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Spain - Barcelona-based production sound company Focus, S.A. provided a massive EAW speaker system for the tens of thousands of people who recently turned out to witness Pope Benedict XVI consecrate the city's renowned La Sagrada Familia church.

Focus deployed the system, which included nearly 150 KF730 Compact Line Array Modules plus dozens of other EAW speakers. The system was powered by Lab.gruppen amplification with speaker management by EAW UX8800 and Lake LM 26 digital signal processors, in the main Plaza Gaudí and throughout the streets in the surrounding area.

The EAW speakers deployed at the Plaza Gaudí included 24 KF760 Long-Throw Line Array Modules, eight KF730 Compact Line Array Modules, eight KF650 Compact Array Loudspeakers and four KF750 High Output Array Loudsp

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Ireland - LumenRadio's CRMX RDM wireless system was recently used to provide some extra excitement at a sold-out rugby game in the international Magners League at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. The newly rebuilt stadium is home of the Ireland Rugby Union team and the Republic of Ireland national football team and the only facility in the country classified as a UEFA Elite Stadium. It also known as the Dublin Arena: it seats more than 50,000 and was refitted with the latest wireless broadcast and security technology before reopening the doors in May 2010.

LumenRadio's CRMX with its Automated Cognitive Coexistence was identified as the only wireless system that could provide the level of performance and reliability required and at the same time co-exist with all the other wireless systems present in the facility.

"The entire event went off without a hitch and proved that Lume

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UK - POLARaudio, UK distributor for Dynacord, presented Tom Spooner of Watford with a new PowerMate series PM1000MK3. Spooner entered a prize draw at the launch of the new PowerMate series back in September 2010 at the PLASA show. The presentation happened at Spooner's local Branch of Digital Village in Barnet.

The new PowerMate supersedes Dynacord's first and second generation PowerMate ranges, which sold in excess of 100,000 units worldwide. The new range consists of three models PowerMate 1000 (10 channel strips), PowerMate 1600 (16 channel strips) and PowerMate³ 2200 (22 channel strips), all models come complete with Cubase LE software and are designed for a wide range of applications including fixed Installation, live performance, orchestras and touring bands.

Winner, Tom Spooner commented, "I was shocked when I got the email to say I had won the prize draw, I visit

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USA / Finland - Aviom has announced the appointment of Studiotec as the company's new distributor in Finland, beginning January 2011.

"We are so excited to introduce our customers to the personal mixing and high-fidelity digital audio networking solutions Aviom has to offer," says Peter Stråhlman, Studiotec's managing director. "Aviom systems are not only modular and scalable, but they're also ideal for a broad range of portable and fixed installation applications, helping us to serve customers in new, innovative ways we're sure they'll appreciate."

"Having known Peter for about eight years, I immediately recognised that Studiotec, with its business contacts and knowledgeable sales teams covering live, install, broadcast and recording, would be the perfect partner for Aviom," says Nick Williams, international marketing and sales director EMEA, As

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UK - The big freeze in December, with snow and ice and sub-Arctic temperatures created problems for outdoor event organisers. Down at Wakehurst Place in Sussex, the country estate of Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens, it was touch-and-go for Show Hire's Nick Chubb and his EV ZX3 system - would both of them survive an outdoor concert in -7C?

Wakehurst Place, the National Trust's most visited property, is famed for its festive Carols which usually attract 3,000 people to a service in front of the largest Christmas tree in the UK. For Nick Chubb, the first alarm bells rang when he had to push his van the last few yards of a 40-mile journey that had taken nearly five hours.

"With temperatures plummeting to -7C, I was concerned for the loudspeakers, wondering at what temperature the rubber would freeze up completely. But they performed superbly which freed me up to be concerned for

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UK - Media Powerhouse has appointed James Loveless to head up its audio division. Loveless has worked in audio since the late 90's. The extensive list of projects he has managed range from Scrum on the Beach to a G4 Security Conference for the 2012 Olympics. Prior to joining Media Powerhouse, Loveless was a project manager at Dimension Audio and before that was head of engineering at Orbital Sound.

Michael Breen, Chief Executive Officer at Media Powerhouse says, "We have invested significantly in audio equipment and James's appointment continues our strategy of employing forward looking experts in their field, in order to deliver technically excellent events - kit without the right, exceptional people to operate it equates to limited use."

James Loveless adds, "The fact that Media Powerhouse continues to invest in its people and purchase the latest equipm

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Europe - With the new firmware update for its wireless monitoring systems, Sennheiser now offers engineer mode. With this function, monitor engineers can listen to the various mixes for a band with their bodypack receiver and, if necessary, make quick changes on the mixing desk. The update for the evolution wireless ew 300 IEM G3 and 2000 IEM systems can now be downloaded free of charge from the Sennheiser website.

The engineer mode gives sound engineers more control options - they can now hear the monitor mix exactly how the artists on stage are hearing it and quickly react if during a live performance corrections need to be made to the mix, for example if the guitar signal is too quiet for the bassist.

When in engineer mode, the settings of the musicians' receivers can be transferred via the infra-red interface to the monitor engineer's receiver. Separate information regardi

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South Africa - Johannesburg-based DWR Distribution has been appointed as the sole South African distributor for the Philips Selecon and Strand ranges of products.

DWR already distributes several premium brands including Vari*Lite, and the beginnings of this latest agreement stem back to DWR's confirmation as South Africa's Vari*Lite distributor at the end of 2008.

DWR's MD Duncan Riley reportss that the specification, supply and installation of lighting into theatres is an expanding sector for the company. "With Philips Selecon and Strand onboard, I have product ranges ideally suited to the calibre of projects we're working on - whether large or small - as the demand for either criteria is always for top quality equipment that will be reliable and long lasting."

Philips Strand/Selecon also slots into DWR's existing product portfolio, which includes Robe lighting, M

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UAE - Dubai-based events and audio company Se7en Productions has selected a Midas PRO6 for its new High Definition (HD) OB truck, making it the first OB truck in the Middle East be to fitted with a Midas digital console.

Supplied by Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises (NMK), exclusive distributors of Midas and Klark Teknik products in the United Arab Emirates, the set-up will be deployed for major sports events, live performances and national celebrations across the region.

The system can support 5.1 mixes out of the box and enables engineers to have their own mix at a concert rather than relying on the FOH mix. NMK's marketing manager Richie Hiranandani comments, "The cabling required for power and processing is minimal, making it a beautifully compact and flexible system, while retaining the signature preamps and quality Midas sound made famous by analogue consol

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The Netherlands - HA-Rental is the first rental company in the world to invest in the Philips Selecon professional LED luminaire range - the PL3 - for its rental stock.

Owner of HA-Rental, Hans Alders was responsible for initiating the sustainability project of the VPT (Dutch association of stage technology). To ensure his company is "green, safe and clean", Alders has developed a comprehensive hire stock of reliable, effective, energy efficient lighting equipment.

As part of that initiative, HA-Rental has purchased a number of Philips Selecon fixtures including the PL3 LED luminaire from local Philips Entertainment Lighting dealer, Rolight theatertechniek BV. "The PL3 is a welcome addition to our rental stock and to the lighting professionals fixture palette," says Alders. "Not only do they meet the everyday challenges of illuminating stages and studi

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Saudi Arabia - When Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, opens its campus to students early in 2012, its three theatres will be equipped with J. R. Clancy rigging systems.

Within what will be the world's largest university for women is a theatre complex with a 2500-seat performance hall, a 700-seat drama theatre and a black box theatre for lectures and small productions. While each theatre has different requirements, the contractor sought a single, proven supplier that could manufacture the complete package of under- and over-stage rigging for all three venues. Clancy's broad equipment portfolio and international experience in managing projects of the largest scale earned the company this project.

Clancy worked closely with Michael Burgoyne of Schuler Shook to provide the appropriate rigging system for the consultant's design concepts. Schuler Sho

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The Netherlands - At their inaugural appearance at ISE 2011, d&b audiotechnik are not only revealing the new White range of integration loudspeakers on their stand 6H134, but are also offering a number of demonstration sessions in room E103 every day.

The first topic covered in these sessions takes you on a listening journey through the two series in the White range, the xS-Series and the xA-Series. It will look at the new opportunities these integration loudspeakers will open up for placement everywhere, no matter what colour, size or performance requirement, says the company. The initial step in this journey will be to listen to the smallest cabinets in the xS-Series. They are destined for applications where space requirements and enhanced acoustic performance are important to animate the audience, such as hotels, bars, fine dining emporiums or even locations of desire such as

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UK - Blackbox Recorder manufacturer JoeCo has just released the latest software update (V2.1) for its 24-track live recorder. The update includes a number of significant new features that focus on increased safety and flexibility, says the company.

A major implementation is the new Safe 'n' Sound record recovery feature that enables recorded audio files to be recovered after a sudden accidental loss of power, for example after tripping over cables, pulling out power or USB cables, or even forgetting to stop recording before powering off the system. All recorded data can be recovered including song splits, song names and track names. The recorded files will also still be split up into smaller bite-sized pieces that some workstations rely on when importing.

Once power is re-applied to the unit, the new software analyses the disk and performs all the necessary recovery procedures

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UK - Technical staging supplier Blitz Communications staged its Technology Masterclass at The O2, London, on Tuesday 18 January 2011. Aimed at professional event organisers, the day was dedicated to introducing a range of bespoke Blitz products and new technologies that assist organisers in making their events more cost effective, sustainable, interactive and innovative, while creating opportunities to generate additional revenue.

Following Blitz's appointment as The O2's partner of choice for technical event staging services, the venue supported the event by making available its array of event spaces. Over 150 invited guests arrived at The O2 to be greeted by welcome messages on the huge LED screens outside the Arena itself, directing them to IndigO2 for registration and refreshments courtesy of Levy Restaurants.

The guests, ranging from production and event agencies to corpo

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The Netherlands - This year, for the first time, the ISE trade show features a 3D theatre, where visitors can experience the very best that the technology has to offer. Alcons Audio has been invited to provide the 3D theatre's sound system.

The theatre will also feature a daily 45 minute presentation by Alcons co-founder Tom Back on the company's latest 3D audio technology. Taking place at 15:00 each day, the presentation will demonstrate how Alcons' proprietary pro-ribbon transducer products enhance the 3D experience.

"With higher standards in Digital Cinema, new challenges have arisen for traditional audio systems," says Back. "24-bit resolution and up to 99 channels of non-compressed audio demand much more in terms of dynamic capabilities, frequency response and transient response.

"Cinema is also diversifying - as well as films, movie theatres now som

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The Netherlands - ISE 2011 sees LED screen manufacturer Lighthouse Technologies exhibiting its latest panels for the installation and rental markets.

Two panels for the permanent installation market are the Impact 12 and Impact 16 - respectively 12mm and 16mm pixel pitch. The new panels boast 6000 nits of brightness, making them suitable for any situation with high intensity ambient light, says the company.

Both panels feature larger panel size for quick installation - a benefit for applications such as roadside advertising where installation time is limited and the sports market - are IP65 rated and offer both front and rear access and an easy release IM structure for ease of maintenance - intelligent IM design allows superior flatness - the use of the first outdoor SMD LED chip.

In addition, Impact 12 and Impact 16 are M5 ready to allow remote diagnostics with the added be

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Qatar - In its second year, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival has once again relied on Clay Paky Alpha moving fixtures and their biggest stockholder in the Middle East, Creative Events (CCG), to deliver the lighting performance for this major event.

CCG provided more than 1300 mixed fixtures from its extensive inventory of CCG, for the Four Seasons Hotel screening venue and the opening night after-party held at the Pearl Qatar. At the fore of this massive lighting effort, once again designed and specified by Adam Bassett Design Limited, were 88 Clay Paky Alpha units at Four Seasons and another 105 Clay Paky Alpha units at the Pearl.

CCG's head of lighting Michel Khairallah noted, "The bulk of the moving heads this year were the larger units from the 1200W series of the Alpha line, with the notable addition of the Alpha Beam 1500 and Alpha Wash 1500 moving heads, and some Alp

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UK - Video director Ben Miles turned to Martin Professional's new EC-20 LED video panels to create a dynamic backdrop video wall for Leftfield's recent tour of the UK, one of the first to feature the new generation LED screens.

Miles, who first previewed the EC-20 video panels at the PLASA exhibition in September, was looking for "a lightweight, fairly high resolution, modular LED system that I could use on Leftfield and on some other shows. David Stewart at Martin gave me a demo and I really liked how it looked. I was also very impressed by the P3-100 video processor."

Following a series of successful summer festival performances, Leftfield played a number of dates in the UK and Ireland in November and December. Miles was brought in by lighting designer Jamie Thompson, primarily to oversee the video playback system and content. After figuring his video needs, he con

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Canada - Since its opening in 1997, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts located in Vancouver, BC, has earned an international reputation for its striking design and stellar acoustics. The Chan Centre boasts three different venues: The Chan Shun Concert Hall which seats 1200, the 'black box' Telus Theatre holds 275 patrons, and the Royal Bank Cinema which has a capacity of 160.

Jay O'Keeffe, Chan Centre's head sound technician organised an extensive and thorough shootout to upgrade their existing floor monitoring system. A total of 17 models representing eight different manufacturers were included.

Both self-powered and conventional monitors were included as were various driver and horn sizes. For the non-powered wedges, in order to ensure that the testing process was as un-biased as possible, Lab.gruppen PLM 10000 amps were used in all instances, and comparisons were condu

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors of Rane products in the United Arab Emirates has recently signed United Dubai Disc Jockeys (UDDJ) with an endorsement contract providing them the Serato Scratch Live SL3 DJ interface.

The endorsement deal provides UDDJ with the SL3 DJ interface for the team of DJs to use during their various events both in the most prominent nightclubs in the Middle East and exclusive private events.

"UDDJ which is headed by DJ Mass Ramli is without a doubt one of the most visible DJ groups not only in the UAE but the Middle East," comments Katrina Angeles, DJ and consumer sales representative. She added, "With 17 DJs playing at various public and private parties it provides great visibility for Rane and also confirms that Serato Scratch Live is a reliable system for DJs to use for their performances."

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UK - Peak Hire, based in Cheltenham, continues to expand its EAW inventory with the addition of 18 KF740 three-way line array modules. The announcement was made by Peak Hire managing director Karl Ashman and signifies the first UK order of the sound reinforcement module.

"We bought a KF730 system about four years ago after extensive evaluation, and it became our first line array," stated Karl. "Moray McMillin, who was EAW's UK sales manager at the time, and is now involved with EAW's Application Support Group, sold us the system after some live demos, and it was great. But eventually, we reached a point with our 730 system where, although we were achieving very good results in the situations we were using it, we needed to take the next step to be hired for larger venues and shows.

"Then the 740 came along. EAW's Kevin McNally arranged a demonstration at Nor

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