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Poland - The Polish city of Wroclaw is the 2016 European Capital of Culture, a status which it has celebrated with numerous events. These included the Flow Quartet, which comprised four large scale performances based around the city's River Odra. These reached a climax in mid-June, with Yamaha and Nexo equipment working seamlessly together to deliver the audio for a remarkable production.

The highlight of the celebrations was The Flow II, which took place around the River Odra during the evening of 11June. Featuring 300 performers from several orchestras and musical academies based in Poland, Germany, Israel and the Czech Republic, an audience of over 100,000 enjoyed the specially-commissioned work of five composers with a spectacular son et lumiere.

The audio production for the event was supplied by leading Polish rental company PogoArt. The company purchased 60x STM M28

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UK - Peavey Commercial Audio, a division of Peavey Electronics, is to reintroduce UK-held stock to serve its expanding EMEA footprint.

The Mississippi-based company, one of the largest commercial audio manufacturers in the world, reorganised its logistics in 2015, with its UK warehouse closing in preference for a more centralised operation from the US and China.

However, with recent new distributor agreements expanding Peavey's presence across Europe, the company is bringing back a UK-based stock holding of their Crest Audio and Peavey Professional lines, with availability expected mid-July.

Peavey are partnering with renowned AV logistics firm Velta, who will be using their bonded warehouse facility in Witham, Essex.

James Kennedy, operations manager for Peavey Commercial Audio EMEA, said: "We are very happy to announce this new development in our logistics. We've

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USA - Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, has installed a comprehensive system of Focusrite RedNet Dante-networked audio converters and interfaces in its Full Sail Live 1 building, which is home to the university's Show Production Bachelor of Science degree programme.

Incorporating RedNet MP8R eight-channel Mic Pre and A/D converters, RedNet D64R 64-Channel MADI-Dante Bridges, RedNet HD32R Pro Tools | HD/HDX Bridges and RedNet 2 16-channel remote-controlled analogue interfaces, the new Focusrite system not only provides networking throughout the facility, but also offers students practical experience with the Dante Audio-over-IP protocol.

Full Sail Live 1 encompasses a large production space and a variety of ancillary show production-related rooms in a facility where students learn about sound reinforcement, lighting, live video and multimedia, automated lighting

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USA - Dream City is a large and growing church with a central campus in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2015, the church added a campus in Scottsdale, Arizona and renovated its 5000-seat Phoenix location. In early 2016, Dream City added a third campus in Glendale, Arizona. As part of its expansion programme, the church acquired two Allen & Heath dLive S7000 mixers with DM64 and DM32 MixRacks for its Phoenix location along with 20 ME-1 Personal Mixers and two ME-U Monitor Hubs. The church also acquired a dLive S3000 mixer, DM64 MixRack and ten ME-1s for its Scottsdale location and plans to add another dLive S7000 and DM64 in Glendale this year.

Shawn Smith is Dream City's media director. He says the church previously mixed on a large, analogue setup that had 112 inputs with 24 returns and took up 16ft of mix booth space. However, even this high channel count was barely adequate for Dream

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Belgium - DEE Sound & Light recently invested in an SSL L500 Plus live digital console and a stock of ML 32.32 Stageboxes for its Dee-Digital dry-hire business. Since then the console - the first L500 in Belgium - has been busy covering a number of large tours around Europe.

"We invest in the high end," comments André Schneider, founder/MD of DEE Sound & Light. "Low-end or short-lived technology is not a good investment for a dry hire business. We need to know that a product will be in demand over the long term and that the manufacturer will continue to support and develop the technology. That's why we chose SSL."

DEE Sound & Light specialises in rental and production in both theatre and the music touring markets all over Europe and the world. Split into two main departments - DEE-Backline Rental and DEE-Digital Console Rental - the company rents out every productio

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UK / USA - inMusic, Inc. (inMusic), the corporate owner of 13 premiere companies that deliver hardware and software solutions to the music, professional sound and consumer electronics industries, has announced that co-founders Linda Arink and Dennis Bohn have agreed to sell Rane Corporation to inMusic LLC. The transaction is set to be completed this summer. After the sale, Ms. Arink and Mr. Bohn plan to step down and retire.

Rane Corporation is well-known for its audio products for the DJ and professional sound markets. Founded and incorporated in 1981, Rane quickly established itself as a valuable supplier to the professional sound market, with products that introduced new and innovative features, with an emphasis on performance, value and reliability. Today, Rane's reputation for engineering excellence extends to a wide range of products, including DJ mixers, amplifiers, equ

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Germany - The German Design Awards are among the most coveted prizes on the global design scene. Founded in 1953 on the initiative of the German Bundestag, the Council for Design annually honours outstandingly well-designed products and excellence in communications design.

Among the nominees for the German Design Awards 2017 are the stands from the Adam Hall Group's new brand Gravity, which convinced the independent jury with their aesthetic design and pleasant feel.

Adam Hall Group CEO Alexander Pietschmann comments, "With Gravity we want to prove that there is a common denominator for premium quality, sophisticated functionality and a stylish look. We are very pleased that after winning an iF Design and a Red Dot Award, our stands are nominated for a further prominent prize. The various awards and nominations as well as the extremely positive feedback we have received fr

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UK - Stockport band Blossoms, who were rated highly in the BBC's Sound Of 2016 list of bands to watch this year, are using Shure microphones and in-ear monitoring systems on their current summer festival tour, which includes forays to Australia and Japan as well as mainland Europe and the Glastonbury Festival.

Dan Woolfie, the band's tour manager, has been using a Shure PSM1000 in-ear monitoring (IEM) system on all the band's recent dates, as well as a KSM313 ribbon mic on Josh Dewhurst's guitar and the new KSM8 dual-diaphragm mic for vocals.

Blossoms had been using IEMs for only a matter of months when they recorded a session at Abbey Road and came across Shure's PSM1000 systems. In that instant the whole band agreed that this upgrade would make a huge difference to their live shows.

The PSM1000s provide dedicated monitor mixes for each band member, but their use on t

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South Africa - Two leading rental companies in Nelspruit have joined forces. Lowveld Sound Promotions officially merged with AVS Hire at the start of June and have made their first combined investment of Prolyte H30V trussing and base plates, supplied by DWR Distribution.

Kyle Nel from AVS and Sakkie Coetzer from Lowveld Sound had often quoted against each other for events. With both young men like-minded in work ethics and each backed up with a good crew, they started playing with the idea of integrating both companies a couple of years ago.

"It's nice to have back up and a person to second guess with," said Kyle. "Together we can become a dot on the map and we can raise the bar as technical suppliers."

Sakkie agreed that the merge would provide a solid infrastructure to enable the supply of large-scale shows or events. The new Prolyte pieces will expand their existin

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USA - Analog Way, an innovation-driven designer and manufacturer that specializes in computer and video signal processing and distribution has launched its Training Academy for the Americas.

The Academy will be located at the new Analog Way facility in Metro-Atlanta which has been equipped with several rooms designed for hands on training. A technology instructor has also joined the company as a specialist trainer.

Strengthening the training offer in the Americas, Analog Way has always been committed to supporting its customers through training tailored to their needs.

Jay Gonzalez, president of Analog Way Americas states, "Developing training programmes for our customers is one of the main goals of Analog Way Americas. We want to offer product and technology training to integrators, consultants, freelance technicians, and end-users - training that will enable them to

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USA - As two of the music industry's most respected and in-demand sound engineers, Eddie 'El Brujo' Caipo and Brad Divens have worked with some of the world's biggest recording artists. From small intimate theatres to large outdoor stadiums, Caipo and Divens are known for delivering audio quality to both the artist and the audience.

In order to capture that same kind of expansive sound for Latin pop rock superstar Enrique Iglesias' current tour, the duo relies on microphones from DPA Microphones.

"Brad and I have been on tour with Enrique Iglesias and heard a lot of great things about DPA Microphones," says Caipo. "When we were offered a demo package to try out the company's mics, we were thrilled. We were both immediately blown away by the sound. The quality is above and beyond anything we were using in the past. It was immediately obvious that there was no going back to

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Lebanon - Professional full-service event production provider CKA recently supplied an Adamson E-Series sound reinforcement system to support the Kohar Symphony Orchestra and Choir. The orchestra and choir performed traditional Armenian music at the Forum de Beirut to a sold out crowd.

"The Forum has a high reverberation time which translates into pretty bad acoustics," explains Chadi Akiki, owner of CKA. "The directionality of the Adamson PA was a tremendous help. The end result was quite exceptional."

CKA hung left and right line arrays, each made up of eight E12 modules, along with a centre cluster of six more E12s. Eight E218 subwoofers created a centre cluster under the stage for additional low end. CKA also utilized eight Metrix line array modules for front-fills along the lip of the stage. Out-fill was handled by left and right arrays of six S10 modules each.

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UK - The Kingspan Stadium, home of Ulster Rugby, has completed a major upgrade of its stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The construction of three covered stands are designed to match the existing Premium Stand, with a newly specified RCF PAVA distributed sound broadcast system, linked to a fire alarm, to create a communications infrastructure that complies with BS5839 Part 8 standards.

System integrators, MGA Communication, won a competitive tender to provide an integrated Voice Alarm and a Communications network, working with RCF's Engineering Support Group to deliver the solution. RCF's DXT7000 Sound Broadcast and Emergency Evacuation System was selected to meet the requirements of the main terraces, corridors, and mass circulation areas, as well as toilets, private corporate boxes, meeting rooms, board rooms and bar areas.

To create a matched system, RCF's premier I

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UK - Yamaha Music Europe has appointed Reece Stead as its new commercial audio sales representative for the northern UK and Northern Ireland.

Since graduating from a degree in audio production with first class honours, Reece has engineered, teched and stage managed at numerous live events, including the Village Green and Festifeel festivals, as well as working with artists including Rizzle Kicks, Reef, Lucy Rose, Lianna de la Havas and alongside Andy Shillito, live sound co-ordinator for The Darkness.

"My passion is for live sound reinforcement, so to work with Yamaha's industry-leading products on a day in, day out basis is a wonderful opportunity," he says. "It's very clear that the time and care that goes into the development and manufacture of every Yamaha professional audio product is reflected in that which is taken to look after the customers and end users. I am rea

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UK - Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system was selected for Rick Wakeman's headline performance at the Stone Free festival held recently in the O2 Arena in London.

Stone Free is a major new festival, featuring two days of classic rock music from leading artists, including Alice Cooper, The Darkness, Marillion, Therapy? and Steve Hackett. Rick Wakeman's headline appearance comprised the debut live performance of the revised album King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which has not been performed since 1978.

Supplied by Stone Free's PA company, Capital Sound, and sub-hired through SRD Group, the dLive system comprised an S7000 Control Surface with a DM64 MixRack and two DX32 expander racks loaded with seven analogue input cards and one analogue output card.

With a full band and accompanying orchestra, there was a total of 120 inputs on stage. Orche

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USA - Like many contemporary churches, First Baptist Church of Manchester, Tennessee has undergone a transformation in the style and energy of its services. Years ago, services centred on sermons augmented by music played by organ, piano or choir. Thus, in a room that seats 900, the demands on the sound reinforcement system were rather light. But that has changed - and dramatically.

These days FBC punctuates sermons with a full band comprised of rock 'n roll instruments. The church's old sound reinforcement system couldn't keep up! Audio/video integration firm Centerline Audio Visual, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, stepped in to design simple, yet powerful, stereo reinforcement consisting of two Danley SM-100B full-range loudspeakers buttressed from below by a Danley BC-218 subwoofer, with Ashly Audio nXp-Series network multi-mode amplifiers providing power, integrated DSP, and

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Dominican Republic - The 2016 Barbarella Festival by Presidente Black, one of the fastest-growing and most popular events in the Caribbean, recently took Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic by storm. Thousands of electropop fans packed into Quisqueya Stadium to see performances by some of the world's biggest DJs, which ran the gamut from David Guetta and Steve Aoki to Afrojack and Jack

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UK - Another wave of thought-provoking seminar sessions have been launched in the run up to PLASA Show 2016 (18-20 September, London Olympia). The latest offering includes sessions focussed on 'Broadcast Meets Live Sound'; the Rio Olympics; 'Sadler's Wells: New Technology for the Stage'; and a production masterclass from the team behind the Eurovision Song Contest.

Innovation and collaboration is at the heart of the entertainment technology industry, and is therefore a hugely important element of the PLASA Show. 'Sadlers Wells: New Technology for the Stage', on Tuesday 20 September at 1pm, is a great example of this, highlighting significant improvements of the theatre's systems through technical innovation and collaboration. This session will be presented by Emma Wilson, Sadlers Wells' director of technical production and Christian Wallace, technical manager.

Wilson says:

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USA - Danley Sound Lab has announced that the new Go-2 loudspeaker is now available and shipping. While Danley is known for building unconventional loudspeakers and subs that use innovative technologies (including the massive Jericho Horn employed in many of the world's largest arenas and stadiums) the Go-2 fills a gap at the opposite end of the spectrum, where smaller, low-cost loudspeakers are needed. Importantly - and this is why the research and development took so long - the Go-2 uses Danley's patented Synergy Horn technology in clever ways to give it the sound quality worthy of the Danley name, says the company.

The Go-2 uses injection-moulded cabinets that are constructed, like all Danley molded loudspeakers and subwoofers, in Gainesville, Georgia. While completely at home indoors, both in terms of aesthetics and rigging points, the Go-2 is also impervious to weather an

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Switzerland - Schertler Group has announced the release of ARTHUR (Format48) - a new modular mixer, designed for studio or live use, which can be configured and built by the user.

The mixer is created from a choice of different Class-A input and output modules - Mic Input, Mic Input Ultra Low Noise and Mic Input x4 units, Yellow instrument input unit, Stereo Input unit, L/R Master, Aux Master and external Power-In units. These can be combined in any order and quantity to form both compact and large-scale mixer configurations. The number of units that can be included depends on the power supply used. For simpler combinations of 12 or 25 units, there is a choice of two compact power supplies. A further high-end power supply is also available: This can be used with any combination of units, from just a few to 70 or more. (Power-In units are also required for larger configurations

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UK - Audient has revealed its new-look, responsive website at www.audient.com, showcasing its full product range from the newly launched compact audio interface iD4 right through to the flagship ASP8024 Heritage Edition mixing console. Featuring an intuitive new design, it brings all aspects of the brand into line, and can be accessed easily on any device: computer, tablet and mobile phone.

"Everything you need to know about our products and audio heritage can be found on the new site," explains marketing manager, Andy Allen. "We have made the new website as informative and helpful as possible with a view to enabling new and existing customers access to helpful videos, audio examples, product demos and more - allowing customers to get the most out of their Audient products."

In addition to its easy-to-navigate, intuitive design, the website features brand new 'store finder

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UK - Audio specialist tube UK, working for outdoor arts experts Walk The Plank, provided nine different sound systems in six locations and on two parade floats around Manchester city centre for Manchester Day 2016.

The high profile event was enjoyed by huge crowds who were thrilled by the elaborate floats, costumes and vibrant array of music on the parade section of the day, as over 80 community groups snaked their way down Deansgate via Albert Square and on to the finish at Exchange Square.

tube supplied the first float in the parade - the Orrery - and also the final one which was a very special show-stopping collaboration by local hero, dance music producer and icon Graham Massey (808 State, etc.) and brass collective Mr Wilson's Second Liners.

The overall event theme of EUREKA! celebrated the city's achievements in science and discovery with Walk The Plank commissio

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UK - dbn Lighting were back in Heaton Park, Manchester for the 2016 Parklife Festival, where they supplied lighting, rigging and LED screen to five out of the eight main performance areas - including the Main Stage, Stage 3 (The Rotunda), Stage 5 (Elrow), Stage 6 (The Colonnade) and Stage 8 which was hosted by two pumping club nights MTA and MK.

Pete Robinson led the dbn crew of 28 who commenced the get-in on the Wednesday ahead of the opening on Saturday morning, and once again, their mission was to ensure that every stage looked individual and interesting and different from anything in the past.

The project entailed the supply of approximately 580 lighting fixtures including 224 moving lights and 75 strobes which were deployed site wide.

For the Main Stage, dbn's Stephen Page designed a house lighting rig that allowed for the two headliners - The Chemical Brothers an

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