For the first time ever, L&SI is offering full-time professionals on the European mainland the chance to sign up for one year's FREE subscription to L&SI magazine - a subscription that would usually cost around 75 euros (£50). Visitors to the show can sign up for this great offer by visiting the PLASA/L&SI stand at the Hall 8.0 Walkway, stand J80. (Look for the VPLT, ESTA & PLASA signs).
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According to Apex, one of the Intelli-Q22's strengths is the fact that it combines a wide range of sound enhancing applications like a 30-band graphic equaliser, a 10-band parametric equaliser, shelving filters, variable high & low - pass filters, delay, multi-band compressor, and a BrickWall limiter per channel.
"The talk of the town is that this room is the best-sounding place people have ever been to. The installation of the Intelli-Q lifted the whole sound picture to a
The PA system of choice was an 18 dV-Dosc L-Acoustics line source array coupled with SB218 subs and completed by ARCS as fills. The reference floor monitor 115FM was chosen for the stage monitors.
FOH mixing engineer Petr Pelisek stated: "Lucerna is a very complex venue when it comes to acoustics and the dV-Dosc rig proved to be the optimum solution in combination with the choice of digital desks."
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Commenting on his appointment, Fleetwood Mobiles founding director Tim Summerhayes says: "We are really pleased to have Ian as part of our team. His extensive contacts within the industry, along with his experience in audio post production for film and TV, will be an invaluable asset to Fleetwood's new post facility in Denham."
Davidson takes over from Ian Dyckhoff who left the company in February to pursue new opportunities within the Pro Audio industry.
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Another highlight of the stand will be the Digital Drive Processor (DDP). The exchangeable processing device is complementary to the Alcons ALC controller-amplifiers and caters for improved ease-of-use in the handling and controlling of Alcons sound systems.
Joining the established LR14 line array system is the LR14/90, an ultra compact pro-ribbon line array with a 90° x 15° projection loaded with the Alcons RBN401 pro-rib
"Whether he's being an astute audio professional, a musician or a worship leader, Craig exudes passion in what he does," explained Aviom marketing director Jason Frenchman. "He loves Aviom and he loves the church, so he's at his best teaching and helping them understand what a huge benefit our technology brings to worship and the joy of music. That's why he's a great resource for churches and an ideal spokesman for us."
Sibley will continue his seminar and conference instruction schedule, but his role will expand to include providing key input into all aspects of Aviom's house of worship m
The venue stages a mix of club nights and live performances. "There's something for everyone here," says Cargo's marketing manager Joe Roberts. "We want to appeal to all tastes, from your hard core clubber to those that want to have something to eat and then see a live band. We are now getting the bigger name, more experienced musicians in here, and they wanted a better monitoring system than we originally had. This has been part of the reason we upgraded our system. If you want the best, you need to have the right equipment."
Head of sound, Matt Smith, wh
Guests included leading sound engineers, key rental companies, and dealers, and there was a special appearance by French electro legend, Jean Michel Jarre.
The crowd was entertained by the 8-piece jazz/rock David Koven band, managed by the iLive system at FOH, driving a Turbosound speaker system. Audiopole also installed the new GL2800M dedicated monitor console to handle monitor mixes for the band.
FOH engineer, Patrick Clerc, made use of the two tap delays and reverb from iLive's internal effects, and the system's DCA groups. "I am very impressed with the system's sound quality, particularly the reve
More than 30 companies and 200 people attended the event, staged by the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers at the Park Inn Hotel Watford, to exhibit the latest developments in microphones, loudspeakers, public address, voice alarm, induction loop systems, conference systems, intercoms and voice over IP.
The informative seminar programme on 27 February included topics as varied as designing church sound systems, co-operation between universities and industry and even how a major contract was won, but somehow all went wrong.
One seminar, given by Alan March of Shure Distribution UK, proved a big topic of discussion. His talk, entitled The great TV spectrum sell-off<
The Speakon's quality of manufacture and reliability has made it a premium item, often used as a selling point in product brochures. That cachet is, naturally enough, reflected in the price, which represents an opportunity for unscrupulous producers to undercut Neutrik by passing off inferior connectors as Speakons.
"This isn't only about the commercial damage to Neutrik through loss of legitimate trade," says Neutrik's CEO, Werner Bachmann. "There is also damage to our reputation
The purpose built 3,500sq.m headquarters, just a few miles from Bucharest's Otopeni International Airport, is divided into offices and warehouses. The space enables Paradigma Group to maintain large rental stocks of audio, lighting, video and staging equipment, to provide professional servicing and training facilities, as well as housing the group's sales company including a showroom and maintenance department.
Paradigma Group is a joint venture between Ampco Flashlight Holding BV of Holland and AEI Broadcast Concept, one of the leading facilities companies in R
The contest itself is progressing; the names of the twenty bands that have been chosen to go through to the next stage of the contest have been declared. The next stage in the competition, which is also open as of now is the Vote-off, during which the shortlisted bands will be whittled down to the three that will take part in the final at Koko in April,
.The Unsigned Heroes competition is designed to find the best as-yet unsigned band in the UK and Eire, and will offer the winning band a range of prizes, including a recording session with a name producer, PA equipment worth over £10,000 and the chance to play at a major summer festival. The con
The established repertoire of Meyer Sound loudspeakers for theatre sound will also be on display, including the M'elodie ultra-compact high power curvilinear array. Other models shown on the booth will include the versatile UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeaker, the palm-sized MM-4 miniature wide-range loudspeaker, the potent M1D ultra-compact subwoofer, and the UPM-1P ultra-compact wide coverage loudspeaker.
Additional UPJ-1P loudspeakers provided by Meyer Sound can be heard in action at the ESTA
About 5,000 guests regularly attend Browns Bridge Community Church, which opened in October 2006. As with Buckhead Church in nearby Buckhead, Ga., an impressive, high-definition video presentation featuring senior pastor Andy Stanley's sermons highlights the church's Sunday morning programming. The recently installed Meyer Sound system ensures that everyone in the audience hears the inspirational messages with unquestionable intelligibility.
The loudspeaker system in the 2,100-seat main sanctuary is comprised of 26 self-powered M'elodie boxes configured in two arrays. "M'elodie was
According to Plimsoll, which has 16,000 customers worldwide who rely on its regular reports on the market, price deflation is hitting the bigger companies where it hurts - in their pockets. It started with air travel, moved to electrical goods, used cars and even insurance. And now it has arrived in the sound equipment industry.
14 of the top 50 firms are losing money, while 27 are making less profit than last year. Salaries alone at the top 50 companies eat up 19% of sales.
A parallel marketing campaign, to stimulate both online and offline sales, will include promotion of Audio-Technica headphones via the three major internet search engines, and advertising in the press and on the London Underground.
Commenting on the launch of the website, Harvey Roberts senior UK marketing manager Audio-Technica, said: "It is important to our growth strategy that we increase our share of
"Our customers are going to be very pleased with the new Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 bundles, which are a dramatic step forward in terms of the variety as well as overall value," remarks Ed Gray, Digidesign's director of partnering programmes. "We worked diligently to compile the best software from some of the world's top audio companies. Whether virtual instruments or creative effects, top-of-the-line sound libraries or valuable artist promotion services, we believe that the Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 provides the best tools to allow our users to create the music that lives in their imagination."
Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 and the premium Pro Tools Ignit
The new restaurant, above last year's much-vaunted Tamarai, completes restaurant entrepreneur Rohit Khattar's mission to combine a restaurant, 5.1 cinema, dance venue, art gallery and corporate entertainment under one roof.
The Sound Division Group was commissioned to install the complex system requirements by the restaurant's parent company Old World Hospitality. The company arrived on site in 2005, soon after Rohit Khattar purchased the former Millennium Club with a view to providing an extravagant sister operation in Lo
Chris Hill, director of Wigwam Acoustics, says: "We'll be using Van Damme cables for microphones, speakers and mains because they are tough enough to withstand the rigours of a tour of this size. The brand is well established and we know from many years experience that its products can be trusted to deliver great results."
Over the years, Wigwam Acoustics has provided its expertise to many high profile artistes and events touring Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and the Eastern Block. Recent tour contracts have included Westlife, Radiohead, Prince, Eminem, Björk, Blue, Moby, Ronan Keating and Barry Manilow, as well as George Michael's
"We had a day to rehearse, then it was all hands to the pump to make sure everything went smoothly on the night," Summerhayes says. "It was a great show with plenty of full-on rock bands, which is what we enjoy. The only tricky part of the evening was recording Jarvis Cocker and The Gossip singer Beth Ditto's electric acoustic set, which involved a few more mics and inputs than we had expected, but it all went well and the broadcast audio was delivered to E4 via CTV, which was handling the pictures."
Rock group Muse took the award
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Commenting on the decision to add Audica to its portfolio, Ennio Prase says, "With every conceivable type of loudspeaker available in the market, it was difficult to imagine that anything new could be radically different - but Audica is just that. With MICROseries, Audica has designed a system with such style and innovation that it is a real advance, and that is a great compliment to their design capability.
Audica Professional's Derek West adds: "I have always regarded Prase Engineering as a reference distributor, for their integrity, ability and technical standards. With such an appreciatio
"But New Covenant had a very sharp tech team," Stanford continued. "They knew exactly what they wanted in the way of fidelity. Pastor Billy Johnson is an amazing musician with an extraordinary voice. When we brought our first demo over, he asked us to turn it off so that he could play keyboard through the system. That was the real test."
The challenge for Stanford was to deliver 105
In just under 1.5m, the Soundcraft Vi4 offers access to 48 inputs on 24 faders, with a total of 27 output busses available for use as masters, groups, auxes or matrices. All other features of the Soundcraft Vi6, such as the Vistonics touch-screen user interface, and FaderGlow fader function display are inherited by the Soundcraft Vi4.
Also available on the Soundcraft Vi4 is the new Processing Card option, which adds eight powerful assignable Lexicon Effects sections, together with 30-band BSS Audio graphic equali
