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NEWS SINGAPORE: The VVIP rooms of the Palace 8 Marina, a premium karaoke nightclub attached to Singapore’s Marina Mandarin Hotel, have been equipped with new audio solutions comprising loudspeakers from FBT and wireless systems from Mipro. The nightclub – boasting a oor-space of almost 2,000 sq-m – includes a number of KTV and private areas, culminating in the luxury of manufacturer’s DLM 26 digital processors. Also included are ve KM 500 karaoke ampli ers from Mipro plus ve sets of the manufacturer’s ACT 312 dual channel diversity wireless microphone systems. Mr Mok was assisted in tuning the systems by Victor Chiam of Aexxus Inc. ‘With the FBT digital sound processors, the system can be tuned such that there is no feedback even if the 1/4 box Schoeps goes Studio The V4 on YouTube www.schoeps.de/v4video NEWS SCHOEPS GmbH www.schoeps.de [email protected] facebook.com/SchoepsMics 1/2 vertical Inside one of the five VVIP rooms its ve VVIP rooms. The venue is described by its management as ‘a large social playground’ offering a ‘ ve star prestigious experience’. Completed in March, the installation was managed by Terence Mok of systems integrator Prolight & Sound. Now spread between the ve rooms are 20 CLA 604A active column speakers from FBT, plus 20 CLA 208SA active subwoofers, and ve of the Italian CHINA: A Riedel Communications Artist digital matrix intercom system has been used to provide communications throughout The House of Dancing Water – an ‘in-the-round’ water show created by the Franco Dragone Entertainment Group –for Macau’s City of Dreams entertainment complex. ‘The Riedel solution was originally speci ed by the sound designer Francois Bergeron of the Thinkwell Group in the US,’ said Jason Graham, head of sound at Dragone Macau Ltd. ‘We continue to work with Riedel’s Artist primarily for its reliability, stability, and seemingly limitless exibility. All of these factors are important due to the integral role the system plays in uniting everyone who is working on the show.’ Designed by Pei Partnership Architects, the state-of-the-art Dancing Water Theatre created for The House of Dancing Water includes a 16.8 million litre stage pool – equivalent to ve Olympic-sized swimming pools – within an arena boasting a 40m high steel-trussed space that provides the height required for the show’s diving and acrobatics elements. 26 PRO AUDIO ASIA July–August 2014 wireless microphones are near or pointing at the speakers,’ he explained. ‘Guests in the VVIP rooms can sing without worrying about standing too near to the speakers. So far, we have received positive comments from the owner and their customers.’ www.fbt.it www.mipro.com.tw The House of DancingWater