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Germany - From June 15-17, Straubing provided the setting for another edition of Dynacord's MI Dealers' Academy. This year the Dynacord team led by Frauke Jungbluth (sales manager Europe), Martin Traut (senior product manager), and Andreas Köstlinger (tech support) welcomed 40 participants from the EMEA region.

The programme for the two-day course of seminars included a presentation of the new PowerMate3 powered mixers, a practice-oriented 'hands-on' session and a special workshop on signal processing. Köstlinger presented inter alia the CMS mixing consoles and a variety of different types of loudspeaker in EVI Audio's Demo Hall.

"These 'hands-on' sessions are always very popular with participants as they are continuously picking up new tips and tricks," says Frauke

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UK - Line 6 returns to the PLASA Show to showcase its new XD-V digital wireless microphone systems, further demonstrating the company's commitment to serving the professional audio industry.

Exhibiting on stand 1-J12, Line 6 will be showcasing the expansion of the microphone family, which now includes two new models, XD-V30HS and XD-V70HS headset microphone systems. These augment the award-winning XD-V30 and XD-V70 handheld and lavalier systems.

XD-V70HS digital wireless system consists of a lightweight, discreet and fully adjustable headset with an omni-directional condenser microphone.

XD-V30HS digital wireless system features a robust uni-directional condenser microphone attached to a durable headset, which is ideal for fitness instructors, business presentations and environments with high levels of ambient noise.

As the switchover to channel 38 fast approaches, Line 6

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UK - The newly developed LD EQ215 is a stereo 15 band graphic equaliser in standard 19"/1U rack format designed for professional live and studio applications. It offers the most common features such as 2/3 octave bands, 20 mm faders, ISO frequency meters, a switchable 50 Hz low cut filter, a ± 12 dB input gain range and an EQ Bypass switch.

Andrew Richardson, managing director of Adam Hall UK comments, "This is a great unit that will stand the rigours of everyday life and another example of great price performance ratio from LD Systems."

The XLR and 6,3 mm jack Neutrik connectors provide flexibility and quality. The rugged construction of the unit (metal housing, high quality faders) will provide a long lasting and reliable operational life. The cost effective LD EQ215 gives you full control of your sound, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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Europe - GearSource Europe's dedicated truss and rigging business, UsedTruss.com has secured massive stocks of ex-rental Prolyte truss for immediate delivery, further expanding the range of products offered.

Usedtruss.com was established four years ago to provide a dedicated one stop shop for the rigging and trussing community looking for quality 'named brand' equipment at very competitive prices.

"We work very closely with most of the leading manufacturers and rental companies in the industry and have built up an excellent reputation in the four years we have been developing this market," said Usedtruss.com's Amsterdam based, Benjamin Hollenberg.

"By constantly improving the way we work, and by keeping costs to a minimum, we have given manufacturers the possibility of securing sales they might not have in the past. And that is exactly why we have now added th

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UK - This year, Oran Burns and Steve Jones from d&b audiotechnik's Education and Application Support team will present two one hour seminars at the Technologies for Worship Pavilion, Stand 2-M10, Earls Court 2.

Oran Burns will present Can you hear me at the back? on Monday 12 September at 3pm. How do you get the sound you've lovingly nurtured through the console to every member of the congregation? He will take a look at the acoustic signal path from loudspeaker to the listener's ear, considering what part the room plays and how to minimize its potentially detrimental effect .

Steve Jones will present Theatre sound source, a virtual shoot out on Tuesday 13 September at 11am. As a theatre sound professional, what do you want your audience to perceive and what characteristics does your sound system need to achieve that goal? By taking a close look at the anatomy of

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UK / Italy - ALD, STLD and Clay Paky have announced the nominations for the fourth Knights of Illumination Lighting Design Awards. The awards will be held on the evening of Sunday 11 September 2011 at the Ibis Hotel London Earls Court.

The awards will provide public recognition for outstanding achievements in lighting design by UK based lighting designers, in a number of professional areas. At the same time, these awards will forge closer ties between the world of lighting design and the lighting industry as a whole.

The awards for The Knight of the Illumination are nominated and judged by a panel of professional reviewers working in the specific categories, selected and coordinated entirely by STLD and ALD.

Nominations:

Television

Entertainment

Tonight's The Night - Roger Williams

Top Gear - Chris Kempton

The Chase - Tom Kinane

Eve

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USA - Effective 1 August 2011, the Wenger Corporation,based in Owatonna, MN signed an agreement to acquire J.R. Clancy, Inc. based inSyracuse, NY.

A joint statement says, "This is exciting news for employees and business partners of both companies. The Wenger Corporation and J.R. Clancy are long standing privately owned businesses with shared values, dedicated and loyal employees, great brands, strong heritages, and great reputations in the marketplace.

Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Owatonna, Minnesota, Wenger designs and manufactures specialised equipment and solutions for music education, performing arts, and related markets for both domestic and international clientele. Wenger offers acoustical products, chairs, classroom products, conductor's equipment, staging and risers, stands, storage products, fixed audience seating and orchestra pit fillers.

Wenger offe

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Israel - Compulite Systems (2000) Ltd. has recently appointed Alon Cohen as the product manager for new future developments of Compulite's products for the next decade. Alon's 25 years of experience will add a new innovative and practical approach to the company's products. During the years Alon gained extensive experience in various activities including; programming, operating, directing and lighting design. "Learning and listening to the market needs, users, operators and lighting designers makes Alon the right person in the right place at the right time", said Yehuda Shukrun, CEO.

Cohen, who was always fascinated with lighting, started his lighting career as an apprentice in the Jerusalem Theatre. There he gained experience by working closely with top lighting crews and eventually became a film projectionist. From age 18, he started working for Israeli Company Danor

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UK - Arena Seating has completed the installation of its permanent stadium BOX Seat system into Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

The installation of just under 1,800 BOX Seats was completed in July and comprised of 1,270 TBS903 Seats for the club's members bar and upper terrace and 523 of Arena's padded TBS908 Seats to VIP areas and member's lounge. This high-end range of permanent seating products for the sporting market has become the next phase in the redevelopment of the Edgbaston International Stadium.

Phil MacDonald, operations & development director for Warwickshire CCC comments, "It was clear to our development team that the BOX Seat from Arena would satisfy our stringent requirements where we needed the best for our premium customers. I know our main contractors have been very pleased with the speed and efficiency with which this seating has been installed."

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Germany - Martin LC Series LED panels were used to visually present tweets as part of an innovative multi-media installation at TEDxHamburg in late May.

The event, part of the popular TED non-profit organization's Ideas Worth Spreading public speaking programme, took place at Curio House in Hamburg under the theme Realities Rebuilt. Some 22m2 of LC Series LED panels were installed in the ceiling of the conference space and used to display live data from the global Twitter network related to TEDxHambug.

Also involved were Martin MAC 301 Wash LED moving heads used for backdrop illumination, and Martin MAC 350 Entour LED moving heads used to illuminate TEDxHamburg logos at key locations throughout the conference area.

The TWEETx installation, created by anOtherArchitect Berlin in collaboration with Kollision and Martin Professional, visualized tweets containing sp

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UK - Lighting designer Andy Mahaffey specified a Jands Vista T2 console, running the next generation Vista v2 software, to control nearly 100 moving lights plus a large generic rig for the 2011 Pepper Live event, a week of performances staged at the Centenary Theatre, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

This high profile annual event, which is always sold out, raises money for the Pepper Foundation, a charity that funds the Pepper Children's Nurses managed by the Iain Rennie Hospice at Home Service. They provide professional home care round-the-clock on a call-out basis for seriously ill children throughout the counties of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

This year the theme was a 'rock 'n' roll tribute' show. The cast - which included two bands, dance troupes, singers and an assortment of backing and guest vocalists - stormed their way through a two hour extravaganza.

In h

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UK - The Backstage Academy's new fast-track foundation degree in Live Events Production, set to be delivered at its training facility in Wakefield, has been formally validated by the University of Bolton.

The 15 month foundation degree, which is the only one of its kind, focuses on the artistic, creative and practical use of technology for live events and will be delivered in partnership with the University of Bolton.

According to Creative & Cultural Skills, the Sector Skills Council for creative and cultural industries, by 2017 there will be a need for 30,000 skilled backstage and offstage technical theatre staff to support live events. The Backstage Academy is aiming to train students who can help meet this demand.

Students will gain hands-on experience at the Backstage Academy thanks to its base at the LS-Live Studios in South Kirkby, Wakefield. The course, which begins i

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Slovakia - Sport and entertainment are the themes of a major audio upgrade which has recently been completed at the Steel Arena in Slovakia. The ice hockey venue presented considerable acoustic challenges, but the installation of a Funktion One / XTA system has made all the difference.

Located in Košice, the 8400 capacity Steel Arena is the second largest ice hockey venue in the country. As well as ice-based sports it hosts equestrian events, motor sport, basketball, football, exhibitions, dance, theatrical spectaculars and live music. It will also be a venue for the 2011 Ice Hockey World Championship

Specified and installed by Humenné-based Citylight, the project entailed removing the existing audio installation and installing a new sound system. This was complemented by adding acoustic treatment to the walls and ceiling.

"I've worked in the arena as an front o

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USA - The Styx/Yes 2011 summer tour features a wall of creative content displayed on a new high resolution LED video screen supplied by Pete's Big TVs.

"It is a nice lighting rig, but the LED screen is visually the whole show," said Pete's Big TVs President Peter Daniel.

The 22-city Progressive U.S. Tour features a 12.5ft high by 48ft wide LED screen made up of 230 Elation EPV15 flex LED panels. Daniel was instrumental in the manufacturing of the 15mm flex panels. Seeking higher resolution, Daniel approached Elation about cutting the size of the 19mm flex panels to just under half a square metre. Thus, the EPV15 flex was born with 1024 pixels. Pete's Big TVs has purchased 600 panels to add to its rental inventory.

"It was a smart purchase," Daniel said. "Everyone on the tour is happy with them."

At 15 lbs. each, compared to 105 lbs. for

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UK - Artistic Licence Engineering has announced Multi-Play, a lighting show record-playback unit with "outstanding memory capacity and Ethernet protocol versatility".

The time-saving offered by such a device is in great demand, as demonstrated by the popularity of the company's sister product, Two-Play - a dedicated Art-Net controller capable of recording up to two universes.

Now, Multi-Play takes the concept to a much bigger and broader arena. The disk-based product allows the user to record up to 12 universes from any lighting console running Art-Net. For flexibility, playback is supported through multiple protocols, including Art-Net, ShowNet, KiNet and ACN Lite (E1.31).

"The ability to record from an Art-Net device but then playback to pretty much anything is a unique feature," enthuses Artistic Licence Engineering MD, Simon Hobday."We anticipate

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UK - PLASA2011 sees a new industry presence in the form of Ten Thousand Things, a Hong Kong based distribution company for lighting accessories and technology. The company forms the sales arm of the newly created Alderamin Group (Stand1-E32), provider of comprehensive project solutions.

Borrowing a phrase found in Chinese literature referring to material reality, Ten Thousand Things offers sales and support for a wide range of lighting products.

"We offer our own growing range of consumable items - lamps, power and data cables, gaffer tape, gels, connecters - basically all the everyday lighting industry essentials," says Alderamin Group co-owner, Simon Fraser."Our Ten Thousand Things branded range is complemented by three internationally respected franchises. We are the distributor for City Theatrical and Green Hippo in Hong Kong and Macau, and we also sell Arti

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Italy / UK - One of the latest additions to the TT+ High Definition Touring and Theatre range from RCF is the new TTL11A digitally steerable array. With the addition of the new TTS26-A subwoofer, the new column array becomes a powerful, compact and high definition live sound system, says the company.

The TTL11A is an active column speaker array system composed by two modules, one for the mid-high and one for the bass frequencies.

The TTL11A-H is the HF module and is equipped with four 2.5" neodymium compression drivers with 1.5" exit throat. The TTL11A-B is the bass frequency section of the system and features four 8" neodymium woofers with 2.5" voice coil for a perfect and powerful mid-bass response.

A powerful 96 kHz, 32 bit DSP integrated in the TTL11A-H module provides the signal processing also for the TTL11A-B. 2000 W digital amplifiers power both t

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UK - The regional office of property management company CB Richard Ellis has recently purchased a PlasmaRiser 42, manufactured by Birmingham based Audio Visual company DARE Professional Audio.

PlasmaRiser is a portable audio visual presentation system, that fully encloses the screen until a simple button is pressed and the screen rises from the housing.

The PlasmaRiser is to be utilised within a newly refurbished suite of offices at the regional HQ of CBRE. It will be used for meetings, customer and project presentations and video conferencing. PlasmaRiser is a simple plug and play solution to presentation requirements.

Paul Muldoon project manager at CBRE said, "The PlasmaRiser gives us great flexibility within our facility, it is a unique solution that represents great value for money we had not seen any like it."

(Jim Evans)

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World - DiGiCo consoles feature on a range of outdoor shows this summer, including Jessie J, the LED Festival, Judas Priest, the Killers andTake That. But with Coldplay headlining no less than 15 festivals around the world, Front of House engineer Daniel Green's SD7 is probably the most travelled DiGiCo desk of all.

Coldplay's busy summer includes headline appearances at Rock am Ring / Rock im Park (Germany), Jammin' (Italy), Pinkpop (Netherlands), Glastonbury and T In The Park (UK), Where The Action Is (Sweden), Open'er (Poland), Rock Werchter (Belgium), Main Square (France), Optimus Alive (Portugal), BBK Live (Spain), Oxegen (Ireland), Fuji Rock (Japan) and Rock In Rio (Brazil).

Daniel worked closely with Wigwam Acoustics to put together a new, bespoke rig for the festival tour, designed around a DiGiCo SD7 console.

"We have a really good relationship with Dan and Ton

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UK - The joint fortieth celebrations of Northern Light and White Light are to continue, with the two companies meeting up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to raise a glass or two to four decades of success.

Following on from getting the beers in during this year's ABTT Theatre Show in London, Northern Light and White Light are inviting customers to join them on Friday 19 August at the Blue Blazer pub in Edinburgh from 6 pm onwards.

Bryan Raven, managing director at White Light, says,"The last party was in London on our turf, so it seems only fair to continue the celebrations on Northern Light's patch."

Colin Cuthbert, Northern Light's managing director, adds, "Since neither Bryan nor I will see the age of 40 again personally, we might as well make the most of our companies reaching this milestone."

The Blue Blazer is situated on Spittal Street in a prim

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UK - Saville Audio Visual provided a spectacular Ganges backdrop for an Indian wedding in Whites Hotel at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton. The projected skyline image - over 105ft wide - was delivered by a single 18,000 lumen Christie Roadster projector. A second projector flown from the lighting truss produced an interactive fish pool effect on the dance floor.

The event was designed by Dianne Lynn from The Event Co in Mobberley, Cheshire with Saville providing the stage sets, lighting design and audio technology, including a full d&b line array. The backdrop image was created in-house using Cinema 4D software and projected onto a seamless white cyclorama cloth, 36m wide x 9m high.

Other equipment included six 8ft x 6ft projection screens to create a window effect, using 15/30 Source Four Profiles and gobo masks, plus 150 staging units to create the raised areas. The lighting al

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