Germany - Alcons Audio will be showing the production version of its latest pro-ribbon line array system, maximising its carbon (cone) footprint and giving a glimpse of a new product group at Prolight+Sound in April.

The Dutch manufacturer will be exhibiting the production-version of the LR24 pro-ribbon line array system. Previewed at the show last year, the system marks an important advance for the company within the concert touring and large-scale installation market.

Designed to be able to deliver the same SPL as equivalent products in the mid-size line array category, but with 1

Ireland - Aviva Stadium in Dublin is the home of the Irish rugby union team and the Republic of Ireland national football team. Audio is provided by a massive JBL sound system that includes 105 Precision Directivity (PD) Series loudspeakers, augmented by Application Engineered (AE) Series AM6200/64 speakers. The system also includes Crown Audio amplifiers and BSS Soundweb London signal processing, connectivity and control products.

The installation was carried out by the experienced, UK-based TG Baker (Sound) under the supervision of project manager Tony Mott. The system was sold by S

USA / UK - Danny Boyle's latest film, 127 Hours, famously recreates the ordeal of young mountaineer Aron Ralston, who gets trapped in a Utah canyon when a boulder slips, trapping his arm. The soundtrack, which was nominated for a BAFTA and a Satellite in the Best Sound categories, was almost entirely recreated in post production.

A large selection of DPA microphones provided by UK distributor Sound Network was used extensively to record the dramatic tension and ambience of the surroundings. Boyle has described 127 Hours as "an action movie in which the hero doesn't

Australia - ENTECH 2011 show organisers have confirmed an agreement with PLASA, the leading international membership body for those who supply technologies and services to the event, entertainment and installation industries.

ENTECH 2011, which takes place at SCEC on 19 - 21 July 2011, will now include a new stream in its educational program featuring international speakers from PLASA's extensive global membership base.

Over 4000 visitors are expected to register for ENTECH 2011, and attendance at the seminars will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Visitors will be abl

UK / Poland - Systems Workshop Distribution has announced an exclusive cooperation with Polish pro audio manufacturer Generic Audio to distribute its products in the UK and Eire.

Generic Audio recently released Preceptor, a 3U, hand-built two-channel (stereo/dual mono) analogue compressor / limiter, whose design and functionality "blends tradition with high performance components, user efficiency and optimum sound quality".

"We're delighted to be adding the Generic Audio brand to our portfolio," says Systems Workshop's Phil Beaumont. "Preceptor is a high spe

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies audio division has sold a Nexo Geo S12 Series vertical line array loudspeaker system to Leeds based rental company Futurist Sound & Light, for use on clients' concerts, tours and other live events. An accredited UK dealer for the Nexo professional range, the deal was handled by A.C. Audio division's sales manager, Peter Butler from the company's northern office in Leeds.

Futurist is a major rental supplier of sound and lighting production to the live events sector, and a well established provider to the educational and professional theatre markets.

Cyprus - Prosonic audio lights based in Nicosia has installed an Adamson system in a newly built club, where they recently held a two-day workshop dedicated to existing and new customers, with an opportunity to talk directly with the manufacturers.

The Pyles Club situated in the Latsia industrial area, packed in about 30 industry professionals from the country's PA companies, as well as freelance engineers and contractors for the first Adamson seminar held in Cyprus. The focus was on hands-on training using the latest gear and software, as well as learning about technologies from Adam

Singapore - Broadcast company, ESPN Star Sports, recently installed iLive systems in each of its three voiceover control rooms as part of an upgrade from analogue to digital. Allen & Heath's distributor, Sindo Exports, supplied three iLive systems, comprising iDR-48 MixRacks with iLive-T112 Control Surfaces.

ESPN Star Sports covers a host of sporting events, which are translated into English, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean and Mandarin and broadcast across Asia. Live feeds come into the voiceover control rooms and certain channels from the original broadcast are muted, programmes are then t

Columbia - Sound recordist Martin Abell has returned from the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias in Colombia with an order for two of Roland's R-4 Pro audio field recorders, after a successful recording and teaching mission.

One of the most important literary events in the Hispanic world, this was the sixth edition of the Hay Festival Cartagena, but the first time that a technical specialist from the UK office had attended to train local engineers in the art of archiving. "We were seeing too much material coming back in a variety of different formats, often low qualit

UK - Systems integrator IVC Media, has announced it has supplied and installed new sound and lighting systems in the Savoy Hotel as part of what has been described as 'one of the most ambitious' restoration projects undertaken in the hospitality industry.

The two year refurbishment programme of the top London venue, cost an estimated £220m and saw the hotel re-open to the public in October. IVC Media's sound systems have been installed in the Riverside, Lower Thames and Lincoln rooms, the Riverside Restaurant and Lancaster Ballroom. Some of the rooms have featured in blockbuster

Belgium - Meyer Sound has announced Audio Connect as a new dealer for the company's line of loudspeaker and digital audio solutions for live sound and install applications. Based in the Belgian city of Moeskroen, Audio Connect will provide service and support to the professional AV community in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Spearheaded by managing director François Veys and technical manager Maarten Peeters, Audio Connect will work closely with Meyer Sound to support client projects that demand high-performance sound systems. Veys and Peeters will also team with Meyer Sound's education dep

Ballet News - Sir Paul McCartney is to write his first original orchestral score for a ballet performance. The former Beatle is collaborating with the New York City Ballet company (NYCB) on Ocean's Kingdom. "I am always interested in new directions that I haven't worked in before, so I became very excited about the idea," Sir Paul said. The production's world premiere will take place on 22 September. More performances will be announced later. In an interview with The New York Times, Sir Paul said the show was a love story based in two fantastic worlds - the "pure&q

Russia - The Dynacord Road Show recently visited four Russian cities, the first, the nation's capital, Moscow, being followed by Rostov on Don, Samara and St Petersburg in that order, with some 200 dealers and pro audio professionals participating.

In addition to detailed product demonstrations - featuring, inter alia, the Corus Evolution loudspeaker series and the PowerMate3 - the Russian Dynacord partner Dealer Centre conducted seminars offering tips and tricks designed to simplify and enhance the day-to-day work of those in the industry. Opportunities for discussion are another imp

Belgium - ADB Lighting will host the worldwide launch of Freedom and Liberty, two "highly advanced lighting control desks", at ProLight&Sound 2011 in Frankfurt (6-9 April 2011). The consoles are based on the powerful new Hathor software platform, which was previewed in 2010.

Freedom is designed to offer a solution where large numbers of multi-parameter instruments need to be controlled with "ultra-fast access". The desk allows users to control multiple LED fittings, intelligent lights and media servers as well as standard generic dimming systems, say ADB.

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UK - The LD Systems Powered by Eminence series has been extended by five passive & active multifunctional loudspeakers and all models are now equipped with BMS compression drivers.

Andrew Richardson, managing director of Adam Hall UK says, "The Stinger Series has been further expanded with the LDEB212 added for high power live applications. The LD Stinger 2 x 12" is a passive bass reflex multifunctional loudspeaker equipped with 2 x 12" speaker chassis, and a 1" compression driver. The LD Stinger 2 x 12" provides a whopping power of 600 W and a very high sound

The Netherlands - Sound Projects has introduced the self powered SPX-65 to augment the SPX-series of identical, yet acoustically complementary loudspeaker systems.

Within the SPX family, each model is optimised for a specific coverage or function. In those situations where one point source cabinet will not deliver the necessary SPL or coverage, the SPX-65's neatly fills the gap, says the company.

Because of its constant horizontal coverage angle of 65 degrees and semi curved wide 15 degrees vertical radiation, it will deliver a flat slice of audio in the mid and higher frequencies.

Germany - Hamburg Airport claims to be the world's oldest airport still at its original location, with its first flights taking off in January, 1911. Exactly 100 years later, the airport celebrated by hosting live music and presentations on five stages. Carrying the festivities to 3,500 attendees were Meyer Sound systems featuring the new MIna line array loudspeaker provided by Blue Noise of Hamburg.

Staged in the airport's cavernous (6,200 m2) Terminal 1, the event featured a 30-minute show on airport history along with performances by artists hailing from the airport's far-flung des

USA - The chimes that ring out every 15 minutes across the campus of Penn State Schuylkill in east-central Pennsylvania create a soothing environment for the staff and 1,000-plus-strong student body. The Technomad Schedulon playback and recording system is responsible for this atmosphere, acting as an audio master control unit for the university's public address system.

The Schedulon playback and recording system gives PA system operators the freedom to schedule automatic playback of audio files while maintaining a high level of manual control. According to Vince Mitchell, IT support

USA / UK - Lighting&Sound International magazine (LSi) welcomes Richard Cadena as its new technical editor. Richard, a respected lighting designer and entertainment technology journalist, will be based in the United States and will contribute to the technical content of all PLASA Media titles, including Lighting&Sound America, and Protocol magazine.

Richard will take over as technical editor of LSi from James Eade, who has helped the PLASA Media team steer the technical content of LSI for the past nine years. Although Richard officially started with PLASA Media on 1 March, there will

USA / Spain - Audinate and Red Rocks Audio SL have entered into an agreement to incorporate Dante technology as the default digital networking solution for all Red Rocks Audio future products and designs. The first of these products is scheduled to launch by Q4 of 2011.

Located in Santiago de Compostela, in the Northwest of Spain, Red Rocks Audio historically has specialized on three main areas of product development; DSP processing, Class D amplifiers and switching mode power supplies. Red Rocks Audio SL was launched in 2001, focused on Pro Audio + lightning rental services and recor

USA - On Thursday 24 February 24, 2011, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama marked Black History Month at the White House with a celebration of Motown music. The event took place in the East Room at the White House, and Chris Anderson, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based Anderson Audio, was asked to spec the project.

The Motown event is the latest in the music series, In Performance at the White House. Performers included Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow, Seal and John Legend, among others, and several Motown legends were in attendance. The event was broadcast

UK / USA - Orbital Sound reports that it has supplied the Da-Cappo DA-12 single-ear micro microphones to Qdos Entertainment, a key supplier to US-based Celebrity Cruise Line. The Da-Cappo microphones have been deployed on two of the company's Millennium-class luxury vessels, with the plan to upgrade all four in the fleet during 2011.

Qdos Entertainment is the name behind some of the lavish 'own brand' shows that are an integral part of the Celebrity Cruise Line experience. The high-end audio equipment used on-board in the 900-seat cabaret style auditoria is the responsibility of Qdos

Sweden - Romme Trotting racetrack in the city of Borlänge has taken delivery of one of the first RHAON (Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network) installations in Sweden.

Robert Nilsson, from Swedish design and installation company DAT AB, which was awarded the design and installation contract, says, "We were called in for an AV meeting as part of their complete restoration of the horse owners' room. I made a presentation of all the benefits a RHAON controlled sound system would have, not only for the horse owners' room but on also on the whole race track, and he was very quick to

UK - Visitors to PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011 - which takes place on Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 April at the Royal Armouries Museum - are invited to take part in an expanded series of seminars presented by some of the industry's leading names.

The two-day Education & Learning Programme proved a major success last year and this year PLASA Events have added a new strand of product demonstrations and training to the popular mix of case studies and seminars. The sessions run alongside a two-hall exhibition of new technology and are free to attend.

Kicking off the case studies is the RSC. The

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