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SOUNDBITES
An early Victorian church in Essex, St John’s, has had a new Harman professional sound system installed by New Day Audio. The speakers comprise four CBT70-J line array columns, four CBT70-JE bass extenders and four JBL Control 25s. Two Crown XTi 14002a and two XLS 2000s provide amplification. “Everyone has been hugely impressed with the sound system,” says New Day director Derek Clare.
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Alliances Integrated Systems (AIS) has carried out the design and installation of an Audica Professionalaudio system for the first McDonald’s restaurant in Vietnam. Business development manager ofAIS, Vu Viet Tung, explains: “Our team proposed a solution providing the coverage, zoning and functionality the restaurant required, but the decision was only made after we gave a demonstration to show the system’s capability and audio quality.”
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ArtAV has installedVUE Audiotechnik’s i-Class i-2x4.5 loudspeakers at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London, for the premiere of video artist Isaac Julien’s seven-screen installation, Playtime. ArtAV’s Lez Barker says: “We have been searching for several years to find a high performance loudspeaker line that would fulfill our strict sound requirements, at a cost that more of our customers would find more affordable without sacrificing quality. We have found that with VUE.”
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Belfast-based A/V presentation specialist Niavac has upgraded its rental inventory by investing in AKG’s CS3 conference system. Managing director James Conlon says: “ I did a complete trawl and then contacted distributor Sound Technology, placing an order for a 30-station system.”
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installation NETHERLANDS
TM Audio feisty with de Foew at forefront
By Dave Robinson
TM AUDIO has reported two significant installation “wins” as Peter de Foew returns to the Dutch distribution company as managing director. In the role of distributor for (among others) Powersoft, Martin Audio, Renkus-Heinz, DiGiCo and Allen & Heath, TM has closed 2013 in “excellent shape”, says the company head, back with the Ampco Flashlight Group (AFG, parent of TM Audio) after 12 years. “Because of the European economical crisis in the past few years, we decided to operate our businesses with great care and to return to our core business with the strongest possible team,” says AFG CEO Dick van Berkum, who invited de Foew back to the fold after him serving as a director at rival (Harman) distributor Audio XL for over a decade. De Foew was previously responsible for sales at Ampco Audio Products; he
UNITED KINGDOM A first for Flare Audio By Murray Stassen
ONE OF London’s longest running independent live music venues, the Half Moon in Putney, has installed a new Flare Audio sound system. Last month, PSNEurope
revealed that pro-audio supplier Orbital Sound has become the first distribution partner anywhere for Flare Audio Limited. The installation includes the brand new SM15 stage
SM15 stage monitors debut in Putney Peter de Foew: back with TM Audio after 12 years away
fills the MD role vacated last summer by Marc Kocks. The installation “wins” include the tender for music venue ‘De Nobel’ in Leiden, Netherlands, in December 2013. The installation incorporates a Martin Audio W8LCi line array system for the main room and a H3+ system for the second room, all powered by Powersoft
amps. Processing is managed by XTA DC1048 and DP424 units. Piloting the systems are three DiGiCo consoles (SD8s with new D2 Racks as FOH in both rooms, plus an SD9 on monitors which can be moved between the rooms). An Allen & Heath ZED420 serves the café space, and all cabling and stagebox infrastructure
will be completed with Link/Eurocable gear. TM also reports a second win: the sale of five DiGiCo desks by product specialist Jaap Pronk to the new five-hall Tivoli Vredenburg muziekpaleis in the city of Utrecht. The biggest space within the complex is capable of hosting an audience of 2,000. De Foew adds: “Allen &
Heath’s Q16 has shown record sales numbers where at the same time we managed to close a good quantity of high profile installs with Martin Audio’s MLA Minis. “Now that the organisation is back on track and healthy, we can start looking forward.” De Foew’s appointment coincides with Ampco Flashlight Rental becoming the latest Adamson Energia partner. Ampco has added 32 E15 and 16 E12 line array loudspeaker enclosures to its inventory. “We have been looking for
an additional line array system that enables us to complete our current growth,” says van Berkum. “The starting point has always been based on the best possible specifications that will provide more efficient solutions and outstanding performance. Purchasing the new Adamson Energia system helps us achieve this goal.”
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monitors and V15C 15-inch high SPL point source loudspeakers, making the Half Moon the first venue to have these installed. Q218 ultra sub cabinets and the flat panel SB21 deliver the low frequencies. Chief engineer at the Half Moon, Stevie Wyatt, comments: “Having seen various PA systems come through the Half Moon in my 15 years here, this is the first rig I can run virtually flat – it just sounds right… Everyone is really complimentary about the rig. There’s some very clever design going on here, I’m definitely now a Flare convert and I look forward to seeing what else they bring out in the future.”
www.flareaudio.com
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