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UK - Dialight Lumidrives has introduced four new 110v/240v power LED drivers designed for use with single colour light arrays and ideal for interior architectural lighting applications.

Each driver is compatible for use with Dialight Lumidrives' range of single colour light arrays including Lumilines, Lumispots, HL11 and HL16 products and linked LED modules. They are therefore ideal for use in retail, restaurant and office locations.

Range leader is the VariLED 16, a dimmable 350mA output driver which can drive up to 16x 1W LEDs in two banks of eight. Dimming is via a remote potentiometer or 0-10V input.

The Microdriver 8 can drive up to eight 1W LEDs or six 2W LEDs. A selection of sevendifferent output voltages is available. The VariLED 16 and Microdriver 8 are 109.5mm in len

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UK - Wireless transmission is a fast-growing technological phenomenon which is already being widely used in the entertainment industry, and the technical team at Navigator Systems, computer specialists in the entertainment industry since 1995, have put together a free information website to assist people when they're designing and building wireless networks, whether it be for shows or community projects.

"As visitors make their way through the free information pages, it will soon become apparent that the wealth of hands-on experience in projects such as Wireless FOH control, Wireless DMX distribution and conference delegate hot spots as well as an understanding of the physics makes the Navigator Systems Wireless website one to add to your Favourites list," says the company.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - Syncrolite, the US-based pioneer in the production and design of automated xenon skylights who introduced the first DMX-controlled xenon light to the industry in 1989, is promising a brand new product to be introduced in Las Vegas at the LDI trade show (20-22 October). Syncrolite, and the new product, can be found at LDI on booth 179. The company will also exhibit at the forthcoming PLASA Show in London (10-13 September) on stand D34.

(Lee Baldock)

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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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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Europe - Paul Oakenfold is returning to the stage with Madonna for her phenomenal sell-out Confessions tour. Oakenfold, the opening act on the 2006 European leg of the tour, will be travelling with his instrument of choice, a Rane MP 2016a mixer and XP 2016a expander, of which he comments: "Rane mixers are made to a very high quality; I have been using them for years. I would highly recommend anyone to use one."

Rane products are distributed in the UK by Sennheiser UK.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Baldwin Boxall's CommuniCare Advance disabled refuge communication system has been installed in one of London's largest universities - London South Bank University. Installed by Trinity Protection Systems, the system comprises 12 networked buildings and is the largest CommuniCare Advance installation to date.

Each of the 12 buildings has its own local control panel, there is also a single point master unit for site-wide control, allowing fire officers/building management to communicate with any refuge area. Due to the nature and size of the project, Baldwin Boxall produced bespoke software to enable the multiple control panels to be networked. One of the key benefits of CommuniCare Advance is that it is linked to the building's fire panel and, therefore, remains 'dormant' whilst not required - avoiding misuse by a building's occupiers - in this case some 20,000 students!

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UK - Prolyte Products Group of the Netherlands, a manufacturer of aluminium truss systems and rigging products has, this week, appointed Hawthorn to be a Prolyft Service Partner, following an extensive training session at Hawthorn's base in Old Dalby, Leicestershire.

Hawthorn's operations manager, John McAlonan and three of the technical team: Nick Key, Drew Lane and Steve Simons were trained by Conrad Vegter, operations manager for Prolyft and his colleague Jeroen G. Doeve.

Hawthorn now join only 15 accredited Service Partners in Europe and they are now licensed to maintain, service and repair the Prolyft product range as well as certify installations with a lifetime guarantee from the Prolyte Product Group.

"We are delighted to have Hawthorn on board as a Service Partner for our Prolyft product range; they are an extremely professional organisation and a pleasure to w

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UK - Regent's Park in central London hosted the free Fruitstock Festival in August, with a headline appearance from the celebrated London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC), using its newly-acquired battery of Electro-Voice vocal microphones.

Dressed in pure white, 40 members of the LCGC performed a one-hour set on the Main Stage, giving the 100,000-strong Fruitstock crowd a taste of gospel. Set up two to a mic, the Choir was using the EV RE510 super-cardioid vocal mics which it has recently purchased from Shuttlesound, prior to setting off on a tour of European festivals.

Front-of-house engineer Schon Emmanuel is largely responsible for the Choir's investment in 20x RE510s, two of which are wireless, packaged with EV's RE1 receivers. Emmanuel first discovered the potential of the RE510s when working with jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine, and more recently has introduced them to Brit

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Taiwan - As part of its mission to stay in touch with its partners, Mipro recently held a seminar for invited Southeast Asian distributors at the conference room of its Taiwan headquarters. The presentation showcased many of Mipro's latest product ranges, with a focus on its portable wireless PA systems - MA-101, MA-705, MA-707, and MA-808.

International sales manager Gina Lee, who presented the first session, commented: "My heartfelt appreciation goes out to all who had attended the presentation and making it a success: my hope is that everyone got a better insight to the range of Mipro products available."

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Bandit Lites would like to recognise the fourth annual recipient of their Bandit Lites Excellence in Lighting Award. The award was given to a promising student at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA). The school opened in 1996 with the help of Former Beatles' legend, Sir Paul McCartney and former actor, Mark Featherstone- Witty. Dedicated to people interested in pursing a career in arts and entertainment, LIPAoffers diploma, degree and postgraduate courses.

The awards ceremony took place on 29 July, 2006 at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts' graduation. Kathy Sandys, a lecturer in Theatre and Performance Technology, presented the award.

The Bandit Lites Excellence in Lighting Award went to Miriam Evans, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Theatre and Performance Technology. Her citation read, "in recognition of her

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UK & Europe - Midas has once again been hitting the great outdoors this summer, providing a huge range of international sound engineers with their control surfaces. SSE provided its standard festival package of two Midas Heritage 3000s at front-of-house and two XL3s on monitors across a wide range of UK festivals, including Hi:Fi, Monsters of Rock, Download, T in the Park, Oxegen, Summer Sundae and Cropredy.

At V2006, SSE's standard package was used for the main V stages at both sites - Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, and Weston Park in Staffordshire - with the Channel 4 (second) stage at both sites featuring two XL4s at FOH and and two XL3s on monitors. Meanwhile, Capital Sound Hire used XL4s and H3000s at FOH and monitors respectively at the JJB/Puma Arena at both sites.

Skan PA Hire had Midas consoles out across the country, including a Heritage 3000 at FOH for the Eden

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UK - Technical staging specialist Blitz, part of the Blitz Charter Group, was recently commissioned by fashion label Lacoste to provide AV design, equipment and support at the showcase event for the launch of its Spring 2007 shoe collection, which took place at the Science Museum in London.

Blitz, which has a long-standing relationship with the Science Museum and is a preferred supplier, designed and implemented a total AV solution on behalf of Lacoste. Using a combination of Encore - a multi-layered video display system, and Watchout - a multi-display production and presentation system, alongside its full graphics suite, Blitz provided "a presentation with maximum impact for the whole audience", the company says.

Carol Gibbs, director of Blitz Graphics, explains: "Lacoste had given us a beautiful product to work with and it was therefore imperative that we tran

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UK - During the summer an interactive campaign - 'Join the Party with Bacardi' - was launched in Dutch cinemas to promote the Bacardi drink. The advertisement was filmed in the Now & Wow Club in Rotterdam. The recognisable theme of girls and boys partying with Bacardi was used to accompany the additional storyline of the DJ wowing the girl.

VisualDMX was specified as controller for the DJ Booth which boasted an LED wall and thus the necessity of a Matrix controller with the versatility and strengths that are offered by Matrix Mania, the specialised Matrix controller within VisualDMX. Matrix Mania's ability to quickly adapt all inbuilt matrix patterns to the red, Bacardi-style colour theme proved very useful and saved the crew valuable time when programming on site, say the company. The LED and VisualDMX equipment was supplied by Amsterdam-based rental company, PartyTime.

(Lee

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UK - The largest ever V Festival took place at Chelmsford's Hylands Park this August , with a capacity crowd of 77,500 enjoying a great and varied weekend of music featuring Morrisey, Faithless, Radiohead, Paul Weller and Fatboy Slim.

Power Logistics has fulfilled all of the temporary power requirements on the festival for 11 years, and this year worked well in advance with production manager Claire Sampson to plan an increased capacity of the site. Sampson says: "Power Logistics has been integral in the success of the event and in creating a relaxed atmosphere at the V Festival site. It's very reassuring knowing they're on site."

With an additional 10,000 people on site compared to previous years, the demands on the Power Logistics team also increased. This year there were more entertainment areas, more concessions, more corporate hospitality areas and the current t

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USA - XL Touring Video was chosen as video contactor for Kelly Clarkson's U.S. Tour. Production designer Ray Woodbury worked with XL to create a design which utilised 10 Barco O-lite screens that tracked horizontally and vertically across the stage, allowing the design to achieve as many as eight different looks or one converged look.

Woodbury says: "This design was integrated with motion control to allow for a unique video design and capability. The possibilities were limitless with creative ideas and I was very happy with the outcome. XL worked directly with myself and Christian Lamb, Chris Kantrowitz and Petro Papahadipoulos of Frank the Plumber, who provided the video content, to facilitate everything to accomplish the end result."

Touring on behalf of XL Video was lead led tech Robert "Bo" Crowell and led tech George Keim.

(Chris Henry)

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UK - This year's Download Festival, held at Donnington race track, attracted 70,000 fans over its three days. For the first time, all the sound stages were supplied by companies using L-Acoustics systems. SSE took care of the main stage with their new V-Dosc system, Skan the second stage, and Stage Audio Services supplied five other stages, all with L-Acoustics loudspeakers and amplifiers.

Paul Nicholson from L-Acoustics UK was heavily involved with the main stage design and was on site along with Paul Bauman, the head of technical support, to assist SSE with the installation of the system. Utilising L-Acoustics' Soundvision software, the site mapping was completed many weeks before the load-in and all that was required on the day were a few minor trim adjustments once the undulating nature of the field had been taken into consideration.

L-Acoustics also supplied their Kudo de

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UK - When Manchester's Mint Lounge found they were utilizing their Turbosound speaker system for live performance more than they originally envisaged, they needed a flexible arrangement to help them achieve their goal - and called on Kelco to design and install a quick and easy method of repositioning their TQ loudspeakers for 'live mode' that could be just as easily re-set for dancing.

After an extensive site survey and discussions with the client, Kelco's Dave Kelland proposed a custom fixing arrangement that perfectly fitted the brief. The transition is made by a clever utilization of Turbosound's standard stirrup bracket attached to a superstructure of custom made pre-fabricated steelwork; the innovative solution is interconnected with standard half couplers to further speed up the process, say Kelco.

Mint Lounge is well situated in Manchester's busy Northern Quarter, oper

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UK - The Robin Hood Foundation is a New York City based organisation that fights poverty. This year, the group's gala benefit focussed on children.

As the 4,000 guests entered the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on 14 June they were encompassed in a meticulously designed décor reflecting Robin Hood's New York City base and the evening's theme of children and education. High-definition video content was created by Idyll Hands Imagery, whose principals include Patrick Dierson and Rodd McLaughlin. Lighting design for the entire event was done by Doug 'Spike' Brant of Artfag.

Dierson wore two hats, not only providing content creation but also as the video content director for Artfag. The 400+ dinner tables were surrounded by 20 high-definition screens in a 360° configuration. "We had four quadrants, each with five screens," says Dierson. "Each of the sc

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UK - beyerdynamic microphones were chosen for the celebration of the Queens 80th birthday concert held at the Queen's private estate of Balmoral Castle. This event was the first of its kind ever held at the venue, and featured world renowned classical singer Katherine Jenkins, accompanied by the Aberdeen Sinfonietta symphony orchestra. This 'Truly Scottish Evening' featured many top artists such as the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, singer/songwriter and broadcaster Fiona Kennedy, Celtic Scottish dancers, Massed Pipes and Drums, the Graham Geddes Scottish Dance Band and the Bon Accord Silver Brass Band.

Presented by BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce, the live performance took place on 30 June in the beautiful grounds of Balmoral Castle, located in Royal Deeside in the shadows of Lochnagar. This beautiful estate has been a private residence to the British Royal Family since 1848.

FOH operati

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USA / UK - Dolby Laboratories Inc will demonstrate the Dolby Lake Processor at PLASA '06 at Earls Court in London (10-13 September). Dolby will demonstrate the Dolby Lake Processor's innovative approach for managing loudspeaker systems for live events, fixed installations and in studios. First introduced in the US in February 2006, the Dolby Lake Processor has already been incorporated into many of the summer's leading world tours including those by Madonna, Widespread Panic, Tool, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Slayer, Tom Jones, and Earth Wind & Fire.

The Dolby Lake Processor, the first live sound product released by Dolby, which acquired Lake Technology in September 2003, enables sound engineers to improve the quality of sound management while saving time in the setup and handling of loudspeaker systems, the company says. The processor provides better control and flexibility o

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Austria / UK - LDDE will launch its brand new SpectraLed144* Line at the PLASA Show. The SpectraLed*144 Line is the first colour mixing unit for the professional theatre, television and entertainment application with an RGBAW configuration of 144 x 1W high-power LEDs, say the company. With its compact design of only 1200x120x80mm (LxWxH) it is designed for use on stages, events and show lighting of all kinds, say the company.

With its 36 x 1W blue, 36 x 1W green, 24 x 1W red, 24 x 1W amber and 24 x 1W cold white high-power LEDs, the system enables the reproduction of the full spectrum of colours on stage. The unit shares the same dsign of housing and the clever multicore concept of the company's award-winning SpectraConnecT5. Each Unit can be fitted with two different optical-modules with beam angles of 10° and 25°. A slot in the front of the unit allows for the insertio

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UK - The world famous Bull's Head Jazz Venue and pub, located on the banks of the Thames at Barnes has a recorded history dating back to 1684 and is one of the oldest hostelries in the country. Rebuilt in 1845 by Queens Messenger John Waring, it then became a well-known staging post where travellers making their way to Hampton Court would rest, eat and drink whilst the post horses where changed.

Since 1959 however, the Bull's Head has gained a global reputation for modern Jazz, boasting regular performances from internationally acclaimed artists including Stan Tracey, George Coleman, Humphrey Lyttelton, Bud Shank and Art Theman. Throughout this time Musicians from all over the world could be heard playing every night of the week in the Jazz Room. The venue also has an enviable reputation for showcasing new and emerging talent and support of local music education programmes.

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