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USA - Wireless Solution Sweden played part in one of the most widely watched televised sporting events in the world - Super Bowl XLV. The technology was used to light the exterior entrances of the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where the event was held on 6 February.

The hosting venue, Cowboys Stadium, built less than two years ago, is the largest domed stadium in the world with a capacity of 110,000 (including standing room). The actual attendance on Super Bowl Sunday was 103,219.

Syncrolite was contracted by Sports Graphics to light the NFL Super Bowl graphics that were attached to the outside of the Stadium. Dall Brown was the lighting designer and he included the four stadium support trusses in his design.The east end of the stadium was coloured in blue and the wes

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UK - Flightcase manufacturer 5 Star has supplied a variety of cases to audio specialists RG Jones Sound Engineering to transport various specialist tennis umpire equipment and audio kit used during the Wimbledon Championships.

RG Jones project manager, Tim Speight contacted 5 Star about the project, having been previously impressed by the quality of their products and the excellent service. Phil Lawrence oversaw the supply and delivery for 5 Star.

Speight works with a team co-ordinating all RG Jones' business with The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, for whom the company has been the key audio contractor since 1985. This includes the provision of system design services, installation and on-site engineering support during The Championships. This year, up to 10 RG Jones sound engineers will be on duty every day throughout the Wimbledon Fortnight.

Their brief includes

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UK - Le Mark's StudioTak flooring was used on ITV's 2010 Pride of Britain Awards. The national awards show, watched by millions, honours the unsung heroes of the UK. Awards are presented by Prince Charles, the Prime Minister and a host of other stars.

The set was built by London based, John Frost Scenery, specialists in set and scenery construction for over 40 years. "Le Mark's studiotak studio flooring is one of the best out there, really economical to use and gives a stunning high gloss finish, " comments Gary Parker of John Frost Scenery.

(Jim Evans)

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UK / Germany - On the eve of the EN54 series of fire safety standards passing into European law this week, TOA has announced that another raft of its products have been given EN54-24 loudspeaker system certification.

The first manufacturer to offer a total solution for EN54-certified voice evacuation systems, TOA continues to gain certification for additional products in its range, and has now confirmed that the PC-2369EN ceiling speaker, along with horn and box speakers BS-678BSB, BS-678BSW, CS-64BS, CS-154BS and SC-615BS as well as the PC-1867FC ceiling speaker and BS-680FC steel cabinet speaker have all been given EN54-24 approval. The entire VM-3000 Series PA/VA System and network-based SX-2000 Voice Evacuation Systems are approved. Next in line for certification is the company's VX-2000 Voice Evacuation System which should be certified within a number of weeks.

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Germany - The Prolight+Sound Forum - aimed at the event technology sector - is scheduled to take place during Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt next month.

The Professional Lighting & Sound Association of Germany is responsible for the Forum programme, which covers a variety of subjects from the fields of event security and safety, training in the event sector, building regulations and adherence to them, and new technical standards. The Prolight+Sound Forum will be held in Rooms 'Symmetrie' 2 / 3, Hall 8.1, from 6 to 8 April 2011. On Saturday, 9 April, the Prolight+Sound Forum will be held in Hall 11.0, Room 'Granat'.

Speakers will include: Jörg Braeutigam, Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Administrative Sector (Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft - VBG) and Hermann-Josef Weien, Project & Production; Falco Zanini; Thomas Völker, (Institution for St

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Hong Kong - A Lighthouse screen is a feature of the outside of the new Dior store, at the No. 1 Peking Road shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, which had a grand opening on Friday 28th January.

With a wide array of famous brand and designer clothing stores, there is considerable competition to attract the attention of customers. The Lighthouse screen will showcase the couturier's latest advertisements and fashion collections.

"We are very pleased that some of the world's leading fashion houses are recognising the positive benefits that investing in our groundbreaking LED screens bring," says Lighthouse general manager Peter Chan "Obviously, the designs need to be portrayed as accurately as possible, but the screens also need to be bright and eye-catching, to attract attention in a busy retail environment.

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UK - Fohhn Arc Series AT-50 and AT-09 loudspeakers have been installed in the Concord College at Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury. Concord is a co-educational international boarding school with students from more than 50 different countries aged 13 to 19.

Lancaster-based company Low Fold Audio. carried out the installation in the college theatre, which is used for a range of activities including presentations, full theatre and live music shows.

Two Fohhn AT-50 loudspeakers have been flown from the lighting bar to form the main PA system, with four AT-09 speakers fixed to the wall either side of the stage for use as in-fills, positioned to cover the balcony seating and the first few rows of the main auditorium. A single Fohhn D-2.1500 DSP-controlled Class D amplifier has been configured to run the AT-50 loudspeakers, with a Fohhn D2.750 amplifier handling the four AT-09s.

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Italy - Music Group has announced the appointment of Proel as its distributor for the Behringer and Bugera brands in Italy."We are excited to be appointed by the Music Group, and believe that their practice of offering professional quality equipment at exceptional prices helps us to stay competitive. We look forward to ensuring that their product range is accessible for our customers," comments Fabrizio Sorbi, managing director of Proel."Proel's customers know that they can expect superb products from the Music Group's respected brand names, while we know that we can enjoy an excellent working relationship with their team. In conjunction with our largest key customers, we are planning to open a number of dedicated Behringer 'shop in shops' in Italy, a project we are very excited about and believe will help define the future of MI retail in Italy.""It's an

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UK - AKG and UK/ROI distributor Sound Technology report the shipping of the Perception Wireless series in the UK. The new wireless microphone system features up to eight selectable UHF frequencies and a battery performance with up to 10 hours on a single AA battery. Perception Wireless uses licence-free ISM (channel 70) which is unaffected by the 2012 frequency switchover. A Channel 38 version will also be available in mid 2011.

The Perception Wireless is designed to accommodate musicians and entry-level audio technicians, although it has the capabilities to handle even the most difficult audio setups with up to eight channels per band.

The Perception Wireless series consists of a Vocal Set, with the handheld transmitter HT 45 featuring a dynamic cardioid capsule; the Instrumental Set, which comes with the pocket transmitter PT 45 plus instrument cable; the Sports Set with the

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Germany - TTA, innovator of the high-tech Stagetracker FX tracking and localisation system, is joining forces with Figure 53, innovator of the popular QLab show control software, to announce the completion of critical stages to integrate support for Stagetracker FX, combining the power of the two systems.

At ProLight+Sound, TTA and Figure 53 will announce the introduction of The Stagetracker Cue to the QLab package. Controlling one audio input in the Stagetracker Matrix, the new Stagetracker Cue in QLab can take a sound effect and fly it around onstage or anywhere else in the auditorium, using the Stagetracker Matrix for localization effect. The Stagetracker Cue also opens up options for controlling live audio inputs, making it easy to localize live audio from wireless microphones in QLab. All this is fully integrated in the QLab play list.

In addition to tracking the actors a

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UK - Romers Electronics has relocated to larger business premises and has appointed two new company directors to stand alongside managing director John Caton who has been working at Romers for over 30 years.

Former senior project engineer Lee Thompson has returned to Romers as operations director along with Sid Makinson who will be commercial director.

"The investment we have dedicated to these developments forms part of the commitment Romers has in continuing to build strong business relationships with our customers, both old and new and to assist with the growth Romers have recently relocated to a new office and workshop on Hamilton Street Industrial Estate in Blackburn, Lancashire," says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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Allen & Heath will show its new iPad application for its iLive digital mixing system at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011. iLive MixPad connects to an iLive MixRack on a wireless network and provides the essential controls for live mixing, including channel faders and mutes, DCA faders and mutes, image controls, aux sends, channel processing, mic-pre control and full metering. Channel processing encompasses high-pass filters, gates, parametric and graphic EQs, compressors, limiters / de-essers and delays.

iLive MixPad also offers several useful tools for system set-up, including channel assignment to mixes, a real time analyser and the facility to name and colour channel strips.

Glenn Rogers, managing director of Allen & Heath, comments: "As soon as we saw the iPad we were excited by the prospect of giving our iLive customers portable, intuitive control for mixing a show. In certain situa

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Sussex based Technical Performance & Presentation, the exclusive UK reseller for RC4Magic Series 2 wireless transmitters and receiver/dimmers for the stage and entertainment industry, will show the system at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011.

"R3" is now shipping and the company will demonstrate the product on its stand. The RC4 Magic Series 2 wireless DMX and wireless dimming system consists of a transmitter, the DMXio, and receiver/dimmers, DMX2dim and DMX4dim. A high gain transmitter and high power receiver/dimmer are also available.

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Launching its virtually smokeless range of pyrotechnics - the VS Flares, VS Coloured Flames, VS Gerbs and VS Small Starburst - as well as new Pyroflash Micro Mines and Pyroflash 15/20ft Mines, Le Maitre says it is delighted to once again be exhibiting at PLASA Focus: Leeds.

Also on show will be a selection of the company's special effects and smoke machines, including the MVS Hazer - Multi Venue System, with its patented system and variable high output haze, as well as a G-Force smoke machine which operates on its own or in conjunction with the Freezefog Pro to produce "a fantastic low fog effect that stays low".

Since 1977 Le Maitre Ltd, based in Mitcham and Peterborough, has been one of the world's leading innovators and manufacturers of pyrotechnics, smoke and haze machines as well as special effects, with over 500 state of the art products in its extensive portfolio, Le

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UK - TC Group has announced the launch of the White Acoustics brand ,with products aimed at the club, bar and live entertainment sector.

White Acoustics, a new umbrella brand emerging from the portfolio of TC Group, leverages Tannoy's loudspeaker technology, Lab.gruppen's recognised prowess in power amplifier design and the DSP and control expertise of TC Electronic into "a highly focused product range that displays all of the qualities that you would expect from three of the world's leading players in their respective fields"

A group statement says, "The brainchild of former Lab.gruppen chairman David Bissett-Powell, White Acoustics will, for the first time, bring the cutting edge in audio technology and innovation from the TC Group of companies together to create an audio system package that delivers superior performance, class-leading quality of sound and exc

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India - India's biggest society wedding event of the year for over 2000 guests in Delhi used a TiMax SoundHub-S for surround sound enhancement to Canada's Cirque Eloize acrobatic show, plus synchronised animated audio and video on the dance floor in conjunction with the powerful Immersive video server and mapping engine.

Commissioned by Arjun Bahl of Most Technical India who were the specialist media suppliers for the event, sound design was by Out Board's Dave Haydon and involved multiple surround zones running parallel 3D surround and dynamic delay-panning effects simultaneously for the performance stage, audience seating plus lounge areas and then later for the dance floor.

A separate surround system ran a continuously looping ethereal soundscape generated by TiMax as an accompaniment to the candelabras, chandeliers, mirrors and dry ice that greeted guests as they pa

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Austria - BSS Audio was chosen for sound processing at the new Glock Horse Performance Centre in the Austrian town of Treffen bei Villach, in Carinthia. The school, named after its sponsor, Austrian firearms manufacturer Gaston Glock, needed the capability to provide consistent audio coverage across the facility's four riding halls. The installation was performed by Musik-Aktiv with the assistance of Harman Professional distributor Kain Audio.

The facility deploys four Soundweb London BLU-160 devices and four BLU-BOB 8-channel output expanders, placed on the Soundweb London fault-tolerant digital audio bus. The two mobile racks are configured identically and the digital audio bus audio channels can be connected at four different points. Feeding the BLU-BOB devices, source inputs include four wireless commentator microphones (with pre-programmed ducking function), and a small ext

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Germany - Two of Germany's pre-eminent sound rental companies are among the first in the world to place orders for Nexo's new 45N12 stage monitor loudspeaker. Babbel & Haeger OHG and Pro Musik have taken 36 units between them, the first to be made available in the country.

CAMCO, the German distributor of Nexo products, hosted a successful demonstration of the new monitors to a meeting of Nexo hire companies. "We had a lot of fun with the N12," reports CAMCO's Reinhard Steger. "The technology has very clear and obvious design and technical advantages, and its unique selling points are all patented. For applications which require dedicated monitors, it makes very sound economic sense."

Both Pro Musik and Babbel & Haeger OHG have been dedicated Nexo users for a number of years, and were impressed by the design and useability of Nexo's first purpose-built wedg

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UK - Impact Production Services (IPS) recently supplied, installed and operated a lighting package that included Martin MAC 101 LED moving heads for the European premiere of the Justin Bieber film Never Say Never at the O2 Arena in London. The event took place on 16 February with journalists, fans and other guests in attendance to catch a glimpse of the Canadian pop sensation.

IPS supplied equipment for the main entrance area to the O2, in which Bieber appeared on a balcony, as well as lighting for the façade of the Cineworld Cinema, where the film showing took place. Martin MAC 101's were positioned by the Cinema entrance, with rapid movements and colour changes used to form waves of light on a drape cloth to emphasize the glitzy feel of the event. The MAC 101s were also used to create a searchlight effect onto the drape as 1800 guests walked into the Cinema.

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Germany - Riedel Communications has announced that all of its intercom-over-IP products are fully compatible to the just recently released EBU Tech 3347 standard. This makes Riedel the first manufacturer providing VoIP intercom products compliant to the EBU Tech 3347 standard.

For meeting the growing demand for standardized protocols for IP based intercom, the European Broadcast Union (EBU) defined the specifications for interoperable intercom-over-IP. The EBU Tech 3347 standard will allow for a standardized operation between interfaces of different vendors, thus changing the way large installation will be handled in the future. Interoperable intercom will also make it easier for broadcasters to communicate with each other at large-scale events such the Eurovision Song Contest, which is run by the EBU.

The EBU Tech 3347 standard makes use of technology already common in IP tel

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Germany - Allen & Heath will be showcasing its latest innovations for the DJ, studio and digital live markets at the forthcoming Pro Light & Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.

Allen & Heath will be exhibiting the iLive digital mixing system fitted with the new Dante audio interface card, which provides up to 64x64 bi-directional audio channels. The system will demonstrate iLive working with other Dante-enabled equipment, as well as virtual soundcard recording.

Also on display will be the new iLive MixPad app, which provides control of iLive's essential functions for live mixing, including channel faders and mutes, DCA faders and mutes, image controls, aux sends, channel processing, mic-pre control and full metering.

The recently launched Xone:DB4 will be at the centre of the Xone display. The fully digital DJ mixer has a Quad FX Core DSP engine, giving each channel access to its

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