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Hosted by JBL UK distributor Sound Technology, the listening session showcased the new flagship Marquis Series dance stack - an unapologetic return to an old-school ground stack system.

Attendees were also able to hear the JBL AE Compact series of premium small format speakers for ancillary club areas, and the sub-compact VerTec line array ideal for clubs hosting live music events as part of a multi-use set-up.

"This was an opportunity to showcase our premium JBL solutions for club sound" commented Ian Cullen, marketing director, Sound Technology. "We were delighted with the event and think people were impressed with what they heard."

(Jim Evans)

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According to Nielsen, the company that tracks TV viewing figures, the football game was the most watched show in US history. However, TV network NBC and the National Football League (NFL) apologised on behalf of rapper M.I.A, who appeared as a featured artist during Madonna's set. The British hip hop musician raised her middle finger whilst facing the camera during the performance. The picture was temporarily scrambled, but it came too l

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The settings for the product demonstrations were EVI Audio's 600sq.m demo hall and the presentation room. Aaron Chisena (product manager, Electro-Voice Mobile Audio) and Markus Schmittinger (product marketing manager, Electro-Voice) introduced guests to the new ZXA1-Sub, a 12-inch powered subwoofer from Electro-Voice. When paired with the ZXA-1 eight-inch two-way powered loudspeaker this subwoofer forms a compact PA that is at the same time light an

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"Customer support is paramount at Meyer Sound," says John Monitto, Meyer Sound's director of technical support worldwide. "Our customers expect an extremely high level of technical expertise and customer service. With his outstanding technical skills, customer rapport, experience in the field, and fluency in several languages, Miguel is a great fit to lead our technical group in Europe."

Lourtie joined Meyer Sound European technical services in 2007, and has played a vital role in supporting a number of major Meyer Sound projects across the continent, including the Mantziusgården Cultu

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The band certainly approved of what they were hearing from their side of the glass, and Audient's Steve Flower was at the controls to enable visitors to experience the sound and features of the console first hand. "It was an intense few hours, as there was a constant stream of people coming to listen. I'm very pleased the console is so intuitive and rewarding to use," he says.

The one day event took place in Studio 2 and the live room at the new SAE studio facility near Shoreditch, welcoming industry dignitaries including engineers, producers and studio owners, as well as SAE students and representatives from the education sector wher

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As part of its programme of corporate social responsibility, DB is supporting St Francis Orphanage through financial donations to the charity Inter Care - Medical Care for Africa, which collects returned patient medicines from GP practices in the UK. After a screening process, suitable medicines are then sent to health units in Africa. The children at the orphanage are among those that benefit from these medicines.

David Bulley, managing director of DB Systems, said, "We are fortunate to be in a country where if we fall ill there is medication available to help us recover. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many people in other parts of the world. Inter Care does an incredible job of providing medication to Africa and I'

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The latest Kroc Centre, recently opened in North Philadelphia, is one of the largest facilities of its kind on the East Coast. Its 130,000sq.ft includes a world-class aquatics centre, fitness centre, worship and performing arts facilities, café and culinary education centre, as well as a wide range of programmes for kids, adults and senior citizens.

Powerful sound was a big part of the plan for the facility, explains RTS Unified Communications' Joe Zamborsky. RTS specified a selection of Community Professional Loudspeakers for the project, including R-Series, WET-Series and CLOUD6 in-ceiling systems to cover th

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Originally opened in 1930, the fully refurbished 800-capacity Hall was reopened in 2010 having fallen into disuse for nearly 30 years. The venue now hosts a busy rota of live music, as well as a vast range of events from conferences and parties to vintage fashion events.

"We chose iLive for several reasons," explains Dan Turner, events operations manager at Islington Assembly Hall. "Firstly, it sounds great and much better than many other digital desks out there. Allen & Heath clearly spent a lot of time getting the preamps right. It is also an incredibly versatile system in the way it works, and pretty much any input or output can be configured

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The Anniversary Halls, now in full daily use, is a spectacular modern building housing a major new set of facilities for sport and the arts including a 320-seat auditorium for drama, music and dance productions. Consultancy firm Theatre Projects were called in to design the theatre systems for the main auditorium, for which TPC consultant John Riddell specified an EM Acoustics PA system.

The brief was to create a versatile space that can serve multiple uses efficiently, while being simple enough to be transformed and operated by just a couple of key staff members at the school. The auditorium

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"It was a challenging room because the architects did not want any loudspeakers visible, not even colour-matched ceiling grilles," states Anders Jørgensen of Kastrup, Denmark-based Stouenborg, the firm responsible for the A/V systems. "The only place allowed for speakers was in angled lighting slots built into the ceiling design. And the only systems available that could provide the power and clarity we needed inside that s

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Hire company Stage Audio Services were commissioned to provide the on track audio for the popular event, held in November last year. Top Gear Live developed an indoor track extravaganza in partnership with Group Lotus Motorsport, designers of the original Top Gear test-track. The tracks were the central feature of the all-new Top Gear Live event at NEC Birmingham and ExCeL London and were configured to enable all manner of driving disciplines during a full programme of incredible action.

The Renkus Heinz IC Live series was chosen for the event and took centre stage around the track. Eight IC Live R with IC215S-R subwoofers were positioned in front of the audience area.

Mark Bromfield, business develo

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Merging Technologies has over 20 years' of experience in building complex mix engines and audio DSP to the broadcast and music world. "In that time they have developed and built some of the world's most advanced and powerful mix engines and audio systems, for applications ranging from theatre playout, live events, fixed installations, exhibitions and much more. Sequencer and Controller is the ultimate choice when performance and quality is a necessity," says the company.

Ovation 3.0's features include: support for different file types: WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC; Optional hardware control with theatre-style 'go' button; Full integration with Pyra

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The new theatre came equipped with a new loudspeaker system but, as Trevor Nash, technical co-ordinator explains, all was not rosy in the garden. "Plans on paper don't always successfully translate into real world situations. There were coverage issues in several areas of the auditorium. Although adding ground stacked subwoofers and two-way cabinets provided some acoustic improvement, sightlines were compromised as a result."

Nash had worked with a rented d&b audiotechnik loudspeaker system from APEX Sound and Lighton Jesse Cook's Canadian tour in 2010 and was in no doubt it would be the right choice for The Rose.

"Having mixed on just about every type of speaker system around the worl

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Broadcasting House, Belfast, features two dubbing areas - Dub1 and Dub2 - which have respectively featured Yamaha DM2000 and 02R96 digital consoles for the past five years.

With the facility working on ever-more complex productions, Dub2 has now been upgraded with a DM2000 to match the facilities in Dub1, with Yamaha Studio Manager used to exchange mixes between the areas.

The new console was supplied by Aylesbury-based specialist Aspen Media, which has a long track record in supplying high quality technical systems to national and international broadcasters.

"Supplying a second DM2000 was the ideal solution, as the BBC staff had a lot of experience with the existing two Yamaha consoles and it means both dubbing

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New effects types have been added, including a Masif-Q DLY FX, BitBash-2 DMG FX, and new Classic/KillSend/Send FX modes. The revised gain structure provides better signal level alignment between analogue and digital inputs, and the effects architecture now allows the tails of reverbs and delays to continue in the mix when the Wet/Dry control is turned back to Dry.

There is now the option to switch to rotary mixer mode, which swaps the functionality of the channel fader controls and the FX Wet/Dry knob. The added X:Link functionality allows the user to connect compatible Xon

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The LEDHead LED lighting products included the LED Batten2, fitted with 18 x 8W quadcolour LEDs and LED tapes with tricolour and white LED options.

Directors David Faulkes and Graham Gosden were at the show looking to increase their overseas distributor network. "This was a very successful first show for us," said David Faulkes. "We have picked up a number of companies from different parts of the world looking to distribute our range of UK designed audio and lighting products. However, we still have work to do, finding distributors to complete the network."

Based in Kent, England, MilTec is responsible for the design and manufacture of LEDHead LED Lightin

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Venue specifications, as well as the direction of the action, meant that centrally positioned LED screens were essential. The live event was broadcast onto LED screens hung in the centre of the venue to bring the experience and performance of the leading drivers even closer to the more than 9,000 spectators each day. Music clips, advertisements, statements, progress reports, greetings, and awards ceremonies were recorded and broadcast to every seat in the h

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At booth 326, one of the latest additions to the compact E-Series, the E4 loudspeaker will join the T10, a loudspeaker that "with a twist of the wrist encompasses both line array and point source technologies in a single package".

On Wednesday 22 February, Jason Waggoner from the Education and Application Support team will present Demystifying Audio in Room 1 from 2-3 pm. During the session, Waggoner will use demonstrations and experiments to guide his audience through the principles of acoustics, from the loudspeaker to the listener's ears. The seminar is open to all and free to attend but please arrive in pl

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The AKG WMS 40 MINI 2 Dual wireless systems, launched at Winter NAMM, offers high-definition audio performance, with efficient body pack and cardioid mic transmitters, ensuring advanced, reliable and quality sound for performances.

The WMS 40 MINI 2 Dual Package is available in three sets - the Vocal, Instrumental and Mix sets.

The Vocal set features two HT 40 MINI dynamic handheld cardioid microphone transmitters and the SR 40 MINI 2 dual receiver. The Instrumental set includes two PT 40 MINI body packs - the smallest transmitters in their class that last up to 30 hours on a single AA battery -the SR 40 MINI 2 dual receiver and two guitar cables.

(Lee Baldock)

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The inhospitable conditions, however, posed a challenge not only to the men and women taking part but also to the loudspeakers and amplifiers deployed by the Surrey-based public address and communication hire specialists,. Show Hire. Although the company has been active in the pro audio business for some 30 years, overcoming many production challenges in the process, those posed by the HellRunner series are particularly severe.

"The area to be covered is very, very extensive," explains managing director Nick Chubb, "and the weather here in November is anything but equipment friendly." The Show Hire

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One of the cultural hubs of Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, on its opening in 1882 the Mahen Theatre was one of the first public buildings in the world to be lit entirely by electric light. This was in response to a spate of fires in gas-lit theatres across Europe.

Installed by Prague-based Audiopro, the latest upgrade adds an Ethersound audio network which features four Yamaha SB168-ES stage boxes, four DME4io-ES digital mixing engines and an NAI48-ES Ethersound interface to work with the theatre's twoM7CL-48 and 01V96V2 digital mixing consoles.

"The theatre's main auditorium uses the two M7CL consoles and a second, smaller stage which uses the 01V96V2,&qu

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Sofitel London St James is housed in the sympathetically renovated, Grade II-listed former Cox's and King's bank building. A flexible, high quality audio installation was required to cover the grand brasserie, The Balcon, the Champagne Balcony and the St James Bar where the décor is inspired by the 1920's Paris apartment of Coco Chanel. With interiors designed by the Russell Sage Studio, a quality sound system that would be invisible to the eye was a necessity.

"The hotel delivers a stand

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Head of sound reinforcement at Radio France, Bruno Lompech, explained why he decided to go for another Eclipse. "I felt it was important that we have a back-up console that could be available quickly for the studios that are broadcasting every day, in particular Studio 106. Not that we expect to have problems - on the contrary, all of our Innovason consoles and especially Eclipse have proved to be extremely reliable, but it's good practice to have a spare.

"By the same token, we also needed a spare for the

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Systems integration and project management company, Media Powerhouse were the elected contractors for the supply and installation of all the audio systems throughout Westfield Stratford City's Events Spaces, which included two systems from UK loudspeaker company EM Acoustics.

In fact, Westfield used the successful audio installations at the Westfield London site as the blueprint for Westfield Stratford City. Follo