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UK / Hong Kong - Orbital Sound announces that it is to provide the event communications for the inaugural Extreme Sailing Series Asia, kicking off at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in November. Following the success of the 2009 European Series, OC Events has announced three confirmed race events, concluding in Oman in February 2010.

Event manager Stuart Whitman comments: "We have had excellent support from Orbital over the past two seasons, improving our event communications dramatically. They do a supreme job, whatever the conditions, and we have a great working relationship. We wanted to maintain the continuity for the Asian series, giving us quality communications without drama - as there is more than enough of that in the racing itself. This is an exciting move, as we embark on evolving the Extreme Sailing Series format and bringing it to new audiences aro

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Norway - The first Midas XL8 Live Performance System to be installed in Norway has gone into the Olavshallen concert hall in Trondheim. Supplied by Midas' Norwegian distribution AVAB CAC, the XL8 will be used to host a wide range of musical events at the 1,250-capacity venue.

For the last 15 years, the Olavshallen's technical supervisor Henrik Torgersen had been working on a Midas XL3 and it was time to look at a digital system. "Having tried out lots of digital systems available on the market, there was no actual competition to the Midas XL8," he says.

"After testing a lot of digital mixers I realised the XL8 was the console which could rise to the high standards of our venue. The Olavshallen has a lot of external engineers working at the venue, and there is no time for training during each sound-check, so it had to be a familiar surface."

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Israel - Waves Audio is now shipping Vocal Rider, the first of Waves' series of new Mixing tools. Vocal Rider is designed for mixers and recording engineers, automatically riding the levels of vocal tracks. Instead of manually riding a console fader, or tediously drawing in every level change on a DAW track, Vocal Rider does it automatically, making it a true timesaver, says the company.

The user sets the target range of the vocal level in relation to the rest of the mix. Vocal Rider then compensates for all deviations from the target, intelligently raising or lowering the vocal volume, instantly. Unlike compression, Vocal Rider adds absolutely no additional colouring to the track.

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France - Digigram has appointed Global Broadcast Supply (GBS) as their exclusive distribution partner in Southeast Asia. GBS will be representing the full range of Digigram products including the sound cards and networking products, with particular focus on the new IQOYA range of audio-over-IP products. The move coincides with the deployment of extra sales and marketing resources in the region with the appointment of Nancy Diaz-Curial who has started as sales account manager with Digigram Asia to handle India, Japan and Australasia.

GBS is headquartered in Singapore and has a number of local offices throughout the Asian region. The countries they will be serving for Digigram are Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei and Myanmar. As well as being an authorised distributor for a large number of internationally renowned brands in the b

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Finland - Finland's first installation of JBL Professional's new CBT100LA column enclosures has taken place in the Latokartano Sports Hall in Helsinki. Eight of the compact passive line array cabinets were specified as part of a complete sound reinforcement fit-out by systems contractor Pertti Krautsuk of Workland.

Run by the Physical Exercise department of the City of Helsinki Sports Administration, the Latokartano Sports Hall consists of two large areas, which can be combined into a single, larger space. Schools and sports clubs use the space primarily for volleyball, floorball, football and tennis. Mr Krautsuk, who set up Workland back in 1994, selected the CBT Series loudspeakers for their high sound quality in terms of both music playback and speech intelligibility.

The Sports Administration issued the contract for the technical fit-out once the new building superstructur

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Brazil - Tenda da Raposa in Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil's premier recording facilities, recently installed South America's first Rupert Neve Designs 5088: A 32-channel system featuring four Portico 5032 Mic Pre/ EQs, four Portico 5015 Mic Pre/ Compressors, eight 5033 Five Band EQs, a 5043 Stereo Compressor, and 16 channels of Shadowmix Automation.

Although it started as a personal project studio, Tenda da Raposa quickly began to attract independent musicians, producers and singers due to its atmosphere, gear and design. After 10 years of non-stop operations, having recorded the biggest names in the independent music scene in Brazil, and after over 300 CDs, it was time for a major upgrade - an analogue console.

For musician, producer and owner of Tenda da Raposa, Carlos Fuchs, the 5088 is a great step forward: "Being a fan of Rupert Neve's gear for so long, it was an eas

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Turkey - Istanbul-based Mikafon Elektronik has recently supplied Community VERIS loudspeakers to Atilim Elektronik for the surround sound system in the new main auditorium of T.C. Maltepe University in Istanbul.

Maltepe University is the latest facility of the Marmara Education Foundation, an institution that provides a broad scope of education from elementary level to university. The University is located in Istanbul and is made up of nine faculties, two vocational schools and three institutes and, with its distinguished and experienced academic staff, is highly regarded in the Turkish University system.

The auditorium, located in the main campus of Maltepe University, seats 1500 and is used for conferences, live music and theatre performances. Atilim Elektronik was commissioned to design and install the system, which uses 16 two-way VERIS8 loudspeakers for the surround sound

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France - After Medialon's successful release early this year of Showmaster ST, its first all in one embedded show controller, the show and media control company now extends its series by releasing Showmaster Pro and Showmaster iPro.

"Both of these products have been designed to help creative people to achieve compelling entertainment and edutainment experiences with powerful and easy-to-use solutions", says Alex Carru, CEO of Medialon.

The embedded controller series brings the advantage of an all in one controller with all relevant hardware interfaces such as DMX, MIDI, Serial, Time-code, digital IOs and of course TCP/IP.

Medialon's Showmaster series share Showmaster Editor Software included at no additional cost with each product. Thanks to the easy graphical programming environment, applications are programmed in much less time than with any other conventional co

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UK - The recent Classic Rock Awards ceremony held at London's, Park Lane Hotel provided an appropriate and high-profile launch-pad for a major fundraising announcement by Yamaha Music Schools and ChildLine Rocks. Guests, who included Slash, Ronnie Wood, Brian May, Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Iron Maiden, all applauded the free music lesson scheme whilst Joe Bonamassa who is a patron of the initiative also received the 'best breakthrough act' award on the night.

The programme sees Yamaha's national network of Music Schools offering free music lessons aimed at introducing people of all ages to music making for the first time. Participants will be asked for a voluntary donation of a few pounds for each lesson session and it's expected substantial funds will be raised for ChildLine, the free helpline for children provided by the NSPCC.

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Sweden - LumenRadio has announced CRMX Outdoor with wireless DMX & RDM. CRMX Outdoor is an adaptation of PLASA Award winning CRMX Nova for outdoor use and is compatible with all other CRMX DMX/RDM products. CRMX Outdoor is the first RDM enabled wireless light control product both waterproof and vandal proof making it suitable for any outdoor installation, says the company.

CRMX Outdoor will be demonstrated for the first time at LDI 2009. LumenRadio will also demonstrate how CRMX SuperNova manages and receives feedback from an RDM-enabled wireless light control system.

"In designing CRMX Outdoor we met with lighting designers of outdoor wireless installations to get useful input for the development. They explained how the biggest problem was that many wireless outdoor installations stopped working overtime - the wireless outdoor products had not been built to last. So when

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Denmark / Spain - The Barcelona-based loudspeaker manufacturer Vieta has boosted its international network with the appointment of SC Sound to handle its market in Denmark.

Lars Bruun Jensen explains that long-established distribution company SC Sound has been making a lot of changes in the last year. "We've been establishing our own technical workshop and IT systems, launching a new website and reviewing our product range. There have been a lot of client requests for installation loudspeakers, so we are delighted to be able to include Vieta in our portfolio now. It fits in very well with the Danish market because it is high-quality equipment with a stylish design."

SC Sound's Jensen reports that his customers are showing considerable interest in Vieta products that have already been installed in dance schools, community centres and churches. "The Do Line high-p

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Ireland - When eircom, Ireland's largest telecommunications company, decided to build its new state-of-the-art international headquarters at the €750m Heuston South Quarter (HSQ) development in South Central Dublin, they turned to Ascough Consulting Engineers (working with architects Anthony Reddy Associates) to act as the project's building services consultants, and the consultants, in turn, hired Meritec to meet the complex AV routing, interactivity and control systems.

The 1HSQ development is an eco-friendly environment designed to the highest level of energy efficiency, and an advanced multimedia infrastructure assumed top priority.

The audio visual sub-contract was worth around €1 million, and incorporated a wide range of multi-room and multi-purpose A/V systems.

Meritec, who were chosen from the six companies tendering, sourced most of their audio requirements from t

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Switzerland - Barix AG reports that the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) is using a Barix Audio over IP solution to monitor its highway traffic updates now being broadcast to interstate commuters around Iowa.

Iowa DOT operates Highway Advisor Radio, an information channel transmitted with eight low-power AM and FM transmitters distributed around the state. A Barix Instreamer 100 encoder is connected to a radio receiver at each remote broadcast location to capture the on-air signal and stream it over the DOT's internal network. Iowa DOT employees can access the streams using their PCs to confirm that the broadcasts are going out over the air and commuters are receiving the broadcasts with clarity.

DataNab, an IP systems programmer and Barix reseller, provided concept, configuration services and technical assistance with the development of a central webpage to

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Sweden - Swedish garage rock band Mando Diao's fifth and most successful album, Give Me Fire, also gives its name to the band's current - and equally successful - European tour. Mando Diao has taken the decision not to follow the current trend for visual overload; music is what their shows are all about and, as a result, the sound system is one of the most important components for their performance.

Landsberg-based event production company, Rain Age, with Martin Heining as head of sound, supplied an extensive audio system that had a DiGiCo SD7 at its FOH position during the German leg of the tour, and now has the additional benefit of an SD8 at monitors for the remainder.

Dispensing with extensive light installations and special effects, Mando Diao concentrates on the business of simply making music in venues across the country with capacities from 5,000 to 10,000 seats

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Germany - Pink's worldwide Funhouse Tour embraces Sennheiser's microphones and monitoring equipment.

When it comes to microphones and monitoring, Pink relies on the German manufacturer's 2000 and evolution wireless series and also benefits from a few special variants. "Pink uses her SKM 2000 with a special e 935 capsule in silver," explains monitoring engineer Horst Hartmann. Front of house engineer Chris Madden continues: "The handheld has been trouble-free, it sounds fantastic with hardly any EQ. The gain before feedback attributes have been outstanding considering she sings in front of the PA for most of the show."

Chris Madden uses the SKM 2000 with the standard 935 capsule for the background vocals and the sound engineers have also remained faithful to the 2000 Series for the instrument transmitters. "As far as sound quality is concerned, t

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UK - The Performance Pavilion is one of the highlights of the new £86 million Medway Campus in Gillingham, which substantially extends the facilities of the MidKent College, officially the county's largest provider of education and training. Construction of the Performance Pavilion presented the ideal opportunity for design and installation specialists Stage Electrics to integrate a Cat 5 infrastructure and RSS digital audio system at the heart of the venue, reaping significant advantages in terms of versatility and cost.

"From the very beginning, MidKent College was able to make meaningful economies," says Darren Beckley, business development manager at Stage Electrics. "The whole building could be wired with a Cat 5 infrastructure, which carries audio, lighting, video and data, which considerably reduced their cabling costs. The choice of the compact RSS M

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Germany - On 27 and 28 September, Dynacord staged a Professional Dealer Training course at its headquarters in Straubing. Dealers from the Netherlands and Greece attended the Academy conducted by Frauke Jungbluth, sales manager Dynacord Western Europe. As well as amp construction, the course dealt with a variety of speaker systems (D-Lite, VariLine and Cobra) and mixers (PowerMate and CMS) as well as the DSP260 processor and the new CXM-15 monitor.

During the seminars Frauke Jungbluth said: "We want to ensure that our dealers are not only experts when it comes to our own systems but also well-schooled in the underlying acoustic principles. This theoretical foundation guarantees competent customer support and makes is possible to provide sound individual advice."

Participants were invited to put into practice the theories they had just learned in the course of a numbe

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Japan - Yamaha Commercial Audio's policy of listening carefully to what audio professional need and providing high quality solutions bears fruit again this month, with the introduction of the new MY8-SDI-ED interface card.

The MY8-SDI-ED is being launched at Inter BEE 2009, the annual international broadcast equipment exhibition held at Japan's Makuhari Messe from 18-20 November.

Compatible with all of Yamaha's digital mixing consoles and DME series digital mixing engines and offering from eight to 64 I/O channels (depending on the console and number of cards used), the MY8-SDI-ED provides input and output of HD-SDI embedded audio signals.

"Many broadcast companies are now embedding audio within the SDI digital video transmission as a convenient method of managing signal flow. With HD gaining acceptance globally, an HD/SD-SDI card was an inevitable addition to our rang

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UK - The Langham Hotel in London's Portland Place opened in 1865 as Europe's first 'Grand Hotel' and reopened in June 2009 after an £80 million refurbishment, it is the flagship hotel of Langham Hotels International. Beneath the Victorian splendour of its fabric, however, the refurbished Langham, London boasts a hi-tech infrastructure in which PA/VA systems from TOA play a pivotal role.

With 380 guestrooms, three restaurants (including the dazzling Palm Court), a Chuan Spa opening in 2010 and no fewer than 18 different conference spaces, The Langham, London is as extensive as its impressive façade suggests.

Systems integrator Safetech Systems designed, supplied, installed and commissioned a complete voice alarm set-tup for the The Langham 18 months ago, with three racks of TOA's VX-2000 at the hub of the system. Since then, the system has been upgraded to take into acco

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UK / The Netherlands - Baldwin Boxall's infamous Plug & Socket stand will make an appearance at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in February 2010. This will be the first time the company has exhibited at the Amsterdam show. Visitors to the stand will be able to sample a glass of Harveys Real Ale whilst watching a variety of products being demonstrated.

On the stand will be two products which have recently been added to Baldwin Boxalls range of voice alarm products the BVRD2M4 mini router and the BVRD microphone controller. Visitors to the stand will also be able to view and use the touchscreen control paging station and the increasingly popular OmniCare emergency voice communication system.BVRD2M4 Mini four zone voice alarm router retains many of the features of the well established EVAS BVRD2M router. However, it is small enough to fit alongside a VIGIL2 amplifier and power supp

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USA - Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, recently enhanced its sound system with custom loudspeakers from EAW. The stadium opened its doors in 2003 and has since hosted a number of notable sporting events. Eagles fans are notoriously passionate, and an upgrade to its PA system was needed to effectively match and cut through their volume.

A/V consulting firm Coffeen Fricke and Associates developed a complex specification for the stadium's system, and after considering several manufacturers, EAW was chosen, as they could provide that solution and manufacture the product to exacting specifications to meet the installation deadline. The sale was made by Columbia, Maryland-based Audio Associates, and the installation was handled by the Columbia-based Large Projects Group of the A/V integration company AVI-SPL (headquartered in Tampa, Florida).

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Italy - RCF has recently provided the audio system for the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, one of the residences of the Royal House of Savoy, which was built by architect Filippo Juvarra in 1731. This outstanding palace, located in the little town of Stupinigi near Turin, has been awarded World Heritage listing by Unesco.

The project has been designed by the RCF Project Design Office, based on the original design made by Sergio Berno from the EL Engineering Service of Turin. The installation has been completed by Orion Gesta under the supervision of engineer Ivan Catellani.

The main audio system is the RX4000, a completely integrated system for voice evacuation, paging and background music and is EN 60849 CEI 100-55 compliant.

The main control unit manages two more units, located in other parts of the building and are connected to the first through Cat 5e UTP cable. All th

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France - L-Acoustics has awarded the status of K System Engineers (KSE) to system engineers Ulf Oeckel, Sherif El Barbari, Nick Pain, Paul Van Baasbank and Vladimir Coulibre.The K System Engineer (KSE) is a System Technician that has demonstrated the highest level of qualification and expertise in the following areas:Florent Bernard, head of touring support at L-Acoustics, explains, "Ulf, Sherif, Nick, Paul and Vladimir have actively participated in the pilot phase of the K1 systems introduction. The status of KSE is not given out lightly; it signifies to us that they have reached a status amongst their peers as a systems engineer with above average expertise, understanding and implementation of the L-Acoustics K systems standard.

"With this title comes an expectation in the industry that they can be called upon by other system engineers and rental network agents, to o

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UK - London-based Subfrantic Production Services (SPS) added 16 stacks of Turbosound Aspect touring boxes to its original 16 stack Floodlight system around four years ago. A couple of months ago Subfrantic decided to expand further, taking the system five-way and more than doubling its inventory of hire stock.

SPS's Sean Murphy comments, "Our original Aspect rig has been going out two to three times per week since we bought it and we've been getting fantastic results every time, so as our volume of work has been building up it seemed logical to buy some more.

"We only really needed a few more boxes, but in our usual style we decided to go all out and get the system we always wanted it to be. So now we have 36 stacks of TA-890Hs with 16 twin 18" TSW-218s, six amp racks with two LMS-D26s in each, four sets of 3 wide flyware and cabling for days. It's all configure

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