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Italy - Ecler recently presented the Verso and Audeo series of speaker cabinets at the headquarters of Giugiaro Design in Moncalieri. This European product presentation was attended by professional audio magazines, selected customers and representatives from Ecler and Giugiaro Design. The event was headed by Fabrizio Giugiaro, styling director of ItalDesign as well as Enric Casimiro Damians, deputy general manager at Ecler..

The new Verso is a series of all-terrain loudspeaker cabinets thatare suitable for fixed and mobile applications, as well as stage monitors. The range includes six models: three passive Verso 8 (150W), Verso 10 (250W) and Verso 12 (350W), and three active versions Verso 8P (200W), Verso 10P (300W) and Verso 12P (450W). All models are two-way full range and mad

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USA - At ShoWest, the motion picture industry convention to be held in Las Vegas 31 March through 2 April 2, Meyer Sound will debut its new Cinema Experience line of theatre sound systems designed for applications ranging from sound design suites to dubbing stages and movie theatres.

Designed for optimal performance behind perforated screens, these loudspeaker systems were developed specifically for cinema, in collaboration with top industry creative and technical professionals, says the company. Meyer Sound's Cinema Experience series features screen channel loudspeakers, surrounds, subwoofers, and electronics that work together to deliver "remarkable clarity and power and that translate well across a variety of applications". The result is a complete, integrated system.

"In order to compete with expanding entertainment options at home, cinema exhibitors must of

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Singapore - Audio continues to organise seminars aimed at future audio professionals in Asia. The latest training session was held in Singapore and delivered by D.A.S. Audio engineer, Joan La Roda, alongside D.A.S. Audio technical representative in Asia, Ron Koh. The session took place on 20 February 20 at Fort Canning Park in Singapore, a landmark for live concerts that has recently seen the likes of Manic Street Preachers, The Ting Tings, The Beastie Boys and Incubus, and which is home to Singfest featuring acts including Travis, Simple Plan and Alicia Keys.

The event was organised by D.A.S. Audio's Singapore team. D.A.S. Audio Asia operations manager, Eduardo López, reports, "It was basically a practical demonstration of the Aero 38 line array system, to allow the local clients to hear the system for the first time. In addition to the demo, there was a workshop w

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UK - Among the range of lighting products being exhibited by trade supplier Impact Products (Europe) at PLASA Focus is a selection of fixtures from Chauvet which have never before been shown in the UK.

New to the US manufacturer's COLORado series is the 2, 3, or 6-channel COLORado 1VW wash, producing variable shades of white from its 18 warm white and 18 cool white LEDs. An IP66 rating makes it ideal for both indoor and outdoor use, whilst colour temperature mixing and custom program recall can be done with or without DMX controller.

The compact LED Pinspot gives a 9° beam angle from its single high-power white LED, perfect for a variety of applications where powerful and highly directional illumination is required.

Introducing LED to the range of spots in the Q-Series are the Q-Spot 250-LED and Q-Spot 150-LED DMX-512 moving yokes. Features include a three-facet prism an

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UK - British Energy recently commissioned Carillion Communications to create a bespoke audio-visual simulation facility at its Sizewell B plant in Suffolk. Sizewell B power-station has the UK's only large Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) and is capable of supplying around two million households. The station supplies 3% of the UK's entire electricity needs and employs over 500 staff.

The audio-visual installation extends over several working environments, a control room and one large plant area. The requirement was to create a simulated working environment with the ability to re-create real-life operations and possible problems under the close scrutiny of the Sizewell training team. The brief included the capability for two-way communication within the training environment and the capacity to record and playback the results of the training to the staff, providing a powerful input

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UK - Urban Digital (formerly WindowGain UK) have joined forces with rear projection specialists, Paradigm AV to create a 95 sq. ft (8.8sq.m) screen displaying Barbie's image in the window of the world-renowned Hamleys toy shop in London's Regent Street.

Chosen by Mattel's brand and design agency Oakwood-dc to install and manage the content delivery of the campaign (which runs until the end of March 2009), Urban Digital in turn, contacted Paradigm to deliver the media hardware, based around four 84in dnp New Wide Angle screens, for which they are exclusive UK distributors.

Divided by narrow mullions the screens have been hard-edge blended and colour-matched, receiving picture perfect projection from four Panasonic 5700 projectors, cradled horizontally on four Paradigm Easy Erect rigs, to fold the beams off four twin mirror rigs angled at 45°.

While Paradigm were responsib

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USA - Bandit Lites has named Chris Barbee as its new national director of sales and installations. He makes this move from a successful eight year run as the company's sales and installations design specialist.

Pete Heffernan, Bandit Lites president said: "Chris has played an integral role in the success of this company's sales and installation department. His experience and innovative design concepts have helped to set the standard in his division that Bandit Lites strives for in all of our endeavors."

(Jim Evans)

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Brazil - Last month, thousands of dancers in full make-up and bright costumes, along with hundreds of elaborate floats accompanied by musicians and rolling PA trucks blasting samba music marched down Rio's famed Sambódromo in celebration of this year's Carnaval. Song after song, samba school after samba school, Shure microphones took charge of vocalising the passion of the week-long event that marks the beginning of Lent.

Televised globally by Rede Globo, Carnaval is a giant celebration where samba schools compete for bragging rights as the official winner of Carnaval. The schools prepare all year for this one performance where they are meticulously judged on their costumes, choreography, floats, music, harmony, and overall theme. All of the bands that performed chose Shure wireless microphones to accompany them on their kilometer long, one-hour performance.

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USA - Since opening its doors in June of 1965, Wichita's Metropolitan Baptist Church has been a vital part of this bustling community, offering a range of services, classes and other events. In 1983 the church added the Jesse Vardaman Fellowship Hall, a multipurpose venue that has seen near-constant use over the years. But with a very rudimentary 70 volt distributed sound system and budget grade ceiling speakers, the hall has long struggled with intelligibility issues.

As Dennis Craven of Wichita-based Vivid Pro Systems explains, the solution came in the form of Community Professional's new Entasys high-performance line array column systems. "We've worked with line columns in the past, and Community's new Entasys immediately came to mind for this application," says Craven. "The system needed to be versatile enough to handle spoken word, movie night, light praise a

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Germany - FailtalPRO will be using Spectr Audio cabinets to demonstrate some of their drivers at the 2009 Prolight&Sound. Spectr Audio staff will be attending in support of the demonstration, and to further explain and discuss the philosophy behind the cabinets, how the sound quality was achieved, and why Faital drivers play such an important role in attaining the level of clarity and performance.

There will be two Spectr Audio cabinets at the booth - The AP26 - a powerful and compact cabinet with dual Neodymium 6" woofers and a 1" compression driver with a 1.7" voice coil, and the AP110, which is a compact, trapezoidal cabinet with a single Neodymium 10" woofer and a 1" compression driver with a 1.7" voice coil.

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Iceland - Near the heart of Reykjavik, Iceland, stands Laugardalsvöllur, the National Soccer Stadium. It recently received a major upgrade, with complete renovations to the main seating area and the construction of new office facilities.

The stadium now accommodates 15,000 people. Subsequently, the Football Association of Iceland requested an offer for a complete PA sound system for the stadium's west side with the option of later expansion for the remaining areas. To complete this upgrade, the association hired local pro audio and lighting firm EB Kerfi ehf, and immediately plans were under way for the design of a full sound system for the entire stadium, which was to include loudspeakers from EAW.

EB Kerfi chose weather-protected versions of EAW's MK5300 Series small-format installation system loudspeakers with rotatable horns. The design of the system's speaker setup was a

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Germany - The CADIS system, the new Installation Array from HK AUDIO, was designed first and foremost for versatility, says the company. CADIS was developed for installations in theatres, civic and community centres, houses of worship, gymnasiums, conference centers and large meeting halls, as well as outdoor installation projects such as stadiums and theme parks.

The Compact Adaptive Installation System, as it is called by its full name, is noteworthy not only for its extraordinary flexibility and sonic performance, but also for the ruggedness of its components. For example, the German-made mid/high unit sports a housing made of polyamide resin, an especially durable, weatherproof space-age plastic. Since injection-molded polyamide resin also happens to be highly antiresonant, it lends itself quite well for the construction of loudspeaker enclosures.

The passive CAD 208 mid/h

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UK - Following the recent sudden death of Dennis Harburn, managing director of Shure Distribution UK, Shure has paid tribute to Harburn, who was closely involved with the company for more than three and a half decades.

Dennis Harburn had been with Shure for over 36 years, having joined in 1972, when it was Shure Electronics Limited (SEL), as a sales rep for London and the South East. As SEL shifted to independent ownership, he quickly rose through the ranks as assistant sales manager, sales manager, and then sales director before being named Managing Director in 2000.

While spending almost his entire career supporting Shure, Dennis also was a classic car enthusiast, a lover of horse riding, a die-hard fan of Gillingham F.C and was the proud owner of a vast and diverse music collection. According to one of his associates: "His enthusiasm for music was infectious and there

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USA - To jump start 2009, Renkus-Heinz hosted a global gathering of international distributors and manufacturers' representatives at its factory in Orange County, California. Renkus-Heinz president Harro Heinz thanked all attendees for their contribution to the company's very successful year in 2008, and expressed cautious optimism about 2009.

"Renkus-Heinz is in an excellent position to ride out the current economic challenges," Heinz said. "We still have a growing business, and as we're not burdened by debt, or by satisfying the stock market, we can focus on our business and those of our dealers and partners."

He added, "In product development terms, in the past three years we've created market leading technologies that, as well as generating strong sales to date, have further huge potential. ICONYX R is the most advanced solution available today for

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USA - Acclaim Lighting's Rebel Pro Par is suitable for a wide range of applications, indoors or out. Powered by 36 high-output Rebel RGB LEDs (also available in Cool White and Warm White LED models), it provides high luminous efficiency in a compact, lightweight case design, making it suitable for both the production and installation markets. Small enough to fit in standard 12" truss, the Rebel Pro Par can even be used as a truss warmer onstage. Additionally, advanced LED driver circuitry allows for completely flicker-free operation and dimming, which, combined with the Rebel Par Pro's totally silent operation, makes it suitable for TV/film production use, too, says the company.

The Rebel Pro Par offers 12 red, 12 green and 12 blue Rebel LEDs with special designed optics that produce a very smooth and even effect. Over 16.7 million rich colours can be created via RGB colou

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UK - XL Video supplied full video production - screen, cameras, PPU, Catalyst media servers and crew for the concluding date of Elbow's recent UK tour at Wembley Arena, London.

This was project managed for XL by Des Fallon, with live direction by Jon Shrimpton. Fallon comments, "From my first meeting with management and production, Elbow have been a pleasure to work with. The show was immense, a very special evening."

Shrimpton worked in close collaboration with Mark Thomas from Soup Collective who designed and produced all the playback visuals, and Hugh Davies Webb, who was brought in by XL to run the Catalyst media server that was at the hub of the live video show control.

"The visual cues were all very precise and we had no physical rehearsals, so the this was a major challenge" recalls Shrimpton. The three of them had several meetings to establish, ru

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Germany - OSRAM (Germany) has extended the existing licence with Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd (Taiwan), about manufacturing and sales of white and coloured LEDs with conversion technology for all applications. These patents are owned by OSRAM. In return Everlight granted to OSRAM a license to use housing patents of Everlight. This agreement paves the way for a closer cooperation between the two companies.

The licensed conversion technology was developed by the OSRAM subsidiary Opto Semiconductors. It enables the production of white or coloured LEDs using blue emitting InGaN (Indium Gallium Nitride) based chips and suitable fluorescent converters. With the agreement signed, the existing license agreement (September 2003) is extended - especially the right for Everlight to use this OSRAM intellectual property in all areas of application without limitations, including automotive a

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USA - With a congregation of 2,000 members and growing, ClearView Baptist Church recently completed construction of a second chapel on its 50-acre suburban Nashville campus. Housed in a separate building, the new 450-seat chapel will accommodate overflow from Sunday worship services.

When choosing a lighting system for the new chapel that would deliver both quality and flexibility, the church and its longtime A/V designer/installer Springtree Media Group turned to Elation Professional.

Elation and Springtree had previously helped ClearView solve a challenging issue during a renovation to the church's original worship centre. ClearView had wanted to upgrade its lighting for video production, but was operating on very limited electrical capacity. Church officials didn't want to go to the expense of installing a new transformer, so Peter Vaque of Springtree came up with the solut

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Europe - Lighting Designer Scott Warner is putting the grandMA through its paces on the Pussycat Dolls' world tour, which is now playing dates in the UK and Europe. Warner, who is the lighting designer, director and programmer for the tour, tapped the grandMA to control LED lighting for a previous Pussycat Dolls' tour and moving lights for Grammy Award-winner Queen Latifah's Trav'lin Light tour.

For the first time, on the Doll Domination Tour, the grandMA is controlling an all-Robe digital spot complement. "I wanted to go with newer technology," Warner says. "The whole rig is almost all Robe. It's a new digital moving spot technology combined with LED-based wash lights that delivers a very high-tech design. "Pods on trusses are packed with fixtures that make it look like there are more lights than we really use," he explains. "So I can

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Germany - ARX will be releasing a number of new products at ProLight&Sound including the newly updated USB DI series of products, the MSX 48 16 channel signal splitter and several new additions to the AudiBox range of 'audio toolbox' products.

ARX's Managing Director Colin Park says: "This year, ARX has moved across to Hall 8.0 where we are exhibiting in conjunction with our new German Distributor E.A.S GmbH. We're looking forward to spending the show working with Helmut Beermann and his team, showing his customers and our international visitors our new and existing products, and explaining why investing in ARX Signal Processing makes good business sense in the current challenging economic environment."

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Martin Professional's expanding range of LED lighting solutions will feature prominently at the upcoming ProLight&Sound exhibition. On display will be the LC Plus Series of LED video panels with new generation technology and an IP65 rating; EvenLED, a modular LED system for extremely even field projection; and FlexDOT, a lightweight yet bright string of LED pixels for customized video solutions.

Also on display will be Martin's first LED moving heads, the MAC 401 Dual, a powerful LED washlight with a unique double-sided design that gives it dual functionality; and the MAC 301 Wash, a compact, high-power LED washlight with powerfully fast zoom. Another innovative launch will be Martin easyStrip, a simple yet highly capable plug-and-play LED striplight for interior enhancement. Martin's successful 1500 watt MAC III Profile will also be shown.

Several new control soluti

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