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UK - Chart-topping DJ/production/remix team, Gabriel and Dresden, were recently invited by BBC Radio 1 to record a two-hour Essential Mix DJ set. The duo selected an Allen & Heath Xone:V6 rotary mixer for the live recording.

"We'd been on the road constantly since January promoting our debut album," says Josh Gabriel. "We were looking forward to a few days rest at home, then this was sprung on us! We immediately contacted every producer we know asking for their latest material. We absolutely needed a Xone:V6 for this project - there's no other DJ mixer on planet earth that sounds as good."

Dave Dresden says: "The V6 mixer was delivered to our studio within 24 hours. The live mix was recorded 36 hours later, and broadcast around the world about 48 hours after we'd finished it. By that time we were already in Puerto Rico, 3000 miles away from home."

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UK - Audio-Technica Ltd announced today it had engaged a new pan-European press contact for its European affairs. As of 15 May 2006, Integrative Concepts will handle public relations on behalf of the major brand for microphones, headphones and other audio technologies.

Based in Leeds, UK, Audio-Technica Ltd handles the distribution of Audio-Technica products into EMEA and the sales and marketing for the UK. Winner of numerous industry awards, Audio-Technica manufactures products that set standards in terms of quality, durability and price/performance for live sound, broadcast and recording studios, corporate and government facilities, house-of-worship venues, and more.

The main contact for any press-related issues is Stephanie Sobey-Jones, Integrative Concepts UK. Integrative Concepts was founded by Thomas Wendt in Germany in 1998. With a background in sound engineering, softw

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Germany - For German auto enthusiasts, the definitive driving experience would be zipping along a road through the Bavarian Alps behind the wheel of a new Porsche. It was hardly a surprise, then, that a recent debut party for the 2006 Porsche Cayman S coupe drew an overflow crowd of 800 eager Bavarians to the theatre hall of Haus der Kunst in Munich. For audio enhancement of the video program and other visual effects, which included twin silver Caymans bursting in through paper walls, the event relied on a high-flown system of Meyer Sound M1D ultra-compact curvilinear array loudspeakers.

"The sound from the M1Ds was clear and intelligible throughout the hall, despite the room size and difficult acoustics," says Urs Gammel of MDS PAtec Veranstaltungstechnik, provider of all sound, lighting and video equipment for the event. "The hall is a full 35 meters long, and w

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UK - At the recent Lavenham Festival, Jazz singer Clare Teal played a sell out concert at the town's 12th Century church of St Peter and St Paul.

Chelmsford based Event Sound & Light were back for the third year running, looking after the sound. Using a single KV2 ES1.0 flown in the centre of the church and two ES2.5 bass enclosures on the ground, plus two EX12's as side fills and two EX10's as delays further down the church.

Paul Galley explained the system: "We used one ES1.0 to reduce the slap-back which occurs in most churches. Point source is the key for this event. We did the same set up last year and it worked exceptionally well. We get good overall levels with small amounts of natural reverb, but the KV2 system always gives us fantastic controlled dispersion with natural sounds."

Event Sound & Light have also been busy working on a number of high profile to

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UK - When it comes to versatility, Turbosound's Aspect series has proved itself second to none and is now using its supreme power and clarity to deliver the pop sensibilities of former Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes.

Hayes' current UK tour began at Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium on 20 April and plays in theatre-sized venues throughout the UK until early May. Supplied by Britannia Row Productions, the Aspect system was specified by front of house engineer Snake Newton. Having used and been impressed by Aspect at a Sugababes album launch and at the 2005 Roskilde festival, he was keen to explore the system's possibilities further.

The Clyde Auditorium is one of the biggest venues on the tour, for which six TA-890Hs and four TA-890Ls were flown per side, plus six further ground-stacked TA-890Hs and a TQ-425 sub per side, with TQ-308s for infill. Newton is mixing the tour on a Yam

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Italy - On 23 April 2006 a prestigious and unusual musical event was staged at the Palasport Olimpico - the 11,500 capacity Olympic ice hockey stadium in Turin, Italy. Volumi all'Idorgeno (Volumes of Hydrogen) was organized by the extremely popular Italian group, Subsonica and sound designer Enrico Fuamsoli created a reinforcement system completely powered by Lab.gruppen fP Series amplifiers.

Big Talu Music Service of Mondovì, Italy (in collaboration with Fumasoli Service, of Aosta, Italy) was awarded the sound and lighting contract. The main sound system utilized one cluster per side of 16 Martin Audio W8L line array loudspeakers with an additional 8 W8Ls being focused on the bleachers. Two clusters of Martin Audio W8LM were in service as side fills. Lab.gruppen fP 6400 and fP 3400 amplifiers drove the whole system, reliably and efficiently. XTA DP226s and DP224s affect

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UK - White Light repeats its successful Graduates Open Day for technical theatre students, once again featuring guest speakers, new equipment, careers advice - and food.

Entertainment lighting specialist White Light will be continuing its successful annual Graduates Open Day, holding the 2006 event on Wednesday 7 June at its Wimbledon, south-London base.

Open to anyone contemplating a design or technical career in the entertainment lighting industry, including but by no means limited to students at drama schools and universities, the Open Day will give guests 'hands-on' access to some of the latest lighting products from manufacturers such as MA Lighting, Martin and Selecon, as well as a chance to tour the comprehensive facilities available at White Light. Visitors will also be able to meet and listen to careers advice and other thoughts from a number of leading

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Poland - Earlier this year Danish beer and beverage company Carlsberg, with a little help from one of Poland's top lighting supply and design companies, GRODA, organized a party for its Polish employees at Torwar Bowl in Warsaw. The most attractive element of the evening's design was an enormous eight-legged spider truss. The creature was composed of eight legs and round circular truss body surrounding a 5.3m diameter ball.

Four legs, made of transparent tubes, were fixed to the ground. Inside each tube leg GRODA placed a Mac 300 washlight, Atomic strobe, and Jem ZR12-DMX fog machine. The MacC 300s worked to color the tubes while flashing Atomics created the illusion of quick motion. Fog from the ZR12s gave the plastic tubes a more solid appearance.

The spider's remaining four truss limbs (decorated with LED) and the round body were movable, which further enhanced the attracti

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UK - Snake Newton got into sound engineering 'by mistake' 20 years ago, as he thought that giving his band of the time a better sound would get them noticed. And to a certain degree his thinking paid off. The band didn't get noticed but Snake's quality sound did and soon his services were in demand the world over.

He says: "Since 1999 I have done two years with the Pet Shop Boys, three years with Craig David and two-and-a-half years with Duran Duran, who exploded back on the live scene having reformed in their original line up. I have also worked, mixing FOH, on many TV Award shows including the MTV Europe awards, the MOBOs and the Brits, and have supervised the band mix at dozens of TV and radio performances around the world."

His latest tour saw him oversee the live sound for the Sugababes, during which time his Focusrite Liquid Channels came in to full effect. &qu

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UK - Entec Sound and Light supplied Russian superstar Philip Kirkorov with full lighting and sound production, and also co-ordinated other production elements including video and pyro for his sold out show at Hammersmith Apollo. It was part of an extensive two month European tour.

Entec has experience of working with several leading Russian artists, and for this show, their crew co-ordinated in advance with Kirkorov's touring crew to ensure the busy show day ran smoothly.

Lighting designer Boris Volkov design involved three upstage trussing triangles, constructed from mini-beam and hung off nine points from two rigging trusses, plus two straight A-type front and mid lighting trusses.

His operating style was based on 'beam technology' with lots of dramatic beam and gobo looks from lighting fixtures spread across all of the trussing elements. These included 26 Vari*Lite VL 200

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UK - Marquee Audio has recently supplied a KV2 Audio EX 10 active powered loudspeaker system to ITV's London Studios. Marquee's Rob Whitaker explains: "I was initially contacted by Luke Wallace at The London Studios who looks after their AV requirements. Initial discussions were based around a fixed installation but during further investigation, listening to how and what would be expected and taking into account the aesthetics of the room (clean lines, cool steel and lots of glass) it was decided that a highly flexible, but portable system which could be quickly set up and struck down would be the best solution, but without any of the sonic compromises that often occur when taking into account the client's requirements."

The room has to be used in several different ways including, green room, canteen and conference facility. Whitaker says: "The room is used in jus

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UK - Orbital has made the regenerated Novello Theatre in London's Aldwych "music-ready" to allow the Tristian Baker / Mark Goucher production of Footloose to take up residency in the West End following its successful provincial tour. In so doing, Orbital have broken new ground being the first to deploy Digidesign's new V2.0 D-Show software for the Venue digital desk.

Orbital had long selected this digital environment for the Footloose tour of duty. Feedback on the desk which the production company provided following last year's production of Annie Get Your Gun has largely been incorporated into the new D-Show operating software, giving it the same cachet in the theatre world as it has been enjoying in the rock 'n' roll environment.

"A lot of minor issues have been addressed, predominantly to do with Snapshots, which now make this desk awesom

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USA - Tim Eldridge of dBA Acoustics, a respected consulting and design services firm, recently helped raise the roof of the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum to allow for bigger audiences and better sound throughout. Initially a 10,000-seat indoor stadium, primarily used for events such as hockey games and various traveling shows, the venue's owner felt it was time to fully renovate and increase seating capacity by a third. This required the removal of the venue's roof. It was cut free and raised with cables while upper seating sections and suites were built underneath.

Today, the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat - and far more welcoming - live event destination. It even sounds better than before, thanks to Eldridge and his simple, yet capable acoustic measurement system featuring an Earthworks M30 microphone, SIA SmaartLive software, the TerraSonde Audio Too

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USA - Ludacris, one of the top national hip-hop/rap acts, performed at the Erie Civic Center through a hybrid-active powered line array system using forty AL-10 mid/high enclosures and thirty-two LS-218 dual 18" subwoofers.

Raven Sound provided sound and light production, and set up went very smoothly, rolling in the AL-10s four to a wheelboard and rigging them directly. Some modification was needed after installation and, because of the EZAL hardware, it was a simple task to lower the speakers and re-focus the enclosures without taking the enclosures apart.

Phil Papotnik, Raven owner, noted the A-Line system performed flawlessly for the very demanding audio performance. "The LS-218 subs pumped out enough bass to vibrate the FOH position", says Papotnik. "The crowd loved it."

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UK - Serious Stages stepped in at short notice to build the decking and substructure required to support the Ice Space venue - the world's first ever five Star Arctic attraction - at London's Tower Bridge.

Serious - one of the UK's leading staging companies - has supplied over 2000sq.m of it's proprietary Red Deck extra heavy duty steel base system which is supporting over 200 tonnes of ice.

The deck is constructed from Universal I beams that span between RMD Shoring System and customised head standards. Infill beams fit between the primary I beams every 600mm to produce an incredibly strong base. The infill beams are capped with timber and then finished with 25mm birch plywood panels to form the deck's surface. Each 'bay' measures 2.4 x 2.4 metres.

Serious has also supplied 12 internal support arches for the structure as well as all the perimeter external steps, wheelchair

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USA - BSR E.19, Recommended Practice for the use of Class A Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCIs) intended for personnel protection in the Entertainment Industry, is available for public review. The draft standard gives advice on where, when, and how to use GFCIs rated for 100A and less in the entertainment industry. These devices are used for personnel protection in entertainment applications encompassing places of assembly, the production of film, video and broadcast, theatrical productions, carnivals, circuses, fairs and similar events in North America. The official ANSI 45-day public review period starts on May 26, but the draft standard is available now at http://www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php. The public review runs through until the end of 10 July 2006.

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Ireland - An exhibit commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising opened recently in a newly renovated space at the National Museum of Ireland's Collins Barracks site in Dublin. Occupying a central position in The Easter Rising: Understanding 1916 is an original copy of the 1916 Proclamation Of Independence, one of the most important documents in modern Irish history.

The renovated space enables museum experts, who worked with exhibit designers Haley Sharpe Design Ltd of Leicester and lighting designers DJW of Beaulieu, to ensure acceptable levels of light and humidity in order to display such precious documents safely.

Lighting designer David Willrich, of DJW, said that one of the main considerations behind designing the lighting for The Easter Rising: Understanding 1916 was observing conservation light level requirements whilst providing sufficient l

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc says that the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has awarded the company costs and attorneys' fees in its successful patent litigation against Super Vision International Inc, pending documentation of the costs and fees, which Color Kinetics estimates to be approximately $1.4 million.

According to the Judge's ruling: "I conclude without hesitation that this case is 'exceptional,' and that Super Vision has perpetrated a 'gross injustice' by its egregious abuses of the discovery phase and vexatious litigation strategy. An award of attorneys' fees is appropriate to remedy the 'gross injustice' Color Kinetics has suffered at the hands of Super Vision's vexatious and bad faith litigation."

"We are very pleased with the Court's decision, as the order provides satisfying vindication for Super Vision's behavior over the past four

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Canary Islands - Loro Parque, located in Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands, has long been a major attraction for the local population and the vast quantity of tourists the island sees each year. The sun-kissed venue plays host to one of the largest wildlife collections in Spain and has recently expanded to accommodate an exciting new attraction - Orca Ocean. The new attraction's 3000 capacity viewing area's reinforcement system is powered exclusively by Lab.gruppen C Series installation-dedicated amplifiers.

Estudio Audio Visual (EAV), a leading designer and supplier of sound and vision systems throughout the Canary Islands, created the extensive distributed sound reinforcement system in association with the world famous SeaWorld of Florida in the United States. EAV worked very closely with audio, video and show producers at SeaWorld in developing the installation. Five C

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New Zealand - Soundcraft mixing consoles have recently come up trumps across a range of applications for customers of Jands Electronics New Zealand (the Soundcraft distributors). In the past few months Soundcraft desks have found their way into houses of worship, concert touring, broadcast - and a prestigious opera house.

In the sound reinforcement sector, the contemporary City Impact Church in Auckland is now using a Soundcraft MH2 for its services, while PA Sound, a rental company which specialises in large church events, has added a GB8 to its inventory.

Meanwhile, another Auckland-based company, College Hill Productions, recently used a 32-channel GB8 on the Dave Dobbyn You Got Heart tour, in conjunction with their new JBL VRX line array speaker system. Chris Tate, sound engineer and director of College Hill Productions, toured with the desk and gave it the thumbs-u

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With so many product lines represented, Italian distributor One 4 All was a hub of activity. Sales and marketing director Luisa Valenti reported having a "great show". One 4 All is the Italian distributor for Tryka, Xilver, Alpha One, Lycian, Le Maitre, Actor-Mate (lasers), and also produce their own architectural luminaires. Lycian had news of the new CE marked Midget II Quartz followspot. TMB - which distributes the Alpha One range in the UK and USA - was also on stand lending its support to the company, and showing off the ProTester DMX tool and other gadgets. Tryka had several new designs including the MR16 Module 6 and Module 36 and the new IDS-12 Intelligent Drive System. www.tmb.com www.tryka.co.uk

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Worldwide - ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls Inc) has redesigned its company web site, which goes live today. With improved features and more information than ETC's former site, the new etcconnect.com will also be easier to navigate and will include regionalised access, say the company. Convenient categories for entertainment lighting, architectural lighting - or both - will make it a rich resource for experienced lighting professionals as well as beginners who will find more direct data on ETC products and a wealth of solutions for all levels of lighting projects.

Product pages will include user-friendly hot links to downloads, tutorials and other important documentation about ETC's acclaimed line of lighting equipment, including the award-winning Source Four family of luminaires; Sensor+ and Unison dimming systems; ETC and IES SineWave technology, compact Smart Solutions light

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The Netherlands - There were exuberant celebrations when the victorious Ajax football team showed off the Gatorade Cup to 15,000 fans in Leidseplein in the centre of Amsterdam.

Following their 2:1 victory over PSV, the contingency plans for the victory celebration swung into action. Mojo Barriers worked with the City of Amsterdam and local police in advance to plan secure areas for the players and ensure the prestigious buildings around the square were protected.

Mojo's Jeroen Tap led a team that installed 110m of Mojo Aluminium Barrier to create a safe area for the team bus to drive into and the team to move onto the theatre steps to show off the cup.

The Mojo Barrier configuration allowed crowd management stewards and local police to successfully manage the good natured but exuberant fans, with a great atmosphere for all to enjoy the occasion and very few arrests.

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UK - Soundworks, based in Cardiff Bay, has become the first audio facility in the UK to install a Digidesign ICON console in a Dolby licensed film dubbing theatre. To ensure that the wiring for this major equipment upgrade went ahead without a hitch, Soundworks turned to cabling specialist VDC Trading to supply everything it needed.

"The best thing about VDC is the technical support you get to ensure the installation goes smoothly," says Soundworks' founder Simon Jones. "We spent about a week discussing exactly what we needed with VDC's technical staff so that when we actually received the cables, which were made up into runs at their premises in London, we were able to install them really quickly and easily with minimal fuss. It was all very straightforward and the service we received was excellent."

Soundworks, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this m

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