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CCG is looking to meet future requirements and, as part of a major expansion, ordered a quantity of DPA mics including 4060 miniature omnis; BLM4060 boundary layer mics; 4088 headbands; 4011 cardioids; 4006-TL omnis; SMK4060, 3506 and 3511 stereo kits and a comprehensive package of accessories.

Since it was established in 1998, CCG has expanded to serve all aspects of the entertainment business in the Gulf region and the Middle East. It provides a wide range of products and services, and has pioneered world-class theatrical shows in Qatar by artists including Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras, and has staged grand operas and

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Fred Gallo of PRG Scenic Technologies, one of the organizers of the evening, says: "Those of us that work on Broadway rarely get the time to catch up with friends, colleagues, and co-workers outside the pressures of getting the show up. The Tony Party offers a great opportunity to see each other, celebrate what we're doing, spend some down-time together, and at the same time provide important help to our colleagues in need. What could be better?"

The 2008 Behind the Scenes Tony Awards party will be held on 15 June 7pm to 11pm at Cibo restaurant, 767 Second Avenue b

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"We have offered live, instructor led D-Tools training courses every business day for the past two years to over 200 subscribing companies," said Ryan Brown, vice-president of Media Environment Design.

The MIT (Media Interactive Training) programme is an online training programme for D-Tools, consisting of (16) instructor led web based courses, with one course being offered live every business day of the year. Subscription to the programme includes unlimited access to these daily trainings as well as access to a series of on demand video trainings available 24 hours a day.

"MIT has been a great programme for both our new customers and our long-time users," said Adam Stone, presi

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"We share the corporate and product philosophy of the Dynacord brand," says Camilla Galeone, managing director of dSound Pro. "For this reason I am certain that Dynacord will soon be playing a still more important role in the Italian market."

(Jim Evans)

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Mediatronics ME is a leading pro-audio and communications solution provider for entertainment, sports and convention venues as well as for TV and radio broadcasting, recording studios, the hospitality industry, shopping malls and airports.

The Middle East market has boomed for Renkus-Heinz in recent years, with high-profile installations including the Sharm El Sheikh Congress Center in Egypt, the new Hajj Terminal Building at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Naad al Sheba Horse race track in Dubai and the new luxurious Dubai Mall in UAE.

Renkus-Heinz export sales manager Karl-Gustaf Kahlau says: "We are very pleased to be partnering with

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Power factor corrected and operating at levels as high as 6000W into 2Ohms down to models providing 1100W into 8Ohms, the KPA series covers the full range of reinforcement needs, says the company. The amplifiers can be daisy chained together using a single Cat 5 cable for both digital audio distribution and remote control and monitoring of all amplifier functions, including load monitoring. The head end of the K8 digital audio distribution system may be fed with an expanding selection of inputs including the choice of Ether Sound, AES3 digital or analogue.

Klein+Hummel's installed sound product manager Dave Theis points out the advantage of this system: "K8 only requires a single control connection to Eth

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Featuring clear LED indicators, illuminated buttons and fader-type level controls per output channel, the PX8000 Matrix is simple to set up, providing full choice and control of up to eight separate mic./line input signals over eight separate zones.

The unit also features in-built monitor loudspeaker to review the selected input sources, microphone input for zoned paging, as well as an internal digital message store facility to record and broadcast emergency messages to be activated by dry contact closure such as opening/closing doors, fire/burglar alarm, etc. Where no message is recorded, this facility can be used as an emergency mute.

Integrating into any standard 10

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This popular event will take place in a venue that has hosted, among others, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Velvet Revolver, Coldplay, Norah Jones, David Bowie, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Neil Young.

As part of the night life available during the InfoComm event, this third annual concert will rock the house to raise money for industry education through NSCA's Education Foundation.

"This event always brings a great turn out of industry supporters," said Foundation president, Tom Frericks. "Not only does everyone have a great time, the event also allows us to support the education initiatives of the NSCA Education Foundation for our industry's growing and changing workforce."

Sponsors include Platinum

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"Clair Brothers has always been at the forefront of touring sound technology, and our decision to incorporate the PLM into our systems is no exception," stated Troy Clair. "The PLM Series makes both business and technological sense for us. Lab.gruppen has a long-standing reputation as a ma

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Over the past four years, Soundfield Voice Reinforcment in the classroom has seen significant growth in the UK, thanks both to a high profile campaign of 'educating the educators' through exhibitions and conferences and also due to education budget increases, Building Schools for the Future and the publication of the Government's white paper on improved acoustics in the classroom - Building Bulletin '93.

CIE-Group's existing 'i-ceilings' Soundfield packages which feature some of the most advanced and appropriate audio technology for this application have now been joined by the introduction of the 'IRX' system as part of CIE's new Clever Little Box<

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Having worked in many of the finest discotheques in the world, Joe T. Vannelli knew exactly which system he wanted for his own club and entrusted the task of performing the installation to the Renate-based pro audio company dSoundPro.

To tailor the system perfectly to the architecture of the building, dSoundPro's team of experts ran the simulation software EASE. The results of EASE's acoustic CAD simulations revealed not only the position and orientation but also the power handling characteristics of each loudspeaker, all needed to obtain an even distribution of the sound throughout the club, with const

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One of the most popular salsa artists of all time, Marc Anthony has sold more than 10m albums worldwide and has been awarded 12 Latin and Standard gold and platinum certifications by the RIAA.

For the concert in Caracas, Dynaco set up a total of 32 JBL Vertec VT4888DP-AN powered midsize line array elements equipped with JBL DrivePack technology and optional Harman HiQnet-compatible input modules. These were configured as two arrays of 16 boxes each. In addition, eight VT4887 compact line array elements were used as front-fills, and a six-box array of VT4887's was used as a signal-delayed array behind the front-of-house mix position.

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"The new church is a great facility for us," said GBI's head of sound Handri Nathanael. "The church is on two levels on the 9th and 10th floor of the Mall, each approximately 3,300sq.m and for a big service on just the 10th floor we can accommodate 3,200 people, so we have space to grow."

The new church opened towards the end of 2007 followed by a special service in December, "Dr Janto invited several VIPs and a couple of tel

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Ignacio Chulia, D.A.S. sales representative for Eastern Europe, was on hand to make the final checks to the system, installed by D.A.S Audio distributor for Hungary, Team Audio Kft. led by Gábor Hajdu. Three Variant 25A units together with a compact Variant 18A subwoofer unit were flown on each side of the main conference hall. The Variant 18A powered subwoofer unit extends the bandwidth of the array to 30Hz.

The light-weight and visually discreet Variant 25A module has an aluminum and steel structure which is fixed to the enclosure and incorporates all the rigging accessories needed to join one unit to another. Its ultra-compact design provides high output and exceptional sound in an attractive enclosur

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A new temple at the headquarters of one of Taiwan's most famous Buddhist monasteries - Fo Guang Shan in Kaohsiung - has been fitted with a complete QSC Audio system solution - right through the signal chain. FGS is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan, with branches throughout the world.

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The occasion was in aid of the memorial fund established in memory of Henry van Straubenzee tragically lost his life in a car accident - and which donates to school building projects in Uganda. Seven new schools have been completed with five more planned.

Guy Pelly, of Mayfair celebrity haunt, Mahiki, had got in touch with Sound Division's David Graham, whose long-standing relationship with fellow directors, Nick House and Piers Adams, led to the recommendation. David Graham was delighted to have been asked to participate. "The occasion was in aid of a most worthy cause and yet promised to be a fun event at the same

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Jörg Vonten's rental company covers a wide range of shows and events - from rock 'n' roll to industrial - but he has always used Soundcraft mixing desks. "I am very much a 'one man' organisation - but I use first class freelance engineers," he says.

"I had already experienced working on other digital desks but I needed something that sounded better - and would match the quality of the MH3. The last thing I wanted to do was take a backwards step."

(Jim Evans)

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According to TC|US's Ken Blecher, Joe Blacker and his team were deserving winners: "Audio Associates have done a great job of promoting the Lab.gruppen brand into all pro audio market sectors, including the installation market where they are very strong. They have leveraged the brand's international recognition in the high-end touring sector to penetrate the installation market with great success, whilst continuing to serve the rental companies in their area to the high

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A total of sixteen Outline Butterfly CDH 483 Hi-packs and four Outline Subtech 218 SP amplified the notes of her intimate show. Four Outline H.A.R.D. 115 SP - of which three were for Carmen - were used as stage monitors.

Theatres hosting the show included the Arcimboldi Theatre (Milan), Ponchielli Theatre (Cremona), Verdi Theatre (Florence), Paganini Auditorium (Parma), Parco Della Musica Auditorium (Rome).

The rental company was Blackout s.r.l. of Vasto (Chieti), a firm with an Outline Butterfly stock comprising sixteen CDH 483 Hi-Packs and eight Subtech 218 SP, and the system was under the control of William Antico (system engineer) and Gianluca Vaccaro (FOH engineer).

Consoli has just ended a mini-tour in the

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Technically it offers sound engineers and installation companies the opportunity to work with state of the art audio, with the ease of installation and set up that has not yet seen in this market place, says the company.

Following on from the TTL3's recent launch, RCF has been demonstrating the product throughout the UK, gaining positive reactions. RCF's Greg Oliver, is enthusiastic about showing the product at ABTT. "We have always had a good reaction to our dedicated theatre products at the show and I know the mini line array will be no exception. Its compact design has been very well received and that's before people get

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The Meyer Sound system at the Beverly Hilton is in a left-centre-right configuration; with five Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeakers flown left and right, and four M'elodie line array loudspeakers in th

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FGS is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan, with branches throughout the world. Founded in 1967 by the Ven. Master Hsing Yun, it set the bar high when specifying its requirement for both speech and musical applications. The sound needed to be pure and transparent - without colouration.

To achieve this objective, the project's main contractor, Session Audio Research, had favoured a complete one stop solution - with processor, amplifiers and loudspeakers all coming from the same manufacturer; they reached the conclusion that QSC provided the best option in terms of both performance and reliability, and specified an Installation Line Array (ILA) as the main soun

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Asked about producing audio at the elegantly proportioned stadium with its own state of the art system, owner Mike Scarfe explains: "We couldn't use the existing audio system because, as with all stadiums, the sound comes from above and behind the audience; and since the stage for the Papal Mass was at one end and it would have been impossible to time-align it to the stage. We provided sound for the entire stadium and 47,000 people from 60ft towers on either side of the stage. Basically, we had a 550ft throw from the speaker tower to the farthest seat."

Working with Jim Cousins at Martin Audio in the UK and

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This year's event saw a new arena added to the event in Dortmund's Westfalenhallen, equipped with a large Turbosound audio rig.

Effectively divided into four separate areas for the event - Arena, Casino, Empire and Factory - it was the latter in which regular Turbosound users BLL and CE-Veranstaltungstechnik combined to provide a huge Aspect rig to ensure the pounding beats of 12 Techno and Hardcore acts -including Vince, Korsakoff, Sven Wittekind and Angerfist - were experienced to the maximum by several thousand clubbers.

"The Aspect rig has received only praise for its power and clarity, it is the perfect system for electronic music," s