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USA - Bourns, Inc has expanded its line of professional audio and lighting products with a 60mm motorized slide potentiometer.
The Bourns Model PSP60 is designed to meet space constraints, longer lifespan and frequent adjustment requirements of automated professional audio mixing consoles, broadcast mixing consoles, and professional lighting consoles and controllers.
Available in a variety of resistance values (from 10kΩ to 100kΩ) and standard taper options, the Bourns Model PSP60 60mm motorized slide potentiometer delivers superior operational characteristics. It features a long-life carbon element offering up to 1,000,000 cycles, a touch sense lever allowing for adjustments on the fly during live shows, a servo track for console automation and a snap-in connector for ease of assembly in production.
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UK - Manchester audio specialists tube uk delivered 10 audio systems to five high profile carnival floats plus five music / compere stages around the city centre for the City’s 2017 Manchester Day celebrations.
The event, commissioned by Manchester City Council and produced by Walk the Plank, celebrated the diversity, strong communities and unstoppable spirit of the city and its people, taking on additional significance less than a month after a terror attack in Manchester Arena killed 22 people.
The floats included a show-stopper featuring local hero, dance music producer and icon Graham Massey (808 State, etc.) and brass collective Mr Wilson's Second Liners.
A tube A-Team crew of nine led by Melvyn Coote smashed this project in one day, with six vans of sound kit buzzing around town preceded by some serious prep and pre-planning beforehand to ensure that ever

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USA - British pop-rock outfit The 1975 have been touring virtually non-stop since 2015, having just wrapped up the seventh – yes, seventh – leg of their ongoing run with shows across North America.
As their audiences continue to grow, so does the importance of pristine, powerful sound to support their upbeat and energetic brand of pop rock, and so for their latest dates, the band’s long-time audio production provider, Eighth Day Sound, recommended a switch to a substantial Adamson Systems Engineering E-Series and S-Series FOH loudspeaker system.
“Eighth Day had invested in Adamson and we’d had some fantastic festival gigs using their systems,” begins Jay Rigby, FOH engineer for The 1975, “so we thought we might as well take the system out and put it through its paces, and we’ve had really great results.”
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Australia - Novatech Creative Event Technology is the first rental company in Australia to take delivery of L-Acoustics new SYVA Colinear audio system. Building on L-Acoustics line source heritage, SYVA is a wide dispersion audio system “with exceptional throw in a streamlined designed plug and play package”.
SYVA made its debut on the high-profile Telstra Business Awards at the Adelaide Oval’s Magarey Room on 11 July 2017. With a dramatic stage set consisting of stage wide scenic imagery and backdrop, SYVA discretely nestled into the side of stage with minimum presence and impact on the look of the room.
Nick Gates, audio engineer for Novatech Creative Event Technology commented: “The L-Acoustics SYVA absolutely excelled for this application. Its wide dispersion angle and consistent off-axis response eliminated the need for nearfield elements on stage lips and

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Austria - This year, the annual Vienna festival featured dual Allen & Heath dLive S Class systems at FOH to manage the grand opening ceremony, staged in Vienna’s main square and broadcast worldwide.
Hosted by Conchita, and accompanied by the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, the event included performances from Viennese artists Lylit, MoZuluArt, Russkaja and Yasmo & die Klangkantine. Two Dante-enabled dLive systems, comprising a S7000 Surface, DM64 MixRack and 2 DX32 expander racks with a S5000, DM32 and 3 DX32 racks, were employed at FOH.
Doris Jaindl, sound manager of the festival, commented: “As we have almost 200 channels we split the channels between two dLive systems, so that scene changes went smoothly and two people could mix easily at FOH. Depending on the programme, the systems were in use separately or simultaneously. Most of the time, one of the engin

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Turkey - Shure has supplied an array of AV systems, microphones, and automatic mixing hardware for Turkey’s Presidential Complex in Beştepe, in the Turkish capital Ankara. Supplied through Atempo, Shure's distributor in Turkey, the equipment included DCS simultaneous translation and conferencing systems, Microflex Wireless conferencing microphones, and Axient and ULX-D wireless microphone systems.
The Presidential Complex, or Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesi in Turkish, incorporates the official residence of the republic’s President Erdoğan, assorted offices of state, a mosque, a public library, and a cultural centre. Atempo, also integrators on the construction project, submitted the Shure equipment as part of its tender to install the AV systems in two sizeable multi-purpose congress halls at the complex, containing 2,050 and 300 seats respectively, used for concerts,

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USA - On Thursday, 17 August 2017, Clear-Com, DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics, Sound Devices, and K-Tek, will host The Sound Summit Seattle at the Columbia City Theatre in Seattle. This event is part of The Sound Summit series of informal networking and educational presentations for audio professionals to gather, collaborate, and discuss their techniques and tools for audio production.
With the cooperation of some of the industry’s most well-respected audio professionals, attendees will benefit from a one-on-one social experience with members of the community as well as these leading manufacturers who specialize in audio production.
Clear-Com, DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics, Sound Devices, and K-Tek will also showcase their newest products, including Clear-Com’s FreeSpeak II wireless intercom system; DPA’s d:vice digital audio interface; Lectrosonics’ Duet Digita

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UK - To support the growing resurgence in sales and general momentum, Martin Audio has added to its Product Support Group with the recruitment of Simon Purse.
Purse has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Production, a distinction in Live Sound Foundation Degree, and is also a keen guitar player.
Dan Orton, head of Product Support Group, commented, “This appointment reflects the growth of the company and the demand on system design for projects. The now five-strong team is set up to be adaptable, in order to support customers anywhere in the world, rather than being region specific. This allows us to better balance different application demands coming from different regions at different times of the year. With the launch of all the new products, the timing couldn’t be better.”
Purse responded, “Martin Audio not only has a fantastic reputation and product portfoli

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Spain - Amate Audio is introducing the first model in a new ultra-compact performance loudspeaker series - NÍTID.
Like all NÍTID series designs, the N12SM is the culmination of intensive R&D, to achieve the greatest attainable levels of power and performance from the most compact cabinet geometry. NÍTID series systems employ the latest digital amplification and processing technologies, in symbiosis with advanced acoustic design and engineering, and represent a new paradigm in compact sound reinforcement.
Easy to operate and even easier to handle, the N12SM is a highly portable, powerful stage monitor that weighs just 18kg. Performance is characterised by its highly musical, pristine sound reproduction - with outstanding vocal intelligibility - ultra-low distortion and 128 dB SPL.
The N12SM features integral 700 W 3rd generation Class-D bi-amplification and

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USA - When an event space owner and esteemed car collector in Pottsville, Pennsylvania decided to model a cavernous 4,000sq.ft room after a vintage drive-in movie theatre, he knew that top notch technology would be necessary to truly create the coveted 1950’s experience. That’s why he called on local technology integrator Tom Walker of the CI Guys to turn his vision into a reality with a custom-built entertainment system anchored by ELAN control.
“First and foremost, a reliable control system is the most important factor when designing a unique and complex system such as this,” Walker explained. “It’s imperative that the technology is responsive and accessible during private events. That’s why we installed a central ELAN system to control both the sophisticated theatre and multi-room audio system.
“ELAN also controls the entire building’s Lutron light

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USA - Essential Communications of East Hanover, New Jersey has recently completed a major upgrade to the audio systems at Manhattan’s Soho Grand Hotel. Opened in August 1996, the Soho Grand Hotel was Manhattan’s first luxury downtown boutique hotel, delivering a level of service and style that earned it a place on Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List as one of the world’s best places to stay.
Presenting a variety of musical events and other programmes, including contemporary DJs, the Soho Grand Hotel has maintained its investment in technology over the past 17 years with four major sound system upgrades, all designed and installed by Essential Communications.
The latest upgrade includes a Symetrix Radius 12x8 EX DSP to integrate management of the audio systems throughout the entire property, and a new Community loudspeaker system for the Salon, the hotel’

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UK - Atlona’s success in the UK residential/custom install market has been bolstered by the professionalism of RGB Communications, which has helped raise visibility of Atlona residential products and solutions in the region. Building on this success, Atlona has announced that RGB’s distribution role will be expanded to support commercial sales, effective immediately.
“Atlona is already well-known for their superb range of switchers, matrix switchers, distribution amplifiers, and more,” said Gordon Innocent, chairman, RGB Communications. “However, with the advent of its new Huddle Room and Soft Codec solutions, OmniStream AV over IP range, and the company’s recently-announced Velocity cloud-based control system and wireless presentation solutions, we believe our extensive experience of more technically demanding ‘connectivity & control’ solutions makes us

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UK - The Systems Group at Shure Distribution UK is expanding with the addition of Andrew Francis as senior applications engineer and Richard Knott as project manager.
The new employees have been taken on in response to the growing demand for Shure conferencing audio technology following the launch of products such as the Microflex Advance networked mic array and in advance of the launch of the forthcoming IntelliMix P300 Audio Conferencing Processor.
Andrew Francis has a decade of AV experience covering both installed systems and live events. During this time he has worked with politicians and business leaders, as well as other high-profile public figures such as His Holiness The Pope, while producing conferences, awards events and gala dinners. On the installation side he spent three years as a technical manager designing and commissioning AV systems for large corpora

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UK - The long-standing former financial controller at the Bose Corporation, Simon Mighall, has joined Flare Audio as chief financial officer (CFO). Mighall’s role will include putting in place financial systems enabling Flare to “grow seamlessly and realise its potential as a rival of any of the world’s major audio brands”, supplying high end consumer and professional audio products globally.
“Prior to joining Flare, Simon Mighall spent 20 years at the UK subsidiary of Bose Corporation, whose turnover in this country went from less than £3m to over £100m during his tenure,” says Flare founder and CEO Davies Roberts. “Simon’s deep functional expertise, ownership, tenacity and entrepreneurial spirit position him well for life at Flare.”
“Flare Audio exudes excitement and enthusiasm,” says Mighall. “When I met Davies and the other directors, I c

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UK - Back in April, Martin Audio chose Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt as the platform to announce and preview its ambitious line-up of 10 new products across multiple categories including line arrays, stage monitors and amplifiers.
With pre-sales running high, Martin Audio has announced that many of the new products have now started to ship. Dom Harter, managing director, commented: “I’m delighted that our production schedule has remained on track which is another sign of the growing maturity of the business, enabling us to keep our commitments to customers.”
First out of the gates was the XE Series, bringing engineering innovation to high performance stage monitoring. Featuring unique Coaxial Differential Dispersion technology with a patent pending third static waveguide, the XE series is designed to deliver” perfect monitor sound with a defined coverage pattern

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Switzerland - AudioRent Clair AG has expanded its hire offering by adding two DiGiCo SD5s and an SD12, along with four SD-Racks which include 224 channels of DiGiCo’s new 32-bit Mic Pre-Amp.
AudioRent Clair is one of the Swiss market leaders. As the European base of the Clair Global network, it is also part of the world’s largest concert touring operation and has an impressive roster of clients, including the Rolling Stones and U2, who all place their trust in the services of AudioRent Clair. Renown industrial companies including pharmaceutical corporation Novartis and financial services provider Baloise also count on the Basel-based company.
To meet the high expectations of its client base, AudioRent Clair continually tests and evaluates the latest technologies and devices.
“We are very happy and proud to see so many DiGiCo products, including the SD7, SD1

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France - Situated in Rennes, Les Champs Libres is not only the main city library (Rennes Métropole) and Museum of Brittany, but it also incorporates a science museum with planetarium, a conference room and exhibition hall.
Designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc 11 years ago, this cultural centre recently hosted a highly progressive multipoint sound system installation that would permit six sound designers to ‘sculpt’ artworks that could be moved in space.
At the hub of the system is an ingenious ‘engine’ in which advanced Powersoft tools communicate with QSC Q-Sys integrated AV technology control over an AoIP platform. This enables the designers to play out FLAC files - audio samples compressed with the FLAC audio encoding algorithm over AES67 - which these devices support.
With eight Amadeus PMX-5 loudspeakers and two ML-12 subwoofers distribute

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UK - PA Sound Systems in Elgin, Scotland has become the latest in a long line of companies to realise how quickly and easily KV2 Audio products can take their hire offerings to the next level.
Run by brothers Jamie and Ryan, PA Sound Systems ventured to PLASA Focus, Glasgow to start looking at which route to take their hire business whilst also looking for new audio solutions for installation projects.
The Anderson brothers pick up the story. “We were first made aware of KV2 Audio products at PLASA Focus in Glasgow. We had a chat with representatives of KV2 and left the show with brochures and the offer of a full demonstration, which we were really keen to follow up.
“Just a few weeks after the show KV2 made the long journey up to see us in Elgin with a selection of equipment. We were looking for a scalable, versatile system that we could add to our hire stoc

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UK - 22 June saw Subfrantic Production Services and the company's new Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 system installed in the legendary Studio 1 at London’s Abbey Road studios for a unique orchestral concert. Just a day after delivery it was thrust into a high-pressure situation - and it passed the test with flying colours.
The occasion was the final of Sonos ReScored, a competition which gave emerging directors the chance to have their short film scored by Oscar-winning composer Steven Price. Winner Luke Flanagan’s film Mind The Gap was screened in front of an exclusive, 300-strong audience, with the score played live by a 54-piece orchestra.
With both Abbey Road and Project Audio, the event’s production company, renowned for their pursuit of sonic excellence, the sound had to be exceptional. “We needed to showcase the best that the live industry could offer.

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USA - The Weslaco Independent School District in the southern tip of Texas built Panther Stadium in 1990 and later renamed it Bobby Lackey Stadium after the 1950s-era Texas Longhorns quarterback. Lackey attended Weslaco High School, where he was all-American in football.
Today, the stadium seats over 13,400 spectators in a classic home/visitor arrangement, and it is regularly filled to capacity for Weslaco Panther home games. The school district recently hired A/V integration firm Hermes Music (Pharr, Texas) to design and install a new Danley sound reinforcement system.
With two Danley J3-94 Jericho Horns, two Danley BC-218 subwoofers, and three Danley DNA 20k4 Pro multi-channel, DSP-enabled amplifiers, Bobby Lackey Stadium is now a model of how high schools can achieve affordable, high-fidelity, high-SPL audio.
“They take football very seriously in Weslaco,”

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France - S Group has expanded its SSL stock with the purchase of two Live L200 consoles.
S Group is a touring and events rental and systems integration specialist based in Alès, in the South of France. It was founded by CEO Leon Van Empel in 2001 and has since gone from strength to strength, building up an impressive portfolio of tours and festivals, and supplying everything from core sound and light systems to screens, rigging, and staging systems and support.
The company took the audio lead back in 2013 when it invested in two SSL Live L500 consoles, initially for front of house and monitors duties on French R&B artist Amel Bent's tour. Since then, the L500s have been popular choices, being used on prestigious events such as the epic Les Prodiges and Musiques en Fête.
Most recently, it has taken the lead again by adding a pair of L200s to its inventory, w

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UK - Legendary disco act, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, performed an acclaimed set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage using Allen & Heath dLive S Class mixing systems.
Supported by F1 Sound, John Ryan, tech production manager and FOH engineer, used a S7000 Surface linked by FibreACE to an onstage DM48 MixRack, whilst monitor engineer, Marco Dellatorre, used a S7000 and DM48 with MADI for recording.
Ryan, who has been mixing for Nile Rodgers and CHIC for the past 13 years, says: “From the first moment I turned it on, I immediately became friends with dLive. The system proves to be fast and easy to set up and have you ready to go on the fly, something that is quite frequent during festival shows where you are almost never allowed a sound check.
“The basic features, right out of the box, are easy to spot on the dLive surface; quick assignable function buttons a

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Belgium - Big changes at the Couleur Café, Belgium’s largest urban contemporary music festival – after more than 20 years in its Tour & Taxis location, the super-multicultural event has moved to a new venue in the beautiful park below the iconic Atomium in Brussels.
On the audio front, it’s business as usual, with regular sound provider Arto delivering Nexo concert PA systems for three stages, covering a huge variety of musical genres – reggae, hip hop, world, soul, funk, Latin, dub, club and electronic music.
Amongst the many different entertainments in the Couleur Café environment, there were three main stages. On the largest RED stage, artists such as soul-funk-reggae star Patrice, Serbia’s Emir Kusturica, legendary Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals and one of Africa’s biggest reggae artists, Alpha Blondy performed with Nexo’s STM modular line

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UK - In its quest to establish Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival (BST) as the leading festival in the world, AEG Live Event Director, Jim King, is celebrating the fifth consecutive year at the site by announcing a two-year extension to the contract with Martin Audio rental partners Capital Sound.
A site which was historically thought to be unworkable because of the way punitive offsite sound thresholds had impacted on sound levels in the bowl, has now been transformed. This is due to the expertise of Capital Sound, and a combination of Martin Audio’s flagship MLA PA and the constantly evolving DISPLAY optimisation software.
States Capital operations & development director, Paul Timmins, “Jim expects to see constant improvements in the service technology and that every component deployed is state of the art. AEG realise that MLA will re
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