Belarus - Sound and lighting production company, MediaContract, rigged an advanced EAW system to help inaugurate the new amphitheatre in the Belarus city of Molodechno recently, when the Dozhinki Festival - an annual celebration for the year's harvest - took place.

The amphitheatre was built specially for the festival, and EAW's territorial distributors were brought in to reinforce the traditional festival of folk music, which was attended by nearly 3,000 people.

The opening ceremony was attended by well-known Belarusian bands and artistes, such as Anatoly Yarmolenko, (the Belarus r

UK - Martin Audio's award-winning sound system at the Ministry of Sound London was put to the ultimate test by some of the world's legendary house exponents last month, as the club celebrated its 20th anniversary.

With clubbers immersed inside 'The Box's' six-stack soundfield, the custom five-way hybrid system at the Ministry has already won prestigious IDMA (International Dance Music) awards for Best Club Sound System Design in both 2010 and 2011 - and its signature low-bass rumble created by two 21in ASX subs per stack, was re-optimised for the occasion.

The nightclub celebrated w

Austria - When customers in loudspeaker retailers want to try out a range of different models, it can be a difficult task re-patching cables to make straightforward comparisons.

With the existing Vienna headquarters of sound, lighting and musical instrument dealer Klangfarbe literally bursting at the seams, the company's owners knew that a radical solution was required. They found it in a former, brick built gasometer, which provides 3500m2 of office and retail space.

The extra space in the circular, four-storey building has allowed many more products to be displayed and be availabl

Ireland - On Tuesday 15 November, d&b's sales partner in Ireland, MOSCO will host a T-Series demonstration at TheButton Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.MOSCO's Kevin McGing and Oran Burnsfrom the d&b audiotechnik Education and Application Support team, will mix a little theory and lots of practical listening sessions. With an introduction to the positioning of the T-Series within the d&b audiotechnik product range, technical overview and the thinking behind the integrated systems approach the day will round up with the all important listening session.www.dbaudio.com(Jim Eva

UK - Three of the entertainment industry's leading service providers will be joining forces to co-exhibit at the Showmans Show next week.

LS-Live, HSL and Adlib will be collaborating to produce one of the biggest stands at the outdoor event services show, which takes place between 19th-20th October at the Newbury Showground in Berkshire. The joint exhibit will feature a full live rig based around LS-Live's Space Roof stage system.

The three northern-based rental companies will be demonstrating how their varying products and skills, which span the entire spectrum of live event produc

Belgium - Having worked for Studio 100 theme parks since 2000 - right up to this summer's latest indoor themed extension (Mayaland) at Plospaland De Panne - FACE has consistently chosen Martin Audio as its preferred loudspeaker brand.

Says FACE MD, Karel De Piere, "Our credo to offer the best hardware, knowledge and service combination led to us recommending Martin Audio. It is about earning the customer's trust and confidence with a proven sound solution."

Founded by Gert Verhulst and Hans Bourlon Studio 100's theme parks receive more than two million visitors each year a

UK - JoeCo Limited has announced a major software update for its award-winning BlackBox Recorder series. Version 2.2 contains a number of features designed to give the user greater working efficiency and includes many benefits inherited from the development of the BlackBox BBR64-MADI and Dante Recorders, says the company. These include enhancements to the underlying bespoke operating system alongside improved methods of displaying critical information to the user whilst maintaining the conceptual simplicity of the user interface.

Simple interface changes, from clarifying clock sources

Australia - The first Midas XL8 to be based in Australia is the flagship console for new Melbourne company Mighty Rock Performance Technology, a rental operation set up to focus purely on Midas digital consoles and associated accessories. Supplied by Midas distributor National Audio Systems in Melbourne, Mighty Rock's XL8 is joined by a Midas PRO9 digital sound system, with the addition of the new Midas PRO2 series planned within a matter of months.

Mighty Rock is the brainchild of husband and wife team Tony and Tonie Miller, CEOs and founders of pioneering events outfit Production Wo

Turkey - Kafe Pi Group is one of Turkey's fastest growing organisations, having opened 14 new venues in quick succession, including two beach clubs as well as pubs and bars. Bronx Pi Stage is one of its latest additions. Located in the Beyo?lu district in the heart of Istanbul, it features a DiGiCo SD8 digital mixing console supplied by DiGiCo's Turkish distributor, Elit Light/Sound Technologies.

Kafe Pi Group predominantly targets university students, hosting a variety of events from concept parties to board game tournaments. Bronx Pi, which first opened its doors in 2009, appeals to

Morocco - Retailer and premier regional distributor Casascène, has recently been appointed by dBTechnologies to distribute its products in Morocco.

Henri Halioua, founder and owner of Casascène comments, "I am very impressed by the dBTechnologies product range. I am really confident about the impact it will have in the market, in particular the rental and installation fields, where I am sure the DVA Series will play a very important and leading role."

Created in 1996, Casascène provides a range of sound, lighting, and AV solutions to customers from all manner of busines

USA - Community Professional Loudspeakers has introduced three new products to its VLF Series of Versatile Low Frequency systems. The dual 8-inch VLF208LV, the single 15-inch VLF115 and the single 18-inch VLF118 join the existing VLF products to create a comprehensive family of high performance subwoofers featuring a compact, low profile design.

The new VLF208LV, a dual 8-inch in a larger volume enclosure than the ultra-compact VLF208, is designed for applications that require the lowest frequencies from a slim-profile design. With a birch-ply enclosure measuring just 10 x 21.75 x 21.

Australia - Belgium manufacturer Apex Audio has announced GT Pacific as its new exclusive distributor for Australia.

"The Apex Audio product range brings a plethora of solutions suitable for the highest levels of commercial installations, broadcast, and touring," says GT Pacific's marketing director Anthony Touma. "With innovative solutions including cutting edge speaker management systems, hardware gates, limiters and equalisers, as well as exceptionally high quality active direct input units, the Apex Audio brand is destined to enjoy widespread success in Australia.

UK - JoeCo has announced that, following two very successful years distributing the BlackBox Recorder in the US, Nashville-based Full Scale AV will now also distribute the JoeCo product range in Canada.

The announcement follows the recent launches of the BBR64-MADI and BBR-DANTE BlackBox Recorder versions, which have increased the product range's live multi-channel audio capturing capabilities from 24 channels to up to 64 channels in the compact 1 rack unit format.

"Over the past two years we have established a very successful relationship with Full Scale AV, who have done an e

Spain - Spain became the first testing ground for the new Adamson 'Project Energia' beta launch. Adamson distributor Seesound together with sound provider Fluge arranged the first E15 system in Europe to premiere at the Low Cost Festival in Benidorm, featuring Mika and Ok GO! among many others. Now ready for a full tour, Fluge is putting the E15's to the test with the Spanish metal band Los Marea.

The tour begins in Arnedo, in La Rioja province in the North of Spain on 5 November, and finishes the year on 30 December in Madrid, starting the new year with a date on 14 January in Zarago

Germany - With over seven million visitors, white-knuckle rides galore, and a convivial atmosphere in the gigantic beer tents strewn out over the vast Theresienwiese (the Meadow of Therese), the Munich Beer Festival (or Oktoberfest) this year once again lived up to its reputation as one of the largest and most spectacular festivals in the world. The two-week event kicked off, as ever, with the broaching of the first barrel in the largest tent: the Schottenhamel Marquee.

No less important, of course, was the quality of the sound reinforcement for the 10,000-odd revellers, which is why

Belgium - Ethersound-based audio is now used on live events of all sizes, aided by the ease with which it can be integrated with Yamaha's digital mixing consoles. Belgian company Swing is the latest rental house to invest in Yamaha equipment and take advantage of the many benefits of completely digital audio systems.

Based in Merelbeke, near Gent, Swing owns two Yamaha M7CL-32 consoles, which are in high demand for a range of events. Company owner Dany de Letter was keen to invest in an Ethersound 'digital snake' solution to enhance the audio quality of Swing's productions and so purc

USA - Outline reports that its Mini-COM.P.A.S.S. powered line array speakers were chosen as the centre stage, primary front-of-house speakers for the Broadway hit Relatively Speaking, playing at the Brookes-Atkinson Theatre in Manhattan.

The play, directed by actor/director John Turturro and penned by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, consists of three one-act plays that deal with the topic of family relationships. As each play is essentially dialogue-driven, clarity is of great importance for the success of the production. Mini-COM.P.A.S.S., with its Double Parabolic Ref

USA At the AES convention in New York this week, DiGiCo is debuting the SD10-24 console. The SD10-24, like the original SD Ten launched at ProLight+Sound earlier this year, is a console that "boasts features and benefits that i distinguish it from the others in the SD Series and every other digital console on the market, just in a more compact package".

"When we introduced the SD8-24, which was primarily designed with the corporate market in mind, it was an immediate hit," says James Gordon, DiGiCo's managing director. "The SD10-24 is based on the same thinkin

USA - Clear-Com is exhibiting the new HME DX210 at this year's AES 2011 in NYC. The 2.4-GHz-band wireless intercom system delivers "exceptional sound clarity and reliable, interference-free connection to audio professionals that need to communicate with their production team". With two communication channels, improved wired system connections and simple-to-use operations, the HME DX210 provides great flexibility and value for fixed installations and tour productions, says the company.

The HME DX210 is a robust wireless system with a rugged-yet-lightweight design. With two ch

UK - The University of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre was Sir Christopher Wren's first building design and is therefore of tremendous historic importance, having been started in 1664. Adapting a Grade 1listed building for 21st Century use, while at the same time not losing any of its historic magnificence, has been a complex process. But a K-array audio system has meant the 343 year old theatre can now meet all those criteria.

The iconic structure is arch-shaped in plan, surmounted by a cupola and is one of the most photographed buildings in the city of dreaming spires. In addition to be

USA - At AES in New York, Outline highlighted the GTO-DF, the newest member of the GTO (Grand Touring Outline) Series of line array speakers. First introduced at PLASA 2011, the GTO-DF is designed to provide exceptionally high-quality sound to the first several rows of the audience at an event, filling the sonic gap often experienced by event attendees who are seated near the stage.

"The GTO-DF rounds out the performance coverage of the highly regarded GTO line array speaker systems," says Tom Bensen, senior vice president and managing director of Outline North America. &quo

USA - At AES 2011 in New York, Renkus-Heinz unveiled two major enhancements to its family of digital beam steering loudspeaker products.

The IC8R-II is "a major evolutionary update" to the Iconyx range, introducing significant performance improvement over its predecessor, the IC8R, combining a new Triple Tweeter High Frequency Array Coax with the equally new RHAON [Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network] v1.8 beam steering module.

The new Triple Tweeter design creates a continuous, close spaced high frequency line source that pushes the onset of gradient lobes out past 10Kh

France - The legendary Parisian venue, the Bataclan, was packed to the rafters on the night of 17 October as over 1000 people flocked to see their favourite artists take part in a massive charity concert on behalf of the homeless and those forced to live in dwellings unfit for human habitation in Paris.

Organised by the Abbé Pierre Foundation, the line up for the concert, Ne Lâchons Rien read like a Who's Who of the French music scene with performances from the likes of M, Zazie, Alain Souchon, Nolwenn Leroy, Laurent Voulzy and many, many more. In charge of monitors for

Italy - With catching environment and very stylish decoration the QI Clubbing in Erbusco, Brescia is a popular venue. Several times QI Clubbing has been named as one of the best nightclubs in Italy. In October 2011 the QI Clubbing will be opening their new Restaurant and Private Club facilities.

Opening a new facility gives QI a 360 degrees solution of entertainment of dining, nightclub, dancing and social life comes together under the same establishment.

The key of the success for QI Clubbing is the constant investment into developing a good atmosphere and surroundings. To keep the

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