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After winning the tender to provide their expertise in ensuring that the technical aspects of the production lighting and sound were installed to the highest standards possible, Northern Light went on site in January 2006.

In addition to the efforts of Northern Light's drawing office, project management and technical staff, the company's manufacturing division had a tough challenge to face on this project. Due to the performance space and very nature of the Young Vic's artistic direction, Northern Light was called upon to custom make various aspects of the technical requirements.

Simon Cooper, head of projects at Northern Light, said: &q

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"The DMA's are all about celebrating and acknowledging Australia's achievement in the dance music industry. The artists who perform will be reflecting the industry and where it is at today," commented Hayley Conn, producer of this year's Dance Music Awards. "3D World Publishing is really excited to be once again presenting this year's event."

The event will be hosted at Sydney's superclub, Home, and the club's 2500 capacity gives the DMA's the opportunity to open the event to the public for the first time. Home will open its doors at 7:30pm for the 2006 awards ceremony, where fans and industry VIP's will witnessperformances from the co

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Steff Langley, the Barbican's head of sound, ordered the desk from Richard Nowell Sound Services with a brief, "to keep us as mobile as possible. All our outboard is also flightcased, as we move systems not only between the various venues here at the Barbican, but also outside the theatre, to other locations. There's no point in spending £50K on a console, but not spending £1K on a flightcase."

The Barbican's 2006 progra

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Situated in Warwick Street, the venue comprises an informal bar and dining room with 80 covers on the ground floor, and a downstairs cocktail lounge bar, with seating available for 100 people.

The operation is a joint venture between successful Soho operator Brenhan Magee, and entrepreneur and Crystal Palace FC chairman Simon Jordan. Magee has worked with The Breakfast Group over the past 11 years and was instrumental in setting up bars and restaurants including Jerusalem and recently Salvador & Amanda.

Having been heavily involved with the Breakfast Group over the years, and worked on the sound system installation at Salvador & Amanda, Marquee Audio tendered succe

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are selling out concerts and breaking house records across the country. The band has sold more than 50 million records since its formation, received 16 Grammy nominations and was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the first year of its eligibility.

The tour's production designer, Jim Lenahan's approach to lighting and video is "very much a combination of super new, and old school," reports programmer Stan Green. "There's no video director: everything is programmed into the lighting cues and controlled by the grandMA. The grandMA's ver

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Holland heard about a new company called Danley Sound Labs, founded by audio pioneer Tom Danley. "I read about Danley Sound Labs in the ProSoundWeb forums," he said. "I had always been interested in Tom Danley's ideas. Reputable people in the industry were writing positive things about the products, so I checked them out."

Danley Sound La

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The provocatively visual, adrenalised, energy-pumping show is currently taking the UK and Europe by storm, with video an integral element of the production design created by Baz Halpin and Mark Fisher, which is also linked closely to the lighting.

The live performance is every inch a contemporary mixed media fusion of technology and human emotion, ending with Pink treating fans to a stunning high level aerial display of silk acrobatics.

Video is divided into a two components - playback and IMAG. The playback sources are all run from a customised Catalyst digital media server triggered by a WholeHog II console (operated by Craig Allnutt), and the 3-ca

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According to EAW systems application specialist Steve Badham, the key criterion for the audio installation was flexibility. Comprising three bars and two performance spaces of 750 capacity (1500 capacity when combined) as well as shops an

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Macon-based Total Systems Audio, Video, and Consulting have supplied vast amounts of technical equipment to the Church; no coincidence as their managing director is also the Church's technical director.

Recently the Church took delivery of a LSC Lighting Systems maXim LP console and are getting ready to purchase a maXim XXLP through LSC's USA dist

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Lighting designer Stevie Marr has worked with the band for two years, and uses Adlib as his lighting supplier because, he says: "The service is excellent, they have the right attitude and the crew are always great - it's crew that really make a tour at the end of the day!"

For this stretch of the tour, he wanted all lighting sources to be at a low level, to give an edgy look that reflected the band's increasingly raw and harsh style of playing and their relentless energy. He also wanted them to be seen at all times, and so opted for an 'almost-floor' based rig, with a front truss used solely to provide key lighting positions.

The visually dom

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Each of these seminars lasted one day. Both were opened by Lothar Weimann the head of D.A.S. Audio Deutschland, who gave a presentation of the firm via the corporate video. Joan La Roda, D.A.S. audio engineer provided the attendees with the presentation "How line array work" which explains the line array theory and expands into the technical characteristics and applications of such systems. This was followed by a presenta

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Lighting designer/director Jason Cain (who also handled video operation duties) specified 20 Alpha Spot HPE 1200 luminaries for his lighting rig. "I chose the Alpha Line because of their light weight and bright output," Cain explains. "It was also nice to have two rotating gobo wheels, and the fixed wheel as well. I was able to achieve multi-layering of the gobos to produce different lighting effects."

The Clay Paky Alpha Spots were put into a moving light pre-rig that was built by Xtreme Structures. Any concerns Cain had about the lights' magnetic wheels holding

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HSL's production manager Mike Oates comments: "We've been looking at serious high powered search lights for some time now, and both myself and Howard Dean have watched the A&O Lighting brand develop in Europe with interest. When Nick first mentioned he wanted to use them on the tour I was straight on to Marco Niedermeier [MD of A&O] to see if the units where available, which luckily they were! It was a pleasure to work with Nick, Phil and Neil from Electric Fly on this tour - from a suppliers point of view, they makes things very simple."

The influential Glasgow "post rock" band have been on a world tour since the start of

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Working for communications agency, Cricket, to a high-class design from James Grey Design, the team at Stage One transformed the room. The work included trimming and cladding existing bookshelves and producing a number of graphic panels, which were then inserted amongst them. Several false walls were built, one to house two 50 inch plasma screens and one to create aproduction control room, both of which required trim detail, skirting etc. Finally a cable trough was built to run between the two new walls, which was designed to blend in with the existing hotel walls.

Ted Featonby, Stage One project

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Lighting designer James Campbell was given the task of lighting the new series: "The brief was to recognise and produce the traditional Mastermind look, with a suggestion of different architecture, like the different locations they used in the original series."

The Lighting rig is made up of 20 MAC 500s and one Stage Zoom 1200.

"The central image to the show is the iconic chair, where I use an intense arrangement of moving lights (the MAC 500s). The background is kept black with the multi-dimensional beams in striking shades of blue."

By Campbell's own admis

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Multi-purpose in use, promedia mms runs Que Pasa's bespoke music and music video profile and controls all aspects of the sites entertainment offer be it scheduling on-screen graphics, programming lighting effects, controlling what is seen on each screen, and adjusting the audio presets throughout the trading week. And in addition to this, promedia mms ably assists the on-site DJ with its integral fully featured touch-screen DJ console.

As well as supplying the promedia mms system, tsg specified and installed a robust screen and lighting system and also tweaked and brought up to date the existing audio system

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"We used evolution series e935s on all the vocals, including our guests, Lou Reed and Billy Gibbons," says Neil Heal, monitor engineer for The Raconteurs. Reed made an appearance with the band early in the show performing the 1967 Velvet Underground classic, 'White Light/White Heat'. Later, The Raconteurs were joined by ZZ Top's Gibbons for a rendition of his band's 'Cheap Sunglasses', an

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Terry Nelson joined IBC Technical Resources eight years ago and works closely with the Audio Technical Coordinator, Tim Kerr, specifying systems for the rooms and acoustic consultation. Together they are responsible for the set up of the rooms and the final tuning o

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Having been a preferred supplier of audio-visual services to the award-winning Brewery for the past seven years, the London event services company PSL was the ideal candidate to handle the design and installation of new production facilities. "PSL is familiar with the building, and we're very comfortable with PSL," says Lawson. "They've led the design process throughout but we've been closely involved, especially when it came to the replacement of the sound system."

The Brewery has worked closely with PSL and the Corporation of London on

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For the evening line-up of DJs at the Grosser Stern, a number of conditions had to be met. At the Column, the organisers wanted powerful 360° sound coverage, evenly dispersed but without exceeding the pre-determined volume limit of 105dB(A). As the view from the Victory Column to both the east and the west was to be as unrestricted as possible, the structures needed for mounting the loudspeakers had to be kept very simple.

For the DJ stages at the east and west sides, a higher level of amplification was planned, which was to be integrated into the overall sound reinforc

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The History Boys, a multi award winning play by English playwright Alan Bennett, originally opened two years ago at the Lyttelton. After touring the UK, and then internationally, it enjoyed a successful run on Broadway earlier this year. Another UK tour kicked off this past August - this time with Martin's tungsten halogen wash as an important element of the rig. The History Boys will play at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End before the TW1s settle into the Lyttelton.

Simon Fraulo, chief lighting technician at the National Theatre, reproduced the lighting for the tour, making adjustments to lightin

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The consoles were applied to control conventional fixtures as well as moving lights and are ready to integrate video at a later stage. William Ng of City Harvest church points out: "I got to know grandMA in the US. The possibilities and the powerful performance were very impressive. Back home the recommendation of Desisti Asia, which offered comprehensive project support, and their after-sales service convinced us to invest in MA technology."

City Harvest Church serves as the centre

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Providing facilities for some six studios, 16 Edit suites, graphics and content managers, Master Control is the hub of the ITN operation. As a live news broadcaster, ITN takes feeds from numerous OBs every day, and an essential part of their intercom requirement was a system to route incoming and outgoing lines at the touch of a button. The new TELEX ARP (Audio Routing Panel) developed for ITN achieves this, allowing fast switching with visual confirmation and reverse interrogation of routes throughout the complex.

Paul Flook Head of Broadcast Engineering ITN explained: "We

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Blige is a longtime user of the hybrid handheld microphone that combines a Neumann KK 105-S capsule with a Sennheiser SKM 5000-N transmitter. According to monitor engineer Ramon Morales, for this tour Blige has the Neumann capsule paired with the new nickel finish Sennheiser SKM 5200 handheld, which offers a redesigned user interface, mechanics and electronics compared to the previous model.

"The supercardioid 105 capsule is not for everyone," n