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UK - Audio Hire and Sales company Ward Steedsy Associates have announced they will be distributing the full range of Full Fat Audio power amplifiers to the Scottish market with immediate effect.

Conveniently based midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, business partners David 'Steedsy' Stevenson and Steven Ward have been using several of the amplifiers to power part of their Funktion-One touring rigs for the past few months.

"We initially supplied a four-channel FFA amplifier to a local school who had managed to find enough budget for a small Funktion-One system. The four-channel FFA with custom crossover cards fitted allowed us to bi-amp the system from a two-unit module without any external DSP. Listening to this system convinced us of the audio quality of the FFA amplifiers and we ordered some for use in our Resolution 4 systems," said Stevenson.

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Canada - Midas Klark Teknik's exclusive representation in Canada has been brought under the direct control of Erikson Audio, a distribution division of JAM Industries based at the company's Montreal headquarters.

The move sees the existing Midas Klark Teknik reps for Canada, who operate under the PAG banner, supported by the Erikson infrastructure. For the first time, all inventory and spares will be warehoused in Canada, enabling clients to benefit from prompt access to product and demo units, with pricing stabilised in Canadian dollars. Localised technical support and servicing will also be enhanced in the deal.

Jeffrey Carman, division manager, Erikson Audio will oversee the performance of Midas Klark Teknik in Canada, with support provided by product specialist Bill Kinal who has over 25 years' pro-sound experience working with artists across the board from heavy rockers I

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South Africa - Surgesound recently supplied a quantity of Lab.gruppen's FP+ and fP Series power amplifiers to Johannesburg-based production services company, The Sound Corporation, for installation at some of the key FIFA Fan Fest outdoor fan parks across the country.

For the thousands of eager football fans out there that haven't been lucky enough to get tickets for the big matches, FIFA Fan Fest areas are an alternative, allowing people to share in the football fever and take in the match on giant screens supported with world class audio systems.

The Sound Corporation provided the audio systems for four of the fan parks, including one of the largest in Soweto where over 75,000 fans watched the opening match between South Africa and Mexico, as well as those at Rustenburg, Bloemfontein and Nelspruit. The systems have been based around Lab.gruppen FP+ and fP Series amplificatio

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Germany - Despite poor weather, over 150,000 Christians of different denominations attended the Second Ecumenical Church Congress, which was held in Munich in mid May 2010. The programme was varied and included discussions, lectures, church services, and live concerts involving a variety of bands and choirs. One of the venues for the event was the Olympic Stadium in Munich. The audiovisual production in the canopied arena was the responsibility of the Königsbrunn-based rental company CAB.

The CAB team, which comprised MD Michael Prinke, monitor technician Klaus Wallner, and audio engineer Sebastian Berger, relied for the event with its diverse programme material on the compact XLD line array system from Electro-Voice. In total, some 24 XLD 281 enclosures were deployed under the direction of a DC-One digital loudspeaker controller - also from Electro-Voice.

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Italy - RCF's VSA 2050 is a multi-amplified vertical steerable array that represents one of the latest RCF applications in terms of digital audio technology and is designed for indoor installations where the critical acoustic environment is an issue and where moderate visual impact is required, says the company.

Through the use of the latest DSP technology, the VSA 2050 processes the audio signal sent to each speaker for controlling its vertical acoustic dispersion to address the audio signal exactly to the listening area, avoiding sending the acoustic energy to ceilings and empty floors, thus not introducing bad reflections that would affect speech intelligibility, mainly in critical environments with high reverberation time.

Special transducers have been developed for the VSA, in order to offer the highest possible intelligibility and wider frequency response, according to R

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Germany - Having announced the distribution partnership with Audio-Technica Germany at ProLight & Sound in Frankfurt in April, APG has confirmed the sale of the first Uniline compact line array system in Germany. Full service production company, Coco Sound, based in Freiburg in southern Germany has just taken delivery of a full Uniline system comprising 12 UL210 full-range three-way line array enclosures and six TB118 subwoofers.

Coco Sound was established in 1986 by sound engineers Hans-Georg 'Hage' Romberg and Ellen Muschal who still run the company today, and is now one of the leading audio, lighting, staging and conferencing production service providers in Freiburg region.

"We chose the Uniline system from APG for a number of reasons," says Romberg. "First, it's a speaker system that really plays in the premier league - it measures favourably against any oth

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UK - PLASA 2010 is to gain a host of new features this year as the list of exhibitors in audio, video, lighting and staging technologies continues to grow.

There are over 43 new exhibitors who weren't at the show last year, including Ateis, Baldwin Boxall, Bosch, Bose, Christie, Chroma-Q, EAW, Electro-Voice, Intertek, Korg, Lighthouse Technologies, Line 6, Mackie, Martin Audio, M Studio, Penton, Turbosound, Stageco, Sundrax, Taiden, Tomcat, Wasp and Zero 88.

These will add to an already comprehensive line-up of leading manufacturers and industry specialists underscoring PLASA's position as the place to see new products and major industry brands.

The PLASA Innovation Gallery, which profiles all the launch products nominated for a PLASA Innovation Award, will showcase a new format on Sunday 12 September, when entrants will publicly demonstrate their products to the Awards judg

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USA - Nestled in the Little Italy district of the city of Wilmington, Delaware, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church has installed a new sound system.

This historic landmark church required a loudspeaker system that provided clarity of the spoken word, as well as seamless visual integration. Community Professional Loudspeakers answered the challenge with Entasys, a three-way, full-range column-array, weather-resistant loudspeaker system. This system boasts multiple low frequency, midrange and high frequency drivers, delivering a targeted vertical beamwidth from 800Hz to 16kHz. ENTASYS' modular design allowed the installer to use multiple full-range columns to create an exceptionally tight-focused vertical coverage.

"The Entasys system was selected for its quality audio performance and the ability to visually blend with the aesthetics of the hall's classic architecture,&qu

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The Netherlands - Alcons Audio's Architect Colour Option (ACO) means that all Alcons loudspeaker systems can now be ordered in any of more than 180 different RAL colours, the standard European architectural colour matching system.

Covering the entire colour spectrum, ACO allows Alcons loudspeakers to blend into the background against any type of decor, from plain blacks and whites, through subtle shades to vibrant colours, even natural wood and metal finishes, says the company.

ACO is available for the Alcons models in the C-(cinema) series, T-series, S-series, L-series, B-series and V-series. In addition, system designers can preview the colour options online using the Alcons ACO Simulator on the company's web site.

"All of our products are developed to be as unobtrusive as possible, in their sonic response as well as in their appearance, which is also why we only appl

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USA - More than 25,000 metal fans converged on the Indianola, Iowa, National Balloon Classic Field for this year's Lazerfest. Even cloudy skies and chilly weather weren't enough to dampen the spirits of the sold out crowd.

The annual festival, created by local radio station KAZR in nearby Des Moines, has grown rapidly since its resurgence in 2007, and this year marked the first time the show has expanded to two stages to accommodate an expanded roster of hardcore metal musicians.

Grand Island, NE-based Sure Sound and Lighting provided a massive system of integrated Renkus-Heinz line arrays to deliver powerful non-stop metal punch to the show's side-by-side stages.

Sure Sound's Jeremy Wann reports, "We set up two hangs of 12 VerSys VLX3 line arrays on the outer side of each stage, and two hangs of 12 STLA9 line arrays on the inner sides. "We set the system up

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Italy - The winter resort of Madonna die Campiglio was the setting for the recent annual gathering of the UniCredit Group. Sporting activities kept guests entertained throughout the day, whilst in the evening the Italy-based banking organization laid on a buffet accompanied by live music and acrobatic displays in a 7,000sq.m circus tent. To ensure the technical networking and implementation did justice to the occasion, for the third year running the UniCredit Group hired TC Showtechnik of Weilheim to handle both electrification and lighting and sound production.

With 18 masts holding it aloft, the big top was furnished with XLD and XLE compact line array loudspeaker systems from Electro-Voice. These were supported by PX1122M and PX1152M multi-purpose loudspeakers, whilst the requisite sound pressure in the low-frequency range was supplied by Xsubs.

The system was driven by amp

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Colombia - Held on 17 May, the Pentecostes 2010 outdoor event drew thousands of attendees from all over Colombia. It was particularly notable this year, due in part, to the robust sonic performance of a D.A.S. Audio-based sound system.

vento Totales and FrancoSound (owned and operated by Jader Montoya and Amilkar Franco respectively) are two well-known sound companies in the Colombian professional audio sector. Both firms service the live sound/pro touring market and also operate equipment rental divisions. Together, they pooled their talent and resources to assemble a high performance sound system that made this year's event among the most memorable in recent history.

Amilkar Franco - with assistance from associate Reynaldo Flores - oversaw the selection and installation of the equipment for this year's event and also handled various sound engineering responsibilities.

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Indonesia - The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival has become one of the world's largest and most comprehensive music festivals. The 2010 event, which took place 5-7 March, saw over 100,000 music fans come to hear 200 performances by artists including John Legend, Bob James, Lee Ritenour, Toni Braxton, George Duke, Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds and more. The event was reinforced by EAW's KF series of line arrays.

This year, the festival took place at the Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran (JIE). "JIE is an exhibition venue," Andre Supryanata from Sumber Ria Sound, the pro audio rental company in charge, stated. "But it fits perfectly to accommodate the festival's growing audience. What we had do was to present the best audio system that can cover up the lack of acoustic treatment of the building."

In total, P.T. Kairos Multi Jaya, EAW's Indonesian

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Sweden - Described as Europe's biggest royal wedding since Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden married long-time partner Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010. The event was the occasion of huge celebrations throughout Stockholm, including a three-hour TV special that was broadcast live from Stockholm's Kungsträdgården. Pro audio distribution specialists, Electrosound, who also operate a thriving rental division, were contracted to handle all of the sound production for the main stage and sound distribution for the TV-4 OB truck.

The show was a big event that included live performances from a number of top Scandinavian artists including Eagle Eye Cherry, Linda Sundblad, Carpark North, Gentlemen, Jasmine Kara, Anna Maria Espinosa and many others.

Part of the system provided by Electrosound was a full Innovason network system running

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UK - For over 10 years Primacoustic has been at the forefront of acoustic treatments for both studio and commercial installations. Now with the launch of the IsoTool range the company has addressed a number of acoustic attenuation and isolation problems that are common where capturing pristine sound is essential. There are five products in the range:

Voxguard is a high performance ambient noise attenuator, designed to mount on a microphone stand and surround a recording microphone, to help control the sound from entering the microphone by minimising the reflections in the room.

Crashguard is designed to shield a drum mic and attenuate the sound of cymbals during recording. Small enough so that it will not get in the way and durable enough to sustain repeated abuse from drummers.

The TriPad is a tripod mic stand isolator designed to prevent vibrations from the stage and floor

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UK - New from LD Systems, a brand of the Adam Hall Group, the DAVEG2SERIES portable PA system is a flexible, compact, active system that has a number of practical features, such as the inclinated satellite speakers which provide optimal acoustic irradiation, butterfly handles and an optional castor board.

With an excellent price-performance ratio, it is ideal for entertainers, duos, smaller PA systems and presentation applications, says the company.

The DAVEG2Series active module features all necessary inputs and outputs as well as protective circuits. Transport bags for the subwoofer and satellites, are also available.

Other features include a lockable Volex power plug, an output clip-limiter and the subwoofer is equipped with a M20 thread.

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UK - Three diverse places of worship - and three completely different RCF system solutions; this was the approach taken by Scottish-based d3 Audio and Visual Ltd, who carried out the installations.

Director Phil Lidstone believes this purpose-specific policy has given them a competitive edge in one of the company's core market areas.

"We design for each individual application rather than use a one-system-fits-all approach," he stated. "We are known as specialists in this sector, where we integrate the two disciplines of pro audio and audio visual under a common control platform. It's a case of being able to differentiate between speech-only systems and those requiring a full dynamic range - and make them operable by non technical users."

RCF, he says, have systems that cover all eventualities. "We have confidence in their ranges, and from R&D to fini

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UK - Carden Park, one of Cheshire's premier golf resort hotels, continues to raise the bar and lead the way in conference and banqueting facilities in the North West, following a £350,000 refurbishment.

As part of the refurbishment, the hotel brought in Bose Pro Partner, Apple Sound, to upgrade and enhance the AV in the Carden Suite. The self-contained Carden Suite, which has its own entrance and car park, can accommodate up to 400 delegates and continues to complement the existing 11 conference rooms and dedicated business centre, all supported by highly trained event and conference organisers.

In addition to nine 60" plasma screens, Apple Sound installed a Bose sound system, consisting of a Bose ControlSpace ESP-88 audio management system, and Bose Panaray 502As loudspeakers with bass support from Panaray MB4s, to provide both background and foreground sound for c

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UK - Ellie Goulding is out on tour with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 compact control surface managing monitors. Goulding is currently touring Europe on the festival circuit, including the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury, as well as numerous TV appearances, including the Jonathan Ross show, and has provided support for John Meyer on his European arena dates.

Monitor engineer, Steve Pattison, uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check, and move around the venue during the show.

"The band are loving the fact I am on stage face to face changing their mix as they ask, and not running back and forth to the desk. They want to know why we haven't had this before! It's useful having the laptop when stage space is cramped as I can put the rack backstage and sit my laptop on the house desk."

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UK - John Hornby Skewes & Co, the exclusive UK and Eire trade distributors for HK Audio's professional sound reinforcement brand, has announced the availability of the Elements PA system range.

Using just six individual components, or 'elements', the user can configure a system for anything from a small conference PA, to a full band stage rig. The entire system is quick and simple to set up, due to the innovative, cable-free internal E-Connect coupler, says the company.

The system starts with the E435 Mid/High unit. Made of extruded aluminium and engineered with line array technology, up to four of these mid/high units can be powered by the similarly designed EA600. This is a 600 watt, Class-D power amp, which can also be used to power either two mid high units and a passive subwoofer, or two subwoofers.

Bass response is provided by the E110 subs.This easy to transport 10&qu

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Poland - The celebrated Zbigniew Hubner Theatre in Warsaw underwent a major renovation earlier this year, with a full audio refit spearheaded by the installation of a Midas PRO6 into the Scena 100 performance hall by Audio Plus, distributors of Midas and Klark Teknik in Poland.

Zbigniew Hubner Theatre, which was founded in 1945, has long been a focal point of Polish theatrical culture, attracting leading artists, directors, musicians, choreographers and stage designers both nationally and internationally. The venue has a long history of using Midas consoles, with a Midas Legend 3000 and a Venice installed in theatres two and three respectively.

Sebastian Ku?ma, the theatre's head sound engineer, chose the PRO6 having previously used the Midas Legend 3000. He was particularly impressed with innovations such as the ability to control the time of crossfades between two scenes wit

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UK - The Nomination Phase for the prestigious Gottelier Award, due to be presented for the fourth time at this year's PLASA Show, is now open and will continue until Friday 23 July. Industry professionals are invited to put forward their choices, identifying the specific product contributions that make their nominee a worthy contender for this award.

Named in honour of the late designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, this award aims to recognise the product developers who have made a significant contribution to the development of the equipment and tools that enable our entertainment technology practitioners to continually push the boundaries of event production, presentation and installation.

Once the shortlist of nominees is decided, the Voting Phase will begin. This year, to help ensure that only legitimate industry professionals can cast a vote, voting for the n

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Japan - L-Acoustics' Japanese distributor Bestec Audio has installed a Kudo system into the Iwate Prefectural Hall in Morioka, Iwate. Twelve Kudo line source cabinets with four SB28 subwoofers, powered by eight LA8 amplified controllers, have been supplied as a mobile system which can be moved between the venue's two halls, with 10 L-Acoustics 112P coaxials for monitoring.

Iwate Prefectural Hall plays a leading role in the art and culture of Iwate, being used for many different purposes, including music, theatre and conventions. Open since 1973, the building's main hall spans three floors and can accommodate almost 2,000, with a secondary 600-capacity hall.

"The reverberation time in the main hall is 1.75 seconds when vacant, and 1.45 seconds at 80% capacity," says the hall's head of hall administration, Mr Naruo Seki. "With a system that has a relatively long r

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Money Matters - British music fans spent £1.45bn on tickets for gigs and festivals in 2009 Concert and festival promoters have warned that ticket prices could go up as songwriters consider requesting a greater share of live music takings. Currently, 3% of all gig ticket money goes to PRS For Music, which passes it on to writers and composers. It is reviewing that rate, saying it needs to ensure a "fair balance" between music fans and creators.

Melvin Benn, who runs the Reading, Leeds and Latitude festivals, described it as "blatant money-grabbing". He told BBC News, "The quantum leap in what the PRS are being paid by live music promoters is very, very substantial compared to what it was 10 years ago. Live music is so much stronger than it was, and therefore the receipts the PRS are getting are substantially more than they were. Instead of being ple

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