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"We evaluated a variety of products before deciding to purchase iLive, looking at overall value for money, quality of sound, features, ease of use and flexibility. We chose iLive because of its simple interface for analogue desk users and its ability to provide full DSP to every input and output. iLive's flexible architecture and micro footprint makes set-up very easy, yet we still have the capacity to manage up to 64 inputs and 32 outputs," explains Stuart Roberts, MD of SRD Group.

SRD Group provides dry hire or complete event management services for entertainment

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"After the Company introduced its first manufactured product, the 33N microphone, in 1932, Mr. Shure began to establish a network of sales representatives, and S.K. Macdonald was one of the first," said Sandy LaMantia, president and CEO of Shure. "Our companies have enjoyed a long and productive partnership over the years, and we're looking forward to continued success."

SK Macdonald is one of the professional audio industry's oldest and most experienced representative firms. The company currently represents some of the industry's most-respected manufacturers, incl

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Converted from Victorian-era bank vault to sophisticated lounge bar, The Treasury needed an installation with the audio quality to match its uniquely impressive décor.

"The Treasury doesn't have a dance floor," explains Zhev Liberson, director of Clockwork Audio. "It's a sophisticated bar that's music orientated. The volume isn't up to nightclub levels but it's vital that everyone is able to hear the music. The APart system does deliver that kind of quality, and it gives a very good representation of music from different sources like MP3 and CD."Fellow director of Clockwork Audio Systems Ltd David Monk paired eight APart MASK6-W wall mounted speakers with two SU

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Beginning in the middle of May with two nights at Glasgow Academy, the tour took in venues of varying sizes including Manchester Apollo, The Cambridge Corn Exchange, Portsmouth Guildhall, Carling Academy Birmingham, and Brighton Dome and carried 24 TA-890H three-way mid/high cabinets, 24 TA- 890L bass cabinets and eight TSW-218 subs, plus a substantial Turbosound stage monitoring system comprising TFM-450 wedges and TQ-445s for side fills. Control was via XTA DP448s and power from Turbosound-badged

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Plant kicked things off minus Krauss with a backing band featuring T-Bone Burnett. Things took a progressively country turn when Krauss stepped onstage, adding her ethereal vocals and signature fiddle sound

Shure hardwired microphones were used by both artists, an SM58 for Plant and a Beta 58 for Krauss.

(Claire Beeson)

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"The brief was to design and install a completely new sound system," explains Eddy O'Hare of Audio Light Systems. "They wanted good quality speech, minimal user interface and a heavy use of radio mics."

The answer to that request was a host of radio mic equipment from Sennheiser. The lectern would be home to a ME 34 condenser microphone capsule and a MZH 3042 flexible gooseneck, connected to a SKP 500 G2 plug on transmitter that turned the wired mic into a wireless mic, which in turn would be paired with an EM 300 receiver. For the rest of the Cathedral, ALS chose four ew 322 G2 lapel radio mic kits, two ew 365 hand held wireless mic systems and two ASP 2

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Being shown for the first time in the UK, the Micro 88 brings all of the performance, operational and cost advantages over conventional stereo systems unique to airSound, to wide range of commercial audio applications, the company adds. Measuring just 510mm x 240mm x 240mm, the Micro 88 air incorporates DARE's proprietary Inti Q X-over and phase linear porting system.

The distinctive curved pseudo-trapezoidal cabinet boasts a 500w continuous music programme power capability in its airSound guise.

With true stereo reproduction from a single cab, instead of left and right channel ca

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The SM11 is part of a system that collects samples of exhaust gases from the Shuttle orbiter's propulsion system aft fuselage area to sense any gas leaks in the plumbing. During ascent, an SM11 Microphone mounted inside a system electronics box, picks up the sound generated from the orbiter propulsion area at launch. Its output signal controls equipment that triggers a sequencing of pyro-valve devices that enable air samples to enter each of 6 vacuum bottles at various times during the ascent. The collected gas samples are later analyzed after the orbiter returns to Earth. Having this data can save maintenance and inspection hours.

"Using the SM11 as the triggering

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"The confidence behind this purchase was driven by hands-on demonstrations by Sound Art and Mark Kulas (of Midas rep firm PAG Canada), followed by in-depth discussions of the features and advantages the XL8 offers," says Matt Larson, Americas sales manager, Midas.

Dave Cousins of Sound Art adds: "During the specification process, it became clear to the customer that the Midas XL8's sonic performance, ease of use, and ultimate flexibility could not be beaten by any other product out there. The fact that the XL8 is being used on the world's highest profile produc

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Four dates at the Oslo Rockerfeller Music Hall preceded an appearance at London's Royal Albert Hall. The concerts showcased each member of a-ha with their individual bands for 30 minutes, with a-ha coming together to launch two new songs for the finale.

The XL8 belongs to Norwegian rental company Avab-Cac, of which Persson is a director. "I've always been a great fan of Midas consoles and we got our XL8 about a year ago, so I have been lucky enough to play around with it at our warehouse," he says. "When this show came up it was the obvious choice of console, combining supreme audio quality and automation."

As the show was divided into four parts, the XL8's automation really came into its own, allowing Pers

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One of the country's flagship venues, Amsterdam's Paradiso, has recently been outfitted with a Venue D-Show system, and two of Holland's top rental companies have also invested heavily in Venue systems.

Story Sound, one of the country's largest rental houses, recently added a D-Show Profile and Mix Rack system to their three existing full-size Venue systems. Story Sound's Michael Story reports the acquisition allows them to offer a wider range of systems to their theatre-oriented customer base, with an increasing number of freelance engineers specifying Venue on their shows, including sound designers Bo Bruijs and Dennis Slot.

"We'd originally been attracted to Venue by its comprehensive plug-in support," reports

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UBS contracted Habegger AG, a leading Swiss event and production specialist to oversee the sixteen venues. Like similar 'soft skills' organisations, Habegger does not own any equipment, and always rents in goods and services, in this instance from its regular partner Procon Schweiz, specifying high fidelity d&b audiotechnik Q-Series.

Mostly situated in downtown locations, Procon's project leader Elias Ruh explained: "For us the Q-Series system was an obvious choice; small and easy to rig, the 75° horizontal dispersion of this light weight line array is ideal for sound containment in a close urban area. But of course football fans sitting in the listening

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14 March 2016

The three-day Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California near Palm Springs was the first of the two festivals to use the W-DMX system, which performed double-duty at the back-to-back events. Prince, Roger Waters, and Jack Johnson headlined the Coachella festival that included over 130 bands on five stages.

The system consisted of a single S-1 transmitter and 10 R-512 receivers controlling 20 7kW Falcon moving lights from A&0. The lights were mounted on 30ft towers, surrounding the festival area. An 8dBi omni antenna was at the transmitter, and each receiver had a 24dBi grid antenna. The longest distance was 2033ft (620m).

A repeater link was also set up from the main stage to the site lighting control area so the lights could be incorpor

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The Alcons system deployed by Profimusik in Hamburg consisted of six LR16 cabinets per side, with six LR14s as underhang, powered and controlled by ALC2 and DDP processing, with for bass reinforcement a BF302 MK2 per side, powered by an ALC6 amplifier/controller with DDP processing.

As stage-lip fill for the first rows, four units of SR9, also with ALC2 and DDP came into play. Taylor's engineer David Morgan and James' crew were

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After months of heats around the country, the final eight beatboxers battled it out at the Grand Final at the London Islington Carling Academy on 13 June. Last year's champion Beardyman, as well as Shlomo and Killa Kela presided over this year's event and eventually judged the winner to be MC Zani.

The KSM9, one of SDUK's flagship microphones which is currently being use

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A total of five main stages for live acts were dotted around Coachella - this year headlined by Roger Waters and Prince - with the aforementioned 'cool' area run by the Do Lab artist network. Ostensibly an art installation, it featured kind souls wielding hosepipes to help cool festival-goers off, as well as the latest dance beats and DJ sets playing in 'hexaphonic' sound day and night.

Audio provider Whump! Sound provided an all-Turbosound rig for the installation, with

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Disturbing News: Almost one in four secondary schools in England no longer has any specialist physics teachers, a survey suggests. The report, published by academics at the University of Buckingham, warns of a threat to the subject's future. The government has set targets to promote the number of physics teachers in secondary schools. But the report's authors wa

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"I have admired the company's product line for many years," says company founder Dirk Schubert. "We received one of the first pallets of amps shipped to the US in 2002, and adopted Lab.gruppen for our systems the first time we listened to them. No other amplifier makes a rig sound as good as Lab.gruppen. I particul

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"In the year since its debut, Sonus has become one of our most popular loudspeaker lines," said Julia Lee, Community's director of sales and marketing. "We're pleased to expand this lineup into the S-Series to include both passive and active versions of each model."

The S-1296A and S-1596A are two-way models with 400-Watts of low-frequency power and 100-Watt high-frequency amplification. The S-3294A and S-3594A three-way models add 100W mid-range amps to the package. Powered subwoofers complete the lineup, employing single 1000W amplifiers in

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The knowledge of Yamaha engineers is regularly being used to help a wide range of audio professionals to improve their skills, via teaching documents, a range of seminars and 'hands-on' training programmes.

"In order to design reliable and functional networked audio systems, the application of this complex technology requires a very high level of technical knowledge," says Nils-Peter Keller, YMCE deputy general manager. "Therefore, Yamaha actively provides the knowledge and support required to those who need it."

One such event was an advanced training semina

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The licence, which was issued before the 2007 event, lasts for four years and allows organisers to continue holding the Glastonbury Festival until 2010, after which they will need to apply for a new licence.

One main issue dealt with by the district council was concerns about noise. Wind and low cloud meant that some Mendip residents who have normally not been able to hear the festival could hear some noise this year. However, according to Mendip's director for planning and environment, Charles Uzzell, although noise monitoring had taken place there was no significant breaches of the licence, and the levels of noise were within the national recommended guidelines.

Tom Killen, Mendip's portfolio holder for licensing and public protection

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"Historically, you don't think of handheld microphones as being go-to devices on Broadway," says Spring audio engineer Francis Elers. "But as the nature and scope of the shows change, so do our needs for mics. There are four or five full-on rock songs in Spring Awakening that haven't been diluted one bit for theatre sensibilities.To meet the needs of these numbers both in look and performance, handheld mics were the only choice."

Sound designer Brian Ronan' comments, "This is a very rambunctious show. The first mics we chose weren't up to the task of taking hard knocks. We needed something that could be punished regularly, and that's one of the reasons the switch was mad

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Rogers' portfolio includes some of the most notable buildings of our time - the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Millennium Dome and Madrid Bajaras airport.

GE CMH TC 70w 3000k lamps with IOS reflector with narrow and beams are used in all ambar track mounted and suspended units which light up the exhibition models and stands.

The Richard Rogers + Architects exhibition, which has already run for three months in the Pompidou Centre, Paris, opened at the Design Museum in April and will run until 25 August.

(Jim Evans)

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Owner Jonathan Lutz turned to United Digital Integrators (UDI) to fix their "musical problems" and bring in an efficient and easy to use solution for their indoor and outdoor seating areas. Prior to the installation, the previous system needed to be reset every 20 minutes, causing massive interruption with the service of its customers.

The new system consists of two Crown amplifiers; the 180MAx Pack is an 80W mixer amplifier with built-in XM Radio tuner and comes with four JBL Control 1S speakers. The system also includes a Crown 1160MA 160W single channel amplifier and eight additional JBL Control 1S speakers.

"Our goal for Uptown Kitchen was to fix two big issues; the unreliable digital