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The four-hour session included the presentation Line Arrays: How they work, focusing on the technical features and applications of line array systems, as well as an explanation about subwoofer characteristics and configuration entitled Subwoofer Configurations and Time Alignment.

Eduardo Lopez, sales & marketing for D.A.S. Audio Asia joined Joan La Roda at this international event. With its strong practical flavour, the seminar also featured an explanation about how to take high precision acoustic measurements using two programmes designed specifically for this purpose, namely SATLive and Smaart Live.

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The brief was to provide a window display system visible to pedestrians passing by Oxford Street. The screen incorporated content prior to the launch of abstract images of models on a catwalk with text announcing the countdown to the launch. After the launch, the screen was used to show edited footage of the product being displayed on the catwalk at London Fashion Week.

Using a traditional display system such as plasma or LCD screen in a street-facing shop window would dramatically affect the screen visibility due to the high ambient light conditions. The solution provided by SPS was to use a high brightness indoor/outdoor Barco Dlite 7 LED display with a screen size of 2688m

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The installation covered several areas including the main indoor arena and associated warm-up area as well as the main outdoor arena and its associated warm-up area. The areas to be covered were extensive and there were several logistical difficulties to overcome, but eventually the consultants and engineers agreed to adopt a surface element approach as that which provided opti

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14 March 2016

VRT Broadcast presented its programme, which included interviews with cyclists and other TV personalities from France and Belgium, every night, in a different location along the route.

Set locations included places such as the courts of old castles as well as vineyards, with facilities supplied by Videohouse and lighting rented by Lites. Seeking visual interest for its coverage, VRT approached Rosco looking for a "bright and easy to use" visual aid that they could set up.

(Jim Evans)

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LM Productions supplied multiple laser systems for the performance these included their powerful 40W emerald green lasers, two high powered full colour whitelight lasers, stage left and right, and a green diode laser positioned behind Fatboy Slim's booth.

LM Productions also supplied lasers for Fatboy Slims headlining slot at the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park this summer.

You can view video footage of the Brighton event at www.lm-productions.com.

There will be more on Fatboy Slim's Big Beach Boutique in November's Lighting&Sound magazine.

(Claire Beeson)

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Attaining compliance with BS 8901 will give businesses a significant market advantage as the new standard is already being specified by major organisations such as London2012 and is a core commitment of the recently-issued DCMS Sustainable Development Action Plan.

The programme, which is open to both members and non-members, is based on a series of five one-day workshops held at 4-5 week intervals, and has been specifically designed to provide a low-cost route to achi

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Malmö's Europaporten is home to one of Sweden's largest Pentacostal congregations, but its spacious modern auditorium is also a popular venue for conferences, live music performances and corporate meetings. Its search for a new and versatile sound reinforcement system led to the consideration of several blue-chip brands, and the contract was awarded to Nexo after a series of on-site demonstrations.

"We prepared very well, studying the room's characteristics carefully and staging a very successful demo which showed off the Geo S12's strengths of au

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14 March 2016

Following a brief from Barracuda, Kaleidovision's creative studio has designed a library of screen media aimed at the Varsity Bars' chain of 41 student bars; the new campaign kicked off this month to coincide with the start of the new 2008-9 academic year.

This year's promotion, titled Crazy Sexy Cool, encompasses a consumer competition to find the Face of Varsity 2009. All the channel content is focused on the VCard loyalty card, 650,000 of which were sold during the last academic year. To give it added currency, Kaleidovision has been tasked with animating the 25% discounts provided by the eight sponsor partners, which this yea

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"We're confident that this association will result in better service to Elation customers on the East Coast and faster turnaround on repairs," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. "Everlast is a highly regarded production company with experience in a wide range of lighting applications, and they share our strong dedication to quality and service."

Specialising in corporate events, outdoor events, night clubs, trade shows, HOW installations, hotels, stadiums, museums and more, Everlast Productions provi

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14 March 2016

The names of registrants chosen as contestants in the random drawing will be posted on Shure's website. Competing teams from each school are required to record and mix an original piece of music. Their submission will be judged by a panel of industry professionals who will evaluate the recordings based upon their overall fidelity, clarity, sonic balance, and creativity in selection and placement of the microphones. Previous judges have included Dave Hewitt, Joe Barresi, Mike Fraser, El

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According to Music Data's Tomas Ourednicek, the show was a great success. "We decided to show Eclipse in an OB van that we had painted with Eclipse graphics especially for the show. It gave us an ideal environment in which to present the console away from the distractions and noise of the show floor. All of our customers loved the new control surface."

Ourednicek also took his first orders for Eclipse at the show: the first from a rental company who already

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Built by the architects Sn°hetta in a waterside location in the Bj°rvika district, this great theatre represents the beginning of a remarkable urban renewal which will transform the city of Oslo. This remarkable building houses a traditional horseshoe-shaped auditorium built around a proscenium stage, accommodating 1400 in its main hall, and another 400 in a secondary performance space. The house is the seat of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, known in Scandinavia for its leaning towards avant-garde and experimental productions, and the artistic programme is also expected to include musical shows alongside the opera repertoire.

Buying local technology, Den Norske Opera has become the first internatio

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With a heavy pantomime season in prospect, the company has a major interest in skills investment, and Theo Holloway believes the exercise paid off.

"We had 15 students - which, with such a broad range, is the maximum number we wanted to accommodate," he reports."It is the first time we've run a course in this format and it has attracted a real mix of people - from senior sound students, venue staff, freelancers and even a rock 'n' roll engineer, who is training at a drama school."

What emerged over the two days, he said, was a healthy appetite for learning. "Hopefully these people have seen us as being helpful, as w

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The stage set for the tour was created by Stufish, whose team has created stage designs for Pink Floyd, U2, The Rolling Stones and many others. The giant backdrop screen, which forms the key visual element to the show, measures 17m wide and 5m high and contains 2,500 Olite 612 LED modules.

"Barco's Olite 612 fitted our design perfectly", says Mark Fisher, managing director at Stufish. "We wanted to present the audience with a spectacular video and light experience befitting a band of this statue. Olite's modularity once again enabled us to create some

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"In the end, the choice was totally logical," says Procon's chief buyer, Fabrizio Valesia. "With the ZX1 we obtain not only a system tried-and-tested in countless applications but also the best price-to-performance ratio. The performance of this extremely compact, lightweight loudspeaker is simply sensational."

(Jim Evans)

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"Audiotek migrated over to Aviom for the many high-profile events we work on because the fundamental design flexibility offered by Aviom allows us to accomplish even the most difficult monitoring and communication situations," says Andres Arango, staff engineer at Audiotek. "We now have a system that is straightforward to set up, gives the musicians individual control over their monitor mixes and is easily scalable to handle any production."

The signal flow for this event consisted of two elements: communication and monitor mixing. All band member

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The show is directed by Jamie King, who lists Madonna's Confessions Tour, Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics Tour, as well as tours for Kanye West and the Spice Girls among his credits. Lighting Designer is Yves 'Lapin' Aucoin.

The tour setup is a 360-degree production, designed 'in the round' style, and includes t20 LED screens, including one that orbits the stage, plus conveyor belts and elevators. The touring system is provided by Montreal, Canada-based Solotech, which is also the provider for various Cirque du Soleil productions.

With such limits in place regarding 360-degree viewing angles and elaborate movement, W-DMX was chosen as for sending wireless DMX s

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The occasion was crowned by a large party on Saturday 13 September attended by more than 400 guests from all over the world. They enjoyed an extended musical evening featuring many performers who have worked with Westfalen Sound from the beginning, including both founding and current members of Udo Lindenberg's Panikorchester. A substantial multi-channel surround sound system co

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Based in L'Aquila in central Italy, Agorà's high profile client list, which encompasses the majority of the country's top tours, means that its inventory of consoles needed to be augmented. Enter the SD7s, the purchase of another two of which are planned for 2009.

DiGiCo's managing director, James Gordon, visited Agorà's premises to head up a training programme. "Agorà has a long association with DiGiCo," says Stefano Cantadori, president of Audio Link. "It was one of the first companies to invest in the D5 and has an impressive stock of both digital and analogue desks. Agorà already had the edge in the Italian market and the purchase of the SD7s has reinforced that."

(Jim Evans)

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Foster explains: "I've been a great fan of PixelLines since I started using them back in 2003 on a Massive Attack tour. They are consistently a very reliable and robust fixture - and I don't think I have designed a show without them since then."

He continues: "Janet Jackson contacted me after seeing one of my Kylie shows on DVD. I worked with her creative director who had a story and a script for the show - and after several meetings

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Robe presented a two-day opportunity for guests to enjoy hands-on product demos and comparisons in a relaxing, convivial atmosphere and a real working environment.

The event was attended by visual designers, operators, programmers, technicians and a wide assortment of interested industry professionals from across Germany and Austria.

The Future is Digital gave visitors an opportunity to experience the new technology behind this concept. Digital moving lights and the new Robe DigitalSpot 3000 DT and the DigitalSpot 7000 DT moving light projectors were creatively positioned around the studio's large, curved cyclorama, shooting onto the screen and around the room.

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The Gasteig complex consists of four other multi-purpose venues used for concerts, plays, lectures and movie screenings as well as the Munich Philharmonic Hall featuring a Meyer Sound system.

The new Meyer Sound system in the 600-seat Carl Orff Hall consists of two arrays each comprising nine M1D line array loudspeakers; one UPA-1P loudspeaker serves as a centre in-fill and two UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers as an effects and in-fill system. Stage-lip and front-fill coverage is provided by six MM-4 miniature wide-range loudspeakers, while a pair of 700-HP subwoofers provide the low frequency energy for the whole system.

Overall monitoring is handled by Meyer Sound RMS remote monitoring system and a Gal

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The concerts featured a 76-piece orchestra and a 60-piece choir together with baritone Gianfranco Montresor, soprano Paola Sanguinetti and guest star Tina Arena accompanying Bocelli.

"As each orchestra member is playing towards the conductor, the orchestra itself can be considered a point source," says sound designer Andrea Taglia, whose priority for the main system was to preserve the orchestra's sound image, retaining a sharp correlation between the visual of the musicians playing live a

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Central to the sound reinforcement is a Nexo Alpha system, with the standard configuration being 18 M3 mid high boxes, 12 B1 bass cabinets and 10 S2 subs. Playing a wide variety of venues, they're flying where possible and ground stacking the rest of the time. For general infills, they are utilising 4 ADLIB AA122s.

Nexo's NX242 processors are used across all the Nexo elements, feeding Camco Tecton amplifiers driving the mid highs, Crown VZ5002s powering the bass and subs and Crown XTi's for the in-fills.

The system is time aligned each day by Adlib's systems engineer Richy Nicholson using EAW's SMAART analysis software. The FOH desk is a DigiDesign Venue.

Monitors are mixed by Adlib's Dave Dav