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14 March 2016

Playing to an average audience of 15,000, Oeckel was using the system in an arena configuration consisting of 24 K1 units with 12 K1 subs, 24 Kudo boxes plus 24 SB28 and 16 SB218 subwoofers.

"This provided high SPLs in all audience positions and a balanced frequency response," he says. "We were getting an SPL of 110dB at FOH and 103dB at the back row, with the same clear sound. It has brilliant rigging and quick handling, and its exact acoustic imaging provides a good starting point from the beginning. We've been getting a great

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"We have 17 trucks in all, two and a half truck-loads of PA. Our first 'out' took just over two hours, now we regularly load out in one and three quarter hours." That might not sound too impressive until Vaughan points out, "That's in-the-round lights and LED system, with the main stereo PA, flown subs, side-hangs, and rear PA system. While playing 360° h

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Solotech has maintained an active presence in Las Vegas since 2003. "We worked on the opening of some of Las Vegas's major showroom projects such as the Colosseum at Caesars Palace and the KÀ,/i> theatre at MGM Grand," says Pierre Leduc, vice president and general manager of Solotech US Corp. &

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Legends 33 - named for both its featured sporting icons and its West 33rd Street location - is pitched at both the local office lunch / dinner market and tourists looking for a top quality all-American dining experience. It combines three floors of finely detailed old-world ambience with the sports bar mix of screens showing every available sports channel, along with background music to accompany gourmet burgers, steaks, pasta and traditional Irish fish'n'chips. Meanwhile, a VJ booth on a balcony level sets the party scene for Friday and Saturday nights.

The systems integrators were Starview Satellite, which has been designing and insta

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14 March 2016

Venuetech were asked to supply a Sennheiser SKM-5200 microphone for the regionally acclaimed artist Hussain Al Jassmi to use on a string of concerts arranged across the country for the 2 December celebration. When Venuetech approached Sennheiser with the request and advised on what the microphone was to be used, they came up with the idea of having it customised by Crystal-Roc. Crystal-Roc then emblazoned the microphones with coloured Swarovski Crystal in the style of a UAE flag.

"When we were asked to come up with something special for this event I immediately got in touch with Mig Cardamone, Middle East business area manager for Sennheiser, and asked him if we could come up with something unique and from there we agre

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Designed with Community's weather-resistant construction, the easily-assembled PMB mounting kits bolt together using clamps and 3/4-inch stainless steel banding.

The PMB-1RR bracket is designed to accommodate a single loudspeaker of up to 50lb with vertical down-tilt capability, while the PMB-2RR bracket can be used to mount dual loudspeakers weighing up to 100 lbs in an upper-lower configuration with vertical down-tilt and left-right panning.

(Jim Evans)

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The new main meeting room at the Lausanne headquarters features a Bosch Digital Congress Network (DCN) Next Generation flush-mount installation. The flush-mount system was considered particularly attractive for this application as it enables tailor-made fixed installations to be built into the furniture.

The meeting room's elegant wooden conference table features a centre that rises up to give delegates access to the microphones and voting units. And the channel selector units are installed in the edge

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Recently when the Petõfi Theater of Sopron was looking for a new sound system, they asked various vendors to conduct a system demo. Naturally IFK was among the bidders. IFK won with the HK Audio Cadis System they proposed.

The Petõfi Theater, with a rich tradition going back two centuries and its Vienna Secession style, is located in the middle of the Old City of Sopros and holds an audience of about 550. The programme ranges from classical and modern drama to comedy and musicals. The new system is made up of six HK Audio Cadis CAD 208 cabs as the centre cluster, two ConTour Series CT 112 12"/1.4" mid/high units and CT 118 Subs on both the left and the

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Ateis is an established name in the business sector served by ISE but over the past few years its products and systems have been adopted increasingly by installers and building operators to provide the highest quality sound combined with precise control and zoning.

The Ateis product range was expanded during 2009 to reflect this and now includes products designed specifically for installations at railway stations, sports stadia and exhibition halls.

The UAP G2 stackable, programmable digital audio processor, the next generation of the steerable column array loudspeaker, the Messenger G2, and the Orbit omni-directional line arrays are designed to cre

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Working closely with the event's sound designer Derrick Zieba and audio company Britannia Row, Mark Saunders and Andy Lillywhite of Sennheiser UK were there to provide hands-on support for the many performers using Sennheiser equipment.

The company supplied G2 series in-ear monitors for every performer, as well as SKM 5200 handheld mics with Neumann KK 105 capsules for all the presenters.

With Berlin being Neumann's home city, it was appropriate for the company's capsules to feature.

"The amount of effort that Mark

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Eminem took the stage late in the awards ceremony to pump-up the house, and the rhythm section laid down a solid sonic groove. Live broadcast, multi-band shows are a must-deliver situation, and Brace Audio did just that with pristine audio and flawless wireless bass and guitar system performance.

"Finally, a wireless that keeps all my frequencies intact" said Blackstone. "With Brace, I don't lose any of the low-end on my bass, and the tone remains the same. It's a life saver for an active, moving bassist like me."

"Knowing that you have a reputable wireless unit on stage to handle your tone and distorti

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Both companies will continue under the direction of managing director Karel de Piere, who from the same date has acquired the ownership of Ampco Belgium and Candela from Ampco Flashlight, left the Ampco Flashlight Group, and sold his shares in the Ampco Flashlight Group. The newly independent companies will focus exclusively on sales activities and will not operate in the rental market.

The Ampco Flashlight Group's audio, lighting and video sales activities will continue to be developed in Europe through TM Audio, Lightco and Pixelsource in the Netherlands, Paradigma in Romania and Atlantic Audio

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To enable use with Pro Tools M-Powered 8, users will need to purchase the Mackie Universal Driver upgrade at www.mackie.com. Once the driver is downloaded and installed, the Onyx 820i, 1220i, 1620i and 1640i mixers can be used with Avid Pro Tools M-Powered 8 software.

"For years, Mackie customers have wanted to combine the familiar workflow of an analogue mixer with the world's most popular DAW," said John Boudreau, VP of Loud's Music Gear group. "Through our newly-signed agreement with Avid, Mackie's Onyx-i mixers now make this possible."

Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of products at Avid said, "Avid has made openness a key

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Thun, the Italian company well-known for its ceramic gift and home furnishing ranges, has chosen Proel's AVL Systems' products for its new 1,600sq.m store and its logistic centre which covers a total surface of 35,600sq.m.

Proel's PROEVAC evacuation system has been directly interfaced with the fire detection equipment whose sensors are distributed in various strategic areas of the facility. The system's rack-mount central unit, positioned in the mechanical room, controls the BMH and BMFIRE paging stations broadcasting calls, announcements or pre-recorded evacuation messages.

Each facility area or zone is equipped with specific EVAC speakers with redundant connections (A + B lines). PROEVAC systems and components

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"As a company, we have a very well-established reputation for providing ultra-dependable, ultra-high quality products in situations where people's lives can depend on the delivery of the right imaging at the right time," says Tim Brooksbank, chairman at Calibre.

"What is perhaps less well-known is that we also make many products suitable for applications such as corporate AV, where the emphasis is on raising the quality of multiple video sources to a uniformly high standard, and residential systems, where the usage may be more casual but the expectation of quality is getting higher all the time.

"Where the application is not mission-critical, it is

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Smeeton says: "It's great to be returning to RCF, the brand has grown so strong over the past decade and I'm really looking forward to being part of it."

RCF's Phil Price comments: "We are all looking forward to having Linton back on board with us, with his experience in the audio market he'll be a great addition to the team. During 2010, RCF will be introducing some major new products and systems to the Commercial Audio catalogue which will allow us to grow our UK network of solution providers. Linton will be concentrating particularly in these markets."

(Jim Evans)

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With the church actively encouraging appropriate use of the church for outside events, a high quality sound system is imperative, but over the years it became increasingly difficult to hear and enjoy both the spoken word and recorded or live music over a system that was installed more than 25 years ago. When a bequest from a local island resident made money available for 'a project that would benefit both the church and the congregation', the sound system was top priority.

With local resident

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The professional digital wireless microphone system DMS 700 is now fully integrated into System Architect. Users have the ability to setup and monitor multichannel DMS 700 systems with tools such as 1 Click Setup, RF Monitor, Environment Scan and Offline Configuration. With AKG's 1 Click Setup, the frequency coordination of DMS 700 multichannel systems can be done with ease with just a single click.

The 1 Click Setup allows for optimal frequency coordination for all of AKG's wireless systems. With a single click, the algorithm completes a full frequency coordination by performing an environment/frequency scan, calculat

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But Mama Stone's duly became a victim of its own success. When the club's popularity outgrew its location in Wellington, and the council started to receive noise complaints from neighbours, the Josephs sought to upgrade the operation, moving to larger premises in the centre of Exeter.

This time they approached Tickle Music for a fully-installed public address system, including a Soundcraft Si2 digital desk. Once again the technical infrastructure needed to be equal to Joss Stone's performance criteria, since she would be opening the new venue.

Wendy and Jonathan Joseph spent in excess of £500,000

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"We had known about Audient's brand reputation and product quality for a long time. It was seeing Zen at Messe Frankfurt this year that gave us the impetus to work with them," says import and project manager Seha E. Akbas.

Audient joins ranks with many other manufacturers already in the company's portfolio and with a history of 18 years in the business, Akalin Muzik now ranks amongst the biggest professional audio distributors in Turkey.

"The Audient brand is new to our market, but already we have had some great success with the range," reports Akbas, who ordered the Zen for stock and demonstration purposes. "Zen and monitor controllers are our priority at the moment

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MMW offers Allen & Heath the specialist skills and experience to represent the Xone range, whilst Allen Heath's existing Australian distributor, Technical Audio Group (TAG), will continue to represent the manufacturer's growing pro audio lines, focussing on the iLive digital range and small-format ZED series, says the company.

"We chose Major Music Wholesale because of their track record with high tech brands and their commitment to a technical sales rep model," says Allen & Heath's regional sales manager, Bardy Hayes. "With the increasing complexity of software controller based DJ products, we were looking for a partne

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The transmission line quality and bandwidth they have to cope with might also vary in the same proportions, depending on available network infrastructures.

For that reason, Digigram, as a key manufacturer of IP audio codec equipment, says it is committed to offering its partners and customers the widest range of options when it comes to audio compression algorithms.

Recently, and in addition to existing options, Digigram R&D labs heavily - and successfully - tested the apt-X Enhanced audio compression enc

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Featuring Bosch's DCN flush-mounted desktop consoles and accessories, the system provides the county's lawmakers with user-friendly flexibility for communication and voting at council meetings, all with software-controlled display monitor interfacing and videoconferencing capability. Hawaii-based AV specialists The Audio Visual Company (AVCO) integrated the system, which was designed and specified by D.L. Adams Associates.

The Bosch system's low-profile hardware compliments the newly renovated space. Ten positions are equipped with DCN flush-mounted units mounted to a custom Koa wood counter on a dais (for eight delegates, one chairman and one clerk), with two additional discussio

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TV viewers heard a musical soundscape, embellished by layers of percussion, large horn sections and passionate vocals. Grammy and Emmy Award-winning music mixer Eric Schilling chose a pair of JBL LSR4328P bi-amplified studio monitors and an LSR4312SP powered subwoofer to create the music mix for the broadcast and he plans to expand the system for future 5.1 surround mixing projects, as well.

Schilling first became familiar with the LSR4328P and LSR4312SP monitors on anoth