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28 l July 2013


www.psneurope.com SOUNDBITES live WORLD


AYamaha CL5 helped deliver audio to over 12,000 people packed into Albert Square for a city centre reception of Premier League winners Manchester United. The team travelled from the Old Trafford stadium in an open-top bus as local indie rock band The Courteneers entertained the crowd. Audio infrastructure for the Albert Square stage was provided by Manchester-based live events specialist tube UK. www.yamahaproaudio.com


Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts(LIPA) has recently added a PreSonusStudioLive 24.4.2 to its inventory. “If a musician or an engineer says ‘we don’t want to sit in a studio, we want to track in, say, this vibe-y church we found somewhere,’ it’s really, really easy to just take the StudioLive,” explained Jon Thornton, director of LIPA’s School of Sound Technology www.presonus.com


The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Courtyard Theatre recently purchased a 48 x 48 TiMax2 SoundHub matrix with MADI option. The unit supplied comprises 32 analogue and 16 AES analogue inputs, with 48 analogue outputs and 16 AES outputs. As well as signal distribution and speaker system management, the SoundHub provides delay-matrix processing to apply variable upstage/ downstage vocal localisations and band imaging. www.outboard.co.uk


Emeli Sandé’s live sound engineer, Darren Connor, specified Turbosound’s Flashline line array system for her Hammersmith Apollo show concluding a seven- date UK tour. The system was supplied by Mansfield-based Entertainment Sound Specialists (ESS) via Britannia Row Productions. Connor deployed a configuration of 11 Flashline TFS- 900H flown per side, six Flashline TFS-900B subwoofers per side on the floor, two Aspect TA-890H infills, and two TQ-308 passive two-way front fills for the show. www.turbosound.com


Amps back on map at QSC


QSC reaffirms its position as a leader in the realm of power amplifier technology innovation with the launch of a ground-breaking power deployment technology, writes Dave Robinson


QSC LAUNCHED two new power amplifier families at InfoComm 2013 – PLD and CXD. The PLD family is for portable live sound reinforcement, while CXD amplifiers are designed to meet the needs of integrators. Key to the new models is


QSC’s Flexible Amplifier Summing Technology (FAST) and a new design of MOSFET which enables power to be deployed across one, two, three, or four channels. “Our new CXD and PLD


amps represent a major advancement in amplifier technology and innovation,” says Dale Sandberg, QSC senior product manager, amplifiers. “Not only are they amazing Class D amplifiers with on-board processing, but they change the fundamental amp paradigm with a unique channel combining methodology for much greater flexibility. The FAST design “meets the needs of our customers in a whole new way”, he adds. In effect, FAST makes the amplifier a ‘jack of all trades’, which is able to be reconfigured as required, quickly, for a variety of loudspeaker set-ups and


The InfoComm launch event with (L-R) Matt Skogmo (digital systems hardware architect), Jerry Tschetter (vice president, marketing) and Dale Sandberg (senior product manager)


loads. The PLD range is particularly suited to smaller PA companies that supply for a wide range of functions and events but don’t want to invest in a large inventory of differently configured power amps. “There’s been a misconception that QSC was moving away from power amplifier products and instead focusing our attention on loudspeakers and DSP,” states


Gerry Tschetter, VP of marketing. “While we’ve seen tremendous success in those product categories in recent years, the fact remains that QSC still builds the best power amplifiers in the market. Our new CXD and PLD amplifiers are a reflection of our use of cutting-edge technologies, our deep understanding of DSP and loudspeaker engineering and our legacy of over 40 years of


AUSTRIA


AKG WIRELESS systems, in-ear monitors, wired microphones and headphones were deployed for the 21st annual Life Ball celebration in Vienna, Austria. The event held in support of ‘Fighting AIDS and Celebrating Life’ included international stars such as Sir Elton John, Bill Clinton, Fergie, Hilary Swank, Carmen Electra, Adam Lambert, Kelly Osbourne and Barbara Eden, who donned her classic I Dream of Jeannie costume.


In total, 50 channels of AKG WMS4500 and DMS700 wireless were deployed throughout Vienna’s City Hall building. An additional 30 channels of IVM4500 in-ear monitors and 60 wired D5 and D7s were used for performances and presentations. n www.akg.com www.lifeball.org


rock solid amplifier design.” The PLD line runs from the PLD4.2 (400W @ 8 ohms, continuous) to the PLD4.5 (1,150W @ 8 ohms, continuous). The rear panel features four balanced XLR input connectors with loop-thru and six Speakon NL4 loudspeaker connectors for easy setup. The on-board DSP processing is managed via front panel controls with 20 factory settings included for the most common applications. The CXD series has been designed to address a number of demands from the installation market: multichannel amplifiers, with high power density (to minimise space usage in racks), on-board DSP, high efficiency, and the ability to drive low- impedance as well as 70/100V high-impedance loads. Accessible via the front panel,


the Preset Wizard also enables presets to be created, stored, recalled and edited. It assigns loudspeakers to outputs and loads the speaker tuning into the DSP. Tunings for approximately 70 models of speaker from around a dozen manufacturers are available, according to Sandberg. n www.qsc.com


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The PLD 4.5 serves up 1,150W @ 8 ohms and is the biggest in the touring range


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