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The wireless intercom systems are being used by MBC's two leading channels: MBC1, the region's leading purveyor of family entertainment, and Al Arabiya News, the top news channel in the Arab world. In each case, the wireless BTR-700 system facilitates communication between the floor manager and cameraman.

Regional sales manager Ammar Fawzy comments: "The BTR-700 is extremely reliable and has a long range - even in a complex building where the signals have to pass through a large number of intervening walls. These characteristics make the BTR-700 the perfect solution."

(Jim Evans)

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After evaluating various systems, he purchased 24 x Martin Audio W8L Longbows, and gave them a powerful initiation at the RockNess Music Festival near Inverness this month, where Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, Dizzee Rascal and Flaming Lips were among the headliners.

'Knocker' Neal ran 12 W8L hangs a side, with W8LD down-fills on the front corners providing the necessary in-fill, while Martin Audio's predictive 3D Display software made sure the coverage was fully optimised.

"The system definitely throws and there must have been 25,000 in front of it when Prodigy appeared on stage," Neal reports.

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Based in central Norway, the company originally invested in an iLive system, comprising an iDR10 MixRack and iLive-144 Control Surface, in 2008, employing it for various tours, events and festivals on its roster. In autumn it managed FOH duties on the main stage at the Blues in Hell Festival in Stjørdal, which included headline performances from Walter Trout and Marcia Ball. More recently, it managed FOH at the Nidaros Blues Festival in Trondheim, which featured headline act, Little Feat.

"All the guest band engineers like iLive, without exception, which is why we decided to invest in a second system when the time came to increase our digital capability," claims Sceneservice's Stein Larsen. "Our faith

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innovision was appointed to create, manage and deliver the opening presentation at Lord's and all the in-stadium activation across all four venues, under the tournament theme of Everyone's Game.The in stadium activation - or 'sportainment' - was aimed to enhance the excitement of the game with the introduction of specially choreographed dancers, live presentation teams that included DJs and named MCs, visually arresting film packages, global sponsor activations and seamless interface between live event

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The Softie is Rycote's robust, push-on microphone windshield and mounting system for shotgun mics, and is widely used by documentary makers and in news-gathering applications.

(Jim Evans)

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At the launch, Mark Ager said a few words to thank all the contributors and those who had helped to make the book a reality: "This book has been part of a focus to help educate the market about automation and its uses and possibilities. Although John [Hastie] and I are credited as the authors, this book has been a collaborative effort by a whole host of people, both inside and outside Stage Technologies. So much of the knowledge contained within is the distilled wisdom of colleagues

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The sound reinforcement for the show was provided by Buenos Aires Live Show (BALS), who chose to use the Proel EDGE system, for the stage monitors.

The two artists - backed by a group of international musicians - performed various styles from pop, to folk, to acoustic rock to a crowd of over 25,000 spectators.

In total, the stage monitor system used by BALS for the event featured 16 x Proel EDGE15CXPB bi-amplifiable coaxial floor monitors powered by six Powersoft Q4002 amplifiers.

(Jim Evans)

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Alf Berntson of Swedish consultants Artifon AB created the advanced source-oriented reinforcement (SOR) specification for the venue's impressive main classical opera auditorium, 'Stage One', which is partnered with an adjacent contemporary drama and music black-box theatre space known as 'Stage Two'.

A TiMax IM16 matrix is integrated with each theatre's Salzbrenner Stagetec Nexus dsp and routing core via AES3 and optical networking, allowing either TiMax matrix to be used in any room without physical re-patching. Salzbrenner Stagetec previously approached TiMax manufacturers Out Board to help implement the delay-ma

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"We needed an audio system that was not clearly visible to the patrons, but most definitely could be heard," said Dirk Propfe, partner and vice president of the ET Group. "We also wanted to be able to provide discrete control over the sound in each room, to help create an even more hospitable experience for diners and flexibility for the restaurant."

The ET Group designed and installed a zoned ceiling speaker system, drawin

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As the economic development agency for Northern Ireland, Invest NI's role is to grow the economy by helping new and existing businesses to compete internationally and to attract new investment to Northern Ireland. Based in Bedford Street in the heart of Belfast, Invest NI's headquarters boasts striking architecture with its elegant curves and glass detail. Inside the building the strong design features continue, particularly in the main boardroom which forms part of the building's apex.

The installation took place in Invest NI's rounded main boardroom. Due to the shape and acoustics of the room, traditional gooseneck microphones were not suitable. Stephen Briggs, cont

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SAE Liverpool manager Gavin Attard said, "SAE Liverpool has always focused on preparing our students for professional careers, but we also need to address the needs of those who need quick, hands-on and practical help to get up to speed with the greatest industry-standard tools that are set to shape the next generation of DJs and electronic music performers. And that's where our new Ableton Live Course comes in.

"In the space of four weeks we aim to revolutionise perceptions and expectations. Using the most powerful DJ software in the world and one of the most intuitive controllers yet released, we're certain our

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"It's great to have Rick on our team," said Jim Schanz, director of US field sales. "He brings a proven track record of successful sales experience in pro audio and extensive industry knowledge to our team, which will help us continue to grow our business in the US."

Before joining Shure, Renner served for seven years as regional sales manager and sales representative at Sennheiser Electronics Corporation. Before that, he was a staff recording engineer at Streeterville Recording Studios in Chicago.

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As the event staging company for a number of Fortune 500 companies, meeting and event planners and producers across the United States, Showorks is responsible for some critical projects, and reliability, efficiency and crystal-clear sound are always essential elements. With that responsibility in mind, the company chose a Pro64 digital snake to connect the stage to front of house and for signal distribution to monitors and recording.

"Aviom's Pro64 system is the simplest way of splitting audio between multiple consoles while offering a low noise floor in a design that's lightweight," says Showorks project manager Mark Allen. "It's a lot easier to run Cat 5 or fibre than a piec

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On August 8th in a field in Horam, East Sussex, Gary Moore will top the bill, supported by Mo Foster and local legend Ray Russell. There will also be a special guest appearance by Geno Washington of The Ram Jam Band fame and Chris Difford from Squeeze.

Vibes from the Vines '09 follows the first hugely successful festival in 2006, when organizers raised an impressive £32,000 for Cancer Research UK. This year, with a much bigger show and substantially improved production facilities organizers will be loo

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Supplied by La Cicala of Dragoni, near Caserta, the audio system was designed by one of Yamaha Musica Italia's consultants to overcome both the acoustic challenges of the venue and to provide an audio solution which delivered maximum versatility and an excellent price/quality ratio.

The heart of the system is a Yamaha DME24N digital mix engine, which takes feeds from four different audio sources, including background music from CD, the soundtrack of DVDs, karaoke vocals and audio file playback from a PC, via a Yamaha MW8CX eight channel USB audio interface and mixer.<

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The D12R is a 12-inch, two-way, polypropylene cabinet for professional fixed installations (swimming pools, ice rinks, hotels, amusement parks, etc.) as well as small to medium-sized events. The box is equipped with an Electro-Voice DL12BFH 12" woofer (for the bass and midrange) and a Constant-Directivity HF horn [radiation pattern: 80° (horizontal) x 40° (vertical)] armed with the newly developed ND2 driver from Electro-Voice. The cabinet also features 300-watt (co

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"The introduction of FPGA design and the benefits for the engineers are quite impressive. DiGiCo are frontrunners in this change in audio processing and it is a great result for the Festival that DiGiCo has chosen to become part of the sponsorship programme."

DiGiCo had already won half the battle with Patrick Vogelsang, head of audio for the Festival, before he'd even experienced its consoles firsthand. "It's refreshing to me that the company is so in tune with the industry and the engineers' needs," he says. "When

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To achieve this, the church needed to undertake a major upgrade of its audio system, which has seen a pair of DiGiCo CSD5 consoles installed, one at front of house, the other in its integrated studio facilities.

"We had been using a 36 channel analogue console since 1992, but had issues with not having enough channels and were looking for a long-term solution, one which would be enoug

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To address this, Ben devised a hook clamp spigot adaptor which would overcome this problem. Like the Doughty floor plate, this handy widget allows the hook clamp, complete with wing nut and washers, to be slotted into a secure fixing, which is mounted on a standard spigot fixing. This is then simply inserted into the lighting stand to present an immediate solution to stand-mounted lanterns without the fiddly process of removing the hook clamp.

"Preparation time is

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"The Historic Church of St. Patrick was originally built in 1892 so that workers on the Erie Canal could attend Mass on Sundays," explains Don Beyer of Torrence Sound Equipment Company, the firm responsible for transforming the church's audio presentation.

He adds, "During the 1970s and 80s, like many other Midwest cities, Toledo lost a lot of manufacturing jobs, and the neighbourhood suffered. But the building is a historic landmark, and the diocese decided to revitalise the church with an extensive outreach programme to the Catholic community in greater Toledo. We were called in

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This provides them with a trio of West End venues - all of which have had their technology and mood lighting implanted by Sound Division. First came Whisky Mist in 2006, a reconfiguration at the former Zeta Bar in the Mayfair Hilton - and both this, and its successor, Mahiki in Dover Street continue to thrive.

Tini Bar (a derivation of 'Martini') is the latest. As the name and concept imply, this is open early evening for cocktails before ratcheting up the tempo later on, when the background music of earlier makes way for louder house music and cool new age jazz.

With his long experience of working with the operators, Sound Division MD David Graham knew the best approach to take wit

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The first thing Ricketts mentions about the 4099 is its sound - a logical observation given that the microphone design is based partially on acoustic test measurements of his sax playing, conducted by DPA design engineer Ole Moesmann.

"The sound is so natural," he says. "I've played about 25 concerts in the past few months across the Scandinavia, the US, Japan and East Africa, and the sound techs always comment on how the sound from my horn through the 4099 requires little or no EQ, and signal output is never an issue for them.

"The same is true onstage - I get a sound from the stage m

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For its live events, Rock the Bike designed a pedal-powered stage, which enables one or many individuals to ride stationary bicycles in place, which in turn power the audio system as the artists perform. "It's been a steady progression to this - most of our performances used to be primarily in the streets and running off battery power," said Paul Freedman of Rock The Bike. "Then we started hooking up with people interested in human power and over the past year, we've put a lot of energy into creating our own pedal-powered stage."

Rock the Bike employs PRX535 speakers for its main sound reinforceme

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Yasha Morgenstern, deputy production manager of Glastonbury Festival, commented, "We asked RG Jones to provide a redesigned arena system for the Pyramid Stage, to give better coverage and less overspill in that notoriously difficult arena. We are more than pleased with the result, with many reports of improved arena sound this year. Control, monitors and stage ra