USA - Medialon is organising a Training Session on its show & media control software, Manager V5, prior to the InfoComm 09 Trade Show. The two-day course will be held on 15 and 16 June in the premises of Electrosonic, Orlando, FL.
During the session, Medialon engineers will provide students with the technical skills required to set up and programme a show control system based on the latest Manager V5 software release.
The course is aimed at show technicians, freelancers, and end-user technicians who are responsible for programming and running show control systems in live events or permanent installations.
Canada - Adamson Systems Engineering has hired two new tour support engineers after a series of interviews conducted at this year's Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt.
David Dohrmann is currently based in Berlin, Germany and will join Adamson European Tour Support with chief technician, Jochen Sommer.
Dohrmann will provide support and training with Sommer who reports, "After the interviews we all agreed that David's technical knowledge combined with his friendly and highly motivated demeanour made him number one on our list. He's gotten up to speed with our gear very fast, he has good ears, and his system tuning fits our approach. I'm confident that he will be a major reinforcement for Adamson's European Support."
Ewan McDonald, hailing from Sydney, Australia, will be joining Adamson's Canadian headquarters support team. His career began just over 10 years ago, and got hi
USA/Canada - Paul Mitchell has a hair salon network of over 70,000 around the United States and Canada, as well as having a presence in 44 countries worldwide. Its professional training arm, Paul Mitchell the School, has a 20-year history, with new sites constantly opening around the US. Its Wichita, Kansas school has recently installed a Turbosound audio system.
The educational facility covers a total area of 12,000sq.ft, which is divided into various areas for specific activities. In The Clinic hairstyling instruction area eight compact passive two-way Impact 55Ts and two TXD-118 subs have been installed, whilst the General Classroom, Core Classroom One, Core Classroom Two, the Wash House area and the office, halls, breakout room and restrooms are covered by varying amounts of TCS-C50T ceiling speakers, numbering 28 in total.
USA - Bandit Lites was named the best large business in East Tennessee by the Knox Area Chamber Partnership. Bandit took home the prestigious Business Excellence Award on 1 May at the Knoxville Convention Centre.
This award is presented to an outstanding firm in East Tennessee that has clearly shown leadership, innovation and quality. Past winners include Scripps Networks and Pilot Travel Centers.
Chairman Michael T. Strickland said, "All of us at Bandit Lites are humbled by such an honour and promise to continue to earn the accolade. We are truly blessed to have the great opportunities we have and will continue to be a business that everyone can have pride in."
Finland - Formed 33 years ago, Eppu Normaali is one of Finland's longer-established rock bands. With their stock of PA equipment improving and expanding over the years, drummer Aku Syrjä set up sound hire company Akun Tehdas as a subsidiary of the band, to rent out the equipment when the band was not on tour.
The company has become a major player in the Finnish sound rental market and, already owning a DiGiCo D5 Live console, saw the SD8 as the logical next step for its inventory, which is taking pride of place at the front of house position on Eppu Normaali's current European tour.
"The price:quality ratio of the SD8 was just right for us, as well as the console's compact size," says Antti Salminen, Akun Tehdas / Eppu Normaali system tech and monitor engineer. "Currently we also have one on hire, but this summer it's likely that we will purchase a second one.&
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USA - The Impression LED intelligent moving head is now ETL approved. The Impression, available from Elation Professional, has received cETLus certification for the United States and Canada, ensuring it complies with UL standards and can therefore be specified in permanent installations and other applications where ETL approval is required.
"We are extremely pleased that the Impression has been awarded the cETLus seal of approval, which is granted only to products that pass the strictest safety and quality inspections," commented Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional.
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USA - A short drive north of Houston, Texas, Devasco International specialises in highly customised welding and metalworking solutions. It's an innovative and creative environment, but with a large staff, a 62,000sq.ft warehouse and plenty of industrial-grade machinery, it's not among the quietest. So when controller/treasurer David Scott took up the task of designing audio systems for the company's various buildings, he knew he had his work cut out for him. Scott selected a variety of loudspeakers from Community Professional to cover different functions throughout the facility.
14 RMG200A voice range horns provide a powerful paging system that covers the main warehouse, easily delivering 94dB of voice intelligibility where it's needed to overcome the din of a busy machine shop. In the company's training facility, a pair of SLS920 three-way boxes deliver music and voice performa
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Peru - During their last world tour Iron Maiden visited Peru for the first time and played the Estadio National Jose Diaz in Lima. RCF's TTL33-A line array modules and TTS28-A high power subwoofers were used as the delay and front-fill systems for the show.
Rental company, Guillermo Riera e Iluminacion Profesional EIRL was confident in choosing RCF TT+ High Definition Touring and Theatre series to do the job for this large event which attracted more than 30.000 fans.
A significant number of TTL33-A active line array modules were installed in front of the stage to reinforce the sound for the first rows while the two delay towers, each composed by 10 TTL33-A and 3 TTS28-A subs, delivered a powerful and accurate coverage for those sitting and standing in the far distance away from the main stage.
Guillermo Riera, owner of the rental company, said: "What impressed me the mo
USA - San Diego based Sound Image has acquired a new Adamson PA system that includes 24 x Y18, 32 x Y10 and 12 x T21.
SI wrapped up its first tour with the new system on John Legend's North American theatre tour over the winter. "Touring with this show is a little more difficult because on a day to day basis the system has to be very versatile," comments Gary Sanguinet, SI's crew chief. "Everyone bends over backward to make it work because we see that this artist is going somewhere and we want to be there when he arrives."
"We feel that Sound Image and Adamson have a similar approach to the way that they treat their clients," says Jesse Adamson, Adamson Systems Engineering's, director of marketing and sales. "They are a service focused organisation and they do a great job. I had been talking to Dave about what Adamson and Sound Image could do
UK - Adlib supplied sound and lighting equipment to several stages and performance areas at Radio One's 2009 One Big Weekend event staged in Lydiard House & Park, Swindon, Wiltshire. The two-day event kicked off the Festival Season in style with a line up including Snow Patrol, Kasabian, The Prodigy, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascall with Calvin Harris, The Wombats and more.
This year the Adlib team - co-ordinated by Dave Jones - supplied sound to the second In New Music We Trust stage; the Introducing Stage for up and coming new talent; The Headroom Tent, a live broadcast interview station for artists participating in the event; the Live Lounge Acoustic Stage and the Switch Stage which was upstairs on an open top double decker bus. Lighting was designed and supplied for the Introducing Stage by Adlib Lighting.
Poland - Riders on the Storm (Jezdziec Burzy), the Jim Morrison tribute musical, recently experienced a surge in attendance after nine years of residency at the Rampa Theatre (Teatr Rampa) in Warsaw thanks in part to a Meyer Sound M'elodie line array loudspeaker system recently installed by Lomianki-based Polsound.
Chief sound engineer Marcin Pawlot reports that the Meyer Sound system has made a night-and-day difference. "The old system was almost 19th century in its sound quality," says Pawlot. "Now, the band sounds more natural and musical despite our using even lower SPL than before. The actors' voices are more intelligible as well, with much higher gain before feedback."
The new system comprises left and right hangs of six M'elodie line array loudspeakers, each with a single 700-HP subwoofer to provide powerful low end. A pair of UPJ-1P VariO l
UK - Point Source Productions will be exhibiting at ABTT, London on 10-11 June 09. Staff will be on hand to answer questions with regard to dry hire and sales, whilst representatives from the Production Service Department, formed last year, will be present to discuss event requirements.
This year's latest development is the introduction of Point Source Productions' Equipment Service Department which has been created in response to the growing demand for the maintenance of customers' own equipment. Services on offer range from individual item repair to full scale, regularly scheduled, maintenance contracts, including Portable Appliance Testing, and is focused on schools, event companies, long term installations and companies which need to take the pressure off heavy workloads.
Also on show on the Point Source Productions stand will be an innovative new method by which to mount
South Africa - Mark Becker has always had a taste for adventure - and now he deals with it by flying a two-seater microlight aircraft high above the waterfalls and coast of Southern Africa. Through his company Free To Adventure, Becker takes people in the microlight up the coast of Mozambique for diving trips to reefs or into the heartland of Africa to visit the waterfalls, and a couple of years ago, he decided to start filming the trips - in HD video
"HD video cameras were getting smaller and cheaper, and I thought - I could fix these to the microlight itself and get some amazing shots as we fly," he explains. "And it works. But the video was the easy part, relatively speaking."
Whilst filming for his documentary Flying The Falls, about a flight to the waterfalls of Northern Namibia and Zambia, he was plagued by the sound of the wind. "It's com
Germany - Dynacord continues its tradition of manufacturing high-performance amplifiers with the three models of its new DSA Multi Channel series. The new models are notable for their high output, high degree of efficiency, and ability to integrate with IRIS-Net.
The new amplifiers' Variable Load Drive (VLD) technology makes them flexible. Each channel can be individually configured to deliver a maximum power of 500 watts or 1,000 watts into any load from two to 10 ohms, or drive 70 or 100 Vrms loudspeaker lines directly without an output transformer.
When connected to an optional RCM-810 module, users can configure the new power amplifiers with the help of IRIS-Net to deliver maximum output per channel in a range from 100 watts to 500/1,000 watts in one-watt increments into any load from two to 10 ohms (adjustable in 0.1 ohm increments).
Italy - A new sound system opens the second season of concerts at the Live Club in Trezzo sull'Adda, near Milan.
After an unforgettable opening, the new club has already hosted a plethora of Italian and international artists such as Elio e le Storie Tese, Caparezza, Afterhours, Piero Pelù, Joe Satriani, Buddy Guy, Asian Dub Foundation, Marillion, Alpha Blondy, The Blues Explosion, and Blue Oyster Cult.
The Live Club is already well into another year of live performances with a Proel Axiom house sound system. At the foundation of this technical decision was the need for the combination of versatility and power, says the company.
The Main System consists of 16 Axiom AX3210P elements plus 12 EDGE121SP subs with 21" woofers driven by six Powersoft K10 amplifiers and an XTA DP448 processor. 2 NEOS152A enclosures serve as front-fills. Side-fill duties are carried out by 2 ED
Italy - Lighting designer Giovanni Pinna chose impression and impression XL as key elements for the TRL Awards 2009, staged by MTV Italy at the Piazza Unità di Italia in Trieste.
Pinna selected 12 impression and eight impression XL fixtures - together with standard video and lighting equipment - all supplied by Milan based MMS.
"I really love the impression's rich colours, the colour mixing and the beam quality," he said. "I believe this to be the only professional moving head LED at present ... and they look beautiful on TV." He added, "We had two impression XL at front-of-house shooting a blue front light at a 45 meters distance - but we had to dim them to 50% for the cameras."
The impressions were used as wash lights, as well as for show and peripheral effects.
Germany - Human Laser Artistics - the successful collaboration between performance artist Martin Mall and Tarm showlaser has thrilled audiences the world over. The multi-discipline show (juggling, diabalo and more) established a new concept of interaction between human performers and laser light.
Building on the international success of the show, Martin Mall and Tarm showlaser invested 18 months into the planning and development of an extended, evening-long, show programme, LichtGestalten.
The project premiered at the Apollo-Varieté Theater, Düsseldorf in March and has proved to be another hugely successful collaboration. Under the direction of Martin Mall, top talent from across the circus arts world have been brought together with new and original content featuring Tarm's colour graphic laser system.
Greece - Athens's Pallas Theatre has received a full-scale cosmetic makeover, including installation of a sound system based on the Meyer Sound M'elodie line array loudspeaker.
To equip the 1,500-seat theatre with an audio system on par with its architecture, Athens-based audio firm Omikron Control enlisted a complete overhaul of the existing system. Sound designer Vangelis Petridis reports, "The space is mainly used for theatrical performances and musicals, but they also do plenty of classical music presentations, a little jazz, some cinema, and corporate events and ceremonies, making it a truly multipurpose venue. This required an easily adjustable system, but they also wanted us to install the system out of the audience's view."
Petridis decided on flown left and right arrays each consisting of nine self-powered M'elodie loudspeakers, concealed within the prosceni
Italy - RCF has announced the introduction of its new HPS and DPS power amplifiers which are now shipping. Designed for professional use in touring racks and installed sound systems, these professional amplifiers feature protective circuits to ensure reliability and operating safety.
Thanks to their compact size and lightweight presentation, they are easy to handle and their simple set up procedures simplify the installation process.
The HPS 1500 is a two-channel power amplifier that delivers up to 2 x 750 W RMS @ 4 Ohm (1500 W RMS bridged @ 8 Ohm). A forced air cooling system maintains a low operating temperature.
The HPS 2500 is a two-channel power amplifier that delivers up to 2 x 1400 W RMS @ 2 Ohm (2800 W RMS bridged @ 4 Ohm).
The DPS 3000 is a two-channel power amplifier that can handle exceptionally high power ratings in a compact and lightweight 2 rack units space.
Poland - XTA Electronics distributor, Konsbud Audio reports its first successful year representing XTA in Poland, including the recent take up of the brand by three well known and significant Polish PA/sound reinforcement companies.
Airpol Sound & Light of Warsaw has operated in the pro audio market since 1996. Its main business is in sound reinforcement, specialising in events ranging from concerts and festivals to corporate events. Airpol Sound & Light has expanded its original stock of XTA DP226s with the acquisition of DP448s and DP324s. Antoni Paluszkiewicz of Konsbud comments: "Airpol told us that they chose XTA family units because of their high quality, high reliability and their reputation, as well as the easy, user-friendly operation, which is due to accessible software."
GMB Pro Sound, also Warsaw based, is described by Konsbud as 'one of the most renowned
USA - SIA Acoustics in New York has announced the addition of Adam Di Angelo to its consulting team in New York. Di Angelo's focus as an acoustical consultant will include architectural drafting/detailing and room acoustics.
Di Angelo holds a B.A. in architecture and foreign languages from Temple University, and an M.S. in architectural acoustics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). While at RPI, he studied room acoustics, psychoacoustics, and sound measurement with distinguished faculty members Ning Xiang and Paul Calamia.
"I see SIA Acoustics as an industry leader. They are innovators who have a significant impact on the practice of acoustical consulting. I am excited to be a part of it," says Di Angelo.