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14 March 2016

When tropical storm Alex forced the postponement of a Gulf Shores charity concert to benefit victims of the BP oil spill, LuLu's was left without an act to entertain the large crowds expected on 30 June 30 and 1 July. Fortunately, when your name is Lucy Buffett, you've got an ace up your sleeve. Lucy convinced her brother, Jimmy Buffett, to make an impromptu, surprise appearance with his Coral Reefer Band at her harbor-side restaurant and bar on 30 June.

Special accommodations for staging, video, sound and other logistics were made last minute to enable the legendary performer to do what he does best. BS

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Alicia is a phenomenal singer, Glendinning says, and the power she has is quite incredible. So it's really important that we use microphones that not only deliver beautiful tone, but that can also cope with the volume that she puts out. I've used the AEW-T4100 mics for a long time and they've proven themselves over and over as being incredibly durable as well as awesome-sounding, so they're the perfect choice for her.

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The stadium has been home to a Yamaha LS9-16 since it opened, used for announcements and background music, and club chairman Pete Winkelman is well aware of Yamaha being located nearby. So when the Doubletree Hotel was opened within the stadium, the company was the natural choice for the sound system installed in its Ballroom.

The 50m x 22m room can be used in a variety of ways, as a single space or divided in up to three separate rooms by the use of moveable acoustic screens. Winkelman approached Yamaha with a tough brief - to provide a system that was extremely versatile, could be controlled by novice users and would provide high quality audio for speech purposes, but could still de

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14 March 2016

For the Dancing On Ice tour, Cover It Up supplied a black wool serge 'touring package' of borders and legs, to cover all masking eventualities.

Where it became more interesting was the supply of a series of printed drapes. Two of these were straightforward kabuki drops printed on a gloss satin fabric, the result of a lot of research to determine optimum 'falling' properties - so it ended up in a neat quickly foldable pile on the floor rather than an unwieldy mass that was difficult to move. Cover It Up arranged for these to be printed at a specialist facility in Ma

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14 March 2016

The Academy's three-day course covers the concept of electrical theory, power distribution and networking for stage and studio. Course instructor is APT Founder Richard Cadena, who is an ETCP Certified Entertainment Electrician and Recognised Trainer. Now that the course is recognised, ETCP Certified Technicians who attend will receive full ETCP Renewal Credits.

The course is designed for practising professionals as well as novices. This seminar is an excellent review for the practising entertainment electrician as well as a primer for the aspiring electrician, says Cadena. It has enough detail and information to challenge the experienced among us, but is presented in such a way as to c

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14 March 2016

Genesis needed to transmit 10 broadcast quality duplex audio channels between South Africa and France, and similarly, six duplex channels between Wimbledon and France. Digigram was able to provide a simple and cost-effective solution based on the IQOYA*SERV/LINK multiple stereo / multichannel IP audio distribution codec.

In this instance, Digigram provided six IQOYA*SERV/LINK devices for a fully redundant contribution system; one 'main' unit and a second unit for redundancy purposes for each site (Wimbledon, Paris, South Africa). The flexibility and scalability of the IQOYA*SERV/LINK system meant

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14 March 2016

The owners, brothers George and Stelios Varouxakis recently began looking for a new sound system and decided on Adamson.

"It is quite remarkable that a club has operated under the same name, ownership and philosophy for 18 solid years" comments Alexios Ganas, the club's technical consultant, and installations technician at DNA. "The previous system installed was an equally old used ElectroVoice MT-2 which partially replaced a system which caught f

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14 March 2016

It contains over 800 rooms, and its central space remains one of Europe's biggest auditoriums with seating to accommodate 6000. Today the space is used primarily for concerts and ballet performances, is home to Kremlin Ballet Theatre, and acts as a second stage for the Bolshoi Theatre.

The main auditorium is encased by towering walls which, during the recent contemporary update led by architects from the studio OTASH, were plated with RGB LED panels creating two vast curvilinear LED screens (25mx60m).

Centrally controlled by an e:cue lighting control system, the new multi

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14 March 2016

At the time, CM sent a warning bulletin to all their distributors with all the related serial numbers of the hoists manufactured between 2005 and 2006 that required attention. Since this recall in which very small number of the hoists were affected, no incidents had been recorded in which there had been a failure of the brake pin.

However, a recent incident in United States in which a brake pin failed has shown that in this case the pin was not rep

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14 March 2016

Comprising 36 R16 i/o 16mm LED panels in a 6x6 configuration, the main stage's centre screen measured 6.1m across and 4.57m high, while the two side screens, arranged in 6x5 panel configurations, measured 6.1m (w) x 3.81m (h). Together, the three screens displayed the rich colours of Malaysia's ethnic groups' traditional music and dance.

"Citrawarna Malaysia is one of Malaysia's most internationally recognised events, drawing guests and digni

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14 March 2016

In the Nordic region, Standard Audio Systems AB represents Cloud in Sweden, while in Denmark, DTK Audio Produkter is flying the flag.

The BeNeLux area is covered by two companies - Mennegat Trading BV across the Netherlands region with M-Pro BeNeLux BVBA providing for Belgium and Luxembourg.

Sound Directions SARL France is the new distributor for France, as Show Supply is for Switzerland.

"The appointment of so many new distributors at one time is unprecedented for us and reflects our ongoing strategy to strengthen our brand throughout EMEA," says Mark Bracken, Cloud sales manager EMEA.

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The arena features a European design, with a canopy that encircles the entire two-tiered seating area. The first row seats are approximately 21ft from the touchlines, while the following rows are steeply raked, creating an intimate experience for fans that are closer to the playing field than in traditional US soccer stadiums.

This is the only soccer stadium of its kind in the United States, states Brian Elwell, project manager for Acoustic Dimensions. A catwalk that follows the path of the canopy made access to the hang points easier, but the proximity of the canopy to the seats created coverage challenges for the PA system design.

The closer speakers wer

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AC/DC were in second place with $114m (£74.5m) followed by Beyonce Knowles on $87m (£56.8m). Bruce Springsteen was fourth on the list with $70m (£45.7m).

One of the few relatively youthful acts on the list was Lady Gaga, who has amassed $62m (£40.5m) in the year to date, according to the website. The singer has been performing the Monster Ball tour around the world. Madonna demonstrated that she remains a major player in the music industry by coming in at eighth place, w

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14 March 2016

ETLive, will feature two types of demonstration formats. The first format will present up to six stages of live performance demonstrations in a round-robin format. Each stage will have a band performance of multiple genres presenting the full capabilities of a complete sound system as would be presented in a real-world concert environment.

The second format, new this year, is a seventh stage, presenting a Compact Solution loudspeaker demonstration. This stage is designed to present loudspeaker choices for the smaller listening environment for the House of Worship, corporate or music venue environmen

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Finding the right sound system involved a major search. as Sjoerd Wynia - one of the three directors behind AIR, comments, "We started out with a bare shell that fortunately already had a thick layer of sound isolation already in place - the architect obviously knew of the site's history. The sound system is the very heart of the club, and we looked at lots of different options. Void invited us to check out the sound a

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14 March 2016

Armando Gotelli, founder of Audiomusica says, "We are very proud and honoured to announce the new alliance formed by Audiomusica and dBTechnologies to distribute dB products in the Bolivian and Peruvian markets.

"Audiomusica is an international company specialising in the retail and distribution of professional audio equipment and musical instruments. For over 20 years we have developed this business, becoming one of South America's leaders in the industry."

A demo tour of dBTechnologies' top lines will kick off at the end of September, incorporating Chile as well as key areas in Bolivia & Peru. This will give Audiomusica's current and future customers the chance to hear dBTechnologies in sit

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he microphone's condenser design provides studio-quality performance for vocal and instrument applications, and is "outstanding for acoustic guitar, overheads, piano and group vocals". The AT2021 is also available packaged with the AT2020 in the AT2041SP Studio Pack.

Corrosion-resistant contacts from the microphone's gold-plated XLRM-type connector, in addition to the mic's rugged design and construction, ensure consistent, reliable performance and durability for the user, says the company. The unit's cardioid polar pattern rejects pickup of sounds from the sides and rear, improving isolation of the desired sound source.

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Brent Thornhill of Silsbee, Texas-based Southwest Building Systems (SBS) reports, "Their old sound system was a set of horn loudspeakers that had been in place for nearly 50 years. Coverage was pretty much non-existent anywhere off-axis of the horns, which meant most of the seats, suffered from poor intelligibility. It was pretty frustrating for them."

The original goal was to replace the horns with a distributed system of in-ceiling loudspeakers. But the age of the building resulted in an unforeseen snag. "When we had a look at the ceiling we realised it was made of a

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14 March 2016

The Diocese of St Asaph, serving the Anglican churches in North-east Wales, had been looking to close Holy Trinity Church in Holywell, Flintshire. However, newly appointed Rev Canon John Lomas was confident the church still had an important role to fill within the community. And so it received a stay of execution leading to a complete quarter of a million refurbishment project.

The 200-seat church, with its vaulted roof, was originally built in 1871 to a design by Ewan Christian and extended in 1910. When Richard Hughes of Richard King Systems of Oswestry was brought in, he knew just how he was going to treat it.

"We have fitted out around 40 churches in this diocese; mostly using loudspeakers from the JBL range and recently the

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14 March 2016

Attracting over one a half million visitors a year, the gallery, at Milbank in London, has joined the list of major buildings across the world using products from Sunderland-based Current Thinking.

The gallery, through its facilities managers SPIE Matthew Hall, faced the challenge of replacing its ageing voice alarm system and one of the key benefits of using Current Thinking's products was that it could be installed with the minimum of disruption to the fabric of the historic building.

Current Thinking managing director Anthony Smith says, "What appealed to the gallery - and to the installers VA Systems - was that our equipment enabled the use of the existing speaker installations at the same time as enabling the upgrading of the overall system to

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14 March 2016

The contract was awarded by Entry Point North (EPN) - an international Air Traffic Management Academy approved by the Civil Aviation Authorities in Scandinavia.

Although Micro Nav had not previously worked with Paradigm they were keen to collaborate when the right project came along. "We considered using other suppliers for this contract," says project manager Jackie Friberg, "but after meeting with various different companies, we opted to work in partnership with Paradigm for the delivery of these two large towers."

The requirement from EPN was that the display solution should be "at least as good" as the existing systems,

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14 March 2016

After working with production manager Richard Young and lighting designer Andi Watson on the lighting requirements for the two previous Radiohead tours, Architainment advised Young on lighting requirements for the video screen surrounds in Pink's first arena tour and provided him with the versatile LED string iColor Flex SLX product from Philips Color Kinetics.

When show designer Baz Halpin together with Young, was designing the set for Pink's Funhouse Summer Carnival tour and wanted to create an overhead stage mesh lighting canopy, they once again turned to Architainment to provide them with a quality solution.

This time Architainment suggested the new high brightness, tri-colour iColor Flex LMX, again produced by Philips Color Kinetics. Samples were presented to Halpin and

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14 March 2016

The revisions include changes to the Device Description Language, the Session Data Transport protocol, the Device Management Protocol, and to various EPIs.The revisions are being done to correct errors and to add additional functionality to the standard. The review period runs through 23 August. The review is over when 24 August starts. Responses must be submitted before then to be considered.

ANSI E1.17-2006, Entertainment Technology - Architecture for Control Networks (ACN), is a suite of documents that specifies an architecture, including protocols and language, that may be configured and combined w

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"The sanctuary is a really reverberant space, and we've always had trouble with people being able to hear spoken word clearly," says Rick Cardenas, the Church's technical director.

"It's a beautiful space, and the idea of putting a big speaker system in the middle of it just wasn't an option." The solution was found in a pair of Renkus-Heinz's Iconyx IC24-R digitally steerable line array loudspeakers. The steerable arrays are configured to provide focused coverage to every seat.

Working around the sanctuary's full calendar, Cardenas got together with college staff members to install the IC24-R systems into soffits on either side of the proscenium. T