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USA - British audio manufacturer Audient has expanded its distribution in the US with a new partnership with FDW-Worldwide, following a strong period of US sales. FDW-Worldwide adds the entire range of Audient and LA Audio products - including the flagship ASP8024 and the newly released Zen console - to its list of distributed lines including Milab, Violet Design and SonTronics.

President of FDW-Worldwide, Buzz Goodwin comments: "Adding such a prestigious line such as Audient to our portfolio of exclusively distributed product for North America and Canada is a huge win for us. This is a very high quality line of British analogue consoles and outboard gear whose time has come and we are happy to play a part in its on-going success."

Luke Baldry, sales and marketing director adds: "Following on from a fantastic period of trading in the US market, we knew how impor

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UK - The Saturdays have had a busy summer on tour, and have chosen Sennheiser microphones and monitors for the entire time. The concerts, which included slots supporting Take That in addition to their own The Work tour, featured all five members of the band singing into SKM 935 mics with ew 300 IEM G2s providing the in-ear audio.

"It's the combination of sound and price that draws me to Sennheiser," explains The Saturdays' production manager and FOH Engineer Andrew Thornton. "I've used both these systems with many other artists and I've always been happy with the results. The mics work well with all voices and give a nice bright sound without too much sibilance. The IEMs have rock solid reception and are small enough to be tucked away inside the most revealing outfit!

"The equipment worked very well for the entire tour. There wasn't one drop out on t

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UK - Peak Hire, based in Cheltenham has bolstered its inventory of products from EAW with the purchase of eight EAW KF850 Series Virtual ArrayTM System Modules and eight EAW SB1002 Large Format Flyable Subwoofers.

Peak Hire's EAW arsenal was already sizeable, including 16 EAW KF730 Compact Line Array Modules and eight EAW SB730 Compact Line Array Subwoofers, along with a good stock of EAW JFX88 Compact Full-Range Loudspeakers, EAW JFX200i Compact Full-Range Loudspeakers and EAW SBX220 Compact Subwoofers.

Peak Hire managing director Karl Ashman stated: "EAW has long been a staple in our inventory of sound reinforcement components, and over the years, our clients have always commented about the outstanding sound quality of their modules. That being said, we have increased our warehouse of EAW System Modules and Subwoofers to meet the equipment demands from our clients in li

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UK - Trantec will showcase its extensive wireless portfolio at PLASA09. The spotlight will be on the Trantec S-D7000 professional fully digital wireless microphone system that is already in use at GMTV for their presenters and guests. Features include 24 bit audio resolution, network monitoring for over 60 channels, and users can now benefit from over 20 user channels in an 8MHz TV band.

Trantec will also be previewing its new S6 wireless system which builds on the success of the S6000 range, taking the 19", 8-way concept to a higher level. Trantec has now incorporated a comprehensive user interface on the front panel allowing the user to configure and monitor all channels, with or without an external PC. The internal circuitry of the S6 beltpack and handheld transmitter has been redesigned and upgraded, extending the frequency capability to a massive 72MHz.

The S6 system

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USA - Apogee Electronics has announced the appointment of Jeremy Stappard to the position of director of sales worldwide. In his new position, Stappard will lead the Apogee global sales team, forecast and plan global business, contribute to marketing, tech-support and operations efforts as well as develop and maintain partner relations.

"Jeremy's experience and leadership in our industry proves him to be an exceptional addition to the Apogee team as director of sales,"" stated Betty Bennett, CEO of Apogee. With the recent announcements of GiO and ONE it's very exciting that during this time of growth we will all benefit by Jeremy's direction and experience.

Stappard is a 14-year veteran of Sony Broadcast, former president of Cal AV Trading Company and was most recently responsible for all distributed/retail product sales in selected territories for Audio Agent.<

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UK - A.C. Audio is continuing its long established success with digital mixing consoles and has recently supplied both an Allen & Heath iLive-T system and Soundcraft Si3 console to Marine Hall in Fleetwood.

Tony Mitchell, technical manager at Fleetwood Marine Hall, stated: "I have worked with A.C. for a few years now for brown box supplies to larger scale installation and fabrication work in all aspects of our entertainment technology needs, and have developed a good relationship with them. As a local authority, it is always important to remember that I'm spending council tax payers' money; when we place an order with A.C., I'm always confident that I will be getting great value for the overall service they provide."

The Marine Hall is a multipurpose venue covering everything from conferences to Rock and Roll, with both amateur and professional clients. After 10 year

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UK - The organisers of the PLASA Show (13-16 September 2009, Earls Court, London) have announced the final shortlist of nominees for this year's prestigious Gottelier Award, which will be presented at the PLASA Show on Monday 14 September.

This will be the third Gottelier Award - named in memory of the former designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, who died in 2006. The Award (sponsored by Lighting&Sound International magazine for which Tony Gottelier was a regular contributor for many years), aims to recognise those who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the development of entertainment technology. Former winners are Tony Andrews of Funktion One (2007) and John Stadius of Soundtracs/DiGiCo (2008).

The seven nominees this year include four notable figures from the lighting world and three from pro audio. This year's nominees are, in alphabetical

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UK - This year, Alcons Audio main focus will be on the LR7 and LR7B, the latest additions to the successful L-series pro-ribbon line arrays.

The LR7 is a micro pro-ribbon line-array system, designed to be used in stacked or as a flown configuration, for both portable and permanent installations. With a width of three CD's and a height of 1.5 CD's, the LR7 is designed for A/V projects, where very compact form factor with perfect line-array throw and imaging are required.

The new LR7B is the low frequency extension of the LR7 system. Sized with a width and height of 3CD's, a single 12" in a dual-tuned, concentric bandpass configuration caters for clean low-mid and broad-band bass response from a micro-sized and weight efficient package.

As usual, Alcons will exhibit a new design study, providing a glimpse of its R+D activities by displaying assembled prototype development

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UAE - The new Terminal 3 and Concourse 2 at Dubai International Airport were commissioned last October. Prior the grand opening Berlin-based Rahe-Kraft measured all halls for good speech intelligibility of the PA-system. One of the key tools was the portable Acoustilyzer AL1, which saved them a lot of time in their project - the STI-PA measurements could be completed faster than expected.

Rahe-Kraft was appointed to design, predict and commission the complete public address system for the new Dubai airport terminal. The system consists of approximately 4.000 ceiling loudspeakers, 600 passive arrays and about 140 active arrays. Only 18 active DSP-controlled loudspeakers service the huge baggage claim hall (235 x 220m).

The commissioning of the system was conducted by Jakob Kraft personally. Due to the large distances, wired measurements were impossible in many areas, thus a han

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The Netherlands - Since its inception 34 years ago, the North Sea Jazz festival has grown to be the biggest jazz festival in the world, this year featuring a relentless schedule for its technical crews, with over 1500 musicians performing in 15 different venues over three days. Fast and accurate communication between technicians was crucial, which is why rental company Ampco specified ASL Intercom systems for the 13 main stages at the event.

Taking place between 10-12 July in and around Rotterdam's Ahoy complex, the festival takes in a wide variety of jazz-related musical styles - from traditional New Orleans jazz, swing, bop and free jazz to fusion, avant-garde, blues, gospel, funk, soul, hip hop, R&B, world and Latin beats. Around 23,500 visitors each day enjoy the diverse music on offer, with the very swift turnarounds between acts meaning technical crews having to be crystal

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UK - RSS will present its suite of digital audio control products, with the M-400 48-channel V-Mixer, plus dedicated Digital Snake, in action mixing a live band. This end-to-end digital mixing solution features an eight-way matrix, global aux mutes, plus easy splits for front-of-house, monitors, broadcast and recording, delivered by REAC over CAT5 or optical cable.

Visitors can get hands-on with the RSS M-48 Live Personal Mixer, a monitoring solution for live performance and studio applications. It offers control over 40 audio sources, easily managed in 16 assignable stereo groups, with level/pan/solo/3-band EQ on each group, built-in reverb, ambient mic and I/Os for multiple headphones, wedges and powered monitors.

PLASA also sees the UK premiere for Edirol's LVS-800 8-channel video mixer, which will be shown alongside the company's full line-up of video and audio capture and

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UK - Two Soundcraft Vi6s have been specified by Academy Music Group to take care of mixing duties at the new £5m O2 Academy Birmingham, which opens on Thursday 10 September, with a sell out performance by Editors.

The Vi6s have the capacity to service FOH and monitor requirements as necessary on the 3,000-capacity main stage, 600-capacity O2 Academy 2 - and a third live room which holds 250.

Adlib Audio has been retained by AMG for this latest development, having installed multiples of Soundcraft's digital desks in AMG's most recent venues, O2 Academy Leeds and O2 Academy Sheffield.

The brace of Vi6's in Birmingham will move easily and quickly around the expansive 45,000sq ft venue, as part of the standard flight-cased touring package.

Commenting on the purchase, AMG's group technical manager, Ed Jackson says: "The new V3.0 software upgrade has taken the desk to

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UK - TOA's NX-100 Network Audio Adapter has been chosen as the hub of a new PA/VA installation at a large chemical plant in Wales. Specialist systems integration firm PAS Sound Engineering selected the NX-100 because of its ability to convert analogue audio into digital packets for transmission over an IP-based network.

Jeff Vaudrey, managing director, of PAS Sound Engineering explains the background to the project: "Our client was an international chemical manufacturer that had a 160-acre site in south Wales. For years their PA system was linked via ageing telephone cables, and we were approached to see if we could provide a solution to the unreliability and poor audio quality which plagued the existing system."

Vaudrey believed that TOA's NX-100 could form the basis of a new system comprising 16 outstations spread across the site, using the client's existing IT net

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UK - With 13,000 students from over 120 countries, the University of Aberdeen is committed to making education accessible to as many people as possible.

The University has been exclusively using Ampetronic designs and equipment for its induction loop systems for several years, with over 100 currently installed, as its AV manager David Walton explains, "In the past, we got whichever company won the tender to do an AV installation to supply and install the induction loop. But we ran into problems because people weren't as skilled as installing them as they thought and we started to have problems with spill from adjacent rooms, and so on.

Recently the university's Fraser Noble Building has undergone major refurbishment, which has included the complete overhaul of five teaching laboratories. As with all such projects at the university, the opportunity was taken to install the

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UK - PLASA09 will mark a milestone for OHM which celebrates 30 years of producing sound equipment in the UK. To honour this anniversary the company has brought back, with newly designed OHM drivers, the SS-3 Smack Stack bass bins; an iconic dance stack delivering "phenomenal bass". Coupling this to the new Ersa Major line array will produce crystal clear sounds to even larger dance club and concert audiences, says the company.

The Ersa Major comprises two10" horn loaded OHM drivers with a coaxial 2" + 1" compression driver mounted on a proprietary waveguide, the system is designed to run in a three way active mode.

The 730mm wide cabinet is undergoing testing prior to a launch at this year's PLASA but preliminary results suggest that maximum SPL's in the region of 145dB can be expected.

Also featured on OHM's stand will be the Ersa Minor compact line

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UK - Arena Television employed their new Optocore system to provide audio broadcast feeds for BBC Two and BBC Three at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The systems were purchased for Glastonbury from Optocore's UK distributor, HD Pro Audio.

To cover the event, Arena provided two OB Trucks for the Other Stage and the BBC Introducing Stage, a large VT truck for the BBC4 and Interactive and Red Button operations and two OB Trucks for BBC2 and BBC3.

The two OB Trucks for BBC2 and BBC3 were each linked via Optocore to the respective BBC2 and BBC3 backstage studios, each feed carrying presenters plus various bands' acoustic sets. A further Optocore run linked the two Scanners to provide full redundancy of the Optocore system. The Optocore systems consisted of 2x 48 in/16 out stageboxes, comprising 2x X6P-16 In, 2x X6P 8/8 and 1x DD32E with 2x DD4ME MADI Interfaces. These were then

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UK - Stage Electrics supplied specialist technical lighting equipment to BBC Radio 1's production of Scott Mills the Musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The production was performed over three evenings from 11-13 August at the Pleasance Theatre.

The regular Scott Mills Show is currently broadcasting live to Radio 1 listeners from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Scott Mills and his team are attempting to stage Scott Mills The Musical.

Stage Electrics is supplying a variety of equipment to the production including Martin MAC moving lights, Source Fours, Martin Mania Oil Effect Units, Teclumen Follow Spot Kits and all associated cabling, dimming and distribution units. Nic Holdridge is the lighting designer for the show.

Paul Roughton, business development manager and part of the 'Edinburgh Support Team' at Stage Electrics comments: "We are del

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UK - Funktion One's F101 loudspeaker enclosure comprising 1 x 10" bass/mid driver and 1" high frequency device is a larger version of the successful F81. It offers clarity and imaging with a sensitivity of101dB for 1 watt at 1m which is unprecedented for this class of loudspeaker, says the company. The F101 neatly fills a niche between the F81 and the Resolution 1, being suitable for anything from a studio reference monitor to AV presentations and theatre.

The Resolution 3 is an all in one three-way enclosure comprising a special horn loaded 18" bass loudspeaker with 5" voice coil, a new Axhead loaded 10" loudspeaker for midrange and a 1" compression driver for high frequencies. It produces "exceptional SPL for its size with very convincing bass rendering additional sub bass unnecessary". The mid high section can be rotated to facilitate h

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics, local distributors for Electro-Voice speakers, amplifiers and processors in the United Arab Emirates, has recently supplied the ZxA5 active speakers to locally based rental firm Epic Events.

The Electro-Voice ZxA5 combines the performance of DVX and ND2 with a high-output, dual-channel, integrated amplifier. In addition to its sonic abilities, the ZxA5 retains all of the functionality of the passive Zx5 in terms of accessories, mounting options, and multi-angle monitors.

"The combination of the 20 pieces of ZxA5 active speakers and Van Damme Ambicore cable is a great addition to Epic Event's rental inventory," commented Chicco Hiranandani, business development manager. "We have heard great feedback from both musicians using the speakers as monitors and from Epic Events on the portability of the system."

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The Great Green Debate - U2 guitarist The Edge has defended the size and cost of their current world tour. Last month, protests delayed the removal of the custom-built set from Ireland, and it also came under fire from Talking Heads singer David Byrne. The three steel structures cost between £15m and £20m each, offering a largely unobstructed view of the rock quartet. Speaking to BBC 6 Music backstage at Wembley, The Edge said, "We're spending the money on our fans, I don't think there's a better thing you could spend it on."

Despite it being the most ambitious stage set of any band's world tour, topping the likes of Madonna and The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne was not impressed. He slammed the band on his blog and said their world tour costs were "excessive", considering their stance on world hunger. He wrote: "$40 mill

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Canada - Audio-Technica reports that over 3,000 of its microphones will be used at the XXI Winter Olympic Games, coming up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in February 2010. The use of Audio-Technica microphones for the broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games marks the continuation of A-T's Olympic involvement, which has been consistent since the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996.

Olympic Broadcast Services Vancouver (OBSV) is the Host Broadcaster for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, responsible for producing and distributing audio and video coverage of the Games. To generate an international production, OBSV will deploy all cameras, develop graphics, and capture audio at each sporting venue. OBSV will transmit this international production to all radio and television Rights Holding Broadcasters, who will adapt the signal for transmission on their networks. In this way, each na

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Austria - Vienna's Großer Musikvereinssaal has developed an assortment of AKG microphones to provide unmatched sound quality. The Großer Musikvereinssaal, known to many as the Golden Hall, is home to Vienna's Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra's famed annual New Year's Day Concert. With a worldwide television audience tuning in every New Year's Day since 1959, the world-renowned architectural acoustics needed more; they needed a fully stocked sound system complete with AKG C 12 VR's, K 702's and WMS 400 wireless system.

The Golden Hall is more than just a concert venue; it also hosts numerous lectures and public readings. Because it handles so many types of public events, there is a need for a high-quality sound system that is met with four channels of the AKG WMS 400 wireless system. A mobile lectern has been equipped with a CK 33 capsule on a modified GN 50 goos

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UK - Gloria Estefan swept into the UK in late July, headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival at Liverpool's Echo Arena. The tour, intended to be her last, has covered Latin and South America plus European festival dates, and is being supplied with a Midas XL8 Live Performance System and Klark Teknik DN9696 hard disc recorder by Clair Brothers Audio.

By the time the tour arrived in Liverpool, FOH engineer Mark Dowdle had clocked up around 50 shows on the XL8. "I was searching for something that would give me the facilities I need for a show of this size: normally more than 100 inputs," he says. "I've used some digital desks which allowed me a lot of inputs on a small surface but they didn't give me the sound I was used to getting, so I gravitated back to analogue."

As a longtime Midas user, when Dowdle heard about the XL8 he looked into spec'ing o

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The Netherlands -Check Evenement Realisatie, a rental company based in Apeldoorn has just invested heavily in Electro-Voice equipment. EV's Dutch partner, E-Audio Benelux, supplied the company with a powerful arsenal of Electro-Voice systems that included 12 XLC127DVX loudspeakers, four Xsubs, six TG5 amps, two TG7 amps and one new NetMax N8000-1500 with FIR-Drive.

"As a result of this investment in Electro-Voice line-array technology, we are able to offer our customers the finest sound and the latest technology," says Hans van der Wiel, Check Evenement Realisatie's managing director. "It also sends a clear signal that our company is able, even in these difficult times, to embark upon a major programme of investment."

Axel Nagtegaal, managing director of E-Audio Benelux comments: "The family of Electro-Voice users in the Netherlands is growing ever lar

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