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Australia - Røde Microphones has announced the release of the MiCon-11 adaptor cable, which provides connection between the R°DE HS1 headset, PinMic and Lavalier microphones, and TRRS devices such as the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as well as a large number of Android phones and tablets.

This now means that users of these microphones are able to take advantage of the Røde Rec app on Apple iOS devices, recording high-quality audio direct to their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. With a large scale update of the app to be released later this month, this functionality will be further enhanced.

"The MiCon system was born out of frustration from working with other manufacturers' wireless systems." said Damien Wilson, Røde's global marketing and sal

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Italy / UK - FBT, the Italian Professional audio company, will again be exhibiting at BPM at the NEC in Birmingham this year (14-16 September) on booth J20. BPM will see the UK debut of FBT's latest entry-level J Series speaker systems, which has been designed to give the best quality audio performance for mobile applications. Also on show will be FBT's award-winning Vertus column speaker series along with examples from its latest Mitus, Verve, SUBLine, HiMaxX, ProMaxX and Evo2MaxX ranges.

Show-goers will also have the chance to hear FBT speaker systems in action, as three systems have been entered into the PA Experience - BPM's PA sound off - featuring the latest speaker systems available. Entered into the Compact class is the Vertus Series, with the Evo2MaxX 4 and Subline 15 going head-to-head with other portable systems in the Road Warrior class. For club aficionados, the Mit

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The Netherlands - ADB will be showing a number of new and updated products at IBC 2013 in Amsterdam. The Freedom control desk is designed to handle in a compact format all forms of visual media - conventionals, moving lights and video media. It's compatible with shows recorded in ASCII, Isis, Safari and Congo formats.

Recent installations include the BBC new complex in Cardiff, Turkmenistan Media city, Kazakistan Media tower, and many more besides, making Freedom and its even more compact partner, Liberty, the most successful and best selling consoles in ADB's history.

Also on show will be the ALC4-2 multifunctional modular LED fixtures, Softlux TV fluo luminaires and other products.

(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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USA / Mexico - Chauvet, a leading global supplier of entertainment lighting and trussing, announces the opening of a full-service subsidiary in Mexico, Chauvet & Sons de Mexico, following the acquisition of the assets of long-time Chauvet distributor in Mexico, Novelties. Chauvet & Sons de Mexico is a full-service branch office and distribution center for the Chauvet Professional, Chauvet DJ, and Trusst brands.

"We are very excited and honoured to be able to directly serve our customers in a market where Chauvet's brands are already known and valued," CEO Albert Chauvet said. The Mexican branch office is the second international branch office fully owned by USA-based Chauvet, which also fully owns Chauvet Europe, based in the United Kingdom. In other countries, Chauvet products are distributed via a network of authorized distributors.

Abraham Levit, who owned Novelti

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Aberdeen-based events and rental company, Granite City Events has invested in Highlite Internationals DMT P12.5 Pixel Mesh Video Screen. Company owner Barry Sheriffs says: "We have been looking at video/pixel wall screen products for a while now; it was brought to my attention about the new Highlite DMT P12.5 Pixelmesh, which is priced within the budget we had to spend, so a demo was requested".

Malcolm Burlow and Dave Drane of Highlite UK brought eight panels of the P12.5 screen to the Stonehaven warehouse to do a full demonstration. "It was great to see and also for us to use our current vision mixer and our HD cameras with it. We were very impressed with the quality, brightness and picture output for a Pixelmesh - it's exactly what we have been looking for."

Granite City Events has invested in 24 panels, with flightcases, rigging and Arkaos software. Sheriffs s

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UK - For many years Martin Audio has flourished under the memorable tagline, 'The Martin Experience'. But actually defining what that is, and what it means to the industry, has been less clear. After reviewing at length Martin Audio's increased profile in the industry today - and its ambition for the future - the company says it is about to unveil precisely what that 'experience' is all about.

James King, marketing director, explains: "After a lot of soul searching to define what lies at the heart of the brand, what quickly emerged was the importance of the audience experience. It's what the company has been doing for over 40 years, from enabling 'supergroups' of the '70s to be able to play to larger audiences and be heard properly for the first time, through to MLA and its superlative consistency of coverage.

"The audience is central to the industry's success, so cr

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Australia - The iconic His Majesty's Theatre, or 'the Maj' as it is affectionately known, is the only remaining working Edwardian theatre in Australia, and home to WA Opera. This stunning example of Edwardian era architecture is one of WA's most-loved heritage icons.

However celebrating history and all things antique should not stretch to the lighting department who were struggling with their old consoles.

"We had a Strand 550 and a 520i console for years and they were really at the end of their use-by date," commented Matthew Nankivell, head of lighting at His Majesty's Theatre in Perth. "More and more touring shows were coming through that couldn't use their show files with the Strand consoles. One of the main deciding factors on which console to choose was driven by the need to keep up with industry trends. Many of our shows have originated in a venue with an

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UK - Kinesys motion control and a Kinesys LibraCELL load monitoring system are both in action on the current Kings of Leon tour which has just finished its UK leg.

The automation elements are an integral part of the eye-catching set, lighting and production design created by show director Paul Normandale, while the load monitoring - including the new LibraRIG product - has been provided by Rigorous Technology to the tour's head rigger, Yose Lawson.

Normandale is known for his innovative and imaginative designs and stage environments and the design incorporates eight irregularly sized panels of 7mm LED screen upstage which move in and out to different positions and formats during the show.

This is achieved using 16 Kinesys-converted half-tonne Liftket motors and Vector control, specified by Normandale and provided by lighting contractors Lite Alternative. The LED screen is su

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UK - Shure Europe has announced details of its 2013 unsigned bands contest, Call For Legends. The winning band will pick up Shure equipment worth 3000 Euros, play a gig on one of the free stages at next year's prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and be given three days of free recording time at top London studio Kore with respected record producer/engineer Chris Kimsey at the controls. Chris will also mix the results, creating a finished EP for the winners.

The competition is open to any band in Europe, provided they have no current recording or publishing deal. Between 7 October and 27 December, entrants have to post one of their tracks to the competition web site (details below), together with a short video blog. Tracks posted must be original compositions (bands posting cover versions will not be accepted).

Once the competition has closed, Shure will w

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USA - PLASA has announced eight finalists in the sixth annual Rock Our World Awards, to be presented at the PLASA Cocktail & Awards Reception at LDI 2013. The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour ground-breaking achievement by PLASA members and to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer or integrator who applies it in a real world environment.

The finalists for the sixth annual Rock Our World Awards are:

GBLOCK - Gallagher Staging and Productions, Inc.

GCT (Guy Cable Tensioner) - Tomcat USA.

Mbox Extreme Media Server as used on Oblivion - Production Resource Group.

TiMax2 SoundHub and TiMax Tracker - Out Board.

AsteraTouch - Astera LED-Technology.

dmXLAN v4 Software - ELC Lighting.

Royal Opera House Muscat - Theatre Projects Consultants.

London Olympics Opening Ceremonies.

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South Africa - Symetrix has appointed iLED to distribute all of its products, including the open-architecture SymNet Edge and Radius Dante networked audio signal processors and their associated AEC conferencing solutions, throughout South Africa.

In the 12 years since it launched, iLED has earned its clients' loyalty by providing expert advice founded on a commitment to continual education. iLED team members pride themselves on the depth and breadth of their AV knowledge, which includes all the latest cutting-edge solutions, as well as their ability to communicate that knowledge to clients.

"iLED is focused on educating members of the AV community in South Africa," said Mark Ullrich, international sales manager for Symetrix. "The company started iLED University in 2010 to offer free trainings on products, concepts, and techniques, and it has been a huge success.

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UK - Allen & Heath has introduced the ICE-16D, an alternative version of the ICE-16 multi-track recorder launched last year. Both units are 16 In/16 Out audio interfaces, allowing performers and audio engineers to easily capture high quality multi-track recordings direct to a USB drive or interface to a computer. Additionally, the ICE-16D has balanced I/O, designed for those customers using the unit in a studio environment or requiring fully balanced inputs and outputs on AES59 standard D Sub connectors.

Fitted into a compact 1U rack design, ICE-16 and ICE-16D are capable of studio quality interfacing, converting and bi-directional streaming of 16 channels over high-speed USB or FireWire at 24 bit, 96kHz resolution. Alternatively, 16 channels can be simultaneously recorded straight to a USB hard drive or memory stick at up to 24bit 48kHz resolution as a .wav file. The unit is ex

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USA - The bold stage and presentation aesthetics for 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York, took inspiration from the MTV Moon Man Award statue that received a special 30th anniversary makeover this year by New Jersey street-artist KAWS.

Lighting designer Tom Kenny worked the same style - blurring the lines between fine art and pop art - into multiple areas of the onstage lighting treatment, with 80 of Robe's new Pointe multi-purpose moving light fixtures, a vital element of his rig of over 1000 moving heads. These were supplied to the event along with 32 x Robe Robin LEDWash 600s and 20 x LEDWash 1200s by rental specialist, VER.

Robe's powerful, super-bright Pointes were positioned left and right of the stage and behind the VIP stage / seating area.

"I needed a big beam look and a wash light in the same position," explaine

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UK / Sweden - BlackBox Recorder manufacturer JoeCo has developed and supplied a quantity of new BlackBox industrial data recorders for Siemens Industrial Turbo Machinery AB in Sweden. Siemens are using the BlackBox Industrial Recorder (BBR-IND) units as part of a test campaign to assist in the measurement of their gas turbines.

The bespoke 24-channel, 3U rack-mountable systems are based on BlackBox Recorder technology. The units feature highly accurate and dc stable input and output circuitry, with additional software and hardware functionality specifically geared towards industrial data recording and measurement applications.

Greger Svanström, senior engineer in measurement technique/product development, who led the team specifying Siemens' requirement, said, "The BBR Industrial has proved a valuable tool for gathering large scale measurement data. The use of a standard

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UK - Shure radio microphones and in-ear monitoring systems were used extensively at the recent 2013 Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk. The festival celebrated local composer Benjamin Britten's Centenary this year with a spectacular production of the opera Peter Grimes set quite literally at the sea side - on a 50m wide set placed at the very edge of the Suffolk shingle, where the North Sea begins.

Richard Nowell Sound Services Ltd (RNSS) designed the audio systems this year at Aldeburgh, and were faced with a number of challenges for the Peter Grimes staging, of which coordinating an orchestra and a festival chorus live on a windy beach were just the start. The chorus and orchestra could see each other, but whether they would be able to hear each other was always going to be at the mercy of the elements to some extent, particularly the wind blowing in off the North Sea

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Brazil - Lollapalooza's return to São Paulo, Brazil earlier this year was made all the more successful by Electralight, in partnership with LPL Lighting Productions, and their use of Lightconverse visualization software. By employing an onsite custom 3D visualization studio at the iconic Jockey Club horse track, located in the heart of the city, valuable design and programming time was saved for a host of designers and operators whose top-talent bands took the stages of the three-day event.

With all three main stages virtually replicated in Lightconverse software running on individual workstations, show elements, including lighting, LED, video, moving truss and effects were made available for the particular stylization of each act much to the satisfaction of all concerned.

The main proponent for the onsite studio was designer Nilson Barros (Xuxa), known for his work on The Vo

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UK - West London based lighting and visual rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) supplied lighting kit, two Kinesys automation systems and Vector control plus crew to the North and South open air stages at the 2013 Creamfields Festival, staged at Daresbury Estate Near Warrington over the August Bank Holiday Weekend.

Colour Sound's team led by crew chief Jon Rickets worked closely with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the event, the UK's highest profile EDM festival. This year's line-up included open air stage headliners Avicii and The Prodigy (Saturday) plus David Guetta and Tiesto on the Sunday.

The North and South Stages were similar in size, supplied by Star Events, with the South stage PA / video wings being slightly wider. Colour Sound's production lighting design for both areas was created with reference to all the requirements of th

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USA - Thunderbolt Systems of Cincinnati, OH, a firm that specialises in sound reinforcement, lighting, video, radio communications, TV, concert touring, and special events, recently made a substantial investment in their business and to ensure the best audio performance for their clients, they selected loudspeaker systems from Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio.

Mike Stuckey is the president of Thunderbolt Systems. Being actively involved in everything from the daily operation of the business to sales and system design, Stuckey knows that without quality sound, there won't be much business. He also recognizes how critical efficient truck pack, system setup, and tear down are to the success of any event. This is why his firm purchased 24 Aero 50 three-way large-format line array enclosures, 24 LX-218 high performance subwoofer systems, 12 Aero 12A powered, two-way, mid-high line

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Australia - Simonds Stadium, home of the Geelong Cats, has become the biggest and most successful multi-purpose venue in regional Victoria. The third stage of the Simonds Stadium's redevelopment was recently completed with the addition of a new Southern Grandstand, increasing capacity to over 35,000.

Total Events Co were called in to design, supply and install the PA system for the new grandstand choosing JBL AWC all weather speakers for the Grandstand, JBL Control 25AVspeakers for the walkways and JBL ceiling speakers into the functions spaces.

"We installed 14 vJBL AWC129 speakers and sixteen JBL AWC82 speakers for the seating bowl and under balcony-fills," remarked Bill Busbridge, managing director of Total Events Co. "We chose them as they are robust, high powered and totally suitable for the application. They also fitted in well with the architects aestheti

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UK - Props people, lighting designers, and electricians will be interested to discover that RC4Wireless is now offering specially priced RC4Magic Wireless DMX and Dimming Starter Kits for a limited time. Every new kit comes with three secure digital IDs. Since every RC4Magic user has their own IDs, no RC4 user can ever interfere with another RC4 user's show.

RC4Wireless is also offering a low-cost Wireless LED Dimming Kit for Educators. This affordably-priced kit is ready to use right out of the box. It demonstrates smooth wireless dimming, and includes a bright red-green-blue LED, 6V rechargeable battery, and charger. All you need is a DMX controller to start experimenting with beautiful, affordable, safe, cool-running LEDs.

James David Smith, president and chief product designer at RC4 reports: "Every time we demonstrate smooth wireless dimming with red-green-blue LED d

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Sweden / Argentina - LumenRadio has announced a new partnership with TSD Group for distribution of the CRMX brand in Argentina. Run by Daniel Lema, the Buenos Aires based TSD Group has since 1994 been one of the leading suppliers for concert touring, theatres, permanent installations as well as television in Argentina. With an already impressive product portfolio including well-known brands such as Robe, SGM, Chamsys, Chromateq, the most important factor in TSD Group's choice for LumenRadio's CRMX wireless technology was the outstanding reliability. Another important factor was the possibility to offer customers an all-in-one package with products from manufacturers with the state-of-the-art technology.

"LumenRadio's commitment to manufacturing inventive, high quality wireless products is a perfect match for our aim to deliver superior products and support. The CRMX product

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