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UK - West Midlands and Bristol, UK based AV rental specialist Central Presentations (CPL) has expanded its warehouse space near Birmingham by taking over a new unit right next door to the existing facility and offices.

More capacity has been needed for some time - particularly due to recent investments in the latest larger scale technology like HD cameras, projectors and PPUs as well as an ever increasing stock of day-to-day equipment like microphones, plasma screens and speakers - plus higher staff levels and a healthy level of business, says the company.

With 12000sq.ft of space now available at the Kenilworth site, in addition to increased storage capacity, the new building will allow CPL to dramatically increase its dedicated Prep and Returns areas, further streamlining the

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Sweden - Wireless Solution Sweden has announced another OEM partner agreement with PR Lighting, making wireless DMX standard equipment in their new PR-5000 Spot and Wash and the PR-8802 Architectural LED Wash.

The PR-8802 has two heads and has the same characters as the popular PR-8800 with RGBW colour mixing + white + linear CTO, 0~100% linear adjustable dimmer, strobe, 15° beam angle, 32° field angle and IP 67 waterproof rating. It is designed for high power and great for outdoor use.

Mac Li, R&D manager for PR Lighting commented, "Working with W-DMX is the best choice for us as well as for our clients as it is like a standard for Wireless DMX."

Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solution said, "PR Lighting offers a diverse range of high quality lighting products to the market and we're proud to be chosen as their wireless DMX OEM partner. We are conf

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UK - Autograph has announced the appointment of Scott Fraser as technical sales manager, for their Sales & Installations division.

Scott joins Autograph following 5 years at Yamaha Commercial Audio, where he specialised in system design and networked audio projects, varying from Westminster Abbey to the Pyramid State at Glastonbury.

"I am excited to join Autograph, at such a pivotal time," Scott explains. "I feel I am well positioned to help expand their already hugely successful installations division. Having worked with the sister company as a supplier, I've seen first hand exactly why Autograph has such a fantastic reputation within the Pro Audio industry & I am delighted to be part of that."

Prior to Yamaha, Scott headed up the sales division of RG Jones. He established an impressive client base within the Houses of Worship sector, using his experienc

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Belgium - APart Audio has appointed Romano M. Cunsolo as their new account manager export for Central Europe.

Cunsolo has worked in the professional Audio industry since 1984 and brings a wide range of experience in acoustics and electronics. During his career he worked as sales, marketing and product manager for Dynacord and Electro Voice. After eight years as a regional manager for central and Eastern Europe at Biamp Systems he now joins APart as from 1 May 2011.

"I am very happy to start at APart Audio, a young and very dedicated team of people, who want to make a difference in the audio Industry," says Cunsolo. "I am sure that my long experience in the installed audio market will help APart to grow to an even more important player in this industry, with respect for our distribution partners and the market. I am looking to work more proactive and coach our di

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USA - Luxeon A, introduced this week is the latest illumination grade LED from Philips Lumileds that reduces the engineering effort required for new solutions and delivers Freedom From Binning. Luxeon A shares the Luxeon Rebel ES platform and footprint and incorporates a 2sq.mm thin film flip chip and Lumiramic phosphor technology to deliver the highest quality of light at 2700K and 3000K with very high efficacy and light output, says the company.

All Luxeon A LEDs are hot-tested and specified at a junction temperature of 85°C that represents real-world operating conditions. Lumileds' unique chip and phosphor technology allows colour targeting that ensures all

Luxeon A emitters fall within a single three-step MacAdam ellipse on the black body curve. The quality, uniformity, and consistency of the light from LED to LED relieves luminaire manufacturers and lighting designers

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Czech Republic - Robe's Robin 600 LEDWash is officially the 'fastest selling' product for the Czech Republic based moving light manufacturer since 1999.

Production started at the end of 2010 and the 2000th LEDWash 600 has just been delivered to French distributor Axente, with over 1500 on order. Special arrangements have been made at the factory in Valasske Mezirici to ramp up production and keep pace with the demand.

Around the world, so far Robe's Top 8 LEDWash 600 selling territories and distributors are Germany, France, Australia, UK, Russia, Switzerland, Italy and South Africa.

Sales were further boosted by a buoyant and positive Prolight+Sound 2011 exhibition in Frankfurt, proving to be Robe's "best ever" trade show in terms of actual confirmed orders taken during the four- day event.

Meantime, the 1000th Robe LEDWash 600 fixture reached its destination in

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UK - XL Video supplied video production and crew for the just completed UK arena leg of The Script's Science & Faith world tour, which was the biggest production to date for the Irish rockers whose very distinctive sound and superlative live performances have built up a massive following.

Paul 'Eggy' Eggerton is the band's video director, working closely with engineer Wolfgang 'Wolfie' Schramm. They came onboard and helped the creative team after being recommended by co-lighting designer Jamie Thompson with whom they had worked on the Biffy Clyro tour. Their brief from the off on the camera mix was to be experimental and give it an edge, a vibe and make it something different from a standard IMAG show.

XL Video's director Des Fallon comments, "The Script are one of the most exciting young bands of the moment, their music is inventive and refreshing, and we're pleas

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UK - Midas' new analogue console with FireWire interface, the 'digilogue' VeniceF, has completed its first-ever tour with Eliza Doolittle, whose FOH engineer John Delf, purchased one of the first off the UK production line for his own use.

Delf encountered the VeniceF during a PRO6 training day at Midas. "I saw a prototype that wasn't even assembled, and when I heard about what you could do with the built in 32x32 FireWire interface I was blown away and started thinking about all the different applications I could use it for," he says. "I decided to buy one there and then, without having heard or played with it as I was confident it would have that Midas sound. I tour with lots of different bands, plus I wanted a desk for my own studio, and I'd always wanted to own a Midas desk, so this seemed the perfect solution."

He continues, "It feels more like a

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By Design Day - Although 23 April has passed, it's not too late to support By Design Day 2011, which raises money for Light Relief in the UK and Behind the Scenes in the US and Canada. Some of the industry's top designers pledged that day's royalties to the two charities while others are choosing to make a straightforward donation. By Design Day is being championed this year by an illustrious group of international designers from a number of design disciplines including Neil Austin, Ken Billington, Paule Constable, Jonathan Deans, Rick Fisher, Howard Harrison, Scott Lehrer, Tony Meola, Scott Pask, Ken Posner, Jennifer Tipton, and Hugh Vanstone.

Royalties have been pledged from shows on stages all over the world including Hamlet and Moonlight (Jon Clark); Warhorse, Clybourne Park, and Les Mis 25th Anniversary Tour (Constable); La Cage Aux Fo

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UK - A chance conversation 21 years ago led to the invention of the now ubiquitous

Le Mark PAL Road Case label. As with most inventions, the demand came first when the question was put by west London-based SPS to Le Mark's MD Stuart Gibbons: "Can you build be a road case label that I can write on over & over again and will stick like . . . a limpet to a blanket and never fall off?"

Along with screen printing colleague Kevin Isaac, Stuart Gibbons created the first ever Plastic Adhesive Laminate (PAL) Road Case label under the then (but now forgotten) Roadie Label name.

Le Mark has chosen to produce a 21st anniversary celebration version of their original Roadie Label - this time, however, with a glowing photo luminious background bearing the slogan: "Light in a Dark Place".

Le Mark have agreed to support Stage Hand as their 2011/12 season charity and wil

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UAE - Eighteen leading local technical and production contractors will supply equipment, crew, services and technical expertise free for a concert taking place in Dubai on 27 April 2011, at the Aviation Club in Garhoud, which will be in support of Peace One Day.

UB40's Ali Campbell and a full ten piece band will be topping the bill on 27 April, and this will be followed by two further evenings of action-packed shows including a host of local artists.

The main concert sponsors are Al Laith Event Services, Creative Technology, Delta Sound, EFM Event Logistics and Neumann & Mueller.

Staging, roofing, FOH, barriers and production village cabins will be provided by Al Laith Event Services; lighting and rigging by Neumann & Mueller; sound by Delta; LED screens, projection and cameras by CT, with logistical support from freighting experts, EFM Event Logistics.

A further 13 local

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UK - Thin Lizzy are using a DiGiCo's 500th SD8 console on monitors for their current tour. Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Darren Wharton are joined onstage by Marco Mendoza, former Almighty frontman Ricky Warwick and Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell. All are very much from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of rock so, for the band's recent UK and European tour, monitor engineer Phil Shenton used the tried-and-tested formula that has served hard rock well for decades.

"My remit was that the band wants to keep it old school," says Shenton. "No in-ears, it's six loud wedge mixes, side-fills and an analogue rock 'n' roll sound.

"My good friend Matt Coton of BCS Audio had been lucky enough to win the 500th SD8 at PLASA 2010," Phil continues. "I've always been a fan of DiGiCo consoles, so I gave Matt a call and hired the SD8 for the UK

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Italy - Lighting designer Massimo Tomasino has extended his relationship with SGM's popular Synthesis 700 and Giotto 400 moving head spots, featuring them extensively in the design for Patty Pravo's current Nella Terra dei Pinguini tour.

Having worked with the pop legend - whose own career spans four decades - since 2005, he has a clear fix on the type of set design that suits her best. "With her elegant pop/rock style I like to work with a lot of rear lighting," he says.

This time around, Tomasino designed both the lighting and the scenography, with a scalable set which would be equally dynamic in the smaller theatres as in the large arenas and amphitheatres. "I needed moving lights that would deliver a strong brightness and at the same time run very silent, especially when touring theatres.

"The set list contains many slow songs, with soft dynami

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USA - Stage Technologies Las Vegas has announced the latest schedule of its popular three-day training course - An introduction to automation and the eChameleon suite. The first session dates are 1-3 August inclusive, with dates for last-quarter training sessions to be announced later in the year. This course is aimed at programmers and operators as well as professionals from other disciplines interested in learning the features of eChameleon software.

Utilising Stage Technologies control interfaces, delegates will be given an opportunity to get hands on with eChameleon and learn some of the current techniques and principles used to plot and run some of the biggest shows in the world. eChameleon is the common software platform across all Stage Technologies control consoles, offering unrivalled ease of use, power and flexibility.

The three-day course will cover the funda

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Canada - Montreal's Les Grands Ballets Canadien recently purchased an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system following a trial run on a three week production of Leonce et Lena. The Company selected a system comprising an iDR-32 MixRack and iLive-R72 Control Surface due to its compactness, flexibility and versatility, which would be suitable for both touring and installed in their home venue, the Theatre Maisonneuve at the Place des Arts.

Audio sources included a mixture of pre-recorded tracks, sound effects and a live orchestra. Three Macbooks, two installed at FOH and one in the orchestra pit, were set up to run different software packages, including Cricket V2, Qlab V2 and ILive Editor. The pit Macbook contained organ tracks to be played by one of the musicians, while all additional music and sound effects had redundant back-ups and the musicians tracks were controlled from

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India - Earlier this year, AbhangaNaad: The Voice of Devotion took place on the University Grounds of Shivaji University in Kolhapur. Featuring approximately 2,500 Warkari (devotees of Lord Vithoba) singing in unison and accompanied by 1,350 Dhols (traditional Indian 'dhangar'drums), the event celebrated divine love in the presence of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, also known as guruji.

This massive concert attracted more than 120,000 devotees plus another 3m television viewers throughout India. Sound reinforcement for an event of this magnitude required loudspeaker systems that could project over a large area with excellent speech intelligibility and music reproduction characteristics. D.A.S. Audio's Aero Series line array system was chosen for the task.

Organised in a bid to attract youth to Indian folk traditions, AbhangaNaad featured devotional songs and meditation as

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Greece - The Costa Navarino complex stretches for two kilometres along the coast of the Messinia region of Greece and comprises two five star deluxe resort hotels, golf courses, restaurants, conference facilities, spas and dedicated activity centres for teenagers and children.

Yamaha's Greek importer Philippos Nakas SA won the tender to supply and install a high quality audio system throughout the site, playing background music in all the public areas such as bars, restaurants, children's play centres, hotel lobbies and reception areas.

System designer Vasilis Drimouras chose a Cobranet-based network, due to its cost-effectiveness and also because any latency is consistent throughout the network. Divided into 85 zones, the system features 32 Yamaha DME4io-C satellite DME units and 110 XH-200 distribution amplifiers to power its loudspeakers.

The system is used to simultaneou

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UK - Digital mixing console manufacturer DiGiCo has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. This is the first time DiGiCo has won the award in this category, having previously received an award in 2005 in the Innovation category. The current award has been granted for almost doubling its overseas earnings and exporting the vast majority of its products since its incorporation in 2002.

"As a UK company, manufacturing in the UK, it's especially gratifying and significant to be recognised by Buckingham Palace and the board of the Queen's Award Office in this way," says DiGiCo managing director, James Gordon. "It's testament to the strength of the DiGiCo team and to all our international partners, who have worked extremely hard to help us achieve this. We couldn't have done it without them."

DiGiCo's first digital cons

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UAE - Meyer Sound has announced the incorporation of Meyer Sound Middle East, located in Dubai Media City in United Arab Emirates. Serving the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and North Africa, the new office will put customers in closer reach to Meyer Sound's offerings that include technical support, design services, and education, in addition to its high-performance loudspeakers, active acoustic technology, and system integration tools, says the company.

"The development of the AV industry in the Middle East has made it essential for us to form a strategic presence in Dubai, which will serve as an important regional hub for our business operations in the territory," says Helen Meyer, executive vice president of Meyer Sound. "This new office will give local audio professionals better access to the complete portfolio of our products and services, and allow us

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UK - Delegates from the National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural have just returned from two days in Leeds' Royal Armouries. They were attending the annual Focus event run by Skills Academy Industry Member PLASA.

This free exhibition of some of the most up-to-date lighting and sound technology in the world provided an excellent opportunity to explore the knowledge and skills required to make a career in technical theatre and live music. It was attended by students, young people and the generally interested - as well as industry professionals.

Also exhibiting were Skills Academy Industry Members Stage Technologies, White Light, BECTU (the Media & Entertainment Union) and the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT). During the course of the two-day event, the Skills Academy also welcomed two new technical service provider Industry Members: the Production Service

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Qatar - The partnership between Qatar and AVtech tech has been getting stronger as Doha is emerging as a major venue for international sport events. Qatar hosted the 2011 AFC Asian Cup finals from January 7 to 29 this year. It was the 15th time the tournament has been held and the second time it has been hosted by Qatar.

Since the 15th Asian Games, Doha 2006, AVtech has been providing all broadcast, AV solutions for sports venues and games. So when it came to the AFC Asian cup, AVtech was the obvious choice.

AVtech is a leading supplier of high-end audio, video, broadcast and lighting equipment from the some of the most reputable manufacturers in the world. The company is well known for designing leading-edge live performance systems and projects with superb performance-ready systems in the field of sound, lighting, video and multimedia applications.

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