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Germany - HK Audio is launching SoundCaddy One at Pro Light+Sound. SoundCaddy One is a fully integrated sound system. A mixing console, controller, line source mid-/high range unit, subwoofer, cordless speaker bus, and even a pneumatically extendable speaker pole - all united in a powered all-in-one system.

Designed for smart, intuitive handling, it sets up and tears down "in a snap" and takes up very little cargo space. It is designed for schools, churches, government offices, and car dealerships, at conferences, exhibitions and fashion shows, and for product presentations, says the company.

SoundCaddy One's line-array design delivers optimum frequency response, spreading speech and music evenly from the front to the back row. The Elements system and the new SoundCadd

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Germany -At proLIght+Sound, Movecat is presenting the new I-Motion Basic S show controller. This compact system controls kinetic drives and has been developed for mobile applications. New in the 'S' version are an ID User Card function, a VGA output and the possibility of connecting external remote units such as Go, Speed Ratio and Emergency Off buttons or controllers or a dynamic joy stick.

The I-Motion Basic S show controller is recommended for setups with up to 60 drives. It offers the comfortable control and operation of all systems involving D8, D8 Plus and C1 drives at both fixed and variable speeds as well as supporting mixed configurations of all kinds. Depending upon the drives and controllers used, entire systems can be realized from SIL1 to SIL3. The option also exists of integrating existing drives and other stage machinery.

The controller corresponds in its basic

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USA/UK - High End Systems has announced the hiring of Chris Ferrante as an international sales manager. Ferrante returns to High End Systems after spending the last two years working in the concert touring department of XL Video in the UK. In his new role at High End Systems, he is responsible for the territories of the UK, Ireland, Southern Europe, the Middles East, Africa, and India.

Ferrante says, "I am very pleased to be returning to High End Systems. The recent and upcoming fixture releases along with the product road map are very exciting. It is thrilling to get back to the customers and employees I worked with when previously with High End."

"Chris Ferrante brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise within our industry," commented Bill Morris, CEO of High End Systems. "We will leverage Chris' experience to help meet and exceed our worl

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UK - Paul Molyneux, managing director of Sharp UK, has been appointed COO and deputy group general manager of Europe Group, and vice president of Sharp Electronics European Group (SEEG). The appointment comes following Molyneux's success heading up Sharp UK over the last six years, including relocating the business to London, rolling out the This Is Whybrand ethos, and achieving the accolade of one of Britain's top employers.

Molyneux, who was the first non-Japanese UK MD, will be responsible for all of Sharp's European sales subsidiaries and Sharp Microelectronics Europe, as well as business planning, business structure improvements, PR, branding and environmental policy.

Paul Molyneux's replacement as managing director and president of Sharp UK will be Paul Hide, current operations director and director HE Division of Sharp UK. Hide has been with Sharp for five years

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Germany - At ProLight+Sound, Philips Entertainment lamps is showing entertainment industry lighting concepts "to enhance the on-stage experience with uplifted creativity, greater flexibility and superior energy efficiency".

Today's stage designs call for lighting solutions which deliver high brightness and high contrast beams to avoid shadow creation, as well as more compact luminaire and fixture designs to improve creative choice and design flexibility. Addressing this need, Philips Entertainment lamps has developed a powerful and lightweight, compact system - Philips MSR Platinum 35.

In line with the Philips MSD Platinum Reflector lamps - introduced in 2010 - this lamp system provides a powerful tool to create intense lighting. The short arc generates sparkling, bright light. Depending on the application, and with an ultra-compact design suitable for smaller stage

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Australia - The Education Programme at ENTECH INTECH 2011 is shaping up, with the dual announcement of PLASA sponsored international keynote speaker Chris Higgs and Australia's leading music and entertainment technology education and training provider, JMC Academy confirming their participation this week.

Chris Higgs started work in the entertainment industry in 1973 and has since worked in most sectors, providing rigging and flying effects for drama, opera and ballet in both subsidised and commercial theatre, for television and for concert touring throughout the 80's and 90's. In 1998, Chris started Total Training at Total Fabrications, part of what is now the Total Solutions Group in the UK.

Higgs will be presenting two keynote sessions including Working at Height and participating in panel sessions at the show. Higgs said, "I am looking forward to discussing som

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Belgium - Pan-European based dry hire specialist, AED Rent, has announced that it has made a further substantial investment in the impression series of LED based fixtures from German manufacturer GLP German Light Products.

AED Rent is investing more than 1m euros to add to ITS existing inventory with the majority being used to increase their level of the impression RZ 120 Zoom fixture by 300 pieces, and to make an initial investment in 100 pieces of the new impression Spot One, GLP's new high powered RGB LED Spot fixture. With this new investment, the total inventory of GLP moving lights at AED Rent will be in the region of 2,000 fixtures.

Glenn Roggeman, CEO of AED Rent commented, "The demand that we have seen for the GLP impression range, and particularly the RZ 120 has been incredible and so investing in more was a simple decision for us. We have found the entire GLP r

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USA - Austin City Limits Live, a live-music venue that hosts the long-running Austin City Limits television show as well as 60-100 concerts and other live events annually, has taken delivery of three Robert Juliat Victor 1159 1800W followspots. The fixtures, which were supplied by Texas Scenic, made their debut at the gala opening of the new venue.

Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theatre is a $40m, 2700 + person capacity venue on three levels. It offers in-house sound and a video control studio as well as a 40 automated head lighting package with innovative optics, and digital consoles plus a conventional lighting package for TV.

"The Robert Juliat Victors are dedicated primarily to our concerts," says Billy Heaslip. "As production manager, I knew that we'd be doing TV lighting beyond live concerts and I wanted an instrument with a excellent even fie

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Australia - The Sydney office of national audiovisual group Scene Change has purchased a ClearCom Tempest wireless talkback system. After evaluating many different systems, Sydney director Vicken Hekimian chose the Tempest system for its clarity and reliability.

"A lot of our clients are show producers who are very particular about the quality of the show call," he said. "When it comes down to a vital cue, you don't want even the slightest chance of interference. They trust Clearcom systems as it means they go into a show feeling more comfortable, knowing that they're always in control.

"We've had great feedback on the Tempest, it's one of those products that just tells your client that you're prepared to invest a bit more for ultimate dependability."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - EAW is expanding the capabilities of its Application Support Group (ASG) by appointing Jerrold Stevens to the position of director, EAW Application Support Group (ASG), effective mid-May 2011. The announcement was made by Jeff Rocha, EAW vice president and general manager, and further underscores EAW's commitment to customer support, education and the ongoing development of market-driven products.

The director of application support is the worldwide technical liaison between EAW's customers and their sales and product development organizations. This role includes direct oversight and management of the ASG resources that are located throughout the world. In this position, Stevens will lead, refine and further develop the pre- and post-sale contribution of EAW to system design, support and optimization and will reinvigorate the role that education plays in the growth of the

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Sweden - Göteborgs Stadsteater has recently added a TiMax SoundHub-R32 delay-matrix processor to the sound reinforcement system for its main auditorium, with a TiMax Tracker (TT) performer tracking system. The project was overseen by head sound engineer at the theatre, Jorgen Eriksson, and the complete system is designed primarily to improve the vocal intelligibility when the on-stage actors use lapel microphones.

TiMax SoundHub controls zone level, EQ and matrixed delay for the main FOH system comprised of seven d&b Q1s distributed around a central d&b Q10 hoisted across the proscenium, supported by two L Acoustic MTD115s and a further two L Acoustics MTD112s providing side-fill back and front.

A total of 24 Tannoy 8" speakers act as delay-fills to the upper and lower house and to the balcony, with fill by three EAW JF50S enclosures. Two 2 d&b J-subs and two L Acoustic

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USA - Jason Rudolph selected a grandMA2 light console to play the crucial role of controlling 34 media servers at the recent Academy Awards telecast, which fed multiple onstage screens via 70 video projectors.

"It was an enormous undertaking, to say the least," reports Rudolph. "I regularly programme multiple media servers with grandMA2 - it's my main console - but I hadn't done anything of this size. The entire set at the Oscars was projection. We had 34 Hippotizer HD units outputting 53 discrete active outputs and some spares with control from the grandMA2 light console. In addition to the screens, we also took care of the scenic tracking for the moving elements which acted as projection surfaces."

Rudolph had three grandMA2 lights on hand: a primary controller and backup plus a separate system located back of house for programming. "We could run one

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UK - Britain's longest continuously-running game show, Question of Sport, is back for another series.

After the final whistle was blown on the filming of all sports at BBC London Television Centre, Richard Martin Lighting (RML) continues to support lighting designer Roger Williams on the show which is now filmed at its new home ground - MediaCityUK.

Located at Salford Quays, Peel Media's bespoke community features one of the biggest HD studio developments in Europe. MediaCityUK has been designed around the specific needs of the media and creative industries with the vision to become a 'world class hub for innovation and content creation'.

The show's lighting specification comprised of Stage Colour 300, Alpha Wash 575, VL1000TS and Alpha Spot 575 HPE.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - One of the nation's most watched TV shows, ITV's Push The Button, hosted by Ant & Dec, chose Le Mark's StudioTak self-adhesive flooring for decoration on set.

The ease of use and flexibility of Le Mark's StudioTak Studio Vinyl offered the right combination for a seamless floor covering. Used in various places around the stage and set, StudioTak supports the stunning high gloss finish of the existing stage floor, giving a shimmer and almost water-like, gloss effect.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) continues its commitment to supporting local motor racing talent by becoming a premier sponsor for the Jack Goff Racing team for the second year running in the ELF Renault Clio Cup with Michelin.

Making a successful debut last year and finding his feet in one of the closest-fought motor racing contests in the UK, Goff is this year poised to challenge for the championship with his characteristic enthusiasm and determination.

The ELF Renault Clio Cup with Michelin series - known for its nail-biting, wheel-to-wheel finishes - is the UK's premier one-make saloon-car championship, featuring a 16 race season which runs from 2nd / 3rd April through to October.

In addition to AC-ET, other leading technology companies from the professional entertainment world join the Jack Goff Racing sponsorship roster, including Avolites, HSL Group, J&C

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Germany - At Prolight + Sound 2011, Harman Professional announced the introduction of its HiQnet Performance Manager software, a user interface that facilitates the design of touring and live performance venue sound reinforcement systems. Designed especially for touring and theatrical sound engineering, HiQnet Performance Manager is an application-specific iteration of the HiQnet System Architect 2 connectivity and control software application for professional-grade audio system integration.

"In touring, time is money and Performance Manager dramatically streamlines the system design, setup and tuning process, allowing the JBL VerTec System Engineer to achieve a higher level of performance with more consistent results on a daily basis from venue-to-venue", said Paul Bauman, director of tour sound product application and application engineering, JBL Professional.

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Germany - DPA Microphones has officially launched its new modular series of microphones at Prolight & Sound 2011.

The Reference Standard mics take DPA's Standard and Compact ranges a step further, building on the company's reputation for clear, transparent and precise sound and improving on the classic mics. The new range offers increased flexibility, sound quality and cost-effectiveness; the best just got better, claims the company.

The Reference Standard 4000 Series builds and improves on DPA's Compact and Standard 4006, 4011, 4015 and 4017 mics, making a wide selection of capsules available at different price points and performance demands. Three new preamplifiers improve on previous designs: the MMP-A ultra transparent transformerless preamp with active drive for impedance balancing, the MMP-B preamp with low cut and high boost filters and the 45mm compact MMP-C preamp wit

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Germany - Harman's Crown Audio announced at ProLight+Sound the addition of the 'Powered By Crown' iPad/iPhone App, designed to provide users with enhanced control and configuration of its amplifiers. The new application can be deployed to control and monitor amplifiers by setting the basic control panels on an amplifier or handle a complete setup through Harman HiQnet System Architect.

The new application benefits both touring professionals and integrators as it can be used to control numerous lines of Crown amplifiers including I-Tech, I-Tech HD, CTs, and Macro Tech I Series amplifiers, says the company. Users can instantly connect by plugging their amplifiers into a wireless router. The app can be deployed on two, four and eight channel amplifiers. Users can now create a custom control panel in HiQnet System Architect, save it and directly import it onto the app using iTunes.

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Germany - XLNT CyberMotion, billed as the world's first fully integrated motion control system, was launched yesterday at ProLight+Sound by XLNT Advanced Technologies. The system is designed not only to change the philosophy of motion control but to open the horizons of stage engineering to a new world of creative possibilities, says the company.

XLNT CyberMotion offers a complete range of motion products designed specifically for the entertainment industry. Developed by XLNT Advanced Technologies, SIL3 certified technology was used to create a series of intercompatible road-ready products for shows and cost efficient global touring.

Intelligent, variable speed chain hoists, winches, trolley beams and other motion control mechanics, instantly add movement and velocity to permanent installations, multi-purpose venues, concert touring and theatre, TV or event productions of any

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Germany - The A.C. Entertainment Technologies stand at ProLight & Sound 2011 is showcasing a selection of leading lighting technologies.

Exclusively distributed in Europe and the Middle East by AC-ET, the show sees the official launch of the new Jands Vista v2 software.

There is also a preview of the new Chroma-Q Studio Force Daylight white and Variable white LED lighting fixtures.

Utilising the same core technologies as the Color Force range, the new Chroma-Q Studio Force LED fixtures are equally at home for broadcast, film and TV lighting applications as they are in any other application normally utilising daylight or tungsten fixtures.

The range consists of the Studio Force D (Daylight white 6,000K CCT) and Studio Force V (Variable white 2,900K - 6,000K CCT) fixtures. Both products are available in a choice of 48" and 72" battens and a 12" multi-purpose v

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USA - Liberty AV Solutions has named Tony Carr as its new Southwestern territory manager. An accomplished industry veteran who comes to the post from Samsung Electronics, Carr will assist in directing Liberty's sales efforts in Southern California, Arizona, Southern Nevada, and Hawaii.

Reporting directly to Liberty's director of Western regional sales David Ellis, Carr will work hand-in-hand with the company's independent manufacturer's reps to serve customers throughout his territory. As the latest addition to an overall sales force reorganization that began last year, he will be supported by a team of inside sales associates that brings an even broader base of specialized knowledge and resources to those in the field.

"Customers have an inherent right to expect high levels of service," Carr states. "To that end, it's great to be a part of the Liberty sales tea

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