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Canada - The Modern is a newly- opened lounge/bar/nightclub located on Alexander Street in Vancouver's thriving Gastown, which mainly consists of turn of the 20th century industrial buildings, which have been converted into highly sought after contemporary condos, restaurants and clubs.

The Modern club is located within a heritage building and has also been a club in the past. As in any thriving district, venues re-vamp and switch hands at a steady pace, each time reaching for ever more dazzling designs in order to attract the much sought after clientele. Modern club's new owners decided in addition to a complete architectural overhaul, a new sound system design was in order.

LTS Professional Sound & Lighting had done a sound design for the client at another club with similar architectural components using Adamson products. "We found that using Adamson speakers at a previ

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UK - Blitz is helping another touring production of Dancing in the Streets to dance around the UK during its nationwide run.

Blitz has been commissioned by sound designer Ben Harrison to provide a complete touring sound system from its extensive and wide ranging stock. Blitz is providing a d&b C7 speaker system which is designed to provide a high quality, versatile solution to the problem of working in a wide variety of venues. Blitz is also supplying 14 Sennheiser 3072 handheld radio mics with 1046 receivers and PM5D live sound console.

Ben Harrison, explains: "Dancing in the Streets celebrates classic anthems by the likes of The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and many other soul musicians, and the systems have to compliment the music to ensure the best visual and audio experience for the audience. Blitz is passionate about theatre and this is conve

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UK - South-coast PA installation consultancy, Creative Solutions, has specified a single array of Electro-Voice XLE compact cabinets for a Bournemouth church, making the most of its dispersion characteristics in the reverberant environment of an ancient C of E building.

St Swithuns of Bournemouth is home to the Bournemouth Family Church, part of the New Frontiers ministry, and host to a vibrant congregation which is growing so fast that it is looking for a second venue. The Church called upon Creative Solutions, and on the advice of John Ellis and David Howe of Shuttlesound (EV's UK distributor), chose to design a sound system that would handle all their speech reinforcement needs as well as provide amplification for the singers and bands that perform as part of the services.

The solution came in the shape of a single line array comprising six Electro-Voice XLE181 cabinets, fl

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Spain - Kusan, D.A.S. Audio distributor for Korea, has opted to install Aero line array systems at the Gyesan Central Church, located in the city of Bupyoung. The systems were chosen not for their lightweight and ease of use, but for their high-level performance and directivity, say the company.

Natural light is a major theme at this place of worship, housing a main hall which seats 4500 people. Kusan flew 16 two-way, compact CA-28A powered mid-high systems from the elaborate metal structure supporting the church's glass dome. On each side of the altar, eight CA-28A units were flown below four powered CA-215A bass units. The main system incorporates a Midas model V400/8/IP mixing console.

Roy Curtis from Kusan explains: "One of the main difficulties we had to overcome here was the building's bad acoustics, because it really has a high-level of reverberation and, on top of

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Belgium - Artcoustic Loudspeakers are providing the audio solution for The Institute of the High Studies of the Social Communications (IHECS) in Brussels. At its on-campus conference facility, The Institute was faced with the requirement for more technology-based multimedia presentations, as they could no longer afford an under-utilised venue.

The venue consists of a large conference room with seating for 400, as well as several smaller rooms, each with seating for 130. The challenge was to install a high quality AV system, including sound reinforcement and multimedia capabilities for the whole facility.

A major objective was that he system was unobtrusive and would not affect the interior design. The Institution turned to the Engineer Bureau Droyers to provide the solution and selected Strobbe Sprl to install the system.

Strobbe, the Artcoustic dealer for Benelux, chose a s

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UK - A.C. Lighting's Audio division has been selected as an authorised UK distributor for the Powersoft pro audio power amplifier range, the company has announced. A.C. Audio was selected as one of only four distribution partners in collaboration with Sennheiser UK, based on its distribution capability, familiarity of product, stock holding facility and a reputation for providing elite products and customer support.

A.C. Audio Sales Manager Peter Butler commented: "We are very keen to be a part of the Powersoft distribution partnership. We have always been a fan of the product portfolio due to its adaptability and reliability, and are looking forward to working closely with all parties involved to showcase these products in the UK marketplace."

Powersoft has a strong reputation of producing high end amplifiers for the pro audio industry. The company's products have a

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UK - It was around the middle of 2005 that experienced sound engineer Tom Marshall started working with Liverpool band, The Coral - brought in by tour manager Pete Hillier to look after the FOH position.

Since that Invisible Invasion tour, Marshall has remained the band's first choice, taking Adlib Audio's production across Europe - punctuated by stints in the US and Japan.

But it was the less likely location of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London this summer during the iTunes Festival that provided his first opportunity to mix on the Soundcraft Vi6.

"I had already seen Dave Kay using it at FOH on the Scissor Sisters tour, where it was also used as a recording console," he reports. "I really enjoyed using the desk at the ICA but it wasn't until the latest full production tour (to promote the band's fifth album Roots And Echoes

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Turkey - Istanbul's Babylon live music club has chosen an L-Acoustics sound system. Babylon serves as a multipurpose performance centre promoting other artistic disciplines, plays, modern dance, workshops and documentaries with a capacity of 400 spectators.

ELIT, L-Acoustics' distributor in Turkey, has been in charge of the installation, and thenew system consists of four ARCS, six SB118, four 8XT, four LA4 and eight112P.

Emre Defne, technical director, ELIT comments: "We are very pleased with this installation. When the club first re-opened its door with the Patti Smith concert, everybody was impressed by the intelligibility and clarity of the system - the L-Acoustics sound system in the Babylon club is becoming a legend."

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Dubai - The new clubhouse at the Al Badia golf course features advanced audio distribution through more than 52 zones in a system designed and installed by BCL Business Communications LLC. The system features Biamp AudiaFLEX CM module at its epicentre to create the optimum decentralised audio network for the club and grounds.

"With control over Ethernet via integration with the third-party control system and the AudiaFLEX network-friendly design architecture, we were able to create a single IP network incorporating audio distribution and paging with touchscreen control that also covers lighting and system monitoring," said BCL's Puthenkulam. "For audio distribution we have eight AudiaFLEX CM units located in separate rack rooms, but working together with convenient control points throughout the facilities. It was this flexibility that helped us meet the client req

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Europe - Experienced studio and live sound engineer Gerard Albo recently had the exacting task of piloting Amy Winehouse's FOH sound mix, and because of the access speed required when set lists suddenly change, he says he is delighted he made the decision to turn to Soundcraft's Vi6 digital console.

Hailing from the Dordogne, Gerard Albo's interest in the Vi6 was alerted after he had returned to sound mixing after an enforced layoff, following a 2006 tour with Corrine Bailey Rae.

Taking Amy Winehouse's FOH position from his friend (and tour manager) Dave Swallow (who was on paternity leave) he mixed shows at the Benicassim Festival in Spain, three broadcasts in Italy and the MTV Awards in Munich.

But his first exposure to the Vi6 came during the iTunes Festival at the ICA this summer, where Winehouse was playing and the desk was installed. "I was already c

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Germany - Audio production company Profi Musik has extended its inventory of digital mixing consoles, purchasing a compact Soundcraft Vi4, with Vistonics touch screen interface. Supplied by Harman Pro distributors Audio Pro, the desk went straight out onto the Al Jarreau/NDR Big Band tour where Profi Musik's Dirk Dechring was handling the FOH mix.

The company's first experience with the new platform, with its Vistonics interface, was at the Jazz Baltica Festival in Salzau, after the company had been introduced to the Vi6 during one of Audio Pro's regular product roadshows.

Dirk Dechring claims it took him just half an hour on the console to convince him that this was the control surface he wanted to use on Jazz Baltica. "I had heard all about the exceptional audio quality of the Vi6 and quickly came to the conclusion that an outboard rack, with compre

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USA - As a fitting cap to Crown International's 60th anniversary year, the DC 300 amplifier, first introduced 40 years ago in 1967, was inducted into the TECnology Hall Of Fame on the opening day of the 123rd AES Convention in New York City. Gerald Stanley, Crown International's senior VP of R&D and the original designer of the DC 300, was on hand to accept the award.

Presented by the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, best known for its production of the TEC Awards, and hosted by the AES, the Fourth Annual TECnology Hall Of Fame ceremony was emceed by George Petersen, executive editor of Mix magazine and director of the TECnology Hall Of Fame.

Petersen prefaced Crown's award by remarking: "The DC 300 was a classic that really ushered in and defined the era of the modern power amplifier. And 1967 was a perfect time for this product to come out. Suddenly there

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Greece - Mid-October saw Turbosound's Greek distributor, Athens-based Metro Audio, holding its fifth Metro Workshop in the country's resort of Kamena Vourla, at which a Turbosound Aspect system played a starring role.

The Workshops are a very important event for the Metro team, as it gives them the opportunity to meet and talk with clients from both Greece and further afield, to hear their requirements and answer their needs.

However, it is just as important from Turbosound's point of view, not only raising awareness of its latest products, but answering questions from those needing advice on systems and helping users to get the very best from its products, says the company.

Turbosound's European sales manager Chris Hinds and applications engineer Dan Orton attended the event, making a full presentation of the company's products. Focusing on Aspect, the highlight was an outd

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Denmark - The Danish Football club Vejle BK, is due to open its new stadium equipped with Dynacord enclosures installed by Ascon Trading, a Danish pro audio specialist. The sound system is in the new 10,000-seater football stadium in Vejle which is scheduled to open in the spring of 2008 and will be the new home of Vejle BK, one of Denmark's oldest clubs.

The stadium now boasts 56 Dynacord D-12 speakers, a ProMatrix distributed sound and voice alarm system, and a variety of Dynacord ceiling (DL69) and wall (WL90) loudspeakers complemented by ceiling loudspeakers (Evid 6.2C and Media 4.2) from sister company Electro-Voice.

Another major project in which Ascon Trading is currently involved is the Forum in Horsens. This extensive complex combines the functions of a sports and cultural centre with that of a football stadium. Ascon has already installed security and sound systems f

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Hong Kong - Two Iconyx IC24 digitally steerable arrays from Renkus-Heinz have been installed alongside a giant LED billboard at the entrance to the Elements shopping mall and the MTR Kowloon underground station in Hong Kong. Collectively, the equipment delivers information and advertising related to the large shopping mall and new Cultural Centre on Union Square.

The audio system needed to partner the Daktronics ProStar screen had to combine powerful long-throw capability (to cover the immediate area of the screen, the station entrance and the adjacent open area) with tightly focused sound, preventing noise spill to the nearby towers. A competitive loudspeaker 'shoot out' organised by Renkus-Heinz is Hong Kong distributor CAH Professional Sound resulted in the selection of self-powered Iconyx IC24 arrays, supplied in fully-weatherised versions and mounted one apiece on both side

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Norway - PA rental company Lydfiksern, has purchased an Allen & Heath iLive digital system to add to its hire stock. Comprising an iDR10 mix rack and iLive-144 control surface, the new system was used for the first time at the premiere of a new musical, called Snow and Fire, which debuted at the annual Polar Spectacle festival held in Varanger, in the northern extremes of Norway.

"Varanger is literally located on top of the world, it must be the farthest north iLive has traveled," comments °ystein Wierli from XL Audio Norway, who sold the system. "The iLive performed flawlessly, and the entire crew quickly felt comfortable with operating it."

Snow and Fire is a new musical depicting the race by air and land to the North Pole between Norwegian polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, and Italian aeronautical engineer, Umberto Nobile. A theatre stage

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USA - Audio Logic Systems, of Bloomington, Minnesota, recently completed an Electro-Voice audio installation in the new 650-seat worship facility at Plymouth Covenant Church (Plymouth, Minnesota). The all-EV system features Xi series loudspeaker arrays, CPS amplifiers, NetMax processing, and REV wireless microphones.

"This is a beautiful new addition to the church," says Jason Kartak, installation manager, Audio Logic Systems. "It's a wide open room with a balcony, and has a multi-angled ceiling with a peak about 50ft (15.2m) over the stage. This is a very 'live,' acoustically challenging space, and the EASE modeling made it clear that we needed to combine acoustical paneling for absorption with an extremely focused, ultra-linear loudspeaker. The Xi was the ideal choice, as it balances high output, concert-quality performance with precise coverage and EV's charact

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UK - Blaydon Communications recently deployed Biamp Nexia digital sound processors at the new Pan-Asian restaurant Fat Buddha in Durham City. The AV design for the £1.4m, 220-seat restaurant needed to be visually discreet, highly intelligible and scalable for future expansion.

Blaydon insisted that the system be controlled by two of the Nexia SP digital sound processors purchased through beyerdynamic UK. Dave Chapman from Blaydon commented: "we have used these and other products from Biamp and found them to be extremely adaptable and allow us to give the client virtually whatever they require."

The multi-zone restaurant comprises a ground floor bar covered by six powered loudspeakers; a side seating zone covered by an additional two powered loudspeakers; a main restaurant with four loudspeakers, and four 'Tatami' rooms, catering for about 12 persons in each roo

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UK - Illusionist Derren Brown is once again set to tour the country with the Audio-Technica AT892 Micro Set headset. In February he begins the second, three month, 40 date, leg of this his third tour.

.Previously Brown had been miked with a lapel mic, but this was proving problematic in providing good pickup of his voice at critical moments during the show. Sound engineer Francis Dale of Intasound has worked with Brown's touring show for two years, and recommended the low visibility AT892.

"On the last tour, getting a consistently good sound with a lapel mic was an issue. Having experienced all the 'usual' constraints and quality characteristics, we needed another solution, but one that was very discrete," he explains.

"There has always been resistance to using a headset mic because they tend to be very noticeable. We purchased the AT892 into hire stock last y

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UK - Situated at Southend-on-Sea's Western Esplanade, Adventure Island is a 40-acre leisure site packed with fun park rides, experiences and restaurants. Having provided sound reinforcement earlier in the year for the restaurants and bumper car rides, Mike Glover's locally-based Essex Sound & Light were called in again when Adventure Island owners Stockvale decided to launch a new weekend carnival parade titled Light Fantastic. Designed specifically for the Autumn and Winter season, they wanted a potent sound system which would envelope spectators, to complement the new illuminations.

After purpose designing the structure for the new illuminations, Robert Roberts, general manager of Adventure Island, tasked ESL with matching the catenary effect of the festooned lighting by fixing discreet loudspeakers to the custom-designed lamp post-style poles - spaced equidistantly alo

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USA - Formed in suburban Washington in 1993, indie rock band Modest Mouse has come a long way from 'The Shed', their practice space built by guitarist and vocalist Issac Brock next to his mother's trailer. Now embraced by both indie enthusiasts and mainstream listeners, the six-member group has become a platinum-selling act, and performs for fans on three continents.

During an early leg of this year's tour supporting their latest release, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, the band found it difficult to hear themselves properly and decided they needed better monitoring equipment.

"When you're using mismatched gear and whatever the local house has, it's a roll of the dice every night," says monitor engineer Myles Kennedy, who was pleased to learn that Taylor, Michigan-based Thunder Audio was bringing a set of new Meyer Sound MJF-212A high-power stage monit

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USA - Technomad Associates reports that its complete line of loudspeakers and subwoofers are compliant with the International Electrotechnical Commission's (IEC) IP56 rating under its IP Code. IP56 is a stringent standard for superior protection against hazardous parts and water ingression, and is an extremely rare rating for full-range outdoor loudspeakers. IEC provides international standards and conformity assessments for government, business and society for all electrical, electronic and related technologies.

The IP Code, defined in IEC's international standard 60529, classifies the level of protection provided against the intrusion of solid objects, dust, water and accidental contact. All Technomad products ranging from its 60W Vernal 15 loudspeaker to the 800W Chicago 15/12 subwoofer have an IP56 rating.

Technomad loudspeakers are installed around the world in cruise shi

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UK - Top experts in their specialised field will be speaking when the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers hold their annual exhibition on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at a new venue, the Park Inn Hotel, Northampton.

The wide range of seminar topics, which will run alongside the exhibition, are: The Speech Transmission Index Demystified (Thomas Steinbrecher - Bose Professional Systems); The Application of Sound Field Systems (Kevin Sherwood - CIE-Audio); The Unlimited Possibilities of Using Standard IP Networks (Johannes Rietschel - Barix AG) and The Significant Contribution to Performance that Well-Chosen Connectivity Can Offer (Michael Whiteside - Fuzion plc).

More than 20 specialist suppliers to the sound industry have already signed up including; Ampetronic, Barix AG, Baldwin Boxall Communications, BC Technology, Canford Audio, CIE Group, Clockaudio, Communication

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UK - Blitz Communications was recently commissioned to provide a sophisticated AV solution for Jessops, the UK's leading photographic retailer. Jessops revealed its brand advertising and Christmas campaign to suppliers and managers during a three day event which took place at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The conference comprised a suppliers' welcome dinner, team building activities, an awards ceremony and dinner. Blitz and Jessops worked in close partnership to bring Christmas to life using spectacular imagery which ensured that all of the 600 delegates over three days, were captivated not only by the Christmas campaign and supplier exhibition of products, but also by the complete conference experience.

Peter Riordan, Jessops' stores director comments: "The entire team at Blitz contributed to the phenomenal success of our conference. As it was a one-st

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