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BS7827 officially known as a code of practice for designing, specifying, maintaining and operating emergency sound systems at sports venues, was initially drawn up in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, and covers not only stadia, but any venue where sport is played such as racecourses, swimming pools etc, it is also applicable to large public facilities such as shopping malls, conference and exhibition centres.

Steve Jones, a consulting engineer specialising in sound and chairman of the EPL 100-2 Working Group at BSI, who produced the revised standard, said, "The origins of this standard are a code of practice produced by a working group within the Sound Communications Industries Federation, which I chaired back in 1989 after

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The station and airport, which was acquired by the famous transport and logistics group in 2008, features the Bosch range of Projection Speakers and Metal Cabinet Speakers to ensure effective communications with passengers, whose numbers are expected to rise to more than two million by 2020. The site is also benefitting from a surveillance system which includes the first installation of its new digital hybrid recorder (DHR).

Project managers Birse Rail appointed DACS Rail as Electrical Engineers on the project who in turn appointed Max Electronic Systems to design

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"Helen Meyer has transformed the audiovisual industry by being devoted to improving the user experience," says Randal A. Lemke, executive director and CEO, InfoComm International. "She has enhanced the enjoyment of audiences around the world by ensuring that Meyer Sound is developing products devoted to pure sound and intell

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The Madeleine Centre is a fully functioning performing arts venue, incorporating a series of classrooms, drama rooms, a gallery space and the impressive Montagner Auditorium. The 456 seat auditorium and the accompanying rooms are already heavily used each day, playing host to drama and theatre studies, music classes, band rehearsals, meetings, assemblies, seminars, concerts, recitals and theatre productions.

Lightmoves were contracted to supply and install the theatrical lighting, sound and lighting control packages for the new artistic hub. For the PA, Lightmoves turned JBL.

The main auditorium features a high ceiling, curved walls and minimal space in which to mount a speaker system. A JBL VRX line array was chosen, given its small footpr

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The Milan Mi0 enclosure consists of a 10" reflex-loaded neodymium low frequency driver and a 1" high frequency compression driver on a 90°H x 60°V dispersion HF horn in an optimally tuned injection-moulded enclosure, together with an integrated two-channel amplifier module.

The integrated amplifier is a two channel unit - the Class D low frequency section delivering 180 watts while the Class AB high frequency section delivers 50 watts - which provides a balanced XLR microphone input and balanced line input on a jack/XLR connector with individual level controls, as well as overall bass and treble tone controls.

A balanced male XLR output provides a line

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Using Midas digital for the first time, Dolly's monitor engineer Jason Glass is finding his PRO9 invaluable for the complex show, which changes from bluegrass to full string pop to gospel and back again, performed by seven multi-instrumental musicians and three backing vocalists.

"I'm using scenes extensively as I have a lot of changes happening on layers that are out of sight and out of mind while I'm paying attention to Dolly," he says. "It really simplifies the show for me; it's also reliable and consistent.

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Hellbillies' monitor engineer Atle Aamodt sourced eight of the 45°N-12 wedges from rental company and Nexo distributor Fotophono for the national tour, and has found them a major advance on the in-ear monitors being used by the band, especially in an environment where the acoustics or PA are poor and muddying the sound on stage.

"The lead vocalist Aslag Haugen has always used IEMs in situations where the PA or the room acoustics make monitoring difficult. Since we started using the N-12s, we don't need the IEM back-up; even in the worst possible conditions, these monitors provide listening conditions for the musicians that no other monitors can match."

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The Pony Bar, which offers some of America's finest craft brews, also provides beer aficionados with a nightly music soundtrack from artists such as Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Phish and Wilco played back though six Genelec 8030A Bi-Amplified Monitor Speakers and a 7050A Active Subwoofer.

Dan McLaughlin, who opened The Pony Bar with a business partner in mid-April 2009, first experienced Genelec speakers while working at another bar for six years. "It was the best sound I'd ever heard anywhere, just incredible clarity," he enthuses. But after the first installed sound system at The Pony Bar failed to live up to those exp

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Jim Testa, Show Sage's president, explains, "As Dataton's North American distributor we are pleased to be spearheading the introduction of WATCHOUT version 5 to LDI attendees. Already recognized as the number one multi-display software solution for the industry, WATCHOUT version 5 offers many new advantages to our customers including enhanced live interaction and a significantly reduced cost per display channel.

"We look forward to introducing the new features of WATCHOUT version 5 to those attending LDI as well as highlighting our WATCHOUT-tuned computer systems."

Michael Engström, Sales Director at Dataton adds: "Presentations have never been more creative, accessible or as easy to utilize and,

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AC-ET UK sales director, Jonathan Walters commented, "We've had a great response to the latest Chroma-Q, PixelRange and GLP LED-based fixtures alongside moving head models from GLP, Clay Paky, Martin Professional, Robe lighting and VARI*LITE. Also causing a buzz were the Jands Vista v2 lighting control software's power with simplicity and Traction Sound's innovative SDS loudspeaker design. Litec's MyT supertruss made an explosive entrance on the stand, plus the latest Green Hippo Hippotizer software and our Cable Express cable manufacturing service also received a lot of interest."

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"Everyone was very excited about getting this large Kara/SB18 system," says Bonné who has mixed the concert since 1995. "Normally we work with V-DOSC in larger venues and Kara in smaller venues. But using Kara on this large outdoor concert, which attracted with 24,000 people over two days, really impressed us. We only received good, positive feedback about the sound."

The main system consisted of 20 Kara cabinets each for left and right hangs,

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Each show tells a story through the media of theatre, music and song. The company responsible for transmitting those messages - aurally, at least - is Freiburg-based rental company, Coco Sound, who specified a significant Uniline system from APG for PAN.OPTIKUM's European tour.

The PA configuration is an unusual one given that PAN.OPTIKUM perform in large, open spaces with the audience in the middle and the show going on around - and indeed, at times, amongst - them. Consequently, Coco Sound's Joscha Muschal specified a fou

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After the inception in the year 1887, eminent theatre personalities like Rudyard Kipling, Baden Powel, K.L.Sehgal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Balraj Sahni, and Manohar Singh have taken to the stage of this theatre.

The government of Himachal Pradesh recently restored the 124-year-old historical landmark, which seats 320 people over two floors, and whose main purpose is still for dramatics and other classical and folk cultural activities. However, after the restoration, it was clear that the existing sound system wasn't meeting the demands of this busy theatre, and that a new, state of the art solution was required.<

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Issues such as training and new technology are at the forefront of the Association's aims and so it has actively sought support from rental companies, educational institutions and equipment manufacturers. As one of the professional audio industry's major examples of the latter, Yamaha Commercial Audio is very supportive of the new venture.

"Providing support for end users is very important to Yamaha and so we fully endorse the launch of the ASD," says Karl Christmas, senior manager at Yamaha Commercial Audio (UK). "As a corporate sponsor, we look forward to working with the ASD's Board to develop opportunities for training, discussion of new audio technologies and any other support that we can offer

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Given the rather 'bijou' dimensions of both the room and the stage, the venue required a physically unobtrusive system that would nevertheless deliver professional results. As a spokesman for l'Improviste pointed out, "If we want to attract professional musicians and discerning audiences, we have to be prepared to invest in professional equipment that delivers a quality result. This is why we turned to a company like Octalino who specialize in providing AV systems for the events market as well as handling

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With their long-serving FOH engineer, Dave Rat, piloting the house mix, the band performed all songs off the album plus many other selected hits - largely through an EAW sound system.

The European promo run immediately preceded the South American leg of the band's stadium-sized world tour, and according to Rat, the concert at Cologne's 2,200-capacity E-WERK was a huge success - largely due to the presence of the compact EAW KF730 house system and combination of MicroSubs and MicroWedge floor monitors.

This venue was chosen since Germany is the band's largest European market, and Cologne the city where their European arena tour commenced in early October.

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"The flexibility of the CTA as well as its warm tone has made an impression on those looking for quality professional audio products," says Andrew Sorrill, audio specialist at Pro Audio. "The ConTour Array is extremely expandable in setup from a compact system to a line array for larger events - and it can be groundstacked or flown, which enables companies like Clifi Sound to use it in a range of different ways for various events."

Clifton Westraad, owner of Clifi Sound has been so impressed with the product, that he placed another order for a ConTour Array 2 System as well as HK

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The E4 and E5, the latter being a new design for the popular E0, are lightweight two-way passive loudspeakers that employ a 4" and 5" LF driver respectively and a coaxially mounted wide dispersion dome tweeter. Both are mounted in highly compact enclosures and offer wide symmetrical dispersion patterns in the horizontal and vertical plane, while the cabinets may be mounted in either attitude.

They have built-in passive crossover networks with a frequency

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"I've been using the DPA 4088F in all of my shows, which are a blend of rock and theatre, making them a severe challenge to mic properly," explain Autumn. "The theatre side demands that we use headsets and that the mics are as invisible as possible, but the rock side demands that we are all able to sing, scream, and generally go nuts every night, with over two hours of intense vocals. I'm also playing wireless electr

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"Although Bahrain has gone through some difficulties this year, we experienced an upbeat and very interested attendance that were full for two of three sessions we hosted," commented Moswain Antao, Roland product specialist. "We received a lot of interest for our digital audio snakes, vision mixers and the other products from Roland. The equipment will now be sent back to Dubai for the InfoComm exhibition in October."

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Located in Kaunas, the €50m Žalgiris Arena covers 39,684m² and is the largest in the Baltic states. Designed as a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue, its primary functions are hosting basketball matches and live concerts, seating15,442 spectators for the former and up to 17,500 for the latter.

The arena features a number of technical innovations like automated, power-operated windows. Designed by project engineer Orunas Urbonas and installed by Kaunas-based Audiotonas, the Arena's audio specifica

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Joining North Carolina-based Special Event Services (SES) and Las Vegas-based On Stage Audio (OSA) as key North American companies in the growing worldwide MLA Network, Delicate has taken delivery of an extensive MLA System comprised of MLA enclosures, MLD down-fill enclosures and MLX subwoofers.

Delicate first employed MLA on a successful Selena Gomez tour of North America in August and September and will be deploying an expanded version of the system on Gomez' Canadian tour starting October 13th in Victoria, BC.

Originally founded in 1980, Delicate provides full service multimedia production for live entertainment and corporate events. Delicate recently won the 10th Annual Total Production International

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Sister Act is now running at the Opera House until 15 October. Orbital also provided the sound equipment and support for the UK tour of Grease at the Palace Theatre, and for the new UK touring production of Top Hat at the Lowry.

Orbital Sound's show credits are also extending to continental Europe, with the Dutch production of Miss Saigon in Utrecht, We Will Rock You in Antwerp, the Milan production of Sister Act, and the forthcoming Dutch version of Wicked - both opening in late October.

MD Chris Headlam sees a new market confidence for top-quality musical pro

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Agorà's relationship with the German fibre network specialists extends back to 2002 when the company's Italian distributors Audiosales srl first introduced them to the system.

After many years of discussions, demos and comparative testing, Agorà rented an Optocore system to top Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk in June this year, to help the club celebrate its 75th birthday. The Optocore solution enabled remote control of all amplifiers used in the club's Donbass Arena over Ethernet.

This fully-redundant, low-latency solution was so successful that a similar