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USA / UK - Ampetronic and Listen Technologies have announced a new partnership to "accelerate the growing adoption of hearing loop technology across the Americas".

Ampetronic's partnership with Listen Technologies will bring "high quality hearing loop solutions and unrivalled support across the USA for the first time". The partnership will give Listen Technologies a full portfolio of assistive listening solutions, in addition to their class leading Infra-Red and FM products.

Commenting on the partnership, Julian Pieters, Ampetronic managing director said, "We are thrilled to partner with Listen Technologies, a company that shares our strong commitment to improving the lives of hard of hearing people. Listen understands the need to deliver a complete assi

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USA - City Theatrical will be launching new products and services for the architectural lighting world at LightFair International 2012 in Las Vegas on 9-11 May 2012.

Two new products join the SHoW DMX Neo wireless DMX product family and will be seen at LightFair for the first time. SHoW DMX Vero Net is an outdoor wireless DMX Transceiver in a NEMA 4 / IP66 rated enclosure that accepts all major entertainment Ethernet protocols including sACN, Art-Net, Kinet, and Pathport. SHoW DMX Vero is a smaller version of the product that accepts DMX input only.

Wireless DMX is often used in outdoor architectural lighting installation to light buildings, bridges, monuments, and other objects when running data cable is difficult or too expensive.

These two new products join the indoor SHoW DMX Neo Transceiver and Receiver, are compatible with them, and are the latest innovations in City T

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Australia - North Shore's The Stoned Crow has been born again, taken over by the team behind Bondi Pizza.

The bar has been reincarnated with a 'back to nature' vibe following five months of preening. It's now a stylish meeting place with cosy nooks, mood lighting and faux animal hides on the floor and covering the low stools.

The Constant Group were responsible for the audio design in the venue opting for a JBL speaker package that includes the new JBL Control 62P satellite pendant speakers. The speakers are powered by two Crown XLS1000 amplifiers, two Crown CDi1000 amplifiers and a Crown 280A amplifier.

"The idea was to have a great restaurant feel with high quality sound in the background," explained Con Constantinou, managing director of The Constant Group. "However, the venue needed to easily adapt to a chic bar with a relaxed feel as the evening progresse

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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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UK - Liverpool-based Adlib's audio division enthusiastically engaged with the Sea Odyssey Giant Spectacular event, an epic street theatre production created by French large scale puppeteers Royal De Luxe to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's maiden voyage. It was enjoyed and attended by more than 500,000 people in & around the City of Liverpool over three days last weekend.

Adlib was contracted by Liverpool City Council's events department, Liverpool Vision to provide PA systems in the three key gathering points for the colossal promenade performance, featuring the Little Girl Giant and her Giant Uncle. Adlib also installed a sound system on the 'Brocklebank' Band Boat which accompanied the waterborne part of the show.

Adlib's Phil Stoker was the project manager and co-ordinated all of the equipment and crew needed and dealt with the logistics. He coll

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UK - West London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment and crew for the latest Orbital UK tour - Wonky - which was designed by Jonny Gaskell from Pinnacle Productions.

Gaskell was delighted to be working with Colour Sound again, "Their kit and the attitude is great," he enthuses, "Nice people and I get premium service every time."

His design - which will also feature at festivals played by the band throughout the summer - featured an intricate video set up and so to contrast this, the lighting was relatively straightforward - bold, in-the-face and in true Orbital style.

Gaskell chose 13 GLP Impression Spot Ones as his main profile lights and 24 Impression Zooms as the wash fixtures. As a layer of specials, he added Clay Paky Sharpies, plus strobes and blinders.

The lighting rig comprised thr

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UK - HSL supplied equipment and crew to the latest Enter Shikari UK tour, working with lighting designer Steve Bewley.

The A Flash Flood of Colour tour started in Europe where it played slightly smaller venues, so the lighting rig was designed to be flexible enough to expand and contract to cover these, plus both an A and a B configuration for the UK, again based on the size of venue, the largest of which was Hammersmith Apollo. Mike Oates project managed for HSL.

The European leg featured a floor package from HSL, all based around five LED edged triangles. The fixtures chosen to make these were Chroma-Q Color Forces - three Color Force 72s for the large central triangle in Europe and 4 sets of three Chroma-Q 48s for the four smaller ones. These were all fitted into custom flying frames fabricated by HSL from special pre-rigged trussing, and flown off the house trusses.

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UK - West Midlands- based video and production specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied sound, lighting, AV, cameras and co-ordinated full technical production including set and staging - plus crew - to the Audi National Forum event staged at London's ExCel Centre.

CPL was working for production company, Twofour. The event covered eight different independent areas - Reception, Tunnel, The Hub, Leaders, People, Fans, Business and Car Showroom - in ExCel, and was one of CPL's largest projects to date in terms of total equipment supply.

Over 60 moving lights, 150 generic fixtures, 80 LED PARcans and one and a half artic's worth of trussing were deployed.

Smaller breakout rooms featured a quantity of 85" HD plasmas; Business and the Hub utilised HD Panasonic PT-DZ110X projection and over 60 d&b speakers; The Car Showroom had an NEC HD 4x4 46" flown plasma wa

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Estonia - An impressive rig of 70 Robe moving lights designed by Rene Jõhve and Meelis Lusmägi of Cuu Club provided a stunning visual setting for the final round of Eesti Laul, Estonia's 2012 Eurovision national qualifying competition.

The event was staged in the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn. Presented by high profile comedians Tiit Sukk and Taavi Teplenkov, it was broadcast live nationwide on the Estonian public broadcasting channel ETV1 and also enjoyed by a live audience of 1800 who saw the 20 finalists battle it out.

It was Jõhve and Meelis's first time designing lighting and set for the event, winning the project after presenting imaginative and fresh ideas.

Using previous Eesti Laul competitions as their creative starting point, they took all the classic requirements of the TV show / competition, and combined these with a set of new and different visu

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China / Italy - FaitalPRO has appointed Andy Liu as its new sales development manager in China.

Liu previously handled major pro audio account sales in the territory, focusing particularly in the area of Guangdong, the core region for the Chinese pro audio Industry.

"With our China business growing nearly four-fold year on year for the past three years, the timing is perfect for Andy to take on new responsibilities and challenges," said Flavio Naggi FaitalPRO division manager. "He is already very well introduced in the industry and we're excited to have him join our worldwide sales team."

Liu, who will cooperate closely with the FaitalPRO Sales department in Milan, will beresponsible for all FaitalPRO accounts in China.

Liu's efforts will be fully supported by the entire pro audio division at Faital's Italian HQ and assisted logistically through Faital

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UK - MT Pro Ltd enjoyed their busiest ever PLASA Focus show in Leeds. The main part of both days saw a continuous stream of inquiries on the stand with some customers having to queue up to be seen.

People were particularly interested in the new MT Pro Acoustics products. New speakers on show included a three-way horn loaded cabinet and a 2x5" mid/high cabinet with a ribbon tweeter. Also featuring highly were the range of 1U mixers and the DNP26 processor.

These items were seen alongside the MA86 amplifier. This lightweight unit has eight channels, each rated at 260WRMS into 4Ohms.

Another product attracting great interest was the new Cyclorama Wash system. This consists of the powerful LED 'Batten2' c/w a specially designed barn door system. This gives a very even wash of light on cycloramas up to 4.5m high. The quadcolor LEDs allow for pastel colours as well as the usu

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UK - White Light has added Selador Desire and Source Four LED to its hire stocks, complementing its extensive range of ETC Source Four incandescent luminaires.

White Light's hire & technical director Dave Isherwood bought in the extra-bright Selador D60 Lustr+ fixtures following a number of requests from lighting designers, and in response to a growing push for brighter, but more energy efficient, lighting.

The first 12 have already been installed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester for Miss Julie, lit by Johanna Town, where they are being used in combination with more traditional types of lighting, in order to boost light levels without breaking the budget.

Desire's Lustr+ array uses the premise of the x7 Color System to create lush white and subtly tinted light that can be adjusted to naturally illuminate on stage talent or scenery.

White Light was also on

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USA - Having continued successful permanent productions in Chicago and New York, the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet (MDQ) has hit the road with a North American tour. To accommodate venues seating from 1,400 to over 3,000, sound designer Kai Harada specified a Meyer Sound system based around MICA and M'elodie line array loudspeakers.

"My goal was to give the touring crew a system with a lot of flexibility, so they could adjust coverage angles for theatres of all shapes and sizes," explains Harada. "With the M'elodie centre cluster and MICA side arrays, they have all the power they need for bigger houses, along with reliable consistency of sound-a quality at which Meyer systems always excel."

Inspired by a 1956 recording studio jam session by Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Million Dollar Quartet captures

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UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) has announced that William (Billy) Yeo has joined the company, taking on the new role of operations manager.

Yeo has been involved in the technology installations market for many years. Throughout his career he has worked in various project management roles, taking him all across the UK, Europe and Middle East.

As Operations Manager, he will oversee all aspects of the company's day to day operations, including managing the sales, purchasing, marketing and after-sales backup & support.

ACSP's General Manager, James Bawn comments, "I was very keen to bring Billy on board. We have worked with him on various projects in the past, and he has always provided an impeccable service. Billy's extensive experience in the marketplace will help to further strengthen and develop ACSP as one of the industry's leading installation providers."

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USA - Meyer Sound has appointed Jason McCarrick to the position of education programme coordinator. Based at the Meyer Sound Nashville office at Soundcheck, McCarrick will assume the responsibilities for scheduling and coordinating seminar and webinar events, handling programme logistics, and assisting in creating educational content. McCarrick replaces Mac Johnson, who has been promoted to Constellation project manager at the company.

Reporting to Meyer Sound education manager Gavin Canaan, McCarrick's responsibilities also include supporting Nashville manager and touring liaison Lee Moro in organising Nashville-based events and maintaining operations.

McCarrick comes to Meyer Sound with extensive experience in live sound and production, including key mixing, audio tech, and rigging duties involving Meyer Sound systems on tours with Metallica, Celtic Woman, Rod Stewart, and C

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UK - TechPro Events hae recently appointed Mick Gregory as sales director. Mick brings with him over 30 years of experience working within the live event industry, from rock and roll tours to film and TV shows and conference and events.

"I took a couple of years out, but once you are in this industry, I think you are in for life," quipped Mick.

"I love the way the industry constantly progresses; TechPro embrace all of the new technologies, market changes and latest kit, offering Clients the very best equipment coupled with unrivalled technical support resulting in excellent customer service and satisfaction" he said.

TechPro Events is a family-owned AV company based in the Midlands offering audio visual equipment hire and full technical support services to the live event industry throughout the U.K and Europe.

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USA - Founded nearly half a century ago in Northampton Township, Saint Bede the Venerable has grown to more than 10,000 parishioners. The church recently underwent a $5m renovation and expansion, incorporating a classic Italian marble altar, magnificent stained glass, and a new sound system based around Community Professional Loudspeakers VERIS 8 two-way full-range systems.

As Audiobahn's Tony Hersch explains, the new sound system design called for versatility. "Unlike some of the more traditional Catholic churches, St. Bede offers a mix of traditional and semi-contemporary services, with a choral and live musical accompaniment, as well as traditional organ and choir," he says. "So ultimately we had to design a system that offered more than simply spoken word intelligibility - it had to offer good musicality as well."

The distributed audio system includes 1

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UK - Autograph Sales & Installations has appointed Giuseppe Mallozzi (known to all as 'Peppe') to its technical sales team in the newly-created position of Sales Support Engineer.

Italian-born Peppe brings almost 20 years of real-world knowledge to the

company. His wide range of experience includes live sound engineering, system design and event project management. Fluent in four languages, his arrival at Autograph Sales & Installations could not be better timed, as General Manager Debbie Lovelock explains: "Everything we do here is quality-driven and client-focused - in order to deliver the level of service for which we are known it is important for us to offer clients immediate access to technical support".

She continues, "The role is quite demanding in that it requires a combination of administrative, practical, technical and interpersonal skills. Peppe tic

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UK - Ariel Company Theatre's production of Musicality4 made its debut on the stage of the Chequer Mead Theatre in East Grinstead, Sussex, using eight Q-Spot 560-LED moving heads and a Hurricane Haze 2D haze machine.

Chequer Mead Theatre, a 320-seat performance venue, frequently hosts Ariel Company Theatre's productions. Joshua Attwood, lighting designer for Musicality4, placed two Q-Spot 560-LED fixtures at the front of the house, two on the balcony bars and four on the upstage bar to highlight performers, provide backlighting and project effects during the production. The addition of Hurricane Haze 2D enhanced the lighting effects by highlighting beams.

Musicality4 is a musical review of the latest West End and Broadway musicals performed by a cast of 28 adult and 28 junior actors. Neil Hopson, artistic and drama academy director at Ariel Company Theatre,

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Germany - A Midas PRO2 live audio system at FOH and PRO6 on monitors, provided by rental and production company SoundHead Company, commissioned by production companies EBS-Lights and Showplan and sourced from German Midas distributor Mega Audio, took centre stage at this year's Echo Awards, Germany's premier music awards show. The Berlin event's star-studded line-up included performances by Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Sean Paul, Taio Cruz, Rammstein and Marilyn Manson.

Soundhead Company MD and FOH engineer Tim Ehrenfried, who only recently added the PRO2 to his inventory, explains, "In the past I have had excellent experiences working with XL8 and PRO6 consoles, and I knew I wanted that great warm Midas sound for the event in recognition of the calibre of international acts performing. But the PRO2 at FOH gave me the added advantage of all the features of the big consoles in

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UK - Fruit Pie Music has produced its first ever open air live music event and broadcast to be almost entirely self-powered (without using the national grid for the duration of the event) for Imogen Heap, which was broadcast live online on Earth Day 22 April 2012.

Grammy award winning artist Imogen Heap performed a new Heapsong that she wrote during the course of the event. The song titled Me the Machine was written and then performed live using just her hands through musical gloves. The gloves are a prototype musical interface that Imogen has been developing over the last two years with her team of engineers. With them, Imogen can directly interact and control a virtual orchestra by "utilising tens of thousands of unique motions".

Working with Julies Bicycle, Firefly Solar, Bluman Associates, Gaianova Geodesic Domes, Silent Gig and Sennheiser, Fruit Pi

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Czech Republic - The next Showlight may still be a year away, but companies are already signing up to participate at the 2013 event, taking place 18-21 May 2013 in ?eský Krumlov. The latest exhibitors to sign up include ADB, Anolis, ARRI Lighting Solutions, ETC, Lee Filters, MA Lighting, Rainbow Colour Changers, Robert Juliat, White Light and the event's main sponsor, Robe.

Taking place every four years, each time at a different location, Showlight is organised by lighting professionals for lighting professionals. In 2009, with some 40 exhibitors, over 365 delegates from the world of entertainment lighting passed through Showlight's doors.

Showlight places emphasis on debate stimulated by papers from respected industry experts and provides a gathering ground for like-minded people. Both exhibitors and visitors fully participate in the conference programme.

Showlight 2013 is

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