Outline Butterfly at the 1st
'Red Bull Flugtag - Un giorno con le ali'
Milan,
12-06-2005 – Outline’s Butterfly compact
line array was recently once again the
protagonist of a show on a really impressive
scale, the 1st “Red Bull Flugtag - Un
giorno con le ali”, a competition for handmade
flying machines powered by just the contestants’
muscles and creativity...
London,
June 2005 – Sigma Audio Visual Ltd has
supplied a full DTS 5:1 sound system consisting
of 5 x Outline 'Micra II SP' and 1 x Outline
'Global Sub' to the
Tower of London...
Guido Noselli's
article - "Concise parameters for assessing a
pro audio system for sound reinforcement use"
- Part II (written in March 2001)
Up until now,
I’ve commented and emphasized an incorrect usage
– i.e. the senseless use of “Watts” as a
criterion for assessing a professional sound
reinforcement system; I then described a certain
number of parameters according to which such a
system should be assessed, but I haven’t yet
determined which are the concise parameters with
which (in my opinion), it’s possible to
advantageously and easily replace “Watts” in the
aforementioned criterion for assessment...
Padua, Italy.
24th April 2005 - This year, an
Outline Butterfly system was again chosen as
sound reinforcement for the 90,000 square metres
of Europe’s largest square (Prato della Valle -
Padua), on the occasion of the important annual
event staged by radio/TV broadcaster Radio
Italia Solo Musica Italiana and Video Italia,
one of the world’s most important, widely
distributed sat TV channels....
Outline Butterfly for the
Concert dedicated to the Holy Father
Turin, Italy -
On 26th February 2005
at the Salone delle Idee in Turin’s
Arsenale della Pace, a packed house attended the
première of the concert “Dal Basso della Terra”
by Ernesto Olivero (author of the text) and
Mauro Tabasso (composer of the music), dedicated
to the late
John Paul II...
Germany -
Outline suffered a substantial theft of
equipment during the break-down of its booth at
the recent ProLight & Sound show in Frankfurt,
on Sunday 10th
April...
Italy/USA -
At the end of December 2004, the
United States granted Outline patent
“US D500,306 S”
regarding the design of its Butterfly line array
(hi-pack C.D.H. 483 element). The patent’s
priority is dated 9th July 2002...
UK
- Outline professional audio has announced an
installation in England that takes its number of
working venues worldwide to over 3000.
Klub Kudos
at Ashford, Kent, recently joined the list of
venues equipped with Outline systems...
Ireland
- Healey Music Warehousing, who manage Outline
Ireland (sales and rental), supplied all the
live stages at this year's opening celebrations
for Cork City of Culture 2005, when over 80,000
people visited Ireland's second city to be
entertained by a wide variety of performances.
Tony Healy of Healey Music said:...
Willy
Gubellini, the owner of Nuovo Service of
Bologna, one of Italy’s most successful
well-proven full-service rental firms,
which for a long time has handled the
organization or technical set-up for the
events by top singer Andrea Bocelli,
chose a pair of Outline Micra II SP for
the artist’s monitoring...
Brescia, Italy –
December saw an Outline sound
reinforcement system installed in the 400-seat
multi-function room of Iveco SpA, a member
company of the Fiat Group and one of the world's
largest manufacturers of diesel engines and good
vehicles...
Outline
Butterfly at the Padua Porsche Jazz Festival
Padua, Italy – From 11th to 14th
November ’04, the beautiful setting of the
Verdi Theatre and the exclusive Caffè
Pedrocchi hosted the seventh edition of the
“Padua Porsche Jazz Festival”,
one of the most prestigious Jazz festivals
in Italy.
The event,
promoted by Porsche Italia...
Outline
Butterfly Demo in China: attended by 50 of
the country’s top rental firms
At the end of
September 2004, the HQ of Chinese
multinational company ‘Neo-Neon’ hosted a
demo of the Outline Butterfly system,
attended by
50 of the country's top rental companies, as
well as contractors, dealers, sound
engineers and professors of acoustics...
Guido Noselli's
article - "Reflective
Wave Guides for the reproduction of high
frequencies" (AES Italian branch)
This document analyses the
principle aspects of an original new approach to
the realization of non-traditional devices,
which can be defined as “Reflective
Wave Guides”,
that exploit the phenomenon of acoustic
reflection to reproduce sound even at high
frequencies...
120
Outline Micra
for Italy’s National Republic Day
120 Outline Micra
and 4 H.A.R.D. 212 monitors were used
during the celebrations for the 58th
Anniversary of the foundation of the
Italian Republic, held in Rome on the 2nd
of June 2004 in the suggestive scenario
of the ForiImperiali.
The theme of this year’s ceremony was
“Armed forces in the international
security system for people’s peaceful
democratic progress”...
Italy
-
12 Outline H.A.R.D. 212
self-powered monitors were used on the Pope’s
stage on the occasion of the pilgrimage
celebrations held by members of Italian Catholic
Action in Loreto from September 3rd to 5th2004. The event involved over 300,000
people...
Guido Noselli's
article - "Concise parameters for assessing a
pro audio system for sound reinforcement use"
- Part I (written in January 2001)
While the
November issue with my last article is still
being mailed out I’ve got to write this
follow-up for the January 2001 issue, as the
editor has to go to press earlier than usual,
due to the Christmas vacations, to give the
printers sufficient time to deliver the magazine
for mailing to subscribers. Although this
positive fact emphasizes the editor’s
commitment, unfortunately it causes me a few
small problems...
UK
- Outline's patented Butterfly line array had
its UK debut this summer, at the only live gig
performed in Europe by TheIsley
Brothers, Kool
and the Gang and the sensational Amy
Winehouse
supported the Isley's,
while the Sunday featured Michael Ball.
Capacity audiences on both days enjoyed the
summer sun at Penshurst
Place in Tonbridge, Kent. The show moved on to
Harewood House near
Leeds for 7-8 August and the Saturday night saw
Will Young play to a capacity audience of
over 16,000 eager fans...
Outline at the
forthcoming PLASA show in London (12/15
Sept.) will be exhibiting its innovative
‘Globe-Source’, an
omnidirectional sound source whose
characteristics - performance, reproducible band
width, homogeneity of acoustic emission and
variable directivity - represent the state of
the art in the field of sound sources for
professional acoustical use in the architectural
acoustics field. The ‘Globe’
has been nominated for a PLASA Award for
Innovation...
Outline at the
Mille Miglia, the 'world's most beautiful race'
Two self-powered
Outline Kanguro systems
were used at the Mille Miglia
(6/9 May 04), the legendary period car race founded
in 1927 on an idea by two sons of
Brescia nobility, which
consists in a round trip from
Brescia to Rome and back, for a total of
1,600 kilometres. The most beautiful race in the
world – that’s the name it’s always had – has become
an international showcase for VIPs, nobility, ex
racing drivers and actors, as well as the
opportunity for seeing cars normally kept in museums
or owned by collectors back on the road in all their
glory on this legendary route...
Outline
Butterfly system in Switzerland
Outline's Swiss distributor, Stefano Trevisan of
Musik Produktiv PA Licht, personally handled the
installation of the first Butterfly Outline-array in
the country, in Zurich's prestigious Icf-Celebration
Hall, a modern recently inaugurated place of worship...
Just 16+16 elements of the Outline
Butterfly Vertical Line Array were sufficient as a
sound reinforcement system in the largest square in
Europe (Padua’s Prato della Valle in Italy), on the
occasion of an important celebration held annually
by radio/TV broadcaster Radio Italia Solo Musica
Italiana and Video Italia, one of the world’s most
important and widely distributed sat TV stations...
Outline releases a DLL plug-in for CATT-AcousticTM
v8.0
With the valuable collaboration of B.-I. Dalenbäck
of CATT of Gothenburg (Sweden), the R&D department
of Outline (www.outline.it) has designed and tested
a software interface for the powerful CATT-Acoustic
acoustic modelling program (www.catt.se),
with which it is possible to design, configure and
simulate the performance of any sound reinforcement
system using Butterfly series Vertical Line
Arrays...
Outline introduces H.A.R.D. 115,
a brand-new model, self-powered, with a 15”
woofer and a compression driver with a 2.56”
diaphragm, loaded by the same parabola-shaped
acoustic reflector (patent pending) used on the
H.A.R.D. 212 which was used on tour by Eric Clapton,
Steve Howe (Yes), Hayley Westenra and by top Italian
artists such as Claudio Baglioni, Francesco De
Gregori, Giorgia, Carmen Consoli, Paola Turci and
Sabina Guzzanti...
Steve Howe says ‘Yes’
to Outline H.A.R.D. 212 stage monitors
Steve Howe, legendary
Guitar player with YES for 30 years and also founder
member of Asia with Steve Hackett of Genesis and
Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake and Palmer has chosen
Outline’s H.A.R.D. 212 Low Profile Stage
Monitors. The Monitors were supplied by ENTEC Sound
and Light, the sound reinforcement specialists to
Steve Howe for his dates in the UK before embarking
on his European and USA tours...
At Rimini’s
SIB and Frankfurt’s
ProLight+Sound Outline will launch the
brand-new Micra
II SP. A new small (W 234; H 386; D 259.5 mm)
self-powered loudspeaker enclosure whose features
are based on the compact Micra
Reflex Plus, an enclosure that has achieved a great
reputation in the field for its use in TV studios
and on some of Italy’s top tours (including Claudio
Baglioni)...
Outline introduces H.A.R.D. 212 SP,
the self-powered version of its famous ultra-slim
(33cm.) monitor H.A.R.D. 212 used on tour by Eric
Clapton, Steve Howe (Yes), Hailey Westenra
and by top Italian artists
such as Claudio Baglioni, Francesco De Gregori,
Giorgia, Carmen Consoli, Paola Turci, Sabina
Guzzanti and many more...
Outline audio
equipment for the innovative Telecom Italia
flagship stores opened in Milan and Rome
An Outline sound
system consisting of self-powered
Micra Reflex
enclosures and KW-15 subwoofers (Kanguro
system) was chosen to be installed in the
innovative multimedia flagship stores opened in
Milan and Rome by Telecom Italia, Italy’s
national leader in the Information and
Communication Technology field and one of the
most solid industrial groups in Europe. Naomi
Campbell and Ettore,
the “talking” dog in the group’s publicity
spots...
Outline
introduces Clarity 7 and Clarity 11, two
high directivity speaker columns for speech
reinforcement
Outline
introduces Clarity 7 and Clarity 11, two
high directivity speaker columns,
specifically designed and built for accurate
speech reproduction in environments with
high reverb levels, such as places of
worship and more generally when acoustics
are critical for speech intelligibility...
16
Outline H.A.R.D. 212 stage monitors
driven by T series power amplifiers and
Genius 6 DSP controllers are currently
in use on Eric Clapton’s Tour of Japan,
supplied by British rental company
Concert Sound. The Outline H.A.R.D. 212
is the lowest profile stage monitor in
its class at only 33cm high and weighing
in at a remarkable 26kg...
Outline
adds T4 and T44 power amps to its “Twin
Pulse” range
Outline
has added the ‘T4’ and ‘T44’ models to
its “Twin Pulse” range of digital
amplifiers. Both are 2U rack-mounting
units and extremely lightweight: 10 and
11 kg. The 2-channel T4 feeds out
2x1500/830/500 Watts on 2, 4 and 8 Ohms
respectively and is fitted with XLR male
and female inputs and outputs with
Speakon 4-pole connectors...
Outline UK demonstrates Butterfly at
Carling Apollo Theatre in London
Outline UK recently held a
demonstration of its offering to the
‘line array‘
sector of the market. The
demonstration which had originally
been scheduled for Pinewood Studios,
but then moved to the Carling Apollo
at Hammersmith London was attended
by all the major players in the
rental market. PETER BARNARD MD of
Outline UK commented: 'every thing
had been organised to take over
Studio J at Pinewood...
Following false misleading
information deliberately spread
in trade circles by individuals
who have so far remained
unidentified, Outline wishes to
state that its "Butterfly"
series line array is an original
proprietary product, protected
by Italian and international
patents and patent applications,
and therefore intends taking
legal action against any persons
causing it any damage whatsoever
with his or her behaviour...
Outline loudspeaker systems and
other equipment were used on the
‘Tour de France’, the world’s
most important cycling event. To
be precise, the F.O.H. system
used for the “Sacrée
Soirée Tour” show in
Meaux
– the town in which the first
leg finished after the beginning
of the tour in Paris – consisted
in sixteen
Tripla II 5040 full-range
systems, eight
Topsub
Plus subwoofers and eight Victor
Live subwoofers, amplified by
Series T digital power amps and
controlled by Genius 6
processors...
Audio Outline
at
Gardaland,
the largest amusement Park
in Italy
Forty Outline
Micra
Reflex loudspeaker
enclosures with relative
Series T power amplifiers
have been installed as the
sound reinforcement system
for “Escape from Atlantis”,
the latest attraction at
Italy’s huge
Gardaland amusement
park. It’s Europe’s largest
most
scenographic “spillwater”,
covering an area of 15,000
square metres, and has
already been the set for a
spectacular publicity spot
transmitted by the major
Italian and foreign TV
broadcasters...
Outline at Mayday 2003,
Europe’s largest indoor
Techno event
Dortmund
(Germany) hosted the
thirteenth edition of
Mayday, the largest
indoor techno dance
event in
europe.
Over 20,000 people took
part in the party, which
began on 30th
April 2003 and
ran through until 10
o’clock the next
morning.
Area 3,
also known as the
‘Viva Floor’ (after
the famous
germantv
music channel), had an
Outline sound system...
120
Micra Reflex, 18 H.A.R.D. 212
stage monitors and 4
Kanguro
systems used for Italy’s most-watched TV
show live from Studio 5 at
Cinecittà.
“Unodinoi” is the
name of Italy’s most-watched TV show –
with audience figures reaching peaks of
over 10 million viewers – for which
state broadcaster RAI fielded a large
workforce and an impressive amount of
cutting edge equipment. Hosted by the
threesome Gianni
Morandi,
Lorella
Cuccarini and Paola
Cortellesi,
the transmission was staged live at
Cinecittà’s
Studio 5, the largest in Italy (85
metres long, 35 wide and 14 high) and
famous for having been the set of the
films by Federico
Fellini, to whom it’s
dedicated...
