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USA - Scott Robbins has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of worldwide sales for Crown International. Robbins previously held the position of vice president of worldwide sales for Crown.

Making the announcement was Mark Graham, president of Crown. "Scott's promotion to senior vice president underscores his great value to the executive team at Crown. Scott has done an outstanding job of leading the efforts of our sales and customer service teams over the past several years and has truly earned this recognition," says Graham.

Robbins has over 17 years of experience with Crown, starting in the service department in 1987 and working his way up the ranks through progressively more responsible positions in sales. During that time, Robbins temporarily joi

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UK - Vision Systems has announced that its PA/VA brand - Millbank - is initiating a major product development strategy aiming to launch a new series of Millbank products in 2007.

With the legislation re: RHOS and WEEE coming into force from July 2006 an assessment of the current products confirms that the best course of action is to withdraw products that do not meet these requirements. The costs of meeting these requirements was so substantial that Millbank has taken the brave step of concentrating the time of its engineers on its future developments rather than re-building the old products to meet these legislative issues.

Millbank will fulfill its duty to all its end users with their present technologies and is therefore committing to support these systems for up to seven years.

Millbank's sales director, Neil Voce says: "We're very excited about the new technologies

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USA - For the 13th consecutive year, Audio-Technica has supported the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards by providing an extensive selection of vocal and instrument microphones for its annual awards show. The 40th Annual CMA Awards aired live for the first time in 5.1-channel surround sound on November 6 on the ABC Television Network from Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center and featured over 200 hard-wired and wireless Audio-Technica microphones. From backline vocal and instrument mics to frontline wireless systems for leading country artists such as Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert, Audio-Technica was chosen for this star-studded live broadcast.

Hosted for the third year by the multi-platinum duo Brooks & Dunn, the CMA Awards presentation is recognised as Country Music's Biggest NightTM, and represents the pinnacle of achievement for those involved in c

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UK - Yamaha's Stagepas PA system has been awarded the coveted title of 'Best PA Product' at the 2006 MIA (Music Industry Association) awardsceremony held on 3 October at the Savoy Hotel, London.

Designed to meet the increasing multi-use demands of a variety of venues andinstitutions, Yamaha's affordable portable Public Address System (Stagepas 300)delivers Yamaha's professional sound quality in a compact and convenientportable system that can be set-up and operated by anyone with little or notechnical knowledge.

The Music Industry Association has a wide reaching membership covering all areasof the musical instrument trade in the UK including retailers, wholesalers andmanufacturers and many of it's members are in fierce competition with each otheron a day-to-day basis and due to the diversity of the Association's membershipthe award is a true reflection of the popularity and sa

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UK - i-Vision has supplied 144 modules of its Lumos Link RGB LED system and two of its new Lumos Drive 216 controllers to the RAF Museum in London.

The fixtures were specified and purchased by Sean Penn, the Museum's AV engineer after i-Vision was recommended by The Society of TV Lighting Directors, who staged an event at the Museum.

Penn was looking for a lighting effect to enhance the Milestones of Flight building, which tells the story of flight and from balloons and the first powered flights, complete with some impressive pieces of military hardware, right up to the Eurofighter.

The hangar has an arched tensile roof is also used for corporate events, dinners, awards ceremonies and functions of all types. They wanted a permanent lighting installation that would add a touch of subtle elegance, warmth and panache to the general evening ambience for these events. &quo

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UK - Le Mark have continued to expand their glove and personal accessory range, this now includes UK distribution for Setwear, Ironclad and Aquila products. Le Mark have also added 'Light Mechanix' Glove Lights.

The gloves offer a personal integrated LED light source on the index fingers and are CE certified. The electronics are waterproof and also machine washable. Following their sell out introductory launch at the PLASA show, the unique gloves have been firmly installed into the Le Mark accessory range.

The company reports that the new 'Light Finger' glove has been very well received both within the UK and abroad. It provides a strong 10,000 lumen LED light source directly onto the working area, without shadow. The LED in each glove is rated at 100,000 hours of light with a unique energy saving 'shut off' every 7 minutes to conserve the CR20I6 battery life.

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Germany - One of the largest companies in Germany providing technical services in the event business, Satis & Fy recently took delivery of an X-Line and Tour Grade amplifiers from Electro-Voice. They were so convinced by the performance the new combination that, after receiving the commission to handle Simply Red's 2006 tour of Germany, they had little hesitation in taking them along.

Simply Red FOH Engineer Gary Bradshaw has worked with Britannia Row's X-Line on many occasions in the past; for this outing, the task of satisfying-or, rather, exceeding-his expectations fell to system technicians Alexander Lewin, Stefan Harazd and Paul Wunderlich.

It would appear they succeeded. Certainly the critics were impressed, with Christoph Klemp euphorically declaring: "The sound system was controlled perfectly: every nuance of Chris de Margery's flute and Ian Kirkham's saxophone so

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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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Germany - In Germany, the huge Stadtkirchenfest attracted more than 10,000 members of different Christian organisations to Berlin's Alexander-Platz. With music, speeches and religious services, the extensive festival programme represented an excellent test for Nexo's new Geo D system, and its success was enough to persuade Berlin PA company PAM/events to invest in its own system.

Over ten thousand people attended the ecumenical Stadtkirchenfest in Berlin. The festival's motto was "Auf gute Nachbarschaft" (loosely translated as "here's to good neighbourly relations") and with that in mind, 170 Catholic, Protestant, independent Christian and Orthodox groups and communities as well as welfare organisations and action groups gathered in the square between the Church of St. Mary (Marienkirche) and the so-called 'Red City Hall' to inform visitors abou

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UK - James Ussher wanted to produce something totally different on the dancefloor at Oxford's most popular clubbing destination - The Bridge - when he was asked to co-ordinate a recent technical revamp. His decision to do this with Element Labs VersaTiles, supplied by Projected Image Digital has resulted in the first UK club installation of the product.

Ussher and his company Ussher Productions have been capacity, independently owned venue for some time. He keeps a keen ear and eye to the ground vis-a-vis industry trends, aiming constantly to keep The Bridge one step ahead in terms of looking, sounding and feeling interesting, fresh and contemporary.

The dancefloor now features three sections of VersaTiles a 6 x 1m strips of VersaTiles along the end wall of the dancefloor, flanked by two, 2m by 0.5m strips on the side walls. Ussher specified, designed and installed this new sc

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USA - The 2006 Tony Award winner for best musical, Jersey Boys is currently Broadway's biggest success story, one year on from its first previews and still a sell-out. The show tells the story of Franki Valli and The Four Seasons, playing to highly critical and lively audiences in Valli's home town where he remains a local hero. Directed by Des McAnuff, the show's music is by Bob Gaudio with lyrics by Bob Crewe, and features sound design by Steve Kennedy. The sound system includes a J-Type Live production console, supplied by Masque Sound, operated by Julie Randolph, with Dave Shepherd and Mike Terpstra on the full-time sound team.

The show is above all a rock show, with the band constantly moving on the stage amidst the high-pace action. Sound operator Julie Randolph explains some of the musical challenges involved: "It's a loud show, but the acoustic image is const

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Worldwide - Sting is currently promoting his new album, Songs from the Labyrinth, with a series of performances in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Paris, with DPA microphones accompanying him along the way.

DPA 4023 compact cardioids were chosen by Sting's sound engineer Donal Hodgson, who had initially purchased a pair of 4006 omni-directional mics for the artist's mobile studio setup, Steerpike Studios, to record Songs from the Labyrinth. This is a venture into new musical territory for Sting, who has collaborated with lute player Edin Karamazov to work with the music of Elizabethan songwriter John Dowland, court lutenist to James 1 in 1612.

"I had always considered DPA to be more of a classical music microphone," explains Hodgson. "This was why, when we started the original demo sessions for Songs from the Labyrinth, I t

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USA - Dolby Laboratories, Inc. todayannounced that the recently constructed First Baptist Church in Eugene,Oregon has become the first house of worship in the world to adopt the newDolby Lake Processor. Attracted by the extended power and features of thedigital loudspeaker processor, the First Baptist Church integrated two DolbyLake Processors into its state-of-the-art audio system. Some of the featuresintroduced in the new Dolby Lake Processor include the unique portalfront-panel interface, advanced converter design, Iso-Float groundisolation, LimiterMax true-RMS limiting, and flexible hardwareconfiguration options.

Kyle Anderson, CEO, Anderson Group International (AGI) and lead audiodesigner on the project, reports that construction delays at First BaptistChurch turned out to be very fortuitous. "We were lucky construction waspostponed because the new Dolby Lake Processor

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Italy - A complete range of pole operated fresnels has been recently introduced by LDR.

The Pole operated products are built around the well known LDR Fresnles (Nota/Tono and Soffio/Suono D) and can be offered with four different lamp wattages (1/1.2 and 2/2.5 kW halogen - 150W and 250W discharge).

Setting a new standard in this category, LDR offer the PO Fresnel range in white, silver and black as standard. By special request, LDR is also capable of handling any colour based/ref. from the RAL range.

"Our customers were demanding affordable and easy to use Pole Operated products," says LDR's Fabiano Besio, "The professional features and the great light performances of the traditional LDR theatre/architectural fixtures can now be offered to the TV market and to all those applications where a full and precise control of the pan and tilt is required."

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USA - On October 19, the much-anticipated international communications standard E1.17 Architecture for Control Networks (commonly known as ACN) received certification from ANSI (the American National Standards Institute), achieving the last needed step in its full ratification process. The Board of Directors of ESTA (Entertainment Services and Technology Association) approved ACN on October 5, 2006. The Control Protocols Working Group and the Technical Standards Committee of ESTA approved the new standard on July 15, 2006.

Like DMX, ACN allows equipment from different manufacturers to operate together and function seamlessly within the same control network. Unlike DMX, ACN works over Ethernet, using Internet standards, greatly increasing opportunities for product innovation and performance. ACN has already arrived in lighting control systems. Manufacturers like ETC debuted ACN-e

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Poland - The 56th Miss World Final took place in the Polish capital of Warsaw's Palace of Culture on 30th September. This was a significant event for Poland, as it was the first of East Europe's former communist countries to host Miss World and attracted a recorded television audience of round two billion. Polish rental company Fotis Sound provided an extensive amount of PA equipment for the evening, including a DiGiCo D5 Live digital mixing console and XTA digital signal processing.

"We received the technical specifications from Plus4Audio," explains Fotis Sound's Piotr Majewski. "Initially, different consoles were specified for both front of house and monitors, with an L'Acoustics loudspeaker system controlled by XTA processors. However, we proposed a D5 Live for Mark Ballard's front of house position and a PM5D for monitors, to which they agreed. They ne

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UK - Production, event and entertainment management company Production Plus has boosted its stock of Robe Show Lighting moving lights with the purchase of 16 Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 575 AT fixtures - eight of each type.

These have been added to the existing hire stock which already includes over 60 Robe fixtures, incorporating Spot 250 and Wash 250 XTs and Media Spinners. "We'd been looking at the 575 AT Series for some time," says Production Plus's technical director Andy Miller, who's relationship with Robe UK goes right back to the start of the company. "The optics are great, it's a cost effective product and the service and support from Robe UK is very good," he concludes.

One of the first outings for the new 575 AT fixtures was a gala ball event at the Hilton International Hotel, Park Lane, London, for the Hilton Community Foundation Ball charity.

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France - DPA Microphones is pleased to announce the launch of a new company, Audio², to market, distribute and service its products in France. The company is a joint venture between the manufacturer, Didier Rupin, who has been involved with DPA microphones in France since 1992, and Scène de Nuit, an existing pro audio dealer who will provide the company infrastructure such as shipping, service, telephone reception and sales staff. Audio² will be formally launched at November's Satis 2006 exhibition in Paris.

Situated in Joué-les-Tours, central France, Audio² is headed up by managing director Rupin, who has long experience in distributing top-of-the-range professional audio equipment in France. The company will work closely with a dealer network, connected by a dedicated extranet system, to cover the entire country as well as handling specialised markets including broa

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USA - Aviom has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Lange as new product specialist.

In his new role, Lange will expand sales efforts in the Midwest region, participating in industry events, training seminars and product demonstrations. A multi-faceted A/V systems designer, project manager, technician and trainer, Lange brings to Aviom his ability to effectively share technical information with individuals and groups alike.

"Jeff is a key addition to the Aviom team," says Ray Legnini, Aviom's senior product manager. "His rich background in technology and experience in various markets will enhance our presence in the music and house of worship industries and will be instrumental in boosting awareness about our technology."

Lange also offers extensive experience working with houses of worship, one of Aviom's key markets, as well as with complex design syst

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Greece - Lighting Effects Distribution have supplied a major order for LED effects to a television studio in Greece. Because of the fast set changes involved, Skai TV needed a constantly evolving scenic infrastructure in their Athens studio and turned to London-based ITN Consulting (a division of ITN) for assistance.

The company's senior lighting director, Roy Newman, was first alerted to the LED X-Chip and Ayrton Moduled 318 on the stand of Lighting Effects Distribution at a trade show, and knew they would be ideal for his purposes. "The company was clearly a one-stop shop for LED effects," he noted.

"One of the main reasons for preferring LEDs over tungsten was the rapid turnaround between various programmes, and of course the infinite number of colours instantly available." The lack of maintenance and gel changing, he commented, had been another determin

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UK - There was a point during the month of October when sound production company Skan PA had no fewer than seven Digidesign Venue digital mixing systems out on tour. With their two original D-Shows supplied by Marquee Audio assigned long-term to the high-profile Muse tour, Skan's Chris Fitch knew he needed back-up.

But the back-up was soon out on the tour as well - and this month Skan had to call on two further consoles to support Gnarls Barkley during their recent spate of European television and live concert dates. On monitors was Tim Engwall, who has scarcely been away from the D-Show surface since receiving his induction at this year's Montreux Jazz Festival; out front was Steve Curtin who is another recent convert, having made his debut on a D-Show at a festival in Detroit earlier this summer.

Having worked with Eighth Day Sound's Venues in the States, both men were delig

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Belgium - Thirty of Marantz's PMD570 and PMD670 units have been used to create an innovative and versatile learning system for students of a large language department in Belgium.

Local AV specialists Swing CVBA has provided 26 PMD570 Installation Recorders and four PM670 Solid State Recorders to Ghent High School, giving staff the means to exchange materials and mark coursework over the internet, and students the ability to take their language studies off-campus to be continued at home.

The School's previous system used cassette recorders and traditional tape for recording and playback of learning materials, but teachers prompted the move to digital media technology. Using Marantz's PMD recorders, each student uses his or her own flash card, which is removable and can therefore be used to play back lessons and exercises at home. Via the internet, data can be shared among membe

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