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Germany - Console designer and manufacturer Audient launches the ASP2802 eight-channel console at this week's Prolight&Sound in Frankfurt.

Heralding the arrival of Audient's Dual Layer Technology, the ASP2802 fully integrates with the computer system, enabling the user to switch effortlessly between the analogue layer - the traditional mixer path travelling through the console - and the DAW layer within the computer session, says the company.

Steve Flower, product support and development at Audient explains the thinking behind the design. "Zen was a milestone in the industry: the first automated analogue console at a price that didn't break the bank. ASP2802 follows in its footsteps, adding much deeper DAW integration further bridging the gap between analogue and digital."

With 28 inputs at the mix stage - achieved using the Alternate switch for an extra input per

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Germany - Turbosound will bring a wide range of loudspeaker products to the market at ProLight&Sound this week.

Aimed at the portable live sound market is the Milan MI5 digitally self-powered 15" 2-way loudspeaker and matching Milan MI8 18" 1kW digitally powered subwoofer, together with a brand new multi-purpose Compact loudspeaker range equally suited to portable or fixed installation applications, as well as the four-channel Class D RACK-DP50 with fully featured USB or network-controlled DSP processing platform.

The Milan series incorporates proprietary technology found in Turbosound's high end concert touring products and is designed with musicians, DJs and small installs in mind. Milan features high efficiency Class D amplifiers which give the most output from lightweight portable packages, along with sophisticated DSP to ensure optimum audio quality and driver p

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USA - The Village Church's Flower Mound Campus Worship Centre is located just North of Dallas, Texas. One of three Village Church locations, the flower mound campus is the newest, and was opened barely a month ago, at a vacated Albertson's grocery store. The large space needed a complete re-design, and Shanks Architects were contacted to re-model the building's interior, whereas the exterior facade remained practically untouched.

Most of the work was done inside where the new main campus, including office space, is accommodated. The main sanctuary is a 1,400 seat worship centre. As an open and contemporary environment, it is an ideal and welcoming space for worship, concerts and child education activities alike. The worship centre's versatile stage design caters to many musical styles of various sizes and the sound system needed to be designed more as a theatrical venue rather t

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Germany - OHM has lined up a portfolio of new products for presentation at ProLight&Sound this week.

The Ersa Major is an all new integrated line array system intended for large scale concerts, festivals and sports events. The system is run in four-way active mode with the amplifiers flown in the array. The matching dual 18" PUKK sub-bass units can be flown or ground stacked.

The mid/high cabinet has dual OHM 10" midrange woofers with a coaxial compression driver mounted on a proprietary waveguide. The midrange drivers are loaded a fully horn loaded cabinet having a compact size of 750mm wide, 600mm deep and 300mm high.

The cabinet is three-way active with an impedance of 16 ohms allowing the use of four boxes to one tree-way amplifier.

The PUKK is a slot-loaded dual 18" reflex sub-woofer with the long excursion drivers mounted in push-pull configuration. A

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Germany - Aviom is confirming several staff promotions at this year's Musikmesse / Prolight&Sound show.

Gary Lee, who has held several successful sales positions with Aviom since the inception of the company, has been appointed director of sales for the Americas, a territory that includes all of North, South and Central America. Lee will continue to cover the Northeastern U.S. region, in addition to overseeing and coordinating all sales activities throughout the Americas. In the Western US, Denny McLane will continue as regional sales manager.

Additionally, Shawn Stahmer, who previously held the position of director of US sales, will move into the role of director of business development, which is designed to make all of Aviom's marketing, sales and customer support efforts even more productive. This role is designed to provide enhanced communication between Aviom's market sup

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UK - Sennheiser UK will showing a large selection of products at PLASA Focus. The company's wireless microphone and monitoring products are the industry standard and these are well-represented by a wide range of evolution G3 series and 2000 series transmitters and receivers. Complementing these are the EM 3732-II twin receiver and SK 5212-II bodypack transmitter, which feature switching bandwidths respectively twice and five times as wide as before.Also on show are the EK 2020-D portable tour guide receiver and the DDA Kit, a unique infra-red solution for the hearing impaired which has already met with tremendous success at London's O2 Arena.Alongside Sennheiser's own products will be an array of those that the company distributes in the UK. APart products on show include the new Mask2 loudspeaker, a tiny (94 x 82 x 108mm), aesthetically pleasing full-range loudspeaker that delive

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UK - Turbosound has announced that it has partnered with Fuzion PLC to further expand the distribution of its professional loudspeaker lines in the UK.

As a result of a series of discussions between the two companies over the last few months, Turbosound and Fuzion have reached agreement to work together to further expand Turbosound's sales channels, alongside the West Sussex-based company's existing sales network in the UK market.

Effective from 2 April 2010, Fuzion will complement the current distribution of Turbosound's fixed installation and concert touring loudspeaker products.

Turbosound has undergone a radical transformation of its product lines over the last couple of years, resulting with the imminent introduction of its newly structured vertical market approach at the Frankfurt Messe this week.

Fuzion's managing director Tony Oates comments, "Having spent som

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Frankfurt 2010 - The lighting and sound industries head for Frankfurt this week for what promises to be an interesting and well attended ProLight&Sound. Judging by the number of press releases and product launch invitations received, the LSI team will be kept busy.

On The Left - Musician Billy Bragg is to curate his own stage at this summer's Glastonbury Festival, organisers have announced. Bragg will book the bill for the Leftfield tent, which returns this year after being axed in 2009. Bragg said his role would be "a bit of everything - curator, MC, performer, guitar roadie [and] juggler." The stage will aim to bring a political dimension to the event, described as "the original activist festival" by the Barking-born veteran. Glastonbury, said Bragg, "has always had that political edge since its rebirth in the 1980s as a gathering for dissidents

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World - The Killers concluded a year of live dates by playing shows on three separate continents in just five days. In order to achieve it, no less than six DiGiCo consoles were required.

After playing many dates across Europe, Australia, the USA and South America throughout 2009, The Killers finished the tour by playing shows in South Africa on 6 December, the United Arab Emirates (8) and the USA (11). This was a major logistical exercise and meant no less than three separate audio rigs were required for the shows.

Capital Sound Hire provides the band's sound equipment in the UK, Europe and Africa, while Delicate provides systems for them in the Americas and Australia. With the main ('A') touring system, provided by Capital, being used for shows in Johannesburg on 3/4 December and then the final Cape Town gig, logistics meant that the company had to provide an identical 'B' s

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USA - Located in an affluent 'main line' suburb of Philadelphia, St. David's Episcopal Church, which celebrates its 300th Anniversary in 2015, was first settled at end of 17th Century by Welsh colonists in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

St. David's distinguished history goes back to the original settlers who, while waiting for approval of their church from London, "heartily engaged themselves to build a handsome stone church" to be named after patron saint of Wales. Cornerstone laid on May 9. 1715.

With the passing years, the church complex has grown along with the parish and in 1965 the parish celebrated its 250th anniversary at a service attended by the Bishop of St. David's in Wales. Today it is the largest of the 157 parishes in the Diocese of Pennsylvania it and continues to grow and flourish, adding a new chapel to its 40-acre campus in 2006.

The chapel's original aud

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Germany/Netherlands - This week's ProLight&Sound exhibition sees advanced digital and analogue intercom system manufacturer, Netherlands-based ASL, display a selection from its new range of digital products including the DS 4000 M Master Matrix, DS 1640 19 inch rack mount Speaker Station, DS 290 2-channel Beltpack, two of its line of four Tabletop Speaker Stations - the DS 830 and DS 2430 - as well as a variety of its well-established analog intercom systems.

ASL's Digital Intercom systems provide efficient, reliable communication systems for the most demanding live production and event management applications, says the company.

The DS 4000 M Master Matrix is the central element of a basic ASL Digital Intercom system for up to 40 users and can be expanded to accommodate up to 240 users by linking up to six DS 4000 M or DS 4000 S units.

The DS 1640 16-channel Speaker Station

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UK - Allen & Heath has announced a partnership with music software company, IK Multimedia, to bundle its Amplitube X-Gear software with the newly launched ZED-10 and ZED-10FX mini USB mixers.

Effective from April 2010, Allen & Heath will ship the new ZED models with a full version of Amplitube X-Gear, the first fully modular, customisable and expandable amp and FX modelling software system, which can operate as a plug-in or a stand-alone application.

The software is a good companion for the ZED-10 and ZED-10FX models, which feature two innovative ultra high impedance discrete Class A FET (Field Effect Transistor) inputs, allowing an instrument to be plugged directly into the mixer, emulating the valve/tube input circuitry commonly found on instrument combos or amplifiers.

"The modelling capability of X-Gear, and the guitar and bass specific Class A FET pre-amps on the Z

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Germany - Renkus-Heinz will show the latest addition to the IC Live digitally beam steerable loudspeaker series at this week's ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt.

The IC Live will also be delivering its full performance live, with a dual IC Live system on demonstration outside in the Concert Stage Arena adjoining the exhibition halls.

The Renkus-Heinz IC Live system will be demonstrated at 11:40, 14:20 and 17:00 daily, with each demo followed by a Digitally Steerable Sound Lecture at the booth to further explain the technology.

Other examples of the Iconyx Series of digitally beam steering loudspeakers on show on the Renkus-Heinz booth include an IC Live dual system and an IC16R, equipped with RHAON networking technology.

A new system combination will also be on show, featuring a pair of IC7 mechanically beam steered cabinets mounted on Sygma SG Series subwoofers. The combination

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Australia - The Stamford Grand Adelaide Hotel at Glenelg is one of Australia's leading resort style hotels, boasting panoramic views of the ocean, city and Adelaide Hills. The Hotel's Grand Bar has been revitalised, refreshed and reinvigorated with a million dollar major renovation.

An unofficial icon of Adelaide, the bar formerly known as Pier and Pines opened 14 years ago as part of the five-star hotel now known as Stamford Grand. The venue constantly battled noise pollution which is not a great selling point for the five-star accommodation located above.

Jbn Sound Ceiling's regional manager Jim Barker heard through the grapevine that the venue was struggling and so he demonstrated the benefits of the Jbn Sound Ceiling to them. "A few months after the initial presentation I received a call from them and we had another meeting," explained Barker. "I explained h

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UK - Carlsbro has confirmed the appointment of CPC as its exclusive distribution partner for the UK. Established in 1959 Carlsbro introduces over 50 new MI and PA products in three new catalogues at Frankfurt this week.

For nearly 45 years CPC has been one of the United Kingdom's leading, electronics, B2B distributors. Chris Beesley of CPC comments, "This partnership will deliver competitive pricing and long term supply stability to retailers and installers."

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UK - POLARaudio will exhibit a number of new and existing products from its extensive portfolio at this year's PLASA Focus, including products from leading manufacturers, ASL, Australian Monitor, beyerdynamic, Biamp, MC², Novosonar, Renkus-Heinz and Revolabs.

The focus of this year's show will be on a number of additions to POLARaudio's portfolio. From Australian Monitor, the new AV Revolution DSP, a simple, easy to install DSP solution suitable for multiple applications ranging from lecture theatres, boardrooms, function rooms and systems requiring room-combining capabilities. beyerdynamic products on show will include the new MPR-210 desktop microphone, which utilises Revoluto technology, the Stegos, encrypted wireless boundary microphone and the wireless Revoluto range.

POLARaudio will also showcase the new Biamp Vocia and AudiaFUSION ranges. Vocia is the flagship DSP and

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Germany - Adam Audio has announced the expansion of the SX-Series. After the world premiere of the first six models (S1X, S2X, S3X-H, S3X-V, S4X-H, S4X-V) at Prolight+Sound 2009, Adam this year presents the extension of the SX-Series.

With the S5X-H, the S5X-V and the S6X, the X-ART technology now enhances main monitoring. All three incorporate not only the X-ART (extended frequency response) tweeter, replacing the ART (Accelerating Ribbon Technology) tweeter in the new versions. It shows an efficiency of 96dB, a higher maximum sound pressure level and a frequency response up to 50kHz.X-ART is also the key technology used for the midrange.

All Adam main monitors exclusively feature X-ART midranges. In addition, enlarged HexaCone woofers and mid-woofers driven by PWM amplifiers ensure power and accuracy even at very high volumes in big environments. The two versions (horizontal

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Germany - Among the new products launched by FaitalPRO at Frankfurt this week is the FaitalPRO 18XL1500 super woofer. The 18XL1500 is 100% water proof thanks to a pulp of synthetic and natural fibres cone and a special additive applied directly during the production stage and not later on as a coating. An extremely light neodymium magnet ensures all of the speed, power, rapid response and linear excursion

Suitable for any SR application, it fits in 170 litre double chamber Band-Pass configurations with tuning respectively at 30 and 90 Hz. Its electrical parameters are sufficiently "elastic" to allow a very vast range of applications without complex filters. The FaitalPRO 18XL1500 is even suitable as subwoofer for hanging line array configurations.

Also on debut is the 15XL1400", 15" subwoofer - pure sub that uses the same magnet assembly and suspensions - t

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Germany - DiGiCo unveiled its SD9 console at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt yesterday. The SD9 is a complete, integrated system, which includes the mixing surface, a D-Rack digital stage interface and CAT5E digital multicore, with the additional ability to simultaneously record 56 channels direct to multitrack software or DAW. And it all comes at a price "which makes the SD9 the perfect solution for touring bands, schools, conference centres, smaller theatres, houses of worship and a host of other applications where exceptional performance and flexibility need to be realised on a tight budget".

The SD9's work surface features a giant full-colour digital TFT LCD touch sensitive screen, 24 full-length motorised faders with touch-sensitive fader caps, high resolution bar graph meters, quick access encoders and buttons plus user defined RGB backlit LCD scribble strips to ensu

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Germany - MicW, the Beijing-based manufacturer of recording, live and conference audio microphones, is launching 11 new products at this week's Pro Light + Sound/Musikmesse in Frankfurt, ranging from handheld vocal mics to compact, desktop, shotgun and boundary models.

There are additions to MicW's E, N and G ranges - that is, respectively the company's entry-level, nickel-diaphragm, and gold-diaphragm mic ranges - including some repurposed versions of previously released mics, in new physical formats for different applications. For example, the new HN151 and BN151 are handheld and desktop versions of the existing 'bottle-shaped' N151 nickel-diaphragm wide cardioid, designed for vocal miking and acoustic guitar. The new desktop version, the BN151, is designed to be used in broadcast and conference audio applications, in courtrooms or for teleconferencing.

"After a strong

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Germany - Allen & Heath and Audinate announced at Prolight +Sound this week that they are collaborating to introduce Dante networking modules for the iLive digital mixing series. Dante will be incorporated into Allen & Heath's range of audio networking plug in cards, which slot into the iDR MixRacks and allow iLive to interface with a variety of common audio interface and networking standards, increasing inventory flexibility and system integration.

Audinate's Dante is a standards-based IP media networking solution. The Dante media networking technology suite transports low latency uncompressed audio over a standard IP Ethernet network with sample accurate synchronization. Dante simplifies installation because it supports automatic device and channel discovery, with easy to use signal routing. Dante also provides comprehensive network monitoring tools. Allen & Heath will be sell

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Germany - This week's Frankfurt Pro Light + Sound marks the launch of Adamson's Eklipsa series of horizontal arrays as well as the expansion of the M Series family of floor monitors.

The Eklipsa array is available in both a 12" bi-amped version and a 15" bi-amped version. Both of these arrays boast Adamson's Advanced Cone Architecture together with Adamson's High Frequency Wave Shaping technology.

Both of Adamson's proprietary, ND12, 12" neodymium low-mid transducer and ND15, 15" neodymium low-mid transducer, feature a progressive Kevlar cone geometry that reduces modal behaviour, providing an improved and linearized pass-band throughout the vocal range.

The High Frequency Wave Shaping sound chambers insure a uniform wave front that does not interfere with the adjacent enclosures in the array. Each waveguide is loaded with a 4" diaphragm neodymium co

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Turkey - Every three years the World Bank - International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings are held outside Washington, DC. In 2009 this prestigious event took place in the Istanbul Congress Centre, Turkey.

Over 13,000 delegates from 186 countries participated in the meetings, which were covered by 2,000 media representatives and broadcast live by France 24 and BBC Television. The key meetings took place in a 3500-seat auditorium, while 28 meeting halls of various sizes enabled 250 separate meetings to be held.

The DCN Next Generation Conference System and the Integrus Digital Infrared Language Distribution System from Bosch were installed in the auditorium and 28 other meeting rooms by Atempo Project Contract Co. The Bosch equipment included 250 Concentus delegate units, 116 interpreter desks, 3000 Integrus wireless infrared receivers, 50 infrared radiators and five 16-cha

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Germany/USA - EAW has announced the appointment of Ibbenbüren-based Trius Vertrieb as EAW's exclusive distributor for Germany. Effective immediately, Trius will handle distribution for EAW's products, interfacing with EAW's European sales director Sean Martin, EAW application support group EMEA representative Moray McMillin and other key members of EAW's team in Europe. The announcement was made by Jeffrey Cox, VP Pro Audio, at the Musikmesse Show in Frankfurt.

Kai Boeckmann, Trius managing director, stated, "Trius has been a German market leader for several decades, having built successful business relationships throughout the region, and we look forward to using our experience and contacts to lead EAW's sales initiatives in Germany. EAW produces high-quality products, and with their manufacturing facilities and European warehouse, they are in a position to offer highly p

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