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The festival derives its name from the location, which is the village of Hell in the Nord-Trondelag area of Norway. The main festival venue is the Magic Mirror, a spectacular tent from the Belgian Company, Magic Mirrors, which hosted headline performances from artists including Delbert McClinton, Johnny Winter, Popa Chubby and Jeniva Magness.

Sceneservice selected an iDR10 MixRack with iLive-144 Control Surface for FOH, and an iDR-32 MixRack and a xDR-16 expander rack with iLive-T80 Surface for monitors. There was also an analogue split to provide a broadcast feed.

"Our experiences with the iLive system have proven it to be very reliable, nicely compact for s

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The series has been well received by installers since its introduction last year. The new surface-mount loudspeakers represent a significant expansion to the product line, adding several high-output, low-profile models that deliver the same outstanding musical sound quality and excellent intelligibility, easily outperforming larger sized competitive loudspeakers, says the company.

The 5-inch DS5 is a two-way compact system, suitable for installations where space is a premium. For larger installations, the 8-inch DS8 provides higher sound pressure levels, higher sensitivity and greater bass extension. The 8-inch DS8SUB subwoofer complements the DS5 and DS8 full-range models with extended low fr

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The festival is a celebration of light and music, with many events taking place in various venues. A series of live concerts featuring classical, pop and rock music was held in the Piazza Matteotti, which has an audience capacity of over 10,000. The main stage area was exclusively equipped with Fohhn's high quality systems.

Two sets of 12 PT-9 line arrays were flown either side of the stage, with a dozen PT-8 compact line array systems used for near-field and side field areas. Fohhn's X-Series XT-10 systems were also used to provide front-fills for covering the first few audience rows, while XM-4 wedges provided on-stage monitoring for the performers.

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Gallagher, who previously held the position of SBD general manager and has been with the company for the past 11 years, will take on the role of business development and client relations.

Dennison, who has worked with sister company Delta for over six years, will bring his considerable experience in technical delivery to his new role, helping to further raise the level of technical expertise within the project management team.

SBD is accredited at a host of top London venues, an area it has continued to expand since its relationship with Delta began. Its biggest venue is currently the Royal Albert Hall, where it has been an in-house supplier si

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Established in 1989, the company headed by Huw 'Buzz' Evans and Rob Ashton had been running EAW's popular KF750 as its premier system for the past eight years.

In March this year the company invested in 12 of the compact KF730 line array elements, complemented by six SB730 subs, which extend the response down to 35Hz.

But with the busy outdoor season looming they also realised they needed the larger footprint of the KF740 system, with its four phase-aligned 10in woofers, for wider site coverage - and four months later invested in 18 enclosures, along with the dedicated UX8800 4-in/8-out digital system processor to run with thei

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distribution network in the form of a new distribution partnership with CY-Communications

Ltd. for Hong Kong, China and Macau.

CY-Communications Ltd specializes in providing leading audio and video solutions to enable

businesses to communicate internally with remote office staff and externally with their customers. The flagship product is the V2 Conference System which provides videoconferencing

but also the WowVision, proVeos wireless presentation systems.

"Their prior success with the V2 Conference System and WOW Vision products speaks well for their future growth with our Pan Beam products," says Pan Acoustics.

To complete the AV product line-up, CY has taken Pan Beam on board to fulfill the

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Townshend said he was "honoured" to be asked to deliver the address, adding that the former BBC Radio 1 DJ had introduced him to bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Undertones before they had signed record deals. "John didn't just listen to music, he played it on air and let his audience decide," the 66-year-old guitarist said. In his lecture, Townshend will pose the question: "C

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The month-long ballot, in which over 1,000 members participate, will decide places on PLASA's European and North American Regional Boards, together with a single seat on its over-arching Governing Body.

The two Regional Boards are still a relatively new concept for PLASA, having been formally launched at the start of 2011. Their role is to represent the interests of members affiliated to those regions, ensuring that PLASA offers strong on the ground support to members.

Both the North American and European Regional Boards are looking to fill a number of places for 2012. Following the death of the European Chair Rob Lingfield earlier this year, Ed Pagett of Panalux, who served as Vice Chair, is standing for the position of Chair. A number of representative positi

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Intrinsic to the project was replacing the church's 25 year-old sound system. Serving as Mother Church to the Diocese, as well as parish church for Sioux Falls and other surrounding parishes, St. Joseph's masses services are well attended by hundreds of parishioners. The new sound system had to provide high speech intelligibility and crystal clear sound to every seat in the house.

The project proved quite challenging, according to Peter Borchard of MuSonics Audio. MuSonics has designed audio solutions for many large cathedrals across the country.

"The church has a lot of reflectiv

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Following a three-day July vernissage cruise from Venice, the Costa Favolosa (114,500 gross tonnage and 3,800 total guests) began offering Eastern Mediterranean cruises, before being positioned in Dubai for eight-day Arabian Nights cruises in the UAE and Oman for the winter 2011/2012 season.

With its 13 passenger decks, the Favolosa, built entirely in Italy by Fincantieri, is the largest ship flying the Italian flag and offers guests a wide range of leisure and entertainment amenities, the latter including the three-deck Hortensia theatre, featuring a concentrate of cutting edge A

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The nature of venues like the Hexagon is that they stage a huge variety of productions - ranging from professional comedians, tribute acts, variety shows, choirs, psychics, musicals, pantomimes, dance troupes and TV spinoffs to amateur performances by clubs, bands, schools and talent contests. This means that the mixing system has to be extremely flexible, yet not so complex that it can't be taught very quickly to someone who may not have used a digital console before.

The combination of the M7CL-48ES and SB168-ES stage boxes meets all of these needs and, as a result, is proving extremely popular at regi

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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.<