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The Centre is equipped with a pair of Zeus DSP intercom matrices by RTS. This system features the same programmability as the top-of-the-line ADAM frame, but in a package that is better suited for smaller installations such as theatres and other performance venues. The Zeus provides 24 channels of audio in a compact 2RU package. Each channel is capable of supporting any of the RTS Digital Matrix Intercom line of keypanels, or four-wire inputs and outputs.

For wired communication, the Centre chose the dual-channel BP-325 beltp

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Unit 2 Riverside Business Centre, 55 Bendon Valley, Wandsworth, London SW18 4LZ.

The phone and fax numbers remain the same and the company hopes to have a new website up and running by the end of March. A company statement says: "We look forward to providing our customers with the same high quality lighting solutions from our new home."

(Claire Beeson)

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14 March 2016

With confidentiality and acoustic comfort becoming increasingly important in modern corporate and enterprise workspaces, Apple Sound's latest developments include the Quell range of active and passive sound masking technologies which provide truly scaleable sound masking solutions to any environment.

The move will be completed by 28 March 2008, but with immediate effect all correspondence may be directed to the new address which is: Apple Sound

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14 March 2016

Anthony developed his own portfolio of flexible mobile media advertising vehicles. "These were primarily poster media vehicles - however, I started to look at digital media possibilities when I was engaged with private and public sector campaigns, educating people about the risks associated with drink driving. We needed to engage with all the senses - audio as well as visual."

It was then that SA Media Group were introduc

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14 March 2016

After evaluating different systems during demonstrations in the Portuguese Algarve, close to their base, Sons da Vicentina have made their first investment in Martin Audio line array technology to service the massive Anjos tour.

After Tecnimusica MD, Jorge de Oliveira and Martin Audio's international sales manager, Martin Kelly set up the audition, the production company's proprietor, Flávio Figueiras took the decision to purchase 16 x W8LC enclosures and two W8LCD Down-fills - giving him two nine-drop hangs - and 12 x WS218X subs. He decided to keep amplification and processing in the Martin Audio domain, ordering a selection of MA12K, MA9.6K and MA2.8s amplifiers to power the system along with a pair of DX2 sys

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Timo Kauristo explained the choice: "Actually I insisted on the grandMA once I knew the variety of lighting that the rig would contain - 100 movers, LEDs, conventionals - plus the fact that we would have to programme the show in a short time frame. In an unknown situation like this, I need to know I can rely on my desk." The two-level stage was 24m wide and 18m deep. 100sq.m of LED screens were used in the show with

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Working for production company Done and Dusted, audiovisual services company Creative Technology (CT) provided the event's demanding screen requirements, a service it has been providing to the Laureus Awards for the past three years whilst sister company, Dimension Audio, was on hand to address its audio needs.

In charge of CT's five-man crew was project manager Alex Leinster, who explains what was involved: "We used Barco OLite 612 modules for the main screen in an 8x6 module which was split into four columns that were tracked backwards and forwards on a Vertigo Rigging system during the show, to create en

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The walk through experience was entitled Inspire Life 2008 and was attended by top business executives, MEP's and Government representatives, amongst others. Products from across Hitachi's entire range were exhibited through the area.

"We had several challenges to contend with," said Simon Wood, sales director, Stage One. "Both of which are hardly unique; the first being access and the second, time. However, we worked hard to overcome both and delivered the project on time, on budget and to the high specification required."

The eight different

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From now until 17 July, proposals for sound logos can be uploaded directly onto the website below. Each entrant can upload a maximum of five tracks in MP3 format (stereo, 128, 192or 256kb/s, max 10MB). There is no optimum length for a sound logo, but audio tracks definitely shouldn't be any longer than eight seconds.

In August, 30 finalists will be chosen from all the submissions. At the end of the month, these thirty tracks will be placed before the public in an on

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"The sound was loud, but pretty much unintelligible," explains Mike Shetler of Atlanta-based VisionQuest Design and Production. "People in the stands couldn't really make out what was being said, but the school was getting plenty of complaints from the neighbours."

In fact, says Shetler, it ended up becoming a safety issue. "The night of their first home football game of 2007, they needed to evacuate the stadium due to a lightning storm, but the sound was so bad the crowd couldn't understand the announcement."

Shetler designed a

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The five-piece band is currently in the midst of an 80-city European tour in support of their latest release, Domino Effect, playing to packed halls and arenas through a Meyer Sound system courtesy of Hanover, Germany-based Rocksound Management.

The sound system comprises left and right arrays of 12 M'elodie line array loudspeakers each, with powerful bass provided by two 600-HP subwoofers per side. On stage, four MJF-212A stage monitors handle the band's monitoring.

Lothar Strunk of Rocksound comments: "The M'elodie's output is truly exceptional for such a small cabinet. It's powerful, but also delivers great intelligibility. And the small size makes it very easy to handle as well."

(Jim

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Proaktiv will be responsible for the management of sales, distribution, service of Powersoft product range through their regional offices and Partners located in Singapore (Headquarters), Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

"We carry brands that complement each other, however, we had a missing link, power amps . . . But choosing the right brand was not a difficult decision at all," said Chandan Mahtani, managing director of Proaktiv Sys. "Powersoft was the only company we approached and it was an obvious choice. We are very happy that Powersoft appointed us as their distributor for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. I like the energ

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John Lacina of PA Plus, who mixed the music portion of the show, reports, "The XL8 sounds, feels, and behaves like an analogue Midas, but with huge digital processing power. I noticed a marked improvement right from the start in the sound quality over other digital products I have used. The XL8 lived up to the hype, so to speak, in that it does not sound digital at all. In this sense the stellar onboard EQ and Dynamics can be used to fine tune, rather than outright fix, the sound, sometimes encountere

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In the UK, Wigwam Acoustics ordered nine Mix Racks, which will be divided between hire stock and resale. The company's hire director, Chris Hill, says, "With all the DSP and I/O in one rack, this is a product that we expect to do really well. A lot of customers will be first time users, while hire companies will note other economies, such as the ease of transport, since they can use existing multicores."

Following its initial purchase, Wigwam ordered another six Mix Racks to boost the hire stock, and anticipate firm orders for

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Lighting Designer Jason Workman chose to use Martin MAC 600s, 500s, 300s and Color Kinetics iColor Accent 4ft tubes to light the event. Lighting was controlled by two High End Systems Whole Hog IIs.

Workman used the MAC 600s to spread general colour throughout the room. Six towers with Color Kinetics tubes on them were used to fill in gaps between the video screens.

In addition to Workman, Bandit crew for this event included Giff Swart and Jeff Archibeque.

(Jim Evans)

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Sinclair has been working with Murphy since January, and this high profile London showcase was a continuation of her ongoing Overpowered tour which visits Australia later on this month. Sinclair brought a new design to the Roundhouse which was based around the house rig plus additional visual elements.

HSL supplied four i-Pix BB 16s - which were used on the floor as massive LED washlight sources. These were joined on the deck by four Martin Professional Atomic strobes along the back.

Front and back of stage were some Lowell Omni Floods on stands, and at the sides, also on Manfrotto stands, Source Four profiles were positioned to provide tightly shuttered beams of light focussed precisely onto Murphy's head.

HSL supplied a white cyc from their dr

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The city of Rennes sought to animate the front of the building in order to 'announce' the various activities going on inside the theatre. Lighting designer for the exterior illumination was Jean-François Touchard who, with his design team, worked directly with the city on the concept's details.

Touchard proposed an eight-hour per day lighting programme, from 5pm to 1am, in five phases: evening, theatre and cinema opening, beginning of play, during play, and, afterwards, when only the bar and restaurant is open.

"In the beginning, we wanted to light the buildin

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While on matters sporting, the Beijing Olympics are fast approaching. The torch has been lit and is now on its way round the world. Politics and boycotts permitting, the Games will no doubt provide a fine showcase for manufacturers and integrators who are also already casting their eyes towards the London Olymp

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The final was staged in the Helix Theatre at the City of Dublin University and the contemporary video-based visual design combined ideas from the creative team of lighting designer Andrew Leonard, set designer Molly Malloy and moving light and Catalyst programmer/operator Peter Canning. Sound was engineered by Paul Ashe-Brown using the house rig.

The show was produced by Screentime ShinAwiL, directed by Pat Cowap and broadcast live on RTE 1 where it consistently topped the Saturday night ratings. The 2008 final was won by Limerick singer Leanne Moore, who beat Wicklow singer Robyn Kavanagh on the results show, with the other finalist, Deidre Archbold from Cork vo

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Adlib's new V-Dosc system was utilised for the PA, with front hangs of 12 V-Dosc per side, complete with 4 dV-Doscs per side for down-fills and side- hangs of 12 dV-Doscs elements. For front- fills, they used eight ARCs cabinets. The subs totalled 16 of the new high-powered L-Acoustics SB28s and 8 SB218s - all ground-stacked.

The front hangs and subs were driven by LA8 amps, with the side- hangs and fills powered by the Lab.gruppen standard, complete with Adlib's speaker cabling and infrastructure to make it work.

At front-of-house they provided two Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles which wer

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EVI Audio's Italian partner TEXIM were called in as early as the project planning stage. Arcadia and TEXIM had already worked together on the CineCity multiplex in Padua. In addition to tried-and-tested cinema systems of the TS series (TS 9040D-LX and TS 550D-LX), a total of 28 EV TL 880D subwoofers are employed in the new multiplex. Nine EV TS 9040D-LX speakers handle the reproduction of the L-C-R information in the three smaller auditoriums and 21 further EV TS 550D-LX provide the sound in the seven larger halls. The surround channels in all ten auditoriums are delivered by a total of 154 EV SL12-2V surround speakers.

The massive amplification needs of all th

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Enter Audio Telex in conjunction with Marshall Day, who developed a comprehensive state-of-the-art design using EASE acoustic simulation software and based around Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers.

This is the first major Renkus-Heinz stadium sound system in Australasia and stadium marketing manager Chris Kemp comments, "We don't want to tell people we have a new sound system, we just want them to hear th

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Performed at the Glór Theatre, Ennis in February, before going on tour later this year, Out of Time explores Dunne's private world as a dancer rooted in the Irish step dance tradition. It looks to the past for simple beginnings as he examines his relationship with a tradition that has shaped his life.

Dunne wanted to find a way to present traditional Irish dance within a contemporary setting and an introduction to Green Hippo's Sean Westgate by the show's director, Sinead Rushe, was the beginning of an evolutionary, crea

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Following an original concept by Alan MacDonald, it took the Litestructures design team just six weeks to complete the technically advanced structure.

Features within and around the stage's 55 LiteDeck platform modules included a new 3.5m high modular leg lift, constructed using LitePro 4 heavy duty truss. This lift passes through all three tiers. In addition, Litestructures built a 10m 'totem pole', also using LitePro 4, which sits centrally atop the highest tier, and which houses a laser feature.

Rollability for the lower tier was achieved using legframe snap-on bracing. Some 32m of handrails, with per