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Beat Audio's Mark Kelly conducted several site visits, designed a system and liaised with Funktion One. At the Guild's request he also helped arrange lighting for the venue, so he introduced Neil Marsh of Hayden Cruickshank's Colour Sound Experiment to advise, design and supply this element of the project.

The main gig is geared towards DJ performance with some live acts. Kelly started at the bass of the matter, with two Funktion One 218 bass bins per side, added to which are two

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The permanent installed system is powered by ninety-three E-PAC amplifiers, which are all remotely controlled by the d&b Remote network using ROPE C. For special requirements there is also a mobile Q-Series system available to meet the specific requirements of various stage performances that can be used in either a stacked or flown arrangement.

Boris Rehders from d&b's central applicatio

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The Harbour Bay has been extensively refurbished by owners George and Jane McAlpine, who operate two other outlets - the Ramore wine bar and Coast Italiano - which share the stunning location. Now the Harbour Bar also presents live music and AV programming in its lounge-bar environment. Owner George McAlpine had a clear idea of what he wanted from his investment in new sound and vision equipment, says installer Darren Gardiner, owner of Light & Sound FX.

"George wanted to create a sophisticated, but cool atmosphere, with a lot of emphasis on the look and style of all the fittings in the venue. He particularly did not want standard ugly boxes random

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The RAI has become one of the busiest exhibition, conference centres and venues in the world since it opened in 1961. The decision to purchase a large-frame Midas console for its new showcase auditorium was taken following the earlier purchase of a Verona V400 as well as several Venice consoles.

"The RAI decided to go with the Midas brand because of its market acceptance, reliability and sonic performance," says Midas Consoles Holland's Axel Nagtegaal.

Previously used as the country's largest conference facility, the Auditorium now doubles up in the evening to become a theatrical venue. It has already hosted

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Reason wanted a central light feature in the bar to continue an ongoing theme of using light to interact 'live' with the people within specific Hard Rock spaces. This had been started at previous Hard Rock projects and has taken many different formats. However for the new-look London venue she wanted something completely different.

Reason became aware of PID, and the VersaTILE product, and contacted

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The new multichannel monitoring system uses a mix of large and small active 3-way monitors from the SCM Series. Left and right speakers are SCM 150ASL Pro monitors, using 15" super-linear bass drivers to give extended bass, headroom and dynamic range. The centre channel is an ATC SCM100ASL with soft dome mid-range driver and 12" bass driver. ATC SCM50s are used for the rear channel speakers.

The 72-

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Oslo Lysdesign's Gier Ove Langlo was asked to design and specify a new scheme for the conference spaces by hotel group Choice Hotels, of which the Christiana is a new flagship venue.The main conference space is a large area with sliding room dividers that break it down into three smaller spaces as required.Langlo illuminated the paths of these dividing walls from below with Lumos in-ground Spots. Around the sides of the whole room, he chose to light from the top down, using 58 of i-Vision's Lumos 3 fittings as down-lighters. In the foyer outside, he installed 26 Lumos 1200 mm LED strip fixtures into the roof soffit

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.Harlequin's roll out dance floors were laid in the main hall of the school, where the parquet floor was covered with Harlequin Studio. Harlequin Cascade, which is the same flooring that The Royal Ballet dances on at The Royal Opera House, was used to cover the wooden floor in the Auditorium and also for the large marquee erected in the school grounds.

Artistic director of The Wells Summer School Francesca Filpi, worked closely with British Harlequin. She said, "The wooden floors on their own are too hard and slippery for dancers and potentially dangerous, too. I am glad our students are able to enjoy the same quality of dance floors that we have

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In Ireland, Redhouse's Vinnie Higgins has taken delivery of a 24-channel GB4, while over in Kilkenny Ray Brophy has added the same to his sound rig and engineer/producer Paul Gurney has installed a 16-input desk in his Longford sound studios.

On the other side of the world, Jeff Shoesmith at Jands in Australia reports that the GB4 is finding its home in a number of different locations, while inThailand, distributor, Mahajak, reports that a 24-channel GB4 has gone into Driftt Pub in Bangkok, and a similarly-configured desk has been sold to Ban Line Mai Restaurant in Phuket.

In Calgary, Canada, contractors Allstar Show Industries have been responsible for sales of GB4's and GB8's into tour sound companies, as well as equipping a live music venue in Calgary and the campus bar

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Coupled with Camco amplification, Nexo PS8's and PS10's - all supplied through Fuzion plc - have become David Wise's frontline solution for the high-end corporate market in venues like the British, Natural History, Science and Victoria & Albert Museums as well as Kensington and Hampton Court Palace.

"The control systems are pre-rigged off site because we generally only get 60 minutes set up time," says Wise, who started his company in 1992.

Most of the company's work is speech reinforcement, for which the PS series is ideal he says. "We tend to run these at low volume, and where there's a bit of punch needed we reinforce this with the LS500 subs. These are also great when we are

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The Azure 2000 console was chosen when the club opened by house lighting designer and technician Brian Kell. He chose it because it's "absolutely my favourite lighting console. It's perfect for club work, giving extremely quick access to lots of playbacks. It's also great for improvising and working 'live' - which is essential for any club environment." Kell knew at the time of the initial installation that the club would upgrade the lighting at some point in the near f

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Barratts' owners, the MacManus Group briefed Fabtronic designers to come up with a sound system that would fit in and around the multiple plasma TV screens that form the core identity of the sports bar. The objective was to have six discrete audio zones, allowing different sports to be shown in different areas of the bar.

Using Electro-Voice's EViD compact loudspeakers, Fabtronic has provided a system that is capable of far more than just background music replay. Powered and processed by Electro-Voice, with 8x 12.1 subwoofers in support, the EViDs are powerful enough to handle live bands, DJs and karaoke entertain

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Due to the design brief for the Assembly Hall of discrete, low profile loudspeakers, and the ability to easily reconfigure the room for different settings, Autograph's project manager Lee Dennison specified the i-2 three-way compact fullrange loudspeaker as the main loudspeaker component of the Assembly Hall. He explains, "These are a true 90° x 20° box which can be rigged horizontally or vertically and have a rotatable horn coupled with 2 x 5" drivers. The box is passive and it just keeps going." The first six enclosures to come off the production line from E

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Sound Division was called in to specify, design and install AV systems for Roehampton's new building which has been constructed around the existing indoor pool and houses a brand new, state-of-the-art gymnasium and aerobics studio, as well as the pool. Sound Division alsoprovided systems to cover the outdoor pool plus grass areas and te

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Vieta's DO Line is the favourite choice, and from this series, it is the DO-5 which is proving the most popular. A two-way passive bass-reflex speaker, it has been designed for sound processing in small spaces which require high quality sound.

At Rouras, a high-end café-bar, effective coverage is gained from just two Vieta DO-5 16 ohm loudspeakers; Kit Kat, which operates as a restaurant during the day and as a bar at night, features eight DO-5s; Chasis, an old pub in the Bribiescas that has recently been refurbished, incorporates four DO-5s and four DO-8s to cover separate dancing and seated areas.

Zacarius is built on the former site of the famous La Boite Club. Owner Carlos

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For the Church restaurant in Northampton town centre is, as the name suggests, a church conversion. on the conference and private function market. Mostly the largest in the range, the 6.2 two-way high-output cabinets with 12.1 subwoofers, have been installed. Additionally, the Church has the smaller 4.2 units for a secondary bar area. With music playback from CD, the system can be tailored to audience or time or day with a zoner/mixer desk, and it is entirely powered and processed by Electro-Voice products.

The Old White Hart Inn is a minimalist non-smoking bar/restaurant with a contemporary theme. Originally an old brewery just outside Northampton, the venue has be

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Absolute has incorporated a wide range of products to achieve maximum impact, including 46 x 3W stair light 'injectors' placed in the venue's entrance and on the stairs to the second floor. Two sets of Alkalite Riva 80 recessed 8-head LED colour-change systems have been placed in the ceiling at various points, and two sets of the Octopod 30 8-head systems have been used to create strips of light along the length of the recessed ceiling.

Absolute has also used &qu

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The main point for the choice of the Bosch system, says the company, was the fact that Praesideo easily met the tough EVAC requirements for Terminal 1 and is "far more cost-effective than would be possible with an analogue system". Additionally, the system has been independently certified to the IEC 60849 safety standard.

Terminal 1, which handles the bulk of the international traffic of Paris' largest airport, presents special challenges for a PA installation. Managing the flights of around 60 airl

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The sound system is powered and controlled by Outline's Series T PWM amps and DSP Genius 6. The line array was installed by Kong Gan Electronic of Seoul, Outline's South Korean distributor, which has long experience in installing sound systems in houses of worship.

(Jim Evans)

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Additionally, Color Kinetics' systems illuminate Sands Macao and Grandview Hotel in Macau, Garden Hotel in Guangzhou, the China Resource Centre building in Shenzhen, Tianjin (Yi Do Cam) Business Centre in Tianjin, Lilly's Restaurants and Nightclubs in Shanghai, and Chongqing Times Square in Chongqing, among others.

"Color Kinetics' success in mainland China reflects the strength of our technology, depth and quality of our product portfolio, and the timely execution of our on-go

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The subs, wall-mounted in this case, are part of a complete system for the centre. Erik Tapper of Luthman, RCF's distributor in Sweden, said: "It is not often that we see subs wall-mounted like this, but I have to admit that they sound great when working with the rest of the system."

(Lee Baldock)

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"We badly needed to move with the times by finding a system sympathetic to the different requirements of the various art forms hosted at the Hall. Each event needs to have specific information relayed," explains Scorgie.

Needing to route messages over an increasing number of zones (which also incorporates the neighbouring Purcell Room), Scorgie wanted the new paging front end to be able to plug into the venue's existing infrastructure. He was also aware that the system needed to comply with Health & Safety audits, Lambeth Council inspections and LFB licensing requirements.

RNSS' operations manager, Andrew Cotton recommended the Australian Monitor DigiPage system (distributed in the UK by Fuzion plc), the

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Panache is locally-based installer CMP's largest audio project to date. CMP's Trevor Brooks collaborated with Harman Pro UK in designing a system that achieved its objectives through a process of zoning control, and careful placement and focusing of speaker coverage.

Separate speaker systems were configured for stage and dance floor, but with a control and amplification system common to both, while varying levels of background music were provided for distinct bar and seating areas.

For the dance floor there are four JBL AM4215/95 enclosures, plus two ASB6128 subs built into the b

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Audio Analyst's Robert Langlois says his main requirement for the system was that it be "flexible enough for the spoken word, yet have the impact required to handle the demands of a strong praise and worship team." He adds that the client also needed "a system that he could turn on and forget it is even there. The nature of Meyer's self-powered systems is such that an engineer, sound mixer, or volunteer doesn't have to have a working knowledge of power amplifiers and crossovers to run it. You just tu