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Europe - With a repertoire combining progressive rock, ambient, electronica, trip hop and many others, London-based 'musical collective' Archive is a band unafraid to experiment with the very latest sonic developments. One of the newest innovations adopted by band front of house engineer Spike Jones is an Apex Intelli-X² processor.

British audiences are traditionally more reserved about 'challenging' music, but Archive's live shows are extremely popular in continental Europe. On the band's latest tour, Jones has been manning two digital consoles at the FOH position - a Digidesign Profile for the band and an Innovason Eclipse mixing digital microphones for an accompanying orchestra. Both are digitally linked, with the latter as the master console and an Apex Intelli-X² 48 inserte

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Europe - Two things stick out about the Martin MAC 101 for lighting/production designer Travis Shirley on the current Enrique Iglesias tour.

"Rarely do you get the colours that we get out of these. Across the board I've never seen such good saturated colours," he says about the LED wash light, adding, "And the speed - it is limitless with a fluid motion all the way through. It really changes how you think."

Travis, who has been with Enrique Iglesias for six years, is using an all Martin rig on the current Euphoria world tour, a rig that includes over 200 o

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Germany - Effective from 1 August 2011, Peter Claussen will take over responsibility of the Installed Sound Business Division at audio specialist Sennheiser. Claussen joins Sennheiser from the IT company Höft & Wessel AG. His last post at the company was as deputy chairman of the management board. The Installed Sound Business Division has until now been provisionally led by Dr. Heinrich Esser. As divisional president, Claussen will become a member of Sennheiser's Executive Management Board.

In his new post, Peter Claussen will be responsible for installed sound technology. His core r

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Bahrain Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distribution centre for Shure in the Gulf has recently supplied Bahrain-based rental firm Maestro Sound with the PSM900 in ear monitoring system. The deal includes six sets of the P9T transmitter and P9R receiver.

"The new PSM900 is the first phase of the new direction Shure is taking in their development of the in ear monitoring product line," commented Richie Hiranandani, marketing manager. He added, "with a brand new design and improved technology, Maestro Sound have invested in the future."

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UAE - The KR-400 system, which received many plaudits during this year's Prolight+Sound exhibition, has now landed in the Middle East with a substantial system being purchased by Dubai's Eclipse Staging Services. The system comprises a total of eight KL21MA subs and 16 KK-400 tops that can be used as a single large array or four compact systems.

"Initially, I had wanted to look at K-array's largest system, the KS4," says Eclipse CEO, Mark Brown. "Unfortunately, they weren't demonstrating it at Prolight+Sound, which was disappointing. However, Ryan Burr from Sennheiser M

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