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Ashton was invited to join the project by its creative director and initiator Himanshu Sabharwal of Two's A Film Company, who wanted this production to be groundbreaking and completely different to anything previously seen in India.The Projection Studio is consulting on the design and installation of the projection hardware and control, and the creation of the show material.

The 50-minute show has been commissioned by the India Tourism Development Corporation, a division of the Government of India to coincide with the opening of the 19th Commonwealth Games to be staged in

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The Opera House chose the C100 HDS, designed specifically for space-limited applications, because the compact surface and processor electronics provides the same power and familiar control surface as the larger frame C100 HD. The Met's compact broadcast control room is located in the balcony area at the back of the auditorium, so the C100 HDS was the perfect solution.

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"Barix is very happy to announce our OEM partnership with Aiphone, a market leader in intercom solutions with an extensive sales reach, strong sales organization and a very high and consistent approach to quality," said Johannes G. Rietschel, CEO and Founder of Barix AG. "We are proud that Aiphone has selected Barix as a development partner and supplier for a core product, and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship."

At InfoComm 2010, Barix will exhibit its latest OEM invention that is exclusively marketed by Aiphone and its channel partners. The Aiphone IPW-1A network intercom adapter is a customiz

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"Biamp sees AVB as the emerging standard for the A/V industry and our products. We also recognize the importance for interoperability of all equipment that utilizes AVB as well as the need to educate the marketplace," states Matt Czyzewski, Biamp's Vice president of Business Development. "Biamp is excited to have joined AVnu Alliance in order to promote these principles that are critical to the industry in regards to growth and adoption of AVB technologies."

"We are very pleased that Biamp has joined AVnu Alliance. They are a strong player in commercial installed audio applications. Their membership in AVnu Alliance further demonstrates the sentiment of the professional AV community that compliant and interoperable AVB enabled devices are the future of the industry," says Le

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The TV lighting specialists have been providing an evolving inventory of dynamic industry standard effects since 2002 - and now the GLP impressions have joined the production.

They recently provided the main focus when Groove Armada (featuring Will Young) performed their latest hit, History.

The special chrome GLP impression XL - purchased in July 2009 - offers 240 LEDs, making the light output almost three times as bright as the original RGB fixture while maintaining all the other advantages.

"I was delighted with the performance of the GLP units on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross," said Chris Kempton. "We always tr

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Running alongside the established international trade show, PLASA 2010, this special event is the first of its kind for the event and entertainment rigging community and promises to be an invaluable industry forum.

Unusual Rigging's Alan Jacobi, Star Events Group's Roger Barrett, Prolyte's Marc Hendriks, CM ET's Cristiano Giavedoni and Sapsis Rigging's Bill Sapsis are among the line-up of international speakers confirmed.

Bill Sapsis of Sapsis Rigging in Philadelphia comments, "In the past 10 years alone, the event and entertainment rigging industry has experienced incredible growth and change. The PLASA International Rigging Conference offers a unique opportunity to meet with colleagues and peers from across the world

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SEGMA director Maldwyn Greenwood says, "We are delighted that Prism Sound and SADiE have appointed us as their exclusive distributor. We are a young company and that gives us an enormous advantage because we are not afraid to innovate and try new strategies. There is plenty of scope to increase market penetration for both brands and we certainly feel that the quality of these products will make them very popular with our customers, who include large scale music production studios, broadcasters and educational facilities."

Jody Thorne, Prism Sound/SADiE's sales and marketing manager, says, "South Africa. is a key terri

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The new address is: Pascal A/S, Literbuen 10B, 2740 Skovlunde, Denmark. Phone: +45 36 99 19 44. Web: www.pascal-audio.com.

Pascal is a producer and developer of amplifier modules for integration into high-power professional loudspeakers. They specialise in providing powerful solutions for the professional loudspeaker manufacturers which serve the international PA touring and systems installation market.

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This year, over 200,000 people were connected via the Internet to the event, which took place at the Music Hall in Rennes. To transmit the concert via the Web, broadcast staff used eight high definition cameras, as well as a package of Martin lighting and control gear provided by rental company MES of Nantes at the request of SIWA director Jose Nedelec, who handled technical direction and audio for the event.

Lighting designer was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles who chose to use a Martin Maxxyz Compact lighting controller along with three MaxModules: MaxModule Button, MaxModule Submaster and MaxModule Playback. The Martin ran

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Both Maxwell and Scott's monitor needs are in the hands of a DiGiCo SD7, provisioned by Clair Global. For Maxwell's Clay Hutson - who has employed DiGiCo consoles extensively on tours with artists such as Garbage, Marilyn Manson, Pink, Prince and Velvet Revolver - this was his first opportunity to lay hands on SD7. For Jim Roach, who has worked with Scott for 3+ years, as well as Brian McKnight Joe Cocker, Keisha Cole and Boney James, his previous experience on DiGiCo consoles was limited to one-off, fl

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For this year's event, The National Broadcaster of Norway, NRK utilised a maXim M supplied by Multitechnic in Oslo for Stage Motion control, drapery, silks and drop downs.

The maXim finished up controlling a Kinesys K2, Chain Master products as well as six Wahlberg DMX controlled Winches, six Wahlberg DMX controlled curtain rollups designed specifically for the ESC and three DMX Beamslides.

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For one evening the various contestants were illuminated by the same lights as those used for the great world artists, a deliberate contribution to the show by the lighting designer Maksim Balashov who used various Coemar projector models in order to create different atmospheres and emotions.

The impressive lighting installation created entirely by the Italian company, comprising over 120 projectors, illuminated a whole range of talents - dancers, singers, musicians, actors and many others.

Fixtures included the follow spots Testa 2500 and Testa 1200, and every moment of the performances was highlighted by 60 iWash 575, 30 I Spot 1200 and

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HSL was brought onboard by Jerusalem and Tel Aviv based Stage Design, who supplied all the technical infrastructure for the high profile six-day event, and built most of the site. It was the first time the two companies had collaborated, which happened after HSL came highly recommended by several contacts.

HSL's project manager Mike Oates says, "We were delighted to win the contract. Working with the Stage Design team has been a real pleasure. They have the same vision and dedication to providing great service, cutting edge technology and top people as we do."

HSL sea freighted all the gear - which included o

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White Light's lighting designer Jason Larcombe designed a system to capture the atmosphere of the evening, lighting a performance stage and backdrop, and reinforcing the V&A's distinctive atmosphere in order to create a magical look and feel to the museum for the guests.

To enable the transformation, White Light made use of its extensive equipment stock, including some of its latest vision and media LED equipment which was applied to create a flexible and exciting backdrop to the range of performances, each differing in style and focus. White Light also introduced a range of automated LED equipment, accompanied by battery powered and wireless control systems allowing the lighting to extend to the far

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Sound design was as usual the responsibility of Bobby Aitken, who consulted with Robin Whittaker of TiMax developers Out Board on how to appropriately scale up their Royal Albert Hall distributed source-oriented reinforcement concept. Chris Ekers handled system engineering and management with Autograph's Jim Douglas looking after supply and installation. Front of house engineer was Paul Stannering.

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The small town of Tridentine in northern Italy hosted a big international event in which many ski champions - such as Bode Miller and Davide Simoncelli - challenged each other to a ski-show, captured by many international TV stations.

Proceedings concluded with a performance by Placebo at the Concert Stadium, built on the Olympic slopes.

The finish area was powered with 16 Proel Axiom AX3210P, 16 Sub Edge 121SP, six Powersoft K10 digital amplifiers and two DSO480 digital processors.

For the sound inside the big structure built at the end of the ski run, they relied on eight Axiom 2265P, eight AX1115SP, two fly bar, three Powersoft K4 digitaql amplifiers and one DSO480 digital processor.

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Nancy Diaz-Curiel, channel sales manager APAC Digigram comments, "PAS was an obvious choice since their market coverage pretty much matches Digigram's core businesses." Diaz-Curiel also noted that the newly appointed distributor will be able to provide Digigram's customers with valuable expertise since at PAS "each business area is supported by a dedicated team of sales engineers, support personnel and a motivated management team".

"We felt that Digigram's very innovative products, be it state-of-the-art sound cards or advanced IP audio codecs such as the IQOYA range, would be a perfect fit in our product portfolio. Production Audio Services strongly believes that the Australian market deserves quality options when it comes to e

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China is expecting to receive almost 100 foreign leaders and up to 70m people from across the globe to visit the Expo. On 27 May a special Finland Day was held at the show with a special focus on music. Over 100 artists filled the day with performance styles ranging from folk, through to orchestral and electronic music, all with a Finnish flavour. As part of the day, the Sibelius Academy provided musicians to play the some instrumental parts of the music with Genelec loudspeakers delivering the sound.

"We are enjoying the experience of being involved in the Fin

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Electro-Voice's partner in the region, Prosound won the commission to install the sound systems in nine of the 10 stadiums being used.

"Ever since founding the firm over 37 years ago, I have worked closely with Electro-Voice," says Prosound MD Terry Acres. "And with good reason - Electro-Voice systems are reliable, robust, evince exceptional mechanical quality and deliver clear and balanced sound. In short: they're the ones that best meet our requirements."

Over 2,300 Electro-Voice and Dynacord loudspeakers and a variety of EV REV-D wireless microphone systems have been installed in the s

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Baishakhi Mela is the biggest Bengali event in Europe and features a mix of a colourful parade, live music, DJs, dance, costume, arts, crafts and the best Bengali food outside of Bengal itself.

It was AP Security's second year providing staff at the event, the company's long working relationship with both the Metropolitan Police and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets ensuring that its safety and stewarding was seamlessly integrated.

"The Mela is a complex event and all our staff need to have a very clear understanding of what's required," say

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"Eliminating the mixing console frees up a significant amount of floor space, and that can be the difference in getting the gig, whether it's a club, theatre or ballroom," says James Duvall of Creative Engineering & Solutions in Austin, Texas, who manages the house and monitor mixes for the band. "It saved us a lot of money, too."

The iDR-32 MixRack provides all the inputs, outputs, processing and routing for the band.

"I love the fact that the iDR-32 gives me all those features in a rack-mount box that I can hide under the stage. I don't carry any outboard gear at all, and there's no sacrifice in functionality. When I was designing the system, I figured, why

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The new version, to be available from August, means that the many Mac users in the industry will benefit from the most up-to-date features and capabilities for use with the M7CL and LS9 mixing consoles, says Yamaha.

"We are delighted to release M7CL V3 Editor and LS9 Editor for Mac to our console users around the world," says Kazunori Kobayashi, general manager of Yamaha's Pro Audio Division.

"The release of M7CL V3 Editor and LS9 Editor for Mac, as well as the recent introductions of the digital stage box friendly M7CL-48ES and Version 3 upgrades to the M7CL series, reflects the feedback from our customers, incorporating relevant upgrades to give both existing an

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ISO 9001 is the internationally recognised standard for an organisation's internal quality management systems whereby each service offered to the company's customers has been subject to scrutiny. All processes are then structured to ensure that all Point Source Productions services satisfy its customers' quality requirements and comply with any necessary regulations.

"There are a number of benefits to achieving the ISO 9001: 2008 standard," says Point Source Productions quality control manager, Ian King. "Examining and improving our internal working procedures leads to fewer errors and less re-working, which in turn improves our customer satisfaction and loyalty. Within our staff we see improved morale and motivation, whilst externally it enhances our status

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Rane and Serato have created the first scratch live compatible DJ mixer to allow two computers to be connected simultaneously, making it "the ultimate club mixer experience". Using two USB ports, the Rane Sixty-Eight lets two DJs play Scratch Live at the same time, enabling seamless handover from one DJ to another.

The mixer also lets you manage up to four decks with a single laptop and offers access to more tracks and effects than ever before.

"I was using the TTM 57 before and it didn't have beat roll and other things, so it was a bit more complicated to manoeuvre around," says DJ Kofi. "But so many things have been added. On the Sixty-Eight you have all these triggers for the cue poin