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South Africa - DiGiCo is reportedly taking South Africa by storm, and with this in mind, Kyle Robson from DWR Distribution will be presenting training in Cape Town and in Durban during July.
The course aims to give users an overview of the new S21 digital mixing console and provide useful information and skills to better operate this console of choice.
The course will be hosted at DWR Cape Town on the 24 and 25 July and at DWR Durban on the 27 and 28 July from 9am to 5pm each day and the cost fee is R850.00. Delegates are required to provide laptops with the offline editor. Bookings can be made on line. Visit: http://dwrdistribution.co.za/register/digico-training-july-2017/
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UK - Growing technical production company Subfrantic Production Services has used Yamaha mixing consoles throughout its existence, thanks to their reliability, quality and flexibility. The company has now invested in a flagship Rivage PM10 digital mixing system.
London-based Subfrantic has steadily increased its profile in the UK and overseas production markets ever since it was founded in 1993, when digital mixing for large live shows was unheard of. “At that time Yamaha’s PM4000 was an industry standard, analogue Front of House console,” remembers managing director Steve Davies. “It was a rare treat to find yourself behind one, although quite the opposite to realise you had to get it up some stairs.”
The 2001 launch of Yamaha’s digital PM1D set the live production industry on the path it continues along today. As Steve says, Yamaha was “the driving forc

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Australia - Fohhn Audio AG has announced the appointment of CMI Music & Audio Pty Ltd as its first ever distributor for Australia.
The new partnership agreement, which was signed, sealed and announced at this year’s Prolight & Sound in Frankfurt, results from three years of discussion between the two companies.
“At Fohhn, we select our distribution partners very carefully, as it has to be right for both parties,” says sales & marketing director Uli Haug. “As CMI were also undergoing some restructuring, we decided to go ahead only when the time was completely right. It has, however, been worth the wait as CMI are not only thoroughly professional, but also have an honest, open-minded team who share our passion for audio.”
The distribution appointment enables CMI to respond to the growing demand for loudspeaker systems with Beam Steering techn

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UK - Adlib was chosen by the production team from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, to supply lighting, audio and crew to the recent UK arena tour by the stars of the CMT hit musical drama TV show, Nashville.
Tony Stephens was the popular tour manager who headed the ship with tour director Betsega Bekele.
This, the first arena size tour here for the phenomenon, featured a talented house band backing a selection of stars from the show like Charles Esten, Clare Bowen, Chris Carmack and Jonathan Jackson, who played a lively jukebox mix of favourite songs from the latest series, together with their own original material and some unexpected covers.
Adlib’s Phil Stoker masterminded the audio elements, designing and specifying an L-Acoustics K2 / Kara rig that he knew would work well for the music and the vibe in the venues on the itinerary. Nash

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France - The recently opened La Seine Musicale music complex just outside Paris' centre is a marvel of performance spaces. Amadeus was chosen to equip the two main concert halls of the Seine Musicale building complex with their specially developed speaker systems.
As the sole speaker manufacturer chosen for the momentous project, Amadeus also installed their speakers in multiple rehearsal spaces throughout the new music centre. La Seine Musicale is a large-scale cultural public infrastructure, over 36,000 square meters, committed to host every type of musical performance.
The building houses two main concert halls, five recording studios, and several rehearsal spaces - the main 'Auditorium' has seating for 1,150 guests. This hall is the symbol and the signature of the building with acoustics designed by acousticians Nagata Acoustics and Jean-Paul Lamoureux, and feature

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Germany - Following a recent technical upgrade, which saw convention and concert venue Eurogress Aachen install two Yamaha CL5 digital mixing consoles, the new desks proved so successful that five more Yamaha digital mixers have now been installed.
Eurogress Aachen is a major venue for business and entertainment in the German city, with three main halls and an array of breakout and meeting rooms. For the previous upgrade a Dante network was installed throughout the complex, with a Yamaha CL5 console and Rio3224-D i/o unit in the 1700-capacity Europa and 430-capacity Brüssel halls.
Installed by Köln-based TEQSAS GmbH, the company has since been asked to add two Yamaha QL1 digital consoles, each with a Rio1608-D i/o unit, and three TF1s.
“The straightforward way of working with the CL5 consoles was the ‘door opener’ for us being asked to install further Yam

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Mexico - Corona Sunsets returned to Tulum, Mexico on 17 June for a daylong programme of electronic dance music in idyllic surroundings. The festival saw the country’s first outing for Vero – Funktion-One’s vertically arrayable loudspeaker system.
Sound for the event was supplied and managed by Loto Audio – Funktion-One’s distributor for Mexico. Funktion-One founder, John Newsham, flew out to help with set-up for Corona Sunsets and to provide Vero training for the Loto Audio team.
Loto Audio has placed an order for its own Vero system, which will be delivered in July. For Corona Sunsets, the Vero system was shipped from the US.
The event organiser was keen to keep the visual impact of the system to a minimum, which led to a stipulation that it should be stacked rather than flown, which offered the sound crew a challenge.
Newsham worked with Ramon

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Germany - Back in the summer of 2013, system integrators, fulfil engineering, replaced the main PA along the four stands at Signal Iduna Park, home to Bundesliga club, Borussia Dortmund. At the time, they left the existing EAW sound system providing coverage in the four corners for future upgrade. This has now been implemented, and at the same time, the previous two-channel amplifiers have been retired in favour of Powersoft’s 8-channel process-controlled solution.
A large quantity of Powersoft’s streamlined, energy-efficient Ottocanali installation amplifiers have been specified in combination with the advanced X8 Series, which were supplied by the Italian manufacturer’s German distributor, Laauser & Vohl.
“Whenever I visited fulfil, Powersoft amplifiers had always been an important topic of conversation,” stated L&V sales director, Friedemann Wüstn

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UK - LAMDA (London Academy of music & Dramatic Art) recently opened its brand new £28.2m facility, which replaces the western part of its campus and more than doubles its overall size. Founded in 1861 as the London Academy of Music, LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK and was the first such institution to offer acting tuition. Today, LAMDA offers seven validated degree courses in acting, directing, production and technical arts.
Charcoalblue LLP worked alongside Niall McLaughlin Architects to provide the Performance Specification for the consolidation of LAMDA’s disparate and remote teaching spaces onto the new single-site campus in Hammersmith. Development consisted of the 200-seat Sainsbury Theatre, the 120-seat Carne Studio Theatre, The Manny & Brigitta Davidson Foyer, The Sackler Library, a screen and audio suite, ten training/rehearsal studios and ful

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Hungary - JoeCo has announced the appointment of Bluesound as its new exclusive distributor in Hungary. The agreement, effective immediately, will see JoeCo products including the Blackbox range of multi-track recorders and Bluebox audio interface recorders reach new customers described by Bluesound co-founder Thomas Csernus as “professionals who don’t know what they've missed out on until now”.
Launched in 2004 by Thomas and Annamaria Csernus, Bluesound is now considered among Hungary’s leading suppliers of high-end, professional audio equipment. The company’s philosophy is to carefully plot and follow a particular product’s ideal route to market, ensuring that each brand benefits from its own unique strategy. The idea has helped Bluesound to build an enviable catalogue of complementary brands from Midas consoles, Furman and Lectrosonics through to Biamp Systems

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UK - Warpaint is a Los Angeles based “dream pop” band currently on tour in support of their third album, Heads Up. The tour, which has played high-profile venues from Australia’s Sydney Opera House to England’s Glastonbury Festival, carries two Allen & Heath dLive S5000 Surfaces with DM64 MixRacks for FOH and monitors, supplied by Wigwam Acoustics in Europe and Rat Sound in the USA.
FOH engineer Hanford Pittman first encountered the dLive at the Music Tastes Good festival in Long Beach. “Right away, I fell in love with it,” he says. “I set things up with the dLive Director and I was pretty much self-sufficient right away. Then, as soon as I heard that first kick, I knew it sounded amazing.”
Maxine Gilmore, Warpaint’s monitor engineer tried the dLive at the same festival and Pittman says, “Once she realized that she could set it up exactly

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UK - Now in its third year on the wide-open spaces of Brighton City Airport, the Wild Life Festival, jointly founded by Disclosure and Rudimental, once again brought the best out of Martin Audio’s MLA PA and the Capital Sound crew charged with optimising it.
As with the inaugural event in 2015, gusting 30mph winds on build-up day threatened to play havoc with the sound control but this had largely abated by the time the two-day event got underway (this time moving to a Friday-Saturday slot to avoid interfering with Sunday services at the nearby church).
Said Capital crew chief Robin Conway, “I personally believe the MLA system handles the crosswinds much better than other PA’s.” He also praised the latest DISPLAY software, describing it as “brilliant”. In fact, it has extended the low frequency control beneath the previous 300Hz - and this is essential for

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Ukraine - !FEST is a chain of creative restaurants, bars and clubs in the Ukraine. Its latest project is !FESTREPUBLIC.CLUB, a new nightclub in the city of Lviv. The club’s owners and management wanted a system of the same quality and impact as the iconic Bowery Presents’ Terminal 5 and Webster Hall in New York City and looked to L-Acoustics to ensure they could offer such an all-round, world class experience.
Converted from a former glass processing plant, the 1500 capacity nightclub has been designed as a loft-style venue, with an industrial feel and a stage for live acts at one end. The club’s owners want to ensure that the desires of visiting artists are always met, but their main concern is to satisfy their guests.
“I want everyone who has ears not just to hear, but also to feel,” says Andriy Khudo, co-founder of !FEST along with Yurko Nazaruk and Dmytro

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USA - Hard on the heels of the announcement of the appointment of Contact Distribution as EM Acoustics’ exclusive Canadian distributor, the British loudspeaker manufacturer continues to strengthen its presence in North America with their first rep firm appointment, Cardone, Solomon & Associates based in New York.
Jim Shearing of EM Acoustics North America comments: “A year down the line since the launch of EM Acoustics North America, we are now in a position to appoint a well-known rep firm, and we have been very methodical in looking at all the options available to us,” he explained. “I have known of Cardone, Solomon & Associates for many years; they are a well-established and highly respected name with a successful track record in professional audio throughout the north-east and mid-Atlantic regions.”
Mike Solomon, founder of C&SA, added: “Jo

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Denmark - DPA Microphones is continuing to celebrate 25 years in the business with the addition of two more limited-edition, commemorative microphone kits.
“We are excited to unveil the final two 25th anniversary microphone kits to celebrate this momentous event,” says Kalle Hvidt Nielsen, CEO. “These kits actually showcase DPA’s entire lifetime.
“One kit contains the first omnidirectional microphone in our portfolio, the d:dicate 4006A, as well as our latest innovation, the brand new d:vice MMA-A Digital Audio Interface. The second kit includes our first cardioid microphone, the d:dicate 4011A as well as the d:vice. Both of these kits are made for sound aficionados who value the sound quality and the versatility of DPA microphones.”
The two kits are similar, differing only in the type of d:dicate microphones contained within – a matched studio pair

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Sweden - For a state-owned venue, making a major investment in new equipment can involve a long consultation process. But at a theatre in the southern Swedish city of Borås, this proved well worth the wait, with an Alcons LR7 pro-ribbon system transforming the sound of its productions.
Founded in 1964, Borås Stadsteater is a state-owned production house which moved to its current home in 1975. A typical 1970s-style provincial venue, the 500-capacity main auditorium features raked seating and a balcony. By 2016 the ageing PA system had become too small and outdated to meet the demands of modern audiences, so the management team worked with the local authority to find a solution. They contacted leading systems integrator Electrosound, who visited the venue and suggested the Alcons LR7 system.
"We invited staff from the theatre to listen to the LR7 and then we did a dem

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The Netherlands - With over 30 years in the industry, Gijs Schouten is one of the Netherlands most experienced professional sound engineers.
Gijs started in audio at just 14 years old, initially wanting to become a DJ but soon getting involved at his brother-in-law’s home studio. In 1983 he started his career as a professional engineer, initially with Balance, a show orchestra that played many events and parties in and around the Netherlands.
By the end of the 1990s, Gijs was employed full-time at Focus in Amsterdam, one of the Netherlands leading technical production companies, where he is now one of its most experienced sound engineers.
He is currently in the middle of a very busy summer, working on shows ranging from a Christian convention with the band Casting Crowns at Rotterdam’s Ahoy arena to a number of festivals, including Douwpop, Ribs & Blues

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UK - With 35 musicians on stage delivering arguably the greatest back catalogue of classic rock anthems in history, Led Zep Masters is a live show that places great demands on a front-of-house audio set-up. To address those demands production company Liz Hobbs Group relied on an Allen & Heath dLive S Class digital mixing system for its recent run of UK theatre shows, which featured Australia’s Zep Boys backed by some of the best orchestral players in the country.
The Zep Boys are well versed in fronting the orchestral extravaganza of Led Zeppelin’s best-loved songs, with a history that reaches back to 1986. And having recently invested heavily in the dLive series, Liz Hobbs Group turned to Allen & Heath’s flagship dLive S7000 control surface and DM64 MixRack to serve up the band’s impressively bombastic performance in venues including the London Pallad

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France - Mkplus, the full-service rental house based near Lyon, is one of the pioneering users of Nexo’s new Geo M10 mid-size line array. Frédéric Guinand’s company has debuted the high-output SR system on the four-day Changez d’air music festival, as well as several indoor events.
A very high-profile test of the new system took place in the elegant grounds of the prestigious Ombrosa Lycée Multilingue de Lyon, in Caluire. Ombrosa is a private international school operating within the French national educational system. To mark its 45th anniversary, the school hosted a large outdoor event in its grounds. For the audience of 2,500 people, the highlight was a performance by 500 young students on stage.
Mkplus presented a large mixed Nexo system for the fête, using ground-stacked Geo M10 as the main PA. Using a 10” LF driver and 1.4” HF driver, these two-way

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UK - Imelda May’s latest album Life Love Flesh Blood has seen a marked change of direction, with the Irish singer replacing her earlier rockabilly romps with a more country/soul ballad approach.
She also has a new FOH sound team, with Nick Ingram following a line of experienced sound engineers that have included Trevor Gilligan and Gerry Wilkes - both of whom have used Capital Sound as their equipment vendor.
With a classical musician’s background, Ingram was an appropriate choice to reinforce sound in the series of concert hall and theatre venues around which the tour is based; and he is delighted he took up the recommendation from Capital’s Paul Timmins to use the Martin Audio MLA Compact PA to support one of their long term accounts.
Although this was the first time Nick had taken the system out following three days’ production rehearsals at Mus

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UK - Academy Music Group (AMG) has once again enlisted Liverpool based Adlib to design and deliver a completely new, full touring specification, audio system for its most recent venue acquisition, O2 Forum Kentish Town in North London. The 2,300-capacity venue is one of the most popular live music destinations in the capital.
The brief was to future-proof the venue’s technical infrastructure, bring it up-to-date and give incoming productions the flexibility and facilities they need to stage world class performances with the convenience of using the house system.
Adlib’s experience in live touring and venue installations coupled with detailed research of current rider information drove the specification of an L-Acoustics K2 loudspeaker system, DiGiCo consoles and Adlib’s latest proprietary MP5 wedges and side-fills for the monitor system.
Adlib’s MD Andy

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USA - EAW has announced the expansion of its customer support organisation to provide end-users with a more efficient customer experience. The announcement was made by Adam Shulman, director of marketing and applications engineering at EAW.
Support is now handled by two close-knit groups: Technical Support and Applications Engineering. Technical Support, consisting of a discrete group of highly-trained technicians, offers troubleshooting, connectivity and setup assistance as well as handling questions about specific product information.
The dedicated Applications Engineering team provides product recommendations, design assistance, development of Resolution and EASE models as well as answers to advanced questions about products not typically covered in available product documents.
“This shift in direction enables our Applications Engineering team to be more d

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UK - Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a truly global university. Boasting a strong and internationally recognised research status, NTU offers one of the best employability records in the country, with 94% of students progressing to full-time employment or further education within six months of graduation.
One of the UK's leading new universities, since 2004, NTU has invested more than £350m across its three campuses, developing world class teaching and learning facilities. A stated goal of the university is that its teaching estate and the technical support behind it, should be first class. NTU's investment in state-of-the-art AV systems reflects this commitment and Polar Integrated Solutions has co-operated with the university's AV Team Leader, Stuart Loughran, on a number of projects designed to meet the highest standards.
A feature of modern educational practic

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UK - HD Pro Audio is taking to the road in July for a series of L-Acoustics Syva demonstration and evaluation days, in London, Birmingham and Manchester. Showing the new L-Acoustics Syva Segment Source loudspeaker system, each of the days will run from 12 noon to 4:00pm and the programme will consist of a product and technology overview followed by listening and evaluation with a range of material. The products covered will be the Syva, Syva Low and Syva Sub.
The dates are Tuesday 18 July at fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HJ, Wednesday 19 July at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EP and Thursday 20 July at The Stoller Hall, Manchester M3 1DA. Refreshments will be provided.
Numbers are limited so anyone interested in attending should book as soon as possible, either by contacting HD Pro Audio on 01784 433687, by email to info@hdpr
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