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India - Atlona is amplifying its global On-Tour Roadshow Series with focused two-day events that focus on live hands-on demonstrations for dealers, consultants and end users. The first of these enhanced Zero to 60 Hz events recently wrapped in Jaipur, India, with 35 attendees enjoying detailed demos and intimate Q&A’s across dedicated time slots.
Co-sponsored with Telso Networks at their office in the G-3 Regal Residency in Jaipur, the idea was born out of partner requests for technical workshops that go deeper into product use and system architecture than larger Atlona Academy training and education events.
“As our partners and end customers move away from circuit-based systems and to the network, there is a greater desire and urgency to put their hands o

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USA - Months after the opening of hit Broadway musical The Band's Visit, celebrated sound designer Kai Harada has won a Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Musical, including fully object-based 3D sound courtesy of Astro Spatial Audio.
The Band's Visit was the big winner of the night at the Radio City Music Hall, with a total of 10 wins out of 11 nominations, including Best Musical, Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, and Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical.
The critically acclaimed show, which opened in November 2017 to rave reviews at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre, tells the story of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra’s arrival in Israel for the opening of an Arab Cultural Centre, only to find out that they have boarded the wrong bus to the wrong town - with some inevitably amusing consequences.
The show marked the Br

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UK - Newmarket Racecourse in Suffolk has undergone a major upgrade to its PA, with new systems designed and installed by integrator AudioTek.
Known as the home of horse racing, and with a history spanning three and a half centuries from the time of King Charles II, the prominence of the racecourse is sustained by its unrivalled programme of races and events and its continual modernisation that ensures high standards for visitors.
AudioTek was chosen to do a full survey of the current site and to recommend a new solution to the problems and complaints that the venue had been having. From this it soon became obvious that certain areas on site were having issues, with a combination of aged components failing and the need for an upgrade to a more modern sound from the original speech PA with its limited frequency bandwidth.
AudioTek identified and proposed solutions
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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UK - In addition to enjoying a busy touring and festival work schedule of this summer, London-based lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied LED screens and processing to the recent UK leg of the Manic Street Preachers Resistance is Futile tour.
The 5mm Roe LED on the tour was part of a massive investment by the company - totalling over £1m in new LED screen earlier in the year.
This purchase added 230sq.mof LED to Colour Sound’s existing extensive screen stock which means they can offer a variety of pitches for all occasions, including 2.6, 6, 7 12, 20 and 30mm as well as the new 5mm.
The screen was specified onto the Manics tour by Toby Vogel who co-ordinates and manages all-things-video for the band on the road.
Says Toby, “I have known H (Colour Sound founder Haydn Cruickshank) for many years and we have worked t

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Immersive Incentive - Performing arts organisations have been invited to bid for a £4m fund to create “game-changing” new experiences using immersive technologies. Public body Innovate UK is awarding a total of £16m in government funding as part of its Audiences of the Future programme.
This will be split between four projects, each in a different industry which has been identified as having “maximum opportunity” for innovation. The four chosen industries are performance, moving image, sport entertainment and visitor experience.
The programme aims to ensure the UK becomes a world leader in immersive technologies such as virtual reality, which is when an entire image or environment is created digitally, and augmented reality, where a computer-generated image is superimposed on to a user’s real view of the world.
At a press briefing for the progr

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USA - ADJ has announced the expansion of its popular HEX series of LED pars with the introduction of three durable new fixtures that all feature a tough weatherproof casing design. The 7P HEX IP, 12P HEX IP and 18P HEX IP combine the wide colour palette of HEX LEDs with the flexibility of a robust all-weather IP65 rated casing to create truly versatile professional wash fixtures.
Each of the new pars feature powerful 12-Watt hex colour RGBAW+UV (red, green, blue, amber, white + UV) LEDs which allow for a huge gamut of colours to be created. These include both cool and warm white, for stage illumination, as well as UV-infused hot pink, lime green and electric blue. The inclusion of the UV element also means that the fixture can create the classic ‘black light’ effect that causes white and neon-coloured surfaces to glow brightly. The LEDs are flicker-free, therefore suitab

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UK - Allen & Heath (DJ) has responded to customer demand with the launch of its new flagship analogue DJ mixer - Xone:96.
Xone:96 takes the analogue soul of the Xone:92 and re-delivers it, enhanced and with state-of-the-art digital connectivity, says the company.
Senior product manager David Morbey comments, “Xone:96 has it all. The huge, detailed, space-shaking Xone analogue sound, a refined, precision 4-band EQ with Xone:VCF filters and CRUNCH harmonic distortion, plus a dual 32-bit USB soundcard (24 channels @ 96kHz) with Traktor Scratch certification straight out of the box.”
With a familiar layout of tactile controls and audio tools that allow the development of an individual’s signature sound, Xone:96 enables users to easily connect their entire rig, from laptops and turntables, to pedals, synths and drum machines. There are two dedicated FX sends

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UK - MDG received the ABTT Award for Engineering Product of the Year 2018 for its RFP Round Floor Pocket at this week’s ABTT Show at London’s Alexandra Palace.
MDG’s RFP Round Floor Pocket is a DMX/RDM-operated pneumatic Round Floor Pocket of rugged construction which can be embedded in the stage floor or set wall to conceal a fog output. It is intended to operate under pneumatic pressure as part of an existing fog system, delivering low fog or fog to precise locations.
The ABTT judges awarding the honour, who were made up of an experienced jury of working practitioners and industry peers, stated: “Solving the problem of how to get your low fog into those hard to reach places, the MDG DMX-controlled Round Floor Pocket works as a reversed trap, lifting a lid to allow ducted low fog and haze onto the stage.
“Suitable for integration into large touring st

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USA - Gypsy Sally’s Georgetown nightspot isn’t the largest club in the US capital, but it does host one of the most diverse ranges of musicians, from popular funk and jam bands like Kung Fu and The Nightowls, to the Afro Zen Allstars drummers and The Portland Cello Project modern classical ensemble.
Supporting this eclectic array of very original artists with light is Sean Keegan, who has been the production engineer at Gypsy Sally’s since 2016. “Essentially anything having to do with the actual production of a show here is handled by me,” he explained. “That includes running FOH, monitors and lighting.”
The “lighting” part of Keegan’s mission became much easier and more rewarding recently, following his acquisition of a ChamSys MagicQ MQ40N console. “We got the ChamSys after we added eight moving fixtures, four Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 Washe

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UK - Attendees at this year’s ABTT Theatre Show were eager to experience the d&b Soundscape sessions as visitors packed into the Londesborough Room at Alexandra Palace, London on 6 and 7 June.
Powered by the d&b DS100 Signal engine, an audio system processor based on a powerful Dante enabled signal matrix, the d&b Soundscape “enables unparalleled creativity through its two software modules En-Scene and En-Space”.
The Soundscape sessions proved to be extremely popular, with the d&b GB team demonstrating the new creative tool by deconstructing audio content from a number of typical live event scenarios. Using sound objects, the team recreated a range of scenarios in d&b Soundscape: a traditional theatre, a small gig and Verdi’s AIDA from the Sydney Opera House. d&b also showed how an experimental sound artist was able to manipulate

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South Korea - Tongsuh Technology, Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Korea, recently sold 12 Ayrton Ghibli LED spot luminaires to Art Won+ Stage Lighting, for its production of Peter Schaffer’s Amadeus, which ran for two months at the Gwanglim Church BBCH Art Hall in Seoul.
The production’s lighting design was created by You Sub Won, principal lighting designer & CEO of Art Won+ Stage Lighting, who reports: “I first saw Ghibli when Tongsuh brought it to me for a demo and I instantly fell in love with it. We know the trend in the market has been towards LED moving spots and we particularly liked Ghibli’s excellent dimming quality - the dimming curves were as smooth as those you get with tungsten. It is a very silent fixture with an attractive design, qualities that are both very desirable in the ‘open plan’ environment of the theatre.”
For

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UK - This month the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London was transformed into an immersive spider's den of video-mapping, robotics, pyrotechnics, acrobatics and high energy music as the Arcadia Spectacular landed to celebrate its 10th anniversary with its only two UK dates of 2018.
The production's award-winning visual feast of a show, Metamorphosis, took centre stage alongside a performance by an Australian Aboriginal tribe, the Whadjuk Noongar and sets from DJs including Leftfield and Rudimental.
Alongside the Arcadia team was the show's long-term lighting and visuals control partner, Avolites, celebrating five years of partnership with the Arcadia team as continuous providers of the latest lighting and media server control technology and support. This, combined with the creative minds of founders metalwork artist, Pip Rush and concert structure specialist,

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UAE - The new Mercedes-Benz Actros and Arocs trucks launched in the Middle East and Africa in style with tarm Showlaser to the fore.
The regional launch of the new generation of heavy-duty trucks - the new Mercedes-Benz Actros and Arocs - was celebrated in “an evening of extraordinary style in the sea,” just off the Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach Residences on 7 March.
Attended by more than 300 VIP customers and media from the Middle East and Africa, and hosted by Daimler’s Commercial Vehicles Regional Office, the dramatic reveal of the new models included an off-shore laser show display in proximity to Dubai’s new Dubai Eye Ferris Wheel.
Within just eight days, tarm Showlaser's team created this striking show with a total of 10 full-colour laser projectors and a 360-degree smoke-installation with a total of 18 fog/haze-generators with fan.
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USA - After avid musical instrument collector Steven Kern Shaw passed away, Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee received a generous donation of more than 500 vintage instruments. 100 of them are now on display in a venue that is part art museum, part performance hall.
The grandson of one of America’s great composers, Jerome Kern, Steven Kern Shaw grew up surrounded by music. Spending much of his life acquiring iconic stringed instruments, it was Shaw’s wish that “these instruments be played and heard”.
Belmont is known for high-level graduates in the music and entertainment industry and seemed like a natural place for an instrument donation of this magnitude to be housed. The focus on the history of stringed instruments is apparent. One exhibit shows the history of the mandolin and includes renowned instruments designed by Lloyd Loar in the 1920s. There

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South Africa - “The TimeCore from Visual Productions really makes training and our demos very easy to do,” enthused Dylan Jones, 3D visualisation and media server expert, from South African distributor DWR, “Clients lately have been really interested in the product wherever it is shown.”
For the recent Green Hippo training at DWR, Jones and Green Hippo’s Suzy Stenning, used the TimeCore to generate SMPTE timecode into the sync manager component of the Green Hippo Boreal Media Server.
The sync manager allows external timecode to be interfaced with and routed in, the Green Hippo Media Server. Once timecode was received from the TimeCore they demonstrated its uses with the timeline component, allowing users to programme and then playback their timeline via timecode.
Stenning comments: “The generator feature on the TimeCore allowed us to easily demonstra

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UK - Rental facility Dry Hire Lighting, based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, has invested in over 50 of Robe’s popular MegaPointe moving lights which will be added to their already substantial stock of the Czech brand.
This is due to ‘general demand’ states Dry Hire Lighting’s Rob Merrilees explaining the reason for this latest purchase, adding that the MegaPointe has fast become a ‘fixture of the moment’ since its launch in September 2017.
Dry Hire Lighting has been consistently purchasing Robe luminaires since the company was founded in 2011 with the goal of making all major brands available for cross rental and guaranteed to be meticulously maintained and prepped, as well as supplied in unbranded flightcases.
The company is run by Rob who is highly respected in the entertainment technology and production world. With expansive knowledge and exper

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UK - A KV2 Audio system has been installed at Egg LDN, a multi-purpose venue in the heart of London’s Kings Cross.
Firmly established in the London nightlife scene, Egg LDN is now in its 15th year and has secured its place as a successful corporate venue, having hosted different private functions from intimate product launches, networking events and board meetings to themed parties for a range of notable clients.
The management and technical team at with venueEgg wanted to mark the 15th birthday with developments and upgrades, including the audio systems throughout the venue.
Having become increasingly aware of KV2’s growing reputation within the dance-industry, including high-profile installations throughout Ibiza, Ben Short contacted KV2 Audio to discuss how they might go about improving the audio system in the venue.
The initial phase was to look at

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UK - Martin Audio and Capital Sound added a new event to their summer festival programme, with the 10-day All Points East (APE) moving into Hackney’s Victoria Park.
Promoted by AEG, rental company Capital Sound were brought in by production company LarMac LIVE, with whom they have worked at this challenging venue on many previous occasions, to provide sound reinforcement for the event.
Two weekends of top entertainment (including Björk and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) bookended four days of ‘Open House’ community activity in the park, including open air cinema.
Capital Sound provided site coverage, and their account manager, Martin Connolly, underlined the benefit of having a single point of contact for all the various stages.
His crew equipped the main stage with Martin Audio’s MLA, hanging 13 enclosures and an MLD Downfill each side, with 14 M

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UK - RCF hosted “two very successful” open days at Guildford’s G Live on 4-5 June.
RCF partner Yes Production rigged a number of the Italian company’s popular products, ranging from line arrays and subs, point source solutions, portable speakers and mixing desks.
Dean Davoile, RCF UK sales manager, comments: “We had a very successful two days. The venue was perfect and the ability to demonstrate a couple of flown large line arrays as well as multiple smaller point source system worked really well.”
With the line arrays in mind, Davoile was aware that this was the first opportunity for those in the southern half of the country to hear the new HDL6-A and HDL30-A D-Line series speakers in a real-world situation. The systems were flown, with an array of SUB 9006-AS subwoofers along the front of the stage.
Yes director Tom Chennells had earlier sele

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Trinidad & Tobago - “It doesn’t make any sense to have great mics or a powerful computer if you have a poor interface with sub-standard preamps and A/D converters. Every part of the signal path has to be pristine,” says Kevin Sones of Earsightmusic, who relies on his iD22 from Audient. “This is why I trust iD22 to be at the centre of my system.”
Kevin utilises the iD22’s ADAT expandability to his advantage, by connecting it to his 8-channel mic preamp from Audient, ASP880 and giving him access to up to ten inputs. Together the two Audient units are integral to his work recording live bands and orchestras around the islands of the Caribbean, including Dominant Seventh, the National Steel Symphony Orchestra of Trinidad & Tobago as well as the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Trinidad & Tobago.
Kevin has been delivering training courses for Ear

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Russia - An Outline sound system has been installed at the Ekaterinburg Stadium ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The 64 matches that comprise the tournament are to be hosted across a dozen stadia up to 1,800 miles apart. One of these is the Ekaterinburg Stadium, originally opened in 1957 then subject to a major redevelopment completed in 2011. To meet FIFA specifications, it will feature temporary space for fans, with extra covered seating on the outside of the stadium perimeter behind both goals, taking its capacity up to just over 35,000.
In preparation for the four World Cup matches scheduled to be played there, an Outline sound system has been installed based around their new Stadia series of products designed specifically for this application.
A total of 223 Outline loudspeaker enclosures have been deployed throughout the stadium to provide seamless co
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