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UK - As the largest charity in the UK and the second largest medical research charity in the world, the Wellcome Trust is currently spending around £500 million each year to support biomedical research.

Reinforcing this position has been the recent opening of the Wellcome Collection, a £30 million visitor centre in London's Euston Road which combines three exhibition galleries, the Wellcome Library, a conference centre, public events forum, club, café and bookshop.

Installed by Sarner Ltd, a specialist audio visual systems integrator, Ampetronic induction loops form a vital part of the project, being provided in the main circulation area, conference centre auditorium, forum and three seminar rooms.

With the close proximity of several loop systems, minimising crosstalk between each one was of the utmost priority, so Sarner invited Ampetronic to design low s

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The Netherlands - Stock Audio & Light recently provided a high-end sound reinforcement system featuring dual EAW UX8800 digital processors in tandem with EAW KF760 Series line arrays for a memorial concert by the Limburg Symphony Orchestra that marked the liberation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The concert, held on the grounds of the American Battle Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, the Netherlands, was highlighted by a performance of Verdi's Requiem, accompanied by the Vocal Collective, a 60-member choir from Belgium.

Stock Audio, based in Geleen, the Netherlands, worked with the concert's front-of-house engineer, Jo Smeets, to assemble a system providing enough headroom to reach a coverage area spanning beyond 150m, while also capable of presenting a very natural sonic signature.

The sound team responded with a main system featuring dual line arrays, each comprise

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UK - The Corp of Army Music based at Kneller Hall held a festival for the general public. 16 bands performed, with music ranging from the Grenadier Guards marching band to the Army Corp Big Band and supported by rock and pop bands from the ranks.

Sigma AV Ltd were contracted by Qube Productions to supply an Outline Butterfly line array for the event. Two hangs of 10 CDH483s, coupled with two Outline Subtech subwoofers per side were used; while the in-fill was provided by Outline 'Doppia' 9075s. Engineer was Kevin Swain using a Yamaha M7CL 48. On stage Outline's HARD 212 SPs and 115 SPs were used for stage monitoring.

"This was my first outing with Butterfly," says Swain. "The first thing that amazed me was the size and ease of rigging, then there is the performance. I can say this system has no competition, it's very powerful. We had 6,000 people attend this sho

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USA - D-Tools has announced that Cambridge Audio has joined the D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) programme, making it easy for users of D-Tools' System Integrator software to specify Cambridge Audio products for client projects.

Headquartered in London, UK, Cambridge Audio has been at the forefront of British hi-fi for more than thirty five years. Since its inception in 1968, Cambridge Audio has brought some of the most innovative and technologically advanced products to market.

"We are pleased to be a part of D-Tool's MVP Programme," said Daniel Jacques, president of Audio Plus Services, exclusive north American importer for Cambridge Audio. "We are excited to have our product information available to the D-Tools user base and have the opportunity to specify our products for their client projects."

The D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) pro

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UK - For the fourth year, the Stage Electrics Welsh Trade Show is being held at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. The event takes place on Wednesday 10 October with doors opening at 11am and closing at 5pm.

Industry suppliers Allen & Heath, Avolites, ETC, Le Maitre, Lee, MA Lighting, Martin, Pulsar, RCF, Roland, Rosco, Selecon, Sennheiser, Strand, Yamaha and Zero 88 will be exhibiting their latest products, offering demos and providing expert advice.

The show is a free event, open to everyone and no tickets are required. Stage Electrics staff will also be presenting products at the show including the Apollo Right Arm and products from Prolyte, Prolyft, Stage Dex, Teclumen, San-Ei & Swisson.

Visitors can take the opportunity if they wish to pre-register via the Stage Electrics website to be entered in the prize draw and to receive a goody bag on the day.

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USA - Renkus-Heinz will unveil three major developments for the live sound and installation markets at the 123rd AES Convention starting Friday 5 October 5 in New York. These are: the VERSYS VL3 line array, EASERA SysTune and the roll-out of RHAON (Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network) for the entire Renkus-Heinz powered loudspeaker lineup.

VERSYS VL3, the latest generation, high output, fully featured digital line array system is the world's first line array system to come with the fully integrated RHAON package.

It features in-cabinet Class D amplification, new neodymium and carbon fibre-based drivers, full digital dynamics, networked audio over CobraNet as well as loudspeaker monitoring and remote control, all delivered over Cat 5 cable. And despite extremely high output (1200W/600W/250W per band) the all-up cabinet weight is around 200 pounds, and boasts a truck pack-frie

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Italy - The RCF Group has announced two major appointments at RCF SpA.

Fausto Incerti has been appointed general manager of RCF SpA. Incerti has held the position of sales director since the company's renaissance in 2003. Speaking of the appointment, Incerti said: "I feel privileged to undertake this new responsibility at RCF. The company has shown tremendous growth over the past years and we all look forward to continuing moving RCF forward."

Taking over Incerti's position as sales director will be Alberto Ruozzi. Ruozzi, who has worked at RCF in the past, said: "It's great to be back working at RCF, I look forward to the job ahead of keeping RCF in the forefront of the audio industry."

(Jim Evans)

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India - Under the direction of Andrew Paul, Paul Movies - a company with almost 50 years of history in India - became a sales partner of d&b audiotechnik in late 2006. Paul Movies has in these few short months begun the process of establishing the brand and will be exhibiting a range of d&b systems at PALME in Mumbai this week (4-6 October).

"We aim to grow this market in the way d&b has done around the world; it will take time for users to learn the value of the products. Engaging known audio specialists regionally gives us the foundation to build the knowledge and training required," says director Andrew Paul.

"We will be talking to audio engineers, as we did in July, when we invited over three hundred rental and installation specialists to a demonstration of the Q-Series systems at the Oberoi Hotel Ballroom in Delhi. We let them hear the systems and decide fo

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Germany - 18 October marks the official opening of SAE Institute's new campus in Berlin. With more than 5000sq.m of floor space, SAE Berlin claims it will be the largest state-of-the-art private media campus in Europe.

The newly inaugurated campus will host the third annual SAE Alumni Convention on 18 and 19 October. The two-day event, organised by the SAE Alumni Association, brings together representatives from the local media and arts community, industry, and society at large.

An extensive event schedule features workshops, panel discussions and lectures. Leading companies such as Apple, Sennheiser and Roland will present their newest products at the convention trade show and in their demo suites.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - One weekend in the middle of August saw WE Audio's Aspect system adorning not one, but two of London's parks for three new festivals: Victoria Park in East London saw the first ever Field Day and Underage Festival; and central London's Regents Park played host to those very nice people at Innocent Smoothies' Village Fete, the new version of their Fruitstock festival.

Field Day brought together the best of London's alternative live music and club promoters for a day of music and dancing, with bands such as Mystery Jets, The Aliens, 1990s, Bat For Lashes, Pull Tiger Tail and James Yorkston, and DJ's Andrew Weatherall, Erol Alkan and Jo Jo De Freq, as well as those village fete favourites such as hog roasts, tugs of war, tombola, barn dancing, hoedown tent and a largest marrow competition.

Underage Festival, meanwhile, was hailed as "the world's first credible festival

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UK - Following the installation of audio systems for Carluccio's in Manchester's Trafford Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames' Bentall Centre and Walton-on-Thames, ADC has recently completed the installation of a Community loudspeaker-based system in the group's new flagship restaurant in Covent Garden.

Carluccio's aim is to provide great quality and authentic Italian food at sensible prices, and now has over thirty locations nationwide. They have just returned to Covent Garden. Good quality audio and specially selected music is a feature of the Carluccio's experience.

ADC designed and installed the system, which is divided into four zones covering each of the main areas; ground floor café, ground floor shop, first floor restaurant and first floor private dining. Centrally supplied from multi-CD and media-player sources, each zone has separate Toa amplification driving a total

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Ireland - TSM, a company based in Galway, provided the sound for the Ballina Mardi Gras night held earlier this summer. TSM are specialists in providing theatre and concert sound and have been advocates of using K.M.E. equipment since K.M.E. was first introduced to Ireland by Joe O'Neill Ltd.

Liam Feeney, managing director of TSM (The Sound Man), commented: "We were contracted to provide a sound re-enforcement system for up to 60,000 people, which is fine for a normal arena/stadium with sufficient equipment and the right people, but when we saw the venue and the circumstances we knew it would require something very special, so we turned to K.M.E."

Feeney added, "We made contact with Kerst Glass of K.M.E. and discussed specifications. We were aware of the difficulties involved including the audience area being merely the width of the street (approximately 10m), t

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Europe - In 2006, The Red Hot Chili Peppers began an international world tour alternating between Europe, North America, and Oceania, in support of the Grammy Award-winning album Stadium Arcadium, which became the best-selling CD of 2006 with over seven million units sold.

As a continuation of the tour, the band returned to Europe this year, taking in shows from late June to late August and making stops at various cities and summer festivals along the way. In July they performed three shows in three different cities (Paris, London, Copenhagen) in just 24 hours.

As for their previous world tours the sound specification revolved exclusively around L-acoustics equipment. Long time RHCP FOH Engineer Dave Rat, founder and President of Rat Sound Systems, relied on the European V-Dosc Network to provide V-Dosc systems for the majority of their run.

Dave Rat comments, "I

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The Netherlands - One of south Holland's major theatres, the Schouburg Heerlen, has undergone a large-scale refurbishment, transforming it into a multi-purpose venue with three different areas - a large theatre, pop hall and small theatre) - with the addition of a café, enabling the venue to host anything from opera to stand-up comedy, board meetings to rock concerts.

TM Audio was responsible for the new audio requirements, selecting a 24-channel Allen & Heath GL2400 multi-function mixer for FOH and monitor sound reinforcement in the small theatre hall. The console feeds a Martin Audio speaker system. Audio distribution and processing is provided by Allen & Heath's iDR-4 16x16 DSP mixer, installed in the FOH rack.

"The GL2400 will easily fulfill the requirements of the wide variety of performers that the theatre expects to host," explains TM Audio's sales & ma

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USA - TransAudio Group has been appointed the exclusive US distributor for Paul Wolff's Tonelux Designs Limited discrete audio products for recording and live production, and ShadowMix motorised fader automation for DAWs. Tonelux manufactures a broad range of mic preamp, EQ, signal processing and master modules that may be combined in the new V8 portable rack or the 19" VRack and configured with the FRack fader package to create a custom console.

Noted Brad Lunde, president of TransAudio Group, says: "Paul knows how to design and build product that sounds better, we all know that. Combine that with the unique Tonelux solution of changeable, configurable, customisable modules to create exactly what you need to complete the analogue side of your DAW-based studio and you have a clear winner."

(Jim Evans)

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Brazil - Lang Brothers, with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, has acquired Adamson True Line Source arrays and complete systems solutions as spec'ed by Adamson's Brazilian distributor, Sotex. Lang Brothers director Marcelo Ferreira took delivery of 24 Adamson Y-10s, 8 T-21 Subs, 12 Lab.Gruppen FP+ 7000 and FP+10000 amplifiers, Dolby LAKE processors and Reference Lab cabling at the end of August. This sale marks the fourth major Adamson sale into the Brazilian market since Sotex took over the distribution just over a year ago.

The entire Lang Brothers audio team attended a week long training seminar. Fabrício Neiva, technical coordinator at Sotex comments: "There are no advantages of having a high tech system, without having a thorough understanding of how it works and how to best operate it. These are resources we can provide them. We accompany new Sotex clients to a series

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Germany - In the southern Westphalian town of Siegen, the newly-refurbished Siegerlandhalle has re-opened after a year-long revamp. Now the region's largest events venue, the Siegerlandhalle has a 1,800 m² Great Hall, with a new gallery that has capacity for 2,500 sitting or 4,300 standing audiences, encouraging big-name artists and groups to book the venue.

When it came to choosing the sound reinforcement equipment, the essential criteria were very good sound quality and very good value for money. Clear transmission of the spoken word was also an important feature, as the Siegerlandhalle not only hosts musical events but also conferences, congresses and trade fairs.

The bid-winning design was proposed by the Siegen company Trendco, which also provided and installed the stage mechanics and lighting system. In charge of the project was Jens Schmidt, who drew up the design toge

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USA - Belmont University is now offering courses in Tour Production Management and Production Design, compliments of Bandit lighting designer Chris Lisle. An experienced tour manager and lighting designer, Lisle is currently the lighting designer for country music superstars, Sara Evans and Phil Vassar.

Lisle was brought on board as an instructor at Belmont after doing the 2006 Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business Showcase Series, a student production put on by Belmont University students.

Bandit business development officer, Brent Barrett commented on Chris' involvement: "When we were looking for someone to design the 06/07 Concert Series, Chris very graciously gave of his time to do so without hesitation. Chris Lisle has the talent, knowledge, attitude and approachability to serve as a very positive role model in our industry as well as an instructor at Belm

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Slovakia - With three stages featuring Electro-Voice pro audio equipment, the new Slovakian National Theatre in Bratislava meets the highest international standards. EV's Slovakian partner, SBL Acoustics, undertook the audio installation - including 200 EV speakers - with support from local installation specialists Proeling.

"One of the principal stipulations for the sound systems was the provision of even coverage throughout each auditorium," says Stanislav Lehen, manager, SBL Acoustics. "This standard request proved trickier than expected. The architecture of the rooms posed a number of problems. They were all very wide and open. To arrive at a homogeneous sound image, therefore, we had to come up with something exceptional."

The theatre's technical specialists were unanimous in favouring Electro-Voice when it came to selecting the sound equipment. "

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UK - Rental and production company, Chameleon pro audio and lighting has recently augmented its hire stock with a rack of four Crest Pro200 Series amplifiers. Designed with touring sound professionals in mind, Crest Pro200 Series amplifiers offer increased power, lower weight and a smaller enclosure than competing amplifiers from other brands, in an extremely economical package. Chameleon opted for a rack comprising one Pro5200, two Pro8200s and one Pro9200, the high power 'Big Brother' of the range.

"We have a great number of amplifiers in stock from a wide variety of well known manufacturers," noted Chameleon MD Stewart Duckworth. "However, in order to meet increasing demand for powerful, lightweight racks at a reasonable price point, we needed to increase our hire stock, so I started to have a serious look around at what was available."

After several dem

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Germany - One of Germany's most impressive new sports and leisure parks can be found in the automotive capital of Stuttgart. Here, the mighty Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadium in NeckarPark, home to VfB Stuttgart FC, has been joined recently by the 15,500-capacity Hans-Martin-Schleyer concert hall, and the Porsche and Carl Benz Arenas - all linked by a giant concourse, with common parking facilities.

Soundweb London DSP devices from BSS Audio play a significant role in the signal distribution across this complex.

Much of the NeckarPark development, including the Carl Benz Center (which houses the Arena), has been financed by one of the most important private investors in Stuttgart, Rudi Häussler of the Häussler Group. In addition to the Arena, the Carl Benz complex contains the four-star Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, a supporters' shop, fitness centre and restaurant as well as being the b

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UK - With Line Arrays now a common tool amongst most touring rental companies, a further investment usually has to be in infrastructure for the system in the form of cabling, and more often than not a ground support system.

Litestructures approached speaker manufacturers directly about their various systems available. The result is that Litestructures has re-invented Its LiteMast with their ProBase system which works in place of the standard fixed angled corner joint. The ProBase incorporates universal mountings for chain hoists allowing one person to locate and fix the hoist in position rather than two which most other systems require. Another key point to the ProBase is the all round hinged corners, these allow the unit to be folded down for shipping with out the need to fully disassemble the mast, aiding load in and load out time.

RCF's Greg Oliver who assisted the Litestru

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UK - Earlier this week, two pallets of Kramer Electronics equipment were stolen from the back of a lorry in Hemel Hempstead, UK.

Amongst the long list of items stolen were the first VS-42HDMI 4x2 HDMI matrix switchers to be brought into the UK, and the first FC-31 UXGA-DVI converter. Products suitable for broadcast, professional AV and custom install were stolen.

If anybody has any suspicions about Kramer goods being offered to them, they can contact PC 2129 Fontenelle from Hertfordshire Constabulary, on 01442 271017, quoting crime ref DI/07/8568.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Metallica's recent European tour has justifiably been trumpeted by Midas as the acid test for its new XL8 digital live mixing system. But it was also a perfect demonstration of the quality and reliability of the components the design team specified. A case in point is the link between the console and the stage, one of the areas singled out by Metallica's engineer, Big Mick Hughes, as making a real difference. As he noted, with short leads from mics to stage box and a digital signal thereafter there was no discernible loss in frequency response - "an intelligibility and clarity that I've never really heard before", as he put it.

The link from the stage box is fibre optic to ensure that integrity of signal is matched by high-speed, zero-latency data transfer. The only question mark at design stage was over the flimsy plastic 'LC' connectors routinely supplied with f

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