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The exhibition covers all areas of technical theatre and is described by the organizers as "a wonderful opportunity for our students to showcase their talents and skills for prospective employers. The exhibition will be of particular interest to anyone connected with or curious about technical theatre work or training."

Mountview's BA (Hons) Technical Theatre course covers five main disciplines: lighting, sound, construction, design and stage management and the exhibition promises to reflect the broad range of skills the students have developed during their training.

Mountview claims to be the only drama school to offer a two-year fast-track degree course in technical theatre, providing "the pract

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The company says that Audio Telex, Australian Monitor and CCS will continue to operate in exactly the same way as they have in the past, but with the full support and backing of the Hills group members, and that the Audio Telex and CCS company structures will not change beyond directorships and board representa

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The white two-storey building is a well-recognized feature of the ground, commanding excellent views of the field of play from the upper and lower balconies. With eight loudspeakers mounted under the canopy on the lower balcony, and four on the upstairs balcony, the sound system has four zones of audio level control, allowing changes to be made for different occasions. There are also two interior Bose speaker systems for low level commentary or background music.

Bose recently signed an agreement to become a Corporate Partner of Guards Polo Club and h

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A statement announcing the split says: "Due to recent changes in the Sennheiser worldwide product portfolio it was decided that the Adamson brand of products is now in direct conflict with Sennheiser owned products."

"We have been very happy with the efforts of Sennheiser UK in promoting, selling and supporting the Adamson brand in the UK and it is disappointing for Adamson that this situation has occurred," says Andy Weingärtner, DV2 European sales manager. "There is a synergy between Adamson and Lab.gruppen, which is a Sennheiser U

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Says Community: "iBOX are particularly suitable for regional theatre, offering the transparent, natural audio needed for high-end productions but with the power and dynamics to provide for the range of variety acts and bands that are commonly hosted."

The iBOX 1200 Series combines a 12" mid/bass driver with a 2" HF (1.4" exit) on a large format horn, providing uniform pattern control. Six rotatable horn patterns offer precise coverage and arrayability. Each full-range cabinet operates from 45Hz to 18kHz with power handling of 500W continuous. For sys

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An experienced monitor engineer, Brooks brings 18 years of experience to his new post. He has worked with many high profile acts, including *NSYNC, Will Smith and George Benson, and his credits include numerous broadcast and festival events in the US and Europe. He has also worked as a system design engineer for SPL Integrated Solutions, a permanent installation contractor, where his projects included audio system designs for stadium, theatre and mall projects.

Brooks' duties will encompass system design modelling, providing support for DSP unit preset revisions, study of installation schemes, custom

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"I am thrilled about this new assignment," says Schluenzen. "This company has an excellent working environment and huge potential within all three brands. It's great to join the company in this exciting time and be able to help Hans' vision become a reality."

Schluenzen has been w

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Along with an X-Line Very Compact system, Arjen Kijk in de Vegte, managing director of HVB AV Rental, invested in a range of other gear from EVI Audio, including RE-1 and RE-2 wireless microphone systems, one Verona and ten Venice 160 consoles from MIDAS, and a variety of CP amps from Electro-Voice and processors from Klark Teknik. Among his reasons for this major investment, de Vegte cited "outstanding dynamic performance, international reputation and service".

(Jim Evans)

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Introduced less than a year ago, the Lake Mesa Quad EQ is a 4x4 digital matrix processor designed for use in stand-alone or networked concert sound, recording, mastering, and broadcast studio applications.

Justin Baird, director of production management, Lake Technology, commented, "To receive a second TEC Award nomination is a great honour, and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of our supporters out there! The Mesa EQ is being instal

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"In four successful years since setting up Live Business International," says Hemming, "we built a very strong team and an excellent client list. Having founded the business and established the team, it was time for me to move on to meet new challenges. The industry continues to evolve and embrace new technologies and I'm excited to be out there at the sharp end of it."

Hemming's 18-year career has included working as a sound engineer and designer at Theatre Projects where he set up the UK's first show control division renting out computer control of sound and lighting in the technology's infancy. In 1998 he was appointed head of sound for the Millennium Dome pr

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Jamie Gosney has joined Paddon at Amber Sound, bringing with him over 20 years of technical sales and end-user experience across all sectors of pro audio. Mike Charman is on board to focus on communication systems and the broadcast market, while Claire Paddon joins the team, bringing with her experience in sales, PR and marketing.

"Amber Sound is something I've wanted to do for many many years," says Paddon, "I've teamed up with some great manufacturers to offer high-end prod

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Previewing songs from their new album, Oasis played such unlikely London venues as The Coronet, as well as the Astoria, Clapham Grand and Hammersmith Apollo, with PA provided by top rental house SSE Hire, with Britannia Row supplying monitors and FOH sound engineer Bruce Johnston (Bruce Johnston Audio Services) the FOH control. It was a blessing for system tech Dan Lewis, therefore, when SSE Hire's Richie Rowley announced that he could make the new BSS Soundweb London BLU-80 available to afford him greater control options.

Lewis, who has been working with the

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Live music plays a prominent role in the Church's services, and a number of touring Christian music bands perform there, so technical expectations are high. After extensive discussions with Shuttlesound, the Midas distributor in the UK, the Church selected the Legend with 32 mono plus 4 stereo channels, supplied to Modern AV by Autograph Sound.

The Church is based in a large modern building that was previously a warehouse but is now home to one of the New Frontiers group of churches. Its services are held in a large meeting hall on the upper floor with regular congregations of around 900 worshippers.

"The layout of the building didn't provide space for a permanent

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This was a three-part seminar that took place over four hours and began with a presentation from John Taylor titled Demystifying audio techniques, which embraced visual images, experiments and practical demonstrations that included the assistance of Daisy the duck*. This part of the session was aimed at expanding the participant's knowledge in order to obtain the maximum benefit from sound systems, concluding with what constitutes a well-behaved loudspeaker and how it affects what we hear. Ralf Zuleeg then took the stage to look at

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HSL is now streamlined into three divisions. HSL Rental is "fully committed to ongoing investment in the latest technology to offer lighting designers and specifiers all the cutting-edge creative tools". HSL Rigging provides bespoke rigging solutions to corporate, theatre and live music events and HSL Sales & Distributions is the sole UK and Irish distributor for Community Loudspea

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The decision to opt for the LR16s was made after extensive testing of the system during a number of high profile concerts with the Dutch Horn Ensemble, North Netherlands Orchestra and the Marines band in such venues as Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Rotterdam's De Doelen theatre.

HOF owner Bart Hof comments: "The projection of the system is impressive, it gives an honest reproduction, perfect imaging, crystal clear response and speech intelligibility is unsurpassed as a result of the ribbon technology. With the LR16 we can now offer a

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Neves' pro audio industry beginnings date back to the early '90s when he started designing concert systems and studios in Brazil. Over the past ten years, he has been involved with sales and marketing for Digidesign, Loud Technologies and other companies in Latin America. He also co-authored the book Tecnologia aplicada à Música (Technology applied to Music).

"We feel very fortunate to have found Adi for this position," says Paul Freudenberg, vice-president of sales and marketing for L-Acoustics US. "His rich background in electronics, sales and marketing, combined with his intimate familiarity with the Latin American market, will undoubtedly afford us an increased presence from Baja Californi

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For Lienard, the addition of a D1 to his console stock was the logical step to take. "You can customise the D1 very easily to suit your requirements for a particular show or event," explains Lienard. "It reduces the need for outboard equipment, and consequently space - a real bonus at front of house and during transportation - because the console has such excellent internal effects processing it's not necessary to carry extra racks with you. It has the added advan

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In terms of covering the biggest area and using the most inputs, Fame Academy is the largest of the productions to have used the brace of PM1Ds. The desks have also been used by Blitz on The Games for Channel 4 and on Channel 5's The Farm. Russell says: &

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The Church enlisted the services of Fort Worth Electro Acoustics & Video consulted where president Chris Jordan comments: "At first, I was pretty certain the church would have to reinstall the acoustical panels to achieve a more desirable reverb time. However, I'd heard about EAW's DSA Series line arrays, which can steer the output directly at the congregation, and away from the troublesome reflective surfaces. This proved to be an elegant and practical solution to the problems at Northway."

Jordan continues, "The DSAs are incredibly compact and unobtrusive for all the sound they put out, but we made them even le

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In recent years, live concerts at Webster Hall have been a rarity, with only a handful being promoted by media giant Clear Channel, and the venue's focus has been almost exclusively on dance music. Now, The Bowery Presents (TBP), a local concert promotion company that also owns and handles shows for the Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge, is bringing live music back to the 120-year-old venue.

Designer Matt Kasha's newly-installed sound system comprises twin dV-DOSC/dV-SUB line source arrays hung to the left and right of the Grand Ballroom stage. Each array has a single dV-SUB with 12 dV-DOSC cabinets flown below and three additional dV-SUBs hung at show trim. To augment the syste

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The DTS system saw service at the Tower for two weeks from 19 May through to 4 June 2005 in the Tower of London's Salt Tower, which in medieval times was used to store the saltpetre which was used in the manufacture of gunpowder.

Serious Productions commissioned Sigma AV as they were the only company to have a DTS solution for a specific work that was recorded by Platinum Tones recording Studios in Leicester. Tony Platt, producer for the piece, said he was overwhelmed by the quality and attention to detail that Outline and Sigma achieved.

(Lee Baldock)

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"I got to use the MILO system with Metallica when we were in Iceland," Owen recounts. "We were coming off of two years of touring with them where we saw just about every kind of system available on the European festival circuit. Now, I take (Metallica FOH engineer) Big Mick's opinion on a system more than anyone else's, having known him for twenty-five years. After using M