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"We were very unhappy with the sound," says worship elder Lorna Cohen. "It was fine for spoken word but we had all sorts of music that just really wasn't engaging our congregation because of the building's acoustics. We also have this Möller organ with 1,600 pipes and we weren't really able to experience the full range of that because we had a very, very dead space."

Laguna was committed to finding an audio solution that would aurally envelope the congregation and fully support its pra

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Ben Jumper, president and CEO, stated, "CenterStaging, an icon of excellence in the music industry for over 19 years, will operate uninterrupted. It now has strong financial backing and is an essential part of a network of rehearsal, backline rental and recording studios around the country. In keeping with the SoundCheck brand, CenterStaging has expanded its services to offer music instrument repair services and locker rentals. This is a relationship and service business. CenterStaging's customers can take comfort in the fact that

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The state-of-the-art building offers a diverse programme of quality performances. It is the newest addition to Newtownabbey Borough Council's HQ, and is located in the Civic Square area at the back of the renovated Mossley Mill, a former 19th century flax mill.

Locally based PSI tendered and won the contract to equip the theatre against stiff competition. They worked to the specification of consultants Theatre Plan and closely with the venue's technical manager, Mick Draine. PSI also supplied technician Alan Clarke for the full fit up period and the first few weeks of operation, to ensure that all things technical went smoothly.

PSI's Brian Reilly says, "We were delighted to win this contract. Thea

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In traditional theatres, auxiliary support spaces (such as make-up rooms, rehearsal studios, set build, storage and offices) are positioned around a core space of auditoria. The Wyly architecture turns this accepted layout on its head by stacking the theatre vertically so that the back-of-house and front-of-house areas are situated above and below several stories of performance space.

An automated 'superfly tower' services the stage levels, enabling scenery and seating to

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Laporte is no stranger to Merging's product line, having been managing director of the company's French distributor Diversity for 15 years. While there, he was instrumental in introducing the VCube video player to the French post-production market, overseeing the installation of 50 networked VCubes at one post facility alone (Dubbing Brothers in Paris). The position with Merging's head office in Switzerland gives him wider responsibilities. "The challenge for me now, using my experience working for a distributor in one territory, is to build on Merging's distributor network around the

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Sotheby's Amsterdam is located in the heart of a prosperous business district in the southern part of Amsterdam. With four large galleries for exhibitions and sales, as well as the Bagna Cauda restaurant, it is an auction centre with facilities for the 21st Century. KNOKKi Audio Technologies - in partnership with independent audio consultant, Wieger Fransen, and Bert Koenders of Lemke Roos Audio - designed an audio installation featuring the 8030A in white.

"We're absolutely delighted with the Genelec

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Thomsun product specialist Alok Ghurde, was kept busy throughout answering specific and informed questions about Optocore, 'pioneers of optical digital fibre network systems', from the many prospective customers.

"We had a working Optocore network demonstrated on the booth with Audio, DMX and Video transport showcased. We also had the SANE devices on display," he said.

It was a move that paid off, as many of the region's leading consultants and integration companies displayed interest. The same was true on the rental side where most of the lead

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According to Mal Turner, who set up the company in 1996 (originally to provide audio support), "Many of the venues we work are low on power and weight bearing provision, and since LED moving heads have come of age we decided to invest."

He looked at several options, but already had a trading relationship with MilTec (UK), distributors for PR Lighting. "We have bought PR fixtures in the past and found them to be reliable. The new XLED 390's fitted the bill price wise - and when we put a unit up against a conventional 575W moving head it knocked spots off it - there was a massive difference in light intensity.

"In addition, the speed of colour change response is exceptional as is the fact that

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Divine joins Bosch with considerable industry and leadership experience, most recently from the Crown Audio Division of Harman International Industries, where he served as marketing director for installed sound and touring. In his new position, Divine will develop and implement marketing strategies for Bosch's ProSound brands in the Americas region, including Electro-Voice, and will act as the focal point for the voice of the customer in this market segment.

The Communications Division product marketing managers will report directly to Divine who will report to Daniel Gundlach, VP marketing - Americas.

John F. Anderson has assumed the role of product marketing manager, Intercom. Anderson will support the Americas

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The 2000-capacity club is located in the provincial town of Latina and covers 2400m2, divided into three separate areas. Featuring performances by nationally and internationally renowned DJs, theme parties and special guest appearances, the club attracts people from a wide area to enjoy its mix of house, 70s, 80s and Latin American music.

Seeking to constantly improve, regularly upgrading its facilities, the latest changes have included the installation of a Yamaha DME24N and MY8-ADDA96 interface card to radically overhaul the entire venue's audio control.

Specified and instal

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Joining the other Universal Studios sites in Hollywood, CA., Orlando, FL. and Osaka, Japan it incorporates 24 attractions, of which 18 are original or specially adapted for the park. Each of the seven themed zones is based on a blockbuster movie or television show, featuring their own specific attractions. With Universal Studios taking up 20 hectares of Resort World Sentosa's massive 49 hectares, excellent site-wide communications were essential.

Singapore based Electro-Acoustics Systems, the regional QSC distributors, were appointed to supply and install the entire sound reinforcement and background music system - and wasted no oppor

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All Music Corp, based in Miami, Florida, will be the exclusive Adamson distributor and support body for the Spanish speaking region. The main sales and support contact at All Music Corp. is Marco Breda.

All Music is an official dealer for other brands including XTA, Allen & Heath, TC Electronic including Lab.gruppen, AKG, Soundcraft, Digidesign and many others. They also distribute musical instruments, lighting, cabling and flight cases.

Adamson has also set-up an exclusive distributor for Colombia, with CV Music taking full control of sales and support in that country.

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The backdrop graphics provided subtle enhancements to the production, a series of silhouettes and computer-generated animations that were stylish without distracting from the drama of this early 19th-century work.

"The graphics were beautiful and amazing," stated media server programmer Martin Potoczny of Visivo Visual Design who has worked with the Maxedia system for years.

"We used all custom created content by Lava Studio of Miami who provided a hard drive with all the content segments. I then put the show together with timing and

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Bosch only recently introduced the advanced, compact CCS 900 Ultro Discussion System that makes it easy to manage meetings and is suitable for small- to medium-scale meeting areas, such as town halls, local business centers and courtrooms. Its discussion unit is designed to complement any interior, from new, ultra-modern buildings to traditional, centuries-old structures, says the company.

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The sound design and spec was an open brief and Adlib's James Neale was asked to demonstrate his multiplexing abilities by designing and tech'ing the system as well as taking on FOH/monitor engineering duties.

Neale decided on a JBL VerTec PA, primarily because of its ease of use as a combined flown and ground stacked system. He knew that in the City Hall shows, he would have to split the arrays into these two positions to preserve the site lines and ensure that the seats around the sides of the stage had uninterrupted views - and this

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The company has recently bought four more PM5D-RHs to add to its Yamaha rental stock, which now comprises ten PM5D-RH, two DSP5D, four M7CL-48, five LS9-32 and three LS9-16.

"Previously we've always had analogue consoles on festival monitors enabling us to cater for the wide variety of engineers who need to use them," says SSE's Alex Penn. "This will be the first year we've switched over to using only digital consoles, but it's a decision we haven't taken lightly, as all our setups need to be instantly accessible for any engineer to walk up to.

"The PM5D-RH is su

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Located in the city of Gyeongsan, Yeungnam University is one of the largest South Korean universities outside of the capital, Seoul. The Chunma Art Centre has been built to an extremely high specification; It consists of seven stories above ground and two stories below ground, and it is one of the most technologically advanced arts centres.

For performances, the Art Centre comprises the Grand Hall with a seating capacity of 1,899 and a multi-purpose stage that can accommodate most types of performances, and the medium-sized Chamber Hall with

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Back then Leardi was working as a technician in a recording studio when he bought his first HK Audio sound reinforcement system - one that is still up and running today.

Knowing the reliability of his old system, Pier Francesco Leardi had no qualms about investing more heavily into additional active and passive HK Audio systems once his own company had finally been founded.

The HK ConTour Array system acquired by A Dog on Tour Service consists of four CTA 118 subwoofers and four CTA 208 mid/high units.

Leardi comments, "I have always been very satisfied with the quality of HK Audio products -especially with my good old 1990 sy

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Launched during 2009, the award-winning Blackbox Recorder is currently represented in over 30 countries. The rack-mounted recorder attaches to any live console and enables up to 24 channels of 24 Bit / 96 kHz audio to be recorded, in Broadcast WAV format, onto a regular FAT32 formatted USB2 hard drive, or USB flash drive, without the need to take a computer to the performance.

JoeCo's managing director Joe Bull commented, &quo

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A few months ago it was announced that Neumann would add studio monitors to its product portfolio. This range is based on the products of the Klein + Hummel company.

Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of marketing/sales at Neumann Berlin says, "In the history of the company, Neumann stands for far more than microphone technology. Over the decades we have also produced record-cutting equipment and studio consoles, for example. Our expertise in transformer design - for the microphone - as well as in signal processing and digital audio technology, has already been demonstrated. In addition Neumann has a leading role in the area of high technology, which is successfully implemen

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Additions to the Midas digital range as well as new standalone audio distribution systems and networking products from Klark Teknik will be unveiled.

The new arrivals will make Midas' digital technology more accessible to an even greater range of budgets and applications, as well as increasing connectivity, both within the Midas/Klark Teknik network and with regard to third party protocols, says the company.

"This is the biggest multi-product launch ever for Midas and Klark Teknik" says managing director John Oakley. "More people than ever will be able to use our products, with new consoles offering on the one hand more power and on the other lower cost entry to Midas mixing. They will also discover the versatility of our audio networking systems and how eas

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The Kara/SB18 Pilot Programme will primarily involve existing members of the L-Acoustics Rental Network - in particular dV-Dosc owners interested in advanced field testing of the new system for corporate and special events through to concert applications.

The initial companies taking part in the scheme are UK-based rental companies SFL and Plus 4 Audio, French events specialist Impact Evenement, Wilhelm & Willhalm from Germany and global production company PRG, all of which are located near L-Acouistics headquarters and offices to facilitate close collaboration with the R&D team and technical support. Emphasis will be put on preset validation, system configuration and design, rigging and general system set-up and operation.

"We ar

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Three sound service companies united for this undertaking: Leggio Sonido (directed by Jorge Leggio), Ariel Marti's Marti Audio, and Victor Lampariello's Compañía Uruguaya de Sonido. Together, these three firms pooled a massive amount of equipment together and pulled off one of the most memorable hard rock concerts to hit Montevideo in some time.

Jorge Leggio, director of Leggio Sonido, reportsd, "This was an outdoor concert where the crowd was situated on the soccer field, in an area about 100m wide b

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During the evening, guests were rewarded with a party and a concert. At the heart of all these proceedings was an Innovason Eclipse digital console which mixed the bands, recorded them, and then sent out the recordings over an EtherSound network directly to each workshop where participants could make comparative microphone listening tests, or try their own hands at mixing.

Innovason's Matthieu Le Failler managed the network and 'babysat' the various freelance engineers who were mixing the bands. He e