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UK/USA - Solid State Logic, manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, has announced several promotions in its U.S. based sales and service departments. The promotions have been made to strengthen the existing sales and service teams.

George Horton has been promoted to sales manager for the U.S. Western region, Mexico and South America. Horton moves over to sales after 16 years as an SSL service engineer and manager. His SSL career began at the company's UK headquarters; he then traveled the world as service engineer with brief stops in Singapore. Horton took over as SSL Los Angeles service manager in 1998. He will continue to work from the Los Angeles office, reporting to Phil Wagner, president, SSL Inc.

"We are extremely pleased to have George involved in

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New Zealand - Founders Theatre is home to a broad array of performances and gatherings for the roughly 160,000 residents of Hamilton and its neighbours in the surrounding Waikato region of New Zealand. Recently, the theatre's management decided it was time to upgrade the 20-year old sound system to a contemporary design that would, as technical officer Kelvin Ballard describes, "deliver consistent level and quality to every seat in the house, with both a high level of musicality and uncompromised clarity of vocal reproduction." The theatre settled on a configuration of three arrays built around 34 Meyer Sound self-powered curvilinear array loudspeakers provided by Hamilton's Audio Video Solutions under the direction of Hanspeter Frick, in consultation with Harley Richardson of Meyer Sound Australia.

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UK - Fifty years after the release of their first recording, Don and Phil Everly are still packing in the crowds. On their current UK tour every show, from the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham to London's Royal Albert Hall, is sold out. Front of House engineer Dave Wooster is keenly aware that when people are paying £80 a ticket, it's very important to make sure the sound is absolutely right. "And the toys in my racks help me do that," he says.

Sound equipment for the tour, supplied by Capital Sound, includes a substantial compliment of XTA equipment, with the new DP428 audio management system playing a major role. "This is the first time I've used the DP428 in front of everything as the system driver," says Wooster. "We've got eight DP226s behind it, but the DP428 is driving the entire rig. We're using it to EQ the Martin Audio W8Ls on the main

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UK - Lynnsport and Leisure Park, situated in seventy-two acres of parkland near King's Lynn in Norfolk, is one of the largest sports and leisure facilities in the country. At the heart of the centre is the Bodyworks Fitness Suite offering a full range of cardio-vascular machines, resistance equipment and free weights. The Sound Division Group recently won the contract to supply and install a sophisticated Tryka LED colour change lighting system with Pulsar control, a 24-station eight-channel Audeon wireless cardio entertainment system and numerous plasma and LED screens, plus an Abstract VRX Gladiator lighting system in the spinning studio.

The brief was to provide a thoroughly modern yet sympathetic environment for exercisers using the latest technology. However, it had to be a system that would be easy for untrained personnel to use and operate. To that end, Sound Division ins

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Israel - Haoman 17 (Ha Oman meaning 'the artist' in Hebrew) is Tel Aviv's newest mega-club. The original Haoman in Jersusalem is universally acknowledged and consistently voted as the best club in Israel, yet the new Tel Aviv venue is billed as even bigger and more sophisticated than its famous forebear. Set in the trendy Florentine district of Tel Aviv, Haoman boasts a huge sunken dancefloor with elevated platforms, a live stage, five different bars and a secondary dancefloor separated by a peek-a-boo glass wall. At the heart of it all is a mighty EAW KF850 sound system installed by EAW distributor and systems integrator, Pro Touch Ltd.

According to Pro Touch's Shmulik Mazuz, the client evaluated no less than four audio systems from high profile manufacturers before selecting the EAW solution. "The customer already owns the most successful club in Israel, and he knows what

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UK - Bloc Party has recently completed a successful UK tour and are currently on a 15 night European tour rigged out with a full selection of Evolution wired microphones. Featuring heavily in the mic line-up is the award-winning 900 Series which has won Sennheiser its fourth prestigious TEC Award in as many years.

Introduced in 2004, Sennheiser's 900 Series features a range of powerful transparent mics ideally suited for stage use with excellent transient response and feedback rejection. Bloc Party FOH engineer Pete Bartlett has chosen the e935 for Kele's lead vocals and explains, "The e935 has given me far greater definition on Kele's voice, crisp and clean, but it also copes easily with his wide range, and dynamic variations". An e935 and e945 are used by Matt and Gordon respectively on backing vocals.

The bass is miked up with the legendary all-rounder MD421, and

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With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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Europe - Following the successful pairing of an Electro-Voice X-Line array with Simply Red on their last tour in 2003, Britannia Row has supplied the same system for the Simplified tour of Europe. Once again mixed by front-of-house engineer Gary Bradshaw, the system uses left and right arrays of X-Line cabinets, each comprising eight Xvls high-output cabinets and four Xvlt 5° trapezoidals for the lower section of the array. A centre array uses eight Xvls plus three Xvlt cabinets, while Xi1152 full-range boxes are flown two-deep at the side of the stage, with two more on the ground; six Xsubs complete the picture.

X-Line is powered by 16 racks of amplifiers, each containing four P3000RL Precision Series units, all under the IRIS software management system. Electro-Voice says Britannia Row has been instrumental in the development of this powerful software tool, providing invaluab

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UK - Doughty Engineering's popular Supaclamp has been retooled and improved, enabling the price to be lowered, say the company. New production technology means that the Supaclamp is manufactured to a higher quality and features several additional benefits, including a 'plug-in' nylon insert to allow it to be easily converted between clamping to either round or flat sections. This insert clips into its own 'storage' position just behind the lower jaw when not in use. The new clamp fits to any surface from 5mm to 50mm and meets all appropriate safety standards. Two finishes are available, polished aluminium and black powder coated. All screws are now manufactured from stainless steel to guard against rust and corrosion, say Doughty.

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UK - Artistic Licence is moving to a new purpose-built manufacturing facility. The new premises provide over five times the existing floor area, offering room for the next phase of expansion. The move follows many years of steady growth, the company says.

The new facility incorporates a permanent showroom, demonstration area and training rooms, while a new advanced manufacturing area allows the company to accept larger and more complex project commissions whilst also streamlining its standard product manufacturing process, they say. The addition of an integrated stores and despatch area will provide an even faster response time to customer orders.

The new premises are minutes from the company's previous office and within easy reach of the M1, M25 and rail and tube connections from nearby Harrow & Wealdstone Station. The move occurs between Friday 9 December and Friday 16 Decem

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Sweden / UK - Following the appointment as exclusive European distributor for Colorado Springs-based Wybron Inc, PRG Europe is pleased to announce Spectra Stage & Event Technologies AB in Stockholm as the new Wybron dealer in Sweden, effective 10 December 2005.

Philip Norfolk, regional sales manager for PRG Europe, chose Spectra due to their strong sales organisation and high-profile productions, including the prestigious Eurovision Song Contest. "We are overwhelmingly excited about having Spectra as the new Wybron dealer in Sweden. This relationship will benefit everyone involved and gives us a strong force in such a vibrant market."

Keny Whitright, president and founder of Wybron, is equally pleased with the agreement. He commented, "PRG has a strong knowledge of dealers in Europe. I know in Spectra they have aligned Wybron with a company well-suited to promot

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Ireland - Galway-based Alex Fernie PA & Audio Equipment Hire has consolidated its relationship with Fuzion by adding four Radian MicroWedge low-profile monitors to a hire fleet which already includes a substantial inventory of Nexo and Camco products (also distributed in the UK and Ireland by Fuzion).

Alex Fernie, who originally trained as a sound engineer in Germany, today supplies equipment to all sectors of the entertainment/corporate market. Earlier this year he acquired an eight-box Nexo PS10 system (plus subs) for servicing Druid Theatre's world premier and Irish tour of the Synge Cycle, and for general conference duties in the Radisson Hotel. He has now boosted his inventory with the addition of the Radian RMW-1108 8" mini MicroWedges.

The sound man was first exposed to the MicroWedge on system designer Dave Rat's Ratsound website, before gaining first hand

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UK - Mixer manufacturer Soundcraft, one of the famous brands in the Harman Pro stable, has been busy over the past couple of years re-investing in its production and administration facilities at its headquarters in Potters Bar, which it shares with stablemates BSS and Studer - and, of course, Harman Pro UK.

Company president Andy Trott was last interviewed by L&SI in summer 2003. Trott had been brought into the company earlier in the year and had been busy streamlining processes and recruiting new team members to drive the Soundcraft brand forward - notably with the appointment of a new digital engineer to work on the new generation of consoles. Two years later, the Potters Bar base has been revitalized, and a major new product unveiling is just around the corner, although details are stringently guarded.

"We've had massive changes since then," explains Trott. "

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UK - It takes courage to start an audio rental company and then service two relentlessly demanding tours - with brand new equipment - for your first job. But that's what Rory Madden has done with his new company, Sonalyst, which is providing audio for the theatre tours spawned by hit TV comedy shows The League of Gentlemen and Little Britain.

Madden's main objectives in investing in equipment were for everything to be brand new and absolutely state-of-the-art, and his choices included the XTA DP428 working in conjunction with Audiocore 8 software for loudspeaker control. "Rory knew the high standard of audio performance he wanted to achieve, plus the required wireless capability to make it easy to get this performance," says XTA's Guy Lewis (the only Guy in the village!). "With 500 or so DP428s already in use around the world, we could point to a lot of successful

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USA - Masque Sound has ordered a substantial quantity of power amplifiers from German manufacturer Camco, in readiness for a new Las Vegas opening of Hairspray at the start of 2006. Ashly Audio, Camco's distributor in the USA, is supplying a total of 39x Vortex 6 high power amps which will be used with an L'Acoustics dV-Dosc system in a design by Steve Kennedy. Hairspray, a $12 million production, will open at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas in February 2006, starring Tony Award winner Harvey Feirstein.

Speaking on behalf of Masque Sound, Walter Yurgel commended the sound quality of the Camco amplifiers: "We own nearly 200 of the Vortex amps now, and use them a lot. We find them to be very warm, and they match up really well with the dV-Dosc loudspeakers. In fact, Camco has become one of the staple amplifiers of our concert touring division, used by artists such

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UK - Adlib Lighting, sister company to Liverpool-based Adlib Audio, has recently been restructured, and has invested substantially in new Martin Professional, James Thomas and High End Systems technology to service a busy autumn of live work. This has included servicing dance guru Mylo's first full production tour, with Adlib supplying both lighting and sound.

Mylo's lighting designer Ian Tomlinson first worked with the band on a string of summer festivals, which then continued into the autumn with their own UK and Irish headline tour. He collaborated closely with video designer Dave Ross from Phantom to develop the stage visuals, taking the concept of moody back lighting, silhouetting and shadowing as a starting point. "The band prefer being lit from behind," he explains. "It's a challenge to start with, but once you get your head around the philosophy, there's h

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Italy - Leading Italian television lighting designer Alessandro Porcaru is using over 250 moving lights from Robe Show Lighting to light the current series of Italy's top-rated L'Isola del Famosi (Island of the Famous) reality TV show.

The studio elements of the show are recorded at Studio 2000 in Milan, directed by Egino Romio. The show is broadcast live on RAI 2 every Wednesday, pulling an incredible average of 42% of the viewing figures.At times, the rating has hit 55%, and it's arguably the most popular entertainment show in Italy.

The lights are being supplied by Romanengo-based Mixer Sound & Light, one of North Italy's top rental companies, who are also supplying additional studio sound to the show. Porcaru first used Robe fixtures on the original series of "L'Isola", and has increased his fixture count steadily for each one since. He has also specified Robe fo

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UK - Lee Evans' XL tour is the hottest show on the circuit, and it's certainly the biggest. Since launching in the early autumn the hilarious, perpetually sweating Evans has played in practically every big arena in the country, and his management, Off the Kerb Productions, has added numerous extra dates along the way.

On Saturday 19 November the show's triumph was further established when Evans played to world record audiences for a single stand-up comedian of 10,108 at the Manchester Evening News Arena (MEN). Stand-up comedy is inherently intimate, which is at odds with the arena environment, so consolidating the performer/audience relationship in these huge spaces threw up its own unique set of challenges for Evans' technical design team. As production manager Mark Harris points out: "Lee's comedy style relies wholly on his audience's ability to see his every facial expre

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UK - PLASA and the PLASA Show are the joint sponsors of a new Entertainment Lighting Award, designed to give lighting designers across the industry recognition for their creative work. The new Award is the most recent category to be added to the 2006 Lighting Design Awards, organized by Lighting magazine and the Institution of Lighting Engineers, and supported by the Lighting Industry Federation.

The UK has long been acknowledged as a creative hub, leading the world in the design of entertainment and events. The new award will be one of the few that actively champions the work of designers in this field, creating much needed wider recognition for the art and practice of lighting design.

For the last few months, PLASA has been working with the Lighting Design Awards team to develop the new category to ensure it reflects the innovation to be seen across the country. The judging

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UK - Attracting WOMEX world music expo to Newcastle/Gateshead was an important achievement for The Sage Gateshead. The event is the largest and most prestigious international conference and trade fair to visit the venue to date, and with that came some pretty huge challenges for the incumbent technical department.

Over 40 world music acts performed in three spaces over four days. Opening act in Hall One, The Sage Gateshead's variable acoustic main house, was Robert Plant and his band Strange Sensation.

For the venue's head of sound, Dan Adams, the event has been particularly exigent. He temporarily gave up his usual role and became production manager, handing the audio reigns over to Paul Astbury who can ordinarily be found at the South Bank Centre, where he is himself head of sound. With these changes in mind, you might be forgiven for thinking that to then road-test the late

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USA - The recent ETS-LDI exhibition in Orlando featured its annual Awards ceremony. This year's winners included Richard Pilbrow - Lighting Designer of the Year; Michael Clark - Projection Designer of the Year; Buford Jones - Sound Designer of the Year; and Brad Schiller - Technician of the Year.

In the product awards, Strand Lighting's C21 Dimmer range won Lighting Product of the Year. C21 and EC21 dimmer racks are designed for global operation and provide a number of advances in technology, say Strand. In addition to providing support for conventional SCR dimmers including Quad, Dual and single modules with ratings up to 12kW, sophisticated Sinewave dimmers are also available. Dual Sinewave modules can be mixed and matched with standard dimmers in the same rack for full flexibility.

Altman Lighting collected the Lighting/ Architecture Product of the Year Award for its Smart

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UK - For six weeks every year, Walsall Council stages its famous Illuminations in the town's Arboretum. This year the Council decided to up the ante and used one of their two Christie S+16K 3-chip DLP Roadsters to create a series of animations. The Council purchased the projectors on the recommendation of freelance projectionist and AV consultant, Bruno Edwards.

The theme this year was Animal Magic, which required video sequences of the animals - created by Birmingham video artist Jonathan Lee - to be projected 50-60m high over a 30m distance, across a small lake and onto the trees. This was one of a number of spectaculars staged during the year by the Council, which led it to believe that projector ownership now represented a more cost-effective option than rental.

Bruno Edwards comments: "Aside from the performance, the main advantage of the Roadster was that, thanks to

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