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The team working on first of the two sites using W-DMX was headed by German lighting designer Karl M. Reger. His team developed and realized a concept for Kabomhuset's façade and car park. He used a WE-EF gobo projector (WE-EF FLC254 CC-BL) that was controlled via W-DMX.

Says Reger, "The majority of our installation was indoors and the control signal was fed through cables. However, there was one DMX-controlled luminaire outside the building, and it would have been near to impossible to do without the wireless DMX system here because we could not run cables through the windows. This is where Wireless Solu

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Based at London's Southbank Centre, the experienced rental company has been servicing the audio requirements of the concert halls for many years.

Technical director, Eddy Smith, decided that a more flexible platform was needed for incoming sound engineers than was offered by their existing digital desks. "We didn't feel the sound of the preamps was as good as we wanted, nor were the configurations particularly user friendly - which was important when shows needed to be set up quickly."

He asked Richard Nowell to arrange a three-desk shoot-out and the Vi1 came out on top in terms of usabilit

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For the occasion GM Music Service chose Proel Axiom for sound reinforcement and used the new KPTAX3222I coupling bar for the first time in its set-up.

The audience was enthusiastic, as Giampaolo Tarantini, one of the owners of GM Music, reports, "We had no choice but to opt for a system that could guarantee very high quality and power for a talented artist such as Billy Cobham. Axiom, as usual, did the business. The audience was absolutely pleased and excited by the quality of the sound Proel equipment provided for this musician and his band, whose performance included a full range of tunes ranging from jazz to funk, and from rock to soul."

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14 March 2016

"Our decision to appoint Imago Sonas was an easy one," says Peter Bellis ProAV & broadcast sales manager at Calibre UK. "They are such a focused distributor and their sales and technical support is unmatched. We're thrilled to have them on board to distribute our ProAV range of HQView and PremierViewPro units and the VideoExcel models for the broadcast sector."

Mads N°rstrov, Imago Sonas sales manager comments, "We're delighted to have the Calibre UK product on board and have already sold the product to partners working on numerous installations. We are continuing to support the sales with any necessary technical and sales support. Calibre UK is also the perfect complement to our product portfolio which includes Chief mounts and acces

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14 March 2016

For the four weeks leading up to the event, the team of Leyendecker - Lightvision Sound & Service, and technical supervisor Martin Kuhn had reconstructed a former freight railway station near Paris into a show stage for each single premiere of the fleet.

Responsible for the lighting design was Nik Evers. Amongst other fixtures, he specified a total of 120 GLP impression RZ heads for this event, which were used for the illumination of the architecture, the lounge and the after-show area, as well as for the show itself.

In the past, Evers has used the impression 90 but now focused on the zoom effect. "Due to its low weight and low power cons

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14 March 2016

This 75-minute-long nightly multimedia spectacular featured 86 high-powered XLED 590 heads from PR Lighting over the three big stages (and catwalk) as more than 300 artists performed through five acts, depicting Mexico's colourful history. This showed the country's cultural wealth and moments that shaped the nation through music, dance, vocals, pyrotechnics, lighting and image projection.

This was one of several events that have taken place in the famous plaza recently, but Sebastian Corkidi of Simply Professional - who again provided all the PR Lighting effects, stated, "This was both bigger and better t

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14 March 2016

MTC first took interest in Adamson after meeting at a series of tradeshows. "I was introduced to MTC by a mutual friend. It was clear from our first meeting that there was a great connection between Adamson and MTC. We have a similar vision of the marketplace and how to put Adamson where it belongs in Japan. To start, we plan to offer an introduction seminar in Japan in the new year. We are looking forward to a strong future with a strong partner like MTC," stated Jesse Adamson, Adamson's director of marketing and sales.

MTC's first order of business is to get the product out to the public, and Interbee, which

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"As we move forward with expanding our training programmes for our European customers, it is crucial that we have the infrastructure in place to support our distributors and their technicians," said Julie Smith, Philips Vari-Lite support services director. "When we had the opportunity to ask Coral to join us for this initiative we were extremely excited. It is not often that a person of her expertise and industry reputation becomes available. All of our distributors thro

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14 March 2016

Organisers said the cuts had been justified by lawmakers who argued the arts were only for the "wealthy elite". "A 13% rise in sales tax hits all of the public because tickets get more expensive," organisers said in a manifesto published online. "By cutting culture budgets and raising tax on tickets, culture will become an elitist pastime and less accessible for people with less money."

In Amsterdam, around 20,000 people gathered on Saturday afternoon on the Leidseplein to listen to music and

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14 March 2016

With the Empire and the Odeon, Leicester Square's two largest cinemas, screening the film, the event attracted one of the biggest crowds for a London movie premiere. Fencing was removed from the Square's gardens to allow the TV crews and fans to gather, as the Harry Potter stars moved through a predetermined layout to sign autographs and give interviews.

On behalf of West Design, which was masterminding all technical production including lighting and sound, Bluman Associates erected two 9m x 4m high video screens, set up in cinemascope format, to show a specially edited trailer for the film, interspersed with interview footage relayed live from the Square.

"As

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In plain sight on the stage sits a framework of truss comprising three six-metre towers per side, supporting 12.5 metre stretches of Thomas 30.5cm box truss. Set designer Vicki Mortimer wanted to create a stark and oppressive space for the production's media-driven surveillance state of Elsinore, where the themes of duplicity and the paranoia of always being watched are brought to the fore.

She explains: "We were looking for a containing structure which would communicate layers of meaning to the audience including an acknowledgment of the theatrical metaphors in Hamlet, and establish most particularly the constraints of a society designed to

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14 March 2016

ProCo Sound, a Michigan-based Corporation founded in 1974, designs and manufactures cable and interfacing products servicing the retail music markets as well as the pro A/V installation and broadcast industries.

RHC Holding Corp. owns and operates six separate companies including The RapcoHorizon Company, which services the retail music market and the professional A/V installation market; and Major Custom Cable, which services the DataCom and Telecommunications industries.

"No major changes to ProCo Sound or any RHC company will be implemented at this time," said Dale Williams, president RHC Holding Corp. "Each RH

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14 March 2016

Because of the complexities of delivering an even orchestral sound to large arena audiences, a number of finely controlled zones were required. Richard Sharrat, FOH engineer for the tour, used nine sends from the Digico SD-7 to Dante enable products. In order to ensure that these sends were combined properly, a Yamaha DME 64 with a Dante-MY16-AUD was used to transfer the AES outputs of the console to the entire Dante network.

The DME also allows for fine system matrix control and te

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14 March 2016

Stage volume became a challenge when the loudness of monitor wedges and guitar amps began competing with the PA system. In addition, there was a constant struggle to make each performer comfortable with his monitor mix. What would make one musician happy would be wrong for the next one. The Aviom Personal Mixers, along with in-ear monitoring systems, have solved these challenges, allowing the musicians to customize their monitor mixes while also reducing the extra volume caused by

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Flare Audio MD Davies Roberts comments, "We were brought in to replace the existing in-house system at the Indigo2 that comprises a total of 45 speakers and 32 amplifiers. We set up Stealth Array X4 as a ground stack to cover both the lower and upper tiers, comprising of just two X4H and two X4L Stealth Array a side, with just one speaker covering each side of each tier. Four CF182 double 18" bass enclosures were positioned each side with the entire system being powered by three PLM10000Q and two PLM14000 Lab Gruppen amplifiers.

"This was also a great chance for us to show off the horizontal coupling of Stealth Array X4 and j

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This exhibition is marked by a detailed study of the lights, and a subsequent technological project by the architect Alexander Bellman. The route of the exhibition, culminating in Vitali's dog sculptures, is ideal for really showing off the revolutionary characteristics that Coemar has applied to a projector based on LED technology: an extraordinary softness, the entire range of whites, and the total absence of pixels and multiple shadows.

Coemar has managed to achieve these results by focusing the light from the LEDs onto a reflective surface that then sends out an even be

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14 March 2016

The 2,400-seat Whitney Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, is the heart of the arts centre, presenting a full range of performances year-round: touring Broadway shows, productions by the Kentucky Opera and the Louisville Ballet, and concerts by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra.

To accommodate the acoustical requirements of so many different groups, Whitney Hall's ceiling includes wooden acoustical tiles that can be repositioned to adjust the sound quality. Recently, however, the hydraulic hoists that control these tiles have become stuck in place, so house acousticians can no longer adjust the house to improve the sound.

J. R. Clancy will replace the hall's original hydraulic hoist system - installed when

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14 March 2016

Arcstream AV provided four lasers for the performance including a 10watt Full Colour, two 6 watt Green OPS systems and an 8 watt Green OPS, to create a stunning effect as Rihanna pushed the button on Westfield's Christmas installations.

Arcstream AV's managing director Neil Dickinson reports, "Westfield was looking for an effect which would engage the huge crowd this event always pulls in, and lasers are a brilliant way of creating an effect in a large space. We used 20 diffraction mirrors placed throughout the atrium area sending beams literally everywhere to cover the massive audience."

Simon Jones, technical manager of Westfield London adds, "The lasers were a perfect solution for a light swi

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14 March 2016

Patitucci and the Quartet's sound engineer Rob Griffin were instrumental in providing their input to the design of the DPA 4099B for bass. They worked together with DPA designers to develop a light, non-invasive rubber mount for the 4099, which fits onto the bass strings between the bridge and the tailpiece. A small gooseneck fitting allows for greater flexibility in moving and positioning the mic into different positions in relation to the top of the bass. Griffin's FOH mix is boosted by the 4021, which is also fixed to Patitucci's bass.

"I've been working for years to get a natural live sound that is closer to the acoustic sound of my instrument," says Patitucci. "I lo

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From Exposition Park and La Cienega Park, to the Fashion Institute of Design and an area of Los Angeles known as 'The Cornfields', HOM arranges day-long events for families that include live music, games, food, costume contests and a feature film on screens up to 100ft wide.

"We focus on making each screening a large, family-friendly event, rather than just showing a movie for an hour and a half," stated Snyder. "W

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14 March 2016

The showroom will make its first three stops - Barbizon, Gemini Stage Lighting & Sound, and Stagelight - in the Dallas metro on 6, 7 and 8 December respectively.

On Thursday 9 December the Mobile Showroom will open its doors at Olden Lighting in Austin before heading to Texas Scenic Co. in San Antonio for its final stop of the year on Friday,10 December. Each stop will provide visitors with a hands-on survey of Wybron gear, including the new Cygnus advanced-colour LED line, as well as a chance to chat with Wybron staff and enjoy complimentary lunch.

"In this first year of touring we've pinpointed some improvements we'd like to make to the showroom and will be debuting a brand-new trailer with brand-new technology in January 2011," said Keny Wh

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Directed by Jonathan Kent, designed by Paul Brown and lit by Mark Henderson, the production demanded a fire effect on stage at the end of the Act. Howard Eaton was presented with the challenge, "At the end of Act 1 there needs to be a lightning bolt from the heavens that results in Don Giovanni's palazzo being torched," he says.

Paul Brown's set was designed on the theme of a Pandora's Box, set on a huge revolve with the chamber's walls moving to reveal each scene. Director Jonathan Kent wanted the production to be fluid, "a white knuckle ride", and this added to the list of theatrical demands for

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This action-packed stage version of the cult TV series stars a selection of classic and favourite Doctor Who monsters including The Daleks and Cybermen, with Nigel Planer as 'intergalactic showman' and archetypal baddie, Vorgenson.

The tour's 270 degree sound system was specified by XL Events' Rich Rowley, who was also instrumental in choosing Adlib to supply the kit. The sound company itself fielded a vastly experienced team, including Tony Szabo (systems engineer), Chris Leckie (FOH, on a Soundcraft Vi6), with Fergus Mount handling audio playback on a Soundcraft Vi1, and Marc Peers mixing monitors on a second Vi6. All desks were originally supplied by Sound Technology.

"There was no other consol

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Event Sound supplied the audio for the four event zones choosing to use JBL speakers with VRX 932LAP being their main box of choice. Other boxes used as distributed systems and entertainment stage monitors included JBL SRX700 series and JBL Eon510 speakers.

The Start Site at North Sydney has proved to be quite challenging in the past with a focused concentration of sound required for the three-zoned start areas without infringing too much on the residential buildings.

"Fortunately with the VRX system we were able to accomplish a directional system providing great clarity and throw across the areas that we needed to cover," stated Keith C