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UK - Canford has been appointed Sennheiser Supply Partner, following significant UK business growth and the introduction of centralised European stock management by the pro audio manufacturer.

Canford product manager, Stephen Gallagher commented, "The appointment acknowledges Canford's ability to support occasional, specific and contract supply of Sennheiser Pro Audio equipment to professional users, installers and resellers alike."

Gallagher went on to explain how customers will gain from Canford's new supply partner status "Trade customers migrating from a direct relationship with Sennheiser will also benefit from Canford's free technical support service, significant UK stock holding and trade account pricing." He added "When it comes to sales and supp

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UK - Shure Distribution UK is launching Shure Education, a new training initiative designed to give pre-university GCSE and further education students on recording, music technology and theatre courses completely free days of practical tuition by Shure's technology specialists.

On application by their course administrators or leaders, students will be invited for a day at Shure UK's headquarters, where the company's specialists will advise the visitors on a variety of disciplines, depending on the students' requirements. Help is offered on microphone basics and theory, including practical mic placement work in a live room, vocal and drum miking, and wireless microphone basics. Visting students work through theory in the morning, then tackle practical/hands-on work in the afternoon.

The foundation of Shure Education formalises a role Shure Distribution UK has already been fulfi

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The Netherlands - Dutch design, operating & video content company, Light Image, used Visual Productions' CueCore to great effect on the TV talent-show, Holland's Got Talent from RTL. Following on from the pre-recorded qualification rounds, Holland's Got Talent went on to broadcast a series of primetime live shows for the final stages of elimination and judging of the winning act.

Three judges would watch each performance and judge whether it should leave the competition by choosing to press the elimination button which in turn lit up a large red cross above the jury. If all three crosses turned red then the lights, video & audio would freeze and the act would be eliminated from the competition.

Light Image used the CueCore's MIDI-port to receive signals from the infamous large red crosses. The CueCore was positioned between the Audio control room and the three li

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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!

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UK - One of the largest Midas console networks ever constructed helped the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert entertain the world this month.

Front of House engineer Josh Lloyd, of live audio specialists Britannia Row, specified a substantial network comprising two Midas PRO9 and one PRO2C consoles front of house - and XL8, PRO9 and PRO6 consoles in monitor land.

In addition to this, Lloyd employed 14 Midas DL431 digital mic splitters to take care of a whopping 96 channels of house band plus 96 orchestra channels.

More than 250,000 people packed into The Mall, St. James's Park and around the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace to watch world-famous musicians honour Her Majesty with their best performance, with millions more watching around the world on TV.

Incredibly fast turnarounds between each performance saw acts such as Kylie Minogue, Annie Lennox, Elto

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Norway - Popular Norwegian pop/rock group DDE is currently out on a 20th Anniversary summer tour with a rig that includes Martin Professional's MAC Aura wash light.

The band marked the anniversary earlier in the year with a special concert in Olavshallen in Trondheim, held exactly 20 years to the date that the band stepped on a stage for the first time. The special anniversary concert was broadcast on TV network NRK1 on 2 June with lighting design by 21-year-old Lars Kristian Mathisen who turned to a Martin rig of MAC Auras, MAC 700 Profiles and MAC 550s for the show.

Not your typical DDE gig, the concert featured numerous guest artists including The Trondheim Soloists and the celebrated Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir. Mathisen was responsible for all aspects of lighting including design, rigging, programming and control. He commented, "This was the largest project I had e

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Germany - The first ever Mayday music festival in history took place on 14 December 1991 in Berlin (Halle Weissensee). The event was organised to help out the GDR radio station DT64 (today MDR Sputnik), which was on the verge of bankruptcy. From this initial aid event, the festival has gradually transformed into the largest indoor rave party in Germany, with about 20,000 to 25,000 participants each year. It has now entered its 21st year and Mayday has lost none of its appeal. Thousands of ravers were therefore again able to celebrate their music in 2012 in Dortmund (Westfalenhalle).

The lighting designer of this year's entirely German made Mayday was Thomas Gerdon who created a spectacular show together with Rando Lorenz (lighting operator), Philipp Schauer (video operator), Wadim Wall (media server/system), Tim Franken (laser operator), Bernd Görgen (project director) and Joac

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South Africa - The new-look Boardwalk Action Bar recently opened its doors at the Boardwalk Casino in Port Elizabeth. As part of Sun International's 1bn Rand upgrade to the Boardwalk, the old Supersport venue was gutted and rebuilt to offer the community a stunning new live entertainment venue suitable for comedy nights, music groups, cabaret, karaoke and, of course, sport on a big screen.

Local AV integration company, Avitech Systems, provided the design, supply and installation of the sound, lighting and audiovisual systems in the venue. For the stage lighting requirements, Lawrence Bricknell, owner of Avitech Systems, called on the expertise of Dave Whitehouse from DWR Distribution. Dave's lighting solution comprised a Philips Strand 200 Series 24/48 lighting console, 12 Longman F1 High Power LED parcans, 10 Longman 002 LED parcans, six Longman Stage bars, one LSC DMX Splitte

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UK - Robe's eagerly awaited, super fast Robin 100 LEDBeam is the ultimate effects lighting tool and a valuable addition to the range - small, bright and super-light at just 4 Kgs, says the company.

Robe waited for the right LED lightsources to come on-stream before developing the LEDBeam 100, as the new Robe standard is to use only RGBW technology in the current LED range of products.

With the arrival of the newest multichips on the market, Robe forged ahead with the product development and finished this small, compact fixture which has extremely fast pan / tilt movement.

The LEDs are controllable in three zones - top half, bottom half, and middle - for producing 'eye-candy effects', zone strobing, colour chasing, etc.

It has a tight beam angle of 7° - making it excellent for high-impact concentrated, collimated effects, the company adds.

Simplified control via pre-p

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UK - One of Scotland's leading sales and rental companies has made a major commitment to RCF's next generation process controlled D-Line series.

With bases in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the long-standing Warehouse Sound Services this month purchased 16 of RCF's new HDL 20-A compact line array enclosures and four complementary SUB 8006-AS 2 x 18" active high power subwoofers to enhance its hire fleet.

According to Warehouse sales director Derek Blair, the combination of an optimised active system, with an enviable price/performance ratio in a compact, composite enclosure, provided a compelling reason for the investment.

Formed over 30 years ago, Warehouse Sound has been an RCF sub-distributor for the past four years, initially purchasing their contractor systems before pulling back from direct installations to form a more transparent partnership with their AV customers, assi

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UK - Northern Light has announced the appointment of Andy Booth as the company's senior contracts manager.

Booth has been working in project management for Northern Light since December 2011 and has more than nineteen years of experience within the entertainment technology sector, gained during his time with Stage Electrics, AC Lighting, LSI Projects and P&O.

This newly created post will form a key role within the company's installations team, where Booth will take overall responsibility for managing quality and finances across all Northern Light installation projects.

Booth said, "This is a fantastic opportunity to really make a difference to Northern Light's overall success in the technical installation market. Whilst we are already the dominant player, it will be my job to create, implement and manage new systems and procedures that will ultimately ensure that we fur

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UK - West Midlands- based video and production specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied PPU, projection system and crew to Second Sight Video for a recent Skoda brand experience event, culminating in an incendiary gig for 5000 people by top international DJ, Tiesto.

The event was staged at the LG Arena at Birmingham's National Exhibition centre. It was promoted virally via selected social media channels.

The CPL team was led by project manager Lee Gruszeckyj (Lee G), who also showed his talents cutting the pacey live camera mix. The CPL team assisted Second Sight to capture the full event for future video and DVD editing / internet broadcast, and recorded time-lapse footage of the build that was streamed live on Facebook in the run up to get all those attending energised and expectant about what they were about to experience.

Gruszeckyj mixed the show using an AVH

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Australia - Anolis ArcPad Xtreme LED floods have been specified for a high impact lighting installation illuminating the exterior of the Sofitel Hotel, Gold Coast Broadbeach, Australia. Sofitel is the premium brand properties of international hotel conglomerate, Accor.

It takes just two of the new Anolis RGBW ArcPad Extremes - such is their power and intensity - to fill the full 23-storey high front walls of the hotel with a beautifully smooth, even wash of vivid colour.

The ArcPads replace four previous 1000 Watt discharge lightsources, bringing a fresh visuality to the hotel after dark, which now stands out like a beacon from the myriad of other tall buildings dotting the famous skyline.

For all this illumination, the power consumed by the ArcPads is a mere 580W per fixture at maximum intensity, representing 11 Amps less - or approximately a 65% reduction - across the whol

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UK - One of the UK's leading lighting, sound and staging suppliers Eclipse Presentations has once again put their trust in Le Mark's PAL Road Case Labels.

Used to visually brand their vast inventory of equipment cases, the PAL Road Case Label offers an invaluable aid to logistical tracking and identification of cases and their contents.

Eclipse's Tom Norris says, "Keeping track of what case is going where and what's inside is essential, especially when you have multiple jobs on one truck. Le Mark's PAL Labels allow us to instantly see all the information we need; the client, the venue, the contents, job number, and who packed it making logistics much easier and more accurate. As our equipment is often utilised on a short turnaround, the ability to wipe the label clean and re-use it instantly is a huge time saver in our check in and out process.

"The labels stay loo

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South Africa - What started off as 100 dancing crews competing across South Africa, came to a finale at the Red Bull Beat Battle, at Bass Line in Johannesburg on 26 May 2012. The live show was recorded for a European television broadcast.

AV Unlimited were commissioned by VWV to cater for the full technical production and used bright, striking effects to compliment the high energy performance. To achieve this they included 12 Clay Paky Sharpies and 24 Robe 100 LED Beams amongst other fixtures.

With no bars in the roof and no rigging points, the fixtures were flown above the stage and also positioned on the catwalk and on the stage.

AV Unlimited's Victor Vermaak was the technical production manager for the event. "When I heard we were going to do a Red Bull event I googled it to see what all the other countries and competitions looked like. I was quite intimidated by all

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USA - Martin Professional will show a new breed of moving head and much more will be on stand 103 at PLASA Focus Nashville.

Martin invites lighting professionals to get an up close look at the new MAC Viper Profile along with a host of other innovative products like a new AirFX version in the MAC III family, an all-new VC series of creative LED video solutions, the award-winning MAC Aura and popular MAC 101 moving heads, a new portable lighting controller in the M-Series, and a new compact hazer in Martin's Jem family.

Following an overwhelmingly positive response from both lighting designers and rental companies, leading to the biggest pre-sale success ever in Martin's history, MAC Viper Profile is now shipping.

The MAC III AirFX is a highly versatile beam, effects and wash luminaire in one and is the latest high-performance 1500-watt moving head in Martin's popular MAC III

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Germany - Fohhn Audio has announced the release of its new PT-6 compact, high-performance loudspeaker system with integrated line array technology. The loudspeaker, previewed at this year's Frankfurt Prolight + Sound, has been specially developed to offer both powerful coverage and easy set-up. Designed for stand-mounted, stacked or flown applications, the PT-6 essentially combines three of Fohhn's widely used PT-8 line array modules in a single compact unit weighing just 39kg.

Sporting a twin coaxial speaker construction, the PT-6 contains 6 x 6.5" long excursion neodymium and 3 x 1.4" compression drivers with a specially developed HF phase EQ. The loudspeaker's compression drivers and the HF phase EQ/Waveguide have been tailored to optimize the system's vertical beam characteristics.

A vertical dispersion angle of 30 degrees gives excellent results even in venues w

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USA - This year's North American Theatre, Engineering and Architecture Conference (NATEAC) will take place 21-24 July at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. The goal of the conference is to promote communication between industry professionals who design, build, and renovate theatres. End users are also encouraged to attend!

Over 50 industry leaders will lead sessions, including Josh Dachs, Scott Georgeson, Bill Gorlin, Andy Hayles, Hugh Hardy, Mark Holden, Larry Kirkegaard, Monona Rossol, Adam Shalleck and Sonny Sonnenfeld. AIA Continuing Education Credits are also available this year for many sessions. Some conference topics include: ADA Issues in 2012; Safety by Design; Stage & Orchestra Lift Design; Sustainability in Difficult Economic Times, and Restoration of Pre-Depression Era Theatres, and More!

The conference includes the popular NYC harbour cruise on Saturday night, an

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South Korea - Eidim Audio Visual with headquarters in Buena Park, California, offices in major cities around the US, and a division in Seoul, has finished a major installation project at a newly built church in Seoul. The Kwang Mying Church's new complex features five floors with the main sanctuary seating 5500 worshippers in the basement level, and three worship halls, lobby and a dining room on the main three floors, and a small chapel on the fourth. The main sanctuary is used for traditional worship service with sermon, praise with full band and a choir, and various styles of high SPL live concerts; it also doubles up as a multi-purpose non-worship performance centre.

Eidim was contracted by Kwang Mying to design and source all audio, lighting and large format display needs. Eidim was familiar with Adamson systems via a demo held in California a few years ago in which Adamson

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USA - Iluminarc Ilumipod Logic 6 are the LED light source for a permanent interactive installation combining light and sound at Revel - an Atlantic City resort spanning over six million square feet of beachfront destination encompassing a spa, casino, clubs, restaurants, and retail shops.

The resort's ocean-side walkway, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, is home to Sonic Fireflies, created by architect and composer Christopher Janney, who serves as artistic director for PhenomenArts, Inc. Inspired by the sounds of the sea and the flashes of fireflies, the piece engages guests as they enter the resort.

Once you walk in, environmental sounds and acoustic instruments greet you. This composition is a "sonic portrait of a soothing ocean environment" that also changes throughout the course of a day. When you walk beneath the suspended 'fireflies' Ilumipod Logic 6 comp

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South Korea - The marine-themed Expo 2012 opened in May 2012 for a three-month run in Yeosu, South Korea. The icon of the Expo is Big-O, a landmark constructed to give visitors an insight into the expo's theme, including experience zones hosting large-scale events and cultural performances.

ECA2 - a French-based company specialized in creating and producing major events and shows around the world - was in charge of designing the entire Big-O show as well as the O structure. The artistic and technical production of the show was also part of ECA2 mission.

During daytime the Big-O is a giant sculpture that will remain after the Expo as a symbolic landmark. By night, it is the centrepiece of a show that embraces the Expo's themes.

The O itself features a water screen inside the outer rim, which shows films and other videos. The outer rim also produces special effects, such as la

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USA - Neo-electro pop diva Kimbra has been a rising star over the past couple of years. With her fame clearly ascending, this defiant and ground-breaking artist entered Australia's music scene only to take out the 2011 Aria for best female artist. Hailing originally from New Zealand, Australia quickly claimed her at the tender age of 17 subsequently launching her now internationally blossoming career.

Kimbra has been touring the US with monitor engineer Rod Metheson using a DiGiCo SD11. "The great thing about the SD11 is that I could fit it into a Samsonsite case," says Metheson. "I made a frame which goes over it that keeps the buttons and screens protected. It just looks like luggage to customs officials. They seem to make a big fuss when they see a road case, trying to charge additional freight and the like. It's pretty amazing that I could just check it in as

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