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A GLD system is the main FOH mixing system, fitted with a Dante card for use with playback and recording software, and to provide multi-track live recording facilities if required.

Formerly Taipei High School, the university is classed as an historic building, and as such during the audio design phase concerns were raised by the audio contractor about room acoustics.

"Not only did we have to focus on the acoustic treatment of such an old room but also on the visual results. Consequently, we consulted with all the other contractors managing building works, lighting, rigging, stage, air conditioning and interio

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The band and their engineers - Front of House engineer Brent Rawlings and monitor engineer Saul Skoutarides - have been dedicated Sennheiser users for over eight years. Vocal microphone of choice for the past six has been the MD 431, a microphone they are still very happy with.

"We have the MD 431 on all of the guys as it is very stable and has a very nice frequency response for vocals," says Saul. "It also suits Caleb (Followill, lead singer) better than any other mic we tried in the past, which is part of the reason we stumbled upon it in the first place."

"It's very hard

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Anna Valley's new sound system comprises of 12 d&b audiotechnik T-10 loudspeakers, four B-4 SUBS and four D-6 amplifiers, and was specified to help address the company's market growth in the corporate sector. Andrew Newport, project manager on Anna Valley's corporate events division, explained:

"We are seeing considerable growth in the corporate sector, and wanted an in-house solution that we could deploy quickly, with a high degree of versatility, to cover the broadest range of venues and applicat

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14 March 2016

Allen & Heath's new Xone 23:C DJ mixer "brings together the best of digital DJing and conventional mixing in a compact, accessible format and is equipped with a premium quality, four stereo channel 96kHz 24bit internal soundcard" .

The Xone:K1 is Allen & Heath's new slimline DJ MIDI controller and will also feature at BPM for the first time. The unit is user-configurable for use with the DJ's choice of performance or production software and can be easily set up for fast access to level controls, triggering hot cues, adding FX and instant looping etc.

Other key products featuring at BPM and Pro include models from Audio-Technica's M-Ser

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Sennheiser will be showing its HD8 DJ and the HD6 MIX dedicated DJ headphones, which have been developed in conjunction with some of the world's top DJs. Also on show will be XS Wireless from Sennheiser's range of wireless microphone systems.

From Rane, the ever-popular Sixty-One and Sixty-Two DJ Mixers and the SL2 two-deck, SL3 two or three-deck and SL4 four deck plug-and-play USB interfaces for digital DJs will be on show, along with demos from renowned DJs, which will take place throughout each day.

(Jim Evans)

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Primarily designed with the broadcast engineer and sound location recordist in mind, the BBR1MP Recorder offers a range of connection options including individually switchable mic/line inputs, balanced outputs, video sync, timecode and word clock inputs. User installable Dante and MADI interface cards are also available as options, adding 24 channels of Dante or MADI i/o to the BBR1MP unit. Microphones can either be connected to the unit v

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The company has taken delivery of 36 E15 line array enclosures with 24 E219 subwoofers scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter. The E15 line arrays were immediately put to work at Festivalpark in Werchter, Belgium. PRG EML provided the Energia system for the TW Classic, headlined by The Rolling Stones and then for Rock Werchter, featuring Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon and Metallica. The E15 system is now currently out for a Spanish tour with Negramaro.

"The Werchter Festival is one of the biggest festivals in Europe," explains Patrick "Duim" Demoustier, senior sound engineer for PRG EML. "The E15 line arrays performed extremely well - they were fantastic and I was very impressed."

The Adamson system - used

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On tour, the audio challenge presented for the tour technicians is vastly different from those seen on concert or theatrical productions. Needing to be precise with their audio coverage, Front of house engineer Nick Walsh, monitor technician Mike Norfleet, and production manager Chris Warndahl are relying upon the services of Miller Pro Audio AVL and a full line of the their Omega Corps PA system.

"I have been out with the Oddball Festival for the last two years and having played a lot of these same venues previously, we knew the challenge would be that they are pretty steep with long throws making them hard to cover," began Walsh. "There are a lot of factors to consider so we try to cover ourselves

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14 March 2016

The transferable warranty extension, launched to coincide with the first day of this year's BPM / Pro Show, will apply to all products purchased from 13 September 2014 onwards.

Commenting on the introduction of this extended warranty, Stuart Thomson, CUK Audio managing director said, "To demonstrate our confidence in dB Technologies' products we have extended the manufacturer's warranty to five years and we have taken this one step further by making the warranty transferrable. This protects the users investment and should they choose to sell the products at a later date, they can do so with the remaining warranty intact. It will mean a higher re-sale price and therefore more money for reinvesting in the latest dB Technologies equipment.

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With its complete line-up of DSP project solutions, Canada-based Xilica has established a strong global platform, with its products installed across a huge range of applications including houses of worship, hotels, conference centres, theme parks, sports facilities and recording studios,.

Audiologic's Andy Lewis was keen to stress the importance to the company of covering every aspect of the audio field on behalf of its customers:

"In recent times we've acquired a number of exclusive, high profile, high quality brands. What's important to Audiologic is that all our brands cater for every conceivable requirement our customers ca

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The PFA speaker series features passive and self-powered speakers, designed to deliver high output and dynamics, extreme linearity and fidelity at a very competitive price, making them an affordable solution for the professional market.

Recommended for use in either fixed installations or mobile applications the PFA12 and the PFA15 are effective both as a stage monitor or as a compact FOH system.

Entirely made in Portugal, the PFA series uses quality custom made components, mounted on birch plywood enclosures, coated by a scratch resistant textured paint to assure an outstanding sonic performance and extreme mechanical ruggedness.

The heart of the new Next-proaudio powered speaker series, is a powerful, 1650Wrms (3300Wpeak), lightweight, highly efficient Class D

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The festival takes place throughout the Salento peninsula (the 'heel' of Italy) and is dedicated to the celebration of the region's folk music. 2014's festival featured 17 live shows on consecutive nights, each in a different town or village, with Salento music played in both the traditional style and fused with other types of music, including world, rock, jazz and classical.

Sound designer Cristiano Grassini of the Rooster Group chose two Yamaha CL5s, a CL1 and a QL1 to accommodate the varied line-up for the final show i

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"I have always loved what I do because everything is different, " said Rob. The new merge sees DWR Distribution adding a new warehouse to the existing office space situated at Kimbult Industrial Park in Laserpark, Honeydew.

"It's a privilege for us to welcome Rob to the team," said Duncan Riley of DWR. "He is a great man with much knowledge and experience and we hope that the years ahead will be happy ones."

(Jim Evans)

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Launched with the CL series digital mixing consoles in 2012, Yamaha's Rio3224-D and Rio1608-D i/o units were followed in 2013 by the Ri8-D and Ro8-D, all delivering outstanding sonic performance and flexibility for Dante-based audio systems.

Scheduled to be available in late 2014, the new RMio64-D enhances this legacy further by allowing audio from a CL/QL live sound (or other Dante-equipped) system, to be converted to MADI and fed to an OB vehicle or other recording facility. Alternatively, it can allow a MADI-based console to be easily integrated into a Nuage system for post-production.

Word clock synchronisation can be an issue when convertin

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The short shotgun microphone is powered by a single AA battery and connects to cameras with an unbalanced stereo 3.5mm TRS jack. Aware of the challenges of recording high quality audio in demanding, often fast-moving situations, Audio-Technica has also equipped the AT8024 with a low cut filter to reduce low frequency rumble and -10dB and -20dB pad settings to minimise the chance of overloading the camera's audio input.

Switchable mono or stereo operation extends the new microphone's flexibility. Additionally, the AT8024 features an integrated shockmount and foam windscreen with wind muff.

IBC2014 will also saw demonstrations of Audio-Technica's new ATND971 Cardioid Condenser

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The feedback alert allows to check in real time if there is any signal peak on a specific frequency. This warning is visible through the lighting of the LED that belongs to the detected frequency. The system adds a general sensitivity adjustment control in order to hit the right frequency value in the hypothetical case of feedback detection on adjacent frequencies; thereby, the user is warned with greater accuracy about the feedback point and is able to modify the response curve removing the one-time feedback.

In addition to this main feature, WEQ 231 adds features that are usually incorporated in this kind of device, such as high-pass and low-pass filters, the possibility of adj

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As a self-contained unit for simultaneous interpreting, Sennheiser's SL Interpreter brings together all the key functions of an interpreting console. When combined with the rack-mount SR 2020 Tourguide transmitter and Tourguide receivers for the audience, it delivers scalable language interpreting solutions that ensure simple installation and user-friendly operation.

"Whether you're doing a small product presentation or an international conference with hundreds of participants - SL Interpreter will impress with its flexibility and ease of use," explained Wienand Mensendiek, manager Portfolio and Channel Development Integrated Systems at Sennheiser.

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With a strong focus on the latest loudness hardware and software technologies, HHB can assist you in meeting the Digital Production Partnership's 1 October deadline for AS-11 file delivery and R128 loudness criteria. As such, HHB hosted the world debut of the TC Electronic's aNorm adaptive normalisation algorithm and the 1U Loudness Pilot, plus the latest software for TouchMonitor audio and loudness meters.

This is in addition to new and enhanced versions of Nugen Audio's range of loudness plug-ins, including the latest version of the LMB Loudness Management Batch processing plug-in featuring DynApt loudness compliant dynamic adaptation.

HHB highlighted several of Roland's newest AV technologies, inclu

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LINQ is available in two-wire (LINQ-2W2) or four-wire (LINQ-4W2) options. The LINQ-2W2 is both Clear-Com and RTS TW compatible. The LINQ-4W2 can interconnect with devices, such as analogue ports of any matrix intercom system, analog telephone circuits, two-way radio gateways and audio consoles. A maximum of six LINQ IP interfaces can be linked together in any two- or four-wire combination.

LINQ uses the Opus high quality audio codec. The bitrate, bandwidth, and delay can be changed quickly

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The new holding company will also include British manufacturer 4HM Limited, which specializes in MADI related equipment for the professional audio, broadcast and live industries, allowing the merging the Bel and 4HM brands.

This combination results in a significant expansion of non-overlapping, yet complementary, products and will deliver the associated benefits to product development from significant investment in R&D and the adoption of new technologies.

The enhanced management team is excited by the opportunity afforded to take the well-respected Bel brand forward, with new products that will benefit wider market segments. The combined companies and their prod

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During the planning stages, the city of Rock Hill contacted Butch Bailey and Keith Ludlam of B&K Pro Audio and Lighting to design an audio system for the track. The city wanted clear voice paging and high-quality music covering the entire venue which extends over several acres.

To meet these needs, B&K designed a system using Community's R Series loudspeakers

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Based in Elsau-Räterschen, show-concept.ch is a production company that delivers a complete service for live corporate and entertainment events. The company has used DiGiCo's smaller consoles since 2010 but, with one eye on next year's festival season, felt it was the right time to invest in a major Front of House system.

"We have invested in our new flagship DiGiCo SD5, as well as being the first company in Switzerland to purchase a JBL VTX V20 line array. Together they mean we are very well equipped for both touring shows and the summer festival season," says Cyril Schmuki, audio/sales engineer at show-concept.ch<

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The compact size of the console belies its power. A powerful DSP micro-core with internal 512x512 port audio matrix, and integrated I/O make it ideally suited to permanent installations with limited space, as well as to rental companies looking to optimize transportation. As it is natively equipped with RAVENNA/AES67 technology, the mc²36 integrates seamlessly into IP infrastructures. And for operational security, the console not only has redundant power-supplies but also DSP redundancy.

The Lawo mc²36 was designed

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"As an ardent Soundcraft fan, I was eagerly looking forward to the release of the Compact and Performer series of digital consoles," he said. "These were the first digital consoles I knew how to operate without even turning them on, from just their layout. I like to think of them as the digital console for the analogue guy."

Keith's first gig out with the Soundcraft Si Compact was for Jennifer Hawkins' engagement party held at Palm Beach with live performances from Martini Club and guest performer Guy Sebastian.

"With such an intuitive layout it was easy to set up for FOH and monitor mixes," he added. "Straight away you feel comfortable