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Last year, RBDG designed a brand new studio facility featuring an SSL C200 fully digital mixing console for Bicoastal Music in Ossining, New York, which has just opened for business. Searching for a sonically pure piece of audio equipment with which to control the proprietary RBDG-designed 5.1 monitor speaker system at Bicoastal, Knowles turned to SymNet. "We've previously used SymNet in several home theatres and home theatre showrooms," he says. "And now we've designed the first control room monitor

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One of the directors of the operating company, Brian Davis, had previously used Marquee Audio to fit out a bar in London's Smithfield Market. Thus when he secured the site of the former printing works in Old Street, which had been empty for two years, he had no hesitation in renewing the acquaintance, citing: "quality sound, reliable back up and competitive pricing" as the principle reasons. "I ne

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The major tour starts in April and will follow the release of the new Me And Mr. Johnson album in which Eric Clapton pays a unique tribute to seminal blues innovator Robert Johnson. Taking in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield the tour culminates with a remarkable six-night residency at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Commenting on the purchase, Tim Boyle of Concert Sound said: "We have had a very long-term association with Eric Clapton and, again for this tour, chose Lab.Gruppen because of the outstanding sonic performance and excellent reliability. We needed a substantial 48 Lab.gruppen FP-6400s to power the rig a

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Wood, an industry veteran, has led technology development and has been responsible for the technology strategy, R&D, standards and IP in many different companies. His career spans more than 25 years with firms varying in size from 10 to 25,000 employees and for the past 20 of those years he has been at the senior or executive management level. During his career he has worked for both start-up and established companies and has been a member of executive teams responsible for acquisitions a

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While Palestine is bound to raise eyebrows as a destination as it remains one of the world's most politically unstable areas, this sale is typical of the new markets that Legend has enabled Midas to penetrate. The perfect multifunctional console, the Legend 3000 is the world's only console that can mix monitors from front-of-house without compromise; perfect for live music clubs, conference centres or theatres. In addition to performing both functions simultaneously, Legend also handles dedicated FoH or monitor applications equally well;

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Outline has designed this plug-in for the CATT-Acoustic DLL Directivity Interface (DDI) which, called up by the program when required, offers designers accurate modelling capabilities for complex systems, based on every conceivable VLA configuration of elements from the Butterfly range, including a combination of Hi-Pack and Low-Pack units.

Results achieved by the DLL, based on proprietary modelling techniques for the simulation of linear rather than single-point sources, have been c

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CP Sound's Colin Pattenden first troubleshot the venue. He sampled it at several times of the day, including extensively during peak capacity, and then came up with the new sound design for the background music system which features a wide variety of musical styles and genres!

He decided to add new JBL Control 28 speakers across four zones, plus additional bass bins under the seating. The Control 28's were chosen for acoustics, size, reliability and cost-e

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Millbank has been a driving force in public address and voice alarm systems since its inception in 1967 and over the years has become synonymous with innovation and quality with thousands of installations across the globe.

Benefiting recently from its acquisition by Ampekko Ltd, Millbank continues to set a precedent for ground breaking solutions, which are all compliant with UK and European Cenelec, standards, namely BS5839 pt8 and EN60849. Complementing Atlantic Audio's portfolio of leading edge pro audio products that includes Renkus-Heinz and XTA, Millbank offers products for both centralized and digital networked systems.

From London's Underground networks through to Harrods, Chase Manhatt

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Featuring 10 receiving channels, this compact receiver is ideal for multi-channel set-ups and can be used with any transmitter from the extensive evolution wireless series including the new evolution G2 products, recently launched by Sennheiser.

Accessories for the EK 1035 includes the L1035 charger, with the facility to daisy-chain up to four chargers, and the NT 1035-UK plug-in mains unit, which accommodates up to four L 1035 Chargers. Sennheiser will also be showing a wide range of Infrared, TourGuide, GuidePort and SDC (Sennheiser Digital Conference) products at the Show.

Simon Jones, business area manager for Inst

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Prior to moving production from Apogee's Petaluma facility to Metalfx' facility in Willits, engineers from both com

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Dexter has been writing steadily in American industry magazines since early 2000. "I wrote an article early on called 'Is there Life After Rock'n'Roll Touring?'" says Dexter. "After touring, going out into the real world with rock'n'roll attitude was a huge shock. I need freakin' therapy now and I've discovered that I'm not the only one."

McNeny and Dexter met on Ozzy Osbourne's 'Diary of a Madman' Tour in 1981-82. McNeny was the tour manager, as he had been for the BeeGees and Eric Clapton, and Dexter was Ozzy's l

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The 1,200-seat venue, which has hosted performances from the likes of Olivia Newton-John, The Temptations, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, George Carlin and Chicago in the past couple of months, now boasts a stereo, four-way loudspeaker system with six V-Dosc cabinets per side. Additionally, a total of 16 SB118 single-18" sub cabinets are located down on the stage, and all systems are powered by L-Acoustics' LA 48a amplifiers.

Muzak senior systems consultant Daryl

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But now that looks set to change. "We've been searching constantly for the right partnership and t&m have been sufficiently flexible to allow us design input - which means that products, such as the t&m8 Pro, will be based around our customers needs

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"The addition of these new technologies gives contractors and consultants ways to cost effectively expand the depth of functionality of a truly networked audio system while ensuring that it can be used at any level of facility," said Matt Czyzewski, VP of Technical Operations, Biamp Systems. "Now with the use of digital I/O expanders, our clients can accommodate the growing number of digital devices that need to be hooked to our networked sy

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Based in Waldshut-Tiengen Germany, Algorithmix is headed by Christoph M. Musialik Ph.D, currently the European Chair of the AES Technical Committee for Signal Processing. Initial Products in the new DSP-based range will be released into the market in fourth quarter 2004.

(Lee Baldock)

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"I've been interested in music all my life and have been DJ'ing for the past five years. I bought a Xone:62 last year and play at a few club nights locally. Now, I'm proud to be working for the company that designed and made my mixer!"

(Lee Baldock)

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20 years on, Cadac is focused on combining the best of digital and analogue technology in its latest generation designs, with the D16 going into production in Summer 2004 and plans for a full-scale integrated digital console to be announced later this year. Cadac's R&D team has worked closely with operators and sound designers to develop the D16 concept, majoring on extending the control facilities through Ca

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Kelco managing director David Kelland commented: "I obviously can't comment on any other aspect of the club, but I can guarantee that the sound system that we have designed and installed is as good as it gets. There is no way that words and specifications alone will be able to do justice to the systems; it really is something that has to be experienced to appreciate what has been achieved."

The two main floors of Stealth will see the first UK installation of

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Version 3.4 has custom serial port settings and strings, which allow the iDR system to communicate with a wide variety of third party equipment, such as CD and DVD players, software programs, and alarm and lighting systems.

The new software also allows more PL remote control devices to be connected and uses chain/star configurations, which reduce the need for extensive wiring. The number of automated, programmable presets has been increased to 250

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"In terms of the way we have been restructuring the company in recent months, this is a move that makes complete sense," affirmed Wiggins. "As technology continues to develop apace, so the interaction between the two brands becomes increasingly important. We are already seeing this at a product and therefore R&D level; for example the ability to link any Heritage or Legend console to Helix via the auto-solo function to name but one example. It therefore follows that the same strategy should be reflected in sales

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Rackz will now be offering a full back up and repair service for the above products. Mike Butt former senior electronic engineer from Hz and Dave Roberts former technical designer will be dealing with the loudspeaker problems. However the company is unable to perform any free guarantee work on behalf of the former HZ International Ltd. All work will be charged out at £22 per hour or part thereof plus parts and carry a three-month guarantee.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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The original vintage tube 49 microphone is still the gold standard in studios around the world, due to its incredible flexibility in any application from distant orchestral recordings requiring a neutral sound quality to close up micing where the tailored proximity effect is well known and valued for achieving big vocal sounds.

Like the original, the Soundelux E49 is a remote variable pattern tube mic that uses Soundelux' KK47 large diaphragm capsule and a unique head grille design that replicates the original's acoustic and mechanical sonic signatures. A specially designed Soundelux SteadyState(r) fixed-bias type tube amplifier (similar to the original) is used but has lower no

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