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Europe - Yamaha has launched its latest MT Series headphones, the HPH-MT8 and HPH-MT5*, developed to provide engineers with the high levels of precision and fidelity required for professional monitoring.

MT Series headphones are designed to deliver flat, high-resolution sound with precise stereo imaging and faithful source signal reproduction, while providing a high level of isolation and comfort to ward off fatigue during extended monitoring sessions.

The new models are equipped with custom drivers and powerful neodymium magnets for precise definition, even at the highest output levels. The lightweight-yet-powerful drivers deliver a frequency response of 15Hz-28kHz in the MT8 and 20Hz-20kHz in the MT5.

Both feature a comfortable closed-back, circumaural configuration wi

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UK - Live audio specialist tube UK enjoyed the sun and the great vibes at the 2016 Ramsbottom Festival for which the company designed and supplied d&b sound systems for the main and second stages.

The boutique, family-friendly three-day event is staged in the picturesque Lancashire town of Ramsbottom which runs alongside the River Irwell nestled in an attractive Pennine valley. The event features a vibrant mix of music, food and artistic / creative engagements, and this year the main stage headliners were Public Service Broadcasting, former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes and Fun Lovin' Criminals.

tube - along with Manchester based lighting company dbn - has been involved in the Ramsbottom Festival since it started in 2011, when they were asked on-board by production manager Roy Fernley.

This year for the first time tube also supplied a PA the second Smaller Spaces sta

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USA - The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum. Located on the National Mall, it has close to 37,000 objects in its collection related to such subjects as community, family, the arts, religion, civil rights, slavery, and segregation.

The museum opened 24 September 2016 in a ceremony led by U.S. President Barack Obama. As part of the grand opening festivities, the Freedom Sounds show - a concert featuring The Roots, Public Enemy, and Living Colour - took place before a huge audience. To provide sound reinforcement, loudspeakers from the Aero Series 2 and Road Series catalogues of Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio were placed into service.

Audio & Light of Greensboro, NC, a full service A/V design, installation, and production company, was contracted to handle sound services for the event. Company president Jim

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Poland - Allen & Heath's Qu-Pac digital rack mixer has been installed in the new COS sports complex, constructed as a training centre for Poland's Olympic athletes.

Situated in Zakopane, the centre comprises a 46m x 28m hall, 15m climbing wall, running track, gym, judo training room, wrestling training room and fitness hall. The venue was recently opened by the Minister of Sport & Tourism, and top Polish athletes, cross country skier, Justyna Kowalczyk and ski jumper, Kamil Stoch.

Zakopane-based installer, Future Tech, installed the sound reinforcement system, which manages sources such as, microphones for announcements and coaches' commentaries, and music playlists.

"Qu-Pac is at the heart of the sound system," explains Marcin S?odyczka, owner of Future Tech. "The great thing about this compact mixer is it provides independent control of seven zones, and EQ and dynami

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Norway, The Concert Hall in Oslo has installed the largest console to leave the Audient factory. Delivered in September, the 48 channel ASP8024-HE Heritage Edition comes with all the trimmings, including patchbay, Dual Layer Control (DLC) and producers' desk. With nine bays, it's officially the largest Heritage Edition ever made.

"We were looking for an analogue console that doesn't lie," says production manager, Jan Olsen Skare, explaining their decision. "Obviously the room has to 'help' the music, but we wanted the console to have a true dynamic and good preamps." When introduced to the Audient brand by Norwegian distributor, Prolyd, he wasn't disappointed. "The mic pres are so quiet and respond amazingly. The EQs are just wonderful and very accurate; I've never heard anything sound this good."

Launched earlier this year, Heritage Edition is billed as the 'definitive ve

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UK - Setsquare Staging worked with Star Events and Bright Bricks to build a fully functional scale model of Tower Bridge, clad in a record 5,805, 846 pieces of Lego, for the Land Rover Discovery 5 launch at Packington Hall, near the manufacturer's Solihull plant.

Delivered by creative agency Imagination, the event was designed around the seven seat Discovery's family and adventure priorities, action man Bear Grylls descending from a helicopter to place the final brick on the structure.

Twelve months in the planning, the Tower Bridge model had to lift and support two Land Rover Discoveries while Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, drove his team underneath, pulling a Lego replica of their Land Rover BAR racing boat.

John O'Gorman, director of Setsquare Staging, comments, "Our relationship with Imagination has been getting stronger over the years

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UK - A Jands Vista console was at the heart of Fall Out Boy's headline performances at the recent Reading and Leeds Festival main stages.

The Chicago band have spent the past decade working their way up the festivals' bill, and their strikingly visual performances on the consecutive nights, created by production designer Robb Jibson, garnered rave reviews in the media.

Robb, who also helms Chicago-based So Midwest Inc which provided the Vista control package, has been touring extensively with the band, and the Leeds and Reading shows were the culmination of the 18-month American Beauty/American Psycho album cycle. The custom setup, which has accompanied him throughout, consists of a Vista S3 control surface run on OSX via two Mac Minis with stacking dongles, providing an active/backup system with the footprint of just one desk and a total of 16 cores of i7 processin

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USA - Lighting designer Zach Bunner admits that some of his LD brethren might think that designing an arena tour for a two-time Grammy winner "without a rig full of beams and profile fixtures" would limit the looks of a show.

However, Bunner proved otherwise by creating an intimate and immersive club-like feeling at venues from The Forum in Los Angeles to Madison Square Garden with a rig that relied heavily on the Rogue R2 Wash and STRIKE 4 multi formatted fixture from Chauvet Professional.

Bunner of Showtime Sound worked his magic on the just-concluded Louis C.K. summer tour. The comedian-actor-director, who has won six Emmys and a Peabody Award in addition to his pair of Grammys, wanted a lightshow that engendered the feeling of a comedy club or small theater, despite his tour's outsized venues. Aerial washing from the Rogue R2s was instrumental in creating this environm

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UK - Creative technical production expert Hawthorn is continuing to expand its video department and increase its presence in the dry hire sector with a recent investment in d3 server technology.

Due to an increasing demand for projection mapping and large-scale content, Hawthorn has added four d3 4x4pro media servers to its already extensive hire inventory, representing an investment of £200,000.

The d3 4

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USA - In its continuing support of arts education, ETC is once again giving six students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the fields of lighting design and stage technology an exclusive opportunity for professional development.

As recipients of ETC's annual LDI Student Sponsorship, the students will enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip to the LDI tradeshow, a full conference pass to experience the newest technology and benefit from LDI seminars and trainings, and the chance to network with professionals throughout the industry at special events.

ETC will match the Student Sponsorship recipients with industry luminaries who serve as mentors - giving advice, inspiration and support to the students as they embark on their careers. The 2016 ETC LDI students are:

Ben Clark - Currently a graduate student studying technical design and production at the Yale School

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UK - There was great interest in D.A.D (Dynamic Audio Device) Touring Series speakers on the A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. stand at PLASA 2016.

"We were delighted by the feedback we received from professional users seeing the product for the first time" said Robert Kendall, specialist business development at AC-ET who represented the range at the show. "Visitors to the stand were really impressed by the combination of build quality, sound quality and exceptional price point - we received several serious enquiries from the show.

"Of particular interest was the Touring Power series; very versatile, it's great for rental, events and installations - people enquired about it for several applications. Consisting of a range of products from 8" to 15" full range loudspeakers with complementary bass enclosures, and suitable for use singularly or as multiple units, th

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UK - It was all about sound at the 2016 PLASA show, held at London's Olympia. There was a distinct air of enthusiasm among the audio community as they were presented with an increased choice of manufacturers, distributors, and seminar sessions, including the newly appointed d&b sales partner SFL, and long-term partner SSE/Wigwam. At their respective stands, the d&b dealers were joined by members of the d&b GB team, putting some friendly faces to the UK and Ireland supplier network.

While the d&b DS10 Audio network bridge and new QSC Q-SYS plug-in attracted plenty of attention, it was the far field noise immission modelling software, NoizCalc, that ultimately stole the show with a PLASA Award for Innovation.

Hans Metger presented the game changing technology to the judges: "With NoizCalc d&b hopes to raise awareness of how important the subject of offsite noise 'immisions'

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USA - Audinate has announced that Level 1 of the popular Dante Certification programme is now available online. This online course allows customers the opportunity to become certified any time, any place, without the need to attend in-person events.

Audinate created the certification programme as a response to requests for information about best practices for installing Dante audio networking. The Dante Certification programme provides an easy way for system designers, engineers and others in the industry to learn about Dante with in-depth training. The programme also allows them to demonstrate Dante expertise to potential employers and clients. There are currently two levels: Level 1 is available both in person and online, and Level 2 is currently only offered in person.

"The in-person Dante Certification programme was very well received when it was launched at InfoComm i

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The Netherlands - The latest in Talpa Media's string of hit TV talent shows is about to hit the screens this autumn when The Next Boy / Girl Band is broadcast by SBS6.

The imaginative stage set has been lit by Light-H-Art designer Bas de Vries and his assistant, programmer Joost Wijgers.

Having collaborated on a number of similar TV talent shows for Talpa in the past, including The Voice, Dance Dance Dance and It Takes Two, the two men this time turned to 12 of GLP's GT-1 hybrid Spot / Beam to dominate the set, which has been built at the giant Studio 24 on the Media Park in Hilversum.

"We got to test a GT-1 when we were recording Dance Dance Dance and thought it would be a great fit for The Next Boy / Girl Band," admits Joost.

The show itself is recorded in front of a live audience. The main elements of the scenography are

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Belgium - Held in the aptly-named Belgian town of Boom, Tomorrowland is one of the biggest electronic music festivals on the planet. The 2016 event attracted 60,000 people on each of three days in July, with almost 600 cabinets of L-Acoustics loudspeakers specified for no less than eight areas, including the huge Main Stage.

The system is owned by Phlippo Productions, an L-Acoustics partner for the past four years, who also supplied eight technicians for the build. Design for the audio systems was by Noizboyz, a group of freelance audio technicians who specialise in live sound for electronic dance music (EDM). They have specified L-Acoustics systems for Tomorrowland since they first became involved with the festival in 2011.

"Back then we started with a V-DOSC / SB218 rig. With the arrival of K1 we changed it to K1 / SB28 and this year we upgraded the main systems to KS28

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USA - With over four million records sold in the US, a Grammy nomination, and songs on soundtracks for hits like Game of Thrones to their credit, heavy metal masters Killswitch Engage have achieved much. Seventeen years after their founding, the band from Westfield, Massachusetts continue to push the musical envelope out a little further with each passing show.

This passion for defying comfortable expectations is shared by the band's lighting designer Freddy Thompson of JDI Productions. Working on the group's current tour in support of their album Incarnate, Thompson tore up his old playbook and rewrote the rules to come up with a lightshow that matches his client's evermore ferocious sound with an explosive mix of fresh new looks. Key to helping him accomplish this feat is a collection of eight Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures from Chauvet Professional that he added to th

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Belgium - Founded in 1985 by youth organization, the Young Humanists of Leopoldsburg, Pukkelpop started life as a small, local music event before evolving into the huge three-day outdoor festival that it is today. This year, the festival organisers asked Total-e event support specialists to supply audio, lighting and room control for their extensive VIP/Press area. Total-e immediately suggested a Liviau S from Apex.

Held just outside the city of Hasselt in Belgium, the Pukkelpop now attracts some 180,000 festival-goers over the three days. A festival with a distinctly alternative flavour, the event is not just about music - the Baraque Futur space hosts a variety of lectures and discussions all focused around the theme of sustainability - although if it's music you're looking for, with ten stages to choose from, visitors won't be disappointed.

The VIP area for such a major

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UK - Held on 14-15 September at the Science Museum, London, Space for Inspiration provided an opportunity to show how the environment of space can help overcome key challenges here on earth.

The two-day event involved expert speakers, live demonstrations and the opportunity to create relationships in one of the world's most renowned science venues. With a strong reputation in providing production support on a range of conferences, WL was called upon to provide the complete technical solutions for this event.

Space for Inspiration was hosted by the European Space Agency who approached WL to help bring their event to life. WL's conference account manager Shrenik Singhavi comments, "Upon meeting the ESA, it became clear that they wanted to host an extremely ambitious event. Alongside the lighting and AV support, there would also be interactive Q and A's, live audience respons

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UK - Bestselling children's author and McFly band member Tom Fletcher launched his children's fiction novel The Christmasaurus at the Natural History Museum. The Earth Hall was transformed into a Christmas extravaganza with seasonal lighting, canapés and a Giant Crumpet Christmasaurus made from 2500 Warburtons crumpets.

Published by Penguin Random House Children's, The Christmasaurus is Tom' s first novel aimed at 7-11 year olds, inspired by his love of all things Christmas and dinosaurs. Set on Christmas Eve, the story is about the magical adventures of a boy named William Trundle and a most unusual dinosaur called the Christmasaurus.

Magical Christmas scenes from the novel were reconstructed by Bespoke Events, from architectural lighting themed to match the book jacket in winter wonderland colours blues, white and purples to snow flake projections on

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Sweden - Gothenburg's renaissance style Stora Teatern was originally built in 1859 and is one of the most popular historical buildings in the bustling Swedish port city. It now presents a lively mix of concerts, theatre and dance shows and is also weekend destination during the summer season as Backstage, a popular club / DJ performance experience in the region.

Owing to its truly multi-purpose entertainment programme and many different configurations depending on the event, the show lighting rigs are constantly changing.

Saving time and hassle, head of lighting Joel Karlberg has installed a LumenRadio wireless DMX system which enables data signals between the lights and the control desk to be re-routed quickly and easily.

Joel co-ordinates all the lighting technical elements and has found the wireless DMX system to be a flexible and practical solution for addressing a

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China - Flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has opened a new factory in Fenggang Town, Dongguan City, Guandong Province, China.

Established to run in parallel with the UK manufacturing base in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the new 5 Star China operation will primarily service the burgeoning domestic Chinese and wider Asian markets which are demanding high quality products - for which it's simply not practical to ship from the UK.

The idea has been on the horizon for some time explains 5 Star's MD Keith Sykes, but several elements needed to fall in line before the plan could be successfully implemented.

Running the new 1000 metre plus production facility will be 5 Star's local business partner James Zhang, a well-known, respected and highly successful entrepreneur who manages other manufacturing companies in the town, including travel bag / handbag and polythene carrier bag

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