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UAE - Matrix Audio Visual & Entertainment, a Dubai based rental firm has recently purchased the new HK Audio Elements speaker system from Dubai based distributors Melody House. The rental firm has been using the system for various corporate and DJ events around the city with "an overwhelming response" from both clients and attendees to their functions.

Matrix provides both entertainment and AV services to the UAE and the region. With recent investments in a new facility at the Dubai Investment Park, purchases in AV equipment, the company is growing to meet their existing and new clients' requirements. The recent purchase of the Elements system highlights their focus to reinforce their inventory with modular, scalable and innovative solutions.

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UK - Audio Light Systems has installed a Theatre Plan specified sound system at Notre Dame School, Cobham. The recently completed school theatre required a sound system that would be of high quality and solid reputation.

Twenty-two boxes were supplied including MSE-159, EMS-61, i-5.5, i-2.2 and M-10 loudspeakers. Mixers, processing, source and amplification were also supplied as part of the package.

"The sound was really impressive; EM acoustics really deserve the name they are making for themselves," said Steven Aitchison, project engineer Audio Light Systems.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Black Light gave an explosive finale to the launch of the latest product from Scottish drinks company AG Barr, when it provided a spectacular pyrotechnic display for the unveiling of Fiery Irn-Bru. The launch event was in George Square, Glasgow. It featured former AG Barr chairman, Robin Barr, putting on a pair of oven gloves to pull the first ever bottle of the new drink out of a giant furnace. As the drink was held up to the cheers of the crowd, Black Light's team unleashed columns of fire and fountains of sparks behind him.

"Black Light has a wealth of experience in the field of pyrotechnics and with flame-based effects," said Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane. "So we were delighted to help out with this high profile product launch. Many of us at Black Light are fans of Irn-Bru so that gave us added motivation to put on a great show.

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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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Germany - The MA onPC command wing paves the way for mobile use of the flexible grandMA2 control system. In combination with the free-of-charge grandMA2 onPC software, the MA onPC command wing is a portable 2,048 parameter control solution that can be used nearly in any location - and all for an affordable price, says the company.

Designed as the hardware expansion to the grandMA2 onPC software, the MA onPC command wing enables the look and feel of the software to be as close to a real grandMA2 console as possible. With a simple USB connection between the MA onPC command wing and the computer running the grandMA2 onPC software, all inputs and outputs of a grandMA2 console are available to the user. DMX, MIDI, Timecode and Analogue Remote are all on hand directly at the MA onPC command wing.

Wherever it is physically difficult to use a grandMA2 console, the MA onPC command wing

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USA - Community Professional Loudspeakers has introduced the newest addition to their Distributed Design Series of ceiling and surface mount loudspeakers.

Featuring identical components to the D6 ceiling model, the DP6 pendant loudspeaker offers "the superior sound quality, exceptional intelligibility and unparalleled performance that has quickly established the Distributed Design Series as a favourite among installed sound professionals".

A true coaxial loudspeaker with an HF compression driver, the DP6 offers Community's patented Carbon Ring Cone Technology and Tru-Phase high-frequency waveguide for consistent, wide dispersion up to 16 kHz. Uniform voicing allows the entire range of Distributed Design ceiling, surface and pendant mount loudspeakers to be combined in a single installation with no compromise of consistency from zone to zone.

The DP6 is equipped wit

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UK - Continued expansion of their specialist installations division has prompted Pro Audio Systems to recruit Neil Muir to its full time staff.

Muir is well known throughout the UK production business following his stint at Yamaha Commercial Audio where he specialised in digital audio networking technologies. A graduate in electronic engineering from the University of York, his decade of experience in the production industry includes hands-on touring work as well as sales and project management.

He also manages to find time to pursue his interests as a professional musician, in which capacity his recent projects include playing trombone for indie favourites Shed Seven on their recent UK tour.

Pro Audio Systems MD Brian Lumb said: "The complexity and sophistication of the installation work we are increasingly being called upon to undertake made it vital to recruit someon

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USA - Cree Inc has announced that it has granted five LED lighting manufacturers licenses to select Cree patents through its recently launched remote phosphor licensing program. By making fundamental remote phosphor patents available through license, Cree is further enabling LED lighting adoption, as Cree innovations facilitate the development of LED lights combining remote phosphor optical elements with blue LEDs.

"Cree is committed to the development of innovative, energy-efficient LED lighting technology and this program provides access to important technology developed by Cree," said George Brandes, Cree director of intellectual property licensing. "The remote phosphor licensing program is designed to provide rights under the relevant Cree patents that our LED customers need to develop and commercialise leading-edge LED luminaires and bulbs, accelerating the L

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UK - Mike Glover of Essex Sound & Light (ESL) has spent 2011 engaged in installation projects as far afield as Delhi and Spain - but he saved one of his best creations for a nightclub right on his own Southend doorstep.

Chameleon has been a landmark venue since it first opened as Mr. B's Discotheque in the mid-80s. The venue subsequently underwent many iterations and corporate ownership changes before falling into demise following the collapse of CanDu Entertainment three and a half years ago.

As a result, enterprising local entrepreneur Dick De Vigne (whose eponymous 500-capacity Dick De Vigne's nightclub is the lynch-pin of the burgeoning Warrior Square scene nearby), snapped up Chameleon on Lucy Road from the receivers.

Not only does Lucy Road provide the traditional nightlife heartbeat of Southend but De Vigne also owned this place previously (first as Discotheque Buzz a

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UK - Christmas shoppers visiting the Xscape complex in Castleford, West Yorkshire, last weekend were in for a shock as a flash mob of 120 students from six local colleges, together with members of West Yorkshire Police, burst into dance amongst the crowd.

Backstage Academy helped organise the charity event in conjunction with The Prince of Wales Hospice, providing the sound system for the two performances throughout the day.

Sponsored by Scottish and Southern Electricity, the flash mob brought together A-Level Dance and Performing Arts students from NEW College, St Wilfrids Sixth Form, Airedale Academy, Doncaster College, University Centre Doncaster and Wakefield College. The event raised £350 for the Hospice, which provides care for people with a life-limiting illness.

Said Backstage Academy COO Robin Watkinson: "It's been a fantastic experience working with the

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India - Game of Legends, a new sports bar located in City Square Mall, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, has been given a Tannoy sound system by install experts Audio Jewellers.

Design consultants and AV contractors Shitij Harnwal and Narinder Pal Singh from Audio Jewellers worked closely with architect Luvpreet Singh to produce an excellent sounding venue without compromising the aesthetics of the sports bar.

Working with a strict budget and keeping in mind the extensive requirements of an integrated system, Audio Jewellers specified a complete solution that delivers on all counts, turning to Tannoy's new VX Series in one of the first installations of its kind in the region.

The system comprised two Tannoy VX 12 high performance loudspeakers, eight Di5 ultra compact loudspeakers, and six Tannoy Mercury compact stand-mount loudspeakers. These were supplemented by four VS Series sub

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UK - December is a time for panto, as Britain's theatres stage their annual Christmas entertainments, all using lighting technology to create the magical effects these shows demand - many turning to entertainment lighting specialist White Light to supply the gear they need.

White Light will this year be supplying 27 pantomimes - including nine Cinderellas, four Aladdins, four Peter Pans, four Sleeping Beauties, three Dick Whittingtons ,one Snow White and one A Christmas Carol. All of these shows, plus many other festive entertainments produced by professionals, schools and amateur companies, are drawing on not just White Light's comprehensive ranges of conventional and moving lights, but also a diverse selection of effects including smoke, haze, UV light, snow, bubbles and pyrotechnics.

White Light is also once again supplying t

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UK - Audio Light Systems has completed the AV installation in the Moffat Auditorium at the National Museum of Scotland as part of the £46m epic transformation.

The auditorium which was originally a 1950's screening cinema was fully refurbished & modernised. It now houses an 8m screen, Christie Digital HD10K-M high definition projector which is fed via a Analog Way SME100 seamless switcher. An Allen & Heath iDR system processes and controls the audio from Tascam & Bluray systems.

The Extron & Crestron systems provide easy end user control with an 8.4" WIFI Touch screen.

"Our museum portfolio has increased dramatically in the last few years. We are very proud of our workmanship which leads to repeat business as attention to detail is incredibly important in these environments," says Stephen Dishon, project engineer at Audio Light Systems.

(Jim Evans)

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Poland - Laying between Gdansk to the south and Gdynia in the north lays the lesser known resort city of Sopot on the Baltic coast. Here the new Ergo Arena and Entertainment Hall (EAEH) has taken the seemingly perfected sports arena design up another notch.

"In the way of other such buildings the Ergo Arena can accommodate almost all the indoor sports to world championship standard," said Piotr Jankiewicz from Konsbud-Audio who installed the arena's sound system, "hockey, volley and basketball, even combat sports; and from the outset the architectural design has fully addressed the needs of touring shows, you can fly the biggest productions here."

The challenges of the audio system have also been anticipated by the architects (KIPP Projekt of Poland),as Jankiewicz explained. "This is a maximum 15,000 capacity arena for standing events, so it's in the '

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USA - Tom Young, vice-president of marketing at J.R. Clancy since 1998, has announced his plans to leave at the end of 2011 due to a health issue.

Young arrived at Clancy in 1993 to take the position of international sales representative, bringing the company more than 20 years' prior experience in engineering, sales and marketing of theatrical lighting at Skirpan Lighting, and Colortran Inc, and rigging systems at Hoffend, Inc. At J.R. Clancy, his capabilities drove the expansion of sales overseas, helping to make the company a significant player in major projects in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim.

A company statement notes: "As Clancy's vice-president of marketing, Young built the company's reputation as the leading manufacturer of theatre rigging systems in the United States. When the company's focus expanded to include off-the-shelf automated rigging prod

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UK - MilTec is undergoing a major re-structuring of its manufacturing and distribution operations. The existing company, MilTec (UK) Ltd will control the manufacturing and export businesses of the LEDHead and MT Pro Audio ranges of products. A new company, MT-Pro Ltd, will distribute these products within the UK and Ireland along with their existing ranges of conventional lighting and special effects. The changes will take effect from Tuesday 3 January 2012.

Sales director David Faulkes explains: "We have been increasing our export business over recent months and the time is now right to separate the business into two definable operations. This will enable us to improve our services to our existing and future customers around the world. We will now have better control of design, quality control, availability, export and service functions.

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Germany - Since being signed by Green Hippo Ltd, their exclusive distributor for Germany and Austria, B&K Braun, have had a very successful year boosting Hippotizer media server's presence in this market.

In recent months an increasing number of production companies, technicians and designers have started to use and spec Hippotizer media servers, with high profile shows, such as the German X-Factor utilizing the technology.

In an effort to raise the media server's profile even more and provide extended training options to the region, B&K Braun recently organised a three day training event in conjunction with Green Hippo, which took place 6-8 December.

The training sessions were held at B&K's new training facility and consisted of two full day's basic training and a third day of advanced HippoSchool, aimed at professionals from the industry.

Led by Green Hippo's head of tra

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UK - Following the announcement yesterday (20 December) of Westminster School's purchase of Lawrence Hall from the Royal Horticultural Society, organisers of the ABTT 2012 Theatre Show moved swiftly to announce the event will be transferring to a new venue.

The Show's director, Roger Fox, spoke to assure both exhibitors and visitors that the 2012 Show would be going ahead, explaining: "This announcement has come as a surprise to us today and at a time when planning for the 2012 Show was well advanced. Discussions to secure an alternative venue are already in progress, which we see as also an opportunity to offer improved facilities for our exhibitors and visitors."

At present it is unsure if the Show's previously published June 2012 dates will be available at an alternative venue, but all effort is being made to avoid changes to the timing of this important annual ev

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Germany - Kaiser Showtechnik recently purchased Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500 lights. When first used to illuminate the iconic Augsburg building, the town hall, the Italian company's moving lights provided proof of their wide performance range.

Managing director Maxx Kaiser explained, "We used 20 of our Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500 lights for the project. The city of Augsburg fully supported us in the project, turning off the Town hall's lighting and street lamps. In return, we lit up the Town Hall with the FC Augsburg football team colours since they were playing the last game valid for promotion, which they won."

Kaiser continued, "The installation was created after the Town hall closed. At around midnight we recorded the first videos and snapshots, and the entire production set was fully removed from the Town hall square before the beginning of the next work

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UK - Duran Audio will be running a three day training course at City Hall, Cardiff from 6-8 February 2012. These days are aimed at consultants, sound system designers, installers and users who wish to learn more about AXYS products and software. All three days involve a combination of presentations, demonstrations and practical activities. There will also be some 'free time' set aside for attendees to experiment with the products.

Day one will focus on the AXYS Intellivox range. The Intellivox range, first introduced in 1996, was the pioneer of beam steering. AXYS Intellivox units have since been installed in airports, atriums, railway stations, shopping malls, theatres, concert halls, museums, and many more difficult acoustic environments all over the world to provide highly intelligible speech reproduction in environments.

Day two will focus on how to successfully design and

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UK - Friendly Fires are playing their biggest tour to date with a Midas PRO6 live audio system on monitors, supplied by SSE Audio.

It was the band's vocalist Ed Macfarlane who prompted the change to Midas. "We did a couple of shows with an XL3 and he loved the sound of it," explains monitor engineer Simon Lutkin. "We then encountered some PRO6s and XL8s at festivals, which sold it to us both. I had used Midas digital before on FOH and knew the sound quality was equal to, if not better than, most analogue desks. When I started using the PRO6 in rehearsals I knew it was going to work straight away. I now have the best of both worlds - a great familiar Midas analogue sound in a flexible digital package."

Working with between 32 and 40 inputs per show, Lutkins is dealing with four stereo IEM feeds, six wedge mixes, sidefills and a butt kicker. "I'm using A

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The Netherlands - Pan Acoustics, the German designer and manufacturer of beam steerable loudspeaker systems with the brand names Pan Beam and Pan Jericho, will be featuring a number of new products at ISE 2012 (7F210, Hall 7, stand nr. 210).

At ISE 2012 Pan Acoustics will introduce a new 'small ' active digitally steerable compact column speaker within the Pan Beam range, the PB04, and within the Pan Jericho range the proto type of a High Power 'Crowd Control ' system, the PJ16.

The PB04 is offering user-friendly Windows software to control all parameters such as beam control, four-band parametric EQ, volume control, focus distance and opening angles. It offers the same design and enclosure as the well-known PB08, but is half of the height and therefore it is suitable for installations, where PB08 is oversized. PB04 works with the same software and in the same network together

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