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14 March 2016

"For the Spice Girls tour we needed great sounding vocal mics with rock-solid radio performance," explains Ray Furze, the tour's FOH engineer. "The 935 capsule proved to be an excellent choice. We had no radio drop outs on the whole tour and I found they were highly resistant to feedback, even with all five mics 20 metres in front of the PA."

Monitor technician Matt Napier adds: "After Ray Furze and I reviewed all the radio systems that were available for the Spice Girls tour, it quickly became obvious t

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14 March 2016

Almost 3500 songs were entered for the 2008 Swedish national final, 32 of these made the four semi-finals and 10 artists performed in the final. Performing Hero, Charlotte Perrelli was the artist who received the highest number of points from the regional juries and televoters, and she now goes forward to represent Sweden in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade later this year.

The five-part Melodifestivalen culminated in a grand final at Stockholm's famous Globe venue in mid-March. All the concerts were sell-out shows, and the process up to and including the final selection was broadcast

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The Centre is equipped with a pair of Zeus DSP intercom matrices by RTS. This system features the same programmability as the top-of-the-line ADAM frame, but in a package that is better suited for smaller installations such as theatres and other performance venues. The Zeus provides 24 channels of audio in a compact 2RU package. Each channel is capable of supporting any of the RTS Digital Matrix Intercom line of keypanels, or four-wire inputs and outputs.

For wired communication, the Centre chose the dual-channel BP-325 beltp

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14 March 2016

With confidentiality and acoustic comfort becoming increasingly important in modern corporate and enterprise workspaces, Apple Sound's latest developments include the Quell range of active and passive sound masking technologies which provide truly scaleable sound masking solutions to any environment.

The move will be completed by 28 March 2008, but with immediate effect all correspondence may be directed to the new address which is: Apple Sound

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14 March 2016

After evaluating different systems during demonstrations in the Portuguese Algarve, close to their base, Sons da Vicentina have made their first investment in Martin Audio line array technology to service the massive Anjos tour.

After Tecnimusica MD, Jorge de Oliveira and Martin Audio's international sales manager, Martin Kelly set up the audition, the production company's proprietor, Flávio Figueiras took the decision to purchase 16 x W8LC enclosures and two W8LCD Down-fills - giving him two nine-drop hangs - and 12 x WS218X subs. He decided to keep amplification and processing in the Martin Audio domain, ordering a selection of MA12K, MA9.6K and MA2.8s amplifiers to power the system along with a pair of DX2 sys

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14 March 2016

From now until 17 July, proposals for sound logos can be uploaded directly onto the website below. Each entrant can upload a maximum of five tracks in MP3 format (stereo, 128, 192or 256kb/s, max 10MB). There is no optimum length for a sound logo, but audio tracks definitely shouldn't be any longer than eight seconds.

In August, 30 finalists will be chosen from all the submissions. At the end of the month, these thirty tracks will be placed before the public in an on

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14 March 2016

"The sound was loud, but pretty much unintelligible," explains Mike Shetler of Atlanta-based VisionQuest Design and Production. "People in the stands couldn't really make out what was being said, but the school was getting plenty of complaints from the neighbours."

In fact, says Shetler, it ended up becoming a safety issue. "The night of their first home football game of 2007, they needed to evacuate the stadium due to a lightning storm, but the sound was so bad the crowd couldn't understand the announcement."

Shetler designed a

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14 March 2016

The Ti Line system is designed for low to medium power use in fixed installations. It comprises small, modular blocks, built to DIN rail size and fixing standards, which are a valuable space-saver. The system is inexpensive and flexible, it can be controlled via a PC network, by infra-red remote or by simple wall-mounted control boxes.

The arrival of the Ti-2510 creates a complete Ti-Line system with integrated source device, although the SD Player can be used as a stand-alone unit in any audio application. Like other models in the Series, it is compact, occu

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The existing discussion units in combination with touch-screen panels also offer other easy-to-use functionalities, such as a synoptic overview of on-line microphones, file sharing and delegate-to-delegate messaging. In addition, live video of each speaker can be sent directly to each touch-screen, allowing delegates to follow who is speaking.

With Microsoft Internet Explorer and a

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The WG101 and the STH100 horns are both produced in die cast aluminium alloy. The smaller model, the WG101, has been designed for line array applications, as it allows for assembly in a reduced space and a certain directional adaptability. Completed with an anthracite black protective finish, they can be used on all 1" FaitalPRO drivers; increasing high frequency diffusion efficiency and ensuring accurate direction control, says the company.

With a diameter of only 85mm and a weight of 1,1kg, the new HF10TX compression driver has a sensitivity of 108dB, a maximum power capacity of 120W and continuous 60W on 8Ohm.

The new compact compression driver for the high frequency HF100 model, displays a dome shaped PEN plastic membrane, 2

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14 March 2016

The five-piece band is currently in the midst of an 80-city European tour in support of their latest release, Domino Effect, playing to packed halls and arenas through a Meyer Sound system courtesy of Hanover, Germany-based Rocksound Management.

The sound system comprises left and right arrays of 12 M'elodie line array loudspeakers each, with powerful bass provided by two 600-HP subwoofers per side. On stage, four MJF-212A stage monitors handle the band's monitoring.

Lothar Strunk of Rocksound comments: "The M'elodie's output is truly exceptional for such a small cabinet. It's powerful, but also delivers great intelligibility. And the small size makes it very easy to handle as well."

(Jim

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Proaktiv will be responsible for the management of sales, distribution, service of Powersoft product range through their regional offices and Partners located in Singapore (Headquarters), Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

"We carry brands that complement each other, however, we had a missing link, power amps . . . But choosing the right brand was not a difficult decision at all," said Chandan Mahtani, managing director of Proaktiv Sys. "Powersoft was the only company we approached and it was an obvious choice. We are very happy that Powersoft appointed us as their distributor for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. I like the energ

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John Lacina of PA Plus, who mixed the music portion of the show, reports, "The XL8 sounds, feels, and behaves like an analogue Midas, but with huge digital processing power. I noticed a marked improvement right from the start in the sound quality over other digital products I have used. The XL8 lived up to the hype, so to speak, in that it does not sound digital at all. In this sense the stellar onboard EQ and Dynamics can be used to fine tune, rather than outright fix, the sound, sometimes encountere

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14 March 2016

In the UK, Wigwam Acoustics ordered nine Mix Racks, which will be divided between hire stock and resale. The company's hire director, Chris Hill, says, "With all the DSP and I/O in one rack, this is a product that we expect to do really well. A lot of customers will be first time users, while hire companies will note other economies, such as the ease of transport, since they can use existing multicores."

Following its initial purchase, Wigwam ordered another six Mix Racks to boost the hire stock, and anticipate firm orders for

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14 March 2016

The new ZED-24 stereo mixer provides 23 independent sources to the mix, 10 independent outputs, four aux sends (two pre and two post fade), a USB send and return (for PC or Mac recording, playback and effects), a dual stereo input capability, and advanced monitoring facilities.

16 mono channel strips are complemented by four stereo channels, each with a main stereo input on jack sockets, and with the ability to take additional stereo inputs from phono sockets or from the USB audio input, enabling the engineer to control and route any source. ZED-24 features a responsive three-band swept-mid EQ, with an optimised slope for equalising individual instruments. The ZED-24 also features the new DuoPre pre-amps, which us

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The ME2 provides two independent audio paths, each with dedicated mic pre-amp and four-band fully parametric EQ. Each audio path is fitted with fully balanced inserts, switchable pre- or post-EQ, in addition to balanced auto-compensating analogue outputs. An AES-3 output is also provided, enabling direct connection to digital audio workstations, digital mixing consoles or direct digital recording devices. Multiple ME2 units ca

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14 March 2016

EASERA SysTune, first revealed at AES 2007 in New York, is a new software based measurement system that measures time-domain and frequency-domain simultaneously using live programme material while an audience is present.

The launch was followed by the announcement by developers Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG) of five live sound measurement and tuning seminars for sound engineers and other audio professionals in April and May 2008, in the USA and Europe, using EASERA SysTune as the primary measurement tool.

"EASERA SysTune is purpose-designed for real-time live-sound applications. It is a sophisticated yet simple to use software tool with novel, patent-pending features that are especially useful for system tuning and live sound measuremen

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Adlib's new V-Dosc system was utilised for the PA, with front hangs of 12 V-Dosc per side, complete with 4 dV-Doscs per side for down-fills and side- hangs of 12 dV-Doscs elements. For front- fills, they used eight ARCs cabinets. The subs totalled 16 of the new high-powered L-Acoustics SB28s and 8 SB218s - all ground-stacked.

The front hangs and subs were driven by LA8 amps, with the side- hangs and fills powered by the Lab.gruppen standard, complete with Adlib's speaker cabling and infrastructure to make it work.

At front-of-house they provided two Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles which wer

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EVI Audio's Italian partner TEXIM were called in as early as the project planning stage. Arcadia and TEXIM had already worked together on the CineCity multiplex in Padua. In addition to tried-and-tested cinema systems of the TS series (TS 9040D-LX and TS 550D-LX), a total of 28 EV TL 880D subwoofers are employed in the new multiplex. Nine EV TS 9040D-LX speakers handle the reproduction of the L-C-R information in the three smaller auditoriums and 21 further EV TS 550D-LX provide the sound in the seven larger halls. The surround channels in all ten auditoriums are delivered by a total of 154 EV SL12-2V surround speakers.

The massive amplification needs of all th

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14 March 2016

Enter Audio Telex in conjunction with Marshall Day, who developed a comprehensive state-of-the-art design using EASE acoustic simulation software and based around Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers.

This is the first major Renkus-Heinz stadium sound system in Australasia and stadium marketing manager Chris Kemp comments, "We don't want to tell people we have a new sound system, we just want them to hear th

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14 March 2016

In accepting the MIPA. award, Carl Bader, Aviom's president and CEO, noted that the company has come a long way in the seven years since the A-16 Personal Mixer was first sketched out on a design board. "It's very gratifying to be honoured for achievement in such a broad category, almost seven years to the day since we first started working on the mixer," said Bader. "Users around the world are recognising the importance of the technological breakthroughs made with A-Net and are seeing the ways Aviom's technology simplifies their design process while improving the flexibility and fidelity o

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14 March 2016

"On behalf of everyone here at QSC, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Harold," COO Pham said upon introducing Yin to the workforce at QSC's Southern California headquarters. "As we broaden the scope of our presence around the world, his knowledge base and experience will lend steady guidance to the introduction of new technologies developed to meet the expanding needs of our customer base."

Prior to taking on his new role at QSC, Yin was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company. While with the f

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The show was hosted at Yash Raj Studios in the heart of Mumbai. Sound.Com's Warren D'Souza reports: "The FP 10000Qs are rock-solid and sound fantastic. The other huge advantage they have for this sort of application is that being four-channel amplifiers, you always have spare channels to take care of extra audio feeds. With space backstage being at a premium, our amp racks were literally half the size of conventional sound systems, but still with all the power we needed, as well as fantastic Lab.gruppen sound quality and reliability. There's no doubt that these amplifiers are worth every penny of our investment."

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Kai Boeckmann, general manager of operations at Trius, admits: "Technically speaking, we've always considered Adamson the biggest and most dangerous competitor for L-Acoustics, so we have had an eye on Adamson literally since the moment we took on L'Acoustics about seven years ago. When asked about the decision to take Adamson on for the German and Austrian markets, Boeckmann says: "A truly excellent re