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USA - Audinate has announced that 300 manufacturers have now adopted Dante, the audio-over-IP networking solution, and that more than 750 Dante-enabled products are now available worldwide.

To celebrate these milestones, Audinate will bring back its popular #DanteEverywhere contest at InfoComm 2016, giving attendees the chance to win a variety of prizes by finding Dante partners exhibiting at the show.

To participate, attendees just need to take photos of the Dante Spoken Here signs at any of the over 90 Dante partner booths and post them to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DanteEverywhere.

Participants posting the most pictures each day will win Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones, and everyone who enters will win a Dante T-

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UK - One of the most celebrated post-hardcore bands of the late 90s, At The Drive-In's 2016 reunion tour was greeted with elation by fans around the world. And UK gig-goers were recently treated to a series of dates - subsequently raved about by critics - powered by an Allen & Heath dLive mixing system.

Front of House engineer Ben Hammond (whose other credits include Deaf Havana and Of Mice And Men) employed a dLive S5000 surface and a DM64 MixRack at FOH, with an Allen & Heath GLD80 digital desk, AR2412 AudioRack and two AR84 Expander AudioRacks handling monitor duties (taken care of by the band themselves).

A long-time Allen & Heath iLive user, Hammond said: "The dLive system performed amazingly on the ATDI tour. I've been used to doing heavy bands on the iLive - you can really drive those desks hard and it lends itself to that sound. But despite the dLive being a much '

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USA - The University of Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team recently benefited from a new EAW sound reinforcement system installed for 2015-16 season. The existing system at the 19,200-seat venue was more than 20 years old and in need of replacement. After deciding to upgrade the audio, the university tapped Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon and Williams (WJHW) to design the new system, which was installed by Clair Solutions.

"The previous system was no longer adequate for the events held in the arena," explains Scott Bray, WJHW consultant. "The administration wanted sound reinforcement that was musical and would bring the game day experience up to fan's expectations. They also installed a new scoreboard during the upgrade for similar reasons."

One of the design goals was for the PA to fit above the new scoreboard, keeping sightlines clear. To this end, Bray specified six EAW lin

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USA - Video panels frequently serve as fascia in shows on the Vegas Strip. That's one reason why Michael Smalley and Gabe Fraboni of Twin Designs opted notto use them this way in their standout design for Pitbull's Time Of Our Lives Tour at The Axis in Planet Hollywood.

"Video panels are great, and we use them all the time," said Fraboni. "But the opportunity to design a show for an artist of Pitbull's calibre in Vegas requires us to do something different. He's dynamic and the dancers are amazing, so we needed to give them an area to perform on that could convey the sleek, sexy, and sophisticated theme of the show while giving us lots of options to experiment with."

The two designers found what they were looking for in the Nexus 4x4 COB LED panel from Chauvet Professional. "The Nexus panels really reminded us of all the old-school Vegas hotel facades and sig

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India - Christ University is a UGC-recognised private university in Bangalore, Karnataka. Founded in 1969, it is managed by the priests of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), the first indigenous Syrian Catholic religious congregation in India.

With over 16,000 students and more than 1000 faculty members, it is one of the top ranked universities in the country. It has a foreign student community of over 2500 and It was rated an A+ institution by the NAAC.

The Christ University Auditorium with a seating capacity of 2000 and cutting edge facilities is utilized by many prominent multinational corporations for their events including Accenture, Infosys, Honeywell, Fidelity, Dell, 3M to name a few. The Auditorium has also played host to prominent personalities including the Dalai Lama, the Chief Justice of India, the Chief minister of Karnataka, and hosted concerts by Richard C

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UK - Leicester City Football Club became the Premier League Champions when Tottenham drew 2-2 at Chelsea on Monday 2 May. It was a time for Leicester, as a city, to host a party fit for the champions, their fans, and the proud people of Leicester.

Working with Leicester City Council's Festival and Events Team, and Leicester City Football Club, Leicester based company Upstage Theatre Supplies were asked to help produce the Victoria Park Event, which was held on Monday 16 May, just two weeks after Leicester had won the title.

Upstage also found out, and had to keep the secret, that home -town rockers Kasabian were to perform a surprise gig of three songs to the audience that on the night totaled 240,000 people.

Terry Forryan, managing director at Upstage hit the ground running. This high profile event, which had attracted the interest of the world, would have to bring to

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UK - Capital Sound Hire are providing full audio production for Il Divo on their current world tour, featuring music from their latest album Amor & Pasion. This project is also the first major tour for which the Wimbledon-based audio company are using their recently purchased Outline GTO C-12 system, covering arena shows throughout the UK, Europe and Scandinavia.

Il Divo have enjoyed global success since forming in 2003, recording in seven languages, selling well over 30m albums worldwide and scoring 160 certified gold and platinum hits in 35 countries.

Capital have been the group's choice of audio supplier from the beginning, as Capital's general manager Paul Timmins recalls: "Believe it or not, this is year 12! We started working with them at Ritz rehearsal rooms in Putney all those years ago . . . each successive Il Divo tour has brought new challenges and achiev

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Germany - The luxury cruise ship of AIDAprima is the new flagship of AIDA Cruises, built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in Nagasaki, Japan to carry a maximum of 3,300 passengers.

Commissioned to design the lighting for the grand launch ceremony at the beginning of May, the technologically advanced onboard lighting was designed by Bj

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USA - Aerosmith's Steven Tyler played a special high profile concert in the David Geffen Hall at New York City's Lincoln Centre called Out On a Limb, in support of Janie's Fund, his new philanthropic initiative to serve abused and neglected girls. Lighting the show was LD Nathan Alves, who used 12 Robe BMFL Spots to produce most of the major signature looks.

It was Nathan's first work with Tyler and the focus was on emphasizing the intimate environment and the delicate subject matter inspiring Janie's Fund and the launch concert. So all the production was centred around the star as he related the narrative of who he is and his personal journey to where he is now.

"Everything I did lighting-wise was designed to be unobtrusive - hiding the technology and highlighting Steven," explained Nathan.

He worked with creative director Jeri Slaughter and art director/set de

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Canada - Adamson Systems Engineering has announced that Westbury National Show Systems, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, has joined the Adamson network. The announcement was made by James Oliver, director of marketing and sales for Adamson.

"Westbury has more than 45 years of experience in audio, video, lighting, staging and systems integration," explains Oliver. "They bring a level of expertise to their growing client base that is invaluable. We are so pleased to have them join our team. I look forward to watching the organization grow the Adamson brand and reputation in both live and installed sound in Canada."

Westbury National has offices in both Ottawa and Kingston in addition to their Toronto headquarters. A sizable E-Series rig, consisting of E15 and E12 line array modules as well as E119 and E219 subwoofers, has joined their impressive inventory of other high-end

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Belgium - Today, Barco will cut the ribbon to officially open its new headquarters in Belgium. Located at the Beneluxpark in Kortrijk, the 230,000sq.m 'One Campus' is a landmark for the region - an all-glass, circular building surrounded by green spaces and connected to three other state-of-the-art Barco facilities.

The campus will be home to Barco's 1,250 Belgian employees and serve as an open house for customers, partners, foreign colleagues and other stakeholders. One Campus marks also a new way of working, centred around dialogue, collaboration and, consequently, innovation. Barco is convinced that its new operating base will be of great support in the future evolution of the company.

The new One Campus, which replaces Barco's older premises in Kuurne and Kortrijk, includes 48,000m2 of general facilities, surrounded by a pound and grass. Standing proudly, at the heart

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South Africa - DWR Distribution has announced that it has been appointed as the South Africa distributor for the German-made 3D visualisation software program, Realizzer. "I first came across Realizzer at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt two years ago," said Nick Britz of DWR Distribution. "I loved it straight away. I was very impressed by the way it does realistic designs. It is a fantastic visualiser and is even able to design both lighting and laser shows."

Realizzer will assist lighting designers to pre-program their shows. "It also helps with selling the concept to clients, by giving the ability to render out high definition Videos," added Nick. "It's compatible with any console that runs Art-Net as well as various 3D drawing programs such as Vectorworks, Cinema4D, 3DStudio Max and SketchUp. We are very excited!"

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European Guidance - National Campaign for the Arts has launched a guidance document about the sector and its relationship to the European Union. Chair Samuel West said he hoped it would "stimulate debate and encourage deeper thinking". It comes as Arts Council England has also published guidance outlining how funding for the arts can be connected to the European Union.

NCA's document covers areas including funding, artistic exchange and export, and talent development. Because of its charitable status, it cannot express a view on whether the UK remains in the EU or leaves.

But West said, "We do think there are questions that need to be considered carefully by those who care about the arts. For example, if the UK were to leave the EU, how could our arts organisations continue to attract and retain world-class talent? How might our own artists benefit from opportunities to wo

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Europe - Peerless-AV has announced a new addition to its growing export sales team with the appointment of Dan LY as director of sales for France and Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal and Italy). Dan's extensive background in the IT and telecommunication sector will prove beneficial in his new role focused on business development, team management, customer satisfaction and channel partnerships.

"As we continue to grow our presence in EMEA, we need to keep up with rising demand in key territories by bringing new talent on board," comments Gordon Dutch, managing director, Peerless-AV. "Dan LY brings excellent market development and leadership experience to our Export team and will be valuable addition to the company and our customers."

Dan has more than 15 years' experience in implementing international business strategy. In his previous position, he was Head of Region Southe

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USA - At this year's InfoComm booth (C11516) d&b will be focusing on system integration and network technology. After the successful launch of the 10D and 30D installation amplifiers last year, d&b will now - for the first time - introduce its own network products, and reveal the extensive integration options with other manufacturer's control systems.

Released earlier this year, the DS10 Audio network bridge is the first d&b device to be positioned before the amplifiers in the signal chain. Designed specifically for d&b amplifiers, each 1 RU device can deliver up to sixteen Dante network channels via AES3 digital signal outputs, as well as provide an integrated 5-port switch, offering a primary and redundant network for the Dante protocol, as well as advanced functions such as Multicast Filtering and VLAN modes. All will be explained in the d&b demo room (N117) where the DS10

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UK - Next to be released in this year's plethora of new products from Ayrton is the first in its new extreme XT Series, IntelliPix-XT.

Yvan Pe?ard, Ayrton's chief design and technology officer, has developed the XT Series an optimised range of luminaires designed specifically for large-scale venues using the largest and most efficient optics on the market.

Designed in the same creative spirit as Ayrton's original IntelliPix-R, IntelliPix-XT is a versatile fixture that uses Ayrton's new, specially developed, 126mm diameter optics to produce extremely slender, 2° beams.

IntelliPix-XT is fitted with nine ultra-powerful, low-profile, RGBW multichip LED emitters, arrayed in a 3x3 matrix, that produce a parallel shaft of light - intense, sharp and incredibly coherent - over a long throw distance. Each emitter can be controlled individually and, coupled with the new propr

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China - The 1500-capacity Tangshan Grand Theatre, situated within Tangshan's World Park Expo in China's Hebei Province, has installed a TiMax SoundHub-S32 audio showcontrol and spatial sound processor, whose first job was to bring a historic war drama very boldly to life.

The production required dynamic surround sound effects of the cacophony of war, including thunder and rain alongside the bullets, bombers and explosions.

The theatre management were impressed with the quality and realism of the effects, reporting that audiences had been shocked by the sound effects, and that some theatre-goers felt as if they had been transported back to the war zone itself.

The TiMax was fed into a main PA system front left and right with rear left and right surrounds as well as ceiling speakers to deliver 3D sound effects to maximum dramatic impact, reinforcing the sound from above.

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USA - USA - MTVU's Woodie Awards returned to SXSW in Austin, Texas where Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights made their show debut during the performance of London-based electro-pop artist Jack Garratt. Tom Kenny also returned for the third consecutive year as lighting designer of the show, which celebrates the music voted best by college students.

MTVU broadcasts to over 750 college campuses across the US. Woodies/10 for 16was hosted by A$AP Rocky on the main stage in Austin's American-Statesman parking lot. Garratt performed on a remote stage set up on the Anne W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge across Lady Bird Lake.

"I had used Scenius to great effect for Justin Bieber at the MTV EMA Awards in Milan," reports Kenny. "I really love that light. It delivers everything we need, and programmers and operators enjoy using it, too. It's an exciting light to bring i

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UK - Poor experiences are commonplace for people with hearing loss who attend theatres or concert halls, according to a recent survey by specialist social enterprise Ideas for Ears.

Ninety-four per cent of survey respondents said hearing ability has resulted in them having a poor experience, and 83% said they have been disappointed because the right provision wasn't available to allow them to access and enjoy the performance.

The survey was completed by 143 people with a range of hearing abilities, from mild to profound hearing loss.

Findings from the survey suggest that shows and concerts can be made more comfortable and accessible to people with hearing loss by offering: Less background music when speaking takes place (73% respondents agreed); Provision of an assistive listening system (66% respondents agreed); Clear speech (65% respondents agreed); Captions (64% res

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USA - When Grease: Live, a television adaptation of the 1971 musical Grease, aired on FOX, audio supervisor/designer Bruce Arledge chose DPA Microphones to provide the audio support for the multitude of actors on set. Brought on by producer Greg Sills and production mixer Mark King, Arledge was confident that the DPA mics would catch every syllable, both spoken and sung.

Shooting on four stages at Warner Bros. Studios and outfitting multiple performers, Arledge needed microphones that would complement the unique sound setup, while still delivering unwavering audio quality. He chose 50 of DPA's d:screet 4061 Omnidirectional Microphones due to their adaptability and ease of use in unusual miking applications.

"My audio assistants worked directly with the teams in wardrobe, hair and makeup to find an optimum place underneath the wigs to integrate the mics," says

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UK - From touring productions to festivals and corporate events, Colour Sound has come a long way from the company's early years as a supplier of early moving lights to dance parties and raves. As one of the first companies to invest in intelligent light fixtures in the UK, Colour Sound continues to operate a firm policy of investing in the very latest products on the market to keep the warehouse stocklist bang up to date.

The company has chosen to invest in a number of Robert Juliat Merlin 2.5K HMI Followspots. Project Coordinator, Alex Ryan explains, "Much of Colour Sound's market now is servicing the larger concerts and touring bands, so it is great to have a properly designed followspot that caters specifically for the rock'n'roll market.

"One of the key features that attracted us to the Merlin when we initially discussed this purchase with Lee House from Robert Juliat

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