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Production used two Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, run in 96-channel V3.0 mode, which Jaquiss filled with around 80 inputs, 56 of which were stage alone, including guest vocals and assorted media. "The Vi6 is a brilliant desk, great sounding and with a very small footprint for this style of tour," he comments. The existing console was upgraded to 96 channels via an additional DSP card, while the sound engineer immediately identified the advantages of the latest software release.

"With both desks upgraded to V3 software, along with the increase in channels, the snapshot and scoping functions had been improved as well. This has now made it a totally usable function of the console

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The world's largest museum of design and decorative arts plays host to a series of talks and presentations by world-class design practitioners the calibre of William Dudley, British stage designer, costume designer, video designer and 3D animator, who has most recently designed the sets and costumes for the Broadway musical The Woman in White, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He is joined by lighting designer Rick

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A member of the UTE (Union of Theatres of Europe), the TNS has had the status of "National Theatre" since 1972 and is the only one of the five theatres with this classification outside the French capital.

With up to 20 productions per season and approximately 200 performances per year, it offers a busy and varied programme. The TNS hosts a permanent theatre company, the Ecole Supérieure d'Art dramatique drama school and two halls for shows.This set-up is completed by the Studio Kablé, with two supplementary halls, rehearsal and work rooms and administration facilities, as well as scenography and costume workshops.

The TNS hosts four permanently installed Doppia II 9075 systems

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Speech Day and the Summer Prom are always the two most important dates in its yearly calendar and both were reinforced by Subfrantic's Turbosound Aspect rig.

"The system for Speech Day had to cover about 2,000 people, but there was no option to fly the rig so we had to use a ground stacked system," says Subfrantic operations manager Sean Murphy.

"As the audio programme was predominantly speech, plus choral and classical music, it wasn't a bass-heavy production so we put in six TA-890L and 12 TA-890H, rotating the mid-high section of

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Tryvann is noted for hosting the music festival named after it, as well as for being the most popular meeting point for the Russ, the name given to students who have finished their last year of Videregående skole and hold massive graduation celebrations during the months of April and May.

This year, Tryvann Festival welcomed around 10,000 people, and included sets by DJs including DJ Klaas, Xzibit, Adam Tensta, DJ Antoine and MC Roby Rob. About 35 large buses - rented by the various student groups - decked out with sound and lights stationed themselves on a gigantic esplanade spanning an a

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In collaboration with John Parish to promote their jointly-credited album, A Woman A Man Walked By, the PJ Harvey tour started in the UK at venues including Brighton's Corn Exchange, the Ritz in Manchester and the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, followed by dates in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and France.

After successfully using Allen & Heath's modular iLive system with Danish pop act, Alphabeat, Booker selected the compact iLive-T system, comprising an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T80 Control Surface.

"The small footprint and convenience of iLive-T has made life easy on this tour because we're mostly playing quite small venues. The entire system takes up a mere

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Later, the listening session took place at the Beijing Workers Stadium which has a seating capacity of 70,000, in the presence of a selected panel of 40 sound engineers, system designers, sound hire contractors and installers.

The programme included a theoretical presentation of the UL210, its Isotop technology issues, followed by an outdoor listening session. The system configuration was composed of two clusters with six UL210 each, with low frequency reinforcement managed by the TB218S subs.

(Jim Evans)

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The new design features include a horizontally brushed aluminium front panel with the controls seated into new smooth milled rounded openings, the brushed aluminium also has the practical advantage of retaining its classic look for longer as it will repel marks such as finger prints, says the company.

According to SPL, technically nothing has changed, "Over the years, thousands of users have created and experienced amazing results using the Channel One and Track One. So, we see no reason to change these SPL classics, especially as they have been so successfully tried and tested." says SPL's CEO, Hermann Gier.

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APR Audio deployed two PRO6s at front of house for the Jazz/World Stage, alongside an H3000 for engineers preferring to use an analogue console. One PRO6 was used for mixing the bands while the second was connected to the stage via AES50 tie-lines. This allowed engineers to practice mixing the live band on headphones prior to moving to the 'hot' PRO6 for their own show, and for APR and Midas staff to demo the console to interested parties.

"We thought the usability and the audio quality of the PRO6 were second to none," says Andy Reed from APR. "Nearly half of the visiting engineers of the acts playing on

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AEG will have to refund up to $85m (£52m) to fans who purchased tickets for Jackson's 50-date residency at London's O2 arena. It is also believed to have spent $23-25m (£14-15m) on production costs. Phillips said those "hard costs" were covered by insurance, although profits were not. Phillips admitted the biggest problem facing AEG at the moment was w

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"Over the past several years, more and more musicians, both professional and amateur, have taken recording into their own hands at home, on the road, in their bedroom, basement, tour bus, wherever," said Chad Wiggins, Shure's category manager for Wired Microphones. "With this new product, we're bringing the legendary heritage of Shure microphones to every level of performer and home recording artist as the proliferation of digital recording continues."

The X2u adapter is a modular accessory that connects any XLR microphone to a computer to create "better-than-CD quality recordings". As home recording flourishes, the X2u redefines what musicians and podcasters can do in their home

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What the two individual environments of Magnolia and Dalia have in common are high-SPL Vieta sound systems, powered by Powersoft. Installers Kiko Sound liaised closely on the system design with Vieta pro products supplier SeeSound.

Local stars and celebrities came out for opening night, including Ivan, the latest Big Brother winner in Spain, and Paola Santoni, the MC for the night. Manager Isidro Navarro Bea explains that the Botanic is more than just a nightclub two nights a week - "During the week, we will host special events like product presentations and private/corporate parties. We don't want to simply offer music, but to create a space which

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Kaleidovision already works with mainstream leisure and retail brands such as Pitcher & Piano, Gala Casinos, Varsity and London Clubs, providing digital media network content and technology services, while Music Concierge has built up an international portfolio of retailers such as Dunhill and Mulberry, and hotels including The Connaught in London, One&Only Cape Town, and Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives.

Explaining the rationale, Kaleidovision MD Andy Pitman said: "We will be positioning Music Concierge as our in-house boutique music profiling brand for clients who need the very highest levels of site-specific music consultancy. Music Concierge will retain full creative control of the music profiling."

Rob Wood, founder and creative dir

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"Our installations take on all number of shapes and sizes, and EAW has the best solutions for just about every application we encounter," stated Newtech's Bill Banfield. "Ashland, Kentucky's Christ United Methodist Church's install was short and sweet: two EAW VR62 compact full-range loudspeakers.

"However, working with Mercer County High School in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was a different story. There, we installed a multi-zoned system in the gymnasium, featuring six MK5396 two-way full range installation loudspeakers and 10 MK2366 two-way full range installation

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Starring Maria Friedman and Daniel Dae Kim, the songs were perfectly matched to Bobby Aitken's carefully designed sound system based around a Martin Audio W8LC/W8LM orchestra system. 10 Martin Audio W8LM out-fills per side complemented 10 W8LC's in L/R front facing hangs, with four WLX subs forming the top of each cluster.

"I always enjoy using the Martin Audio line arrays for big musical productions such as this. I am particularly drawn to the detailed midrange of those speakers," remarked Aitken.

"The Albert Hall is a tricky room - tight around the sides - and the W8LM's cover that particularly well; traditionally other loudspeakers we have used for that purpose have not had the vertical

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"It was a big - and some would say brave - undertaking," admits Michael Herweg, sales & marketing director. "Especially pitching ourselves against our competitors in live sound demonstrations."

"We wanted to highlight the fact that we can stand up against the big names of the industry. Really there is nothing out there with the amount of features we offer (be it power, weight or sound quality) at such a good price. Judging by the feedback we've received from some of our attendees, we've got our message across. So it was definitely worth it.&q

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Patrick Gourley, technical director for the church, worked with Anaheim-based Sound Bridge during the console selection process. "All our engineers are volunteers," he says. "So in addition to all the technical requirements, we had to find something with a fast l

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The Sussex Academy of Music, based on the south coast, provides music tuition of all instruments and courses to all age groups. Midas ProSound has been working with teaching staff to design a digital audio control system that is suitable for use in the 'live' room, and for future shows outside the Academy. The core of the system uses a RSS M-400 V-Mixer with a S-1608 Digital Snake.

"Having lectured in sound between 1990 and 2002, it's extremely gratifying to be involved once again in an academic environment, this time as a systems supplier," says Nicholson. "Today's digital technology certainly gives the student more scope

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Community's S4 calculator's graphical interface provides a two-dimensional polar prediction for an array of LF point sources at any given frequency, and predicts the frequency and phase response in front and behind the array, delivering an accurate prediction of the system performance both onstage and in the audience area. S4 also provides box spacing and DSP settings for bass arrays of Community VLF208 or VLF212 woofers, and advanced settings provide the ability to calculate average bandwidth, polar degree and amplitude resolutions, listener position and several other paramet

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With the support of the UK based distributor Proel International, the sound system installed in Rodizio Rico is composed of enclosures from the high-end EDGE and NEOS series. EDGE25PB satellites and EDGE112SP subwoofers have been used for the main distributed system; EDGE8CXPB as DJ monitors and the self powered NEOS12A and NEOS115SA as a separate system used for when the restaurant presents live music performances.

Several smaller enclosures from the AVL Systems catalogue have been used to provide coverage to other areas throughout the building.

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The King and I represented the first foray for Out Board's new TiMax2 SoundHub being controlled by TiMax Tracker automation. Aitken observes, "TiMax has always worked well for us on these Albert Hall shows, and with TiMax2 this year I've noticed subtle improvements to the overall openness and clarity of the sound."

Principals and selected chorus members each wore a miniature TiMax Tracker Tag which enabled the tracking system to divine where they were on stage at any given time. 19 delay-based vocal imaging zones on stage were programmed into the TiMax2 SoundHub matrix. These were then ma

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The system consisted of a total of 93 Kudo line source cabinets, with four clusters of six for the general public area hung from towers located behind the seating rows. The refuelling area featured three clusters of six Kudo cabinets, while North and South exhibit areas were covered by two clusters of six, seven clusters of three and two clusters of nine Kudo cabinets, all powered by L-Acoustics LA amplified controllers. This was a small amount of sound sources taking into account the total area to cover.

"Despite carrying out Soundvision simulations during the 10-day set up, we faced huge constraints with the North and South exhibit areas due to the presence of the planes, wh

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The bi-polar system design, two line arrays of 11 T10 loudspeakers positioned directly above the broadcast dais from where the televised result announcements were staged, was made by Patrick Van Cauwenberghe, who barely two months ago attended his first T-Series seminar at the Cirque Royale in Brussels.

"This system is simply the perfect one for the job," said Van Cauwenberghe. "Looks and size are important for television's aesthetics, and the lightweight T10 loudspeaker addressed stru

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Green-i director Ian Woodall (Woody) will initially work alongside SSE London's operations director Emma Barwell, to ensure that existing contracts and relationships are supported and fully maintained.

Woodall commented: "I'm delighted with this deal because it means our existing clients will benefit greatly from the strength of SSE Audio Group and the wide range of audio services they offer. It also means in future I can take a less hands-on role, in the knowledge that all our clients are being looked after and the relationships we have built up o