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UK - A new sound processor from Bose, designed to make audio processing setup quicker and easier, is being launched at PLASA 2012.

The new Bose ControlSpace SP-24 simplifies audio DSP for 2x4 installed and portable applications by offering two methods of configuration based on user preference and loudspeaker type.

Fast system setup is achieved using front-panel LCD menus and controls, which offer a basic method of configuration for systems using Bose loudspeakers. Factory-installed Bose loudspeaker equalisation curves are selectable, together with common routing configurations. Additional settings, such as gain and delay, are also available from the front panel for basic system tuning.

Using the SP-24 Editor software, additional signal processing parameters are available for s

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UK - At PLASA 2012, Harting is featuring its rugged connectivity solutions for a wide range of AV multimedia installation applications.

A key element of the Harting product family is the Han-Modular building-block concept, which allows connector inserts for audio, video, data and power signals to be combined in three different housing variants - Han B, Han-Eco and Han-Yellock - offering a choice of characteristics in terms of weight, resistance to damage, potential for cable trunking drag-through and cost.

New additions to the award-winning Han-Yellock series of rugged rectangular connectors include Han-Yellock10: a smaller form-factor device that can accommodate a wide range of inserts, allowing signal types including RJ45 Ethernet data, fibre optics, 10-40 A power and hybrid mixed power and data.

The larger Han-Yellock 30 and 60 housings can now accommodate 25- and 48-way

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UK - Marquee Installations has announced the appointment of Paul Simpson to the new position of business development manager.

Simpson has over 20 years' experience in the audio industry, the last 12 with Bose UK where he specialised in sales to the hospitality sector, working closely with major hotel, bar and restaurant chains.

Marquee Installations is continuing to expand its operations despite the current financial climate. Director, Mark Brown, commented, "We have had a long relationship with Bose, one of our key brands, so have worked with Paul for many years. He has a very good understanding of the hospitality, leisure, education and commercial markets he'll be covering and he has the same friendly but professional approach we value at Marquee. I'm very happy to welcome Paul and am confident he will bring additional expertise to the team."

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UK - Harlow, Essex, based performing arts school Makin' Steps likes to pull out all the stops for its end of year show - traditionally staged at Harlow Leisure Centre - and ensure its students get to perform accompanied by "proper X-Factor technical production values".

This year, they asked London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) to provide lighting, trussing, rigging, power distribution and crew. The design and specification for the kit was produced by Makin' Steps' founder and creative director Scott Simpson, and his lighting designer Mike Penketh.

This year's show, entitled 5212 covered the six decades of popular music since the Queen's coronation in 1952.

It was the first time CSE has worked with Makin' Steps, and CSE's Haydn Cruickshank comments, "I was totally impressed not just with the level of excellence o

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Australia - Nestled in the leafy outer fringes on the eastern edge of Melbourne lies Oxley Christian College, a school that provides education for about 1,000 children, aged between four and 18 years. In order to offer a more intimate space than their large school hall and to support its strong sense of community, the decision was made to build a new performing arts centre.

This space was not simply to be a stage for performing arts; it would have to fulfil the myriad of functions that fill any school's academic year. One week it might have to host a full scale student drama and music production playing to 250, the next it could be hosting a lecture or parents' evening. The College, bolstered by a significant grant from the Federal Government, set about turning their plans into reality.

The new space would require a discreet, yet flexible, sound reinforcement system to complim

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Serbia - Over 130 Robe moving lights were supplied by Serbian technical solutions provider Studio Berar to the three biggest stages - Main, Dance Arena and Fusion - at the 2012 EXIT Festival.

EXIT is one of Europe's hottest and most popular events, staged in the picturesque environs of the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad.

The four day event attracted over 100,000 music fans who enjoyed a diverse line up with over 500 live acts appearing across 20 stages.

The Studio Berar lighting rigs illuminated international stars like Duran Duran, Guns N'Roses, New Order, and Eryka Badu on the Main Stage; AVICII, Luciano, Richie Hawtin and Laurent Garnier in the Dance Arena, and The Toy Dolls, Eyesburn, Zemlja Gruva and Elektricni Orgazam on the Fusion Stage.

The company, also based in Novi Sad, has been involved in Exit since the first event in 2000.

Lighting for the three stages t

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UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) have supplied and installed an audio, lighting and media infrastructure for the new £5m IT & Media Block at the Park Road Campus of Uxbridge College, Middlesex.

The three storey high IT & Media Block (AKA North Block) facilitates a range of courses run by the College, including Film, Audio Recording, Broadcast, Design, Development, CGI and Computer Programming.

Their modern facilities include soundproofed studios for audio and film recording, independent control & media rooms, a green screen area for filming 3D footage, and computer rooms.

ACSP were approached by Robert Drury, the College's project director - who is responsible for all of their building and development programmes - to provide a future-proof technical infrastructure for the main two production and technical areas of the North Block.

The project was co-ordinated for AC

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France - For the 99th Tour de France, Team Garmin used a radio solution from Riedel Communications. The specialist for real-time communications and media networks installed a combination of conventional trunked radios and NanoTalk for enabling team communication for Garmin.

More than 12 vehicles of Team Garmin, who won this year's Giro d'Italia, were equipped with a MOTOTRBO radio solution enabling communication between the individual vehicles. MOTOTRBO provides conventional trunked radio and is the solution for any application that requires high quality of speech transmission. Long battery power cycles and the integrated GPS module make MOTOTRBO radios a suitable solution for applications such as the Tour de France.

In addition to the digital radio network, Team Garmin used NanoTalk radios for the communication between vehicles and cyclists. NanoTalk is an extremely small rad

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UK - MHA Lighting has appointed a regional sales manager to boost its expanding sales team in the South.

Tony Smith, 56, joins MHA Lighting with a wealth of experience, having been in the industry all his working life, in positions previously for Thorlux, Technosol and Cooper Lighting.

His appointment comes as the Atherton-based company take on a number of new projects following new orders from Manchester Airport Group, the NHS and a number of car parking clients.

Smith, who lives in Devon, said, "I am delighted to be joining MHA Lighting at such an exciting time of expansion. We all know how difficult the market is out there and companies need a product which gives them that extra edge. MHA Lighting's award-winning waveguide technology definitely gives us that. By using waveguide technology MHA can combine all the benefits of LEDs with all the benefits of traditional f

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UK - Christie today announced its partnership with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) 'Invest in Canada'. Christie has provided two striking digital displays featuring Christie MicroTiles and Christie Entero LED rear projection cubes at Canada Olympic House in Trafalgar Square.

Operating from 27 July to 12 August, in addition to being the Canadian Olympic Committee's space for athletes, their friends and their families, Canada Olympic House hosts business leaders and government dignitaries and showcase Canada's leading industries and businesses. Christie is among the select technology companies invited to participate.

Christie's partnership with DFAIT at Canada Olympic House in London includes a large lobby display of up to 37 Christie MicroTiles and four 72" diagonal Entero cubes, the world's first LED-based ultra-high resolution pro

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Russia - On 23 June world renowned DJs descended on Moscow for the annual student Prom Night, dramatically lit by more than 100 Clay Paky luminaires.

International lighting designer Roman Stolyarov of Moscow-based Arlecchino Group specified 24 Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s, 50 Clay Paky Shotlight Washes and 32 Clay Paky Sharpys and delivered an 'unforgettable experience' for thousands of party going graduates. Lighting was also supplied and installed by the Arlecchino Group.

Stolyarov used the Shotlight and the Alpha Profiles to create the general atmosphere for the event and The Sharpys to deliver the lighting and set effects in sync with the music.

"I really like the different gobos, the colours and the optics of the Alpha Profile series," says Stolyarov. "The Clay Paky Shotlight affords my design a wide range of possibilities including some clever beam mani

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USA - Line 6 has announced the availability of StageScape M20d, billed as "the world's first smart mixing system for live sound".

Featuring "a groundbreaking touchscreen visual mixing environment", StageScape M20d "streamlines and accelerates the process of getting great live sound". Massive DSP power delivers comprehensive professional audio processing on every channel including multi-band feedback suppression. Multi-channel recording, remote control capabilities via one or more iPad devices and pristine audio quality make the StageScape M20d an ideal mixing solution for a wide variety of live sound applications, says the company.

"For musicians who take care of their own live sound, getting great results consistently can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience - particularly when they want to be focused on performing," said Simo

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USA - Less than one year after showcasing the 152 lumens-per-watt concept LED bulb, Cree, has introduced the 170 lumens-per-watt (LPW) prototype LED light bulb. The innovations behind the high-performance 170 LPW LED bulb are enabling significantly higher efficacy and lower cost for Cree's luminaire portfolio and demonstrate Cree's continued commitment to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting by addressing initial cost and payback - key barriers to widespread LED lighting adoption, says the company.

"Optimising each LED design element was critical in achieving the performance reached by Cree's new prototype LED bulb," said Nick Medendorp, vice president of research and development, Cree lighting. "The technology embodied in the new 170 LPW concept LED bulb is enabling us to develop higher-performance and lower-cost Cree LED luminaires. By pushing the limits of w

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USA - Prism Projection has announced the launch of the third generation of their popular Studio LED fixture. The RevEAL Studio.3 Fresnel works just like a traditional Fresnel with standard barn doors to shape the beam, produces more lumens of light, and has a wider zoom range, says the company.

Building on the previous generations of the RevEAL Studio and responding to the feedback of lighting designers, Prism has expanded the feature set of the Studio.3 LED Fresnel to make it a true replacement for a comparable tungsten fixture. The Studio.3 produces 9,700 lumens; has a tunable Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) of 2,700-8,000K; enhanced white +/- correction; and a spot to flood range of 10°-90°. All produced by the energy efficient and long lasting solid-state Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) paired with Prism's proprietary TrueSource control algorithms and projection opti

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UK - Chauvet is set to launch new moving heads- Chauvet Professional Q-Spot 460-LED and Q-Spot 360-LED and video panels Chauvet Professional PVP S5 and PVP S7-to the European market at this year's PLASA show on booth I-F53. Additionally, Chauvet Professional will highlight its new Ovation line of the theatrical fixtures, as well as introducing the luminarc line of architainment interior and exterior lighting solutions.

Two new compact moving spots, Chauvet Professional Q-Spot 460-LED and Professional Q-Spot 360-LED, are eco-friendly, cost-effective fixtures for smaller entertainment and hospitality venues or any space that demands a steadfast, stress-free performance.

Both fixtures include a highly efficient patented optical system, a 16-degree beam angle, an easy-access gobo door, and shutter and strobe functions. Lightweight and easy-to-hang, the fixtures operate quietly, ha

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"I like to embrace digital technology but it's not the most creative tool in the box yet. With a bit of guidance I'm sure it can be."

Author and sound engineer Dave Swallow takes the lead in the Audio Think Tank at PLASA 2012 as he asks the question: 'If you had the chance to mould the future, what would you do?' Described as a forum 'made by sound engineers for sound engineers', the Audio Think Tank is designed to generate new and radical ideas about the shape of audio to come. Originally Swallow's brainchild, he explains how the interactive site came about, "I decided to setup a little thing where engineers could come and talk about sound-type things. A small spark of inspiration can be infectious, soon developing into a realistic idea that can be transformed into something tangible. I li

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Germany - Since 1973, visitors to the 'Neue Bult Bult' racecourse in Hanover have been marvelling at the power and performance of the horses. But since the sound reinforcement system was modernized earlier this year, the same qualities have been no less in evidence off the track - a fact to which over 50,000 racegoers can testify already this year can testify.

The design and installation of the new sound reinforcement system was the work of M-Akustik e.K., a company based in Oldendorf (Hesse). Mathias Vette, the managing director of M-Akustik, collaborated with the operator, Gregor Baum, on the design. Responsible for the implementation were Uwe Schwedhelm, sales director of Fleischhauer Ing.-Büro GmbH & Co. KG, and Stefan Waltemathe from M-Akustik's technical support team were responsible for the implementation. .

The most formidable hurdles proved to the sheer size of the a

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UK - Leading international lighting designer Tom Kenny specified over 100 Robe moving lights - ROBIN MMX Spots and ROBIN 600 LEDWashes - among others - to light the 2012 Country Music Television (CMT) Awards event in Nashville, Tennessee on June 6th.

Staged at Bridgestone Arena, the annual Awards show is a fan-voted show for country music videos and TV performances, which is enjoyed by a live audience of over 15,000 and broadcast live on CMT.

Hosted by Toby Keith and Kristen Bell, the action-packed evening featured live performances from a truly stellar line up of country talent including Lady Antebellum, Willie Nelson, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney and many, many more. Lighting equipment was supplied by VER Rentals.

It's the fourth year that Tom has designed lighting for CMT Awards, and once again he brought a clean and fresh contemporary look to the stage, working closel

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We ask leading loudspeaker designers how much more they think the traditional loudspeaker can be improved by physical engineering alone - improving the box, the drivers, the horns etc - before we head down the DSP route.

presented by: Matthias Christner (d&b audiotechnik) | Tony Andrews (Funktion-One) | JBL | Andy Pardoe (Traction Sound)
Tuesday 11 September, 2.00pm - 3.00pm

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The Netherlands - Royal Philips Electronics has announced that the 200th licensee signed up to its LED luminaire and retrofit bulb licensing programme. As a result, Paulmann Light GmbH has gained access to Philips' comprehensive portfolio of patented LED technologies and solutions offered in the licensing programme.

Arian Duijvestijn, senior vice president of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards said, "As the market leader in LED lighting technology, we are opening up the market for LED lighting to companies and customers around the world through our LED luminaire licensing programme. We are delighted to welcome Paulmann as our 200th licensee. This is a landmark moment for the programme and we are pleased that so many companies, from start-ups to large companies, recognise the value of Philips sharing key LED intellectual property to facilitate and accelerate their gro

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UK - Wyrestorm has confirmed POLARaudio as its new distributor for the Professional AV market in the UK.

Says Wyrestorm, "POLARaudio's interest in quality and meeting the growing demands of their customers in many ways mirror our own by offering a host of professional services, including system design, product integration, project logistics and programming assistance in addition to technical support and training offered and the marketing and sales assistance offered to the brands they represent.

"For Wyrestorm, this experience within multiple markets and knowledge of sectors as varied as education, corporate, Pro AV, event, retail and commercial is something we value highly as we ourselves expand from our Custom Installation roots into more diverse territory with new product lines capable of even more applications within commercial settings."

(Jim Evans)

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