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USA The MW12 is the first model of the EAW MicroWedge Series to be released since an agreement was reached between Loud Technologies Inc. and MicroWedge developer Rat Sound Systems Inc. in late 2007, stipulating that EAW would serve as the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of MicroWedge products. Additional MicroWedge Series products will be introduced in the coming months.

The MW12 provides "dramatically enhanced fidelity, power handling and reliability in comparison to earlier MicroWedge models, attained with an optimum blend of upgraded transducers and EAW's crossover design techniques". Mechanical durability has been advanced as well, joined by enhancements in enclosure fabrication, ergonomics and interconnection, along with dramatic weight reduction, says the company.

The MW12 features a coaxial driver arrangement that pairs a 12" woofer with a 3"

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USA - The impressive Prudential Center in Newark represents the Tri-State's first major entertainment venue to be opened in 25 years. Costing a reported $375 million and boasting seating for 17,500 patrons, the sports and entertainment venue most notably serves as the new home for the NHL New Jersey Devils and the Seton Hall Pirates basketball team, as well as hosting MISL indoor soccer, concerts, family shows, and other special events.

When considering power and flexibility requirements, the venue's sound system design team elected to utilise Crown I-Tech and CTs Series amplifiers, controlled via Harman's HiQnet network, to amplify the various PA and ancillary loudspeaker systems. Pleased with the decision, Andy Prager, senior project engineer with Diversified Systems, the contracting firm responsible for the audio installation, notes: "the Crown systems sound remarkably g

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Germany - In addition to the worldwide debut of High End's two newest products - the DL.3 and the Road Hog Programming and Playback Wings - attendees at ProLight & Sound in Frankfurt are eligible to enter a draw to win a new Road Hog Full Boar console with Playback Wing.

The DL.3. This integrates a media server loaded with a wealth of digital content with a 6500 lumen 3-chip LCD projector, a highly sensitive HAD sensor camera and an infrared illumination system. Among many new features of DL.3 are its high 2000:1 contrast ratio for a dark 'video black,' lens options for longer throw projection applications, SDI input/output for professional AV markets, and new art libraries with high resolution content.

Also debuting are the new Road Hog Programming and Playback Wings, designed for Wholehog control systems including the Wholehog 3, Road Hog Full Boar, Hog iPC and Hog 3PC.

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USA - Technomad Associates, LLC, reports that it has established a new sales milestone with more than 17,000 loudspeakers shipped worldwide to date. The company, founded in 1995, continues to manufacture all loudspeakers for the commercial pro audio and military/security markets at its Massachusetts facility, where each loudspeaker is bench-built and tested by its small team of craftsmen.

"Technomad is proud to contribute to the long-standing tradition of New England manufacturing," said Rodger von Kries, vice president of Technomad. "Our commitment to manufacturing our commercial and military products in the USA ensures the careful craftsmanship of all Technomad loudspeakers is centralized in our Massachusetts facility."

All Technomad loudspeakers have an IP56 rating from the International Electronic Commission (IEC) for maximum protection against hazardou

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USA - AKG Acoustics has named Sound Marketing West of Canoga Park, CA as the company's Rep of the Year for 2007. Sound Marketing West accepted this award for excellent sales performance at a ceremony held during the recent annual Harman Pro Group representative and distributor meeting.

"Each year we recognise those partners demonstrating excellent sales efforts while offering consistent and reliable customer support. Sound Marketing West exemplifies the very best in these categories," explained Nick Owen, vice-president of sales for Harman Pro North America's AKG, Soundcraft and Studer brands. "The growth of brand loyalty for AKG products in the US depends upon support from reliable and experienced sales professionals like the team at Sound Marketing West. We're proud to recognize them for all their hard work over the last year."

Jerry Klein, sales manager

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UAE - Action Impact appoints Jeremy Garbett as their new managing director based intheir Dubai HQ. Garbett has served on the Spectrum Communications / Caribiner / JackMorton Worldwide boards since 1993 and then became joint MD of JMW in 2005. He left JMWlast summer to pursue interests outside the communications sector.

Garbett comments: "I am really looking forward to engaging and supporting the very talentedAction Impact team. The agency is growing incredibly fast and is already regarded as the preeminent live communications company within the region. The UAE is an area of the globe I find fascinating not only with its well documented growth but for its attendant communicationopportunities. The region's drive and ambition is constantly startling when compared to theEuropean and US communication marketplaces.

Garbett continues: "Action Impact's geographical position

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Canada - Adamson Scandinavia has been established. A company statement says, "Adamson is growing the Scandinavian market which is reputably a forward thinking and technologically aware region of Europe, with a passion for music; it is home to hundreds of music festivals annually. Adamson's complete line of advanced technology loudspeaker products will consequently be a great fit for the Scandinavian regional professional touring and installation markets."

Adamson's long-time rental partner Nordic Rentals has finished building a massive new storage and office building in Velje, Denmark, which will now house the separate entity of Adamson Scandinavia, beside the Nordic Rentals divisions of Nordic Rentals, Nordic Sales and Nordic Staging.

Adamson Scandinavia staff includes manager Lars Aunsberg, director of sales Lars Bo Baadsgaard and sales staff Lars J°rgensen, an

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UK - Red TX is the new company set up by Ian Dyckhoff, formerly a director of Fleetwood Mobiles, and sound designer Conrad Fletcher, with the aim of capturing audio from major live music events for subsequent television broadcast and/or release on DVD. Broadcast sound engineer Tim Summerhayes, who is currently working on a freelance basis after resigning his directorship of Fleetwood Mobiles, is being represented by Red TX and was behind the controls of the Red TX OB truck at the recent NME Awards.

For the past year Dyckhoff and Fletcher have been trading under the name of Mobile One, handling a variety of high profile events including the Vodafone TBA series, T4 On The Beach and Keane's concert from the O2 Arena, which was the first live DVD from the venue. However, the Shockwaves NME Awards 2008 - the largest in the history of this particular awards ceremony - wa

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USA - Following on the heels of his sold-out European tour, controversial Goth Metal icon Marilyn Manson recently brought his high-intensity show to North America. Supporting his current release, Eat Me, Drink Me, the 19-city tour took the rocker to some intimate theatres and auditoriums in the US and Canada.

Manson toured with 16 self-powered, high-performance MJF-212A stage monitors from Meyer Sound. Monitor engineer was Bruce Danz, a long-time associate of Taylor, Mich.-based Thunder Audio, which supplied the monitors.

"The MJF-212A is really the only stage monitor that can deliver clean, intelligible sound at the levels we require," reports Danz.

Since its release in 2007, MJF-212A has provided monitoring for the many artists including Metallica, Steely Dan, Dave Matthews and Kanye West.

Before his show dates in North America, Manson toured Europe with

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USA - Live sound and lighting production company On Cue Systems of Phoenix, AZ recently provided the sound reinforcement system for a Barack Obama presidential campaign rally at Phoenix Veterans Memorial Stadium in Arizona. The Stand For Change rally drew more than 13,000 supporters and included appearances by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Caroline Kennedy.

On Cue Systems deployed a Vertec line array system consisting of a left/right arrangement of 12 VT4889 full-size line array elements per side, with 10 VT4880 full-size arrayable subwoofers per side. Additionally, On Cue Systems set up six VT4889 line array elements each for two out-fill side hangs.

According to Dan Myers, system technician for On Cue Systems, the event drew larger crowds than expected. "The campaign staff was only expecting five or six thousand people to show up, so it was amazing to see

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UK - Adlib Audio has completed it's first School Tutorial Event of 2008. Adlib's Andy Dockerty says, "The way to learn how to become a live sound engineer and system technician is to actually be involved in the environment.

"Many young people are pushed into 'live audio' and 'technical' courses by career advisors at schools. Whist sounding superficially exciting, these courses are obviously bringing in funds to educational establishments, but "live" production cannot be taught in a classroom or a one space environment.

"You need to be able to anticipate venue-to-venue problems and nuances and experience true working days - including load-ins and outs before you leave college."

Dockerty adds that apart from highlighting technical issues, the Adlib Schools Events are realistic about the fact it's not an especially glamorous career at the outset, a

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Korea - A number of new QSC Audio ILA line array installations have been carried out in Korea recently by territorial distributors, Sama ProSound. The long-established Seoul-based company reports that applications vary from auditoria in educational establishments to places of worship.

The main auditorium at Wooshin High School in Seoul is used for a variety of functions and its long rectangular shape would generally have dictated that a large number of subwoofers would be required to complement the main full-range main speakers.

QSC's Installation Line Array (ILA) offers 140° horizontal coverage, and 12 enclosures have been specified (in two hangs) with four WL118-sw subs. This necessitated adding only a pair of QSC's AcousticDesign AD-S82's in each of the corners of the auditorium's second floor to ensure that an evenly-dispersed sound can be experienced from any location

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New Zealand - Audio networking for Skycity's new Vue Bar in Hamilton, has been placed entirely in the hands of the Soundweb London DSP platform from BSS Audio.

The Soundweb system, comprising a BLU-80 signal processor and BLU-32 I/O expander, forms part of a Harman Pro integrated system, designed and specified by James Greet from Greet Consulting of Auckland, in consultation with Paul Edlin of JANDS NZ Technical Resource Group (TRG). The system was supplied and installed by Security Specialists of Auckland - and all network design programming and commissioning was handled by Robson Birch, of JANDS NZ TRG.

The 600-capacity Vue Bar has been designed specifically to provide world-class entertainment in the city centre, and marks the end of a multi-phase development which also saw the opening of the Rebo Restaurant and Bar in May of last year. General manager Geoff Hogg confirms t

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Germany - In tandem with the announcement that JBL Professional's V4 DSP preset library for Vertec would soon be available for Crown's I-Tech platform, the two brands are also announcing at ProLight + Sound the introduction of 44 new JBL loudspeaker presets specifically tailored for use with Crown's XTi Series of power amplifiers.

Downloadable for free from the Crown International (www.crownaudio.com) and JBL Professional (www.jblpro.com) websites as of Musikmesse Prolight+Sound's opening day, the System Architect device files will comprise six presets for JBL's JRX Series loudspeakers, six for MRX, 19 for SRX, and 13 for VRX.

According to Andy Flint, Crown vertical market manager for portable PA, "The release of these presets shows the commitment of the Harman Pro companies to offer simplified system solutions. With XTi's extensive feature set and now the JBL preset libr

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Germany - Meyer Sound announced at ProLight + Sound, Frankfurt, that it has incorporated its business in the UK by establishing Meyer Sound UK. This marks the second announcement from the company this month that demonstrates Meyer Sound's commitment to the growing European marketplace, says the company, the first being the appointment of Dave "Wiggy" Wiggins to the newly created position of director of marketing for Europe.

"The continuing development of Meyer Sound's business in Europe has made it essential for the company to form a strategic presence in the UK, which is one of the most influential professional audio markets in the world," says Helen Meyer, executive vice president of Meyer Sound. "The move to establish Meyer Sound in the UK is a key ingredient in our medium to long-term plans for growing our customer base, developing new markets, and g

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Austria - When the Grand Casino Baden reopened in 1995 - as part of the resplendent Congress Casino Baden - it not only became the largest casino in Europe but one of the most prominent event centres in the country. A subsidiary of Casinos Austria AG, the venue was set up to handle around 240 events a year (in three different function spaces) 365 days a year.

Back in 2002 Andreas Gallé, Congress Casino Baden's senior technician, decided to install a CobraNet digital backbone. "When we started to evaluate new amplifiers two years later it was logical to look for network-based audio devices," he explained.

The technician specified quantities of QSC PowerLight PL6, PL236, PL230 and PL218 amplification, networked via seven QSC BASIS 922 units. To this the Casino subsequently added a further three BASIS 922 DSP's, linked by the DataPorts of two QSC CX 168's and and

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Germany - Audio-Technica has taken on the exclusive distribution of speaker systems manufactured by AD-Systems in Germany, it was announced at ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt this week.

"We have been looking to expand our product range over the last 18 months, to offer our customer a complete 'system house' solution," stated Joerg Rader, branch manager for Audio-Technica Germany.

"We have found a perfect partner in AD-Systems and secured very close cooperation with a highly motivated and flexible manufacturer, which offers a complete win win situation for both our customers and ourselves."

AD-Systems and its team of 14 employees, is located on the outskirts of the Ruhr area in Wesel. After their relocation from Spain to Germany in 2006, the organization's national and international operations underwent a fundamental restructuring programme. "We are loo

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UK - The UK's latest 'super club', the 1200-capacity, three-level State Club in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, has opened its doors with the UK's largest installation to date of the Dynacord XA PA system, installed by Doncaster based Electro Music.

Created by Peter Swann, the entrepreneur behind the successful Sands Jazz Club in the same town, the spacious State Club resides in the totally renovated shell of a former cinema. In its new guise it makes abundant use of the space to offer four venues in one - nightclub, live music venue, café/lounge and digital cinema.

The main stage hosts live acts and, using its retractable 20m screen and dedicated DLP digital cinema projector, daytime movie screenings. It is flanked by a pair of ground stacks of Dynacord FX12 mid-high tops from the XA range that focuses sound on the dancefloor, with a row of eight matching FX20 Planar waveg

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Germany - At ProLight + Sound this week, HHB introduced the UDP-89 universal DVD/CD player which "combines broadcast-quality audio and video replay, a full complement of video and audio outputs and a massivefeature set to create a compact 1U rack mounting player that systems integrators and AV professionals can install with complete confidence".

Features including professional cueing functions, DVD-Audio and SACD compatibility, RS232 and touchscreen X-Y coordinate control equip the UDP-89 for use in a wide range of applications and demanding installations in whichconsumer DVD players simply won¹t cut it, suggests HHB.

Commenting at the show, HHB managing director Ian Jones said, "We¹re delighted to be here with our German distribution partners Innoton, with so many ground-breaking HHB products on show. The UDP-89 is the most highly specified DVD/CD player avai

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Germany - Dolby Laboratories confirmed at ProLight + Sound the scheduled release of version 5.0 of the Dolby Lake Controller software, together with firmware updates already in production. Dolby Lake Controller version 5.0 adds powerful new networking, routing, and control features and functionality to the Dolby Lake Processor, including Dante networking technology from Audinate, says the company.

Dolby Lake Controller version 5.0 enables new input and output routing. Each input source may be routed to any number of available outputs, which provide audio distribution to multiple physical outputs and output types. Input AutoSelect allows assigning of up to four input sources to each mixer channel to enable input audio redundancy. Input/output pass-through and processing module output routing is fully flexible. Version 5.0 will also include the ability to configure the output card

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UK - The Stage Electrics audio department has recently added the new L-Aacoustics Kiva / Kilo line array systems to its growing inventory of L-Acoustics loudspeakers. The company's existing stock has been in high demand since a UK dealership agreement was signed with the French manufacturer in August 2007.

In total, 16 Kiva Mid-Highs and four Kilo Lows have been purchased, with the possibility of increasing the numbers later in the year. The system is being powered by the addition of a further two LA4 controller amplifiers.

Stage Electrics audio production manager Andrew Taylor commented, "We had been looking to add a small format line array system to our hire inventory for some time and were interested in the soon to be released Kiva / Kilo system. The demo system L-Acousticss provided was enrolled on a couple of high profile shows with spectacular results, our clients w

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Germany - JBL Professional introduced eight new compact AE Series loudspeaker models at ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt this week. The new AE Compact loudspeaker series provides even more options for system designers and integrators in a variety of applications, says the company.

"The demand for loudspeaker systems that provide added flexibility and even greater sonic clarity continues to grow with the evolution of the systems integration industry," said Jon Sager, director of market development, installed sound, JBL Professional. "The new AE Compact loudspeaker series addresses these demands, enabling sound designers and installers to best meet the needs of any given environment, including performing arts venues, houses of worship, sports facilities, corporate board rooms, and dance clubs."

The new AE Compact loudspeaker family consists of eight high-output,

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UK - The international professionals responsible for the safety of audiences worldwide were themselves looked after by crowd management company, Showsec, this March. The International Live Music Conference (ILMC) welcomed 950 live music promoters, agents and managers to London's Royal Garden Hotel to discuss the issues affecting live music and events, including secondary ticketing, audience safety and emerging markets.

"Live music promoters understand the responsibilities and challenges of providing top class crowd management, stewarding and security," says Showsec's managing director, Mark Harding. "So we were delighted to be able to provide the friendly, professional and effective service they demand. Showsec is increasingly being asked to work in a management capacity on international events including Bestival Romania, Desert Storm in Dubai and MTV Europe. We f

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Germany - Steinberg Media Technologies presented a technical preview at Frankfurt Musikmesse of its new CC121 Advanced Integration Controller. Offering dedicated maximum-quality hardware controllers and an innovative and flexible new controller concept, CC121 provides full Cubase 4 integration and control. CC121 will support Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X, and will be available in Q3 2008, says the company,

"Built to an extremely high manufacturing and component standard, CC121 provides totally integrated tactile control of Steinberg's Cubase range of production systems, with a unique design architecture that keeps producers and musicians 100% focused on their Cubase project and the creative process," comments Helge Vogt, Steinberg's product marketing manager for Cubase. "The revolutionary and ultra-flexible AI Knob combines with a range of dedicated contr

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