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UK - ETS Sales & Hire is based just outside Norwich, where it provides a comprehensive repair service to the sound and light industry as well undertaking full electro/mechanical installations.

Run by partners Les Bell and Paul Saunders and ably assisted by Jenny Wright, over the past six years, the company has developed a simple, methodical approach to acquiring clients and building business relationships. Naturally included are many of the holiday and leisure groups who operate along the East coast from Lincolnshire via Norfolk to Hampshire in the South.

ETS has just completed its first audio system installation for its new clients Haven, part of the Bourne Leisure Group a portfolio that includes Butlins, British Holidays and Warners holidays.

Bell explains: "We had provided repair facilities for a number of the Haven sites, but had never had the opportunity to present

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UK - A variant of Sy40, the Sy48 is a compact lightweight digital mixing console. Extremely versatile, the Sy48 is equally at home mixing front of house or monitors on tour to theatres or houses of worship.

With mixing for 64 channels and input and output resources as follows: up to 48 local inputs (32 mic + 16 line) with an optional stage box giving up to 48 input on stage plus 16 mic/line local inputs. Also available is an LEM (Local External Mix box) giving up to 64 local mic inputs, 16 local line inputs - for busses / inserts, 16 local line outputs - for busses / inserts, up to 48 processed or non-processed analogue digital or Ethersound outputs, with the flexibility of movable I/O cards between local and distant (stage box) slots. There are 32 buses - freely assignable as main, aux, groups or matrix and two monitor buses.

Transmission and Software includes a new MC module

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UK - During the forthcoming 2004 PLASA Show at Earls Court, you will find Shure DJ record needlz and microphones being demonstrated by UK leading DJ's and Beatboxers, on the IDJ stand M100.

The following are the full details of who will be playing and when:

Sunday 12th September

10am - Margaret Dygas (Rescue Recordings)

11am - Gideon Jackson (Rescue Recordings)

12pm - Shlomo (shlo.co.uk) & DJ Nonames (Foreign Beggars)

1pm - Manipulate & Blood 1 (Surgical Cutz)

2pm - DJ Decoy

3pm - The Scratch Technician

4pm - BCEE (Rubik Records, BBC 1Xtra) & Lee Jackson (2turntables.co.uk)

5pm - Benny Lightyearz (Roc Records) & Koobs (Human Beatbox) & DJ Cor Blimey (Freight Corp/Zebra Traffic)

Monday 13th September

12pm Richard Grey (Rescue Recordings)

1pm Kleo (Rescue Recordings)

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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UK - Based in Cheshire, VME has over 15 years experience in concert, film, video, broadcast, corporate and theatre production and is the UK distributor for Kling & Freitag loudspeakers and a main dealer for Sennheiser UK.

VME supplied the comms system used on the Sky Sports coverage for the Zurich Premiership, the Heineken Cup and the Parker Pen Cup and the BBC coverage of the RBS 6 Nations. Unknown to most, mics on the referee and other match officials provide the commentary team with more 'inside information' on decisions made during the game, and enable the referee and officials to communicate with each other. The system consists of four Sennheiser SK50 radio belt-packs, for the referee, touchline judges, 4th match official in the dugout and a 4-wire communication link from the 3rd match official in the TV outside broadcast truck, all mixed on a Rane 1U digital mixer. The mix

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UK - Community Professional Loudspeakers has again extended its speaker range and is showing innovative new lines at PLASA 2004 on stand CC10. Making their debut are the CLOUD 4 and 6, which are a complete self-contained co-axial, bass-reflex loudspeaker systems. These high output packages utilize a unique and effective cooling system called Air Gap Technology (AGT).

Also on show will be the I/O 5 and I/O 8 systems - ideal for the audio professionals looking for compact, high performance speakers for a wide variety of applications, including small clubs, karaoke, playback systems and monitoring. Both models are full range designs providing high power handling, high sensitivity, and wide dynamic capability.

The M12 stage monitor system is a compact, high style, no-compromise solution to the demands of high performance monitoring. At 10 ½" high, the Community M12 offers cl

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UK - Continuing with its major re-investment programme, corporate event specialists, Dimension Audio, has purchased its first line array system - keeping continuity with the d&b audiotechnik brand which already features heavily in its inventory.

Dimension has purchased six Q1 tops and six subs, along with six D12 digital amplifiers, purpose designed to power the system. "It was time we moved into line array technology, and it will enable us to quote more competitively on larger projects," explained general manager Mark Boden. "This is a discrete line array system and ultra compact - ideal for our corporate work," added project manager, Dave Rondeau. "If we need to extend the system we can simply sub-hire in."

Dimension made the decision following a system demonstration. Aside from its sonic attributes - making it deal for playback in the corporate

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USA - Reaffirming its commitment to provide systems integrators and contractors in the Canadian installed sound marketplace with professional, knowledgeable representation Biamp Systems today announced the appointment of Power Group Ltd. as its Canadian manufacturer's rep firm. Power Group Ltd. provides its customers with the industry's best performing, most versatile audio technologies. With offices located in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, the Power Group immediately assumes responsibility for Biamp sales and customer service in Canadian market.

"Now, through our relationship with Power Group, Biamp Systems is able to expand our commitment to provide quality representation to our partners in the Canadian marketplace," said Ron Camden, vice president of sales, Biamp Systems. "Having one national sales force headquartered in Toronto, enhances communications bet

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USA - CMX Las Vegas Studios of Nevada has purchased six Drawmer DL241 auto compressors and four Drawmer DS201 dual noise gates for use in live reinforcement. The units will become part of a concert and corporate sound system for CMX tours and events as well as outside rental. CMX Las Vegas Studios is the Nevada division of CMX Productions, one of the USA's leading sports marketing and events management companies.

According to CMX Las Vegas Studios' Troy Green, the Drawmer units were purchased initially for the CMX tours, parties and events that are thrown for and by various artists, sports stars or organizations. "We have CMX corporate and entertainment events weekly ranging from a few hundred to thousands of guests and VIPs. Drawmer not only fit the bill as the best gear available for touring and corporate use, but also to meet the riders of outside renters and events oper

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USA - The Hollywood Bowl, summer home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1922, recently wrapped up a complete rebuild of its band shell that considerably improves the acoustics onstage while preserving its distinctive concentric ringed motif. But performers at the Bowl aren't the only ones to benefit from better sound this season thanks to the concurrent addition of a new concert reinforcement system largely comprised of 87 L-Acoustics loudspeakers driven by 40 LA Series amplifiers.

Twin arrays each consisting of ten V-Dosc cabinets, eight SB218 subwoofers, seven more V-Dosc, and a tail of six dV-Dosc flank the left and right sides of the new shell with an additional centre hang of 17 dV-Dosc flown from the apex of the structure. Furthermore, three 112XT enclosures are hung from the catwalk halo to provide nearfield coverage for the seating areas directly in front of the stag

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UK - Music-lovers again converged on the Sennheiser Sounds of Summer Festival, which took place over two days at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in August. On the first day the audience listened and danced to non-stop music with an all-female line up from Flipside DJs. DJ's Emma Feline and Nomio started the event off with a mixture of Hip Hop and R'n'B, then DJ's Miss Behavin', Sophie Sugar and Sarah G played house and trance, continuing late into the night. Sennheiser also ran competitions throughout the day to add to the party atmosphere and hundreds of lucky winners took home Sennheiser headphones, T-shirts and other prizes.

On day two, the eight finalists of Sennheiser UK's Best Unsigned Artist Contest 2004 took to the stage. With well over 1,000 entrants, the competition, now in its 4th year, aims to help bands and artists who don't fall into the category of manufa

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UK - On Sunday 12 September, the first day of the PLASA show at Earls Court, Pioneer promises to provide an audio-visual experience like you've never seen before! A line-up of DVJs including VJ Kreil and James Zabiela will be performing live in Pioneer's DJ Booth, offering a spectacular live performances on Pioneer's new DVJ-X1. Combining Pioneer's world-famous CD Jog Dial technology with the flexibility and capacity of DVD, the DVJ-X1 looks just like the company's own CDJ-1000MK2 CD player - and has the same functionality - with the added capacity to playback DVDs as well as CDs.

Crucially, DVJs will also be able to use the DVJ-X1 to manipulate DVD visuals in exactly the same way as they would music, so real-time digital video scratches, loops and instant cues are all possible, while the video and audio streams always stay in perfect sync, even when they're being reversed and

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UK - Duran Audio will be exhibiting at this year's PLASA Show, where it will be officially launching the AXYS Intellivox DDS series and also the AXYS Target U16. Both products use the company's ground-breaking DDS (Digital Directivity Synthesis) beam-steering technology.

The electronic aiming previously available with DDC products, which can be thought of as aiming and focusing a light, allows users to aim the vertical beam onto the audience area from the acoustic centre of the array, say Duran Audio.

DDS users are offered the complete opposite; using Duran Audios DDA (Digital Directivity Analysis) software the user can define the array position and the audience area and allow the DDS algorithm to produce the best possible directivity for that array in the given location. The result is a complex dispersion pattern that "fits" the audience area, say Duran Audio. DDS

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UK - PLASA Member - MEDC/Next Two Loudspeakers was pleased to introduce its new area sales manager for the United Kingdom and Eire - Tom Blackwell. Formerly employed by Sennheiser as a system consultant specializing in loudspeaker applications. Tom looks forward to working with distributors and system houses alike to realize the benefits of the Next Two range.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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UK - K.M.E. one of Germany's leading audio manufacturer will again exhibit at PLASA 2004 launching new digital innovations. Products on show are the new 2-in-6-out digital controller DAP 26, the plug-in digital delay module DDM and the switch mode power amp SMA 2000 featuring 2 x 1000W at only 7.5kg.

The DAP 26 is a new, high performance 2-in 6-out sound system controller with a multitude of configurations (2-way stereo, 3-way stereo, 6-way mono). It features variable signal routing output options for matrix and zone configurations. Any DAP 26 configuration can be operated in real time using the navigation pad or implementing the 'K.M.E. Control-Center' software. The accurate signal processing algorithms together with AKM AD/DA converters and a sampling frequency of 96kHz deliver acoustic precision of the highest standard. Further DAP 26 units are linkable using the AES/EBU conn

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UK - RF specialist Trantec has been applauded for its commitment to creating radio products that continue to push boundaries and provide audio solutions for contemporary applications. Further expanding its product range, Trantec has introduced the new TS46 Headset Microphone.

The TS46 has been manufactured to a high specification as laid down by Trantec's own engineering staff in London. It combines a discreet microphone with an ultra-light and comfortable headband. Designed for performing musicians and fitness professionals, it offers extra freedom as a hands-free microphone. Whilst providing excellent condenser sound quality, its hyper-cardioid polar response superbly counters interfering background noise to deliver a true and clean sound. It's super light and discreet design makes it both practical and versatile. Its moisture protected microphone capsule and gooseneck support

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UK - A.C. Lighting has been appointed dealership for Funktion-One, consistent innovators in loudspeaker system design and manufacture for many years. The company's pursuit of excellence in design and manufacturing has now culminated in the development of the Resolution range.

With the starting point being the amazing acuity of human hearing, every component has been meticulously developed and combined to create a speaker system with a balanced and powerful output based on intelligent speaker design and efficiency - not electronic processing. This purist approach gives Funktion-One an unrivalled resolution, clarity, quality and power - delivering the true emotional experience of the sound, say the company.

The Resolution family features models tailored to the varying needs of professional audio installations and touring situations. Each unit's design and power to weight ratio i

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UK - Audient Group has added another member to their sales team - 22 year-old Ross McFarlane. Originally from Glasgow, McFarlane recently graduated from the BA (Hons) Sound Technology course at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), just two years after UK sales manager Nick Pemberton. "My time at LIPA has really helped me see the audio and performing arts industries as a whole. It's a fantastic course and has shown me the ropes in many of the fields inhabited by Audient and LA Audio, so I will be able to communicate with our customers at their level," explains McFarlane, who will fill the role of product specialist, answering technical queries and providing support for both the Audient and LA Audio product ranges.

Audient and LA Audio team can be found on stand EE44 at this year's PLASA exhibition.

(Lee Baldock)

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Germany - Behringer has appointed Joerg Windhorst as deputy general manager for Behringer Germany. Michael Deeb, chief executive officer of the Behringer Group, said: "Mr Windhorst will immediately look to further expanding Behringer's sales network in Europe, which is one of the major markets of the Group today. He will also be directing and strengthening direct-client fulfillment, after-sales service and sales-support operations, and ensuring their integration with the Group's highly-optimized global operations framework."

Prior to joining Behringer, Windhorst was a sales director at Schwarzkopf Professional. He also enjoyed a 13-year career spell with Yamaha Europe, where he served in various sales and marketing positions, culminating as Yamaha's general manager, a position he held for nearly four years. In that capacity, he was primarily responsible for the sales-a

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UK - Essex-based Xtreme Audio Visual has installed an audio package from Fuzion in The Elbow Room, Notting Hill, part of a highly successful chain of pool bars and club venues around the UK. The system comprises a pair of Nexo PS10 full-range cabinets, three pairs of Nexo PS8 compact cabinets and Crown CE1000 amplifiers. In addition to pool tables, The Elbow Room has a bar and dance floor area which has just been fitted with a portable DJ booth for use at weekends. The PS10s provide the dance floor with enough level, while the PS8s are used around the pool tables.

Commenting on the install, Xtreme's Duncan Baines said: "This bar is in a very densely populated neighbourhood, so potentially there are problems with the neighbours. The PS10s and PS8s provide good-quality sound without needing to be pumped."

Xtreme AV has just been awarded the contract to equip the Elb

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Italy - From 2-26 July, 2004, the Tuscan city of Lucca, near Pisa, once again became the centre of the Italian music scene, as some 70,000 visitors flocked to the four week Summer Festival, now in its seventh year, to hear famous names from the worlds of pop, rock and jazz, including major attractions like James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Alicia Keys, Peter Gabriel, Burt Bacharach, Pink, Giorgia and the Black Eyed Peas.

In the Piazza Napoleone the picturesque town has what must be one of the most beautiful locations for live concerts in the world - the only problem being the acoustics, with the danger of feedback from the magnificent old buildings lining the square ever present and the occasions legion when the sonic image during outdoor concerts has degenerated into a confused wash of sound.

In 2004, however, the sound engineers from Milano Music Service (MMS) demonstrated that wi

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USA - TransAudio Group, the US distributor for A Designs Audio, showcases the ATTY at 117th AES Convention in San Francisco (28-31 October 2004). ATTY is a passive in-line audio level controller designed to control mono/stereo audio signals from powered monitors and amplified units having no output control, such as a series of mic pres, power amps or speakers.

ATTY has two Neutrik combo input jacks (quarter-inch XLRs) for true stereo and two balanced output XLRs. Included is a level control knob and a mute switch for those moments when an immediate response is required. The mute switch operates as a 'panic button' shorting the signal until full control is regained. Owners of powered monitors will find A Designs ATTY an effective tool against possible system failures that may result in expensive, blown speaker diaphragms. It is small and compact measuring 2" x 3" x 5&q

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Italy / UK - Outline will be showing its innovative 'Globe-Source', an omnidirectional loudspeaker whose characteristics represent the state of the art in the field of sound sources for professional acoustical use in the architectural field, according to Outline. Globe-Source has been nominated for a PLASA Award for Innovation.

Outline will also show the Micra II SP - an ultra-compact, self-powered loudspeaker enclosure that has achieved a strong reputation for its use in TV studios and on some of Italy's top tours (including Claudio Baglioni). It has a built-in (250W continuous power) digital amplifier and is fitted with two sophisticated 5" woofers and twin Neodymium magnetic circuit.

Also on show, the H.A.R.D. 212 SP is a self-powered version of the ultra-slim (33cm) monitor, used on tour by Eric Clapton, Steve Howe (Yes), Hayley Westenra and by top Italian artists inc

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Australia - ARX Systems, the Australian pro audio manufacturer, has announced the release of the new V.8 Pro Audio Product Guide CD-ROM, featuring full and updated details on all current ARX products, including the new AudioBox audio interface series and Driveline column array loudspeaker series. The new CD also includes an updated Technical Resource Section covering audio applications and general audio information. To see a copy of the new CD-ROM, please just email your postal address to ARX at the e-mail below.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK / Brazil - Midas-Klark Teknik has announced the appointment of Pride Music Ltda as the new distributor of Midas and Klark Teknik products for Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, Pride Music is Brazil's largest distributor for professional audio, lighting and MI products and already carries a number of internationally renowned brands.

According to Telex's Franck Fabry, director of export sales to the Americas: "Pride Music has been operating for 15 years as a true value-added reseller of pro audio products and has extensive experience in the sales, support and service of electronics equipment in Brazil. They only supply products that can be supported in-house by their team of manufacturer-trained technicians, which means that our customers in Brazil can count on full service and support from engineers that have been trained at the factory in Kidderminster. This policy enhances th

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