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Allen & Heath, Avolites, ETC, Le Maitre, Lee, MA Lighting, Martin, Pulsar, RCF, Roland, Rosco, Selecon, Sennheiser, Strand, Yamaha & Zero 88 will be exhibiting their latest products, offering demonstrations and providing product advice.

Other products on display include Qmaxz Moving Lights, the Xenonspot follow spot, Altair wireless intercom system, Apollo Right Arm and an array of products from Edirol. PLASA will be joining the event this year. PLASA and representatives will be there to answer questions and to discuss the benefits of membership.

New to this year's show are three Training Taster Sessions, which aim to give an insight into the industry training Stage Electrics offers. Training sessions include Worki

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Founded in 1975 by industry veteran Joe Martin, JMS Marketing is an established service-oriented rep firm. JMS will represent Community in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and most of Texas, with Martin based in the company's main offices in Austin, and sales Representatives Mick Anderson, John McDowell, Brad Sellars and Brian Hays covering the field.

"We're very pleased to welcome JMS Marketing as our new sales representative," remarked Rod Falconer, Community's regional manager in the Western US and Canada. "Their reputation as an established and accomplished sales team is a perfect fit with Community's continued growth and expansion as an industry leader."

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"The church is undergoing a transformation to meet the needs of a media savvy generation," says Michael Drainer of Drainer Albright & Associates. "The iLive system has exceeded CBC's expectations and has been the perfect solution because of its superior user friendliness, flexibility, and functionality."

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Located on the Kei Myung University's Seongseo campus in Daegu, the Kei Myung Artcenter has a 1900-capacity auditorium, acting principally as a music and performing arts student facility, as well as hosting a variety of medium and large-scale visiting productions. Involving a total investment of some US $80m, the project commenced in January 2005, and has been operational since February this year.

Following the gala opening, the first major production will be the Korean musical The Last Empress, featuring lyrics by In Ja Yang, music by Hui Gap Kim, and sound design by the celebrated local sound director, Ki Young Kim. The musical Mamma Mia! is also scheduled to run towa

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The show is renowned for its visuals - created by Adam Smith and stored and played back via a Catalyst digital media server.

Digital media specialists Projected Image Digital (PID) spoke to the Chemical Bros 2008 tour show programmer Matthew Button about his media server of choice. He sought a lightweight, fully portable solution for visuals storage and playback. Both he and lighting tech Toby Dennis invested in Mac Book Pros to which they fitted the latest 32Gb Mtron 2.5 inch solid state hard drives and installed the latest version of Catalyst. The Mtron is turbo-charged to give super-quick video access time.

The visuals show was originally programmed on a

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A total of 408 teams of six took part, with each team member running 1.7 miles. The Prism Sound team gave themselves the challenge of finishing in the top half of the field and they succeeded with a position of 171 and a time of 1:15:43, which averages out at just under 7.5 minutes per mile.

Prism Sound's sales and marketing manager Jody Thorne says: "We were really pleased with our time and are looking forward to bettering it next year. Our thanks go to everyone who sponsored us - and to Prism Sound for paying our registration fees."

The recipients of the

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Stage Electrics has supplied a selection of moving lights to the production including 14 Vari-Lite VL1000TS Units and six Martin Professional MAC TW1 80v Units. A further 100+ generic lanterns have been provided along with control from a Strand 520I Console. The lighting designer is Jason Taylor who is joined by programmer John Tapste

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Joe's autobiography is an interesting and amusing account of life as an electrical engineer, lighting equipment innovator and author. His story takes us through his childhood in London during the Second World War, his training as a bound apprentice, followed by an account of his time spent in North Africa during his National Service in the 1950s.

Most significantly, he describes his life-long experiences as a designer of entertainment lighting equipment for Mole Richardson, Berkey Colortran, Rank Strand and Lee Lighting.

Joe's easy-flowing, light-hearted style provides us with a look behind the lights of fi

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"The show was a bit like live TV with eight acts performing a couple of songs each during the evening without any change over time at all really. Not many digital consoles can cope with that type of challenge but the Si3 worked really well. I found that you can use so many different functions at the same time to be very useful. Having control of EQ, dynamics, bus sends and effects without having to reassign anything was great."

The Si3 is Soundcraft's latest 'mid range' addition to its growing digital family. It follows the Studer Vista 5 SR (Tours including:

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Founded in 1966 by Stephen Arlen, then managing director of Sadler's Wells Opera, and Margaret 'Percy' Harris, then the company's resident designer, the course was first known as the Sadler's Well Design Course. The course subsequently became the Theatre Design Course of the English National Opera until 1981, and after some time at the Riverside Studios, the Almeida Theatre and the Royal National Theatre Studio, the course acquired the name Motley and took up residence at its present home, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Every year the course selects up to 12 postgraduate-level students who wish to specialise in theatre design. The one-year course is project based, featuring five or

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Featuring tank and armoured vehicle displays, simulated combat and occasional performances by the Light Cavalry Band, the new visitor attraction stages up to three shows a day in the April to September season. For the audience in the public viewing area, EV's weatherproof SX300 and ZX1 loudspeakers deliver a realistic, almost interactive sound experience.

Simon White, installation manager for CPS, has been involv

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Reading and Leeds festivals take place over the three-day August bank holiday weekend. All the acts that play at one site perform at the other on a different day of the weekend. And while the acts playing on the Festival Republic, BBC Introducing and Alternative stages may not have quite the global pulling-power of those on the biggest stages, the sheer amount of different performers make them an essential stopping point for festival goers.

At both Reading and Leeds sites ESS sup

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The University of Derby approached A.C. Rigging for a solution to improve students' hands-on experience in this specialised field of entertainment technology.

Specified by A.C. Rigging sales executive, Paul Hadfield, the university opted for a powered rigging system to add to its existing manual version. Hadfield states, "It was felt that the electrical system would better equip students with the experience and knowledge current in today's market, which they would ultimately be entering into. The University of Derby is renowned for providing highly qualified and highly sought after graduates to our industry and A.C. is proud to be associated with a

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The Green issues will be debated by a panel of speakers that includes Fred Foster, CEO of ETC; at the other end of the spectrum Alex Wardle of Arup venue consulting will be taking a backward look to stage lighting in 1750, when the bleached beeswax candle was cutting edge, as he discusses how he re-created the feel of a candle-lit stage without actually using a naked flame.

The venue for 2009's Showlight is BBC Scotland's new state of the art headquarters, which boasts the latest broadcast technology. It is the biggest TV recording space to be bu

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Southern operations manager Chris Hollands says: "AP's remit on this occasion was to look after the public and we had a total of 80 staff on site to do that. We were also working with another company - the stars often bring their own staff with them - so we had to liaise with them. We're happy to work with anyone as long as they'll work with us and these guys were brilliant. They gave us all the information we needed and we passed our info to them, so everything went very smoothly."

(Jim Evans)

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Robe's Ecuadorian distributor Prisma, also based in Quito, worked with several other companies to supply the technology needed for La Alameda's new-look water park, which has now been revitalised with a waterscreen and nightly lightshow designed by Alberto Borja.

The screen is 12m wide and 6m high. Three 20-minute multimedia shows run every Friday and Saturday night and the waterscreen is also used for special events.

A central control room is located in the middle of the fountains with control for all the technical elements which include water pumps and valves, movi

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Comprising the iDR10 mix rack loaded with 48 inputs and 16 outputs and an iLive-144 control surface, the system managed FOH and monitor sound for the four-piece band.

"The iLive digital mixer was easy to use, intuitive, and provided direct and quick access to all functions, which makes it a great system for live use," comments FOH operator, Christian Jesus Montenegro Giraldo. "The PA company offered us various EQ and compressor units, but iLive already has dynamics processors built in, which is a huge advantage."

In addition to the main mix, in-ear and wedge monitor mixes were controlled from FOH, and iLive was complemented by EAW speaker systems and Crest Audio ampl

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The sound reinforcement system was required to cover the entire outdoor venue, using temporary staging and ground-support structures. LP Unlimited Productions worked together with JBL's distributor for South Africa, Wild+Marr, to plan for rental-system expansion with new JBL Vertec line array system components. The technical production team evaluated the stadium architecture and advance audience-area plans, relying upon JBL's Line Array Calculator software tool for system configuration decisions. It was decided to employ a total of 28 VT4889-1 full-size line array elements, 3

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"The VLX3 arrays fly very easily and, with external amps, the load-in was a lot easier," says Grant Stramel, Sure Sound's lead system engineer. "Last year we used the self-powered Renkus-Heinz STLA/9 line array. But, with the type of weather we get here in Sturgis, when it rains it's a major advantage to simply throw a tarpaulin over a rack of amps than climb the array an

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Mid-July saw the company providing sound reinforcement for many elements of the annual Loveparade festival which all-but consumes the city of Dortmund each year.

As well as a wide array of Aspect, NuQ and TSW cabinets featuring on a range of the colourful (and noisy) floats which form the event's centrepiece, the company deployed a major Flex Array rig at Circle of Love, one of the many outdoor stages which also feature at Loveparade.

Featuring performances by Moby, Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin and other high profile DJs, the system comprised nine flown Flex Array cabinets and 12 ground-stacked TA-880L per side.

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The RTS system was chosen to replace the previous talkback system used by Broadcasting House. It has to work with an existing four-wire router (not RTS), accepting inputs from that device and sending back inputs, in addition to connecting to the RTS intercom panels, in addition to third-party audio monitoring boxes and headphone points.

The RTS intercom was specified and installed by a BBC Wales team headed by broadcast engineer David Carnaby, as a separate 'mini-project' r

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Aberdeen Performing Arts has been investing in new equipment for its first ever touring production. Sunset Song is a seven-week tour directed by Kenny Ireland. They approached A.C. Audio with a requirement for a new, completely transportable and robust radio microphone solution that would be put to use at all venues they tour throughout Scotland in the coming months.

A.C. Audio sales manager Peter Butler commented on the system selection "It was very important to provide the best wireless system possible. After some discussion with Alan Campbell head of operations at A.P.A. we decided on Audio-Technica Artist Elite 5000 Series. Having recently tested the lapel system myself I knew it would be ideal. Design

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Ibiza Rocks 2008 - promoted by Andy McKay and production managed by Mike Darling - was staged at two 1500 capacity outdoor venues - the Ibiza Rocks Hotel in San Antonio and The Hipódromo de San Rafel in Sant Rafel de sa Creu. It featured a host of international artists including The Enemy, Dizzee Rascal, The Streets, Soulwax, Pendulum and many others.

The sound system was spec'd by Adlib's Andy Dockerty and built and commissioned on site by engineer Declan Fyans who stayed out for the duration of the four-month season which is just drawing to a close.

The biggest and most important challenge for the sound system was durability.

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Summit's Jay Call has co-ordinated the project from its Kent HQ, liaising closely with the touring crew including head rigger Gabe Wood and production manager Craig Finlay.

The supply includes a 26 way Kinesys variable speed automation system with K2 control and a 10-way Kinesys fixed speed automation system with Vector control; 46 1 tonne CM Lodestar hoists and eight half tonnes for lighting and scenic rigging, along with a further two 2 tonne and twenty 1 tonne hoists for the PA hangs and 76 cm and 52 cm JTE trussing.

Twenty-two of the 26 Kinesys vari-speed motors (being run in conjunction with Kinesys Elevation 1+ control units) are being used to automate a series of 'wave' trusses - four individ