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Europe - 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of Yamaha's digital mixers. To celebrate the occasion, Yamaha Commercial Audio Europe is running a photo competition with 25 prizes to be won, including an LS9-32 digital mixing console.

Yamaha is inviting European residents to help celebrate the anniversary by sharing (or taking) photographs of Yamaha digital consoles in the most interesting and entertaining settings over the past 25 years. Photographs do not need to be perfectly composed or works of art, what we are looking for is innovative photos of consoles 'in action' which capture the moment.

The competition runs from 1 September until 31 December 2011, with a celebrity judge choosing the winning photographs in January. The winning photographer will receive a Yamaha LS9-32digital mixing console; 23 runners-up will win a Yamaha POCKETRAK digital recorder.

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UK - Glasgow-based DiMaggios Group owns several establishments across the country, and when the time came for two of their leading restaurants to be completely refitted, they turned to Tannoy to satisfy their audio requirements.

The man responsible for the installation of Tannoy products was Bryce Keachie, audio consultant with Keachie Electronics, who has been involved in a number of projects with the restaurant chain.

"We do all of DiMaggios Group's audio, and have done for the past eight or nine years," said Keachie. "The group own a chain of restaurants under different brands, and we have worked across a number of their establishments. When the project came up for Amarone in Edinburgh and Barolo Grill in Glasgow, we knew that we needed the most up to do date audio solutions available."

Both restaurants are situated in very different surroundings, and

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InfoComm International will continue its programme of support for the UK's AV rental and staging community when it hosts a range of education sessions at PLASA 2011.

The sessions will take place at London's Earls Court on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 September. They will be led by Andre LeJeune, CTS, InfoComm's Rental & Staging Staff Instructor, who has more than 30 years' experience of staging and presentation and has been responsible for many large-scale productions for corporate clients around the world.

Topics covered will include 'Lighting for Video in the Large Meeting Environment', 'Audio Techniques for Corporate AV Events', and 'Project Management for Stage Labour'. Each session will last 90 minutes and will earn attendees 1.5 RUs (Renewal Units) towards continued InfoComm CTS certification. All sessions are free to attend.

Chris Lavelle, InfoComm Regional Manager, UK & Ireland

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Palmer has launched a new range of guitar cabinets to house a variety of Eminence speaker options. The Palmer cabinets are rugged, flexible and affordable, featuring front-mounted speakers and a detachable grill. The solid workmanship on these products is guaranteed with the speaker mounting and quality check being carried out in Germany.

Andrew Richardson, the Managing Director of Adam Hall UK, says: "the Palmer custom made cabinets give the guitarist fantastic flexibility so that he or she can load them with their own choice from 10 recommended variants."

The Eminence speaker options tailor the sound of the cabinet to a variety of genres including Classic American Rock; Classic Rock tones of the 60's and 70's; Rock and Roll, Country and Blues; American Rock, Blues and Southern Rock; Classic British Rock of the 60's and 70's; Country, Jazz and Classical; and Classic Britis

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LD Systems will launch its new D1013CUSB universal condenser microphone with USB connector at PLASA 2011. The microphone is both Windows and Mac OS X compatible, and does not require a driver.

It has, the company states, a perfect cardioid pickup pattern and a wide frequency range (30 Hz - 18,000 Hz) and so can be used for capturing the subtleties and nuances of almost any tone. The clear and natural sound of the D1013CUSB makes this microphone perfect for usage within podcast recording situations, multimedia presentations and a multitude of other scenarios.

Low inherent noise, the ability to block out background noise and a strong output level are among the features of this microphone. Andrew Richardson, Managing Director of Adam Hall UK says "The D1013CUSB is a versatile microphone that will add a new dimension to your sound. Mmany customers use a variety of platforms to recor

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Funktion-One says that in order to keep pace with the huge success and high demand of the recently introduced Resolution 3, it has enhanced its production with a new set of tooling for the mid high wave guides. The company says: "This new tooling created the opportunity to refine the technology, taking the product to a new level".

This has also given rise to the new stand-alone R3SH which has been used to great acclaim in venues as diverse as the National Theatre, for Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein, and to the main room at Space Ibiza. The development further underlines Funktion One's stance that good loudspeakers are in no way genre specific and are suitable for all audio applications.

Demonstrations of Funktion-One's full range of products will be taking place throughout the show in the company's demonstration room, in the Permanent Press Office, near the Terrac

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LD Systems, exhibiting with distributor Adam Hall, is set to unveil its newly developed MAUI 28, a compact, active and modular "all-in-one" system. The company describes it as the perfect solution for musicians and DJs, as well as for presentations and events with sophisticated music playback. Because no cables or stands are required, this "plug-and-play" system can be quickly and easily set up and dismantled.

According to Andrew Richardson, Managing Director of Adam Hall UK, "With its outstanding features, the exciting new Maui 28 is sure to be a winning solution for all performers. It is extremely portable and given its amazing price, represents one of the most exciting products we have released to date."

Frequency-response-based 4.1 five-way amping results in a clear, dynamic and balanced sound throughout the frequency range of this system. The array

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UK - Independent AV consultant Richard Northwood of COMS has given a resounding thumbs-up to the final and definitive test of the Nexo sound system he specified at Glasgow's Ibrox Stadium, the home of Rangers Football Club. After a recent home match, attended by more than 50,000 fans, he described the newly-installed PA/VA as being "as near as one can get to hi-fi in a performance space as large as this".

Ibrox is listed as a heritage site, which means that parts of the 130-year old building's architecture are protected by law. It is also of huge cultural importance to its community of supporters; many fans have been attending matches, sitting in the same seat, for decades, and so the design and installation of a new sound system had to consider sensibilities far and above the provision of audible evacuation instruction.

Stephen Scott, project manager for Ibrox, expl

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UK - Jersey PA company, Stage 2 Productions used Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing systems for a majority of events during the company's busy summer season and has decided to increase its iLive stock.

Stage 2 deployed iLive systems to events including monitor duties for Russell Watson, FOH and monitors for Leslie Garrett, FOH and monitors for Alfie Boe, and several dates managing FOH for a Motown show.

The company also manages the entire production of annual Jersey festival, Grassroots, where it used iLive systems exclusively throughout the site, comprising iDR10, iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks with iLive-176, iLive-T112 and iLive-R72 Control Surfaces. Artists included Arrested Development, Easy Star All-stars, Ben Howard and Seasick Steve.

"Once again iLive performed faultlessly and guest engineers very quickly got to grips with the logical and intuitive iLive operating s

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Japan - With 150 different home-grown acts performing over three days, Rock in Japan is Japan's biggest music festival. This year's event saw Apex Intelli-X² processors used for the first time.

The 2011 event took place at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki-ken and featured six stages. The entire audio production of the festival is supplied and managed by MSI Japan, whose CEO, Fujii Shuzo, takes personal responsibility for this prestigious event.

Supplied by Apex Audio's Japanese distributor Audio-Brains, two Intelli-X² processors were used on the Lake Stage, the festival's second-largest.

The Apex units were used for system EQ and crossovers for the Martin Audio W8LM line array elements of the PA system and made a very positive impression.

"MSI Japan has been using the Intelli-X² processors on various productions for the past two months and were so pleased with t

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) will showcase a selection of lighting, audio, rigging and video solutions available from its vast range of premium brands on stand 1-E10 at PLASA 2011.

The A.C. Lighting division will showcase the new GLP Impression Wash One and Spot One high powered LED spot and washlight moving heads. The latest moving lights available from Clay Paky, Martin Professional, Robe lighting and Vari*Lite will also be on display, plus a selection of the new PixelRange series, including the new PixelPar, QPar and SmartLine LED fixtures. Examples from the wide Spotlight theatrical and architectural ranges, along with Manfrotto stands, will also be on display. The latest Chroma-Q LED fixtures and Jands Vista range running the new v2 software will also be featured on the stand.

The A.C. Audio division will promote the latest specialist loudspeakers from UK

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World - A Midas PRO6, supplied by Britannia Row Productions in Europe and Delicate Productions in the USA, has gone out for the first time on monitors on Foo Fighters' world tour in support of their seventh studio album, Wasting Light. The tour kicked off in Tulsa, Oklahoma in May, taking in over 60 dates across North America, Europe, and Australasia, and with new dates still being added, will continue into 2012.

Monitor engineer Ian Beveridge, who has worked with Foo Fighters for some 17 years, says of the PRO6, "It's the best sounding console I have ever used, bar none. The band themselves commented on the sonic improvement the moment the PRO6 arrived. Their latest record was made without any computers at all; it's five guys with five instruments on the record and live, and the sound of the PRO6 complements this approach perfectly."

For recording the shows,

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UK / USA - As part of its ongoing merger activities and in response to the end of year departure of Ruth Rossington, executive director in Europe, PLASA has taken the opportunity to restructure its management team to ensure it continues to move the organisation forward while progressing a wide range of projects of benefit to members.

With effect from 1 October 2011, a new company structure will be put in place which sees CEO Matthew Griffiths heading up the association, whilst also temporarily overseeing the Events divisions in the UK and North America. Finance director Shane McGreevy becomes chief operating officer (COO) with responsibilities expanding beyond finance and core services into operational administration and personnel.

Lori Rubinstein, current executive director in North America, becomes the new director of membership, skills, standards & technical overseeing thes

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UK - HHB Communications has redesigned its website with expanded features and a new look: http://www.hhb.co.uk.

The site now provides a comprehensive information source for wide range of products and is much quicker to navigate. All the features from the previous site are available, in addition to enhancements such as downloadable technical reports, video tutorials, connection to HHB's Twitter page and expanded shopping facilities.

A larger catalogue of products is also available alongside data sheets, manuals and product videos to accurately provide for the needs of audio professionals the world over. News, case studies and product announcements will be updated weekly to offer the latest industry information from manufacturers and users.

HHB group sales director Steve Angel commented: "We are very excited to announce the lau

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The Netherlands - Ampco Flashlight Rental has announced the appointment of Otte-Pieter Banga as operations director. Banga will take up the position on 7 September and will assume responsibility for the day-to-day management of the company.

Dick van Berkum, CEO of Ampco Flashlight Rental, welcomed the appointment of Otte-Pieter: "He's a dynamic manager and feels perfectly at home in our often complex commercial, governmental and technological world."

Banga has extensive experience within the entertainment industry. He has previously held positions within large organisations, and is also an old acquaintance of Ampco Flashlight, having served as interim director of Flashlight BV between 1999 and 2000.

He says of his new challenge: "I am very happy with this new role. Given my background and knowledge of the entertainment industry, I am confident that I will cont

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UK - RCF has carefully selected its product range to fit the profile of xSolutions 2011 (19-20 October, ExCeL London UK), giving priority to providing creative solutions for specialist AV and M&E consultants serving the different channels.

Pride of place will go to their new Media Series, which presents a 360º approach to sound system design and completes a product portfolio which will now allow systems engineers to treat RCF as a single source for all their loudspeaker requirements.

The Media Series features five models, from the smallest 5" to the larger 2 x 6" - all purpose designed for small- to medium-sized projects requiring distributed systems. The Series is designed to offer RCF's signature sound quality, with the customary controlled bass response, incredible vocal clarity and high frequency definition.

The design and look of the Media Series is consisten

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UK - JoeCo is now shipping the BBR-Dante version of the Blackbox Recorder. This latest addition to the multi-channel live audio recorder family is the result of a collaboration, announced during 2010, between JoeCo and Audinate.

The BBR-Dante is designed to record/replay up to 32 channels of audio data from a Dante network. Developed to solve the inherent problems of working with computer-based systems in a live performance environment, it provides engineers with a computer-free, high-quality solution for multi-channel live audio capture. Able to record up to 32 channels of audio at 44.1kHz and 48kHz directly to Broadcast WAV files on an external USB2 (FAT32 formatted) drive, the BBR-DANTE also accommodates higher sample rate recording (88.2kHZ and 96kHz) at a reduced track count.

The recorder connects to any Dante-enabled network device from a range of console and converter m

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Kuwait - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, Roland Professional distributor in the region, has recently hosted the third Roland Roadshow in Kuwait. The event, which attracted professionals from the AV industry included individuals from installation companies, live sound rental firms and broadcast integrators.

"Kuwait is a completely new territory for NMK, so the Roland Roadshow was a great way to enter the market," commented Moswain Antao, Roland product specialist. "Attendees to the event were very happy with the knowledge shared during the day and the opportunity to work with the latest equipment from Roland."

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USA - PLASA has announced the finalists for the fourth annual Rock Our World Awards, to be presented at the PLASA Cocktail & Awards Reception at LDI 2011. The PLASA Rock Our World Awards were created to honour groundbreaking achievement by its members and to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer or integrator who applies it in a real world environment.

The finalists for the fourth annual Rock Our World Awards are:

83rd Annual Academy Awards - Green Hippo, PRG, TMB

ALEXA Digital Camera System - ARRI

coolux Widget Designer 3.0 PRO - Coolux GmbH

DataGate Mk2 - ENTTEC

Disney World of Color - A.C.T Lighting, Fisher Technical Services, MA Lighting, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Creative Entertainment

EverGrip Molded Motor Control Cables - Lex Products Corp

Garsington Opera - Unusual Rigging Ltd (UK)

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USA - More than 25 years in the making, Dallas' AT&T Performing Arts Centre is a cultural nexus in the city's revitalised downtown arts district. The area is home to a number of different entertainment venues, from the Dallas Symphony's Meyerson Auditorium and the intimate Wyly Theatre to the Winspear Opera House and the open-air Annette Strauss Square, making it a busy hub of activity on any given evening.

The 2,200-seat Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, created by architect Foster & Partners, with theatre design by Theatre Projects Consultants and acoustician Sound Space Design, is home to the Dallas Opera, and an anchor in the new arts district. The Winspear's sound system, designed by Martin Van Dijk of Toronto-based Engineering Harmonics, is centred around left/right arrays of 12 Renkus-Heinz STLA/9R RHAON empowered loudspeakers that retract into the ceiling when not in

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UK - Following the announcement of the launch of the CDC Eight flagship digital live production console at PLASA 2011, Cadac and CUK Audio announce they have signed an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland.

Vincenzo Borrelli, sales development manager of Cadac, commented, "Cadac is embarking on an exciting phase of development, with a wider range of digital and analogue product lines. Maintaining our core values of sound quality and innovation, we will be introducing Cadac advantages at a range of price levels for a greater range of applications. Ensuring our distribution delivers this with the highest level of service and support is a key part of our strategy and, with their technical competence and synergetic brands, CUK Audio is an ideal partner."

Stuart Thomson, MD of CUK Audio added, "It's an exciting time for Cadac, following the introduc

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The Netherlands - Educational facility SAE Institute has recently installed a new 36-channel Audient ASP8024 inline desk in its Rotterdam school. SAE manager Andreas Oszkiel comments: "Students can now enjoy the sonic qualities of this large-format console as they enhance their skills on the Audient desk. It integrates perfectly with our Pro Tools HD rig for flexible recording and mixing.

"This upgrade ensures that we provide our students with up-to-date recording facilities, which not only reflect the industry standard in functionality and size with extremely versatile routing options, but also sound fantastic.

"The first project that will test the abilities of the Audient desk and the students will be the Fermi Paradox, a zero-budget sci-fi film shot and produced in Rotterdam," continues Oszkiel. "Our students will be contributing sound editin

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Australia - Currently playing at Sydney's Lyric Theatre, the musical Hairspray has been delighting audiences for several months with its bright, cheery sets and music. The show's audio was designed by Michael Waters for Jands Production Services who also supplied the audio equipment including 26 Shure UHF-R Micro Bodypack Transmitters (UR1M) and Shure UHF UR4D Dual Receivers.

Looking after the Shure gear is James Kohler, deputy head of sound, who says: "I've been using the Shure Micro Bodypacks for the past 18 months and they have been rock-solid. In fact they've been really good. Packs that I have used in the past have been too sensitive to heat problems and obviously with the packs strapped to the dancer's bodies, heat can become a bit of an issue. I haven't experienced that once with the Shure Micro Bodypacks."

He adds: "They sound really good and ther

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UK - Glee's transition to the stage has proved as huge a major hit. Following a sold-out US tour in 2010, the show crossed the Atlantic for an equally successful tour of the UK, including multiple sold out dates at both London and Dublin's The O2 and Manchester's MEN Arena this summer.

Clair Global provided the show's sound requirements, supplying two SD7s, one for the cast and one for the band, with JH Audio providing its JH 16 IEMs and founder Jerry Harvey performing monitor duties on the cast console.

"On last year's Glee tour I was using an analogue desk," says Harvey. "But this show has so many cues happening at the same time it was almost impossible to pull it off on an analogue desk, so I made the decision to go digital and move to an SD7.

"I have 96 inputs and 14 stereo IEM mixes for the actors and I find the snapshot function is very user friendl

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