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14 March 2016

"We have been heavily involved in Scotland's Hogmanay celebrations for many years," says Calder Sibbald, Black Light's head of hire and events. "This year was no different and we were delighted to work alongside Unique Events and other service providers such as Paragon Power Services to help Scotland welcome in the New Year in style."

The theme of the 2013/14 celebrations was Homecoming and Black Light supplied the equipment needed to bring this vision to life to the three key locations: Edinburgh, Stirling and Inverness. Working to

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Launched in September last year, LIGHTset has been designed and manufactured in the UK to transform the way stage and set backdrops are created, representing substantial savings on crew and transport costs. The 'all in one' solution combines 3D printed images, creative lighting and crisp front or rear projection, and has already been seen at events in The Grove West London, Sandown Park Racecourse and across the UK on two extensive corporate roadshows.

Creative director, Phil Harlow and his team will further highlight LIGHTset's creative capabilities on stand H22 at the Event Production Show, where they plan to showcase a full size LIGHTset performing under "real" show conditions. Demonstrating its unique rear projec

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14 March 2016

That's why leading Slovakian lighting designer Martin Kubanka decided to use 100 Robe Robin Pointes at the heart of his lighting rig for the recent East vs West KHL All Stars match at the Slovnaft Arena in Bratislava.

Kubanka's brief was to highlight the music and various mapped video projections appearing on the ice during the 22 minute pre-show multimedia son et lumiere. He created an atmospheric enhancement to the video that highlighted touches of Slovakian folklore and history while celebrating the firt time that Bratislave has hosted a KHL All Stars event.

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Marcus Plum and Sebastian Huwig, managing directors, decided in 2011 to rely on MA Lighting products. At the beginning of 2012, the company invested in the MA VPU MK1 to be able to offer all the required products for a modern FOH single-handed set up. Besides media servers and consoles, this also includes all additional peripheral media

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14 March 2016

In addition to several smaller projects, ChainMaster's activities in Sochi have mainly centred on equipping the Bolshoy Ice Dome and the Iceberg Skating Palace, each of which is capable of accommodating up to 12,000 spectators. It is planned to stage the ice hockey matches in the Bolshoy Ice Dome and the artistic and short track ice skating events in the Iceberg Skating Palace.

In each of these arenas, ChainMaster equipment forms part of a variety of installations - most notably the system for raising and lowering the two giant video cubes. Here, safety was the paramount concern governing

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Apart from instant stardom, the winner will be awarded two prizes: a trip to Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt and the Martin M2GO controller. A second place winner receives the M2PC. Third place wins the Martin USB Duo DMX Interface.

During the contest friends, colleagues and other Facebook users can vote for their favourite shows. When the contest ends, the three shows with the most votes enter the final stage of the contest. A panel of judges, made up of last year's winner, Brad Helzer and Martin employees with field experience, Theis Wermuth and Paul Pelletier, will deliberate

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14 March 2016

Commenting on the decision to switch distribution to Soinua, Cadac brand development manager Richard Ferriday says, "It was a strategic decision in order to more effectively focus our distribution on the live production sector. This is where Soinua is especially strong, being heavily involved with sound touring and live event production throughout Spain."

Commenting for Soinua, general manager Jorge De La Torre states, "The aim of our company is not to carry an expansive range of brands but to have a highly select and complementary portfolio of products, chosen purely on the basis of quality.

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14 March 2016

RedNet is being used for an increasing number of innovative audio applications where something special in terms of quality or performance is required. RedNet couples Focusrite's legendary conversion expertise - along with superbly transparent mic preamps and other studio-quality audio capabilities - with the tried and tested Dante Ethernet-based audio networking protocol to record, distribute and play back audio over IP.

Most recently RedNet solved a problem for Andreas Renhorn, chief sound engineer at the GöteborgsOperan in Gothenburg, Sweden, when he was tasked with playing back 32 channels of high-quality audio including feeding a custom 27.2 audio system in the Opera's modern riverside performance complex.

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"Allen & Heath's reputation for uncompromising sound quality and innovation has made Xone the "DJ's DJ mixer", so it is natural that Xone should find a home at Store DJ, Australia's leading DJ retailer," comments Store DJ's Xone brand manager, Paul Bridge. "Allen & Heath's Xone DJ mixers are the only choice for many top-shelf DJs, including Richie Hawtin, Pete Tong, Andy C, John Digweed, and Booka Shade. Store DJ's management and staff are extremely excited to have the opportunity to bring these excellent products to Australia's DJ's and performers!"

Store DJ will continue the global development of the Xone brand not only through their own stores but through other key A

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Utilizing state-of-the-art LumenRadio CRMX technology, these products include RC4 LumenDim4 4-channel low voltage dimmers, RC4 LumenData receivers and the SuperNova software from LumenRadio.

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Settings affecting I/O levels, routing and more will be defined with SymNet Composer 2.0, which gives customers the ability to consolidate operations on a single platform where three or more were previously required.

"As a result of the release, integrators will no longer need separate software packages for each manufacturer's product as well as Dante Controller," comments Trent Wagner, senior product manager at Symetrix. "Supported Dante-enabled products will appear side-by-side with Symetrix SymNet products in the Composer software and can be managed or configured identically

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14 March 2016

Eclipse's team was led by project manager John Gibbons and technical project manager Jonathan Tingle, and the brief included the delivery of an attractive design plus lighting, video, audio, staging and rigging equipment as well as graphics, signage and branding.

One of the most notable challenges working at Australia House is the fact that it is the Australian Embassy in London. Another challenge is working within the constraints of the venue with all of the floors, walls and pillars made of beautiful marble.

The most notable highlight was seeing the project from

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14 March 2016

While the game itself left Denver fans a bit bored, the halftime show proved to be the most exciting part of the day. Super Bowl XLVIII was the most watched television programme in US history with 111.5m viewers while the halftime performance was the most watched in the history of the Super Bowl drawing in a record 115.3m viewers, passing the record 114m who watched Madonna perform two years earlier.

The Super Bowl Halftime Show has some of the most stringent requirements in the business. Setup occurs in front of a packed stadium and in this case nearly freezing conditions - all in just under a mere eight minutes. With this sort of timeline, pre-product

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Funded by the Department for Education and administered through Arts Council England, the three-year £171 million programme was considered to be a major positive outcome of Darren Henley's 2011 review of music education in England.

However, Ofsted's report published in November said the hubs, funded from August 2012, had done little to improve the quality of music education from previous years and that the subject continued

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14 March 2016

Halpin, who boasts a veritable portfolio of global superstars among his credits, first started using SGM's groundbreaking XC-5 colour strobes last year on world arena tours with P!nk and Taylor Swift, as rental stagers PRG invested in inventory to meet the demand.

This time he confirms that he has deployed 40 of the LED strobes on the stage at Planet Hollywood Resort as the only strobe platform in the set.

Designed to highlight the pop diva's signature style and energy as she performs infectious dance hits alongside tracks from her eighth studio album, Britney Jean, the show will run for a minimum of two years and combines a high-

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14 March 2016

The merger of both shows will create "the largest trade fair alliance for professional event technology in the areas audio, lighting, theatre and stage, media and image production, and system integration".

"The two international market leaders will contribute their globally renowned brands to this alliance of strength," says Hans-Joachim Erbel, CEO of Reed Exhibitions Deutschland GmbH. Stephan Kurzawski, SVP of Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH, echoes this sentiment: "Industry leader meets industry leader in a move that executes the bundling of the market in just one trade fair venue so often demanded by both exhibitors and visitors.

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The show was recorded in Studio 5 of the Globus Group Studio complex in Jerusalem, produced by German based Constantine Entertainment, and lit with the help of Robe ROBIN MMX WashBeams and Robin LEDWash 1200s which were instrumental to Azulay's design.

The set featured a full kitchen on one side where the competitors created their culinary art, and this was connected via a conveyor belt to the restaurant / tasting area the other side. The food was dispatched to the tasting teams via the belt, so the judges were unaware of which chef had prepared which of the dishes!

Azulay decided to use the LEDWash 1200s for soft light on Chef Games, the first time he's used them for this application and context. He did this with the addition

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The stadium opened in 1974 as the Westfalenstadion and is home to Bundesliga football team Borussia Dortmund. While still referred to by its original name it is known officially as Signal Iduna Park after the Signal Iduna Group insurance company that has sponsored Borussia Dortmund since 2005 in a deal that runs until 2021.

Four new stands were built at Signal Iduna Park for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Germany. It can seat 65,718 fans for international games, with a mixture of seating and standing areas for home matches bringing it up to full capacity. Because of the growing need for a technical infrastructure to provide both voice alarm co

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14 March 2016

Martin Professional VC-Grids, VC-Strips, VC-Dots and EC-Panels were integrated into all possible elements of the stage. One of the spectacular details was a curtain made up of Martin VC-Dots. Other than working as a traditional curtain it was used both for effects and to display images.

All along the front edge of the stage, a number of VC-Grids were placed. VC-Strips and VC-Grids were also put on stairs and a piano for maximum visual impact. Other stage elements included eight large trapeziums full of VC-Grids and VC-Strips were flying around on stage during the s

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14 March 2016

Making its tradeshow debut at ISE 2014, LYON incorporates the technology of the LEO Family in a more flexible and compact package, and extends the advantages of highly linear self-powered systems to a larger range of venues and applications. LYON is available in two variants: the LYON-M main line array loudspeaker for main arrays, and the LYON-W wide-coverage line array loudspeaker for downfill and outfill applications.

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The course, which will be presented in English, will cover 120 hours over a five-week period, from Monday to Friday, beginning 5 May and ending 6 June 2014. The course will be located at the RCF Audio Academy premises, located in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

The primary goal of the course is to provide engineers with a specific knowledge of the state-of-the-art technologies related to sound, transducers and speaker systems and their applications in the professional market. The course is organised in modules progressing the basis of electro-acoustics components such as transducers, amplifiers and digital processors, to the design of a

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14 March 2016

Thirty years ago, nearly to the day, Manfred Ruerup and Karl Steinberg founded the company that has become one of the world's largest manufacturers of music and audio software and hardware, with more than 1.5m users worldwide.

"Steinberg have a tradition of pioneering in new technologies that we can be proud of, and our wide network of accomplished engineers, musicians, producers and composers allows us to keep our fingers at the pulse of the industry," comments Frank Simmerlein, marketing director at Steinberg. "I've been a part of this company for a long time and it's wonderful to sense that the spirit of the early days, the constant desire to find new ideas and solutions, lives on."

Since 2005, the company is a whol

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14 March 2016

Hurst took the 'less is more' approach to lighting the Impossible singer's show, which he programmed during production rehearsals at Millennium Studios in Bedford, working a discreet jazz clubby vibe blended with urban edge in to the soul orientated show.

HSL's project manager Mike Oates comments, "Andy's design is classy and intelligent - and really shows off his skills at creating a theatrical style environment."

The stage visuals start with a sumptuous red velour drape upstage - supplied by EventServe Drapeage in Ireland - which sets the tone of the show, with t

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14 March 2016

Steve Hubbard, Push Hire's production manager had seen the Batten2 being used on a variety of shows and was impressed with what he saw so he visited MilTec's stand at PLASA for a closer look. A full demo was then organised at the Push premises in Eastbourne, resulting in an order for 68 units.

Steve commented: "The Batten2 was chosen over rival products because it is bright, compact, robust and because the layout of the connectors makes it easy to set up for shows. It is obviously a well thought out and well designed product. Our first job with them will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on a huge exhibition stand over 80m long.