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UK - In recognition of the changes taking place across the recording industry, APRS, the Professional Recording Association, has introduced a number of new membership categories designed to address the needs of the smaller professional and non-professional members, as well as the Association's existing established membership.

Musicians and engineers who have an interest in creating music but don't make a living from it are being encouraged to join the Music Maker Category D, which cost £75 per year. Benefits include technical advice via a dedicated e-group, quarterly bulletins, invitations to APRS social events, a copy of the APRS handbook and a listing in the handbook and on the Association's website.

Musicians and engineers who do earn their living from making music can now join the Professional Music Maker Category C, which costs £125 per year. This category is aimed at p

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UK - Carlsbro has developed the Liberty wireless system, a "unique" product, say the company, that allows any powered speaker to be linked to any mixer, without cables. The initial system is supplied with one transmitter and two receivers, although additional receivers are available singularly for larger speaker and installation configurations and will operate from the same transmitter.

The Liberty's uniqueness, say Carlsbro, come from the fact that it broadcasts a 2.4GHz uncompressed signal suitable for multi-speaker and multi-room environments, which means a high quality of output, almost without loss. The Liberty Wireless was developed primarily for the installation and professional PA markets, but is useful in any environments where cables are used, say Carlsbro.

(Lee Baldock)

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The Netherlands - XTA Electronics has supplied 12 of its DS800 mic/line distribution units to a new centre for live music in Amsterdam. Continuing the current vogue for building new concert halls on waterfront locations, the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ has risen from the industrial wasteland of Amsterdam's former docks area, a 10-minute walk from the city's central train station. Designed by the Danish architecture partnership 3XNielsen with interior devised by Christian Bouma, the building takes full advantage of its position, offering visitors spectacular views of Amsterdam from its public spaces.

The main hall of the Muziekgebouw, which is due to open on 15 June, is an 800-seat auditorium featuring an electrically movable ceiling and rear stage wall, removable ground-level seating, and colour-changing, LED lighting built into its interior walls. All this provides a suitably unpredi

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UK - JBL Professional's integrated line array loudspeaker system, VerTec, was specified by Concert Sound for Cream's recent reunion shows at the Royal Albert Hall. Performing together for the first time in nearly 40 years, apart from a brief re-emergence in 1993, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker received much critical and public acclaim.

The production was co-ordinated by Eric Clapton's touring team, led primarily by production manager Mick Double. Having also worked with Double on Eric Clapton's annual run of gigs at the Albert Hall for several years, sound contractor Concert Sound has honed the required audio design for the venue to a fine art, making them an obvious choice for perfecting the meticulous sound needed for the Cream's performances.

Since last year, JBL's VerTec line array system has been used regularly by Concert Sound for Clapton's live shows. Concert

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USA - Inspired by the success of a special one-off concert in New York in August 2004, singer/songwriters Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren, together with special guests Ethel, a contemporary string quartet, have now taken the show on the road throughout North America and Europe. The tour utilizes Sennheiser and Neumann microphones not only for the performance but also for the nightly live recordings, captured by front-of-house engineer George Cowan.

Cowan, who is also acting as tour manager, says that the original plan was to take Jackson's pair of Neumann KMS 105 vocal microphones out on tour. "We meant to use them from the very beginning, because Joe had bought two on the last tour we were on - but he couldn't find them!" So the tour set off with a different microphone on Jackson's vocals. Then, he says, "We did a recording with a truck, and the truck had a 105, so

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UK - DL Electronics, Duran Audio's Northern Ireland dealer, has installed two AXYS Intellivox Digital Directivity Controlled loudspeaker arrays in the recently refurbished St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast. The interior of the Cathedral has been completely restored and as part of this D.L. Electronics was employed to install a new sound system that would ensure a high level of speech intelligibility within this marvelous interior. The AXYS Intellivox units are used to cover the main area of the nave.

"This is the fourth Cathedral that we have installed Intellivox arrays in. The units were chosen by the design team, which included Northern Ireland based Acoustic Consultant Peter Lloyd, for many reasons," said David Dalzell from DL Electronics. "The system is more intelligible, thanks to Duran Audio's Directivity Control technology, than conventional solutions and it

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UK - At the Hilton Brighton Metropole, the increasing popularity of the hotel's exhibition halls for different types of events has meant that the risk of noise disturbing local residents has also increased. Loading and unloading of vehicles for exhibitions is strictly controlled to certain hours of the day, but evening functions, with either DJs or live bands, have caused complaints from some local residents. Local acoustic specialists 24Acoustics and Big Sky Audio were called in to work with the local authorities and sound installation company Xtreme Audio Visual to find a solution.

Following analysis, it was concluded that the only way the hotel could ensure absolute control of the noise within its largest exhibition hall was to install a house PA system. Future calculations for sound isolation within the structure could then be based on a known and predictable system with bui

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Russia - 65 dealers and rental companies from all over Russia attended the annual Electro-Voice Russian Dealers' Academy in Moscow's Kuzminky Hall on 26 April. This year, host Gregory Ronin, MD of EVI Audio's Russian partner Ruton S, together with Walter Reh (EVI Audio) and Peter Hallstein (Electro-Voice) were able to offer participants an exciting programme including a presentation of EV's latest sound reinforcement systems, such as the ZX4, ZX5, X-Line Very Compact System, XLC and SxA powered speaker systems; a guide to the current EV microphone range (with suggestions as to how best to promote sales); workshops and demos; and live music (from the USB band).

The event was reported to be a great success: Gregory Ronin noted: "Word of the quality of Electro-Voice systems is spreading in Russia, as is borne out by the year-on-year increase in the number of visitors attending

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France / USA - Continuing to consolidate efforts and maximize efficiencies, L-Acoustics US and L-Acoustics have recently merged the content of their previously independent websites. The newly combined site provides a single, convenient web destination for anyone looking for L-Acoustics-related information. A Kudo presentation on the site's splash page delivers complete details on the concept, implementation and achievable results of the manufacturer's new horizontal and vertical line source array system. The website also offers comprehensive information on the rest of L-Acoustics' product line, recent news from around the globe, technical support and R&D details, downloadable user manuals and DSP presets, and many other notable resources.

(Lee Baldock)

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Spain - Spanish professional audio manufacturer, Pinanson, has announced at the AES convention in Barcelona that it has become the latest company to select the EtherSound standard as the vehicle for delivering digital audio distribution to its customers.

Pinanson manufactures audio and video connectivity tools including splitters, patchbays, stageboxes, multicores, cables, connectors and a large number of accessories. Until now, the company has been dedicated to the analogue model, but with the increasing use of digital technology in the marketplace, Pinanson has taken the decision to incorporate digital technology, specifically EtherSound, into its own products in order to offer their customers maximum choice and flexibility. The first digital product to be manufactured is a stagebox featuring 48 EtherSound inputs (mic and line) and 16 EtherSound outputs.

Pinanson's president

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UK - Since its opening in 1997, Itsu has become synonymous with chic yet accessible Japanese eating. Owned and run by the same duo responsible for the Pret A Manger chain, Itsu currently has four sites across London. The flagship restaurant in Chelsea boasts an enviable location in the heart of Brompton Cross. When the decision was taken to upgrade its sound system, restaurant manager Dan Levine turned to AV specialist Sound Division.

Sound Division's David Graham explained that the brief was to refurbish and upgrade the existing Bose installation and reconfigure it into a multi-zone system. "Stage one of the project was to replace and zone the upstairs level which comprises three sections; the main lounge bar; an intimate 'Cocoon' bar for 6-8 people which can be hired out on a private basis; and a walkway which connects the two." The system is based on the Bose Freest

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UK - Carlsbro has introduced the Wanderer and Wanderer Deluxe portable PA system series, aimed at a range of applications including seminars, training classes, street entertainers and aerobics classes. The Wanderer is available in three versions, say Carlsbro: the Wanderer Deluxe (with true diversity handheld UHF radio microphone) is a 50W RMS unit with two 8" speakers, a CD Player, cassette tape player/recorder; master volume, echo, tone and tape/CD level controls; voice priority function; mains or battery (4-hour life) operation; two microphone inputs and MP3/Minidisc input. The Wanderer Deluxe is also available with a headset mic, while the basic Wanderer system is supplied without a microphone. All versions come with a trolley handle and wheels, and a pole mount.

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Australia - New to Australian Monitor's Installation Series, the AMIS ZRM4 is an easy to use, yet highly featured 1U zone routing mixer, say the company. It features six inputs that can be balanced XLR mic or dual RCA/balanced XLR line level, all available to any combination of four zone outputs.

Input one can be designated as a paging input with priority over all other inputs individually selectable at each zone output. Front panel switches with LED indication provide for simple routing of each input. Each input has bi-colour status LED indication and two-stage equalization. Each input has an internal gain trim which can provide a further +/-15dB of gain. Phantom power and high-pass filters are also supplied per input. Outputs feature bi-colour status LEDs and remote master volume VCA control.

Also new, from The Australian Monitor AMAV brand, the AV25PS and AV40PS are active

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USA - The Foo Fighters have switched the majority of its onstage microphones to Sennheiser for its current tour, which kicked off in May with a handful of UK and US radio festival shows. The equipment in use features Sennheiser Evolution 600 and 900 series microphones on drums and percussion, plus the Sennheiser MD431-II for lead singer Dave Grohl.

"I've wanted to try a 431 on Dave's vocals for a long time," reveals monitor engineer Ian Beveridge, a Scot who has worked with the band, "pretty much my whole life. It's a long-term thing." He comments: "A lot of companies manufacture a spike in the mic response, but I wanted something that was totally flat. The 431 is the flattest vocal mic I've ever heard, even flatter than a lot of condensers. You can make it sound however you like. And it's amazingly smooth."

The MD431-II, which won out in an A/B t

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Spain - An Adamson SpekTrix system has been installed at Petit Palau, a small concert hall that was recently completed as part of the renovation of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Spain.

The Petit Palau is situated below street level, with audience seating for 538. The room is primarily used for recitals by choirs and chamber ensembles. On either side of the stage three SpekTrix enclosures are installed above a SpekTrix Sub. Power for the installation is via two Lab.Gruppen FP3400 and two FP6400 amplifiers, with two Adamson DX6000s used for processing. The sound system package, supplied by Lambda/2 of Barcelona, offers the possibility to extend the system further using additional enclosures. The contractor for the project was Barcelona-based FM2.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Palau de la Música Catalana is considered to be one of the world's most magnificen

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UK - Sound Division has installed audio systems for the newly-opened Nuevo Latino themed Cube & Star restaurant in Hoxton Square, London. The venue is run by Mark Turner who also operates Malecon in Dubai.

The three-zone system at Cube & Star has been designed to showcase the music from contemporary Latin jazz musicians, brought over from Cuba, and lounge DJ's from across Europe.

"The right music is fundamental in setting the scene when you're having dinner and drinking a Mojito," says Turner, who will present a crossover of genres - from salsa to Brazilian samba and Cuban son, in an Oceans 12-style soundtrack pastiche, delivered from multiplay CD and computer.

Sound Division provided a DJ input point (and customised DJ booth) and used the dbx ZonePro 1261 - a 10 x 6 Digital Zone Processor - to store different gain setting feeds, which are routed to J

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UK - Mountview's Technical Theatre students will be presenting an exhibition of their work at the Candid Galleries, London EC1 on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 June 2005.

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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Australia - On 1 June, after nearly 30 years of steady growth, Australian distribution companies Audio Telex Communications Pty Ltd and Crestron Control Solutions Pty Ltd (CCS) have become members of the Hills Industries group of companies. Hill Industries is one of Australia's largest and most successful companies, with over $800m in annual sales, and comprising engineering and electronics companies including Pacific Communications, Direct Alarm Supplies, Hills Antenna and TV Systems, Hills Transmission Solutions, Access Television Services and Hills Electronic Security.

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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UK - Guards Polo Club has selected a Bose audio system for the Royal Box enclosure at Smiths Lawn in Windsor Great Park. Installed by Show Connections, the system is designed to "give an even balanced coverage of the live commentary during matches, whilst leaving clear sight lines from the Royal Box onto the polo field".

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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UK - Sennheiser UK and DV2 France have agreed "to end their cooperation on distribution of Adamson Systems Engineering loudspeakers". Sennheiser UK was appointed as the exclusive distributor in 2003. DV2, the European support arm for Adamson products will now support and sell to the UK market direct from France.

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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UK - Community Professional Loudspeakers has chosen this month's ABTT for the UK introduction of the first of its new iBOX range of installation loudspeakers, offering "a straightforward approach to implementing arrays, clusters and distributed systems with just two sizes of discrete enclosures".

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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France - L-Acoustics has announced the appointment of David Brooks to the technical support department. Reporting to technical support director Paul Bauman, Brooks' arrival coincides with L-Acoustics' goal to develop the customer support on its 3D simulation software, Soundvision.

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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Germany - Music & Sales GmbH, the company behind renowned brands HK Audio, Hughes & Kettner and Mindprint, has employed Ralf Schluenzen as its new product and marketing director. "Ralf's appointment illustrates that our company is entering the next phase of growth," explains Hans Stamer, the group's managing director. "Stefan Fischer, our former marketing director, will now focus on brand and strategic development as brand director, with Ralf focusing on the product and marketing processes. This will allow us to act even faster in this quickly evolving market."

"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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The Netherlands - The newly launched X-Line Very Compact sound reinforcement system from Electro-Voice is proving a hit in the Dutch pro audio sector: in three weeks, EVI Audio's Dutch partner Electric Audio BV has sold three complete systems with the 2 x 8" XLD configuration. The three purchasers are HVB AV Rental & Staging (Almere), Kersjes PA Service (Beuningen) and MJ Sound (Breda).

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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