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China - DiGiCo mixing consoles are currently enjoying increasing success in China. Following on from their key role in the opening of the iconic Canton Tower, further DiGiCo mixers are making an impression elsewhere in the country.

Situated in Guangzhou, the same city as the Canton Tower, the Intown Live House is a live music venue and bar which hosts a wide range of music. Rightway Audio - DiGiCo's China distributor, who used an SD8 and SD9 on the Canton Tower opening ceremony - introduced the venue's owner, Pan Zhibing, to the DiGiCo SD9.

"It's a special venue and we paid great attention to the design of the audio system," says Rightway Audio's Stanley He. "Mr Pan used to work in the audio industry and so knew what he wanted from the system. The console had to be powerful and flexible, but also very compact. He immediately knew that the SD9 was the right choic

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USA - Family Church of the Southern Tier, located in Jamestown, NY, recently moved from its original, small sanctuary to a new worship hall. For the new facility, the church chose Turner Specialty Contractors to install an entirely new audio, video and lighting system featuring an Aviom Pro16 Digital Snake and A-16II Personal Mixers.

A presentation by the local Aviom sales rep from McFadden Sales sold Randall Turner, owner of Turner Specialty Contractors, on the Aviom Pro16 digital snake and A-16II Personal Mixers, which he purchased for Family Church of the Southern Tier and is considering for other projects. The speedy installation of the snake, ease of use of the personal mixers, and overall reliability of the entire system also made a positive impression on him.

"The Aviom Pro16 digital snake is a very trustworthy system," says Turner. "The best part is, the

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Germany - Rental companies, Bavaria-based Rain Age and North West Rheinland's Go Audio Rental, have augmented their inventories with Midas PRO6 live audio systems purchased from Midas' German distributor Mega Audio.

"We have been long standing Midas fans since first using the XL200 and XL250," says Rain Age managing director Pascal John. "We still have two H3000s on our books and now we are delighted to invest in Midas digital."

Rain Age head of audio and lighting, Martin Heining, has been eager to acquire a PRO6 since first seeing one at Midas' Kidderminster factory in 2008. "It didn't even have a name then," he says, "but I knew it was the future.

"In our opinion," Heining continues, "the PRO6 will become a worldwide audio standard. Rain Age provides high class audio, and we wanted to be one of the first German rental compa

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USA - RTS Intercom Systems (a brand of Bosch Security Systems) reports that it will receive two awards at the upcoming National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) 62nd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards.

RTS, who received their first Technology & Engineering EmmyAward in 1989, will receive the new awards at a ceremony to be held on Thursday, 6 January at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Launched in 1948, The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards honour development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognise companies, organisations, and individuals for breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering.

"We are absolutely thrilled to be recognised at this highest level by our industry colleagues," says Ralph Strader, business line manager for Telex & RTS Intercom. &q

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UK - The Reproduced Sound 2010 conference (or RS26) will take place 18 - 19 November at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, around 2 hours by train from London and easily reached from Heathrow. The conference will concentrate on design-team challenges and the interdisciplinary approach necessary to successfully integrate highly specialised design services into a fully ambitious project. The design team Principles will be on board, along with a great range of contributors and activities.

Highlights include of the event will include:

- Key note paper from Leo Beranek

- Paper from Jonathan Adams, the Architect of the Wales Millennium Centre

- Paper from Jeremy Newton, the Acoustic Consultant

- Gareth Fry on designing sound for the theatre

- Trevor Cox on "Sonic Wonders of the World"

- An intimate performance of Beethoven's Piano Concert No. 5, played by co

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USA - The Touring Company Store is a new retail concept in the SoHo area of Manhattan. It's a retail store selling indie designers products in addition to some conventional fare in an environment that looks and feels like the backstage of a concert area. It is also "an advocate of independent designers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and all other forms of independent self expression". The store management recently selected a sound reinforcement system from D.A.S. Audio.

Luis Lojo, an independent sound engineer and system designer based in the New York area, was contracted to design and install the store's new loudspeaker setup. After reviewing products from a variety of manufacturers, Lojo and the Touring Company Store management ultimately selected a system drawn primarily from D.A.S. Audio's Variant catalogue.

The new sound reinforcement system consists of six Va

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USA / UK - Fans racing to be among the first visitors to the new NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina will discover cutting-edge AV technology supporting the interactive motor sports attraction. Working with an aggressive schedule, Electrosonic provided AV systems for the Belk High Octane Theatre and more than 100 exhibits as well as interior and exterior giant video displays and supporting sound systems.

The 150,000 sq.ft NASCAR Hall of Fame opened in May to commemorate the history and heritage of NASCAR. Designed to educate and entertain race fans and non-fans alike, it features numerous interactive exhibits, artefacts, a Hall of Honour, 278-seat Belk High Octane Theatre and NASCAR Media Group-operated broadcast studio.

The Electrosonic contribution to the NASCAR Hall of Fame helps bring fans closer to the sights and sounds of the sport from the Belk High Octane

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Germany - Professional loudspeaker systems manufacturer Fohhn Audio will show its Linea Focus electronically steerable, active line array systems at the 26th Tonmeistertagung in Leipzig's Congress Centre (25-28 November).

Since its launch in 2009, the Linea Focus series has proved popular for both mobile and fixed installation applications, particularly in environments with challenging acoustics. The design of the loudspeakers enables their vertical sound dispersion characteristics to be directed towards specific audience areas and remotely controlled in real time, from a central location, without any need to mechanically alter the speaker's position.

The Linea Focus family currently includes four models ranging from the LFI-120 with 8 high-performance speakers, 8 separate amplifiers and DSP processors, through to its top-of-the-range 4.5 metre LFI-450 featuring 32 speakers, 3

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Germany - At the 26th Tonmeistertagung in the Congress Center Leipzig, Kling & Freitag is presenting "a complete reproduction chain for the three-dimensional world of sound". The loudspeaker manufacturer will be exhibiting alongside ATec and Sonic Wave.

"We would like to invite all interested parties to our common demo-booth to feel today's possibilities of three-dimensional sound. We think that the applied techniques are very exciting, the proposed solution is highly interesting from the economic point of view, and for this we want to open these technologies to a larger number of users", said Stefan Lenke, head of sales of Kling & Freitag.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - King's Lynn Corn Exchange now offers one of the UK's first installations of the new EVA Series line array cabinets, teamed with EV's Tour Grade power amplifiers running on the IRIS-Net platform, a system designed and installed by Nottingham's OneBigStar in consultation with Shuttlesound.

The Corn Exchange auditorium can house nearly 750 people theatre-style, although its flexible seating clears away to reveal a large open space which can accommodate 1200 standing, Such versatility lends itself to a wide range of events, from classical concerts to conferences and stand-up comedy, so the system spec needed to be equally flexible.

"The EVA cabinet runs down to around 50Hz, so, when the theatre has a comedian on stage, the subs can be left in the stockroom," explains Shuttlesound's Neal Allen, who worked closely on the system design. He also describes the way in whi

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Italy - Giovanni Turrin is Proel Group's new Chief Financial Officer. Fabrizio Sorbi, Proel Group's president made the announcement and highlighted the corporate role of this position.

Turrin, who commands extensive knowledge of all financial functions earned while working for audit companies and major industrial groups, will report directly to Massimo Signor, the company's managing director.

After graduating from the Department of Corporate Economics of the University of Venice, Turrin began his professional career with Arthur Andersen & Co. Later, he accepted the position of comptroller for all of Stefanel's foreign subsidiaries before moving on to Roncadin, a company in the food industry, where he was the administrative and financial director.

(Jim Evans)

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India - Norwest Productions first came to international attention a decade ago when they supplied the audio requirements for the Sydney Olympic Games Ceremonies. Since then they have earned the reputation as a world leader in successfully tackling the audio requirements of large scale stadium shows racking up successful events such as two of the three Summer Olympics, both Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games in Doha.

This year alone they have done the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Singapore Youth Olympics and now the Commonwealth Games Delhi. "The worldwide event fraternity knows that Norwest are not only easy and fun to work with, they ensure that nothing goes wrong and that nothing is a problem for them," says the company.

For the Commonweath Games, Norwest teamed with a regional, Mumbai-based sound production company Sound.com to supply the entire audio package an

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USA - Audio-Technica is celebrating its 17th year of supporting the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards by providing an extensive selection of vocal and instrument microphones for its annual awards show.

The 44th Annual CMA Awards aired live in 5.1-channel surround sound Wednesday, 10 November, on the ABC Television Network from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, and featured over 200 Audio-Technica microphones, including an impressive array of hard-wired mics and Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF Wireless Systems.

The team responsible for the audio at this year's CMA's again included a who's who of broadcast audio. The audio was supervised by award-winning audio producers Michael Abbott and Tom Davis; ATK/Audiotek provided the sound system with FOH (front-of-house) mixers Patrick Baltzell and Rick Shimer; the broadcast music mix was handled by New Jersey/California-based Music

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UK - Sennheiser UK is extending the warranty on all K-Array products from the standard manufacturer two-year warranty to five years for all UK and Middle East customers.

"K-Array products are among the most pioneering products available today," says Sennheiser product manager Paul Nunnington. "They have proven reliability and an almost non-existent failure rate. The decision to extend the warranty period reflects our confidence in the quality of K-Array products but, even more importantly, it gives our customers complete peace of mind and the assurance that their investment is underpinned by this failsafe offering from Sennheiser UK and K-Array."

K-Array systems have recently been used on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent as an invisible aid to the two-way process of the dialogue between stage and judges, as side-fills at Eddie Izzard's

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises (NMK), distributors of Roland Systems Group (RSG) in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates have recently hosted a launch event and training workshop over a two-day period.

The occasion was the first official event to mark the presence of Roland Systems Group in the Middle East and allowed attendees to understand the business philosophy of the company, its strategic plans for the region and its current product line-up. Attendees to the event included professionals from various market segments that include install, live and broadcast.

RSG's Middle East business operation is supervised from Barcelona, Spain, where Roland Systems Group EMEA has its headquarters.

"It was good to see both current and new customers at both our launch event and training workshop," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing m

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Latin America - Grammy Award winning Spanish pop icon David Bisbal became a household name both in his home country and in South America after he achieved the runner up position in television talent contest Operación Triunfo - the Spanish version of the UK's Pop Idol - in 2001. For the Latin American leg of his latest tour Sin Mar Atras, which took in a number of the summer's festivals along the way, a DiGiCo SD9 digital mixing console, supplied by DiGiCo's Spanish distributor Meyer Sound España, was included in the audio inventory.

Having used DiGiCo D5s and then an SD8 on previous tours, monitor engineer Alberto Liras decided to swap to the SD9, the smallest console currently in DiGiCo's product line, for a variety of reasons.

"The SD9 I am touring with is configured with just one rack of 32 channels and 16 outputs," says Liras. "I am also usin

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USA - Country star Jason Aldean has worked with Bandit Lites since he started touring. Bandit VP Michael Golden handles the account, working with manger Clarence Spalding, tour manager Tim McCormick, production manager John Fritz and lighting director Aaron Swetland.

Throughout 2010, the lighting system has grown, as have the crowds. Along the way, Aldean's new album My Kinda Party has outsold every other country album this year.

Swetland works with moving trusses carrying MAC 2000 Washes and Spots, GRN Washes, Atomic Strobes and Jarags. His console is a Grand MA. The system also carries a number of video panels and the trusses perform scissor moves so that there are multiple looks throughout the evening.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Pink Floyd fans will have a chance to own a slice of the band's live performance history when the hand built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on the Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are auctioned at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on 15 December 15.

A percentage of the proceeds will go to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund. The consoles are being sold by their owner, Britannia Row Productions (BRP), the sound company originally formed and owned by Pink Floyd, which has been independent for the last 26 years.

Every Pink Floyd tour since the late 1960s featured quadraphonic sound among the many live sound and lighting effects pioneered by the band.

Sound effects including helicopters, the famous chiming clocks and gongs of Dark Side Of The Moon and many more, were whirled around mas

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Germany - d&b audiotechnik has championed the system concept since its very beginnings, acknowledging the benefits of the control and monitoring of loudspeaker systems for its users and listeners alike. So to further this endeavour towards a greater System reality, d&b has forged a partnership with AMX to provide even further choice when integrating systems within a media environment.

The ability to remotely control an audio installation from one central position has far greater advantages than just convenience. A large distributed audio system may have amplifiers in many different locations and the time it can take just to power them up and down without a remote system is substantial and can cut into precious time schedules. It is also significant in the first place to know that each element in the system is turned on and working. The d&b Remote network not only enables this co

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UK - When Northern Light won a competitive tender to provide an advanced technical infrastructure for the new £35 million Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, the company set out to design a fully-integrated system that was versatile, reconfigurable and provided the facility to carry out remote system diagnostics over a LAN via the resident PC.

Working to a specification devised by Carr & Angier Theatre Consultants, evenly dispersed sound was of paramount importance, since there are three audience tiers (including fixed-seating balcony and upper balcony levels), and optional ground floor seating wagons to enable the 1200-seat auditorium to convert into a larger 1800-capacity standing space.

Thus Northern Light project manager Simon Cooper decided to base his sound reinforcement solution around Martin Audio's purpose-designed Wavefront theatre systems.

For the primary system, h

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Italy - Proel is running an international competition to create a name for their new series of professional digital loudspeakers. This range of speakers, that can be networked and remotely controlled, will use the latest Proel Group digital technologies and is targeted at the live sound and installation markets.

The winner of the competition will be awarded a Proel M16USB mixer for "their imagination and ingenuity in suggesting the chosen name".

Full details are available at www.facebook.com/proel. The competition closes at midnight on 22 November 2010.

(Jim Evans)

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Italy - RCF has completed its range of Commercial Audio Column Speakers with two new products CS 3041 and CS 3082. Both models are formed in an ultra slimline design offering minimal visual impact.

Easy installation can be achieved with either the supplied 'L' shaped wall brackets or the optional MA 7W swivel bracket, which allows the installer to angle the speaker to suit, says the company.

The new CS Slimline Columns have been optimised for speech reproduction using extended range twoinch speakers and one inch tweeters.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Theatre planning and design practice Fisher Dachs Associates has announced the opening of its new office in the UK. The Stratford-upon-Avon office joins FDA offices in New York City and Seattle, Washington, and will be led by Flip Tanner who comes to FDA directly from a 19-year career at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

Over the last nine years Tanner has been instrumental in developing both the temporary Courtyard and the permanent Royal Shakespeare Theatre for the RSC, where his work culminates when the company opens its new facility in January.

Joshua Dachs, FDA's principal, says: "I've known Flip for over 10 years and I've always been impressed by his incredible range of experience in the theatre. He also has the unique experience of sitting on the Client side of the table during intricate building projects at various scales. Further, the fact that he has a k

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Norway - Gronningen Lyd, a sound company based in Lensvik, has become one of the latest audio rental specialists to invest in an Eclipse digital mixing console from Innovason. Supplied by Innovason's Norwegian distributor, FotoPhono AS, the new console was put through its paces for the very first time at a corporate event which was held at the Orkdal Cultural Centre 14 November 2010.

The Orkdal Cultural Centre is a large, multi-purpose performance and exhibition space based in the Norwegian town of Orkanger, the region's second largest town after Trondheim which is 45km away. The Cultural Centre serves the municipality of Orkdal and beyond and hosts everything from concerts to theatre shows, dance and of course conferences and corporate events. The event in question was a corporate event with a number of bands and lectures. According to Jan Gronningen, owner and MD of Gronningen

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