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UK - Recognised globally for robust and reliable manufacture as well as "excellent after-sales service", Sheffield-based Cloud Electronics Ltd (CEL), has reinforced its brand value by extending the standard warranty period on all new products from one year to five years.

Cloud's MD, Simon Curtis, explains: "Cloud audio equipment is British-made to a demandingly high standard. The products have such a reputation for reliabiliy that it is a pleasure to be able to pass on our confidence as a peace of mind guarantee to our loyal customers - who continue to specify Cloud product for hassle-free installations - and new customers alike."

The five-year warranty covers parts only against faulty manufacture and original material failure provided equipment has not been

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USA - Mackie has announced Vista support for the Onyx FireWire Card and added Vista 64 support for all FireWire devices. Users of Mackie FireWire interfaces such as the Onyx Satellite, d.Pro Series DJ Mixers and now the Onyx FireWire card can now enjoy support under the Windows Vista operating system.

This update not only adds compatibility, but includes feature updates from the previous build. The following FireWire interfaces are compatible with Mackie Audio Driver V1.1.0: Onyx FireWire Card, Onyx Satellite, u.420, u.420d, d.2 Pro, d.4 Pro and TAPCO Link.FireWire.

The Mackie 400F & 1200F have been Vista compatible for some time and require no update. Users who wish to update to Mackie Audio Driver V1.1.0 should visit the respective product page at www.mackie.com

(Claire Beeson)

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UK - DPA's UK distributor Sound Network has supplied a large quantity of DPA microphones and accessories to the Department of Music at the University of Huddersfield. The university has purchased a DPA 3511 stereo cardioid kit, DPA 3506 stereo condenser kit, a DPA 5006-11 surround mic kit with an S5c surround mount, a DPA 3521 compact cardioid stereo kit and two each of DPA SMK 4060 and 4061 miniature stereo kits.

The mics were specified by Dr Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, senior lecturer in composition at the university, as part of his research in mixed music, a blending of acoustic instruments with electronic sounds and processing.

"The project, Thinking Inside the Box, examines ways of bridging the gap between studio composition and its concert rendition," explains Tremblay. "Transparent, linear microphones were needed, for both instrument sound recording

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Italy / Venezuela - AVCom, CA has been appointed as the new distribution partner for Powersoft products in Venezuela.

AVCOM is a well-established organisation, founded in 1999, and specialises in pro audio solutions. The company has a strong reputation in the marketplace both for the broad range of products available in its portfolio and for the high quality of service it provides for its customers, say Powersoft.

"We are very excited about our new relationship with Powersoft," said Alberto Dillon, director of AVCom. "We pride ourselves of selling the best products, technology and services in our market, as such, Powersoft is an excellent complement to our product portfolio that will help us expand our share in the PA and installed sound markets. We definitely are looking forward to a long relationship between our companies."

"We have chosen AVCom as

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UK - As reported on LSI Online last week, fears over the future of the entertainment and broadcast industries' use of radio spectrum continue, in the face of Ofcom's vague and inadequate assurances of protection and compensation.

At a meeting on 13 February, representatives of the programme making and special events (PMSE) sector agreed their common position on Ofcom's latest proposals for the future of the 'Digital Dividend' spectrum. These stakeholders included equipment manufacturers, end users, rental users and trade associations.

Alan March, representing manufacturer Sennheiser, is a member of the British Entertainment Industry Radio Group (BEIRG), the sector's campaign group formed to represent the interests of PMSE users to Ofcom. He said it was "unfair, unreasonable and impractical" of Ofcom to expect the industry to move to "new spectrum which is undete

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USA - At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards Show, telecast on CBS from L.A.'s Staples Centre 0n 8 February, XM Productions/Effanel Music employed Genelec 8200 Series Active DSP Monitoring Systems.

Genelec DSP systems consisting of 8250 and 8240 active monitors, along with the 7260 subwoofer, were used in XM Productions/Effanel Music's L7 truck for the live music mix, as well as in the mirrored system in the Nova offline remix booth.

Music mixer John Harris stated: "Genelec active monitoring is the industry standard for high-end monitoring solutions, without a doubt. Their performance is absolutely consistent show after show, and the sound is the most musical we've ever used. With the ability to adapt the surround speaker field with the DSP technology, Genelecs offer the peace of mind of knowing our monitors are exactly what we need them to be."

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China - The National Petroleum Corporation is China's largest integrated oil and gas company, and is one of the 25 largest companies in the world. In the CNPC Building in Beijing, a record-breaking installation of conference and sound reinforcement systems has just been completed - including the fitting of nearly 400 of Vieta's DO Series loudspeakers and 44 digital amplifiers.

CNPC Building in Beijing is a massive office block, covering an area of three hectares. Its conference and sound reinforcement systems are an important component of this high-tech intelligent building, which has more than 40 meeting rooms of varying sizes.

Vieta's loudspeakers and amplifiers are used throughout the CNPC Building, in a system comprising RCF digital devices and BSS signal processing. According to a spokesman for Tico (Vieta's distribution agent in China), "we found through analysis th

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UK - Visitors to Baldwin Boxall's stand at either the 2009 ProLight&Sound (1-4 April, Frankfurt) or International Firex (11-14 May) will be well rewarded. The now infamous Plug & Socket has a new look this year. In addition, there will be two new products being showcased.

While supping on Harveys Real Ale, visitors to the Plug & Socket will be able to see a demonstration of the new BVRD2M4 mini router and the new BVRD voice alarm controller. Also on the stand will be the OmniCare emergency voice communication system.

The BVRD2M4 Mini four zone voice alarm router retains many of the features of the well established EVAS BVRD2M router. However, it is small enough to fit alongside a VIGIL2 amplifier and power supply in one 19 mainframe.

The unit's four electronically balanced inputs have both independent priority and level settings, allowing for dual mode. Input one is configur

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USA - When more than a million people turned out on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama, it was perhaps less well known that 11 Zero 88 Fat Frogs were there too, controlling fixtures from Christie Lites, which, last November, supported Obama's victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park.

"We were very fortunate to have two career-milestone gigs," says Robert A. Roth, of Christie Lites, about the victory speech and Mall events. "They were very rewarding personally and professionally."

Once again Christie Lites teamed with event producer C3 Presents of Austin, Texas for the Mall lighting. "There was a series of tower positions along the Mall; some of the ones on the east end of the Capitol were set up in a reasonably symmetrical array," Roth recalls. "Initially, we were led to believe we could establish wired DMX

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Germany - At Frankfurt's ProLight + Sound this year, TTA's Stagetracker FX matrix will be shown with a fresh customised GUI. This provides user-friendly access to, and control of, the new Pan Between Points (PbP) operational mode which has further increased Stagetracker FX's versatility, widening its appeal to include venues and productions using line array speaker systems, says the company.

PbP is a dramatic development for the sector of actor tracking systems, reducing the degree of user input to a minimum. The new software brings a high degree of automation to the set-up process, which can now be completed quickly and without the skills of a trained technician. PbP is designed for use in situations where ultra-fast set-up is required, as with a touring production. PbP achieves true plug-and-play status.

"Stagetracker FX is bringing actor positioning to the masses,"

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UK - Orbital Sound is exhibiting its range of communication solutions at Broadcast Video Expo 2009 (17 -19 February, Earls Court 2, London). Orbital is demonstrating equipment from Zaxcom - including the TRX900 digital wireless microphone system - as well as products from Telex, RTS and HM Electronics.

As Zaxcom's exclusive UK dealer, Orbital Sound is giving centre stage to the diminutive Zaxcom TRX900, which is being headlined as the industry's first digital wireless microphone transceiver with built-in IFB facility. With applications in ENG, and in film and television production, it also offers a back-up recording capability, as Tim Sherratt, Technical Director at Orbital Sound, outlined:

"This apparently simple step of integrating an IFB receiver with the tiny transmitter has opened up some extremely useful and powerful possibilities. Audio output is linear and inheren

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USA - MA Lighting's grandMA full-size console is accompanying Metallica's 2008-2009 coffin-clad concerts. The show theme, echoing the coffin motif of the 25-year-career heavy metal wizards' latest release, Death Magnetic, boasts 82-ton lighting structures, courtesy of lighting designer John Broderick. Programmer Troy Eckerman reflects that on the current tour, everything is "zero time cue - fast and furious. It's all about horsepower and intensity, full-on and in-your-face."

With full-size tracking backup in line for every show, the original lighting design had entailed a hard-edge, all wash light array, to be controlled by grandMA. "We'd needed lots of power to make a big statement," says Eckerman. "And it takes lots of lights, almost all on all of the time." The lighting rig comprises 56 x Vari*Lite VL3500 washes as well as several Coemar a

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USA - Shure Incorporated answers its top five most frequently asked questions in the latest edition of ShureCast, the company's educational podcast series. The show is the 18th episode in the series, which provides useful information about audio technology for professionals and consumers.

"Our podcasts have been very well-received," said Mark Brunner, Shure's senior director of public and industry relations. "Several thousand people are downloading each new episode and their popularity has continued to grow."

Previous episodes include the history of the SM57 and SM58, Microphone Basics, Wireless Basics, Using Audio Effects, Sound Isolation vs. Noise Cancellation, and updates on the "White Spaces" and wireless spectrum availability.

"The wizards in our Applications Engineering group have been busy answering questions from customers fo

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Germany - Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Nexo will be showing an impressive and mature line-up of tangent-array sound reinforcement systems aimed at touring applications and the fixed installation sector at ProLight&Sound.

As well as the four tangent array propositions - Geo T, Geo D, Geo S12 and Geo S8 - Nexo will display its successful gradient CD, GEO and RAY SUB Series of subs. Premiered at last year's ProLight show, the RAY SUB technology allows the same cabinet to be configured for any polar pattern, omni-directional as a standard direct radiating subwoofer when speakers are facing the audience, or highly directional when a speaker cabinet is rotated sideways or upwards.

?Completing this line-up are Nexo's new NXAMPs, the powered TD Controllers generated by the collaboration with Yamaha. The integration of amplifier, available in two four-channel sizes, with

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UK - Allen & Heath has shipped the first batch of the new iLive-T digital mixing systems. Launched last month at NAMM 2009, the British manufacturer has been overwhelmed as distributors have placed orders months in advance to cope with demand.

"The response to iLive-T has been unprecedented and production is now flat out to fulfil orders," says managing director, Glenn Rogers. "In all my years in the pro audio industry I've rarely seen a reaction to a new product like this."

Manufacturing is scheduled to produce 50 systems in February with 100 per month thereafter. All systems are manufactured at Allen & Heath's factory in Penryn, Cornwall.

Evolved from the successful flagship iLive digital range, the iLive-T Series has all the performance and power of the original iLive in a lightweight, affordable package. The T Series comprises the fixed I/O iDR-32 and

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UK - For the seventh consecutive year, XL Video supplied screens, projection, an HD PPU and control for the 2009 Brit Awards which were presented by comedians Mathew Horne and James Corden, together with Kylie Minogue last night.

Staged at Earls Court, London, and broadcast live on ITV 1, the event was jointly project managed for XL by Chris Saunders and Paul Wood. Saunders co-ordinated the cameras and control, while Wood managed the screens and specials.

As Saunders clocked up his 15th Brits, sadly it was also his first not working with long standing production manager Mick Kluczynski, who died suddenly 10 days earlier. Saunders and Wood both worked closely with the MJK Productions' technical team, with lighting designer Al Gurdon and set designer Nicoline Refsing from Stufish, plus The Brits TV production.

"The Brits was a great tribute to Mick's amazing technical, pr

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USA - Las Vegas' Hope Baptist Church has moved its services to the gymnasium and other spaces of Silverado High School. This presents its own new challenges, most notably setup and teardown, which need to happen extremely quickly early Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. These problems were solved by the use of EAW's NTL720 Self-Powered Line Array Modules (16 in total), NTS22 Self-Powered Subwoofers (eight in total) and a UX8800 Digital Signal Processor .

Robert Sims of Las Vegas' Communication Electronic Systems put together the new gear package as well as the one serving Hope's prior facility. Additionally, Ryan Durham of Las Vegas-based Ford AV guided the church in their equipment and new gear package decisions, and was on hand to assist with the initial setup. Each array consists of seven modules per side, supported on a ground-based tower. An additional NTL720 module per

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USA - The Robert P. Knowles Centrer at the University of Wisconsin River Falls is a busy place, home to the University's indoor track and field, tennis and multiple intramural sporting teams, as well as a wide and growing range of community activities and events. The massive arena houses a 200m indoor running track, a rock climbing wall, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts, exercise centre and more. It's a versatile, cavernous and acoustically challenging venue.

"The announcements were pretty much unintelligible except right underneath the speakers," says Intermedia Systems Group's Doug Klein. "It was less than ideal to begin with, and as they've begun to diversify the use of the Centre, it got to a point where they really needed to address the audio situation." Intermedia consultant Joel Evermann specified a distributed system centred on eight Community

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UK - Pro Audio Stash UK has announced the release a brand new, high spec data cabinet and rack enclosure range, adding to the company's already extensive collection of 19" rack enclosures and accessories. The company says it aims to provide the customer with racking systems that will be functional to industry standard but will also create a professional look to businesses that are either expanding or upgrading their IT systems.

Pro Audio Stash UK is fast becoming a common name for manufacturing and supplying 19" racking to professional AV and IT markets, specialising in quality but affordable rack enclosures and accessories. As well as showing a growth in sales of 19" racking, the company is one of the main UK suppliers of Gator Cases, flightcase hardware and Neutrik connectors, boasting the largest range of specialist connectors in the UK. Pro Audio Stash has als

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Germany - Ahead of the Frankfurt show, Roland Systems Group (RSG) is previewing the RSS M-48 Live Personal Mixer and RSS S-4000D Splitter and Power Distributor, a monitoring solution for live performance and studio applications, and a logical progression for the current suite of RSS stage sound control and mixing products.

The M-48 offers control over 40 audio sources that can be easily managed in 16 assignable stereo groups. The playing experience is enhanced with level/pan/solo/3-band EQ on each group, built-in reverb for a more appealing sound, ambient mic for better communication with band members as well as physical inputs and outputs for multiple headphones, wedges and powered monitors, interfacing with iPods, metronomes and external recording devices.

Sound quality is ensured by use of Roland's Ethernet Audio Communication (REAC) Cat 5e protocol. Power is supplied via t

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Germany - Electro-Voice's The N8000-1500 is capable of processing over 1,500 MIPS: more than twice as many as the basic model. This not only makes the N8000-1500 the most powerful loudspeaker controller currently on the market, suggests the company, but also represents something of a quantum leap. As product manager Ethan Wetzell puts it, "With the N8000-1500, we have effectively skipped an entire generation of development."

The first deployments of the N8000-1500 in major productions - Jan Smit's concerts in Rotterdam's Ahoy and Sarah Brightman's US tour at the end of 2008 - proved convincing. The system permitted the sound crews in each case to run the entire rig - including delays - with EV Netmax and FIR-Drive (Finite Impulse Response Filters), while the devices were controlled via IRIS-Net.

Gert Wiersema, the system technician for the Jan Smit tour and a long-ti

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