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USA - EAW has introduced the MicroSub stage subwoofer, the latest offering in the company's MicroWedge Series of stage monitor products. The single-15" enclosure is a versatile stage and small venue subwoofer, designed to address the environment of onstage low frequency demands - sonic territory that often goes ignored by stage monitor setups.

The MicroSub can be configured and interlocked in a wide range of different combinations - by itself, with other MicroSubs or with other MicroWedge units. Small pads and recesses are located on its sides, top and bottom. The loudspeaker is mounted at a 45-degree angle and the cabinet height is exactly half of the cabinet width when the MicroSub is laid flat (features which facilitate a variety of arrangement options).

Due to its small profile, it can serve as a side-fill monitor, particularly in a club setting: the 13" height a

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UK - West London based audio specialist Encore has designed and installed a new d&b J-Series sound system into the newly revamped Fridge in Brixton. This is the result of the venue's original creators Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington forging an innovative new partnership with the Alchemea College of Audio Engineering. Alchemea, has developed a four-month Live Sound Diploma Course, with the aim of giving students real practical experience. All 'live' training and study will take place at The Fridge.

Encore's John Tinline explains that sound engineer AIan Hopkinson has been working with Neil Pickles, a director of Alchemea for some time in an advisory role as their head of live sound. He was given the challenging task of specifying a system that would both attract promoters and bands back to the newly kitted out Fridge, and simultaneously be suitable for realising the Alcheme

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Ireland - In March 2009, the holder at the time of the WBA Super Bantamweight Boxing title, Ricardo Cordoba of Panama, was facing the challenge of Dublin's own Bernard Dunne. The venue, Dublin's new O2 Arena, formerly the Point and as it happens a worthy challenge too for Dublin based audio hire company Acoustik.

"The first World Championship boxing match to be held in Dublin for 13 years," said Paul Ashe-Browne of Acoustik. "The show design stipulation was that no loudspeakers be in TV camera shot." Thankfully, within earshot was permitted.

"My system was primarily for speech reinforcement; let me tell you, 9,000 Dubliners in full cry is quite some level to overcome. Based around three hangs of d&b audiotechnik's Q1s and Q-SUBs, with numerous Q7s and Q10s providing in-fill around the ring, I was determined not to run out of headroom."

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UK - SSE Audio Group has announced two new developments which add further scope to the company's operations. The first is the purchase of the corporate events hire stock of North London audio specialists Green-i Ltd, as part of the formation of SSE Events as a new Group division. The move also sees Green-i director Andrew Frengley join SSE on 1 July.

SSE Events will be based at SSE's base in Hayes, where the Group's Contract Rental and Audio Installations business, SSE London is based. Canegreen, the North London audio rental company that joined SSE last year is also currently moving its operations from Tottenham to Hayes.

SSE Audio Group managing director John Penn says: "This purchase represents a great opportunity for SSE to secure its position in the London Events marketplace by taking over a resource already geared to that market. At the same time equipment is only a

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USA - The deadline for nominations for the second annual ESTA Rock Our World Awards is 1 July 1. The awards recognise groundbreaking achievement by ESTA members in new products, product applications, or projects, and were created to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of technology and the designer or integrator who applies the technology in a real world environment.

Contestants for the 2008 awards showcased a wide variety of new products and product applications from the simplest problem solver to complex uses of technology that extended the boundaries of the entertainment technology field. Project nominations showcased everything from theatrical productions to special events to permanent installations and highlighted the collaborative nature of our industry.

Nominations may be made by anyone in the industry, but an ESTA Member must be involved as the designer,

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France - Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers is a surprising place. The venue is unprepossessing from the outside, yet once inside, the visitor is exposed to 5000sq.m of modern and contemporary theatre and exhibition space. Billed as a "conceptual laboratory" Le Confort Moderne has been engaged since 1985 in the creation, production and diffusion of original works of contemporary art, music and trans-disciplinary experimentation. As part of a significant monitor system upgrade from a completely analogue solution to a largely digital one complete with EtherSound network, Le Confort Moderne recently invested in an Sy48 digital console from Innovason.

The new system was designed and installed by Z Professionnel, a Bordeaux-based rental company with offices in Poitiers. According to Z Professionnel's Bruno Gondrecourt, the brief was to optimise the existing Nexo system. "T

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Germany - The eve of 1 May found 25,000 ravers once again streaming to Dortmund's Westfalenhalle for the techno event of the year: Mayday. The slogan for this year's 15-hour marathon was Massive Moments. Werne-based service provider Satis&fy made sure that the sound system and the results it yielded lived up to the hype. The Satis&fy team led by technical director Jörn Busch opted for a substantial Electro-Voice system.

The system specifications for the marathon are impressive: 64 Electro-Voice TG7 amplifiers delivering 350,000 Watts, and 32 X-Line tops and 56 X-Line subs were distributed through seven sound stations.

Rüdiger Nürnberg of Satis&fy comments: "Not only in terms of overall loudness but also in point of homogeneity and even level distribution, the X-Line with the new presets is fully convincing. Normal bass loudspeakers in particular reach their ther

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Sweden - LumenRadio can officially claim the title Hottest New Swedish Company of 2009. The company won first prize in the Venture Cup Business Plan Competition beating close to 1,000 other competitors with its innovative technology and strong business idea.

LumenRadio develops wireless technology for the lighting industry. CRMX - LumenRadio's first product line for wireless light controls was released at Prolight+Sound in April of 2009 and has since continued to enjoy tremendous interest from within the entertainment community, as well as from major players in the architectural lighting market.

"The response from customers and distributors in entertainment lighting has been above our wildest expectations. We've been flying around the globe for the last two months meeting with excited customers who have been frustrated with the problems of the present wireless cont

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Germany - Harmonie in Bonn-Endenich is far from just another German music venue with a beer garden. With a history that dates back to 1899, this hall boasts 150 concerts, cabaret, themed parties, and lectures a year and enjoys r sound reinforcement, through a high-fidelity, low-maintenance audio system from Meyer Sound.

Three entrepreneurs from Bonn took over Harmonie in 1994, and in 2000, at the request of several musicians and sound technicians, Josef Schnorbus, co-owner and technical director of the venue, decided to replace its aged sound system, and compared several manufacturers' systems before settling on Meyer Sound's UltraSeries loudspeakers.

The Meyer Sound system initially acquired for the L-shaped live club in 2001 comprised two UPA-1P and three UPM-1P loudspeakers, a UMS-1P and two USW-1P subwoofers. The new system made a significant improvement on the sound quali

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Australia - ARX Systems has announced the appointment of Moto Audio Sales as its new distributor for Denmark. ARX Managing director Colin Park commented, "Moto's Erik Bjerre and I have been discussing the possibilities of working together in Denmark for some time, Erik thought with the release of new additions to our USB DI product range and our MSX range of signal splitters the time was right to expand ARX's presence in the Danish market.

"Erik and his sales team also felt our range of signal processing products was a complementary fit with the other lines they currently represent, they were especially excited by the new products we released at the recent Frankfurt Pro Light and Sound Exhibition."

Companies represented by Moto Audio Sales include L-Acoustics, RCF, CAMCO, Aviom, Pinanson, Sennheiser and Yamaha.

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UK - Stage Electrics is holding its second round of Pie and Pint product demonstration events in London and Manchester, following the successful launch of the Pie and Pint concept last year. These free informal lunchtime events will feature a product demonstration on the ETC ION and Eos lighting control desks by ETC's Jeremy Roberts. During the demonstrations there will be an opportunity for guests to enjoy a pie and pint courtesy of Stage Electrics, network and ask some vital product questions.

The first event will be held on Tuesday 23 June from 11:30-2:30pm at the Sawyers Arms pub in Manchester. Following on from Manchester, Pie and a Pint heads to London's West End on Thursday 25 June from 11:30-2:30pm at the Theodore Bullfrog pub. Visitors can drop into these locations at any point during these times.

Chris Patton, divisional sales manager at Stage El

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USA - Barix reports that Nickelodeon Universe, a seven-acre amusement park located inside Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., is now using multiple Barix Audio over IP and automation devices for on-demand audio playback, live music streaming and message repeating.

The mix of Barix Instreamer encoders, Exstreamer decoders and Annuncicom IP intercom/audio streaming devices, programmed by DataNab of Burnsville, Minn., provides Nickelodeon Universe with a varied and flexible approach to delivering audio entertainment, ride information and public safety announcements to every corner of the theme park. The migration to Barix also enables remote monitoring of the entire system from anywhere inside or outside of Mall of America, the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States.

According to Jason Brown, events technician at Mall of America and Nickelodeon Universe,

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£15m bonus - The Isle of Wight council has estimated the island's annual music festival is worth £15m to the local economy. The annual event was restarted at Seaclose Park in Newport in 2001 and has since become one of the biggest festivals in the UK. About 50,000 enjoyed the event this weekend with the Pixies and Neil Young headlining on Sunday. The council said it had helped change the island's image and brought millions into the economy each year.

John Metcalfe, Isle of Wight Council's assistant director for economic development and tourism, told BBC News: "The festival is hugely important to the island, especially to Newport. We estimate it is worth at least £10m spent in the Newport shops, and that is just from people from off the island visiting for the festival. If we put on top of that the money spent by the organisers with island businesses and or

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USA - Every year, RTS & Telex invite users from the nuclear power plant community to attend a workshop on outage communications. Held at the specialised training academy inside RTS & Telex's Twin Cities headquarters, the two-day workshop guides attendees through all aspects of intercom configuration and usage.

Britt Bowers, regional sales manager for RTS Intercom Systems, was one of the presenters at the workshop this year. "This was our highest attendance ever. We had approximately 30 nuclear plants represented, in addition to contract suppliers." says Bowers. "Attendees take away knowledge [of the intercom system] and application capabilities that help them coordinate operations in their plants more simply, creating a safer working environment."

The two-day workshop covers everything from maintaining wireless fidelity and setting up beltpack users to link

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UK - An interactive video bar has opened in Islington's Essex Road, with Martin Audio's architectural AQ loudspeakers handling all the audio output.

Owner Aria Ariantalab has spent close on £1 million fulfilling his dream to create Bar Sequence, a 75-capacity environment (with separate pavement seating) in which everyone from media creatives to the gamer generation can interact in a social environment.

A former electronic engineering lecturer and technology consultant, Ariantalab says: "Anyone can come in with a memory stick and plug into one of our laptops. "Media artists, graphic designers, photographers and photographic agents can show off their work - and as for DJ's and VJ's, we can assess these at our Wednesday 'Open Deck' nights."

Ariantalab, who is also a DJ, provided his own playback equipment for the DJ booth but contacted Sound Division Group

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UK - A popular Central London pub has turned back the pages of history and reverted to its origins. The imposing plaque on the fascia reveals that the hostelry on the corner of Marylebone Lane and Bentinck Street was christened The Coach Makers Arms back in Victorian times, although it was latterly trading as The Conduit of Tybourne and as Irish pub, O'Conor Don.

That was before gastropub specialists, Large Bars, took it over, and following extensive refurbishment of the three trading floors, reopened it as The Coach Makers of Marylebone in April this year.

Large Bars directors, Lee Bradshaw and Sarj Chotai, tasked Sound Division with specifying an audio infrastructure as part of the design overhaul.

The technology specialists were contracted after providing a similar solution for the company's Islington pub, The Angelic three and a half years ago; but Large Bars' operations

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Austria - A combined Allen & Heath iLive and iLive-T system was used at the recent opening ceremony for the Vienna Festival, held in the city's Rathausplatz.

The inaugural event saw the debut of a specially-commissioned composition exploring the emotions and depicting scenes that characterise Vienna and the kindred cities of Paris, Lisbon and New York, traversing musical styles including blues, classical, Portuguese fado, French accordion, and jazz and soul from the USA.

Having used an iLive-144 system to manage the FOH orchestra mix at last year's opening ceremony, festival sound designer, Adolf Toegel, decided to use two iLives at FOH for the 2009 event.

A revolving stage was constructed to accommodate set changeovers for the many and diverse artists involved in the production, which included manoeuvring a grand piano on and off both sides of the stage. The blues band was

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USA - Broadcast live from the Grand Ole Opry on Gospel Music Television, the 40th Annual GMA Dove Awards relied on audio input provided almost entirely by Shure. A total of 350 microphones were allotted to the task, 16 of which operated on Shure UHF-R wireless channels. Among these 16 channels, 12 worked with either KSM9 or Beta 58A handheld transmitters used for performances by Shure endorsers, including Chris Tomlin, Third Day, Natalie Grant, and MercyMe.

Grant - who appeared before the crowd with a KSM9 - also took home Female Vocalist of the Year honours, joining other Shure endorsers Casting Crowns (Group of the Year), her husband, Bernie Herms (Producer of the Year), and Third Day (Best Pop/Contemporary Album) as the evening's big winners.

"Although 16 RF mics may not seem like a lot for an awards show," audio producer Tom Davis of Nashville-based Seismic Soun

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UK - The Association of British Theatre Technician's ABTT Theatre Show was another success despite fears that London's most severe tube strike for 12 years would play havoc with the visitor attendance.

The Show's organisers report that whilst pre-registrations were a healthy 10% up on last year, the total visitor count to the show was only slightly affected by the strike on London's underground system, down by 15% on 2008's figures.

Roger Fox, show director, commented: "We were delighted by the attendance at this year's show and very happy to have maintained our position as a leading event in the industry's calendar despite the tube strike. We were only 15% down overall on last year's visitor figures, which proved that people battled against the odds to attend. Feedback from exhibitors has been very positive. We're looking forward to an exciting 2010 Show on 16 and 17 Jun

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USA - Shure Incorporated reports that a five-member team from the New England School of Communications is this year's Grand Prize Winner of the fifth annual Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition. The five-student team of Levi Gray, Jacob Lansky, Tyrus Michaud, Cameron Smith, and Joshua Strange, with faculty advisor Dave MacLaughlin, won this year's Shure contest with an original composition by Samuel Chase and Yuri Nikolis Trusty entitled Never Ending Story.

"Congratulations to the winning team from the New England School of Communications, and thanks to all of the students who participated in the contest from all of the schools this year," said Dave Mendez, market development specialist at Shure, who coordinated the competition. "The scoring margin between entries was the closest it has been in years, which just goes to show the high quality of

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Croatia - The second ASP8024 recording console to arrive in Croatia was chosen by songwriter, Ante Pecoti? for his own ALBA Studio in Zagreb.

"The most impressive thing about the Audient console for me is the clear linear sound, a fantastic EQ section and an ability to get a wide and powerful sound," he says. Using the desk in tandem with an SSL XLogic Alpha Link 24 I/0 as the DAW interface, he emphasises how important it is for him to be involved in all aspects of the music-making experience. "I like to have a hand in every part of the process of creating songs."

(Jim Evans)

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Singapore - Recently, Singapore welcomed the first edition of the new beer festival, Beerfest Asia 2009, celebrated beneath a 30 x 70mtent. Over 1.500 people attended, and over 25 brands of beer got the party flowing. Singapore Flyer offered over 100 varieties for tasting in their stand as well as in the pit stop area of Singapore's Formula 1.

During the five-day festival, local and international artists - backed by D.A.S. Aero sound systems - took the stage. Among them were Hell's Belles, a girl-powered tribute to AC/DC, and Vertical Horizon, USA-style rock direct from Washington, D.C.

Eduardo López, commercial representative of D.A.S. Audio Asia, reports, "D.A.S. Audio Asia and Timbre Music Group were excited about possible collaborations since the beginning of the year. When Timbre Music began to organise Beerfest festival 2009, we saw a great opportunit

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UK - HHB has supplied an Allen & Heath iLive-T digital mixing system ­ comprising an iLive-T112 Control Surface and iDR-48 MixRack ­ to Tacet, organisers of the audio and breakouts for the winner¹s press conference of TV show, Britain¹s Got Talent.

As Tacet¹s Simon Bishop explains, the combination of such a high profile event with the obvious uncertainty of how many winners there would be brought some interesting challenges to the job. "We got the job through our colleagues at Hotcam who provide the cameras and crews for Britain¹s Got Talent. All the intelligence suggested that the winner was likely to be Susan Boyle, but I was suspicious that Diversity might just pip it on the night.

I needed to be ready for any eventuality, so was preparing for up to six mics to be set up on the top table, plus handhelds to pick up questions from the room. Although t

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USA - Technomad reports that Functional Communications Corporation has installed 40 Technomad Vernal loudspeakers as part of a LEED-certified AV and intercom communications system at the new Price Chopper supermarket in Colonie, NY. The Technomad loudspeakers are installed throughout the store and at the entrance to provide audio reproduction for a Muzak Audio Architecture installation featuring music and in-store advertising; and voice intelligibility for live pages and other in-store communications.

Functional Communications Corp., headquartered in Syracuse, is an independent Muzak affiliate that managed the design and installation of the entire system. The company specified Technomad based on its compliance with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System (LEED), developed by the US Green Building Council to provide standard for environmenta

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