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USA - Hughston Engineering, which offers full-service solutions for events, trade shows, conventions and out-door events, has become a Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Product Partner.

Hughston Engineering has pledged a percentage of the profits from sales of their Male and Female SOCAPEX Cable Testers to support the charity. The Female Tester features an Edison input, rotary dial for each circuit, 20A circuit breaker, and 6 indicator lights while the Male Tester includes a continuity tester and 6 indicator lights. All of Hughston Engineering's products are made in-house by IATSE Local 16 employees. All products are rigorously tested to ensure the utmost quality and they are an ETL-Listed shop.

Upon announcing the pledge, Lance Hughston, Sr. stated, "I want to support Behind the S

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Guatemala - Empire Music Festival, Guatemala's biggest electronic and alternative music celebration, recently completed its two-day run in Guatemala City.

Over 15,000 festival-goers descended on the four stages set up at Finca El Jocotillo to see performances by a wide range of artists, which ran the gamut from Incubus, Zedd, and Café Tacuba to Skrillex and Paul Van Dyk. Artists and fans alike enjoyed quality sound provided by a robust professional sound system drawn from D.A.S. Audio's Aero Series 2 catalogue.

Guatemalan sound company Blessure, with Alan Mejia at the helm, was called in to handle the sound for the festival. D.A.S. Audio Systems engineer Vicent Olucha made the trip from Spain and was also on hand to help the Blessure team set up and adjust the small army of D.A.S. systems deployed for the event.

The hard-hitting performances that took to the EMF

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The Netherlands - Grafisch Lyceum is an independent vocational college in central Rotterdam, Netherlands, specializing in the fields of media, design and technology. It was founded in 1950 as a printing college and has moved with the times, now offering over 40 different courses and programmes for creative industries - which also includes a three-year technical theatre course.

The already excellent training facilities for the theatre course have recently been boosted with the purchase of 20 x Robe DL4X Spots and 20 x LEDWash 300s which are being utilized for teaching on all the course's Lighting modules.

The 250 or so technical theatre students - it's the largest such course in the Netherlands - also benefit from being able to use the TV broadcast and recording studios provided for those on the media and communications and music technology courses.

Additionally, there'

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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 - As of this month, June, the 21 employees of Black Light Ltd, based in the Granton area of Edinburgh, own the business in which they work.

Founder Gavin Stewart, sold 80% of his company to the staff as a first step towards his eventual exit of the business. In choosing employee ownership, Gavin hopes to ensure the business remains in Edinburgh, and continues to deliver a brilliant service to the company's clients and vendors. To mark the occasion, Gavin gave each member of staff a teddy, asking them to care for the company as much as he had over the years.

Gavin started the business in 1983, as a mobile DJ, known as Black Vinyl, for student unions and various functions. Soon, the company diversified into lighting solutions. Now the company is renowned for its innovative approach to the design and delivery of sound, light and audio visual installations across a variety

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UK - The PLASA Show (18-20 September) has begun its run-up to the 2016 event with the opening of online visitor registration and the announcement that this year's highly valued PLASA Awards for Innovation is now open for nominations. This year the PLASA Show will make the highly popular move back to the heart of West London, in its former September timeline, and reintroducing the show party, which will take place at a venue on King's Road on the Monday night. Full details of PLASA 2016's industry-leading Seminar Programme will be launched soon hosting topics from world-class designers, production teams and consultants involved with some of the world's best known venues, prolific tours and major global entertainment and sporting events taking place this year.

The Rigging Conference will run alongside the PLASA Show on Monday 19th September. With the opening key-note from well-k

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UK - PLASA members enjoyed an informative backstage tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 24th of May. Elizabeth Scott's iconic 1932 cinema-style Royal Shakespeare Theatre has been transformed in recent years and, with the intimacy offered by a thrust stage auditorium, is now the perfect environment for performing the works of Shakespeare to audiences of today. Following a welcome to the venue by RSC deputy technical director, Peter Bailey, members were invited to tour with Jeremy Dunn, head of RSC sound or Vince Herbert, head of lighting and inventor of the RSC Lightlock. A demonstration on the day showed why this product won the first ever Gold Innovation Award at the 2008 PLASA Show. The team from the RSC were joined by representatives from PLASA members, Stage Electrics (systems integrator) and Charcoal Blue (theatre consultants), who had in-depth

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USA - VUE Audiotechnik has announced the addition of Frank Loyko to the position of vice president global sales, where he will oversee all of the company's global sales and distribution activities and initiatives. Based in Seattle, Loyko brings 36 years of executive experience building sales networks at professional audio companies including EAW, RCF, Avid Technology and the TC Group.

"Having worked with Frank a number of times in the past, I am delighted to have this opportunity to work with Frank again," says VUE CEO Ken Berger. "There is no one I know with more knowledge and the ability to build a world class sales organization. Additionally, Frank will be working closely with the management team, up to board level, to ensure that we build the best customer focused team in the industry."

New product offerings being introduced by VUE at InfoComm 2016 expand VUE's reach i

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USA - High End Systems is promoting a wide range of automated LED lighting and control products on the Barco exhibit at InfoComm 2016. Additionally, key HES personnel will be in attendance throughout the show.

New fixtures in the SolaRange family will make their debut to the US market, including SolaSpot Pro 2000 and SolaWash Pro 2000. Also on show is the SolaSpot Pro 1500 along with Shapeshifter C1 and C2 luminaires. Rounding out the product display are Hog 4 control products the Full Boar 4, Hoglet and Rack Hog and the MMS Moving Mirror System.

High End Systems general manager Jeff Pelzl comments, "We look forward to visiting with our customers and making new friends on the Barco booth at this year's show. I'm confident our latest SolaRange offerings will show the industry High End Systems is still uniquely 'all about LED'."

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USA - The new Bose PowerShare adaptable power amplifier line consists of three 1U models: 2- and 4- channel fixed-install models (PS602 and PS604) and one 2-channel portable amplifier (PS602P). Each model delivers 600 watts of power that can be shared across all output channels.

With support for both low- and high-impedance loads up to 100V, PowerShare amplifiers adapt to a wide range of applications. Onboard configurable loudspeaker processing and direct access to zone controllers eliminate the need for an additional signal processor in many installations, while outstanding audio performance and reliability are assured with patented technologies inherited from the field-proven PowerMatch line. This set of features and technologies makes PowerShare one of the most versatile high-performance amplifiers available today.

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France - The new Ayrton MagicDot-XT has been developed "specifically to answer the huge demands of today's massive live music, television and entertainment environments".

MagicDot-XT is an amplified version of the successful MagicDot-R. With the same minimalist cylindrical design, a similar, scaled-up, circular footprint, and all the features of its smaller brother, MagicDot-XT proffers a much more powerful punch that suits long throw applications.

Optimised for use in large-scale venues, MagicDot-XT is equipped with Ayrton's new proprietary 126 mm diameter collimator that distinguishes the 'XT' product line. Weighing in at 550g, this new high-efficiency lens is the world's largest collimator which, when coupled with an ultra-powerful RGBW emitter, enables MagicDot-XT to project a 2° beam with centre beam efficiency of 580 candelas per lumen. This output makes it perfe

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USA - At InfoComm 2016, EvertzAV has announced support for Dante audio networking as an option for the company's MMA10G-HUB In-Room AV Switch. The MMA10G-HUB is an in-room audio & video switcher that leverages Evertz MMA-10G network based AV distribution capability. The HUB makes connecting a single room to a facility easy and opens up a world of possibilities for collaboration, resource sharing and connectivity.

A live demonstration of a Dante audio network has been constructed on the EvertzAV booth at Infocomm2016 showcasing the interoperability between the HUB and other Dante enabled vendors.

"We are excited to integrate Audinate's Dante technology within our MMA-10G products," says Jamie Horner, director for EvertzAV. "We believe we are the first to include Dante within an AV switch product, which facilitates audio from various Dante enabled products to be shared seaml

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USA - At InfoComm 2016, Barco has unveiled its 'digital media canvas' - a LED screen technology that's radically different than traditional LED displays. Thanks to their thin, lightweight, and bendable design, the R-series attach easily to virtually any surface - especially on curved surfaces, says the company.

The R-series frees customers from the limitations of traditional LED displays when digitizing their visual communication. Currently offered with a 10 mm pixel pitch, the outdoor-rated R10 is the first model of the digital media canvas family that's being introduced, and it will be shipping from Q3 2016 onwards.

"Venue owners, advertisers, and retailers are faced with the ever-challenging task of catching the attention of consumers and visitors. With our revolutionary R-series digital media canvas, we free designers from the limitations of traditional LED displays, m

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China - PR Lighting has further expanded its Xpar family with the addition of the new Arc LED unit, the Xpar 1012.

Adopting patented PR Lighting technology, the fixture combines 12 high powered 10W (RGBW 4-in-1) LEDs in a compact form factor.

The Xpar 1012 is also extremely versatile, offering many options; weighing just 10kg and silent in operation it will find its way into numerous applications, including outdoor use, since it has an IP67 protection rating.

Available with or without barn-doors, features include RGBW colour mixing (with macro); colour temperature of 2700K-10000K (linear correction); beam angle of 14° (with 10°, 20° and 40° options); dimmer 0-100% (linearly adjustable); strobe 0.5-33fps.

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UK - Newly appointed Sony Pro Audio distributor and long-time distributor partner for DPA Microphones, Sound Network is set to exhibit at the ABTT Theatre Show 2016 at Alexandra Palace, 22-23 June.

Sound Network will be showing all of the latest DPA Microphones and explaining how they are best used in the theatre and live performance arena: d:screet Miniature Mics and d:fine Headset Mics for bodyworn applications, d:dicate Recording and d:vote Live Mics for instrument miking.

Adding to DPA Microphones' long-standing close relationship with the Theatre Industry (mainly due to their exemplary d:screet range of miniature microphones), Sound Network hope to bring Sony's brand new DWX-N digital wireless systems to the fore, with quality and specifications that are widely heralded as the best on the market.

DPA's d:screet Miniature, d:fine Headset and d:vote Instrument mics

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Sweden - Nearly 70 multi-featured TourPro LightSky AquaBeam fixtures filled Stockholm's Globe Arena with light at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 grand final, which reached official global viewing figures of 204m.

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USA - Danley will add its hometown football team to the long and growing list of sports stadiums using Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers. The Atlanta Falcons are currently building the 75,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which will feature a "pinwheel-shaped" retractable roof, the world's largest LED screen, and a truly massive distributed Danley Jericho Horn and BC-218 subwoofer sound reinforcement system.

"The Falcons headquarters is five minutes from my house, and I've been a lifelong fan," enthused Danley president and CEO, Mike Hedden. "We have had a relationship with the Falcons for several years so when the new stadium was first being discussed we gave them an outdoor demo at a community event that blew them away in terms of volume, clarity, and musicality. We were later asked by the Falcons to come up with a design for the new stadium that, when compared to the other p

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USA - For its fifth year, Sunset Music Festival took over the grounds of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stadium and continues to break records. Since the festival's inception in 2011, attendance has increased with ticket sales surpassing 30,000 for 2016. Sunset Music Festival has become the destination electronic dance music festival for central Florida. EDM fans from around the state, country and the world converged on the gulf town to enjoy over 60 artists across three stages during the two-day event held Memorial Day weekend.

2016 marks the second year that AG Production Services has been relied upon to provide production support for the festival. For all three of the stages that make up the festival, AG Production Services provided the staging, roofing, lighting and video systems.

Production and lighting designer Koen De Puysseleir from AG Production Services was tasked with

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Estonia - The multi-functional Paide Kultuurikeskus, located in the middle of Estonia, opened to the public in December 1987. In recent years, this cultural centre has undergone significant improvements to its facilities to maintain its status as a national landmark, all the while retaining its original and distinctive 1980s design features. The latest development phase incorporated the installation of a series of ETC ColorSource PAR luminaires.

The venue is home to a number of flexible spaces, designed to accommodate a variety of cultural and entertainment events. The 529-seat main hall serves as a cinema, as well as a space for theatrical and musical performances. Other facilities include a spacious foyer for exhibitions, a dance studio, a ballroom, several classrooms, and a small hall suitable for concerts and seminars.

The most recent improvement project involved an up

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Romania - Leading live electronic music festival, Electric Castle, will provide 100,000 festival-goers with high tech RFID wristbands for fast and secure entry through the event gates and camping sites. The RFID wristbands will also be used as "digital wallets" for guests to make speedy purchases for all food, drink and merchandise on-site, making for a pain-free and seamless experience.

This year's Electric Castle is a fully cashless festival, delivering benefits to guests including significantly reduced queue times, increased convenience and enhanced security. Electric Castle takes place from 14-17 July in the grounds of B

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Saint Lucia - David 'Gurn' Kaniski had his rig for the Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival main stage all set up when he was given the bad news - 15 of the ÉPIX Strip Tours at the heart of his design were blocking a path that (unbeknownst to the LD) had been designated for equipment load-ins. "They told me I had to remove the 15 strips," said Kaniski. "My response was, 'You got to be kidding!' Running the strips to follow the stage's dome was at the heart of my design."

It was then that Kaniski discovered a valuable feature about the pixel mappable LED strips from Chauvet Professional. ""The ÉPIX has this cool slide adjustment that allowed me to hang the strip off centre in order to clear the door way," he said. "Using this feature, I could keep the 15 strips in place and preserve my look without obstructing that pathway."

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Japan - Situated in Hakata city, the Hakataza Theatre in the Fukuoka Prefecture - one of the most famous musical theatres in Japan - has been renovated after 16 years in order to meet complex acoustical demands for events such as Kabuki, Musicals and Theatrical shows.

Several premium systems were trialled over a nearly five-year period before Martin Audio's MLA family was given approval. As a result, 11 elements of MLA Compact are hung left and right of the proscenium along with DSX sub, and eight MLA Mini have been deployed as an L/C/R centre cluster.

To cover the remaining areas (including under-balcony) a further 73 Martin Audio DD6 have been specified.

The sound engineer, Mr Noguchi from Music Reserve inc, stated, "Our top priority is delivering perfect sound to the entire audience. In Hakataza Theatre we have to cater for many kinds of programme and in the past we

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