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USA - Dream City is a large and growing church with a central campus in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2015, the church added a campus in Scottsdale, Arizona and renovated its 5000-seat Phoenix location. In early 2016, Dream City added a third campus in Glendale, Arizona. As part of its expansion programme, the church acquired two Allen & Heath dLive S7000 mixers with DM64 and DM32 MixRacks for its Phoenix location along with 20 ME-1 Personal Mixers and two ME-U Monitor Hubs. The church also acquired a dLive S3000 mixer, DM64 MixRack and ten ME-1s for its Scottsdale location and plans to add another dLive S7000 and DM64 in Glendale this year.

Shawn Smith is Dream City's media director. He says the church previously mixed on a large, analogue setup that had 112 inputs with 24 returns and t

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UK - For the Euro 2016 finals, Hyundai Motor UK and The Brooklyn Brothers created "the world's first fully immersive fan zone experience". Taking place in a 20 x 40m dome structure in Kings Cross, London, the Hyundai FanDome presents a 360° audio-visual experience that evolves in real time, completely surrounding fans with the action through live game feeds and special effects, putting them at the heart of each match.

This one-of-a-kind experience is live for the whole five weeks of the competition and has been created by Kings Cross-based event-makers and placemakers PRODUCE UK. Nine months in the making, the project was commissioned by Hyundai Motor UK to host 45,000 guests across 45 games. With the content reacting in real time to the action in live matches with everything from goals scored, red and yellow cards, penalty shootouts, national anthems and even injury time

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Belgium - DEE Sound & Light recently invested in an SSL L500 Plus live digital console and a stock of ML 32.32 Stageboxes for its Dee-Digital dry-hire business. Since then the console - the first L500 in Belgium - has been busy covering a number of large tours around Europe.

"We invest in the high end," comments André Schneider, founder/MD of DEE Sound & Light. "Low-end or short-lived technology is not a good investment for a dry hire business. We need to know that a product will be in demand over the long term and that the manufacturer will continue to support and develop the technology. That's why we chose SSL."

DEE Sound & Light specialises in rental and production in both theatre and the music touring markets all over Europe and the world. Split into two main departments - DEE-Backline Rental and DEE-Digital Console Rental - the company rents out every productio

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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 - At Glastonbury 2016's WOW! Stage and Circus Big Top, Fineline Lighting complemented some traditional effects with a variety of dynamic new looks from Chauvet Professional's Rogue R1-FX-B and Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures.

Fineline specified 16 Rogue R1 FX-B blade-style fixtures for the WOW! Stage, which was located in Glastonbury's Silver Hayes area and featured EDM and DJ artists. The company used 10 Maverick MK2 Spots at The Circus Big Top, where concert music gave way to stage performances by Pirates of the Carabina, Yvette Dusol, Eric McGill, plus many other acts.

Although the two stages featured very different forms of entertainment, Fineline Lighting was committed to giving each a fresh new look. "We have been working at Glastonbury for many years; it's the largest green field festival in the world and has always been a very diverse festival in terms of both the ac

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UK / USA - inMusic, Inc. (inMusic), the corporate owner of 13 premiere companies that deliver hardware and software solutions to the music, professional sound and consumer electronics industries, has announced that co-founders Linda Arink and Dennis Bohn have agreed to sell Rane Corporation to inMusic LLC. The transaction is set to be completed this summer. After the sale, Ms. Arink and Mr. Bohn plan to step down and retire.

Rane Corporation is well-known for its audio products for the DJ and professional sound markets. Founded and incorporated in 1981, Rane quickly established itself as a valuable supplier to the professional sound market, with products that introduced new and innovative features, with an emphasis on performance, value and reliability. Today, Rane's reputation for engineering excellence extends to a wide range of products, including DJ mixers, amplifiers, equ

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Europe/USA - Manufacturer and distributor of lighting control products, ENTTEC has announced the appointments of Chelsie Chinnick, marketing executive; Brandon Mitchell, technical sales & support, and Roz Dahlie, training and education coordinator.

"The world of marketing and technology continues to transform rapidly. To keep up with these changes, we've identified three key areas where our staff numbers needed to grow, and so we are thrilled to welcome Chelsie, Brandon and Roz aboard during this exciting period of growth here at ENTTEC," says Jeremy Kumin, general manager of ENTTEC Americas.

Kumin adds, "By fortifying and extending our team and resources, ENTTEC is showing commitment to the future growth and demand for products. We are developing and continuing to maintain our reputation as a leading player in the industry and it is a very exciting time for our new employ

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World - Following six months of feature development and feedback from an intensive beta testing period, CAST Software has announced wysiwyg Release 37. This major update delivers many impactful features to complement the very successful R36 that introduced a major change on User Interface with a new design, look and feel.

Release 37 includes new features and enhancements that improve the work flow of wysiwyg, and that deliver useful tools for everyday design needs, says the company.

"As always, our team continues to build on our previous versions, delivering on our goal to build new tools that will help our users," says Dino Mazza, wysiwyg product manager.

"We worked closely with our Beta users, who offer us feedback and assisted our development with input on feature designs and on identifying changes that will make a big difference to their user experience. It's a gre

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Germany - The German Design Awards are among the most coveted prizes on the global design scene. Founded in 1953 on the initiative of the German Bundestag, the Council for Design annually honours outstandingly well-designed products and excellence in communications design.

Among the nominees for the German Design Awards 2017 are the stands from the Adam Hall Group's new brand Gravity, which convinced the independent jury with their aesthetic design and pleasant feel.

Adam Hall Group CEO Alexander Pietschmann comments, "With Gravity we want to prove that there is a common denominator for premium quality, sophisticated functionality and a stylish look. We are very pleased that after winning an iF Design and a Red Dot Award, our stands are nominated for a further prominent prize. The various awards and nominations as well as the extremely positive feedback we have received fr

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UK - Utopium was called upon to light up Bristol Summer Series as it returned for four nights of live music, set against the backdrop of Bristol's Harbourside, 22-25 June.

Bristol Summer Series welcomed a host of international acts including headliners Catfish and The Bottlemen, Sigur R

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UK - Stockport band Blossoms, who were rated highly in the BBC's Sound Of 2016 list of bands to watch this year, are using Shure microphones and in-ear monitoring systems on their current summer festival tour, which includes forays to Australia and Japan as well as mainland Europe and the Glastonbury Festival.

Dan Woolfie, the band's tour manager, has been using a Shure PSM1000 in-ear monitoring (IEM) system on all the band's recent dates, as well as a KSM313 ribbon mic on Josh Dewhurst's guitar and the new KSM8 dual-diaphragm mic for vocals.

Blossoms had been using IEMs for only a matter of months when they recorded a session at Abbey Road and came across Shure's PSM1000 systems. In that instant the whole band agreed that this upgrade would make a huge difference to their live shows.

The PSM1000s provide dedicated monitor mixes for each band member, but their use on t

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South Africa - Two leading rental companies in Nelspruit have joined forces. Lowveld Sound Promotions officially merged with AVS Hire at the start of June and have made their first combined investment of Prolyte H30V trussing and base plates, supplied by DWR Distribution.

Kyle Nel from AVS and Sakkie Coetzer from Lowveld Sound had often quoted against each other for events. With both young men like-minded in work ethics and each backed up with a good crew, they started playing with the idea of integrating both companies a couple of years ago.

"It's nice to have back up and a person to second guess with," said Kyle. "Together we can become a dot on the map and we can raise the bar as technical suppliers."

Sakkie agreed that the merge would provide a solid infrastructure to enable the supply of large-scale shows or events. The new Prolyte pieces will expand their existin

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UK - Robert Arnall is just one year into a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Production Arts course at York College. He has already made his mark at college by being a member of the winning team at the 2015 Lighting the Locomotives Competition that took place at the National Railway Museum sponsored jointly by Ambersphere Solutions and Pulsar Lighting. The team's imaginative lighting of the steam locomotive that became famous in the film The Railway Children was programmed and controlled by a dot2 console from MA Lighting and provided to all the teams by Ambersphere Solutions.

Outside of his college obligations, Arnall has been busy building his own business along with his partner, Owen Price who is also at York College. "It was Owen who really got me into sound and lighting in the first place. We started out DJ-ing about four years ago but with very minimal equipment and cer

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UK - Lighting and visuals production and rental company HSL supplied lighting kit to a new version of the tense musical drama Parade, staged at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, featuring an inventive lighting scheme designed by Aaron J. Dootson.

Aaron's lighting was a crucial element in creating the emotion, raw anxiety and political and moral issues of this incisive piece of theatre by Jason Robert Brown, which dramatizes the 1913 trail of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank for the murder and rape of 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Georgia.

HSL first met Aaron through their work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year where he had a production of Molly by company Squint. When this production took shape, and he needed support for the show, HSL's MD Simon Stuart was delighted to get involved.

"Aaron is a highly talented LD with a real passion f

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USA - RTS equipped six IMSP (Indianapolis Motor Speedway Productions) trucks, two NEP (North Eastern Production) vehicles, and several smaller video and RF hub trucks in the communications compound to live broadcast the 100th Indy 500.

All race day communications relating to the actual production (camera cues, commercial breaks, specific camera shots, commentator comments) were supported on an RTS ADAM intercom.

Six KP-5032 keypanels were located around the track in various camera and shot spotter locations, with two located in the track/event control room to enable seamless communications for a successful production of the anniversary event.

This was the first live demonstration of the new, soon-to-be-released RVON software package designed for the KP-5032s. In the past, implementing RVON required buying hardware daughter cards, pulling the keypanel out of service, in

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UK - Aurora Lighting has been supporting lighting director Gurdip Mahal, keeping a watchful eye over the latest series of live evictions at the Big Brother House.

Having been given a major overhaul for the 2016 season, the new look BB set at Elstree Studios hosts each of the live evictions as a full on 'rock and roll' event, complete with vast wrap around video screens, plenty of automated lighting and a curved 'catwalk' at its centre.

Working closely with gaffer Richard Shout, Aurora hassupplied the crew with a variety of heads including the versatile Clay Paky Mythos with its impressive spot and beam abilities providing precise colour and movement across the exterior of the set. For extra punch, powerful Novalight Super Novas have also been sited over the stage to deliver stunning aerial effects above the action.

A mix of MAC Auras and Rush PARs have been incorporate

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USA - With his distinctive heartfelt vocals, Tyler Farr sounds like he was born to be a country singer, but the popular star's career path started out on a far different track. Long before he reached the top of the country charts last year with his single A Guy Walks Into A Bar, the Missouri-born crooner was classically trained as an opera singer. Like the multi-talented Farr, the Nexus 4x4 fixtures on his current touring rig also are exhibiting a wide range of capabilities.

Lighting designer Larry Foote rented 24 of the Chauvet Professional LED panels from 4Wall Entertainment for his Farr tour rig. Drawing on the versatility of his pixel mapped Nexus units, Foote has been able to create an impressive variety of looks for his client, while still meeting the objective of keeping his rig simple and flexible.

"We're playing a lot of festivals and venues of very differe

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Norway - The Norwegian Olympic Museum in Lillehammer, Norway was opened by H.M Queen of Norway at a prestigious ceremony in February 2016. The Museum is a showcase for adventurous video installations, curated exhibits of cultural and historic artefacts and Olympic memorabilia.

What makes the Norwegian Olympic Museum a must-see attraction for all is Lysgaardsbakkene roughly translated as 'Jump Hills'. It forms the centrepiece; a large-scale circular raised-platform interactive model measuring 3.5m in diameter, the Olympic jump hills. Local systems integrator Bright Norway achieved a true to life interactive presentation using AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Raw uncompressed 4K media servers and Wings VIOSO calibration software to manage and warp native video content across 4 edge-blended projectors.

Bright Norway was also responsible for multimedia and presentation equipment for la

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Czech Republic - Robe was a sponsor of the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships held in Nové M?sto na Morav?, Czech Republic. It continued Robe's 2016 Working with Winners initiative which has also included sponsorship of the Czech Fed Cup Tennis team, supporting the Quantum Racing team in the 2016 P1 UK SuperStock powerboat racing championship and British Touring Car Championship driver Jack Goff in the current BTCC season.

Robe partnered with leading Slovakian rental company Q-99 for the 2016 Championships to supply over 100 of the latest Robe moving lights - Squares, BMFL Blades and BMFL WashBeams, Pointes and ColorStrobes - to the event's entertainment stage which was used for the Opening Ceremony, nightly concerts, featuring some of the most popular Czech artists, as well as for medal ceremonies throughout the prestigious and highly successful five-day event.

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USA - Analog Way, an innovation-driven designer and manufacturer that specializes in computer and video signal processing and distribution has launched its Training Academy for the Americas.

The Academy will be located at the new Analog Way facility in Metro-Atlanta which has been equipped with several rooms designed for hands on training. A technology instructor has also joined the company as a specialist trainer.

Strengthening the training offer in the Americas, Analog Way has always been committed to supporting its customers through training tailored to their needs.

Jay Gonzalez, president of Analog Way Americas states, "Developing training programmes for our customers is one of the main goals of Analog Way Americas. We want to offer product and technology training to integrators, consultants, freelance technicians, and end-users - training that will enable them to

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USA - As two of the music industry's most respected and in-demand sound engineers, Eddie 'El Brujo' Caipo and Brad Divens have worked with some of the world's biggest recording artists. From small intimate theatres to large outdoor stadiums, Caipo and Divens are known for delivering audio quality to both the artist and the audience.

In order to capture that same kind of expansive sound for Latin pop rock superstar Enrique Iglesias' current tour, the duo relies on microphones from DPA Microphones.

"Brad and I have been on tour with Enrique Iglesias and heard a lot of great things about DPA Microphones," says Caipo. "When we were offered a demo package to try out the company's mics, we were thrilled. We were both immediately blown away by the sound. The quality is above and beyond anything we were using in the past. It was immediately obvious that there was no going back to

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Lebanon - Professional full-service event production provider CKA recently supplied an Adamson E-Series sound reinforcement system to support the Kohar Symphony Orchestra and Choir. The orchestra and choir performed traditional Armenian music at the Forum de Beirut to a sold out crowd.

"The Forum has a high reverberation time which translates into pretty bad acoustics," explains Chadi Akiki, owner of CKA. "The directionality of the Adamson PA was a tremendous help. The end result was quite exceptional."

CKA hung left and right line arrays, each made up of eight E12 modules, along with a centre cluster of six more E12s. Eight E218 subwoofers created a centre cluster under the stage for additional low end. CKA also utilized eight Metrix line array modules for front-fills along the lip of the stage. Out-fill was handled by left and right arrays of six S10 modules each.

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