John Wiseman, President of XL, says: "I've been watching from afar as the TSO phenomenon continues to explode onto the scene. From a few theatre dates to two simultaneous sold-out arena tours. When the chance came up to support the design for Brian Hartley, and support Craig Redden at Q-1, we jumped at it. This tour(s) will do nothing but continue to gather steam as it becomes
Adlib has worked on many educational and schools projects over the years, gaining a great reputation for supplying appropriate kit that's practical for students and their teachers to use. The company is renowned for its policy of not over-specifying.
The overall installation project was overseen by Adlib's Roger Kirby. He also drew up the recording studio spec with Mark Burnley, while Adlib's head of lighting Pete Abraham, sorted out the visual elements. The Adlib team worked closely with Sean Back, Maricourt's head of music who also runs the recording stu
Replacing Gary Bradshaw, who piloted the band's European live tour from the front-of-house position this Summer, Woodhead set up the sound on Venue for the band's exclusive concert at Abbey Road Studios (for a Radio 2 taped broadcast), followed by a one-hour live television recording on London's South Bank for the ITV 1 show An Audience With Take That Live! the following week.
In the first ever live An Audience With, Take That performed hits from their back catalogue - including Relight My Fire - and latest single Patience before a host of celebrity guests.
The sound engineer had first been introduced to Digidesign's live sound environment by one of the system's early adopters, award-winning soun
Tempo celebrated with a birthday concert named Tempo Turns One on 4 November, which started at 4 p.m. Saturday and continued well into Sunday morning. Tempo's Founder, senior vice president and general manager, Frederick Morton chose his home island of St. Croix to host the concert, at the Cramer's Park Beach on the east end of the island. The concert was headlined by The Royal Family of Reg
Coordinated by Ibsen 2006 in cooperation with the Egyptian Tourism Authority and the Eqyptian Ministry of Culture, the event featured a large cast plus the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Opera Acapella Choir and singers from The Norwegian National Opera.
For the two 3000-capacity performances, the show's live audio designer Per Ola Holden brought in three DiGiCo consoles to ensure that the complex mixing requirements would be as easy as possible to handle. "I did three research trips down to Egypt, in February, in March and in April," says Per Ola, of DiGiCo's Norwegian
Starring nine celebrities including Eighties pop icon, Steve Strange, actress and Dynasty star, Emma Samms and Right Said Fred frontman, Richard Fairbrass, the show was hosted by Presenter and XFM DJ, Alex Zane.
Lee Stafford - Britain's most creative celebrity hairdresser and his team managed the would-be snippers in the Celebrity Scissor Hands Academy, which was located at the heart of BBC Television Centre. Roll To Record's sound supervisor, Peter Vasey, has deployed Trantec for many years for the brand's reliability and flexibility and ease of operation. For
Nuno Vinhas of Garrett SA, RCF's Portuguese distributor, explained: "We have been working hard with the new TT+ system and have received very good technical coverage from the press. But this was the first time we had an opportunity to show the system live."
The event was done in conjunction with sound rental company Janita Sound using eight TTL33 and two TTS 28S subs. Vinhas again: "Janita Sound had already purchased 10 RCF 4PRO 3002SM monitors which they used at the event. I'm
It kicked off with a lively presentation in the Princess Anna Theatre aimed at raising awareness of the ever-growing convergence of video and lighting technologies in the entertainment world, and how this is filtering into architectural environments and applications.
Chris Barlow from The Creative Mix started with a talk entitled 'Branding Buildings' highlighting some of the many ways in which light can be applied to buildings, structures and spaces of all types in all locations. He included urban regeneration projects and the pos
If you would like to take the arena rigging, theatre rigging, or electrical examination at USITT, please submit your completed application, including all supporting documents and fee, postmarked on or before 1 February, 2007.
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As an independent union BECTU represents those working in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure, interactive media and allied areas. Primarily based in the UK. Featuring as part of the union's on-going services to its members, the course was tailored to their requirements, offering their members application based training.
Designed and presented by Simon Whitehorn for Orbital, 'Sound Fundamentals' dealt specifically with sound systems for theatre and the live entertainment industries. Covering a basic introduction to sound theory, the course was concentrated on giving the delegates as much h
Both the ZonePro and DriveRack product ranges consist of user configurable DSPprocessing engines that are controllable via Harman Pro's proprietary HiQnetprotocol and can be customised to route and process audio for use in a widevariety of environments. The ZonePro range is designed to drive commercial audiosystems typical of retail outlets, art galleries and bars, as well as smallentertainment venues. The professional DriveRack range is aimed at larger toursound or installed venues, and is designed to provide all the professionalprocessing and routing options live sound engineers need to apply between avenue's mixe
Beside the lectures of each manufacturer and product demos, there were also seminars of free-lance lecturers like Dipl. Ing. Matthias Domke about the regulation DIN 15905-5 or Chris Böttger, author of the reference book Praxis des Riggings about the topic "safety aspects for the system choice".
"We are very happy about the optimistic mood we experienced during the info days. The excellent feedback shows us that with the info days for entertainment technology, we have succeeded in crea
Noise Productions managing director Toby Mills says: "The Edge Systemis another incredible example of how Proel continues to deliver cost-effective high performance professional audio solutions. The Edge cabinetsare incredibly sturdy and the quality of their sound reproduction,particularly the top end is stunning. Some people only know Proel as acable or stand manufacturer, however products like the Edge concert seriesreally place them on par with some of the leading concert speakerproviders."
The Edge system was tested in a variety of scenarios ranging from a localvenue with extremely difficult ac
This concept initially came from show designer Willie Williams - with whom XL has also worked on numerous other productions including U2. The eye-catching backdrop flows down onto the stage and beyond via a series of concave and convex curves.
XL worked closely with Barco on the design and engineering of the screen which is the dominant element of the stage set, explains XL project manager Phil Mercer. "It was an ambitious and demanding brief using a new product, and the surface needed to be very high resolution and with seamless joins between each vertical sc
Cinema installation specialist GFD Communications Ltd was responsible for installing sound systems into all 11 theatres and sourced the JBL and Crown units from Harman Pro UK. JBL Professional 3000 Series speakers were used in the smaller theatres, while 4000 Series speakers were installed in the four larger theatres. GFD also installed projectors, screens and automation systems, including computer touch screens to activate the projectors.
For more than 30 years GFD has been providing full design, supply and installation services to cinema owners throughout Ireland and now boasts more than 280 cinema installations to its credit. The
The Joy of Christmas is a two-hour multimedia event. The show includes a variety ofelaborate sets, impressive special effects, and a talented group of actors that complement McBride throughout the performance. The concert features 18 classics, many of which can be found on McBride's White Christmas album.
Lighting design was created by Craig Pierce. Lighting director, John Lucksinger, said that the objective this tour was to set time, place and mood- primarily by basing the lighting design around the video
20 moving head luminaires and 40 scanners from Clay Paky provide lighting for the stage and the lobby of the theatre, together with many other standard projectors, with control from MA Lighting consoles. Both the lighting system and the consoles were supplied by Lightpower of Paderborn, which has been supplying the venue since 1984.
Olaf Eichler, lighting director of the Friedrichstadtpalast, has spoken of this
The Unholy Alliance tour has recently shipped into Europe from the US and sound service provider, Eighth Day Sound elected to send the complete touring package over with them.
Quinby says: "When I was originally asked by management to specify this tour I asked for something else. Eigh
Since Branton doesn't run consoles, he deferred to lighting director and programmer Felix Peralta's choice of the grandMA, a choice that was seconded by lighting director and programmer Kevin Lawson and upheld by Branton himself. "When we do these shows we're caught between two worlds: we need to do something in music TV that looks like a rock concert, but we have to be in total control, constantly editing light levels and programs. More than half of what we do is refining the TV product. The grandM
The donation means that the students studying Entertainment Technology courses can program and manipulate real lighting configurations using current industry standard equipment. "The hands-on training and access to such equipment only enriches the students learning experience ensuring when they leave college they have acquired relevant skills to enter the industry" said Pete Floyd, International Sales Manager from LSC.
The maXim will provide the students with enormous capabilities including: two DMX outputs (1024 slots), up to 378
Accompanying the long-awaited tour is a profusion of Sennheiser and Neumann systems. The microphone choice for Michael is the Sennheiser SKM 5200 fitted with the Neumann KK 104 capsule, and this same mic configuration has been selected for a further six backing vocals. On front-of-house is Gary Bradshaw, and two monitor engineers are in control of the stage mix - John Roden for the band, and Andy Robinson balancing Michael's personal mix.
Robinson says: "It's important that an artist of George's stature feels completely comfortable with their mic. Combining the Neumann capsule with the Sennheiser wireless system has thrust the legendary Neuma
Stockholm-based Spectra Stage & Event Technologies supplied equipment for the show, which includes 90 Par-64, two Syncrolite B-52, 200 Egg Strobes, 3 Data Flash Strobes, 13 Blachiere Christmas decorations, 3 High End Systems F-100 Fog Generators, 96 flood lights, and 12 Color mixing fluorescen
Edvardsen continues: "While having to think differently when installing the boxes, once you get the h
For the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, hosting a reception at the Museo for many distinguished foreign visitors, the challenge was to provide a sound reinforcement for speech and acoustic music, which would service a 70-metre long central space as well as the side chambers.
The solution was the revolutionary wireless So Cube system from Vieta. 16 cubes were deployed, the contents of Vieta's standard fl
