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The sixth annual New Horizon event on the campus of Coleraine University attracted over 20,000 visitors to the Christian-based Gospel presentation over a seven-day period. For the second year running, the sound was produced by local company Light & Sound FX (LSFX).

For the main tented area, LSFX used four stacks of Mackie Fussion, two each side of the stage configured in four Fussion 3000 mid/high boxes, four 1800 subs and four 1800A subs, all driven by Mackie M1400 amps. For the stage monitoring, Mackie C300 speakers and a Mackie SR40:8 mixer were spec’d. Around the rest of the site were 14 Mackie SRM 450s, whilst for the FOH mix, LSFX used the Crest VCA 32:4 FOH console.

Running alongside all of this, Upstream Recording had a live recording unit in action, for a forthcoming CD.

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As we reported last week, theatrical sound design specialist Autograph Sound Recording has purchased its first DiGiCo D5 console. The 96-channel console, which was delivered by DiGiCo's sales director James Gordon to Autograph in early November, will become the first D5 in the world to be fitted with the forthcoming D5 Theatre package. The theatre software will include an enlarged output matrix and a host of other features that are specific to the theatre environment.

For almost three decades, Autograph has been known for its pioneering input into the design of many theatre-orientated products from manufacturers such as Meyer Sound, Cadac, Sennheiser, Micron and Danish Pro-Audio. Andrew Bruce, Autograph chairman and founder, will bench test the prototype software in close consultation with DiGiCo engineers to produce a console that can cater for the demands of setting up and running a

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Peter Gabriel’s first North American tour in nearly 10 years opened in Chicago last week. The tour is due to cover around 22 cities in total and incorporates new material from his album ‘Up’ along with many of his favourite hits. Stage Technologies, who have provided automation for Westlife and Janet Jackson’s ‘All For You’ tour have recently collaborated with Total Fabrications, working with director/designer Robert Le Page in providing American Peter Gabriel fans with a spectacular centre stage production.

The show was structurally very complex to design, with the understage area required to act as the main storage facility for the tour. To optimize this space, Total Fabrications, who have provided set design for Kylie Minogue’s ‘Fever’ tour, incorporated a donut revolve made from aluminium. The 15m diameter revolve is thin enough

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The whole slickly formulated Pop Idol phenomenon is the popular culture movement of the moment. With Will and Gareth topping the UK charts, the live Pop Idol concept is now flying high in the US with a30-date American Idol tour, produced by Simon Fuller and 19 Management, with production handled by Chris Vaughan’s CV Productions.

The show is a superlative example of high production values, with Chris Vaughan’s CV Productions team featuring many who made the first Pop Idol tour gel. With 12 trucks and 24 sold-out UK arena dates, this is some achievement in these politically jittery times.

With Vaughan himself in the States for American Idol, the UK tour is production managed by Kenny Underwood and Debbie Bray, with tour management by Bill Barclay. XL Video UK is once again the live video equipment supplier, working in conjunction with Blink TV - the latter hiring the gear

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Show Presentation Services (SPS) has secured a further three-year contract as the preferred AV supplier at the Business Design Centre (BDC) in Islington, London. SPS, which has an in-house residency at the North London venue, has been working on events at the BDC over the last three years, and has most recently provided AV support for Cycle 2002 - The International Cycle Show.

Robin Coles, managing director at SPS, says: "We are delighted to be extending the working relationship with the BDC, and we hope that our expertise will continue to add value to all events at the venue. We have become an integral part of the way in which the BDC works and the two members of the SPS team that are permanently based at the BDC is testament to our close working relationship."

This sentiment is echoed by Dominic Jones, Managing Director at the Business Design Centre. He says: "We fe

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Coe-tech/Robe UK's active sales team continues to expand with the addition of David Linger as sales manager. He will be based on the road and at Coe-tech's HQ in Northampton. Linger has worked in the moving light business for the past decade, most recently as sales director of one of the UK's leading manufacturers - MAD. Previous to that, he was at Coe-tech, and brings his considerable technical and industry experience back to familiar territory.

At Coe-tech/Robe UK, Linger will be working with the extensive Robe Showlighting product range, for which Coe-tech is the exclusive UK distributor. The Robe range was instrumental in Linger's move: "I saw the fixtures at PLASA and thought they were excellent in every way," he commented. "I knew this was the right company and the products into which to plough my energy, and I'm very pleased to be back on board with Coe-tech.&quo

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The Barco Technology Showcase, held at Pinewood Studios on the 8-9 October provided an interesting opportunity to view the display specialist’s wide range of projection and display products, while the company’s experienced and knowledgeable staff were on hand to talk visitors through each product.

The Barco portfolio is certainly impressive, ranging from the compact state-of-the-art Cine Versum 80 home theatre projector through to the ScenergiX seamless wide screen and SLM Performance projectors - ideal for panoramic backdrops on stage.

Also on view to visitors was Barco’s iStudio, one of the most advanced all-in-one solutions for managed monitoring. Intended for use in studios, control centres, playout centres, uplink centres and for downlink monitoring, it has a high quality display with rear screen projection, a graphic controller and web-based operating softwar

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15,000 people gathered at St George’s Plateau in central Liverpool to see a free mixed-media extravaganza that fused live performances, lasers, fireworks and an interactive snow storm. The event was promoted by Liverpool City Council and ensured that the city was turned on for an early white Christmas.

The event was designed and produced by LCC’s Cultural Events Unit, which sorted all the necessary technical and health and safety infrastructure and dealt with all site co-ordination. The show was run by event manager Nick Handford, working with Lee Forde (CEU Manager), Eddy Grant (CEU Operations Manager) and Kirstie Blakeman (CEU Events Officer). The City’s Christmas Illuminations were switched on by Stephen Gately, ex-Boyzone pop star.

The CEU team’s biggest challenge was squeezing an ambitiously-sized production into a small area full of beguiling and histori

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After a busy 12 months which has seen Total Fabrications Ltd (TFL) provide stage sets for artists including Kylie Minogue, S Club 7 and the Commonwealth Games, to name just three, the time has come, say the company, to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of one Neil Darracott.

"Technical Director is a role of increasing responsibilities," said TFL’s managing director Chris Cronin of Darracott’s new appointment, "one that requires both qualifications and understanding. TFL has always striven to place safety at the core of everything we do, from manufacturing process through to utilization of the finished product. Since Neil first came on board to develop T2 as an entirely new concept for the trussing industry, he has contributed heavily to establishing standards in unique areas. He’s simply the ideal man for the job."

Darracott, besides being a we

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Leading Norwegian rental company AVAB has completed a sold-out world tour with a-ha using a Meyer Sound line array PA system driven by XTA digital signal processing. Destinations on a-ha’s Lifelines tour included Europe, Russia and Brazil. They played to audiences as large as 30,000 in Riga, Latvia and 24,000 in Norway, and ended in the UK, including a date at Wembley Arena.

AVAB co-owner and senior technical director Sven Persson explains: "They came back from the cold, played a comeback tour in Germany, and haven’t looked back since. When we started work on this tour we did a lot of work in pre-production to make the show as good as possible, and it’s just been going up and up."

Persson, audio director for the tour, has been a key figure in a-ha’s resurgence. He has worked live with lead singer Morten Harket since his solo album ‘Wild Seed&rs

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At the Swiss Expo 2002, 60 Clay Paky V.I.P. projectors illuminate the breathtaking pool in the ‘CY-City Pool’. The Cyberhelvetia stand is found in the Arteplage Biel-Bienne’s Forum at the Expo, combining the appearance of a traditional Swiss bathing complex with more modern forms of meeting and communicating in cyberspace. Today, going for a swim together no longer requires water: now, swimmers simply dive deep into the Cyberhelvetia stand’s multi-faceted ambience of extended virtual reality.

The stand holds 200 guests and can accommodate up to 600 visitors per hour. The project was developed by Wiesbaden’s ‘3 de Lux’ and required 130 metric tons of material extending over around 1150sq.m on two levels: the exhibits have utilized 110 metric tons of wood, 11.5 metric tons of glass, eight metric tons of steel and 12 kilometres of cable. The Wiesb

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Bournemouth-based CPS Group supplied a substantial Renkus-Heinz sound reinforcement system for a one-off performance of Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Miserables in the Windsor Hall of Bournemouth’s International Centre as part of its UK tour. Staged in association with Bournemouth’s Orchestras by Wing & A Prayer Theatrical Productions under licence from Cameron Mackintosh Overseas, the evening was a resounding success.

Sound designers Chris Caton and Richard Colegate from CPS specified the R-H system. Colegate explains: "We chose the R-H system as it enabled us to provide West End style sound in a large multi-purpose room with a very challenging, hard acoustic environment."

In order to provide a coherent and uniform soundfield across the whole auditorium, a combination of R-H Co-Entrant loudspeakers were deployed - based around 14 of the CE153 cabinets (

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Freelancing in the 21st Century is the title of a seminar to be held at the next PSA Get Together, which will take place at A.C. Lighting facility in High Wycombe on 4 December 2002 at 7.30pm.

The evening will begin with a review of the current system of using freelancers as self-employed subcontractors, the rights and responsibilities of the freelancers and their clients and the potential problems now facing the Industry as a result of the abuse of the IR56 self-employment regulations, particularly the possibility of crippling tax arrears bills faced by some users of freelancers. Following this will be an examination of the alternative ways of freelancing, either as one-person Limited Companies or as Temporary Employees, taxed at source under PAYE. Finally there will be presentations of management and freelance points of view, followed by a question and answer session, drinkies and ni

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Queen Mary’s, University of London has collaborated with six other British universities to establish the UK's first ever Digital Music Research Network. Linking experts in the fields of music, electronic engineering and computer science, the forum will aim to create a community which will be at the forefront of the very latest research in the rapidly growing field of digital music and its related technologies - including the creation, coding, distribution and delivery of musical audio. The network also hopes to act as a liaison point with the commercial music industry and music publishers.

Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the network brings together researchers from Queen Mary, University of London; City University, London; the University of Cambridge; the University of Glasgow; the University of Sheffield; the University of Surrey; and th

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Mackie Designs Inc (NASDAQ: MKIE) announced today a new operating structure to enable the organization to weather the current economic downturn, as well as streamline its communication channels and reinvigorate the product development process.

According to Jamie Engen, president and CEO of Mackie Designs Inc: "Our goals are simple: bring Mackie closer to its customers in order to deliver the highest levels of service, develop more timely and relevant products, and enable the company to endure the current economic downturn and quickly return it to profitability."

In addition to workforce reductions to scale for increasing offshore production and the expansion of management accountability from a core group of senior executives to a broader team of functional leaders, the company realigned resources around three functional areas: Front Office (including sales, marketing and cu

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With a debut album produced by legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, their first US tour completed, and the Japanese leg imminent, indie-newcomers Haven are set to give Coldplay and Travis a run for their money.

The group’s US tour consisted of small venues - bars and clubs - where house systems had to be used. Ian ‘Hippo’ Williams, the band’s FOH engineer, explained: "I started this tour never having been to any of the venues before, and I didn’t have the luxury of any technical specs prior to us arriving. I felt it would be safer to look after myself by carrying my own control for the in-ear mixes for the four band members, two wedge mixes as backup and FOH. It also meant that there would be some consistency to the sound both for the band and myself. The problem I had was to get it all to fit in the bay of a bus along with the backline. But this p

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Wharfedale Pro has extended the popular LiX high power series with the addition of the LiX-C215 bass enclosure. The C215 shares all the features of the other Lix-C Series products, which meet most portable and installation requirements. The LiX range is notable for its aluminium cast frame loudspeakers - with massive voice coils and extended excursion capability - while the design of handles and wheels into the cabinets makes LiX ideal road companions for semi-pro bands, cabaret and disco roadshow set-ups.

Highly effective heat dissipation mechanisms allow high sound pressure levels to be sustained over long periods with a minimum of power compression. Large magnet structures and tight construction tolerances give accuracy, high efficiency and reliability in demanding professional applications. The Wharfedale Pro-Tech driver protection system, integral to all LiX provides smooth and ef

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Audio-visual supplier, Music Marketing Services Ltd, has made a new appointment within its sales team. Alex Peacock, formerly the founder of technical support company, Capital Service, is to head up Music Marketing’s new specialist division which deals exclusively with the Health and Fitness industry.

In his previous role as operations manager with Capital Service, Peacock gained extensive experience in providing entertainment products to the health and fitness sector, managing the installation and service of complete systems for many of the largest operators in the marketplace. In addition to the wealth of specialist knowledge he brings, he has also secured dealership agreements for Cardio Theater and PumpStation products which Music Marketing Services is offering alongside its existing range of audio visual equipment.

The new Health and Fitness Division constitutes a natural

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Arbiter Pro Audio has supplied South London-based PECO Electronic Distributors with a large quantity of AKG WMS40 radio mic transmitter systems for installation into various Mecca bingo halls across the country. The most recent was completed last week in Bradford. Supplied together with three HT40 microphones per system, this is part of an ongoing updating-and-replacement scheme, encompassing all of the Mecca bingo hall sound systems across the country.

PECO's Derek Paul is familiar with AKG systems, and has already supplied several WMS PT40 body packs for staff use in assorted Holmes Place fitness centres. He therefore knows the product is reliable and robust, and was confident it would be a good choice for this very specific application.

PECO has been working with Mecca for the last nine years, building and supplying bingo hall and cashier monitors for installation by Mecca's own e

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It's been an autumn of parties for the White Light Group - and winter looks set to continue the same way, but with one major difference: autumn was political parties, winter will be festive ones! In the political arena, White Light Group members were responsible for lighting both the Labour and the Liberal Democrat Party Conferences.

Having worked with the LibDems during their 2001 Election Roadshow, Colourhouse were once again entrusted with the Party's lighting, working again with lighting designer Tim Ball and set designers The Original Propshop. Meanwhile, the Labour Party conference called for lighting with a rig that included 50 moving lights and ten 5kW fresnels supplied by White Light and The Moving Light Company, with the installation overseen by a team led by production electrician Stuart Crane. At least one attendee seems to have thought that the rig was overkill: the Daily

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The new DSP Controlled P Series power amplifiers combine the outstanding qualities of EV’s Precision Series with extensive remote control and system monitoring functions that extend to the loudspeakers connected: EV has named the new technology IRIS (Intelligent Remote and Integrated Supervision). Equipped with the state-of-the-art technology of the Dx38 Signal Processor (dynamic range > 115 dB), the power amplifiers offer outstanding audio performance and an ultra high level of reliability whether in top-flight touring applications or fixed installations. The network of the DSP-controlled Precision Series Amplifiers is controlled serially over the CAN bus. The software provides for the control and supervision of up to 250 power amplifiers.

Features include central supervision and control of up to 250 power amplifiers and all connected loudspeakers; all amplifier operation modes

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