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"Turbosound produces the most innovative loudspeaker systems on the market," comments Lynn Martin, president of American Music & Sound. "We are honoured to have them on board, and we look forward to spearheading Turbosound's push into the American market."

"American Music & Sound is extremely well aligned to take Turbosound to the next level in the US," says Turbosound's new managing director, Simon Blackwood. "They have a number of complimentary product lines in their roster to leverage our brand and are in a perfect position to market our products through their existing channels."

"Also fantastic news for us," comments Blackwood, "is that Brad Stephens, who managed the Turbosound brand at our previous di

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Local company Horne Audio deployed Electro-Voice XLC loudspeaker systems for 30 August performances by the Portland Youth Philharmonic and the Oregon Symphony in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, which featured a programme of classical favourites ranging from Copland to Tchaikovsky.

Horne addressed the large bowl-shaped venue with 14 delay towers in 15 time zones, a surround sound system with a circumference of approximately 1000ft.

Spaced up to 75ft apart, the towers were configured to keep every member of the audience in a near-field zone, minimising environmental effects on sound quality. Most of the towers featured three XLC127DVX enclosures, with low-end support v

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With more than 37,000 listings across 470 categories, www.whitebook.co.uk provides the event industry with its first dedicated search engine, claims the publisher.

Group sales manager, Michelle Tayton, said: "The White Book's experience and reputation within events organisation is second to none. With such a strong brand it made sense to launch an on-line resource that supports the directory and provides instant and accurate results at the click of the mouse."

(Jim Evans)

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In addition, Nexxus Lighting announced that the non-binding letter of intent it entered into with LightWild, LLC in Overland Park, Kansas has expired and will not be extended.

"We are very excited to have closed the merger transaction with ALS. We look forward to integrating ALS as a Nexxus Lighting company and executing our LED product development strategy for both the commercial and entertainment lighting markets," stated Mike Bauer, president & CEO of Nexxus Lighting.

"Our overall strategy for

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According to StudiTech's Nikita Stepanov, Autograf is one of the most highly regarded rental production companies in the country. "They were the first rental company in Russia to invest in really top-class consoles from internationally recognised brands," he explained. "Everything they do is of the highest quality and it is important to them that they maintain those standards. Hence when it came to investing in a new digital console, they saw and tested absolutely everything that was available."

Autograf decided upon InnovaSON for a number of reasons. "First and foremost, they were extremely impressed by the flexibility

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Headed up by crew boss Jeroen Tap, Mojo Barriers also installed barriers around the mixing positions and delay towers in the crowd.

Mojo Barriers provided the band's aluminium Mojo Barriers for the shows in the US earlier this year and will continue to supply The Police with their product for the upcoming shows in the US, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

"Major tours like The Police

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PowerAssist technology is new to the theatrical rigging industry in that it eliminates the need to rebalance counterweights on line sets. While counterweight/motor combinations have been available in several forms for many years, PowerAssist uses an innovative padded rope that fits into the existing head block, which works in combination with a roller chain and toothed sprocket to balance the weight of the batten, virtually eliminating the possibility of slippage or accidental release, says the company.

"In our 120-plus years in business, J. R. Clancy has developed many innovative products for the rigging industry - and all of them are designed with safety and security as our foremost priority," said Bob Theis, president of J. R. Clancy. "PowerAssist is

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The seminar will provide a full preview of RCF's soon-to-be-released new voice alarm and venue management system, the DXT.

RCF's Phil Price comments: "The DXT system is sure to become a standard specification for any number of venues in the very near future."

The seminar, will be presented by Michele Begotti, product specialist for RCF Spa, Michele will give a complete overview of what the system is, what it can do and some basic design and functionality guides and demonstrations. Price adds: "If you are involved with voice alarm in any way then you really must see this presentation."

(Jim Evans)

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As for the sounds, Atlantic Audio had already put in a powerful, top of the range Crest-driven Martin Audio system into Week12end (on the twelfth floor, naturally), followed by a second system complete with Digitool processing from Peavey into Week15end (yes, on the 15th floor) in February of this year, and have just completed an extension of the system onto the brand new roof terrace on the 17th storey.

Jörg Sandmann, project manager for Atlantic Audio, has specified Martin Audio throughout, (W

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This year, in addition to the usual format of papers, more demonstrations and interactive sessions have been added, which are expected to inform and challenge even the most experienced audio professional, while being easy to understand by newcomers. The addition of a voting system brings audience interactivity to many sessions, and will provide an immediate indication of audience opinion during listening tests and demonstrations.

Papers cover a wide range of topics, with emphasis on issues relating to live music. Presenters are industry professionals including product designers, consultants, sound designers, researcher

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Raffle tickets will be available throughout the LDI 2007 show at the Behind the Scenes booth #1245 and in the evenings at the ESTA Annual Dinner, the Rose Brand Party, and LDI's Texas Hold 'Em Tournament to benefit Behind the Scenes

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"We can look back on another very successful event, where we welcomed many new Alcons-interested people and existing clients," says MD Tom Back. "It was good to see that they could find us on the main floor of Hall 1."

Following its presentation at Frankfurt's ProLight & Sound, the Phitom "large-format pro-ribbon sound-reinforcement" design study was also present in London and proved again to be the centre-point of interest and discussion. Besides this, the Q-series pro-ribbon column arrays and the L-series pro-ribbon line-arrays were on show, including the LR16 line-array, as featuring in London WestEnd's Fame The Musical.

Back continues, "With PLASA also attra

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All Star Lanes has revolutionised the bowling industry in Britain, and the larger, more luxurious Bayswater site has seen the concept evolve into a flexible space, with eight bowling lanes (including two in a private room), a large sophisticated diner /bistro and glamorous American cocktail bar.

To develop the sophisticated switching and routing of audio and video sources, the owners again turned to the Sound Division Group - who first worked with the Breeden Brothers on their award-winning Lonsdale Bar in Notting Hill.

Technology has moved on apace since then, and the new bar would not only requi

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The site now provides customers with the ability to log in, save and re-use equipment lists and previous orders. A new projects section allows customers to see how others have successfully used the products.

The support section provides a wealth of information including software downloads, user guides, cad files and frequently asked questions. There is also an online technical dictionary.

The products listing is now fully searchable and cross referenced. Every product displayed will also show links to both higher and lower specification models to make the customers' decision simpler. Products also provide even more technical information, cross referenci

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The event was founded by local authorities to bring together different cultures living in the area through music and entertainment. Surrounded by the Parliament and government buildings, various musicians, stand up comedians, bands and politicians from the city gathered on stage. The climax of the event was a collaborative performance between a Surinamese traditional folk band and Dutch rock band, The Hague Rock.

It was the first event that Marc Noble, FOH engineer and CEO of More Stage Services, had worked with the iLive system but he was v

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Local audio firm Sound Principles selected HK Audio ConTour Series loudspeakers for the sound installation. They installed twelve CT 108 full-range cabinets at strategic locations in St. Stephen's Church.

Daniel Ng of HK Audio distributor Peak Fusion in Singapore explains: "For optimal speech intelligibility we recommended the HK Audio CT 108 to our client. The CT 108 is a perfect combination of compact size and full sound. With its combination of 8" cone woofer and 1" high-frequency driver in a 90°-x-60&de

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"We've successfully used a 15-box per side EV X-Array system at the State Fair for a number of years now, and our new XLC DVX has a similarly warm tonality," says Larry Carroll of Cascade Sound. "However, where the X-Arrays' coverage and throw is impressive, the results we heard from our two 11-box main XLC hangs this year were simply awesome. Plus, adding more EV to our inventory keeps the sonic standard consistently high if we want to mix and match systems.

"The XLC showed itself to be a highly intuitive and immediately satisfying system - very responsive to the engineer and very

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Several associations, such as VPLT (Germany), ESTA (USA), PLASA, Secartys (SPAIN) and JASST (Japan), confirmed their support for the show and ensured their presence and that of their members at Show Way.

Show Way is organised by APIAS in association with Promoberg at the Bergamo trade fair, a modern trade fair complex strategically positioned on the Milan airport system. Milan-Orio al Serio airport is only 2km from the exhibition pavilions, wh

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In the 19th century, fabric magnate Izrael Poznanski opened a textile factory in Lodz, which grew to become one of the largest in Europe. The factory contained a palace, living quarters, its own power plant, railroad, fire department, school, and more.

Thousands of employees worked and lived in the industrial park until WWI, when production was slowed. In WWII, the German army took over the factory. Slowly, in the post-war era, the factory began shutting down, and finally closed in 1997, leaving behind a cache of historical buildings and landmarks.

The French design firm Apsys Polska began rebuilding the area, preserving most of the original st

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A Dataton Watchout system was used to provide the graphics animation and video overlays through to Lighthouse processor LIP-KX to the screen. Customers were thrilled about the quality of the 16mm panel, say Gearhouse.

With 5,000 nits brightness, high contrast ratio and 16mm pixel pitch, R16i/o-II panel is ideal for both indoor and outdoor applications, say Lighthouse.

(Lee Baldock)

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The most important and most recent development is the powerful FM-8VB 8-in/8-out plug-in effects module, which was demonstrated for the very first time at PLASA 07. Built on original algorithms from VB Audio, the FM8-VB features a powerful DSP engine, which enables you to run up to four digital effects per channel simultaneously. Users have access to a wide range of effects (reverb, delay, de-esser, limiter etc) including StripTool, a vintage design channel strip which offers fast and easy access to a full range of audio processing with a warm analogue feel.

Compatible with all Innovason audi

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The production, directed by Geraldine Connor and produced by David Lascelles features a cast of over 100 and commemorates the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, drawing vividly on the colour and vibrancy of 'carnival' in Trinidad, Tobago and Leeds to deliver its powerful message.

Summit was asked onboard by Leeds-based production company TechSpec, headed by Graham Nixon, who are responsible for all-things technical. Nixon says, "I was researching the best options for sourcing the structure that we needed to stage the event - and all roads led to Summit."

Jay Call was Summit's project manager for the show

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"It was important to the lighting design that the installed LED fixtures, DMX controlled as well as video walls, were fully integrated into one system," explained Manuel da Costa of mo2 design who was responsible for the realisation of the lighting and media design concept. "It was also necessary to implement a sophisticated control interface with minimal user interaction. The idea was to create an ambient lighting design and mood management from a mixture of different LED fixtures matching the architectural characteristics."

Multiple moods and looks as well as randomly selected movies

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Systems integrator Primetec, now part of the MediaTec group, specified the projectors and carried out the system design for both applications. Primetec's Torbjörn Sterner takes up the story: "Volvo wanted to update the safety and environmental exhibition at their car factory in Göteborg, Sweden and in the process they decided to merge their existing visitor centre into the same facility, creating a Volvo Car brand experience centre. As well as the safety and environmental displays, the centre has an auditorium with a car presentation stage, together with conference facilities and press rooms."

In the auditorium