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Sweden - The sound is ear-splitting: the howl of race tuned engines vying with each other to strip paint by SPL alone from the concrete walls of the long U-shaped arena at Tierp, purpose-built on an old military airfield in central Sweden. The brainchild of Lief Andréasson, this derelict patch of perfectly level wasteland has been turned into one of the most modern drag racing arenas in the world - with a host of other purposes planned - 2.51km (1.56 miles) of motorsport racetrack just 120 km (75 miles) north of Stockholm with the capacity for 20,000 spectators.

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Hungary - For the past two years, the Hungarian government has been funding a special project to bring regional theatres up to date and into greater community use. The town of Tatabánya has been one beneficiary, where three DiGiCo SD9 consoles have ensured that further capital investment will not be needed for many years.

Titled Agora, the project aims to modernise the venues and help them to stage a greater range of multicultural events. In Tatabánya it has included a complete technical refit of the town's theatre, which has featured three new DiGiCo SD9 consoles - two for t

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UK - Genelec reports its continued commitment and support for the not-for-profit John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Foundation. A new European tour bus was recently unveiled by Yoko Ono Lennon at a ceremony in Liverpool, and like its USA-based sister bus, its two state-of-the-art mobile studios are outfitted with Genelec active monitors.

Following huge success in the USA, the Lennon Bus concept has now been rolled out to Europe where it will provide kids and students across the continent with hands-on digital media production experience. Built on a rugged Mercedes-Benz 12m long chassis,

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UAE - Danish Intepretation Systems (DIS), a Shure company, has appointed NMK Middle East FZCO as the exclusive distributor for supplying its award-winning Conference Solution product range to Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.

A part of the Informationsteknik Scandinavia Group acquired by Shure Incorporated in 2011, DIS is represented through a global partner network in more than 80 countries, with offices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.

"NMK Middle East are looking forward to introducing DIS Conference Solution products across the region,"

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France - Amadeushas announced the re-launch of its famed UDX Series passive speakers - 30 years after originally releasing their first edition. Including four different models, the UDX Series is designed for sound reinforcement applications in concert halls, auditoriums, conference rooms, and theatres.

Designed to be included within fixed or long-lasting installations, each UDX speaker system can also be used in touring applications as a stage monitor when fitted with optional accessories. The newly redesigned UDX Series are now available from licensed Amadeus distributors and dealers

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USA - The New York City Police Department's headquarters building in downtown Manhattan is understandably a challenging RF environment. Inside, the 500-plus-seat auditorium is used for all manner of presentations using wireless microphones, as well as video teleconferencing, for applications that can range from officer graduations and assemblies to large-scale counter-terrorism strategy and information exchanges with other police and security agencies around the world.

As good as the sound components in the auditorium are, the existing wireless microphone systems had been experiencing

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USA - On 18 and 19 May, DigitalSound Production Services (DPS) supplied new Meyer Sound Leo linear large-scale reinforcement system for the 30th anniversary of the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride festival. The new system powered the festival's main stage performances, headlined on Saturday by R&B singer Fantasia and on Sunday by finalists from the television shows American Idol and The Voice.

For DPS production manager Chris Verducci, the outdoor festival was the perfect opportunity to introduce the power and clarity of the company's new Leo system.

"It's a very

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USA - Audinate has announced that Bose Corporation has licensed Audinate's Dante patented media networking solution. The agreement will enable Bose Professional to integrate Dante into its professional audio products.

"By including Dante in our products, we make it easy for our customers to meet the requirements of the installations that call for this solution to exchange high quality digital audio over virtually any network layout", says Akira Mochimaru, general manager, Bose Professional Systems Division.

"Bose is one of the best known brands in the world", say

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UK - Sennheiser UK originally launched its Masters of Sound campaign at the beginning of 2012 by giving aspiring musicians the life-changing opportunity of helping to create a new track for singer-songwriter and producer, Labrinth. The next phase of this hugely successful venture is now underway, with the company producing a series of informal videos that will provide an insight into the work of some of the industry's most renowned and respected audio professionals.

The first video to be released features producer Steve Levine. This will be followed by Grammy award winning guitarist,

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Australia - - P!NK is currently out on a massive 10-month global arena tour in support of her sixth and most recent record, The Truth About Love. Currently trekking across Europe - following an initial US leg that began in February - P!NK and her entourage will eventually head down to Australia for the summer months before making their way back to North America for a second sweep that will carry the pop superstar through the end of the year and possibly beyond.

Manning her FOH mix, as he has for the past five years, Chris Madden has specified the use of a full L-Acoustics K1 sy

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UK - Allen & Heath's GLD digital system was employed to manage FOH and monitors for Elvis - the Ultimate Performance staged recently at the London Palladium. The show ran off AR2412 and AR84 input expander units, with 28 inputs on stage and three inputs into the GLD-80 mixer for playback and talkback.

Elvis - The Ultimate Performance stars Elvis performer, Chris Connor, accompanied by a comprehensive band comprising drums, bass, rhythm and lead guitar, keys and synth, dedicated wind band, brass section containing saxophone, flute, trumpet and trombone, plus four backing

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USA - PLASA Focus: Orlando, the latest addition to the North American regional event series is hailed a great success, impressing local visitors with the newest and most innovative products and a show stopping line-up of seminars.

Nearly 700 attendees saw a number of new products make their regional debut, including the first fixtures of Martin Professional's new range - RUSH; four new fixtures from Robe Lighting's multi award-winning Robin product line; Elation's EZ6 LED Video Panel, Rayzor 7 and Platinum Beam 5R Extreme; DiGiCo's latest theatrical software updates for the SD9, showc

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USA - Orbital Sound reports that it is currently out on the road with the Big League Productions' US national tour of the hit musical Dreamgirls, with the 21-week show schedule ending up on another continent this August - in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Sound design on the show is by Matt Geasey and Mike Tracey, with Orbital contracted to supply and support the show's state of the art sound system.

Dreamgirls' big sound is delivered by the d&b audiotechnik V-Series speaker system, chosen for its compact yet extraordinarily powerful design, complemented by a Yamaha CL5 mixing

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Australia - The P.A. People have been discovering the benefits of their Clear-Com Tempest Wireless Intercom System on a couple of recent major gigs: Sydney New Year's Eve Celebrations and the How To Train Your DragonAustralian / New Zealand and US tour.

For Sydney's New Year's Eve Celebration, The P.A. People provided data and communications including Clear-Com Eclipse Matrix, V-Station Panels, and Tempest Full Duplex for communications, network time-code, audio transport and much more.

Throughout the various key sites Clear-Com's Eclipse Matrix systems were deployed, includi

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UK - Turbosound's Flashline speaker system delivered the sound for Emeli Sandé's Hammersmith Apollo show at the conclusion of her warmly received seven-date UK tour.

The Flashline line array system - designed to deliver hi-fi sound to large audiences using paper cone midrange transducers to deliver beautiful vocal frequencies - was specified by Sandé's live sound engineer Darren Connor, and supplied by Mansfield-based Entertainment Sound Specialists (ESS) via Britannia Row Productions.

Connor deployed a configuration of 11 Flashline TFS-900H flown per side, six TFS-900

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USA - As some of music's biggest names came together for the fourth annual Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound company and experts in supplying and supporting wireless systems for live and broadcast events, was busy providing frequency coordination for all the artists and media outlets in attendance at the event, the nation's largest beach bash.

Billed as the first and only event of its kind, the Hangout Festival is a three-day music party staged on the white sand beaches of Gulf Shores. For this year's event, the PWS tea

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Jordan - The success of Jordanian Dynacord and Electro-Voice partner Advanced Solutions continues apace, the latest instance being an installation in a newly built house of worship in Aqaba. The Stella Maris church in the coastal resort on the Red Sea has been fully equipped by Advanced Solutions with sound reinforcement systems from Dynacord and Electro-Voice. Two years in the construction, the church was dedicated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem in mid-December.

The nerve centre of the multi-zone installation in the Stella Maris church is an Electro-Voice NetMax N8000 controller that

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USA - On her recent North American Hundred More Years tour, Christian singer/songwriter Francesca Battistelli and supporting act The Afters played venues of all shapes and sizes. Big Thrill Productions of Weatherford, Tex. and Athens, Ga. provided a Meyer Sound system based on M'elodie line array loudspeakers and 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements that were successfully adapted for varying room configurations.

According to the tour's production manager and FOH mixer Anthony Martinez, the system easily adapted to any challenges that were presented. "I love the versatil

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Brazil - With the help of trade bodies, PLASA and MIA, the APRS assembled 10 British companies, including eight sharing a national booth called the Great British Audio Embassy, who presented their wares at the annual AES Convention at the Expo Centre Norte.

Participants from the pro-audio, broadcast and sound reinforcement industries shared a specially designed booth at the heart of the show, creating a great first impression and receiving the glowing attention both of visitors to the show and of the host of local distributors and manufacturers with whom they were looking for local pa

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China - Throughout the week-long 15th annual Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition, more than 200 Meyer Sound loudspeakers provided quality, visually unobtrusive reinforcement for such leading automobile manufacturers as Ferrari and Maserati, among others.

Shanghai Huelead AV Equipment Co. deployed Meyer Sound systems for the stands of Shanghai Volkswagen, Škoda, Chery, BYD, Fiat, and Toyota, with a total of 147 UPA-1P loudspeakers and 42 M'elodie line array loudspeakers dominating the specifications. Low-frequency reinforcement was supplied by four 600-HP and 10 700-

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Korea - ARX Systems, the Australian based designer and manufacturer of digital and analogue interface and signal processing products has announced the appointment of Seoul based AVIX Tech as their new distributor for Korea.

ARX managing director Colin Park said, "Avix Tech are a well known and established company in the Korean professional audio industry. We're looking forward to working with director Jay Chung and the Avix team, they're enthusiastic about the possibilities for the ARX product range among their extensive client base."

Established in 1992 by Mr Joo Hong Cha

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UK - Orbital Sound's expert easiHire rental service team will be on hand to explain the essential details on Stand No 129a at ABTT 2013. easiHire's intuitive online portal provides 24/7 access to everything needed to create a rental package, and is designed for professional and non-professional users alike.

Orbital's easiHire service enables rapid and simple product selection across individual components or complete systems, backed up with detailed specifications and photographs, comprehensive product information, detailed budget guides and convenient planning tools. easiHire is desig

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USA - "InfoComm never ceases to amaze, for d&b audiotechnik it's a great platform to introduce people to the advances we are making in providing a great listening experience," says d&b marketing manager Roger Keim. "It's about hearing as well as seeing. Audio might not be as glossy as the video displays, but without good sound a picture only tells part of the story. We are demonstrating new products and will be hosting presentations on how to apply them."

Product demonstrations commence at 11:00 am on 11 June in the demo lounge, number W204A, and run throughout the

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Canada - When Canadian television company Eastlink TV contacted DiGiCo distributor Gerr Audio to talk about an intercom system for the company's new HD mobile unit, it ended up with more than it bargained for. This new, state-of-the-art facility not only features the originally requested intercom, but a DiGiCo SD10B broadcast specific digital mixing console, which has already more than proved its worth.

"Historically, we've supplied Eastlink with Clearcomm intercoms," explains Gerr's Andrew Hope. "So when they were kitting out the new HD mobile, which is a big step up f

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