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USA - Celestion has dramatically increased the versatility of its CDX range with the launch of two new compact, lightweight Neodymium compression drivers - the CDX1-1730 and CDX1-1731.

These two models provide designers with a choice of mounting options (the CDX1-1730 is flange mount and the CDX1-1731 screw mount), while specifications for both devices are the same: 75-Watt power rating, 8 Ohm impedance, 110 dB sensitivity, 1.2-20 kHz frequency range, 1.75" voice coil and 1" throat exit.

According to senior project engineer, Paul Cork: "These are very lightweight and compact compression drivers which bring together the best elements of technology used in all of our CDX range."

And, like other CDX compression drivers in the range, these new devices make extensive use of Celestion's industry-leading experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to optimize th

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UK - Entec Sound and Light supplied Russian superstar Philip Kirkorov with full lighting and sound production, and also co-ordinated other production elements including video and pyro for his sold out show at Hammersmith Apollo. It was part of an extensive two month European tour.

Entec has experience of working with several leading Russian artists, and for this show, their crew co-ordinated in advance with Kirkorov's touring crew to ensure the busy show day ran smoothly.

Lighting designer Boris Volkov design involved three upstage trussing triangles, constructed from mini-beam and hung off nine points from two rigging trusses, plus two straight A-type front and mid lighting trusses.

His operating style was based on 'beam technology' with lots of dramatic beam and gobo looks from lighting fixtures spread across all of the trussing elements. These included 26 Vari*Lite VL 200

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UK - Marquee Audio has recently supplied a KV2 Audio EX 10 active powered loudspeaker system to ITV's London Studios. Marquee's Rob Whitaker explains: "I was initially contacted by Luke Wallace at The London Studios who looks after their AV requirements. Initial discussions were based around a fixed installation but during further investigation, listening to how and what would be expected and taking into account the aesthetics of the room (clean lines, cool steel and lots of glass) it was decided that a highly flexible, but portable system which could be quickly set up and struck down would be the best solution, but without any of the sonic compromises that often occur when taking into account the client's requirements."

The room has to be used in several different ways including, green room, canteen and conference facility. Whitaker says: "The room is used in jus

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UK - Orbital has made the regenerated Novello Theatre in London's Aldwych "music-ready" to allow the Tristian Baker / Mark Goucher production of Footloose to take up residency in the West End following its successful provincial tour. In so doing, Orbital have broken new ground being the first to deploy Digidesign's new V2.0 D-Show software for the Venue digital desk.

Orbital had long selected this digital environment for the Footloose tour of duty. Feedback on the desk which the production company provided following last year's production of Annie Get Your Gun has largely been incorporated into the new D-Show operating software, giving it the same cachet in the theatre world as it has been enjoying in the rock 'n' roll environment.

"A lot of minor issues have been addressed, predominantly to do with Snapshots, which now make this desk awesom

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USA - After their month long Ear Candy contest and along with the announcement of the winner of Serial #001, API Audio is pleased to announce it's new product called the A2D.

The A2D integrates two 312 discrete mic preamps with API's new proprietary analogue to digital converters into a 1U rack space unit. It represents the first digital offering in API¹s successful line of microphone amplifiers and signal processing modules.

"When we began design of the A2D, we wanted to do it right. We knew the analogue to digital converters had to be the best possible to fully complement two of our 312 discrete mic amps, one of our most popular mic amp designs for over 25 years," says Larry Droppa, president of API. "And at the same time, we felt it was important to avoid the typical delays of announcing a new product and then shipping it much later. We're pleased to

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USA - Tim Eldridge of dBA Acoustics, a respected consulting and design services firm, recently helped raise the roof of the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum to allow for bigger audiences and better sound throughout. Initially a 10,000-seat indoor stadium, primarily used for events such as hockey games and various traveling shows, the venue's owner felt it was time to fully renovate and increase seating capacity by a third. This required the removal of the venue's roof. It was cut free and raised with cables while upper seating sections and suites were built underneath.

Today, the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat - and far more welcoming - live event destination. It even sounds better than before, thanks to Eldridge and his simple, yet capable acoustic measurement system featuring an Earthworks M30 microphone, SIA SmaartLive software, the TerraSonde Audio Too

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TC Electronic's press call detailed numerous products about to hit the market. Amongst these was the C300 Dual Stereo Gate/Compressor, a dual engine dynamics processor providing compression/limiting and gate/expansion, and which begins shipping in May. Also from TC, VoiceSolo is a new range of near-field voice monitors, optimized for easy setup with conventional microphone stands and booms. The range consists of the passive VSM-200P monitor, the active VSM-200 monitor, and the active VSM-300. All models are now shipping.

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German manufacturer K.M.E. launched two active professional stage monitors, the CLP 320 and CLP 350, to add to its Cluster Series. The CLP 320 is equipped with 12" + 1" neodymium loudspeaker, the CLP 350 with a 15" + 1" speaker combination. Both models have a 350W class D amplifier for high quality audio. Both monitors feature an optimized dispersion, due to the 80° x 60° rotatable horn. The low profile casings are equipped with an angle of 45°.

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"The Earth is covered largely by water," pointed out Sennheiser's Rolf Meyer, helpfully. "But a much larger area is reliably covered by Sennheiser RF." And with that, cue the introduction of Net 1, the first steps in the company's next generation of RF. Net 1 is a hub for up to 10 Sennheiser wireless systems, but is designed not to render the existing million-or-so channels of Sennheiser RF redundant overnight.

"You can count on Sennheiser RF forever," continued Meyer playfully. "I was recently in an environment that was inaccessible to most of us until the early '90s - where 15 years ago you'd have been shot, in fact, without authorization. But it had a 1036 Sennheiser RF system - deep in the recesses of the Kremlin! I can't tell you how it got there, but when I asked the sound guy if he wanted to upgrade to a newer system he said, 'WhyΩ It wor

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Baldwin Boxall displayed brand new voice alarm products and a new range of microphones, as well as pouring a good pint of real ale at this year's show. Vigil EVAS is a range of DSP controlled voice alarm products, Vigil Eclipse2 is a cost-effective wall-mountable voice alarm or public address system, and BDM400 is a networkable range of paging microphones. If these products are as good as their hospitality is warm, then they are onto a winner.

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USA - Renkus-Heinz will showcase its CF/CFX Series of high value, high performance loudspeakers at Infocomm with a live demonstration in demo roomW-203A. The self-powered CF Series incorporates the company's new PF-1 Intelligent Digital Amplifier, while the CFX Series is designed for use with external amplifiers.

The CF/CFX Series brings world-renowned Renkus-Heinz innovations, along with the brand's natural, balanced sonic performance, to a lower price point, says the company. Built to the company's stringent quality standards using the finest components and materials, each CF/CFX Series loudspeaker is rigorously inspected before shipping. To achieve cost efficiency, the CF/CFX Series uses simpler cabinet designs and offers fewer options than the product lines that have established Renkus-Heinz as a world leader in loudspeaker technology.

The CF/CFX Series includes six produc

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Behringer kicked things off with another 10 new products to add to the 32 launched at NAMM. "We continue to be all about value for money," said Michael Leidel, sales manager for Behringer's European Business Centre, which makes no distinction between pro audio and MI sales channels. "We're still very strong in small mixers and 19" rackmount units, but computer-based recording is the big future for us." Leidel also dismissed the recent news about Behringer being fined $1 million in the US as purely a local issue, with no effect on - or relevance to - European trading conditions. Moving on, then . . .

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Although RCF also had something to say in conferencing, sales director Fausto Incerti kicked off with a similar plug for its loudspeakers. "This year, with the introduction of the line array, we complete our offerings across all the different marketplaces," he said. "It's an important achievement because in such a short space of time we've completed the lines for fixed installation, for touring and theatre and for conferencing - as well as continuing our transducer developments. This is only the start of the third year of RCF's latest incarnation."

RCF's Forum 6000 is a fully digital congress control system, but will soon gain a bigger brother discussion system - "the most important in this product family," Incerti said. Prototypes were on display, as were new flying, rigging and installation solutions that single out the TT+ (Touring and Theatre) range, i

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USA - Ludacris, one of the top national hip-hop/rap acts, performed at the Erie Civic Center through a hybrid-active powered line array system using forty AL-10 mid/high enclosures and thirty-two LS-218 dual 18" subwoofers.

Raven Sound provided sound and light production, and set up went very smoothly, rolling in the AL-10s four to a wheelboard and rigging them directly. Some modification was needed after installation and, because of the EZAL hardware, it was a simple task to lower the speakers and re-focus the enclosures without taking the enclosures apart.

Phil Papotnik, Raven owner, noted the A-Line system performed flawlessly for the very demanding audio performance. "The LS-218 subs pumped out enough bass to vibrate the FOH position", says Papotnik. "The crowd loved it."

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Turbosound had three major launches at the show. TSB118 and TA500 are wide-dispersion models in the Aspect range for installation. "That's because Aspect is only 25°," explained European sales manager Dominic Harter, "so on smaller shows it can be expensive to cover a room. Also we have lots of Floodlight installations that are 10 or 12 years old, and we weren't previously offering an upgrade path to those customers. Now we are."

The other news surrounded the TCS52 ceiling speaker. "Turbosound hasn't had a massive name in contracting," said Harter, "so we launched a range at PLASA in that direction - although we still make the Impact speakers. It's important to service the whole job in installation - if you get the cloakrooms and ceilings, you'll probably get the PA as well. So it's all about colour options, weatherproofing and covering every angl

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L-Acoustics announced the availability of Version 1.3.0 of Soundvision, its three-dimensional sound design program. The latest software incorporates temporal mapping, speaker grouping and subwoofer visualization. Temporal mapping utility conveniently enables users to optimize the performance of their delay systems by displaying, in real-time, whether speakers are within or outside of a useful time delay. The new speaker grouping feature allows enclosures to be grouped by categories within the loudspeaker control panel. Models of L-Acoustics' subwoofers have been added to the program, allowing users to see the physical existence of low-frequency enclosures in a system design.

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Last month, the total number of visitors to the combined shows reached 100,000 for the first time, a 10% rise over last year, while exhibitors increased by 5%. And this over just four days, with a 16% rise in overseas visitors. No wonder there are long queues at the taxi ranks.

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The new Pro Lounge opposite Hall 8 is actually a marquee, erected in one of the many inter-hall plazas that break up the Messe site into architectural respites. In it you can actually hear audio - including, at 4:00pm on the first day, the redoubtable Thomas Blug & Friends. "If you like the guitar playing of Jeff Beck and David Gilmour," said the poster, "it's a safe bet you'll like Thomas Blug."

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Neumann showed its stage microphones, the KK104 and KK105s. The capsule head of the KMS vocal microphone, compatible with the Sennheiser SKM 5000 / 5200 wireless system, makes wireless Neumann sound possible on the stage.

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Court Acoustics presented its Vocal Management System, designed for both live and studio applications. The VMS provides the singer with all the sound processing they could require, in a 1U rack-mounting box. Designed by Stephen Court in a joint venture with Recording Studio Design Ltd, and described by him as "a complete voice control and enhancement system which doesn't require any technical set-up".

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Prior to a special presentation of HK Audio's swathe of new gear, African drummer Christian Bourdon warmed delegates up with a spot of mbala. HK then rolled out the new generation of the 8-year old LUCAS family of compact, active enclosures featuring several innovations - not least Digital Dynamics Optimisation (DDO) technology, an integrated, preset-configured digital controller. The new ConTour Array also features a higher-spec'd version, DDO-Pro.

"Contour follows on from Cohedra and Cohedra Compact," explained HK Audio's Marketing Manager Philipp Wrede. "But unlike Cohedra it's an active system, something the market demanded from us. It's very fast and easy to set up, with presets according to how many units you're using and whether you're flying or stacking - great for small-to-mid-range applications, say between 200 and 800 people. Cohedra remains the large-scale fl

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Nexo has finally sequelled its successful Geo S and Geo T tangent-array systems with the Geo D and Geo Sub, which as much as anything offer refinements implicit in previous models rather than breaking the mould: both Hyperbolic Wavesource and NX242 gain upgrades. Once again, the new generation "allows an unprecedented entry point" to line array technology, and it's the small-to-medium sized occasions that will get the benefit.

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Martin Audio debuted the W8L 'Longbow', a product to stretch even tauter the muscles that fire the arrows of line array. "It's abouta 10dB extra HF improvement on the W8L," said Martin Audio design guru Jim Cousins, "so it's for situations where you need a very long throw - particularly in dry air conditions where you get a lot of air absorption. It also has a new LF driver with much better headroom, so generally speaking it has a wider bandwidth at much greater distance than similar-sized line arrays."

The W8LCD is a downfill addition to each of Martin Audio's line array series, with 120° horizontal dispersion, 20° vertical. "It means you can run the array straighter," added Cousins, "so you get more projection and it works more like a line array should. It completes the range. But, as with other Martin line array, you can use it separately i

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Shure unveiled its new Digital Conferencing Processor, DCP 1248, which offers Diversity Echo Cancellation per channel for clean and consistent speech quality, regardless of environmental conditions. While one Echo Cancellation processor is active, the other processor simultaneously monitors the channel to compensate for changes in the environment.

The DCP 1248 Conferencing Processor includes 12 mic/line level inputs, each with logic inputs and outputs, four line level inputs, and eight line level outputs. Through Shure's CABus network, up to eight units can be linked, resulting in up to 96 x 64 auto-mixable microphone channels.

Also launching was a wired version of Shures's KSM9 wireless capsule. KSM9 is the first live vocal microphone with a dual-diaphragm design and switchable cardioid/supercardioid polar pattern, crafted to deliver vocal subtlety, flexibility and durability, say t

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