"However, with so much lighting and trussing and a big video screen filling the stage area, space was at a premium. There are only a couple inches' clearance on either side of our video truss when you fly it up. We needed a fixture that would fit into our limited stage spa
The PA system of choice was an 18 dV-Dosc L-Acoustics line source array coupled with SB218 subs and completed by ARCS as fills. The reference floor monitor 115FM was chosen for the stage monitors.
FOH mixing engineer Petr Pelisek stated: "Lucerna is a very complex venue when it comes to acoustics and the dV-Dosc rig proved to be the optimum solution in combination with the choice of digital desks."
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The venue stages a mix of club nights and live performances. "There's something for everyone here," says Cargo's marketing manager Joe Roberts. "We want to appeal to all tastes, from your hard core clubber to those that want to have something to eat and then see a live band. We are now getting the bigger name, more experienced musicians in here, and they wanted a better monitoring system than we originally had. This has been part of the reason we upgraded our system. If you want the best, you need to have the right equipment."
Head of sound, Matt Smith, wh
Guests included leading sound engineers, key rental companies, and dealers, and there was a special appearance by French electro legend, Jean Michel Jarre.
The crowd was entertained by the 8-piece jazz/rock David Koven band, managed by the iLive system at FOH, driving a Turbosound speaker system. Audiopole also installed the new GL2800M dedicated monitor console to handle monitor mixes for the band.
FOH engineer, Patrick Clerc, made use of the two tap delays and reverb from iLive's internal effects, and the system's DCA groups. "I am very impressed with the system's sound quality, particularly the reve
More than 30 companies and 200 people attended the event, staged by the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers at the Park Inn Hotel Watford, to exhibit the latest developments in microphones, loudspeakers, public address, voice alarm, induction loop systems, conference systems, intercoms and voice over IP.
The informative seminar programme on 27 February included topics as varied as designing church sound systems, co-operation between universities and industry and even how a major contract was won, but somehow all went wrong.
One seminar, given by Alan March of Shure Distribution UK, proved a big topic of discussion. His talk, entitled The great TV spectrum sell-off<
The purpose built 3,500sq.m headquarters, just a few miles from Bucharest's Otopeni International Airport, is divided into offices and warehouses. The space enables Paradigma Group to maintain large rental stocks of audio, lighting, video and staging equipment, to provide professional servicing and training facilities, as well as housing the group's sales company including a showroom and maintenance department.
Paradigma Group is a joint venture between Ampco Flashlight Holding BV of Holland and AEI Broadcast Concept, one of the leading facilities companies in R
The contest itself is progressing; the names of the twenty bands that have been chosen to go through to the next stage of the contest have been declared. The next stage in the competition, which is also open as of now is the Vote-off, during which the shortlisted bands will be whittled down to the three that will take part in the final at Koko in April,
.The Unsigned Heroes competition is designed to find the best as-yet unsigned band in the UK and Eire, and will offer the winning band a range of prizes, including a recording session with a name producer, PA equipment worth over £10,000 and the chance to play at a major summer festival. The con
The established repertoire of Meyer Sound loudspeakers for theatre sound will also be on display, including the M'elodie ultra-compact high power curvilinear array. Other models shown on the booth will include the versatile UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeaker, the palm-sized MM-4 miniature wide-range loudspeaker, the potent M1D ultra-compact subwoofer, and the UPM-1P ultra-compact wide coverage loudspeaker.
Additional UPJ-1P loudspeakers provided by Meyer Sound can be heard in action at the ESTA
A variety of cases were required by Think to house all aspects of their equipment. Audio kit included Soundcraft GB consoles and Sennheiser radio mic racks; on the lighting side they needed trunks for ETC Source Four Zoom fixtures and there were also several Christie LX video projectors needing cases.
The case types were selected from 5 Star's Lite-Flite range, through to the popular Super Tour - all of which were supplied in a smart green high-pressure laminate (HPL), incorporating the Think AV logo, screen printed in-house at 5 Star. Various 19" rack systems were also supplied by 5 Star for out
A new, lively, user friendly interface presents the ADB range in product families, with colour photography throughout, and introduces a 'search by market' feature that allows viewers to view products from all product families that are relevant to either television, rental, theatre or architectural applications.
Other new or redesgined features include the information request and downloads areas, trade show information, subscription to email based news and ADB's Insight newsletter, and a secure distributors' area.
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Bryan Ferry is performing songs from his new Dylanesque album, plus a few carefully selected classic Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music blockbusters. Ferry, a former fine art student, has some very clear ideas on visuals himself and is good at communicating these. Together, Ferry and Feast decided to make the show look totally different from a Roxy Music gig, keeping it moody, mysterious and with a definite 'sense of the unknown'.
On the first UK leg of the tour, they are playing concert halls and theatres. With no production rehearsals, j
About 5,000 guests regularly attend Browns Bridge Community Church, which opened in October 2006. As with Buckhead Church in nearby Buckhead, Ga., an impressive, high-definition video presentation featuring senior pastor Andy Stanley's sermons highlights the church's Sunday morning programming. The recently installed Meyer Sound system ensures that everyone in the audience hears the inspirational messages with unquestionable intelligibility.
The loudspeaker system in the 2,100-seat main sanctuary is comprised of 26 self-powered M'elodie boxes configured in two arrays. "M'elodie was
The diverse rig allows Tomlinson to produce big theatrical effects, injecting visual creativity to the various characters that Mika brings to life during his shows. The Micros form an arch at the back of the stage and their high powered effects complemented the 1044s.
Tomlinson comments: "The Micros hold their own against the 1044s, I was very impressed and hopefully on the next tour we will introduce a media server. I'm pleased PixelLines are now available in different sizes, as it allows more flexibility in the rig - particularly when we are touring venues of different sizes."
All the lighting is supplie
In total, three screens were used for the videos - one screen measured 12m x 2.5m and two screens for back-projection. Pinna relates: "The aim was to create a multimedia show based on animations, video effects and projections with the possibility to interact with special Deutsche Bank content, backgr
According to Plimsoll, which has 16,000 customers worldwide who rely on its regular reports on the market, price deflation is hitting the bigger companies where it hurts - in their pockets. It started with air travel, moved to electrical goods, used cars and even insurance. And now it has arrived in the sound equipment industry.
14 of the top 50 firms are losing money, while 27 are making less profit than last year. Salaries alone at the top 50 companies eat up 19% of sales.
A parallel marketing campaign, to stimulate both online and offline sales, will include promotion of Audio-Technica headphones via the three major internet search engines, and advertising in the press and on the London Underground.
Commenting on the launch of the website, Harvey Roberts senior UK marketing manager Audio-Technica, said: "It is important to our growth strategy that we increase our share of
The new restaurant, above last year's much-vaunted Tamarai, completes restaurant entrepreneur Rohit Khattar's mission to combine a restaurant, 5.1 cinema, dance venue, art gallery and corporate entertainment under one roof.
The Sound Division Group was commissioned to install the complex system requirements by the restaurant's parent company Old World Hospitality. The company arrived on site in 2005, soon after Rohit Khattar purchased the former Millennium Club with a view to providing an extravagant sister operation in Lo
At the Product Resource Centre users will find comprehensive information on Martin products such as features and description; press releases, including product news and associated case stories; videos and images; brochures and leaflets; other marketing material such as screensavers; technical data, including in-depth specifications, user manuals, instruction not
Recolight will "seek to establish an efficient and cost effective process for recycling end-of-life lamps and related equipment, which is fully compliant with the Regulations. This will involve supporting and facilitating the development of a national network of collection points for end-of-life products and arranging contracts for the collection and recycling of such p
Chris Hill, director of Wigwam Acoustics, says: "We'll be using Van Damme cables for microphones, speakers and mains because they are tough enough to withstand the rigours of a tour of this size. The brand is well established and we know from many years experience that its products can be trusted to deliver great results."
Over the years, Wigwam Acoustics has provided its expertise to many high profile artistes and events touring Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and the Eastern Block. Recent tour contracts have included Westlife, Radiohead, Prince, Eminem, Björk, Blue, Moby, Ronan Keating and Barry Manilow, as well as George Michael's
Amos has been designing shows for Hurtwood House for several years, working with resident director Miles Russell and guest West End choreographers to create. This year, the designer decided to try a different approach to the show. "I persuaded Miles that rather than using the theatre in its standard end-on format, we should do the show side-on, using the full width of the theatre," he explains.
"This presented the production with many challenges in terms of audience seating, which had to be built from scratch, and the close proximity of the band to the audience. Luckily they have a great sound team at H
"We had a day to rehearse, then it was all hands to the pump to make sure everything went smoothly on the night," Summerhayes says. "It was a great show with plenty of full-on rock bands, which is what we enjoy. The only tricky part of the evening was recording Jarvis Cocker and The Gossip singer Beth Ditto's electric acoustic set, which involved a few more mics and inputs than we had expected, but it all went well and the broadcast audio was delivered to E4 via CTV, which was handling the pictures."
Rock group Muse took the award
Commenting on the decision to add Audica to its portfolio, Ennio Prase says, "With every conceivable type of loudspeaker available in the market, it was difficult to imagine that anything new could be radically different - but Audica is just that. With MICROseries, Audica has designed a system with such style and innovation that it is a real advance, and that is a great compliment to their design capability.
Audica Professional's Derek West adds: "I have always regarded Prase Engineering as a reference distributor, for their integrity, ability and technical standards. With such an appreciatio
"But New Covenant had a very sharp tech team," Stanford continued. "They knew exactly what they wanted in the way of fidelity. Pastor Billy Johnson is an amazing musician with an extraordinary voice. When we brought our first demo over, he asked us to turn it off so that he could play keyboard through the system. That was the real test."
The challenge for Stanford was to deliver 105
