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SIS LIVE is Europe's largest outside broadcast and satellite uplink provider and is supplying production / coverage facilities and services to cover the Games. The company won the multi-million pound contract from India's public broadcaster, Doordarshan, part of Prasar Bharati, the Broadcasting Corporation of India.

Taking delivery of the 26 LS9-32 consoles from SSE Audio Group, SIS LIVE is using YG2/YS2 mini-YGDAI cards, also supplied by SSE, to seamlessly integrate the consoles with a huge Optocore network. The system is bringing 17 different track and field events from 12 different venues to a global television a

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Host Chelsea Handler used a Sennheiser wireless microphone, as did all presenters. Wireless specialists Soundtronics supplied one dozen channels of true-diversity receivers, including EM 3532s, along with SKM 5000 and SKM 5200 wireless handheld transmitters.

Sennheiser was also featured in many of the night's performances. Eminem, one of the big award winner

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After many demos with the Vi4 and several other consoles, the Centre's technical crew unanimously agreed on bringing the Vi4 to Notre Dame.

"The Vi4 was the perfect investment for the centre's transition to digital sound," said audio engineer Joshua Ingle. "Everything from its ease of use and amazing sound quality to its sleek looks and size were considered, and the Vi4 fits the bill better than all the other choices."

The acoustics in the Leighton Concert Hall are world-class, with the ability to mechanically change wall surfaces and reverb ti

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The Mayor of Winchester attended to cut the cake and say a few words, as well as over 100 loyal customers and friends of the company gathered over the years. Some ex-staff were also in attendance; some of whom had worked for the company 50 years ago. The event at the new modern premises, with its dramatic lighting and state-of-the-art technology, would have been a far cry from the traditional music shop on Winchester high street, where they had worked many years ago, says the company.

Nowadays the company is a specialist audio visual supplier with clients such as Westminster Abbey, St George's Chapel - Windsor Castle, The Royal Society and the National Police Improvement Authority.

"We are very proud of

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" We have been using Le Mark's removable Tour Labels for many years, allowing each road case to clearly show the SSE logo and be easily wrote on to identify the contents. An advantage of using the removable labels is how easy it is to keep the cases looking fresh and tidy. Each and every time the equipment goes out on hire we replace the label and re-identify the case contents, keeping the cases clean, tidy and its content accurately identified."

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The 1,000-capacity oval-shaped club has been installed with an unusual sound system based around a stereo configuration located in front of the DJ booth. This comprises two hangs of four dV-Dosc cabinets focused on the dance floor and four hangs of three Arcs medium format line source cabinets to cover the table areas around the dance floor. A further system of six distributed 12XT coaxial boxes cover a pillared area.

The club also features an unusual sub bass setup of six SB28 subs in a horizontal ARCS/SUB configuration, to deal with the very wide shape of the venue. This provides homogeneous sub/low frequency coverage all around the room.

The DJ, VJ and LJ all have personal monitoring systems of 12XT coaxials, an

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The Martin MAC III Performance is based on the successful MAC III Profile, which has proved its operational reliability for years on the largest tours. It was therefore the appropriate starting point for the theatre version. The effects module of the MAC III Profile can be easily replaced with the framing module of the MAC III Performance.

Due to the modularity of the luminaire, nothing further is required - the assembled

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Co-owned by Ed Whitney and Mike Hockenberry, Reynoldsburg, OH-based Metro Audio Video was contracted to design and install the church's new sound system. The sound reinforcement system that Whitney ultimately deployed consists of eight D.A.S. Audio Variant 25A powered, two-way mid-high line array elements, two Variant 18A powered subwoofers, plus three AX-V25 steel bumpers to hang the system.

Whitney discussed the challenges of the project. "Vineyard Columbus' multipurpose space is used for everything from meetings and banquets to small concerts. When the church decided to renovate, they wanted t

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Jean-Jacques Mansard, technical director of Le Channel Scène Nationale de Calais, and his wife, Isabelle, won the five-day trip for two to Las Vegas, with a four-night stay at the Caesar's Palace hotel, after entering the competition at the SIEL-SATIS 2009 show in Paris.

Visitors to the stand were invited to write a short testimonial about Robert Juliat products. These were subsequently entered into a draw, the first prize of which also included a helicopter night-flight over Las Vegas and two tickets for the Cirque du Soleil show, O.

Mansard's winning testimonial, which was picked at random, stated, "Since 1982 I have been working with Robert Juliat products and I am delighted with them. They offe

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Lanta's managing director, Grant Lester explains why the Fireball PAR64 TRI was chosen by The Gadget Show: "Everyone knows that LED fixtures use a fraction of the power of incandescent bulbs, so choosing this technology was an obvious choice." He continues "Lanta was the perfect partner for the TV show since they needed a large number of reliable units at short notice. Tri-colour, DMX-controlled, Fireballs fitted the bill to a tee."

Nearly a kilometre of data and power cables networked the Lanta Fireballs into a single, computer-controlled grid.

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Leading experts operating within the lighting industry, including Jason Bruges of Jason Bruges Studio, Durham Marenghi of DMLD and Leni Schwendinger, principal designer of New York based company Leni Schwendinger Light Projects, will speak on subjects such as LED Technology, Energy Saving Initiatives and The Value of Light.

Conference speaker Leni Schwendinger commented, "I am looking forward to speaking at the IALD Conference and comparing The ARC Show with our American lighting shows. Europe always produces innovative products, so I'm looking forward to seeing them at the show and catching up with colleagues."

Other confirmed spe

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"Thanks to this relocation, Hoist UK and our sister company AJB Precision Fabrications can now be housed under one roof, this will allow us to offer seamless integration of our own manufactured products and those of our internationally renowned suppliers to our clients," says Hoist UK director Tony Dickson.

The new Hoist UK & AJB Precision fabrication facility is located at Unit 2, Wrynose Road, Old Hall Industrial Estate, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 3QD.

"Our sister company AJB Precision Fabrications is a steel and aluminium fabrication company, with in-house CNC machining facilities. The directors of AJB are Phil Williams and Mike Nicholson who like Tony Dick

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Based in Bangkok, this centre has been designed and managed by Rightman Co, a company specialised in exhibition designing and set-up.

Advance Technology Contracting Co, a Thai-based AV system integrator, was in charge of supplying the AV equipment and turning into life Rightman Co's creations.

A Medialon control system has been integrated by ATC. "Medialon Manager software is the best AV interactive control system solution", declares Noppharit Neansa-ard, AV and lighting specialist for ATC. "It al

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The network was commissioned by SIS LIVE who were awarded the multi-million dollar contract to supply production and coverage facilities and services to the Games.

Working with ZOOM Communications, South-East Asia's largest broadcast services company, coverage was provided for 17 different sports and outside races across 12 venues in Delhi.

SIS LIVE and ZOOM Communications both rented large consignments of Optocore digital and analogue network interfaces from UK sales and hire production company, SSE Audio Group.

In addition SSE provided SIS LIVE with a large number of Yamaha YG2/YS2 modules and 26 Yamaha LS9-32 consoles; the cards were used in conjunction with both the

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Played to a capacity 60,000-strong crowd, the 12 September event saw Williams and Barlow joined by a high profile supporting cast, providing a day of suitably 'something for everyone' performances. These included The Saturdays, Pixie Lott, Alexandra Burke, Sir Tom Jones, Katherine Jenkins, Enrique Iglesias and, appropriately, the Band of the Coldstream Guards and ex-serviceman-turned-musician James Blunt.

Working closely with audio providers Brit Row and crew chief Derrick Zieba, Sennheiser UK provided a wid

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AP's remit included covering the course for the TfL London Stage of the Tour, and also took in the Newham Waterfront Festival, organised by Newham Council and sponsored by ExCel London. Set up to coincide with the tour, the Festival was hosted in Royal Victoria Square and featured international street theatre, a wide variety of foods and live music, culminating in a spectacular fireworks display.

With around 15,000 spectators

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The Business Installation of the Year for 2010 was awarded to Electrosonic for the World Health Organization, SHOC Room in Brazzaville, Congo. The Brazzaville installation is a companion to similar facilities in Geneva and Cairo, which were also installed by Electrosonic. The project installation includes video conferencing and a video wall and demonstrated Electrosonic's ability to manage international projects, even where communications and transport lines are difficult. Electrosonic's project manager was Colin Rowley and project engineer was Sam Monk.

Consumer Installation of the Year went to

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Sound for the UK Tour, which follows on from a run in London and a successful tour of Holland, is provided by Cardiff based theatre specialists Stage Sound Services. "Our AXYS system was the obvious choice for this show" commented Phil Hurley, MD of Stage Sound Services. "The show requires a system with huge dynamic range and plenty of punch, but the danger is that you end up with something that's loud with no real definition or fidelity to it.

"From previous experience, on the UK Tour of The Who's iconic rock opera

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The Soundcraft Studer AKG truck will feature several digital consoles including Studer's Vista 8 and Vista 5 SR and Soundcraft's Vi1 and Si1, while also introducing professionals in the US market to the new Soundcraft Si Compact console, which debuted in September at the PLASA show in London.

The 11th annual Techxplosion is designed for pastors, music ministers, media and tech directors and technicians, providing technical training in audio, video lighting and projections. Professionals of all levels are invited to engage in the multiple ed

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Champions Square is a new outdoor festival space conveniently located near the Louisiana Superdome (home to the New Orleans Saints) and New Orleans Arena. Used for a variety of events, its amenities, including the latest in Martin Professional dynamic lighting, make a suitable place to host pre- and post -game activities, outdoor concerts and festivals, special events or any celebration.

Installed at Champions Square in August were energy-efficient Martin Exterior 400 luminaires and Martin LC Plus Series LED panels. Designed for outdoor use with full-weather IP65 protection ratings, both the Exterior 400 luminaires and LC panels add a versatile measure of d

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For its new year-old facility, studio Owner Nick Vasquez has installed five Genelec 8240A Bi-Amplfied DSP Monitors and a 7270A Active DSP Subwoofer, purchased from dealer Sweetwater. The L-C-R array is mounted atop the control room's new Avid Icon D-Command console, and the rear surround monitors are wall mounted.

"These are great-sounding monitors," says Vasquez, who founded Rolling Thunder Studios 17 years ago and nurtured its expansion into new areas such as audio post production and scoring. "I travelled to Sweetwater, where my salesman Brian VanDeKeere and I listened to a lot of monitors, and the Genelecs just sounded better than any of them to me. They are the most versatile, in terms of being able to handle all kinds of music, as well as the most p

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The show's lighting was designed by Tom Kinane, who has used HSL to supply lights to numerous shows in recent years. HSL's project manager was Sean McGlone, who comments, "It's always good to work with Tom and his team. The show looked fantastic, interesting and different, and we're especially happy to be working on such a high profile new production."

Magic Numbers was presented by Stephen Mulhern, directed by Chris Power broadcast from The London Studios (TLS) on London's South Bank. Kinane's starting point for the lighting design was the vibrant set designed by Andrew Gates, based on a sequence of

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The entire G4 product line includes Adaptive Frequency Hopping technology to avoid interference from Wi-fi, Intercom and other radio products, W-DMX invisi-wire and data-safe technologies for unparalleled fidelity, and support for RDM (Remote Device Management) so W-DMX units and lighting fixtures connected through W-DMX can be configured remotely with no fuss or cables.

As the newest member to the G4 line, Wireless Solution will also show the new W-DMX BlackBox F-2500 for the first time in North America, a multiple universe unit as standard that can act as two transmitters, two receivers, and one repeater - three functi

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