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4EVAC presented its range of commercial voice-alarm control and iIndication equipment systems solutions at the show. The new 4EVAC Compact500 audio/voice evacuation system made an impact as a systems' solution in a 'box'.

Offering the latest Voice-Alarm technology for modern environments, the Compact500 is easy to install and fulfills the exacting demands of engineers, electrical contractors, architects and facility managers. In addition it provides peace of mind as fully compliant with EN-54 standards.

Kasper Christiansen CEO, Pro-Partner AV Solution, commented, " We're delighted with the positive feedback from our clients about the Compact 500. It seems that a "single box' non-compromisi

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Councils have warned that the problem is increasing, with total losses up from £3.35m in 2014. Officials say that summer could be "ripe for criminals to exploit desperate fans", with a series of sporting events, festivals and Wembley concerts by Beyoncé, Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen all expected to be targeted by fraudsters.

Grounded - Eagles of Death Metal have been dropped from two French music festivals, after their singer reiterated his suggestion that securit

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Sennheiser will also be presenting the second new addition to the TeamConnect Family, TeamConnect Ceiling, an innovative ceiling mounted array microphone with automatic beamforming technology for fixed installations. Visitors to the Sennheiser booth (C10908) can experience the wide range of professional products for business communications, including its newly expanded SpeechLine Digital Wireless microphone range, Speakerphone series and MobileConnect audio streaming solution. For those wanting to learn more, Sennheiser will also be offering a special Manufacturer's Training session and a dedicated demonstration-room.

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The new responsive design delivers an engaging user-experience across devices allowing consumers to easily access contents on desktops, tablets and mobile.

The new website is the most complete source of information about dBTechnologies world: news, events and a complete overview on products available in three languages (English, Italian and Spanish)

dBTechnologies' sales & marketing director Giovanni Barbieri points out the reasons for this change. "dBTechnologies' users community is growing at a fast pace worldwide, and we need to provide them with the most complete information. Our customers want to be able to access content wherever they are, whenever they need it. Whether they're experienced professionals or entry level users willing to

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The project was carried out by MPHK Group Ltd, the Hong Kong based APG dealer, who installed the entire sound system as well as HD video and LED stage lighting solutions. The project was completed in just a month, from system design to implementation.

"The main acoustical challenge was to overcome the unwanted resonance due to the size of the church," remembers APG North and Eastern Asia managing director Raymond Wong. "Its high ceilings and the presence of two corridors on each side of the room were challenging as they created unwanted resonance. Because the Uniline range is easily controllable, we knew we would easily overcome those challeng

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Throughout June and the first week of July, a sizeable Cohedra system will provide the sounds for a series of Euro 2016 public viewing experiences that will be shown on a 550m

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"We take a lot of pride in the sound of our room," said Tamara Fuller, The Velvet Note's owner and nightly head-of-ceremonies. "We call it 'the acoustic living room,' and we've done everything we can to make it the very best way to experience live music."

"Until recently, the only thing that wasn't five stars about The Velvet Note was the PA system," explained Bob Bakert, an Atlanta-based guitarist, vocalist, composer, and pro-audio veteran who regularly graces the venue's stage. "I had heard Danley Sound Labs systems before, and I knew Danley's fantastic phase-coherence and fidelity could elevate

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Jim Van Winkle, general manager of PWS, says, "We had an analogue monitoring system, but it required us to either put a splitter in line or get a return feed from the main show splitter. We had been looking for a way to monitor through Dante and we decided this box would be a good solution.

"We recently deployed the Bel monitors for the first time and everybody picked it up pretty quickly...we're very happy with it. We used both of our units on a recent Latin music awards show - one at the mic racks backstage for the lead RF engineer, and one on stage where the RF A2 can check a mic before handing it off to the talent."

The BM-A1-64DANTE is being used for monitoring

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The 2000-capacity St Charles Campus auditorium has a regular Saturday afternoon service and two Sunday morning services, as well as a number of larger events throughout the year, including special worship nights and visiting touring acts. The Sunday services are streamed live over a dedicated fibre network live to the church's other three regional campuses. "We put a high value on production," says Montanari. "Concert-style audio, but probably not at quite as high an SPL!"

As most production crew and artists at the church are volunteers, the challenge for Montanari was finding technology that could deliver a big step up in quality, a

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"When I first heard the Leopard-based system in our Sala Energia, I was so excited and enthusiastic that I was moved to tears," recalls Piero Fumagalli, owner of Arcadia Cinemas. "I sensed immediately that the clarity, dynamics, and musicality of the Leopard arrays represented a major improvement over the previous system.

"This new Meyer Sound system is our investment in the future," continues Fumagalli. "Audiences are now willing to pay more to experience a film in the Sala Energia. We have

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The CRC02-DTC, the FT-DTC and the FT01-Q-DTC - are all thermostatically controlled for optimised heat management in 19" racking installations.

Digital control gives refined and super accurate heat management via continuous temperature minoring and 'set-and-forget' fan control. All the products are optimised for quiet running, have over-temperature alarms and benefit from running off a universal power supply.

The units are engineered to the robust and reliable specifications common to all Penn Elcom products

The CRC02 thermo exhaust blower is a completely new 2U virtually silent (22.5 dBA) fan exhaust unit designed especially for use with 19" equipment rack units, to expel air from the front of the rack unit.

It can be

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Once again using a book format and featuring every one of their 5700+ product lines, the new 240 page JHS catalogue makes it easy to track down those all-important SKU's from the Garforth-based suppliers huge inventory of products.

New to the catalogue are products from HK Audio including the innovative Lucas Nano 608i all-in-one PA featuring an integrated 8-channel digital mixer which is iPad enabled, Premium PR:O D cabs and Elements Easy, Smart, Line and Big Base single systems. Lab.gruppen expands its touring/portable and Lucia ranges while Lewitt introduce the LCT640TS multi-pattern large diaphragm condenser microphone.

"We know from talking to our dealers and from the feedback from our ASM's that last year's new look catalogue format was a

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To celebrate these milestones, Audinate will bring back its popular #DanteEverywhere contest at InfoComm 2016, giving attendees the chance to win a variety of prizes by finding Dante partners exhibiting at the show.

To participate, attendees just need to take photos of the Dante Spoken Here signs at any of the over 90 Dante partner booths and post them to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DanteEverywhere.

Participants posting the most pictures each day will win Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones, and everyone who enters will win a Dante T-shirt. Get more information and a map of the Dante licensees at the Audinate booth #C11529, or at ww

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Front of House engineer Ben Hammond (whose other credits include Deaf Havana and Of Mice And Men) employed a dLive S5000 surface and a DM64 MixRack at FOH, with an Allen & Heath GLD80 digital desk, AR2412 AudioRack and two AR84 Expander AudioRacks handling monitor duties (taken care of by the band themselves).

A long-time Allen & Heath iLive user, Hammond said: "The dLive system performed amazingly on the ATDI tour. I've been used to doing heavy bands on the iLive - you can really drive those desks hard and it lends itself to that sound. But despite the dLive being a much '

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"The previous system was no longer adequate for the events held in the arena," explains Scott Bray, WJHW consultant. "The administration wanted sound reinforcement that was musical and would bring the game day experience up to fan's expectations. They also installed a new scoreboard during the upgrade for similar reasons."

One of the design goals was for the PA to fit above the new scoreboard, keeping sightlines clear. To this end, Bray specified six EAW lin

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With over 16,000 students and more than 1000 faculty members, it is one of the top ranked universities in the country. It has a foreign student community of over 2500 and It was rated an A+ institution by the NAAC.

The Christ University Auditorium with a seating capacity of 2000 and cutting edge facilities is utilized by many prominent multinational corporations for their events including Accenture, Infosys, Honeywell, Fidelity, Dell, 3M to name a few. The Auditorium has also played host to prominent personalities including the Dalai Lama, the Chief Justice of India, the Chief minister of Karnataka, and hosted concerts by Richard C

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Il Divo have enjoyed global success since forming in 2003, recording in seven languages, selling well over 30m albums worldwide and scoring 160 certified gold and platinum hits in 35 countries.

Capital have been the group's choice of audio supplier from the beginning, as Capital's general manager Paul Timmins recalls: "Believe it or not, this is year 12! We started working with them at Ritz rehearsal rooms in Putney all those years ago . . . each successive Il Divo tour has brought new challenges and achiev

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"Westbury has more than 45 years of experience in audio, video, lighting, staging and systems integration," explains Oliver. "They bring a level of expertise to their growing client base that is invaluable. We are so pleased to have them join our team. I look forward to watching the organization grow the Adamson brand and reputation in both live and installed sound in Canada."

Westbury National has offices in both Ottawa and Kingston in addition to their Toronto headquarters. A sizable E-Series rig, consisting of E15 and E12 line array modules as well as E119 and E219 subwoofers, has joined their impressive inventory of other high-end

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NCA's document covers areas including funding, artistic exchange and export, and talent development. Because of its charitable status, it cannot express a view on whether the UK remains in the EU or leaves.

But West said, "We do think there are questions that need to be considered carefully by those who care about the arts. For example, if the UK were to leave the EU, how could our arts organisations continue to attract and retain world-class talent? How might our own artists benefit from opportunities to wo

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Released earlier this year, the DS10 Audio network bridge is the first d&b device to be positioned before the amplifiers in the signal chain. Designed specifically for d&b amplifiers, each 1 RU device can deliver up to sixteen Dante network channels via AES3 digital signal outputs, as well as provide an integrated 5-port switch, offering a primary and redundant network for the Dante protocol, as well as advanced functions such as Multicast Filtering and VLAN modes. All will be explained in the d&b demo room (N117) where the DS10

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The production required dynamic surround sound effects of the cacophony of war, including thunder and rain alongside the bullets, bombers and explosions.

The theatre management were impressed with the quality and realism of the effects, reporting that audiences had been shocked by the sound effects, and that some theatre-goers felt as if they had been transported back to the war zone itself.

The TiMax was fed into a main PA system front left and right with rear left and right surrounds as well as ceiling speakers to deliver 3D sound effects to maximum dramatic impact, reinforcing the sound from above.

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Ninety-four per cent of survey respondents said hearing ability has resulted in them having a poor experience, and 83% said they have been disappointed because the right provision wasn't available to allow them to access and enjoy the performance.

The survey was completed by 143 people with a range of hearing abilities, from mild to profound hearing loss.

Findings from the survey suggest that shows and concerts can be made more comfortable and accessible to people with hearing loss by offering: Less background music when speaking takes place (73% respondents agreed); Provision of an assistive listening system (66% respondents agreed); Clear speech (65% respondents agreed); Captions (64% res

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Shooting on four stages at Warner Bros. Studios and outfitting multiple performers, Arledge needed microphones that would complement the unique sound setup, while still delivering unwavering audio quality. He chose 50 of DPA's d:screet 4061 Omnidirectional Microphones due to their adaptability and ease of use in unusual miking applications.

"My audio assistants worked directly with the teams in wardrobe, hair and makeup to find an optimum place underneath the wigs to integrate the mics," says

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