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14 March 2016

Richard will take over as technical editor of LSi from James Eade, who has helped the PLASA Media team steer the technical content of LSI for the past nine years. Although Richard officially started with PLASA Media on 1 March, there will be a longer hand-over of duties with James. Both the March and April 2011 issues of LSi will see James's input as technical editor, and Richard's first contribution to the magazine will appear in the May issue.

Lee Baldock, editor of LSi since 2004, said: "James has made a huge contribution t

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Located in Santiago de Compostela, in the Northwest of Spain, Red Rocks Audio historically has specialized on three main areas of product development; DSP processing, Class D amplifiers and switching mode power supplies. Red Rocks Audio SL was launched in 2001, focused on Pro Audio + lightning rental services and recording studio equipment sales and service.

"Dante was chosen because we demand a long term solution with no compromises. Support and performance were also an important key factor in our decision to go with Dante" says Jose Manuel Tasende, Red Rocks Audio's owner & main designer. "Audi

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The Motown event is the latest in the music series, In Performance at the White House. Performers included Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow, Seal and John Legend, among others, and several Motown legends were in attendance. The event was broadcast on PBS on Tuesday 1March.

Anderson stated, "The East Room is approximately 80ft by 40ft, and all the speakers need to hang from trusses ringing the room at about 16-18ft. The room has some sound issues, and to complicate things even further, there are three huge crystal chandeliers hanging f

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Qdos Entertainment is the name behind some of the lavish 'own brand' shows that are an integral part of the Celebrity Cruise Line experience. The high-end audio equipment used on-board in the 900-seat cabaret style auditoria is the responsibility of Qdos Entertainment's Steve Jonas. He selected the Da-Cappo DA-12 single-ear units to meet the demands of the Broadway-style and cabaret productions on board. Featuring an average of four to six singers, 12 dancers and an eight-piece band, the shows are typically high-energy hour-long productions.

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Robert Nilsson, from Swedish design and installation company DAT AB, which was awarded the design and installation contract, says, "We were called in for an AV meeting as part of their complete restoration of the horse owners' room. I made a presentation of all the benefits a RHAON controlled sound system would have, not only for the horse owners' room but on also on the whole race track, and he was very quick to agree."

The horse owners' room, located within the race track's main building, is exclusively accessible to trotting race horse owners. It provides an excellent view over the race track's finishing line through tall windows, and has a relaxing lounge area and a snack bar. The race track owner

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The two-day Education & Learning Programme proved a major success last year and this year PLASA Events have added a new strand of product demonstrations and training to the popular mix of case studies and seminars. The sessions run alongside a two-hall exhibition of new technology and are free to attend.

Kicking off the case studies is the RSC. The RSC's Vince Herbert, Jeremy Dunn and Adam Harvey - responsible for lighting, sound and stage automation respectively - will be joined by Jonathan Porter-Goff from Stage Electrics in a session entitled Build a Theatre, Rebuild Another and Refurbish a Third. This will be an opportunity to learn

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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