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Out Board have posted five TiMax SoundHub Tutorial videos on its new YouTube TiMax Media channel. Each short video runs about four-to-six minutes and the set provides a fast-track training course for the versatile PC/Mac software used to program and control the powerful TiMax SoundHub audio matrix, playback server and showcontrol unit.
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A Soundcraft Vi1 console has been deployed on monitors for The Arctic Monkeys’ world tour, which kicked off in May with a Sasquatch Music Festival performance at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington (yes, really!). The band recently debuted a new track, Mad Sounds, at Hultsfred Festival in Sweden, which is likely to appear on ithe forthcoming album.
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Wireless microphone and portable PA manufacturer MIPROhas announced that effective 1 August, the company will be distributed exclusively by Intersonic AB in Sweden. “We feel we are in good hands and look forward to a successful ongoing partnership between the two companies,” said Eugene Chen, VP international sales of MIPRO.
www.intersonic.se www.mipro.com.tw
Rational Acoustics has released Smaart v.7 Di (Dual-Channel Interface); a two-channel version of the standard Smaart v.7 analysis software. According to the company v.7 Di provides the same measurement power, accuracy and stability as the full version of Smaart, but with a simpler, dual-channel interface which makes it easier to configure and run.
www.rationalacoustics.com
LOUD Technologies has announced agreements with two new European distributors. BMI Limited is now serving as the distributor for the Ampeg and Mackie brands in Benelux, while ALGAM Limited will distribute the brand in France. The two companies are the most recent European distributors to partner with LOUD, with the UK’s Polar Audio having been appointed in mid-May.
www.loudtechinc.com
UNITED KINGDOM One very big conference
Church network takes over Royal Albert Hall for annual pow-wow. Dave Robinson reports
HOLY TRINITY Brompton (HTB) incorporates four church buildings around London’s South Kensington, and total attendances on a Sunday can reach above 4,000 people. So when HTB needs a bigger space for its annual HTB Leadership Conference it decamps to a nearby venue that can accommodate a very large audience in a single room: the Royal Albert Hall, just a little way down the road. Chris Jones from Southby
Productions has been involved with HTB live projects for nearly 10 years and this year he was asked to design the audio system for the conference. Mark Sunderland, who freelances as the FOH engineer for HTB’s larger events elaborates: “d&b audiotechnik has always been my first choice and with this in mind I wanted to involve Chris as our system designer. I have worked with him on many shows and
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knew he had in depth knowledge of d&b systems and understood how I wanted to mix.” The two-day event demands a
great deal from both the engineer and the PA system as Sunderland confirms: “The event is really diverse: from keynote speakers on lavalier mics to orchestral openers and full-on rock ‘n’ roll worship sets. The system design we were looking for had to ensure speech intelligibility and coverage throughout the Albert Hall while still delivering the SPL required for high-energy worship.” Jones’ design comprised left and right hangs of J-Series speakers, outer hangs of V-Series boxes and a central hang of J-SUBs that crucially were flown 2m downstage reducing sub spill onto the stage. Q10, Q7 and T10 speakers were deployed to the choir stalls and other “tricky” areas in the famously acoustically challenging venue. d&b ArrayCalc software
proved to be an “indispensable” tool for planning the rigging of the PA ahead of time, as the load-in schedule for the big system was tight. “Using ArrayCalc is always a valuable exercise but in this instance we simply could not have done it
without all the pre- planning tools that ArrayCalc provides. Version 7 now accommodates line array, point source and hybrid designs which was essential for designing a system employing such a variety of speakers. “Prior to the event
there was also concern that some of the sight lines in the venue would be affected by the loudspeaker hangs, but ArrayCalc V7 allows you to export your loudspeaker design to a 3D CAD plan. As such, we were able to export my design into the lighting designer’s 3D WYSIWYG file of the hall; allowing the HTB production team to virtually sit in the venue from any angle and sign off the design. I would estimate that we were 90% there before we walked into the room!” Ross Cornwall, the HTB Leadership Conference’s production manager, is clear about his endorsement: “Chris Jones certainly nailed the brief and installed the best sounding
AMERICA Helen Meyer honoured By Erica Basnicki
SAN FRANCISCO Business Times has named Helen Meyer, co-founder and executive vice president of Meyer Sound, as one of this year’s Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. “Helen Meyer is one of the Bay
NORWEGIAN IDOL recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a televised final at the Oslo Spektrum. As in previous years, local rental company Frontlite handled sound for the event utilising a Nexo STM system for the first time. This was also the first STM sale for Norwegian Nexo distributor, Bright.
The company designed a main system of two hangs of 12 M46s and 12 B112 basses per side, with two further hangs of 14 GEO T 4805s and two T2815s as outfills on each side. Two more hangs of nine T4805s and two T2815s were used as a right/left system at the back of the stage. n
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Area business community’s most successful and admired leaders,” said Marcy Wong, the Berkeley- based architect who nominated her. “Her sterling business leadership, partnered with selfless service and contributions, makes her a significant member in the community. She without question deserves public recognition for her contributions.” Meyer’s audio industry accolades include InfoComm
Helen Meyer: one the Bay Area’s “most successful and admired leaders
Women in AV Award, MIPA Lifetime Achievement Award, the USITT Harold Burris-Meyer Distinguished Career in Sound Award, and an Audio Engineering Society Citation. n
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d&b’s ArrayCalc software was essential for planning the design and rigging of the PA system
audio system I have ever heard in the Royal Albert Hall, no matter where I was standing.” The conference ran for two
days on 13 and 14 May 2013. The event was reported to be so oversubscribed that it was streamed live to HTB’s church on Brompton Road and was made available to an audience in over 70 countries.n
www.dbaudio.com www.southby-productions.co.uk
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