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The awards, now in their 12th year and held this year at MoMos nightclub on Regent Street in early September, honour manufacturers whose equipment passes the rigorous testing of the panel of expert judges, which this year included FreQ Nasty, Mark Wilkinson, DJ Woody, Dom and Roland, and in some cases then put to the vote by the readers of DJmag magazine.

Martin Warr, who proudly accepted the award on behalf of the Mackie team thanked the company's dealers and end-users for helping to put Mackie PA products on the professional map. This is the first of several awards that Mackie and the other brands in the Loud Technologies group have been nominated for this year.

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At the technical and creative core of City of Light 2003 - an accessible, historical take on Liverpool to celebrate it winning the European Capital of Culture bid for 2008 - was a fabulous 40m wide by 20m high water screen which formed the projection surface for the show, featuring video, laser projections and lighting effects.

A three tiered production platform, designed by site manager Stu Stalker, was built on the concrete foundations

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An ultra low-noise transformerless FET input eliminates low-frequency distortion. Owing to its super-wide frequency response and musicality, the B-5 is ideal for recording acoustic instruments, cymbals, drum overheads and voice, say Behringer. Its switchable low-frequency roll-off and -10dB input attenuation make the B-5 highly versatile. While rugged construction, a satin nic

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Blitz project managed all technical aspects of the 45-minute show, using E//T//C UK to create scroll artwork with historical material from the college's archives. Projection onto the towers, turrets and arched windows of the 360-year old buildings was via two 6k PIGI projectors, each fitted with double rotating scrollers. To achieve the correct projection angle the projectors had to be manoeuvred into a room at the top of a narrow stone spiral sta

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Recently general manager of Digidesign, he tripled its revenue while its flagship product, ProTools, became an industry standard audio workstation. "The opportunities at Stanton attract me," Froker remarked. "This is a company with a diverse product offering, innovative engineers and an aggressive attitude towards marketing. I look forward to being a part of the company's future, and see potential for rapid growth."

Froker will also become president of Stanton Magnetics, the company's DJ products brand. &qu

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In 2002 Gilles Laguionie joined SES to develop the audio supply side of the business, having worked for 9 years with SCV Audio and more recently with the CAE Groupe in Paris. SES has moved into the audio rental market over the past year and developed its interest in direct sales and installation whilst also offering its customers a comprehensive after sales service. Currently 80% of SES business is done in Monaco but next year the company ho

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Scott Davies, general manager of American Audio said: "Because earpads take a lot of abuse, they typically wear out while the headphone itself is still in perfectly good condition. Now thanks to our new HP-500 Headphones, DJs and remixers no longer have to choose between living with uncomfortable, worn-out earpads or shelling out the cash for a new set of phones. They can simply replace the earpads whenever needed - at a much lower cost than buying new headphones."

The HP-500 Headphones come with one extra set of earpads as part of the package and include a headphone bag for storage and transport. Features include a flexible housing design that provides for either double or single ear monitoring and also allows the headphones to be folded

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Gray developed three onstage scenic bars with fully working optics and drink mixing facilities. He utilized existing set elements from the ADlite warehouse, and created others with the help of Scenex from the Midlands, who made the bar fronts and mirrors. Them

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In the UK, the company will draw on the combined experience of Andrew Bruce and Duncan Bell of Autograph and Nigel Olliff, co-founder of BSS Audio. The US company will be led by Lew Mead, former owner of ProMix, a New York-based rental company whose association with Bruce and Autograph spans 15 years.

The company has secured the exclusive distribution rights in the US for the DiGiCo D5T, the theatre version of the D5 Live, and will be working closely with DiGiCo to promote the D5T in the UK and the rest of the world. Autograph A2D has been working on the development of

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"We're very pleased to make this announcement," said Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group of Companies. "Alfred, Joey and Danny bring a great deal of talent and experience to their positions. Working with the rest of our team, they'll help ensure that American Audio's excellent products are backed up by great service, marketing and customer support."

As it has done since it was founded more than six years ago, American Audio will continue to sell its products only through authorized dealers, and never direct t

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The famous Live Stage in the Oxford Street Virgin Megastore has played host to some of the biggest acts around over the years. In the new exclusive partnership, this will now form a key feature of the Sound Control London experience, with some huge bands planned for gigs each week. If the clarity of sound is anything like that produced for Dido's showcase appearance at the store on 29 September, then they have a treat in store.

Sound Control has a long relationship with Nexo's UK distributor

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"We have over the last eight years, steadily built the Matrix brand to be a major player in the amplifier field but production has always been a challenge. Andrew feels he has solved the problems with his latest factory and wants to optimize the profit in what is a very competitive market," said Kinton at the launch of his new sound company - Meteor Electronics.

Meteor Electronics is a specialist sound distribution company and is working closely with several manufacturers on new and developing products. A lightweight, class D amplifier range including speaker modules will be available

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Sensing that some huge bands were lined up to play weekly gigs he immediately proposed installing Sound Control's flagship store with a flagship-mixing console. "I looked closely at the type of desks other bands had been bringing in - so

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Dyer's company has enjoyed a long association with Style in the City - and in addition to Babushka, has included other Style brands, such as Bed and Nylon in its work portfolio. The company adopted a Nexo/Crown model as their preferred sound system when they were building the Bed Bar in Smithfield nearly two years ago, they have raised the stakes at Babushka, Manchester - having been asked to upspec the Nexo/Crown system.

"It was obvious they were serious about their sound," remembers Dyer, "and with a growing emphas

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SmaartLive is an industry-standard for dual-channel FFT-based audio measurement software for real-time sound system measurement, optimization, and control. The software combines powerful audio frequency measurement, analysis and data logging capability with a highly intuitive, user-friendly interface and the ability to remotely control an extensive list of leading equalizers and DSP processors.

The latest release, Version 5.3, now in

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Peak 4's graphic user interface has been streamlined, also, designed to appeal to Macintosh enthusiasts it has a new brushed metal look,. Now a Mac OS X-only application, Peak 4 users can take full advantage of the services within the OS. For users still on OS 9, BIAS includes an optional Peak 3.5 OS 9 installer on the CD. Christine Berkley, VP marketing for BIAS said: "We've received a huge response to Peak 4 since its unveiling, users are excited by the new look and addition

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Saturday evening went well with 60 diners exclusively occupying the 'Red Duster Restaurant' in Cowes High Street, where the generosity of all participating raised over £400 in the raffle and around another £2,000 will go to the profoundly deaf pre-school children at the Elizabeth Foundation School in Portsmouth, bringing the total donated to over £50,000.

This hugely worthwhile industry fund raising weekend has for the past 12 years succeeded in providing a great opportunity for novice, experienced and highly efficient sailors alike who together race in Solent waters in modern

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Featuring many of the production team from the Mastercard BRIT awards, the MOBOs was directed for television by Julia Knowles and produced by Sharon Ali. MJK, for the eighth year since the event's début, were in charge of the live production and a team that included Britannia Row (audience sound), 021 (broadcast sound), VLPS (lighting), XL Video (video), Outback (rigging), Steel Monkey (set) and Eat Your Hearts Out (catering).

The show featured MJK's trademark five-minute changeovers between live performances, a substantial lighti

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The London PA specialists have purchased 26 W8LCs - principally for use as main PA in smaller venues, and for auxiliary side hangs and delays in the big arenas, where the larger Martin Audio W8L Line Array will typically perform principal PA duties. At the same time Capital took the opportunity to bolster its W8L stock, adding another four of the original Line Array enclosures. This will allow them to rig 14 boxes per side on the upcoming Stereophonics' British tour, where they will also be running eight of the new W8LS subs each side (using the new Compact Line Array Compact as side hangs). To drive the new W8LC system, Capital commissioned a new dedicated amplifier r

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The new software includes many powerful features such as automated time-based recording, audio threshold record triggering, VU meters for recording and playback, enhanced spectrum analysis tools, directX plug-in effects automation, white, pink, and brown noise generators, media explorer previewing, project file creation and support for 24fps native DV video files.

Sound Forge software is one of the industry-standards for audio editing, recording, effects processing and media encoding on the PC platform. It is used worldwide f

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It was made clear that they didn't want a conventional house of worship system of 100V line column speakers and radio links. Hosting frequent band sessions and focusing on contemporary evangelical music for in-church entertainment, they wanted a more live music/rock and roll style sound, with 'stage' monitors and infills to ensure those sitting at the sides would also get a good sound. This off-beat nuance of the project appealed to CP's Colin Pattenden, "It's great working with people who are prepared to be experimental to achieve the best result" he comments.

The aesthetic requirement was for speaker

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Morrissey called SCV London's marketing director, Steve McDonald, and asked him for a Fostex VF-160 Digital Multitracker for free. Steve was more than happy to give the Men Behaving Badly star the equipment to assist the charity, which works with deprived children. The Fostex VF-160 will be used to teach youngsters the elements of sound recording.

Morrissey also put in a call to LiteS

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The compact design means that this unit can be set up anywhere: garden fêtes, election meetings, schools, seminars, parties or any venue tha

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Audio Tech managing director Richie Seeger commented: "With Midas and KT we now have the best two brands in the world in their field. That's great news for us and we are looking forward to doing some good business with them. If their recent distributor conference in Lake Como is anything to go by, we've got some exciting times ahead."

Sales and marketing director for Midas and Klark Teknik, David Cooper said of the appointment: "