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Vari-Lite veterans Sarah Clausen and Jim Waits will be leading technical training sessions on the Virtuoso DX console as well as on systems and design at the LDI trade show in Orlando, in the days prior to the opening of the LDI 2001 exhibition. The sessions, part of LDInstitute and the ESTA Training Programs, give entertainment design professionals the opportunity to get in-depth technical training.

Clausen, a 10-year industry veteran who has been with Vari-Lite for more than four years, will lead the session titled ‘Meet the Virtuoso DX’ on 29-31 October from 9am to 5pm each day. In this hands-on session, attendees can learn the basics of automated light programming using the state-of-the-art Vari*Lite Virtuoso DX console. The sessions introduce attendees to the programming

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A National Lottery grant has helped the Merlin Theatre in Frome, Somerset, to purchase a new sound system from Marquee Audio, as part of a major overhaul. The 241-seat venue, which first made contact with the Shepperton-based suppliers at this year’s ABTT Show in London, has replaced its tired former system with a Martin Audio Blackline F12/S15 combination, which technical manager Rick Worringham says has improved the set-up 100%. He explained: "We received £55,000 from the National Lottery plus matched funding from local councils, including Somerset County Council. This enabled us to refurbish practically the entire theatre - including a new stage floor, auditorium seating, dressing rooms and a restructure of the backstage area."The building itself is council-owned - and used as an educational space during the day - although the Merlin Theatre Trust Ltd owns all the acc

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JBL Professional has added the SB210 Compact Subwoofer to its extensive line of Control Contractor products. Just 14" tall, the dual 10" unit has a frequency range of 42Hz - 200Hz to add low frequencies to fixed installation sound systems in virtually any professional application, including restaurants, retail, theme parks, exhibits and displays, even small church and performing spaces. The SB210 has two 10" (254 mm) aluminium/ceramic composite cone woofers, for a total power handling capability of 400W continuous (1600W peak). Intended for use indoor or outdoor, the SB210 features a high-impact polystyrene cabinet and multilayer thermoset composite-covered grille for full weather-proofing, and is available in either black or white.

"The small profile of the SB210 belies its power and its ability to offer warm, punchy low end," explained Rick Kamlet, senior dir

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Presentation Services Ltd, the presentation equipment and event staging company, officially opened their latest on-site office at the NEC, Birmingham on October 1st this year. The new 4,500 sq.ft site is catering for the already growing number of PSL clients exhibiting at the NEC and also opens the market for PSL to serve companies in the Midlands and North of Britain.

Martin Hunt, who has 15 years’ Industry experience is heading up the operation in Birmingham alongside dedicated and fully-trained staff. They will work closely with the London offices to bring clients the full range of technical services on offer at PSL.

The site is to benefit from a significant investment in new equipment providing a major Midland support base from where PSL can serve their clients’ presentation requirements. PSL already have a number of successful on-site offices at some of the UK’

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Universal Events was called in by Mark Borkowski PR to provide full technical infrastructure for the world launch of the revolutionary smart car (right hand drive versions) from Daimler Chrysler UK. The event took place in the car park at Wembley Stadium, and revealed the vehicle for the first time to UK smart dealers and users, plus the national and motoring press.

Universal supplied everything - from the lighting, sound, video and staging - to the dome-shaped marquee and seating rostra. The company’s brief was to provide a clean, slick, streamlined environment in which to launch one of the most ecologically sound vehicles available. Universal’s Steve Butcher designed the show’s production elements. A flat, empty centre stage at the start of the show was soon filled with the demo smart car, revealed by elevator, clouds of smoke and flashing lights, early on in the p

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Award-winning lighting designer Anne Militello is to stage her first art gallery exhibition early in 2002, at the Gershwin Hotel, New York. Modern Culture at the Gershwin Hotel will present 'Anne Militello: Radiate (Not Fade Away)', and exhibition of site-specific lighting installations - described as "an exploration of the mind’s relationship with luminosity" - from 4 January to 2 February 2002.

Recognized for her innovative lighting projects, Militello has recently been honoured by the Illumination Engineering Society of North America and the International Association of Lighting Designers for her artistic achievements in the exterior lighting design of the New 42nd Street Studios in Times Square, New York. Her other notable architectural projects include the Avalon Hotel, Beverley Hills; the Arts Council of New Orleans building, New Orleans; Tokyo Bazaar, Tokyo; and

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Developed by Fujitsu Ten, the Eclipse TD 512 is a new studio monitoring system. Aimed at all sectors of the music recording and mastering market (and the high end audiophile market), several clients, including the major new Sphere Studio complex and Mike Ross-Trevor, chief engineer at Sony Music Studios in London, are evaluating the Eclipse TD 512 for improved accuracy in recording and mixing. Producer, artist and musician Brian Eno (Roxy Music, Talking Heads, U2), already uses Eclipse TD 512s in his own studio.

The most immediately obvious difference from conventional speakers is the egg shape of its enclosure, hence no flat surfaces, presenting sound waves internally with an effectively infinite baffle. In a further departure from convention, the driver is decoupled from the cabinet fascia and mounted internally via a massive integrate stand, which provides mechanical 'grounding' of

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For the many who worked in the blunt end of Concert Lighting during its explosive growth in the seventies and eighties, the name Paul Ollett is synonymous with the very finest in well-designed, dependable dimming and control systems. Absent for many years, Acutek has been delighted to welcome this talented man back into the heart of the developmental world.

"We're building a company here at Acutek that addresses all the very exacting technological needs of the presentation industry," said managing director Iain Elder. "Having someone as well respected and innovative as Paul Ollett on board is easily one of the best management decisions we’ve made in Acutek's short history."

Ollett's influence is already being felt: the company launched a brand new 36-channel touring dimmer at PLASA in September with his design input, and he is presently working in collaborat

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In association with German dealer Lightpower and its customers and clients, ETC has seen its products installed in three German venues this summer - Friedrichstadt Palast, Theatre Annaberg and Forum Norderstedt. Germany's principal revue theatre, Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin has the widest stage in Europe and seats an audience of 2000. The venue's stage lighting, comprising over 600 dimmers and 100 colour changers, is being controlled by an Obsession II DPS system with two consoles and various ETCNet2 nodes. The Theatre Annaberg in eastern Germany was completely refurbished this year. Its exisiting analogue dimming system in separate racks around the building was replaced by central Sensor dimmer racks controlled by an Expression 3 console, monitoring feedback as given by the Sensor Advanced Features dimmer modules. Finally, Forum Norderstedt, a modern convention centre in northern Ge

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Further to our recent news story on personnel changes at Martin Professional, the following details have now been announced by the company. Martin UK's stage lighting account manager Mark Ravenhill will be moving to the Martin head office in Aarhus, Denmark to take over as Martin's international product manager for touring, theater and television. Mark will be taking over from long-time touring product manager Gerald Heise, who will be assuming a new position within the Martin organization as international education manager. Both positions will take effect January 1, 2002.

Ravenhill commented: "I am thoroughly looking forward to taking up the position of international product manager at the group head office in Denmark. Exciting times are ahead both for Martin and for the industry in general and I am keen to take all of the amazing results that Gerald has achieved on to the next l

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The annual Heritage Gateway Festival took place in North Bay, Ontario, recently, attracting an audience in the region of 30,000 on the first day alone. 3L Productions Inc has been supplying full staging, sound and lighting for several years. This year, production manager Tom Keay recommended a total of 30 stacks of Flashlight/Floodlight for the main PA system with the technical design also incorporating two 10 x 14 video screens, 96k of conventional lights, 24 intelligent lights and a 50ft x 30ft mobile stage.

For the PA configuration itself, Keay opted for a four-wide hang. "The outside two columns comprised three Flashlight boxes, then a column of three Floodlight, with the inside column of two Floodlights incorporating the final Floodlight cabinet dropped down as an infill," he explained.

Under each side were nine Flashlight TSW-721 21" bass enclosures, stacked thr

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Stage Electrics' Virtual Lighting Studio in London supplied Will Charles, lighting director for the BBC's Weakest Link programme, with a WYSIWYG 2000 lighting design and visualization software package including two Cast WYG’IT DMX Interface units. Charles also produced A0 colour plots and used the studio’s printing facility with the HP750C colour printer. He then recommended Stage Electrics to the show's set designer, Patrick Doherty, for converting the hand-drawn set construction drawings into a CAD format, and approached David Stewart, the studio manager, about the project. "Patrick needed a global CAD solution and decided AutoCAD was the best software solution." comments David Stewart.

Stage Electrics' Giles Philips from the Bristol CAD department modelled the set using AutoCAD’s solid modelling tools and also produced A1 size prints detailing plan, side

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Enlightenment, the UK's specialist dealer for ADB - Siemens stage lighting equipment, has recently supplied an ADB Phoenix 10 lighting control desk as part of Shrewsbury Music Hall’s refurbishment of its lighting systems. The Phoenix 10 is at the centre of a comprehensive DMX network designed by Enlightenment. The network is principally powered by two Artistic Licence Rack Splits which also incorporates an Artistic Licence Snap 1024 as a secondary remote control desk. Other equipment installed and commissioned by Enlightenment includes 96 ways of ADB Eurorack 60 all-digital dimmers with lighting bars and outlet boxes. This is the first sale of an ADB Phoenix 10 by Enlightenment which now adds to their growing portfolio of Phoenix 5 customers that include both the Drum and Midland Arts Centres in Birmingham and the Coliseum Theatre in Oldham.

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Nominations are currently being accepted from PLASA’s Full Members for the forthcoming Executive Committee Elections. The deadline for nominations is 15 November, and voting forms will be issued to PLASA members the following day. There are three three-year seats on the Committee up for re-election, due to Diane Grant (DHA Lighting), Paul Hinkly (LMC Audio) and David Hopkins OBE (Audio Design Services) all coming to the end of their elected terms. In addition, there is a one-year term available, as Paul Adams of PAI Group has chosen to stand down from the Committee at the end of the year.

All Full Members of PLASA are reminded that nominations for election must be submitted by 15 November at the latest. The election results will be announced on 3 December.

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Earls Court has introduced an innovative new grid ceiling feature and dividing wall which enables the venue to create two smaller exhibition spaces within the existing Earls Court One hall. International staging and structure specialist, Edwin Shirley Staging (ESS), were appointed to develop the overall solution and installation of the grid as part of an ongoing programme aimed at providing service excellence for clients in the exhibition and live events industry. Tim Norman, managing director of ESS, said: "ESS was approached to provide a solution that would help improve the overall service Earls Court is able to provide its clients in the exhibition and events industry. Our bespoke system increases the adaptability of Earls Court One, allowing clients the opportunity to adapt the hall space to a preferred scale. This project helps establish ESS as a strategic solution provider to

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Following a front-page story in the NME and prior to an appearance on Top of the Pops tonight, Mercury Records chose London venue ‘the garage’ to showcase breaking US artiste Andrew W. K on 23 October. Andrew and his record company brought in US lighting designer Warren Flynn to devise, programme and operate the lighting for the showcase performance. Flynn specified an MA Lighting grandMA console for the show. The console was supplied by Neg Earth Lights along with a rig comprising High End Systems Studio Spot 250s and 4-lamp Molefay units which were used to supplement the venue’s extensive array of Par cans. During rehearsals, Flynn explained his choice of console by stating: "I just love the way that with this board, everything is totally user definable." He continued: "The three high-contrast colour touch-screens, coupled with the console's powerful op

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PLASA Media is looking for feedback from readers of Lighting&Sound International magazine and PLASA Online News, to find out the products that are making the biggest impact among entertainment technology practitioners - and we want your input.

'Tried & Tested' will take a simple approach: we're not asking for your views on hundreds of different product categories, we're just after your gut reactions to a series of broad-based questions on the equipment you're using, in the fields of lighting, sound, staging and effects.

The aim of this is simply to sniff out what's impressed you, what's made a difference to your working life. There are no awards and no ceremonies - we're just going to stir the pot and see what, if anything, floats to the top. The products you vote for can be new or old, high-tech or low-tech - all are valid.

The products which have the highest profile from among th

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OPTI has just released its 2001 Christmas brochure, aimed at giving retailers, bar operators and exhibition organizers access to a range of display options for the Christmas period. The OPTI Kinetics range of 6" rotating effects wheels has been strengthened with the new Christmas-themed versions featuring stained glass windows and Father Christmas scenes, to add to the snowflakes, stars, snowmen, bells and Nativity scenes which make up the range. All of these effects wheels can be used in conjunction with any of the OPTI Kinetics range of high quality effects projectors. Clear, concise and helpful advice on lighting effects, projection and installation is available free from OPTI staff, plus information on how individual requirements can be tailored to provide customized effects for any environment.

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Ian Myhill has joined Audio Visual Material Ltd (AVM) as the company's new sales manager. After 13 years successfully heading up the Communications Division at Vivitar (Europe) Ltd, Ian has decided to take up a new challenge with the Farnborough-based company, who provide exclusive UK distribution of numerous international manufacturers. He will be responsible for the sales of AVM's full product range of professional AV solutions, including famous names such as Draper Screens, Communications Specialities, Altinex interface and distribution products, Gentec, Kramer signal management solutions, Avialec, Euvision videowalls and videowall controllers and Albiral video and data monitors.

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Los Angles-based scenic design and painting company UV/FX recently completed a 28ft x 50ft backdrop for Clint Black's tour. The art was painted in UV/FX signature Day to Night style which allows for an ambient lit scene to go to sunrise or sunset by adding colored light and then with the introduction of UV lighting to make a dramatic change to the night look.Working with Nashville/Los Angeles-based lighting designer Drew Boca, UV/FX designed and painted the drop to go with Clint's vision of the country road on which he travels. UV/FX president Richard Green said: "We worked very directly with Clint on this one and with him being such a gentleman and so interested in what we do it couldn't help being a huge success for the tour and a big personal design success for both UV/FX and Mr Black. We're looking forward to working with their team again very soon."

UV/FX also supplied e

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For the ninth consecutive year, the organizers of the Pepsi Festival (Sziget Kulturalis Szervezoiroda) in Budapest, asked Production 2000 Ltd to provide sound and lighting for the main stage - and the other areas. The company fielded a high specification of equipment from their hire fleet, including a major Turbosound Flashlight and Floodlight rig. 36 Flashlight TFS 780H mid/high packs were flown in 6 x 3 configurations on either side of the stage, with 48 Floodlight TFL-780L bass enclosures configured four wide and six high on each side. 12 Turbosound Floodlight TFL-760H mid/highs were used for near-fill and infill and a further eight TFL-118 low-frequency Floodlights provided centre coverage.

The sections of the sound system were driven from three amp racks housing configurations of MC2 MC750 and MC2 1250 amplifiers. In addition, Production 2000 supplied all Turbosound stage monitori

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