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Belgium - Following successful line-array installations in Belgian concert halls such as Roma in Borgerhout(W8L/W8LD) and the AMT complex in Antwerp (W8LM), cultural centres are becoming more and more intrigued by what Martin Audio line arrays have to offer, says the company.

Martin Audio territorial distributors, Ampco Belgium, report that after careful market investigation, followed by a W8LM demo, it became clear that this would provide the best solution for De Schakel's main hall in Waregem. Measuring 19m wide and 20m deep, the 536 seats stretch right down to the front of the stage - thus to give every seat almost identical sound quality and coverage was no easy task. But the W8LM Line Array concept proved it could cope with this demand and deliver from a small footprint precisely what the customer wanted.

Local supplier, installer and rental company Big Dynamic was appoin

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Germany - Renkus-Heinz will be hosting a series of seminars and workshops during ProLight + Sound at Frankfurt. This year's topics include: MCR (Multi Channel Reverberation) Systems, RHAON/SYGMA, ICONYX Certification, EASE 4.2 and Media Matrix/Networking.

During the MCR (Multi Channel Reverberation) Systems seminar, participants will be given an in-depth view of a modern Multi Channel Reverberation system now being successful operated in several theatre installations in Europe. Peter van der Geer from Team Projects will demonstrate the benefits of having such a system in a theatre or concert hall.

In the RHAON/SYGMA seminar, Ralph Heinz will guide delegates through the company's new digital platform RHAON, which through using a CobraNet based platform enables signal distribution, full supervision and control as well as remote access and control of the internal digital sound pr

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UK - Cheerleading event organiser Future Cheer has invested in its own PA system for its increasingly popular events in the UK. The Electro-Voice RX system, powered by EV amplifiers and used in conjunction with EV radio microphones, received its championship debut at Loughborough University this month.

In the hands of its resident sound engineer Everard James, Future Cheer's RX system made its first appearance at one of the five regional competitions leading up to the national championships.

The Heart of England Cheer & Dance Championships were staged in the 2,000sq.m Sports Hall at Loughborough University and featured cheerleaders from 48 competing teams. James positioned RX212 and RX115/75 stacks left and right of the performance area, driven by EV CP4000 and CP3000 amplifiers, and teamed with a new DX38.

The RX system was specified by James, an experienced DJ and recordin

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Europe - Lighting&Sound International magazine is making an unprecedented special offer to European industry professionals at the forthcoming ProLight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt (28-31 March).

For the first time ever, L&SI is offering full-time professionals on the European mainland the chance to sign up for one year's FREE subscription to L&SI magazine - a subscription that would usually cost around 75 euros (£50). Visitors to the show can sign up for this great offer by visiting the PLASA/L&SI stand at the Hall 8.0 Walkway, stand J80. (Look for the VPLT, ESTA & PLASA signs).

(Lee Baldock)

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Sweden - Newly-appointed Apex distributor Electrosound has supplied andinstalled Sweden's first Intelli-Q22 sound optimiser at the well-known nightspot and video gallery Berns Club in Stockholm. The club boasts a high-quality profile, which is reflected in the sound system. The Intelli-Q22 is the first of "a new breed of fast, easy-to-use, digital problem solvers" from Apex, the company says.

According to Apex, one of the Intelli-Q22's strengths is the fact that it combines a wide range of sound enhancing applications like a 30-band graphic equaliser, a 10-band parametric equaliser, shelving filters, variable high & low - pass filters, delay, multi-band compressor, and a BrickWall limiter per channel.

"The talk of the town is that this room is the best-sounding place people have ever been to. The installation of the Intelli-Q lifted the whole sound picture to a

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Czech Republic - The first Czech and Slovak music TV award ceremony - TV OCKO Music Awards 2006 - took place in Prague last month. During this four-hour evening ceremony, 20 prizes were awarded to various top artists. 14 acts played live.

The PA system of choice was an 18 dV-Dosc L-Acoustics line source array coupled with SB218 subs and completed by ARCS as fills. The reference floor monitor 115FM was chosen for the stage monitors.

FOH mixing engineer Petr Pelisek stated: "Lucerna is a very complex venue when it comes to acoustics and the dV-Dosc rig proved to be the optimum solution in combination with the choice of digital desks."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Fleetwood Mobiles has announced the appointment of Ian Davidson as its new commercial director, with immediate effect. For more than 30 years, Davidson has been a key player in the professional audio industry and has managed many facilities including Townhouse and Olympic Studios and Manor Mobiles. Davidson has also worked as operations director at Abbey Road Studios and, more recently, De Lane Lea Studios.

Commenting on his appointment, Fleetwood Mobiles founding director Tim Summerhayes says: "We are really pleased to have Ian as part of our team. His extensive contacts within the industry, along with his experience in audio post production for film and TV, will be an invaluable asset to Fleetwood's new post facility in Denham."

Davidson takes over from Ian Dyckhoff who left the company in February to pursue new opportunities within the Pro Audio industry.

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Germany - Alcons Audio - exhibiting for the fifth time at ProLight&Sound - will be promoting the BF151 which is the latest addition to the B-series. A front-loaded bass system, it is designed for both permanent and portable applications. Featuring a single 15" long-excursion high-power woofer, in combination with Alcons' Signal Integrity Sensing pre-wiring, the BF151 promises to deliver "high quality, tight and accurate bass response".

Another highlight of the stand will be the Digital Drive Processor (DDP). The exchangeable processing device is complementary to the Alcons ALC controller-amplifiers and caters for improved ease-of-use in the handling and controlling of Alcons sound systems.

Joining the established LR14 line array system is the LR14/90, an ultra compact pro-ribbon line array with a 90° x 15° projection loaded with the Alcons RBN401 pro-rib

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USA - Aviom has announced the promotion of Craig Sibley to the position of House of Worship marketing manager. Since joining Aviom in 2005, Sibley has been one of the driving forces behind the company's success in bringing its signature personal mixing system to churches.

"Whether he's being an astute audio professional, a musician or a worship leader, Craig exudes passion in what he does," explained Aviom marketing director Jason Frenchman. "He loves Aviom and he loves the church, so he's at his best teaching and helping them understand what a huge benefit our technology brings to worship and the joy of music. That's why he's a great resource for churches and an ideal spokesman for us."

Sibley will continue his seminar and conference instruction schedule, but his role will expand to include providing key input into all aspects of Aviom's house of worship m

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UK - The eclectic mix of club, laid back eatery and live music venue that is Cargo nestles in the backstreets of trendy Shoreditch in London's East End. It has recently benefited from an upgrade of its existing Turbosound loudspeaker system, with a new TA-500 Aspect Wide system installed by Marquee Audio.

The venue stages a mix of club nights and live performances. "There's something for everyone here," says Cargo's marketing manager Joe Roberts. "We want to appeal to all tastes, from your hard core clubber to those that want to have something to eat and then see a live band. We are now getting the bigger name, more experienced musicians in here, and they wanted a better monitoring system than we originally had. This has been part of the reason we upgraded our system. If you want the best, you need to have the right equipment."

Head of sound, Matt Smith, wh

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France - Allen & Heath's French distributor, Audiopole, hosted an evening boat trip on the Seine river in Paris during the recent SIEL show, inviting 500 guests to an evening of musical entertainment with Allen & Heath's new iLive digital mixing system as the centrepiece.

Guests included leading sound engineers, key rental companies, and dealers, and there was a special appearance by French electro legend, Jean Michel Jarre.

The crowd was entertained by the 8-piece jazz/rock David Koven band, managed by the iLive system at FOH, driving a Turbosound speaker system. Audiopole also installed the new GL2800M dedicated monitor console to handle monitor mixes for the band.

FOH engineer, Patrick Clerc, made use of the two tap delays and reverb from iLive's internal effects, and the system's DCA groups. "I am very impressed with the system's sound quality, particularly the reve

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UK - A record number of companies exhibited at the ISCEx2007 Exhibition and Seminar, at which many delegates raised fears over Ofcom's proposals to sell off the current radio microphone frequencies.

More than 30 companies and 200 people attended the event, staged by the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers at the Park Inn Hotel Watford, to exhibit the latest developments in microphones, loudspeakers, public address, voice alarm, induction loop systems, conference systems, intercoms and voice over IP.

The informative seminar programme on 27 February included topics as varied as designing church sound systems, co-operation between universities and industry and even how a major contract was won, but somehow all went wrong.

One seminar, given by Alan March of Shure Distribution UK, proved a big topic of discussion. His talk, entitled The great TV spectrum sell-off<

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Liechtenstein - Following recent press reports highlighting the problem of counterfeit pro audio and MI equipment, Neutrik, the market-leading supplier of audio connectors, is warning that the problem of fake goods does not apply only to finished products. The component market is also being hit by far eastern counterfeiters, with Neutrik'sproprietary Speakon connectors a prime target.

The Speakon's quality of manufacture and reliability has made it a premium item, often used as a selling point in product brochures. That cachet is, naturally enough, reflected in the price, which represents an opportunity for unscrupulous producers to undercut Neutrik by passing off inferior connectors as Speakons.

"This isn't only about the commercial damage to Neutrik through loss of legitimate trade," says Neutrik's CEO, Werner Bachmann. "There is also damage to our reputation

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Romania - Paradigma Group hosted the official opening of its brand new headquarters on 8 March, based in Bucharest, as the final part of a special Romanian-Dutch joint venture in the entertainment technology market. His Excellency Dhr. J. Werner, Dutch Ambassador to Romania, was guest of honour at the opening ceremony.

The purpose built 3,500sq.m headquarters, just a few miles from Bucharest's Otopeni International Airport, is divided into offices and warehouses. The space enables Paradigma Group to maintain large rental stocks of audio, lighting, video and staging equipment, to provide professional servicing and training facilities, as well as housing the group's sales company including a showroom and maintenance department.

Paradigma Group is a joint venture between Ampco Flashlight Holding BV of Holland and AEI Broadcast Concept, one of the leading facilities companies in R

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UK - Post-punk multi instrumentalists the Cooper Temple Clause will be headlining at the final of the AKG-sponsored Unsigned Heroes competition, which will take place at the prestigious London venue KOKO on 26 April.

The contest itself is progressing; the names of the twenty bands that have been chosen to go through to the next stage of the contest have been declared. The next stage in the competition, which is also open as of now is the Vote-off, during which the shortlisted bands will be whittled down to the three that will take part in the final at Koko in April,

.The Unsigned Heroes competition is designed to find the best as-yet unsigned band in the UK and Eire, and will offer the winning band a range of prizes, including a recording session with a name producer, PA equipment worth over £10,000 and the chance to play at a major summer festival. The con

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USA - At the USITT show in Phoenix (15-17 March), Meyer Sound is staging a hands-on demo station for the LCS Series Matrix3 audio show control system. Complete with the SpaceMap multichannel panning software and Wild Tracks hard disk recording and playback, Matrix3 now provides even greater power and flexibility in controlling complex and dynamic audio effects in theatrical presentations.

The established repertoire of Meyer Sound loudspeakers for theatre sound will also be on display, including the M'elodie ultra-compact high power curvilinear array. Other models shown on the booth will include the versatile UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeaker, the palm-sized MM-4 miniature wide-range loudspeaker, the potent M1D ultra-compact subwoofer, and the UPM-1P ultra-compact wide coverage loudspeaker.

Additional UPJ-1P loudspeakers provided by Meyer Sound can be heard in action at the ESTA

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USA -With the installation of a new sound system featuring Meyer Sound's M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers, North Point Ministries' newest satellite location, Browns Bridge Community Church in Cumming, Ga., delivers their message with the utmost power and clarity.

About 5,000 guests regularly attend Browns Bridge Community Church, which opened in October 2006. As with Buckhead Church in nearby Buckhead, Ga., an impressive, high-definition video presentation featuring senior pastor Andy Stanley's sermons highlights the church's Sunday morning programming. The recently installed Meyer Sound system ensures that everyone in the audience hears the inspirational messages with unquestionable intelligibility.

The loudspeaker system in the 2,100-seat main sanctuary is comprised of 26 self-powered M'elodie boxes configured in two arrays. "M'elodie was

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UK - A group of lean, fit and relatively small companies are taking the sound equipment industry by storm and showing the bigger players how it's done. That's according to business analysts Plimsoll Publishing, which says the emerging companies are increasing sales at three times the rate of their larger competitors, delivering four times the profitability, and showing five times the return on investment.

According to Plimsoll, which has 16,000 customers worldwide who rely on its regular reports on the market, price deflation is hitting the bigger companies where it hurts - in their pockets. It started with air travel, moved to electrical goods, used cars and even insurance. And now it has arrived in the sound equipment industry.

14 of the top 50 firms are losing money, while 27 are making less profit than last year. Salaries alone at the top 50 companies eat up 19% of sales.

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Europe - Audio-Technica has launched a dedicated website (www.atheadphones.com) to promote its full range of professional and consumer headphones directly to the customer, throughout the European Union. The website has been developed with two main objectives - to provide a brochure-ware site, with information on the full range of Audio-Technica headphones, and an e-commerce facility, enabling customers to purchase headphones directly by credit card, in both GBPs or Euros.

A parallel marketing campaign, to stimulate both online and offline sales, will include promotion of Audio-Technica headphones via the three major internet search engines, and advertising in the press and on the London Underground.

Commenting on the launch of the website, Harvey Roberts senior UK marketing manager Audio-Technica, said: "It is important to our growth strategy that we increase our share of

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UK - Digidesign has released the new Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 and Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 Pro bundles of creative software and tools available free with all Digidesign Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools LE systems.

"Our customers are going to be very pleased with the new Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 bundles, which are a dramatic step forward in terms of the variety as well as overall value," remarks Ed Gray, Digidesign's director of partnering programmes. "We worked diligently to compile the best software from some of the world's top audio companies. Whether virtual instruments or creative effects, top-of-the-line sound libraries or valuable artist promotion services, we believe that the Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 provides the best tools to allow our users to create the music that lives in their imagination."

Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 and the premium Pro Tools Ignit

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UK - Sitaaray, a Bollywood-themed two-tier dining and corporate hospitality complex, has opened in London's Drury Lane with a sound system that incorporates JBL Control series speakers, Crown Xs series amplification and a complex BSS Soundweb London DSP routing system and mode switcher, all supplied by Harman Pro UK and installed by the Sound Division Group.

The new restaurant, above last year's much-vaunted Tamarai, completes restaurant entrepreneur Rohit Khattar's mission to combine a restaurant, 5.1 cinema, dance venue, art gallery and corporate entertainment under one roof.

The Sound Division Group was commissioned to install the complex system requirements by the restaurant's parent company Old World Hospitality. The company arrived on site in 2005, soon after Rohit Khattar purchased the former Millennium Club with a view to providing an extravagant sister operation in Lo

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UK - Wigwam Acoustics will be providing the sound equipment for George Michael's forthcoming British and European stadium tour which starts in Denmark on 18 May and includes the first two concerts to be staged in the rebuilt Wembley Stadium.

Chris Hill, director of Wigwam Acoustics, says: "We'll be using Van Damme cables for microphones, speakers and mains because they are tough enough to withstand the rigours of a tour of this size. The brand is well established and we know from many years experience that its products can be trusted to deliver great results."

Over the years, Wigwam Acoustics has provided its expertise to many high profile artistes and events touring Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and the Eastern Block. Recent tour contracts have included Westlife, Radiohead, Prince, Eminem, Björk, Blue, Moby, Ronan Keating and Barry Manilow, as well as George Michael's

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UK - For the fifth consecutive year, Fleetwood Mobiles was commissioned to provide the audio from the NME Awards, which took place at London's Hammersmith Palais and was broadcast live on E4. Fleetwood director Tim Summerhayes, assisted by Ollie Nesham and Matt Wood, recorded and mixed the audio on-board the Fleetwood Two mobile.

"We had a day to rehearse, then it was all hands to the pump to make sure everything went smoothly on the night," Summerhayes says. "It was a great show with plenty of full-on rock bands, which is what we enjoy. The only tricky part of the evening was recording Jarvis Cocker and The Gossip singer Beth Ditto's electric acoustic set, which involved a few more mics and inputs than we had expected, but it all went well and the broadcast audio was delivered to E4 via CTV, which was handling the pictures."

Rock group Muse took the award

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Germany - The well-known loudspeaker manufacturer is offering something a little different at ProLight&Sound this year, according to its pre-show publicity: "Scientists have always theorised that beyond the black emptiness of Dark Matter lay the keys to the universe," they say . . . "One such key resides inside d&b audiotechnik's enigmatic black box at ProLight&Sound, but you'll have to step inside to find it. Suspend your disbelief, prepare for projection and place product to one side while you contemplate the truth of audio in a multimedia world, touch it, see it, feel it and be enlightened."

(Jim Evans)

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