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500 guests attended this year’s UK AV Industry Awards Ceremony on 16 October; and the event attracted record numbers of entries. One of the most hotly contested categories was Installation of the Year, which included five finalists instead of the usual three. Electrosonic, which was involved in three of the final projects, emerged as the overall winner of Installation of the Year for ‘Thinktank’, the Birmingham Museum of Science and Discovery. The other finalists were Williams F1 Conference Center and Grand Prix Museum; the Vanco Lab Presentation Environment; the Sheraton Frankfurt 270 degree AV installation; and The Big Picture at Imperial War Museum North.

The principal criteria applied to the judging process were evidence of innovation and company performance, cohere

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i-vision has launched the I-Vex Flagstaff - an illuminated flagpole which embraces a broad spectrum of applications including the architectural, retail, corporate branding and events markets. The I-Vex is currently available in three different versions: as a wall-mounted pole, as a standard upright flagpole or as a mobile upright flagpole.

Variations in height can be achieved, but currently, the three standard lengths for the wall versions are 1.3, 2.3 and 3 metres. The uprights are available in three standard sizes - 4, 6 and 9 metres - and the mobiles come in 4 and 6 metre heights. The wall mounting poles are available in fixed, user-definable colours, which can be matched to any standard Lee or Rosco gel colour. The uprights are also available as fixed colours.

All three versions are available with CYM colour-changing mechanisms, complete with onboard programmer. The latter offers

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Contracted by Unusual Services, Fourth Phase London has paid yet another visit to the Royal Albert Hall. As the lights went down on Wednesday 16 October, the London landmark became the venue for 'Whip Craic', an evening of music from the worlds of rock, pop, classical, opera, comedy and theatre hosted by the Countryside Alliance.

The Countryside Alliance promotes the interests of rural people, including all countryside pursuits and field sports, sensible wildlife management and wider countryside concerns such as employment and environments. As all of the £200,000 raised by this event will be used to support the organisation's work, it was essential that the evening of music and entertainment made an impact on the audience.

Fourth Phase supplied a variety of MAC 500s and 600s and a Wholehog II control desk to supplement the existing house rig, plus crew. Creating a lighting design to

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Australian company Jands Electronics, the well-known manufacturer of a leading range of lighting consoles and dimmers for the entertainment industry, is the latest manufacturer to join the Art-Net Alliance. The purpose of the Alliance is to promote the wide-spread adoption of the Art-Net Ethernet Standard. The Art-Net Alliance with the inclusion of Jands is now truly a global network.

From their Australian base Jands supports a global customer network. "Supporting Art-Net will ensure that we maintain our position as a supplier of leading edge products. The features offered by Art-Net will ensure our users continue to have access to the latest lighting data transmission tools," Paul Mulholland, managing director of Jands told us. "We look forward to implementing Art-Net in future generations of our products."

The Art-Net tools package continues to grow on a weekly

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Rafael Anaya has joined TMB's LA sales department. Anaya, originally from Mexico, has an associate’s degree in electronics with a wide background in the repair and maintenance of electrical/optical/mechanical equipment of all kinds. Beginning in the medical equipment industry, his career eventually led him to the position of chief technician, then South American sales director for MoboLaser, which allowed him to develop a relationship with TMB: "I spent a lot of time with The Three Amigos [Colin Waters, Tommy Stephenson and Jaime Duarte] out on the tradeshow circuit. They really are great guys." When Rafael sought new challenges in his career, TMB seemed the perfect fit.

"Rafael proved himself to TMB as a vendor; working with all kinds of technically complex products and helping us take really good care of our customers. Once the discussion about him joining us sta

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ETC Halcyon Silent

High End Systems Halcyon Silent builds on ETC’s legacy of fanless automated fixtures by incorporating features from the highly sought-after Halcyon family. Halcyon Silent perfectly balances silent operation with brilliant output of 18,400 lumens and high-impact features. 

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JBL Professional is excited to announce the first international installation of Precision Directivity Series loudspeakers. Vodafone Arena, a premiere sports and entertainment venue in Melbourne, was recently renovated with PD speakers, receiving a very positive response. The 10,800-seat Vodafone Arena features retractable and removable seats to accommodate various events including tennis, basketball, live music concerts and a velodrome for bicycle races. A retractable roof, which takes ten minutes to fully open or close, allows the venue to be transformed from an indoor arena to an outdoor venue. The roof presented an understandable challenge when designing the sound system. Since the system could not be mounted in the centre of the arena, the catwalk running around the perimeter of the open roof was utilized.

The original sound system, consisting of a six-element circular array of 15&

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Hayden Laboratories, exclusive UK distributors for Rane pro audio products from the US, launches Rane’s new AC 24, stereo 4-way active crossover. The product is aimed at domestic, commercial or professional use, and for those wanting to optimize their audio systems. The AC 24 combines conventional analogue controls with digital signal processing. The result is a fully-featured, high performance product.

Digital technology links the analogue inputs with the analogue outputs (these are XLR balanced) with the analogue controls on the front panel allowing the AC24 to perform in a way not possible using analogue circuits. The analogue Linkwitz-Riley implementation guarantees, by definition in phase adjacent outputs, which allows the two signals to sum correctly. The use of digital processing allows the product to add appropriate phase compensation so that all outputs add properly when

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Create new traditions – Cameo P6 - High Output Full-Spectrum Ellipsoidal

Cameo's P6 is a future-proof LED profiler with a powerful 600 W RGBACL engine and 16,000 lumens. It’s an energy-efficient replacement for 2.5 kW halogen profile lights in theatres and venues. With excellent light quality and natural colour rendering, it fits perfectly in theatres, musicals, TV studios, congresses, and live events.

With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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Artistic Licence has announced that Stage Electrics is now stocking and distributing Artistic Licence products. Stage Electrics’ network of 10 branches covering the UK will offer the full range of Artistic Licence products. Artistic Licence sees the strong service ethics and excellent technical support offered by Stage Electrics as matching their own. These were important factors in appointing Stage Electrics as a distributor.

Linda Moore of Stage Electrics says it’s the innovative nature of the product range which led to them to take on Artistic Licence distribution, commenting: "The DMX, RDM and Ethernet tools provided by Art-Net will allow for leading-edge technology to be used in our installations."

(Lee Baldock)

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The resources of Creative Technology and Dimension Audio were combined at this year’s Paris Motor Show, where their integrated technology created presentation media, IT infrastructure and audio playback solutions for a number of exhibits. While CT debuted their newly-acquired Barco SLM G8 projectors on the Lexus stand, the centrepiece was the Ford stand, where Kylie Minogue helped launch the new StreetKa.

CT used Dimension Audio as the sound supplier. The latter, working for Imagination, provided a system to fulfil the requirements of sound designer, John Del Nero. The sound source delivery was all from hard disk and the automated show was played out through Dimension’s front-line d&b sound rig. Dimension also provided editing facilities in the form of their Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro suite.

CT’s project manager, Darren Alexander, was overseeing the performance of th

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D.A.S. Audio sound reinforcement systems have been installed at ‘Dinopolis’, one of the worlds most modern theme parks, based on the age of the dinosaurs. Located in Teruel, Spain, the themed entertainment of Dinopolis aims to shed light on the age of the dinosaurs through the use of animated replicas, special attractions and live sketches evolving around the study of palaeontology.

Dinopolis, is divided into various halls, each with its specific subject matter, such as the Hall of the Sea, Hall of the Mammals or the Paleontology Workshop. Besides the now famous ‘Time Traveler’ attraction, which places the visitor in a special all-terrain vehicle for a ride through the origins of life on our planet, two new attractions have been added. ‘Saurus Park’, aimed at keeping the very young visitors busy and ‘T-Rex’, featuring a life-sized Tyranno

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Le Mark continues to experience a year of success. Returning from a successful launch by Apollo Design Technology of Le Mark’s PLASA 2002 double award-winning product GEL-TAK Filter Fix at LDI Las Vegas, the Cambridgeshire-based company has found that they have been short-listed for a ‘Huntingdonshire Business Award’ in the category of ‘Spirit of Ingenuity’.

"The award is presented to the company and its staff rather then for an individual product", said managing director Stuart Gibbons. "We are extremely thrilled and honoured to even be shortlisted," said Gibbons, "being based in the high-tech county of Cambridgeshire so close to ‘silicon fen’, we are aware of the high calibre of competition within our catchment area."

(Lee Baldock)

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Some of the biggest names in television gathered at the Royal Albert Hall in London on October 15 for the ITV 2002 National Television Awards. But everyone in the packed auditorium had a ring-side seat - thanks to the presence of several Screenco big screen displays. The main backdrop was a 40sq.m 25mm LED screen, upstage centre, reinforced by two 13 x 8 sq. metre 15mm IMAG displays, situated left and right of the stage. Screenco also provided a plasma display for the backstage press area.

While the centre screen was sent a feed comprising of stage close-ups, the flanking screens and plasma display took its feed from the live television mix. Hosts Trevor McDonald and Tess Daley presented the awards, screened on ITV1, while this year ITV2 also broadcast exclusive coverage from backstage and the glamorous after-show party. Graham Filmer, director and general manager at Screenco commented

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Taunton-based rental company APR Audio has just invested in an impressive 60-box X-Line system from Electro-Voice, complete with 14 racks of the new Electro-Voice P3000RL DSP remote-controlled amplifiers, all supplied by Shuttlesound. Following the product's UK PLASA launch, this is the very first remote amplifier sale in the UK, and the first worldwide that will be supporting a stadium-sized X-Line system. In addition, APR has also purchased a 40-input Legend 3000 supplied direct from the Midas factory in Kidderminster.

For Andy Reed of APR Audio, an existing X-Array user, the decision to invest in X-Line was straightforward. "I had been looking to increase my inventory for some time, and as an existing X-Array user, my first port of call when looking for a new system was naturally Electro-Voice. I was invited to go and see how the X-Line system performed on Rod Stewart, and fran

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Stardraw has announced a unique symbol update as part of the monthly update process available to all current subscribers. By popular request, the company has made available the component elements used to create its high quality product symbols in the Block Schematic, Rack Layout and Pictorial Schematic environments of Stardraw Audio, Stardraw AV and Stardraw Radio.

The update includes more than 500 symbols of buttons, switches, knobs, connectors, logos, meters and much more. They have been created to meet all of the criteria currently used in the production of Stardraw libraries and conform to layer and drawing specifications.

According to marketing director, Rob Robinson, this is a significant enhancement. "By making the component symbols available, we are effectively giving our subscribers even greater scope to customize Stardraw to their own requirements. Although our library

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The Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre in Scotland is about to complete a one-year, £18m expansion and redevelopment project. The venue’s two existing halls have been expanded to provide conference capacities of 2,000 and 500 respectively, while two new 700-capacity multi-purpose suites have been added.

GB Audio of Edinburgh won the contact to supply and install sound systems in these four spaces. The brief was to deliver consistent, high definition sound throughout the complex. To further complicate the requirements, each individual suite has the ability to divide into two independent spaces, meaning that the sound too would have to divide down and even operate in different directions if required. GB Audio achieved this by deploying a BSS Audio Soundweb DSP system controller, which offers instant recall of preset EQ and delay settings at the touch of a button. A total of 4

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As part of its ongoing expansion plan, Gekko Events has announced the creation of the brand new Gekko Effects, a lighting and effects division. Gekko Effects will specialise in supplying flame lights and small effects for the full spectrum of live events - from corporate meetings and permanent venues, to live production and parties. Laura Dodds is responsible for the management and business development of the division. During her 10 years in the industry, Dodds has racked up a broad lighting experience, from working on blue-chip projects such as Party in the Park, Eurovision and The Royal Variety Performance, as well as Ricky Martin and The Spice Girls tours.

Founder and MD of Gekko Events Ltd, Kristin Magnuson, comments: "The creation of Gekko Effects will participate in positioning Gekko as a major brand within the events industry. Laura’s skills will allow Gekko Effects t

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LAX Audio, the UK distributor for Wembley Loudspeaker, has announced its appointment as UK distributor for Rodec mixers, aimed at the "professional, quality-minded user". The deal was signed at the PLASA Show at Earls Court in September. Belgium-based Rodec began manufacturing valve amplifiers in the late 1960s, and later moved on to become a European pioneer of DJ mixers. The company’s latest products on show at PLASA were the BX14 and BX9 mixers.

(Lee Baldock)

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David Corrick of Stringwood Professional Services in Cardiff has recently completed a number of church installations using a full suite of Telex/EVI products, in particular from Electro-Voice and Dynacord, supplied by Shuttlesound. Among the most recent is the Thornhill Church Centre in Cardiff into which Stringwood has installed a full multimedia system. The Thornhill is far more than just a traditional church - the building was completed five years ago, and in addition to providing church services also acts as a community centre with activities going on seven days a week morning, noon and night. To that end, the budget to put in the multimedia AV system was quite generous.

In the main hall, where the majority of the church services take place, Corrick has installed two ElectroVoice Sx300 full range cabinets and a SUB 800 A active subwoofer from Dynacord, while foldback on stage is

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Martin Professional has announced that Claus Puggaard, managing director of Martin UK, is to step down from his position and return to Denmark to take over a new challenge within the Martin Group, following the completion of a three-year restructuring process in the UK. The company has also stated that chief financial officer, Johan Delfs, has stepped down "in order to assure a long-term management solution at Martin Professional Plc."

Henrik Soerensen, CEO of Martin Manufacturing UK Ltd (Jem) will assume the leadership position at Martin Professional Plc until a new management team is appointed. Martin’s president and CEO, Kristian Kolding, told us: "Day-to-day operations at Martin Professional Plc will continue unimpeded . . . Claus gathered a cohesive and competent staff at Martin UK who will continue to serve the UK market under the direction of Henrik Soerens

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The World Finals of the Vestax championship take place on November 21st at Fabric in London. 14 contestants from around the world will compete in the finals, including UK champion, DJ Woody. During the evening, clubbers will also get to see some of the world’s top DJs in action, including Carl Cox, Nick Warren, The Scratch Perverts, The X-ecutioners, The En4cers, Dynamo Productions’ Andy Smith and Scott Hendy, Dj Swerve, The Mixologists and 'RJ' Moby's tour DJ.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Veteran entertainment industry writer, photographer, publicist and designer, Cat Strom (Forcer), has announced the launch of a new entertainment technology service: Catriona Strom Design. The company aims to deliver a complete design, content and production package, including graphic design, web design, editorial content, photography and website maintenance, or any one of those services as required.

Should you need a media release, photographs of your project or production (digital or traditional), web site design or content updates, a newsletter (electronic or printed), a product brochure or a magazine ad, this new venture offers a comprehensive range of highly-integrated publicity and promotion services for entertainment technology businesses - from someone who knows the industry.

(Ruth Rossington)

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