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Kyle Nel from AVS and Sakkie Coetzer from Lowveld Sound had often quoted against each other for events. With both young men like-minded in work ethics and each backed up with a good crew, they started playing with the idea of integrating both companies a couple of years ago.

"It's nice to have back up and a person to second guess with," said Kyle. "Together we can become a dot on the map and we can raise the bar as technical suppliers."

Sakkie agreed that the merge would provide a solid infrastructure to enable the supply of large-scale shows or events. The new Prolyte pieces will expand their existin

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The Academy will be located at the new Analog Way facility in Metro-Atlanta which has been equipped with several rooms designed for hands on training. A technology instructor has also joined the company as a specialist trainer.

Strengthening the training offer in the Americas, Analog Way has always been committed to supporting its customers through training tailored to their needs.

Jay Gonzalez, president of Analog Way Americas states, "Developing training programmes for our customers is one of the main goals of Analog Way Americas. We want to offer product and technology training to integrators, consultants, freelance technicians, and end-users - training that will enable them to

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In order to capture that same kind of expansive sound for Latin pop rock superstar Enrique Iglesias' current tour, the duo relies on microphones from DPA Microphones.

"Brad and I have been on tour with Enrique Iglesias and heard a lot of great things about DPA Microphones," says Caipo. "When we were offered a demo package to try out the company's mics, we were thrilled. We were both immediately blown away by the sound. The quality is above and beyond anything we were using in the past. It was immediately obvious that there was no going back to

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"The Forum has a high reverberation time which translates into pretty bad acoustics," explains Chadi Akiki, owner of CKA. "The directionality of the Adamson PA was a tremendous help. The end result was quite exceptional."

CKA hung left and right line arrays, each made up of eight E12 modules, along with a centre cluster of six more E12s. Eight E218 subwoofers created a centre cluster under the stage for additional low end. CKA also utilized eight Metrix line array modules for front-fills along the lip of the stage. Out-fill was handled by left and right arrays of six S10 modules each.

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System integrators, MGA Communication, won a competitive tender to provide an integrated Voice Alarm and a Communications network, working with RCF's Engineering Support Group to deliver the solution. RCF's DXT7000 Sound Broadcast and Emergency Evacuation System was selected to meet the requirements of the main terraces, corridors, and mass circulation areas, as well as toilets, private corporate boxes, meeting rooms, board rooms and bar areas.

To create a matched system, RCF's premier I

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Since graduating from a degree in audio production with first class honours, Reece has engineered, teched and stage managed at numerous live events, including the Village Green and Festifeel festivals, as well as working with artists including Rizzle Kicks, Reef, Lucy Rose, Lianna de la Havas and alongside Andy Shillito, live sound co-ordinator for The Darkness.

"My passion is for live sound reinforcement, so to work with Yamaha's industry-leading products on a day in, day out basis is a wonderful opportunity," he says. "It's very clear that the time and care that goes into the development and manufacture of every Yamaha professional audio product is reflected in that which is taken to look after the customers and end users. I am rea

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Stone Free is a major new festival, featuring two days of classic rock music from leading artists, including Alice Cooper, The Darkness, Marillion, Therapy? and Steve Hackett. Rick Wakeman's headline appearance comprised the debut live performance of the revised album King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which has not been performed since 1978.

Supplied by Stone Free's PA company, Capital Sound, and sub-hired through SRD Group, the dLive system comprised an S7000 Control Surface with a DM64 MixRack and two DX32 expander racks loaded with seven analogue input cards and one analogue output card.

With a full band and accompanying orchestra, there was a total of 120 inputs on stage. Orche

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These days FBC punctuates sermons with a full band comprised of rock 'n roll instruments. The church's old sound reinforcement system couldn't keep up! Audio/video integration firm Centerline Audio Visual, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, stepped in to design simple, yet powerful, stereo reinforcement consisting of two Danley SM-100B full-range loudspeakers buttressed from below by a Danley BC-218 subwoofer, with Ashly Audio nXp-Series network multi-mode amplifiers providing power, integrated DSP, and

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Innovation and collaboration is at the heart of the entertainment technology industry, and is therefore a hugely important element of the PLASA Show. 'Sadlers Wells: New Technology for the Stage', on Tuesday 20 September at 1pm, is a great example of this, highlighting significant improvements of the theatre's systems through technical innovation and collaboration. This session will be presented by Emma Wilson, Sadlers Wells' director of technical production and Christian Wallace, technical manager.

Wilson says:

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The Go-2 uses injection-moulded cabinets that are constructed, like all Danley molded loudspeakers and subwoofers, in Gainesville, Georgia. While completely at home indoors, both in terms of aesthetics and rigging points, the Go-2 is also impervious to weather an

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The mixer is created from a choice of different Class-A input and output modules - Mic Input, Mic Input Ultra Low Noise and Mic Input x4 units, Yellow instrument input unit, Stereo Input unit, L/R Master, Aux Master and external Power-In units. These can be combined in any order and quantity to form both compact and large-scale mixer configurations. The number of units that can be included depends on the power supply used. For simpler combinations of 12 or 25 units, there is a choice of two compact power supplies. A further high-end power supply is also available: This can be used with any combination of units, from just a few to 70 or more. (Power-In units are also required for larger configurations

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"Everything you need to know about our products and audio heritage can be found on the new site," explains marketing manager, Andy Allen. "We have made the new website as informative and helpful as possible with a view to enabling new and existing customers access to helpful videos, audio examples, product demos and more - allowing customers to get the most out of their Audient products."

In addition to its easy-to-navigate, intuitive design, the website features brand new 'store finder

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The high profile event was enjoyed by huge crowds who were thrilled by the elaborate floats, costumes and vibrant array of music on the parade section of the day, as over 80 community groups snaked their way down Deansgate via Albert Square and on to the finish at Exchange Square.

tube supplied the first float in the parade - the Orrery - and also the final one which was a very special show-stopping collaboration by local hero, dance music producer and icon Graham Massey (808 State, etc.) and brass collective Mr Wilson's Second Liners.

The overall event theme of EUREKA! celebrated the city's achievements in science and discovery with Walk The Plank commissio

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Pete Robinson led the dbn crew of 28 who commenced the get-in on the Wednesday ahead of the opening on Saturday morning, and once again, their mission was to ensure that every stage looked individual and interesting and different from anything in the past.

The project entailed the supply of approximately 580 lighting fixtures including 224 moving lights and 75 strobes which were deployed site wide.

For the Main Stage, dbn's Stephen Page designed a house lighting rig that allowed for the two headliners - The Chemical Brothers an

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"The location for a major mountain bike event can be the size of 10 football fields, there will be several concurrent events, each with their own audio requirements, plus briefing, meeting and conference areas which require audio but also minimal background noise. The trails can be upwards of 8 square kilometres, and the audience, often well over 10,000 capacity, can be spread over several mountains, with local areas attracting their own large crowds all needing entertainment, race information and atmosphere," explains DURT MD, Russell Baker.

A Qu-32 was stationed in a control cabin, with AR2412 and AR0804 IO racks as two external connection points, an aerial farm and router on the roof, plus iPad and i

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In the calm and elegant modern interior of Willebadessen's Baptist Church, a high-flying Geo M6 line array is almost invisible in its custom grey colours. The church approached Kalle Hogrefe of Sound Linear, the Paderborn-based installation and rental company, to design a system that would provide smooth and even SPLs to each of the 1500 seats in the sanctuary.

After spending a test weekend with Nexo Geo M620 full-range cabinets, pole-mounted for the evaluation, a favourable decision was made. Hogrefe used Nexo's NS-1 proprietary modelling

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These internationally recognised standards are awarded to companies that demonstrate to its clients and customers that they are committed to delivering quality services and reducing its environmental impact while driving down costs, improving productivity and boosting customer satisfaction.

Derek Blair, director, of The Warehouse said, "This award is a reflection of the hard work and excellent performance of all our teams and a starting point in this continually improving process.

"Having certification is a positive step forward in positioning The Warehouse external markets as well as further assuring delivery of quality services to our existing customer base. For the Warehouse, it's real

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Enzo Trovato CEO of Decima commented, "We were blown away by the power and clarity we experienced at the demo. In theatre installations audio is not necessarily something that is a regular feature of every job but we work on a variety of other fixed installations and we knew immediately that with CODA Audio systems at our disposal, this aspect of our offer could be expanded. Decima now has an experienced audio-specialist to take care of this side of the business. In ou

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Acoustic Arts was founded in 1999 and specialises in providing state of the art, innovative and integrated AV solutions to more than one hundred and fifty systems integrators and dealers across India, providing design, project management and turnkey solutions including the provision of EASE (Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers) modelling and simulation.

Sidharth Chhibber, director for Acoustic Arts commented, "The heritage and reliability of Cloud products sits nicely with Acoustic Arts' longevity in the Indian market. We pride ourselves on providing excellent value, the latest technologies and delivering projects ahead

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RELAY is virtual mixing software that's designed to make maximum use of today's powerful laptop and desktop PCs. Taking advantage of computer virtualization technology adapted from the IT industry enables RELAY users to pack an entire studio's worth of broadcast gear onto a single PC.

"You should have seen engineers' eyes light up when they saw RELAY," comments Lawo Radio marketing specialist Clark Novak. "The moment they realized that not just mixing, but other hardware like audio processors, phone systems, codecs and more could be replaced with software that all runs on a single

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In 2009 at the age of 20, Cohen moved to Los Angeles and studied percussion at the Los Angeles Music Academy. That year, Cohen and some friends recorded a metal violin cover on video of System of a Down's Toxicity, which she then posted on YouTube. A few months later, the video had three million views and Cohen decided she was going to shoot and post 100 more drum covers to see what happened next. Five years later she has more than 120 videos, 140m views and 900,000 subscribers on YouTube, and more than 1.4m likes on Facebook.