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14 March 2016

The scholarship is presented to students based on their academic performance in the first year and is part of an education partnership agreement between the University in High Wycombe and Sennheiser.

It was presented following interviews between five shortlisted students and Phil Cummings, Sennheiser's marketing projects manager.

The award included a cheque for £1,500, along with a Neumann TLM 103 microphone, and a pair of 25th anniversary Sennheiser HD25 headphones.

Bradley said, "The money will be really useful as I have plans to set up my own music production and mixing business and develop a website for it.

"The professional kit from Sennheiser and Neumann will be great for both my degree work and fo

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"SSL has been established for a long time in both France and Italy," says Philippe Guerinet, director of international sales for SSL. "We have been working closely for many years with Giovanni Blasi in Italy and JB Lierre in France for our music products, so the SSL Live was a natural addition to their portfolios. The conclusion of some of the first commercial sales in these territories is clear evidence that we are on the right track."

"Continuing the very successful cooperation between our two companies over the past 10 years, we are delighted to embark on a new adventu

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14 March 2016

The powerful 633 mixer/recorder features six inputs, with three high-bandwidth mic/line XLR inputs complete with phantom power, high-pass filter, input limiter and variable pan. Three additional line-level inputs appear on TA3 (mini-XLR) connectors. All inputs are assignable to any output bus. AES digital I/O, including support for AES42 digital microphones, is available.

The 633 offers 10-track 24-bit, 48 kHz uncompressed polyphonic or monophonic broadcast WAV file reco

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14 March 2016

Turbosound's research and development activities will relocate to Music Group's research facility in Manchester, which houses over 60 engineers responsible for Midas and Klark Teknik research and development. Existing staff have been offered the opportunity to relocate to the new premises.

Nigel Beaumont, senior vice president professional division commented, "I am very excited about the future of our professional division and Turbosound is an integr

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14 March 2016

Founded in 1997, Melodia is also the nation's Outline distributor. Led by a young team of highly qualified engineers, the firm continued to grow and in 2005 entered the rental sector, simultaneously with the purchase of a Butterfly system. Through the years, Melodia has added various systems by the Italian manufacturer, including Mantas, Mini-COM.P.A.S.S., DVS, Eidos 265 and, more recently, GTO.

Thanks to this latest acquisition, the company was called in to handle the audio production for the concert by Italian-American guitarist, songwriter and producer Steve Vai (over 15m albums sold) at Jakarta's Tennis I

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Rick Clarke has been using the d&b audiotechnik T-Series since the system made its debut in 2009, based on the combination of the product's configuration flexibility and exceptional sound quality as a compact line array. A central element to Rick's approach for the new production was to preserve the power and vibrancy of the show's well-loved score, combined with a compact and versatile touring system suitable for the w

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14 March 2016

Via system integrators such as Cosmic Electronics their sonic solutions have found their way into a number of the themed 'Wonderland' and 'Wonderworld' brands - but this Autumn a more muscular RCF system was installed in the newly-opened Faces, in the heart of Wolverhampton's city centre on the site of a former Oceana.

Having stood empty for around 19 months this landmark building has now reopened after undergoing a £750,000 refurbishment.

In common with earlier themes, Faces contains two main dance rooms split across two floors (one called Tomorrow, the other Yesterday) and the sound and lighting systems have been completely replaced and upgraded in each.

General manager Mark Hickey, who had presided over the final days of the old Oceana, des

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"Avalon Mohegan Sun club goers are going to feel the visceral power of the music that will bring the Connecticut club experience to a whole new level," stated Scott Pizzo, North America sales manager eastern region. "The multiple Sub.twos give the Avalon system at Avalon Mohegan Sun the kind of punchy, propulsive sound that clubbers crave."

Owned by nightlife impresario Patrick Lyons, Avalon Mohegan Sun joins Avalon-brande

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The competition, which is being run in association with the Musicians' Union, the British Beer and Pub Association and music retailer GAK, offers pubs across the UK looking to host live music the opportunity to win £10,000 of Peavey PA gear.

There will also be £200 worth of GAK gift vouchers up for grabs for ten runner ups. To enter the Music Makeover competition, simply complete the online application form or print it and return it to PRS for Music by 31 December.

Finalists will then be visited by reps from PRS for Music, with the overall winner to be announc

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14 March 2016

Established in 1988, Pro Audio Systems spent much of the intervening period providing a range of hire, sales and installation services within professional audio, and in 2004 were appointed one of five Meyer Sound dealers for the UK. Their hire inventory subsequently expanded to include a Milo system and many other Meyer Sound products, all of which are deployed across a diverse portfolio of work.

It was their work in high-security airside installations, however, that provided the genesis for the new operating division. Co-founder and director Paul Siddall takes up the story, &q

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The town of Westerland, where the event takes place, routinely experiences strong onshore winds and lots of choppy waves; ideal for windsurfing but not so great for a sound crew trying to create enough SPLs and intelligibility for daily crowds of around 25,000. The system also needed to be flexible enough to provide sound reinforcement for recorded music, DJs, live commentary and announcement, and interviews.

Ambion is one of Europe's longest-standing Nexo clients, having owned the brand for more than two decades. The company has provided systems and technical service

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"Our goal for many years has been to install a Meyer Sound system, and we simply love it," says Wlodek Kowalczyk, the venue's principal sound engineer. "The Mina system delivers sparkling definition, and a dynamic range that covers all the subtleties of sound in musical theatre. It responds to what I wish to achieve, without compromises."

The main FOH system comprises 28 Mina loudspeakers, which include twin left and right hangs of 11 each and a centre cluster of six. Four 1100-LFC low-frequency contro

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HPSS' technical manager Iain Firth assessed the church's requirements and advised that from a sonic and aesthetic viewpoint, KV2's passive ESD Series would again be the best solution.

Following advice from Firth the church opted for a Left/Centre/Right system flown above the stage area. The two-way 10" ESD 10 was the loudspeaker of choice complimented by a single 12" ESD 1.12 subwoofer installed under the stage. A pair of two-way 6" ESD 6's were used to handle delay duties.

For this project the Church took advantage of KV2 Audio's alternative colour options, choosing to go with white enclosures rather than

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One of many dates on Bieber's Believe Tour, the artist performed for a crowd of 40,000 in the outdoor venue.

"Gordon Mack, the FOH engineer on the tour was given the choice between a d&b audiotechnik, Meyer or Adamson E15 system for the concert and he chose the E15," explains Mauricio Vilar, owner of C. Vilar. "He has traveled all over the world on this tour, using a variety of systems but when given a choice he chose Adamson - I think that speaks volumes for the Energia system."

C. Vilar provided left-right line arrays for the house PA, each consisting of 15 E15s and four Spektrix. Out-fill hangs of 24 Y18s covered seating on each side of the stage. Front-fill was handled

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Whilst Westpoint offers acres of space for trucks, and therefore easy load in, the venue itself, originally designed for the trading of Devon's finest livestock, is known for having a reverberation time of at least seven seconds. With MLA and MLA Compact having taken on and tamed some of the most challenging spaces in the globe, MLA Mini had an enviable reputation to uphold.

The pressure was further compounded because this event is a major cornerstone in the calendar of Plymouth based Pyramid AV, under the directorship of Nic Black. The product

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Rami Jaffee, who is a founding member of the Grammy-winning rock band The Wallflowers and now keyboardist for the Foo Fighters, owns the studio with music producer Ran Pink, who has produced for PiNk & NoSeWoRthY and has composed for TV shows such as Happily Divorced and The Fran Drescher Tawk Show. Together, they operate half of the building as a recording studio and the other half, which features a big sound stage, as

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14 March 2016

Wolfgang Garçon, former managing director of Atlantic Audio, with whom the British loudspeaker manufacturer has been associated for a number of years, has left to set up new distribution company, UnitedB in Düsseldorf. The headquarters will be based in Segro-Rhein-Park, an industrial estate in the southern part of the city.

UnitedB - which stands for United Brands for Event Technology - has already started to put together a portfolio of leading brands. On landing Martin Audio, Garçon stated, "We are delighted that Martin Audio has become part of the new UnitedB family. We have a long relationship with the company and look forward to achieving further success in all their key installation, event and touring sectors."

"Martin Audio has just ad

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Boasting ProTools 11, Logic Pro X, Ableton Suite 9, the collection of mics from Neumann U87 to Shure SM57 and everything in between, as well as the recent arrival of their brand new Eve Audio SC407 monitors (pictured), Okafor-Ross praises the Audient desk as a teaching tool. "I liked the combination of great sounding pre-amps, a clear and easy to explain routing system that retains the ability to become as complex as we want, and a console that screams professional and contem

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"The D5 Live came out in 2002 - I had one of the prototypes," says Jon. "I've always used DiGiCo consoles. For me, they are the best sounding of the digital desks and the SD range is very reliable."

Promoting their new album, Oceania, th

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Former participants including Slovakia, Czech Republic and Andorra will remain on the sidelines, while Turkey are shunning the competition for a second year in a row, saying they are unhappy with the rules. They have created an alternative contest called Turkvision, whic

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14 March 2016

As the US Department of Energy's (DOE) primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development, ESIF houses 200 researchers and staff in eight diverse work spaces. Each of the spaces was uniquely designed to fit the research and testing needs of the different work groups and include A 3D collaboration lab, a control room that monitors and controls the facility processes, visualisation labs where experiments being performed in the electricity, thermal, and fuel labs can be visualised on a large, high-definition screen, and conference rooms of various sizes throughout the facility.

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"We have been waiting for the SSL Live with great anticipation," says Leon Hart, business unit manager at Amber Technology. "Here at Amber, we have been carefully adding to our live production equipment portfolio to increase our presence in this market. The SSL Live is a technology platform with a fresh approach to how a live console should sound and operate giving engineers a control surface that helps them deliver exceptional performances. It is exciting for us to be able to build on our successes with SSL consoles in the music and broadcast industries through Live. The Live console has been

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14 March 2016

As the US Department of Energy's (DOE) primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development, the ESIF houses 200 researchers and staff in eight diverse work spaces. Each of the spaces was uniquely designed to fit the research and testing needs of the different work groups and include: A 3D collaboration lab; Control room that monitors and controls the facility processes; Visualization labs where experiments being performed in the electricity, thermal, and fuel labs can be visualized on a large, high-definition screen; Conference rooms of various sizes througho

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"The MJF-210 started with a customer's request to bring the intelligibility and power of the MJF-212A into a more production-friendly package," says Pablo Espinosa, chief loudspeaker designer and vice president of R&D. "The end result is a product that reflects users' needs in the field, and its small footprint also offers more flexibility in bringing the myriad self-powered advantages to the stage."

The MJF-210 features a low-profile design with an impressi