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Europe - ArKaos Pro has announced the official release of the new MediaMaster Pro 5.0 with MediaHub. The launch of MediaMaster Pro 5.0 at PLASA, UK followed a successful preview at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt earlier this year.

ArKaos MediaMaster Pro is a professional software solution for the control of real-time video and effects which is specifically designed for desk operators and lighting designers. MediaMaster Pro turns any computer into a powerful media server ready to perform at any professional level.

With the introduction of MediaMaster Pro 5.0, ArKaos continues to stay ahead of the competition by combining maximum functionality with simplicity of operation. MediaMaster Pro 5.0 retains the user-friendly and broad functionality that has become the trademark of the A

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Turkey - Turkish popstar Ajda Pekkan completed a series of special concerts in prestigious venues across the country touring with a 30-strong band. Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing systems, comprising two S7000 Surfaces and DM64 MixRacks, managed FOH, monitors and recording.

The shows took place at Harbiye Cemil Topuzlu Amphitheatre in Istanbul, Bodrum Amphitheatre and Izmir International Arena.

Ajda Pekkan's production manager & FOH engineer, Inanc Yenidogan, specified dLive for the tour. The band used stereo IEMs plus side-fills and mono sub monitor mixes for the drummer and bass player, requiring up to 60 mono auxes. Additional auxes were routed over Dante to the FOH DM64 MixRack as an output expander. All the shows were recorded via M-Dante on a Mac DVS.

"We made the most of the interlinking possibilities of dLive," says monitor engineer, Wayne Nigel Gittens. "

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The Netherlands - Full service provider to the radio broadcast industry, Broadcast Partners, has become the latest member of the ever-growing RAVENNA partner community. Headquartered in Terneuzen in the Netherlands, Broadcast Partners also has offices in in Hilversum, the hub of media-based industry in the Netherlands, and in Leipzig in Germany.

The company provides broadcast technology products, software solutions, consultancy and network operation services for radio stations, production companies and governments.

Broadcast Partners' R&D manager, René van de Kolk, is pleased to see the company become the latest RAVENNA partner. "IP is becoming more and more prevalent in the media industry, if not to say standard in certain environments," he said. "As full service provider to the industry, it's therefore our job to ensure that we remain at the forefront of innovatio

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USA - Football is king in Dodge City, Kansas, where the high school's Red Demons and the community college's Conquistadors play at the centrally-located Memorial Stadium. With home and visitor bleacher seating for 5,000 fans, Memorial also hosts soccer games, track and field meets, and other large community events.

McClelland Sound of Wichita, Kansas, designed numerous systems of varying complexity, performance, and price using Danley Direct 3D modelling software to upgrade the sound reinforcement system, ultimately arriving at the simplicity of a single Danley Sound Labs J1-94 Jericho Synergy Horn mounted on an I-beam in the end zone and powered by two of their DNA 20K4 Pro amplifiers.

McClelland Sound had installed the previous distributed sound reinforcement system, which met the facility's needs at the time, but as game-day production technology evolved, expectations f

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USA - Bandit Lites wrapped its final festival for the summer with two weekends at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, where beautiful weather under the big Texas sky in Zilker Park was the setting to more than 130 acts.

Bandit worked with C3 Presents to provide the festival lighting package for two of the main stages, giving headliners such as LCD Soundsystem, Mumford and Sons and Kendrick Lamar the flexibility and versatility to seamlessly blend in their own touring looks.

Seth Jackson, who is in his fourth year of designing the festival rigs for ACL, collaborated with the headlining artists in a three-fold process, by first providing a large enough rig to fit on the scale of the large roof structures. "Second, you need to provide familiar and varied fixtures," he continued. "Most of the LDs coming in have existing show files. You need a rig that allows them to clone o

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UK - The annual DiGiCo Rental Company of the Year Quiz saw the pro audio world come together to do battle to claim the title of brainiest audio rental company in the UK.

Amongst the action James 'Al Murray' Gordon and Dave 'white wine for the ladies' Webster guided the teams through the evening with a series of questions that taxed the knowledge of the participants and a raffle, with prizes donated by the teams, that achieved a record breaking result.

Each year, DiGiCo looks to support the industry with the funds raised during the night. This year, the newly re-branded Backup, the Technical Entertainment charity was selected as the recipient. Backup (previously- Behind the Scenes UK) is a UK charity specifically created to give support to anyone working in the Live Events industry who may need it.

DiGiCo has been a long-time advocate of Behind the Scenes UK and when th

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UK - A LED lighting installation - specified and undertaken by Penn Elcom - is saving the White Rock Theatre in Hastings approximately 75 per cent on electricity requirements, plus a further 70 per cent on maintenance costs per year compared to the previous lighting scheme.

The seafront located theatre, a historically significant cultural landmark in the East Sussex region with origins dating back to 1927, is a busy receiving house owned by Hastings Borough Council with the day to day running and management undertaken by HQ Theatres & Hospitality, offering a diverse programme of touring shows embracing many performance genres, including opera, ballet, musicals, comedy and children's shows. The main auditorium capacity is 1066 (referring to the Battle of Hastings!).

A building wide upgrade to LED lighting has been taking place over the last 18 months explained Adam Harkin,

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Switzerland - With six days and nights of musical and artistic performances on six different stages, and 4,700 volunteers on duty to welcome 230,000 people, the Paléo Festival de Nyon is one of the most prominent and successful festivals in Europe.

For this "40th+1" edition, the organisers offered a top line-up of artists, including Iron Maiden, The Chemical Brothers, Muse, Bastille and The Lumineers. The engineers from French company Alabama Média were on hand day and night to make sure the punters experienced the best audio and visual experience possible.

Alabama has been an integral part of the success that the festival is enjoying today. The Lyon based staging company has been involved in the festival for 20 years and is not only responsible for the two main stages - les Arches and la Grande Scene - but they also deal with the content management: Indeed,

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Belgium - The producers of the new Belgian CAZ TV promoted their new channel with a reality show-like boxing gala that pitted celebrities against one another. Providing hard-hitting visuals for this televised event was a collection of Nexus and COLORdash fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Belgian rental specialists Splendit supplied 24 Nexus Aw 7x7panels, 72 COLORdash Accent Quad fixtures and 48 Nexus Aq 5x5 panels that were used by designer company Never Fear Shadows to create a visually stunning look.

Forming a key central point to the entire gala setting, the Nexus 5x5 panels were fixed above the central boxing ring, where the classic look of the fixtures recreated the look and atmosphere of classic stadium boxing match events.

One of the key aspects of the Nexus to feature in the design were the vibrant colours of the COB LEDs, which reflected and reinforced the u

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UAE - Nexo's Engineering Support Team has partnered with Dubai-based pro-audio specialist V.V.& Sons to host a special audio design training seminar, the first of its kind in the Middle East.

Distributor of Nexo sound reinforcement products in UAE, the Pro AV Division of V.V.& Sons invited more than 20 AV design engineers to the day-long event, which was anchored by Nexo's Nicholas Poitrenaud and Alain Boone. Nominally dedicated to Nexo's proprietary NS-1 design software suite, the syllabus related to every loudspeaker product in Nexo's current portfolio - PS Series, Geo S and Geo M, the STM Series of modular line array, and the latest super-compact ID Series.

"The target of this special session was to give engineers an overview of NS-1 by using a complete system design project in a theatre," summarised Poitrenaud. Along the way, this gave the trainers the chance to cover

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Greece - Built from 1842 to 1862, Athens Metropolitan Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Archbishopric of Athens and all of Greece. This important landmark was severely damaged by earthquakes in 1981 and 1999. Several years of renovations, including structural support and maintenance of the decoration of the temple, were completed in July 2016.

As part of the restoration project, Athens-based ABAS (Automation Broadcasting Audio Security) was appointed to install a new sound system that would deliver high quality, intelligible sound while merging acceptably with the attractive architecture of the historic building. The beautiful interior is highly reverberant, due to its great height and reflective surfaces, making the acoustics a challenge for voice transmission.

To achieve the high intelligibility desired, ABAS' acoustic engineers designed and installed a system usi

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UK - Capital Sound Hire, for more than three decades ranked among the UK's leading sound rental companies, has announced a significant new investment in Meyer Sound's Leopard compact linear line array, the newest and smallest member of the powerful Leo Family. Recently delivered to Capital Sound's London headquarters at Wimbledon were 24 Leopard loudspeakers, eight companion 900-LFC low frequency control elements and eight UPJ-1P loudspeakers.

"At Capital Sound we've had a long and successful relationship with Meyer Sound," says Capital's general manager Paul Timmins, "and now we expect Leopard will open us to an even wider range of clients and venues. It's a perfect solution for theatre-size touring, for supplemental side hangs in arenas or for ground-stacked applications for entertainment or corporate events."

Timmins notes that the new system was put to work immediately

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USA - The outdoor festival season in the U.S. extends well into the fall with festivals such as Life is Beautiful in Las Vegas - now in its fourth season - emerging as a highlight of the EDM festival calendar. Promotional events company Insomniac again joined forces with Life Is Beautiful and top lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting to bring the fan-favourite Troubadour Stage alive, which took over Downtown Las Vegas from September 23-25.

Lieberman, who worked with the three-day music, art, culinary and learning festival for the second year, handled lighting design duties on the high-energy Troubadour Stage, where artists like Bassnectar and ZHU drew huge crowds. Standing 120ft wide and 240ft long, the domed Troubadour Stage took fans on a multisensory journey with the latest in lighting and video production hanging from a towering ceiling. Production for the event

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Bat Out of Hell - The Jim Steinman musical Bat Out of Hell will receive its world premiere in the UK next summer at the London Coliseum. Featuring a book by Steinman and Stuart Beattie, with music and lyrics by Steinman, the musical includes songs such as I Would Do Anything for Love and Bat Out of Hell.

Old Gold - Elvis Presley has overtaken Madonna to claim the most number one albums by a solo artist. The Wonder Of You features Elvis' voice above an orchestral score performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It sold 63,500 copies after being released last week. Elvis' number one albums also span the longest period of time by the same artist. There are 60 years between his first - Elvis Presley Rock N' Roll in 1956 - and this latest release. It comes almost 40 years since he died in August 1977.

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UK - The Laser Grafix UK team has welcomed a familiar face back to the family, Richard Hawkins. After training as an aircraft engineer, Richard joined Laser Grafix in 1994 working his way up from the hire department to the technical sales department and eventually as the event production manager, when he left in 2004.

In his absence from the Laser Grafix family, Richard Hawkins mentions, "I have kept in touch with the fascinating change in laser products and equipment in the past years. Long gone are the days of very heavy, power and water hungry equipment to produce just a few watts of laser light; where now you can get huge amounts of power from something no larger than a briefcase."

In Richard's 22 years in the industry, he has been involved with numerous high calibre events such as managing the technical production for the inauguration of the Shard in London. The proje

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USA - The COLORado 3 Solo from Chauvet Professional fills a wide range of roles in a lighting designer's tool chest, thanks in part to its impressively wide (8? to 45?) zoom range. The intense output from its three 40W RGBW engines, along with its full IP65-rated power and DMX connections, add even more to this LED fixture's versatility.

"We developed the COLORado 3 Solo with the idea of offering our customers an affordable fixture that can perform multiple functions very well," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "This fixture is equally effective as an arena stage wash as it is for close-up camera work, because of its wide, smooth and very fast zoom range. Also, because it is IP rated, it can be used indoors or out."

The advanced zooming optics designed into the COLORado 3 Solo allow its three high-output LED engines to produce a single homogenized beam. This output, co

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UK - Midas provided all the power as Vevo Halloween hit Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool on 29 October, for 3,400 ticketholders and millions of others via the video hosting service's website.

Set in a dockside warehouse, with the stage in an adjoining temporary structure, the 12,000sq.m site was painstakingly dressed to the theme 'Phobias', which was reflected in the fans', and the bands', fancy dress.

Ipswich-based Midas supplied a turnkey power generation, mains cabling and distro solution. It included a pair of synched 500 kVAs for performances from Aurora, Blossoms, Izzy Bizu, Jack Garrett and Zara Larson, together with a 220 and a 116 kVA for production, across the five-day build and the show.

Dave Noble, Midas' managing director, said, "Broadcast was equally important, so Vevo Halloween was much more than a straight-ahead gig. On a wet and windy dock, with a whole l

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Ireland - EPIC Ireland is the first digital-only museum in the world, featuring 20 multi-media galleries where visitors are immersed in the history of the Irish Diaspora, through Epson's state of the art projector technology and a range of other unique AV installations. Located in the brick vaults of The CHQ building in Dublin's Docklands, EPIC Ireland is a dramatic interactive visitor experience, showcasing the unique journey of Irish people around the world.

Working with Epson and Rockbrook Engineering, one of Ireland's largest systems integration firms, EPIC Ireland has installed 33 EB-G6970WU installation projectors which enable visitors to have a truly immersive experience in the museum. The projectors are a powerful 6,000-lumen WUXGA installation projector with 3LCD technology, and have been used to create impactful displays of each theme of the exhibition in superior cl

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UK - Brought in as part of the Pinewood MBS Lighting ongoing investment across an array of new equipment, the company's sizable collection of super bright ARRI SkyPanel LED softlights recently made a brief return to their Pinewood base, only to be prepped ready for immediate despatch.

Proven as a popular choice with both cinematographers and crew, PMBS have over the past few months provided the low energy panels to an impressive roster of clients, including: Greig Fraser ASC and Gaffer David Smith on Rogue One, Steve Yedlin ASC and Gaffer Jamie Mills, on Episode VIII, Ben Seresin ASC, BSC and gaffer Pat Sweeney on The Mummy, Paul Cameron ASC and gaffer Mark Clayton on The Commuter, Seamus McGarvey BSC and gaffer Lee Walters on Life.

As rental specialists, the PMBS team are well versed in the importance of preparation and maintenance. To c

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USA - National Geographic Channel unveiled Experience Mars, a first-of-its-kind immersive activation, for "recruits" to experience Mars with TAIT's cable coaster virtual reality simulator.

Between 26-29October, the corner of Canal and Varick streets in New York City was bustling with space enthusiasts, virtual reality bloggers, media influencers and experience seekers vying for a spot to land on Mars. Once inside the Mars Experience, recruits climbed aboard the cable coaster virtual reality simulator and traversed the landscape of Mars prior to officially touching down.

"The cable coaster is a 6 degree of freedom rig which means it creates dynamic movement well beyond a traditional 3 degree rig. The Traditional 3 D rigs have three axes of motion: Up/Down, Left/Right, Backwards/Forwards. With our 6 degree of freedom rig, we take the same axes of motion from a

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