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14 March 2016

The dramatically beautiful setting of a stone quarry which has as its backdrop a 1,300ft high mountain was recently transformed into a 2,500 capacity open-air theatre hosting a wide variety of events by Istvàn Dévald, director of the Tokaj Amphitheatre.

To equip the venue, Dévald called in Budapest-based ZAJ Show Lighting, whose CEO and founder Tamas Fazekas designed audio and lighting set-ups worthy of the unique location.

Fazekas's brief for the audio system was to ensure it reached the 2,500 capacity audience comfortably, designing an audio system able to ensure optimum sound reinforcement, cover

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14 March 2016

Centrally located in Waldlaubersheim, less than an hour from Frankfurt, Mega Audio distributes many professional audio brands including SSL, DPA, Ampeg, SE Electronics, and Fostex.

"I am very happy to announce that we reached an exclusive distribution agreement with Mega Audio," stated Pietro Guercioni, Proel's director of international sales. "Proel and Mega Audio have the same vision of the market, and we are very excited about this new challenge. I am sure that together we can establish a strong and long term business for the Axiom Pro Audio and Sagitter Lighting brands. Mega Audio is an established and very well known company, and the right partner for us."

"I am proud to confirm that Mega Audio has signed

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14 March 2016

In 2013, d&b audiotechnik partner, MOSCO, provided a pro audio installation of Q-Series and E-Series loudspeakers to the venue. It proved a resounding success across all entertainment genres, particularly from Riverdance, having employed the Q-Series for

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Located within Singapore's Central Business District, the Cathedral was consecrated in 1862 and declared a national monument in 1973. As a major place of worship, St Andrew's Cathedral faces the challenge of hosting a number of different services, with a variety of musical requirements, and quick changeovers between events. The installation of 32in/24out Qu-32 digital mixers in the traditional worship hall at the Main Building and the contemporary worship space at the Extension building, has provided a solution.

"The Cathedral has many services running back to back especially on Sundays from as early as 6.30am. With the previous analogue mixer, a 'reset' was needed during service changeovers. T

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14 March 2016

Scissor Sisters lead singer Ana Matronic hosted the awards ceremony, an honour she enjoyed for a second consecutive year. Each award was presented by one of the many famous faces present, many of whom successfully won an award in their category including Yoko Ono, Vivien Westwood, Lorraine Kelly, Anthony Cotton and Holly Johnson.

Three hundred guests enjoyed a champagne reception, followed by a formal dinner, awards and performances by artists Adam Lambert and VV Brown. After the ceremony guests enjoyed the after party with DJ James Barr from Capital Radio.

Annie Bracken from Clearscape Communications comments, "Glitz and glomour, the Attitude Awards ran per

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Jared Daly signed on mid tour in 2014 to help fill the monitor engineer position and has exposed the band to the benefits of Shure's PSM1000 IEMs, AXT600 spectrum manager and the AXT200 wireless vocal mic. With input from each of the band, he has subsequently upgraded their in-ear monitoring and helped them to use Shure wireless technology more extensively throughout 2015.

"The band have always used in-ears; they all have very specific mix requirements, including click tracks and cues," explains Daly, who is currently in the USA with the group on tour. "The band and crew have been using Shure PSM900 units for a few years on stage; they owned those when I joined.

"Oli always used wedges for monitoring on-st

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The possibility to incorporate these revisions was identified during the AES 'Plugfest' 1 testing, carried out in cooperation with the European Broadcast Union (EBU), in October last year, and held at the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT), in Munich, Germany. During these tests ten companies tested 16 currently available networked-audio products with AES67-specific extensions against each other to confirm interoperability.

The participating manufacturers were ALC NetworX GmbH, Archwave AG, Axia Audio, Digigram SA, DirectOut GmbH, Georg Neumann GmbH, Lawo AG, Merging Technologies S.A., SOUND4

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During the event, Audio-Technica supplied an array of microphones from its Artist Elite, Artist Series and 40 Series ranges and an Allen & Heath Qu-24 digital mixer for the filming of The Green Man Sessions - intimate live performances of acts appearing at the festival. In charge of proceedings was Charlie Allen from video production company Naked Noise, who faced both a challenging schedule and technical hurdles during the project.

"The Green Man Festival had commissioned us to film and record 14 artists over three da

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14 March 2016

"Ninety percent of our work is supporting classical and jazz music, and Leopard is the perfect system for these applications," says Henry Gómez Rey of Proaudio Granada. "At a Leopard demo in Paris, we listened to a recording of Diana Krall. I closed my eyes and thought, 'It's impossible, it's like she's playing right here in front of me.' It was not like a recording at all.

"With jazz music, people know good sound, and they are very critical," Rey continues. "They loved the sound of the Leopard at Jazz en La Costa. With no delays, we had uniform coverage of the whole a

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14 March 2016

The MA2 was busy across August as the Scottish capital welcomed the world to its Fringe and International Festivals. The desk was used on shows at the Playhouse theatre and Magners Summer Nights concerts in Princes Street Gardens.

Headline acts James, Flaming Lips and The Waterboys all specified MA2 and Blue Parrot supplied a robust control system with a fully tracking back up MA2 onPC fader wing. The Flaming Lips show also saw the company provide a stunning 96 panel 5mm pitch video backdrop using their Chauvet PVP modular system. The band and crew were particularly impressed by the brightness

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Director, Sam Gold - who took the 2015 Tony for Direction - transformed the original 2013 off-Broadway proscenium format to an in-the-round staging, with the intention of achieving more intimate and immersive engagement with the audience.

Sound designer Kai Harada, notes, "It was challenging for all departments, and for the cast, but the show took an incredible leap forward. Now you really feel you're part of the family, watching Alison's past come to life. It is an immersion rather than a presentation.&qu

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14 March 2016

The Book's The Thing - A new theatre company hopes to reinvigorate local libraries through theatre. Librarian Theatre will tour productions to libraries across the UK in what founders Tom Cuthbertson and Kelly Eva-May, who are both actors, say will be the first touring company dedicated to visiting regional libraries. Its first production, an adaptation of Hamlet called The Book'

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14 March 2016

One of Novus Leisure's approved suppliers, Middlesex Sound & Light (MSL) specified CDD as part of a major overhaul, having already fitted the manufacturer's new Coaxial Differential Dispersion technology in several other high profile sites.

"We had also carried out a number of other recent refits for Novus using Martin Audio's AQ range, which we were great fans of," said MSL project director, Darrel Olivier. "But this high profile venue provided the perfect opportunity to debut the new CDD. In terms of aesthetics and sound quality CDD is a definite improvement, offering wider dispersion, as we

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14 March 2016

The Advocate, located in Berkeley's chic Elmwood neighbourhood, combines soulful northern Californian fare with the Meyer Sound variable acoustics to create a multisensory dining space in which guests can converse easily over a comfortable background buzz.

Paluska pushed the importance of restaurant sound to the forefront when he installed Constellation in Comal in 2012. "After the success we had with Libra and Constellation at Comal, there was never any question that we would also incorporate them at The Advocate," he says. "It's always worthwhile putting extra effort into making a room sound its best

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14 March 2016

The respected Bruino, Turin-based distributors are now responsible for the entire HK Audio range, from portable to professional live sound to install solutions, covering products from the diminutive Lucas Nano crossover PA through to the new LInear 5 LTS A long throw system and the Linear L SUB 4000 A subwoofer.

Gabriele Capogna, CEO/purchasing manager at Gold Music, said, "It's an honour for us to be responsible for HK Audio across Italy, and we have big expectations for the brand in the growing Italian marketplace. We're confident that we can help grow HK Audio's popularity and profitability together, and we're looking forward to a long and successful partnership."

Andreas Mayerl, HK Audio's international market manager,

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The audio system for the new stadium was designed and installed by Art Ramos Studio. In addition to planning for harsh winter conditions, Art Ramos Studio also had to design the system to meet the stipulations that loudspeakers could not be pole mounted in front of the seating and the

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South China House of Technology Ltd (SCHOT) was enlisted to design and install the new processing arrangement, which was timed to coincide with a refurbishment and expansion of the main club house and restaurant areas. The Symetrix Solus DSP was ultimately supplied by regional distributor Soundclassy, whose director Chris Fung explains that the system had to fulfil several primary functions.

"First of all, it had to be able to undertake standalone audio matrix and processing duties for the club house and restaurant areas," he says. "Secondly, it also needed to work seamlessly alongside the AM

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Designed by Renatto Rizzi, an Italian architect and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, the new venue is located on the site of a 17th century wooden playhouse known to have hosted fencing lessons, animal fights and theatrical performances from the early 1600s. It's not by chance that Shakespeare's dramas are recorded among these; the Shakespeare Theatre is a testament to the cultural link between Gdansk and London.

Although the building appears immovable, with its heavy win

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14 March 2016

The new North American sales and service HQ provides warehousing and greater space for expansion of the product demo facilities. The move is in anticipation of an equally successful launch of the CDC six in the US and Canada, to that in Europe and Asia.

The 139th International AES Convention in New York sees the US launch of the CDC six live sound console.

The CDC six - and the CDC eight - are being shown a

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14 March 2016

Greg Wood of Stage Electrics commented: "We continue to offer our London customers our full range of services, we move a huge amount of hire equipment and sales goods through the London operation each month and having a central London premises to coordinate this is an important part of our strategy.

Stage Electrics provides audio, lighting, staging and video equipment to a wide range of theatre, events, broadcast and corporate clients in and around London. The London operation carries stocks of consumable items, including a comprehensive range of lighting filters, tape and batteries ava

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14 March 2016

"We are extremely excited to unveil the updates in HelixNet Version 3.0 at LDI," said John Wyckoff, Product Manager at Clear-Com. "The additional capacity and simplified control functions create a whole new world of possibilities on this digital network partyline platform."

With this new update, the HelixNet multiplies its basic channel count by three, with a new offering of 12 channels per HMS-4X Main Station. In the previous version, users had to link three HMS-4X Stations together in order to achieve the same number of channels. This capability brings greate

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14 March 2016

Equipped with a 1" dome tweeter and 6" woofer, David essentially offers 100W (30W + 70W) of bi-amplified power. However, improvements to the amp's acoustic construction have led to an increase in its internal air volume, an optimization of the bass reflex construction and a larger power supply, resulting in actual sound pressure levels that are typical of more highly powered amps.

David's inputs will accommodate a microphone, an instrument and a stereo device such as a computer, MP3 player or CD. The instrument input and the jack input on the microphone channel both feature a Bootstrap technology that enables the input to automatically adapt to any impedance

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14 March 2016

Multishow is part of GloboSat, the cable television arm of Globo TV, Brazil's biggest television channel. Presented for the fourth year by singer Ivete Sangalo and actor Paulo Gustavo, PrΩmio Multishow 2015 was enjoyed by a huge television audience. The live and broadcast audio was taken care of by São Paulo-based Epah! Estúdios, in collaboration with Globosat's engineering department.

The brief for Epah! Estúdios was complex and included providing the PA and monitors for the ceremony, which took place over three stages; broadcast mix in stereo and 5.1; 128 channel multitrack recording; 'master room' and all internal

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14 March 2016

Fielding his Martin Audio MLA Compact system, André Rauhut, who heads Complete Audio, reports that the band had originally planned to end their 2015 touring schedule at the Lollapalooza Festival until this came along. "And it turned out to be the longest Beatsteaks show ever - running to two and a half hours!"

It had been a strategic decision to stage this show in Dresden, with the beneficiaries being the charities, Sachsische Fluchtlingsrat and Dresden Fu?r Alle as André explained. "There had been a lot of right wing activity here over the course of the past three months and by going