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South Korea - Established in 1927, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) is one of the leading television and radio broadcasters in South Korea, operating seven radio networks, 10 television channels, and multiple internet-exclusive services.
Recognising the power of virtual production and XR technology to create immersive and dynamic sets for live broadcast applications, KBS partnered with Ark Ventures Korea to create the XR/VP studio for live broadcast at KBS facilities. Powered by Tessera SX40 LED processors, the studio features a ROE Visual LED wall and makes KBS the first broadcasting company in the country to implement this successful blend of ROE Visual and Brompton Technology, setting them apart from other South Korean broadcasting stations.
"Given the increasing popularity of virtual production and XR technology, particularly in live broadcast scenarios, KBS re

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UAE - Linea Research has announced its partnership with Pro Lab in the GCC and the wider Middle East.
"We can't contain our enthusiasm as we join forces with Linea Research, exclusively representing them across the Middle East," commented Rami Haber, CEO of Pro Lab. "Linea Research's track record for pushing the boundaries of innovation and their steadfast commitment to delivering exceptional audio solutions align seamlessly with Pro Lab's core mission of bringing our customers advanced and dependable products. Through this partnership, we're gearing up to elevate our client service and tackle their audio necessities head-on."
"We are excited to appoint Pro Lab as our distributor," said Martin Hildred, sales and marketing manager for Linea Research. "Pro Lab's extensive experience in the market, coupled with their strong commitment to customer satisfaction, make them
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UK - Polar has announced the expansion of its team with the appointment of Duncan Peberdy to the post of business development manager, integrated solutions.
Duncan has wide-ranging experience of both the IT and AV worlds acquired through a variety of roles with resellers, distributors and manufacturers. His recent roles include senior lead for digital learning at Jisc and territory manager for Europe at T1V. He is the author of a number of books on the subject of digital technology.
During his time with T1V, Duncan forged a close relationship with Polar, the exclusive UK distributor for ThinkHub and T1V Story, so his introduction to the company’s Integrated Solutions division will bring great benefits according to head of integrated solutions, Will Turney:
“We’re very pleased to welcome Duncan to the team. His experience, expertise and personality will stre

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UK - The Institute of Professional Sound (IPS) is turning up the volume on its Pro-Audio Show 2023 at Greenford Hall in west London on Saturday 14 October. The event is totally dedicated to sound professionals.
With live Q&A sessions, over 30 international exhibitors representing more than 70 brands, and UK debuts of a number of technology products, the free one-day event caters for ‘everybody with a passion for professional sound’. In addition to providing access to technology experts from across Europe, the IPS says its remit stretches even further.
“Depending on working genre, the nature of sound work can be quite solitary from a craft point-of-view, and the IPS Pro-Audio Show is about redressing that balance,” says show coordinator Ian Sands.
“While the show serves the entire sound community across TV, radio, film, production, post, live events,

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Finland - Genelec has announced the creation of the MyGenelec customer portal. At the time of launch, this free online resource provides customers with a single unified access point for all Genelec products, services, software downloads and more, and will progressively develop into a comprehensive community and knowledge base for all Genelec users worldwide.
The new MyGenelec portal currently provides customers with a convenient registration point for all Genelec services - both hardware and software - and allows access to personal product information, the ability to organise products into locations and rooms, subscription details, expert support, downloads and manuals. By using the MyGenelec portal to register their products, customers can also take advantage of the 5 year parts-and-labour warranty that Genelec now offers on its designs.
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USA - Sound Devices has announced that they will be holding a free wireless training event at the Group One headquarters in Chatsworth, CA on Wednesday, 30 August from 10am PST to 3pm PST.
The event will be hosted by Sound Devices’ RF applications engineer Gary Trenda and technical specialist Cody Heimann and will cover a range of both basic and advanced topics in wireless operation across a variety of use case scenarios.
The wireless workshop is divided into two sections - Basic Wireless and Advanced Wireless. Basic Wireless will focus on core foundations of wireless operation while Advanced Wireless will approach common challenges found in the field and tips and tricks for getting the most out of your wireless workflow.
Attendees will have the opportunity to explore wireless gear close up, including the Sound Devices Astral Series A20-Nexus and A20-Nexus Go

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UK - Lacey Green and Loosely Row Sports Club (LG & LR SC) situated high in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire is an archetypal English village hub. Run entirely by volunteers, the club hosts cricket, football and tennis sections, all of which rely on subscriptions and fundraising to sustain sport for the benefit of the whole community.
The club’s simple pavilion which comprises changing rooms, kitchen and function room with bar, provides the focus for a wide range of social activities, including fundraisers, charity events and parties. The club’s forward-thinking committee is always looking to improve its facilities whilst simultaneously ensuring it obtains maximum value for every investment made.
Sound reinforcement plays an important part in almost every social function staged at the club, and with this in mind the committee wished to invest in a flexible

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USA/Italy - Strong Global Entertainment has announced that its subsidiaries Strong Technical Services (STS) and Strong/MDI Screen Systems have entered into a partnership with Powersoft. The partnership includes the resale, integration, and installation of Powersoft products, supported by STS, as well as the enhancement of Strong/MDI’s Seismos immersive product line with the implementation of Powersoft’s Mover Direct Drive.
The product at the heart of the partnership is Powersoft's Mover Direct Drive. The Mover Direct Drive is a patented low-frequency transducer that has been designed to reproduce sound through haptic perception, which is the human body’s capability to feel low-end frequencies through bone conduction. This technology brings a different and immersive dimension to the audio experience, making it more tangible and participatory.
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UK - A new family play-world has opened at The Alnwick Garden, with its imaginary inhabitants realised by the spatial sound capabilities of a d&b Soundscape system. Installed by Southby Productions, the system helps to bring the world’s magical inhabitants to life, via the work of award-winning theatre sound designer, Gareth Fry.
Ten years in the making, Lilidorei delivers an enchanted world inhabited by fabulous creatures - dwarves, trolls, fairies, hobgoblins, and more - all of them invisible. With the only clues to their existence provided by special effects and immersive audio, much is owed to the d&b Soundscape.
The behind-the-scenes story of Lilidorei’s creation - the result of the vision of Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland - is revealed by a six-part television documentary. The Duchess And Her Magical Kingdom began on Channel 4 on 2

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UK - One of London’s most talked about new openings, Outernet Venues, has put its trust in Clair Global Integration (CGI) for audio and networking solutions throughout three of its spaces.
CGI worked on three state-of-the-art music venues: HERE at Outernet, a 2,000-capacity space frequented by touring artists, The Lower Third, a 250 capacity live music venue for smaller acts and DJs, and Forge, a 50-person capacity cocktail bar that caters for intimate singer-songwriter acoustic performances.
Together, these contrasting spaces form part of an arts and entertainment hub built beneath the streets in the beating heart of Central London. Each venue required its own custom audio, network, and infrastructure for both independent and collaborative use, with all three utilising d&b audiotechnik loudspeakers, and HERE marking one of the UK’s first d&b XSL installat

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USA - When pop music siblings Girl Named Tom - Bekah, Josh and Caleb Liechty - first set out in 2019 they would travel from city to city and gig to gig in an old minivan. Then, in 2021, Girl Named Tom made history as the first trio to ever win NBC’s The Voice, placing four songs concurrently on the iTunes Top 10 charts, with two of them reaching #1, during the show’s 21st season.
Now playing to larger audiences in bigger venues across the United States, Girl Named Tom recently wrapped a several-month tour on which they used the new Sennheiser EW-DX digital wireless system for vocals as well as electric and acoustic guitars and the EW G4 wireless in-ear monitoring system for all five musicians in the band.
“We were honoured to be the first American touring act performing with this specific set up, and we are thrilled to report that these microphones are th

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Switzerland - Located in the heart of Rapperswil, Switzerland’s picturesque City of Roses on the banks of Lake Zurich, the ENTRA residential and commercial complex has rapidly established itself as a centre of bustling social and commercial activity.
One of the chief features of the complex is its state-of-the-art events venue. The foundation of the complex’s design encompasses a modular space that can be configured to serve a versatile array of community programming needs including live music performances, corporate events, and cultural events.
To ensure that the space would excel in all of these applications with high quality acoustics and sound reinforcement, the ENTRA leadership turned to global acoustic architectural consulting and A/V systems design firm WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group).
The 1050-capacity events space was designed by architecture offi

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USA - Earlier this year, LD Systems in Houston, Texas added a Solid State Logic Live L550 Plus mixing console to its sound equipment rental inventory to service the needs of the company’s diverse clients. The new L550 Plus was initially put to work at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world, which runs for three weeks during February and March every year.
“We decided to make the purchase of an additional SSL Live console so that we could have redundant L550 Plus systems managing the live announcers and program content mix for one of our largest annual events, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo,” says Thomas Ruffner, audio dept. operations manager for LD Systems. “The engineer at this position manages roughly 50 sources, including announcers’ mics, all video rolls, and a multitude of FX mics placed throughout t

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Australia - Live entertainment supplier Chameleon Touring Systems has upgraded its communications solution from an old analogue party line system to a Green-GO digital package, to aid reliable communications between lighting teams on tour.
Green-GO dealer Event Communications Australia masterminded Chameleon Touring’s investment, drawing on extensive experience of digital communications solutions for the live music touring market.
“Chameleon’s previous comms systems were based around a basic single channel, analogue party line system which were starting to be less reliable, so it was time to update to current technology,” says Event Communications Australia’s Rod McKinnon. “We worked closely with Graham Walker at Chameleon Touring to curate a kit list of Green-GO products that we knew would offer clear, easy-to-use communications for the lighting crew worki

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UK - Despite train strikes and inclement weather, Brighton & Hove Pride 2023 enjoyed another successful year, raising money for the Brighton Rainbow Fund supporting LGBTQ+ groups and organisations within the local community, as crowds of around 250,000 people descended on the seaside resort. It is estimated that more than £25m was brought into the city’s economy over the Pride weekend.
With more than 150 LGBTQ+ artists performing across 12 different stages, attention was largely focused on the main Fabuloso stage in the 63-acre Preston Park. Here first night headliners Black Eyed Peas were followed by Steps on the Sunday, with Solotech UK for the second year providing their flagship WPL line-array.
Working once again alongside production manager Dean Parker, at Wilde Ones International Events, their sound design was based around main PA hangs of 18 WPL per side,

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USA - Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg creates art that explores our relationships with nature and technology. Her latest installation, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg - Machine Auguries: Toledo, explores this relationship by simulating a dawn chorus using generative adversarial networks - two neural networks that work in a ‘call and response’ and are sometimes used to create lifelike but fake images.
“The work is really about making a copy of the natural world,” said Ginsberg in a recent interview. “We focus so much on innovation and the things we can do, but there’s intelligent life outside in our natural world that we depend on to exist.”
The installation at the Toledo Museum of Art represents Ginsberg’s first solo presentation in the United States and her largest indoor installation to date. Taking place over 12 minutes, the experience features the growing

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Serbia - The Kulturni Centar Zrenjanina (KCZR), or the Cultural Centre of Zrenjanin, stands as a multifaceted institution dedicated to the promotion of culture and is actively involved in curating concerts, thematic forums, exhibitions, film shows, and professional gatherings in the vibrant city of Zrenjanin.
The centre takes pride in its own artistic endeavours for compelling productions. Such diverse activities demand the integration of top-notch, professional audio-visual equipment for the main stage. Through successful participation in a public procurement process initiated by the City of Zrenjanin, AVL Projekt, DiGiCo products Serbian distributor, was granted the opportunity to deliver, install, and commission a complete AV system, tailored to fulfil KCZR's requirements.
The audio element is centred around a DiGiCo S21 mixing console which offers significant enhan

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Korea - High-end fashion brand, Gucci, recently celebrated the launch of its Cruise 2024 collection at Seoul’s Gyeongbokgung Palace with the help of communication experts punQtum. The evening blended the innovative worlds of Italian and South Korean design and showcased the heritage of Gucci, alongside the multicultural style found on the streets of the capital city.
The fashion show was attended by a star-studded line-up of guests, including Dakota Johnson, Liu Wen, Wen Qi, Mark Ronson and Gulf Kanawut. Parisian production company Bureau Betak was called upon to oversee the whole production of the VIP event.
In search of a high-quality communications system, Bureau Betak reached out to Dasan SR, the South Korean distributor for Riedel Communications. The brief from the client was for an easy-to-use, reliable system that would make coordination across the evening as

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India - Jiten Jariwala and Rajiv Jariwala co-founders and partners of Pro Sound, Bengaluru, founded in 2006, have expanded their audio inventory offering with L-Acoustics.
Before investing in the L-Acoustics K2 and Kara II inventory, Jiten contacted Hi-Tech Audio & Image, who are Indian distributors for L-Acoustics. Both Jiten and Rajiv were familiar with L-Acoustics signature sound. “Over the years we have listened to all the major manufacturers of sound in various events and concerts across the world, but L-Acoustics has been always a class apart in sound quality and frequency response,” shares Jiten.
“Be it the power-to-weight ratio, the design, the finish, and most importantly the technology we thought L-Acoustics aces in all. Whenever we listened to L-Acoustics, we were amazed by its clarity & depth of sound. Right from rigging the line array to tun

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Germany - Holoplot has announced the expansion of its US presence with the appointment of James Bobel as sales manager for North America.
With decades of sales and technical experience and a proven track record of building relationships in the commercial AV integration market, Bobel will be responsible for fostering relationships with US customers across all business sectors and identifying new markets.
“I’ve worked in the professional audio industry over the past two decades for integrators, and manufacturers. I have a genuine appreciation and passion for technology, and the opportunity to join Holoplot was impossible to pass up,” says Bobel.
“What gets me up in the morning is working with designers, engineers who are trying to do something that hasn’t been done before,” Bobel concludes. “The audio industry craves innovation but requires extensive

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UK - From stand D3 with SES, at this year’s PLASA Show, Data Strategy will showcase the extensive benefits of the industry’s first choice electrical and cable safety inspection solution, the QC-Check workstation.
Anticipating an extension to the summer festival season’s conversational theme of cable identification out on site, Data Strategy’s Iain Roche will be on stand ready to discuss the benefits of simple labelling solutions, as well as the latest rental system integrations and QC-Check’s most popular add-on modules, including the PowerCheck distro testing, LOLER inspection and SimplyPATS integration software.
Integration with equipment hire software is central to QC-Check’s role in embedding practical safety inspection solutions into the heart of the warehouse process. Data Strategy is progressing two new and interesting integrations that will allow mo

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UK - At this year’s PLASA Show (stand J5) OutBoard will preview the latest product innovations from the TiMax family of immersive audio and showcontrol products. Following another of the company’s busiest years, both in sales and in product development, OutBoard will showcase new software enhancements to TiMax2 SoundHub, including audio and workflow previews of their groundbreaking new spatial production reverb addition.
Also at PLASA will be the award-winning TiMax TrackerD4 Precision Stagetracking system, with newly refined error correction filtering as a must-see update. This and other innovations further solidify the agility and robustness of the system to meet the growing demands of live production, cementing its status as the leading tracking system for real-time immersive spatial audio, and also paving the way for imminent exciting new advanced lighting and media

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USA - Experimental Icelandic rock band, Sigur Rós recently embarked on a two-and-a-half-week tour of North America, complete with a 41-piece orchestra.
It marks the third phase of support from their audio rental company 22live, who earlier covered their 2022 world shows, followed by European summer dates (where the orchestral idea was first introduced) and now tour dates in the United States and Canada.
Each wave of dates has seen progressive iterations of Martin Audio sound reinforcement, culminating in monitor engineer Throstur Albertsson recently changing his monitor set-up for powerful XE500 wedges (to complement their IEMs) but more significantly 18 of the manufacturer’s new FlexPoint FP4 for local orchestral monitoring.
Explaining the background, 22live hire director, Paul Timmins, who has a long relationship with Sigur Rós, said: “We needed some tiny

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Australia - Sydney Showground was established in 1998 as a purpose-built home for major events as part of the multi-million dollar development leading up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Today it's a multi-use venue, hosting nearly 150 national and international events annually, including music festivals, sporting events, exhibitions, trade shows and the Sydney Royal Easter Show, its flagship event and the nation's largest annual ticketed event.
Sydney Showground comprises several buildings, including Giants Stadium, the Dome and Exhibition Complex, Charles Moses Stadium, Howie Complex, the Sydney Royal Stables, and more. After 25 years of nearly continuous operation, the AV system was in need of refurbishment, so they turned to Connect Series amplifiers from LEA Professional to return the AV system to its former glory.
Showground staff contacted integrator The
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