"Nearly without exception, today's amplifiers are starved of the power they need for peak demands," said Dave Keller, executive vice-president of Furman Sound. "Those peak demands, which require more power than an amplifier normally receives, can occur in many different applications - at the climax of a sweet guitar solo, for example, or during an explosive final battle scene played on a home theatre system. P
Following an exhibition in Tel Aviv, the company has already obtained its first order for a full container of loudspeakers. In Jordan, an established company has selected ADS as its preferred supplier, whilst in Dubai an agreement with an international engineering company will ensure that the company's products will be distributed throughout the region. ADS's strong design and engineering base will also mean that the company will provide on-site training for installation and engineering staff in the Middle East.
Company chairman, David Hopkins OBE, who has been respons
Ashly Audio Inc is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of quality signal processing equipment and power amplification for use in the commercial sound contracting and professional audio markets. In Germany, Camco GmbH has been making amplifiers since1983, and has become an influential player at the highest level of professional touring and installed sound, one of th
The company has reportedly got off to a flying start, placing an initial order for a Midas Verona console and Klark Teknik signal processing equipment including DN514 Plus gates, DN504 Plus quad processors, classic DN360 graphic equalizers and DN1248 Plus mic splitters. The entire order is being supplied for installation in the Vitebsk Philharmonic Concert Hall. Meanwhile, several other large tenders and orders are now in the pipeline.
"I'm delighted to welcome Vitaly Kazakevich and his team at Belcult Project to our distribution family," says KT and Midas' Dave Wiggins. "In
The first test for the system was at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, where 1,000 enthusiastic members of the Going Places travel firm descended for their two-day management conference.Saville Gold's Gareth Lloyd says: "At this type of event the ambient noise levels are extremely high, and to find a system that can project with such intelligibility, all the way to the back of the room is rare. The ease of use, and plug-and-play nature of the KV2 system is
"Community has been a wonderful place to work," says Goodwin, "and I look forward to bringing my talents to this new position." A graduate of Lycoming College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Goodwin also speaks Spanish.
Julia Lee, Community's director of marketing and sales, says: "Steve has been a tremendous asset in improving customer service levels, especially in the international markets. He will now bring his well-liked personal style
Marc Coupillie, sales director at Rodec, commented: "Working together with an experienced partner in digital technologies has allowed us to overcome the flaws and limitations most other scratch products are confronted with, hence offering us a progressive product which will hopefully set a new standard in the DJ/scratch scene for the years to come."
DJs are invited to try out the new faders for themselves at the Infinium Technologies stand at the PLASA show (11-14 September 2005) - stand FF6.
(Lee Baldock)
Designed for use with both electric and acoustic instruments, the Lectrosonics IS400, consisting of the IM transmitter and R400A receiver, utilizes a proprietary digital algorithm to encode the audio signal into an analog format for transmission over an FM wireless carrier, which is then converted back into digital audio via DSP at the receiver. According to Stevens' guitar tech, Tim Kennedy, it was about time. "We've been waiting for years for something
"We rarely have time for sound-checks and of course there are a lot of visiting engineers around all the stages who need to be able to jump on a desk and be ready to mix instantly," says APR production manager Dieter van Denzel. "Midas gives us the familiarity, the reliability and of course the essential audio quality."
All in all, APR oversaw the action at the main (Open Air) stage, the ever-popular Siam Ten
All VNET models are supplied with the active speaker system fully optimized, requiring onlyroom equalization to finalize the set up, say Tannoy. Room EQ is simplified via user accessible SHARC DSP-based processing that can be used in place of an upstream speaker management system. Using free network topology, which does not suffe
Among the facilities is a d&b audiotechnik sound system that was chosen for its intelligible and clear speech reproduction, essential for corporate and company events. The system consists of d&b's compact E3 and E0 loudspeakers with Q subwoofers all colour co-ordinated to match the black and white theme of the surroundings.
In the main presentation area, a giant screen is surrounded by E3s to provide a T0 point for the sound with E0s front and back i
RCF's 10" Precision Series sealed basket midrange is optimized to work with the 4PRO-7001 60x40 midrange horn. A massive neodymium magnet and a "Compression Driver level" assembly design has been dedicated to reach low distortion and dynamic properties for this transducer.
The compression driver uses a new 3" titanium dome in front of a lo
Providing powerful control options, the DP428 offers 4x8 matrix capability, 48dB crossover slopes, and a host of EQ solutions for addressing virtually any audio problem. There are four inputs, each offering gain control, a 28-band graphic EQ, eight filters, and a delay. Eight outputs each have gain control, polarity switching, delay, high/low pass filtering, and up to nine filters. Any input can be routed to any combination of outputs, plus all ins and outs can be phase-adjusted in 2-degree steps. The crossover offers a choice of two types, and 6, 12, 18, 24, or 48dB per octave roll-off. Tw
The iHP3564 and iHP3594 are large format, full-range systems. The driver complement in both consists of a 15" (380mm) high power LF driver, an 8" (205mm) mid-range driver and a 1.4" (36mm) exit / 2.87" (72.2 mm) edge-wound voice coil compression driver. High order crossovers minimize band overlap and the large format horn flare delivers well controlled dispersion, 60 x 40° for the iHP3564 and 90 x 40° for the iHP3594. The well-controlled off-axis response enhances sys
Most of the country's larger touring companies have now purchased at least one Siena console, and Atempo has been receiving very good feedback from all of these companies as they had a very g
Computer DJ will be exhibiting at PLASA on stand C56
(Lee Baldock)
Designed as a truly multifunctional range of loudspeaker enclosures the ML Series has applications in many areas including Live Sound, Theatre, AV, Leisure and Sports Venues etc. Incorporating an intuitive flying system the ML Series lends itself to becoming popular with rental companies and installers alike. With a full range of options for flying available from one system, the ML Series is set to become another winner in the Logic System range. Models available will be ML15, ML12, ML8, ML802, and ML702. All models will have rotatable horn flares and will be available with different dispersion characteristics dependant on application. Pictured
Under the banner of Managing Performing Arts Across Europe, the seminar was held by local distributor GaCo in conjunction with The New Theatre Institute of Latvia. Midas and Klark Teknik's brand development manager Richard Ferriday gave a presentation focusing on the brands' latest products developments including the Siena STS package (which allows the solo'd outputs from Siena to be shown on the KT Helix digital EQ system) the Verona console, the KT DN370 graphic equalizer and wireless remote control of the Helix system, via a tablet PC. All products were available for hands-on demonstrations.
GaCo was only rece
So far, 13 major audio companies have signed up to sponsor a boat and there is still a chance that your company could do the same. You don't need to have any experience, just a keen crew of six or seven people. SunSail will supply everything, including the boat, expert instruction, the skipper and all the kit you'll need. The evening fundraiser at Tiger Tiger begins with the now famous 'Pop Quiz', followed by dinner in the restaurant with wonderful views over the harbour. Even for those nor participating in the sailing, there is an option to sponsor a table for the Saturday evening e
Also on show, are Q-Play digital music systems - designed with total security using biometric fingerprint scanners allowing user access only. These units can be installed into shops, pubs, and clubs or anywhere music is played. Computer DJ is also launching the Q-Play information/Music Kiosk. Product brochures are available in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Computer DJ can be found on stand C56.
(Lee Baldock)
Wayne Carlson, Harrah's sound supervisor for 17 years, is using two all-digital Lake Contour processors to control the entire main Meyer Sound speaker system, which he put together with the help of Glenn Hatch of Audio West, a system design and supply company. The Lake Contours are integrated with a wireless access point for remote control from a wireless tablet using Lake C
Can Buildings Curate is a completely flexible exhibition curated by Shumon Basar, Joshua Bolchover and Parag Sharma. It contains an average of fifteen exhibits including four sound pieces. This element of the show emphasises the importance of design techniques including audio. One of the original works at the AA Gallery was David Cunningham's Exterior, an exterior context-based installation in the front basement of the building, utilising JBL Control Series enclosures.
Harman communications manager Su Planta comments, "It has been reall
Kerns, who has only been with the band for a few weeks, has taken over from Jim Yakabuski who has retired from touring. "I had a week with Jim before I took over and did a few shows with him. This is my first tour actually taking a D5 and using it on a daily basis, but it is extremely flexible and it sounds great," he said. "Once you have it laid out and configured the way you want it everything becomes incredibly flexible."
As well as mixing the show, Kerns also records every performance directly out of the desk and into a Pro Tools HD system. "We utilise the MADI outputs from the desk to track directly into a Pro Tools session, which the band members
