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14 March 2016

At the heart of Hakkasan is a 10,000 sq ft multi-tiered nightclub kitted out entirely with the UK brand's loudspeakers, comprising 24 TFA-600HW Flex Array modules and 12 TFA-600L low frequency loudspeakers, flown in four arrays of three low frequency cabinets with six wide dispersion mid/highs. In addition, the dance floor system employs six ground-stacked TFA-600B single 18" bass cabinets and three TFS-900Bi install-specific dual 18" subwoofers.

A total of 12 RACKDP-50 4-channel amplifiers power the 24 Flex Array cabinets. 22 TCX-8 compact passive two-way loudspeakers, and eight NuQ-6 ultra-compact passive loudspeakers supply under-balcony fill. Upstairs, a further 21 TCX-8 speakers have be

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SRD Group in Kent were asked to supply a unique lighting effect to add height, depth and texture to the stage. To do this they purchased 30x 1m LED tubes from MilTec (UK) Ltd. The tubes were used in two locations- 10 mounted on the curved roof of the stage, fanning out vertically to add height and 20 were hung vertically at the rear, forming a curtain of light. The tubes were pixelmapped onto an Avolites Pearl desk and used throughout the day to complement and enhance the stage lighting.

Colin Umbers, project manager for SRD reports, "The customer had a clear idea of the effect that was required but the original plan turn

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14 March 2016

"The Royal Hall is a historic venue on the Venetian walls encircling the old town of Nicosia, Cyprus. A lot of high-class events are hosted at the venue and the recent addition of the Midas Digital System meets demands of any event be it small or large," commentsMoswain Antao, head of marketing at NMK.

He adds, "The PRO6 is a mid-range desk which can be upgraded at anytime to a PRO9 to handle more inputs and auxiliaries if required making it a great return on investment for the venue."

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Although a new name to the concert touring market, SW19 Production's team is packed with familiar faces and its involvement in the Glassheart tour was the result of close associations with key members of Leona's team.

"I'd worked with creative director Emma Bull and musical director Steve Anderson on Kylie Minogue tours, and with Leona's Front of House engineer Dave Wooster on many occasions," explains SW19 production manager Kevin Hopgood. "Leona had also changed management companies immediately before the tour and they were open to a change and a fresh eye on things.&qu

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14 March 2016

Through this appointment, Stage Audio Works will provide the following technical support services to Christie's customers in South Africa: technical telephone support , service and repair Christie products under warranty and a local inventory of parts and consumables for Christie products

This arrangement will help to support the fast growth of Christie's business in South Africa since the opening of its first Southern hemisphere branch office in Johannesburg this time last year.

Dale Miller, vice president EMEA for Christie explains, "Our business in South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa has grown quickly since investment in our Johannesburg branch office. Now the appointment of Stage Audio Works to the role of Authorised Service Centre allows us to maintain the high st

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14 March 2016

Watched by over 11m viewers, the Britain's Got Talent 2013 final was one of the UK's most-watched programmes of the year. Sound director Robert Edwards entrusted the compact DK2 meter to measure the live broadcast stream to check the programme's integrated LUFS level (the EBU loudness criteria). ITV maintains a dual acceptance policy for programme delivery, which means that programmes can be delivered with observance to the traditional +8dBm Peak level or to -23 LUFS (plus or minus 1 LUFS).

"It is vitally important to know where our programme sits in relation to these emerging standards," Robert Edwards says. "In the UK we have very strict delivery standar

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14 March 2016

The HK Audio IL 60-CT is a compact two-way ceiling mount speaker designed for installation into ceilings.

Thuraya is a leading mobile satellite communications company that empowers people with tools to bring the organizations and communities they serve closer together. They offer "innovative, flexible and dependable technology that helps you overcome the toughest challenges and achieve the highest aspirations - facilitating reliable communications where and when it matters most".

"The IL 60-CT is a robust speaker solution for meeting rooms," commented Manivelu Saiprasad, HK Audio product specialist at Melody House. "It features a built-in 100V transformer offering selectable power taps, which may be activated o

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Throughout the stage, 34 Martin MAC Viper Profiles, 13 MAC 2000 Wash beams, 20 MAC Aura LED's, 12 Atomic Strobe 3000's and 12 Scroller 3000 lighting units were deployed, strategically designed to provide a spectacular visual landscape for the show.

Soundgarden's live production team ordered the Martin lighting solution specifically for the Palicio de los Deportes performance.

"We've been using Martin lighting for years and our inventory has been trustworthy and bright from the beginning," s

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14 March 2016

The open air concert was staged by Miligram Music on a site at Usce in Belgrade, right at the confluence of the Rivers Danube and Sava ... and attended by an enthusiastic audience of 100,000.

The pressure was on to ensure that it was a memorable and spectacular event for everyone - all of those experiencing it live, plus the additional tens of thousands watching on TV.

Fifty Robe Robin 100 LEDBeams and 20 x ColorSpot 700E ATs were used to light the audience. With so many people and a live telecast by the Serbian Broadcast corporation on national TV, audience lighting was

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14 March 2016

The doors - positioned stage left and stage right - each measure 7.73m high by 6m wide and open and close to allow set trucks with giant heads of the singer to enter and exit the stage.

Kinesys was contacted by the tour's set technical manager Nick Evans and head rigger Jerry Hough and asked to come up with a neat and safe automation solution for quickly opening and closing the doors - that had been mechanically engineered by Tait.

The particular challenge with operating these doors is they are required to tilt back 6 degrees before raising 7m to fully open.

The mechanics of the system were designed and engineered by Tait's Pieter Denijs and Jerry Hough and features a

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An essential element of the installation, the included DL251 stage box serves as the digital snake, providing 48 Midas mic/line inputs and 16 analogue XLR outputs at the stage end. MIDI (In, Out, Thru) plus three AES50 ports and one Ethernet connection round out the DL251 rear panel. Connectivity to the FOH console is via shielded, twisted-pair Cat 5e cable with a range of up to 100 metres/330 feet. Dual-redundant power supplies are standard.

Trof Group, which operates Gorilla, The Deaf Institute, Albert Hall Manchester and Trof Northern Quarter,

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"We don't rent to end users, we don't do production. This is plain black box rental," Merrilees confirmed. The company has grown five-fold in the 12 months since foundation in August 2012, "We build our relationships steadily. The investment we have made in Clay Paky equipment has been an important part of that growth; their distributor Ambersphere has given us fantastic support and truth is, the range of lights Clay Paky has is what everyone is asking for. We stock

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Gray wanted to ensure it was a very special show with a high impact. It was essentially a large one off preceded by a couple of festival warm ups bringing to a close the band's impressive Velociraptor! album cycle.

The whole visual concept was inspired by the stark, contrasty and quirky music video for Switchblade Smiles directed by Aitor Throup.

With this in mind Gray and Throup draped the entire stage in white velvet including the walls, trusses and both of the floor based ground support trusses. A white Marley floor was laid, complete with white risers and fascias, plus

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14 March 2016

"Taking on the distribution of the German Movecat maintains Jands philosophy of only representing premium world class products," said Paul Mulholland, Jands managing director. "Germany is renowned for making the best mechanical products in the world and Movecat maintain this tradition and arguably provide the best designed and manufactured chain motor in the industry."

"The integrity of the company, the quality of the product, and its value for money and ease of use will excite the market," said Peter Grisard, Jands national manager - projects.

Jands Staging recently supplied 32 500kg Movecat chain hoists for the ANZ stadium in Sydney.

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The three-day multi-genre event featured local stars including Golden Nightingale TomᚠKlus, Krystof, Nightwork, David Koller, Pražský výb?r, Monkey Business, and Wohnout, Rental Pro provided the main stage with a STM system using 12 sets of M46 Main and B112 Bass cabinets per side, with 12x S118 subs groundstacked each side.

"When we saw and heard STM for the first time, we were so surprised by the unique modular concept that now we can't imagine a future for our business without the system," says Roman Zezula of Rental Pro, which has owned Nexo loudspeakers since the company was started in 2000.

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A longtime Yamaha user, Odell's front of house engineer Davy Ogilvy became acquainted with the CL5 in his previous full-time role as a project manager at Dimension Audio. "We were looking at new digital consoles and we liked the CL5 so much that we invested in it as soon as it came out," he says.

"Since then I've used it at a number of shows. I love the way it instantly sounds great as soon as it's plugged in. You are immediately in a good place, which is the ideal position to start."

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Gromit Unleashed is a new public art exhibition hitting the streets of Bristol for 10 weeks this summer to raise funds for Bristol Children's Hospital Charity, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal. Spearheaded by Aardman, the art trail features 80 giant Gromit sculptures, each individually decorated by an eclectic mix of well-known and local artists, designers and celebrities.

Dan Aldridge Managing Director of Stage Electrics commented, "Raising funds for Bristol Royal Hospital for Children is such a w

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At the official presentation more than 90 people participated, mostly coming from the world of motorsport; technicians, engineers, journalists in the sector, as well as two special guests: the multi-world champion Carlo Ubbiali and volleyball champion Marco Meoni.

Some guests were also from the main local media - the Eco di Bergamo, Bergamo TV, VideoBergamo, Mediaset Italia2 - SportMediaset. - who carried out reports which were to be published or aired the next day on the local news stations.

Stefano Rumi, coordinator of the project, started by presenting the Racing Team Department, which was followed by a video that retraced the stages of the history of Rumi and then by a light show specially made by Clay Paky's

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Jensen and Chase accepted the award on behalf of other Alliance personnel not in attendance, including Kenny Andrews and Karen Lopez. Alliance represents Audio-Technica in the region of Southern California and Southern Nevada.

Audio-Technica held the awards ceremony to honour its dedicated force of manufacturer's representatives during the InfoComm Expo 2013, in Orlando, Florida. The A-T Rep of the Year recipient was congratulated for outstanding sales performance and bestowed with Audio-Technica's Samurai doll award. Allianc

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14 March 2016

"I own an L3t and an L3m and use them as my house PA system," says West. "I've found them to be a fantastic addition to my stage. In terms of power, sound quality, and set-up time, they are a big upgrade from the articulated linear array I was using before."

With the growth of his show leading to more gigs at bigger venues, West began to realise the limitations of his old system. "Basically, it didn't play well with others," he says. "Introducing another speaker required all these weird extra connections and adapters. It wasn't easy. S

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14 March 2016

Having set up the first formalised office with just six staff in 1990, Sennheiser UK is one of the UK audio industry's true success stories. In 1996, when the company moved to its former office at Century Point in High Wycombe, it had already grown to 26 employees and a turnover of £7.5m.

Now at 72 staff and grossing £45m, Century Point's 6,000 sq.ft of office more than reached capacity therefore the move to its new 15,000sq.ft home in Marlow has provided much needed space for the team as well as the new service facility.

"We have come a long way since our first foray into the UK market," says Sennheiser UK general manager, Phil Massey. "We are very proud of our achievements and

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"We used 36 COLORado 4 IP luminaires to light up the outward face of each of the columns that wrap the building," said Stace Napper with Ironman Sound Industries.

"The columns are about 40ft tall, plus our mounting position was an additional 15ft below them for a total throw of over 55ft. The mounting position was a small ledge, only about 2ft deep; but thanks to the slim profile of the COLORado 4 IP we were able to mount each light to the buildings existing lighting hardware, which also ensure

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The three-day conference will focus on teaching methods, instructional resources, learning outcomes, technical operations, industry relations and related topics that impact the theoretical and practical aspects of professional audio education. The conference will bring together leading educators and professional audio industry representatives to exchange ideas and knowledge that will contribute to improving quality and effectiveness for students and faculty alike.

The event will also for the first time include a significant focus on live sound as a component of a pro audio education curriculum, a fact underscored by the event's keynote address delivered by Bob

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The lighting designer Matthias Frank, the show light operator Matthias Schöffmann, the white light operator and MA system technician Jürgen Erntl and the media server manager Stefan Kürzel counted - among other things - on two grandMA2 light consoles, a grandMA2 fader wing, an MA Network Processing Unit (NPU) and 80 Clay Paky Sharpys.

Matthias Frank commented on his use of the MA system, "It was critical in this production for more than one operator to work in a network. However only the systems needed for the console