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UK - Worcestershire-based Intasound PA has a long history of running Martin Audio rigs as their premier PA - dating back to the classic F2 of the early 90s. Since then they have kept pace with the changing technology, having been an early adopter of the Wavefront 8 Compact - and now the W8LM Mini Line Array.

Francis Dale who runs the PA company, has already fielded the company's 14 W8LMs and two W8LMD down-fill boxes in large capacity theatres and summer events, including the tour by illusionist Derren Brown and a two-day event at the National Trust-owned Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury, home of the Rothschild family.

This event included six full orchestras and on the second (Amphitheatre) stage Intasound ran 10 W8LMs and two W8LMDs on each side. "We've also done a Proms concert with the LMs - so they've seen a good cross section of work," says Dale. "We always u

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UK - Sandra Cockell, former co-owner of Formula Sound, has announced that she will retire from business life at the end of August. Her husband Tony started the company in 1972 and Sandra joined seven years later. "It was only supposed to be on a part-time temporary basis to help out in the assembly area," says Sandra. "I never envisaged that I would be here until I retired."

The company grew to be one of the most respected award-winning manufacturers in the audio industry and Sandra worked in most of its departments, eventually being responsible for sales.

The company was sold in September 2005 to Naina International, with Sandra agreeing to work with the company for a year to help with the hand-over. "I am really pleased that things are continuing as before with the same loyal and experienced staff who are determined to maintain the high standards whi

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Germany - During the FIFA Football World Cup, huge events were taking place beside the numerous football matches in the 12 German World Cup cities. The most important events outside the stadiums were the official FIFA Fan Fests with big open air stages and LED video walls on which every match was shown live.

In four of the 12 cities - Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern, an HK Audio Cohedra system was applied for the FIFA Fan Fests. Rental company Ostalb PA based in the Swabian town of Westhausen near Aalen was taking care of the four stages, supported by the Cohedra User Network. Besides the live broadcasts of the matches, several promotional activities of the World Cup corporate sponsors and many concerts with international acts were taking place at the FIFA Fan Fests.

Munich, Nuremberg and Kaiserslautern each have a Cohedra 2x12 system, with an additional

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UK - Having worked on similar events in Leicester over the last eighteen years, Hawthorns secured the opportunity from the Jalaram Charitable Trust, Leicester, to provide the power, sound, video and lighting systems for this year's special festival.

With the visit of the religious leader, Morari Bapu, the organisers changed the festival to a more corporate style format including the erection of an enclosed Arena TFT structure 95 metres long, 50 metres wide and 16 metres in height to the apex, accommodating 8000 people.

In order to power the whole site, two pairs of generators were used, one of which was a one megawatt set, which provided all the power to the catering facilities, lighting, sound and the all important air conditioning, given the recent temperatures.

To illuminate the Arena TFT structure and stage both decoratively and safely, over 250KW of lighting was used.

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Philippines - More than 100 bands rocked at the new SM Mall of Asia at the recent Fete de la Musique Festival, in Manila, Philippines as part of 'French Spring in Manila' celebration. The festival, which was held at the SM Mall of ASIA for the first time, was divided into four stages, playing various genres from rock, heavy metal, indie and pop - and ran from mid afternoon of the Saturday to the break of dawn of Sunday.

Sound reinforcement for the four stages was supplied by local hire company Stage Pro sound and lights, owned and operated by Ronnie Osabel, whose says his ideal sound system is "one that goes up fast, needs little or no tweaking, offers many years of service and pleases the ears of sound techs of bands and singers - and with RCF's 4PRO system, we've found it."

Stage Pro has recently taken delivery of the 4PRO-6001 Powered 3-way Speakers, 4PRO-3002SMA

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Germany - The sixth Straubing Bürgerfest wasan experience to remember. In the course of the weekend from 23-25 June, over 100,000 people flocked to the city, which besides producing electrical equipment and beer is the major market centre for the fertile Gäuboden plain, to visit the patchwork of booths, savour a smorgasbord of culinary delights from 20 different countries, and enjoy musical and cabaret performances distributed between nine different stages.

Providing sound reinforcement for the four largest stages was the responsibility of the Straubing-based sound company StereoMike, whose engineers, directed by MD Mike Wittenzellner, relied exclusively on systems from EVI Audio. He says: "I even received a thank-you letter from the organizers in which they noted that 'the professional stage equipment was 100 per cent convincing' - a compliment we found highly gratifying

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Switzerland - Celebrating its 40th year-and the 70th birthday of founder Claude Nobs-Montreux Jazz is noted for its diverse line-up and international attendance. In its first year as a festival sponsor, Digidesign collaborated with the audio staff to consolidate and streamline the technology, most notably by bringing its award-winning Venue live sound mixing environment and DigiDelivery high-speed file transmission system to the event.

Comprised of the D-Show digital mixing console, the FOH rack, the Stage rack and a multichannel digital snake system, Venue was used at FOH and monitor positions in three of the major venues of the festival: the Auditorium Stravinski, the Miles Davis Hall and the Casino Barrière. Digidesign also provided a console for the Jazz Café.

Many of the 30-plus visiting sound engineers took advantage of the Pro Tools recording options. The HDx op

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Canada - Dog Day Afternoon was held at Toronto's Historic Fort York. Headliners Metric performed at the first two Toronto Island festivals in 2004 and 2005, at this year's SXSW in Austin, as well as their recent tour's kick-off dates at the Koolhaus in Toronto and dates across Ontario and Quebec on an Adamson rig.

Engineer Sean Richards is FOH and is a big fan of the Adamson Y-Axis line. Richards, who continues to request the system, says: "Mixing Metric on an Adamson Y10 system, I am getting the clarity, range and focus I need for their inherent subtleties, along with just enough bite to justify a rock band that needs to be heard as a rock band in their increasingly energetic shows."

Toronto's Towers Productions provided full production for the event. The stage was erected directly in front of the Toronto downtown skyline on a wonderfully hidden green space just alo

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UK - It would appear that business has developed a distinctly oriental flavour for AV installation specialists, Sound Division. Hard on the heels of the installation in the exclusive Just Oriental in London's Picadilly comes a comprehensive AV installation into a brand new bar called the V-Bar which belongs to the adjoining Mandarin Palace Chinese restaurant in Hornchurch in Essex. In this instance the client required a full PA set-up, lighting and plasma screen in addition to a background music system.

Sound Division's David Graham explained that the V-Bar is a new piano bar that is attached to the main restaurant. "It's a very picturesque setting so they wanted to make the most of it with a proper professional set-up." To this end, Sound Division supplied and installed a pair of Martin Audio Blackline F10 2-way passive loudspeaker systems on stands, a Soundcraft Foli

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Norway - Oslo-based PA company Frontlite has made a substantial investment in Nexo's Geo T tangent-array loudspeaker systems, ordering one of the largest rental inventories of the year to date. Used in full, the new 24-a-side Geo T rig will be capable of handling the very largest events in Norway.

Frontlite placed its order for Geo T and a number of Camco amplifiers following a visit to the Monsters of Rock festival in the UK. Frontlite's head of audio Stuart Kerrison had wanted to hear the system at a large event, and, with 85 cabinets of Geo T supplied by SSE Audio Group for artists such as Deep Purple and Alice Cooper, the Milton Keynes show was the ideal audition. On hand to offer advice were Jon Petter Westerlund of PSS and Asle Skårslette of FotoPhono, François Deffarges of Nexo and Mick Anderson of Camco.

"We already had Nexo Alpha cabinets," explains Kerris

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UK - Entec Sound & Light supplied audio and lighting production for three of the seven stages at Guilfest 2006 now in its 15th year. Guilfest is one of the most popular 'new wave' family festivals on the calendar.

It's the fifth year for Entec Lighting and the second year that Entec Sound have been involved at Guilfest. The departments provided sound and Lighting production services to the Radio 2 Main Stage and the Rock Sound Stage. The Lighting Department also installed a system into the Theatre Tent for the Howard Cragg's festival team to service.

Having taken delivery of their new d&b audiotechnik J-Series line array, Entec naturally used this for the main stage, where headliners included Embrace, A-Ha and Billy Idol. The system was designed by Stef Serpagli, and featured eight J8's and two J12 elements per side for the main arrays, neatly tucked in behind some elegant tri

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USA - Continuing its close relationship with the house of worship market, Aviom has signed on as a Gold Sponsor of Fits and Starts Production's popular 'How to' sound workshops church tour. Designed specifically for to raise the audio proficiency and knowledge level of church sound personnel, praise team musicians and ministers of music, the two-day hands-on workshops offer the latest in gear and techniques, and are taught by live sound and recording engineers who have decades of experience in these fields.

As part of the sponsorship, Aviom has provided the workshop tour with its Pro16 personal monitor mixing system. In addition to being covered as part of the instructional portion of the program, workshop participants will experience using the Aviom personal mixers during a live performance of a local praise team during the second day.

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USA - Sennheiser has sponsored the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, which celebrates the essential contributions made by generations of talented musicians in all genres of music. The company has outfitted the complex with a broad selection of Neumann and Sennheiser microphones for the performance space.

The Museum is the brainchild of Nashville songwriter Joe Chambers, who also owns a chain of guitar stores in the area. The 30,000sq.ft. complex, located in downtown Nashville close by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Gaylord Entertainment Centre and Ryman Auditorium, includes a 5,000sq.ft performance hall, a 1,100sq.ft. screening theatre, music instruction rooms and a state-of-the-art recording studio.

Renowned audio engineer TC Furlong of the Illinois-based professional audio company, TC Furlong Inc. provided system design and supervised the installation of the

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UK - UK mixer manufacturer, Allen & Heath, has introduced a new finance scheme for its UK operation, whereby the company is able to offer finance to UK dealers and customers.

"As technology becomes more sophisticated, many of the small and medium sized PA and installation companies are finding it financially difficult to adopt this new technology," explains sales director, Bob Goleniowski. "We have devised a flexible scheme in partnership with Barclays Asset Finance, which is open to any of our UK dealers or their customers. Barclays can assist companies undertaking large projects, and can help to finance the entire venture, not just the Allen & Heath part."

Customers will be offered competitive rates for projects worth over £5000, and finance packages can be tailored to meet customers' individual requirements. Barclays Asset Finance is already active

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USA - Aviom is announcing several promotions and staff additions that, they say, reflects the company's rapid growth and support the increasing number of markets for the company's technology.

Aviom co-founder Tom Costello has been appointed chief operating officer from his previous role of vice president. His responsibilities include managing the company's day-to-day operations and product development. Also, central regional sales manager Tom Knesel has been promoted to national field sales manager.

Additionally, the company has added six staff members to its growing team. Kim Treanor has joined as executive assistant to president/CEO Carl Bader; Rachael Morris as graphic artist for the marketing department; Mark Gutekunst as field applications engineer; Kaori Nijinsky as sales administrator; Roland Morris as PCB layout designer; and Nick Minnot has been appointed product tes

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USA - Production services provider Big Mo Pro (BMP) of Parsippany, NJ, recently brought out its L-Acoustics Kudo rig for a pair of events at Liberty State Park on Jersey City's waterfront.

With Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan as the spectacular backdrop, BMP provided sound and lighting for the big LibertyJAM concert on Sunday 25June, featuring a line-up of artists, including Cheap Trick, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Los Lobos, Patti Smith, The Smithereens, Fab Faux, John Eddie and Exit 105. Celebrating the park's historic 30th anniversary, the purpose of the event was to raise funds to benefit The Friends of Liberty State Park, a non-profit volunteer organisation dedicated to preserving and improving the park for free public use.

For concert sound reinforcement, BMP chose to fly a twin pair of 15-box Kudo arrays. "Kudo was perfect for Li

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Norway - Oslo-based sound rental company Lyd Partner A/S has purchased a number of Nexo's Geo D tangent-array cabinets as part of a new system, which has made its first appearance in Norway on an outdoor concert featuring Deep Purple.

Lyd Partner already has experience of Nexo products, being a supplier of Geo S, Alpha E and Alpha systems. With confidence in the Nexo brand, it was natural that Marius Ryen and his colleagues would turn to Nexo to meet their requirement for a line array system, and their timing coincided with the launch of Nexo's Geo D cabinets. After demos of the loudspeakers at the Spring AES, the deal was sealed by an irresistible offer from PSS/FotoPhono, Nexo's Norwegian distibutors, to purchase a matching 24-box system for its own inventory, thereby increasing the possibilities for Lyd Partner to assemble larger rigs or several smaller ones.

Lyd Partner ha

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Hungary - Audiovisual systems specialist, Interton, has completed a project in the Hungarian city of Debrecen. The new Kölcsey Congress Centre is the country's second largest facility of its kind and forms a multifunctional centre for Debrecen's unique cultural life.

The Kölcsey Centre includes three buildings, a Congress Centre, a Hotel and a Museum. The Congress Centre, in which Interton designed and installed all of the sound and video systems, contains a large auditorium with seating for 1,100 people, a ballroom, eight partitioned rooms and a multifunctional ballroom / exhibition space as well as a small AV studio and an impressive entrance foyer. The complexity of the project was summed up by Dr Géza Balogh, technical manager of Interton, "The building 'ate' more than 30km of AV cabling. We installed more than 350 loudspeakers driven by over 40,000W of

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UK - Cadac Electronics will be launching its new S-Digital mixing console on Stand No: AA21 at the PLASA 2006 exhibition, taking place from 10-13 September at Earl's Court in London.

The Cadac S-Digital is designed primarily for live theatre applications, building on the company's 20-year history at the forefront of theatre sound. In a major departure from conventional paradigms in digital console design, the S-Digital is specifically conceived to reflect the surface architecture of Cadac's industry standard J-Type analogue console.

The S-Digital combines the instant usability and familiarity of an analogue console with the acclaimed build quality, sound, ease of operation, reliability and unequalled return on investment that are the hallmarks of a Cadac console, says the company. It offers sound designers, producers and theatre owners a digital alternative to the Cadac J-Type

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China - Prolight + Sound Shanghai, the Frankfurt fair's younger sibling, will make its fourth showing in China from 18 - 21 October 2006, alongside the international MI show Music China. As of June around 170 exhibitors have signed up to take part in the fair, from the pro-audio, lighting and entertainment technology sectors. A special 'Premier Contractor Seminar' running in conjunction with the show is expected to attract hundreds of event contractors, specialised engineers and technicians from across China.

Pro-audio, specialist lighting and entertainment suppliers from around the world can find a strong and growing market in mainland China. Companies from China, Germany, France, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK and the USA have already signed up to be a part of Prolight + Sound Shanghai.

Prolight + Sound Shanghai will feature a Taiwanese Pavilion fo

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Germany - Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG concluded financial year 2005 with an almost 15 percent rise in sales, the company reports. The Sennheiser Group had sales of € 300.4 million over the year, with all geographical markets and all business sectors contributing to the growth. Particularly interesting was the development in the consumer electronics and professional wireless technology sectors, as well as in the joint venture Sennheiser Communications.

"The continuously successful work performed by development, marketing and production as well as the untiring commitment of our sales subsidiaries and partners in the individual countries have made this good result possible," said Rolf Meyer, president of marketing and sales and speaker of the Executive Committee, on presenting the balance sheet at the company's press conference.

"We have completed our anni

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Norway - Camco is delivering a substantial consignment of its flagship amplifier products to Norway this month, as the country's leading rental companies (Frontlite, FotoPhone and LydPartner) upgrade their audio inventory, with renewed emphasis on the principles of system power and system flexibility.

The largest customer is Oslo-based Frontlite, which has chosen 30 Camco Vortex 6 and 14 Camco Vortex 200V amps to power its new Nexo Geo T system. According to Frontlite's head of audio, Stuart Kerrison, the reason for buying so many amps was the extra flexibility he gained from the system.

"In Norway, we cater for audiences ranging from 50 people to 20,000 people, so we need a really versatile system. We want to be able to break up our Geo T system into three smaller systems, or to split it in half with each system being capable of handling a festival for 5,000 people or go

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UK - Cheshire-based VME Ltd. used a selection of Allen & Heath mixers for theseventh annual Wakestock festival, which took place in July in North Wales. With a record sell-out crowd of 20,000 visitors, and three arenas of top DJs and bands, Wakestock has become Europe's largest wakeboard music event.

VME managed all of the festival's technical requirements, supplying Kling & Freitag speakers, Lab Gruppen amplifiers, Mac lighting, and a selection of Allen & Heath's live sound consoles and DJ mixers.

Over the two day festival, the new open air arena - Glastonbury's "Other Stage" - hosted Feeder, The Automatic, and Carl Cox, whilst the Main Tent included live performances from The Zutons, the Delays, the Cuban Brothers, the Freestylers (live), and Adam Freeland. The Beach Arena hosted DJ sets throughout the weekend from popular artists including Lisa Pin-Up, High Contra

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USA - Durell L.L.C was tasked with providing a high quality sound experience for American Football team the Cleveland Browns. Durrell, which has ongoing relationships and is responsible for the sound systems at the Kansas City Royals (MLB), Kansas City Chiefs (NFL), Tennessee Titans (NFL), Cincinnati Bengals (NFL), Bristol Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Conseco Fieldhouse (NBA), and the Nashville Predators (NHL) has also designed and built many recording studios and has extensive experience in television broadcast.

The result is a new, "state-of-the-art" distributed public address system at the Cleveland Browns Stadium, completed in July 2006. As a special feature, four custom-made large rolling field carts were made, each as a self-contained high-powered PA, using D.A.S. self-powered Aero Line Arrays and dual 18" Subs to enhance extreme low frequency d

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