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UK - Scottish audio sales and rental company, GB Audio, has supplied a 16 channel Allen & Heath GL2200 multi-purpose console to Queen Margaret University College (QMUC) in Edinburgh.

The GL2200 has been installed in QMUC's Gateway Studio Theatre, and is an upgrade for the College's Drama Department, which was looking for a compact, yet fully-featured desk for training students to be theatre technicians. The mixer will also be used to manage audio for the College's productions, as the Theatre also hosts performances by students and professional theatre companies throughout the year.

GB Audio's Graham Bodenham comments: "Allen & Heath is renowned for designing consoles with the best build and sound quality, and the GL2200 mixing console ensures a comprehensive, quiet and reliable front end of the audio system. The College was also looking for a mixer with flexible output ro

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UK - Showsec has signed a new two-and-a-half year contract to supply London's Earls Court venue with crowd-management services. The contract builds on two successful years with Earls Court, where Showsec has managed the front of house security and stewarding operation, across events including The Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival, Madonna and Justin Timberlake concerts, Coldplay and Paul McCartney. This new agreement extends Showsec's relationship with the venue.

Showsec's Earls Court team, along with the rest of its London staff, is continuing its programme of the NCFE event stewarding qualifications, SIA door supervisor training and event supervisor courses to ensure high standards of customer care. Over the next year Showsec and Earls Court will also be ensuring the new SIA regulations are adhered to as they are introduced in London.

Showsec southern regional manager Simo

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UK - Geoff Hoon MP recently sang the praises of a local music firm when he visited their factory. The Ashfield MP, who is known for his passion for music, had a tour of Carlsbro Electronics in Kirkby and met a number of apprentices. Carlsbro, which manufactures amplification for bands and musicians, was established in 1959 is one of the few remaining of its kind in the country and continues to go from strength to strength.

In a recent high-profile project, the company created a live music venue in Westminster for 220 MPs. The event was organized to raise the profile of live music and featured live acts such as MP4 - Parliament's first pop band!

Geoff Hoon's visit to Carlsbro was made to coincide with the first ever 'National Enterprise Week' (15-21 November), a government-backed initiative to help foster a more dynamic enterprise culture in the UK. Hoon commented: "The

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Austria - HK Audio's Cohedra (Coherent Dynamic Response Array) system has been used by theatrical PA rental company Showtime in Austria for a large-scale musical production, Coming Home. "Cohedra is now gaining a good reputation in Austria as it's been used for many corporate shows such as 100 Years of Kleine Zeitung in Graz, the Gackern culinary event in St Andrä, as well as for the leading TV show Wetten Das," says Roman Wieser from HK Audio's Austrian distribution company, eXact. "Showtime's production manager Christian Polster had heard a lot of good things about Cohedra and wanted to test the system. This wasn't going to be an easy project as the show featured more than 130 artists, an orchestra, band and vocalists, so they decided that it would be the perfect challenge for Cohedra. He was very satisfied with the results, both for the ease with w

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Australia - Coemar DeSisti Australia (CDA) has supplied Channel 7 with 26 4-bank and nine 2-bank De Sisti Delux fluorescents for the new studio they have just completed at Martin Place in Sydney. After successful use of the fluorescents with Channels 7's Melbourne Broadcast centre, plus for Channel 7s coverage of the tennis, golf and racing (Channel 7 has an extensive stock of De Sisti fluorescents, which are used on all these outside broadcasts) the De Sisti product was a natural pick for the new studio in Sydney, say the company.

The Sydney studio is quite a challenge for the lighting people with two sides of the studio being glass walls; therefore, they have to contend with changing light levels and colour temperature throughout the days, keeping in mind the studio is in use from 6am in the morning to the late hours of the evening. The extremely high output and possibilities

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Estonia - Estonian audio company MuMix Inc has installed a KV2 Audio system at the Bonnie & Clyde nightclub, in Tallinn, Estonia. The club, which is located on the first floor of Reval Hotel Olympia was looking to completely upgrade its sound and lighting systems. Having done his research, MuMix's Kaupo Uibo had no doubt in specifying a KV2 Audio, ES system. Alex Pagliani of KV2 Audio says: "Once we had demonstrated the ES system to Mr. Uibo he was convinced that the system would work at Bonnie & Clyde. We already new that the club featured both live and recorded music, which made the ES system a perfect match."

MuMix installed installed four ES 1.0 (two per side) with four ES 2.5 subwoofers. The newly installed audio system was commissioned in early October and has immediately attracted huge crowds to the club.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Computers Unlimited have teamed up with the Central School of Speech & Drama in London to stage the first ever UK VectorWorks Spotlight event. VectorWorks Spotlight is an entertainment and lighting design software, which merges sophisticated 2D drafting and powerful 3D modelling with advanced lighting design and production tools. The organizer says the event will provide an opportunity to see some outstanding projects created using VectorWorks Spotlight.

Mark Stephens, director of The Design Division (a specialist VectorWorks reseller and producer of the new VectorWorks Spotlight Training CD), will start the event with an overview of VectorWorks. He will then demonstrate the specific Spotlight features, and will also show the new VectorWorks training CD which now includes specific movies on Spotlight. Alex Wardle, a lighting designer and technical manager, will cover setti

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Spain - This marks seventh industry award for HES' Digital Lighting fixture High End Systems' DL1 Digital Light fixture won Best Product of the Year at the Pro-Audio and Lighting Awards in Spain. The honor was presented 11 November at the Broadcast 2004 trade show in Madrid. Produccion Profesional magazine sponsored the awards.

Ramon Setien of Pro-Lighting, a High End Systems distributor in Spain, accepted the award. Pro-Lighting was also in the running for lighting company of the year. The jury was comprised of professional lighting designers. Says Carlos Martinez-Iturralde of Pro-Lighting, "The judges said the DL1 deserved the award because it was the best lighting product for its innovative technology in the lighting market."

This is DL1's seventh industry award since its introduction in 2003.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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Spain - LT-light has announced the appointment of Lightronics Inc. as its new distributor for the Hydra Range of lighting controllers for the USA and Canada. The well-known American company will provide full sales assistance, extensive technical support and service as well as customer training and specialist seminars.

International sales manager Fernando Krijer commented: "We are pleased and very much looking forward to working together with Lightronics Inc. They are a tremendous complement to our existing portfolio."

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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Greece - Cadac supplied two J-Type Live Production Consoles to one of Europe's largest cultural centres, Megaron - the Athens Concert Hall Complex. The J-Type consoles, comprising one 60-input and one 56-input frame plus a flexible 24-input sub frame, are installed in two new multi-functional halls at the Athens Concert Hall, and were supplied and installed by Cadac's Greek distributor, Telmaco SA, after a two-year bid process.

Athens Concert Hall opened in 1991, some 35 years after the Greek government originally donated the site for its construction. The venue is jointly governed by the Athens Concert Hall Organisation, the Friends of Music Society, and the state, and hosts an extensive schedule of musical productions and events.

The two new halls, the 1800-seat Alexandra Triandi Hall and the 400-seat Nikos Skalkotas Hall, were opened at the end of 2003, complete with new so

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Denmark - Martin Professional, which offers a variety of tailored financing options to its customers, has announced that in the past seven years, it has secured financing of more than US$100,000,000 for its customers, either through its own internal resources or in some cases in partnership with external financing firms. In so doing, Martin says, it has helped countless businesses stay competitive while creating extensive product availability worldwide.

Begun in 1997 and unique to the industry, Martin's finance options are inclusive plans that offer flexible financing to its entire customer base from small installations to large rental companies. The company says it is committed to offering the products and services that support customers' growth by working with them to meet their financing objectives.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Lighting designer Al Gurdon specified 78 James Thomas PixelLine battens as part of his lighting rig for ITV's current top-rating series of the X-Factor. 32 PixelLines are rigged inside the main scenic 'X' set piece hung above centre stage. The fixtures are behind a diffused polycarbonate covering.

On the floor below, the centre 'X' PixelLine configuration is mirrored using another 32 battens, this time set below a frosted Perspex floor. These 64 battens are being driven by video images created specially for the show by lighting operators/programmers Svend Pedersen and Ross Williams and graphic artist Chris Plant, designed to compliment the geometry of the stage and Christopher George's set. The images are stored and manipulated in a computer running PixelMAD software, and output via the WholeHog II lighting console used to run the show's lights.

The 'X' PixelLine fixtures

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USA - Arizona-based Sunbelt Scenic Studios has taken delivery of 14 of Clay Paky's new Alpha Spot HPE and Alpha Wash fixtures. Concentrating mostly on corporate productions, Sunbelt Scenic Studios added the new Clay Paky fixtures to their lighting rental inventory based on trust - trust in the Clay Paky brand and trust in the people behind the brand in the US. "I have enjoyed the Clay Paky 1200 Zooms for many years now," said David Renshaw, lighting rental manager for Sunbelt. "PJ Turpin, the general manager of Clay Paky America, and I also go way back - I trust him. When PJ told me he had these new units, and that I could rely on them, I knew that I could. I normally do not buy the first round of any new moving light."

Renshaw immediately committed his new Alpha Spot HPE and Wash fixtures to a number of large-and small-scale industrial productions. The fee

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UK - Super Vision International, Inc. manufacturer of fiber optic and LED lighting announced today that it has signed three additional new licensees to its Variable Color Lighting System patent and its Laidman technology portfolio. The three licensees are Element Labs of Austin, Texas, TPR Enterprises of Mamaroneck, New York and Shine Lighting of West Jordan, Utah.

Nils Thorjussen, founder and president of Element Labs: "I'd like to personally thank Brett Kingstone and Supervision for taking the lead on this critically important matter and making the Belliveau patent and Laidman technology easily available to the industry. We feel that Super Vision's IP portfolio is foundational to the LED lighting industry and this licensee agreement is not only a good investment for Element Labs, but for the future of our industry." Mr. Thorjussen was a previous co-founder of Flying

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Italy - The MTV Europe Music Awards took place this year on the 18th November at the Tor di Valle in Rome. Derrick Ziebe was sound designer for the show with all live equipment being supplied by Britannia Row Productions, including all of the Sennheiser radio, mics and IEM, the choice of the large majority of artists.

Sennheiser radio and IEM was used throughout with Sennheiser SKM500N specifically used for all of the presenters and the winners. Bryan Grant for Brit Row commented, "49 channels of Sennheiser radio were used in an unfriendly RF area but the system performed flawlessly."

The majority of artists also chose Sennheiser mics including Usher and Alicia Keys (evolution 500 series wireless), The Hives (evolution wired, main vocal e 935), Franz Ferdinand (evolution wired, main vocal e840), Eminem (SKM5000), the Beastie Boys (SKM5000), Anastacia (evolution 500 s

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UK - Adlib Audio and sister company Adlite are supplying full sound and lighting production to the current UK Embrace tour. Audio includes a Nexo Alpha system and one of Adlib's new Yamaha PM5D digital consoles and lighting includes Martin MAC 550 and High End Studio Beam PC moving lights and a WholeHog II desk.

With a huge variety of venues on the itinerary, the typical stack of Nexo is eight M3 mid-highs eight B1 bass boxes and six SB2 subs, which the larger venues expanding to eight mid-highs and bass cabinets a side with a total of eight subs. The system is powered with two types of Camco amps - Tectons for the mid-highs and Vortex for the subs. The PA is zoned via BSS 366s, which are used for time alignment when they're running infills, outfills or delays in some of the more idiosyncratic rooms.

Jones mixes with a Midas H3000 FOH. For system processing, he's using 10 dbx

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UK - Leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light recently joined forces with Ashcroft Services and Zero 88 to update the facilities at the Shoestring Theatre, home of the Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO) which provides nine to fifteen year olds a chance to experience all aspects of theatre. "The CYTO's Shoestring Theatre is a converted part of an old school run by Croydon Youth Services," explains Ian Locke, manager of Ashcroft Services and technical manager at Croydon's Fairfield Halls. "CYTO have very little money - but they urgently needed to upgrade their lighting installation. They turned to Ashcroft Services for help; working with White Light and Zero 88 we were able to considerably improve their facilities."

The upgrade saw CYTO replace three six-way Pulsar dimmer racks with what Ian describes as a "very fine ex-demonstration Chi

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USA - Rigging Seminars has announced that it will conduct three classes in 2005. These will be held in Las Vegas from 8-11 February, 2-5 May, and in Chicago from 3-6 June. Each class covers the principles and operation of both stage rigging and arena-style rigging, and will include a full day of hands-on training.

Rigging Seminars is the longest established entertainment rigging training program, and is highly respected in the industry. They are taught by Harry Donovan and Jay O. Glerum, both working professionals with more than 40 years' experience in show business. Both have written respected books on entertainment industry rigging and thousands of riggers have graduated from their courses, ay the company.

Glerum has been a stagehand, scenery and lighting designer, technical theatre instructor at several universities, and systems designer for a major theatre equipment compa

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UK - This year the ever-popular Barco Showcase event was held at two locations, in the North and South of the country. The first was at Three Mills Studios in London and the second held at the Magna Science Museum in Rotherham, Yorkshire. LSI visited the Three Mills Studios, which proved to be an ideal location for showing the huge range of Barco products.

The show included everything from their high performance display products and solutions for simulation training, to their large screen LED display and state-of-the-art projectors. One of Barco's newest products being shown was the Encore Presentation System which is a multi-layer Video Display System (comprised of a Video Processor unit and a System Controller), that combines seamless switching with a variety of flexible video effects, to provide a versatile video production tool for live event staging applications.

The huge

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UK - A.C. Lighting has been appointed authorized dealer for Clay Paky products in the UK. Clay Paky manufactures a wide range of effects fixtures, including moving body luminaires, moving mirror luminaires, colour changers, followspots and smoke machines. The company's latest innovation is the Alpha range, a series of 575W moving body projectors designed for professional, architectural and show business environments. This range includes the Alpha Spot and Alpha Spot HPE moving yoke profile fixtures and the Alpha Wash moving yoke washlight fixture.

Key range features include high brightness optics providing even distribution of light from the centre to the peripheral for a flatter curve; wide zooms (4 - 80 degrees on the Alpha Wash and 10 - 40 degrees on the Alpha Spot); colour mixing well away from the beam focal point, resulting in an even colour spread and no projection of shu

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UK - Away from the theatre and into the public domain, Stage Technologies Ltd has provided wine waiters with the power of flight. A new 6.5 tonne glass wine tower, which holds over four thousand bottles of wine, has been designed and installed by Edwin Shirley Staging for the Radisson SAS hotel at Stansted airport.

To order wine at this venue is to initiate a live aerial performance, where 'wine angels' fly up the face of the 13m tall tower and descend with your desired bottle. To achieve this Stage Technologies has supplied four BigTow winches that are controlled by radio linked operator pendants. These handheld, wireless pendants enable the wine angels to control their own movements up and down the tower. Their two-point hip harnesses allow them to turn upside-down and swing from side to side whilst performing choreographed routines. Stage Technologies' BigTow winches, origina

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UK - Vision Systems recently revealed plans to extend early warning solutions by offering its Millbank voice alarm solution to new and existing VESDA smoke detection and ADPRO video security customers.

Gordon MacSween, managing director at Vision Systems, comments: "We are already market leaders in detecting threats with our VESDA range of very early warning smoke detectors and our ADPRO range of video security systems. Our next step will be to further integrate the Millbank voice response products to complement our offering by adding a response capability. This may be the automatic announcement of a staged evacuation in the event of a fire or preventing damage or loss by telling an intruder that they have been detected, police called and for them to leave the premises."

Neil Voce, sales and business development director for voice response systems at Vision Systems,

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UK - Autograph Sales, continuing its longstanding relationship with some of the UK's leading sound rental outfits: Canegreen, Richard Nowell Sound Services (RNSS) and Sound by Design have in recent months been reinforcing their Meyer Sound loudspeaker stocks with the latest products.

Richard Nowell Sound Services is responsible for sound and communications throughout the South Bank Centre, while supplying additional systems to the various artists and events who play London's riverside venues. A Meyer Sound user for more than 20 years, RNSS added 700HPs, the ultra high-power sub woofer, to its inventory.

Meanwhile North London's Canegreen, continues to expand its extensive Meyer Sound stocks, also with the 700HPs. The first in the UK to purchase the product, Canegreen is really putting its new sub woofers to use, after several dates with The Corrs, they are now travelling the c

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