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Norway - Norwegian fiddle player Andreas Ljones believes in pushing the boundaries when playing and recording with his two bands by combining the latest technology with traditional instruments. Some of the most recent additions to his armory include a DPA 4088 miniature cardioid headset microphone, which is being used in a somewhat unconventional manner.

Ljones has started using the 4088 traditionally used as a headset mic for vocal applications - for his fiddle when playing live with the Andreas Skeie Ljones band, but turning the microphone boom around so that it points towards the instrument. He has found its cardioid characteristics mean the mic is much less sensitive to feedback when sharing a stage with other amplified instruments, and it can be used with his wireless transmitter to allow free movement on stage.

"I achieved some great results during tests of the 4088

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Australia / Cyprus - ARX Systems, the Australian based manufacturer of Professional Audio Equipment is very pleased to announce the appointment of S&V Mega Sound as their new Distributor for Cyprus. Nicosia-based S&V Megasound was established by Stelios Petrids and Mr Vassos Mouzouras in 2000, and alongside ARX also represents manufacturers including Mackie, Renkus-Heinz, XTA and RCF.

ARX's managing director Colin Park said: "Stelios Petrides and I finalised our distribution agreement, at last month's Pro Light&Sound in Frankfurt. S&V are a very professional company; Stelios and Vassos are very well known in the Cyprus industry as men of integrity and they're both a pleasure to work with. The Cypriot audio industry is a vibrant and growing market, especially with the increased levels of tourism the island is experiencing and having one of the 'big five' Cypriot Distributors

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UK / Belgium - Audient plc has appointed A.S.C. as official distributor for both the Audient and LA Audio ranges of products in Belgium. A.S.C., located on the edge of Brussels, is active in every sector of the live, recording and broadcast markets. Luke Baldry, sales and marketing director for Audient says: "There are many points to consider with distribution in Belgium, not least to find a company who can offer a complete distribution solution for our varied range of products but also to cover both the French and Flemish speaking areas of the country. A.S.C. cover every aspect that we are seeking."

The Audient and LA Audio lines complement the other products distributed by A.S.C., providing high quality pro audio products for a range of applications, say Audient. Etienne Lambert, sales director at A.S.C., adds: "We are very excited about working with the Audient

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UK - Sound Foundation and Allen & Heath have announced that the first showing in the UK of Allen & Heath's new GL2400, GL2800 and GL3800 mixing consoles will take place on the 9th, 10th and 11th of July 2005 at the Sound Foundation in Reading. All sound engineers, musicians and representatives of venues, clubs, theatres and churches are invited to the showing, which will also include the Allen & Heath ML range.

The Sound Foundation can be found at Unit 23 Headley Park Area 10, Woodley, Reading, Berks, RG5 4SW. Further information is available from the Sound Foundation website. To register, please email the address below.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Sound Division used their conceptual experience of lighting and staging to help transform the Sky Bar at the London Coliseum into a 1950s style jazz cocktail bar for a star-studded Tribute To Leonard Bernstein. The party, hosted by Jerry Hall, followed the Sky and Artsworld presentation of the English National Opera's On The Town, and was dominated by a stunning New York skyline - designed by Ed Thorpe and design director Adrian Harrison from the Special Projects team in Creative Services at Sky Television (Sky are season sponsors of the English National Opera). This formed an exhilarating backdrop, which was subtlely brought to life by Sound Division, working through the event's public relations agency Premier PR.

With little space to operate behind the black drapes, the company chose to integrate LED lights into the set itself, providing a twinkling night sky via t

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UK - FX Rentals provided some of the sound equipment for London's first Encompass DJ festival which took place around the hip bars of Shoreditch and Hoxton. The three-day event featured around 100 international electronic music and visual performers including Goldie, DJ Food, Speedy J and Jazzanova. FX supplied DJ packages to venues including Cargo, The Spitz, 93 Feet East, and The Vibe Bar. Among the large amount of equipment supplied were Technics SL1210 record decks, Pioneer DJM600 DJ mixers and CDJ1000 scratch CD players, Shure radio mic kits, Shure and AKG dynamic and condenser mics, Mackie mixers and speakers, plus a range of backline and outboard equipment.

Festival organizer Jon Terry said of FX Rentals: "Their involvement meant we could relax knowing that our extensive equipment requirements were taken care of. In the end, despite last minute additions and the fact

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UK - A fledgling Hull company is reporting continued success in creating a set of high tech equipment which it claims is revolutionising the DJ profession. Computer DJ - set up with the support of business development expertise from the University of Hull - is carving out a niche for itself by designing and producing systems for playing digital music for both the Mobile DJ and fixed installations. All systems are custom-built offering touch screen facilities and biometric fingerprint security.

This innovative blend of new hardware and software, which has cost up to a quarter of a million pounds to develop, allows the DJ to drag and drop their music files into play lists - allowing their full collection to be stored on one complete system. Shaun Minns, managing director of Computer DJ, based at the SHINE Knowledge and Innovation Park in east Hull, got the idea for his unique prod

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Italy - One of Milan's most popular clubs is planning to expand its universe: this summer, the classic La Banque restaurant and nightclub will open a unique outdoor venue, La Banque Estiva, located just a few miles north of central Milan. This new venture by La Banque's owners, the Maiorana family company Progemir, is a contrast to the original venue, which inhabits wood panelled marbled premises in an old city bank: with the large restaurant and lounge bar on the first floor, the disco is downstairs in the old bank vault, and the whole venue is elegantly furnished with deep red curtains and fittings which attract a diverse crowd of all ages. Footballers, politicians, stars of TV and the nearby La Scala opera house can be found alongside fashion models and businessmen.

Franco Maiorana expects the same crowd to follow him to La Banque Estiva, or the 'summer bank', where the cuisi

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USA - Turbosound's Aspect series of loudspeakers recently completed its US festival debut at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. One of the USA's largest annual festivals, the two-day event featured five performance stages, with rental company Rat Sound Systems Inc deploying a 34-enclosure Aspect rig for the festival's Mojave Tent. The Aspect design's accurate, tightly-focused dispersion pattern helped to reduce reflections from the tent's sidewalls, while also limiting the spill into adjacent tents, say the company.

The Mojave Tent was filled to capacity during the festival, with some 5,000 people inside, and a further 1,000 or so listening in at the doorways. Rat Sound's Turbosound Aspect system utilized a total of 12 TA-890H mid/highs and 18 TA-890L (2 x 15") bass cabinets, plus a further four TA-890H units as fills, with their waveguides r

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UK - Lez Patterson, production manager and FOH engineer for the live stage at the London Guitar Show, held at the Wembley Exhibition Centre on 7-8 May, spec'd a stage full of Audio-Technica mics for the event. Patterson, whose sound company, Q Audio, has run the live performance stage for the Guitar Show for several years, spec'd the mics after positive experience and feedback from artists, when he used A-T at last year's event.

Patterson spec'd the AE5400 handheld vocal condenser for all vocal duties, and the AE3000 large diaphragm cardioid condenser instrument microphone, for guitar cabs, acoustic instruments, percussion, overheads, and "anything that requires a natural sound."

"The AE3000 has been a total revelation as a multi-tasking large condenser," says Patterson, "and the AE5400 performs fantastically on vocals for all types of acts, from the I

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USA - Water took centre stage at the Walt Disney Concert Hall recently for the Los Angeles premiere of Water Passion After Saint Matthew, an exotic piece conducted by Grant Gershon and composed by Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun. The work was scored for bass, soprano, violin and cello soloists, in addition to a chorus and three water percussionists who performed on large bowls of water, splashing with their hands and using other devices to draw music from the water itself.

Sound designer Jody Elff turned to DPA's 4052 Compact Omni-directional microphones to capture the dizzying array of musical sounds created by the relentless motion of the water. "The obvious technical challenge is how to amplify a bowl of splashing water," Elff said. "At various points in the show, the water is extremely quiet‹no more than tiny drips‹and yet these sounds are essential to

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UK - Sound specialist Apple Sound has supplied a Sennheiser UHF evolution Tourguide system to the ISIS research facility of the CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils). The government-funded CCLRC operates three world-class research laboratories including the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). RAL consists of many leading facilities including research into microelectrics, micro- and nano-engineering, the Central Laser facility including the world's most intensely focused laser, space science and technology and ISIS.

Supporting an international community of around 1,600 scientists, ISIS is the world's most powerful neutron and muon source, used to study atomic structure for research in physics, chemistry, materials science, geology, engineering and biology. The materials research at ISIS takes place around the target station, a building of stadium p

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UK - Absolute Music Solutions, the audio retailer based in Poole, Dorset, has announced that they have acquired The M Corporation. The M Corporation was established 15 years ago to provide a high level of customer service to the professional audio industry. Over the intervening years, the dedication and technical ability of the staff established the company as a market leader. In 2003, four of the most experienced staff left The M Corporation setting up Absolute Music Solutions and concentrating on developing new areas. Absolute Music Solutions' acquisition of The M Corporation completes the circle, reuniting key members of The M Corporation team and is a sign of the group's growing strength and confidence.

Alan Barclay, managing director of Absolute Music Solutions commented: "We are very excited by this development. The M Corporation was originally set-up with a very simi

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USA - Neumann microphones and Sennheiser personal monitors figure prominently in Barry Manilow's new long-term engagement at the Las Vegas Hilton, which started at the end of February. Manilow, who has produced over 50 albums during 30 years of performing, is presenting Manilow: Music and Passion five times a week for 24 weeks throughout 2005 and into 2006 at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater.

Front-of-house engineer John Godenzi reports that both Neumann KK 104-S and KK 105-S microphone capsules on Sennheiser SKM5000N handheld transmitters are being used by Manilow and his four backing singers in the traditional Broadway-style show. "We're using four of the 105s on the backing singers/dancers," he says. "Barry uses four microphones in different places on the stage, but the main two are the cardioid KK 104-S."

Manilow: Music and Passion features a

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UK - Klark Teknik's worldwide EQ Amnesty, which offers clients the chance to trade in a previously-owned EQ unit against a brand new DN370 analogue graphic equaliser on a part-exchange basis, has now been rolled out across Italy to great effect. During a one-month period, 178 EQs were traded in for DN370s.

"The operation was very successful and has given many customers the opportunity to replace their existing equalisers with a new, high quality Klark Teknik DN370," says Pierfranco Galeone, owner of Klark Teknik¹s Italian distributor Texim. "This elevates the quality of the services they can offer to rental clients by featuring Klark Teknik on their inventories."

And following a tradition launched by Midas Consoles Holland, Texim also called in some heavy machinery to dispose of the amnestied equalisers (see photo link for details). Features of the DN370 i

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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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