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Australia - Mildura's new $8.7m Arts Centre boasts a theatre with a 40 percent increase in fixed seating (450 seats), with capacity for another 100 portable seats, and a 60 percent larger stage.

The new, much larger arts centre will attract more acts to the district as the previous arts centre, which had served the district for more than 40 years, had been too small or inadequate for some acts given the size and quantity of material they required on stage.

Other features of the new state-of-the-art facility include a 15m tower above the stage, to improve management of curtains, lights, scenery and backdrops during performances.

Jands designed, manufactured and installed the all-important safety curtain for the Mildura Arts Centre Theatre including related mechanical components

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Belgium - Belgium-based dry hire rental company DEE Sound & Light has taken delivery of a Midas PRO9 Live Audio System, including a DL431 splitter unit and a DL351 modular IO unit. The PRO9 increases DEE's MIdas digital portfolio which already consists of the flagship XL8 Live Performance System.

Andre Schneider, DEE owner and managing director comments, "Due to the ever-increasing demand for Midas digital products, we decided to invest in a PRO9, as the console fits beautifully in-between the incredibly popular PRO2s and XL8."

DEE offers customers the option of renting the various individual input and output cards used in the XL8 and PRO system I/O units, without having to rent the entire system. Plus, they also carry Klark Teknik's easy-to-use DN9696 hard disk recorder and DN9650 network bridge, which can be used to connected the recorder to a wide variety of digit

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USA - Located near Grand Central Terminal, in New York City's Midtown East neighborhood, Vitae is an upscale restaurant featuring a "New American" menu. Designed by architect Niels Guldager of New York interior design firm Studio CMP, Vitae draws on the history of Midtown while bearing a strong contemporary identity that includes sound and acoustics as important design elements.

Architect Guldager said, "Bad sound can ruin an otherwise perfect restaurant environment. I want the right background music level and clarity so people can hear the music but still hold a conversation. And clarity is key in getting sound into the 'sweet spot' as a design element."

Guldager worked with contractor David Schwartz of Essential Communications in East Hanover, NJ, to design the sound system for Vitae. "The restaurant's design didn't always allow us to place the louds

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UK - Kent- based lighting rental specialist RML has recently made a large investment in Robe moving lights to service its busy ongoing schedule, which includes a wide selection of shows, events and high profile TV series and programmers.

RML's diverse clients are involved in all aspects of the entertainment industry and are forever keen to embrace the latest designs and innovations from all manufacturers. "Keeping our doors open is the key to keeping our finger on the pulse," says RML's operations manager Steve Wells.

The purchase of new LEDWash 600s, LEDBeam 100s and MMX WashBeams - all from Robe's Robin range - has been in direct response to this.

Wells continues, 'As Robe's profile and products continue to go from strength to strength we felt it was absolutely the right time to invest in the brand ... and it's been a great success."

He adds that Robe has

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USA - Seminal power trio Rush is back on tour in support of their latest release, Clockwork Angels. Recently inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, the band is rewarding fans with a vastly different setlist and show than was featured on the Time Machine tour. In similar fashion, lighting designer Howard Ungerleider created bold new visuals with High End Systems Intellaspots and a host of other fixtures to punctuate the steampunk inspired themes of Clockwork Angels.

Howard explains, "When the band finished the recording, I had the opportunity to go in for a listen and was just blown away. I had already designed the backbone of the system; because it was called Clockwork Angels and was steampunk themed, I decided to create something angelic. Angel wings were in my design head and I wanted something in the rig to move like an angel, so I desig

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USA - Working alongside designer Martin Phillips, Tait manufactured a range of DJ automation elements for Deadmau5's six month club residency at Hakkasan in the MGM Hotel, Las Vegas. The residency, which features special guests throughout the shows, sees two ABB Robots with Robotic Arts Roboscreens on either side of the DJ booth. The robots have a 1.5m reach and six axes of movement, with the ability to extend vertically, horizontally and rotate.

Providing the artists with a set that could be used in club spaces and toured internationally for festival shows, the Roboscreens can be swapped out and fitted with signature scenic Deadmau5 maus-heads created by the Henson Company during their set.

Automation for the robots was provided by Tait from movements translated by Robotic Arts, based on designer briefs. Pre-programmed movements were able to take place seamlessly during live

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UK - After a break of one year, it was business as usual back at Worthy Farm site for this year's Glastonbury Festival. RG Jones once again turned to the Martin Audio W8 Longbow system, which again dominated the Pyramid Stage.

With visiting artists and sound engineers so complimentary about the sound system two years ago, specialist sound company RG Jones had no hesitation in fielding a similar PA rig, knowing that this would meet all compliances and propagation tests set by the acoustics consultants and organiser Michael Eavis ... and at the same time satisfy the vast crowds of around 150,000 who converge on the site for the four day extravaganza.

The Longbow hangs are now a familiar sight, book-ending either side of the iconic Pyramid, having fulfilled similar duties for the previous four festivals.

Once again dual inner and outer PA hangs comprising 14 W8L Longbow element

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France - Originally designed in 1982, the stunning Fly's Eye was the creation of American inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983. 31 years later, his design was realised and put on display at this year Toulouse Art Festival.

The vaulted dome of the white spherical building in Toulouse was dynamically highlighted in pastel shades, designed by Brad Koerner of Philips Lighting. Eight ColorReach, four iW Reach and 30 ColorBlast fixtures from Philips Color Kinetics were supplied for illumination, all controlled with LumenRadio's wireless CRMX Slim products.

A wireless system containing five CRMX Slim receivers and one CRMX Slim transmitter was used to control over 40 high quality fixtures.

"One of the most important elements of this installation was to eliminate the need for any control cabling. It became clear early in the process that working with cabl

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UK - Bangor Aurora Aquatic & Leisure Complex, the new leisure complex in the heart of Bangor, which houses Northern Ireland's first FINA standard 50m swimming pool, also boasts an advanced and adaptable site-wide RCF communication network.

This was installed across 15 zones, each with its own autonomy, by MGA Communication Ltd, and features well over 200 application-specific loudspeakers from RCF to meet all audio and PA/VA requirements. These are driven either by low-impedance HPS1500 amps with PR4092 preamps or 100V line UP2162 (160W) or UP2321 (320W) 100V line amps with ES3160'combi' mixer amps - all in dedicated local racks.

Managing director, Gerald McKeown said that the system was complex, but is designed to provide high-end sound broadcast throughout both internal and external areas, with user flexibility and ease of operation.

The speakers are fed from a central dist

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UK - Orbital Sound reports that it has supplied a multi-purpose sound system for London's Battersea Arts Centre, based on the T-Series loudspeakers from d&b audiotechnik. Housed in an architecturally renowned 19th century listed building, formerly Battersea Town Hall, the venue has a vast complement of performance spaces, offering audience capacities ranging from 10 to 500, and is regarded as one of the UK's most influential theatres. The new system's capabilities were recently tested to the full by Little Bulb Theatre's Orpheus, which featured a demanding live score ranging from hot club jazz to grand opera, including a ground-shaking baroque organ.

The new system is designed for semi-permanent installation in the venue's main room, as well as allowing flexible deployment in other spaces, and comprises a central hang of seven d&b audiotechnik T-10 enclosures, plus two ground-st

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USA - QSC Audio Products has announced the appointment of Phil Sanchez to the newly created position of senior communications and public relations manager. In his new role, Sanchez will be responsible for driving QSC messaging, developing and strengthening mutually beneficial media partner relationships, and seeking opportunities to promote the QSC brand across a wide range of media worldwide.

"I am incredibly pleased to have Phil on our marketing communications team," says Ray van Staten, QSC senior director, marketing communications and training & education. "His diverse experience and wealth of product and industry knowledge make him ideally suited for this role."

Sanchez joined QSC more than three years ago, serving as a product manager with focus on loudspeaker products. Prior to QSC, Sanchez served as a product manager for commercial / installed sound

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France - Robert Juliat has announced the appointment of Thierry Dupont as its new export service manager.

Dupont comes to Robert Juliat with more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry, with assignments in France and the UK.

With effect from 1 June 2013, Dupont is responsible for providing technical assistance on behalf of Robert Juliat to lighting professionals throughout the world.

"The appointment of Thierry will help us move to the next level in terms of offering our customers the best possible service, all the way through the fixture's lifecycle," said Robert Juliat sales director, Claus Spreyer.

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UK - Leading European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases is launching a revised range of 'Industrial Rack' products aimed at professional lighting, sound and video applications, and also to house telemetry and telecoms equipment for installations and mobile use.

The Industrial Rack range is currently available in variants of 4U to 20U - in increments of 2U - to offer full flexibility to users and specifiers working in different sectors.

The rack shells are made from 9 mm birch ply with a high-pressure laminate (HPL) exterior, and like all 5 Star products, are built to rugged, high quality specifications and tough enough for the most exacting environments.

Eight standard HPL colours are currently available offering a variety of smart, dynamic finishes.

The main body depth is a standard 550mm, complete with 62 mm deep internal removable doors.

The racks are fitted with f

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Korea - Korea has become one of the latest territories to provide large-scale exposure for Martin Audio's Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA).

Two prominent concerts in Seoul recently saw the system supplied to rental company Boom Audio by parent company, Rui Sound.

On 15 June in the 88 Olympic Park, the first Women Musicians' Music Festival (Muse In City) took place in front of an audience of around 12,000 people. Various genres of music were featured, including indie, jazz and ballads by eight women musicians - including famed Bossa Nova singer Lisa Ono, Australian singer Lenka, Lisa Hannigan and Korean K-pop star Lee Hyo-Ri.

Rui Sound / Boom Audio provided 20 x MLA and two MLD down-fills, split into two hangs, with 10 MLX in a stacked sub configuration.

The distance from stage to FOH position measured 30m and to the back of the audience 100 m with the sound system co

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UK - Richard Martin Lighting (RML) has always remained at the forefront of moving light technology and has been in the thick of all things 'TV' for almost 30 years. With recent changes in the economic climate and our Industry, it has been a great opportunity to look at ways in which the company can grow and venture into exciting new projects and aspects of entertainment lighting.

The company jumped at the chance to supply lights for the new Disclosure video F For You.

Brothers Guy and Howard make up the electro duo. Their album Settle was released last month and shot to number 1 in the album charts.

RML supplied Sharpys for the shoot which complimented the video projection that was used throughout, along with LED wands provided by Light Initiative. Simple lighting and strong images enhanced the dance music and sounds perfectly. Their music has been described as

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Europe - t&mSystems, the pro audio electronics and loudspeaker systems manufacturer, has expanded its European distribution with the appointment of Ascon Trading a/s for Denmark and M-Pro BeNeLux for Belgium and Luxembourg.

Based in Ibbenbüren, Germany, t&mSystems designs and manufactures a wide range of power amplifiers, mixer amplifiers, zone mixers, digital signal processors and loudspeakers, primarily for the fixed installation market.

Kai Böckmann, CEO of t&mSystems, commented on the appointments, "As an established brand in our domestic market, we are now concentrating efforts on international distribution with a good degree of success. We recently partnered with TAU Electronics for the Netherlands and to follow up with Denmark and Belgium gives us very good coverage in this region of Europe. I am particularly pleased with the quality of the distributors we have p

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UK - PLASA London 2013 will close its free registration offer later this week, and is urging visitors to sign up at www.plasashow.com in order to save £20 on the standard ticket price. Over 6000 people have already registered for this year's PLASA London event, which takes place at the ExCeL Centre, London from 6-9 October 2013.

Jen Barratt, show manager, PLASA London 2013, says: "We have some fantastic speakers lined up as well as free training sessions, demonstrations of the latest technology, a comprehensive exhibition and great networking opportunities. There aren't many events that would offer so much valuable content for free, so we urge visitors to use these last days of free registration to get the maximum value out of their visit."

Visitors will also have access to AudioLab 2013, the hotly anticipated new attraction that will see the creation of a new

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UK - One of the most stylish, discreet and popular PA's in the House of Worship sector has been installed by Rea Sound in the Donaghcloney Presbyterian Church, Northern Ireland.

The Martin Audio OmniLine micro array has been integrated in a design encompassing two separate PA hangs, with eight modules in each, along with Martin Audio's equally unobtrusive AQ5 for under-balcony fills - all powered by a single Martin Audio MA2.8Q power amp.

This process began when the church's technical representative, Wayne Buttery, visited the Rea Sound stand at the Church Resource Show in Belfast in February 2012 - and six months later made contact again with Martin Audio's Irish distributors.

Rea Sound duly won the contract to replace the existing PA system on the strength of their knowledge, product and adaptability.

The church's previous system, installed in the early 1980's, had reach

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UK - Allen & Heath has released a firmware and driver update for its recording console, the GS-R24, bringing the mixer's HUI emulation for Pro Tools to a new level. New controls available on the desk include bank swap, single/multiple track selection, marker insertion and navigation, toggling between Mix and Edit view, and three jog-wheel functions (fast forward/rewind, scrub and shuttle).

The cursor buttons can now operate in three different modes: navigation mode to move the cursor across region boundaries, zoom mode to control horizontal and vertical waveform zoom, and selection mode to adjust 'in' and 'out' points or move the selection to a different track. Soft MIDI buttons 1 and 2 control and display the Mute and Track Arm status of the selected tracks. Similarly, MIDI buttons 3 to 7 control and display the automation mode of the selected tracks, making it possible to swit

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UAE A Turbosound Aspect loudspeaker system has been installed at the Café Del Mar in Meydan Beach, Dubai by audio designer Joe Chidiac of Pulse Middle East, creating a focused, high energy dance floor sound field.

Chidiac was invited to design the entire audio, lighting and rigging system based on the solid reputation he has built up in the UAE region, and by the high profile of his stunning audio-visual and lighting design at the Diablo nightclub project in Dubai, which is owned and operated by local celebrity DJ Cowboy.

Buoyed by the success of Diablo and the confidence he places in the technical support of the UK loudspeaker brand, Chidiac decided on a four-point configuration of Turbosound Aspect TA-500 three-way point-source loudspeakers to provide high level, low distortion sound quality where it really matters.

As the Café Del Mar venue is within the bou

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USA - 'Light, little, and loud' was the d&b audiotechnik reputation around the 2013 Broadway Sound Master Classes. Every year, BSMC hosts students and professionals for a weekend of audio education and networking at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Two full days of classes are concluded every year with a closing cocktail party and renowned industry awards ceremony, at which the d&b audiotechnik V-Series was honored with the Live Design Sound Product of the Year award.

"We are thrilled to be receiving this," said NE regional manager, Michael Eisenberg, who accepted the award on behalf of d&b. It was presented in the category of 'Sound: loudspeaker', though part of the d&b allure is their ability to provide complete sound systems, "The goal is to provide a full service for our clients. Of course we offer loudspeakers, but we also provide amplifiers, software, monitors,

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