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Russia - Moscow-based systems integrator and distribution specialists, MS Max, have recently been named EAW distributor for Russia. MS Max is one of the largest distributors and installers of professional audio and AV equipment in Russia, and also has offices in Beverly Hills, CA.

MS Max's managing director Katherine Shesternina is looking forward to the collaboration. "EAW is a prestigious international loudspeaker brand that both complements and adds value to our existing portfolio. It has just the sort of high-end, high-tech profile we were looking for, yet at the same time, offers a huge variety of products that will be of great interest to our installation wing. EAW is an excellent fit for us."

EAW's European sales manager, Sean Martin, agrees. "Furthermore, the timing was perfect for both if us," he explained. "MS Max were looking for a major pro

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UK - Sound professionals in Turkey can now purchase HM Electronics, Inc. (HME) wireless intercom systems directly from Nefan Ticaret Vesanayi, Ltd.

"We are excited to have a distributor with the industry stature of Nefan working with HME," said John Kowalski, sales manager of HME's Pro Audio Division. "In addition to delivering outstanding customer service, Nefan is a proven market leader. They have a solid understanding of our products and we're confident that they will brilliantly succeed in bringing HME solutions to the Turkish market."

Nefan will distribute the DX Series of Digital Wireless Intercom Systems and the award-winning PRO850 Wireless Intercom System to users throughout Turkey from its locations in Istanbul and Ankara.

HME's Digital DX Series Wireless Intercoms operate within the 2.4 GHz range, offers clear, hands-free communications, and is

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The 30 finalists in the lighting design awards 2007 have been announced. Top design practices such a BDP Lighting, Arup Associate, Pinniger & Partners, DPA and Lighting Design International all vie for top awards alongside some innovative newcomers. Projects shortlisted include the lighting of a 56-metre luxury yacht, a tennis museum, three churches and two bridges.

A scheme at the Emirates Stadium by Kate Wilkins and Virgin's luxury Upper Class Lounge at Heathrow by Isometrix Lighting + Design both make the cut in the Leisure category while hotly tipped Saint Paul's cathedral causes no surprises in the Heritage section.

In the entertainment category Robbie Williams having made the grade for the second year running is battling with Pink and Glyndebournes's production of Cosi Fan Tutte for top honours. While over in the innovations section, major manufacturers include Hoffmeister, Tho

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UK - Digital media hardware and software specialists Radical Lighting are celebrating their tenth birthday with the launch of a completely new-look website. They've also sold six of their latest NG1 digital media servers to UK lighting rental company HSL, and kicked off 2007 with the sale of an NG1 system to control a videowall in the reception of Virgin Radio's HQ.

Long time customer HSL has recently purchased six brand new state-of -the-art computer systems complete with NG Pro and PixelDrive fully installed. These systems have been specially customised by Radical Lighting and include the next generation of AMD processors and SLI graphics. HSL's project Manager Mike Oates says: "It's now essential for any rental company to be able to offer media servers to their clients. Digital lighting is being increasingly specified on all types of jobs and that needs easily programmab

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Dubai - Install Middle East, the AV installation and integration technology sector of the PALME Middle East show, has received a major boost with the confirmation of several major new exhibitors.

Show organisers IIR Entertainment & Installation Technology Group says that the addition of companies such as Bose, Crestron and Opus Technologies to the exhibition roster will have implications not only for residential/lifestyle enhancement, but also in the commercial world.

These are joined by Visionaire, which supplies advanced audio visual and communication solutions to major commercial projects, and architectural lighting giants, Lumasense.

Said Lumasense's Mike Kanaan, "PALME Middle East has matured into an important show. We look forward to using it as a showcase to expose our premium lighting products to both the architectural and entertainment sectors, and to becoming

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Italy - Outline Professional Audio has opened its training academy in Brescia. The company says that the growing popularity of its Butterfly line array has meant that opening the academy and giving a formal qualification for students that pass the informative and rigourous modules is now part of the sale.

Sales director Giorgio Biffi comments, "Following sales to a number of high profile clients, we realised that it was a good idea to open a training facility here in Italy as we have all the engineers available to convey and answer any technical questions that our customers may ask, we can also show them our manufacturing process from start to finish."

The course which lasts for two days contains theory and practical modules and culminates in a formal qualification allowing the engineer to use Outline's propriety software (VIP) and gain an accreditation known as VIPA

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USA - Wybron, Inc. reports that it has been granted US Patent No. 7,163,317 which covers Wybron's core technology relating to its dichroic CMY colour-changing system that allows for colour fades across a wide spectrum, inside profile and wash style fixtures. This technology is integral to Wybron's family of Nexera fixtures.

"For more than 25 years, Wybron has continually invested in innovating and developing advanced lighting systems," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "We listen to our customers and base our unique designs on their demands. Because of positive customer feedback, we are integrating this patented technology into new products like our fibre-optic illuminator. We intend to launch this new product in the coming weeks."

The Nexera utilises a set of cyan, magenta, and yellow dichroic filters, which are introduced into the beam of light, controll

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Germany - The Bangaluu club in Berlin, housed in the former city centre post office, has been transformed into a sprawling complex that houses a lounge, a dance floor on stage, and a VIP dinner club where the guests literally recline while they dine on a sea of white beds.

The company responsible for the technical design of Bangaluu's sound and light systems was Atlantis Sound of Berlin. Managers Andreas Seeringer and Benjamin Preuß had already had very positive experiences with HK Audio products on earlier projects, and so for their new project they again contacted the sound specialists from southwest Germany.

HK Audio Installation Line speakers were selected for all areas of Bangaluu. The bed-filled restaurant, an area of 220 square metres, was equipped with four IL 12.1 loudspeaker cabinets, four IL 12.2 cabinets, and two IL 218 subwoofers, all in white, driven by a DSM 20

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World - Alternative rock band Tool has added two grandMA full-size, one for lighting control and one for video control, to its manifest for its forthcoming US, European and Australian dates. "Video is a very dominant factor with Tool," notes designer/director Mark Jacobson who has been working with the band since 1996. "All the video is pre-taped; there's no live camera. We don't use spots, just the fixtures we have on the rig to give a more mysterious look.

"I've used the grandMA almost exclusively since 2002," he continues. "It gives me the flexibility to move things around the way I like it to work. I'm not forced to run the show the way whoever designed the board wants me to; instead, the grandMA is very open to the user. I also love its wireless remote."

The lighting complement controlled by the grandMA includes 24x Martin Mac 2000 profi

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USA - Young lighting designers can showcase their talents and win an all-expense-paid trip to the Worship Facilities Expo (WFX) show in Atlanta as part of the Elation Education Experience.

The contest will ask students and young lighting designers to come up with lighting specs and a design layout for an imaginary multipurpose youth ministry building with a stage performance area. Entrants will be provided with CompuLive Pro software, along with a stage, trussing and room layout scene -- and, just like in the "real world," they'll have to work within a budget and power service limitations.

Anyone interested in entering the contest should e-mail a request for an application to the Elation Education Experience website, e3@elationlighting.com . They should also include a line or two about themselves, covering educational and job experience. Once an application is accept

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UK - Thousands gathered in London's Trafalgar Square for the third Russian Winter Festival, where Star Events Group took on the challenge of installing its groundbreaking Morbit stage. Performers included The Suvorovsky Ensemble of the Military and Music Academy of the Ministry of Defence (originally set up as a second Moscow school for the Red Army), folk groups including Cossack Soul, the Chuvash State Ensemble of Song and Dance, Pelageya and Russian Song, plus contemporary artists including Ranetki and Tokio and Russian pop legend Garik Sukachiov.

Star Events Group supplied its 13m Morbit stage for the event, plus a 5m front of house structure positioned on top of the Square's terrace. The stage, dressed with large banners supplied by Imaginators, was put into position by a standard tractor unit and built using its pair of integral cranes. These were then used to fly the PA.<

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Taiwan/USA - JTS Professional of Taiwan has appointed speaker manufacturer FBT Elettronica, of Recanati, Italy and its US. division, FBT Inc. as its exclusive distributor of its Wireless Systems and Wired Microphones for the US FBT Italy will also be the exclusive JTS distributor in Italy.

The extensive JTS product line encompasses wired microphones for performance and studio applications as well as wired gooseneck, choir, lavalier, boundary mics for system integrators with installed sound applications and a broad selection of UHF wireless microphone systems and In Ear monitoring systems.

"We at FBT USA are very excited to introduce the JTS product line in the US. JTS products have become very popular throughout Europe, Australia, and Asia offering superb quality performance and reliability equalling offerings from many major microphone brands," states Tom Concorde,

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UK - Stage Electrics is continuing its successful training programme with many courses already confirmed for the first half of 2007, including the new Advanced Rigging and Flying Course.

A total of 19 dates have been scheduled between February and June. Places are now available on courses such as PAT Testing, Working at Heights, Fire Safety, Electricity at Work and the ever popular Pyrotechnics Safety Awareness.

New topics introduced this year include Introduction to Rigging and Introduction to Lighting which are both designed for those new to the industry. Master classes and advanced courses are another addition to the programme. A Moving Lights Master Class is being held in Manchester on April 12 and London on the May 10; Advanced Rigging and Flying Training takes place in London on March 29.

Training manager Sara Alarabi said, "Our courses are held throughout the UK,

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USA - Dolby Laboratories' live sound applications engineer Miguel Hadelich recently completed set up of four wirelessly-controlled Dolby Lake processors installed to manage the L-Acoustics PA speaker and Clair Brothers audio monitor systems at Yahoo! Music's Nissan-sponsored Live Sets venue in Los Angeles.

Ian Dittbrenner, audio director, senior original content producer and production systems analyst, Yahoo! Music, designed the Digidesign Venue-based performance sound and audio recording systems with the aid of Delta H Design, headed by Hanson Hsu , who also acoustically designed the performance space set.

The Live Sets soundstage, located at the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, made its debut in late 2006 with a performance by Christina Aguilera and has since hosted artists such as Tony Bennett, Incubus, Beck and John Legend. The live music performances, interspersed wit

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USA - Lighting Designer Carlos Colina turned to a Martin lighting rig that included BigLite 4.5 and SuperBig 7K fixtures for Univision Network's Nuestra Navidad presented by Target. Aired on December 8, 2006 on Univision, America's leading Spanish-language network, and produced by Emilio Estefan and Univision, the show featured an array of the most popular holiday classics and current chart toppers performed by an all-star line-up of Latin performers including Mexican superstar recording artists Pepe Aguilar and Joan Sebastian.

"The concept behind the lighting design was to help expand the set beyond its borders," comments Carlos Colina. "The audience and starfield was the only set, so I created a symmetrical look with two circular trusses with ten spokes coming out extending towards the starfield. I finished it off with 20" box trussing connecting between th

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USA - The Oriental Mission Church located in Los Angeles, California, has upgraded its sound system with the Adamson SpekTrix Line.

The design consists of two left & right main arrays of four SpekTrix 5 degrees boxes, with a single 15 degree SpekTrix Wave box at the bottom of each hang. A centre cluster of two Adamson SpekTrix and two SpekTrix Waves fills the centre of the seating area and the extreme front rows in front of the stage.

The Speakers are powered with QSC PLX 1104 and PLX 2502 amplifiers and processed with XTA Dp448 processors. The system design was executed by Rutherford Design, a consulting firm based in Northridge, California; using Adamson's Shooter Software. The Mission Church's house sound Engineer is Mr. Duho Kang.

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Spain - ARX Systems, the Australian based manufacturer of professional audio equipment has confirmed the appointment of Equip's So Illum S.L as its new Distributor for Spain.

ARX's managing director Colin Park said, " We're very pleased to have Vicente Ros and his team at Equip's So Illum S.L as our new distributor in Spain which Spain is a challenging market for most manufacturers. Equip's So Illum S.L has been active in the Spanish market for many years and are well respected in the live sound and Installation sectors. which is where ARX's products and research and development efforts are focused."

Alongside ARX, Equip's So Illum S.L also represents RD Audio in the Spanish market.

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UK - Lakeside Arts Centre in Nottingham has become one of the first venues in Europe to take delivery of ETC's newest lighting control console, Congo jr, via dealer Stage Electrics. Lakeside is the University of Nottingham's public arts centre and presents an eclectic programme of music, dance,theatre, visual art and family events.

"It became clear that our old desk was not up to the demands we were making of it," explains technical manager Gareth Chell. "We test drove a few consoles and decided that the Congo jr was by far the best of all of them. It's made a real difference to the quality of lighting at the theatre, and we're really proud that we got one of the first desks in Europe.

"We chose the Congo jr as it has all the features and more that we were looking for and has the flexibility to meet with the demanding needs of a very diverse building. We al

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Sweden - Dalhalla, a natural amphitheatre by picturesque Lake Siljan, hosts an annual summer programme of opera, classical, jazz, and rock concerts. The open-air design makes it impractical to maintain permanent audio and lighting installations. As a result, Dalhalla requires an AV installation each May. That task is the responsibility of Park Brothers (Bröderna Park AB), a full-service production company with headquarters in Insjön. Managing director Bengt Park notes that the annual installation consists entirely of sound and lights. "We don't use much video," he says. "Because the environment is so bright, video is not often used." What is often used is the venue's system of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers.

Diana Krall's FOH engineer, Dave Lawler, was impressed with what he found at the facility when the jazz pianist and vocalist played at Dalhalla

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Hong Kong - The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), one of the largest horse racing organisations in the world, has recently undergone an overhaul of the audio system in its plush executive suites. The extensive new system comprises seven Allen & Heath iDR-8 digital processing mixers, an iDR-switch, iDR-Out, and from the accompanying range of PL remote control units, six PL-10 rotary fader panels, four PL-9 connection hubs, and forty PL-4 wall plates.

Designed and installed by Eastern Acoustic Development (EAD), the new system has been installed to manage three executive floors at the Happy Valley racecourse, which house the offices of the chairman, vice-chairman, and board members, as well as various meeting rooms. Each floor has two iDR-8 digital mixers with PL-10 LED display rotary fader panels to manage the audio distribution to different zones. The system is accompanied by Lab.gr

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USA - Elation Professional has announced the schedule for its 2007 Elation Training and Products Roadshow.

A series of travelling seminars designed to educate dealers on the use and application of Elation lighting products, this year's Roadshow will stop in major U.S. markets from coast to coast and will even travel north and south of the border to Canada and Mexico City. Presented by factory-trained specialists, the one- or two-day seminars are offered free-of-charge to Elation dealers.

"The market for professional stage, club and architectural lighting products is booming, while at the same time these products are becoming increasingly more technically sophisticated," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. "There are great opportunities for retailers to grow their lighting business, but to do so they must possess the knowledge required t

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UK - CP Sound has completed the installation of two JBL sound systems with Adastra 100V line amplification at Beirut Express venues in West London - Old Brompton Road in South Kensington and at the prime location of Kensington Church Street.

Beirut Express, part of the Maroush Group, is one of the liveliest and fastest growing new restaurant chains in London. Old Brompton Road is the second complete Beirut Express venue to be kitted out from scratch by CP Sound, following on from the success of the busy Kensington Church Street outlet.

The client wants to create an animated, lively atmosphere in the restaurants - so good sound is an essential ingredient. Some venues also feature live music, belly dancing and other entertainment.

The Brompton Road location is a long narrow design with stunning marble walls and stainless steel finishes - so a real acoustic challenge for CP Sou

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USA - Picture the band in a box, interior-decorated with 12 High End Systems DL.2 projections all around. That's the set design for The Tragically Hip, touring North America to promote their new CD World Container.

LD Brent Clark, says: "The DL.2 looks pretty cool and I was really surprised by the brightness and the edge blending. They are way brighter than I thought and creating the Collage (using Collage Generator software feature) on 12 of them a day is actually pretty easy. Also to be able to move the image around from the band to the house to the rear screens is so cool. DL.2 is an amazing light!"

Concerning the overall set design, Clark says: "The idea was to make a box (relating to the CD title World Container) and then project images from around the world. We contracted a company from Vancouver called The Collective to film all the content,

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USA - A pair of grandMA consoles is controlling lighting and video for the national tour of High School Musical: The Concert which is now touring major US cities. Loosely based on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel Original Movie, High School Musical, the show includes songs from the teenage-targeted feature and showcases solo material from the powerhouse young performers.

"High School Musical onstage is more like a rock concert than a Broadway show," notes lighting programmer Patrick Dierson. "There's a lot of choreography, set piece moves, pyro, CO2 jets and big video projection screens."

With so much happening, Dierson hails the grandMA's multi-user programming capability, saying: "It's great. Touring lighting director Calvin 'Mac' Mossier can run the show and call spots as he would normally, and I can take notes from Patrick

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