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USA - Cerwin-Vega! has announced the introduction of its all-new Intense line of portable sound reinforcements products. These were given a sneak preview on the stand of UK distributors, Lamba plc., at the PLASA Show in London recently, and are now shipping.

The series consists of three new models, with a high level of user-researched features, including titanium compression drivers, plywood cabinets and Cerwin-Vega's exclusive HighRoad horns, for dramatically improved high-end performance and clarity.

"The INTENSE line represents a real step forward for Cerwin-Vega! and gives our customers a highly competitive alternative to the more traditional product lines in this segment," said Domenic Buonincontri, general manager, Cerwin-Vega! "For the first time, we are able to produce an entry level line with the look and the feature sets usually found only in systems c

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UK - The TOA D-901 digital mixer is a fully modular, cost-effective digital mixer featuring a 12-input, 8-bus, 8-output channel configuration (12 x 8 matrix) with easy operation that can be expanded as applications require. The compact (3U rackspace) D-901 incorporates important functions such as digital mixer, feedback suppression, auto mixing, parametric EQ, compression, delay and echo. Its operational scope allows it to do the work that conventionally requires several different pieces of equipment, providing a cost-effective solution for any requirement, say TOA.

As a full-featured digital mixer, the D-901 incorporates several useful built-in functions to ensure maximum performance without the need for other equipment. A compressor can be switched in to reduce the dynamic range between the smallest and largest signals, preventing amplifier clipping at high levels. The flexibl

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UK - The first ever Nordic Music Awards was held recently in Oslo, Norway and rental company Audio One was the chosen live audio supplier for the event. The show, which was held in Oslo Spektrum and broadcast live on Scandinavian television, featured top international artists such as Robbie Williams, Tina Turner, Kylie Minogue, Westlife and Brian McFadden.

The Nordic Music Awards is to be an annual event for Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where national and international artists are chosen in different categories, such as Best International Female Artist, Best Nordic Band, etc.

With an audience of around 9000, the event was completely sold out, meaning a large sound system was required to adequately cover the whole audience listening area. Spektrum is a very wide and steep seated venue, so to have an even SPL coverage is always a real challenge. To do the job proper

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UK - West Molesey based Sound Associates, the UK's largest supplier and installer of high quality cinema projection and sound systems, has just taken delivery of 16 D.A.S. DS-112A active loudspeakers and 16 Sennheiser evolution G2 300-IEM wireless monitor systems. The equipment make up the sound reinforcement system for eight portable cinema systems that Sound Associates is supplying to Film London, part of the Government-backed strategic agency, the UK Film Council. As part of the Digital Fund for Non Theatrical Exhibition, Film London required eight portable cinema systems that could be used in a wide range of multi-purpose venues including schools, colleges, and local halls.

Jerry Murdoch, sales and marketing manager for Sound Associates, explained the system: "The DS-112A gave us a really tough portable system with the clarity, power and dynamics needed for film but, b

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Belgium - Night of The Proms is a high profile music and entertainment spectacular, currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, with 18 sold-out nights in Belgium's largest arena, the 15,000 capacity Antwerp Sportpaleis, before touring to Holland, Germany and France. Belgian production company EML is supplying lighting, sound - and via E/T/C UK - large format projection.

The show is a fusion of popular and classical music, featuring a 72 piece orchestra and 50-strong choir, conducted by Robert Groslot, plus a series of soloists and special guests. The 2004 Antwerp line up includes Joe Cocker, Shaggy, John Miles and James Brown plus a four-piece 'house' electric band and three backing vocalists.

This year several important production changes were made, the main ones being the introduction of the additional visual component of projection and a new layout for the stage. LD

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UK - Franz Ferdinand hit the road this month for a European Tour. Starting at London's Brixton Academy the band visit five venues in France and four in Germany before returning to their home city of Glasgow for two nights at the SECC on the 18 and 19 December. Originally only one night was planned for Glasgow but tickets sold-out so fast that a second date was added.

FOH Engineer for Franz Ferdinand is Parker, and Sennheiser mics and in-ear monitoring are used throughout: evolution e840 on lead vocals, e935 on backing vocals, e602, e903, e614 and e604 on drums, e421 on bass and e606 on guitars. The monitor systems are evolution G2 300 IEM.

Parker explained: "We started using Sennheiser for Franz Ferdinand in March and excellent support from Sennheiser, in both the UK and USA, has enabled us to test and select for the set-up we now use. For example we originally started wi

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UK/France - A.C. Lighting has sold a Yamaha DM2000 digital mixing console to a leading rental company in Monaco. SES is a mid-size touring rental company which specializes in providing quality, advanced technology products to the entertainment industry. The company recently purchased one DM2000 as an upgrade to their existing stock of O2R digital audio consoles - Yamaha's original digital desk, which has remained the professional standard for mixing consoles since it launched in 1995.

Yamaha's flagship, award-winning DM2000 sets the standard for the next generation of high performance digital mixers, which provide users with total production control. The console offers uncompromised audio quality, extensive facilities and innovative features such as 96-kHz audio, surround monitoring, studio manager software and DAW Control.

Gilles Laguionie, audio buyer at SES commented: "

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UK - Mackie has added to its growing collection of awards by winning the prestigious Music Industries Association accolade for Best PA Product of 2004. The award, for the Mackie SRM450 Active PA speaker, was presented to Martin Warr, Loud Technologies' head of UK sales, by MIA president Bob Thomas at the Association's annual Awards Dinner, which took place in October at Sound in London's Leicester Square.

Over 260 guests from across the Music Industry attended the event, at which 40 MIA awards were presented. Commenting on the success of the Mackie SRM450, Martin Warr stated: "It's a great honour to receive this award and we're delighted that the MIA has recognized the impact Mackie's SRM450 speakers have had on the PA industry. For a small speaker the SRM 450 offers incredibly wide dispersion allowing the whole audience to hear clearly, whether they're in the front, back,

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UK - Katie Melua's 2004 UK tour has seen some experimentation that led to permanent changes in what the Georgian-born songstress hears every night from her monitor system.

Russell Sladek has the responsibility for Katie's and the band's stage sound. "On this tour, we have been working with new JBL floor monitors," says Sladek. "The speaker processing that came with the system sounded OK on Katie's monitors, but we tried out an XTA on them and the sound just opened up. It was a night-and-day comparison. "We though it was worth trying and it proved correct. I have used XTAs before and love them. I have done a lot of work with their GQ600 graphic EQ at home in Finland and these are the best."

The other element Sladek wanted was some dynamic compression to work the low-mids on the wedges themselves. "The DiGiCo D5 has so much processing power, but I h

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UK - Singing legend Donovan was recognized for his services to the Scottish music industry at this year's Tartan Clef music awards on Saturday 6 November. A native of Glasgow, Donovan collected the coveted Tartan Clef, sponsored by Sennheiser UK, for Outstanding Contribution to Music - in recognition of his varied and colourful music career, which has spanned more 30 years.

A contemporary of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Donovan is known to generations of music lovers for his guitar playing and his passionate concern for the environment and search for spiritual awareness and knowledge.

Donovan, who recently released Beat Café, his first new CD in eight years and is currently writing his autobiography, was presented with his award by John Steven of Sennheiser UK, before a 500 strong crowd at Glasgow's Radisson SAS hotel. This year's Tartan Clefs, traditionally a highli

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Italy / China - At the end of September 2004, the HQ of Chinese multinational company 'Neo-Neon' hosted a demonstration of the Butterfly line array system from Italian manufacturer, Outline. The demo was attended by 50 of the country's top rental companies, as well as contractors, dealers, sound engineers and professors of acoustics. The rig installed, which was sold after the demo, consisted in 12 CDH483 high-packs, plus four CDL1815 low-packs and six subs per side and was powered by the company's Series T amplifiers and controlled by Genius 6 processors. The vast area chosen for the demo enabled the team to calibrate the Butterfly setup for even coverage from 20m to 120m, and allowed a listening distance of over 200m. Outline's powerful V.I.P. aiming and simulation software was used.

During a workshop held during the same period, the concepts and numerous innovative patents

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UK - Leading RF manufacturer Trantec has recently supplied its innovative S6001 wireless microphone system to broadcast and live events specialists The Wireless Works for the filming of The BBC's topical TV series - Fat Nation.

Screened on prime time TV on BBC 1 and BBC 3, the eight programme series offers practical advice and raises the nation's awareness of the issues of obesity. The Wireless Work's MD Tristian Bickerton specified a number of S6001 systems to join their fleet of OB equipment on location in a residential neighbourhood, north of Birmingham.

Integrated seamlessly to the OB system, The S6001's were used with two fishpoles and RF amplifiers to enable the sound crew to freely run up and down the streets "picking up" crowd effects surrounding the residential area. Deployed also for interviews, the S6001s delivered with an exceptional clarity.

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Spain - The Artistic Investigation Festival, known as Observatori, was recently held at the Prince Phillip Museum at the City of the Arts and Sciences of Valencia. After five years, this multi-disciplinary, cross-media event has become one of Europe's most renowned experimental festivals.

A 30 x 40m venue was setup alongside the visually striking building that makes up Valencia's City of the Arts and Sciences. Concerts were held every night of the three-day event with a daily attendance of over 3,500 visitors. The 15m wide stage and the D.A.S. Aero 48 line array sound reinforcement systems were provided by Valencia based sound rental company Acustic Crom, S.L.

Six Aero 48 large format line array systems were flown from the truss at a height of six metres and the built-in rigging hardware facilitated the installation of the systems in the venue. According to Ricardo Masc

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New Zealand - The Holy Trinity Anglican Parish Church in Tauranga, New Zealand, has risen from the ashes of a disastrous 1999 fire as a striking new structure of concrete and steel, its centerpiece a 900-seat, semi-circular worship auditorium, where a stunning acoustical ceiling treatment (made with rare kauri wood salvaged from the old church) conceals a nearly invisible system of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers. Church music director Peter Minson says of the sound in the new church: "It has a very sweet, natural sound to it. The comment we get from outside people coming in for concerts is that they are not even aware of amplified sound."

The semi-circular seating arrangement made four UPA-1P compact wide coverage loudspeakers an appropriate choice for the main system. These are mounted in the gaps between the overhead acoustical panels, in a left-right-left-ri

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UK - New from Crest Performance - a division of Crest Audio - are two table top/rack mounting consoles. The 16-channel CPM-2426 features 16 mic inputs and 24 line inputs with stereo line-in on channels 9-16. Other features include six auxiliary buses, four groups and stereo master. Mono inputs offer 3-band mid sweep EQ, with stereo input offering 3-band EQ. The CPM-9812P boasts a 2 x 500W built-in amplifier and stereo, graphic EQ with feedback pointer. Other features are eight mono/mic line inputs with 3-band EQ, stereo line input, monitor output, plus one FX output feeding an internal 32-bit FX unit.

Also new from Crest Performance is the CPT Series of loudspeaker enclosures. Offering crisp highs and smooth mid-range performance, the CPT Series is recommended for small- to medium-sized speaking and performance venues, plus all permanent fixed installations. Models CPT-1, CPT-2

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UK - Working with two key suppliers, Northern Light and New Box, Kelsey, the leading manufacturer and supplier of professional audio and lighting cables, has taken a central role in the infrastructure for The Performance Academy, the new further education music, performing arts and media centre opened by Newcastle College, and the largest of its kind in the UK.

One of the first such centres for mixed media studies, the building provides accommodation for all Newcastle College's music, performing arts and mixed media courses. It contains a 250-seat flexible theatre, a music venue for an audience of 500, a 60-seat studio theatre, 10 recording studios, rehearsal rooms, television studio, drama and dance studios, and a radio station.

New Box and Northern Light were involved in different areas of the Performance Academy's construction. However, both turned to Kelsey Acoustics for h

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The Netherlands - The Dutch national broadcaster NOS from Hilversum has chosen the Marantz PMD670 as the standard ENG device for its radio reporters in news and sports, placing an order for 65 units with specialist dealer Onyx. The order includes 65 Marantz PMD670 Compact Flash card recorders, and a full range of accessories such as carrying cases, rechargeable batteries, microphones, headphones and cables.

After extensive research and testing throughout the summer, NOS settled on the Marantz PMD670 as the universal choice by the several news and sports departments of NOS radio (Radio 1 journaal, Langs de lijn). It was considered to be the most user-friendly recorder, admired for its traditional design and layout of controls. Five solid-state recorders were tested, and journalists praised the easy and reliable operation of the PMD670, voicing a preference for working with exter

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UK - Tony award-winning American composer, lyricist and virtuoso pianist Jason Robert Brown wowed London audiences last month with a four-night run at the intimate New Players' Theatre in London - with state-of-the-art sound reinforcement courtesy of EM Acoustics. The system, comprising three EMS-121 enclosures, two EMS-215 subwoofers, three I-1 front-fills, two EMS-81 delays and a single M-12 monitor, was powered by MC2 amplification and was supplied by Autograph Sound Recording to a specification from sound designer Mark Dunne.

Jason Robert Brown was joined for the production by several of the West End's most revered leading ladies, including Golda Rosheuvel, Clare Burt and Frances Rufelle in a cabaret-style performance of his most popular songs. "Although the performances consisted of just vocal and piano, the fidelity of the sound system was paramount to the production,

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The Netherlands - Dutch hire company Rombouts Showequipment placed an order for an impressive rig of Sound Projects' line array, Linex, with the first 32 Linex systems delivered in October, just in time to prepare transport cases and amp-racks - because 12 were booked the same day by Tom O'Brian, front-of-house engineer of the legendary folk group The Dubliners, for a gig in the beautiful Amsterdam Concertgebouw. An additional system was put up at the two-day Kraanpop festival hosting a selection of the most famous DJs.

Rombouts became curious after hearing that Linex rigs were used in Switzerland for concerts with Toto, Europe and Status Quo, at a heavy metal festival in Germany and also for a concert of jazz giant Joe Zawinul, the founder of Weather Report. The company conducted its own comprehensive comparative tests on the logistics and ergonomic qualities of the Sound Proj

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UK - Audio Light Systems Ltd is a new company created to provide informed proposals and installations for design teams, contractors and clients. Utilizing the latest software, the company says it can design "technically outstanding and quality controlled installations on time and within budget". From conception to completion and training, this new company is offering consultation, installation and project management for new build, refurbishment and upgrade projects nationwide, covering audio, lighting, AV or specialist systems.

The company's core design team of Eddy O'Hare, Roland Chadwick and Trevor Cross have been involved in projects of all scales throughout the globe for the last 25 years and are familiar names in the installation and consultancy sectors. They are currently involved in projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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UK - Since becoming a certified Yamaha Digital Dealer earlier this year, A.C. Lighting's Audio division has sold through its entire stock allocation of DM1000 digital production consoles for the fourth consecutive month.

The supply of these consoles to companies operating in the live PA, recording studio and front-of-house audio environments reflects the multi-purpose nature of DM1000, with A.C. reporting customers ranging from the West Yorkshire Playhouse to production companies behind several leading popular music acts. Sharing all the major features of the award-winning DM2000 console, the DM1000 also offers 96kHz audio, surround monitoring, studio manager and DAW control.

Commenting on the company's sales success with the DM1000, A.C.'s Audio sales manager, Peter Butler, attributes this to matching the customer's needs with the most suitable product and offering a total

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USA - Kansas City's historic Argosy Casino has recently undergone a complete renovation and is now in a new home. Sound-wise the casino has integrated a brand new way of processing, routing and controlling audio within this far more complex and demanding sound environment than the original facility. TSI Inc, the St. Charles, Missouri-based AV systems integrator that coordinated installation of the casino's AV system, made SymNet - the modular audio mixing, routing and processing system from Symetrix Audio - the hub of the casino's sophisticated audio system.

"As we began designing the system in July 2003, we realized we were going to need something with more control and flexibility, to do things with the audio system, than the old casino facility provided," says Mark Schultz, the TSI design specialist who helped coordinate the Argosy project. "With SymNet, we hav

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USA - US-based design firm Environmental Acoustics Inc (EAI) and Performance Audio Video Lighting & Stage Systems Inc (PAVL) have chosen Digigram's EtherSound audio bridges as the cornerstone of the audio distribution system in the new Student Life Center at the Lancaster Christian School, Lancaster, PA, USA. The signal routing flexibility of EtherSound networks and the low cost of standard Ethernet components like switches and Cat 5 cables were key for EAI and PAVL to design a highly flexible audio control system, which allows for operator control at four different locations and meets the budget requirements of this privately funded institution. EtherSound networks distribute up to 64 channels of 24-bit digital audio at 48kHz, plus control information, over a single Ethernet cable - with only 125 microseconds latency.

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Denmark - Mach has launched a new range of medium-throw speakers for the installation market. The CM Series is a line of dedicated compact top boxes specifically developed to produce high SPL and controlled dispersion. Mach say it is suited to venues requiring audio clarity and high power performance such as clubs, bars, cafés, lounges, restaurants, churches, hotels, fitness studios, conference rooms and shopping malls. The CM Series can be used in combination with a subwoofer or as a delay speaker.

The CM 9, 12, 15 and 18 all feature a rotatable horn for optimum dispersion and can be easily switched from passive to active mode through a multi-pin connector. The range was co-designed by contractors for contractors, say Mach, with ease of installation in mind and as such features an innovative mounting system, which along with the rotatable horn, allows for total flexibility wh

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