UK - British singer songwriter Ed Sheeran is steadily conquering the world; travelling from continent to continent, his appeal seems unwaveringly universal. The speed of his acceptance is matched by the pace of his current tour, which has taken in Australia, the United States and is currently in the UK before heading off to cover the rest of Europe without a pause. With him every step of the way is a Sennheiser 2000 Series wireless microphone system.

Sheeran's front of house engineer is Chris Marsh from Major Tom, the tour's audio provider. "I first got involved with Ed last October when he was doing a club sized tour," explains Marsh. "I had met him previously at the Latitude Festival when I was there with Rumer. He was opening the festival that day and we got talk

France - Nexo has just conducted the first 'official' audio demo of a full STM Series PA, its new flagship sound reinforcement system. Joining forces with Yamaha Music Europe, the sister companies used the JTSE Live trade show event in Paris to demo Nexo's latest concert sound loudspeakers on a Dante network with Yamaha CL Series digital control.

For the first time, the Nexo team put its STM Series sound reinforcement system into action in a public arena, with front of house control provided by the Yamaha CL5 console over a Dante network - another first for both Nexo and the team from

USA - With the installation of 40 CAL column array loudspeakers, Memorial Stadium at the University of California, Berkeley has become the world's first sports facility to use Meyer Sound's advanced beam steering technology. The slender 10ft high columns, discreetly mounted around the stadium's outer rim, provide an elegant solution that preserves the architectural integrity of the historic structure - inspired by Rome's Coliseum - while also providing extraordinarily high speech intelligibility despite the crowd noise in the 63,000-capacity seating bowl.

As part of the $321m, two-yea

UK - Roland Systems Group (RSG) is joining with some of its biggest dealers to put on a series of video training events across the UK with the next scheduled for 12th December at Wigwam Acoustics. The afternoon event will be free to attend and will cover web streaming, HD video switching, conversion and much more - showcasing the RSG video product line up including the V-800, V-1600HD, VR-5 and VR-3 - as well as the brand new V-40HD released earlier this month.

The informal event will be packed with information, expert tips and real world advice, says the company, and registrants will

USA - Meyer Sound Laboratories Incorporated, a Berkeley, Calif.-based professional audio equipment manufacturer, announced that it has settled the lawsuit it filed last June against VUE Audiotechnik, LLC of Escondido, Calif.

The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. In its suit, Meyer Sound alleged VUE infringed Meyer Sound's iconic wave trademark, and asserted other claims against VUE and a former Meyer Sound employee currently working for VUE.

"This legal action was necessary to protect Meyer Sound's intellectual property rig

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