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 versatility," he says. "We often play wide churches with wrap-around seating, and for those I can take two M'elodies from each side hang and reposition them as outfill. I can also use them for front

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

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-

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

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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