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14 March 2016

In a career spanning six decades, he's given more shows than many younger artists have had hot dinners, and the same can be said of long-time front-of-house sound engineer Keith Bugos, who started mixing for Kenny Rogers when he was with the First Edition, 39 years ago.

"We've definitely seen some changes over the years," says this master of understatement, "not least with the equipment we are using. Back in the late 80s, when Kenny was blazing hot and selling out arenas in a couple of hours, we were long-term clients of Clair Bros and carrying all our own production. Today, with shorter tours, we carry co

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Buildex takes place every year and showcases raw materials and machinery for civil and industrial building industry and also represents a strategic meeting point for professionals and leading companies from that region who work in this field.

Technical Light and Sound Group (TLSC Group), the Syrian distributor known as SADA on the local market, presented a selected range of Proel solutions suitable for permanent installations and other applications.

Among the Proel products, visitors saw Proel's Flash Speaker Enclosure Series, HPD Digital Amplifier Series, a wide range of accessories and loudspeakers from AVL Systems Division for PA applications.

"Once more, this edition of Buildex confirmed its strategic importance for the professiona

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Barclay Dakers, who heads up oubiance.co.uk, said: "Traditionally, online shopping for theatrical consumables can take up a considerable amount of time, wading through difficult to understand codes and product descriptions. We wanted to offer a completely different way of doing things. This site is run by techs, for techs."

The site utilises easy to navigate menus and aims to cut through the confusion by offering simpler methods of finding the desired item. For example, the range of replacement lamps is illustrated to enable users to compare what's in their hand with what's on th

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Stevie Wonder helped the festival celebrate its 40th anniversary with a crowd-pleasing set to close this year's event. He brought Michael Eavis on to the stage to help sing a version of Happy Birthday.

In The Sale Room (1) - A crystal-studded glove belonging to the late po

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Linked to a Yamaha PM5D-RH console, chosen for ease of use and changeover, Procol Harum FOH engineer Graham Ewins explained how the 24-channel multi-track live audio recorder proved its worth.

"Hook-up was simplicity itself, connect the looms, connect the hard drive, power up and off you go. We had to configure our new hard drives for fat 32 file handling, but once this was done, we were up and running very easily. Procol Harum channels total to 22, with channels 23 and 24 used as a stereo pair for audience c

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Electro-Voice's partner in the region, Prosound won the commission to install the sound systems. A mammoth task: - four of the stadiums were new constructions and the other six had to be renovated, extended or partly rebuilt in order to meet the stringent demands of an event of this calibre.

In the case of the sound reinforcement, each stadium was the subject of a separate invitation to tender and to merit serious consideration each sound reinforcement solution proposed had to be tailored to the acoustic and other requirements of each individual stadium.

"Ever since founding the firm over 37 years ago, I have worked closely with Elect

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The system was designed to meet a special request from the Embassy's technical department, who were seeking a system that would be able to provide open conference, simultaneous interpretation, recording and some basic sound reinforcement. Furthermore, it needed to function virtually operator free.

"When I saw the space, it was clear that it was much more than a conference hall," said DT

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Sennheiser has spent around 15m euros on the new centre, not including the costs involved in moving production from Burgdorf and transferring the engineering department. As part of the construction of the new building, all manufacturing processes were reorganised to create increased efficiency for the future.

"The meticulous planning and the intensive consultation process with ergonomists and manufacturing experts has paid off," concluded Volker Bartels, president of manufacturing and logistics. "From the beginning of this year our production and engineering staff have been working in a superbl

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In keeping with the company's long-standing support policy, Calrec will continue to provide component spares and repair services for the S2, C2 and M3 consoles for a minimum of 10 years from shipment date. Should original components or parts become unavailable, Calrec will offer appropriate alternatives, including hardware/software solutions.

The decision to stop making analogue consoles results from the broadcast market's general adoption of digital technology, which has both reduced demand for analogue products and made dedicated analogue components difficult to come by. Calrec had already stopped manufacturing

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One of the major challenges producers face when broadcasting this show is the use of different conductors during each performance, while the orchestra remains the same.To help maintain consistency between numbers during this year's festival, every member of the orchestra utilized the Aviom A-16II Personal Mixer (in previous years only the rhythmic section used the Aviom equipment). The 16 presets on each of the A-16II mixers proved to be an asset for musicians and engineers ali

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During the evaluation stage, the Theatre's engineer, Jay Christie, approached PA company and installation firm, SRD Group, to request a demo of the iLive system.

"Jay was looking at various digital options but iLive came out on top because it is so flexible, easy to set up and install, has DCA groups, and unlike many other smaller consoles, has a Touchscreen," explains SRD's Stuart Roberts.

"I also liked the fact that the EQ, gates and compressors are all laid out on the front of the surface rather than hidden in a Touchscreen menu, making set up and operation quicker than other consoles we tested," adds Christie.

The Theatre selected an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Contr

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The extensive Behringer line-up includes mixers, loudspeakers and studio monitors, power amplifiers, PA systems, signal processors, modelling and effects processors, microphones, MIDI controllers and audio interfaces.

Samson began over 25 years ago as an audio technology company designing wireless microphone systems and has pioneered a number of technical breakthroughs in wireless technologies. The product range includes USB microphones, processors, equalisers, portable PA systems, mixers, power amplifiers and power distribution.

AC-ET's audio sales manager

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The Soundcraft Vi6 was installed in a way to cope with all manner of monitor feeds, allow for joint front-of-house redundancy and to provide ultimate portability. "After researching the venue and presenting our ideas, the Vi6 was the easy choice for the Hall to make," says Aaron Rudden, owner of CET /AMR Export. "Key items that secured the Vi6 were its 96-channel solution, Soundcraft's commitment

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Adlib is supplying an L-Acoustics V-Dosc system, with dV-Dosc in-fills, Arcs side-fills and SB28 subs. This was specified by Davidson for its sound and clarity.

The set-up varies according to venue, and in its largest format the main arrays consisted of 8 V-Dosc cabinets a side, with three dV underhangs. They are using a combination of d-V and ARCs in-fills and out-fills along the front of stage and with James Neale as systems tech, it's fine tuned each day.

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Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine-based Indigo Music Companywhich handles a wide range of projects encompassing live sound for concerts, commercial installations, as well as broadcast and telecommunications applications, was contracted to provide sound reinforcement for the event.

Company president Dmitry Lokshin reports, "One of the biggest obstacles we faced on this conce

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Midas Klark Teknik's Ukrainian distributor CORTMI provided a PRO6 as FOH console for the entire three-day seminar. As well as demonstrating the Midas sound to delegates for all the presentations, the set up was used for a vocal microphone test arranged by the Ukrainian Sound Engineers Union, as well as a sound engineers' proficiency contest.

The seminar also included a presentation devoted especially to the PRO6 by CORTMI sound engineer Vladimir Prokof'yev. Delegates participated in a workshop introducing them to the practical aspects of working with the console, and were given a presentation by sound engineer Vitaliy Siroshtan from rental company Jazz-Club Service, the first Ukrai

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Located in Dammam, Moon Systems handles a range of high end products geared towards the professional recording and post production markets. It now has exclusive rights to distribute Prism Sound recording and post products as well as the full range of SADiE products.

Commenting on the appointment, Jody Thorne, Prism Sound/SADiE's sales and marketing manager, says, "The Middle East is already a successful territory for us and it is great to have a company like Moon Systems supporting and selling our brands in Saudi Arabia. We look forward to a long and profitable relationship with them."

Among the products Moon Systems is handling is the new SADiE 6 software. This allows audio professionals the opportunity to access the power and flexibilit

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Conveniently based midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, business partners David 'Steedsy' Stevenson and Steven Ward have been using several of the amplifiers to power part of their Funktion-One touring rigs for the past few months.

"We initially supplied a four-channel FFA amplifier to a local school who had managed to find enough budget for a small Funktion-One system. The four-channel FFA with custom crossover cards fitted allowed us to bi-amp the system from a two-unit module without any external DSP. Listening to this system convinced us of the audio quality of the FFA amplifiers and we ordered some for use in our Resolution 4 systems," said Stevenson.

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The move sees the existing Midas Klark Teknik reps for Canada, who operate under the PAG banner, supported by the Erikson infrastructure. For the first time, all inventory and spares will be warehoused in Canada, enabling clients to benefit from prompt access to product and demo units, with pricing stabilised in Canadian dollars. Localised technical support and servicing will also be enhanced in the deal.

Jeffrey Carman, division manager, Erikson Audio will oversee the performance of Midas Klark Teknik in Canada, with support provided by product specialist Bill Kinal who has over 25 years' pro-sound experience working with artists across the board from heavy rockers I

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For the thousands of eager football fans out there that haven't been lucky enough to get tickets for the big matches, FIFA Fan Fest areas are an alternative, allowing people to share in the football fever and take in the match on giant screens supported with world class audio systems.

The Sound Corporation provided the audio systems for four of the fan parks, including one of the largest in Soweto where over 75,000 fans watched the opening match between South Africa and Mexico, as well as those at Rustenburg, Bloemfontein and Nelspruit. The systems have been based around Lab.gruppen FP+ and fP Series amplificatio

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The CAB team, which comprised MD Michael Prinke, monitor technician Klaus Wallner, and audio engineer Sebastian Berger, relied for the event with its diverse programme material on the compact XLD line array system from Electro-Voice. In total, some 24 XLD 281 enclosures were deployed under the direction of a DC-One digital loudspeaker controller - also from Electro-Voice.

"The EV XLD is

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Through the use of the latest DSP technology, the VSA 2050 processes the audio signal sent to each speaker for controlling its vertical acoustic dispersion to address the audio signal exactly to the listening area, avoiding sending the acoustic energy to ceilings and empty floors, thus not introducing bad reflections that would affect speech intelligibility, mainly in critical environments with high reverberation time.

Special transducers have been developed for the VSA, in order to offer the highest possible intelligibility and wider frequency response, according to R

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Coco Sound was established in 1986 by sound engineers Hans-Georg 'Hage' Romberg and Ellen Muschal who still run the company today, and is now one of the leading audio, lighting, staging and conferencing production service providers in Freiburg region.

"We chose the Uniline system from APG for a number of reasons," says Romberg. "First, it's a speaker system that really plays in the premier league - it measures favourably against any oth

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There are over 43 new exhibitors who weren't at the show last year, including Ateis, Baldwin Boxall, Bosch, Bose, Christie, Chroma-Q, EAW, Electro-Voice, Intertek, Korg, Lighthouse Technologies, Line 6, Mackie, Martin Audio, M Studio, Penton, Turbosound, Stageco, Sundrax, Taiden, Tomcat, Wasp and Zero 88.

These will add to an already comprehensive line-up of leading manufacturers and industry specialists underscoring PLASA's position as the place to see new products and major industry brands.

The PLASA Innovation Gallery, which profiles all the launch products nominated for a PLASA Innovation Award, will showcase a new format on Sunday 12 September, when entrants will publicly demonstrate their products to the Awards judg