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These events offer young people aged 13 and above a taste of the job roles available behind the scenes and offstage in technical theatre and live music events.

Pupils from local schools will meet and experience the work of a number of professionals including lighting and sound technicians, marketing and stage managers and designers, in venues from the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, up to the SAGE in Gateshead. Behind the scenes staff will share the tricks of their trade and experiences, working out of the 'spotlight'.

Offstage is produced by The National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural Skills (NSA), a network of industry speciali

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The new v2.0 software makes the unit an even more rounded and complete recording package, and includes some great additions for journalists, musicians, songwriters, hobbyist recorders, says the company.

The first big new feature is on-board wave editing. This means that an external computer is no longer needed to edit R-09HR recordings as both Divide and Combine features are included. This adds a level of 'in-the-box' flexibility that will benefit all sorts of users who will now be able to create professional edits on location - wherever they are.

A new chromatic-tuner has also been added with two display modes. This is designed for the many musicians who use the R-09HR to record live performances. Now they can tune up with the R-09HR before they p

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The Dante-MY16-AUD card uses a single field programmable logic device to offer a full implementation of Dante. The Dante-MY16-AUD is compatible with MY16 slots on all Yamaha mixing consoles, power amplifiers, and DSPs. The card, developed by Audinate, is available worldwide from Yamaha and its distributors.

"We are honoured to be recognised for innovation by EDN. We specifically chose the Xilinx FPGA implementation because it also gave us flexibility in the future to upgrade and enhance our Dante networking solution," said Chris Ware, VP of Engineeri

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The resulting system, designed and controlled using Harman HiQnet System Architect features components from Harman Professional brands including JBL, Crown and BSS Audio.

AMS Acoustics had already implemented an earlier first phase upgrade last season to bring three stands into VA compliance. During the course of this exercise the capture of a full range of measurements was required and the resultant data, after analysis, was used as the cornerston

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The first Sturgis motorcycle rally in 1938 was a relatively tame affair, and remained so until well into the late 1960s, when films like Easy Rider and Hunter S. Thompson's book Hell's Angels fuelled the rise of the outlaw biker mystique. Since then, the festival has taken on a life of its own, and for a few weeks out of the year this pastoral community of 6,000 in South Dakota's Black Hills becomes the Harley Davidson capital of the world, with attendance estimates of upwards of 700,000 (slightly more than the population of the entire state).

On tap, for the musical portion of the festivities this year, were Aerosmith, George Thorogood, Toby Keith, Billy Squier, Lita Ford, Tesla, Hinder, Saving Abel, Buckcherry,

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The free-of-charge classical music event was supported by Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and was attended by German President Horst Köhler, who said, "Opera For All opens up opera to wide parts of the society. Opera must not only be high culture for the wel

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"Monte touched many lives over the course of an exceptional career," says Daniel Nix, VP of sales, Americas, for Bosch's Communications Systems Division. "He was a mentor to many, and helped take hundreds of individuals and companies to the next level with education and technology. We were humbled by the amount of inquiries we received in the wake of his passing, from friends and colleagues asking 'Is there anything we can do?'

"The creation of the

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Kicking off the FIFA World Cup on 10 June 2010 at the newly-renovated Orlando Stadium in Soweto/Johannesburg, this historic three-hour live concert event will showcase the music, sport and visual pageantry of South Africa. The event will feature musical performances by major international superstars and popular African artists collaborating together, along with special appearances by past and present football legends, and will be broadcast to networks around the world. All net proceeds will benefit 20 Centres for 2010, the official campaign of the 20

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Backstage at north London's Garage venue, Roland Systems Group technical wizards Martin Thomas and Simon Kenning had good reason to admire the super-compact footprint of the RSS M-400 digital console, which enabled them to fit an entire live recording set-up as well as two engineers and a three-piece band into a 10'x 8' dressing room.

The RSS technology maintained a low profile in the club. The use of a single S-4000 Digital Snake stage box meant that the live recording team caused less than minimal disruption to the venue and the band's FOH engineer, yet was able to capture a live performance in 48kHz 24-bit broadcast-quality audio. Using the S-4000 Digital Snake 'standalone',

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David Schwartz, president of SED and developer of Laser-Accurate technology, believes that existing microphone manufacturers will be best positioned to take microphones to the next level by combining the Laser-Accurate technology with their vast design and manufacturing experience.

"Rather than start my own company again to manufacture products based on this technology, I see the benefit in letting already established professional audio manufacturers license it and apply it to their own designs," says Schwartz, who founded CompuSonics in 1984 and grew it into a leading developer and manufacturer of digital audio workstations and digital

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Square Brussels offers 13,500sq.m of meeting rooms, exhibition space and a state-of-the-art auditorium. The venue is in the heart of Brussels and is located only 300m from the Royal Palace and next to the Museum of Arts and the Royal Library.

"The Studer Vista 5 and Vista 5 SR with its Vistonics interface are highly intuitive and very easy to use, which is perfect because during a live performance, the operator should be totally concerned with making the sound perfect as opposed to worrying about which button he is pressing," says Jos Jorisse

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The landmark 350-capacity venue on Swan Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester's city centre has just been completely renovated, restored and reborn by registered charity Inner City Music with the help of a £4 million combined award from the Arts Council England, Manchester City Council and Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the venue into a 21st century centre of music with strong community ties.

The system was designed by Adlib's Roger Kirby who says: "We all agreed that dV-DOSC rig would work best in the space offering a detailed high frequency and solid low end response, with the system also having adequate headroom for the eclectic programme of live events that are planned."

The music will encompass a wide range of musical g

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3,000 ticket-winning guests were entertained by Sir Tom Jones, Estelle, Dizzee Rascal and Kasabian. The sound system - supplied by Britannia Row - was Outline's Butterfly: 12 CDH 483s per hang plus six Subtech 218s, powered by Outline's T9 amplifiers and controlled via Dolby Lake processing.

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This special event featured the Russian national orchestra and leading singers Anna Netrebko, Paata Burchuladze, Julia Gertseva and Sergey Skorokhodov, who performed Russian classical music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Bortniansky, Prokofiev and Kastalsky.

Two hangs of 12 Kudo line source array cabinets were used for the main sound system, with two stacks of Kiva ultra compact line source array units and Kilo low frequency extensions for side coverage. Two Kiva speakers were also deployed to cover the front rows. Six SB218 subwoofers per side were set up in cardioid configuration to reduce low-end bleed on stage.

"Working on a square surrounded by cathedrals is

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House of Blues has worked with everyone from Miley Cyrus, Indigo Girls and Kid Rock to Faith Hill, Amy Grant and Dolly Parton. The studio complex is split between two buildings with the main Studio A and Studio B reserved for larger tracking and mixing projects and with Studio C designed to attract smaller budget projects that will benefit from Matrix.

"We had an engineer in the other day who tracked his project in a large studio, and tried to mix entirely in the box in his private studio," says Mike Paragone, studio manager for House of Blues, Nashville. "When we started, we brought up just two channels through Matrix and he was blown away by the so

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UK sales over the past year have been managed by Dave Kelland, an industry stalwart who draws on many years' experience in the pro audio world, having worked with numerous PA companies and prior to that, as a freelance sound engineer.

Kelland's sales success, coupled with the release of the Opera Digital and DVX professional speaker series' this year has led to the appointment of Richard Soper, who joined the team on 1 October as area sales manager for the south of England.

"Richard's bright, confident demeanour and previous experience in a technical sales role at Amber Sound stands him in

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Last week's seminar was organised by Harman Professional¹s distributor, Hi-Tech Audio Systems Pvt and included presentations by regional sales director Sushil S. John that focused on the release of upcoming Harman products. In attendance were all of the master state dealers, dealers, rental companies, and AV integration companies from the North of India, which totalled 75 people.

"The seminar in New Delhi was a great success," John said. "Not only were we able to showcase different products and review our compa

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Nürtingen-based Creative Technology (CT) Germany supplied and operated all audio, video, and lighting equipment for the two-story VIP area. The system included eight Meyer Sound M'elodie line array loudspeakers, two 600-HP subwoofers, and an assortment of UltraSeries loudspeakers, including 10 UPA-1P and 38 UPM-1P

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Sennheiser Middle East is a branch office of Sennheiser UK, long responsible for the distribution of all Sennheiser Group brands in the Middle East, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of parent company, Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co.

With a diverse portfolio of products, this step has been taken to facilitate better support of its existing dealer network, as well as expanding its distribution channels.

Responsibility also encompasses the distribution of all Sennheiser Group brands, including Neumann and Klein+Hummel, as well as distributed brands such as K-Array, NetCIRA and Rycote.

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DPA has worked with Mega Audio for more than a decade, appointing them as exclusive distributor for Germany in 2004, a move which has seen turnover double in the region.

"Mega Audio have managed to increase their sales figures even during these financially difficult times," says DPA director of sales and marketing, Morten Stove. "We have a great working relationship with Mega and it grows stronger every day. We have high expectations and they are able to meet them. They have dedicated staff, and invest resources in marketing. Their de

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Joe Moser and the Zeo Brothers team deployed a high-performance, compact EV system for the outdoor event, comprising eight XLD281 line array elements (FOH), four QRx218S subwoofers, six Sx250 (delays/mix monitors) and three Dx38 system processors.

"We set the EV system up to provide perfect coverage for the upper island (aka Duffy Island) in Times Square," says Moser, "and we only needed to use arrays of four XLD boxes per side, with a little support from the Sx250 delays. The system was the ideal supplement to the 10' x 18' video wall showing the premiere video. The concert-quality audio helped leave the audience captivated, and evoked thrilled and thankful responses from our client - it eve

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Cebolas was only able to try the PRO6 for the first time the day before the show. "It's an intuitive system, with a magnificent work surface where all the pots, buttons and colours are revealed very distinctly, and everything is just a touch away," says Cebolas. "The LCD monitors are relatively large, with strong, vivid colours and high contrast, even when exposed to bright daylight. T

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FairTunes is a team of industry and technical experts with a simple idea - to target local communities in developing nations and build music studios and radio facilities in their neighbourhoods. They then train the community to use the facilities and continue to support them, until they are able to run the facilities themselves.

The charity also aims to apply the principles of fair trade to establish an online promotion and distribution facility for the music produced in the studios. This will "create a self sustaining cycle where artists will get paid for

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Kyle Toth, entertainment technical director at Crystal Cruises explains, "We have the most extensive entertainment and educational programmes in the ultra-luxury cruise market and the Sy48 has become the backbone of our audio support for those programmes. We offer multimedia lectures, classical concerts, headline vocalists and instrumentalists, comedians and several full scale production shows. The most exciting application f