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Canada - Adamson has announced a new exclusive Canadian distribution deal with Theatrixx, a well-known distributor of lighting, video, and - recently - professional audio equipment. The Montreal based firm also manufactures cable distribution and AC distribution systems for local and export markets.

Jacques Tessier, founder and CEO of Theatrixx comments, "Though I come from an audio background, our distribution has been focused on lighting and video for the past few years. We wanted to expand into audio with a high-end product line. Adamson is clearly one of three dominant players in our eyes, when you look to quality and performance. It's built in Canada and the local market penetration is at a fraction of the potential.

"I've know Brock for more than 20 years and it's always interesting to discuss his innovative approach to speaker design and application. We recent

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Taiwan - Among the many disciplines that Buddhist meditation is widely held to develop is the art of concentration, and so maintaining an atmosphere of calm and serenity at Taiwan's Ling Yen temple was of the utmost importance to Teamwork's recent installation of a Turbosound sound reinforcement system.

Located about one hour's drive from Taichung City on the western flank of Taiwan's central mountainous region, the Taiwan Ling Yen Buddhist temple is set amongst beautiful mountain scenery in Puli township, Nantou County. It has recently been the subject of a comprehensive sound system installation comprising a range of Turbosound loudspeakers.

The specification for the new sound system at Ling Yen was put together by installation company Teamwork Co. Based in Taichung, the company is headed by Harry Chen and regularly works on audio projects all over the island. After extensiv

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UK - Dance troupe Diversity, winners of the 2009 series of televised talent show Britain's Got Talent have just completed a highly successful UK tour with a Yamaha LS9 mixing both front of house and monitors.

Taking the nine-piece troupe's show to 24 sold-out theatre shows across the UK (including three nights at London's Hammersmith Apollo), the tour's 32-channel LS9 was manned by Simon Hall and Rob Priddle, who regularly work on tours by the likes of George Michael, Coldplay and Oasis.

The tour's sound requirements were supplied by Wigwam, the LS9 being set up with 16 channels for FOH and 16 channels for monitors, Hall and Priddle splitting the channels to give separate head amps for each. Diversity and first support act, rapper Aggro Santos, used four d&b side-fills for monitoring, while the second support (duo Mini Viva) used Ultimate Ears UE4 IEMs.

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UK - Apple Sound, in conjunction with POLARaudio, recently completed a an audio-visual installation in the new, purpose-built council chambers at Huntingdon District Council.

Apple Sound, a provider of specialist audio, sound masking and speech privacy systems, was commissioned to install a beyerdynamic MCW-D 200 Digital Wireless Microphone System in the Huntingdon council offices after being awarded the tender and successfully undertaking the first stage of the AV installation.

Apple Sound were briefed to provide the council with a secure wireless conference microphone system that would enable full utilisation of the flexible room formats with the facility for voting and recording. It was to be be controlled and managed via MCWD Controller and Steno-S recording software and Apple had specified the beyerdynamic MCW-D 200 Digital Wireless System for the job. beyerdynamic's MCW-

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USA - Brian Tapley, sound engineer for country music star Chris Young recently used an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for the first time whilst on tour in Florida. Performing at the Block in Fort Walton Beach, Tapley was presented with an Allen & Heath iLive-144 digital system from the venue's audio supplier, TSC Productions.

"Before the band arrived, I set up the surface according to Chris Young's input list, with the routing set up to the main PA," recalls TSC Productions', Brendon Grimes. "Brian had never used an iLive before, so I gave him a quick tutorial, showed him some features I thought he might like, and set him loose. Within about five minutes, he went straight to sound check."

"Every night is different, and that's not always a good thing. You're at the mercy of the venue, so it's always nice to find something that's easy to work

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UK - Stage One conjured up three magical sets recently when they were asked by Phil McCandlish of production consultancy, Open Other End, to produce identical sets for Butlins' Billy's Magic Abracadabra show - part of their entertainment package for the coming year at their Bognor Regis, Minehead and Skegness Resorts.

The brief from set designer and Butlins' creative director, Phil Peacock, was for a series of lightweight, durable set elements, of the highest possible quality, able to take the strain of repeated installation and dismantling to fit in with Butlins' busy entertainment schedule.

"We worked very closely with our client from the design stage right through to manufacture to ensure that the finished products would match their aspirations," said Phil Green, senior project manager. "This was achieved, utilising our interpretation team's traditiona

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UK - Systems Workshop Distribution supplied Britannia Row Productions with a range of Schertler DYN Series transducers for miking orchestral strings and a grand piano at the Classical BRIT Awards 2010. The show took place in the Royal Albert Hall, London, last night.

Specially designed for orchestral amplification, Schertler's DYN Series - which includes the DYN-V for violin/viola, DYN-C for 'cello and DYN-B for double bass - offers accurate and natural sound reproduction. Easily moved between instruments, the transducers can be safely mounted on precious violins, 'cellos and basses and connected directly to the microphone inputs of a stage mixer. Schertler's DYN-GP Grand Piano model utilises a matched pair of transducers that capture the sound at two separate points, achieving a greater sense of space and a more balanced tone, says the company.

Brit Row's Bryan Grant c

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UK - The new Edinburgh Lighting and Sound School will be based at Granton and is being run in association with Black Light, leading specialists in professional lighting, staging, sound and audio visual equipment. Black Light have been supplying products and services to theatres, exhibitions, conferences, tradeshows, heritage centres and many more organisations for over 25 years.

The school will offer a One Year intensive course based at the heart of the industry. The course will include specialist teaching from industry professionals and a series of placements in Theatres, Conference Centres, Lighting, Sound and Events Companies. Fifteen students will be recruited to the course.

As patron of the school, Francis Reid, veteran lighting designer, author of 15 books on theatre technology, and lecturer of lighting across six continents, says: "The staging of plays, musicals, c

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises have supplied Spectrum Rentals in Dubai with the Shure UHF-R microphone system for their live sound concerts and corporate events. The sale includes six channels that consist of the UR4D receivers and transmitters with the KSM9 microphone cartridge.

"Spectrum Rentals have completely kitted their microphone inventory with SM and Beta wired microphones," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing manager. "The purchase of the UHF-R series is the icing on the cake as it undeniably propels the wireless microphone system to the market leader position in the live sound market here in the UAE."

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UK - City Theatrical has announced that it has expanded its premises in London and is now providing additional business services for its European customers.

As of 15 May, 2010, City Theatrical is holding catalogue inventory and shipping to customers from its London location. Customers will now have fast access to City Theatrical's broad catalogue of lighting accessories without having to import them themselves and without having to bear the cost of transatlantic shipping, customs, and duty charges.

City Theatrical's European sales manager, Alex Cowan, has added Lauren Drinkwater to his staff as office administrator to handle orders and to provide "the same great level customer service that City Theatrical is known for".

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Black Light recently moved to new premises in the Granton area of Edinburgh. Thanks to this relocation, Black Light says it is now able to offer an improved level of service to all its customers.

"We're now in a superb warehouse that allows us to offer all our services under one roof," says Black Light's managing director Gavin Stewart. "This is our third move in Granton. We love the area and now we've found the perfect building we can concentrate on developing the business and adding new equipment and services."

According to Stewart, the move has gone smoothly and has been a great opportunity for the company to think about how to serve our customers even more efficiently. Before the move the company had to divide its equipment and workforce between a number of buildings. Now, anyone who visits Black Light will be able to view and assess all of its pro

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France - Christie, technical partner to the Cannes Film Festival for the fourth year running, has announced that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (presented out of competition), opened Cannes in full 2K digital resolution. The film was screened on the next-generation Series 2 projector, the Christie SolariaT CP2230, which features DLP Cinema technology from Texas Instruments.

Designed to meet all Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specifications, the Christie Solaria series is scalable and geared towards 4K digital cinema. Its Christie Brilliant3DT technology delivers "the brightest 3D projections in the market" with an output power of 32 000 ANSI lumens (CP2230) on screens up to 100ft wide and with the lowest cost of operation.

Christie, which will be providing digital technology for all the films at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival, recently reached the hi

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UK - Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, has opened at London's Adelphi Theatre, with cast and orchestra fully miked up with DPA microphones, specified by sound designer Mick Potter and supplied by Autograph Sound Hire.

All 36 cast members are miked with DPA 4061s, with the principals wearing two each with dual transmitters and receivers. The 21-piece orchestra is miked with a selection of DPA mics including 4022 and 4011 cardioids and 4007 condensers across brass, woodwind and percussion. For the string section, Potter has chosen a combination of 4011s as ambient mics and 4061s for close miking.

"The balance between these two mics changes per cue depending on the required feel," says Mick Potter. "In the big cinematic moments the mix is biased towards the 4061s and in the more subtle orchestral moments the 40

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UK - Lift Turn Move has qualified for full membership of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA). LEEA is a technical association involved in the design, manufacture, hire, repair, refurbishment, test, examination and use of lifting equipment. Applicants are subject to technical audits before full membership is granted and then to a continuing assessment programme.

The approval process involved full technical audits carried out by LEEA officers which led to some minor changes to processes to ensure best practice. Certified LEEA training for all staff was also carried out. All LTM workshop staff are now fully certified by an independent body to carry out hoist and lifting equipment assembly, inspection and maintenance.

LTM's John Jones reports, "We are upskilling to allow work on more complex projects. All LTM engineers are now LEEA certified with Team Cards whi

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UK - Summit Steel played a key role in the action and excitement for the UK movie premiere of The Back-Up Plan, which took place at the Vue Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

The film sees Jennifer Lopez's return to the big screen in this romantic comedy co-starring Alex O'Loughlin.

Summit was asked by production company Premier PR to 'float' a double sided screen 4m in the air outside the cinema on the north east corner of Leicester Square. This allowed the crowds of fans waiting outside, gathered on both sides of the road, to clearly see all the red carpet action as celebrities and beautiful people rocked up for the screening.

Summit's team starred project manager Jay Call. He has worked on two previous events for Premier PR in Leicester Square, both which involved hanging a single sided LED screen in a similar floating fashion, with no visible lifting frame or suppo

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UK - Stage Electrics has recently signed a new sponsorship with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD). The college is the national conservatoire of Wales offering specialist practical and performance based training in Acting, Music, Opera and Theatre design.

As part of Stage Electrics' long standing commitment to training, which includes support in the past to the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and RADA in London, a new sponsorship agreement has been put in place with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to provide financial assistance to students who would otherwise be unable to take up professional work placements of their own.

The RWCMD's thriving Stage Management department which offers a three-year BA (Hons) Stage Management degree course at their Cardiff campus is accredited by the National Council for Drama Training and at the heart of the sponsorship de

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Mexico / Spain - VMB has appointed Hi Tech Audio as its exclusive distributor for lifts in Mexico. Hi Tech Audio will be distributing all VMB models.

"We made contact with Hi Tech Audio in Frankfurt" says Ben Sinclair, VMB's export manager, "and it was immediately apparent that the company was an ideal partner for the Mexican Market. They knew our product well and were aware of all the features and benefits the product delivers. Their approach and experience in the sector leave us convinced that they will do a fantastic job in promoting the brand and offering superb service and sales."

The Mexican distributor recently premiered the TL-A220 at Expo Sound Check and was able to demonstrate to the Mexican Pro Audio market the Line Array lifting system.

Jose Antonio Martinez, from Hi Tech Audio said, "We are very happy to introduce to Mexico a completely

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Spain - ARX, the Australian-based manufacturer of USB, Digital & Analogue interface and signal processors has appointed Seville-based Rental Multimedia Systems S.L. (R.M.S) as its new distributor for Spain.

ARX Managing Director Colin Park finalised the distribution agreement with R.M.S's Rafael Jimenez and Alvaro Elena at the recent Frankfurt Pro Light + Sound.

R.M.S is a subsidiary of Meyer Sound Spain and currently also represents Digico and Whirlwind.

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Georgia - The new trading centre Karvasla, a project heralded as the first and biggest international standard shopping mall in Georgia, features 350 dBTechnologies M50TW loudspeakers. Situated metres from the capital city's central railway station, the shopping centre opened with suitable pomp this month in the presence of the mayor of Tbilisi.

Specified and subsequently installed by local company and dBTechnologies distributor Smarthouse and Office LLC, the full audio system was put to the test on its opening day. "There was a live band and a presentation, in front of many guests as well as the city mayor," says Konstantine Beruchashvili of Smarthouse. "We supplied dBTechnologies' Opera speakers for two floors of the new shopping centre for the opening ceremony, and I'm pleased to report that both the installed and the live system sounded perfect."

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Mexico - To launch their new partnership, Clay Paky and Hermes Music organised a special event in April at the Aldama Theatre in Mexico City, where over 200 dealers, lighting designers and rental companies took part. The event was an opportunity to get together, but there were also plenty of in-depth technical demos regarding lights and new applications.

Clay Paky sales and marketing manager Pio Nahum presented the company to the guests, stating, "Clay Paky is a sturdy company, which has managed to get over the crisis that affected the world economy unharmed. We are counting on the strength of Hermes Music to grow further in the Mexican market."

Francesco Romagnoli, Clay Paky sales manager for North and South America, said "There was an immediate mutual understanding between Clay Paky and Hermes Music both on a personal and business level. Hermes Music is very w

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UK - An Audient ASP8024-48 high resolution mixing console sits at the heart of the brand new Sound Engineering facility at Herefordshire College of Technology (HCT). Comprising five recording studios, the facility's rebuild is just part of a £32m development project centred on the main Hereford campus, which is "set to transform post-16 education and vocational learning in Herefordshire", according to its website.

"The Audient console is used in our flagship control room," says course tutor, Dan Armstrong. "The room is fed from two Roland REAC-based Digital Snake setups, supplying 32 channels of mic lines. The console is used heavily for tracking, mixing and programming. We've got Mac Pro running Logic 9, and ProTools 8, which feeds into the console. The (Alesis) HD24s also feed directly into the console across all 48 channels."

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UK - Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, opened in London in March with an ETC Eos control desk and a plethora of ETC Source Four Revolutions and Source Fours.

Control for the rig as a whole is from an ETC Eos control system, including an Eos 8K desk and RPU backup together with a remote video interface (RVI) complete with X-Keys keyboard, in order to provide video to the lighting designer, Paule Constable. Well known for her work in the fields of opera, drama and musicals, Constable has specified 48 ETC Revolutions among the moving lights in the rig, which also includes 40 ETC Source Fours of varying beam angles.

Commenting on the Eos, she says, "I'm the world's biggest fan; it does everything I want it to do. As well as running the lighting, I also had it running a Hippotizer media server and F:light s

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Festivals Boost - The popularity of festivals has helped fuel a rise in the fortunes of live music events, new figures show. UK fans spent £1.45bn on gigs in 2009 - up 4% from the previous year, according to songwriters' body PRS For Music. Some £275m of that was spent on festivals, up about £50m - a sharper rise than any other area of live music. "This seems to be a UK phenomenon," PRS chief economist Will Page said. "I don't think anywhere else in Europe has seen the same explosion in festivals."

There are more than 670 events being held in the UK in 2010, according to efestivals.co.uk guide. PRS For Music put the boom down to promoters appealing to all types of music fan by offering a wider variety of events, with innovations including crèches for families. "They're growing this market with incredible acumen," Mr Page said at t

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USA - TC Group Americas (TCGA) has announced it is to distribute Audica Professional in North, Central and South America, adding the brand to its existing portfolio of Tannoy, Lab.gruppen, TC Electronic, TC-Helicon, Dynaudio Acoustics and Linn Products. TCGA will introduce Audica Professional formally at Infocomm Las Vegas in June.

Audica Professional manufactures the MICROseries range of electronics and loudspeakers combining for commercial background music, corporate AV and audio communications. For applications such as retail outlets, restaurants, hotel public areas and guest rooms, meeting rooms, museums and visitor centres the MICROseries systems fit neatly below the level serviced by Tannoy's product range and both TCGA and Audica Professional view the expanded offering of the two brands as very complementary.

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