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"For our new distribution arrangement in China we were looking for a company that was solidly established on the mainland, with young, motivated sales, marketing and technical staff, plus an organisation with the financial resources to bring A&H to prominence in the growing Hong Kong and Macau region," comments Allen & Heath's Asia regional sales manager, Bardy Hayes. "In Sanecore, these criteria were not just met but exceeded, and we are very proud to be in partnership with the Chang brothers, Michael and Bernard, and t

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"The input end of the show is relatively simple - a DVD player providing four channels of audio along with timecode," says Scott Chester of CBC. "The steep and deep shape of the venue and noise restrictions outside means a balance of complete, controlled vertical and horizontal coverage and intelligibility is essential - something the zoo felt the programme was lacking last year. The XLD is proving the ideal solution."

Arrays of seven XLD are flown each side, each over two ground-stacked X-subs for low-end support. EV CP4000S amplifiers han

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Leading the team of professionals in Singapore will be Juan Luis Garcia who has been responsible for sales in Asia and the Middle East over the last six years. His association with D.A.S. spans more than a decade and his experience includes the successful set-up of the D.A.S. Audio of America sales and distribution centre in Miami, Florida.

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Gunness Focusing involves the application of sophisticated, custom DSP algorithms designed specifically to correct loudspeaker response anomalies. The result is the elimination of the time smear, horn "honk" and low-frequency cone resonances that plague conventional reinforcement system designs.

In addition, the UX8800 is intimately linked to both EAW Smaart and EAW FChart acoustic measurement and analysis platforms.

In the UX8800's loudspeaker processor mode, the user can establish up to four individual loudspeaker specific processing units, each

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Designed and installed by Electracoustic, the system features the TCS Compact series, with a pair of TCS-121Cs as main stage loudspeakers, plus four TCS-081Cs as delayed pairs down the length of the room.

"The TCS Compact series offers high audio quality at a very good price, but the colour option was also crucial as it was important that they were visually unobtrusive," says Electracoustic's Jon Trotter. "I also wanted a product I could use with and without bass cabinets, depending on the type of event.">P>Driven by MC2 series amplifiers and controlled by a Biamp Nexia digital audio controller, the system is req

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"We've always been a reactive and proactive company that understands the market place we're in," says Gordon. "However, when you have external investors, there is a need to explain the ins and outs of decision making processes and that can slow things down.

"The management buyout removes that requirement and means we can focus more of our time on doing what we do best, making us an even more agile and focussed company."

Along with a number of plans yet to be revealed, DiGiCo will be putting a share incentive scheme in place for its employees. "It's nice that as a modern company we're able to

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Chris Jenkins, BIC's entertainment and events manager and chair of the Bournemouth and Poole Music Industry Forum says, "Sun, Sea and Sound is all about encouraging people interested in pursuing careers in the most creative industry on the planet. There is no time like the present for our local industry to come together and hopefully inspire the future of the music business. This is great event for Bournemouth and Poole."

The Bournemouth and Poole Music Industry Forum was set up to provide a catalyst for projects like this and to provide a mouthpiece for the music industry in the are

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The Badminton is now a 2,500-capacity theatre, but a clue to the venue's original function is in the name: it was created from a badminton arena built for the 2004 Olympic Games. After the games, the building was used to stage a four-month run of Cats, proving it could function as a successful theatre. It has been rented by the Athens-based A.B.C.D company for a 20-year term, and a major six-month renovation project took place which included digging down 7.5m to create an amphitheatre-style auditorium.

A.B.C.D. opted for the Midas XL8 when it came to choosing a mixing system. "We wanted to create a high quality theatre experience for our audiences by providin

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Wiedenbeck's 30-plus years in professional audio started at Harman Deutschland in the mid-seventies, and have included high-level positions at Studiosound + Music GmbH, Plus Audio, Lawo and Klein + Hummel. Wiedenbeck spent the last four years as an independent audio consultant with a particular focus on studio monitoring, stage control systems, and digital mixing consoles.

"Chris has experience in sales, marketing, customer support, engineering, and communications, all of which have built him a great reputation and earned him a lot of respect within the industry," says Meyer Sound Germany managing director Jim Sides. "We could not have found s

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Velvet Revolver's sound system consisted of a JBL VerTec 4889 system, designed for the theatre & arena venues, with 10 elements a side for the main hangs and four for the side-drops. This was run in conjunction with JBL VT 4880 subs.

Adlib supplied one of its Dolby Lake control racks at FOH, and Camco Vortex 6 amplification for the main system with Crown T-Tech 8000s for the subs. The FOH console was a Digidesign Venue and on monitors it was a Yamaha PM5D, both supplied by the band and run by their own engineers.

For monitors, Adlib supplied their MP3 low profile wedges plus three stacks of Nexo Alpha for side-fills. A pair of Yamaha M7CL desks were used for the support band, and the crew were Kenny Perrin and Hassane Es

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This year's show is all about change, the new layout brings Penton back to the ground floor with a remodelled stand, an updated catalogue, improved existing products and a debut into the pro-sound market, says the company.

Penton will launch of its new Pro-Sound Ceiling Loudspeaker range. This line has been two years in the making. It comprises 16 ohm, low impedance units for applications that require high audio quality, and 100v line units for use with commercial audio applications looking for the very best in audio reproduction such as background music, theatres, schools and hotels.

These ceiling speakers are packaged in a sealed, ported enclosure complete with a removable grill with no visible fixings and fitted with a rotary tapping selector locat

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Products available will include the range of Yamaha AV receivers, digital sound projectors, CD and DVD players which will be available with, or without rack mounting kits.

The move comes as Yamaha confirms that it is experiencing significant growth in sales to the installation market, an area the company has been concentrating on since the successful launch of its IS speaker range and the recent introduction of new CobraNet and EtherSound enabled DME distributed DSP and I/O solutions.

Supporting this growth, Commercial Audio (UK) has also appointment a dedicated installation specialist and increased their field support capability with new hires.

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The entire Yamaha DME product family including DME64N, DME24N and DME Satellites can now be controlled from any PC using custom user interfaces designed in Stardraw's application, Stardraw Control.

This software allows users to design and programme fully customised control applications without having to write any code. It supports control of any hardware over any protocol and now includes drivers for Yamaha's DME range of programmable, networkable DSP audio processors including the recently released DME Satellite CobraNet and DME Satellite EtherSound models, allowing control from easily designed custom interfaces for theatres, concerts halls, corporate and conferencing, houses of worship or any application requiring high quality audio processing and dis

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The software provides some "extremely useful" improvements and several solutions to popular requests from Liquid Mix users, including enhanced interaction between software and hardware, as well as expanded latency options, says the company.

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"The day-long programme included military bands, USAF flyovers and kids' entertainment leading up to the big firework display, all fed to remote jumbo video screens reinforced with EV equipment," says Moore.

"We used ZX5 speakers to cover the Grand Terrace, Xi-1122 to cover the VIP area, and Xi-2123 to cover the parking lots - even the visitors barbecuing way out there could see and hear everything clearly. And of course we were also running EV CP series amps and Dx34 and Dx38 processing. The systems were time delay

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"Jazz World is generally regarded as the musicians' stage," according to APR Audio's crew chief Matt Gunter. "This is where the real musical talent plays, and I suppose we do go the extra mile for them. But this stage is respected by the performers, engineers and audience because of the consistency of the sound. Jazz World uses the same PA every year, and we bring good experienced crew. We saw the noise police only once - we ran at 96dB all weekend, and had no problems at

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The six schools and colleges that make up the AHC include the disciplines of medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and veterinary medicine. The Mayo Memorial Auditorium is used primarily as a lecture hall, but also serves many other functions.

Architects Smith Group, based out of Minneapolis, with principal architect Ted Davis and project architect Nick Woodard, were awarded the task of renovation, while technology consultants Elert & Associates of Stillwater, MN were engaged to analyse the auditorium and design a system capable of delivering seamless, first class speech quality.

In effect, the

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A crucial part of guitarist Pete Townshend's stage set-up is a Crest XR-20 rack-mount mixer which has performed every show with him since the beginning of the tour.

Dick Hayes of Entec Sound and Light, long-time suppliers of audio equipment to The Who, explained that Townshend uses the XR-20 to do his own band mix onstage. "It receives sub mixes from the main FoH and monitor consoles and then Pete takes it from there. I'm pleased to say that, contrary to our initial expectations it does an extrao

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Aside from the Gaiety, Shea also has the complex's Royal Hall, Villa Marina and 250-seat Promenade Suite under his charge, and last month he again consulted the Shepperton-based company to advise on a compact and flexible sound reinforcement upgrade solution for the Promenade Suite.

The Promenade Suite is a low-ceilinged venue which is used equally for conferences and staging emerging unsigned acts - so fast derigging was essential to the brief.

Marquee Audio's sales director, Andy Huffer, recommended an RCF 4PRO powered solution, and in addition to

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"Besides the expectations on sound one would have for a tour of this calibre, the Turn It On Again tour scenography has a strong emphasis on video and pyrotechnics," says Colin. "Moreover, the stage was primarily designed for stadia and large format arenas with a total width of 90m. Therefore, the sound design is challenging as it requires high throw capability and must be as visually unobtrusive as possible with an unusual spacing of 46m between the L/R V-DO

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"Harman sent us a C5 and a D5 just recently when they were launched here in the UK," comments Davies' live sound engineer Tristan Mallett. "We asked Ray to try them and he's been using the C5 on stage ever since. I also use AKG C535s for backing vocals and a C416 miniature mic on the accordion. The new C5 and D5 have been great, giving us a quality sound in the monitors and front-of-house even at very high sound pressure levels."

Davies' monitor engineer Chris Wibblerley adds, "The C5 is one of the best vocal mics I have ever used, with the feedback rejection of an SM58 and the clarity

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One of the Vi6 desks is used as the mixer for the on-stage monitoring, the other as the main front-of-house desk. The installation completes RAG Support's refit of Koko's new sound system, which was designed by Harman Pro UK's engineers and which RAG Support has been putting together at the venue over the last few months.

Tim Hamper, FOH engineer at Koko, comments, "It's great to finally have our two Vi6 desks permanently installed here. Harman Pro UK have been closely involved with the design of the refit at Koko from the outset, and so we were offered a Vi6 when it was still in development. We've had a test desk in as the FOH console here for months and it's been easy to learn

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Staged by Seensee Musical Company at the Seoul Arts Centre Opera House, Dancing Shadows is an adaptation of the play Forest Fire, written by the celebrated Chilean Ariel Dorfmann. Music and lyrics are by Eric Woolfson of the 1970s rock band, Alan Parsons Project, with direction by Paul Garrington, lighting design by Simon Corder and sound design by Richard Brooker.

With plans to bring the show into both the US and Europe over the next couple of years, this initial production was designed to match up to international standards in all respects. Richard Brooker assembled a talented local sound tea

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La Parrilla is owned by Daniel Tercero, who commissioned Swansea-based interior design practice Thomas Parry to create the interiors, who in turn asked PAI to come up with the relevant technical infrastructure. The PAI team has worked with Thomas Parry on many previous projects, and on this one they collaborated closely with main designer, Matt Bailey.

High production values were at the core of the technical installation, for which a C-Burn computer music system wa