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UK - Cheshire-based event production company, dBS Solutions, has just invested in a significant dBTechnologies self-powered VIO line array system to keep pace with their expanding order book and the increase in demand to service large events.
dBS opted for VIO after two convincing demos: the first at Manchester’s international concert venue, the Bridgewater Hall, and the second at the Morecambe Carnival where the VIO system was put through its paces on the Bay radio live stage.
dBS managing director, Chris Bogg, says: “We’ve been impressed by the build quality of other dBTechnologies products, having added the multi-purpose DVX range to our hire stock a few years ago,” he explained. “When VIO was released last year, I really liked the integrated networking, the ease of the prediction software and the touring packaging.
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Europe - Rammstein live tour lighting directors Bertil Mark and Faren Matern used four TimeCore units from the Dutch manufacturer Visual Productions.
The TimeCore is a modern timecode toolbox capable of generating, converting and displaying timecode. It supports and converts between SMPTE, MTC and Art-Net timecode and can convert between different frame rates. The TimeCore also handles various non-timecode protocols: MIDI. MMC, MSC, RTP-MIDI, sACN, Art-Net, OSC, UDP, TCP and HTTP. This allows the unit to be triggered by many external signals and devices.
TimeCore can be configured as a timecode master and in this case generates a stable timecode signal. Alternatively, it can also be used as a timecode slave. The LCD display shows the current running timecode in real time and the two push buttons are user-configurable.
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Spain - Robert Juliat added some French flavour to the celebrated Spanish music festival at Cap Roig, Girona this summer.
Local rental company ABS Entertainment Service supplied two Robert Juliat Merlin 2500W and two Robert Juliat Aramis 2500W followspots as front of house support for the duration of the two-week event.
The festival originated in 1927 when it began as an art and architectural and music show. This, the sixth edition of the festival in its present form, ran from 7 July to 22 August 2017 in a site spread over 17 hectares of gardens, complete with castle. The line-up of singers and bands included Anastacia, Passenger, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Norah Jones, Wilco, Woody Allen, Els Amics de les Arts and The Pretenders.
Merlin and Aramis are two of Robert Juliat’s most popular followspots and the team from ABS rigged two of each on front of house towers fo

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UK - CPL returned to the attractive leafy environs of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire to provide a full video production package for the Main Stage at the 2017 Camper Calling festival - a new event staged by Jazz Events, part of the Jazz Publishing Group.
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural two-day Camper Calling, this year the capacity was doubled from 3000 to 6000 and another day of fun and entertainment for all the family was added, making it three days, which allowed people to enjoy some rare and endangered glorious late August bank holiday weekend weather – apparently the hottest on record.
Main Stage headliners included Cast, The Lightning Seeds and the Flying Swordfish, and CPL was working for Urban Audio, with a team on site led by Simon Haydon.
Fifty panels of Roe 3.4 mm LED screen was installed onstage, flown off a mid-stage truss and confi

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USA - OneRepublic headlined this summer’s 34-date Honda Civic Tour of North America, with support from Fitz and the Tantrums, and James Arthur.
Core to the strikingly impressive lighting design by Mark Butts, production and lighting designer at LA-based Preset Productions, are 103 Ayrton MagicPanel-602 fixtures, supplied by global rental company VER.
For Butts and co-production designer and show director Raj Kapoor, it was the first time of touring with OneRepublic. “We have worked with the band before, but never on a big tour, and we were keen to start developing a visual style and brand for them which really captures their personality and image,” explains Butts. “We wanted this tour to be the first step in defining the OneRepublic style and to make them known for their live shows in a similar way to iconic bands like Muse, Rammstein, U2 or Nine Inch Nails.

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Italy - A selection of Audient’s USB audio interfaces have arrived at Italian music education facility CAMP Academy in Naples.
“We have connected the iD4s to our 12 iMac stations to provide all of our students a perfect sonic experience, and the two iD22s are now part of our recording and production studio,” explains Luca de Gregorio, music production and sound technologies director.
A graduate of Milan’s SAE Institute as well as being active in the industry - he’s currently working on Asif Kapadia’s latest movie - means de Gregorio is ideally positioned to know how to inspire his students. “The interfaces are simple to use and easy to understand. The students simply plug them in and start to work,” he says. “We connected each iD4 to an iMac, and use them to train students mainly on Logic Pro X. They can record some live vocals and instruments taking

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USA - Texas-based Mexican Tejano band, Grupo Siggno, recently staged a performance in San Antonio, TX. Global Productions, owned by Adrian Gallegos and Daniel Martinez, helped brighten their stage by utilising moving heads from PR Lighting and several fixtures from Mega Systems, who distribute the Chinese brand in the US.
The event took place in the Cowboys Dance Hall, where over 4000 people enjoyed the concert, produced by Global Productions. In addition to PR Lighting’s XLED 3007, production also included four XLED 4022RZ and four Phantom from PR Lighting.
Both Global Productions and Grupo Siggno’s lighting designer, David Luis Rosas, expressed their amazement at the XLED 4022RZ, which is equipped with a beam angle zoom range of 5° to 60° and can create illumination and colour mixing in both near and far distances. When used in Wash mode, the beams come togethe

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UK - Event Sound and Light were contracted to provide a full turnkey production solution for Outside Live 2017, which took place at Taverham Hall, Norwich on 28-30 July.
Sound designer Jason Fenn deployed a full Martin Audio system for the event, preferring a combination of MLA Compact cells with MLX subs in cardioid format. He says: “The concerts were sold as a ‘picnic’ style event so we knew we had to have even SPL from the front row to the very back. On top of that, the event site was very close to a neighbouring village so keeping our off-site noise to a minimum was essential.
“The other deciding factor for choosing Martin Audio MLA was the superb audio quality and sonic excellence that the system delivers.” Additional Martin Audio DD12s were deployed for in-fill and centre-fill duties, with the entire system managed by Martin Audio’s dedicated M

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Denmark - Lighting designer Sune Verdier of b-ql.dk and scenographer Benjamin La Cour collaborated to produce a dynamic lighting aesthetic for a new production of Green Day's American Idiot rock musical staged at Den Grå Hal (The Grey Hall) in Copenhagen.
They chose Robe moving lights - DL7S Profiles, DL4S Profiles and Spiider LED wash beams - to be at the core of the lighting, which was developed as a co-design for the show.
Benjamin’s almost bare stage set features three large moving scenic pieces initially making up the stage floor, which resemble giant slabs of concrete, representing the crushing of individuals refusing to conform to the norm. These move constantly throughout the show, each rigged on four half tonne vari-speed motors - creating different spaces, rooms and locations as the story – of life, individuality, expression and being someone - un

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UK – Chauvet fixtures have been installed at one of Manchester’s most famous industrial-era buildings, Victoria Warehouse, which was transformed into a multi-purpose cultural hub with a corporate event space, The Bays.
Installed by the Sterling Event Group, the venue benefits from a collection of 165 Chauvet Professional COLORdash Accent Quad fixtures.
Richard Nicholson, project manager at Sterling Event Group, positioned the COLORdash fixtures next to the industrial-era steel columns to ensure more immersive coverage.
“Given the architectural setup within both bay areas, the compact build of the COLORdash Accents ensured that we could provide a discrete solution for downlighting each pillar,” he said. “What’s more, we know from past experience that these fixtures are incredibly easy to set up and install. As a result, we were able to integrate them s

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Germany - Neumann & Müller Veranstaltungstechnik (N&M) have been busy with some major outdoor musical productions, supported by their TiMax SoundHub spatial reinforcement processors and TiMax Tracker stage-tracking automation.
N&M, one of Germany’s largest supplier of event technology, perennially services two of the grandest outdoor performances in the country: Erfurt DomStufen‑Festspiele, where this year the opera Der Troubadour played through August; and Schlossfestspiele Schwerin which hosted West Side Story for a mid-summer run.
Staged in the Old Garden of Schwerin Castle for two months, the Schlossfestspiele has been dramatically transformed from an insider opera lovers’ secret pleasure that it started as a quarter of a century ago, into the technically complex large-scale premier outdoor production that is today. The transition w

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UK - Students from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) are preparing for a rare London revival of David Hare’s Stuff Happens, supported by the launch of the new Video and Digital Design training strand.
As the new academic year gets under way, Edward Kemp returns to the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre to direct Stuff Happens. Premiered at the National Theatre in 2004, David Hare’s examination of the build-up to the Iraq War combines verbatim theatre with speculative conversations. This new RADA production will integrate projected video into the design to counterpoint the action on stage, adding to the layers of documentary and drama already present in Hare’s script.
Designer and illustrator Jane Heather is collaborating with video artist Ali Hossaini on the production. In the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, and with the support of state-of-the-art equipment provid

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UK - White Light has been called upon to provide the lighting equipment for I>The Toxic Avenger’s West End debut at the Arts Theatre, London.
The show is written by Tony Award-winning duo Joe DiPietro and David Bryan and is lit by Nic Farman, who has worked on the show since its first London run. He comments: “I’ve worked with the director, Benji Sperring, many times before and my brief for this production was to have a lot of fun and be brave with my design. We often like to create bold stage pictures filled with colour and, for this show, it was especially important to create the cartoon style world in which the musical is set.”
The show first opened at the Southwark Playhouse last year and Nic believes that the musical still embraces its B-Movie origins. He comments: “For the West End version, we wanted to ramp up the rock feel of the show and add more

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Nigeria - Multi-Media Event Trading recently purchased two DiGiCo SD10 consoles from DWR Distribution and two SD Racks on HMA Optics, Wave Servers, Orange Box and option cards, all of which went straight onto The Voice, Nigeria.
In March this year, renowned sound engineer Adriaan van der Walt joined the company. His was first exposed to DiGiCo was over 10 years ago. “I was working in the UK with audio rental company Capital Sound as a freelancer and DiGiCo was the thing. The moment I mentioned anything else, someone would want to hit me over the head! Since then I’ve known it’s a premium brand and the preference for serious people in the know.” Subsequently, the first DiGiCo Adriaan worked on was a SD8, a workhorse to this day.
Multi-Media’s SD10s are currently on The Voice, Nigeria. “DiGiCo is an amazing system because you can design it, lay

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Russia - Moscow-based production company MAX MAX chose the technology of award-winning beam shaper the Claypaky Scenius Profile to feature in two distinct lighting designs for two large-scale anniversary events.
In June, MAX MAX designed, created and produced the 50th anniversary event for Swedish brand Oriflame, celebrated at Moscow's Olympic Stadium. The event was split into two main sections, a business conference followed by a formal gala dinner, the Banquet of Directors. The MAX MAX team was tasked with creating entirely different lighting looks for each, to follow in quick succession.
"For this production we worked closely with lighting designer Evgenii Juhnevich to create straight and calm lighting looks for the conference on the first day and a dynamic, bright and complex lighting for the Banquet," says Maxim Martynov, CEO of MAX MAX Productions.
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UK - Temporary power specialist Midas has been appointed premium dealer for generator giant Himoinsa, giving it access to the latest technology, including the Silent Plus range which cuts noise emissions without limiting performance.
The agreement will see Midas sell Himoinsa machines as well as building and developing its own rental fleet.
Dave Noble, Midas’ managing director, says: “The Himoinsa brand is a mark of quality recognised worldwide. We’ve been looking to expand the rental and sales side of the business for a number of years and this relationship gives us the perfect tools to do that.
“Containing noise is a crucial aspect to contracts at a number of events we supply, and in other sectors too, so the Silent Plus range will play fast dividend. The Himoinsa innovations keep coming and we’re proud to be involved.”
Clive Dix, managing d

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USA - Abundant Living Faith Centre (AFLC) of El Paso, Texas, recently opened the doors at a second site, located on the west side of town. The new building boasts a 2,000-seat sanctuary along with an Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) ADAPTive sound reinforcement system.
The church leaders called upon Michael Garrison Associates (MGA) of Fresno, California, to reprise their role as consultant, designer and systems integrator for the audio, video, lighting and acoustic systems the new satellite location required. MGA has worked closed with ALFC since 2004, when design began for a new facility for the church’s main east side campus. This project, with a 3,600-seat main sanctuary, was completed at the end of 2007.
The church’s project team stated from the start that the new sanctuary’s audio system must support the same “concert level” performance as was achieved for

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USA - The Music City Food + Wine Festival returned to Bicentennial Park for another weekend that celebrated the culinary crafting of world-renowned chefs, mixologists, sommeliers and self-proclaimed foodies.
Bandit Lites joined forces with C3 Presents and Jeff Wendt to create a lighting package that would add to the ambiance, energise the space and bring colour and light to more than 20 tents, a DJ booth, and the Grand Pavilion Taste tent.
With food and spirits from more than 80 purveyors, ticket holders were given the opportunity to indulge in a weekend of artisan flavours and exceptional experiences including an intimate bourbon tasting with Preston Van Winkle of Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, BBQ from Martin Bar-B-Que Pitmaster Pat Martin, a Gospel Brunch along the Music City Walk of Fame Park, panels and chef demos and a Grand Taste Pavilion with tastings, showcase

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Denmark - Lighting designer Johnny Thinggaard Lydiksen used 104 Robe fixtures to craft the light show for Danish hip hop band Suspekt.
The band requested the LD to create “a new live visual experience” for their tour, which kicked off at a stadium at the start of the year.
In addition to the Robes – comprising 48 x Pointes, 48 x Spiiders and 8 BMFL Spots - Johnny decided on a slightly old-school look, adding over 400 PAR cans to the stadium show rig and 24 strobes.
The overriding idea was that all versions of the design – large or small-scale – should share the same aesthetic. For the autumn club tour, the LD uses 10 x Spiiders, 10 x Strobes and 16 x 8-lite audience blinders on wind-up stands. “I wanted to keep it brutally stark. It was the vibe of the music that gave me the idea for the wall of PARs for an extreme contrast in lightsources and basical

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India - Electronic music festival Ultra hit the road under the moniker Road to Ultra played two shows in India in September, one of which included Elation Professional lighting gear supplied by Elation partner Star Dimensions India.
Star Dimensions handled lighting and trussing for the event and turned to 12 Elation Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads and Platinum Beam 5R beam effect moving lights for what Ashish Mehta, director of Star Dimensions, described as an “out of the box” design. “We had the SBX fixtures on both a front bar and back bar truss, creating mesmerizing effects on stage and towards the audience while the Platinum Beam 5Rs were used for nice mid-air gobo effects,” Ashish Mehta explains. “We rigged many 5R Beams across the stage and sound tower extension and their sharp narrow beam created a larger than life look.”
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South Africa - The latest series of Take Me Out Mzanzi – aired on M-Net’s Mzanzi Magic network in South Africa – was recorded over six weeks at Sasani Studios in Johannesburg, featuring a lighting scheme designed by Rob Grobler, with equipment supplied by rental specialist Gearhouse South Africa.
Produced by Rapid Blue, the show has a style book and a specific look that has to be followed, explained Rob, who chose over 130 Robe fixtures to assist him in achieving this task on the lighting side. The methodology by which the various creative departments can arrive at these aesthetic conclusions… is left entirely to the expertise and imagination of the local production teams and professionals.
Beforehand, Rob received research material from Rapid Blue and watched numerous You Tube videos of other editions before drawing up the lighting plot, which featured

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Thailand - A Harman audio solution was installed at the largest shopping mall in Nahkon Ratchasima.
Terminal 21 Korat spans seven floors, each of which featuring replicas of global landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge. In order to provide audio coverage for a wide range of entertainment environments and specialised areas, Terminal 21 Korat hired Mahajak Development to install a complete Harman audio system consisting of JBL Professional speakers, Crown amplifiers and BSS signal processors.
Pongsakorn Kanchanachayphoom, project director, Mahajak Development Co., said: “The owners wanted a state-of-the art audio system that was user friendly, with independent volume control and source selection for different zones in the mall. The integrated Harman audio solutions work together seamlessly, providing maximum coverage and sophisticated contr

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Brazil - LD Terry Cook of Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD) trusted in an MA Lighting system for this year’s Rock in Rio held in Rio de Janeiro.
The system consisted of four grandMA2 full-size and three grandMA2 light, four MA Network Switch, six MA NPU (Network Processing Unit), two MA 8Port Node, four MA 2Port Node and four MA NSP (Network Signal Processor) that were used as 4 Port Nodes. LPL Lighting Productions delivered the system and Lbits Ltda is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting in Brazil.
Paulo Lebrão worked as the FOH/system manager said: “grandMA2 is the most complete system available today. I would say each lighting designer or operator likes to use a console that makes them feel comfortable and that grandMA2 gives us the most helpful tools. All bands visiting the festival and playing on the main stage used grandMA2 on their tours, so it wor

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USA - Multimedia entertainment studio Moment Factory and lighting designer Christopher Bushell are using an Avolites Sapphire Touch and Titan v10.1 app to control the lighting during Arcade Fire’s Infinite Content tour.
The indie heavyweights are performing from a 360° stage in the round and Bushell worked closely with creative director Tarik Mikou from Moment Factory on the production.
"The overall brief was for a visceral lighting and video design that both formed and blended with the show's scenography,” says Bushell. "The arena design features a strong sporting event vibe, with a boxing ring stage in the centre of the room."
Much of the programming for the arena tour is developed from Bushell's preceding design for the band's festival circuit this year. The 'boxing ring stage' - a central, in-the-round performance space, is crowned with a square l
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