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The latest exhibitors to sign up include AC Lighting, Apollo Design Technology, Doug Fleenor Design, ETC, LSC America, Philips Entertainment Lighting, Show Sage and Link. They will share the show floor with other industry leaders including; Aeson, ETC, Bandit Lites, Group One, Chauvet Professional, Lightronics, Elation Professional, Creative Stage Lighting, and Applied Electronics, to name a few.

Three new sessions have been added to the PLASA Focus: Nashville 2014 Professional Development Programme, a two-day programme of free educational seminars and workshops running alongside the event.

Ben Jumper, the owner of Soundcheck, will present After the Flood

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Three new faces have joined the internal sales team - Nigel Brake, Alison Knight and Allison Geal, whilst Jo Griffin has joined the accounts department (purchase ledger). On the logistics side, Juan Recouso has joined to bolster the warehouse operation.

POLARaudio MD John Midgley welcomes the new arrivals with enthusiasm, "2013 saw us take on a number of new and exciting brands, the addition of which, we believe, will continue the onwards and upwards trend of the business in 2014. Strengthening staffing levels is vital to supporting our operation as it strives to meet the increased demand brought on by our expansion. We place great emphasis on the value of our team members and are delighted to welcome the new recruits to the POL

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Alto Professional's all-new active Black Series collectively comprises three two-way loudspeaker models - namely, the Black 10, Black 12, and Black 15 (which, as implied by name, feature 10-, 12-, and 15-inch low-frequency drivers, respectively, alongside a 1.75-inch high-frequency driver, and are optimised with a 90° x 60° coverage field and an extensively tested high-frequency waveguide) - and two subwoofers - namely, the appropriately-named Black 15 Sub and Black 18 Sub (with 15-, and 18-inch low-frequency, long-excursion drivers, respectively).

All are designed and tuned to exacting standards in the USA with premium, purpose

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The hotel is a subsidiary of Franz Sales Haus, the Essen organisation founded in 1884 to assist those living with disability. Opened in May 2012, the hotel provides jobs for those with disabilities, who form up to 50% of the hotel's staff and benefit hugely from the opportunity.

The Denon DN-700H was installed by Mülheim-based A/V specialists Hamann Media Tec GmbH and supplies background music to the hotel's foyer, lounge and bistro. It was chosen because of its high quality, but also because it can stream audio from a wide range of sources. At Hot

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Line 6 products have been at the forefront of digital audio development for musicians and audio professionals since the company pioneered the digital modelling guitar amplifier in 1996.

Under the terms of the agreement, Yamaha will operate Line 6 as a wholly owned subsidiary to fully realise the compelling opportunities for the two brands with Line 6's operations continuing as before and its management team remaining in place.

"I am very happy that Line 6, which has been creating innovative products and

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FBP Systems, an AV systems designer and integrator with offices in Tulsa and Las Vegas, used just four Bose RoomMatch modules - an RM5520, RM7020, RM9020 and RM12020 loudspeaker, and a pair of RMS215 subwoofers - to create a single point-source cluster mounted above and just ahead of the pulpit that evenly covers all of the church's audience areas. The system was designed and modelled using Bose ControlSpace s

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Commenting on the introduction of the new pricing, international business development, sales and marketing director, Paul Brewis, said: "We are achieving major productivity gains at our Ningbo facility, for both Studiomaster and Carlsbro lines. Improved production capacity coming on-stream is delivering significant economies of scale and as a result of which we are offering lower dealer pricing and higher margins, allowing retailers to offer more attractive pricing to their customers.

"These production price reductions are as much as 20% in some cases and at the same time we are offering increased dea

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It boasts a new, cast aluminium, eight-spoke frame designed to reduce rear reflections, gain in structural strength and contain basket weight. The 18HW1070 is equipped with triple demodulation for lower THD, with an inductance reading of 1.68 mH.

With a Maximum Physical Excursion of +/- 30mm, which combined with the Thiele & Small parameters, especially EBP, Vas and BL, make it ideal for very low tuned vented cabinets, the company claims.

Yet another important innovation is in the magnet assembly, which combines two fundamental aspects. The motor's ability to generate an extremely intense yet very linear magnetic flux helps sustain great acoustic pressure for deepe

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The sound system was designed and installed by the Burbank team of Electrosonic, Inc., which handled AV design and integration for the entire complex - including the adjacent 1933 Beverly Hills Post Office, fully restored and repurposed as a grand lobby, café, gift shop, classroom and office space, and home to the 150-seat Lovelace Studio T

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Kevin Nair, MD of Team 108 explained their choice of Pan Beam, "With steerable columns being established in the market place over the last 10-plus years, there are several companies having engineered their own solutions as part of their product line-up trying to get their slice of this growing market. We from Team 108 have been looking at the different systems appearing in the market and they all had their strengths and weaknesses.

"As we were looki

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"For Next-proaudio it will be good to be distributed by SLS because they are a very professional company that is growing rapidly. It is fantastic to see their enthusiasm," says Andre Correia, Next-proaudio assistant manager.

"After the first time I listened to Next in Palme Expo China, I couldn't sleep all night thinking about the possibility of being their distributor in Kazakhstan - finally the dream came true," says Azat Kaniyev, SLS CEO.

SLS is an established high-end distribution company, based in Almaty, distributing a number of leading brands in the professional audio and light sectors.

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His initial goals are to open new markets, expand Sales-All's presence in the Benelux region, its product portfolio, set up an international network for second-hand sales and establish a European working network for private label products, such as CLF. He will also focus on the design, supply and installation of systems.

"I am looking forward to working with this professional team to expand sales at both Sales-All and Fairlight," says Kocks. "The well-structured and very healthy financial position of the

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It also houses offices for the Center for Multicultural and International Affairs, the Student Government Association and Visitor Information. But the heart of this multi-use building is its 1,300-seat auditorium, which is used for concerts and theatrical presentations. The auditorium's sound system was in need of an upgrade, and the university put out a request-for-proposal. The system chosen to take the auditorium into the future included RoomMatch loudspeakers and PowerMatch amplifiers from Bose Professional Systems.

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Each day of the ASD Winter School features a theme - such as Content Creation, Radio Mics, Electro-Acoustics and Emergent Technologies - with between three and five seminars on that theme each day. The seminars cover a huge range of topics and are led by industry experts. The seminars are free to attend for any student in full-time education, and of course, for all ASD members.

ASD Chair, Gareth Fry said: "The aim of the Winter School is to give attendees the opportunity to learn more in one week than you could in the rest of the year! The seminars assume no previous knowledge on any subject but take you to a deep understanding of eac

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"People come to enjoy a beer or a glass of wine in the afternoon, meaning that the audio system only needs to provide low-key reinforcement during daytime hours," says Lars Christensen, venue owner. "At at night, appearances by live bands and DJs call for something altogether more powerful. The system had to be truly multi-purpose, and I am delighted that the Meyer Sound equipment fits the bill perfectly."

Peter Petersen, productions director for PRIME A/S, provided the venue's main lounge space with 12 UP-4XP loudspeakers, four UPA-1P loudspeakers, two 600-HP subwoofers, and three MM-10XP 48V subwoofers. Pow

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"Prase Engineering is a well-established and highly-respected distributor in the market. Their business focus and strengths aligns well to our strategy in the country and positions us well for future growth, in particular, in the system integration market," says Ron Marchant, Shure EMEA's general manager of sales.

Ennio Prase, CEO of Prase Engineering, adds, "We are tremendously excited about representing Shure in Italy. The addition of Shure's broad product portfolio complements

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For just £1000, UK manufacturers wishing to visit the show but who prefer not to take exhibition space can utilise the meeting room and translation facilities of the Great British Audio Embassy and have their brand logos displayed in a British Brand Gallery, share in the networking events organized with the UKTI in Sao Paulo and participate in the bi-lingual brochure to be available on the booth.

The APRS, working with PLASA and the MIA, have helped a number of UK manufacturers to put a toe into the water of the Brazilian market.

Peter Filleul, the APRS E

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Jarmo Masko, sales manager for Western Europe and Africa at Genelec says, "The XLR staff all have a long personal track-record in the Belgium and Luxembourg audio market and we look forward to working with this enthusiastic team of people."

Jan De Brucker and Louis Lukusa at XLR comment, "The choice to distribute Genelec was made for business reasons, the high quality of their product offering and also because of thei

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The system design was tasked to Martin Van Dijk, principal designer of the Toronto-based consulting firm Engineering Harmonics. The requirement was to evenly cover all seating areas, including 180 hard-to-reach seats in the choral loft behind the stage. The system also had to work at various heights, as the hall features an adjustable canopy to optimize reflections for different events.

"It was an extraordinary challenge," says Paul Alegado, project manager and associate designer for Engineering Harmonics. "During the review process, the manufacturers

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Hurst has been the band's show designer for five years and was asked to come up with something awesome and fitting for the occasion and an incendiary set by The Prodigy.

Hurst took a photographic backdrop of a Harrier 'Jump' Jet as his creative starting point and designed the lighting rig - both over the stage and above the audience - to give the impression of the O2 being a giant aircraft hangar, and develop a big, bold and bombastic show aesthetic.

The rig had to be installed in a day, so Hurst had to ensure that the design was practical to get-in and rig a large amount of kit and be up and ready for doors. To this end, he also spent five days pre-programing in HSL's WYSI

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The Church's regular worship band includes a ten-person praise team, drums, keyboard, bass, piano and two guitars and a seven-piece horn section

"Sundays are different every week, we can have a guitar player leading our services, a piano player, or our Pastor. On most Sundays we have a hundred or more choir members," relates Jeff Owen, technical director.

From traditional services to concerts and community events, this is a multi-purpose worship venue with several spaces needing flexible, reliable and crystal clear audio signals. Charged with delivering a solution was Doug Windell, design manager of Ace Audio in Hutto, Texas.

"It was time for a new mixing console to repla

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NWare version 1.7 introduces Kiosk2Go, the latest addition to NWare's impressive control capabilities. Kiosk2Go allows designers and integrators to extend the custom kiosk control interfaces they create in NWare to any mobile device via the platform's web browser component and HTML5. This provides the end user custom control interfaces that they can then control from their own mobile devices, providing them ultimate mobility and freedom.

Any control interface that a designer creates in NWare can be accessed wirelessly with any Android, iOS (Apple), Blackberry, Windows or Linux mobile device. MediaMatrix NWare allows custom control interfaces to be constructed f

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For the four-day training, attendees were required to bring their own laptop installed with the latest version of Audio Architect and London Architect software. Subjects covered included BSS BLU-806, BSS BLU-800, Crown DCi Network Amplifier, Crown XTi amplifier, Crown USBX, and an iPad with Motion Control and powered by Crown apps (already installed).

The applications for Architectural Media Systems are wide and varied and its scalability enables it to provide the same high quality audio experience from a

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"I've mixed in my usual style of using a DiGiCo console; making it work for its money," smiles Baggy, who has to account for a four-piece band and three backing vocalists as well as Jessie herself. "I doubled up on quite a lot of channels for Jessie, so I was using all but six of the faders."

As well as monitoring, Baggy also had a comprehensive talkback system set up. This allowed him and the band members to all talk to each other during the show, without distracting the leading lady and he could also talk directly to Jessie when required.

Sound quality and flexibility are a given, but what Baggy appreciates most about the SD5 is i