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Germany - Set for launch at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt next month, Funktion One's latest offering, the PSM12 addresses a need for "an extremely powerful yet compact floor monitor with the qualities of the ground-breaking RM18 in a much smaller package".

The product features a custom designed 4" voice coil, 12" driver for maximum power at low frequencies and a 1.4" compression driver for high frequencies.

Funktion One's unique driver technology allows the compression driver crossover point to be nearly an octave higher than is typical, resulting in an extremely present but smooth sound, particularly under pressure.

The 70° high frequency conical waveguide is concentric with the 12" driver giving a point-source arrangement which is optimum for

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UK - Lighting and visual design specialists, Renegade created the lit environment for the 2011 Orange BAFTA (British Academy of Film & TV Arts) Awards gala dinner and aftershow party at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.

The event which followed the Awards Ceremony at the Royal Opera House, utilised multiple spaces in the venue, including the Great Room, the Ballroom, reception and peripheral areas.

It is the third year that Renegade's Nick Gray has been involved in designing the high profile showbiz event, working for production company AD Events. The challenge was to take some of the classic lighting elements from last year's successful scheme, and integrate them with a totally new look and feel for the Great Room and other spaces.

Chris Fyfe was Renegade's technical project manager, leading their crew of five, and overseeing the get-in and rigging of all the production light

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UK - All exhibition spaces were taken at ISCEx2011 and the wide variety of exhibitors and seminars attracted a larger than ever number of bookings at an event that goes from strength to strength each year, say the organisers.

Kraken Acoustics used the exhibition in Watford to launch their new carbon fibre BB80 micro-bass loudspeaker together with the unique BB80 X3 active crossover amplifier and were very impressed with the excellent turnout.

Andy Tinsey, of Kraken Acoustics, said, "Many thanks for the organisation of a great exhibition. We were extremely pleased with the response to our product launch which has generated enquiries worldwide and are happy that we chose ISCEx2011 to do it."

Tony Torlini, of Fuzion plc, was also happy. He said, "As an exhibitor, ISCEx2011 was a great success with a good solid flow of industry professionals, generating a good num

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Germany - Multiform Lighting will be exhibiting at ProLight + Sound show in Frankfurt on the stand of their German distributor World-Media Showtechnik and will be manned by Jurgen Hutmacher, Markus Grimm and Dirk Linnenweber.

Adding to their expanding range of professional LED lighting systems they will be releasing the high power fully featured MultiSpot GII. Available in two versions, the HP3 (RGB - 90watts) and the HP5 (RGBAW - 70 watts), both luminaires use a convection cooled diecast case suitable for inside (IP20) and outside (IP65) applications.

For indoor use the device is provided with XLR5 and Neutrik PowerCon connectors. These are replaced by waterproof PG9 glands supplied for outdoor situations. A dual-purpose hanging bracket provides for floor standing or suspension from a truss or lighting bar. Also available are user changeable lens panels with different beam an

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USA - The Gateway Church in Southlake, TX changed its former AV distribution and communications system for a fibre based network installation. The fully integrated solution consists of a MediorNet fibre network backbone and an Artist digital matrix intercom from Riedel Communications. Responsible for the installation and planning was the systems integrator Beck Associates.

The Gateway Church comprises three different campuses. For providing distribution of all video, audio and communications signals, the Gateway Church installed a comprehensive system consisting based on Riedel MediorNet, a fibre based multipoint network solution providing integrated transport for 3G/HD-SDI video, audio, data and communications.

Heart of the installation is a set of five MediorNet mainframes. Offering a true fibre based real-time network approach beyond single point-to-point links, MediorNet a

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UK - When the analogue mixing console at Dundee Repertory Theatre was showing signs of old age, the theatre's head of sound Colin Lowson realised that it was an opportunity to give the venue's audio system a 21st century shot in the arm. A DiGiCo SD8-24 now in place at the mix position.

The theatre has a varied programme, taking in plays, musicals, dance, live bands, comedians and corporate events, so a digital console was the ideal solution. "We had been considering various options over a two year period," says Lowson. "When the SD8-24 was introduced, it seemed to offer more capacity and functions than digital consoles from other manufacturers. The chassis size was another major factor, as it's the ideal size for medium theatre but doesn't lose any capacity or functionality."

When the SD8-24 became a serious choice, Lowson had an SD8 on demo for a week fro

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UAE - The annual Laureus World Sports Awards provide a high profile focus as stars of the sporting world come together to salute the finest sports performances of the year. And on hand to help make sure this year's show, at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, looked the business was Unusual Rigging & Engineering's team from the next-door emirate of Dubai.

With a brief to create an award ceremony that was bigger, better and more dynamic than ever before, production company Done and Dusted designed a set that comprised several large LED screens, two of which tracked across the stage.

Leon Ingram, project manager for Unusual Rigging & Engineering, comments, "The auditorium at Emirates Palace has no loading capacity from the roof, so in order to track the screens across the stage we had to build a ground support system. With a span of 22m, the system also had to provide support for

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USA - When fans enter the Amway Center for an Orlando Magic basketball game, they might mistakenly assume that an in-the-round rock concert tour had left town and forgotten to take its sound system. The permanent system - anchored by 66 Meyer Sound Milo line array loudspeakers - largely duplicates recent touring rigs for Usher, Metallica, and Céline Dion.

Rick Price, assistant director of broadcast technology and services for the Magic and Amway Center comments, "This building is about sponsorship opportunities and fan experience. With our massive LED scoreboard, I knew we would be doing visually incredible things, but I wanted to be absolutely sure that we had audio that was equally impressive.

"We said early on that the most important thing we could put it in this building was an amazing sound system. It's the one thing you can't sell, but, if people walk aw

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UAE - Christie has announce its participation at PALME 2011 (Dubai International Exhibition Centre, Dubai - 26 - 28 April 2011), showcasing the latest products from across its diverse business groups, including dynamic signage, rental staging and control rooms amongst others.

Nitro Solutions, the new Christie motorised moving yokes range, will make its debut at PALME this year. The modular series can provide up to 20,000 ANSI lumens of video projection, creating high brightness imagery on any surface from anywhere. Christie Nitro Solutions now offer three motorised yoke options: a dual-arm yoke for larger video projectors ranging from 12,000 to 20,000 ANSI lumens, and a single-arm yoke for projectors ranging from 5,700 to 15,000 ANSI lumens.

The modular approach of Christie Nitro Solutions expands the effectiveness of the moving yoke platform by allowing the user to deploy the

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Germany - The new Live X series of portable powered and passive loudspeakers is designed to "bring world-tour-proven Electro-Voice performance within reach of a wider range of customers than ever before".

Comprising three powered and four passive models, Live X features the latest Electro-Voice-engineered components; lightweight, durable plywood cabinets; best-in-class SPL output, power-handling, and frequency response; and clean, stackable designs - all at a price point previously unheard-of for loudspeakers of a similar pedigree, says the company.

Three versatile powered Live X cabinets are available: two full-range loudspeakers and a matching subwoofer. Each self-contained powered system features Electro-Voice-engineered components optimized for use with the integrated high-efficiency 1000-W and 700-W Class-D amplifiers. Both full-range systems may be pole-mounted

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Germany - The CueCore will be launched at the stand of Visual Productions during Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt, in April.

The CueCore is a stand-alone lighting controller. The device is completely solid-state, with no moving parts; it is an extremely secure and low-maintenance installation control solution that has only a minimal power consumption, says the company.

All operating and programming is done through its dynamic web 2.0 interface. Connected to a browser, the CueCore unfolds itself into a 1024 channel lighting controller, complete with an industry-standard command-line interface.

With lighting projects becoming more complex every day, the CueCore features a powerful Show Control logic for advanced system integration, says the company. This allows for interaction with other types of equipment and controllers. The Show Control editor enables you to programme triggers and

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Germany - ProLight+Sound 2011 sees Yamaha Commercial Audio launch a new version of its StageMix iPad app, alongside further new software, the usual wide range of hardware products and a new Facebook page.

A highlight will be the launch of the LS9 version of the StageMix iPad app. Since its launch in September last year, the M7CL version of StageMix has been a major success and producing an LS9-compatible version has been a priority for Yamaha's software development team.

Using the iPad's built-in WiFi (802.11 a/b/g/n) functionality, StageMix directly controls the LS9 via a wireless connection point, which is linked to the mixing console via Cat5 cable. With a straightforward, intuitive graphic interface and the iPad's multi-touch and gesture control, stage sound can be easily mixed, even if the mixing console is at front of house.

The app allows the user to control a wide ra

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UK - In a joint technical initiative with Audinate and Lab.gruppen aimed at "providing the class leading performance and convenience of the industry standard Lake DSP and power of the Lab.gruppen PLM Powered loudspeaker Management system design platform", Turbosound has announced the release of its 20000Dp amplifier.

Based on the Lab.gruppen PLM 20000Q platform and featuring dedicated presets specifically designed by Turbosound's live sound engineering team for use with Turbosound's new Flashline concert touring loudspeaker system, the 20000DP provides four discrete output channels each rated at 4400 watts at 4 ohms, and offers significant advantages in sonic performance and user functionality.

The 20000DP also contains fully featured Lake Processor modules, each offering precise settings for gain, delay, standard and linear phase crossover slopes, equalization, and

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Europe - A grandMA2 light was chosen by lighting designer Paul Normandale and lighting director Glen Johnson for James Blunt's Some Kind of Trouble 2011/12 world tour which has just kicked off in Europe. Two grandMA2 light consoles are on the tour, running in full tracking back up, with networking provided via two MA NPUs (Network Processing Units).

The main reason that grandMA2 was chosen for this tour - apart from the fact that it is Johnson's current console of choice - is that they are using the desk's DMX merging facility to enable video content stored on a Catalyst media server to be run through 50 Martin Professional MAC 101 LED moving lights and 24 Sun Strip MR16 battens.

The grandMA2 takes in Art-Net from the Catalyst, allowing Johnson to merge four universes of DMX in the desk, and send colour and intensity information from the Catalyst out as standard DMX - v

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Australia - The Jands Ezicom production communications system has been a mainstay of the Australian entertainment industry for many years. Now, Jands has launched launch the new Ezicom family of products.

The new Jands Ezicom system is capable of delivering reliable production communications on stage and theatre productions of low to medium complexity. It's simple, logical control layout means it can be set up and operated by untrained users while still delivering professional performance, says the company.

The new line-up consists of the E101 single channel belt pack and the E401 four channel master station. Each E401 Master station can support up to 20 remote E101 belt packs, distributed across 4 switchable outputs. Connection between master station and the belt packs is via industry standard two core screened microphone cables.

The robust circuit design maintains high spe

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UK - Lighting designer Bob Bryan used almost 150 mission critical LED effects - as well as many conventional fixtures from the SGM catalogue to help animate BBC Worldwide's new Doctor Who Experience at London's Olympia Two.

The Doctor Who Experience offers an immersive walk-through adventure followed by a dynamic exhibition, featuring props dating back to the successful BBC TV first series in 1963. It includes authentic Tardis (police box) sets, never-before-seen costumes and re-creations of iconic recent sets, including the Pandorica as well as monsters spanning the generations from Daleks and Cybermen to Silurians, an Ice Warrior and a Zygon.

Visitors are invited to step through a crack in time allowing them to join the Doctor, currently played by Matt Smith, on a journey through time and space, encountering some of the best-loved and scariest monsters from th

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UK - ETC's Eos was the lighting desk in use for three of the four shows nominated for best lighting design, including the winner, The White Guard, lit by Neil Austin at the National's Lyttleton Theatre.

The National Theatre embarked on a programme to upgrade all its lighting control desks to Eos some three years ago, while Paule Constable took the decision to run Love Never Dies on Eos less than a year ago, declaring herself the desk's "biggest fan".

Control supervisor Sarah Brown moved from her previous position as a lighting programmer to being responsible for training all the staff in the use of the Eos at the National Theatre. "While I was an operator," she explains, "I was approached to ask what I thought of the desk - and I really liked the way it works. Our previous desks had reached the limits of their capabilities, and were takin

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UK - Visionpoint Technologies, the AV arm of Flipside Group, has installed two dnp new wide angle 100in high contrast screens at BSkyB's Sky flagship store, situated in London's Westfield Shopping Centre. These were supplied by the manufacturer's UK distributors, Paradigm Audio Visual.

Although the Centre only opened in 2008, Sky was aware that its digital signage hardware looked under-specified due to the high ambient light afforded by the Centre's glass roof. Sky were keen to remedy this so they could best showcase their high-definition television content. In addition, by the start of 2010 Sky were also ready to launch a permanent demonstration of their new 'Sky 3D' product ahead of the launch of their 3D channel in October 2010.

Visionpoint was commissioned to review all aspects of the hardware utilised on the stand and recommend latest technologies to maximise Sky's invest

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UK / USA - Harvard University's Media Production Centre has added a SoundField Mark V B-Format microphone to its existing inventory, which already includes a SoundField SPS422B mic and an SP451 surround sound processor. The Mark V is being used to make stereo and surround-sound recordings for various departments at the university, including the music faculty.

Anthony Di Bartolo, Manager of the university's Media Production Centre, provides audio, video and multimedia services across the university, and has himself long been a user of SoundField microphones for jazz and acoustic recording, including the older ST250 portable microphone system.

"We already have an SPS422B and the SP451 surround processor here", he explains, "but we were looking for another mic or system that would enable us to record in surround. Of course, there are now various ways to do that, an

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India The 34th National Games 2011 were held at Ranchi in Jharkhand recently. While the event itself saw athletes from all Indian states competing against each other, around 7,000 athletes marched past audiences of up to 45,000 during the four-and-a-half-hour long spectacular Closing Ceremony.

After successfully executing the audio for the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, large event specialists Sound.Com were again contracted to broadcast the audio for both spectaculars, working for event production house Core Networks and Cineyug Group, who managed both the Opening and Closing ceremonies in the Ranchi Stadium. The pro audio specialists again delivered an advanced network solution with all audio transported over Optocore using the German company's new 'R-FX' series devices.

Following an air display, entertainment included Indian musicians, Bollywood stars, a laser show, a fi

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UK/Sweden - Orbital Sound reports on a successful season with La Soirée, as it moves from the South Bank Big Top to Sweden prior to a return to London later in the year. Billed as a fusion of cabaret, new burlesque, circus sideshow and contemporary vaudeville, Orbital was responsible for the show's sound design and system supply, working with production manager Dan Watkins to overcome a number of challenges, including 23 very eclectic acts performing in a circus-style tent.

Sound design was down to Orbital's Davy Ogilvy, who explains his approach to coping with the large circus-style tent and its inherent challenges.

"We needed to have a central truss to fire the speakers from. With only a single point to hang from, this made weight a very real issue - as the same point is used for some of the acts during the show. We elected to use four of the d&b audiotech

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