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14 December 2016

Sound design was by Ken Travis who designed the Tony Award-winning Broadway show now approaching its third year, supported by associate Alex Hawthorn, and once again exploited the ground-breaking vocal localisation and effects spatialisation prowess of TiMax SoundHub with TiMax Tracker radar-based realtime automation.

Aladdin is playing at Hamburg's Neue Flora Theatre whose producer-owners, Stage Entertainment BV, purchased two TiMax2 SoundHub-S32 audio showcontrol processors and a seven-Sensor/20-Tag TiMax Tracker system, which was commissioned on-site by Out Board's Dave Haydon in late

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Aimed at music production students, hobbyists and professionals, these free seminars aim to dispel the many myths surrounding the recording process. The events answer those all-important questions such as what makes great gear great, what does it take to become a successful and in demand audio engineer, how do recording professionals tackle different aspects of their productions and how is a hit sound achieved?

The Singapore date will take place on 18 August 2016 at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, which is part of the National University of Singapore. For this event Prism Sound is partnering with its local distributor Control Devices (CDA Pro Audio); loudspea

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The historic Reduta building in Bratislava has been especially renovated to host the Council during the Slovak presidency. Originally a Baroque granary built in 1773, the building has been the home of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra since the 1950s. Leading Slovakian AV company MediaTech Central Europe was invited to install the necessary technical equipment for the building's new role and chose Yamaha equipment for the audio infrastructure.

"Designing an audio system for such an important role is a huge amount of work,

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The company's R&D department welcomes Charlotte Gegout. Charlotte brings 10 years of experience as a sound technician in the entertainment industry, before she completed her degree at the prominent Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) and graduated as an acoustical engineer. Since joining APG in June, Charlotte has taken on a research project on the development of new technologies in acoustic loads.

APG's sales department has also expanded with the addition of Maxence Castelain, the company's new client support engineer. Maxence graduated as an engineer in 2015, and has already spent a year at APG in the R&D department to work on th

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Launching through crowd-funding site Kickstarter, worldwide call for the product has been proved with the campaign achieving its £25,000 target within 44 hours. Isolate is currently rated number one in the UK and number eight in the world on Kickstarter's project popularity list. The campaign runs until 15 August 2016.

Projected to achieve 1240% of its funding goal at time of press, Isolate's technology will now be available worldwide, with KS backers being able to secure pairs ahead of general release at an introductory price.

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"Above & Beyond's tour is an acoustic reworking of the group's popular hits, and involves 17 artists and 80 inputs on stage. The musical director describes the tour as "widescreen", and dLive is well suited to this, giving a broad, wide open, expansive sound," explains Tom Howat.

"What I love most about the fader layout is the opportunity to create your working environment - it's a powerful picture of the A&H way of doing things. I am enjoying using the touchscreens, and I've really taken to the different compressor flavours built into the channels. I am using a number of lovely sounding re

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Founded in 2007, Source Distribution has experienced rapid expansion, asserting itself as a significant force in music technology and pro audio distribution, with a diverse portfolio of distributed brands that includes API Audio, Arturia, Eventide, Genelec, iOgrapher, Lynx, Moog, PreSonus and R°DE Microphones.

The management, sales and logistics functions of Source Distribution have been overseen by an ever expanding team, housed since 2008 in Cumberland Business Park, Scrubs Lane, with sales administration and warehousing working side-by-side. As both the portfolio and popularity of So

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AES Los Angeles Historical Events sessions are slated to include:

Political Audio: Sound for Past and Recent Presidential Debates and Conventions - A panel of industry professionals with first-hand experience working on past and present presidential events will come together to discuss the so

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The new d:facto Vocal Microphone, which was supplied with a handle and an adapter to fit the concert hall's Shure wireless system, is proving so popular with visiting singers that Stormen is hoping to add more in the near future.

Located in the Norwegian town of Bod°, Stormen Concert Hall was designed by British architects DRDH and officially opened in November 2014. It replaces an older venue that was only ever intended as a temporary solution, although it actually stood for 23 years before the new building was commissioned. The concert hall has three different auditoria - a main hall with 940 seats, a small hall with 240 seats a

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First of all, 84 of Powersoft's K10 amplifiers occupied prime position in Cleveland during a whirlwind four-day event which saw Donald Trump formally capture the Republican party presidential nomination.

A little more than a week later, and across the country in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic party's nomination to run for President and again Powersoft was on hand to amplify proceedings in front of 4,700 delegates, who cast their ballots at the Democratic National Convention. This time 104 K10's were deployed.

These events marked the start of the U.S. general election, and for such historically and legally significant events, audio intelligibility was the paramount technic

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More than 50,000 visitors attended the event, which is staged every summer against the backdrop of the town's historic church. For the third consecutive year, AV requirements were managed by Light-house G

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"The reason we decided to add more Adamson loudspeakers to our rental inventory is that we have found that world-wide marketplace acceptance and demand for the E-Series continues to grow," explains Jack Boessneck, executive vice president Eighth Day Sound. "It seems that every engineer that uses the system becomes an instant fan."

Eighth Day Sound became an E-Series partner in 2013 as one of the first sound companies in the States to join the Adamson network. The company added substantially to their inventory during the summer of 2015. This most recent purchase includes S-Se

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Mounted snugly in niches flanking the altar, the custom colour-matched CAL 96 loudspeakers virtually disappear within 19th century Italian Renaissance Revival architecture of Mother of God Catholic Church in Covington, Kentucky providing a boost to the sound quality for the contemporary music.

At Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington D.C., what formerly was an unremarkable meeting and exhibit space has been exquisitely transformed - visually and aurally - into the Redemptor Hominis Chapel. Direct reinforcement of speech and occasional music is supplied by a

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Kuching's Sarawak Stadium was host to 45,000 attendees for a captivating show delivered by 3,000 performers, and was broadcast live on Malaysia's TV1 on 23 July 2016.

The ceremony introduced performances by Miss World Malaysia 2014 Dewi Liana Seriestha and the Ministry of Social Development and Urbanisation (KPSU) cultural singers. Also performing on the night was Bob Yusof of the Akademi Fantasia fame who performed 'Berpadu Menyahut Cabaran' accompanied by the award winning violinist Nisa Addina Mohd Taufik.

For FOH, Premier Echo Sound & Lighting used a PRO9 console connected to a

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Splendit, the largest Turbosound rental company in the Benelux region was commissioned to ensure consistent and controlled coverage of sound, on and off the site.

Noise control is a critical factor for the city's 10-day long festival which takes place in and around Ghent's residential areas. Marijn Broeckaert of Splendit explains, "The Turbosound Flex Array was chosen especially for its 75 degrees dispersion. It is able to deliver such clear, directed sound to festival-goers without impacting areas out with the immediate festival."

The dispersion, sound quality and power out of a box with this small footprint were the main reasons Dirk Brysbaert, soun

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Located in Riddarholmen, the Brick Romanesque structure is an example of a late 1800s institution building, and one of the few remaining in Europe. Now repurposed to offer tours as well as an array of party, event and conference spaces, Gamla Riksarkivet lives on after its official closure as an archive in 1968.

Originally without electricity, the building incorporated vast windows into its design in order to allow natural light to flood in during the day. Such was its importance, the building was built on a base of cast iron to increase fire safety, with cast-iron column supports, iron book

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The event - celebrating the Fudge Professional Core Collective - was staged in Studio 12 of the Old Granada Studios in the city which offered up a totally bare space, so everything - staging, set, lighting, sound and video - had to be built and installed from scratch to realise the Fudge team's original concept.

CPL's crew was led by Mike Radford, who commented, "The vibe of the event was energetic and lively, Fudge is a leading brand known for its alternative and 'out-of-the-box' approach to hair styling, so everything we were doing on the technical front had to help create this impression."

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Managing director Dennis Drumm states, "Day to day management of our sales and marketing departments will remain with their existing skilled and very effective managers, Alan Smith and Simon Turnbull, with the purpose of the change being to create operational efficiencies by more closely integrating the relationship between the departments concerned with a view and to further enhancing our customers' overall experience of dealing with JHS."

Paul Smith comments, "We operate within a customer driven dynamic environment, and JHS must be in a position to service the needs of all of our

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For the fourth year running it was Britannia Row Productions that supplied all four stages: the main bowl arena with delays and also the three tent stages - the circuitGROUND, the cosmicMEADOW and the neonGARDEN. Each stage was rigged with an L-Acoustics loudspeaker system, predominantly K1s on the main stage with K2s being the main component at the circuitGROUND, the cosmicMEADOW and the neonGARDEN.

For project manager Lez Dwight and his crew this year's game-changer proved to be the presence of the new L-Acoustic KS28 Subs and LA12X amplifiers that graced the main stage.

Officially unveiled and delivered for use in May, this was a significant enough opportunity for L-Acoustics application engineer, Dan Orton to visit

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Supplied by Wigwam (one of Audio-Technica's network of dLive specialist resellers), the dLive system was chosen both for its feature set and usability, as Mainline's Rob Lorton explains: "We were early adopters of Allen & Heath's iLive T series, recognising its power and features were unbeatable for the price at that time. Clearly, dLive has been built and developed from those principles - it's a great mixing system with a top sound and flexibility. Again, this s

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"Providing sound reinforcement professionals with a free, instructional training seminar is invaluable in our region," explains Ghurde. "David not only demonstrates Adamson products but also covers a lot of the basics of system design and rigging that is extremely helpful. We are looking forward to a huge turnout."

Dohrmann, who has delivered Adamson training throughout the region for the last five years, provides consulting firms, integrators and sound engineers with an extensive overview of Adamson Blueprint AV simulation software, Lake processing as well as a hands-on rigging and alignment

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UrbanVoices is a multifaceted project organised by the association of the Cité Monde [World City] which takes place over several months and is open to the entire city of Nantes. Karim Ammour is artistic director and creator of the project, entitled The City is Beautiful, and also its composer and conductor. It is an eclectic programme which honours mankind and nature and features compositions that range from reggae, soul, pop and gospel to rhythm and blues, with the thousand singers acco