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UK - Leisuretec Distribution showcased the latest Vestax products to an enthusiastic visitor base at the recent NADJ Show in Birmingham.

"The complete Vestax range was extremely well received, with massive interest in the VCI-100, PMC-280 and the new TTM1V CD / Turntable interface," says Leisuretec business development manager, Stephanie Lambley. "We secured a healthy number of sales leads and enquiries which we forwarded to our dealer base.

"It also confirmed for us that in the market place the VCI is a much sought after product considered by DJ's as both versatile and solid."

The hotly contended 1st Prize for the Show prize draw was the Vestax PMC-05 ProSL, donated by Leisuretec.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Audio compression specialist APT has launched a new website that is designed to provide useful information to customers, potential customers and all those interested in audio coding and codecs. The site, which can be accessed at the same URL (www.aptx.com), is now much easier for customers to navigate, says the company. Its new look provides a distinct identity for each of APT's two business areas - Broadcast Products and the licensing of Intellectual Property.

Jon McClintock, APT's commercial director, says: "The new website reflects the depth and breadth of APT's product portfolio, both as a technology provider and a codec manufacturer. The content is clear, concise and readily accessible to both Licensing partners and codec users."

(Jim Evans)

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The Electroacoustics Group of the Institute of Acoustics in collaboration with ABTT, APRS & ISCE is staging Reproduced Sound 23 at The Sage, Gateshead, 29-30 November, and has issued a 'Call for papers'.

"This Reproduced Sound conference will be hosted at one of the UK's newest and largest venues for staging concerts and other live events," says an IOA spokesman. "We will have an auditorium to use for the presentations and for any demonstrations associated with these, so there is an exciting opportunity to devote a large part of the conference to subjects relating to audio in the production of live events. These might include: sound reinforcement, room acoustics, recording (audio and video), broadcast, loudspeakers and microphones, intelligibility, innovations."

Any paper on electroacoustics topics will be considered. Abstracts of 200 words should be submit

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Germany - Berlin's historic KulturBrauere (Culture Brewery), a former beer brewery, includes six courts and more than 20 richly decorated attached buildings including the Kesselhaus which is used increasingly as a rock music venue.

A recent was a sold out evening featured Linkin Park previewing material for their upcoming European and North American Tours.

Kenneth Van Druten, Linkin Park's FOH engineer, specified Adamson for the upcoming Linkin Park dates after meeting with Jesse Adamson at a ZZ Top gig using the Adamson Yaxis rig in Corpus Christi, Texas, who were playing on an Adamson's Yaxis rig.

Van Druten's requirements for the show were specific: even coverage and excellent intelligibility throughout the venue to do Linkin Park's new material proper justice. Jochen Sommer, Adamson's newest addition to its European support personnel assisted with the final system design

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France - Fleetwood Mobiles was backstage in Paris recently to capture Avril Lavigne in concert for an MTV Special, which was broadcast during April at various different time slots. Fleetwood director Tim Summerhayes travelled to the city with only a D-Rig for company. The concert audio was captured at the side of the stage using API mic amps and Radar.

"The concert took place in an old music hall near Sacre Coeur, in front of an invited audience," Summerhayes explains. "Access to the venue was very restricted, so I had to use a D-Rig instead of a mobile recording truck. However, Avril's road crew were incredibly helpful and made sure I had everything I needed. Her performance was electric and that atmosphere really came across on the soundtrack."

The programme was directed by MTV's Russell Thomas and the pictures were recorded on High-8 video by Bolke Burna

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UK - The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) recently staged a new adaptation of The Who's 1973 double album Quadrophenia, which inspired the 1978 film of the same name.

Staged at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre, the entire performing and technical crew of the production were students of RWCMD, which was also the first independent theatrical production of Quadrophenia to receive the endorsement and creative input of The Who's Pete Townshend.

A Yamaha M7CL-48 console was chosen to mix the show, with second year student Seeta Mistry as the show's FOH engineer. She was tutored on the console by RWCMD 'old boy' Nigel Thomas, with some help from Yamaha's Karl Christmas.

Having previously been head of sound at Bristol's Old Vic theatre school - where he determinedly introduced digital audio, Thomas' recent experience with the M7CL on an Opera Babes tour convinced him t

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South Korea - A-Works Korea is the name of the new distribution company recently set up to represent French digital console manufacturer, InnovaSON, in South Korea. Based in Sungnam City, A-Works will also be distributing Camco amplifiers and Nexo loudspeakers.

The man behind the move and responsible for the creation of A-Works is James Lee, along with former Nexcor colleague Eddie Kim. Between them, the two men have worked with their three core brands over many years and are confident that the new company will grow business significantly and increase market share for each brand throughout South Korea.

"We feel that the future of pro audio here in South Korea, as it is throughout the rest of the world, lies increasingly within the digital domain," explained James Lee. "We're delighted to have InnovaSON on board as a premium digital console product, and one in wh

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China - Outline's distributor for China, Guangzhou ACME Show Technology, organised a seminar/presentation of Outline's entire product range at the Regal Palace Theatre, in collaboration with the Research Institute of TV and Electroacoustics of Beijing and Beijing Hengyiyuan Concert Productions Co.

With this seminar, the manager of Guangzhou ACME Show Technology, Wyman Lee and Outline's vice president and international sales manager, Giorgio Biffi , introduced Outline's complete product line, sold in China under the Butterfly brand.

During the seminar, Prof. Fan Bao Yuan and Prof. Shen Hao described to attendees the tests recently carried out at their Institute on a number of Outline/Butterfly products, confirming the high quality of the products and their full respect of specifications declared by the Italian manufacturer.

A listening demo of the Butterfly line-array and oth

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Germany - Clear-Com has been chosen by TVN Group, one of Germany's leading TV, film and outside broadcast production companies, to equip its new state-of-the-art TVN UE3HD OB truck with matrix intercom systems to expand their communication network.

The new OB truck has been fitted with a Clear-Com Eclipse Matrix with 32 digital and 96 analogue ports, and the new Eclipse PiCo digital matrix. In addition to this, Clear-Com has developed a customised LCD desktop panel to meet TVN's exact installation requirements.

"We have worked with Clear-Com for a long time," said Frank Beekmann, chief production engineer at TVN, "and we've had very good experience with this highly flexible communications system."

(Jim Evans)

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Switzerland -With its compact profile and light weight, the Nexo Geo S cabinet is a winning proposition for historic interiors that demand a line-array solution. In Geneva, the Casino Theatre is just such a venue.

Zap Audio, the Geneva-based equipment importer and system designer, has already created an impact in the city with the installation of a Geo S tangent-array system in the celebrated Victoria Hall, a landmark classical music venue well-known in international touring circles.

Encouraged by the success of the Victoria Hall, the Zap team was next consulted by the Casino Theatre, a smaller venue also of historic importance to which they often supplied rental systems. The theatre's technical team chose to design and install the system itself, using Nexo's GEOSoft package.

The Casino Theatre, also known as Le Petit Casino, is mainly used to present small musical and drama

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UK - Theatre sound specialist Orbital will be sponsoring dedicated Digital Mixing Desk training sessions at The ABTT Show 13-14 June in London. These sessions will focus on advanced solutions in contemporary theatre shows. Involving the latest Yamaha M7CL console at the hub of the presentations, attendees will be given be offered a hands-on, operational view of the first of Yamaha's latest generation digital consoles.

The sessions will cover topical subjects that play a vital role in today's theatre designs, including digital audio networking and scene management, whilst exploring the creative possibilities of placing a modern digital console at the hub of a system encompassing most of the current audio network solutions available.

Orbital Sound's Simon Whitehorn and Sebastian Frost will host the sessions and fuse their experience and expertise to deliver an illuminating and i

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USA - Symetrix is showing version 1.1 of the Integrator Series Zone Mix 760 paging and music management system at the InfoComm 2007 exhibition.

Version 1.1 introduces a number of feature enhancements to the 760, a zone mixer that has been designed to provide the optimal feature set and I/O count needed for restaurants, hotels, sports bars and nightclubs.

The number of presets now available has been increased from 10 to fifty, and some minor issues have additionally been fixed.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The three days of the Give It A Name indoor shows are seen as the start of the UK festival season - as the best up-and-coming new alt-rock bands flip-flop through three venues in England and Scotland. With up to 12 acts a day going through each stage, this was an opportunity for an army of different front-of-house engineers to get their hands on a big Nexo Geo T line array, running the newly-launched NXStream management software.

Give It a Name began in 2005 and soon became established as the biggest indoor rock festival in the UK. This year it has expanded - beginning in Germany at venues in Berlin and Cologne, followed by Paris, before heading to the UK. A weekend crowd of more than 25,000 came to Earls Court alone for a bill dominated by pop-punk and emo bands like H.I.M from Finland, Brand New and Juliette & The Licks from the USA, and Enter Shikari from t

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USA - Aviom has announced several additions to its global sales team.

Jonathan 'JP' Parker, who has been serving as Aviom's sales director in the Southeastern US, is now assuming the role of director of international sales, Asia Pacific.

Mark Meding, who has been Aviom's sales director for the Northeast US and Canada, will now assume Parker's former Southeastern territory and will be in charge of sales throughout the entire East Coast of the US.

The Canadian territory is now back in the hands of Aviom's longtime international sales director, Joel Brazy, who also continues to oversee the company's European sales efforts.

The Aviom sales force is managed by national sales director Gary Lee, under the leadership of Aviom's new vice president of sales & marketing, Mike McGinn.

(Jim Evans)

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Spain - The Spanish production of the hit musical We Will Rock You recently returned to Madrid's Calderón Theatre after a successful national tour, complete with a Cadac J-Type Live Production Console supplied by local rental company Milán Acústica.

Featuring sound design by Javier G Isequilla, the show has been touring around Spain for the past two years, and was initially scheduled to run in Madrid for a three-month period. This has been extended until the end of 2007, thanks to the show's continuing popularity and excellent ticket sales, which won We Will Rock You the coveted Gold Ticket Award.

Milán Acústica has been involved with the show from the outset, supplying the sound equipment for the original Madrid production as well as the tour. Javier G Isequilla's original sound design centred around a J-Type console, which was replaced with a Yamah

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USA - Beyerdynamic will feature the Revoluto line array microphone station, at InfoComm 2007. Made for use with the MCS-D 200 conferencing system, the Revoluto provides superior sound reproduction without the use of a gooseneck microphone, says the company.

Utilising patented line array technology, the microphone capsules in the Revoluto create an omnidirectional pattern allowing the speaker to move around without affecting the volume or sound quality. Due to its multi-capsule design, the Revoluto provides additional redundancy with no loss of pickup. In addition, the Revoluto's low-profile design provides a clear view of the speaker.

"What makes the Revoluto a truly unique solution for conference room situations is its line array technology," explains Bob Lowig, beyerdynamic's conferencing & presentation business unit manager. "No longer does a speaker need to

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USA - Symetrix has expanded its facilities and made a number of new appointments.

Trent Wagner has taken up the head of the marketing department and is leading the advertising, dealer/rep communications,public relations, and related activities of Symetrix and its Lucid, AirTools and SymNet brands.

Bruce Yunker is now working as art director; Francesca Grove is the new logistics coordinator; Mike Wall is now product manager. Dallas Dougherty will visit current and potential clientsat points home and abroad, explaining the benefits of Symetrix technology.

Within engineering, Frank Heller is the new senior graphic designer and has already stamped his aesthetic on the Zone Mix 760 software.

Symetrix hired IT guru Wil Bailey to the more formal-sounding position of technical resource manager. Finally, Quy Tang and David Joiner have taken on the respective roles of manufacturing

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UK - Le Mark Group has appointed John Henry's as its new London Stockist for its gloves & accessories range. John Henry's already offers an extensive range of spares, accessories, equipment and instruments, sold from their 5000sq.ft showroom, 'The Pro Shop', at its London premises.

Mark Gibbons, Le Mark Group's business development manager comments, "The Setwear Gloves & Accessories range only started a few years ago with Le Mark. Since the addition of the IronClad range we've noticed a tremendous increase in interest from both end-users and existing distributors. The addition of John Henry's stocking the range is a huge advantage, especially as they are a company already well established within this industry but, most importantly, one that is known as a friendly, fast and reliable supplier."

Paul Cooper, Pro Shop sales manager adds, "Having grown up in an indus

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UK - Fleetwood Mobiles recorded the recent Roger Waters tour dates in Birmingham and Manchester. The tour's production manager Andrew Zweck, who commissioned Fleetwood Mobiles to record the Manchester M.E.N Arena and Birmingham NEC concerts, says: "We were very happy with the job that Fleetwood did and everything went very smoothly at both concert venues."

The Fleetwood team consisted of Tim Summerhayes, Ollie Nesham and Matt Wood, who worked alongside Waters' long-time friend and producer James Guthrie to capture the audio in 5.1 surround sound. The concerts were also filmed in HD, with Nick Morris as director of photography.

"We recorded the audio in 48k, 96-bit using three RADARs as a 72-track and Pyramix for back-up," Summerhayes explains. "We understand the recording is being used for Roger's personal archive."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Following on from the successful launch promotion of the new Artist Series microphone range last year, Audio-Technica is launching a new Artist Series gift with purchase in-store promotion throughout Europe. The promotion capitalises on the success of the Artist Series launch last year, and features an Audio-Technica branded rucksack shipped with all Artist Series microphones from 1 June, says the company.

Commenting on the new promotion, senior UK marketing manager, Harvey Roberts, stated: "With this latest campaign we are continuing to develop a greater in-store presence in MI through the use of strong PoS materials and customer incentives, designed to enhance pavement appeal and draw customers into the store."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Liverpool-based Adlib Audio supplied a Nexo Alpha PA and lighting system to the recent Hanson tour. This follows on from Adlib's previous work with the band on their two previous UK tours. Chris Sudall babysat at FOH for the band's engineer Kevin James, while Steve Cole mixed and looked after monitor world.

The PA configuration was ground stacked and consisted of six Nexo Alpha M3 mid/tops, six B1 bass enclosures & four S2 subs a side. For the larger venues they added more M3s for in-fills and out-fills as required, and they also toured and used Adlib FD2 cabinets for in-fills.

The FOH desk was a Yamaha PM5D, on which they fully utilised its onboard effects and processing plus the proprietary Nexo processors. The desk also had enough space on which to fit the opening act.

The system was powered by Crown VZ 5002 amplifiers throughout - which are an Adlib standard when ru

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UK - Brighton-based out post sound has just completed recording of one of the final shows at this year's Great Escape Festival organised by the Barfly Group. The gig, at the Brighton Centre's East Wing and featuring headline sets from The Magic Numbers and Captain, was packed to the rafters with around 700 audience in attendance.

out post utilised one of its fully tour ready Digidesign Pro Tools HD | 2 systems with two fully expanded 192s, one Digidesign PRE, three Audient ASP008 mic pre amplifiers and XTA active mic splits recording up to 26 channels. The company then provided the session data to festival sponsor, London's X-FM, who will be broadcasting the recordings in the near future.

out post, which only started trading at the beginning of the year, worked closely with Jon Mac from The Barfly and Giles Bristow of Austublief Audio to secure the deal. "This is a

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Korea - The 17th edition of the Korean International Broadcast, Audio & Lighting Equipment show (KOBA) was held earlier this month at the COEX centre in Seoul.

For the sixth consecutive year Proel Korea was present at the show. The theme of the stand was based around the Proel touring and sound systems catalogues, with the main emphasis being on the Axiom Vertical Progressive array systems.

The centre pieces of the stand were composed of a column of 10 x Axiom AX3210P speakers with the EDGE121SP 21" subwoofers and the new AX2265P Axiom Compact system.

David Yoon, president of Proel Korea commented, "We are quietly confident that with the new Axiom Compact System we will be able to repeat the outstanding success of the AX3210P. This type of compact vertical array means that we will be able to provide small and medium sizes concert halls and churches with very high q

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UK - Videoconferencing veteran Impact Marcom has upgraded its Hire Division's wireless microphone stock by investing in eight channels of AKG WMS 4000, which were supplied by Harman Pro UK.

John Moore, Impact Marcom's UK rental manager, says: "The wireless microphones we were using had become outdated and unreliable so we investigated an alternative and decided on the AKG system because it is very high quality. Our technicians were impressed by the features on offer, in particular the ability to scan radio frequencies to ensure we didn't conflict with other wireless microphone users in the same venue. They also like the fact that they can monitor the output from a laptop computer, which makes this a very portable and easy to use system."

Impact Marcom's hire team has been supplying products to the video conferencing business for more than 25 years and holds a huge st

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