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USA - Every evening, a half hour before the curtain went up on ONCE during its January to March run at the John W. Engeman Theatre in Northport NY, the audience was welcome to step on stage for drinks at the “bar” that’s at the centre of this Tony Award-winning musical. That was only the beginning of the immersive experience that awaited them. With an enchanting, impressionistic set and actors who not only sang, but also played musical instruments on stage, the show invited theatre goers to set aside their normal expectations of a musical and embark on an engaging journey.
Critical to creating this captivating imagery was a richly coloured and subtly textured lighting design by Cory Pattak that featured Chauvet Professional Ovation E-910FC and Rogue R2 Wash fixtur

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Europe - Alt-rock outfit Paramore is amidst a whirlwind of a world tour supporting their latest release, After Laughter. For the third and fourth of five major tour legs, which saw them moving from outdoor festivals and amphitheatres to major arenas in Europe and Australia, the band selected an Adamson E-Series and S-Series audio system supplied by Eighth Day Sound Systems.
The lengthy run began in Dublin, Ireland in June 2017, hitting a wide range of venues across multiple continents. Regardless of where they’re playing, though, Paramore aims to deliver a high-energy, high-impact show for a ravenous fan base every time they hit the stage, and precise, pristine, and powerful sound is critical to that mission.
“Paramore is very much a vocal- and guitar-driven band, and the Adamson system’s low-mid performance and intelligibility made it easy to bring those

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USA - InCord made their second donation to Behind the Scenes on 16 March during the recent USITT Stage Expo reflecting a percentage of profits from sales of their Theatrical Safety Netting Systems.
The Behind the Scenes is a charity that provides entertainment technology professionals who are seriously ill or injured with grants that may be used for basic living and medical expenses.
Joe Menhart, InCord’s theatrical sales manager, presented the cheque. He comments: “All of us at InCord take pleasure in supporting such a worthy charity as Behind the Scenes. Both InCord and Behind the Scenes are dedicated to the well-being and safety of personnel. I can’t imagine a better pairing and this contribution gives much greater meaning to our Theatrical Safety nets.”
Rick Rudolph, the chair of Behind the Scenes, accepted the cheque along with other BTS Board member
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Portugal - A new sound reinforcement system has been designed and installed at Capitolio Theatre in Lisbon by Audiomatrix.
Capitolio is a well-known space located in the centre of the city of Portuguese capital which hosts a variety of events including live concerts and corporate events as well as theatre activities.
Capitolio was looking for a new sound system that could offer high sound fidelity throughout the venue for the 1500 people capacity. The system was specified by Audiomatrix technical director and FOH engineer Marco Esteves.
They chose the NEXT-proaudio solution due to “a combination of its versatility, clear sound, coverage capabilities, and the easy tuning using Soundware software”.
Marco Esteves used the manufacturer support to design the set-up, which comprised 12 LA122A, 2 LAs118A, as well as six ground-stacked LAs418 subwoofers as the

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USA - Dallas, Texas-based Bock Technologies was recently tapped to upgrade the sound reinforcement system at the Main Arena of the Somervell County Expo Centre in Glen Rose, Texas. The Expo centre is the premier location for equestrian events and cattle futurities, industry tradeshows and award-winning performances in the region.
“The existing system was worn out and just didn’t provide the coverage the multi-purpose venue required,” explains Pedro Salas, vice president of Bock Technologies. “We knew an EAW QX distributed loudspeaker system would blanket the seating areas while upgrading intelligibility and audio quality considerably. It would be more than capable of handling any event they had.”
The Main Arena of the centre is a highly reverberant space, approximately 130 x 254 feet with a seating capacity up to 3,050. The space is used for rodeos, animal e

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Germany - As the halls to the Messe Frankfurt Exhibition Centre open on 10 April, Altman Lighting will be in Hall 3.0 Stand B81 to showcase a number of innovative theatrical and architectural design solutions. With the show debut of the new AP-150 PAR RGBW luminaire, Altman Lighting will also be highlighting its popular Spectra Cyc family of wash luminaires, the versatile Chalice 70W LED downlight, the expansive Gallery LED Series, and their award-winning PHX LED profile and zoom spot ellipsoidals.
“We are always excited to exhibit at Prolight + Sound as it gives us a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the performance capabilities of our lighting solutions to a broad audience,” said Jaime Friedstadt, Altman Lighting EMEA sales manager. “Recognised as the premier entertainment lighting exhibition in Europe, Prolight + Sound always draws a very captive audience who ar

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USA - Atlona has expanded its residential AV sales team with the appointment of Joshua Trujillo as regional sales manager, west residential. Reporting to Victor Baut, national sales manager, residential, Joshua will cover a vast territory across Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. He will work closely with systems integrators, rep firms, consultants and end users to expand regional visibility and market share for Altona in the residential AV market.
Joshua comes to Atlona with 15 years of AV industry experience, most of which was with Logic Integration, a commercial and residential AV dealer and integration firm based in Denver.
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Germany - HK Audio, one of the leading German manufacturers of PA systems, is preparing to roll out “the largest product launch in the firm’s 35+ year history” at this year’s Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt.
Says the company, “Having mainly focused on PA systems for musicians in recent years, the brand with the ‘made in Germany’ quality seal is set to begin a new chapter in its illustrious history.”
The first examples of a new pro audio range will be on display at HK Audio’s main Prolight + Sound booth, located at Hall 3.1 E91. They are the first components of a highly integrative product family which will comprise HK Audio’s portfolio for professional sound reinforcement services, says the company.
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UK - Peterborough-based touring and event power company Pearce Hire recently hosted a workshop on generator safety measures.
Organised by James Eade, with Patrick McGinley from the HSE, the event was set up for a group of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) electrical inspectors with the aim to shed light on the application of generator safety measures, especially in relation to earthing requirements, and to discuss safety concepts proposed by Eade for new IET guidance on the subject.
Eade comments: “The current guidance on generator earthing in particular has not seen many changes for years. The advent of modern technologies such as inverter generators coupled with the widespread availability of residual current devices for protection is driving a need to revise current practices.”
Current British standards and associated guidance categorises generators broad

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UK - Ohm has appointed James Jewry as director of technical integration, heading up the new tech integration department.
Jewry is an experienced system design technician working with artists such as Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones and the London Symphony Orchestra. Having been involved in audio for nearly 25 years, he has worked with major tour and festival companies, designing and calibrating some of the largest audio projects around the world.
Gareth Coleman, director of international sales, comments: “Ohm is focused on building a strong core team, with the imminent release of state of the art DSP software & hardware, the creation of a new technical integration team will ensure our new products have both pre and post sales customer support.”
Jewry adds: “I’ve seen and heard some amazing loudspeakers built at Ohm, with over 39 years’ experience behind th

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China - PR Lighting has extended its AQUA range of IP65-rated waterproof units with the launch of the AQUA 350 BWS. This integrates three features (Beam, Wash and Spot) in a single unit.
The fully-featured fixture adopts PR patented technology, combining an advanced Ushio 350W lamp with a superb optical system. Thanks to its IP65 rating it is suited for all outdoor events and activities.
Features include: Strobe (0.3-25fps with macros); mechanical dimmer (0-100% linearly adjustable); three prisms (standard 2x6-facet circular prisms and linear prism - plus Frost and Open). Rotation is bidirectional with variable speeds. 3-facet, 16-facet and gradient prisms are optional. The three light angles are 0°-2.5° (Beam mode), 2.5°-42° (Spot mode) and 5°-50° (Wash mode).
In terms of movement the AQUA 350 BWS offers Pan of 540° and Tilt of 270°, with auto position

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Germany - Visitors to this year’s Prolight + Sound will be able to experience DiGiCo’s much-anticipated Quantum 7 processing, which is making its working debut on Stand 3.1 E40. The company will also reveal further new developments and give visitors another chance to experience the new 4REA4 digital audio networking system.
Quantum 7 has been developed with seventh generation FPGA devices that further expand audio processing power, and “ultimately allows DiGiCo to provide its users with an unrivalled amount of flexibility”.
Quantum 7 expands an SD7 to over 600 channels of processing in 96kHz operation that can be connected in the outside world to approaching 3000 potential I/Os. The engine is also equipped with eight newly assignable MADI connections and two DMI slots (DiGiCo Multi-Channel Interface) for AoIP and other connectivity options from the complete fa

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Germany - At Prolight + Sound (Hall 4, Stand C71) CAST will be showcasing the latest enhancements to BlackTrax, its real-time tracking system. The company will work with an unprecedented range of partners at the show.
The latest Version 2.3 of BlackTrax real time motion tracking system is being launched at the show and includes a number of significant new features.
“The number of partners demonstrating BlackTrax at Prolight + Sound is a strong indication of how widely accepted our solution is, and how rapidly it is succeeding,” says Andrew Gordon, director of business development for BlackTrax. “BlackTrax can bring a radically new dimension to any production, live performance or broadcast and more. Even in the most complex, most demanding shows, everything is where it needs to be, on time, every time, enabling a show to move to a whole new level.”
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Germany - Currently on the European leg of their WorldWired tour, which opened in North America last summer, heavy metal heroes Metallica remain as fresh as ever. And a lot of that has to do with the imaginative set devised by production designer, Dan Braun and built by Tait Towers.
Meanwhile, experienced lighting designer Rob Koenig called on 16 of GLP’s new JDC1 multi-faceted strobes to light and punctuate the show, and at the same time minimise the amount of devices populating the stage floor. These were supplied by Premier Global Production (PGP) of Nashville.
Braun’s concept had been to do away with a conventional lighting truss entirely, and have a three-dimensional moving video on multiple plains, so that every seat in the house would see the show from a different viewpoint. Not only was he able to use kinetic movement, interacting between the video

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UK - The first UK stock of the new ProLights OmegaPIX next generation LED video screen has gone straight to Lincoln-based event production company Peachy Events Services for use on a diverse range of client applications ranging from corporate events to outdoor music festivals.
Peachy Events were looking to upgrade to a higher resolution screen in the popular 3.9mm pitch specification. It was important that the chosen solution's price point and advanced feature set could provide them with a good rental return on investment.
Director Dave Broughton comments: "We are delighted to be the first UK event production company to adopt the ProLights' OmegaPIX LED screen. With the festivals season only a few months away, we expect it to be in high demand for outdoor live events as well as indoor use.
“The 3.9mm pixel pitch and fantastic screen resolution means content wi

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USA - Fans of US rapper A$AP Ferg are treated to dynamic live footage and effects on his current Mad Man tour, through a slick stage design that features custom-built onstage robot cameras and a large HD video wall powered by Avolites Ai RX8 Servers.
Lighting designer, video director and programmer for the tour is Michael Smalley of Twin Designs, who in the past has worked with artists including Pitbull, Shakira and Bassnectar. Smalley collaborated closely with production design company Vita Motus and LA-based technology design firm VT Pro Design to deliver the show.
"The artist wanted a clean, runway look, like a high-end music video shoot," explains Smalley. "The cameras on the robot arms capture intimate and close-up shots so the audience can really see every moment on the big screen. This is mixed in with high impact effects to give a dynamic range to the sh

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World - Currently touring their fifth studio album, Wonderful Wonderful, The Killers are travelling the world with an Americana-inspired show design, lit by long-term lighting designer Steven Douglas, who selected the Claypaky's Scenius Unico as the production's workhorse lighting fixture.
From the start, the band, Douglas and the rest of the creative team decided against a fixed creative brief for this production. Instead they worked on growing the show design organically during the recording of the Wonderful Wonderful album. The resulting production features The Killers' idiosyncratic Vegas styling, alongside theatrical small-town Americana set-pieces, inspired by the nature and feel of the album's music.
"Building the show whilst the album was still being recorded felt more natural, as the songs influenced the design process," says Douglas, who worked

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Indonesia - ChamSys has been spreading the word about the benefits that its line of lighting consoles offers programmers and designers. Aziz Adilkhodjaev, the company’s international business development manager, has just completed a four-country tour that took him to Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea to conduct training sessions on the ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium and other consoles offered by the company.
Adilkhodjaev comments: “We had an enthusiastic response to our training sessions wherever we went. There is a strong desire at all levels of the lighting industry everywhere for affordable, user-friendly consoles that are both flexible and powerful enough to run any kind of lightshow or display.”
Aziz credits ChamSys distributors ASIIS in Surakarta, Indonesia, Forerunner Technologies in Manila and Live-Lab Company Ltd. in Seoul with contr

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USA - Hog 4 lighting console range manufacturer High End Systems has launched Season One of Hedgeucation, a new online video series that demonstrates how easy it is to learn and use the Hog 4 platform. All episodes can be found on a new landing page on the HES website, www.highend.com/learnhog4.
The first season of many, Season One gets viewers up and rocking quickly, focusing on use of the compact HedgeHog 4 console to patch, programme and operate a live show.
High End Systems’ Joe Haller hosts the series, offering practical Hog tips and tricks along with a true Texan sense of humour. A nail biting season finale shot at the Majestic Theatre in Madison, WI shows programmers how to use what they’ve learned to light a live performance. Extras including Hog 4 show files and additional course material can be downloaded from www.highend.com/learnhog4.
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Middle East - Nexo has announced the appointment of Yamaha Music Gulf FZE (YMGF) as its official re-exporter to the Middle East and Africa.
Established in 1997 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation, Yamaha Music Gulf provides its territory with the full line of Yamaha integrated professional audio products offering complete systems solutions for the broadcast, sound reinforcement/installed sound, touring, commercial recording, and post production applications as well as musical instruments and consumer audio products.
Jean Mullor, CEO of Nexo, comments: "This new partnership with Yamaha Music Gulf will help us meet the growing demand for our high-quality sound reinforcement solutions in the Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Our two companies share the same philosophy and we aim to offer the professional audio market something

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UK - Sound Technology, distributor of Martin by Harman professional lighting products in the UK, has announced the immediate availability of the Martin RUSH MH 11 Beam.
A replacement for the successful MH 3 Beam, the new RUSH MH 11 Beam is a high-intensity beam moving head designed for high end installations and rental applications.
The RUSH MH 11 uses the same 250W Platinum 11R lamp found in the Martin RUSH MH 7 Hybrid but with refined beam optics that provide excellent intensity and sharp mid-air effects in a beam-only fixture. When this lamp is combined with the class-leading optics of the MH 11, the fixture achieves sharp, high-output beam effects with a super-tight 2.6° beam angle.
“The new Martin RUSH MH 11 Beam truly has the best intensity and optics capabilities in its class,” says Mark Buss, product manager. “Because it has the same colour tempe
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