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USA - Over 1000 bassists from around the world -including low-end luminaries Stanley Clarke and Avishai Cohen - flocked to Oklahoma City University for the recent International Society of Bassists Convention, a week-long programme of clinics and concerts celebrating the four-stringed thunderstick.

Cory's Audio Visual Services (OKC), supplied a combination of Dynacord Cobra-2 line array TOP boxes and PWH subs, EV monitors and mics, a Midas Verona console and Klark Teknik outboard gear for the show, ensuring every step of the signal chain was impressive for the ISB's numerous live events and breakout rooms.

"We are really happy with how the Dynacord, EV, Midas and KT equipment all works and sounds together in this system," says Preston Williams of Cory's, himself a bass playing OCU alumni, who mixed FOH for the ISB concerts. "We can utilise this rig in a variety o

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Spain - Last month, Barcelona's MACBA (Museau díArt Contemporani de Barcelona) was taken over by the Sonar del Dia electronic music and multimedia arts festival. Over the three-day event more than 200 performers from 29 countries performed on its stages. The offerings varied from funk to intense trip hop and hip hop to the truly bizarre. Sound company Croma 440 provided 15 sound engineers and system techs for the event. Over 80,000 people from all over the world attended the festival. The sister festival Sonar de Noche, held on the outskirts of Barcelona brought out the better known bands such as the Beastie Boys and DJ Miss Kittin, among many others.

2007 marked the seventh year of Croma 440 taking the Sonar del Dia contract. The largest of the four stages was the open air Village, where trip hop and funk ruled with 12 Adamson Y18s and six Adamson T21s, wi

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UK - PLASA has announced the four contenders for the first Gottelier Award, to be presented at this year's PLASA Show (9-12 September, Earls Court, London).

Named in honour of the late Tony Gottelier, the industry innovator and commentator who passed away in 2006, the Gottelier Award is aimed at those members of our industry who have made significant and sustained contributions to the advancement of entertainment, presentation or installation technology - whether in audio, lighting, rigging, staging, or any other related field.

Following a six-week period of gathering nominations from across the industry, the shortlist of leading nominees can now be revealed, ready for the voting process to begin.

The nominees are as follows (in alphabetical order):

• Tony Andrews is a highly regarded designer and manufacturer of high quality point source loudspeaker systems, w

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Germany - Sirius Showequipment AG recently provided a live sound reinforcement system for a concert in Rostock, Germany held in protest of the G8 summit. The concert drew an audience of more than 70,000, bringing together a lineup of international artists and political figures to address the issue of poverty around the world.

The two-day concert featured artists including Brigada Flores Magon, Mono und Nikitaman, Patchanka and Chaoze One, as well as several speakers and short films. The PA system included 64 JBL Vertec full-size line array elements, with VT4880 subwoofers arranged in matching arrays directly beside the VT4889 arrays.

"We chose the Vertec line arrays because they are very efficient and able to cover all styles of music during a concert like this," said Wolfgang Neumann of Sirius Showequipment. "Everybody was really happy with the performance of t

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UK - Chauvet continues its steady foray into the touring industry with a strong presence at this summer's Ozzfest. The manufacturer lights the Jägermeister's Mobile Stage, a self-contained portable stage, which premiered in July as the secondary stage for the heavy metal festival.

When not in use, the unit appears to be just another huge 34ft trailer, but at the push of a button, it unfolds Transformers-style to reveal a professional stage. The complete sound and lighting rig is set up in minutes. Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil observed: "The stage is an awesome portable stage with top notch sound and lights. I look forward to playing on it again."

All power for the stage comes from a built-in generator, and with a sound system designed for an audience of 10,000, power constraints were a prime consideration when the lighting system was planned. Designers found a solutio

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UK - St George's Metropolitan Cathedral in Southwark, London, has recently made a substantial investment in an extensive new sound reinforcement system, which includes a portable 16-channel Cadac S-Type console.

Designed by Mark Hornsby for Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design, and installed by Orbital Sound, the system is designed to handle the Cathedral's wide variety of events and congregation sizes, forming part of a major £500,000 refurbishment. Key requirements for the sound reinforcement system included scalability and ease of use, incorporating discrete speaker positioning around the Cathedral, and a flexible, mobile mixer.

The Cathedral is the mother church for the Roman Catholic diocese of Southwark, and regularly holds congregations of up to 2000. Designed by the Victorian architect Pugin, the original building opened in 1848 but was destroyed during the Blitz and r

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UK - Lighting designer Paul Normandale used 120sq.m of Chroma-Q Color Web 250 to provide a low res visual effects backdrop for the main stage at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend event in prreston.

Artists featured on the main stage included Scissor Sisters, Razorlight, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Stereophonics, Natasha Bedingfield, The View, The Fratellis, The Fray, The Twang, Jamie T and Mika.

Lite Alternative's Paul Normandale provided the creative direction for all three stages at this year's event for SJM, assisted on the main stage by lighting director Glen Johnson.

The brief was to create a dynamic, encompassing visual range which as well as achieving a big look for the live stage audience, would translate well on camera for the TV audience.

The back wall of the stage featured a 19m wide by 6m high drop of Color Web 250, with further panels turning the stage corners to provide

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UK - The audio setup for the Live Earth concert at Wembley, supplied by Britannia Row Productions, remained essentially the same as it had for Concert for Diana the previous week, minus one DiGiCo D5 that had been used specifically for orchestral requirements and was not needed for Live Earth.

The stage was once again on a revolving system, to account for the quick band change overs, with an A/B set up of splits, front of house and monitor systems and trucks. Two DiGiCo D5 Lives sat at the front of house position with engineers Chris Coxhead and Chris Morrison at the A and B consoles respectively. Mike 'Bunny' Warren operated the show/presenter console. DiGiCo's Tim Shaxson sat at a further, offline, D5 that was used by guest engineers to check their settings.

"Our main role was to help the visiting band engineers to set up, or modify, existing D5 session files which woul

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UK - i-Pix' new BB LED Wash Lights were again in action on the summer festival circuit. The latest festival to feature the BB - a totally new style LED blinder unit from i-Pix - was last weekend's The Glade.

Now in it's fourth year and set in the beautiful Berkshire countryside near Aldermaston, the boutique 'electronic music' mix of Glade offers a laid back funky vibe with "a strong aversion to all things corporate/mainstream and a great love of everything alternative, underground and interesting".

Lighting for the Glade (main) stage and the tented Vapour stage was supplied by west London based Colour Sound Experiment, who have serviced the Glade Festival's main venue since the inaugural event in 2004.

Colour Sound's Jasper Johns designed the Glade Stage rig based on a flexible, generic design, that could be used by all artists. The lighting was fitted to the roof

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UK - Exhibitors at this year's PLASA Show (9-12 September, Earls Court, London) are being reminded to make their nominations for the prestigious PLASA Awards for Innovation by this year's earlier deadline of 24 August.

The date has been brought forward this year by one week to allow more time for the judges to assess the nominated product, and also to allow for greater planning in the display of the nominated product in the L&SI-sponsored PLASA Innovation Gallery, a major feature of the show, which in this year's single-level layout for the PLASA Show, will be positioned at the junction of Earls Court's two halls.

PLASA's Awards for Innovation seek to recognise new products which fulfil the criteria of 'Innovation' - i.e. that they "advance the industry by demonstrating a new style of thinking, improving technical practice or taking a key step forward in terms of s

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Spain - In Liébana, a valley in the Cantabria Province of Northern Spain, many thousands of pilgrims travelled to the monastery of Saint Toribio de Liébana to attend a series of social and cultural events culminating in a spectacular show titled IDE, presented by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus.

Set in a National Park, the play was based on mythological characters and stories of the region. The Park laid down stringent noise and lighting conditions relating to the show. The production company, Goma 2 Producciones Audiovisuales, called in pro audio sound and lighting rental company Siempre Creativos to rig for the performance.

Sound Chief David Castelló, chose d&b audiotechnik's J-Series line array system to provide the sound. Assisted by David Roselló from d&b Spain and Jonas Wagner from d&b's Central Application Support based in Germany, t

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UK - ETC has released the dates of Congo and Congo jr demo sessions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The sessions will be conducted by David Gray - a former board member of Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and currently ETC's associate regional manager for the Southern Region.

There is no requirement to be working at the Fringe to attend. Sessions are being held at Assembly Universal Arts (venue number 7) between 9am and midday each day from 13-17 August and 20-22 August.

Anyone interested in attending should contact ETC on telephone: +44 (0)20 8896 1000.

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USA - Launched at the summer NAMM show in Austin, American DJ has introduced new array of LED products. The new offerings range from LED versions of the Jewel and Vision to high impact colour bars.

The Jewel LED is an LED version of the classic moonflower effect. It features an output similar to a 100W halogen lamp with 47 sharp red, green, and blue high output coloured beams.

The Vision LED features an output similar to a 400W halogen lamp with 26 large, sharp red, green, and blue high output coloured beams. It can be operated as a sound active light show or as a DMX effect.

The Revo Scan LED, a flat-mirrored scanner, has an output comparable to a 250W halogen lamp, with 52 total red, green, white and blue LEDs. There are three operation modes: Master/Slave, Sound active, and DMX. The Revo scan has 4 DMX channels with a four button LCD display and is linkable via XLR connec

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Australia - The ENTECH trade show has been scheduled for 11-13 February 2008 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

"With over 3000 visitors to ENTECH 2006, this is the best place for Australia's professionals to gain an overview of the industry, and meet others in their fields," says event manager Louise Brooks.

"For 2008 we've also added a bar within the tradeshow, so visitors can relax, catch up with colleagues and get together with old and new friends - without having to leave the venue."

The ENTECH conference programme is returning in 2008, with seminars and workshops from leading industry figures and accredited training bodies. Details of the conference program will be available on the ENTECH website shortly.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Rental company Sound Image provided the live sound system for the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. The show was staged on 28 July at Toyota Park, Chicago's newest outdoor concert facility that can accommodate up to 28,000 concertgoers.

First staged in 2004, the Crossroads Guitar Festival was created by Eric Clapton to bring together musicians of all genres. In addition to Clapton, featured artists at the all-day show included Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughn, BB King, Albert Lee, Stevie Winwood, John Mayer and many more.

"This was a once in a lifetime musical experience," observed Dave Shadoan, president of Sound Image. "The amount of musical talent that was pulled together in one place, on one stage, for 11 hours of live music, had to be experienced to be believed. On events like this, JBL's Vertec system really proves itself."

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UK - With PLASA07 exhibitor space almost completely sold out, PLASA Events is anticipating record exhibitor and visitor numbers at the new-look show at Earls Court 1 and 2 on September 9th-12th.The first event to be organised by PLASA's new events division, PLASA07 will occupy two halls of Earls Court for the first time, and will offer a wide range of new features (many designed in response to visitor research) to make mixing business with pleasure more enjoyable and productive than ever.

New products will be the true stars of the show, with the industry's leading manufacturers already confirming that they will use PLASA07 as the launchpad for their latest technologies, including new developments in lighting, analogue and digital audio, video, special effects, staging and rigging products.

The show's new single-floor layout - which gives the show plenty of room for future grow

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UK - 5 Star Cases will show a wide variety of its specialist and 'standard' cases and products at PLASA 2007 including the industry standard 'Touring' grade range. Centre-stage will be 'Robo-Jock', a unique fully-featured special project which demonstrates 5 Star's custom concept, design and build capabilities. This is a collaboration with two other leading UK companies, ABB - a world leader in industrial robotics and automation - and club specialists Pioneer GB.

At the heart of 'Robo-Jock' is an ABB IRB140 six-axis robot which operates a complete video console featuring Pioneer DVJ players and DJM mixer. 5 Star designed and built the entire 'Super Tour' case in which Robo-Jock operates, featuring all-round vision panels and a CNC-machined 'Inner Pod' to house the Pioneer equipment.

The Pod also includes 10" TFT monitors and a full audio system. Engineers at ABB programme

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UK - HSL Group Holdings is highlighting its diverse range of products and services at the show, plus the team's indomitable abilities to run a superlative bar and social area. This will be located just behind the Robe Show Lighting stand. The HSL bar is designed to be lively, interactive and fun, paying homage to the massive amount of industry business that gets processed and finalised "over a couple of drinks".

One of the fastest growing lighting and rigging rental companies in the UK, HSL services a host of entertainment sectors including theatre, live events, concert tours, festivals, television productions, corporate presentations and special events of all types. The last 12 months has seen an increase in activity in every market sector for HSL, the company reports.

HSL has large stocks of all the latest lighting technology - including moving lights, LED light so

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UK - DPL Production Lighting used Chroma-Q Color Web 125 and a Hippotizer media server to provide a high resolution visual effects backdrop for the Jazz World Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

DPL is one of the first UK production companies to purchase the new 125mm version of the popular LED webbing system and has used it on a number of events since adding the panels to its rental stock. The company provides its production and lighting design services to a broad client base which includes the architectural lighting, concert, fashion, multi-media and corporate events sectors.

Owner Darren Parker comments, "I was amazed that I could still see the Color Web in daylight after walking about 175m away from it, so knew it would be ideal for the all-day lineup on the stage."

Featuring 64 colour mixing LED cells with a pitch of 125mm for double the resolution per

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China - Prolight&Sound Shanghai takes place from 17-20 October 2007 at the New International Expo Centre in Shanghai and will feature over 140 exhibitors from 10 countries, covering 20,000sqm in two halls, the organizers report.

Prolight&Sound Shanghai has grown considerably since its debut in 2003, attracting key light and sound professionals from every sector of the entertainment and display industry each year. In 2006, over 12,000 visitors from 80 countries came to the fair.

For 2007 the event will be twice as big as before. Amongst the confirmed exhibitors for the fair are Active Audio, Allen & Heath, AT Laser, Neo-Neon, PHD, PAS, Sennheiser, Shure, SoundKing, Terbly Lighting, Triple Onda, and Wharfedale.

Exhibitors from Australia, China, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain and the UK are all confirmed, plus large national pavilions from Germany and Taiwan.

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UK - The UK managing director of Showsec, Mark Harding, was elected chair of the UK Crowd Management Association (UKCMA) at its AGM earlier this year. Following the appointment, Harding has drawn up a series of priorities that he believes the crowd management industry needs to address.

"I am looking forward to taking the UKCMA to its next phase," he says. "A key part of my role will be to encourage all reputable crowd management companies to join the UKCMA and adopt its best practices. By doing so they will be signing up to a professional standard recognised by and beyond the event industry.

"It is important for key member companies such as Safestyle, Special Events, Show and Event Security and Rocksteady to continue to set the standards in a unified approach."

He continues: "With the Olympic Games approaching in 2012 we must ensure that the UK'

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UK - PLASA Events has unveiled the extended educational programme that will be a key feature of PLASA07 - with many of the sessions offering free admission to show visitors.

Four days of exclusive seminars, training sessions and workshops will be held in four purpose-built PLASA Education Theatres on the main show floor in Earls Court 2, divided into official 'special interest' seminar theatre sessions and exhibitor-led sessions.

Last year's guest presenters Technologies for Worship and InfoComm International return with an expanded seminar programme, while Cast Software will host a series of visualisation training sessions. Located nearby, PLASA will also host the first live pilot assessments for the National Rigging Certificate - the major new scheme that provides a recognised framework for measuring professional rigging skills.

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India - PALME India (formerly PALA India) will take place from 4-6 October 2007 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre In the 12 months since the inaugural PALA India exhibition, what was then an emerging market has matured beyond all recognition, say the organisers.

The rebranding of the show to PALME India - bringing it inline with IIR Exhibitions' Middle and Far East Events portfolio - and improved travel networks, have given exhibition manager James Raffoul cause for optimism.

"With this massive growth in the Indian infrastructure, which is developing commercial, retail, residential, and tourist complexes on a par with anything in the world, demand for entertainment and AV installation products and services is growing at an alarming rate," observes Raffoul. "This year we have been delighted by the positive feedback we have received from Delhi, in the north of the c

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UK - Theatre sound specialists Orbital Sound will exhibit at PLASA for the first time. With a big cat theme Orbital's stand will feature a number of new products.

Making it's UK debut is RockNet, billed as an advanced and fully scaleable, cost-effective network solution conceived and optimised for managing audio and control data for live sound. RockNet also features a plug-in card for Yamaha's M7CL, creating a fully integrated Cat 5-based multicore solution for this popular console.

As a d&b audiotechnik official sales and installation partner, Orbital's staff will be on hand to discuss its latest d&b installations and demonstrate the company's latest Remote Network Software solutions.

The latest digital mixing consoles from Yamaha and Digidesign will be showcased as will a host of wireless radio comms solutions from both HME and Telex. Also on display will be RTS Telex's ra

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