize draw, all you have to do is hit the "Like" button on the LD Page and become a follower. For runners up, a selection of LD goodies are on offer.

And while you're at it, why not become a follower of LSI Online's very own Facebook page.

(Claire Beeson)

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UK - The Royal Variety Performance at The London Palladium showcased over 30 acts in the presence of HRH Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Undertaking the lighting design for a rarely offered second year, lighting designer Steve Nolan and associate Tim Routledge took the opportunity to use the newly launched PixelSmart from PixelRange.

"When you have so many different acts to manage, you need as many tricks up your sleeve as possible - and the PixelSmart certainly helped with that. It can do so many different things. It can be a wash light, it can be an effect, anything, but we used it mainly as 'sparkle'"

The PixelSmart luminaires, 24 in number, were positioned facing straight out towards the audience -distributed across four lighting towers at the back of the stage. Controlled via a grandMA lighting console. "Instead of talking to the PixelSmart a

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UK - When Sonalyst MD Rory Madden was asked to supply full, new build audio distribution and ground control infrastructure for the We Will Rock You tour in just nine weeks, he knew time was against him. "Normally, for a show of that scale and complexity, you'd feel up against it given three or four months to prepare. In this case, we had just nine weeks so our choice of technical partner was absolutely vital."

One of the first things Madden did was drop in to VDC's premises in North London. He reports, "I'd worked with VDC before on a few smaller projects and had a strong feeling they would be the right choice, based on the technical expertise, manufacturing quality and ability to work to very short deadlines. But I just wanted to drop in for a chat and see their facilities for myself, before even talking about the We Will Rock You project. When I le

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Paraguay - After two and a half years of planning and trials, a Nexo Geo T line array has been commissioned in one of the largest churches in Latin America. Geo T's arrival in the 14,000-capacity Centro Familiar de Adoración in Asunción is the final chapter in a story that began with Oasis.

Alberto Martinez is the manager of the sound team at the Centro Familiar de Adoración. Some years ago he was in the USA, where he heard a Nexo Geo T system running at full throttle on a concert by Oasis, and apparently was so impressed that he accepted an invitation to a demo in Argentina. Meeting with Nexo's LatAm team there convinced him that these loudspeakers were the right choice for the Asunción church project.

Working closely with Nexo's specialist installation engineers, the church's sound team explored all the design configurations thoroughly, not just through software predicti

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UK - Le Mark Group's new entertainment division Le Mark Performance Floors featured at the international Dance Show held at the Birmingham NEC in early December.

As exclusive distributors for the all new Manero modular spring floor system, Le Mark chose the inaugural Dance Show produced by Haymarket Media Group to launch their new modular portable sub floor. The entire 10m x 16m central stage area had a Manero subfloor laid, with a Consor vinyl top surface to further improve performance. Le Mark partners ISS installed both the central stage and all the dance studios with Consor performance vinyl dance floor to offer total dance surface continuity.

Stuart Gibbons, Le Mark's managing director comments, "Professional feedback was incredible and was all we could have hoped for. A cross-section of performers, from hip- hop, ballet through to bollywood were commenting on the no

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Kazakhstan - Clay Paky Alphas were recently installed inside the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre, a vast marquee erected in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan. Astana is a modern city located on the Kazakh steppe with an inhospitable climate.

The centre is the new reference point for the civil life of the country, and acts both as a social and cultural meeting place. It is possible to watch and take part in a whole range of activities inside, in an air conditioned environment that ensures comfortable surroundings all year round. It houses shops, cafés, restaurants, cinemas and multipurpose areas, which may be adapted to a rich schedule of events and shows.

The lights include new Alpha Beam 1500s, which are used especially to attract the public and during live events, and Alpha Spot HPE 300s for the interior design. The lighting system was installed by SF Dis Ticaret

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UK - A 1000-seater house of worship has opened on the site of the birthplace of Aston Villa Football Club. The New Testament Church of God (NTCG) has chosen a Nexo Geo S12 sound system for its new building.

Designed by Paul Henry Architects and Project Managers Ltd, and built by Midlands-based Adonis Construction, the new church includes energy-saving features and all the mod-cons of a modern building. Funding for the project has come solely from members and friends of the church, representing a significant commitment and major investment by the community into the South Lozells/Handsworth area of Birmingham.

Nexo dealer Fuzion plc supplied a package of sound reinforcement equipment for installation by Cloud One and the NTCG's own expert, Rowen Spence, a freelance sound engineer specialising in gospel music and conferences. Key components of the new sound system were Nexo Geo S

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Belgium / The Netherlands - Pixled will show its new F-6 high resolution LED display - which now offers processing by Mitsubishi Electric, in addition to the standard proprietary options - at the ISE 2011 exhibition in Amsterdam.

This is the first time that Pixled's new F-6 indoor LED display product will be offered together with both processing options at a European exhibition.

F-6 screen is designed for professional high-end rental and staging applications and installers looking for the best quality, and most flexible, creative LED solutions, says the company.

The Mitsubishi Electric options - which are exclusively designed for rental & staging customers - include multi standard HD and DVI with super-resolution technology, MPEG noise reduction and enhanced grey scale processing.

The latest Pixled exhibition booth has a clean, contemporary, eye-catching design. Two column

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The Netherlands - Martin Professional's increased commitment to the LED video market will be on display at the upcoming ISE exhibition in Amsterdam.

On display will be the EC-20 LED display panel, Martin's indoor/outdoor LED display, the P3-100 System Controller with V2 software, plus the latest software update for the user-friendly Maxedia media server and other visual solutions products.

The EC-20 combines the image quality and precision of conventional high resolution screens (20 mm pixel pitch) with the creativity and low weight of mesh type screens, says the company. Semi-transparent with integrated curving, the EC-20's cable-free design makes for rapid setup and teardown in combination with maximum flexibility, easy serviceability and full lighting control integration.

P3-100 System Controller V2 Software: Version 2 software of Martin's processor for LED screens includ

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The Netherlands - Yamaha Commercial Audio is showing a wide range of new and existing products at ISE 2011 next month.

Yamaha will be displaying a full range of its Commercial Audio installation products. These include the DME series digital mixing engines, rackmount digital mixing consoles, power amplifiers, DSR and Installation Series loudspeakers, software control solutions and MY series interface cards.

Also on show will be complementary products from the Yamaha AV range, including AV and FM receivers, Blu-Ray / DVD players and loudspeakers.

In addition, ISE2011 sees the launch of the new WORKproCA range of commercial installation audio products, following the recent distribution agreement between Yamaha and Spanish manufacturer Equipson.

"Yamaha can offer complete integrated solutions for a wide range of installations, from bars and restaurants through to boardro

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USA - As part of an extensive renovation to the largest church in Ramona, California, Sound Image installed a JBL VRX Constant Curvature line array system in the Mountain View Community Church's (MVCC) main chapel to support its highly attended Sunday services. With the new audio solution, MVCC not only upgraded its sound to a concert-like environment, but also now provides a consistent sound level throughout the 600-person capacity space, despite challenging room acoustics.

Known for its upbeat musical services, entertaining a large and growing congregation, it was essential that MVCC provided sound that was evenly distributed throughout the venue, while also remaining at an appropriate decibel level for a house of worship.

Hanging six JBL VRX932LA-1 Constant Curvature line array elements and two VRX918S powered subwoofers, with Crown XTi6000, I-Tech 8000 and XTi1000 amplifie

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UK - The PA system which underpinned London's New Year sound and light spectacular, produced by Jack Morton Worldwide on behalf of The Major's Office, was planned and designed by Delta Sound, working closely with A/V specialist VDC Trading.

The system, built almost entirely on VDC products and Van Damme cable delivered "flawless performance" according to Delta Sound technical manager, Mark Powell. "We spent a month in pre-production and five days on site preparing and working through our plans for the night," says Powell. "It's a very high profile event, seen on TV screens all over the world, so total reliability is a minimum requirement.

"That is exactly how it turned out. We did not experience a single glitch on the day and some thanks must go to the technical manager at VDC, Nick Chmara. He provided the honest and reliable advice we have come t

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France - GDS were recently commissioned to deliver a bespoke stage manager's console for the world famous Théâtre du Châtelet.

The brief was to provide the theatre with a console that enabled them to integrate their control surfaces and that would give the theatre more functionality and control than they would get from a traditional stage managers desk. The client wanted to control much more than the usual stage managers functionality, requiring a product that enabled third party integration.

Théâtre du Châtelet is situated along the quays of the Seine in Paris. Constructed by Gabriel Davoud in 1862, in its time it was the largest performance hall in Paris and hosted some of the principal tours in Parisian history. The Theatre is a multi-discipline venue hosting a schedule of performances from opera to dance and progressive theatre productions.

GDS deployed

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