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UK - "At first there wasn't going to be any grid, we were asked to rig a system off the king poles." Bryan Grant of audio contractor Britannia Row Productions describing the preliminaries of what is always a big event in the music industry calendar, the MTV Europe Awards (EMA's for short). Unrealistic as that might seem - this is after all Europe's premier music awards show (isn't it?), the initial belief that you could stage a world class event off some tent poles proved a partial blessing.

"The design was very different this year," continued Grant, "they brought in Mark Fisher [creative director was Ray Winkler] and he produced a quite minimalist set design, a big departure from previous years. Plus the show was characterized by multiple performance points, with many presentation areas as well."

The concept predicated a highly distributed syste

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SoundVu technology allows manufacturers to bring sound and vision together by turning the display screen into a loudspeaker. The technology involves the optimal positioning of exciters at the 'invisible' edge of a screen and the controlled integration of a vibrating screen with the main body of a display product to achieve the best synchronization of image and sound.

SoundVu technology can be applied to a

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"I'm really pleased to be joining QSC," says Goettsch. "QSC is widely recognized throughout our industry as a leading force in sound reinforcement. The opportunity to contribute to the company's loudspeaker programs is exciting. There's a wealth of opportunity in the marketplace for quality loudspeakers and I look forward to being part of QSC's development process."

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Supplying equipment from a number of pro audio and lighting manufacturers, the company says it will offer: " . . . an efficient and helpful design, demo and supply service from a dedicated team of industry professionals."

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Michel Brouard, L-Acoustics' director of sales, said: "This exciting new step in South East Asia comes after negotiations with S. F. Ho, director of Sennheiser Electronic Asia. Looking back at the achievements of Sennheiser Electronic Asia, we are confident that they are able to cover Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. They have connections in all these countries, as well as others, and a very good team of qualified people, all specialized in their own field of expertise and market."

Sennheiser Electronic Asia was founded in November 1992 with the target of satisfying the special expectations of the differe

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Each side of the soundstage, two large cherry-pickers each supporting a hang of eight Xvls three-way line-array enclosures. Below each crane were ground-stacked eight x X-Line subs. EV's Precision Series remote-controlled amplifiers, the P3000RL, 24 units in all, powered the system. With the pyrotechnics triggered by time code, the music was all playback - with the exception of a saxophone soloist who, using an EV RE-20 wire

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Klark Teknik international sales manager Dave Wiggins says: "It's easy to overlook the importance of utility items like DI boxes, but the fact is that a great-sounding DI box is a key element of a great-sounding system. It's all too common to see folks plugging thousands of pounds' worth of keyboards, basses or electro-acoustic guitars into cheap DI boxes and then wondering where their sound went."

KT tells PLASA Media is conducted extensive blind listening tests to select the best transformer for the new unit, and then engineered it specifically to withstand life on the road. It is fully certified to IEC60068, which tests the unit's resistance to shock a

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When the BBC commissioned BBC Technology to design and build the infrastructure for the BBC's own website, the brief was both straightforward and demanding: design it to exacting broadcast quality standards so that all BBC online content is available to a global audience 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Today, the BBC web site is one of the world's largest public content sites, the second-largest streaming site and one of the most successfully visited sites on the internet.

Virtually all the encoding of the BBC's online content is now processed through Symetrix 422 Stereo AGC Levellers, stereo automatic gain controllers, which also act as peak l

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The Binnenhof, which is ringed by masterpieces of Dutch 12th and 13th century architecture such as the Ridderzaal, may be one of the most beautiful squares in all Europe, but it also has a reputation for being an extremely problematic venue acoustically. Axel Nagtegaal, head of EVI's Dutch partner, Electric Audio BV, is intimately acquainted with the Binnenhof's quirks, having worked on many different productions there: &quo

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"Crown was recommended to us as the optimal amplification partner for the Vertec system," says James Michael Moore. The system has been out with a variety of acts, reflecting the current interest in '80s hits, including Curiosity Killed the Cat, as well as Herbie Hancock and Osibisa. Gordon Reay: "We're very pleased with this investment, it's a useful tool that is meeting our needs and pleasing our clients."

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The steeply raked theatre's impressive architecture seats 430 on two tiers, with a dedicated projection room and 6m screen. Sensitive to the English Heritage listing of the building, Surrey-based Harpers AV installed three pairs of QSC's AcousticDesign AD-S82 loudspeakers in strategic locations within the theater and gallery areas.

Harpers AV project manager Steve Baker also specified a pair of QSC ISA 280 amplifiers and a 24-channel Phonic mixer, with the networked system under Crestron control. "QSC produc

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Named after the prison number of Nelson Mandela, the host of the star-studded event, the show featured memorable performances from stars including Anastacia, Bono, Peter Gabriel, Ms Dynamite, Queen and Youssou N'Dour. Toby Alington, audio producer for the TV recording, said the five-hour main show, which was broadcast live to 27 countries, was edited into a 75-minu

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As part of his role, Frank will focus on generating interest in and awareness of the APRS and increasing its membership, as well as soliciting feedback from current members and identifying ways to improve the benefits of joining. As his job at FX brings him into close contact with a wide range of recording services, Frank will mainly be gauging reactions to the Association out in the field.

It's a great privilege to be involved with the heads of our industry," says Oglethorpe. "The APRS has a long and distinguis

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According to Dr David Law, Director of AAPL: "Over 350 audio professionals from all over China attended the seminar, including Chinese MediaMatrix and Peavey dealers, system integrators, engineers, past and potential customers, as well as professional and academic acoustics and networking experts. Additionally, several professors who are in charge of writing government building acoustical specifications also attended."

Education has been the foundation of MediaMatrix's ongoing success. Since its inaugural session in 1994, the popular MediaMatrix Seminar Series has become an industry event, providing inst

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CEO Jamie Engen told us: "This is the next step in the modernization and streamlining of our worldwide manufacturing and product development resources. In the last year, we've established a network of worldwide manufacturing resources and have added significantly to our product development and engineering teams for bot

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Having been involved with sound reinforcement since the late 1970s, Schwartz brings to DiGiCo a wealth of real-world product knowledge as well as an extensive management background in the pro audio industry. Previous positions included corporate director of product and market development at Mackie Designs, director of marketing at EAW, and general manager of Mark IV Pro Audio Group. Schwartz holds a BS Industrial Technology from WWU and is a member of the AES, IEEE, and NSCA.

"We're delighted to welcome Ivan aboard," says Eric Wade, CEO of DiGiCo USA. "We've known him for many years and his experience with dealer networks, as well as his vast industry knowledge

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Senior audio engineer Matt Wheeler comments: "We try to stay on the cutting edge, to do what we do creatively, so it's not the older, more traditional 'just sing the hymn' kind of service. We want to keep things interesting and relevant, so, in doing that, technology plays a large role in what we do."

Because Fellowship Church has to both provide the full-range audio for musical performances and clear vocal and speech reproduction for sermons and prayers, finding the right microphone has proved

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September's devastating typhoon caused substantial damage to the tent while on tour, and the Cadac F-Type console - the first console supplied by Dream Sound as the local Cadac distributor - was shipped back to the UK for a thorough check as a result. It has subsequently been given a clean bill of health despite the battering it received, and is due to return to Korea ready for the show's new season back at the Big Top Theater in December.

Dream Sound's Jin Yoon Cho commented: "We are very pro

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This is the S6000's second accolade since its launch earlier in 2003, having been awarded Best Sound Product at this year's ABTT show in London. BBM Trantec's managing director Sho Kudo commented: "We are thrilled to have won an Eddy - it means that the S6000 has been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. We're looking forward to seeing the product on Broadway and to it being received as positively as it has already been in London's West End."

The S6000 was among five new products released in 2003, which have applications in the theatr

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Two stages were incorporated in the production: on the main stage the Sugababes, Enrique Iglesias and Busted wowed teen fans, as did sets by Sting and Texas, who added something for the more mature members of the audience, in line with the radio stations widening demographic. From a smaller stage in the centre of Earls Court Kym Marsh, Jamelia and Lemar played shorter acoustic sets. The whole show was broadcast live on AOL broadband, sponsors of the show, with live radio edits also featured on Capital FM across the night.

For the fourth-consecutive year Canegreen provided a PA