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The award recognizes the best overall performance by an international distributor during Allen & Heath's 2005 fiscal year. Allen & Heath's sales director, Bob Goleniowski, commented: "It gives us great pleasure to make this award to the EAD team, which has displayed great enthusiasm and dedication to the A&H brand. PLASA 2005 has been the launch pad for several new innovations into the digital market, and we know that with distributors such as EAD behind us, Allen & Heath will continue to grow

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As part of the show, the competition gave finalists an opportunity to record a single with the band in Los Angeles-based Westlake Studios. For these recording sessions, INXS's technical director Steve Jones needed a monitoring system that would be both compact and provide plenty of output - allowing the band to work up new songs live and loud with the Rock Star contestants.

After careful research, Jones decided that the ideal stage monitoring solution would be a Mackie system b

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Noise is one of the most underestimated workplace risks. The 'Sound Off' conference comes at a key time, with new tighter Noise at Work Regulations coming into force in April 2006. The conference will highlight what these regulations mean for organizations and offer practical advice on controlling noise in the work place.

Brian Lamb, RNID's director of communications, and Angela King, RNID's sen

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Ramsay commented: "Ethos is incredibly well built, and engineered to perfection; it's a great sounding system that does exactly what it's mean to. Chris Scott designs great boxes, he's a very straight talking guy, no bullshit and that's reflected in his products."

Logic's Chris Scott added: "EFX are using the Ethos system first at Glasgow's live venue The Garage and along with The ABC in Glasgow and Edinburgh's The Liquid Rooms all now with Ethos Arrays it means we've got a great presence up in Scotland.

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The tour commenced in Tokyo's Orchard Hall and was directed by James Mason and produced by William A Cook. As a hugely vibrant production, it delivers a feast of colour, sound and movement. Comprising 54 brass, percussion and 15 visual performers, Blast! is a unique explosion of music and theatre.

Featuring as part of a sophisticated sound system, the Trantec S6000 system was specified by sound designer Mark Wood. Trantec's Richard Ganley collaborated with Woods and Otaritec's Mr Fukatsu from the early planning stages to ensure that all aspects of the system integrated seamlessly.

The restricted 18 MHz (2 x 8 MHz of available RF bandwidth in Japan makes the su

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The main focus of the stand was Tannoy VNET - a fully active range of networkable sound reinforcement loudspeakers. By integrating its renowned Dual Concentric point source, constant directivity drive unit with leading edge digital signal processing (DSP), network control and class D amplifier technologies into the highly successful V-series line-up, Tannoy say it is providing a fully monitored active speaker system; a turn key solution for the most demanding sound reinforcement applications.

Two 800W power amps are fitted to each VNET cabinet and room EQ is simplified via user accessible signal processing based on the latest third generat

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The system consists of four MTD115b and 14 MTD108a, amplified by LA17a and LA48a power amplifiers. The decision by the Royal Opera House to invest in L-Acoustics was made after extensive listening tests, involving other high end market brands. The outcome was that the MTD range offered the best overall packaged solution particularly with regard to satisfying the requirement for seamless natural sounding loudspeakers.

Paul Nicholson from L-Acoustics UK commented: "when I first demonstrated the MTD108a to the Republic of Ireland, it was clear from its reaction to the initial test that it was to be its eventual first choice product. And when Soundvision

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In his newly-created role, Miele will support EVI Audio in taking care of its pro audio customers in Germany, with special emphasis on the whole Midas and Klark Teknik product range. His main duty will be to work closely with the company's customers in the theatre, broadcast and contractor markets.

"I am very excited about the opportunities this challenge creates," says Miele. "For many years I have been convinced of the Midas/KT technology, excellent product quality and reputation, as well as the company's skills as a global player in the pro audio industry. I appreciate the enthusiasm and the invaluable local market knowledge of the EVI Audio Team and I really look forward to this mutually beneficial arr

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The Tinteán's mission is to operate a purpose-built performance venue with contemporary Irish Dance, Irish Music and literature as its core and tourism as its primary audience market. The theatre hopes to revitalize the North Kerry region through the operation of this premium venue offering entertainment in all art genres and disciplines with special emphasis upon traditional Irish dance and Music in a contemporary format, presented to both national and international audiences.

The L-Acoustics system supplied by Sound Communication Dublin and designed by L-Acoustics UK comprises nine 112XT and eight MTD108a coaxial speakers, two SB118 subwoofers

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When a company has widely dispersed staff, working on a variety of sites and projects, it can be difficult to maintain both standards and the right information flow. Electrosonic has used internet technology for many years at its Hawley Mill HQ both to inform staff and to maintain standards.In addition to its public website. Electrosonic operates an intranet within the company, which it considers an essential component of its HR policy, ensuring that employees are properly informed. It's also the means by which all quality procedures are disseminated, and it underpins the company's ISO9001:2000 a

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The other product to attract a stream of visitors was the newly developed Screenfly. This software programme can be used to generate immediate adverts and other live messages on the plasma screen. Within seconds the user can display special offers; introduce new products; show menu details; etc. Screenfly can also be used interactively or to entertain customers and

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Since Club Seven would host both live acts as well as present recorded dance tracks, Hill set out to design a high-energy sound system that was versatile and easy enough for a single sound engineer to run and alter as needed. Hill also wanted to ensure that as much of the system's energy as possible remained

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ARX's managing director Colin Park says: "Hamzeh Partners are very well known throughout the Middle East Pro Audio Industry as a well established and very professional organization. Hamzeh Partners managing director Mr Khaled Hamzeh and I recently finalized our distribution agreement after an initial meeting at the Frankfurt Pro Light and Sound in Frankfurt earlier in the year. The Syrian Audio Industry is growing rapidly, we're looking forward to working with Hamzeh Partners, one of the largest Syrian distributors and to further developing the market for ARX's current and future products."

Along side ARX, Damascus based Hamzeh Partners also represents manufacturers including HHB,D & R, Tur

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With some of the speaker towers almost 1.5km from the source point, a mean air temperature of 22°C and 50% relative humidity, the audio team were looking at a delay of 4.35 seconds to the most distant tower. Henning Kaltheuner, a senior production planning specialist from Yamaha, volunteered to solve some of the technical issues. "Neumann & Muller preferred to use Yamaha DMEs because of the level of reliability," says Kaltheuner. "We rarely have a chance to join a real world project of this size during its design and performan

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The Super.fi range has been developed to address the growing interest in high quality, universal fit earphones for pro audio and for the iPod / mobile listening market. The super.fi studio 3 are single armature, full-range earphones offering high-quality musical sound, with clear highs and a solid low end which will be hard to better in this type of driver, say Hand Held.

The super.fi 5 Pro is a dual armature driver earpiece with a punchy low end, transparent highs and a wide dynamic range which makes it an ideal choice for use with in-ear monitoring. The super.fi 5EB is a s

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EM Acoustics sales director Chris Hinds said: "Holding a demo away from the show worked very well for us. We had product on display on the Autograph Sales stand, which gave people a point of contact within the show, and for those who wished to see and hear the products in operation as well as talk to the designers it gave them a local venue with a relaxed atmosphere to listen properly."

PLASA saw the official launch of three new products from EM Acoustics - the EMS-152 medium-Q full-range enclosure, the EMS-112 compact

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Current EtherSound licensees include Allen & He

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Blue Man Group gained national recognition after establishing a production in Las Vegas in 1999, and currently maintains long-running shows in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Berlin. The Blue Man Group team, led by sound designer and supervisor Ross Humphrey, who has been responsible for the sound design of all of the group's productions si

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Two hangs of eight CDH 483 mid/high packs have been flown left and right to cover 75% of the auditorium, with a further two CDH 483s per side to cater for the stalls area, and two Victor live sub basses for the low frequencies. In addition, 21 Outline IS6T cabinets have been employed as discreet delays.

On stage, 14 mixes are catered for by f

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SoundTablet provides eight mono or stereo sample tracks per cue, all mixable onto eight PC sound card outputs. Any cue can be independently triggered manually or from MIDI, SMPTE, RS232 and internal Timeline, all managed from a Playlist which can effectively contain an indefinite number of cues.

Each Track within a cue can have independently edited Play Zones, Loop Zones and Track Slip positioning, as well as precise volume profiling and mixing. This helps red

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"I'm glad to be a part of Community's growth and look forward to helping our customers in whatever way I can," said Deegan. "The relationships I have developed with our reps and dealers will be critical to my success in the new assignment."

"It's great to have Scott in this position," stated sales and marketing director Julia

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The Award marks Carlsbro's ongoing development as a thriving enterprise with 30 staff based at its design and engineering HQ in Mansfield, Nottingham. The company, which has "a number of exciting joint ventures with Far Eastern companies" says the Liberty WP100 is attracting great interest from the export market.

Carlsbro designed the Liberty WP100 wireless technology system especially to work with speakers built for PA applications - concerts, events and performances (indoor and outdoor) plus in many other com

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The Rapid Fit 4 is designed for the evacuation market or anywhere a low cost and efficient four-inch speaker is required. It Features a low cost plastic grill and a four inch 100V speaker with five, 2.5, 1, 0.5 & 0.33W tapings. Australian Monitor say, the Rapid fit 4 offers a cost effective and architecturally pleasing ceiling speaker package and also saves on installation cost as it is extremely quick and simple to install via its two pre-tensioned spring clip mounting system.

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Technical manager Mark Warren commented: "Whilst d&b's range impresses me greatly, it also clearly represents the industry standard for international touring productions as over the years it has proved to be the preferred systems' choice of our incoming productions. As a very flexible system, it perfectly meets our requirements as it can be augmented according to any productions' specific needs. We're delighted with its performance and look forward to putting it through its paces through our busy Autumn schedule and beyond."

The system comprises d&b's Ci90 and Ci60 installation ser