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USA - Martin Audio and On Stage Audio (OSA) have confirmed OSA's purchase of a 54-box Martin Audio MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array system. With this purchase, OSA joins North Carolina-based Special Event Services (SES) as key North American members in the growing MLA worldwide network. OSA plans to station its MLA system across both its Chicago and Las Vegas facilities.

"OSA and MLA are a perfect fit," said Mark Graham, Loud's CEO. "Show after show, the MLA has drawn enthusiastic attention from the Pro Audio community and audience members alike. By delivering an un

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France - Digital mixing console manufacturer, Innovason, has announced the appointment of Alexandre Liagre to the role of sales manager for Innovason's domestic market in France. Alex, who is based in Paris, takes over from the highly respected Philippe Guillo who returns to manage and run his own rental company, Koroll Sonorisation, but nevertheless remains a strong ambassador for the brand.

According to Innovason's international sales director, Marcel Babazadeh, Alex is an ideal fit for Innovason in France. "He is trained as both a salesman and a sound engineer, so in terms of

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UK - Thirty-two Audio-Technica microphones (a combination of ES935ML6 MicroLine condenser gooseneck microphones and U851R cardioid condenser boundary microphones) were installed in Westminster Abbey for capturing the audio of the royal wedding.

The microphones were located in key areas of the Abbey; a computer touchscreen showed the operator their exact positions within the building. The ES935ML6 microphones were switched on and off locally by the user or controlled remotely by a verger using any of the touchscreens. Additionally, several U851R microphones were used on the altars.

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USA - This year's Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California may now be over, but the success of Le Mobile Remote Recording Studios and its Fly Pak System that includes a Yamaha DM2000 console lingers on. Le Fly Pak was used for mixing the live webcast at the Mojave Stage.

"With shows and projects getting bigger and bigger, Coachella being one of them, we thought it would be important to make our Fly Pak system as flexible as possible," states Ian-C. Charbonneau, mixing engineer LeMobile. "We added four MADI cards to the DM2000 allowing an all-digital interfac

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Malaysia - Two sets of FBT's Modus line array system have been installed in the National Institute of Valuation's (INSPEN) newly developed Campus 2, Sepang, Selangor, West Malaysia. INSPEN is the training and research arm of the Valuation and Property Services Department under Malaysia's Ministry of Finance.

INSPEN Campus 2 measures approximately 48 acres and is located in the vicinity of Putrajaya, the federal administrative centre of Malaysia. INSPEN is tasked with advising the government on all matters relating to the value of real estate, the impact of property development and man

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China The evening concert on 8 March 2011 at the National People's Congress in the Beijing Trade Hotel was performed by MYC with the Sequenza 10 line array from Kling & Freitag. The 330m high building with its 81 floors is at present the highest of Beijing.

In order to comply with these noise constraints, MYC used the Sequenza 10 Line Array from Kling & Freitag. The 40 m wide show stage was equipped with four K&F Sequenza 10N for the far field and two SEquenza 10W for the nearfield.

Six Sequenza 10B and two Nomos XLC in cardioid setup supported the system in the lower frequency rang

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Italy - At Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice which is visited every year by at least 2m people from all over the world, an extensive new RCF sound reinforcement system has been installed, with 40 loudspeaker enclosures that include 10 of the new VSA 2050 digitally steerable vertical line arrays.

The audio system had to meet various requirements, as is explained by Marco Mazzon, founder of the company of the same name, based in Meolo (Venice), which installed the system. "The brief I got from the client was above all to ensure a considerable increase in intelligibility and flexible

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Austria - Redline Enterprises, Austria's largest full-service provider of technical equipment for events, has purchased an L-Acoustics K1/Kudo system consisting of 48 K1s and 36 KUDO WST line source cabinets, 24 K1-SB and 24 SB28 subwoofers and 18 LA-RAK with 54 LA8 amplified controllers. This is the first K1 system in the Austrian market.

"The reason we bought the K1 system was the quality and its high international standard," says Jack Langer, CEO of Redline. "Our new K1 system will push our company to a much higher level. Apart from the sound capabilities of the syst

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Germany - Hamburg's St Michaelis church has been equipped with one of Europe's largest Iconyx digital beam steering systems.

Churches and cathedrals often pose challenges for acousticians and sound system designers, but few surpass the architectural complexity of the cavernous St Michaelis, originally built in 1750.

Its interior is ornate Baroque at its most florid. White painted walls are endowed with gilded ornamentation and its architecture, advanced for its time, supports a soaring roof without columns. Destroyed by fire in 1906, then rebuilt virtually brick for brick, it has an

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UK - Orbital Sound ran its 10th annual Sound Fundamentals Training Course for theatre sound technicians last month, celebrating a decade of preparing theatre sound and technical theatre students for careers in live entertainment.

Held at Orbital's seminar facility in Brixton, south London, the course included application training from d&b audiotechnik and Yamaha Commercial Audio, as well as covering the spectrum of technical disciplines required for live sound applications. Led by principal tutors Theo Holloway and Richard Carter, the course's scope included modules on show control, r

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USA - In a flurry of international activity, Rational Acoustics LLC has appointed four new distributors in the first quarter of 2011.

Soundtools Oy, under the guidance of industry veterans Antti Murto and Peter Stråhlman will now handle Smaart in Finland. Soundtools is the newly formed sister company to well-known Finnish pro AV company, and former Smaart distributor, Studiotec.

In the UK, Wigwam Acoustics will now be handling all Smaart sales, support and training. Founded in 1979, Wigwam is one of the world's best-known sound companies for the rental, sales and installation of pr

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France - A Midas PRO3 live audio system, supplied by French distributor EVI Audio, has been installed in one of the most sought-after presentation spaces in Paris, the Gustave Eiffel room, on the first floor the Eiffel Tower. The 300-capacity venue commands 360 degree panoramic views of the city and hosts a wide variety of events from show cases to seminars and product presentations to business conferences.

"For a venue this unique, we have to have the best," says Alain Phillipon, the Eiffel Tower's resident sound engineer for the past eight years, who previously worked on a

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Russia - As the ancient Russian city of Yaroslavl was celebrating its 1000th anniversary, a new cultural entertainment complex called Hill Hall was opening in its midst.

Built on an area of 3,000sq.m, it combines bars, dancefloor, five billiard tables, eight lanes of bowling and the Gorka retro nightclub, all wrapped up in striking hi-tech urban architecture that blends into the landscape of the historic city centre.

Patrons can climb to the top of the pitched roof, which will be used as a hill slope for skiing in the winter - hence the name - and in summer as an amphitheatre for co

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Classical Record - A record number of BBC Proms tickets have been sold within the first 12 hours of being made available, the corporation has announced. More than 85,000 were shifted - up by 7% compared with last year - and 376 tickets were sold every minute in the first hour. The series of classical music concerts take place from 15 July at London's Royal Albert Hall.

All the seated tickets for Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra sold out within three hours. Verdi's Requiem and Havergal Brian's gargantuan the Gothic Symphony have also all gone. However, up to 1,4

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UK - PLASA 2011 will switch to a paying registration site on Wednesday 11 May, giving visitors one last chance to avoid the £20 ticket price and register for free online.

The show is now over 85% sold - almost five months ahead of its four-day run at Earls Court from 11-14 September. Confidence that PLASA 2011 will be a busy event is confirmed by the increase in visitor registrations, with 8500 visitors representing a healthy 5% increase on the same period last year. This is matched by a 14% increase in the number of companies confirmed to take part.

PLASA 2011 event manager S

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UK - Adlib Audio has recently completed a sold-out arena tour in the UK and Ireland with alternative Irish rockers, The Script. The Science and Faith tour, now currently in Australia, culminated the UK leg with The Script's biggest production to date at London's O2 Arena.

Adlib provided all the sound equipment for both FoH and monitor systems based around an L'Acoustics K1 PA system. Adlib also supplied seven LM 26 digital audio loudspeaker processors from Lake for FoH and monitor system processing, along with a number of Lab.gruppen PLM 10000Q Powered Loudspeaker Management sy

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UK - When Tannoy's VQ Live system was launched in 2009, it quickly found favour in the live sound market. Andy Linklater, the FOH engineer for the recent Steve Harley acoustic tour, has found that the system performs equally as well when sheer loudness isn't always the main concern.

"I'd heard about the loudness of the system, but I was really looking forward to hearing how it performed at a lower level," says Linklater. "My big praise for it, really, is the vocal definition. I mean obviously, there is the volume side of it as well; it is a very powerful system. But the

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Canada - Salle Albert Rousseau has weathered the ravages of time better than most. It has been well cared for by the citizens of Quebec City and despite self-imposed changes from being principally a classical music venue to the more contemporary multi-purpose centre, it has lost none of its charm or character.

Recent revamps have seen the house sound system totally replaced and the stage entirely remodelled to accommodate current trends. Steering that remodelling was the audio consultant Alexandre Forgues of 20k inc.

"I started my career as a system engineer and had visited the

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Italy - Outline has confirmed its participation in Show-Way, at Bergamo Trade Fair (Italy), from 15-17 may. Promoted by APIAS and organized by Ente Fiera Promoberg, it is Italy's leading national expo dedicated to Entertainment Technology trade members.

For the first time in Italy, it will be possible to see Outline GTO, the large-format line-source system already owned by some of the world's major rental companies.

In spite of the official launch dating back to just last month, on the occasion of Frankfurt's Prolight+Sound, the Brescia company wishes to emphasize that the system ha

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Germany - Designed for applications from four-way monitoring to fully-fledged front PA applications, ASID has introduced a new Hoellstern power amplifier - the DELTA8.4-DSPIt features a built-in four-channel DSP, remote control option, free DSP configuration, powerful and stable outputs plus all In and Out protections of the Delta amplifier series.

In 'On' mode each of the four channels of the DELTA8.4-DSP delivers 1,300 watts at 8 ohms and 1,700 watts at 6 ohms. In 'Off' mode the output power is 4 x 850 watts at 8 ohms or 4 x 1,700 watts at 4 ohms respectively.

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UK - SES has released the first 32A 230V CLEAR backed Cee form connector into the European market.

Manufactured by Scame, and available exclusively from SES, this follows the success of the 16A range which is now specified by several users in the entertainment industry. Having the clear back on the connectors enables the user to check the integrity and connections inside without the time consuming strip down process saving time and money.

These units are now in stock at SES along with the 16A version and can be sold as loose connectors or indeed on HO7 extension cables.

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UK - KV2 Audio's Classic Series has evolved from a common belief among classical and jazz musicians that speaker systems dramatically colour and tarnish a performance. This is particularly noticeable in the reduction of the extreme dynamics found in live classical music and the lack of real high frequency, instead adding a distortion which creates a harsh brash sound for many instrumental, choral or vocal performances. This effect often worsens as the signal becomes more complex, loosing intricate details of the composition in favour of an increasingly cacophonic noise floor.

During a

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UK - LD Systems has launched a new model in their successful Roadboy series - a compact and flexible sound system which is designed for small events, conferences, multimedia applications, podium discussions, schools and churches.

The ultra-compact battery-powered combo amplifier, measuring 32cm x 22cm and weighing only 5 kg, provides an impressive sound pressure level (> 95 dB) and audibility, and is equipped with features "unique for its size".

Andrew Richardson, managing director of Adam Hall UK says, "The Roadboy 6.5 Series is ideal for today's demanding small even

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UK - Education is a fundamental part of Sennheiser UK's remit and its staff have already been hard at work helping students in 2011. March was a particularly busy month, with no less than three sessions laid on for the sound engineers of the future.

The beginning of the month saw an education workshop held in the Sennheiser lecture theatre (which the company also sponsors) at the Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts (LIPA), where Sennheiser UK special projects manager Phil Cummings and chief RF engineer Andrew Lillywhite delivered a two-part session to 50 students.

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