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Both Orbital and the NT are concerned that there is a skills shortfall - that young people entering the industry have little experience of the latest technology and techniques. The course is designed to enhance the "skills sets" of students in line with the growing expectations of directors, producers and audiences.

Building on the success of its previous years, the course was filled to capacity with over 20 students attending from drama colleges nationwide, including Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Queen Margaret University College and GSA Conservatoire. Students also attended from The Danish National Theatr

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"Every year it's a rewarding experience to watch all of the evening's performers win big and sound incredible," said Ryan Smith of Shure Artist Relations Nashville. "The genre of gospel music continues to diversify, and many of these artists are crossing over into mainstream radio. I think that speaks volumes for the appeal this music has on the industry today."

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Tthe 700W profile spot is the feature light in Studio F for Dubai TV's Sports Channel. Sports Channel lighting designer Ziad Haddad comments: "We use about 40 Martin moving lights in this studio, divided between MAC 600 washlights and the latest MAC 700 Profile. The aim of getting the moving lights was to add a new and contemporary look to the sets. Moving lights give us the ability to change the mood and colour on each set and Martin's systems have helped us do this very well."

The MAC lights were supplied to Dubai TV through Martin's Middle East representative, Martin Professional Middle Eas

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Cross mixes the girls' Sennheiser evolution wireless G2 microphone and wireless monitor systems from a mixing console at the side of the stage. "I'm doing monitors and front-of-house for the girls off the monitor desk," he explains, "I have the dummy head sitting out at front-of-house and it's returning two lines back to 'monitor world'. I'm sending all my monitor mixes pre-fader from the console, using the internal effects, and mixing left/right on the faders and sending it to the house."

The KU 100 model human head features microph

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They tested the system thoroughly in and around the building before committing to W-DMX, he explains, using it on numerous smaller shows and events and a variety of moving lights. They wanted to ensure there would be no interference. Once they were certain that the system was completely robust, Hornsby and his team confirmed the purchase. They now have W-DMX running two universes of DMX on their main stage.

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Paradigma Group SRL is a Romanian-Dutch joint venture between Ampco Flashlight Holding BV and AEI Broadcast SRL, one of the leading facilities companies in Romania. Paradigma Group SRL has two divisions, covering both rental and sales. Paradigma Production provides rental services for professional audio, lighting and staging, and has made extensive investment in its rental equipment. The company operates a Synco by Martin Audio W8LC/W8LM Line Array system - the first line array system to be permanently based in Romania. It also has the facility to draw on the Synco Europe Network's

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The show was made by the BBC's Classical Music TV department which has been responsible for Proms in the Park, and follows the success of Flashmob: The Opera - a live opera event staged among commuters in London. Albert Square in Manchester city centre provided the main focus of the hour-long performance where a 16-strong orchestra accompanied the songs, and a giant screen relayed scenes from across the city.

A crowd carrying a giant cross walked in a procession fro

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Christian City Church hired Auditoria Pty Ltd's consultant Scott Willsallen, sound designer for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, to design the room. Willsallen had visited Adamson's HQ in the fall of 2005 to familiarize himself with the products, and arranged a shootout with the aid of Frank Hinton of ATT Audio Controls based in Melbourne. Adamson's managing director, Jesse Adamson, flew to the shootout in Sydney where Christopher D. Ling engineer of the Church's Tec

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Failler has been working with InnovaSon since 2003 helping out with a variety of technical roles including beta-testing, demos, after-sales and technical support. He is also the sound engineer for a French band named Plantec. According to InnovaSon sales and marketing director, Xavier Pion, although Matthieu remains freelance, his appointment formalises what he has been doing with InnovaSon for a long time, with particular emphasis on training, but importantly, his formal appointment gives InnovaSon customers a further point of contact for technical support in France.

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EMTEC recommended a considerable amount of structural work to be undertaken to dampen the sound, whist CP Sound worked on improving and controlling the venue's internal audio and simultaneously eliminating areas of spillage. "There are always several lateral approaches to solving noise pollution," explains

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Across the back of the stage, stood vertically, there are four Y-shaped minibeam constructions, each with three PixelLines hung at angles to the truss. The battens are being used as an effect to give an extra dimension to the show. The majority of this tour is in clubs or small theatres, so the rig has to be able to provide a big punch or subtlety when required within its limited size.

The 1044s are programmed using PixelDrive which is then driven by a Maxxyz PC from

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With Ancora, Il Divo have turned their classical talents toward their own original music, as well as interpreting popular tracks like Unchained Melody and a duet with Celine Dion on I Believe in You. The group is currently in the midst of a tour in which they are covering nearly 100 cities on five continents over the course of eight months.

London's Capital Sound has been providing the front-of-house control an

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The band is using a full complement of Sennheiser's evolution range of microphones on vocals and back line. Front-of-house sound engineer Rob Webster Reed commented: "After trying various manufacturers we found the e840 absolutely superb on lead vocals. In a major tour environment you look for consistency in a mic, and the e840 goes out every night virtually without any EQ. It's meaty sound and impressive feedback rejection also made it the obvious choice for backing vocals." Webster Reed also added that the e840 coped extremely well with Preston's very high vocal input levels.

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HK Audio's exclusive UK and Eire distributor, JHS, achieved an impressive 40% sales increase with HK Audio's range of pro audio systems last year. This result was undoubtedly spearheaded by the profile achieved following the introduction of the compact and innovative HK Audio Cohedra Compact ('CoCo') line array concert system, a high-performance system well suited to the majority of UK mid-size tour venues, and to the budgets of most pro audio touring and rental companies, say JHS.

"The UK and Eire pro audio market has demonstrated great interest in the potential offered by the Cohedra Compact system," says JHS MD, Dennis Drumm. "Sales of this system in particular

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He has been looking for the best tools in the market to complement their other sound gear, and just last year they updated their old amps with Lab Gruppen amplifiers in order to reduce weight and to increase headroom. Doyon adds: "I am very impressed with the amount of positive comments our customers have expressed about

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Olma created a massive lighting system with more than 100 moving lights - including a total of 40 Clay Paky Stage Zoom 1200 - and 320 conventional Fixtures, as well as complex architectural lighting with LED RGB colour changers, 4 kW Xenon and 2.5 kW HTI fixtures. To control the whole lighting system he used a grandMA full-size and a grandMA light as a back up.

Olma and his programmer Manuel Da Costa gained access to the full lighting system only one day before the show went Live 'on air', so they had little time

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The quadrennial show is one of the largest print media exhibitions in the world, and Heidelberg - among the world's major printing machine manufacturers - featured the biggest single stand, occupying all of hall eight and half of hall seven in their entireties.

All lighting fixtures for the Heidelberg Print areas, the 1.8 kilometres of trussing and 220 points on which it is hung was supplied by Siegen-based Trendco, and designed by Michael Diederichs. Trendco also supplied all the stand's audio systems. The stand consisted of numerous different product areas showing: types of printing, dye-cutting, folding, packaging and other associated machines, plus four presentation areas and several hospi

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"The Netherlands' audio industry has always been important to ARX and we're looking forward to working with Robert Pigeaud and his energetic team at Match Audio & Vision."

Alongside ARX, Match Audio & Vision also represents manufacturers including Celestion, Logic System, MC2 Audio and Quested.

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Martin Clark acted as project manager for a team of 40, who completed their first circuit of the course on the Saturday, installing the structures across the course in potentially hazardous conditions before the road closures came into force. Martin's experience working on the race over the past 12 years was a great advantage in liaising with organiser and the police to prepare the structures and co-ordinate the operation across 36 hours on site.

Lucy McCrickard, director of LGM Consultancy, has organised 11 London Marathons and explained the

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Since the owner is a former musician, he also wanted the facility to build high-octane live music and DJ sessions into the entertainment programme, and tasked his technical representative Hidenori Kawamoto with sourcing a professional, fully-optimised system that could be distributed throughout the whole facility. LadyBird presented the challenge to Kiyoaki Fuku

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Lab.gruppen, the Swedish manufacturer distributed exclusively in the UK by Sennheiser, is one of the leading amplifier brands within the pro audio industry. According to Jim Stevens, SES's general manager who oversees the Coldplay account: "We have been changing over to Lab.gruppen amplifiers for the last three years. We had an amp 'shoot-out' in 2003 and Lab.gruppen won hands down, so we decided to start

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In addition to the main screen projection, lighting company Neg Earth provided High End Systems' new DL2 digital lights, which repeated details from the main screen in a number of circular projections dotted around the stage.

PSL also provided an electric screen, 14ft wide by 10ft deep, which dropped down for a few numbers in the show. "The production took the best of both worlds," commented PSL Music's Pod Bluman, "cutting-edge technology like the DL2s integrated elegantl

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The Sinus for the Information category was awarded to Erwin Schenk, the technical manager of The Zentrum Paul Klee centre in Bern, Switzerland, and to Christian Simmen the project manager of John Lay Electronics. The Zentrum Paul Klee was designed by the famous architect Renzo Piano and is one of his most striking buildings. It distinguishes itself from traditional museums in being not just the h

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A key part of the sponsorship will include a series of Allen & Heath master classes where the Xone Ten will be on hand to demonstrate the full capacity of Allen & Heath mixers and outline the key features of their performances to the next generation of DJs. Allen & Heath says that with their high quality filters, construction and audio signal path, Xone has quickly become the mixer o