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The audiovisual service provider from Vienna flew a total of 70 Lighthouse R16 modules to create a backdrop for the headline event. The Global Bright Team transported the equipment in 45 cases with gondolas to the intermediate station before using snowmobiles to ferry them the rest of the way to the stage. After the show, the process was reversed, though this time there was an extremely heavy snow fall to complicate matters.

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The installation was designed and specified by Callison Architects of Seattle, in conjunction with Mode Studios' Bob Bonniol. Scott Bokowski, the project producer, headed up installation and system integration along with Larry Darling of Epic Production Technologies. Show Control systems, control racks and audio systems were designed and provided by Electrosonic and include four Hippotizer Stage media servers. Custom media content and live, real-time interactive control was provided by Mode Studios.

"This project presented a number of challenges," says Bob B

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In charge of the Uncut Arena was the experienced Walter Jaquiss, while simultaneously the same furious schedule, with back-to-back changeovers, was taking place in the Sunrise Arena, where Otto Kroymann was based.

While bands were turning round within 15 minutes at the stage end, sound engineers were setting up their patches with equal alacrity at front of house. In each case a Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixing console awaited them alongside their two mentors.

"Adlib were conscious of having to put out a desk that everyone could mix on easily," stated Walter Jaquiss. He set up a regime in the Uncut Arena where all show files were created off-line. "Fo

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The Forestry Tour requested standardised production at each of the sites to make it easier and more effective for the artists touring between them over a six week period. To achieve this the company added to its ever growing stock of lighting equipment by investing in Avolites 24-channel ART 2000 dimmer racks and expanded its already large rental stock of Adam Hall cable ramp. All generators were well maintained to deliver constant event power and all power circuits were tested to give the highest level of safety and reliability.

They deployed two dedicated Forestry Tour teams, one led by Pearce Hire's pro

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The proceeds from the concerts will go towards permanent funding for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum, established in 1984 by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun who died in 2006.

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The show's central claw shaped truss has a centre spire that rises over 50m above the show deck. Around the stadium are truss towers that contain follow spots and PRG Bad Boy moving lights.

One of the many challenges the tour faced was to reliably get data to the towers without having to run kilometres of cable around the stadium. Wireless DMX with a proven track record of high data fidelity, minimum radio footprint, and system reliability was needed, and since the tour travels across the globe in outdoor arenas and stadiums it needed to be intern

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As a part of the reconstruction the sound system has been renewed as well. audioone gmbh based in Berlin undertook the planning and installation of the new reinforcement system. After an on-site meeting to analyse the spacial and acoustical conditions and a detailed planning and simulation the decision went to the K.M.E. line array system PANO with Line Source Units QL 906 and QL 1215 on the left and right side of the stage as well as VL 10

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ARX Managing Director Colin Park commented:" Eventech's Tõnu Susi and I have been discussing the possibilities of working together in Estonia for some time, Tõnu thought with the release of new additions to our USB DI product range the time was right to expand ARX's presence in the Estonian market.

"Tõnu and his sales team also felt our range of Interface and Signal Processing Products was a very complementary fit with the other lines they currently represent, they were especially excited by the new Products we released at the recent Frankfurt Pro Light and Sound Exhibition."

Along side ARX, Eventech represents companies including Meyer Sound, XTA, Lab Gruppen, Formula Sound and Robert Juliat.

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Hugh Vanstone, who was responsible for the lighting design in London, also delivered the design for the show playing at the Musical Dome in Cologne, which was programmed by associate lighting designer Stuart Porter. For this task Porter relied on a grandMA system solution.

During production two grandMA full-size and a grandMA ultra-light were used, with one grandMA full-size left in control of the show. "Working with the grandMA was a breeze, especially because of its networking capabilities," reported programmer Marcus Krömer. "This also enabled the in-house programmer to learn the desk while I was programming."

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The line-up included Daniel Merriweather, Jason Mraz, The Pet Shop Boys, the Noisettes, Friendly Fires, Jamie T, The Saturdays and many more over the three days.

James Neale led the Adlib team of five and also oversaw the FOH operation. With Ben Booker keeping monitor world in check, the omnipresent Richy Nicholson looked after the stage & patch, assisted by Otto Kroyman and Michael Flaherty. The operation was project managed in the Adlib offices by Dave Jones.

This year, the length of the King Tut's Wah Wah tent was extended by about 30m, making the tent approximately 120m long, which needed additional PA and delay stacks to ensure an even sound all around.

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In previous years, Universal Arts has used ETC's Congo lighting control desks. However, at PLASA Focus in April, ETC launched Element. This new desk caught the attention of Universal Arts production manager, Anthony Newton, who approached ETC's Jeremy Roberts to explore the possibility of using Element to light all the shows in the Universal Arts Festival of international theatre.

Newton says: "Element seemed like the perfect desk for Fringe venue application. It has the software of the successful Eos and Ion range with simplified features to ease user control, making the basic functions easier to navigate with greater hands on fader control. It's a much friendlier looking desk to the inexperienced or unfamiliar operator.

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Part of the National Rock and Pop festival, which also incorporated the Guitarfestand Drumfest trade shows, the Stick It To MS world record attempt was hosted by comedian and actor John 'Jazz Club' Thomson - himself a drummer - and saw a total of 582 drummers in Birmingham's National Indoor Arena attempt to achieve a new world record of tub-thumpers playing in the same place at the same time.

The record required that all the drummers played together for at least five minutes, producing an average sound level of 105dB, peaking at 130db. "It was quite an experience," says front of hou

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With bands ranging from Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol at the commercial end to acoustic performers like Newton Faulkner, quirky performance artists with wide dynamic ranges (like Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan), leavened with some good old fashioned hard house and R&B it was important that the event's experienced sound engineers, Dave Roden at FOH (here deployed as system tech) and Will King down at the stage had digital mixing environments on which incoming engineers could hit the ground running.

Last year, when the event was held at Koko, iTunes production manager Stuart Turvill took advantage of a pair of Soundcraft Vi6's, with the Studer Vistonics II interface, and it proved so popul

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For those who can appreciate such things, the logistics of sound reinforcement for the RNSIT would be an act in itself, analogous to watching a fire-eating contortionist spin plates while singing O Canada on the back of a dune buggy. To make that task slightly less convoluted, the RNSIT recently purchased a phalanx of Kling & Freitag self-powered loudspeakers and subwoofers, a high fidelity output to complement the huge collecti

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This was project managed by Chris Saunders for XL, assisted by Zoe Minter. The artist line up included the Killers, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen (Hard Rock Calling) and Basement Jaxx and Kanye West, who headlined the two Wireless shows concluding the run.

Saunders has worked on the event for the last five years, ever since it was launched by Live Nation. "It was great to be working with the Live Nation team again," he says. "The setting and the variety of the music makes it very special, everything went smoothly for us and we all relished the chance to en

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Kave supplied a comprehensive package to multiple stages of both generic and moving lights, scalable sound systems, all necessary rigging and staging and a quantity of the site power infrastructure.

SPLAT Fest, celebrating Student Performance Literature Art & Theatre at the University of Warwick, is dedicated to creating opportunities for all students to pursue their creative talents. The Festival is now in its sixth year and proved to be the most successful to date.

For the first time, this year the event moved into an A&J Bigtop dubbed "The BigSPLAT". This provided the organisers some much needed space to expand the festival, allowing two stages to work back to back in the same venue. With a packed schedule this was e

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Synco Martin Audio W8LC's and W8LM's formed the principal sound reinforcement in the Floating Stage and Club Marquee, while in the third area, for the more strident, rock and roll vibe of the Dome, a vintage Martin Audio Wavefront 8 system delivered the goods.

On the Floating Stage RGJ rigged two stacks of six Synco Martin Audio W8LC enc

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Bosch engineers provided individual acoustic solutions for the different halls bearing in mind the special architecture of each of them and the wide coverage required. This included the new Hemi-directional Loudspeakers from Bosch with high quality sound, which are especially well suited for the high ceilings in the Merida exhibition halls. IFEME

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"On the two previous Take That Tours we've used the SKM 5200 with Neumann KK 104 cardioid heads," explains front of house engineer Gary Bradshaw. "We've had great results with that set up. But this tour posed some different problems, as we wouldn't have a roof everywhere we played, so weatherproofing everything was a major consideration. With this in mind we decided to try the 5235 heads. The results have been excellent. We've had great vocal clarity and feedback rejection and the mics are able to withst

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Apart from the champions who will compete in the most popular beach sports, the spotlights will be focused on Proel equipment, chosen by Happy Sound Service to amplify the running commentary, to reinforce the sound of the numerous scheduled shows and to light up the field during the night tournaments.

The sound reinforcement set up for the Beach Stadium activities includes, four Proel NEOS218SP subs, four Proel NEOS152P speakers, racks of four Proel HPD3400PFC power amplifiers and AS025 processor.

When the Stadium becomes the stage for bigger events, its sound reinforcement turns to Axiom with six Proel AX3210P speakers, eight Pro

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"We consider the Casino du Liban as an extremely important first customer for the Midas PRO6," says Dr Fouad Bechwati, senior acoustics consultant, Eltek. "The console will gain excellent exposure being used on international shows by one of the most competent sound engineers in the country, Tony Khoury. We are very pleased that our first ever sale of the PRO6 has been to a very high profile client, and are happy to confirm that the Casino du Liban intends to purchase further PRO6s to

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A five strong ETTB team were on-site both in Cardiff and Lords, setting up the day prior to the first innings and remaining in situ until the final wicket falls. Tony Laurenson, Managing Director, ETTB, said "We are once again proud to be involved with this great event. We have fed over 140 people on some days, including some familiar faces that have been part of the Sky Sports teams for many years."

The ETTB team and the company's fleet of mobile kitchen trucks are now on the road as the busy Ashes season continues.

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The amBIENT XC can be pre-programmed or will respond in real-time to visual and/or aural stimuli, such as video or audio signals. Sophisticated control of interpretation and output parameters offers dynamic control of mood and atmosphere in spaces of all kinds. The amBIENT XC control system also provides a low-cost yet impressive upgrade solution for venues or productions

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Arena also installed temporary grandstand seating at the other grounds visited by the touring Australian national team, namely 4,638 seats at Old Trafford, 3,645 at Edinburgh, 10,766 at the Rosebowl, 8,427 at Durham, 336 seats at Lords, 793 seats at Edgbaston, and a further 218 seats at The Brit Oval.

The Brit Oval's balcony, with its specially upholstered luxury seating, was designed to provide additional comfort in a spectacular environment for the club's VVIP guests. Arena Seating designed the facility in brushed aluminium and glass, using 70 seats based on Arena's Congress seat with weatherp