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Located in the CBD of Adelaide, the venue's multi-purpose facilities include 14 meeting rooms, 11 halls and an outdoor performance space on the river front. It can accommodate up to 6,500 banquet guests and offers approximately 10,500sq.m of pillar-less floor space for conferences, exhibitions and special events of all types.

Robe was the preferred option for ACC's specifications and requirements once the green light was given for the purchase of new professional moving lights, says technical manager Jamie Masefield. "Robe first came to our attention as the brand with a strong industry credibility for robustness and reliability."

Masefield continues: "We needed large numbers of both profile and wash fixtures for business and logistical reasons. The Robe

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"In just a few short weeks, Cadac is already seeing the benefits of the initial phases of Soundking's investment in the company, with the first new designs making their debut at Prolight&Sound," says general manager Bob Thomas. "Everything is going full tilt at our Luton factory, where we are working flat out to fulfil a large number of sales orders - with S-Types, F-Types, and an R-Type shipping out to Russia, Germany, Korea and China, together with a quantity of J-Type modules for the USA and Aust

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The company will be featuring a wider product range and promote the diverse variety of services in its portfolio from hire and sales through to live events and installations. Stage Electrics is confident that the exciting range of products on show including the new Jester TL, the Rosco Light Pad and Stage Electrics' new WebShop, will further accelerate sales of its products into Europe.

Chris Patton, divisional sales manager comments: "Taking the leap to exhibit solely as Stage Electrics at a ma

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"SoundField's digital microphone and digital 5.1 decoder have become part of our standard toolkit when we are asked to provide 5.1 audio for sports broadcasts," explains Robert Edwards of VSSL.

"We use the systems on a weekly basis when working on high-profile international football and rugby coverage for a variety of broadcasters, most recently on February's Brazil-Italy game at Arsenal's Emirates stadium, which was viewed by 150 million people in 37 countries - but until now, although the systems have often been installed on our recommendation, they've always been owned by other companies. We decided the time had come to purchase a DSF-2/DSF-3 system of our own."

(Jim Evans)

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New motors will be installed in six versions of the Eclipse - three Iris models and three Shutter models. The Iris models use a camera-like aperture to block the light, and when the fins retract, 100 percent of the light shines through. The Shutter models use vertical blades to black out the beam, a style often used for quick cuts and chase sequences around arenas.

Both styles are used to dowse sports lights and other discharge lights that can't be dimmed electronically. A new drive mechanism inside the three Iris models will make these units more solid by simplifying the pieces used to open the aperture fins, said Lee Schlais, Wybron's vice-president of engineering. "The Eclipse units were already reliable, but the changes we have made will

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The band, working with monitor engineer Jon Ormesher and front of house engineer Matthew Kettle, selected Sennheiser ew 500 Series guitar systems and e 906 mics for Tom Chaplin's guitar cabinets, and e 904s for Richard Hughes' toms and an e 901 for the bass drum. In addition, the band use a mix of e 935 and SKM 935 radio mics for vocals, and the whole band wear Sennheiser ew 300 G2 IEM in-ear monitoring systems.

"I started touring with Keane about three years ago and even then nearly all the microphones were Sennheiser," says Ormesher. "And they've stayed with the 935 vocal mics ever since, mainly because the band likes them so much. Tom actually used the 935 in the studio to do the vocals for the last a

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"This is equipment you won't yet see in many real-life theatres; a dream come true for every instructor and every student," says Gert Venema, tutor on the course's Sound and Theatre Techniques module.

The college's attitude to new technology is largely down to the passion of the instructors, according to Midas Consoles Benelux's Axel Nagtegaal. "A good specification is wonderful, but without passion it is sterile," he says. "The real added value and creativity of this project is the way the school, instructors and co

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Dry Gulch, USA, owned by Church on the Move of Tulsa, was established as a summer camp for children in 1986. The campus has grown into a multi-purpose destination point featuring a 700-seat performance hall, a mini-amusement park, overnight quarters, holiday events and a 'Town Square' downtown area that is a replica of an old west town.

Stephen Arruda, AV coordinator for Dry Gulch, was hired last year to upgrade technology throughout the campus, including an audio system that had fallen into disrepa

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Located in Auckland's popular Kingsland suburb, Neighbourhood is owned by New Zealand brewers, Macs. Installed by Jansen Professional Audio & Lighting, iDR manages audio distribution to various areas in the bar as well as to an outdoor area.

The bar mainly plays mp3 music during the weekdays but on the weekend a DJ plugs into a custom-designed outlet plate connected to the iDR, which is configured with different EQ settings for the DJ, and parameters for hard-limiting and compression on each speaker feed. Jansen used a custom serial data string function on the iDR to control video switching for the DJ's accomp

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The recent production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Novello Theatre implemented the F:light system, which allows moving lights to follow the motion of automated scenery and performers, whilst remaining fully under the lighting designer's control. The system enabled technical staff to finely tune the lighting of the aerial scenes and maximise magical effects - in this case, Titania, Oberon and Bottom taking to the air in the aura of a striking full moon.

Often flying effects are used in situations that require highly accurate lighting in order not to reveal 'the trick'. Stage Technologies recognised that there was a distinct gap between lighting and automation. The F:light concept came about to b

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Clay Paky has always paid great attention to training young talent, and sponsors and hosts this course at its own showroom in Seriate (BG). Clay Paky built its sho room as if it were a real stage, designed not only to display its own products, but also as an 'art workshop' where lighting designers - from the most famous experts to lighting students - may practice and express their creativity to the full.

On the course, the students from the Politecnico were able to attend a practical lesson held by Gi

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"Fred brings extensive pro audio industry experience and knowledge to this position, including seven years as sales manager at Shure Distribution GmbH," said Markus Winkler, managing director of Shure's EMEA business unit. "With his strong background, Fred will be an important part of our future business development in the region."

(Jim Evans)

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Colorfox features a tactile design that enables it to fit into nearly any design environment. Its user-friendly interface allows even inexperienced users to access the benefits of dynamic light.

This intuitive controller allows for easy playback of static and dynamic scenes and provides a simple-to-use interface for users to alter the hue, saturation and intensity of their surroundings.

Colour temperature can be easily adjusted from 2000K-9000K to match different luminaire types (RGB or CMY) for identical and consistent color matching, making it easy to replace any fixture without re-programming des

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The show's intense and fluid visuality results from some serious creative chemistry between live video director Blue Leach who is cutting the IMAG mix, lighting designer Davy Sherwin and live visuals director Robin Haddow.

It is Leach's second Snow Patrol tour. "Davy and Robin are really into a fully integrated workflow that unites all departments, and I am very much of that same mindset, so it's a complete joy to be on this," he states.

XL supplied 8 columns of Barco O-Lite LED screen each measuring 13.5 ft high. Additional dynamics

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The event kicked off in the municipal theatre with a welcome speech delivered by Robert Hesse, in which he described the stable-but-innovation-rich course the company is pursuing. Despite the worldwide financial crisis, he looked to the future with "absolute confidence," founding his optimism on the solid backing the firm enjoyed "as part of the Bosch Group" and solid results - including an increase of around 40 percent in the turnover of the intercom and broadcasting segments reported by Telex and RTS.

Following this address, bu

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The Freestyle Stage is an area the organisers created to allow dancers visiting the show, to show off their dance skills to a crowd. The brief from organisers was to create an area that allowed maximum flexibility with lighting and sound, as there are no rehearsals or even any idea of the genre that will be performed. The performers just show up with an iPod or CD with their chosen track and take to the stage.

Kave supplied a flexible lighting rig consisting of Martin Mac 600s, Mac 2000 Profiles and the new Mac 575 Kryptons for lighting the stage, Chroma Q Colour Blocks as truss toners, Le Maitre MVS hazers, and 2 Rob

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Anglin has chosen a bit of new along with a bit of throwback technology for the latest tour. VL 3000 spots work alongside High End Studio Beams as well as some durable but old school Cyberlight Turbos. The three fixtures together provide a look at the last 20 years of development of moving lights.

The entire show is controlled by the Grand MA console. The usual collection of trussing, motors and drapes round out a special look for the 11-year-old group. The This Town Tour continues throughout the year.

(Jim Evans)

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Staged in the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin near Paris, this event will evaluate the maturity of the creation and visualization solutions dedicated to the 3D images and their application programmes. This year, a space for the 3D production promotion will be added to the Dimension 3 professional exhibition area. Added to those areas dedicated to professionals, Dimension 3 Immersion, an area for the visual experimentations, will be open to a broader audience.

60 international experts will be gathered

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Nickelodeon's SpongeBob Squarepants Live! is kicking off a UK tour at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, with two hangs of 20 T10 cabinets apiece, configured as a conventional line array solution, complemented by 3 T-SUBs and a single B2 on each side.

The all-new UK tour of the hit musical Chicago, with sound design by Rick Clarke, opened in Bradford on 9March, with a 40-cabinet system designed to accommodate the wide cross-section of venues and requirements.

In London, the Flamenco Festival - running from 14-29 March at Sadler's Wells - is deploying a total of 16 T10 cabinets and T-SUBs, configured as a mixture of vertical point-source standalone cabinets and horizontal mi

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Stigger has extensive experience of the industry on a worldwide basis, having been with SPS for almost two decades prior to his move to PSP, where he worked on some of the company's most high profile events and client accounts.

"Business continues to be good for us and our London office is expanding," comments PSP director Ian Willcox. "And with the recent addition of Animotion Live and 3D-holocube enhancing our offering of creative products, more opportunities are continually presenting themselves.

"The addition of Chris to our team gives us the capability to facilitate this increase in business, ensuring that our clients receive the quality of service