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USA - At the production of the 16th X Games annual action sports competition in Los Angeles, which featured more than 200 of the world's best athletes competing in BMX Freestyle, Moto X, Rally Car and Skateboard, ESPN used a multi-node MediorNet installation from Riedel Communications onsite to distribute video signals between the different locations for the live event.MediorNet, a fibre-based signal transport solution with point-to-multipoint capabilities, provided a network allowing the routing of more than 30 video signals. Six MediorNet mainframes with 40 inputs and 48 outputs fed various video walls as well as commentary positions with information and program from the different event locations. The installation connected the Tech hub on Georgia St, the production suite on 11th

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Europe - Innovason reports an extremely busy and successful festival season worldwide for its Eclipse digital mixing console. Not surprisingly, it has been used on many of the biggest festivals on its home turf in France, such as Les Vieilles Charrues (where three Eclipses were deployed) and Jazz a Vienne (which also used three consoles), and elsewhere such as at Sweden's premier jazz festival, the Stockholm Jazz Festival, as well as further afield in China and Canada, numerous events in the UK and most recently a slew of major classical concerts in Germany. One of the most prestigious was the Thurn und Taxis Palace Festival in Regensburg that was held from 16 July - 1 August 2010.

Voted amongst the top ten best festivals in the world last year, the setting alone is something out of a fairy tale - the festival is in fact hosted by Gloria, Princess von

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Japan - Broadcaster MBS purchased the world's first Calrec Apollo desk for outside broadcast use in February 2010, and it has now provided six months of uninterrupted service in MBS's recently refurbished radio truck.

The 56-fader Apollo console, which replaced an older Studer desk, was ordered as part of a refit of MBS's audio OB vehicle, carried out by MBS with an eye on future-proofing the vehicle for surround sound transmission.

According to MBS, the company has used Calrec Alpha consoles in the past, but became seriously interested in the Apollo after it was launched last year, feeling that the newer desk's user-friendly touchscreen interface, easy-to-use surround features and down-mix functions, and future-proof, expandable I/O facilities were just what their rebuilt radio vehicle needed.

"Apollo offered the same high degree of reliability as the Alpha, but with t

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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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UK - Martin Professional is bringing its latest range of professional luminaries, creative LED panels, atmospheric effects, sophisticated control systems, and "a revolutionary surprise" to PLASA 2010.

The Martin stand will display an innovative line that includes "a product certain to be a springboard for revolutionary lighting designs".

The MAC 350 Entour is a cutting edge LED profile fixture. Featuring proprietary LED technology, it is the market's first real alternative to traditional HID-based profile fixtures. In a package smaller and lighter than market leading 250 watt fixtures, the MAC 350 Entour exceeds even 300 watt fixtures in brightness, says the company.

The MAC III Performance is a high-output profile moving head with a new interleaved framing system with full crossover of each blade and industry-first continuous rotation for new projection,

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Fringe Records - The Edinburgh Fringe has broken last year's box office record by selling almost two million tickets. The three-week long arts festival sold 1,955,913 tickets, up more than 5% on last year. Festival organisers calculated that there were 40,254 performances of 2,453 shows in 259 venues across the city.

Fringe Society chief executive Kath Mainland said: "Edinburgh is without doubt the world's leading festival destination." In addition to official venues, the Fringe High Street Events team registered 662 acts from street performers to buskers and Fringe artists. An estimated 21,148 performers took to the stage during Fringe 2010 and 558 shows were absolutely free. Comedy made up 35% of the Fringe programme, followed closely by Theatre with 29%. Music 16%, Musicals & Opera 5%, Dance & Physical Theatre 4.5%, and Children's shows 4%, made up the rest o

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UK - Surrey-based QuiteLoud Pro Audio has completed a series of Fohhn PA system installations in UK churches. A range of the German manufacturer's loudspeakers, amplifiers and remote control hardware and software has been installed in Sunfields Methodist Church Blackheath, St James's Church Muswell Hill and Christ Church Tunbridge Wells.

At the recently re-built Blackheath church, QuiteLoud worked alongside architects during the construction process to ensure that the PA requirements were successfully accommodated.

"Fohhn loudspeakers were specifically chosen for their interior design compatibility and size, as well as coverage," commented QuiteLoud's Steve Bradshaw. "We fitted Linea LX-100 line array column speakers in the main worship area, with Arc Series AT-22 and AT-05 speakers used in other parts of the church. The system is driven by a Fohhn D-4.750 4-cha

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UK - Extreme water sports came to the gentle seaside town of Harwich in the form of the UK's National Powerboat Championships, using Electro-Voice sound reinforcement systems for a beachfront concert stage as well as a kilometre-long 100V line of ZX1 full-range speakers, one of the longest set-ups of its kind.

Offshore powerboat racing in the UK is both challenging and highly competitive. The sport is administered by the Royal Yachting Association, which this year encouraged the incorporation of a music festival into the annual national championship event. The day's racing was rounded off by two evening concerts for 10,000 people, headlined by Tinchy Stryder, DJ Ironik, and X-Factor stars Olly Murs, Jamie Archer and Danyl Johnson.

Eclipse Sound & Light provided PA for the main concert stage, situated just 10m from the water's edge. Watching the forecast closely, the Ecl

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Portugal - Jands Vista I3 lighting consoles have provided show lighting control for the latest tours of high-profile Portuguese artists Blasted Mechanism and João Pedro Pais.

Portuguese lighting design company, Lamp On! Creative Solutions has three Vista I3 lighting consoles in its rental stock for use by its team of lighting designers - Vitor Azevedo, brother Pedro Azevedo and Rui Rodrigues. The company chose the mid-range Vista I3 model due to its combination of affordability and built-in Linux operating system.

LD Vitor Azevedo used one of the Vista consoles on the recent João Pedro Pais Portuguese tour to launch their latest album, A Palma E A Mão. The wide variety of venue sizes, ranging from small clubs to large outdoor arenas, necessitated using different local suppliers and rigs on a daily basis. As with his previous tours using the Vista, Azevedo found that the con

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USA - Longtime grandMA user Chris Kuroda, who's marking his 22nd year as the lighting designer for the rock band Phish, has taken a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles along on the musicians' cross-country summer tour. Lighting programmer Andrew Giffin suggested using the grandMA2 for lighting control, and Kuroda reports that the two desks have been "a 100 percent complete and utter success. They've been incredibly wonderful - I'm very happy with them".

"Phish is a jam band. There's no set list and you never know what song is coming next, so you have to pay attention," Kuroda explains. "We need to programme the lighting so we can grab anything very quickly. So I have the grandMA2 broken up into two worlds: one is a punter mode than runs on the fly and follows the music as it goes, and the other is a cue stack. Sometimes we're changing cue times by hundre

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Sweden - LumenRadio has in cooperation with the Swedish Department of Energy, the University of Lund, Sweden's largest property manager Riksbyggen, and leading European fixture manufacturer Fagerhult completed two large scale exterior lighting installations with a scientific twist.

These systems pioneer the application of mixed protocol wireless lighting controls and fixture feedback, as well as motion and environmental sensor inputs, in large outdoor public areas. All outdoor fixtures in the targeted residential areas were replaced with modern energy efficient LED fixtures and a unified infrastructure for wireless controls and sensors was installed. Fagerhult supplied the lighting fixtures, Riksbyggen managed the practical and legal matters, and LumenRadio provided custom CRMX wireless lighting control and monitoring systems.

The effort was part of a larger scientific project

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UK - Wimbledon-based White Light is one of six companies shortlisted in the Best Green Business category of the Merton Business Awards 2010.

Organised by Merton Council, the local council covering White Light's south Wimbledon base, along with South London Business and the Merton Chamber of Commerce, the awards are designed to reward and celebrate the many dynamic and innovative businesses in the borough.

White Light's nomination is in the Best Green Business category, intended to "reward companies with an environmental conscience". The nomination reflects White Light's work over the last few years both to reduce White Light's own environmental impact and to promote improved techniques, practices and equipment for reducing the environmental impact of the shows and events it supplies.

This has seen White Light involved in a wide range of activities, from investing h

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UK - PLASA Events has confirmed that the first ever PLASA International Rigging Conference is close to a sell out. With over 160 delegates already registered from all over the world, there are now only 25 delegate places remaining.

Running alongside PLASA 2010, the PLASA International Rigging Conference is taking place on 13-14 September in the Earls Court Conference Centre. This 'world-first' unique event has attracted delegates from Europe, USA, Canada, Asia and Australia - making it an invaluable international industry forum for the international live entertainment and event rigging community.

Industry icons speaking at the conference include Unusual Rigging's Alan Jacobi, Star Events Group's Roger Barrett, Prolyte's Marc Hendriks, CM ET's Cristiano Giavedoni and Sapsis Rigging's Bill Sapsis.

Unusual Rigging's Alan Jacobi, LVO, states, "Unusual are delighted to be su

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USA - Located in Charlotte's Music Factory entertainment district, Butter NC is an 8,300sq.ft space that has taken the Charlotte club scene to a new level, with lush design concepts, superior service, and a sound system that envelopes up to 400 guests with an upbeat mix of electronica, hip-hop and top 40 music.

Local design and install firm Eye Dialogue chose Turbosound TCS speakers to pump up the volume and provide distinctly different vibes on Butter's two levels, each with its own DJ.

"It's a total visual experience; they pulled out all the stops in designing this space," says entertainment technology designer Jack Kelly of Eye Dialogue Lighting & Sound in Charlotte, who designed and installed the club's audio systems. "But the big thing for the owners was the sound.They wanted it to feel like the sound was all around you instead of originating from one end o

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USA - Barco has announced the release of a fully optimized digital lighting package that harnesses the high brightness and DLP-quality video capabilities of the DML-1200 digital light and combines it with Axon Media Server. This improved solution offers tour companies, corporate events managers and fixed installations, such as houses of worship, expanded opportunities for creating dynamic, multi-faceted shows in a variety of rental and fixed applications, says the company.

The DML-1200 was originally designed as a dual moving digital luminaire and high-quality video projector, offering unlimited image selection with the ability to seamlessly switch between video projection and light mode, cue by cue. The Axon provides lighting designers with a full complement of digital lighting features, including collage and curved surface support, warping and edge blending, and access to thou

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The Netherlands - Projecta has announced the appointment of Jos Lormans to the position of managing director. He started in his new role 2 August 2010.

Matthew Teevan, interim managing director of Projecta stated,"Mr. Lormans brings extensive operational, engineering and sales and marketing experience to the position; skill sets that will benefit the entire organisation as well as Projecta's clients."

Lormans was most recently worldwide sales and marketing director for Graco; he was based in the United States for his assignment. Prior to his executive role at Graco, he held positions in manufacturing, engineering, logistics and managed an international acquisition for Graco's European division.

Matthew Teevan who has served as the interim MD of Projecta since May 2009, will continue at Projecta as part of the management team in a senior sales and marketing role.

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UK - Global Infusion Group (GIG) scored a 'triple-double' with Red Bull at X-Fighters 2010. For the second year running GIG were on-site with three of their companies..

Contracted by live event production company Innovision, e2B Logistics were on-site for two weeks installing Red Bull's experiential marketing, advertising and merchandising equipment. The Red Bull kit, including large star shades, inflatable arches, branded fridges, signage, DJ decks, vehicles, parasols and much more is stored and maintained in GIG's new warehousing facilities. It is then packed and transported to site before being installed in the grounds of Battersea Power Station.

During the site build, sister company Eat To The Beat were on hand to provide production catering On competition night Upbeat Event Catering and Design provided catering for the judges and riders.

John Ford, Red Bull's operations

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USA - Tomcat USA has announced an expanded partnership with 4Wall Entertainment as an official Tomcat Master Stocking Distributor. 4Wall Entertainment is a full-service lighting company with locations nationwide that specializes in providing entertainment lighting systems.

"4Wall has been a key client for many years. Similar to Tomcat, 4Wall is a company that values integrity, quality and performance," commented Don Dimitroff, sales and marketing director for Tomcat USA. "And through the Master Stocking Distributor programme, together we will be able to better serve our customers on the East and West Coasts and throughout North America."

In its role as a Master Stocking Distributor, 4Wall will carry a full stock of Tomcat truss at their Las Vegas, Nevada and Moonachie, New Jersey locations.

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Italy - RCF's new 4- coaxial transducers feature a lightweight neodymium magnetic structure, excellent linearity and high efficiency. The design is powered from a large-sized single neodymium ring magnet that provides a high flux density and BL factor. The new hyper-vented aluminium basket and magnetic assembly design provide an excellent heat dissipation and lower power compression, says the company. Special air-forced ventilations are provided for voice coil, magnet assembly and basket.

All the models, except the CX12N351, feature a 2.5" voice coil combined with a fibreglass former and aluminium wire that drives the mid-bass cone with high efficiency and a good extension.

The 1.75" dome compression driver loaded to a conical waveguide, provides a clear vocal output and a "perfect high frequency extension".

The mid-bass section of the CX12N351 features a

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USA - Justin Bieber is in the midst of a whirlwind tour, playing cities across the continental US.

Back in February when tour preparations were in negotiations, monitor engineer Tony Luna staked his claim on a DiGiCo SD8-24. "The budget dictated that we had to use a smaller console than on previous tours and the SD8 had all the features and power that I was used to in the SD7. It was pretty much a no-brainer that that's what we were going to need on this tour. I had first mixed on one at the NAB convention this April and had a cool experience on it. Plus, the audio quality was excellent."

For Bieber's seven-piece band, Luna is utilising 53 channels overall. During the several weeks worth of rehearsals pre-tour he was able to pre-programme the basics of the show. Once the group commenced rehearsals, it made building his mixes that much easier. "Everything was alr

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Qatar - Doha International Tennis Court in Qatar recently hosted the acclaimed Indian Bollywood pop singer, Sonu Niigam.

Maestro Sound & Lighting Company located in Bahrain, was the provider of sound, lighting and video backdrops for the major force of the Indian music industry, with the help of tour manager Vincent Rodrigues and event manager Shafiq of Regency group, who helped coordinate the event.

Maestro achieved "excellent sound quality" at the Doha International Tennis Court, which holds approximately 10,000 people. The venue was not originally designed for outdoor music events, and suffers from unflattering architecture, reverberation and bad acoustics, for such an application. Employing Maestro's recently acquired Adamson speaker system, Promod, Sonu's front house engineer, had a fulfilling first experience using Y-Axis series consisting of 16 Y18, 16 Y10, 10

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USA/Germany - Intelix, the US-based manufacturer of audio/video equipment and software, has partnered with Sommer Cable to better serve the European audio-visual market. Effective immediately, Sommer Cable is stocking and supplying Intelix hardware, including their award-winning HDMI, digital signage, and audio/video over twisted pair solutions.

"In Germany, American companies are often considered somewhat conservative and lethargic," says Rainer Blanck, Sommer Cable CEO. "They are not really interested in grooming the German market because it is tiny compared to the US-market. Intelix is different. They are a clearly structured, modern American company with products strongly adapted to the European market. Plus, their technology is of good workmanship, have a very ergonomic and attractive design, and are known for their dependability."

"Sommer Cable's

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