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The Tascam HS-P82 is an eight-track location sound recorder, employing Compact Flash (CF) card digital media, for secure and robust recording with no moving parts. The HS-P8 features an internal stereo mix down capability, in addition to the eight discrete tracks. Audio quality is up to 96kHz/24bit (8-track recording) or 192khz/24bit (4-track recording) quality, with time-code and support for industry standard Broadcast WAV (BWF) file format and iXML.

Also shown for the first time, the US-2000 is a 16-channel USB2.0 rackmount audio interface for multi-channel computer audio applications. The US-2000 provides competitively priced, high end features and specifications for the universally supported USB2.0 connection. Features include s

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Audio-Technica's R&D team in Japan engineered and manufactured the AT4080 and AT4081 from the ground up, utilizing a hand-built, proprietary design and rugged, durable construction.

The AT4080, whose footprint is that of a classic 'suspension cradled' side-address condenser, is recommended for vocals, horns, strings, acoustic instruments, drum overheads, orchestras, ensembles and guitar cabinets.

The AT4081, with an appearance more like that of a pencil condenser, is optimized for strings, saxophones and other horns, acoustic instruments, drum overheads, orchestras, ensembles and guitar cabinets; its low-profile stick design maximizes placement options. Both mics excel in recordin

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The show is being staged by Kevin Wall, who told BBC News he has been "overwhelmed" by major artists wanting to get involved. "That's unusual, normally it's the other way round," he added. He admitted he will have to turn down some big name acts: "We are going to have a lot of the major African artists and really it's going to be about Africa so the slots for international artists are a rarity."

Wall believes the show could reach an even bigger TV audience than Live 8 and Li

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Featuring a bar/restaurant and live entertainment, the club measures around 22m long by seven wide. As the building is listed and nothing was allowed to touch the walls of the old church, architect Italo Rota built the club within a freestanding iron structure. The main bar and circulation area is downstairs, with a smaller first floor dining area above part of the main space.

The audio system was designed by Pierluigi Pecchenini of Direct Field Engineering. He needed a system that was compact enough not to visually intrude on either the historic fabric of the building or the club's plush décor. To achieve this, Alcons VR8, TS7 and LR14 loudspeaker

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The company, established in 1996 by owner Sándor Elek, which has used Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker systems in Hungary for many years alongside Trantec and Accusound, took delivery of its system last month. The firm has grown in size to 20 employees and is expanding its client base in live music, theatre and television.

"We have worked with Renkus-Heinz system to establish the brand in Hungary," commented Elek. "We began with rental basically and after a year or two sold some systems to theatres. We also started working with pop bands and with television, and became involved with the regular two-month-long series of summer concerts at the Dom Square

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The event attracted tens of thousands of people who gathered to attend the shows at this year's festival where the cast included some of the best bands in the Italian alternative rock scene including, Afterhours, J-Ax, Calibro 35, Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti and Ministri.

Rental Company Airone S.r.l. chose RCF TT+ Series as the main PA system. TTL33-A Line Arrays coupled with TTS28-A Subwoofers were used for the sound reinforcement while TT25-SMA stage monitors were deployed on stage.

"The thing that impressed us the most was the incredible sound definition and the versatility of the system. In fact every night we had to amplify a very different kind of music and the system worked out just perfectly, commented V

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Both the Mid/High and LF enclosures are built with common dimensions to facilitate easy installation in vertical or horizontal arrays and are constructed of heavily braced, 15mm concert tour-grade plywood. In addition, 16 M10 attachment points-per-enclosure are provided for safe and easy suspension.

The DCS SC-424-8F also features a coax HF/VHF diaphragm, which has less mass than traditional diaphragms, resulting in "exceptional dynamic range, extended high frequency response and lower distortion".

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The Linea Focus systems incorporate either eight (LF-120/LFi-120) or 16 (LF-220/LFi-220) high-performance 4-inch speakers, each equipped with a separate, integral Class D DSP amplifier that produces 100 watts of direct path power. The systems can be remotely controlled and monitored from a central location using a PC/laptop. Up to 255 separate speakers can be connected and steered using the manufacturer's sophisticated networking technology.

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This system upgrade was specified by Jeff Sanderson and Todd Gathany of Onpoint Designs and installed by Morgan Sound. The system also features EV's latest XCS312 cardioid pattern subwoofers.

"Our EV rep Kevin Johnson (Left Coast Marketing) introduced us to the EV-Innovation family at the InfoComm trade show," says Gathany, "and we came away really impressed with their sonic characteristics - very smooth and warm-sounding. Add that to their clean aesthetics and attractive price point, we knew they would be solid choices for house of worship installations like Snoqualmie."

The main system at Snoqualm

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Staged between Newcastle and South Shields, this year was no exception. And although the event has regularly attracted over 50,000 runners, the production requirement has changed over the years, and the infrastructure grown accordingly.

"We started out in the early days supplying a 100V line public address communication system - but over the years it has evolved into a full fun-run event, and recently we have supplied a JBL VerTec line array," says Nitelites director, Jamie Moore.

The infrastructure they supply includes full platforms, staging, mobile rigs and ground support for the start and finishing lines, with an interim point at 10km.

The specification for the 2009 event was again for VerTec, and with the runners lining up ov

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Using a new front-loading design, the Brickhouse from TSE makes operation ergonomic and convenient for users. Traditional counterweight arbors are difficult to load due to their side-loading design; operators are required to stretch and twist to load weights from the bottom up. With TSE's Front-Loading arbor, a series of weight shelves eliminates the need for bottom loading and allows counterweight bricks to be front-loaded at the most convenient position. Operators are no longer required to stretch and bend repeatedly to load weight bricks from the side. TSE counterweight bricks also feature bu

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A recent workshop was held - jointly organized by Outline's Brescia, Italy HQ and the branch office in Farmingdale (NY), where the network of US representatives officially took shape. The States are all now covered except Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Outline's Giorgio Biffi chaired the workshop. After providing training for the 60 original products in the company's catalogue, he introduced a pre-release version of OpenArray, the avant-garde control and 3D simulation software, written by the Italian R&D team. This conveyed to the American attendees the philosophy and key principles on which Outline has been based since its foundation in 1973.

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The BLU-BOB features eight analogue audio outputs on standard terminal block connectors and the 256-channel, low latency, fault tolerant digital audio bus, also found on the BLU-800, BLU-320, BLU-160 and BLU-120 devices. In addition to providing a backbone for the transportation of multiple channels, this bus also facilitates the creation of large, fault-tolerant, centralized matrices containing multiple devices.

The digital audio bus uses standard, inexpensive Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable, which enables a distance of 10

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Having previously worked as front of house engineer with acts including the White Stripes, Mark Ronson, Keane, and The Flaming Lips, Matthew Kettle has adopted the approach that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', and has continued with the previous FOH preference for Sennheiser microphones scattered liberally throughout the stage.

The drum kit features a mixture of e901 and e902 dynamic cardioid mics, one of each on the kick drum and 904s on the rack and floor toms.

"I've loved both of these mics since they came out, both have a very sturdy design and sound great," says Kettle. "I'm a particular fan of the 902. It's got a fantastic deep, low end thump to it

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The new Macro-Tech i series also features dual-port capability. An additional network port now allows a user to daisy chain the network control down the rack of amplifiers instead of having to run a separate cable from a switch to each individual amplifier.

"The professional sound reinforcement community knows what to expect from the Macro-Tech i series. They are getting the best sounding, most reliable analogue power amplifier in the world. The best just got better with these updates. The upgraded power and features re

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A team of eight led by James Mitchelmore (days) and Kris Love (nights) installed some 16,000m of festoon, 40 generators of varying sizes and several hundred other assorted items of lighting and power distribution.

"The site is not without its challenges but good weather made all the difference and the installation was completed in record time, with the Tower daily festoon-hanging record broken," notes Mitchelmore. "It was a good conclusion to a busy summer season including Rock Ness, the Wickerman Festival, the World Mountain Bike champs, the Scottish game fair, the Tartan Heart Festiva, Edinburgh Festival and many other smaller projects."

(Jim Evans)

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"We have put a lot of work into finding just the right partner to handle the North American markets." says Mattias Strömberg, marketing manager for Milab Microphones. "That means someone who feels as strongly about our brand as we do and who has both the brains and the muscles to represent and market Milab appropriately."

"We are delighted that we have FDW-Worldwide as our chosen partner to bring Milab closer to our customer in this part of the world. I am confident that we both are looking at a very bright future with this partnership" says Thomas Nöjdh, president of Milab Microphones.

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Held 1 October 1 - the 60th anniversary of the 1949 revolution - this year's celebrations featured 200,000 participants, an array of large, festive floats representing cultural, sporting and national successes and culminated in a 60,000-person evening rendition of I Love China in Tiananmen Square accompanied by a 300,000-shell fireworks display.

Overall sound design was delegated to Radio Film and TV Design Institute of the China Media Group, with the bulk of audio-specific systems integration shouldered by Hong Kong-based ACE Professional Sound and Lighting. Although the sheer magnitude of au

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The 1038CF is based on full-range Genelec 1038B three-way monitoring system and developed as a response to market feedback and customer requests for the same Mid/High performance in a compact package. The Genelec 1038B model, the basis for the new 1038CF, is a full-range monitor with "great low-end response. Today's audio production rooms are often small, and most multichannel environments use a subwoofer combined with bas

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Taking place in Kostrzyn on the Polish-German border, rental company Fotis Sound provided a Midas XL8 and XL4 for front of house, with a choice of PRO6 and H3000 on monitors, a Venice 160 for communications and a Klark Teknik DN9696 high resolution recorder, which was used to record the Saturday Anniversary Concert attended by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang.

Special guests at this year's festival were Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former president of Poland, Lech Walensa, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first prime minister of Poland post- 1989. Forty internation

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"This new software update emphasizes Lexicon's commitment to provide PCM96 and PCM96 Surround users with regular software updates that expand DAW and Mac OS X support, along with providing enhancements to improve software performance and make the system more stable and reliable", said Randy Garrett, director of marketing for Lexicon. "With this software update we have taken the industry's best processors, and made them even better."

(Jim Evans)

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Blanc is no stranger to working with Anastacia, having performed FOH duties for her on and off since her first single broke some eight years ago. He is also no stranger to DiGiCo and was happy to be able to specify a D5 for her latest tour.

As the tour didn't carry a full PA system, Blanc utilised 56 of the D5's inputs and fed the varying systems with five sends: main PA, front-fills, subs and delays as required.

"The show was her usual pop style, where the songs vary in colour and intensity," he recalls. "Most programmers work at hom

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AV systems, including the security cameras, building security, classroom sound reinforcement, public address and sound system for the cafetorium and gymnasiums, were installed by Muzak of Toledo of Toledo, Ohio. Muzak of Toledo's engineer, John Raymond worked closely with Beuhrer Group to optimize the AV systems.

As in many small towns, the high school is also a centre for community activities of all kinds, including theatrical productions and musical concerts as well as athletics. All of these and more can take place in Fayette Local Schools, in a multipurpose space that includes both a gymnasium and cafétorium. A central st

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"We have provided residential and commercial AV integrators with a solution that has had a positive impact on their bottom line, and we are excited to extend our solution to Energy, IT, and Security system integrators," said Adam Stone, president and CEO of D-Tools. "In addition to establishing partnerships with leading manufacturers, we are adding significant improvements to our product line that will greatly benefit integrators in these markets."

(Jim Evans)