The Netherlands - The CSS3 from Alcons Audio is a two-way ultra-compact cinema surround loudspeaker designed to meet the requirements of today's and tomorrow's digital cinema content.

Featuring a 1" soft-dome tweeter with single 6.5" HiFi-grade woofer, the CSS3 delivers exceptional performance from a highly compact and efficient package, says the company.

Used together with the CR1 ultra-compact three-way front system and CB181s ultra-shallow subwoofer, it forms a package for small to medium home theatres, cinemas, screening rooms and post-production studios.

A 15° slanted baffle together with the wide horizontal dispersion caters for a smooth LF/HF blending in installations where the surrounds are mounted closely to the audience. The enclosure design provides for low profile wall mounting, with the reflex vent located on the underside of the cabinet and the CS

UK - After several years working in the research and development of Yamaha's live mixing products, David 'Tree' Tordoff has swapped the laboratory for the road, being appointed the company's new digital systems business development manager.

Having worked for over five years at the company's European R&D centre in Chiswick, London, Tree has extensive knowledge of Yamaha's live mixing consoles. He also has 20 years experience working as a freelance sound engineer for a range of artists, including Radiohead, Peter Gabriel and Duran Duran (who he still works with when required).

Tree's new role with Yamaha covers the UK and Ireland, delivering training to groups and advising individuals and Yamaha dealers about getting the most from the company's digital mixing consoles.

"I have worked for some time in the 'closed world' of R&D and really wanted to get out and apply my tech

Australia - Jands Production Services deployed their Optocore fibre optic based audio distribution network on the Sydney Telstra 500 V8 supercars race held at Homebush.

"We used Optocore as a simple point to point distribution network to go long distances," reports Jim Straw, JPS' general manager. "That way we could run 600, 900 or 1000m of fibre on just one piece of cable to distribute eight or 16 lines of audio. Really we're using it in quite a basic format but it is very reliable. We used in on all four V8 races that we have been involved with this year and haven't had any problems with it. It has made life very simple for our guys out there doing it. Labour-wise, it is very efficient."

The Optocore fibre was used to distribute audio from JPS' on track system to broadcast and vica versa, acting basically as an interlink. "There are other companies t

Australia - Surrounded by pristine parkland, lush tropical gardens and a backdrop of the balmy Burswood Entertainment Complex poolside setting, their Summer Marquee captures the essence of West Australian outdoor entertaining.

It's a stylish, air-conditioned venue with customised glass panelling made in Germany,a flow of natural light, themed aesthetic lighting and contemporary furniture. This marquee can cater for more than 450 guests banquet-style including a dance floor, band, stage, audio visual screens and more.

"The Marquee was first erected four years ago to solve a shortage in ballroom space," commented Michael Altieri, director of conventions and events at Burswood Entertainment Complex. "However a number of high-rise apartments were in the process of being constructed and once occupied, we had a number of complaints from residents about the noise emana

Australia - Audio service provider Norwest Productions has purchased an additional 48 L'Acoustics dV-Dosc modular line source array cabinets and 16 SB218 subwoofers which will be put into immediate service, along with their existing V-Dosc/Kudo inventory, on the upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand by Neil Diamond.

"Over the years I have heard many PA systems and the L'Acoustics dV-Dosc is certainly one of the best," remarked Chris Kennedy, Norwest's managing director. "I really like the full and warm bass you get with the dV-Dosc. It's a line array that does exactly what it should and basically it just sounds good."

"The dV-Dosc is the recognised benchmark in small-format line arrays and sits nicely with our existing L'Acoustics stock," concurred Graeme Whitehouse, Norwest's group operations director. "We anticipate this will help cont

UK - A delegation from Korean Broadcasting Services (KBS) has attended Midas for a training session on an XL8 live performance system which the national broadcaster has purchased from Korean distributor Young Nak.

For many years, KBS have been the enthusiastic owners of three Midas XL4 consoles, two of which are in the TV studios and one for sound reinforcement in the concert hall, where live music programmes are recorded. The XL8 has been purchased to replace this XL4, and includes four DL431 active input splitter units to provide audio splits for the XL8 and the studio's sound-to-air console. It will be used for TV and radio music programmes, both of which require the highest-possible quality audio content.

"After years of mixing on the XL4, anything other than a Midas would have been a backward step," says Mr Byung-Gyoo, audio director at KBS, who attended the tra

Greece - TNM Projects, one of the RCF commercial audio installation partners in Greece has recently installed a RCF Forum 6000 System at the ASEP Supreme Council for Personnel Selection in Athens.

With many years of experience with turnkey solutions TNM Projects is very keen on supplying high quality equipment for all kind of installations.

The ASEP Supreme Council installation is based on the RCF Forum 6000 system that consists of: DMU6100 central unit, a chairman console and several delegate units. TNM Projects did the installation and fine tuning of the conference system at the Plenum Room.

The RCF Forum 6000 System has been designed to manage conference, debates, president desks in auditoriums/conventions and meetings, offering outstanding versatility. The system is simple and quick to wire, to set-up and to use and includes operative functions and modes that are usually

USA - Chester Waterfront, Philadelphia, once a study in urban decay, has been dramatically reborn, thanks in no small part to the opening of the new PPL Park, the city's first major league soccer stadium. The park has been a catalyst for economic growth along the waterfront, the first phase of a long-term development of a Riverwalk district that will include retail, stores, residential buildings and entertainment venues.

Opened in June 2010, the park offers breathtaking views of the Commodore Barry Bridge and Delaware River, and includes more than 30 luxury suites, a full-service restaurant and integrated concert stage. Audio for the venue was designed by Dallas-based Acoustic Dimensions and installed by systems integrators AVI-SPL of Columbia, MD, and features R-Series all-weather systems from the city's own Community Professional Loudspeakers.

As Acoustic Dimension's Brian E

UK - West London based sound & lighting specialist Entec's sound department has completed a specialist d&b sound installation at one of London's most significant historical landmarks, Stationers Hall, a grade one listed building near to St Paul's Cathedral, London.

The building, the home of the Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers formed originally in 1559, dates back to 1763 and is now also one of London's most prestigious corporate event venues. It is owned by The Livery group, which also manages St Paul's Cathedral.

They wanted to upgrade the existing sound system which had been in service for 10 years, and replace it with a modern permanent audio system to facilitate the venue's busy schedule. This needed to cover the many organisational activities of the Stationers like conferences, seminars and meetings as well as to service the myriad of external events s

France - L'Opéra Bastille is a shrine to culture and architecture but it is also a working building that stages some of the biggest, most complicated operatic productions in the world. An ATEÏS International IP-based communications system has been installed at the Paris opera house so stage managers, performers and crew know what is happening and when.

The 2,723-seat venue was designed by Canadian-Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott and opened on 13 July 1989, the day before the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Updating technical equipment is a continual process at big venues and the Bastille Opera is no exception.

ATEÏS finished work on the building-wide paging and stage monitoring system at the end of 2010 and is now upgrading the public address installation. Unusually ATEÏS France installed the paging and monitoring equipment itself, rather than just supply

UK - Katy Templeman-Holmes has joined Soundcraft Studer as product manager responsible for the Studer OnAir product line and radio broadcast market, plus brand development in the USA and joins the Harman Mixer Group's marketing team, reporting to director Keith Watson.

Templeman-Holmes' experience spans production, operations, engineering, technical sales and creative production. Most recently, she spent the past year working with JBL in Northridge, California.

On her appointment, she said, "This opportunity to contribute to the continued success of Studer in broadcast is incredible. Being in Switzerland and working with some of the world's best engineers and designers has shown me exactly why Studer is the top broadcast console manufacturer. Moving Studer forward with the next generation of systems is extremely exciting for me, the team, and our customers worldwide.

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UK - Audio processor manufacturer Drawmer has announced the introduction of the new 4x4R 1U Active Splitter. Aimed at any situation that requires audio signals to be split and fed to multiple destinations, the rackmountable 1U 4x4R has four inputs and 16 balanced outputs, with a transparent mic preamp on each input offering up to 66dB of gain.

The 4x4R's I/O may be flexibly configured in a variety of ways, ranging from a single input routed to all 16 outputs to four different inputs, each with four outputs - and any configuration in between, such as two different inputs, each routed to eight outputs. In addition to the comprehensive input/output linking, the 4x4R features bargraph metering and switchable phantom power on every input channel, and a front-panel headphone jack provides a 'listen' facility to monitor any of the four inputs. The option of transformer isolation is ava

South Africa / UK - South African Pay-TV channel Super Sport has installed another SoundField DSF-2/DSF-3 surround-capable digital microphone system in its latest high-definition outside broadcast vehicle, constructed by Sony Broadcast Professional in the UK.

Super Sport and its sister pay-TV channel MNET were early and enthusiastic adopters of the UK microphone manufacturer's digital systems; representatives from MNET first made contact with SoundField at the IBC exhibition in Europe in 2006, the very first year the completed digital microphone systems were shown publicly. The latest installation brings to six the total number of DSF-2 systems in use in MNET's Outside Broadcast vehicles.

"The DSF-2s are great systems, and they and our DSF-3s have done some great work on our HD Rugby, Cricket and Boxing coverage here in South Africa" comments MNET/Super Sport Audio S

Croatia - The newly opened Plaza Bar in Zagreb is a lounge bar where modern art and decor meets the latest technology in audio and video.

Music is an important part of the concept of Plaza Bar. The sound system is geared to play music at different levels according to the time of day. The installation is a combination of 24 ceiling speakers and four RCF TT22A that are ceiling mounted. Two RCF 4PRO 8001AS subwoofers are placed on the floor, housed in a customised wooden cabinet to match the decoration of the lounge area. An RCF AM 1122-N integrated amplifier together with four individual amps drive the system.

Croatian RCF distributor Oktava realised the project in collaboration with Dacco. "It was a pleasure to do the installation in the Plaza Bar. The concept is to maintain a high level of visual impression based on the choice of furniture, decoration that fulfils the lou

USA - Completed in 1955, Loyola Marymount University's Sacred Heart Chapel has been a part of the Los Angeles coastline for more than a half century. It's a majestic space, a basilica-style church spanning some 26,000sq.ft and accommodating more than 1,000. Its tall stained glass windows, long hanging chandeliers, terrazzo tile and concrete and marble pillars make for an architectural gem, but create something of an acoustical nightmare.

Given the building's historic status, integrating the new high-tech audio and lighting systems proved to be a challenge for Winnetka, CA-based Simon Productions. Principal designer and engineer Terry Stewart explains the decision to replace the Chapel's existing distributed system with an Iconyx digitally steerable array from Renkus-Heinz.

"We knew we wanted to go with a steerable line-source system, to enable us to aim the source beam di

UK - Adlib continues its work with leading comedy acts from around the world, supplying lighting & sound equipment and crew to the current Russell Howard Right Here Right Now UK arena tour - following on from their work with Russell Howard last year. At the helm of the tour, is production manager Neil McDonald and Russell's tour manager - Russell Young, who keeps everything running smoothly on a day-to-day basis.

The tour's lighting has been designed by Adlib's Ian Tomlinson, and is being operated on the road by Andy Rowe, working with technicians Neil Holloway and Mike Summerfield. FOH sound is being engineered by James Neale, monitors by Carlos Herreros, with ADLIB's Kenny Perrin out as audio systems tech.

With just Russell Howard and a single chair as the only prop/stage set - the challenge was on to make the stage an intimate and friendly spatial space for the deliv

UK / Germany - On the eve of the EN54 series of fire safety standards passing into European law this week, TOA has announced that another raft of its products have been given EN54-24 loudspeaker system certification.

The first manufacturer to offer a total solution for EN54-certified voice evacuation systems, TOA continues to gain certification for additional products in its range, and has now confirmed that the PC-2369EN ceiling speaker, along with horn and box speakers BS-678BSB, BS-678BSW, CS-64BS, CS-154BS and SC-615BS as well as the PC-1867FC ceiling speaker and BS-680FC steel cabinet speaker have all been given EN54-24 approval. The entire VM-3000 Series PA/VA System and network-based SX-2000 Voice Evacuation Systems are approved. Next in line for certification is the company's VX-2000 Voice Evacuation System which should be certified within a number of weeks.

At the for

UK - Fohhn Arc Series AT-50 and AT-09 loudspeakers have been installed in the Concord College at Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury. Concord is a co-educational international boarding school with students from more than 50 different countries aged 13 to 19.

Lancaster-based company Low Fold Audio. carried out the installation in the college theatre, which is used for a range of activities including presentations, full theatre and live music shows.

Two Fohhn AT-50 loudspeakers have been flown from the lighting bar to form the main PA system, with four AT-09 speakers fixed to the wall either side of the stage for use as in-fills, positioned to cover the balcony seating and the first few rows of the main auditorium. A single Fohhn D-2.1500 DSP-controlled Class D amplifier has been configured to run the AT-50 loudspeakers, with a Fohhn D2.750 amplifier handling the four AT-09s.

The sy

Italy - Music Group has announced the appointment of Proel as its distributor for the Behringer and Bugera brands in Italy."We are excited to be appointed by the Music Group, and believe that their practice of offering professional quality equipment at exceptional prices helps us to stay competitive. We look forward to ensuring that their product range is accessible for our customers," comments Fabrizio Sorbi, managing director of Proel."Proel's customers know that they can expect superb products from the Music Group's respected brand names, while we know that we can enjoy an excellent working relationship with their team. In conjunction with our largest key customers, we are planning to open a number of dedicated Behringer 'shop in shops' in Italy, a project we are very excited about and believe will help define the future of MI retail in Italy.""It's an

UK - AKG and UK/ROI distributor Sound Technology report the shipping of the Perception Wireless series in the UK. The new wireless microphone system features up to eight selectable UHF frequencies and a battery performance with up to 10 hours on a single AA battery. Perception Wireless uses licence-free ISM (channel 70) which is unaffected by the 2012 frequency switchover. A Channel 38 version will also be available in mid 2011.

The Perception Wireless is designed to accommodate musicians and entry-level audio technicians, although it has the capabilities to handle even the most difficult audio setups with up to eight channels per band.

The Perception Wireless series consists of a Vocal Set, with the handheld transmitter HT 45 featuring a dynamic cardioid capsule; the Instrumental Set, which comes with the pocket transmitter PT 45 plus instrument cable; the Sports Set with the

Germany - TTA, innovator of the high-tech Stagetracker FX tracking and localisation system, is joining forces with Figure 53, innovator of the popular QLab show control software, to announce the completion of critical stages to integrate support for Stagetracker FX, combining the power of the two systems.

At ProLight+Sound, TTA and Figure 53 will announce the introduction of The Stagetracker Cue to the QLab package. Controlling one audio input in the Stagetracker Matrix, the new Stagetracker Cue in QLab can take a sound effect and fly it around onstage or anywhere else in the auditorium, using the Stagetracker Matrix for localization effect. The Stagetracker Cue also opens up options for controlling live audio inputs, making it easy to localize live audio from wireless microphones in QLab. All this is fully integrated in the QLab play list.

In addition to tracking the actors a

UK - TC Group has announced the launch of the White Acoustics brand ,with products aimed at the club, bar and live entertainment sector.

White Acoustics, a new umbrella brand emerging from the portfolio of TC Group, leverages Tannoy's loudspeaker technology, Lab.gruppen's recognised prowess in power amplifier design and the DSP and control expertise of TC Electronic into "a highly focused product range that displays all of the qualities that you would expect from three of the world's leading players in their respective fields"

A group statement says, "The brainchild of former Lab.gruppen chairman David Bissett-Powell, White Acoustics will, for the first time, bring the cutting edge in audio technology and innovation from the TC Group of companies together to create an audio system package that delivers superior performance, class-leading quality of sound and exc

India - India's biggest society wedding event of the year for over 2000 guests in Delhi used a TiMax SoundHub-S for surround sound enhancement to Canada's Cirque Eloize acrobatic show, plus synchronised animated audio and video on the dance floor in conjunction with the powerful Immersive video server and mapping engine.

Commissioned by Arjun Bahl of Most Technical India who were the specialist media suppliers for the event, sound design was by Out Board's Dave Haydon and involved multiple surround zones running parallel 3D surround and dynamic delay-panning effects simultaneously for the performance stage, audience seating plus lounge areas and then later for the dance floor.

A separate surround system ran a continuously looping ethereal soundscape generated by TiMax as an accompaniment to the candelabras, chandeliers, mirrors and dry ice that greeted guests as they pa

Austria - BSS Audio was chosen for sound processing at the new Glock Horse Performance Centre in the Austrian town of Treffen bei Villach, in Carinthia. The school, named after its sponsor, Austrian firearms manufacturer Gaston Glock, needed the capability to provide consistent audio coverage across the facility's four riding halls. The installation was performed by Musik-Aktiv with the assistance of Harman Professional distributor Kain Audio.

The facility deploys four Soundweb London BLU-160 devices and four BLU-BOB 8-channel output expanders, placed on the Soundweb London fault-tolerant digital audio bus. The two mobile racks are configured identically and the digital audio bus audio channels can be connected at four different points. Feeding the BLU-BOB devices, source inputs include four wireless commentator microphones (with pre-programmed ducking function), and a small ext

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