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UK - Communications and events managements specialists the drpgroup has hosted a seminar and networking event in conjunction with the International Visual Communications Association (IVCA) to help build ties between the UK corporate visual comms industry and its Chinese counterparts.

The event, held in early January, saw professionals from UK businesses and representatives from Chinese companies XL Stobo, China Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation and Cultural and Creative Industry Foundation and the China Image Film Festival come together at the drplondon offices for presentations on the future collaboration of the two nation's industries.

Speakers included the IVCA's CEO Marco Forgione and China Guanghua Foundation's Zheng Wenjun who spoke about the immense potential for

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors of Clear-Com in the United Arab Emirates for the live sound market segment has recently supplied rental firm Artes with the new Tempest wireless intercom system. The deal includes the 2.4GHz 4-channel base station, 4-channel belt stations and a number of CC-95 and CC-260 headsets.

"Artes already use a two-wire wired intercom system for their various events, however a wireless intercom system offers a number of benefits for both the production crew and especially the client," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing manager. "After analysing the options available, the Tempest system from ClearCom was the best solution for a wireless intercom system due to its features and use of the 2.4GHz frequency band."

(Jim Evans)

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Czech Republic - A new multicultural congress centre has provided the Czech city of Zlin with a new purpose built facility for staging concerts, conferences, exhibitions, symposiums and more.

Designed by noted architect Eva Jiricna - with an overall construction budget of CZK 650 million (£22.75m) - the contract to design and install the audio at the Congress Center Zlin was undertaken by Inton SRO. After winning a competitive bid, they recommended a Martin Audio line array solution for the 837-seat Great Hall.

Two separate Martin Audio line array systems were detailed, with eight W8LMI and a WMX sub (biamped) installed each side as a main PA system, and a further eight LE1200's provided for stage monitoring. Forming the second zone is a Martin Audio OmniLine Micro Line Array system, eight modules per side - reinforced by ceiling speakers for conference purposes.

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The Netherlands - Tannoy has unveiled at ISE 2011 its "most significant new product range in several years", in the form of VX Series.

VX Series heralds a number of advances in Tannoy's core offering to the pro sound reinforcement market, says the company, as well as marking the dawn of a collaboration with Lab.gruppen on the self-powered 'VXP' versions - the first product of its type to feature both Tannoy and Lab.gruppen technologies.

With an expanded range of enclosures and transducer compliments, the new VX Series combines Dual Concentric driver technology with smart, ergonomic, portable and install-friendly new cabinet designs, enhanced build quality, and "carefully thought-out functionality".

In addition to an extensive passive range, there are also self-powered loudspeakers, the VXP Series.

With 10 passive models in the range (nine of which are a

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UK - At its annual general meeting last week, Ken Bennett-Hunter was voted in as the new chair of Skillscene.

On acceptance of this strategically significant national role, Bennett-Hunter said, "I am pleased to have been elected as Chair of Skillscene. Representing, as it does, theatre managements, unions, trade associations and trainers it is uniquely placed to influence the future of training and qualifications, particularly in the area of technical theatre. I look forward to working with Creative and Cultural Skills, the National Skills Academy and others to ensure that training and qualifications meet the needs of the industry."

Outgoing Chair, Anamaria Wills, who also led its forerunner, Theatre Technical Training Serves, as well chairing Skillscene since its inception in 2005, warmly congratulated Ken on his appointment. A vote of thanks was given to her in rec

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USA - Audinate has announced the availability of its new Dante Brooklyn II audio networking module.

The Dante Brooklyn II module is a low-height, small mini-PCI form factor module that provides a complete, ready to use Dante interface for a networked audio product, with the addition of a range of new features and interfaces for even more flexibility of design. Brooklyn II is also designed to be upgradeable to AVB networking standards.

Brooklyn II's new features include the widest sample rate support to date (from 44.1 to 192kHz), up to eight configurable serial audio lines, a range of new or improved module interfaces, including SPI, I2C, serial ports and configurable GPIO, plus a choice of single, redundant or multiport switched Ethernet network implementations, including an AVB-compliant option.

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UK - At its recent Annual General Meeting, Ken Bennett-Hunter was voted in as the new Chair of Skillscene.

On acceptance of this strategically significant national role, Ken said: "I am pleased to have been elected as Chair of Skillscene. Representing, as it does, theatre managements, unions, trade associations and trainers it is uniquely placed to influence the future of training and qualifications, particularly in the area of technical theatre. I look forward to working with Creative and Cultural Skills, the National Skills Academy and others to ensure that training and qualifications meet the needs of the industry."

Outgoing Chair, Anamaria Wills, who also led its forerunner Theatre Technical Training Serves as well chairing Skillscene since its inception in 2005, warmly congratulated Ken on his appointment. A vote of thanks was given to her in recognition of her

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Norway / The Netherlands - Projector manufacturer projectiondesign has appointed Åsmund O.Fodstad to the position of executive vice president. Åsmund O. Fodstad started with projectiondesign on 1 February, coinciding with the first day of the Integrated Systems Europe exhibition.

Åsmund O. Fodstad has over 15 years of solid sales, marketing, management and operations experience in the energy, software and telecom industries across four continents.

"With Åsmund's global depth, experience, knowledge and skill, he has the perfect mix of talent to lead projectiondesign's international operations and to drive the company's efforts in establishing itself as the world wide preferred projector manufacturer and supplier," says J°rn Eriksen, CEO and president at projectiondesign. "We envisage an excellent potential for projectiondesign's growth and maturity in spe

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Germany - In the course of restructuring and taking over sales of all its software products in German speaking countries, Berlin-based AFMG, manufacturer of the simulation platform for room acoustics EASE and audio measurement tools EASERA and SysTune, has appointed graduate engineer Thilo Schuetz as its director of press, marketing and sales.

Stefan Feistel, managing director of AFMG, comments, "We are proud to have Mr. Thilo Schuetz joining our team. He has come to grips with our company and products in no time."

Thilo Schuetz, who has worked as production manager and CTO for Gahrens+Battermann GmbH in Berlin before coming to AFMG, has many years of experience in the field of audio engineering.

(Jim Evans)

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The Netherlands - L-Acoustics has joined forces with control and automation specialist AMX to provide external control of the LA4 and LA8 amplified controllers from an AMX touch screen panel, for fixed installation applications.

"The new AMX module provides L-Acoustics integrators with an interface control solution to take full advantage of the flexibility and performance of our LA amplified controllers in fixed install applications such as worship, convention centres and sports facilities," says Cedric Montrezor, head of installation support.

The main features of the new module include: Mute, Input gain, Delay, Input selection : AES/analogue; Standby/Reboot; Monitoring information: metering, clip, limit; EN60849 Fault management and Preset management.

(Jim Evans)

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Italy - Organisers of the Italian professional entertainment technology exhibition ShowWay have announced that the long-awaited second edition of the event will take place in Bergamo, Italy, from 15 to 17 May 2011.

Having put the show on ice last year, allowing its exhibitors to "concentrate their efforts on optimising their businesses during the peak of the world recession," organisers feel the time is right for a recovery-boosting show.The show will follow the same format as the successful 2008 debut event, which saw 65 exhibiting companies attend - 60% coming from outside Italy - and 6,783 visitors from 35 nations.

APIAS, the Italian association of manufacturers and importers of equipment for the entertainment industry, which represents some of the most important and distinguished firms in the trade in Italy, confirms its utmost commitment to working together with

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USA - Grammy award-winning country music duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd bid their fans a final farewell on an 18-city tour that saw the reunited mother-daughter act performing beneath a large rig that included 17 Martin MAC III Profiles, 22 MAC 2000 Wash XBs, and 20 MAC 700 Wash fixtures, among other automated luminaires, all provided by Upstaging.

Production designer John Featherstone of Lightswitch turned to a classic design, one that reflected the duo's 1980s popularity, yet with updated contemporary elements. The design also fulfilled The Judds' wish to create an intimate setting suitable for more personal narrative, despite the fact the tour played in large venues.

Featherstone's design for The Last Encore tour consisted of curved trusses lined with MAC III Profiles, MAC 2000 Wash XBs and other automateds, with MAC 700 Washes mounted on an array of vertical trusses. A

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UK - Le Mark Group's new entertainment division, Le Mark Performance Floors, will guest on the stand of Independent Studio Services stand at this week's Event Production Show.

Le Mark, the exclusive distributors for the all new Manero modular 'spring floor' system chose the December Dance Show at the NEC Birmingham 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, "Now a portable stage or steel deck can have a better dance floor then a traditional sprung wooden floor. A cross section of performers, from hip hop, ballet through to

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Qatar - Pearce Hire has been awarded a new contract by QMDI to supply all of the temporary event power for the VIP opening of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Services in Qatar.

Managing director Shaun Pearce will spend a week at Education City, Qatar this February 2010 installing four event generators (2 x 500KVA and 2 x 100 KVA) along with electrical distribution throughout the venue. The temporary power installation will supply outdoor architectural lighting, along with projection, lighting and audio inside the main auditorium and associated conference rooms.

The event's production manager John Adkins brought in Pearce Hire for their "consistently high standard of work and impeccable safety procedures".

"We are proud to be entrusted to supply the event power for this prestigious occasion," says Shaun Pearce. " Pearce Hire is developing

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USA - Audio-Technica is now offering the ATW-CHG2 Two-Bay Recharging Station for its new 2000 Series wireless transmitters. This unit charges ATW-T220a handheld transmitters and/or ATW-T210a UniPak transmitters (in any combination). Batteries are charged within the transmitters.

The ATW-CHG2 has many protective features to preserve the integrity of the transmitters. A built-in safety feature monitors cell voltage and automatically turns off the unit if problems are detected. The unit will also automatically shut off if damaged or alkaline (non-rechargeable) batteries are installed. Maintenance charging prevents battery self-discharge until the transmitter is removed from the charger. Two AA 2000 mAh Ni-MH rechargeable batteries are included.

Other recent enhancements to the 2000 Series include the addition of a second operating frequency band for more flexibility and increased

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USA - On the heels of a solid growth year, Loud Technologies awarded international distributors for outstanding 2010 sales and service performance.The following distributors received an award in these respective categories:

APAC - Distributor of the Year - Musiclink Australia; Ampeg Best Performance - Kanda Shokai Corp, Japan; Mackie Best Performance - Musiclink Australia.

EMEA - Loud Distributor of the Year - A&T Trade, Russia; Ampeg Best Performance - Casale Bauer, Italy; Mackie Best Performance - Music Info, Poland.

Latin America - Loud Distributor of the Year - Hermes Music, Mexico; Ampeg Best Performance - Grupo Romulo Garcia, Argentina; Mackie Best Performance - Casa Musical Nunez & Import Music, Ecuador.

"Our customers responded very strongly to our 2010 new products and programmes, contributing to double-digit sales growth for the Mackie and Ampeg brands,"

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The Netherlands - D-Tools has announced that D-Tools has joined the Control4 Solution Provider Programme to provide Control4 dealers worldwide with their l comprehensive system design, documentation and project management software package.

"Control4 is a leading provider of intelligent operating systems, and we are pleased to be selected as a participant in the Solution Provider Programme," says Adam Stone, president and CEO of D-Tools. "We are like-minded in our goal to provide our customers with a platform to fuel their growth, and we look forward to assisting Control4 dealers in expanding their businesses and maximizing their bottom line."

"We are committed to providing Control4 dealers with the best project solutions in the industry and the D-Tools software package is no exception. Their comprehensive software package is an excellent tool for syste

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Ukraine - Dnipropetrovsk was the setting on 10 and 11 November for a series of training seminars for dealers organized by Electro-Voice's Ukrainian partner Sound House Pro. The course, conducted by a team led by Andrey Garkaviy, was attended by 70 representatives of the Ukrainian pro audio scene. These included not only the nation's leading dealers but also employees of installation firms and rental companies. As was the case last year, the dealers' meeting was organized in collaboration with Dynacord's's partners in Ukraine, Cortmi.

The Dnipropetrovsk academy focussed mainly on products from the current Electro-Voice range, such as the new ZxA1 loudspeaker family, microphones from the N/DYM, PL and RE series, CPS series amplifiers, the N8000 audio matrix and the Dx46 FIR Drive Sound System Processor, which made a particularly strong impression on attendees.

The course was con

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USA - As 2011 begins to take shape, Bandit Lites reports that it has made several strategic investments on a global basis to further the push into GRN technology and to provide their clients with leading edge services. Total expenditures were over five million dollars, says the company.

On the control side of things, Bandit has purchased a large quantity of FPS Road Hog and Full Boar consoles. From the Martin side of things Bandit has purchased several of the new M 1 consoles. Another new addition is the Martin MAC 2000 Beam kit.

Moving into the GRN area, Bandit has double the inventory of GRNLite fixtures from last year. These additions include GRN PAR 3-36, GRN Batten 3-54, GRN Wash 3-36, GRN Moving Wash 3-120 and the newly redesigned GRN 8 Lights 3-96 with RGBW. All fixtures feature 3 watt LEDs and are among the brightest fixtures in the industry.

Finally, Bandit has comm

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The Netherlands - TC Group - parent company of TC Electronic, Tannoy, Lab.gruppen, Lake and TC Helicon - announced on Tuesday at the opening of Integrated Systems Europe 2011 that it is to become part of the AVnu Alliance, the industry forum dedicated to the establishment and promotion of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) open network standard.

TC Group is fully supportive of the move towards IEEE 802.1, stating that the establishment of AVB as the leading open standard will benefit customers, manufacturers and the industry as a whole by providing a level playing field for future product development while giving end users greater confidence in, and choice of, network-compatible devices.

A statement issued at ISE declares, "TC Group sees networked audio as a critical issue in pro audio - in both the install and tour world - and has already utilized digital audio ne

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Austria - The Grosses Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall), home to the famed Salzburg Festival has revamped its main audio system for the first time in two decades. The upgraded system includes a completely redesigned control room, featuring a Studer Vista 5 digital console. Celebrating the hall's 50th and the festival's 90th anniversaries, the Vista 5 was chosen for its optimum recording capabilities, with performance recordings in demand throughout the year.

Working to achieve 5.1-quality sound in the control room, which is fairly small and oddly shaped due to the architectural aspects of the nearly century-old venue, the Vista 5 features a lightweight, high-performance compact operating surface, ideal for the small space. The console is rigged to be mobile and can be easily disconnected and reconnected and transported to areas beyond the hall for performances outside of the f

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