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The new main meeting room at the Lausanne headquarters features a Bosch Digital Congress Network (DCN) Next Generation flush-mount installation. The flush-mount system was considered particularly attractive for this application as it enables tailor-made fixed installations to be built into the furniture.

The meeting room's elegant wooden conference table features a centre that rises up to give delegates access to the microphones and voting units. And the channel selector units are installed in the edge

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PSCo rental expert Karen Davis returns to the PSCo fold, bringing with her 12 years' experience in the industry, and is joined by Alison Livemore as part of the rental desk team.

Karen Davis, who worked for PSCo's rental desk for eight years before leaving to help her husband start a business, returns to the team after 12 months.

Alison Livemore joins PSCo from Maxim Integrated Products, bringing with her three years' experience in technical sales to UK manufacturers.

Former account manager Gemma Collins moves across to the operations team within PSCo, helping to improve efficiency and communication between the offices and head up the administration of the PSCo rental department.

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Recently when the Petõfi Theater of Sopron was looking for a new sound system, they asked various vendors to conduct a system demo. Naturally IFK was among the bidders. IFK won with the HK Audio Cadis System they proposed.

The Petõfi Theater, with a rich tradition going back two centuries and its Vienna Secession style, is located in the middle of the Old City of Sopros and holds an audience of about 550. The programme ranges from classical and modern drama to comedy and musicals. The new system is made up of six HK Audio Cadis CAD 208 cabs as the centre cluster, two ConTour Series CT 112 12"/1.4" mid/high units and CT 118 Subs on both the left and the

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Ateis is an established name in the business sector served by ISE but over the past few years its products and systems have been adopted increasingly by installers and building operators to provide the highest quality sound combined with precise control and zoning.

The Ateis product range was expanded during 2009 to reflect this and now includes products designed specifically for installations at railway stations, sports stadia and exhibition halls.

The UAP G2 stackable, programmable digital audio processor, the next generation of the steerable column array loudspeaker, the Messenger G2, and the Orbit omni-directional line arrays are designed to cre

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Working closely with the event's sound designer Derrick Zieba and audio company Britannia Row, Mark Saunders and Andy Lillywhite of Sennheiser UK were there to provide hands-on support for the many performers using Sennheiser equipment.

The company supplied G2 series in-ear monitors for every performer, as well as SKM 5200 handheld mics with Neumann KK 105 capsules for all the presenters.

With Berlin being Neumann's home city, it was appropriate for the company's capsules to feature.

"The amount of effort that Mark

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The huge projection sphere is being installed in host country Angola for the tournament which kicks off on 10 January 2010. Angola will be joined by 15 nations who successfully advanced from the qualification process that began in October 2007 and involved 53 African national teams.

The 22m diameter inflatable structure will feature a 360º seamless projection, playing sponsor adverts and logos, viewable on both the inside and outside of the dome structure. The Arcsphere is an inflated positive pressure dome, and will be installed with a state of the art AV system including a series of plasmas inside for guests to follow the matches.

The sphere is being

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It was staged in the Ballycultra Town, part of the Northern Ireland Folk & Transport Museum, an attraction covering a 170-acre site, complete with the reconstituted 19th century town, which has a church, bank, police station, school and houses.

PSI invited key clients and suppliers. They received an overwhelming response with a turnout of 150 people.

PSI's Sean Pagel says: "Once we'd decided that this was the route we would take, we were determined to go all out to ensure that everyone had a good time, enjoyed our hospitality and also

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Eminem took the stage late in the awards ceremony to pump-up the house, and the rhythm section laid down a solid sonic groove. Live broadcast, multi-band shows are a must-deliver situation, and Brace Audio did just that with pristine audio and flawless wireless bass and guitar system performance.

"Finally, a wireless that keeps all my frequencies intact" said Blackstone. "With Brace, I don't lose any of the low-end on my bass, and the tone remains the same. It's a life saver for an active, moving bassist like me."

"Knowing that you have a reputable wireless unit on stage to handle your tone and distorti

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Supporting environmental protection, Hongkong Land decided to decorate the five skywalks around the Landmark building in Hong Kong's Central with energy saving though highly efficient LED lighting solutions provided by Traxon.

The installation size per bridge varies from a quantity of 40 Mesh units for the 2x13m Ice House Bridge to 202 Mesh units installed along the Connaught Bridge with a total length of 63m, displaying season's greetings and Christmas animations.

Traxon's Mesh RGB is a versatile, modular system of IP67-rated LED modules with a low profile and an easy mounting. The Mesh units can easily be connected by flexible joints offering a high degree of customisation. With its individually controllable pixels T

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Both companies will continue under the direction of managing director Karel de Piere, who from the same date has acquired the ownership of Ampco Belgium and Candela from Ampco Flashlight, left the Ampco Flashlight Group, and sold his shares in the Ampco Flashlight Group. The newly independent companies will focus exclusively on sales activities and will not operate in the rental market.

The Ampco Flashlight Group's audio, lighting and video sales activities will continue to be developed in Europe through TM Audio, Lightco and Pixelsource in the Netherlands, Paradigma in Romania and Atlantic Audio

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CHAS is a non-commercial scheme available to suppliers and to organisations looking for suitably competent suppliers. Qualifying for recognition is a three stage process involving paperwork, review and a health and safety audit. "With more and more of our work involving being on site at the building stage it is a vital qualification, and we are proud to have been accredited," says David Green.

CSCS was set up to help the construction industry to improve quality and reduce accidents. CSCS cards are increasingly demanded on site as proof as occupational competence by contractors as well as public and private clients. Special Projects has been awarded Platinum r

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Two of the three projections were at the ruined Cathedral of St Andrews. Ashton projected giant moving images onto the altar area and one on the cloister walls.

The third site was in St Mary's Quadrangle, part of St Andrews' university - the third oldest in the English speaking world. These were the only light works in the 2009 Festival.

Ashton had produced a small piece for last year's festival, after which he was asked back by event organiser Rob Murray-Brown to do a piece specifically about St Andrews, to be staged in t

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Since January, HMV and MAMA have been partners in their Mean Fiddler joint venture, which runs venues in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

HMV chief executive Simon Fox said: "Our joint venture has worked well since its formation and the full combination of HMV and MAMA will enable us to accelerate our growth into live music.

HMV's takeover offer for MAMA, which is still subject to approval from shareholders, comes after the group rejected earlier bids from Luxemb

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The first is entitled the Stagesafe guide to on site working practices and safe working procedures in the technical production industry, and is aimed at event companies to give to their staff as a basic guide - and can equally be used by individuals and freelancers as a handy reference. It contains a wealth of professional advice, hints and tips about safe working, says the company.

Stagesafe has also updated its Stagesafe guide to self employment in the live music and events industry, a guide for the self-employed and for those who use the services of the self-employed.

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Mike Oates project managed for HSL, once again working closely with the tour's LD Davy Sherwin, production manager Wob Roberts and tour manager Neil Mather. Mike Oates comments, "It's been really interesting to see how Snow Patrol's show has evolved and changed over the year. Each section has been different, and of course it's been excellent working with Wob, Davy and Neil again - they are a great team."

Snow Patrol Reworked was a departure from their standard five-piece rock band set up, with 12 extra musicians onstage, bringing an orchestral feel to the show.

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To enable use with Pro Tools M-Powered 8, users will need to purchase the Mackie Universal Driver upgrade at www.mackie.com. Once the driver is downloaded and installed, the Onyx 820i, 1220i, 1620i and 1640i mixers can be used with Avid Pro Tools M-Powered 8 software.

"For years, Mackie customers have wanted to combine the familiar workflow of an analogue mixer with the world's most popular DAW," said John Boudreau, VP of Loud's Music Gear group. "Through our newly-signed agreement with Avid, Mackie's Onyx-i mixers now make this possible."

Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of products at Avid said, "Avid has made openness a key

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Jason Ashdown, technical manager for Brighton Dome & Festival, approached A.C. Entertainment Technologies when the venue wanted to achieve an up light wall wash around the top of the Foyer, to provide mood lighting for events including comedy, classical, dance and other music genres. With plenty of natural light flooding the room from large skylights, brightness was a key criteria for lighting daytime events.

Ashdown considered several LED products before settling on the Chroma-Q Color Span. His chosen Color Span syst

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The show is a spin-off of the 52-year-old Eurovision Song Contest, produced by the European Broadcast Union (EBU). It is hosted by the public service broadcaster of the host country, which this year was NTU in Kiev. The show is the biggest song contest in the world for performers aged 10 to 15, who must each compose their own music and lyrics.

The theme of this year's show was Tree of Life, based on the artwork of Ukrainian folk art painter Maria Primachenko. Lighting des

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Thun, the Italian company well-known for its ceramic gift and home furnishing ranges, has chosen Proel's AVL Systems' products for its new 1,600sq.m store and its logistic centre which covers a total surface of 35,600sq.m.

Proel's PROEVAC evacuation system has been directly interfaced with the fire detection equipment whose sensors are distributed in various strategic areas of the facility. The system's rack-mount central unit, positioned in the mechanical room, controls the BMH and BMFIRE paging stations broadcasting calls, announcements or pre-recorded evacuation messages.

Each facility area or zone is equipped with specific EVAC speakers with redundant connections (A + B lines). PROEVAC systems and components

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"As a company, we have a very well-established reputation for providing ultra-dependable, ultra-high quality products in situations where people's lives can depend on the delivery of the right imaging at the right time," says Tim Brooksbank, chairman at Calibre.

"What is perhaps less well-known is that we also make many products suitable for applications such as corporate AV, where the emphasis is on raising the quality of multiple video sources to a uniformly high standard, and residential systems, where the usage may be more casual but the expectation of quality is getting higher all the time.

"Where the application is not mission-critical, it is