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The Dutch manufacturer will be exhibiting the production-version of the LR24 pro-ribbon line array system. Previewed at the show last year, the system marks an important advance for the company within the concert touring and large-scale installation market.

Designed to be able to deliver the same SPL as equivalent products in the mid-size line array category, but with 15dB less distortion, the Alcons LR24 system utilises the company's pro-ribbon technology to "set a new benchmark in terms of SPL, projection control and sound quality".

Also on show will be the BQ211, a high output subwoofer system based on the all carbon-coned 21" woofer. Featuring

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This is to meet the continuing demand for a highly portable, expediently sized HD (1920 x 1200) resolution projector around the 10-12,000 Lumen mark for the wide variety of shows, events and presentations that CPL services as a rental partner.

"Panasonic is a premium brand and the robust build and quality engineering has made it a firm favourite for rental and staging sectors in the last couple of years," says CPL's branch manager Richard Burrow, adding that they can also take advantage of the healthy cross rental and dry hire market, and these are now frequently appearing on spec sheets.

The purchase also follo

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The installation was carried out by the experienced, UK-based TG Baker (Sound) under the supervision of project manager Tony Mott. The system was sold by Sound Technology, Harman Professional's distributor in the UK and ROI, who also provided technical assistance via its project support services.

The Aviva Stadium installation is a fully compliant public address-voice alarm (PAVA) system that is massive in scale, with 26 42-U equipment racks, 118 PA

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A large selection of DPA microphones provided by UK distributor Sound Network was used extensively to record the dramatic tension and ambience of the surroundings. Boyle has described 127 Hours as "an action movie in which the hero doesn't move".

The sound crew from Sound 24 included sound designer and supervising sound editor Glenn Freemantle, sound effects recordist Hugo Adams, Foley artists Nicolas Becker and Adam Mendez and Foley editor Jon Olive. Adams was the only member of the crew to travel to Utah, spending 24 hours at

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"The Executive Hire Team has delivered another great show", said Graham Dobbs managing director at inspHire. "The level of enquiries was excellent and there was a fantastic level of interest from our existing customers in our newly launched inspHire-iX, the Apple device application for inspHire users on the move. We also had a lot of interest in RFID, which will help hire companies to speed up their processes and therefore bring efficiencies to their businesses. I think everyone at the show felt the buzz again this year which is really encouraging."

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Working alongside construction firm NCC, Stage Technologies provided a complete refit of the building's stage system and machinery as part of a £7m renovation project led by the city of Karlstad. The new power-flying system includes 31 power flying sets (comprising BigTow winches, fly bars and pulleys); Nomad and Solo desk control; an eight-axis grid trolley system formed of point hoists and positional control chain hoists for easier rigging; three automated lighting bars; and replacement control for the orchestra lift and house curtain. Co

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ENTECH 2011, which takes place at SCEC on 19 - 21 July 2011, will now include a new stream in its educational program featuring international speakers from PLASA's extensive global membership base.

Over 4000 visitors are expected to register for ENTECH 2011, and attendance at the seminars will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Visitors will be able to secure their seats for a seminar via the ENTECH website in the coming weeks.

PLASA's CEO, Matthew Griffiths said: "We are pleased to be involved in one of the premium industry events in Australia. We see this alliance as a great opportunity to support the future development of our indust

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Don't Scare The Hare is a new game show produced by Endemol which will be aired in April on BBC1's 5.30 p.m. Saturday slot. Lighting designer is Tom Kinane, with whom HSL has worked on numerous past projects. The show sees two teams of contestants pit their wits and their physical agility in a series of games which involves not scaring a large animatronic hare.

Lighting and colour psychology plays a key role in the production - if the hare takes fright during any of the games, the whole environment turns red for danger.

HSL's Sean McGlone project managed the supply of the equipment which includes Vari*Lite moving lights, white lights, LED sources, cyc lighting and follow spots. He

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Generic Audio recently released Preceptor, a 3U, hand-built two-channel (stereo/dual mono) analogue compressor / limiter, whose design and functionality "blends tradition with high performance components, user efficiency and optimum sound quality".

"We're delighted to be adding the Generic Audio brand to our portfolio," says Systems Workshop's Phil Beaumont. "Preceptor is a high spec product that should appeal to a range of audio professionals and we look forward to bringing it to the UK market."

Generic Audio's Bartosz Radziszewski adds, "As a young company just entering a very competitive market, we're thrilled to find a partner in Systems Workshop. Their decisio

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Futurist is a major rental supplier of sound and lighting production to the live events sector, and a well established provider to the educational and professional theatre markets. Futurist's Jamie Hudson comments, "We listened to several systems and compared all the features before purchasing. Peter Butler and his team from A.C. Audio were extremely helpful in setting up demos at their warehouse. We already knew that their service and technical support was excellent, so

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The Pyles Club situated in the Latsia industrial area, packed in about 30 industry professionals from the country's PA companies, as well as freelance engineers and contractors for the first Adamson seminar held in Cyprus. The focus was on hands-on training using the latest gear and software, as well as learning about technologies from Adamson and Lab.gruppen.

The new system was used for the various training activities which included line source array principles and system design principles, computer aided system design (using Adamson Shooter software), rigging, amplification, processing (using Lake Controller software) and hands-on

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The company's owner (and lighting designer), Ammar Jano, knew that the white marble façade of the six-storey building would be a suitable projection surface for SGM's IP55-rated Palco 5 architectural LED fixture - and that it would provide a dazzling wash which could clearly be seen from the nearby Damascus-Beirut highway.

In total 18 Palco 5's were mounted - either on the ground, or positioned at roof level - to deliver a stunning crossfade colour wash.

Ammar Jano, who has been working with SGM products for almost a decade, then turned his

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ESPN Star Sports covers a host of sporting events, which are translated into English, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean and Mandarin and broadcast across Asia. Live feeds come into the voiceover control rooms and certain channels from the original broadcast are muted, programmes are then translated and transmitted with voiceover material to relevant audiences.

"iLive does exactly what we need in terms of routing and it's very user friendly,' says principal engineer, Ratnadeep Bhattacharya. "It's also lightweight and compact, which is an advantage if the consoles need to b

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The Lighting designer for this sensitive production was Ben Cobham of Bluebottle, a design firm that worked collaboratively to achieve the best results.

"Whilst I was the lead designer I had a whole team of talented people working with me including Tom Rogers as assistant designer and he produced plans, concept drawings and looked after technical bump in," says Cobham. "Jen Hector looked after the design realization plotting the show - she is a long time friend and although not a full time employee, she comes to play from time to time. Frog Peck was production manger and Blair Hart was assistant production manager."

The lighting rig consist

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One of the most important literary events in the Hispanic world, this was the sixth edition of the Hay Festival Cartagena, but the first time that a technical specialist from the UK office had attended to train local engineers in the art of archiving. "We were seeing too much material coming back in a variety of different formats, often low quality recordings, which in turn restricted what we could do with it," says Martin Abell.

The Hay Festival organisation currently offers access to an extensive archive of recordings, and is discussing other applications such as commercial podcasts. "The better the quality of the recording, th

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The two year refurbishment programme of the top London venue, cost an estimated £220m and saw the hotel re-open to the public in October. IVC Media's sound systems have been installed in the Riverside, Lower Thames and Lincoln rooms, the Riverside Restaurant and Lancaster Ballroom. Some of the rooms have featured in blockbuster films such as Notting Hill in the past.

As well as providing audio for major events such as live stage performances, the sound systems are also set up to provide background music, voice evacuation and audio for corporate conferences and events. IVC also supplied and installed RGB lighting in the

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Says Jean Louis Pernette, sales director at ETC's French distributor, Avab, "The brief was to supply all the equipment they need, with an emphasis on high spec and ease of use. We were also told that they needed the equipment fast - in fact, we only had a couple of weeks from the time we received the quote request to the delivery date."

Because ETC keeps all its major products in stock in Europe, Pernette was confident the delivery schedule wouldn't be difficult - the entire 42 pallets making up the delivery could come straight out of the warehouse.

"We supplied two Congo and two Congo jr control desks across the three festival venues, to make sure they had enough backup. Ea

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"TubeFlexL (Asia) is well-established in the Southeast Asia market and, as such, the company is in the ideal position to help us continue to expand our reach into the region," says Lighthouse's general manager, Mr Peter Chan. "We are extremely pleased to be working with TubeFlexL (Asia). They are a highly experienced and professional company and we are sure that our partnership will help us towards fully implementing our global growth and development strategy for the coming year."

"We are very excited about representing Lighthouse in the Southeast Asia market," says Mr James Lim, managing director of TubeFlexL (Asia). "Lighthouse's reputation precedes it and we know the

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Spearheaded by managing director François Veys and technical manager Maarten Peeters, Audio Connect will work closely with Meyer Sound to support client projects that demand high-performance sound systems. Veys and Peeters will also team with Meyer Sound's education department to bring its audio expertise and training resources to local professionals. The first Meyer Sound seminar supported by Audio Connect, Fundamentals of System Design, Implementation and Optimizationwill be held in Heist-op-den-Berg on 1-2 March 1 - 2, with Mauricio Ramirez as the instru

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The lighting in the venue, designed by Matthew Marshall and including around 50 moving lights and a collection of LED fixtures along with generic theatrical lights, was programmed and operated by Peter Rubie who opted to use a Vista T4 running the V2 Byron software for control. "After beta testing Vista Byron in its early stages I was impressed by its feature set and vast improvements on Vista 1," remarked Pe

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Political Moves - A hip hop musical based on Nick Clegg's role in forming

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In addition to detailed product demonstrations - featuring, inter alia, the Corus Evolution loudspeaker series and the PowerMate3 - the Russian Dynacord partner Dealer Centre conducted seminars offering tips and tricks designed to simplify and enhance the day-to-day work of those in the industry. Opportunities for discussion are another important element of the Road Show concept, so time was set aside for detailed consideration of the needs of, and questions posed by, individuals attending the events.

"The tour was highly successful," reports Natalia Petrukhina, Dealer Centre's marketing manager. "In view of the fact

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Martin EMEA Vice President Villads Thomsen commented on the change, "It is unfortunate that a highly valuable partner like EVDV could not overcome the economic challenges, however I am confident that with our new sales structure for Belgium we will be able to develop the Belgian market further and grow business together with our customers."

Taking over sales responsibilities in the Belgian market is Martin Professional South Europe commercial director Martin Fournier, who will work

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Staged in the airport's cavernous (6,200 m2) Terminal 1, the event featured a 30-minute show on airport history along with performances by artists hailing from the airport's far-flung destinations. According to Blue Noise managing director Hendrik Rogel, the combination of a highly reverberant space and simultaneous programmes on multiple stages presented an extraordinary challenge. "The terminal is made of metal, glass, and marble," he notes, "so we had to avoid send