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Gareth Owen's design challenge was twofold, involving creating a system that could handle the score's huge dynamic range, while also delivering consistent results across the tour's many venues. These range from small, 600-seaters, up to theatres such as the Brighton Centre, one of the largest regional theatres in the UK, with over 4,000 seats.

Gareth Owen commented, "Midnight Tango is a very classy dance show, and depends as

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"We are very proud to have appointed Ansata as our exclusive distributor for Apogee's entire product line in India," said Marc Fenton, Apogee's APAC sales representative. "CEO Leslie Lean's impressive knowledge of the market from both the technical and marketing perspectives along with the company's far-reaching connections across the country make Ansata the perfect partner for Apogee in India."

Ansata distributes pro audio hardware and software, ranging from retail products for budding musicians to industry standard professional gear for studios, live concerts and broadcast. Apart from Apogee, Ansata partners with Avid and Automated Processes, Inc. (API) to distribute their range of digital and analogue audio interfa

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This completely new and high profile event showcased creations from 50 designers from all over Africa and others with African roots who are working internationally. Staged over three days at the Tents Federal Palace Hotel, in addition to the 50 runway shows, the event featured live performances each evening by a section of artists including Tinie Tempah, Estelle, d'banj and Keri Hilson plus the best local DJs. One evening also saw Arise Magazine present an awards show.

Nick Gray was asked onboard by show producers Bacchus, with whom he works on many fashion and style related events worldwide, including various London Fashion Week elements, to which his lighting designs have brought a fresh look.

"My brief was to produce

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LDR's Besio Fabiano reports that four canto 2KW MSR follow-spots were used for lighting the band in Windhoek. "The follow-spots provided superior performances in this extreme outdoor environment," adds Fabiano.

"LDR thanks dB Audio Namibia and Stage Audio Works - LDR agent for South Africa - for making what proved to be a very challenging three-day event a huge success."

(Jim Evans)

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"We used a grandMA2 full-size on the new Main Stage," says lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting. "The Main Stage had several acts per day that had full production riders to fill so, for the festival package, we decided to make the wings of the stage a very strong visual presence with large-scale video and heavy lighting effects. We also added 40-foot flame cannons on the top of the structure."

Lieberman adds, "As a designer the grandMA2 offers all the tools I need to put on a great show. In these environments, where the music is not scripte

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Slovakia's leading rental company Q-99 supplied lighting, sound and AV production for the event, and with Kubanka clocking up an impressive 13 years of lighting the show, the use of over 100 Robe fixtures ensured that he had all the creative tools he needed to keep reinventing and refreshing the show year on year.

The set was designed by Michael Klang and featured 75sq.m of high resolution LED surface, over 70sq.m of medium resolution LED surface and 60sq.m of LED floor as well as the extensive lighting rig. The set was 'stepped' on five different levels and the far wings were shaped to resemble speaker horns

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Specified by local company Metro Audio Video LLC, the system comprised of two DVA dBTechnologies powered line arrays, each one including a DVA S10 single 18" bandpass subwoofer flown at the top, with three T4 three-way elements below. Metro Audio's Ed Whitney wanted to ensure that the sound was evenly distributed with the new audio set-up, a promise he delivered on, as Pastor Culver confirms - "The sound seems to be coming from everywhere."

"The line array is extremely easy to deploy," says Whitney. "We used a DVA Ease Focus and a laser to sight in each element, which proved to work perfectly. The system's itself is surprisingly efficient - we only needed to install one 20-a

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Now the venue has formed a creative partnership with Yamaha Music which will see new variations being introduced to the Bedford's successful formula by providing "the very best conditions, technical support and live performance opportunities and exposure for new original UK talent".

The partnership will see top international Yamaha artists performing and sound engineers providing support to new talent, additionally Yamaha's international reach will help promote and expand the Bedford's outreach programmes in the UK and USA. Yamaha are also planning the broadcast 'live' webcasts of gigs and events on their Yamaha Download website.

For artists such as James Morrison, Paolo Nutini, KT Tunstall a

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The Spanish Open Golf Championship was hosted at Real Club de Golf El Prat in Barcelona, 5-8 May, 2011, and it produced a couple of firsts. South Africa's Thomas Aiken claimed his first major international victory, whilst the Arena Group supplied all temporary structures and events overlay to the event for the first time.

Shortly afterwards, Arena will also be supplying a variety of temporary facilities to the Volvo World Match Play Championships in Spain and the Madeira Island Open BPI in Portugal, both of which fall on the same weekend, 19-22 May, 2011.

Working with their Madrid based partners Carpa 10, the Arena Group supplied more than 2,500 sq.m of bespoke temporary structures for t

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Durham-born Riddell has worked in the live events sector of the audio visual industry for 16years, starting as an AV technician at British Airways' conference centre and later working with WH Smith, the Currys/Dixons rebrand roadshow and with NCJ Media.

Speaking about his new role, he said, "I'm really happy to be working with Saville in the north east. It's a difficult time for the events industry but I'm looking forward to the challenge, particularly introducing our developing range of digital event services. Being able to engage and collaborate with delegates live or on-line adds enormous benefits for conference organisers."

(Jim Evans)

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"The Micro Wash RGBW is a scaled-down - but not scaled-back --version of a larger LED colour-mixing par can," said Sebastian Mobers, sales manager Europe for American DJ Europe. "It's got all the features and amenities that you'll find on a professional LED stage par, only it's mini sized -and mini-priced.

"With lighting being more widely used today in entertainment, decorative and display applications, we're finding that there's a growing demand for professional-style fixtures that are smaller in size than conventional units. The Micro Wash RGBW fits right into this trend. Its compact size makes it great for spaces and applications where standard par cans would be too large, yet you get a full-feat

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HHB's Mogami product specialist Matthew Fletcher comments, "Any audio or video recording or production system is only as good as its weakest link and Mogami ensures that it isn't going to be the cabling that lets you down. From the tiniest lavalier microphone cable to a heavy duty digital snake, every Mogami cable is designed and manufactured to perform at the highest levels."

Speaking on behalf of Mogami, president of sales Lew Hirabayashi says, "We're delighted to appoint HHB as our exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland, a company that shares our commitment to quality, reliability and customer service. HHB has a comp

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The Robe Product ReferenceApp contains comprehensive information and statistics covering the full Robe product range, including an entire catalogue of 'key data' in the form of one sheet with all the essential technical information you need to know about Robe. The App also has user manuals, DMX charts, gobo layouts, etc. and allows users to download and hold as much reference information as they need.

Photometric charts, video demonstrations and assorted other information will be added in the coming weeks.

It is intended as "an invaluable tool for lighting designers, operators, programmers and technicians who are on the move, enabling them to have the crucial facts and figures at their fingertips wherever they are". These can then be used for a myriad of

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Luxeon A provides consistent quality of light from LED to LED, something that both luminaire manufacturers and the lighting design community can count on today and into the future, says the company.

Hot tested and specified at a junction temperature of 85°C ensures the LED's real world operating conditions performance and simplifies the design process. Freedom From Binning eliminates colour bins, typically a burden on luminaire manufacturers. All Luxeon A emitters fall within a single three-step MacAdam Ellipse at 2700K and 3000K and deliver superior quality of light with colour consistency from unit to unit that has never before been possible.

Luxeon A joins past winners o

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Coming in at 1.72m long by 33cm wide, the XXL display is billed as the largest automated timecode display system in the world.

Aimed at large post production houses or anywhere that needs to display timecode from a long distance, the Studio Display XXL is compatible with all existing Punchlight hardware allowing automated display of MIDI timecode from Pro Tools LE & HD, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic Pro, Digital Performer and Samplitude.

Combine the system with a MIDI to SMPTE timecode convertor and the display will also show timecode from other systems.

The Studio Display XXL will, like the smaller Studio Display XD, Studio Display XT and Studio Display USB, also show bars and beats, feet and frames and samp

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"Our engineers challenged conventional wisdom for both loudspeaker and amplifier design," said Akira Mochimaru, general manager, Bose Professional Systems Division. "The result is a new approach for the industry, one that lets sound designers and integrators meet the acoustic challenges of any fixed-installation sound system with more flexibility and far less compromise to audio performance."

RoomMatch modules overcome the acoustic performance limitations of conventional line array and point-source loudspeakers, says the company. Av

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In order to give moviegoers an enhanced 3D experience with the sonic impact that they cannot get in conventional cinemas or at home, Pacific Theatres management chose to install a permanent Meyer Sound EXP cinema sound system.

"The accurate delivery of the creative content is of the utmost importance to the movie going experience and the EXP System exceeded our expectations. Meyer Sound was very professional in their approach to the design of the sound system while effectively collab

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Sonoval is built on foundations laid by Pierre-Alain Fumeaux, through his work with comedian and impressionist Yann Lambiel, and the company's director of sound and light is Valentin Jacquaz who was the first audio professional in continental Europe to purchase the M7CL48-ES digital mixing console and the company's Yamaha inventory also includes SB168-ES stage boxes, as well as more consoles, including M7CLs and LS9s.

"Yamaha equipment is a professional choice, the technology is 100% stable, many engineers know them and the price is also right," he says. "I re

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Guetta's FOH sound engineer is Hassane Es Siahi, who came onboard last August at the start of a festival tour which was also serviced by Adlib. However, this is the first full DJ set production tour in terms of touring the equipment, as Guetta's action-packed performance schedule normally consists of large one-off gigs worldwide using local productions.

Adlib's account manager Phil Kielty says, "David Guetta is by far one of the most innovative producers in the dance world and his live performances are always show-stopping. Hassane's creative talents are really shining through in producing a great sound, and of course it's good to be working with Alan Green & his team again".

Es Siahi conferred with Guetta and they listened to several options before bo

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Dave has recently spoken at the PLASA Focus show in Leeds and had one of the largest audiences of all the 20 seminars hosted at that event. He is bringing his seminar series titled The Art of Mixing a Show to ENTECH where he will explore the most important ideas behind putting a mix together, how to add a third dimension to a flat, two dimensional mix and looked at using dynamic processors in a creative way.

Over the past decade Dave has spent time mixing for some of the most influential acts in the UK including Amy Winehouse, Seasick Steve, Corinne Bailey Rae, and many others on some of the biggest festivals, TV shows, and venues all over the world.

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