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Olivier Awards - Michael Frayn and Gillian Lynne will be given prizes for their outstanding contribution to theatre at this year's Olivier Awards ceremony. They will both receive their Special Awards at the event, which is taking place at the Royal Opera House on 28 April and will be hosted by Hugh Bonneville and Sheridan Smith. Frayn is best known for writing his 1982 play Noises Off as well as dramas including Copenhagen and Democracy. Lynne has choreographed more than 50 Broadway, West End and international stage productions including musicals Cats and

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UK - Queen guitarist Brian May and Broadway star Kerry Ellis played a set in support of endangered tigers at London's iconic St Pancras station, with sound provided by HK Audio's new Linear 5 speaker system.

May and Ellis were playing in support of the Born Free Foundation, which works to prevent individual animal suffering, protect threatened species and keep wildlife in the wild.

Sound at the event came from an HK Audio Linear 5 Big Venue Pack, supplied by Hertfordshire-based entertainment and production firm Mr H Productions.

The Linear 5 Big Venue Pack contains four LSUB2000A

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UK - The Conference and Live Events division of leading UK audio visual services provider Saville Audio Visual have recently taken delivery of eight new Roland V-800HD Multi-format Live Video Switchers. Featuring High Definition picture quality and eight multi format channels with independent scalers as well as a variety of output formats including a built-in multi-viewer, the V-800HD Live Video Switcher is ideal for live event and corporate productions as well as web streaming. The addition of the V-800HD to the Saville inventory fits perfectly with recent investment in HD projectors a

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UAE - Meyer Sound has appointed Chris Mead as the company's Middle East technical support manager. Based at the Meyer Sound Middle East office in Dubai, Mead will be responsible for providing technical support to customers throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Indian sub-continent.

"Meyer Sound's growth opportunities in the Middle East lie in our quality products as well as our ability to provide timely and knowledgeable technical support for customers in the territory," says Mauricio Saint Martin, director of Middle East sales. "Chris's in-depth engineering bac

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UK - The nominations for the Olivier Awards with MasterCard - the most prestigious event in the UK's theatrical calendar - have been announced, and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time leads the list with eight nominations, followed by Top Hat receiving seven, and the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of Sweeney Todd in close competition with six. Other stand-out nominations include The Audience and Kiss Me, Kate receiving five each, and Constellations, The Bodyguard and Twelfth Night with four.

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Italy - RCF is updating its entry-level range of commercial audio amplifiers by introducing two new multipurpose models. AM1125 (p/n 12135082) is a mixer-amplifier while UP1121 (p/n 12135083) is a power amplifier.

Flexibility and reliability are the main features of these devices, together with audio intelligibility and overall construction quality. The solid chassis are standard rack 19" and the 2-unit mounting accessories are "in-the-box".

AM1125 is a 120W RMS mixer amplifier with five inputs, four of them universal (mic-line sensitivity) and one switchable phantom

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UK - Due to be a highlight of PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013, JoeCo's latest software update for the award-winning BlackBox brings several new features and enhancements to the multi-channel live audio recorder/player series.

With version 2.2.7x, both the BlackBox Recorder and the BlackBox Player now support the replay of polyphonic wav files, from multiple stereo files up to 24 or even 64 channel PolyWAV files. Mono, stereo and multichannel files can even be used together in the same song massively enhancing the system's flexibility.

JoeCo's iXML plug-in also enables PolyWAV files to be re

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UK - As part of its ongoing commitment to providing training and support, Sennheiser UK has announced the launch of its UK Sound Academy.

Established in order to provide a series of courses aimed at professional sound engineers, students and anyone working within the audio industry, the first course, 'Basic Wireless Microphones and Monitoring', will take place on 18 April, at Sennheiser UK's head office in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

The course consists of a mixture of initial online learning, followed by a full day's workshop with some of Sennheiser's leading audio experts who w

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USA - Roland Systems Group (RSG) will be using the backdrop of the NAB Show in Las Vegas to launch the VC-1 Series - a new range of portable video converters using award-winning Roland multi-format conversion technology concentrated in a simplified mini-converter. Addressing the demand for high-quality, lossless video and audio converters for live/post production as well as installed systems, the VC-1 Series will comprise of three models - the VC-1-HS (HDMI to SDI), VC-1-SH (SDI to HDMI), and VC-1-DL (Bi-directional SDI/HDMI with audio/video delay and frame sync).

The VC-1 Video Conve

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Germany - Loud Technologies and Mega Audio GmbH have announced a distribution agreement whereby Mega Audio will serve as the distributor for the Ampeg and Mackie brands in Germany.

"We are very excited to partner with Mega Audio," explained Tony Williams, director of sales, EMEA. "This agreement will support expanding Ampeg and Mackie sales and ensure that our level of customer service keeps pace with our growth in Germany.

"Dealers will benefit from this partnership with local stock availability, as well as excellent in-market sales, technical support and strong

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UK - Audio legend Tony Andrews is to deliver the closing session of the Professional Development Programme on the final day of PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013 on Wednesday 1 May.

It's About Time. That's the bold declaration posed by the founder of both Turbosound and Funktion-One, Tony Andrews as he rounds off the Professional Development Programme in style on Wednesday afternoon at 3.35pm. One of pro audio's true originals, Tony has spent a lifetime creating ground-breaking loudspeaker systems for the live entertainment industry. A genuine pioneer who has never chosen to take the easy

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France - Since the introduction of the K Systems Standard in 2008 L-Acoustics has trained over 2,200 technicians in over 270 training sessions worldwide.

L-Acoustics would like to recognise this accumulated field experience in the trade by providing accreditation to experienced system technicians through the L-Acoustics K Systems Engineer (KSE) accreditation programme. The KSE status represents recognition by the industry and peers that the individual has achieved an advanced level of understanding in implementing L-Acoustics systems.

David Brooks, application department, L-Acoustic

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UK - Induction loop manufacturer Ampetronic is launching the new MultiLoop Driver range at PLASA Focus: Leeds in late April to punctuate 25 years as the market's principal technology innovator.

The MultiLoop Driver (MLD) range amplifiers, featuring dual output channels and 90° phase shift are each designed to fit in a single standard 19" rack mount bay, making them the most space efficient available, offering unparalleled system flexibility and a minimum 50% reduction in AV cabinet space when compared to others on the market.

The compact nature of the technology has not imp

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UK - Warwick University is situated on a 700 acre campus near the city of Coventry. It has a strong reputation as a centre of academic excellence and sits consistently in the top 10 of all UK university league tables. The campus serves 22,000 students and is constantly evolving and developing as a result of continuing and significant investment. As well as providing teaching and accommodation environments for its students the university campus is also a focus for the wider community in the shape of the Warwick Arts Centre and the University Sports Centre.

In 2011, as a result of new l

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Germany - European studio producers, musicians and DJs will have their first opportunity to see Prism Sound's new Lyra family of Audio Interfaces at this year's Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt (Hall 5.1, stand B50A).

With Lyra, Prism Sound is bringing its high performance audio technology to an even wider audience. This brand new family of interfaces is aimed at musicians, composers, project studio owners, DJs, re-mixers and other audio content producers such as radio and podcasting. It is also anticipated that high-end home audio enthusiasts will find the USB interface and ste

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Switzerland - Art on Ice has become one of the most successful figure skating spectaculars in the world, playing to 70,000 spectators a year at venues across Switzerland. This year, this fusion of world-class figure skaters and an audio soundscape from equally world class singers featured 50 minutes of British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis's best-known tracks delivered through Sennheiser's new flagship Digital 9000 Series microphone system.

The system comprised an EM 9046 SU system unit, eight EM 9046 DRX, an EM 9046 DAO or EM 9046 AAO - depending on the console used and the co

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UK - Technical production specialist Universal Event Productions (UEP) based in Tring, UK, is celebrates 15 years in the live events industry in style - by staging a two-day music extravaganza, Chilfest, on 5-6 July 2013. The event was instigated by UEP's MD Steve Butcher, and will also help raise money for two charities, the Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice Care (IRGH) and AWA - Women supporting Women against domestic violence.

The festival site will be Pendley Activity Meadow - owned by event sponsor Pendley Manor - with a capacity of 7000 for each of the two nights. The programme fo

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USA - The Production Resource Group (PRG) employed a large Outline GTO Line Array, MANTAS and Butterfly-driven sound system for the recent Andrea Bocelli performance in the BB&T Centre, the largest indoor arena in Florida.

The challenge for Outline and PRG was to transform the sonic space of this multi-purpose arena - principally used for live sporting events and with occasional music concerts - into a world-class symphonic hall capable of delivering the nuance and power of a Bocelli performance. Outline's exclusive Openarray-3D prediction software was employed to guide the installati

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UK - Audio-Technica has released the latest in its series of endorser interview videos, this time featuring Rita Ora monitor engineer Stu MacAulay.

MacAulay has been using Allen & Heath's popular, compact GLD digital desk (distributed in the UK by Audio-Technica Ltd) for all of Ora's recent headline shows in the UK. During the interview he - and Ora's guitarist Jonas Jalhay - talk about the benefits of the desk's diminutive but powerful nature, the quality of the on-board processing and its faultless reliability during a grueling run of Academy-size shows.

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Germany - Though the laws affecting the behaviour of sound are immutable, environment and loudspeaker design are all too variable. This is why d&b has developed ArrayCalc V7, precisely to accommodate not only line array but point source designs or a combination of both into a single hybrid system design. It also offers a new printout section for any of these options and simplifies the process of creating remote control workspaces via an export function into the d&b R1 Remote control software. There will be two working display areas on the stand that provide hands on opportunities to lea

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UK - Roland Systems Group (RSG) has announced the appointment of SCAN Computers as a dealer for both professional audio and video products. With their headquarters in Bolton, SCAN has a separate 'Pro Service' division which includes Pro Audio and Pro Video, serving clients as diverse as professional recording studios, schools, filmmakers and musicians.

SCAN has over 25 years of experience in providing PC based solutions to the audio and video markets and will focus primarily on supplying small format AV switchers such as the VR-3 AV Mixer, VR-5 AV Mixer & Recorder and V-40HD Multi For

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USA - Aphex has announced the appointment of Jim Bailey to the position of general manager. The announcement was made by Aphex chairman and CEO David Wiener.

Wiener stated, "Aphex is firing on all cylinders. We have worked really hard over the last two years, adapting, evolving and expanding our Burbank and Salt Lake City operations to position us for the next phase of growth. A key step is putting Jim in the position of general manager, where we can fully utilize his unique skill set in leading the product and operations teams."

After many years as a successful engineer,

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UK - Audio-Technica has announced a series of changes across its UK sales force in line with its on-going commitment to improving service to retailers.

Joining Audio-Technica as area sales manager for MI in the south of England, Alex Farrell previously held the position of area sales manager at Tascam and brings with him a wealth of experience in both MI and pro audio.

Gary Maguire, meanwhile, builds on his existing role as Allen & Heath analogue product manager at Audio-Technica, taking on the additional responsibility of the southern area sales manager role, with a particular resp

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Germany - Midas has announced the first public viewing of Generation 2.1 software for their entire range of digital consoles.

Midas Generation 2 software, unveiled at Prolight+Sound in 2012, added a host of new features and functionality to the entire range of Midas digital consoles including new FX and dynamics options, plus new ground-breaking mixing concepts such as Midas MCAs and "collapsed" fader flip. Midas are pushing the boundaries once more at PL+S 2013, adding a rack-full of new latency-compensated FX plug-ins and dynamics processing options to every console in the

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