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UAE / Oman - Melody House, distributors of HK Audio speaker systems have recently supplied Music Connections with the first Icon system in the Middle East. After a positive experience the company quickly decided to purchase a second system a few weeks later. Music Connections, based in Muscat are professional service providers for sound, lights, video and backline for various corporate events and concerts.

"After demonstrating the Icon system to Music Connections, we had great feedback and a confirmed order for a system," commented Dino Drimakis, business development manager

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UK - Pentewan Sands Holiday Park near Mevagissey in Cornwall is one of the country's leading camping and caravan parks and was voted Britain's best beach holiday park in 2008.

When the owners decided to expand the facilities to include a new on site leisure facility complete with two pools, jacuzzi, gym, fitness centre, bars and restaurant, they asked Pyramid Presentations to design and install high quality lighting and AV systems throughout.

Since the audio brief required 20 different sources and outputs to 12 different areas, Pyramid saw it as an opportunity to design an audio sys

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USA - Behind the Scenes, an initiative of The ESTA Foundation, announces its second annual holiday card student design contest, open to any lighting, set, video or costume full-time design student interested in creating an original design for a 2011 card.

The winner will be chosen by an all-star panel of previous holiday card designers including Bob Bonniol, Beowulf Borrit, Ed Coco, Christine Jones, Scott Pask, Bruce Rodgers, Douglas Schmidt, and Tim Hunter Design. The winner's design will be among the cards offered for sale to raise money for Behind the Scenes, which provides financi

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USA - A Midas PRO6 emerged the clear winner for the World Outreach Church in Murfressboro, Tennessee, US when selecting a console for its new 2,800 capacity main sanctuary. "The sound quality and navigation are unbeatable," reports church technical director Derric West.

West got to work demoing several different consoles onsite while the new sanctuary was in its design phase, swapping test consoles in an existing sanctuary every other weekend, but keeping the same mics and PA. "The console was the only variable," reports West, "and it was any easy choice once

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Czech Republic - Veteran Scots rock group Nazareth enjoy cult status in the Czech Republic, a fact that was once again evident at their show in Hradec Králové where they sold out the 3,000-seater Aldis Congress Centre for the last stop of their Still Loud 'n' Proud tour. The ACC is a venue notable not only for its impressive size but also for the quality of its infrastructure, acoustics, sightlines and artists' dressing rooms.

To ensure the sound was worthy of the setting, the tour organizers contracted Dvur Králové nad Labem-based rental company Sound Service t

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UK - Following "huge interest" in A.C. Entertainment Technologies' free dedicated 2012 digital switchover open days last year in partnership with Sennheiser and Shure, the company's Audio division has announced it will be holding more events in March 2011.

As a distributor of wireless microphone and IEM equipment brands, A.C. Audio has been keenly following the Ofcom ruling with a view to advising users on how they can best prepare for the switch to Channel 38 (606-614 MHz) in 2012.

Forming part of this service, the upcoming open days will be held at AC-ET's UK offices in

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Czech Republic - A new multicultural congress centre has provided the Czech city of Zlin with a new purpose built facility for staging concerts, conferences, exhibitions, symposiums and more.

Designed by noted architect Eva Jiricna - with an overall construction budget of CZK 650 million (£22.75m) - the contract to design and install the audio at the Congress Center Zlin was undertaken by Inton SRO. After winning a competitive bid, they recommended a Martin Audio line array solution for the 837-seat Great Hall.

Two separate Martin Audio line array systems were detailed, with e

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The Netherlands - Tannoy has unveiled at ISE 2011 its "most significant new product range in several years", in the form of VX Series.

VX Series heralds a number of advances in Tannoy's core offering to the pro sound reinforcement market, says the company, as well as marking the dawn of a collaboration with Lab.gruppen on the self-powered 'VXP' versions - the first product of its type to feature both Tannoy and Lab.gruppen technologies.

With an expanded range of enclosures and transducer compliments, the new VX Series combines Dual Concentric driver technology with smart,

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USA - Audinate has announced the availability of its new Dante Brooklyn II audio networking module.

The Dante Brooklyn II module is a low-height, small mini-PCI form factor module that provides a complete, ready to use Dante interface for a networked audio product, with the addition of a range of new features and interfaces for even more flexibility of design. Brooklyn II is also designed to be upgradeable to AVB networking standards.

Brooklyn II's new features include the widest sample rate support to date (from 44.1 to 192kHz), up to eight configurable serial audio lines, a range

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Germany - In the course of restructuring and taking over sales of all its software products in German speaking countries, Berlin-based AFMG, manufacturer of the simulation platform for room acoustics EASE and audio measurement tools EASERA and SysTune, has appointed graduate engineer Thilo Schuetz as its director of press, marketing and sales.

Stefan Feistel, managing director of AFMG, comments, "We are proud to have Mr. Thilo Schuetz joining our team. He has come to grips with our company and products in no time."

Thilo Schuetz, who has worked as production manager and CT

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The Netherlands - L-Acoustics has joined forces with control and automation specialist AMX to provide external control of the LA4 and LA8 amplified controllers from an AMX touch screen panel, for fixed installation applications.

"The new AMX module provides L-Acoustics integrators with an interface control solution to take full advantage of the flexibility and performance of our LA amplified controllers in fixed install applications such as worship, convention centres and sports facilities," says Cedric Montrezor, head of installation support.

The main features of the new

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Italy - Organisers of the Italian professional entertainment technology exhibition ShowWay have announced that the long-awaited second edition of the event will take place in Bergamo, Italy, from 15 to 17 May 2011.

Having put the show on ice last year, allowing its exhibitors to "concentrate their efforts on optimising their businesses during the peak of the world recession," organisers feel the time is right for a recovery-boosting show.The show will follow the same format as the successful 2008 debut event, which saw 65 exhibiting companies attend - 60% coming from outside

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Qatar - Pearce Hire has been awarded a new contract by QMDI to supply all of the temporary event power for the VIP opening of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Services in Qatar.

Managing director Shaun Pearce will spend a week at Education City, Qatar this February 2010 installing four event generators (2 x 500KVA and 2 x 100 KVA) along with electrical distribution throughout the venue. The temporary power installation will supply outdoor architectural lighting, along with projection, lighting and audio inside the main auditorium and associated conference rooms.

The event

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USA - Audio-Technica is now offering the ATW-CHG2 Two-Bay Recharging Station for its new 2000 Series wireless transmitters. This unit charges ATW-T220a handheld transmitters and/or ATW-T210a UniPak transmitters (in any combination). Batteries are charged within the transmitters.

The ATW-CHG2 has many protective features to preserve the integrity of the transmitters. A built-in safety feature monitors cell voltage and automatically turns off the unit if problems are detected. The unit will also automatically shut off if damaged or alkaline (non-rechargeable) batteries are installed. Ma

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USA - On the heels of a solid growth year, Loud Technologies awarded international distributors for outstanding 2010 sales and service performance.The following distributors received an award in these respective categories:

APAC - Distributor of the Year - Musiclink Australia; Ampeg Best Performance - Kanda Shokai Corp, Japan; Mackie Best Performance - Musiclink Australia.

EMEA - Loud Distributor of the Year - A&T Trade, Russia; Ampeg Best Performance - Casale Bauer, Italy; Mackie Best Performance - Music Info, Poland.

Latin America - Loud Distributor of the Year - Hermes Music, M

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Ukraine - Dnipropetrovsk was the setting on 10 and 11 November for a series of training seminars for dealers organized by Electro-Voice's Ukrainian partner Sound House Pro. The course, conducted by a team led by Andrey Garkaviy, was attended by 70 representatives of the Ukrainian pro audio scene. These included not only the nation's leading dealers but also employees of installation firms and rental companies. As was the case last year, the dealers' meeting was organized in collaboration with Dynacord's's partners in Ukraine, Cortmi.

The Dnipropetrovsk academy focussed mainly on produ

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Austria - The Grosses Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall), home to the famed Salzburg Festival has revamped its main audio system for the first time in two decades. The upgraded system includes a completely redesigned control room, featuring a Studer Vista 5 digital console. Celebrating the hall's 50th and the festival's 90th anniversaries, the Vista 5 was chosen for its optimum recording capabilities, with performance recordings in demand throughout the year.

Working to achieve 5.1-quality sound in the control room, which is fairly small and oddly shaped due to the architectural aspe

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France - Denon DJ Europe has agreed to supply equipment enabling students to work with the latest media file and DJ software control systems, alongside vinyl and CD. To this end, Denon is supplying UCPA Formation with training systems comprising its top fight DN-X1700 mixer and DN-S3700 digital media player. For its part UCPA Formation is committed to building a new dedicated Denon DJ training room.

The Lyon based UCPS centre, which offers multidisciplinary training in audio, video, lighting and animation, established its DJ school in 2001 with a focus on the professional training and

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Belgium - Sound Inc, based in Roeselare, West Flanders has chosen a Midas PRO6 to spearhead its move into digital, becoming the second Belgian rental company to invest in a Midas large format digital console.

According to Axel Nagtegaal, MD of distributor Midas Consoles Benelux, this marks a milestone in the Belgian market. "Sound Inc chose the Midas PRO6 to support their future growth plans," he says. "With Jan Durant spearheading the Midas digital march in Belgium, I am confident that more PRO Series deliveries will follow soon."

Sound Inc has long experience o

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Germany - With Oberstdorf, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen has for 59 years been one of the venues for the world famous Four Hills ski-jumping tournament. Traditionally the resort in Upper Bavaria hosts the event - one of the highlights of the winter sports calendar - on 1 January each year. In 2011, no fewer than 25,000 fans provided a motivating backdrop for the competitors.

The task of keeping spirits up in ice cold temperatures fell to the commentator Wolfgang Hostmann partnered by DJ 'Mike'. The pair acquitted themselves with flying colours, helped by the qual

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Oman - The new Multipurpose Hall at Sultan Qaboos University, located in the Sultanate of Oman, features a fully equipped, state-of-the-art sound, lighting and video system. Included in this setup is an extensive Aviom Pro64 audio network which is used to route audio to and from various locations in the space, namely the PA system, control room and production room.

Designed and supplied by Venuetech, LLC, the audio system supports the 5,000-seat auditorium, which hosts live performances such as plays and orchestras, movie screenings and conferences. The facility also features an autom

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The Netherlands - With a strong focus on "simple-to-use yet effective microphone conference systems", AKG is promoting its CS 5 Conferencing System at Integrated Systems Europe. The interactive system is Ethernet technology-centric with 64 audio channels suitable for any meeting space, from small discussions to large congresses, says the company. AKG also offers a decentralised power system that incorporates AC adapters throughout the 12 microphone audio ring stations for high redundancy and all-inclusive software for easy setup.

The CS 5 Conferencing System gives users &quo

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Indonesia - Proel participated in November's Audio Pro Expo, held at the Jakarta Expo Centre - a strategic meeting point for all companies developing commercial channels in the region.

Proel Systems also featured on the stage at Japex and attracted the attention of the visitors gathered for the live performance of some of the most famous bands in Indonesia, for the clinics held by local musicians and for a series of dedicated musical events.

In the spotlight were the NEOS15P loudspeakers combined with 4 NEOS118SP subwoofers. Stage monitors and side-fills were 15" passive models

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The Netherlands - BSS Audio has introduced a new full-bandwidth Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) algorithm for its Soundweb London conferencing processors. The new full-bandwidth AEC algorithm is released with HiQnet London Architect v3.04 and can be used with existing Soundweb London AEC Input Cards and the recently-introduced Soundweb London BLU-101 and BLU-102 devices.

The existing 8kHz-bandwidth AEC algorithm is optimised for POTS, VoIP phone system and digital phone system applications. The full-bandwidth AEC algorithm facilitates enhanced fidelity for specific applications, whil

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