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Pictured here is the Edge 212P - a two-way, horn-loaded, full-range system engineered for live concerts and fixed installations. The Edge 212P includes two parallel 16Ohm 12" woofers (with 3" voice coil) and one 2" compression driver (with 4" voice coil). The woofers feature the ISV (Interleaved Sandwich Voice Coil) system and a double-ventilated die-cast aluminium basket designed for improved heat dissipation and to reduce the power compression level. DDR (Double Demodulating Rings) provide improved control of the excursion and a reduction in d

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The course has been structured with advice and guidance from industry professionals to ensure it relevance to today’s music industry. The Honours Degree is academically validated by Kingston University and is accredited by the Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS) and the Music Producer’s Guild (MPG).

Gateway pioneered the teaching of recording and music technology in the UK and have maintained their policy of teaching in small groups. This enables them to give students individual attention and guidance. The S

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There are 27 categories of instrument, each with the option to nominate best-seller, best value for money and most innovative product. The awards also feature categories for printed music, publications and software products. The short-listed nominations will be on display at the British Music Fair on 6 and 7 July at Birmingham N.I.A. and the winners will be celebrated at the MIA Annual Conference in London on 23 October. Full details of the Awards can be found on the MIA website.

(Ruth Rossington)

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RODE Microphones’ is the leading brand of Freedman Electronics, which was established in 1967 by British-born audio engineer Henry Freedman and his wife, Astrid. The company has long been a pioneer in the Australian and New Zealand audio industry and is currently headed by Peter Freedman. The company has a wholesale division covering Australia and New Zealand and it is through this division that RODE distributes its microphones, as well as Event Studio Monitors from the US - and now Solid State Logic.

At its base in Rh

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The FS2-PRO, which employs NXT’s Surface-Sound technology, provides installers and designers with a stylish and discreet solution for reverberant installations where very wide dispersion, reduced SPL drop-off with distance and good intelligibility are the main criteria. Now, with the added choice of colours, the FS2-PRO can be specified and used in most design critical projec

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Blur marked their return by showcasing work from their new album ‘Think Tank’. The Astoria dates were essentially a one-off event, but lead singer Damon Albarn wanted a distinct visual feel for the show. His brief to LD Dave Byars was to come up with the essence of Morocco and Devon - warm, inviting, peaceful, positive. From this starting point, Byars designed both lighting and video (the latter supplied by XL Video) and decided to take an ambitiously large rig into the Astoria to realize his ideas - an imaginative gamble that certainly paid off.

The first part of the show saw a false ceiling formed by a drape lacerated by a series of

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In terms of construction, Clarity 11, is characterized by the fact that the loudspeakers are fitted in a special ‘box’ which, as well as using suitable absorption material, also gives the loudspeaker system installed a determinate acoustic resistance, which makes it ideal to deal with the frequency range of speech. This design, for which a patent has been applied for, offers the advantage of giving a continuous gradual attenuation to the system’s frequency response.

Clarity 11 also offers the possibility of adjusting the Q factor in an original, simple and economic manner, by fitting or removing (

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The 700-seat theatre is considered as the main auditorium of this modern facility, which hosts mainly theatrical events and movie screenings. Bossman opted to install two different systems to work independently, depending on the type of function. When used for conferences, theatre or concerts, the equipment used consists of self-powered Compact Systems built into the building structure. The main front-of-house system is comprised of eight Compact 2 Systems (Compact 2 plus Compact 18 Sub) placed four per side. The powered systems simplified the installation needing only signal and AC-power. On

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"We are picking up PA systems locally," Blake explained, "which will be interesting for Greg Dean who’s mixing house. Fortunately for me, we will carry the whole monitor system, Robert has had his own system flown in from the States, and I’ve elected to take a Yamaha PM1D with me for control which is coming from Dick Hayes at Entec."

"There are several reasons for choosing the board, not least the savings in

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The two mixers are also the first products to benefit from Allen & Heath's new Constant Power amplifier technology, which gives a full 500W RMS per side into either 4 or 8 ohms. Other key assets include a new padless preamp, internal FX unit, SPDIF output and parametric output EQ. "We are very excited about this addition to the Allen & Heath portfolio," said Mark Hopkin, purchasing manager at Academy of Sound. "The PA12 provides the perfect solution for our customer base, which often has small PA systems for producing liv

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RECO’s architecture is different from a conventional notebook in that it uses a hard diskless industrial computer platform to run a special embedded Linux OS - this connects to any Windows, Mac or Linux-based computer with standard wireless LAN components. The computer transmits its screen content to Reco and receives back mouse and keyboard commands. There is no software to install on Reco itself - once the driver is installed on the computer, and a wireless LAN

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DL Henderson Company, based in Maynard, Massachusetts, will handle the manufacturer's northeast New England region consisting of upstate New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Paul Friedman and his crew at Metro/North Marketing in Edison, New Jersey have been named as L-Acoustics US's rep firm for northern New Jersey and New York City.

Right Track Marketing, based in Kinnelon, New Jersey, and led by principal Steven Savvides, has been called upon to cover the mid-Atlantic territory made up of Virginia, Maryland, southern New Jersey, Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania.

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.Visitors got a glimpse into the workings of Stage Electrics' warehouse, with tours supplied by sales and marketing manager Linda Moore, who says: "Stage Electrics Open Days are a great opportunity for suppliers and customers to meet. They have proved highly successful and we are already planning more for later in the year."

Not only were customers provided an insight to the inner workings of Stage Electrics, technical manager Adrian Searle organized a Moving Light Symposium, providing hands-on experie

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Tom Bensen is a familiar face in the pro audio industry, with over 25 years' experience across a wide variety of leading brands. His sound reinforcement expertise and market knowledge will prove invaluable in establishing the Cadac brand and providing further growth. On the other side of the US, GLS Marketing will provide the Cadac representative network with a strong mix of technical skills, plus creative sales and marketing techniques. Headed up by president Greg Hockman with Ron Thomas as general manager, the company was established in 1981 and operates out of Huntington Beach, California, in support of the Southern California, Southern Nevada, Hawaii and Arizona t

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Primarily designed for the sound contracting market, the DFR22 also includes modules for equalization, dynamics processing, delay and matrix mixing and is easily configured through a flexible, drag-and-drop Windows software interface. "The DFR22 will give current users of our DFR11EQ and P4800 the best of both products in a new form. It will function as an out-of-the-box, two-channel feedback reducer or as a fully configurable 2 x 2 device with a full complement of software-configurable audio processors," said Bob Rieder, Shure category director of audio processing products. "It also answers the many requests we’ve received for a stereo version of our patented f

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EtherSound ES8in injects eight analogue balanced audio signals into an EtherSound network, while the EtherSound ES8out extracts eight analogue audio signals out of an EtherSound network. System set-up, control and re-configuration are operated remotely via straightforward PC software, with no sp

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The importance of sound in theatre continues to grow at a rapid rate, and as audio technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, both Orbital and the NT are concerned that there is a skills shortfall, and that young people entering the industry have little experience of the latest technology.

The course was co-designed by the NT’s head of sound Rob Barnard and Orbital’s Simon Whitehorn as a ‘top-up’ to the very good, but basic training offered at drama schools. 20 candidates were nominated from drama schools nationwide to participate - at no expense to students or schools - in carefully structured cla

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SST is the result of a new strategic initiative at Stanton to bring pro audio specs to a more affordable price point, which the company has achieved by utilizing a new team of engineers from broadcast and recording mixer backgrounds - in conjunction with Stanton’s own DJ product managers.

All SST mixers boast a flat frequency response from 20Hz-20kHz +/-1.5dB and a dynamic range better than 110dB (noise and d

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Each room is offered with a Soundcraft 40-channel MH4 mixing console. "The rooms are aimed at four or five piece bands, perhaps a bit more budget-conscious than our current clients," explains Music Bank's Nunu Whiting. "All of us here believe that there's going to be a resurgence in the rock 'n' roll market, so we're getting ready for the new upcoming bands. Music Bank will give them a decent and affordable rehearsal environment, rather than the traditional black room with sticky carpets!"

East and West Studios have be

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McGonagle was previously national sales manager for Celestion Pro Products, and before that he was the marketing manager for Van Dam Cables.

(Lee Baldock)

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The Ice Arena is used regularly for ice hockey, accommodating an audience of 850 for matches. The auditorium can be re-configured for ice shows, increasing its audience capacity to 1050. Providing coverage for the ice surface itself are eight Nexo PS8 compact full-range cabinets, bi-amplified by the PS8 processor and four Nexo LS400 power amps. For the audience seating, Bernard Maigre of Lyon Audio Equipement has specified two clusters of three GEO S805 tangent array cabinets.

"There is a truss, what you could call a bridge, that runs the length of

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Xtreme has been building up its rental business, and, last year, invested heavily in expanding its lighting capability. In 2003, it is the turn of the sound department, which already has a healthy client list: the company recently provided audio services for two film launches in Leicester Square, is heavily involved in corporate events and conference work throughout Europe, and regularly supplies systems for dance events. One of their goals for the coming year is to increase their list of music clients, and the purchase of the X-Array is intended to attract more music touring business.

Xtreme's new X-Array system comprises four Xcn

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In an emergency, special radio break-in messages on RDS car radio can provide information or instructions, and the Public Address system makes sure that people hear messages even during an evacuation. CCTV cameras will also allow tunnel operators to monitor traffic throughout the tunnels. The entire system is controlled via a single SCADA integrated control system provided by Tyco Control Systems which links all the facilities together - it can even deliver pre-recorded messages automatically when sens

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The Vikuiti XRVS-120 is a result of a recently reached in-principle agreement for 3M to exclusively provide SoundVu technology to the professional rear projection screen market. NXT's SoundVu technology turns the projection screen itself into a Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) by using actuators positioned at the 'invisible' edge to vibrate the screen, locking sound and vision as one. NXT's SoundVu technology works without adding depth or size to the unit and, by using the screen, eliminates th