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Walmsley, renowned for his previous production designs for Pop Idol in the UK, turned to California-based Sweetwater Video to supply all video equipment for the show, including the 340 panels of Element Labs Stealth LED displays used to grace the stage during the finals in the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Stealth panels, configured to form four strips upstage centre and additional strips above and below the main LED screen, allowed Walmsley to create a design in which video and lighting integrated seamlessly within the overall set design.

"The Nokia Theater has an enormous stage that requires a significant volume of equip

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"Our appointment as the DPA representative means a lot for AMTEC, because we had been actively searching for a high quality, reliable microphone range which we can sell into our different market sectors," says Martinez. "With DPA we've found all of this, plus their desire to support us in introducing their products to Mexico."

AMTEC has got off to a flying start, selling 48 DPA 4063 miniature omni-directional mics to Azteca Digital (TV Azteca), which has already placed an order for another 50.

"When we met Andrés we immediately felt that we had found the right partner," says DPA f

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The UFC tours four British cities, taking its brand of mixed martial arts to the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle and the MEN Arena in Manchester. London's O2 Arena is the biggest tournament on the UFC's British itinerary. It can accommodate 18,000 fight fans, most of which have been introduced to the sport by the UFC Series broadcast on cable TV from the USA. An essential element in the arena presentation of the event is the giant screen, which allows the audience to follow closely the action and characters such as The Irish Hand Grenade, El Conquistador, The Hitman and Hands of Steel.

Although the sightlines in the O2 Arena are excellent, especially in this in-the-round conf

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The centrepiece of Prostt D.o.o.'s concept was an extensive Electro-Voice XLD system comprising 16 XLD281, four XS212, and four Xsub enclosures that delivered powerful, transparent sound while Electro-Voice CP2200, CP3000 and TG-5 amplifiers supplied the requisite power.

"The XLD system makes it all easy," says Marko Pigac of Prostt D.o.o. "It delivers excellent sound and is delightfully uncomplicated to transport and rig. As a result, the Marquess show went like a dream. No stress whatsoever - and heaps of praise for the sound quality. What more could you wish for?"

(Jim Evans)

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"I have always been an avid Allen & Heath user and find the desks excellent value for money. My first mixer was a GL4 and there is an ML5000 VCA console installed at the church," says H. T. Kim, executive mixing engineer at the Juan Presbyterian Church.

"Some engineers I know are still concerned about the stability of digital mixers and I was one of them before I touched iLive. By the first day of the show I had complete confidence in iLive and it is surprisingly intuitive for a digital system. One of the key benefits of going digital is the scene memory and recall function, which saves a lot of set up time as you can recall settings from the previous night's performance."

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All lighting for the Jazz World stage was supplied by Essex-based DPL for the second year running, with 12 Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs and six Robe ColorWash 2500E AT's taking centre stage for DPL director Pete Watts' design.

DPL installed a trussing grid underneath Jazz World's 18m Serious Stages Orbit roof, and the moving lights were arranged across that, together with a selection of generics and 42sq.m of ChromaQ ColorWeb LED as a backdrop and around the sides of stage.

Three Robe 8-lite LEDBlinder 196 LT fixtures were also rigged on top of the PA towers for audience illumination.

It was the first time that Watts had used the ColorWash 2500E ATs for one of his designs, which he describes as "Ludicrously bright" and very reliable.

On the front truss they replaced all the PARs that he'd us

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Soloist Camilla Tilling, in the role of the angel, had to descend from heaven, with her vocals captured clearly by chief broadcast sound engineer Rob Heerschop from BFN - without showing the microphone. Heerschop asked DPA's Dutch distributor Amptec if he could try out the 4017 and found the results to be so good that BFM ordered the shotgun right away.

The 4017 was mounted in two different positions during the production. The first was on a stand in the middle of the orchestra, aimed at the angel 10m above. "The microphone was in the middle of a large woodwind section but this had hardly any effect on the angel's voice, which was open

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The centerpiece is the Car Distribution Centre with its two glass-encased car towers, or silos - the landmark of the Autostadt - each rising 52m into the sky. Used as storage for new Volkswagens, the two towers are connected to the Volkswagen factory by a 700m underground tunnel.

Thomas Wlocka, project manager of Technical Event Management at Autostadt, who was also responsible for the li

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Lighting design/production company Stage-Tech used 36 X-Panel Frame Systems linked together to create the video display. The X-Panel is a lightweight 8.3" square panel with 25 high-intensity RGB LEDs that can be used in multiples to produce video, graphics, text, animated cartoons, or any combination. Each X-Panel Frame System consists of a 3' x 4' flying frame with 12 X-Panels and an Acclaim X-PD-150 power supply pre-mounted to it.

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Conceived as an acknowledgement of Bob Stanton's founding of the innovative Two Year Stage Management & Technical Theatre course at LAMDA in 1965, the bursary was originally launched as a celebration of Bob's 85th birthday. Stanton was a legendary British stage manager and honorary LAMDA fellow who was instrumental in helping Theatre Projects' founder and chairman emeritus, Richard Pilbrow, to start up his early career and then establish Theatre Projects.

Stanton became a consultant to Theatre Projects and was the original director of the pioneering Two Year Stage Management & Technical Theatre cours

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Along with more breathing room, their new address (4301A Lindbergh Drive, Addison, TX 75001) offers several notable amenities. According to president Kelly Sticksel: "We're very excited to move into this new building. With dedicated R & D space for our special effects department, we can better push the edge of the envelope - without one technician pushing it into the workspace of another one."

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XL's project manager Paul Wood comments: "This is the first time XL has been involved with this event. It was great to be involved with creative projects such as this, and it's good to see artists incorporating and experimenting with video in inventive ways."

Staged at The Queen's House next to Greenwich Maritime Museum, Runtold the history of running, with the help of dancing, choreography, music and HD video.

XL supplied four Barco FLM HDR18 projectors, two Doremi HD video hard drives a

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"We had other desks and needed an upgrade so we acquired three grandMAs, one of them a replay unit, and four MA NSPs as our house lighting control system," reports Wolf Trap's head electrician Henry Parks. "Performances here start at the end of May, and we do approximately 100 different shows until mid-September. Basically, we have a large conventional rig with lots of Color Faders and SeaChangers; we have around 1,500 conventional fixtures and about 40 multi

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Commenting on the company's expansion, managing director Mark Beaver said: "We have excellent relationships with the industry's top sound and video suppliers and we will continue to partner with them on our larger projects. More of our clients are taking their events to full production level, needing a much wider range of services, so it makes sense that we have the skills and equipment under one roof to offer a more efficient, integrated solution where possible."

The AV team is headed by Jamie Corteen, former director of 2 Bit TV, a live video performance and events production company. Corteen is supported by AV production designer Jonny Stewart, formerly Head of Vide

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Having just got back from filming The Champions League in Moscow, Spidercam was brought in by Splinter Films, specialists in music and live events, to cover the massive concerts. Both nights' shows were filmed and the result was ready for cinema release at the end of the month, and will also be available for MSN broadcast and on Blu-ray DVD.

The stage design which included a B-stage that wrapped round the front of house control position was joined to the main open stage by a thrust walkway that ran almost the length of the pitch. This extensive performance area called for a different approach to filming and Spidercam provided full 360 degr

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The conference system was installed in five different rooms inside the Palace of Parliament building. The spacious Unirii Hall was used as the main conference room, accommodating 65 delegates, around 200 listeners and 46 interpreters with 24 interpreter booths (each with two or three interpreters).

The main racking system serving the Unirii Hall comprises two DCN Next Generation central control units, two audio expanders to provide recording for different audio channels (for local and European Broadcast Union recording), a

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Wolfango De Amicis, director of Agora, says: "With the addition of Kudo - LA8 to our rental inventory, we have now a very flexible system that can be used one day in a concert and the next day at a major outdoor event, in complement to the V-Dosc system or alone. Vittorio De Amicis, my brother, Daniele Tramontani, L-Acoustics CVE, and myself have been pleased by the sound quality that Kudo - LA8 deliver, and impressed by the LA8 presets. The digital amps g

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"Part of what we do at Mick Anderson Consulting is to give clarity of vision. Sometimes, when you're deep in the middle of something, it's very difficult to have the time more than anything else to stand back and say 'where are we going?," says Anderson.

"For DiGiCo, this comes under the heading of international business development. These skills are nothing that DiGiCo doesn't already have, but the company is growing very fast, so they're doing exactly the right thing: where they require a little expert help, they're bringing it in from the outside. We have a lot of contacts, we know the markets, we know the product categories well and therefore we can come in fast with help and information."

"It's nice to have someone who knows the industry well, who I've known for a long time and w

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Successful installation and rental company Arpege proposed a solution which they felt would provide a versatility and ease of use that the in-house engineers were seeking. For the Arpege team, this venue of 1200 seats presented many intricacies; with 150 events already announced for the coming year, the theatre required a system that would be versatile enough to handle all the different types of events as well as manage the challenging acoustics of

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The new premises boasts a technologically sophisticated AV system including three Innovasaon digital consoles on an EtherSound network connected to a PC equipped with an LX4646ES soundcard from Digigram for digital multitrack recording.

According to NBSMC's technical director, David Patrick, the idea from the beginning was to go digital. "For a large multifunction installation like ours, the practical and economic advantages offered by a digital system are too numerous to ignore," he noted.

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The distinct cylindrical Grade II Listed 266 ft tall high rise tower was designed by James A Roberts and originally completed in 1965 as a 25 storey office block. Last month, it was re-opened as a high profile residential development featuring 232 luxury apartments and a complete makeover by designers Urban Splash and architects Glen Howels.

London-based Mindseye Lighting was asked to come up with a dynamic eye-catching feature for the entrance to bring life, personality and vitality into the space. They contacted PID following a referral from LED manufacturer Element Labs as

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Recorded in Granada's Starlight Theatre space and aired between midnight and 1 a.m. on ITV1, the series features a set designed by Julian Healey, with lighting designed by Neil Yates. It has kicked off with a selection of celebrity presenters including Melinda Messenger, Michael Underwood and Nichola Dixon.

Lighting has been co-ordinated by Taras Kochan who also programmed and is operating the console for the show and HSL's TV project manager, Sean McGlone.

HSL's kit on the show includes 24 JTE PixelPAR 90s and 18 PixelPAR 87s, all of which are used for various set dressing effects, plus 90 ChromaQ dB4 LED modules. These are used for up-lighting 'Bingo Central', a fu

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The newly established Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. The specially-designed building contains cutting edge technology and industry-standard studios. At the heart of the School's eight recording studios sit two Audient consoles: an ASP8024 and the ACS8024.

"Our experience with the first Audient desk purchased in 2003 has been so good that another Audient was the obvious choice for our expanded facilities: this time a 36-channel A

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Located in Union Street, Plymouth's main club district, 45 Degrees is a bar and club with four different zones - a front bar, rear bar, dance floor and VIP room. The responsibility of creating easily controllable audio in all four zones fell to installation company Clockwork Audio.

"Basically we needed to find a good control system for the four different zones," says director Dave Monk from Clockwork Audio. "We needed a high-quality, reliable DSP unit to control it all. They needed a remote control unit as well, so we put an SR4 remote panel behind the bar."

"The owners at 45 Degrees didn't know what type of equipment they wanted," adds Director Zhev Liber