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The newly opened Bar Trafik on Hoxton Square in EC1 is in one of London's most up and coming nightspots. Sporting a compact but powerful Crown-driven Nexo sound system installed by Bart Cameron, Bar Trafik is an intimate venue which offers food and drink in the early part of the evening, making way for a DJ later on.

LMC Audio in London supplied Bart Cameron with a total of six Nexo PS-8 compact loudspeakers and three LS-400 subs controlled by a PS-8TD controller. Power comes from a Nexo PS-8 amplifier with an additional built-in controller, which is supplemented by a Crown CE 4000 and a Crown MT2400. The system is distributed over two floors with the upstairs area being primarily for background music, while downstairs offers more of a bar/club environment. A Symetrix 308 VCA volume control/loudness EQ provides independent level control across the two zones.

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Leading Leeds-based independent music trade distributor, John Hornby Skewes & Co Ltd topped no less than five categories at the recent prestigious Music Industries Association awards ceremony, including Best Live/PA Microphone Award, which was won by The Scanner Radio Microphone System. The Scanner range of radio microphone systems and accessories offers a totally cost-effective solution to the requirement for reliable and natural transmitted sound reproduction with straightforward trouble-free operation.

(Lee Baldock)

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Crown International is rolling out improved versions of its popular XLS Series power amplifiers. Designed with hard-working DJs and musicians in mind, the newly re-engineered XLS 202, 402 and 602 offer compact 2U (instead of 3U) designs, lighter weights, and lower price points than their predecessors.

"To be able to offer XLS in a package that requires less rack space and is lighter, cooler looking, and even more affordable than before is just plain awesome," says Bob Lichty, Crown International market director for MI and recording. "The former XLS models have been rock-solid in terms of reliability and sonic performance and we know the ‘NextGen’ versions will carry on this trend. We also have the latest XLS models available in all line voltages, so they’re ready for export markets as well."

The new two-channel XLS 202, 402, and 602 all combine f

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Stagetec, the Slough-based pro lighting and audio sales and installation specialist, has launched a new website and two new logos. The logos represent Stagetec Distribution and Stagetec Sound & Lighting Projects, the two principal divisions within the Stagetec Group.

Having progressed enormously since the launch of Stagetec's first website in 1998, expanding from 10 pages to over 300, managing director Andy Stone explains that it was essential to "move with the times". The new site at website is quick, easy and logical to navigate, and is designed to offer visitors far more than just product and company information. It's been developed as an industry resource, containing a wealth of technical information on all types of sound and lighting products, which is available free to sound and lighting professionals and technicians.

Full technical support for the Compulite and LSC l

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Entec Lighting continues its long and successful relationship with Jools Holland, for whom it has supplied lighting equipment through production manager, Andy Salmon for several years. This year's Small World Big Band Tour Part II two-month UK tour by Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra once again covered all corners of the country, and was completely sold out soon after tickets being released.

Entec's touring relationship with Andy and Jools is in its eighth year and Steve Major, a veteran of all eight, has seen the rigs change each year. Lighting designer Simon Chandler-Honnor has illuminated Jools for the last 3 years, during which time the lighting rig has steadily grown from a basic Par can format to include several moving lights.

Last hear (Honnor's second pushing the buttons) he utilized Vari*Lites supplied by Entec, and this year he chose 10 Martin MAC 600s

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The management of the Ampco Flashlight Group, led by CEO Eric de Bruyn, has announced that it has purchased all shares in Ampco Flashlight Holding Ltd. The deal makes the group of 10 sound and lighting sales and rental companies, and three service and support companies, with combined sales of €40 million in 2002, one of Europe’s largest privately-owned audio and lighting groups.

All shares in Ampco Flashlight Holding Ltd have been taken over by a new group of investors, consisting of members of the current Ampco Flashlight Holding management team and a number of managing directors of the 13 separate commercial units within the group. Ampco Pro Rent director Fred Heuves commented: "Rumours about this transaction have been circulating in many varieties lately, so we are very pleased to be able to make this official announcement to the world. The group is in an excellent finan

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Northern Ireland based Zest Audio have recently launched their first product into the EU install market. Atmosphere is a simple and cost effective background music solution. It provides programmable music selection throughout the day to meet the demands of the differing clientele of the modern café/bar/restaurant. Atmosphere comes with a pre-loaded hard drive with some 3,500 tracks and an easy-to-use Windows-based front end. Music is updated monthly, and once set up, the system runs automatically from day to day.

The first Atmosphere system has recently been installed, by Lisburn based DJH Sound, into Lisburn City Centre to provide background music during the Christmas period to help keep the smile on the happy shoppers. Initial feedback has been extremely positive with the system set-up to cater for the differing population in the City Centre. This has allowed the City Centre Managem

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Hayden Laboratories Ltd - exclusive UK distributor for Denon pro audio products - announce two new additions - the DN-T645 and DN-T625 - to replace the Denon DN-T620. The DN-T620, a combination cassette and CD player, was originally designed as a back-up system for DJ booths, but has enjoyed massive popularity in the health, fitness, leisure and retail markets. This unit is now being replaced with two professional models of similar standing, but with more advanced features.

Both the DN-T645 and DN-T625 are still aimed at the core market of fitness, but the versatility of the machines also makes them ideal for use as integrated AV systems in boardrooms and conference suites. Both are packed with practical features. The DN-T645 CD player will play-back CDR/CDRW discs as well as pre-written CDs and has a 12% pitch control. It also offers MP3 playback, an increasingly important feature, co

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Music Live 2002, held recently at the NEC, consolidated its reputation as one of the UK’s leading public music shows, with a strong programme of acts and demos underlining the event’s increasing popularity. With a billing which included an acoustic set by Simon Fowler and Oscar Harrison of top UK rock band Ocean Colour Scene, HK Audio’s comprehensive range of pro audio systems was once again the preferred choice of show organizers, Mammoth Events. HK Audio systems were placed in a wide variety of show applications, right from the 7.2kW 12 x box R-Series main stage rig to a number of PA applications across the show.

As a result of HK Audio’s performance at Music Live 2002, HK has been confirmed once again as the sound reinforcement marque of choice for Music Live 2003. Additionally, another music show has been introduced to the annual show rota, this time it&rsqu

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In a prime location in Kuala Lumpur, an old Panasonic warehouse has been expertly converted into the new premises for the immense Petaling Jaya Evangelical Free Church. The main church seats 1,800 in the auditorium, with a balcony, which has been acoustically treated throughout, and has installed a PA system supplied by Wembley Loudspeaker Co Ltd.

The job was set up after a meeting at the PALA show in Hong Kong, with Paul MacCallum, MD of Wembley, subsequently visiting Kuala Lumpur. The company has recently launched a new series of cabinets to suit a variety of applications (from 150W to 1200W), with high quality sound throughout the range. Having surveyed the ‘venue’, MacCallum specified a system that is more likely to be found in a club than a church. The reason for the spec was that the church has services twice a week, incorporating music from a full 11-piece rock/gospe

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Belfast-based AV hire and installation company NIAVAC (Northern Ireland Audio Visual Aids Centre Ltd) has recently become the first company in Ireland to purchase AKG's brand new CS2 microphone conference system. The CS2 is a fully modular, highly flexible system, incorporating AKG's acclaimed Discreet Acoustics goosenecks and capsules, for quick and easy adaptation to suit any conference situation. This, plus the CS2's straightforward single cable 'daisy chain' wiring - for no-nonsense setting up and taking down - made it an automatic choice for NIAVAC when seeking a conference system for their hire stock.

The CS2 is an ideal solution for venues where a sound engineer or technician is not always available - like meeting rooms, town halls, conferences, etc. The system can comprise up to 200 delegate and chairperson's microphone stations, that daisy chain together from a central 1U base

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Thursday 12th December will see audio experts John Woodgate and Peter Mapp deliver keynote lectures on two important current issues - Electromagnetic Compatibility and speech intelligibility. John Woodgate's ‘New Creatures in the EMC and Safety Jungle’ introduces some strange new animals to an already crowded zoo, whilst Peter Mapp uses ‘Everything You Wanted to Ask About RaSTI but were Afraid to Know! or How Accurate Really are RaSTI and STI Measurements?’ to illustrate his many years of research into all aspects of speech intelligibility.

The event, which is being organized by the ISCE, will take at Brooklands College in Weybridge. There is a special entrance rate for PLASA Members of £25. Further details are available from Cathy Mackenzie on +44 151 639 5211.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Theatrical sound design and rental specialist Autograph Sound Recording has recently been involved in a concert tour of Les Misérables across Scandinavia - the first time that the concert production of the world-famous musical has toured multiple cities. The concert, which captured the atmosphere of the stage production by using giant cinema screens, live video and stills from the production, commenced in late October and ran throughout November, taking in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland along the way.

Autograph has been involved with Les Misérables since chairman Andrew Bruce designed the original London production in 1985. To address the scale of the tour, the company supplied an extensive Meyer Sound M3D Line Array Loudspeaker System in a sound design realised by Autograph's Nick Lidster, who also mixed the shows. Lidster was a member of the original sound team on the London p

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John MacPhail’s Edinburgh-based Studio 4 recently won the contract to upgrade the sound system in The Cavendish - a landmark venue in the Scottish capital - for operators, Luminar Leisure.

The two-level nightclub at Tollcross - affectionately known as The Cav - has now taken possession of a series of Wharfedale Programme 50s and 52s as part of a complete refit. The recently-launched two-way ported trapezoidal enclosures - designed to meet the requirements of high-output, nearfield reproduction - have been used creatively to deliver peripheral sound throughout the club’s off-dancefloor areas. Eight of the Programme 50s and four of the Programme 52s feature in the installation. The Programme 50 features a 5.5" woofer and 3/4" titanium driver, while the Programme 52 features a pair of woofers and 3/4" titanium driver.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Bandit Lites UK is supplying the king of horror-rock theatre Alice Cooper with a dramatic, and somewhat gruesome lighting rig for the European section of his current Dragontown World tour. The lighting designer for this spectacular heavy metal mayhem is Mick Thornton, who has designed a colourful contrasting show that captures a myriad of moods.

These include all the normal Cooperesque antics like the nightly baby massacre, a melange of cod violence and destruction, lunatics being straight-jacketed and hauled off to the asylum (bit like a day in the L&SI office). The onstage entertainment culminates with the guillotining of Pop Princess Britney Spears - the ultimate axis of evil in Alice’s dark world - as played by his daughter Calico.

Thornton needed a versatile lighting rig to match the intricate stage set and the manic pace of action onstage. At the aorta of the set is the

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Front-of-house engineer Simon Honywill is using a new Yamaha DM2000 digital console to mix Chris Rea, currently on the front leg of his European tour. Playing a wide variety of venues seating anywhere between 1500 and 5000 people, the tour is carrying a compact production rig including the RG Jones/Ampco ProRent Synco PA system.

Simon Honywill has been involved with the DM2000 since its launch in the UK, and RG Jones has been considering purchasing one of the digital consoles for inventory. But the main reason for ordering the new desk from Marquee Audio was the Rea tour. "It's a one-truck tour," explains Honywill, "which meant that we were looking for equipment that was as compact and bijou as possible. The DM2000 makes a lot of sense, primarily because of its small size, and the opportunity it allows for us to cut down on a load of outboard."

He describes the ne

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Selwo Adventure Parks have expanded their leisure offering with the newly inaugurated Selwo Marina park in Benalmádena , Malaga, Spain. The new concept of marine park brings together the sea life and exotic fowl of South America and complements the theme of the already well known Selwo Adventure wildlife park in Estepona, Spain. Visitors to Selwo Marina participate in expeditions in which they discover the amazing ecosystems of the South American continent.

The sound system design and installation for the park was carried out by the Madrid-based Himesa Professional SL, using a variety of D.A.S. products. The system designed by the company provides ambient sound and paging utilizing 60 Factor-5Ts keenly camouflaged within the decorative elements of the park.

The park is accessed through the Plaza of the Americas where shops and food services are available. Through the plaza, visitor

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At a mere 5mm in diameter, and available in either beige (skin tone) or black, the new AT899 is intended for those critical applications which require minimum visibility and high quality audio. The subminiature omnidirectional element is enclosed in a rugged, low profile housing with internal construction designed to minimize noise from handling, clothing and wind. The microphone plugs into the included AT8537 power module, which features battery/phantom power operation, low-frequency roll-off switch, and an integral XLR3M connector supplying a low-impedance balanced output. The extensive accessory kit which comes as standard with the AT899 includes single and double-mounts, clothing clip, viper clip, magnetic clip, two open-pore foam windscreens, and two metal mesh element covers to protect the condenser element from moisture, make-up and other contaminants.

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The first customer was already leaving Professional Music Technology (PMT) with his newly-purchased Wharfedale loudspeakers even before the inaugural celebrations began. To commemorate the opening of their new 22,000sq.ft superstore in Birmingham - the largest in Europe - the directors hosted an industry party which was attended by many of the captains of MI. Posing alongside Wharfedale’s LiX range of MI enclosures (in front of PMT’s sound stage) are company directors Simon Gilson, Terry Hope and Gary Chapman. The LiX range is one of several Wharfedale MI-based systems on show in the superstore.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Advanced Audio, the Melbourne-based ARX dealer, has completed the installation of an updated audio system into the recently refurbished Melbourne Royal Exhibition Buildings.

Rated as one of Australia's most prominent and historic public buildings, the REH was originally erected for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880 -1 at the end of Melbourne's early Gold Rush heyday. The building was also the venue for the Australian Federation ceremonies in 1901 that marked the birth of Australia as a nation and were used as the country's Houses of Parliament until 1922, prior to the competition of Canberra as the nation's purpose-built capital city.

Advanced Audio installed ARX ZR 850 C 100V constant voltage Installation Series power amplifiers to power a sizeable array of Bose 402 loudspeakers spread out over 3km of loudspeaker cabling.

(Ruth Rossington)

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London-based rental specialist Sound Hire, which took delivery of one of the very first DiGiCo D5 Live digital mixing systems in September, has already committed further to the revolutionary platform by ordering an upgrade. Their second stage-end DigiRack (which contains the system’s inputs and A/D converters) expands their console’s capacity from 56 to 96 inputs, allowing it to replace two analogue consoles on many shows.

Says Sound Hire founder Richard Liénard: "It’s obvious that the future of sound has to be digital. For a long time it’s the thing that everyone’s thought would be wonderful but was scared about what would happen if it wasn’t totally stable. Then suddenly there was the answer at PLASA - the D5 Live - and we ordered it virtually the next day. The desk gives you an amazing amount of positive feedback on the input side: you can s

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Marquee Audio has supplied a Yamaha DM2000 digital console to its regular customer, the Clywd Theatr Cymru of Mold in North Wales. The new desk has been installed in the smaller of the theatre's two auditoriums, part of a rolling replacement programme of audio equipment.

The 250-seat Emlyn Williams Theatre is equipped with a Meyer PA rig, Akai samplers and hard-disk recorders, and a Sennheiser radio mic system, all of which have been supplied by Marquee Audio. Kev Hays, the Head of Sound at Clywd Theatr Cymru, explains that the DM2000 replaces the Yamaha 02Rs which were the first to be installed in the UK. "And the DM2000 now contains all the features I would have loved the 02Rs to have had when we bought those in the mid 90s," adds Hays, who first saw the DM2000 when he attended Marquee Audio's summer demos at the Lyric Theatre in London.

"The desk as standard has 96

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Already owners of the UK's largest X-Array system, Ayrshire-based Fenwick Mobile Exhibitions (FMX), has continued to affirm its faith in the Electro-Voice brand by becoming one of the first customers to invest in some of EV's newest technology, the XLC compact line array system.

According to FMX's Ron MacGillivray, XLC suits the style of event for which FMX has become known. "We do a lot of radio station work such as roadshows and other one-off events, many of which take place outdoors. Get-in and get-out times are usually minimal, and that is where a system like XLC really comes into its own."

Son and business partner Ross MacGillivray agrees: "XLC cabinets are smaller and lighter than anything else we have, and because of their 120° dispersion characteristics, you need fewer of them to cover the same area. That basically means we're taking up much less room in the t

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Wharfedale Pro has introduced new additions to its Twin series, which was was launched earlier in the year with the Twin 12 and 15. The new additions are the Twin 8 (8"), Twin 10 (10") and Twin 15SB (15") and Twin 18SB (18") subs. These will shortly be available in a white finish, making them ideal for places of worship.

The Twin series is a compact, high-efficiency point source system designed to meet demanding professional applications requiring both sonic quality and integrity. It is especially suited to high quality sound reinforcement applications where the power response and overall performance give exceptional results, even in challenging acoustic spaces. All products house proprietary-designed, coaxial two-way full range drive units, with sophisticated crossover design. In the case of the Twin 12 this is a 1 x 12" driver, and with the Twin 15, a 1 x 15&

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