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The Canadian company is a division of JAM Industries, which itself has been distributing audio and music equipment in Canada for over 30 years. The company has office and warehouse space in Montreal and a nationwide sales force.

John Vellone, director of Erikson Commercial comments: "Cloud products are truly designed for the contractor's ease of installation and the user's ease of operation. Cloud products are a perfect fit and compliment Erikson Commercial's product offerings."

Simon Curtis, managing director of Cloud Electronics, adds: "For the distribution of the Cloud brand across Canada, there really is no other company that better fits o

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Last year's inaugural Award was won by Tony Andrews of Funktion One for his decades of dedication to the advancement of loudspeaker design.

The Nomination phase of the 2008 Gottelier Award is now open, and industry professionals worldwide are being asked to put forward the names of individuals who they believe should be considered for this year's award.

Following the nomination period, a shortlist of the leading nominees will then be ope

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"Andy will continue to bring great enthusiasm and passion to the Board," said NSCA executive director Chuck Wilson. "We look forward to his leadership. At the same time, we thank Nancy and our two other retiring board members, Randy Vaughan and Rick Scharmann, for their hard work and dedication to NSCA."

Ron Pusey, president and CEO of Communications Specialists of Virginia, moves into the role of vice-pre

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The largest consumer of Studer consoles for the games is CCTV (China Central Television). Their English-speaking International channel, CCTV-9, is using a Studer Vista 7 in its on-air studio, while the main studios of CCTV have been equipped with four Vista 5s and five OnAir 3000s. Quindao Radio has purchased an OnAir 3000 for the games, and Hong Kong's TVB has purchased a total of five Vista 5s, three for its studio for the games and two for OB vans.

Local broadcasters Guangdong TV, Beijing TV and Shanghai Media Group all feature Vista 8s in their t

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Designed for permanent installation applications including auditoria, airports and train stations, conference centres, houses of worship, stadium concourses and museums, Entasys offers high output and high power handling, boasting multiple low frequency, midrange and high-frequency drivers for the most consistent, lobe free, coverage available, and delivering a uniform, constant vertical beamwidth from 800 Hz - 16 kHz.

Each Entasys full-range column includes six low frequency neodymium drivers, 18 2.35" midrange drivers and six 7" long x 1" wide planar-coupled Compact Ribbon Emulator (CRE) high frequency elements. The Entasys line is designed to be modula

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"Saving our members money is important to NSCA," said NSCA senior director of member services, Jodi Montgomery. "We're constantly looking for new solutions and new ideas to help members succeed."

Greg Bedross, regional sales manager for Kramer Electronics Sierra Video, was the lucky winner of the Prius, which averages 46 miles to the gallon. Bedross said he received the news via cell phone while working on the show floor.

"I just can't believe it. I want to thank everyone," said Bedross when he picked up the keys to his new car. "I think (NSCA) is a wonderful organisation and I'm ver

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Camco's international sales director Mick Anderson comments: "As the complexity and maturity of the Chinese market continues to grow, it becomes ever more important to plan and develop long term business strategies.

"They say its not what you know but who you know that counts. Here at Camco we have found that it is a combination of both that works best in China. Right Way Audio's knowledge and professional attention to service and support means that it is correctly positioned to represent the Camco bra

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Paul Feenstra, vice-president of Milestone AV Technologies B.V, said: "We are excited to add CLO Systems' products to our existing branded product portfolio. We believe automated mounting solutions represent an important, emerging product category, and our well-known Chief and Sanus brands will be strengthened by this welcomed addition to our product line."

Sung Oh, CEO of CLO Systems, added: "This is a great new strategic alliance for CLO Systems, and we look forward to working with the consumer and commercial sales teams at Milestone to sign

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Apple Sound elected to use Bose audio solutions throughout the venue, including products from both the FreeSpace and Panaray ranges, as well as the Bose ControlSpace ESP-88 audio management system which gives a flexible DSP solution that university staff can operate with ease and confidence.

Transformed from the basement of the former Royal Infirmary, the Hub delivers a new concept in meeting and networking space on campus. It complements the existing award winning facilities by providing relaxed and informal

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"Our mission is to work with the best brands in the pro and commercial audio industry," says Scandec product manager Bj°rnar Riise. "We sell through a well established dealer network throughout Norway, consisting of AV integrators, electro-installers and special audio companies.

"At Scandec we have a lot of experience with induction loop amplifiers and we believe Ampetronic has the best products in the industry - the output voltage capacity and metal loss correction of Ampetronic equipment are certainly superior

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"Our appointment as the DPA representative means a lot for AMTEC, because we had been actively searching for a high quality, reliable microphone range which we can sell into our different market sectors," says Martinez. "With DPA we've found all of this, plus their desire to support us in introducing their products to Mexico."

AMTEC has got off to a flying start, selling 48 DPA 4063 miniature omni-directional mics to Azteca Digital (TV Azteca), which has already placed an order for another 50.

"When we met Andrés we immediately felt that we had found the right partner," says DPA f

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The centrepiece of Prostt D.o.o.'s concept was an extensive Electro-Voice XLD system comprising 16 XLD281, four XS212, and four Xsub enclosures that delivered powerful, transparent sound while Electro-Voice CP2200, CP3000 and TG-5 amplifiers supplied the requisite power.

"The XLD system makes it all easy," says Marko Pigac of Prostt D.o.o. "It delivers excellent sound and is delightfully uncomplicated to transport and rig. As a result, the Marquess show went like a dream. No stress whatsoever - and heaps of praise for the sound quality. What more could you wish for?"

(Jim Evans)

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"I have always been an avid Allen & Heath user and find the desks excellent value for money. My first mixer was a GL4 and there is an ML5000 VCA console installed at the church," says H. T. Kim, executive mixing engineer at the Juan Presbyterian Church.

"Some engineers I know are still concerned about the stability of digital mixers and I was one of them before I touched iLive. By the first day of the show I had complete confidence in iLive and it is surprisingly intuitive for a digital system. One of the key benefits of going digital is the scene memory and recall function, which saves a lot of set up time as you can recall settings from the previous night's performance."

(Ji

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Soloist Camilla Tilling, in the role of the angel, had to descend from heaven, with her vocals captured clearly by chief broadcast sound engineer Rob Heerschop from BFN - without showing the microphone. Heerschop asked DPA's Dutch distributor Amptec if he could try out the 4017 and found the results to be so good that BFM ordered the shotgun right away.

The 4017 was mounted in two different positions during the production. The first was on a stand in the middle of the orchestra, aimed at the angel 10m above. "The microphone was in the middle of a large woodwind section but this had hardly any effect on the angel's voice, which was open

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Commenting on the company's expansion, managing director Mark Beaver said: "We have excellent relationships with the industry's top sound and video suppliers and we will continue to partner with them on our larger projects. More of our clients are taking their events to full production level, needing a much wider range of services, so it makes sense that we have the skills and equipment under one roof to offer a more efficient, integrated solution where possible."

The AV team is headed by Jamie Corteen, former director of 2 Bit TV, a live video performance and events production company. Corteen is supported by AV production designer Jonny Stewart, formerly Head of Vide

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The conference system was installed in five different rooms inside the Palace of Parliament building. The spacious Unirii Hall was used as the main conference room, accommodating 65 delegates, around 200 listeners and 46 interpreters with 24 interpreter booths (each with two or three interpreters).

The main racking system serving the Unirii Hall comprises two DCN Next Generation central control units, two audio expanders to provide recording for different audio channels (for local and European Broadcast Union recording), a

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Wolfango De Amicis, director of Agora, says: "With the addition of Kudo - LA8 to our rental inventory, we have now a very flexible system that can be used one day in a concert and the next day at a major outdoor event, in complement to the V-Dosc system or alone. Vittorio De Amicis, my brother, Daniele Tramontani, L-Acoustics CVE, and myself have been pleased by the sound quality that Kudo - LA8 deliver, and impressed by the LA8 presets. The digital amps g

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"Part of what we do at Mick Anderson Consulting is to give clarity of vision. Sometimes, when you're deep in the middle of something, it's very difficult to have the time more than anything else to stand back and say 'where are we going?," says Anderson.

"For DiGiCo, this comes under the heading of international business development. These skills are nothing that DiGiCo doesn't already have, but the company is growing very fast, so they're doing exactly the right thing: where they require a little expert help, they're bringing it in from the outside. We have a lot of contacts, we know the markets, we know the product categories well and therefore we can come in fast with help and information."

"It's nice to have someone who knows the industry well, who I've known for a long time and w

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Successful installation and rental company Arpege proposed a solution which they felt would provide a versatility and ease of use that the in-house engineers were seeking. For the Arpege team, this venue of 1200 seats presented many intricacies; with 150 events already announced for the coming year, the theatre required a system that would be versatile enough to handle all the different types of events as well as manage the challenging acoustics of

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CallCare is designed for use in all types of private, commercial, residential and public sector buildings and enables a member of the general public, a member of staff or a patient to call for assistance by a single button press or pull cord. The system confirms a call has been generated by means of a light and sounder, reassuring the caller and ensuring that a response is provided. CallCare is fully addressable, easy to install and is hard wired for totally reliability (only requiring two common wire connections).

Comprising of a display controller (up to 32- or 99-way) and a choice of alarm triggers, the system can be used for a large range of applications. The control units feature

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The new premises boasts a technologically sophisticated AV system including three Innovasaon digital consoles on an EtherSound network connected to a PC equipped with an LX4646ES soundcard from Digigram for digital multitrack recording.

According to NBSMC's technical director, David Patrick, the idea from the beginning was to go digital. "For a large multifunction installation like ours, the practical and economic advantages offered by a digital system are too numerous to ignore," he noted.

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The newly established Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. The specially-designed building contains cutting edge technology and industry-standard studios. At the heart of the School's eight recording studios sit two Audient consoles: an ASP8024 and the ACS8024.

"Our experience with the first Audient desk purchased in 2003 has been so good that another Audient was the obvious choice for our expanded facilities: this time a 36-channel A

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Located in Union Street, Plymouth's main club district, 45 Degrees is a bar and club with four different zones - a front bar, rear bar, dance floor and VIP room. The responsibility of creating easily controllable audio in all four zones fell to installation company Clockwork Audio.

"Basically we needed to find a good control system for the four different zones," says director Dave Monk from Clockwork Audio. "We needed a high-quality, reliable DSP unit to control it all. They needed a remote control unit as well, so we put an SR4 remote panel behind the bar."

"The owners at 45 Degrees didn't know what type of equipment they wanted," adds Director Zhev Liber

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Conceived from the outset as a comprehensive drive system for any type of loudspeaker, the PLM 10000Q utilises proven Dolby Lake Processor technology and expands upon it with a suite of load verification and performance monitoring features. Its power amplification builds on the foundation of the road-tested FP+ and fP Series providing the same sonic signature. The PLM Series establishes new benchmarks