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07 November 2025

UK - Push The Button (PTB), which specialises in theatre electrical infrastructure and production systems, has transitioned to 100% employee ownership, securing the company's long-term independence and rewarding the team that has driven its success. The transition was announced to staff on 20 October 2025 with managing director Nick Ewins, confirming that he will remain in place.

"In simple terms, this means the business is now owned collectively by the people who know it best, our amazing team,” said Ewins. “This isn't just recognition of their hard work, commitment and care for our customers; it's an investment in our future. Employee ownership will strengthen our ability to deliver innovative solutions for our clients, whilst maintaining the collaborative culture that defines us."

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07 November 2025

USA/Europe - The DALI Alliance and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) have announced a collaboration aimed at ‘strengthening the connection between lighting design professionals and cutting-edge digital lighting control standards’.

This partnership aims to empower specifiers, designers, and architects by sharing knowledge, launching educational initiatives, and fostering more substantial alignment across the lighting ecosystem. It focuses on joint efforts in education, outreach, and the promotion of open standards to enhance lighting outcomes in architectural, commercial, and public space projects.

“Lighting designers play a critical role in shaping the built environment,” said Paul Drosihn, general manager of the DALI Alliance. “Partnering with the IALD allows us to build a direct bridge to the design community, ens

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07 November 2025

USA - Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) has once again partnered with EAW to further enhance the state-of-the-art sound system at Great Park Live. Following last year’s installation of EAW’s Anya ADAPTive system, PCE returned ahead of the 2025 summer season to upgrade the rig and ‘ensure flawless coverage’ for the venue’s newly expanded seating.

“Last year’s system sounded fantastic, but the venue has since evolved,” says Tom Pappanduros, production manager at PCE. “When the City of Irvine decided to widen the seating sections, we needed to make sure the system could cover every new seat without compromise. Adding to our existing EAW system gave us the flexibility to expand while maintaining consistency and clarity.”

Originally launched with 24 Anya boxes and 24 Otto subwoofers, the initial installation successfully addre

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07 November 2025

UK - Striking the right ambience is a fundamental part of the character of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge. Created in 1957 by former Tate Gallery Assistant Jim Ede and his wife Helen, Kettle’s Yard was not just a home for the couple, but an open space for the public to enjoy contemporary art in an informal, domestic setting.

Almost 70 years later and that ethos still exists, so when a spatial audio component was required for a new exhibition by Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska, it was important to get the aesthetics right. The artists in question subsequently commissioned specialist integrator ArtAV to assist in creating an environment that worked with the space rather than against it, with the installation of four specially customised Genelec 4420 monitors.

The house at Kettle’s Yard still displays a permanent collection of artworks and was exten

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07 November 2025

USA - Located along the coast of New Jersey, DSN is a community centre and beach club that recently elevated its sound experience with a full 1 Sound audio system installed throughout the indoor and outdoor spaces. Installed by L&M Sound & Light, the new setup was designed to deliver ‘exceptional sound quality and versatility’ for the wide range of activities hosted at the venue - from community events and fitness programmes to kids’ camps and summer celebrations.

Outdoors, the club features Cannons placed throughout the gardens, using fully stainless steel 316 hardware to ensure durability in the oceanfront environment. These loudspeakers are permanently installed year-round by the ocean, designed to withstand salt air and harsh weather while maintaining consistent quality sound. Through 1 Sound’s Custom Shop, the team created custom garden

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07 November 2025

USA - Djo’s Another Bite 12-city tour concluded 20 October at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Carlos Katsurayama’s light show mirrored the artist’s ambition for the fall tour, which for many shows, drew on the versatility and power of 137 Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by Colour Sound Experiment.

“This show was challenging to execute because we wanted to take a less conventional approach to lighting,” Katsurayama said of his design. “Our goal was to make bold, sometimes ‘weird’ choices that captured the music’s dynamics as accurately as possible - whether that meant visually matching the sound’s intensity, or creating moments of chaos by introducing light in unsettling, unexpected ways,”

Dark space played a key role in that vision. “We used dark space to create depth and transport the audience into different

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07 November 2025

Canada/USA - Cohesion supported Avril Lavigne’s Greatest Hits tour across 66 dates in North America. The tour was a culmination of two decades of music for the Canadian-born artist, who has sold more than 40m albums and has received eight Grammy Award nominations.

Vocal intelligibility was of paramount importance on the tour, and Cohesion PA was selected. FOH engineer Paul David Hager explained: “We had to get that vocal to sit right and to be warm and clear - if the vocal doesn’t connect, the rest of it almost doesn’t matter. Cohesion is clear, it’s flexible, and it’s powerful.”

Production manager Adam ‘Cutlets’ Richards described how Hager specified Cohesion for this tour. “I trust his judgment above all. From the moment I heard it, it was dialled in. It sounded great from day one.”

The PA, deployed by Clair G

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07 November 2025

UK - ETC dealer and lighting control systems integrator, Control Lighting Ltd has selected ETC’s Sensor3 power control, Paradigm and Mosaic systems as the solutions for the large-scale Kings Cross central development in London.

For the last 10 years Control Lighting Ltd has been working on the design and implementation of a site-wide lighting control system for the public realm lighting. The site is a 67-acre development that has re-imagined the blend of residential, commercial, retail and public space, and has won many awards over the years for the development.

The company was appointed to design and implement a holistic lighting control system that could provide usable performance data, as well as ensure the maintenance and events teams could quickly make adjustments for the operational side of the lighting system.

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07 November 2025

USA - The process of taking The Eagles’ live show from the streets to the Sphere in Las Vegas was no small feat, and the transform.engine from Fourier Audio has played a major role.

Tom Evans has been mixing the band’s sound on the road since 2017, including on their 2021 tour in which they performed the Hotel California album in its entirety with a full orchestra. The Eagles are all about their soaring, closely harmonized vocals, and getting Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Vince Gill, and Deacon Frey just right night after night was the primary task.

That became a bit more challenging when the Eagles embarked on their Sphere residency. There, the venue’s immersive 42 speaker zones included the main PA components set behind the stage, which Evans recognised as a potential issue.

“Because of the clever beam-forming p

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07 November 2025

USA - Bose Professional has announced the global availability of the DesignMax Luna DML88P pendant loudspeaker system. Luna is suited for open-ceiling environments such as retail stores, restaurants, breweries, fitness studios, and similar design-conscious spaces.

At the heart of Luna is Bose Professional’s proprietary Ring Array configuration, which combines eight precisely positioned 2” mid-high drivers and an integrated 8” woofer to create a smooth, articulate listening experience that fills the coverage area without hot spots or dead zones. This innovative design achieves clarity and balance down to 40 Hz, which eliminates the need for external subwoofers even in open-ceiling spaces. With a maximum SPL of 111 dB and consistent 140° coverage, Luna delivers immersive sound that requires fewer speakers to cover large areas - preserving both aesthetic

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06 November 2025

USA - Sontronics has announced its ‘official relaunch’ in the United States through a new partnership with KMC Music.

Through this partnership, Sontronics will be represented exclusively in the US by KMC Music, giving artists, engineers, producers and performers direct access to its full range of British-designed microphones.

Founded in the UK in 2005, Sontronics has built an international reputation for designing ‘premium-quality microphones with distinctive looks and characterful sound’. Sontronics products are used in studios, live venues, film sets, and universities.

“This is a pivotal moment in the Sontronics story,” says Chris Cook, head of sales. “The North American market represents a key focus for our brand of British microphones. Having spoken with many of the team at KMC Music, we knew immediately that their professio

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06 November 2025

USA - Dua Lipa kicked off her 80+ date Radical Optimism Tour in November 2024 in Asia. The tour visited Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the UK, including two shows at Wembley Stadium that saw over 160,000 tickets selling out in a matter of minutes.

The tour is currently making its way across North America and will conclude in December 2025 in South America. Front-of-house engineer, Will Nicholson, and monitor engineer, Alex Cerutti, are both utilising DiGiCo Quantum 852s, supplied by Britannia Row, a Clair Global Company.

At FOH, Nicholson has four SD Racks loaded with 32-bit cards, plus an Orange Box with Dante and HMA cards. He relies on the Fourier transform.engine for his plugin needs, appreciating the latest integration with his console.

“DiGiCo has always stood out for me because of the consoles’ functionality, robustnes

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06 November 2025

USA - Tom Evans has been mixing shows by the Eagles on a Solid State Logic Live console for the past eight years, choosing the desk primarily for its audio quality, but also relying on the automation capabilities to recreate the band’s sound. But for the band’s residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas - 44 shows over 22 weekends through 8 November 2025 - Evans scrapped his old mixes, rebuilding them from scratch to take full advantage of the venue’s immersive audio system.

The Sphere, which opened just off the Las Vegas Strip in late 2023, incorporates nearly 1,600 matrix array speaker cabinets (a total of 167,000 speaker drivers, amplifiers and processing channels) that deliver immersive sound throughout the domed venue, which accommodates around 18,000 people.

For the Eagles’ residency, Evans used the 64 aux sends on his SSL Live L550 Plus cons

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06 November 2025

Canada - Led by CEO Jean-Sébastien Roy, Headroom Productions has become a go-to provider of broadcast equipment rentals for high-profile, unscripted productions, managing everything from consoles to advanced RF systems. With a portfolio that includes Survivor Canada, I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here and Star Académie, Headroom relies on solutions from Wisycom.

One of the company’s most ambitious projects to date is the reality series The Traitors, which presents significant logistical challenges due to its sprawling set, remote locations and constant on-the-go cast movement. “Traitors is the perfect example of why we use Wisycom,” explains Roy. “We run a full-scale Wisycom setup across the entire production. From the moment the cast leaves the manor to the final challenge, we capture pristine audio,

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06 November 2025

USA - For the 13th consecutive year, Firehouse Productions supplied the sound for the Global Citizen Festival in New York City’s Central Park, where more than 60,000 attendees gathered to see performances by Shakira, Cardi B and other international artists. To achieve even coverage across the park’s expansive Great Lawn, Firehouse deployed a JBL Professional VTX system powered by Crown amplifiers.

The system included 76 JBL VTX V25-II-CS loudspeakers for mains and delays, 36 VTX G28 subwoofers in a cardioid configuration, six VTX S28 subwoofers on the sides, and 20 VTX A8 loudspeakers used for front-fill and out-fill. The entire system was powered by 54 Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amplifiers.

Firehouse account manager Vinny Siniscal credited JBL’s Venue Synthesis software as a key factor in the system’s accuracy and efficiency. “Venue Sy

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06 November 2025

Indonesia - Held this year on 3-5 October at Gambir Expo, Jakarta, the Synchronize Festival features a diverse lineup of artists across multiple genres from traditional, indie, to modern commercial pop acts.

The festival’s District Stage featured a lineup including Efek Rumah Kaca, Barasuara, Bernadya, nostalgic 2000s acts such as Kangen Band and Letto, and a much-anticipated performance by Guruh Gipsy, who combined 96 channels of traditional and modern instruments to make it one of the most complex setups of the weekend for the sound team at Jakarta-based event services company DSS Rental.

The District Stage deployed an all-Nexo system with a Yamaha Rivage PM7 digital mixing system, with support throughout from members of the Yamaha Musik Indonesia Distributor (YMID) technical team.

A Geo M12 line array was configured with 12 boxe

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06 November 2025

South Africa - The ADJ Lighting Roadshow toured Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban in July, and was hosted by DWR Distribution. The event provided a comprehensive and hands-on demonstration of ADJ’s latest lighting innovations.

Led by ADJ’s Jos Reulen and Rob Lang, the showcase highlighted the performance, design, and value of ADJ’s product range. The response from lighting designers, rental companies, technicians, and students was “overwhelmingly positive”.

“The DWR team, with special mention of Jaques Pretorius, really put the fixtures through their paces and Jos and Rob were very impressed, saying they had never seen such attention to detail from a distributor,” said Kevin Stannett, ADJ brand manager at DWR. “The demo rooms looked outstanding.

“In Cape Town, Johnny Scholtz completely cleared out his demo space t

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06 November 2025

Cyprus - AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis soccer stadium in Larnaca (completed in 2016) – serves as the home for AEK Larnaca FC and has a seating capacity of 8,000. AEK Arena is classified as a Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Category 4 stadium, meeting the specifications required to host UEFA European competitions. The seating stands are named after regions and villages of the Larnaca province, reflecting the club's deep local roots.

Getting to a Category 4 rating required the venue to be partially reconfigured, including adding box seats and upgrading the sound system to cover the entire stadium. The venue contracted with DSP Innovative Solutions and their sister company Kalsedia to design and implement the upgrades, and they included LEA Professional amplifiers as part of the retrofit.

“The all-in-one amplifier plus DSP capabi

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06 November 2025

South Africa - Southern Lighting, a film lighting rental company in Johannesburg, has added MA Lighting’s grandMA3 and compact XT consoles to its inventory, supplied by DWR Distribution.

Southern Lighting has been in business for more than 55 years, providing specialised lighting equipment for TV, film, and events of any size. Their recent upgrade to the grandMA3 compact and compact XT supports both their staff and freelance users.

“When it was time to upgrade our existing consoles, we reached a point where it wasn’t just about control,” say Sean Boyce and Vincent van Niekerk from Southern Lighting. “Freelancers are now being trained on MA3, and with so few experienced LDs left in the country, we have to accommodate everyone’s needs. It just made sense.”

Duncan Riley of DWR Distribution adds: “That’s why we offer ongoing MA

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06 November 2025

Germany - HK Audio has announced that Isabelle Wear has taken up the position of head of sales emerging markets. In this role, she will be responsible for the Middle East and Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand regions.

Isabelle Wear has extensive experience in international sales management and the supervision of important distribution networks. Many in the pro audio industry already know Isabelle from her time at Interfacio, where she and her team successfully managed and mastered recruitment projects in the pro AV industry. After 13 years in her recruitment company, she is now returning to a sales and business development role.

Working closely with David Leonhard, HK Audio’s international sales manager for these regions, she will focus on strengthening existing partnerships and expanding the German audio specialist’s presence in these im