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Featuring the new DVX3121 12" woofer and the ND2 neodymium compression driver, ZX3 continues the innovation of the Electro-Voice DVX woofer programme, joining the ranks of EV's ZX series between the 8" ZX1 and the 15" ZX5.

In addition to the high performance drivers, a complete range of optional accessories, including the CB3 array kit, MB3 wall/ceiling mount bracket, HA-3 handle adapter for use with the VSA-1 strong arm mount, and TCA-1 truss clamp adapter, allow ZX3 to be easily and precisely configured in multiple box arrays, mounted on truss or tripods, deployed as monitors, or used as system mains with a subwoofer, says the company.

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The lighting was designed by Fares Aljunied with the exception of Shaggy and Whitney Houston, whose lighting designer Bobby Budall created the two shows. Both designers relied on two grandMA full-size, three MA NSPs and two grandMA video media servers. Additionally, two laptops ran in full-tracking backup mode with grandMA onPC and grandMA 3D. The lighting equipment was provided by Showtec and Sudha Sound and Light.

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The TC Group, headquartered in Risskov, Denmark, has a number of premium brands of pro audio technology and produces amplifiers, speakers, digital processors, guitar pedals and other pro audio and MI products. TC Group's customers include top musical artists, recording studios, television and radio/TV stations, prominent theatres, commercial installations, and home entertainment.

"This merger will revolutionise the music industry for many years to come," said Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and C

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James Allison of JHA Entertainment commented: "Harveys is a smart, 400-capacity late-night bar, and the single pair of Void's Airten systems, together with their Impulse sub, provides plenty of powerful coverage throughout the venue. This was a very pleasant surprise for the owners, who were initially expecting to see rather more loudspeakers. The Void Acoustics systems are ideal for this type of install, needing very few enclosures to produce dance-

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Managing director of Merseysound, Colin Reader says: "We've been using JBL now ever since Harman started. We've been using JBL equipment for over seven years now and we're very happy with it. We can break the line array up into four hangs and again for the arena, we can split it up into twelve hangs per side at the front and then two lots of four at the back as delay lines. It's very flexible and if we're doing a smaller venue, we can ground stack it as well which gives us a little more versatility."

The line array is accompanied by 12 Crown iTech8000 amplifiers and two DBX DriveRack 4800 systems pr

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Tattoo events around the world follow a long-established template provided by the Edinburgh original. In this respect the inaugural Russian event was no exception. Marching bands from the Moscow Garrison and German Army Corps were joined by the perennially-massed Scottish bagpipers and drummers. The event's musical highlights included excerpts from Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, along with a special arrangement of Amazing Grace performed by the band of the British Coldstream Guards.

The sheer dimensions of the Moscow arena, however, added a further challenge for the sound design team, headed by E

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The harbor-side Playhouse, which has been designed by Danish architects Boje Lundgaard and Lene Tranberg, commands a prime location opposite the Royal Opera, also a customer of Studer's Vista technology. The Playhouse is the new home for the Royal Danish Theatre, and has three discrete performance spaces. The Main Stage seats 750 theatre-goers and its horseshoe-shaped galleries are inspired by northern Italian renaissance theatre. The secondary stage, seating 250, is named Portscenen (or 'The Gate Stage'), reflecting the fact that the large, gate-like doors in the northern wall can be opened to draw the stage out onto the q

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A company statement says: "From its early days, Community established its reputation as an innovator. With its unique fiberglass horns and enclosures and industry-leading transducer and loudspeaker designs, Community products have always stressed high performance and unsurpassed quality supported by meticulous testing and documentation. Community's popular weather-resistant systems, including the R-Series and WET Series II lines, are the audio system centerpiece in arenas and stadia throughout the world.

"Community is a worldwide leader in professional loudspeakers, but the company hasn't strayed from Howze's original philosophy of innova

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Left and right ground stacks comprising two KV2 ES 1.0 lightweight, compact, mid/high cabinets with a single KV2 ES 2.5 high-output subwoofer and two KV2 ES 1.8 reflex horn-loaded single 18-inch subwoofers - with each stack controlled and driven by two KV2 EPAK2500R amplifier packs - were deployed.

The Gofer production team on the night were immensely impressed with the both the ease of set up and the quality and level of sound. FOH engineer, Nat Clarkson, commented: "It was so quick and pleasurable to sound check."

Production manager, Nic Forsdyke added: "We saved ourselves time using the KV2 Audio system and in this game that is

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"In true Mackie fashion, the FRS Series amps combine clean power and performance in a lightweight design," says Mackie product manager, Greg Young. "Fast Recovery means your sound stays clean, even when pushing them to their limits. These amps are perfect for the rig on-the-go, and give you more power for your dollar- so they won't break your back or your wallet."

The FRS Series include a high-resolution, six segment LED meter per channel, defeatable clip limiter, subsonic filter, and on-board protection circuitry (short, under-impedance, over-cur

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The main system, comprising two arrays of 15 Milo high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers and one Milo 120 high-power expanded coverage curvilinear array loudspeaker per side, was augmented by two more side-hangs of six Milos each. 12 700-HP subwoofers per side provided a powerful bottom end.

Front-of-house engineer Dave Nicholls comments: "We don't use front-fills, as Mr. Manson is in the pit for much of the show."

Bruce Danz, Manson's monitor engineer adds, "At Thunder Audio, we know that no other system beats the Milo. It installs easily, and with no amp racks to deal with. It also saves a lot of time in setup and teardown."

The stage monitoring system includes four Mica curvilinear a

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"It was especially pleasing to find out that we were chosen by the Yates's team because of our programming team's ability to articulate a thorough historical understanding of the Yates's brand, and that we could also outline just what would be needed to help retain its status as a dominant force in licensed retail."

Each site's entertainment offer is controlled by tsg's promedia mms hard disk system; a compact, one-box solution, which caters for the updating of media content, scheduling and softwa

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Though free PC-Editor software is available, the DC-One can be operated via the front panel. Direct access buttons, six predefined configuration modes (one being free configuration), straightforward output delay settings, and true professional metering all allow for safe operation.

DC-One's 'front-panel-access-control' allows the user to select a personal library of accessible presets (out of 60 factory and 20 user presets). In addition, the user can determine which individual parameters in each preset

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FOH engineer Brent Rawlings reports: "The system is covering really well, I'm impressed. We are working on how to set things up so that when you have two stacks of bottom there's not just one strip of intense sub down the very middle of the PA. We want to have a very evenly dispersed bottom end everywhere and that takes a little experimentation, but we will get something nice."

The tour has taken in arena-sized venues and, generally speaking, the system has comprised two hangs of TA-890H and L flown five wide by five deep with a TA-500HM trapezoidal mid/high down-fill enclosure beneath each hang. "These are wedge shaped boxes that can face at a very steep angle towards the people that are standing underneath them and will cover right up to the stage,&quo

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Following an extensive £34m redevelopment, Doncaster Racecourse was officially reopened by HRH The Princess Royal for the St. Leger Festival, attended by a record modern day crowd of over 70,000. The development involved the replacement of the old Yorkshire Stand with the state-of-the-art Urban-i Stand and Lazarus Exhibition Hall, providing quality facilities to race-goers and exhibition and conference attendees.

Doncaster Racecourse's new custom-built public address and audio visual communications system was heralded a great success by the managing executive of the South Yorkshire venue. The system, designed by RaceTech, took more than two years to develop. Among the features created specifi

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For its Main Stage, the Playhouse has commissioned TTA and its Scandinavian distributor Benum to provide a Stagetracker 16XR audio tracking and positioning system, which uses MIDI to control TiMax audio imaging software from British company Outboard Electronics.

From its position in the truss above the stage, a single intelligent Stagetracker RadioEye receiver is able to provide coverage of the entire 16m x 16m (52ft x 52ft) stage. The RadioEye calculates the actors' positions and feeds positional information to the Stagetracker software which also incorporates a 3D view of the stage, and gives a visual representation of the actor's movements in real time.

By adding a small radio transmitter the size of a matchbox, cal

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Designed specifically for theatre and live sound applications, Cadac's S-Digital represents a radical departure from other live sound console designs, by combining the familiar surface architecture, character and functionality of the Cadac J-Type, with the operational and creative benefits of digital audio control, says the company which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary.

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In addition to this, Klotz will also provide all signal routing for the Main Control Room (MCR) and a Varizone digital public address system.

"We are honoured to have been chosen again by Austereo and are looking forward to being involved in this exciting project. Through the close work between the Austereo engineers and our staff, I believe that we have come up with a system design which will set the standard for a long time to come" says Patrick Salloch, newly appointed general manager of Klotz Digital Asia Pacific.

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With its compact dimensions and a total weight of less than 45kg, the D-LITE 1000 fits comfortably into the boot of a small car. The system, comprised of two Dynacord D 8 satellites and the new active PowerSub 312, brings a combination of high SPL, long throw, and broad, even coverage to the ultra-compact class.

The PowerSub 312's integrated lightweight 800W + 2 x 250W digital power amplifier allows the connection of additional units, such as two D8 satellites and a passive Sub 112 as a bass extension.

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"The Jatim Expo is large, about 60m by 120m (197ft by 393ft), so it needed a lot of power," says Rudy Winarto, managing director of system supplier Melodia Sound & Lighting Systems of Jakarta. "We also had many open mics on stage. Fortunately, the directional control of the M3D and the M3D-Subs made it possible to get ple

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The Gallo Center For The Arts has two performance venues to satisfy a wide range of performances. The Mary Stuart Rogers Theater is the larger of the two with 1,250 seats, while the Foster Family Theater has a capacity of 444 seats. Owned by Modesto County, the facility was financed by private donations. It is a regional facility that is home to the Modesto Symphony and will serve as a multi-purpose centre for a broad range of entertainment. Media Systems Design Group was the audio design consultant, with Principal Tim Hart overseeing the design.

"We used the Vertec line arrays for the front of house systems because of their wide acceptance throu

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The total of 44 workshops, held during the four days of the trade fair will cover topics such as singing on stage and in the studio, signal processing for vocal recording, and how to find the ideal microphone of a lifetime.

The moderators are jazz trumpeter Nils Wülker, vocal trainer Annette Marquard, choir trainer and studio manager Rainer Stemmermann, acoustics expert Peter Maier, audio engineer Nils Hamann and Foley artist Dieter Hebben.

Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of marketing/sales at Neumann Berlin says, "We have expanded the range of topics covered in our workshops in response to frequ

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Dave Wooster has been in charge of FOH at Moore's recent performances and for this latest tour he chose a DiGiCo D1 console. Any DAW on the market can be connected to a DiGiCo console, but Wooster went with Pro Tools.

"It was the first time I'd used a DiGiCo outside of turning up at a festival or a one off show and just having to use what is there," says Wooster. "I've actually had the chance to play and programme the console. Alongside the D1 we had a Pro Tools HD1 system that seamlessly integrated into the desk, whi

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The Blue Man Group tour is a travelling version of the theatrical production show that combines music, comedy and multimedia theatrics. The main performers in the production, the 'Blue Men', are silent characters who use a variety of unusual materials to create musical tapestries that have also spawned three successful albums. The production is also supported by a full live band that plays throughout the performance.

Now in its fourth leg, the tour has already played in countless venues throughout North America, South America and Canada. Audio Analysts has empl