Earprohas been named as the Portuguese distributor of Harman’s BSS, Crown, DBX, HiQnet, JBL Pro, Lexicon, Soundcraft and Studer brands. Since its founding in 1988, Earpro has been a partner of Harman. The company started distributing JBL in Spain and has since added other Harman brands to its portfolio. www.earpro.es
Out Boardhas appointed ATEC of Sommerein as its exclusive distributor for Austria of the TiMax2 SoundHub and TiMax Tracker audio processing, playback and show control automation products. The company is already celebrating its first TiMax project with an installation in the Raimund Theater. www.atecpro.atwww.outboard.co.uk
The Purobeach Black Seaclub on Romania’s Black Sea coast has opened with a host of EVkit. EVID series (24 EVID 4.2 and 12 EVID 3.2) speakers are complemented by 14 ZX1i two-way units, while subwoofers from the Live X series as well as two ZXA1-Sub 12’’ active subwoofers are on hand to reinforce the lowest frequencies. www.electrovoice.com
installation WORLD New OCA Alliance partners named
Audinate – inventors of the Dante media networking technology – and the Audio Engineering Society (AES) both announced partnerships with the Open Control Architecture (OCA) Alliance last month
AUDINATE HAS joined the Alliance as an Associate Member; the first since the OCA was incorporated as a non-profit trade association in October. Meanwhile, the AES and the OCA Alliance have jointly announced that an AES standards project has been
CZECH REPUBLIC Historic theatre doubles up with Innovason
LESS THAN a year after a significant audio system upgrade, which included the purchase of an Innovason Eclipse GT, the J.K. Tyl theatre in Pilsen, Czech Republic, has installed a second Innovason digital mixing console. Once again the Eclipse GT
was supplied and installed in the historic theatre by Innovason distributor MusicData. “We know Eclipse very well
now, and my colleagues and I play on all its advantages,” said chief sound engineer Peter Šolc.
(L-R): Tomas Kucera (JK Tyl Theatre); Tomas Ourednicek (MusicData); Peter Šolc (chief sound engineer)
“We really enjoy the ‘Total
Recall’ function which enables us to have different fader set-ups for each scene that can be recalled at the touch of a button, and very easily changed within scenes or globally if necessary. But best of all is the Virtual Soundcheck function which enables us to prepare the mix in extraordinary detail without the musicians having to be there. We would never have dreamed that it was possible – it’s just fantastic!”
founded to consider OCA for a public standard for control and monitoring of professional media networks. The goal of the joint project, identified as AES-X210, is to produce a public, open and royalty-free communications protocol standard for reliable
and secure control and monitoring of interconnected audio devices in networks of two to 10,000 elements. AES Standards committee
chair, Bruce Olson commented: “AES Standards has been deeply involved with standards for digital audio since starting
work in 1977. The AES-X210 project to standardise OCA takes us to the next important milestone by integrating control with transport of audio over a variety of networks.”n www.aes.orgwww.audiante.comwww.oca-alliance.com
The newest console has been installed in the FOH position at the back of the auditorium, controlling and transmitting audio to and from seven possible locations in the building via an EtherSound network. Installed last year, the EtherSound network has also been expanded with a number of new devices including additional Innovason SR-16 16-in/16-out stage boxes; the M.A.R.S. multitrack recording option on the Eclipse; and AuviTran’s Audio ToolBox rackmount modular audio platform for audio network management for a total of 19 networked devices. n www.innovason.com