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UK - Last week's PLASA 2004 event was the platform for Belgian manufacturer Apex to launch Intelli-X - a new digital speaker-management processor which complements the successful Apex Intelli-Q Real-time System Optimizer. The Intelli-X features four analogue and digital inputs and eight analogue outputs, and houses a large amount of DSP power. Every input has a user-settable delay, a 30-band graphic EQ, a 10-band full parametric EQ and two shelving EQs. The 4x8 matrix has no routing limitations and so can be freely configured to suit all professional needs, say the company. Every output has a user-settable delay, high- and low- pass filters including Butterworth, Bessel and Linkwitz-riley types at all available slopes, two shelving EQs, an 8-band full parametric EQ, a fully-adjustable limiter and phase reversal. All these processes are simultaneously available all the time, there

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UK - One of the UK's hottest restaurants and nightspots, Tiger Tiger, has opened its newest location in the Scottish city of Aberdeen. Offering a high-end environment for lunches, happy hours and late night dancing, the club has other locations in London, Leeds, Manchester, Portsmouth, Glasgow.

Club owners, London-base Urbium plc, is also the proprietors of several other leading venues in the UK, including Oxygen, Wax Bar, Warwick, Motion and the Zoo, and has established a reputation for creating environments with exquisite visuals and leading edge sound.

The Aberdeen Tiger Tiger boasts several distinct areas over three floors, including the Tiger Bar, Club, Restaurant, Club Lounge, Lounge Bar and Oriental Bar, each with its own unique vibe and soundtrack. Systems integrators Green-i Ltd. designed the signal routing and remote integration, based on the model it created last ye

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UK - Mackie is used this year's PLASA show to preview its new family of live sound consoles - the Onyx 80 Series. Like the successful Mackie Onyx small-format analog mixers introduced earlier this year, the Onyx 80 Series consoles feature all-new analog circuitry, a full compliment of Mackie's flagship Onyx microphone preamps, and the renowned "British Voiced" four-band Perkins EQ.

The Onyx 80 Series consoles will be offered in four sizes: the 24-channel Onyx 2480, 32-channel Onyx 3280, 40-channel Onyx 4080, and 48-channel Onyx 4880. All four models incorporate features that any hardcore live engineer will appreciate including eight aux sends with stereo link function for up to four IEM mixes; an aux/group flip function; an 10x2 matrix; four mute groups; eight stereo aux inputs; and an optional rack-mountable redundant power supply. The master section and channel stri

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UK - At the PLASA Show last week, Midas announced the appointment of Shuttlesound as the UK distributor for all Midas products with effect from 1 October. Shuttlesound already handles all Klark Teknik product as well as Midas Venice; taking on the rest of the Midas range, therefore, is seen as a natural move that will enable UK customers to obtain all Midas and KT products from a single source.

Sales and marketing director for Midas and KT, David Cooper, commented on the decision: "By moving distribution to Shuttlesound, we're effectively doubling our resource base for Midas service and technical support. In other words, in addition to everything we already offer the customer out of Kidderminster, we can now offer the same facilities from Shuttlesound's London base," says Cooper. "That is to say a huge demo facility, stock of emergency spares and a fully trained

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UK - The PLASA Show was the launchpad for the latest offering from French company InnovaSON, the compact and lightweight Sy48. "The Sy48 has been tailored to meet the needs of those looking for a mid-priced digital live mixing console without wishing to compromise on power or flexibility," commented Nick Cook, sales and marketing director at InnovaSON. "It also has the benefit of being designed by a company with 10 years' experience of producing digital live boards, and over 400 consoles on the road around the world. We've combined functions and features from our large format Sy80 with new ones added in response to user feedback and packaged them in a compact and lightweight surface to create what we believe is the digital live mixing console the mid market has been waiting for."

The Sy48 incorporates major features from the large-format Sy80 digital mixing

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UK - Having made its inaugural appearance on the Prize Stage at the PLASA Show, the first DiGiCo D1 Live left Earls Court immediately after the show to go out with Concert Sound for Katie Melua's European tour. Matt Manasse, Melua's FOH engineer, was on hand during PLASA, helping to demonstrate the D1. "Obviously there's not been much time for me to work with the console prior to this," he said. "But as with the D5 Live, it's an incredibly intuitive interface, so I'm already confident in my ability to go out there and use it. I think it's going to be a great asset on the Melua tour."

"DiGiCo is a very agile company," adds Concert Sound's Tim Boyle. "David Webster really pulled out all the stops to get us the console in time for this tour. They're constantly reacting to what the market wants and needs and I think they've come up trumps again wi

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UK - The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) marks its 30th anniversary at its Autumn Conference Dinner to be held on 6 October 2004 at The Oxford Hotel, Oxford and has arranged for Dr Leo Beranek - "father" of acoustical consulting and the Internet - to speak at the Dinner.

In 1948 Beranek co-founded the American consulting firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, later BBN Technologies, famous for its wide ranging influence in many aspects of acoustical engineering and computing and credited with establishing what is now know as the Internet.

Now in his ninetieth year, Dr Beranek continues to pursue his consulting interests in concert hall and opera house design. His breadth of knowledge and experience will surely result in a fascinating address. Members of the Institute and others can reserve seats at the dinner separately from attending the conference.

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UK - High-end amplifier manufacturer MC2 Audio has reported having an extremely successful PLASA Show last week, with interest in its new E45 lightweight, switchmode amplifier surpassing expectations. "There's been a lot of interest in our E Series range of amplifiers since their launch last year," comments MC2's Ian McCarthy. "The demand for a high quality amplifier suitable for the touring market was something we were confident we could fulfil. We've had an astonishing uptake on the E Series and the only thing we need to do now is keep making them as fast as we can!"

The E45 (2250W/channel into 4 ohms) features 2250W/channel into 4 ohms; Mono bridged mode - 6400W/channel into 4 ohms; Proprietary designed, progressive switching rail output; All-new low distortion limiters with adjustable threshold points for extra speaker protection; Sophisticated power con

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Ireland - Dublin-based AV Rental Company CAVS has recently incorporated a Subsidiary Company called Celtic Sound Ltd. This Company has been established to handle the management of the recently purchased V-Dosc concert system. The initial inventory of 24 V-Dosc, 16 SB218 Subs, plus LA Amplification and XTA DSP sees a new direction for CAVS - hence the establishment of Celtic Sound.

Fran Quigley, managing director of CAVS sees this development as follows: "We have experienced a huge increase in our audio contracts over the past two years and some of these projects prompted the idea for the purchase of a large format concert system. Ireland is a unique market - and as we saw a gap in that market, we decided to fill it. Celtic Sound Ltd is a dry hire audio company, providing equipment for rental only. We present V-DOSC as a turnkey system package including the cabinets, amplifi

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UK - d&b audiotechnik has just released information about the latest addition to its Q-Series, the Q10 loudspeaker. The Q-Series applications stretch from single loudspeakers right through to large multiple cabinet line arrays all sharing the same fundamental requirements; precise control of directivity maintained to the lowest possible frequency. A single Q10 loudspeaker, with its wide horizontal dispersion pattern, is ideally suited for use in the near field. It may also be used for this application in larger Q-Series loudspeaker systems.

The Q-Series now consists of four loudspeaker types; the Q1, Q7 and Q-SUB launched last autumn and the new Q10 loudspeaker. The Q10, along with the Q1 and Q7, are passively crossed over two-way loudspeakers sharing the same physical size, shape, weight and driver compliment (a 1.3" exit HF and two 10" LF drivers), whilst the Q-SUB i

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UK - Reviewed as 'one of the best yet', V Festivals 2004, the two-site event which started in '96, enjoyed a strong line-up of artists, ever-swelling crowds and good weather. Sennheiser UK supplied a full range of evolution mics for the Music Choice Stages at Chelmsford and Stafford, through Capital Sound Hire who provided the sound for both. Sennheiser also had a backstage booth to provide support throughout the events.

The mics supplied included e935 for lead and backing vocals, e865 for lead vocals if a condenser was required, e614 condenser overheads, e609 for guitar cabs, e602 for kick-drums, e604 clip-on for drums and e903 for snare. Commenting for Capital Sound, project manager Martin Connolly said, "We were really pleased with the Sennheiser mics, which impressed throughout. Both FOH engineers, Mark Javitt and Dave Worcester, reported that they were very happy with

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UK - Continuing a 12 year relationship, the recent Edinburgh Festival Fringe saw Delta Sound once again supply the audio requirements for the Assembly Rooms. The venue comprises of six spaces, with capacities ranging from 80 up to 750. For 25 days it puts on a marathon 56 shows each day, running from 10.45am until two o'clock the following morning.

As the spaces are not used as performance venues for the rest of the year, rigging, draping, seating, power, sound and lighting all have to be installed to create a professional theatre experience for the paying public. Delta Sound's brief was to supply a PA and foldback system in each space, carefully tailored to the individual room.

"In all venues; the aim was to have equal coverage in all areas, without it sounding amplified," says Delta Sound project manager Steve Lutley. "The other big challenge was dealing with

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UK - Top-selling British reggae band UB40 have a long history of using InnovaSON consoles on the road, and their ongoing Homegrown tour is no exception. Front-of-house engineer Tom Wiggans is using a digital Sy80 console, having upgraded from a Large Scale as the tour has progressed around the globe. UK PA rental company SSE, who count UB40 as one of their long-term clients, is supplying the consoles.

"When I was asked to mix UB40 at the beginning of the Homegrown tour last November, the Large Scale was the obvious choice," he says. "The first shows were in New Caledonia and Tahiti, so weight was a major concern. I also needed to know I had a piece of kit that was reliable as there isn't a great deal of technical support in the South Pacific!"

However, as the tour progressed, Wiggans found the newly-available Sy80 was the perfect upgrade path from the Lar

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USA - Bogen Communications, Inc. recently announced that it has launched a redesigned company web site at http://www.bogen.com, which is content-driven and user-friendly offering details about products, support services, technical documentation, and corporate information.

The site offers more information on new products and services, sample application drawings, product literature, and technical and sales support including Bogen's Free Design Service. Improved navigation allows visitors to get to the information they need quickly and easily.

Learning Library is a new section, which is dedicated to making technology and paging understandable, as well as offering tips and suggestions for audio system design and installation that save time and money. The Learning Library allows visitors to access product information online as well as documents, charts, and guides that will assist

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USA - Since Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas opened its doors in 1989 as an extension of an existing church in Irving, it has seen phenomenal growth in numbers of its congregation. Today, more than 18,000 people attend five identical services each weekend. The church has a dedicated mixing suite, attached to the video departments master control room, which now houses a Soundtracs DS-00 digital console.

The church campus is a considerable size, comprising a 125,000sq.ft main building with an additional 25,000sq.ft children's building, a 40,000sq.ft adjacent property that has been renovated it into a youth facility and office space, plus a state-of-the-art Creative Communications Center of 80,000sq.ft that contains three children's churches along with breakout rooms and a chapel for weddings, funerals and events.

Fellowship Church Pastor Ed Young's services include a larg

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UK - Pro audio distributor LMC Audio has pledged immediate faith in Soundcraft's new mid-market GB4 console, which received its world debut at this month's PLASA Show. Confirming the first order of six mixed-frame consoles off the production line, LMC MD Paul Hinkly said he was impressed by the overall featureset, particularly the GB30 mic preamps and EQ, designed by Graham Blyth for the company's 30th anniversary last year.

"Our investment decision is an immediate reaction to a great new product, which further underlines Soundcraft's renewed presence in the middle market sector. This is now the main volume area of the console market - even more so than at entry level - and our rationale was driven by being able to further penetrate that with the benefit of the Soundcraft badge."

The new GB4 carries the familiar high quality Soundcraft manufacturing hallmark. Caref

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USA - Road Ready Cases, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty cases, announced the availability of the new RRMPC4000 case, created to protect the Akia MPC4000 digital recording studio.

Developed with the professional in mind, the RRMPC4000 features smart, Road Ready features like a no pressure design removable latchable cover, two access doors, and a unique low-profile base that allows easy access to the system's digital media disks.

"We pride ourselves on having the largest variety of cases in stock by staying on top of the hottest new releases from the biggest names in the industry," explains Agatha Gerutto, Road Ready's director of marketing.

Features include: stackable ball corners, double anchor industrial rivets, recessed, industrial-grade latches, industrial-grade recessed handles, industrial-grade rubber feet, two access doors, premium 3/8" vinyl lamin

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UK - Leisuretec Distribution Ltd distributors of professional sound, visual, lighting and special effects equipment, has released its latest price list and information guide, the Leisuretec Directory 2004.

The 176-page full-colour directory contains useful product images and selling points for each item highlighted, as well as listing prices for the massive product range contained therein. All products and brands are presented alpha-numerically too, making the directory very user-friendly and informative.

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Australia - ARX Systems, the Australian based Pro Audio manufacturer recently announced the appointment of Audio Logic Ltd as its new U.K distributor.

Audio Logic Ltd was recently formed as a wholesale and distribution Company to service the needs of clients in the installation, audio visual, broadcast and sound reinforcement markets. ARX's managing director Colin Park said: "We welcome Audio Logic's Simon Stoll and Matthew Boland to the ARX European Distribution Network. Both Matt and Simon were previously with Raper and Wayman, who distributed ARX for many years until its recent demise. We appreciate their enthusiasm and loyalty to the ARX brand and our products. Most importantly seamless product supply and support is also ensured to our many U.K Customers and Users."

Audio Logic's Simon Stoll continued: "With the quality and range of the products ARX now off

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Germany - QSC Audio has announced the appointment of Sennheiser Vertrieb und Service GmbH as its new distributor in Germany, with effect from October 2004. Commenting on the move, Mauricio Saint Martin, international sales manager for the Costa Mesa, California-based pro-audio systems manufacturer, said: "As we have transitioned from an amplifier manufacturer to a complete systems provider, QSC has been experiencing tremendous growth throughout our international markets. With Sennheiser GmbH, we have found the perfect partner to identify and maximize our opportunities within the German market. We are very confident that this new venture will be successful and profitable for both companies."

Sebastian Schull, sales director responsible for Professional Systems at Sennheiser Vertrieb und Service, responded: "Our aim is to become the largest supplier of professional

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USA - The Boston Music Awards is New England's annual event celebrating the region's wealth of musical talent. This year marks the 17th year of the awards presentation, and this time Meyer Sound joins the party as a sponsor of the exclusive event, which takes place on 29 September at the renowned Avalon club. A Meyer Sound MILO high-power curvilinear array will be on hand to provide sound reinforcement for both the awards ceremony and the spotlight musical performances capping the evening's festivities.

"This is our first year as a sponsor," notes Sandy Macdonald, Meyer Sound's north eastern regional sales manager, "and it shows the company's strong commitment to the New England music scene at all levels, from touring sound companies to clubs and theatres. It's also a great opportunity for a broad cross-section of the music industry to hear first-hand the astonish

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UK - Due for launch at Electronica 2004 is Bulgin's latest waterproof connector, an SMB RF connector. Designed to the same style as Bulgin's 400 Series Buccaneer, the new SMB connector has an overall diameter of just 19mm with a panel fixing hole of 16mm diameter. Rated at IP68, to provide complete protection from harsh environments, the connector uses industry standard SMB plugs and jacks together with RG-174 cable.

The 50 system has a frequency response up to 4GHz utilizing gold-plated bodies and contacts to ensure system performance and reliability is maintained. Tough UL-94V0 rated moulding materials provide complete protection for the SMB interface.

The Flex connector, with an SMB plug, is available in two styles; a re-wireable version, PX0415, that allows the product to be terminated in situ and an pre-wired over moulded construction, PX0416, with three standard lengths

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Germany - d&b audiotechnik's ROPE C is a PC-based graphical drag-and-drop user interface enabling total control of d&b systems through a screen-based virtual surface. d&b has introduced the latest release of Rope C Version 1 that allows the D12 and E-PAC amplifiers to be controlled and monitored via their CAN-Bus interfaces. ROPE C Version 1 allows systems to be remotely configured and gives central access to the user definable EQ and delay functions. Operating elements for all the D12 and E-PAC loudspeaker specific configurations can easily be incorporated into an application from the internal library.

The d&b Remote network is intended for use in any application, either mobile or installed, in which d&b loudspeakers are used. ROPE C is equally at home when used in a jazz club with a small number of amplifiers as it is in an arena touring system, a stadium sound installation,

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USA - Soundelux is now shipping the E250 cardioid tube condenser microphone, designed to address the inherent problems with the modern practice of close-miking loud vocals. Classic tube condenser microphones were never meant to be placed within six-inches of loud vocalists, yet producers and engineers love the presence, size and low-frequency boost this adds to their artist's sound. However, the proximity effect's low-frequency build up and the upper mid-range/treble tilt of many popular old classic cardioid microphones can also work counter-productively, causing problems requiring extensive outboard signal processing.

Designer David Bock remarks: "I started out designing a more affordable and mellow version of the ELUX 251 while still retaining all the 251's meat and sound. Something you can't get from a 47 or any of the other vintage mics. The E250 is not as bright as the

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