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14 March 2016

"To celebrate our recent master distributorship of High End Systems in the BeNeLux, France and the UK, we organized a party on our booth and were happy to meet and greet with over 150 AV professionals." says Hans Vanderheijden, managing director of AED Distribution.

During the evening, and while invitees were enjoying typical Belgian drinks and food, the prize draw was held. The lucky number belonged to Mr. K?stutis Dulinskas, technical director for the Lithuanian AV company No Noise.

"I was very happy to win the Road Hog 4 lighting console handed over by Mr. Glenn Roggeman, CEO of AED group," says K?stutis Dulinskas. "For a growing business l

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Chris Toulmin, head of events, PLASA London 2013, said, "The response we've received to PLASA London 2013 has been overwhelmingly positive, both from visitors and exhibitors. They have embraced the new venue and also enjoyed the new features such as the AudioLab Arena, Theatre and Interactive. The PLASA team has worked very hard to get to th

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The comparative sessions took place on the opening two days of this year's PLASA Show at ExCeL London, and were supervised by Roland Hemming (of RH Consulting) as part of the new AudioLab Interactive experimental concept, which he masterminded.

An impressive number of attendees on each day were given voting buttons in order to register their preference, as six of the most established industry audio protocols - Optocore, MADI, Dante, EtherSound, CobraNet and Analogue - were closely scrutinised. The Optocore solution was voted the best in terms of signal transmission quality by different independent audiences on both days.

The Optocore presentation was made by support engineer, Maciek Janiszewski, and s

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Soper has a background as a front of house engineer, working on tours, cruise liners and live events. He joins CUK Audio from Yamaha Commercial Audio where he held the position of regional manager and specialised in digital consoles, DSP and loudspeaker systems. Prior to that he worked for dbTechnologies UK and Amber Sound.

"The appointment of Rich is a major step for CUK Audio. It is a key element in the substantial commitment and investment we are making in terms of both sales and support in the 'Live' sector, and the direction the brand portfolio will take moving forward," explains CUK Audio's MD, Stuart Thomson. "We have established a

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This year's headliners, Kenny Chesney (4 July 4th) and Aerosmith (6 July) made the need for an A-Level PA system an absolute necessity. When tasked with designing a system to cover the nearly 1,000ft long field, and crowds in excess of 25,000, SES systems engineer, and director of audio, Jason Farah chose Outline to handle the job. "We chose the GTO system not only for its amazing power, but also the fidelity of the system at the distances it had to reach," Farah states.

Chris Rabold, FOH Engineer for Kenny Chesney adds, "I

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The band is currently on a month-long tour of the USA and Canada, supported by American rock band, Fozzy.

A GLD-80 mixer is at FOH, accompanied by an AR2412 rack to manage I/O. The mixer takes inputs via Dante from the iLive monitor system, comprising an iLive-T112 surface and iDR-48 MixRack.

"I'm currently running a 39 input "festival patch" type channel list to fit both Saxon and Fozzy, and GLD has coped fantastically," explains Hammond. "I'm using all eight on board FX engines, which sound stunning - the EMT250 and ADT presets are personal favourites of mine. As well as the FX, so many great iLive features have been included in GLD, one of which that I find incredibly useful is the

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The newly-purchased SD7 was supplied by Mac Audio, one of Rio's leading audio production companies. As the audio supplier for event production company SRCOM, the Mac Audio team has considerable experience of large-scale events on Copacabana's 2.5 mile beach, but this was the first time they had used their new DiGiCo consoles.

"We invested in the SD7 because of its sound quality and dual engine redundancy," says t

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Eustace will work alongside the sales and business development team and is responsible for developing and nurturing new business across the UK, with a focus on expanding Vaughan Sound's reach across various markets.

A BSc Business Administration graduate, he brings with him a wealth of experience in the AV industry, having spent the previous five years as a BDM/Account Manager at Reflex, Reading.

Earlier in his career, Jeremy was an account manager at Roche Audio Visual of West Yorkshire for almost seven years, and spent a further year in AV/ICT Solutions and Service at Infacom, Newhaven.

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At ExCel, Pioneer introduced its new GS-Wave and XY series club loudspeakers in the AudioLab Arena - controlled and optimised by Powersoft's advanced electronics

Developed in conjunction with Gary Stewart Audio (GSA), the winning combination of Pioneer's new dance floor stack and Powersoft's flagship K-series amplifiers, with built-in DSP and presets optimised by Pioneer, made an impressive debut in Ibiza - the heartland of serious clubbing - during the recent season in Balearic dance capital.

The landmark installation of four GS-Wave stacks in Booom! Ibiza, powered by Powersoft, has been joined on the island by installations of Pioneer's XY systems at the Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel five-star party

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"We're pleased to partner with Earthworks, an industry leader in high-definition microphones," said Max Gutnik, vice president of products, Line 6. "Together we've created a digital wireless microphone that delivers performance previously found only in the highest quality wired studio microphones."

"Line 6's expertise and experience in digital wireless coupled with Earthworks' precision microphone technology-stemming from our measurement background-lends itself to a superior product for the live

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Out of the more than 140 groups performing at this year's ACL Music Festival, AMD/Lady Bird hosted some of the biggest headliners, including Depeche Mode, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, fun., The National, Passion Pit and Atoms For Peace, featuring members of Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beck.

According to LD Systems director of production services Robert Ausmus, the stage was equipped with a total of

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JSM's portfolio includes some of India's most successful and well-known independent restaurants. Prime examples are luxury lounge Shiro, with its signature high ceilings, grand statues and award winning Oriental cuisine, and the Hard Rock Café in Mumbai.

JSM, through its subsidiaries, is the exclusive master franchisee for Hard Rock Café, California Pizza Kitchen and Trader Vic's across India and the restaurants are known for their unique designs and uncompromising standards.

The two Mumbai restaurants are centrally located, surrounded by a variety of corporations and movie production houses and, with the suburbs being home to the Bollywood mov

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The Phoenix Zoo initially hired Clearwing Productions to increase the production value of the annual lighting show, though the two teams quickly determined that the audio system was underperforming ­- not to mention falling apart.

"The Phoenix area is inundated with sun and UV rays, which is very tough on outdoor products," said Nick Pitman, service and systems engineer,

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Established by pastor Kim Sam-Hwan in 1980, Myoungseong is one of the best known churches in South Korea. Services are broadcast in real time to a number of other church buildings throughout the country and are also broadcast on the internet, Christian radio and television stations in other territories. This means that, while around 100,000 attend the main church building annually, it is reputed to have a million followers globally.

Key to the process are the two DiGiCo SD7s, installed as part of the project to build the new sanctuary. One is located at the Front of House pos

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"The ceilings in the main room are over eight meters high at some points, and the dance floor is under a dome," notes Magued Makram, president of Modern Touch. "It was very hard to generate the high SPLs we wanted without hitting reflective walls and the ceiling. Fortunately, the Meyer Sound JM-1P had exactly the right combination of high power, superb sonic quality, and the precise directional pattern we needed."

The club's main system targets the dance floor and adjacent seating areas with twin-flown clusters of three-each JM-1P loudspeakers, with four 600-HP subwoofers floo

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During the facility tour, guests were given an exclusive look at the processes involved in making a DPA Microphones product. Culminating in a live, hands-on workshop at the Nørrebro Theatre in Copenhagen, attendees were presented with demonstrations by a singer/actor and a band of DPA's collection of microphones.

"The conference was a huge success as it allowed those attending to really get to know the DPA Microphones," says Christian Poulsen, CEO of DPA Microphones. "The company has changed a great deal in rece

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Ellie Goulding's engineers are Oz Bagnall (FOH) and James Neale (Monitors). Oz specified the Coda Audio system, which once again proved to be a flexible solution for the wide variety of theatre and town hall venues.

It was the first time that Adlib has worked with Bagnall and also with tour/production manager Derek Fudge, proving a very positive experience all round. Adlib's crew - systems engineer George Puttock and stage monitor technician Alan Harrison - were also a big part of ensuring that Ellie Goulding's performance had the best possible live sound.

The system comprised 24 x Coda LA12, 16 x ViRay and 16 x SCPF spea

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Around 50 people joined Haydn Cruickshank and the Colour Sound team at Bovingdon Airfield in Buckinghamshire where they energized with the Slide School Drift Academy (SSDA) headed by Alan Arnott and spent the day engaging in one of the most exhilarating and exciting divisions of motorsport - drifting.

This company's annual day out this year continued the extreme sport theme - in the past they have gone wake-boarding, indoor skydiving and indoor skiing. "It proved to be another fantastic day of fun and action," comments Haydn, adding that taking those wh

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The new Academy will incorporate the existing training programmes run by Shure and integrate new workshops and seminars, delivered via a variety of media, including e-learning, webinars and hands-on instruction. In the UK, this brief will extend across the entire Shure Distribution portfolio and include training and certification for brands such as DIS, QSC, Radial and MyMix.

"We have always offered detailed technical training for our brands at the SDUK HQ in Waltham Abbey, and those events, such as Axient accreditation and Q-Sys training, will continue under this new umbrella,&q

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Hosted by Matt Lucas and produced by Attitude, the award-winning gay magazine in association with Virgin Holidays, the glamour and the glitz was in full flow.

Eclipse's production manager Andrea Witt and project manager Nikhil Shah worked closely with Attitude's show producer Annie Bracken and Seasoned Events to ensure that everything ran like clockwork on the night and that the setting and environment helped make it a memorable night for guests.

The gala dinner and awards ceremony saw a star-studded line up of celebrities rock up, to see the likes of Daniel Radcliffe, Paul O'Grady and Cher collect their awards, together with a special guest appearance by c

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Whenever a show is underway at the ICC, the new network passes music and control data from the ICC Control Room to synchronised LED fascia lighting displays and to a new sound system that includes QSC loudspeakers and amplifiers in and outside the IFC mall.

"Q-Sys was the only audio management system that could offer built-in audio playback and DSP, full monitoring of any input and control of the amplification and speakers, all down a standard fibre connection between the IFC and ICC, and with full redundancy and remote management func

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There was a great reception to the worldwide launch of the new Vision LED family, which features a 16° Par, a 1 metre batten and a zoomable moving wash each using 10W RGBW Multichip LEDs and delivering powerful and consistent performance. The LED range offers real value for money without compromising on performance, build quality or reliability, and provided dynamic illumin

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Recent high profile projects include large-scale d&b audiotechnik installations in houses of worship and theatres, as well as communications systems design and installation at both the Royal Albert Hall and the Welsh National Opera, involving Clear-Com solutions.

Orbital's sales director Tom Byrne commented, "Installations have always formed a key part of our workload, with our track record involving just about every size and type of project. We love challenges - from listed bu

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Accessed by two custom paging stations based on TSC-8 touchscreen controllers, the Core 1000-based Q-Sys system routes audio to and controls no fewer than 15 QSC CX254 amplifiers throughout the building, fed by seven DAB-801 redundant amplifier switchers.

The Congress Centre Messe Frankfurt (CMF) houses conference and meeting rooms, and a large multi-purpose 2200-capacity auditorium (known as the Harmonie hall) that can be divided into as many as 15 segments, each separately addressed by its own PA feed if requir