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  Pioneering Architectural Lighting Designer, Jules Horton, Dies at 87
Jules Horton, a recognized innovator in the architectural lighting field and founder of Jules G. Horton Lighting Design (now Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, Inc., www.hlblighting.com), died in his home on ...
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2007 Lightfair International Connects Industry to Future of Lighting with Conference
This May, the architectural and commercial lighting industry will be connected to Lightfair International 2007. This year the conference takes place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, May 6-10, 2007. ...
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ETC Lights London Fleet Street Church
St. Bride's Church - often known as the "journalists' church" due to its location on London's famous Fleet Street - has taken delivery of some 50 ETC Source Four fixtures as part of a refurbishment to replace worn-out lighting at ...
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Hippotizer Training Announced
Green Hippo has announced that it will be holding two 1-day training courses on the new Hippotizer Version 3 media server system in Central London on 23rd and 24th April.
The training days are open to everyone and will ...
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Columbia University's Lerner Hall Installs Turbosound Aspect Loudspeakers
When the Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University opened in 1999, it was the new center of campus activity for students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The multipurpose Lerner Hall was designed and built to have the utmost flexibility in its ...
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Christina Aguilera Goes Back to Basics with Nocturne
Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics Tour has come to the U.S. Nocturne is supporting the star as a returning client as she takes her show to adoring fans around the world.
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Pyrotek Special Effects and Laser Design Productions Welcome Jim Schorer to its Team
Pyrotek Special Effects Inc. and Laser Design Productions have recently appointed Jim Schorer as marketing manager. Schorer comes with experiences working in the field of marketing and sales for Coca-Cola-Limited's
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Bandit Lites Finds a Real Fine Place to Start with Sara Evans
Bandit Lites is collaborating with the reigning Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist Sara Evans for her 2007 spring/summer tour dates. The tour is expected to last through mid-September and will include cities across ...
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Jess Klarnet Named Senior Account Executive, High Output
High Output, Inc. announces that Jess M. Klarnet has joined the company in the position of senior account director. He will be responsible for development of the corporate theatre, business-to-business, and trade show markets ...
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Carvin LM Series Loudspeakers Now Shipping
Carvin announces that its LM Series loudspeakers are now shipping. Featuring four available models in both powered and non-powered configurations with a choice of 12- or 15" LF drivers, the LM Series loudspeakers are two-way ...
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High End Systems Debuts the Road Hog Console
High End Systems Inc. has released the newest member of the Wholehog family: the Road Hog, a new breed of lighting console designed for speed and affordability, the company says. Road Hog debuts at the Prolight + Sound Show ...
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New EAW Smaart v.6 Now Released and Available
New EAW Smaart v.6 for PC and Mac has been released, and is available for download at the EAW website.
This Smaart v.6 download can be run as a fully functional 30-day demo, and can be unlocked into a full license through the ...
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Scharff Weisberg Lighting Helps Create Look for MTV Unplugged: Korn
Scharff Weisberg Lighting recently supported MTV Times Square Studios for MTV Unplugged: Korn, which featured the band performing a full acoustic set of its hits. The latest installment of the popular series aired March 2; ...
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FogScreen Projection Screen Receives Club World Award for "Best Nightclub Effect" 2007
After being named the "Best Promotion" of the Bottom Line Design Awards, FogScreen projection screen is now chosen to be the "Best Effect" of the Club World Award program.
The Club World Award is entirely dedicated ...
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Soundcraft In The Venue
Salt Lake City's In The Venue, a three-floor, 1600-capacity live music club formerly known as Bricks, is quickly gaining a reputation among high-profile touring alternative, punk, and indie acts as "the place to play" when crossing Utah. ...
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Vista Systems Names Audio Associates and Anew CT as Reps
Vista Systems announces that Audio Associates of Columbia, Maryland and Anew CT of Centennial, Colorado will represent the company's products in the Mid-Atlantic and West Coast regions, respectively. The two companies ...
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Masque Sound Forms House of Worship Division
Masque Sound co-principals Geoff and James Shearing have announced the formation of new division focused on providing sound reinforcement, wireless and acoustic consultation and installation for the house of worship ...
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Hans-Juergen Heitzer Appointed Sales Manager at Meyer Sound Germany
Meyer Sound has announced the appointment of Hans-Juergen Heitzer to the position of sales manager, Süden/Osten (Southern/Eastern Regions) at Meyer Sound Germany. Responsible for sales in Germany's southern and eastern ...
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L-ACOUSTICS Unveils LA4 And LA8 Amplified Controllers
At the heart of the new L-ACOUSTICS integrated system approach, the LA4 and LA8 amplified controllers offer cutting-edge loudspeaker amplification, DSP, network control, and comprehensive system protection in a ...
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George C. Izenour Dies at 94
George C. Izenour, born on July 24, 1912 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. As he recalled, "I was born in a little town in the Beaver valley of Pennsylvania about 30 miles west of Pittsburgh; New Brighton. My father was a small ...
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Computer-based Testing Quarterly Application Deadlines Lifted for ETCP Rigging and Electrical Exams
ETCP announces that, due to new arrangements with its testing company, the quarterly deadlines for submitting applications for computer-based exams have been eliminated. Once an application has been submitted, it will be processed within a ...
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AKG Announces New VP of Sales
AKG Acoustics has announced the addition of a new vice president of sales, Ralf Tschanun. Heading up the entire global sales team, Tschanun will be based in AKG's Vienna office and will report directly to AKG Acoustics ...
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MA Lighting Launches grandMA Pico
MA Lighting has expanded its grandMA range with a new member - the grandMA Pico. The new console is specifically designed for the use in theatres. (The grandMA pico is similar to the grandMA micro.)The hardware of the ...
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LSC Announces Launch of Redback Digital Dimmer
New from LSC lighting systems is the REDBACK six-channel digital dimmer.
The Redback 6 offers a range of sophisticated features not previously seen in dimmers at this price point, the company says. This includes: minimum ...
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Theatre in Review: Some Men (Second Stage)
Near the end of the first act of Some Men, playwright Terrence McNally pulls off a moment so assured that, briefly anyway, you'll think you're seeing the play of the year. We're in a gay bar, circa 1969. It's the kind ...
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Stage-Tech adds Martin Maxedia Pro Media Server to Rental Inventory
Santa Fe Springs, California-based Stage-Tech has added a Martin Maxedia Pro media server added to its extensive rental inventory. Maxedia runs up to a maximum of 20 layers simultaneously, depending on the type of layer. It ...
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XL Video is Faithless
XL Video is supplying video projection and cameras to the Faithless To All New Arrivals Tour, forming an integral element of lighting and visual designer Ivan Morandi's provocative live show aesthetics. ...
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DAS Audio Life of the Party at New York New York's Celtic Feis
The New York, New York hotel and casino in Las Vegas recently hosted its annual Celtic Feis (festival). Live music was central to the celebratory mood. Grosz Live Productions of Las Vegas erected a substantial SR system with ...
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Martin Posts Profits for 2006
In 2006, Martin Professional successfully maintained the positive developments in the company's operations that began in the second half of 2005, the company says. Substantial improvement produced a DKK 18 million profit before tax ...
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W-DMX 2007 Product Catalog Now Available
The 2007 W-DMX product catalog is now available for download at the Wireless Solution website. The company will also have full color print editions at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt in Hall 9, Booth B55. The new catalog ...
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FogScreen Wins Bottom Line Design Award
The FogScreen projection screen has been recognized for its innovative design at the third annual Bottom Line Design Awards, sponsored by leading strategic-creative consultancy frog design and Business 2.0 ...
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Meyer Sound Brings New UPJunior, Matrix3, MILO Family and More to Prolight + Sound 2007
The Meyer Sound Prolight + Sound stand (Hall 4.1, Walkway F, Stand 21) will feature a broad sampling of the company's many product offerings. The huge Frankfurt show will mark the European introduction of the new, self-powered UP ...
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Philips Showcases New Technology at Prolight + Sound
Royal Philips Electronics has announced that it will present its latest innovations in entertainment lighting technology at Prolight + Sound 2007. Initiated by the launch of Philips MSR Gold1200 FastFit and Philips Hi ...
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Westbury National Raises Its Game with JBL Loudspeakers at Sears Center
Utilizing the power and accuracy of JBL Professional PD Series loudspeakers, Westbury National Show Systems designed and installed the audio system at the new Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The 11,000-seat arena opened ...
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Mexico Joins the Worldwide Network of HME Pro Audio Distributors
HME has appointed Grupo Audio Diseno of Mexico City to distribute its products. Audio professionals throughout Mexico now have direct access to award-winning wireless systems from HME.
"Grupo Audio Diseno has an ...
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Prolyte Catwalk Truss for Blue Man Group
The Blue Man Group has chosen the Amsterdam Convention Factory for a series of performances, which will run till the end of April. The Netherlands-based rigging company, Rigging BOX, was asked to make provisions for access ...
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Zero 88 Chills out at Café 7
German contemporary restaurant franchise Café 7 is opening new franchises featuring fully integrated lighting control from Zero 88.
Style and branding is core to Café 7's philosophy, and part of its franchise agreements is to ...
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First Pearl Expert in Portugal to Alfasom
The first Avolites Pearl Expert console has arrived in Portugal and been delivered by Avo's distributor VeryLight to Lisbon-based Alfasom Audiovisuais.
It's the first of 22 Pearl Experts that VeryLight has on order ...
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Creative Stage Lighting Appoints Rocky Harlow To North Central Sales Manager
Rocky Harlow has accepted the position of North Central Division dealer sales manager at Creative Stage Lighting. Harlow brings a comprehensive background in theatrical design and sales to CSL. He holds a BA in theatre, an ...
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Bandit Lites' Family Continues to Grow
Bandit Lites announces the hiring of John Lucksinger as production manager and the transition of Nicole Nota to production coordinator.
As production manager, Lucksinger will plan, direct, and coordinate activities of ...
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Visual Productions presents Canvix Matrix Server at Prolight + Sound 2007
From Visual Productions, makers of VisualDMX and Matrix Mania!, comes the software lighting controller of the future presents Canvix, the dedicated Matrix server.
Working with the established hardware ...
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L-ACOUSTICS Launches Ultra-compact KIVA System at NSCA 2007
The L-ACOUSTICS KIVA system establishes a new reference in line source array technology, the company says. Packaged in a sleek, fully integrated, ultra-compact design, Kiva is designed to meet the highest demands of audio ...
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Chauvet to Light State-of-the-art Stage at Ozzfest
Shortly after Sharon Osbourne made the big announcement that this year's Ozzfest is free (!), organizers turned to sponsors to provide added support for the festival's new incarnation as a "FREEfest." In stepped liquor powerhouse ...
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Behind the Scenes Announces "Short Reach, Short Riders" Ride
The Mt. Vernon Senior High School chapter of USITT will stage its first annual "Short Reach Short Riders" tricycle ride on Saturday, May 12, 2007.
The chapter has created the event to support the ESTA Foundation's "Behind the Scenes" ...
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Lord Of The Rings: White Light and Q1 Team Up For London's Biggest Show
The Lord Of The Rings - the stage version of JRR Tolkien's classic trilogy which played to great acclaim in Toronto last year, winning its design team numerous awards - is transferring to London. It will play to its first ...
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Alcons at Frankfurt ProLight & Sound 2007
Exhibiting for the fifth time in its existence, Alcons Audio will be present at the Prolight + Sound show with a number of novelties. The Alcons R&D team has decided to clear the "Phitom" design study for exhibition on the Alcons ...
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Theatre in Review: Prometheus Bound (Classic Stage Company/Aquila Theatre Company)
We so rarely get accomplished productions from the Greek classic repertory that it seems ungrateful not to be happy when one comes along. But Prometheus Bound is less a transcendent experience than an earthbound one. ...
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Theatre in Review: Talk Radio
There's plenty of talk in Talk Radio-the kind of scalding, savage, and bitterly satirical conversation that takes no prisoners and leaves no survivors. Much of it comes from Liev Schreiber as Barry Champlain, host of a ...
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Audio-Technica Mics Chosen for the 10th Consecutive Year at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
For the 10th year in a row, a broad range of Audio-Technica microphones was selected to outfit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. A-T supplied over 100 mics to capture the audio for this widely celebrated musical event ...
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Robe at Frankfurt 2007
Robe Show Lighting will showcase its latest moving light and digital lighting products at the 2007 Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt.
These will include the ColorWash 2500E AT, the new 700 Series, Robe's ...
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Electro-Voice Launches New ZXA5 Powered Loudspeaker
Electro-Voice has launched the new ZXA5 powered two-way loudspeaker. ZXA5 is the first powered model in the ZX line.
At the heart of the ZXA5 are state-of-the-art transducers. To develop the DVX3150 15" high performance ...
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New LCD Lectern at AV Concepts
AV Concepts has recently acquired a distinctive LCD lectern. It prominently displays a 40' LCD screen that can be mounted horizontally or vertically. It is typically operated from a dedicated computer and gives high-status ...
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Source Four EDLT lights Jazz at Lincoln Center Logo
When Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York, was looking for a way to create a sign for their venue that could be seen from far away, they were also faced with the challenge of complying with the aesthetic ...
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LSC Establishes a New Brand
This year's Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt promises to be LSC's biggest and best; they have a new product to release. "It has legs, it's powerful, it's built well, and more importantly it's want you've been asking for," ...
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Look Solutions' Viper NT at The Women of Lockerbie at Lewis University
Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois is presenting the play The Women of Lockerbie, Deborah Brevoort's modern tragedy, set seven years after the crash of Pan Am flight 103 in Scotland, featuring atmospheric effects ...
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Plug-Ins for DiGiCo Consoles
ADK has put together a package that offers plug-in capability and simultaneous 56-track recording for DiGiCo consoles, or 112-track recording if plug-ins are not required. All this in a machine housed in a 4u rack mount case ...
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HES Sells Catalyst Back to its Inventor
High End Systems has today entered into an agreement to sell the Catalyst media server software back to its developer, Richard Bleasdale, of SAMSC Designs in the UK.
"This is an exciting time for Catalyst," ...
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USITT Sees the Launch of Hall Stage North America Inc.
Hall Stage Limited has joined forces with top US distributors and manufacturers to form Hall Stage North America Incorporated, and has commenced shipping selected ranges from its extensive catalogue of over 1,200 products. ...
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Calvary Temple Worship Center Embraces New Digital Technology with VENUE
Calvary Temple Worship Center is a 2,000-seat house of worship located in Modesto, California. As a veteran Pro Tools user, Justin Jones, Calvary's director of audio, was anxious to investigate the Digidesign VENUE ...
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Rosco Brings On European Mural Product Manager
Rosco has hired Lex Verstraaten - formerly of Dutch Rosco dealer, Controllux - as European mural product manager, with the specific remit of developing Rosco's opportunities in this market and working with clients to ...
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Electro-Voice Netmax Debuts at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
As befits a truly Texan tradition, Houston-based LD Systems designs and deploys sound reinforcement and lighting on a massive scale for the annual Houston Rodeo and Livestock Series, held at the city's Reliant Stadium, and ...
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Theatre in Review: Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
I was ready to crown Prelude to a Kiss with the title of Least Necessary Revival of 2006. I thoroughly enjoyed it in 1990 and felt that the time was not yet ripe for a revisit. I now withdraw all objections; clearly, I had ...
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Encore for TC Electronic 5.1 Processing on Dancing with the Stars
When ABC's hit variety series Dancing with the Stars returned to the airwaves for the fourth season on March 19th, TC Electronic processing also returned to the spotlight. This year's show is being broadcast in Stereo and ...
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Carrot Top Adds New Prop To Vegas Show: Elation Moving Heads
Comedian Carrot Top (a.k.a. Scott Thompson) created his own unique style of humor using props on stage as visual gags. Now the zany red-haired comic's headlining show at the Luxor in Las Vegas has a new "prop" - Elation ...
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Blues System Launches in North America
Blues System's North American debut at USITT, Phoenix was a great success, according to the company. The product range, specifically designed for backstage lighting applications in the working theatre, won the PLASA 2006< ...
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HSL Lights Lily Allen Tour
HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew for Lily Allen's just completed UK theatre tour - featuring her largest production to date.
Lighting for the popular and feisty British singer/songwriter, renowned for her hugely ...
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A.C. Lighting Appoints Two New Sales Reps
A.C. Lighting Inc. has appointed two new U.S. sales representatives to support the company's continuing growth of business in the North American market.
Lori French and Keith Lewandowski join A.C.'s sales team in ...
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Clear-Com Launches Tempest License-free Wireless Intercom
Clear-Com will launch Tempest 2400 and Tempest 900, billed as a revolutionary wireless intercom system, at April's NAB. The new Tempest has been engineered to avoid the need for licensing and frequency coordination. ...
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Mackie Introduces SRM150 Compact PA System
Mackie has announced the debut of the newest member of the SRM family, the SRM150. Capitalizing on the technologies of Mackie's SRM active loudspeakers and mixers, the Mackie SRM150 Compact Active PA System delivers ...
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PRG Acquires High Performance Images
Production Resource Group, LLC, (PRG) and High Performance Images (HPI), a Chicago-based video company, have announced PRG's acquisition of HPI..
"HPI's resources and expertise in high-end video staging solutions adds ...
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Biamp Expands Role of Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Committee
As an extension of its commitment to full compliance with the European Union's directive on Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), Biamp has introduced its new Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Committee. It is ...
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Kinesys Announces European Distribution Deal
UK-based automation specialist Kinesys announces a European distribution agreement that is a joint venture between Sonoss, based in France, and Louis Reyners from The Netherlands.
The two companies have exclusive ...
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Wireless Solution Shows New Products at Prolight + Sound
Wireless Solution Sweden AB invites visitors to drop by for some Swedish delicacies while checking out a variety of new product demonstrations during Prolight + Sound, March 28-31 in Frankfurt, Germany. The new W-DMX Genera ...
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projectiondesign Launches F30 sx+
A new professional projector from projectiondesign, the F30 sx+, uses single-chip DLP technology. The projector features Texas Instruments' BrilliantColor technology which enhances images by reproducing a wider color ...
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Lily Allen Tours with Avolites Diamond
Lighting designer Neil Trenell specified an Avolites Diamond 4 to control lighting and a Green Hippo Hippotizer digital media server for Lily Allen's recent UK theatre tour - which featured her largest ...
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Jars of Clay Rock with DL.2s
The Christian rock group, Jars of Clay, has added High End Systems' DL.2s to their North American tour.
"Every city we have gone to, we get the 'wow' factor of what the DL2 can do. There are so many ways to use the fixture," says ...
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Impact Video Uses Daktronics' ProTour Displays at NBA All Star Game
Fans didn't miss a second of the exciting live basketball action with six 13mm Daktronics ProTour screens present at this year's 2007 NBA All Star Game. The NBA contracted with Daktronics' rental partner, Impact Video, ...
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Middle Atlantic Launches IDF Series
Middle Atlantic Products introduced its new Intermediate Distribution Rack (IDF) Series at NSCA Expo 2007. Designed to easily mount to building truss and uni-strut, IDF Series Racks are designed for AV integrators who ...
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London's Barbican Adds ADB WARP/M Units to Rig
The Barbican Concert Hall in London celebrated its 25th anniversary on March 6th, unveiling the latest investment in its lighting automation program: ADB WARP/M automated spot profile luminaires.
Nineteen WARP/Ms, purchased ...
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Danley Loudspeakers Added to New Covenant Ministries
New Covenant Ministries boasts an energetic service where progressive music plays an important role. Its church seats 1,200 in a rectangular room that is 80' deep, but only 30' high, and was scarcely designed for its acoustics. In ...
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Dolby Introduces CobraNet Card for the Dolby Lake Processor
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. introduced the KIT 989 CobraNet card, a digital audio and control data networking solution for the Dolby Lake Processor, at the NSCA Expo 2007.
The KIT 989 provides CobraNet audio ...
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Analog Way Launches Sync Processor
Analog Way announces the availability of Sync Processor (model SPI400), an interface which adapts the computer signals to monitors, screens, projectors and other video display devices requirements. It can handle most input ...
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Meyer Sound M'elodie Added to Browns Bridge Community Church
From its humble beginnings in rented facilities in downtown Atlanta, Ga., North Point Ministries has grown over the last 12 years to serve more than 17,000 members in three distinct suburban Atlanta campuses. North Point's modern, ...
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Wybron Accelerates Pace of New Product Delivery
Wybron, Inc., is picking up the pace of new product development and delivery. The company is committed to introducing one product a month up to the start of the professional lighting trade show season. ...
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Martin Launches Online Product Resource Center
In order to provide users with the best product documentation possible, Martin Professional has recently added a new, functional, and useful area to its website(s). The Product Resource Center (www.martin.com/product/resource ...
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Robbie Williams Plays Chile with Adamson's Y-Axis Loudspeakers
Brit pop star Robbie Williams kicked off his Close Encounters world tour in April in South Africa, recently landing in Santiago, Chile As many as 77,000 people packed the Estadio National to listen to his latest offerings, ...
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GearSourceEurope Launches New-look Website
The used entertainment equipment specialist, GearSourceEurope, has completely re-vamped and re-designed its website, making it easier to navigate and locate items of interest rapidly. GearSourceEurope was established at the ...
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PRG Provides Full Production Services for Pride.33's Mixed Martial Arts Spectacular
Combining sport and pageantry, Pride.33: The Second Coming, staged on February 24 at Las Vegas' Thomas & Mack Center, was a much-anticipated return engagement for this Japan-based brand of mixed martial arts competition. PRG ...
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XL Supplies Barco MiTRIX to Nelly Furtado Tour
XL Video UK is supplying 270 panels of its new stock of Barco MiTRIX screen to Nelly Furtado's UK and European tour.
This was specified by lighting and set designer Bradley Wagg, who has been working with ...
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Medialon Helped Ring In Holiday Season at Grand Central Station
Medialon Manager controlled the extensive lighting and audio aspects of one New York City's most high-profile seasonal attractions, The Grand Central Kaleidoscope holiday light show which ran in the Main Concourse of Grand ...
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Biamp Systems Hires Four New Engineers
Biamp today announced the hiring of four new engineers.Larry Copley, Jeff Jones, Dominic Perez, and Angela Van Osdol have joined the Biamp Systems team under the direction of Matt Czyzewski, VP technical ...
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Middle Atlantic Launches New Cable Management Accessories
Middle Atlantic Products today introduced its new Vertical Lacer Strips, along with a number of new cable management accessories, at NSCA Expo 2007. With its innovative new design that eliminates the need to "fish" in cable ...
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Bandit Supplies Bryan Ferry's New Tour
Bandit Lites UK is supplying the current Bryan Ferry UK and European tour with full lighting production and crew - this marks Bandit's first tour with the acclaimed UK artist, whose dynamic hit-making career stretches back to ...
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Selecon Releases Third Followspot in Performer Series
With the release of the third and final model in the Selecon Performer Series of followspots, the range is now complete. Attendees of the Pro Light & Sound Show will be among the first in the world to check out the long-throw ...
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Nautilus Entertainment Design Lights General Motors at Detroit Auto Show
General Motors kicked off what should be a big year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The company's 121,000 sq. ft. exhibit - the single largest at NAIAS - featured distinct areas for each of GM's ...
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White Light Supplies The Hurtwood Concert
Leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light was asked by set and lighting designer David Amos to work with him on the lighting for this year's showcase concert at Hurtwood House, one of the top higher education ...
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New Models in Lab.gruppen's C Series Amplifier Line Now Shipping
Lab.gruppen is now shipping four new amplifiers in its installation-dedicated C Series line - C 20:8X (8 x 250W), C 10:8X (8 x 125W), C 10:4X (4 x 250W), and C 5:4X (4 x 125W). Power ratings for each are the same at 70V, 4 ...
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Meyer Sound MILO Helps Iggy Pop Shake Macedonia's Taksirat Festival
In the heart of the Balkans reside the slightly more than two million people who make up the Republic of Macedonia. The diversity and vibrancy of its capital city of Skopje is well demonstrated during the Taksirat Festival. Now in ...
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City Theatrical Releases Stackers Tapered Top Hats
City Theatrical has released its new line of Stackers tapered top hats. Stackers are designed to stack without sticking and to save space on the shelf and in transport, while maintaining all of the benefits of standard top ...
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New PixelLine Micros Make Debut with Mika
Hailed as the next Freddie Mercury, Mika - a 23 year old Beirut-born Londoner - has recently exploded onto the music scene in, causing a sensation among music lovers and experts alike.
Lighting designer Ian Tomlinson chose ...
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HRH The Earl of Wessex Opens Litestructures Studios
HRH The Earl of Wessex better known to Americans as :Prince Edward visited the Wakefield offices of Litestructures GB Ltd. on Thursday March 1 to officially open the Litestructures Studios rehearsal arena and ...
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ETC Offers Free Code for Upcoming DMX-over-ACN Standard
ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) has posted free source code for the upcoming DMX-over-ACN standard (also referred to as "streaming ACN") to its website. The lighting manufacturer has done this to help the industry ...
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Alt-Rockers Primus Transition from Analog to Digital with VENUE
Derrick Featherstone is a highly regarded sound mixer and systems integrator. Currently with Pro Media/UltraSound in Hercules, California, he has spent well over a decade working intimately with alt-rock band Primus as ...
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ADB Lights Up New Website
ADB Lighting has launched its new website, designed to make navigation around the company's wide range of products and support services much easier.
A new, lively, user-friendly interface presents the ADB range in product families ...
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Le Maitre Special Effects Acquires Luna Tech's Assets and Manufacturing Facility
Adrian Segeren, president of Le Maitre Special Effects Inc., announces that Le Maitre Special Effects Inc has acquired the assets and the operating manufacturing plant from Luna Tech Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama. " ...
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Heil Sound Pink Pearl Endorses the Cure
Heil Sound has introduced their Pink Pearl PR20 large diaphragm vocal microphone, the first model introducing in the new Spotlight Series emblazoned with the pink ribbon on the PR 20 Pink Pearl finish. Proceeds from sales ...
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For-A Hanabi Multi-bitrate Switcher Part of NASA's HD Upgrade
NASA's largest research center, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), has become the first of ten NASA centers with full live HD capability since the addition of its FOR-A Hanabi HVS-3800HS switcher. ...
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Investment Company Halder Participates in Prolyte Products Group
Fokko Smeding, CEO of Prolyte Products Group, announced today that he has signed an agreement selling a majority of the companies shares to the investment company Halder Invest, part of Belgian based GIMV. ...
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Aviom Promotes Craig Sibley to Marketing Manager for House of Worship
Aviom has announced the promotion of Craig Sibley to the position of House of Worship marketing manager.
Since joining Aviom in 2005, Sibley has been one of the driving forces behind the company's success in bringing its ...
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LSC Goes Heavyweight
LSC's maxim XXLP was used on Sarasota Fairground's Robarts Arena for a boxing bout featuring local boxer China Smith, aka "The Dragon."
The 72Kw Par Can show was controlled using an LSC maXim XXLP, provided by Piston ...
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Projected Image Digital Launches New Products
Digital hardware/software and media solutions specialists Projected Image Digital (PID) has launched a raft of new product ranges. "Digital lighting and media technologies are really taking off and becoming more accessible to a greater ...
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E\T\C UK Boosts Christie Digital Projector Stock
E\T\C UK Ltd. is increasing its stock of high power video projectors with the acquisition of Christie Roadie 25k projectors. It has also taken delivery of Christie's new Roadster S+20K projection system, a mid-range projector ...
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2007 Brings Changes, New Momentum to TAPCO Brand
TAPCO announces that brand group vice president John Boudreau is now heading up the development and direction of Tapco products. "I'm really excited to work on the Tapco brand and to have the opportunity to reach young ...
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Theatre in Review: King Hedley II (Signature Theatre Company)
The Signature Theatre Company has accomplished numerous acts of reclamation over the years, but none of them has been as dramatic as its current production of King Hedley II. On Broadway, it was August Wilson's ...
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LTM at Frankfurt 2007
Lift-Turn-Move will show a range of its standard products at Prolight + Sound 2007. LTM offers an extensive range of lifting and rigging equipment, including the Lodestar and Prostar electric chain hoists which are ...
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Russia's Arena Club Uses Martin
The Arena club, located in Northern Russia, recently emerged from the site of an old cinema outfitted in the latest dynamic lighting technology from Martin Professional, and has quickly become the region's most popular entertainment ...
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Theatre in Review: Dying City (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre)
One thing I've noticed about many of our young playwrights: they're really, really depressed. A few nights ago I saw Julian Sheppard's Los Angeles, in which Katherine Waterston drowns in a cocktail of speed, sex, and abuse. Then ...
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ScreenWorks Supplies Daktronics LED Video Displays to Daytona 500
Daktronics' rental partner, ScreenWorks, recently equipped the 2007 Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Fla., with two Daktronics LED video screens in the track infield for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series opener. ...
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ETC Debuts Super-Compact Moving-Light Console at USITT: SmartFade ML
ETC's new SmartFade ML -- ML for moving lights -- brings ETC-quality control to the smallest venues and events, within a super-compact, portable and easy-to-use board. The latest addition to ETC's Smart Solutions line ...
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Look Solutions and City Theatrical Team on New Wireless DMX-IT
Look Solutions and City Theatrical introduce the Wireless DMX-it, an accessory to make any Look Solutions fog or haze machine WDS-ready. That means productions utilizing City Theatrical's WDS wireless technology can ...
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Baxter Controls Introduces Playback-8
Baxter Controls' Playback-8 is the brand new cue recording version of the Pocket-Console DMX, BCi's miniature dmx-512 console, now upgraded into an 8-submaster memory console. It be patched as before with up to 512 DMXaddresses into eight ...
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Highway Takes L-ACOUSTICS South
L-ACOUSTICS US announces that Highway Marketing has come onboard as its newest independent rep firm and is now servicing the southern states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana for the loudspeaker manufacturer. ...
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Power-H Powers Up the Pro Bowl
Custom Audio of Kaneohe, Hawaii upped the audio ante for their annual Pro Bowl production spec at this year's AFL/NFL football face off in Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, drafting three compact PowerH 5000 amplifiers from Dynacord ...
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The Entertainment Industry Expo in New York June 3, 2007
The Entertainment Industry Expo ("EIE") is the ultimate networking opportunity for anyone in or around the entertainment industry. EIE offers businesses access to over 10,000 potential new clients (combined via online marketing ...
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Element Labs opens UK Office in London Design District
Element Labs has announced the opening of its London office to better serve its growing customer base in the United Kingdom.
Located at Perseverance Works in London's Shoreditch design district, Element Labs' neighbors include ...
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Alcons at Frankfurt ProLight & Sound 2007
Alcons Audio will be present at the Prolight + Sound show with a number of novelties, including an interesting "design-study."
Extending the line-up of the B-series, the BF151 is a new, front-loaded bass system, ...
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White Light on Show at One Piccadilly
Leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light was re-united with long-time collaborators The Admirable Crichton and Private Drama for Party Under Construction, a showcase for the best in the events industry that ...
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Theatre in Review: Los Angeles (The Flea Theatre)
Apparently, if you die and go to hell, you end up in Hollywood. That's the view of our modern playwrights, who live to depict the West Coast as a charnel house of addictions and abuse. The latest assault on the L.A. Chamber of Commerce ...
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The grandMA Proves to be a Good Choice for Wicked as it Returns to L.A.
Wicked returned to Los Angeles February 21 for an open run with three grandmas and one grandMA Light controlling lighting and video projections. A.C.T Lighting is the North American distributor of the grandMA.
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Meyer Sound Helps Launch New Live Sound Program at Texas' South Plains College
South Plains College (SPC) of Levelland, Texas, is a comprehensive two-year community college with more than 100 associate degree and certificate options. The college's Sound Technology program, a part of their Creative Arts department, ...
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XLTV Rocks with Rock Star Supernova
XL Touring Video recently completed their project as video contractor for Rock Star Supernova's You Can't Stop The Party 2007 World Tour, which kicked off in January in Hollywood, FL, and finished up the American leg ...
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Theatreworks Supplies Robe to Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre
Branson, Missouri-based sales and rental company Theatreworks recently supplied 10 Robe ColorSpot 575AT moving lights for the Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre in Palm Springs, CA.
"Robe was selected for its price and quality ...
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Hemsley Portfolio Review Exhibit and Reception to be held April 1st at Lincoln Center
The Hemsley Lighting Programs and media partner Lighting&Sound America will be hosting the 3rd annual Hemsley Portfolio Review Young Designers Exhibit and Reception to be held on April 1, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the ...
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Danley Sound Labs Moves NSCA Booth to be Closer to the Matterhorn
Danley Sound Labs has announced that they will switch their NSCA 2007 booth from #1169 to #1662 in order that will be closer (and answer questions about)the Matterhorn the Danley-designed 8'x 8'x 20' 40,000W subwoofer, ...
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ETCP Electrical Exams Now Available at Computer Testing Centers
The Entertainment Technician Certification Program Council (ETCP) announces the ETCP Entertainment Electrician Examination is now available at computer centers around the United States and in Canada. All interested electricians are ...
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Wybron Introduces CMY Fiber Illuminator
Wybron, Inc. has introduced its latest product offering, the Transition, a CMY fiber illuminator. The Transition is an ultra bright illuminator that uses a similar CMY dichroic color mixing technology as Wybron's Nexera
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Gattis Pro Sound Goes Deep with Worxaudio
Whether it's an install for a house of worship or an outdoor concert for a major touring act, Sid Gattis, president of Lexington, SC-based Gattis Pro Audio, one of the largest full service audio/visual, lighting and staging ...
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Five Midas XL8s to Star at Prolight + Sound 2007
Midas will be displaying a grand total of five XL8 live performance systems at Prolight + Sound 2007, Frankfurt. Two of the systems can be found in Hall 4.1: one on the PADCO stand C55 and the other, a full flight ...
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Medialon is Starstruck at Planetarium in Central France
Medialon is reaching for the stars at the recently re-opened Planetarium de Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyons, France where Medialon Manager software is integrated to Evans & Sutherlands Digistar 3 astronomical simulator. ...
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Dodd Technologies & SportsMark Team Up At Super Bowl
SportsMark, a San Francisco-based creative event management, corporate hospitality and sports marketing company, teamed with Dodd Technologies, Inc. to stage and produce a series of 2007 Super Bowl events in South Beach for ...
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Sennheiser RF Captures the 79th Academy Awards
This year's 79th annual Academy Awards, broadcast live by ABC on Sunday, February 25, relied almost exclusively on Sennheiser wireless microphone systems for the red carpet arrival segments and awards presentation ceremony, as well ...
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Avolites D4 in TV Special at Estoril Casino
An Avolites Diamond 4 Elite was specified to control over 100 moving fixtures and a host of digital lighting and effects for the Portuguese channel TVI's 14th anniversary gala event.
The special live broadcast was staged in the ...
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Schuler Shook Announces New Partner
Schuler Shook announces Jim Baney, IALD, LC, LEED AP, as the newest partner in the firm. Baney joined Schuler Shook as a lighting designer in 1994 and was promoted to principal in 2000. In his new capacity as partner, Baney ...
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Martin U.S. Welcomes Paul Teague, Regional Sales Manager, Public Spaces
Martin Professional, Inc. announces the hiring of Paul Teague, who joins the Martin team as a regional sales manager (Southeast) for the company's public spaces segment. Teague, based in the Dallas area, began in his new ...
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XONE: 3D Upgrade to Live 6
Following the recent launch of Live v.6, Ableton and Allen & Heath has announced that a Live Lite 6 Allen & Heath edition of the acclaimed software will be bundled with the Xone:3D MIDI controller/mixer, ...
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A New Dynasty in DJ Effects
American DJ has come out with two new compact high-performance scanners; the Dynasty Ray and Dynasty Scan DMX. The Dynasty Scan offers DMX compatibility for fast and accurate user control on the fly. The Dynasty Ray ...
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KV2 EX6 will be launched at Prolight+Sound
KV2 Audio will be launching the new EX6 at this year's Prolight+ Sound show, complimenting the EX Series and completing this active driven range of high end powered enclosures, the company says. The EX6 is a very high ...
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DPA Microphones at Prolight + Sound 2007
DPA Microphones will be co-exhibiting with its German distributor, Mega-Audio, on Stand B.88, Halle 5.1 of Prolight + Sound 2007, Frankfurt.
Among the selection of DPA products on display will be: ...
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Two-Time Grammy Award-Winner Gnarls Barkley Tours with Sennheiser/Neumann
Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse like to hide behind film characters, mimicking classic movies in photo shoots and performing live in costumes from Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz, but there's no hiding ...
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Illumivision and W-DMX Light the Big Dam Bridge
Wireless Solution Sweden AB and Illumivision, Inc. recently turned the Murray Lock and Dam Bridge in Little Rock, Arkansas into a spectacular tourist attraction. The newly constructed pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Murray ...
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Gillum Named Director of Entertainment Sales at Color Kinetics
Keith Gillum has been promoted to director of entertainment sales at Color Kinetics. Previously manager of sales for the Los Angeles region, he will now drive national sales programs for entertainment dealer and rental ...
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D.A.S. Audio on the Set of CBS' The Early Show
Reporting live from Miami during Super Bowl week was none other than CBS' The Early Show. Holding the fort on trendy South Beach, one the show's more memorable events was a performance by five-time Grammy Award winning R&B vocalist ...
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Evangel Cathedral Installs 10 HES DL.2s
High End Systems lighting and control equipment comprise the centerpiece of production at Evangel Cathedral in Upper Marlboro, MD.
The church recently installed 10 DL.2 Digital Lights to project onto a 76' cyc to enhance ...
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"Passion for Movement" Materializes at the Changchun AUDI-VW Factory in China
After the official launch of the Audi Olympic Games Program, the FAW-VW Audi factory in Changchun, China, hosted an unusual afternoon of classical music for its 1,000 employees and members of the media to announce their sponsorship for the ...
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AMS Neve Names Audio Agent LLC As North and South America Distributor
AMS Neve Ltd. has named Audio Agent LLC as distributor for its full range of legendary studio recording and production products in the Americas. The agreement includes AMS Neve products ranging from recording and film ...
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RCF Audio TT+ Installation for New Himos Arena in Finland
The Himos Arena is a new multipurpose hall situated in the middle of Finland at Jämsä. The resort consists of two separate sky areas on the Western and Northern slopes. The fast growing resort boasts a variety of accommodation including ...
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Kylie's Back on Top with Meyer Sound MILO
Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue has made a strong return to touring and performance after her courageous and public battle with breast cancer. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter's Showgirl Homecoming Tour has been winning ...
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Madam Butterfly stalked by TiMax Track the Actors at Royal Albert Hall
The third revival of the Puccini opera Madam Butterfly staged in the round at the Royal Albert Hall is seeing the introduction of new audio technology.
As in previous years, sound designer Bobby Aitken specified a TiMa ...
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Vista Systems Soft Edge Blending Seminar in Seoul Draws Big Crowds
Vista Systems, together with Stewart Filmscreen Corp's Singapore office, conducted a Soft Edge Blending Seminar in Seoul, Korea on January 24 and 25, which demonstrated the capabilities of the Spyder 353 image ...
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FOR-A Introduces Advanced Version of All-In-One Super Signal Processor at NAB 2007
FOR-A Corporation of America will introduce the FA-9100 HD/SD, its newest FA Series Model of super signal processor, at NAB 2007 in Las Vegas, from April 14-19, 2007 (Booth #C4234). The FA-9100 is a more advanced ...
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Lehigh Introduces its New Rendition Series Consoles at USITT
Lehigh announces the launch of the Rendition Series consoles, providing classic theatre control from two-scene manual to full memory control with multiple cue lists. 24/48 and 48/96 two-scene control models are available with ...
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Vizrt Introduces High-Resolution Video Wall at NAB 2007
Vizrt will introduce Viz|Video Wall ER at NAB 2007 (Booth #SL4810), a software solution that automatically distributes scenes from any Vizrt graphic software application to a shared cluster of Viz|Engine renderers. The ...
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Times Square Lighting's New Fixture
The sleek style of Times Square Lighting's new C216P makes this fixture ideal for any interior space such as a museum, gallery, or anywhere a visually interesting projector is required, the company says. This compact unit is ...
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Personal Creations Makes Band Glow for Half Time Show
Theatrical lighting and multi-media specialists Marc and Marcy Rosenthal designed the solution to "light up" the costumes of the spectacular 250-member Florida A&M Marching Band for their exciting performance at the February ...
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Midas XL8 Makes Stellar Stage Debut with Sister Act
The Midas XL8 digital live performance system garnered rave reviews for its stage debut with Sister Act: The Musical the acclaimed new show by eight-time Academy Award-winning Disney score composer Alan Menken. After ...
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Toronto's Four Seasons Center Achieves Natural Sound with Discreet Meyer Sound System
In the few months since it opened with a lavish production of Wagner's complete Ring Cycle, Toronto, Canada's new $181 million (Canadian) Four Seasons Center has vaulted to the front rank of the world's fine arts performance venues. ...
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LMG Expands Lighting Inventory, Invests in Versa Tiles and Tubes
LMG, Inc. recently enhanced its lighting inventory with Element Lab's Versa TUBE HDs and VERSA TILE S2 5x5 and 10x10 tiles.
"These items add another level to the product mix that we can offer our clients. With these ...
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Novosibirk Theatre Completed with ADB Lights, Dimmers, and Controls
A major ADB Lighting installation has now been completed as part of the reconstruction of the leading theatre in Siberia, the Novosibirsk National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, built in 1945. ...
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QSC Meets Leghorn's Logistical Street Challenge
Every year, the western Italian town of Livorno (Leghorn) hosts a ten-day event, during which the highly varied program includes events spotlighting the canals and bridges. The most recent festival opened with a huge firework spectacular ...
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INNOVASON Announces Appointment of Camco as German Distribution Partner
INNOVASON has announced the appointment of Camco as its new German distributor. Camco, based in Wenden-Gerlingen in western Germany, is best known as a manufacturer of high quality power amplifiers, but the company also has a ...
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Dolby Lake Processor Takes Church Sound to New Heights
Greg Lukens and Washington Professional Systems have installed a Dolby Lake Processor as part of a major overhaul of the installed sound reinforcement system at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, which was established 170 ...
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Bandit Lites' Nashville Facility Hosts G-Lec Demonstration
Bandit Lites recently played host to G-LEC America's director of sales & marketing and chief operational manager, Christoph Muessener and G-LEC Europe's Sebastian Beutel, technical training and support. The ...
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LOUD Technologies Purchases Martin Audio Ltd. UK
It has been announced that LOUD Technologies of the USA has entered into an agreement to purchase the entire share capital of Martin Audio Limited of the UK.
David Bissett-Powell, managing director of Martin Audio ...
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Chauvet Unveils LED Beam Effects
Chauvet engineers have developed the VUE, billed as a groundbreaking line of highly portable, DMX-controllable LED-fitted beam effects.
Chauvet designers conceived a special Fresnel style lens that condenses the light from ...
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Furman Announces New Design, Remote Control Capabilities for Elite Series
Furman Sound has announced a refined new look and enhanced features for its Elite Series power conditioners. The bold yet elegant new designs feature smooth contours of black steel with clear blue LED lights, while new 12-V ...
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New Wholehog 3 Software Released
High End Systems announces the release of version 2.1 software for the Wholehog 3 console operating system. This software patch provides many enhancements and improvements to the popular lighting control platform. ...
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Wybron Management Team Positioned to Expand Customer Supprt and Product Offerings
Wybron, Inc. has announced several management team additions and promotions to execute the company's vision for helping its customers advance the art of their lighting through collaboration. Wybron's management team is fulfilling ...
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Super Vision International to Become Nexxus Lighting, Inc.
Super Vision International, Inc. has announced that the company is being renamed Nexxus Lighting, Inc., effective April 2007, and is relocating its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina. These changes are part ...
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Panamax/Furman Now Shipping From Eastern Distribution Center
Panamax/Furman Sound, a world-leading designer and marketer of power management solutions, today announced that in addition to its western distribution center, it is now shipping products from Home Technology Group's eastern ...
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Dialight Lumidrives Awarded DTI Technology Grant in $660,000 Project
Dialight Lumidrives, in collaboration with the University of Manchester, has been awarded a grant by the Department of Trade and Industry-led Technology Program for a £330,000 ($660,000) project to develop new technology platforms ...
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Theatre in Review: Howard Katz (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
"Where can a Jew go to contemplate his life?" wonders the title character of Howard Katz. Well, there's always the theatre, where emotional dissection is a favorite pastime. Here, playwright Patrick Marber gives us ...
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Theatre in Review: Journey's End (Belasco Theatre)
As the bodies pile up and the options fall away in Baghdad, you'd think the time would be ripe or a revival of Journey's End, the mother of all anti-war plays. Indeed, R. C. Sherriff's drama is a key offering in the ...
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UVLD Designs Corporate Show for Compass Rose Creative
UVLD's Greg Norgeot designed the lighting for a four-day national sales meeting for Compass Rose Creative, based in Wilmette, IL, on behalf of a large pharmaceutical company. He was tasked with devising looks for events, ...
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PRG Keeps the Focus on the Show at Disney-ABC's 2007 Upfront
When Disney-ABC Television Group previewed its new fall lineup of children's programming at its 2007 upfront earlier this month, all eyes were on the shows and their corporate presenters. PRG provided video and audio equipment and ...
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XL Video UK Moves to Bigger Facility
XL Video UK is moving to a new 42,000 square foot premises in Hemel Hempstead The new facility is a complete refurbishment of the old Express Dairies building, and is still on the same Mayland's Business Park estate. ...
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Dolby Labs Offers Dolby Lake Processor Training at NSCA Expo
Dolby Laboratories is again offering its Dolby Lake Processor Training at the NSCA Expo this year. The event is being held Wednesday, March 14, from 10am. to 5pm at the Holiday Inn Orlando International Drive Resort.
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Design One Restructures with Personnel Promotions
Design one corporation has implemented a company-wide restructuring marked by four personnel promotions, announced founder and principal designer Christien Methot.
"These new steps grew out of celebrating design one's ...
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Altman Rentals Expands Staff and Services
Altman Rentals, Inc. announces that Stefan DeWilde has joined the production and rental company as director of production development. "We are very happy to add Stefan to our strong team," says Randy Altman, owner of ...
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Integrated Partners Crestron and Biamp Launch New Creston Control Module for Audia and Nexia
Crestron has launched a newly upgraded module that improves response time when interfacing with the Biamp Audia platform and Biamp Nexia processors. The new module is immediately available and takes advantage of new ...
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HSL Gets the Last Laughs
HSL is supplying lighting for the current Ricky Gervais UK theatre and arena tour, which has been designed by Arturo Ollandini. HSL is once again working with Phil McIntyre Productions, who is promoting the ...
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W-DMX and RC4 Wireless Sign OEM Partner Agreement
Wireless Solution Sweden AB has announced an OEM partner agreement with RC4 Wireless of Toronto, to supply W-DMX PCBs to be built into the new RC4 4-channel W-DIM series of wireless dimmers. The first model to ...
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Pro Tools Users Honored at Academy Awards
Digidesign is pleased to report that at this year's 79th annual Academy Awards, all of the films nominated in the Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Picture categories feature audio created using Digidesign's Pro ...
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New Appointments at Stage Technologies
Eric Peacock has recently been added to the Stage Technologies' board of directors, joining John Simpson as a non-executive director. Peacock brings extensive business experience from a worldwide marketplace with companies ...
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Cassidy Appointed HME Pro Audio Regional Sales Manager
HME announces the appointment of Jennifer Cassidy as regional sales manager of HME's pro audio division. In her new role, Cassidy will focus on the western U.S. and Canada, Mexico, South and Central America, Asia and the ...
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ETC to Unveil New Lighting Control Console at USITT 2007
ETC has a great lineup of lighting products to showcase at the USITT tradeshow in Phoenix, Arizona, March 15 - 17, 2007, including their new SmartFade ML control console. The newest member to join ETC's Smart ...
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Biamp Continues Going Green, Announces Full Compliance with China RoHS Directive
Providing its customers with a complete line of products that meet environmental standards worldwide, Biamp today announced that all of its products are fully compliant with the China RoHS directive. The initiative to certify full ...
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LaserNet Chosen to Assist Décor Design Team for 2007 Super Bowl
Miami's own LaserNet was chosen by the NFL's creative team to enhance the look of Miami's skyline by adding six lasers to the rooftops of the downtown skyscrapers for Super Bowl XLI.
The NFL's Décor Design team, responsible for ...
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MAC TW1 a Symphonic Fantasy
"We choose equipment with a dB meter," states Finnish lighting and set designer Valo Virtanen, referring to his recent decision to use the Martin MAC TW1 on Finnish symphony orchestra's Tapiola Sinfonietta. "Quiet ...
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Veteran Engineers Turn to TC Electronic Processing for Academy Awards
TC Electronic processors were integral to audio production for both the pre-show telecast and the main broadcast of the 79th Academy Awards. These broadcasts utilized mobile facilities provided by Pittsburgh-based NEP ...
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New XC Series Compact Dimmers from Lightronics
Lightronics is introducing a new line of compact dimmers; the XC Series. Features include: wireless DMX option, an LED digital display, four- and six-channel capacity, 600W and 1200W per channel, softpatch (each dimmer), ...
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Aviom Making Its Presence Known at NSCA Expo
Aviom will have a presence at numerous locations throughout the 2007 NSCA Expo.
The Aviom booth on the main show floor (Booth #865) will be where real world audio distribution applications for the new AV-M8 mic module ...
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Bandit Donates Lighting Package to Knoxville Heart Gala
Bandit Lites recently donated $90,000 worth of lighting for the 22nd annual Knoxville Heart Gala. The black tie fundraiser took place on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at the Knoxville Convention Center. All proceeds benefited the ...
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Le Maitre Introduces Prism2 Colored Flame Projector
The Le Maitre Prism2 flame projector is the next generation in colored flame units, the company says. The sequel to the original Prism system, the Prism2 is smaller and lighter than the original, while offering similar ...
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ETA Systems Announces New Hybrid Power Station
ETA Systems announces the release of the Hybrid Power Station, billed as the first power quality solution to address the unique needs of AV systems combining both digital and analog components. The product is specifically ...
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New Conference Announced
Bill Sapsis announces the formation of the North American Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference (NATEAC). Based on the model of the TEA conferences produced by Richard Brett in London in 2002 and 2006, ...
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Reception to Honor the Memory of Ladislav Vychodil, Slovak Scenographer, at USITT 2007
A reception to honor the memory of Ladislav Vychodil will take place in Lobby 3, just outside of the Exhibit Hall, at USITT 2007.
WHEN: Friday, March 16, 2007 from 5:00-7:00PM
WHAT: Wine, Cheese, Snacks, Cash Bar ...
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Lee Rose Works with Regis and Kelly
Having already worked with Regis and Kelly last year during their Los Angeles visit, and on shows at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Mount Rushmore, and the Ravinia Amphitheater in Chicago, designer Lee Rose was a ...
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Network Electronics' VikinX Routers Support Church at Pinnacle Hills Mega Media Ministry
Network Electronics, manufacturer of the VikinX router range, has supplied the recently opened Church at Pinnacle Hills with a high-definition system to route HD-SDI video and digital audio signals around the church's ...
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Nocturne a Smash at Super Bowl XLI Bash
Nocturne Video returned to continue supporting Super Bowl celebrations this year, supplying video enhancement for both VH1's Pepsi Smash concert and the NFL's exclusive VIP party at Bayfront Park in Miami. Broadcast nationally on ...
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Scharff Weisberg Supports Nokia NSeries at 2007 CES
Scharff Weisberg, Inc. provided lighting, computers and video displays for the Nokia Nseries booth at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where the communications firm unveiled three new devices and showcased many ...
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Riedel Communications Celebrates 20 Years
Riedel Communications celebrated its 20th anniversary with more than 800 customers, employees and partners from all over the world. The celebration's slogan, "Passion - more than just 20 years," was coined specifically for the ...
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DPA Microphones Rock South Africa with Queen Tribute Show
DPA microphones have played a major role in the South African production of We Will Rock You one of the latest to roll out across the globe. The show premiered at the 1,069-seat Nelson Mandela Theatre in Johannesburg before ...
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Killer Diamond for Avolites
Lighting designer Steve Douglas is using an Avolites Diamond 4 Vision console to control lighting for Las Vegas-based The Killers' Sam's Town World Tour.
He and show designer Bryan Leitch collaborated ...
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Concert Systems USA Starts the New Year off with Jason Atwell
Jason Atwell has joined with Concert Systems USA as president of production and development. Atwell is an award winning engineer, director, producer, and executive with an exceptional level of experience in turn key ...
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Cerwin Vega! Announces New CV Series Power Amps
Cerwin Vega! announces the introduction of the new CV Series power amplifiers. Available in three models-the CV-900, CV-1800, and CV-2800-these rugged, 2U, rack-mountable workhorses feature state-of-the-art ...
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Technomad to Debut Turnkey PA Concept for Restaurants at NSCA Show
Technomad Associates, LLC will introduce a flexible, highly-configurable new version of its Turnkey PA Systems for the professional audio industry at the upcoming NSCA show. (Booth #759, Orlando, March 15-17.) ...
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