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UK - Bosch Security Systems is enhancing its Praesideo Public Address and Emergency Evacuation System with a new Remote Call Station and Call Station Interface that use CAT-5 (Category 5) cabling.

The use of CAT-5 cabling, the industry standard for data communications in computer and IP networks, gives the Praesideo system even more flexibility in system design. The new Remote Call Stations can be located up to one kilometre away from the Call Station Interface. Other advantages of using CAT-5 cabling are that it does not add to the Praesideo's system bus length and it makes call station installation easier, says Bosch.

The new Remote Call Station - the LBB4438/00 - can be powered either by the Call Station Interface or from a local power supply if a large number of keypads are to be used at long distance. The LBB4438/00 can be extended with up to 16 keypads each with eight co

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Switzerland - Butterfly line-arrays played a key role at the St. Jackob stadium in Basle, on the occasion of an ecumenical mass attended by 5,000 people. Blackburn Productions deployed 24 CDH 483 Hi-Pack modules, backed up by eight Victor Live subwoofers. H.A.R.D. 212 monitors were used for the musicians and choir and Bomber systems on side-fill chores. Amplification was courtesy of T series power amps and the system was controlled by new Genius 26 DSP, also by Outline.

Christof Mäder, owner of Blackburn Productions, commented: "The area to be covered in the stadium was 140 metres long, but I didn't need delay systems. The VIP software, as always was very precise and reliable. It would be no exaggeration to say that the sound was wonderful and intelligibility really high."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Thirteen Ampetronic induction loop systems have been included in a brand new hostel at St Evelina Children's Hospital, London. Installed by regular Ampetronic client Scanaudio, the hospital features 12 ILD20 and one ILD252 loop amplifiers.

At the hospital's main reception, two ILD20-driven base station loops ensure the communication process is as clear as possible from the moment that visitors arrive. Ten further ILD20 loops are installed at nurse stations and in the wards throughout the hospital, ensuring visitors with a hearing impairment can discuss anything they need with the staff, while not disturbing patients. They also have the additional benefit of helping any of the patients who may have a hearing impairment.

A perimeter induction loop is also installed in the hospital's main meeting room, powered by an ILD252 and including a condenser microphone for presentatio

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USA - St. Joseph's and St. Patrick's Church in Escanaba, Mich, has a new sound system installed by Eagle Communication and featuring EAW DSA series loudspeakers. The system was installed by Eagle's co-owner Tony Rogalski who has installed systems in more than 1,200 churches. The long-established church was having problems with noise reflection from its shiny gloss-painted surfaces.

"The church described the exact problem I had just solved for a massive old church in downtown Detroit," explained Rogalski. "With hard surfaces like marble, wood and stained glass, old churches frequently battle reverberation when it comes to the spoken word. At the same time, these same churches often reject traditional damping methods, such as acoustic panelling, because they don't want to cover or in any way mar the traditional and well-loved aesthetic of the old buildings."

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Germany - Over 65,000 concert-goers attended this year's Popkomm festival in Berlin, where more than 1,500 musicians from 23 different countries provided over 400 hours of live music in 30 different clubs and halls around the city. In the thick of the action was the Berlin production company TSE AG: the team lead by Marcel Fery was responsible for both the lighting and the sound at many of the main events, including one of the real highlights of this year's Popkomm, the MTV Designerama Fashion Show.

The centrepiece of the sound design, for an event that received widespread media coverage within Germany and drew a large TV audience throughout Europe, was an Electro-Voice X-Line, Midas consoles and processors and EQs from Klark Teknik.

Commented Fery: "The extremely wide stage in the Berlin Arena held no terrors for the EV system, with its coverage angle of 120 degre

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World - The White Stripes tour has seen the minimalist rock duo delivering performances to sold-out crowds on several continents. Six years and five albums into their careers, the duo of Jack and Meg White show no signs of slowing down.

Detroit-based Thunder Audio has been providing the sound for much of this year's foray, based around an array of 24 Meyer Sound MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers. FOH engineer Matthew Kettle, mixing the band on a Midas Heritage 3000 console, favours a stripped-down approach that calls for little in the way of effects, other than a bit of compression and a slight touch of reverb. Two LD-3 compensating line drivers provide system drive processing, while status of the loudspeakers are monitored from a laptop computer running RMS remote monitoring system software.

"The MILO rigs, in particular, have proved to be quite versatile,&q

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UK - Following significant growth over recent years, Baldwin Boxall Communications has appointed four new directors. Established in 1982 with just two staff members, the company has gone from strength to strength, and now employs around 50 people.

Nick Baldwin has been appointed marketing director. Previously employed as marketing manager, Nick has been with the company since 1999 and has been responsible for ensuring that the Baldwin Boxall remains the first name for VA. He also draws a good pint at Baldwin Boxall's very popular exhibition stand.

Neil Jarvis, working in the sales department since 1988, has been promoted from sales manager to sales director. Steve Reed, who has been working in the company's R&D office for over nine years and has seen the development of many new products, including the very popular CommuniCare range, becomes design director. Chris Trent becomes

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USA / UK - Sennheiser was recognized with the Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Award for Microphone Technology/Sound Reinforcement for the Evolution e900 Series of backline mics at the 21st annual TEC Award ceremony. The presentation was made at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City during the annual AES convention.

The 900 Series microphones are designed for professional musicians, PA rental companies and rehearsal studios, and are optimised to handle a wide range of electric and acoustic instruments.

This is the third TEC Award honour for Sennheiser since 2002. The company was awarded top honours in 2003 in the Wireless Technology category for the hybrid Sennheiser SKM5000-N/Neumann KK105-S, and in 2002 won in the Ancillary Equipment category for the Sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones.

• At the recent MIA Music Awards ceremony held in The Savoy, London, S

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UK - Sound Division has completed the installation of a JBL background music system into the prestigious china and glassware retailer, Waterford Wedgewood, in London's Piccadilly Arcade off Jermyn Street, Mayfair. The brief was for a high quality background music system zoned into two areas with remote level control for each zone. Sound Division supplied and installed a total of eight white JBL Control 23 loudspeakers on a 100V-line system complete with a Cloud 3650 dual-zone mixer/amplifier and a Pioneer multi-CD player.

"We were working to a very tight schedule," explained Sound Division's David Graham. "We had to be in and out in just one working day in order to cause minimum disruption to the establishment and its customers. It meant a pretty early start, but we got the entire system installed, wired, tested and handed over within the given time-frame. Waterfo

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China - Britain's leading induction loop design and manufacturing company Ampetronic has scored a double first in China: the first 'first' was to appoint Shenzhen-based Amtor Ltd as its first Chinese distributor. The next, following on from the deal, is that Amtor is designing what it claims to be the very first induction loop system ever to be installed in China - using Ampetronic equipment.

The system is being designed for the Chengdu Handicapped Healing Centre, an eight-floor facility that will offer education, healthcare, healing and entertainments services. 10 induction loops will be installed, using Ampetronic ILD20, ILD60, ILD122, ILD252 loop amplifiers.

Unlike in the Western world, China currently has no legislation that requires induction loops to be installed, as Amtor's Tony Xu explains: "Induction loops are both a new idea and new technology for China. Governm

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World - Being named 'One of the Most 100 Influential People in the World' by Time Magazine is an accolade not usually bestowed on musicians. Yet, Latin musical sensation Juanes takes it all in his stride. With five recent nominations for the Video Music Awards together with three Latin Grammy nominations for his multi-platinum album, 'Mi Sangre', the Colombian rock-superstar is causing a real stir. Juanes is now wowing his fans on his extensive World Tour.

Veteran FOH engineer, Rob Colby has mixed for the likes of Ricky Martin, Shakira and Luis Miguel over the past three years. He has now been mixing Juanes since January 2005, racking up 90 shows so far with 17 sold out in Spain.

The sound system for the tour is being supplied by Showco - a company Colby has worked with for 28 years: "The guys are just great and have always been such a great support network, not only for

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India - Popular Bangalore DJ, DJ Ivan, has taken delivery of India's first Soundcraft Urei 1620 LE, DJ mixer, supplied by Harman Pro Group distributor, Cinetekk. DJ Ivan praised the mixer's sound and tonal quality, saying: "Never before have I felt such warmth, and such a clean sound from a DJ mixer."

As one of India's leading DJs, Ivan's career began 10 years ago at the Time & Again nightclub in Bangalore, where he played for three years. He then went on to become the official DJ for Star Television Network's music channel, Channel V in India, representing them as their official DJ all over the country. In 1998, he finished runner-up at the DMC World Championships in India, while Channel V also nominated him as the best Indian Club DJ for the 1998 Channel V awards.

DJ Ivan became the first (and only) Indian DJ to play alongside DJs Paulette and Spencer on the Minist

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UK - The RNID and the TUC are warning that changes in the Licensing Act, allowing 24 hour opening, will lead to an increased likelihood of workers in bars, clubs and pubs being exposed to dangerously loud noise for longer. They fear extended opening hours will mean the 568,000 people already working in this growing industry will be subjected to music so loud they could lose or permanently damage their hearing.

Noise at Work is the theme of this year's European Week for Safety and Health at Work (24-30 October 2005). Noise is one of the most underestimated workplace risks and RNID, the largest charity representing the nine million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK, and the TUC is urging employers to do more to protect workers' hearing. Excessive noise in the workplace has caused half a million people in Great Britain to suffer deafness or other ear conditions, they say, a

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UK - Peavey recently installed a full front-of-house PA system at North London's legendary biker hangout, the Ace Café. Timed to coincide with the Ace Café's annual reunion, this year's event attracted over 3,000 dedicated bikers from around London, the rest of the UK and Europe. Having been restored to its former glory years of the 50s and 60s, the Ace Café now benefits from a Peavey PA rig comprising two QW2 enclosures, two QW118 subwoofers, Peavey GPS power amps, PV14 compact mixer, PV EQ231 graphic EQ, Audio Link and two Peavey Feedback Ferret effects processors.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Renowned touring theatre company, Kneehigh, recently purchased a 24-channel Allen & Heath GL4800 multi-purpose live sound mixer for use on the national tour of their play, Tristan & Yseult.

"The GL4800 was purchased specifically for the Tristan & Yseult production but it is a long term investment for future shows," says sound designer Greg Clarke. "We needed to upgrade our old desk in both quality and capacity, especially as the company relies heavily on live music in performance. We are really happy with the sonic quality of the GL, plus it's a versatile board with all the bells and whistles. It is simply a tremendous desk for the price point, and it's British!"

The play was staged at the National Theatre in London during the spring, and the Company recently embarked on a UK tour including dates at the Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhou

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UK - Rees Sound UK, the major Carmarthen based AV hire company, has purchased eight channels of Audio-Technica Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF, true-diversity wireless microphone systems. The systems were purchased, initially, for use on this year's Cancer Research UK's Race For Life sponsored by Tesco.

Taking place in 10 locations across the UK, Rees Sound UK deployed the 5000 Series systems with its 30kW EAW PA system at the charity's events. The systems purchased comprised eight AEW-R5200 true diversity, frequency-agile dual channel receivers, eight AEW-T6100 hypercardioid, dynamic microphone handheld transmitters, eight AEW-T1000 UniPak beltpack transmitters, eight AT899 subminiature, omnidirectional, condenser clip-mics, and eight ATM73A cardioid, condenser headband mics.

Managing director Roger Rees was responsible for the purchase of the A-T systems. He said: "We use

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UK - Oxford-based Beat Audio has designed, supplied and installed a fully integrated Funktion One audio system throughout the newly refurbished Lemon Grove venue at Exeter University Student's Guild with support from Dave Cole of Blue Box London Ltd. The 800 capacity venue has just undergone a £100,000 technical refit as part of an overall £1 million facelift to the entire student complex.

Beat Audio's Mark Kelly conducted several site visits, designed a system and liaised with Funktion One. At the Guild's request he also helped arrange lighting for the venue, so he introduced Neil Marsh of Hayden Cruickshank's Colour Sound Experiment to advise, design and supply this element of the project.

The main gig is geared towards DJ performance with some live acts. Kelly started at the bass of the matter, with two Funktion One 218 bass bins per side, added to which are two

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Czech Republic - The biggest annual hip-hop festival in Central and Eastern Europe took place for the fourth time in the abandoned section of a former military airport, close to the City of Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic recently.

With more than 16,000 hip-hop fans attending Hip Hop Kemp 2005, the event became the most successful to date. Although the weather was far from perfect, and heavy rains complicated the preparation for the event, the summer miraculously returned on the first morning and temperatures exceeding 27°C persisted throughout the entire three days. This, coupled with big name line-ups and nine stages serving up non-stop music, resulted in a fantastic overall atmosphere.

Urei took control of the second largest stage - situated in a giant steel concrete military hanger - which saw performances from many of the world's top DJs, MCs and hip-hop bands. Furt

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Japan - The recently opened Hyogo Performing Arts Centre features a 2,000 seat Grand Hall for classical, opera and ballet; a Theatre that accommodates 800, a small chamber style Recital Hall seating 400, as well as rehearsal facilities. Motoo Komada of Nagata Acoustics was commissioned to provide the acoustic design and consultation services. The Grand Hall is installed with a d&b audiotechnik C4 system, the Theatre Hall with L'Acoustics, and the Recital Hall again with d&b as a mobile system.

The permanent installed system is powered by ninety-three E-PAC amplifiers, which are all remotely controlled by the d&b Remote network using ROPE C. For special requirements there is also a mobile Q-Series system available to meet the specific requirements of various stage performances that can be used in either a stacked or flown arrangement.

Boris Rehders from d&b's central applicatio

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Europe - An array of new products and technologies is being launched by Bose this autumn during a roadshow that will take place in eight European countries and showcase the new lines to more than 1,000 of the company's ProPartners, authorised dealers, consultants and press from 22 countries. The road show, titled 'Performance by Design' underlines the ability of Bose and its partners to offer totally integrated solutions for engineered sound systems and multi-zone background applications.

Each show will act as the launch pad for a number of new products which either complement existing product ranges such as the Panaray LT loudspeaker family, or are a completely new addition to the Bose range, such as the ControlSpace systems. The latest version of MODELER sound system software and the patented Auditioner playback system will raise the bar in terms of sound system simulation cap

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UK - Vieta Pro loudspeakers have been chosen for the Harbour Bar in Portrush, Northern Ireland, a venue which has one of the best panoramic views in Europe. The installation was carried out by Light & Sound FX of Coleraine, NI.

The Harbour Bay has been extensively refurbished by owners George and Jane McAlpine, who operate two other outlets - the Ramore wine bar and Coast Italiano - which share the stunning location. Now the Harbour Bar also presents live music and AV programming in its lounge-bar environment. Owner George McAlpine had a clear idea of what he wanted from his investment in new sound and vision equipment, says installer Darren Gardiner, owner of Light & Sound FX.

"George wanted to create a sophisticated, but cool atmosphere, with a lot of emphasis on the look and style of all the fittings in the venue. He particularly did not want standard ugly boxes random

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Croatia - Jazz/fusion outfit Yellowjackets performed a live two-hour concert on Radio Zagreb recently to wide critical acclaim. For the event, they used a system supplied by Croatian sound company Mr. Pink.

The sound team led by Mr. Pink's MD, Zoran Hügl, employed a mixture of Dynacord, EV and Klark Teknik components, the centrepiece of which was a Dynacord Cobra-2 rig.

The group, which comprises bass player Jimmy Haslip, saxophonist Bob Mintzer, keyboard player Russell Ferrante and new drummer Marcus Baylor, emerged in 1977 in the course of sessions for a Robben Ford album. Since, they have released over twenty albums. They are presently on an extended European tour.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - A.C. Lighting's Audio division has been appointed as the exclusive UK dealer for Kling & Freitag sound systems. Kling & Freitag are one of Europe's leading manufacturers of high end loudspeaker systems for the professional sound reinforcement market, producing an extensive range of system solutions for PA, touring and permanent installations.

Under the new deal, A.C. Lighting will be working closely with VME, the manufacturer's UK importer and distributor. VME, based in Cheshire, have the largest hire stock of Kling & Freitag products in Europe, and are the service and technical team for K&F in the UK.

After various demo's and following a recent install, A.C Audio sales manager Peter Butler commented: "The K & F range fits very neatly into our current portfolio and the quality is outstanding."

Jon Sugden, VME business manager commented: "A.C. Lighting is

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Denmark - DPA Microphones continues to broaden its network of European distributors with the appointment of representatives in Slovakia and Hungary.

G-Tec Professional was established in Slovakia in 2003 by Martin Gustafik, who has wide experience of working in the audio industry. The company specialises in the broadcast, theatrical and rental markets.

Gustafik comments, "Although our company is still not large, after just two years of operation we are distributing internationally-renowned brands, our network of customers is growing, turnover is increasing all the time, and the G-Tec Professional name is acknowledged and respected by much older competitors in the local market."

Bluesound in Budapest has been appointed as the new DPA distributor for Hungary. Founded early last year, Bluesound brings a range of high-end pro audio brands to the country. DPA joins Sadi

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