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USA - The American Cancer Society recently wrapped its second annual RelayLIVE event 1 April, a music festival which advocates “fighting cancer at every stage”.
Bandit Lites donated the lighting package at no cost for the outdoor fundraiser, which featured a performances by Arts Fishing Club, Mandy McMillan, Zack Dyer, Tony Winkler, Melissa Mickelson, Ali Morgan, Tyler Jordan and David Adam Byrnes.
Leading up to the event, participants and businesses formed teams which raised both money and awareness towards eliminating cancer. This year’s effort has raised 39,000 dollars and counting towards programs for patients in Nashville including transportation to and from treatment, counselling, and the operation of Hope Lodge, a haven where patients can stay for free during the duration of their treatment.
Using the lighting plot from last year’s inaugural event

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USA - First opening its doors in November of 2011 with a gala concert featuring Rod Stewart, Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center (WNPAC) is an $81m, state-of-the-art music and theatre complex at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Home to a 1,800-seat performance hall, intimate 200-seat recital hall and the University’s music department, the facility is a visually striking beacon for the arts for the communities of Midland, Odessa and beyond.
However, the main hall’s original PA system - modern as it was - was never able to match the venue’s acoustical needs: the sweeping balconies that ring the interior right up to the stage previously made proper sound coverage virtually impossible using conventional sound reinforcement technology. That’s why WNPAC recently turned to AV systems integrator LD Systems, which designed and installed a new L-Acoustics K2 audio

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Germany - PMC Speakers is taking its popular Hear More Tour to the next level in Germany and Austria during April and May, giving musicians and producers the opportunity to explore the intricacies of its high end professional monitoring systems.
The events are being held in conjunction with renowned recording studio group Dorian Grey. UK console manufacturer SSL will also be taking part in the German leg of the tour by hosting demo sessions on its XL desk and Matrix systems.
PMC’s new MB3 XBD-A main monitor system, which won a Best of Show award when it was launched at NAMM earlier this year, will be the centre-piece of each seminar. All attendees will get hands-on, both physically and sonically, with these world-class monitors which are typically only found in the most exclusive and highest quality studios around the world.
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Germany -Proel UK has announced the appointment of Richard Powell to the position of sales manager, taking over sales responsibility for its Axiom professional audio division. Richard has 20 years’ experience in sales management up to director level across international, commercial and retail markets.
A highly competent jazz musician, Richard’s career has focused very much on professional audio – including two years as manager of Sound Control in Leeds, where he was responsible for overall performance of the large retail environment; five years in charge of the national sales team at Tascam before moving on to sales manager at Source Distribution; and most recently he was professional audio director at Production Room, the professional wing of Red Dog Music, where he headed up the UK team in branches across the UK in London, Leeds, and Edinburgh.
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Germany - Digital audio solutions company, DiGiCo has announced the appointment of Austin Freshwater as its general manager.
Austin joins the DiGiCo team from Canon, the world-leading innovator and provider of imaging and information technology solutions, where he spent the previous 10 years working in sales, latterly becoming sales director for UK and Ireland.
“During my time with Canon I developed sales into the professional broadcast sector working with the likes of NEP, the BBC and Sky as well as the AV market via their range of projectors. This gave me a valuable insight into some of DiGiCo’s markets before I joined the company.
Austin will be working closely with DiGiCo’s VP sales, Ian Staddon who says, “It’s great to have Austin on-board as he brings different expertise and a new perspective to the team. I am sure he will be an asset to the busin

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Germany - Allen & Heath has expanded the digital interface options for its dLive mixing system with the introduction of superMADI and a range of AES3 I/O cards.
Designed to help integrate dLive into a wide range of broadcast, live interface and recording scenarios, the superMADI interface card has numerous connectivity possibilities, including 8 BNC connectors and 4 SFP slots for fibre optic transceivers. Both coaxial and optical formats offer up to 128 I/O at 96kHz each, and redundancy and sample rate are switchable per link pair, with a choice of Smux or HighSpeed 96kHz mode. The superMADI card can also be used by engineers and rental companies to link to any MADI-enabled third party console, allowing high-channel count digital splits, for example, between FOH and Monitors.
The four new AES3 I/O cards are offered in a choice of I/O formats, comprising 2 in / 8

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UK – The Audio sales division of A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (AC-ET) is hosting showcase events in April for the Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing consoles range.
As a recently appointed dLive specialist reseller, AC-ET is hosting the free events at its Northern sales office (Leeds) on Tuesday, 25April 2017, and UK headquarters (High Wycombe) on Thursday, 27 April 2017.
The dLive events will provide a comprehensive introduction to the consoles, featuring models from the S Class series and new C Class series, plus the related MixRacks. In addition to covering the range's innovative feature set and differences between the two series, attendees will have the opportunity to get 'hands-on' with the consoles and discuss their requirements with members of the sales team.
Steve Eaton, AC-ET’s Audio divison’s senior audio sales executive said, “In m

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UK - Colour Sound Experiment prepares for the 2017 summer festival season with its new custom-designed stage system with high weight-load capacities which has been manufactured by Litec to the London based rental company’s specifications.
This enables Colour Sound to supply a complete visual productions package – lighting and video and staging – for indoor or outdoor arenas of up to around 10,000 capacity.
It was designed with dance festivals in mind, which will frequently feature this size of self-contained venue within a larger event.
Its actual debut was at Lollapalooza Berlin 2016 where it provided Perry’s Stage in Treptower Park, right in the centre of this vibrant and buzzing event.
The stage and roof system can support weight loadings of up to 10 tonnes and comes complete with Litec’s popular EXE-Rise motors. It can either be supplied as a

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USA - Country singer/songwriter Jamie Lee Thurston has travelled a long and winding road since his first performance at age three in the Green Hill Mountains, sitting on the lap of his father, the legendary local band leader Jimmy T Thurston. After a brief stint playing guitar for the family band, the gravelly voiced singer struck out on his own, first to LA and then Nashville.
A couple of hits came next, followed by success as a songwriter, penning tunes like Rodney Atkins' Top 20 single 15 Minutes. Then there was a Warner Bros. contract and endless road tours.
Recently, the Vermont prodigy returned home to perform an emotional concert at Burlington’s Higher Ground music hall. Welcoming him was a warm, immersive lightshow created by Kyle Rose that drew upon the intense colours and gobo capabilities of 34 Rogue series fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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Germany - Dutch company, Think! AV, has updated its stock of audio equipment with the addition of a new Vero sound system. It comes ahead of a hectic summer period for the company, which has enjoyed considerable growth over the last five years.
Vero by Funktion-One is a vertically arrayable sound system which delivers point source sound for live and touring applications, while utilising the deployment advantages of a vertical array.
Think! AV’s owner, Remco van der Werff, said, “We’ve provided sound for some incredible events here in The Netherlands and that increasingly involves a Vero system that we’ve been hiring in up until now. Event organisers love Vero and audiences do too, so it makes complete sense for us to have our own system and push Think! AV on to the next level at the same time.”
Vero is a large format touring sound system. It is a comple

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Germany - At this year’s Prolight + Sound Show in Frankfurt, Martin Audio unveiled an ambitious line up of 10 new products across multiple categories including Line Arrays, Stage Monitors and Amplifiers.
First up was the Wavefront Precision Series, a new generation of multipurpose line arrays designed to bring Martin Audio’s signature sound, coverage consistency and control to a broader range of touring applications, installations and budgets. Comprising the WPC (2 x 10” LF) and WPM (2 x 6.5” LF), Wavefront Precision line arrays are designed as complete systems with the newly announced external iKON multi-channel amplifiers optimised by Martin Audio’s automated DISPLAY software.
Adopting the principle of scalable resolution, with external, dedicated multi-channel amplifiers, Wavefront Precision line arrays are designed to be uniquely flexible, upgradeable and

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Germany - APG, the French manufacturer or high end professional loudspeakers will unveil its full range of subwoofers from the SB Series at Prolight + Sound 2017 this week on a dedicated stand (Hall 3.1, stand F32).
Consisting of four models – the SB110, SB112, SB115-M2 and SB118 – the new SB range provides flexibility for both rental stagers and integrators. All subwoofers were engineered using the same acoustic load based on the variation of band pass design to maximize performance: 300W for the 10” SB110, 600W for the 12” SB112, 1000W for the 15” SB115 and 1400W for the 18” SB118.
Designed for low to very low frequency reinforcement of small to high power sound systems, the new SB range from APG stands out with its compactness and sonic performances in infra bass frequency range. All four models feature excellent accuracy in low frequency reproduction an

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Germany - Solid State Logic has announced another major expansion to its Live console range with the release of the SSL Live L200. In a few short years, SSL Live consoles have met widespread praise from many of the world’s leading live engineers and earnt their place on arena tours, at festivals, and in prestigious installations and Houses Of worship around the world.
At ProLight+Sound 2017, SSL is presenting the L200, a new mid-scale console that makes the outstanding sonic performance, accelerated workflow and advanced feature set of SSL Live available to a much wider audience, says the company.
The L200’s inverted T chassis design is driven by ergonomic considerations. It keeps all essential console controls within easy reach and brings sprung arm mounted external screens/devices closer to the centre of the console. Arms can be mounted on either or both sides of

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China - Audient has announced that the first ASP8024 Heritage Edition console to arrive in China has been installed at Shanghai’s Music King Studio. Sitting at the heart of the upgraded studio complex, the 24-channel British analogue console completes the studio’s upgrade, which has seen a number of prestigious clients pass through its doors.
Associated with Sing! China and The Voice of China, Music King Studio boasts a healthy list of engineers and clients. “Others who use our studio - or are affiliated with our engineers - are Luca Bignardi, Anthony Kilhoffer, Kanye West, Jay Chou, James Li, Vicki Zhao, Jeno Liu, Della, Darren Wang and lots more,” clarifies marketing manager, Mr Lin. One of the champions of the flagship desk with was mix engineer Weiwei Jin, who used Music King Studio for recording and mastering the sound effects for the opening cerem

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UK - To mark the launch of their highly anticipated new album Humanz, Gorillaz performed a secret one-off show at Printworks, London, and Mojo Barriers showed it’s not all about big tours and festivals by supplying its world-class stage barriers to this prestigious event, 24 March 2017.
The world’s most successful virtual band celebrated the release of their new studio album with a very special performance which saw Gorillaz play Humanz live for the first time in a ‘’triumphant comeback gig’’ (NME) supported by Telekom Electronic Beats.
As the Gorillaz live band took to the stage, Mojo Barriers ensured artist and audience safety, highlighting that a big artist launch in a small venue still needs detailed attention. Held at new London venue, Printworks, the show saw Gorillaz joined on stage by a stellar rollcall of talent including Del La Sou

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UAE - Martin Audio has appointed Dubai-based audio-visual integration company, Delta AV Solutions, as its new distributor for the GCC countries. The new arrangement came into effect from 1 April.
Set up three years ago as a division of Delta Sound, who have bases in the UAE, Qatar and Hong Kong, Delta AV Solutions specializes in the sale and distribution of pro audio and control to the local rental and integration markets.
Contracts manager Gareth Armstrong, a veteran of running special projects in the region, says that Martin Audio plugs an important gap in their portfolio of Tier 1 brands. “Nothing compares to products like the BlacklineX and CDD ranges; as Martin Audio is now being specified a lot on BOQ’s [Bill of Quantities] we are optimistic that these will slot in quickly.”
Another factor that impresses him is the manufacturer’s support. “Their b

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Germany - Cadac is debuting the latest addition to its CDC digital console line in Europe, at this year’s Prolight + Sound exhibition. The new CDC seven builds further on the success of the medium format CDC six, offering all of its power and operational simplicity with the enhanced production capabilities of an expanded dual 23.5 inch, 16:9 hi-definition touch screen, 36 fader control surface.
The CDC seven maintains all of the feel and familiarity of the CDC six, with its major ergonomic advance in user operation and resulting minimal learning curve. Scaling up operational flexibility, the CDC seven doubles up on both the large format LCD touch screen, and associated encoders, and the physical fader count; also expanding the number of inputs to 96. The new console retains the CDC six’s 56 busses; with 54 of them now being configurable with the latest V4.0 software upda

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USA - Ted Baker is an upscale clothier headquartered in London with stores throughout the world. It recently opened a new location in the fashionable Soho district of lower Manhattan in New York City. The location is unique because Ted Baker teamed up with Pop International Galleries so that the store would serve double duty: part traditional retail store and part cutting-edge art gallery.
Ted Baker also hired Essential Communications, a New Jersey-based A/V integration firm that specializes in upscale hospitality and restaurants for which sound quality and the sound system’s visual aesthetic must support a sophisticated brand image. Based on Ashly Audio’s unparalleled support and reliability, Essential Communications installed an Ashly nX4004 four-channel amplifier and an Ashly KLR-2000 amplifier.
“Ted Baker stores have a cool, retro feel, and high-quality audio

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Romania - The German State Theater in the Romanian city of Timișoara has a long history, nowadays staging a wide range of German-language productions - from traditional plays through to the most modern productions, festivals and cultural exchanges. The recent completion of a fully-digital audio system features a pair of Yamaha QL series mixing consoles.
German language theatre in Timișoara goes back as far as the mid-1700s. German State Theater Timișoara was founded as a separate theatre company in 1956 and today is based on the German Theater Hall of the city’s Palace of Culture - alongside the city’s Opera House, Romanian National Theater and Hungarian State Theater.
In 2014, Brașov-based dB Technolight was contracted to install a Dante network throughout the German Theater Hall, with a view to progressively replacing the existing analogue audio system with

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India - Nexo has announced the appointment of Yamaha Music India (YMIN) as its official distributor in India.
Established in 2008 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation, Yamaha Music India Professional Audio department provides the Indian market with the full line of Yamaha integrated professional audio products offering complete systems solutions for broadcast, sound reinforcement/installed sound, touring, commercial recording, and post production.
By adding the Nexo line of high-end loudspeakers and amplifiers to its portfolio, Yamaha Music India aims to offer the Indian professional audio market a superior solution-based approach to sound reinforcement, supplemented by a high degree of support, education and training to the professional audio market of India.
According to Harisha GN, business head of the PA department, Yamaha Music India: “Becaus

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Germany - Microphone manufacturer Shure has teamed up with German record producer Marten Berger, whose next project is to tour the countries of Europe in a mobile recording studio, capturing performances by street musicians “from every corner of the continent” for release on CD and as a double vinyl album. Shure has provided microphones and headphones for use in Marten's studio, a converted Volkswagen ice-cream van, when the grand year-long project begins in May 2017.
Marten, who has been studying music recording and composition in the Dutch/German border town of Enschede for the past few years, dates the genesis of his project to an experience he had two years ago, when he encountered a gifted street musician, Christiaan Mauer, in the Dutch city of Groningen, and was inspired to record him. He began thinking about all the musicians living on the streets throughout Europ

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UK - The Board of John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd has announced that effective 1 April 2017, Mrs Linda Drumm will be taking up the role of chairman, bringing a wealth of knowledge of the company and our industry, maintaining what the board feels is absolutely crucial family continuity and ensuring that JHS retains the personal touch which has always been at the heart of its interactions with customers, suppliers and staff.
Linda commented, “I’m looking forward to taking up the chairmanship at JHS enormously. After forty years of involvement with the company in a variety of roles, I’m confident that with the support of an exceptional and talented Board of Directors, dedicated managers and so many loyal and hard-working staff, we have a professional team which can drive the company forward and continue to build on the wonderful ‘family company’ legacy that my parent

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Germany - Frankfurt provides a launchpad for the Schertler Group’s latest products, as Roy and Teddy are added to the company’s regularly expanding portfolio.
Roy is Schertler’s new top-of-the-range combo amplifier for acoustic instruments. The 400W, 7-channel amp provides a powerful yet lightweight system that is perfect for both stage and studio. Roy includes four input channels with various mic / instrument combinations; inserts (as on a professional mixer); three-band EQ and phantom power; an additional unbalanced instrument input channel; a stereo input channel for playback devices and an FX return / additional input channel.
Roy has the same hi-end Class A preamp found in other Schertler amplifiers. Its Master section features both a digital reverb and a new digital Multi-Effect (on a separate bus), as well as DI/Line/Aux Outs and a headphone preamp.

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Denmark - Scandinavian supplier of AV equipment Neets has announced two new additions to the company: Bo Jordansen joins as head of sales and Michael Rumph as the new product manager for the company’s AV offerings.
Together, these new appointments will strengthen the company’s focus on placing customers at the heart of its products and expanding the company’s international footprint.
As product manager, Michael will be responsible for leading cross-functional efforts to develop innovative and customer-centric products. He will support Neets in its continued efforts to make life easier for presenters around the world and stay focused on customer needs. With over 20 years’ experience working within both sales and systems design in the AV industry, Michael is well equipped to take on this new role.
Michael said, “Neets is well-known for delivering high-qua
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