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The Netherlands - Based on Alcons' R-Ray design study from 2008, the RR12 extends Alcons' line-source technology into different applications. By implementing the features of Alcons' multiple-patented pro-ribbon technology in a modular concept, the RR12 has been developed as "building block" to create tight packed arrays for controlled sound coverage in the widest variety of audience areas.

The RR12 combines a linear, non-compressed crystal-clear response from the lowest to the highest SPL's with a very wide dynamic power output ratio. The distortion is in average only 1/10th of that of traditional compression-based systems, says the company.

The system features the Alcons-proprietary RBN602rsr 6" pro-ribbon driver and a custom-designed 12" woofer with 4"

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USA - With artists like Matthew West, Big Daddy Weave, Jeremy Camp and Natalie Grant on stage, the Impact New Year's Eve concert at Lipscomb University's Allen Arena in Nashville featured some of the biggest names in Christian music.

Broadcast online to churches and youth centres around the world, the five-hour celebration of music and entertainment also represented what many are calling the largest faith-based global gathering ever assembled in one evening.

Such an event required a powerful lighting statement, which is why LD Mark Carver of Mark Carver Designs in Nashville selected 28 Legend 230SR Beams from Chauvet Professional for his Impact New Year's Eve rig.

"We chose the Legend fixtures because we knew that their hard sharp beams would help us create the right energy level for the audience at the arena and the millions viewing the broadcast of this event," h

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USA - Solid State Logic is continuing to add to its US reseller network for SSL Live consoles with the appointment of professional touring and contracting company Sound Image. Headquartered in Escondido, California, Sound Image also has offices in Arizona and Tennessee, and has been providing sound reinforcement services to the industry's biggest rock, country and pop acts for over 40 years.

"It's about time Solid State Logic got out of the house!'' says Dave Shadoan, president of Sound Image. "Everyone here at Sound Image is looking forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with SSL through the sales, service and use of the new SSL Live."

"Sound Image is a well-established leader in the live market and its extensive customer base offers an unparalleled opportunity for the SSL Live to gain exposure in North America," says Jay Easley, SSL's

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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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France - Keziah Jones, the acclaimed jazz-blues-funk guitarist and singer-songwriter, has been touring with Nexo's radical line monitors. Both Keziah and monitor engineer Daniel Paine were agreed that the Nexo 45°N-12 wedges were perfect for the four-week tour of France and Switzerland, launching the new Captain Rugged album. Although travelling light, the musicians insisted on carrying their monitor rig with them, including 6x 45°N-12 monitors, Nexo PS15-R2s and a couple of LS18 subs for sidefills.

Describing the usual routine of the three-piece band, engineer Daniel Paine explains that "it's mainly vocal and guitar through the wedges, and it's extremely loud, one of the loudest mixes on stage for monitoring that I've ever come across, which was partly the reason for going with the N-12s; they're so stable and have so much headroom. We did a measurement at 1

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Israel - Rising Star's ratings tell a clear success story: The show debuted to a 38 percent of market share in primetime on Israel's Channel 2 network. The concept of Rising Star is broadly similar to Idols, The Voice or X Factor: A group of unknown artists compete to be the 'best' singer. The twist comes in the voting. Instead of call-in votes that are tallied over the course of a show with a winner announced at the end, audiences for Rising Star vote live on the air during a singer's performance, and their decisions play out in real time for the audience and the performer to see.

For lighting and video control, lighting designer and operator Ronen Najar relied on an MA System, consisting of one grandMA2 full-size, one grandMA2 light, one MA onPC command wing, one MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and one MA NSP (Network Signal Processor

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UK- A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. deeply regrets to inform the industry that beloved colleague, Kevin Fitz-Simons, passed away peacefully at home in the early hours of Tuesday 31 December 2013, aged 53.

As Northern Lighting Sales Manager for AC-ET's Leeds office, Kevin held an important senior role in the company. He was an extremely well liked and respected colleague, and a larger than life character.

Kevin was also very well known in the industry, with a diverse career spanning over 30 years. During this time, he built an incredible number of customer relationships and friendships.

After leaving St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool in 1978, it was whilst Kevin was studying for a BSc in chemistry at the University of Newcastle that he caught the 'theatre bug'. This led to his decision to leave after two years to pursue a career in his newfound passion.

Ke

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World - Three years after it first took to the road, Jamiroquai's epic world tour is drawing to an end. The tour, which culminated at the Sundance Festival in Dubai, is a sharply entertaining show lit by LD Mark Wynn-Edwards, whose creative tools of choice are Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Spots and Washes.

UK-based Wynn-Edwards - who has worked with artists such as Grace Jones, Rod Stewart, and Paloma Faith - created a dynamic design that complements and contrasts with the full stage width video backdrop. He uses the VL3500 Washes not only to fill the stage with colour and bring a dynamic perspective to the stage but also as backline lighting, firing intense beams across the stage.

"The VL3500 Spots are on key light duty, rigged on the front truss, but also double stacked on the rear truss to provide the workhorse fixtures of the design," explains Wynn-Edwards."I de

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UK - Clear-Com has expanded its distribution agreement with Tyrell CCT, enabling the infrastructure and media solutions provider to develop the live performance market and manage the Clear-Com resellers in the UK.

As part of this change, Tyrell and Clear-Com have announced the appointment of three authorised reseller partners that are already signed up and established in the live performance market: Amber Sound, Autograph Sales and Orbital Sales. By working with these known resellers, Tyrell is in a good position to start the Clear-Com distribution.

Martin Bennett, commercial director at Tyrell Group, said, "The opportunity for Tyrell to expand the Clear-Com distribution into Live Performance and Install market allows us to build on the success we have developed in the Broadcast market, and we are excited about the challenges of developing new business in this market with

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USA / Russia - Calrec Audio has been selected to provide five Artemis Consoles to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, from Feb. 6-23. The announcement was made by David Mazza, senior vice-president, engineering, NBC Olympics, and Henry Goodman, head of sales and marketing, Calrec Audio.

NBC Olympics has purchased two 64-fader Artemis Shine consoles and augmented its arsenal by renting a further 40-fader and two 24-fader Artemis Beam consoles from Calrec.

"We are extremely proud to be the mixing console manufacturer selected once again by NBC Olympics during the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi," said Goodman. "After the success of the Summer Games in 2012, we are delighted to continue working with NBC Olympics and thank them for their belief in Calrec by choosing our desks."

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Denmark - A new concept and tradition has been born in Denmark: a light festival in the city of Kolding. With the purpose of presenting a new and different experience for the city, local business people pooled together to add culture, beauty and technology to the public domain.

Project manager from Get Visual, Jacob Elsig, delivered lighting installations to many of the graphic and innovative projects and participated in the creation of the urban attraction together with the festival's coordinator and his lighting designer, Christian Vigsø. With the environment in mind, a key factor for the festival was to utilise light sources based on LED technology.

"It seemed natural to contact SGM in relation to this festival," says Elsig who was involved in The Spanish Steps, The Train Station Square's installation named The Spider, Hotel Saksildhus and other smaller one

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The Netherlands - Many of the leading manufacturers in the AV industry have announced this year's AV Networking World (AVNW) educational seminar and workshop on 4 February, 2014 in Amsterdam.

This free all-day event at the Amsterdam Holiday Inn, is sponsored by Allen & Heath, Attero Tech, Audinate, Behringer, Bosch, Bose, BSS Audio, Focusrite RedNet, Harman, Nexo, Midas, Open Access, Peavey Commercial Audio, Shure, Soundcraft, Stewart Audio, Symetrix, TC Group, 2N Telecommunications, and Yamaha Commercial Audio.

This event will feature panel discussions, presentations, and workshops. Interactive panel discussions and presentations will be led by leading industry design consultants, AV installation contractors, IT networking experts, and leading professional audio equipment vendors. In addition to the broad spectrum of informative panel topics a major interoperability networkin

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Denmark - Naestved-based distributor, AV-Huset, has been appointed the Denmark distribution- partner for Pan Beam, the advanced steerable audio specialist from Wolfenbüttel in Germany.

Jens Ravn, owner of AV-Huset stated their choice for Pan Beam, "We from AV-Huset have been looking at the different systems appearing in the market and they all had their strong and weak points. As we were looking for a company that is not only specialised in steerable products, that had the leading designing technology and the feature set that the market required. We required a uniquely and prefect performance in combination with a simple, system set-up with an intuitive software, to prevent our dealers and installers need to be a programming experts to get the best results".

"In Pan Beam we found exactly this, but we also found a comprehensive range covering all of the applicat

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USA - One of the nation's premier art fairs, this year's Art Basel in Miami Beach drew a record 75,000 visitors, who viewed exhibits from over 250 leading galleries representing 30 countries around the globe. None shone brighter, however, than the Alexander Mijares Gallery, which featured a massive 36ft wide by 26ft high surrealistic mural on its front wall, bathed in a stunning rainbow of colours by Chauvet Professional fixtures.

Chauvet Professional fixtures were also in high profile inside the Mijares Gallery, where award-winning Ovation E-190WW LED ellipsoidals focused warm white light on the most important works of art in the 30-piece display, giving them weight and articulation.

According to lighting designer Ruben Laine of DMDS7UDIOS, the Chauvet Professional products helped him meet the challenges of illuminating the outdoor mural and indoor space at Mijares, which, li

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USA - For the first time in its six-year history, tradition was laid aside at PLASA's annual Rock Our World Awards - presented at their Cocktail & Awards Reception in the Las Vegas Hotel during LDI 2013 - by including an Honourable Mention for TiMax SoundHub and TiMax Tracker, from Out Board.

Following the announcement of the very high profile winning entries, Judge Sebastian Frost took the opportunity to highlight Finalist TiMax as "The go to product of my choice for any live reinforcement application."

It was the revolutionary sound design and large-scale automation implementation by Robin Whittaker of Out Board and Sven Waldheim of POOLGroup GmbH, that propelled Out Board's TiMax2 SoundHub audio showcontrol and TiMax Tracker performer tracking automation into the final round of the awards.

The winning entries comprised the stunning London2012 Olympics Opening Ce

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UK - LSi Online has learned the sad news of the death of the veteran theatre consultant Richard Brett. Richard had suffered from mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer, for over a year, and died peacefully at home on 9 January.

A partner in the theatre consultancy Theatreplan, Richard was also known as the conference director of the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference (ITEAC), which is due to hold its fourth event this year.

After studying engineering at University College London, Richard was trained by the BBC, and went on to work as managing director at Richard Pilbrow's Theatre Projects Consultants from 1967 to 1985, before forming his own professional practice. During his career, Richard was responsible for more than 50 major theatre projects and a large number of more modest performing arts schemes worldwide. He led the development of countless inno

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Brazil - Wireless Solution Sweden AB's award-winning W-DMX made Bradesco Seguros Christmas Tree a sparkling success in Rio de Janiero. This is the 18th edition of the annual Tree, which according to the Guinness Book of World Records is the largest floating Christmas tree in the world, standing at an astounding 85m high with an 810 m2 base and weighing in at a massive 542 tons.

The scenography and lighting design is by Abel Gomes from P&G Cenografia, and charms all the visitors of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and also those who follow the Tree on the Internet and social media.

The entire show was programmed using W-DMX. The Bradesco team needed to program from a long enough distance to get the right visibility. They team used 2 W-DMX F-1 units as transmitters and 2 W-DMX F-1 units as receivers, plus an antenna of 9 Db. They installed a grandMA console 800 meters away and we

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UK - Capital FM's annual Jingle Bell Ball got music fans into the festive mood as it took over London's O2 Arena for two nights in early December. With nine main and two warm up acts, plus presenters and a number of special guests each night, demand on the wireless spectrum was high. Sennheiser equipment and staff helped to ensure that every signal in the crowded airwaves remained clear.

Taking place over the weekend of 7-8 December, the event's sound equipment was supplied by Adlib Audio, including a large Sennheiser inventory. Sennheiser UK's Mark Saunders and Tim Sherratt were on site to provide additional equipment and any required assistance to Adlib's Dave Kay and Marc Peers, as well as Andy 'Baggy' Robinson, who was handling the audio side of things for production company Production North.

"The biggest challenges for us were the size of the arena that we had to cov

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USA - Two top performing artists - Fleetwood Mac and Maroon 5 - helped revellers ring in 2014 in Las Vegas with two shows using Robe equipment provided by VER, which included Robin Pointes, Robin LEDWash 1200s and Robin LEDWash 600 moving head fixtures.

Fleetwood Mac entertained the high rollers of the MGM Grand Casino in a special New Year's Eve VIP Party in the casino's Grand Garden Arena. The event's Show Designer of eight years, Benny Kirkham, claimed this season's show as "The biggest ever - massive - and more challenging this time".

Only an hour after Fleetwood Mac's regularly scheduled concert for the public on 30 December, Benny Kirkham and his crew began loading in at midnight to set up the VIP High Rollers party and concert where he supplemented the regular concert set-up with a whole new environment, and the Robe rig.

After 19 hours of prep, doors opened

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UK - Vivitek has confirmed Sahara Presentation Systems PLC as a new distributor in the UK. Based in Erith Kent, Sahara PLC is a leading distributor of AV products and will have direct access to Vivitek's - pocket, ultra- portable, education, AV and single lamp LV product portfolios.

Brian Grogan, regional sales manager, Vivitek EMEA, comments, "I am delighted that Sahara PLC is now one of our distribution partners. They are one of the UK's largest and a well-respected trade-only AV distributor. With continued year-on-year business growth, experienced staff, coupled with excellent channel reach, we believe Sahara Presentation Systems PLC will make the ideal partner for Vivitek's UK growth strategy."

Peter Vernon, business manager for Projection at Sahara adds, "Vivitek is a well-established projector brand with some great products. With their comprehensive range

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Belgium - Belgian-based automation engineering specialists Wicreations designed and created five major automation elements for Mylène Farmer's highly visual 2013 Timeless tour, using a combination of bespoke and standard Wicreations products.

Mylène Farmer is one of the most successful French recording artists of all time. She has sold over 30m records worldwide and had 13 number one hits in the French charts eight of them consecutive, as well as working as a model and actress during a prolific and successful career.

Wicreations, renowned for their innovative work in the entertainment industry, were approached by the tour's production manager Didier Gaume and technical director Pascal "George" Meley, who have worked with them before on a number of projects, and asked if they could provide a number of solutions to help stage this spectacular show.

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USA - Whether it's a special celebration event, a night filled with a DJ's pulsating sounds, performances by local or regional acts, or just a great place to enjoy one another's company with some good eatin', the Coliseum Tallahassee is the place to be when in Florida's capital city.

Based upon a positive experience with their previous D.A.S. Audio sound reinforcement (SR) system, the Coliseum Tallahassee elected to keep the sound in the D.A.S. family when it came time to upgrade to a larger setup. These days, the popular night spot is the proud owner of a system based upon D.A.S. Audio's flagship line array system: the Aero 40A.

Tallahassee, FL-based Ultimate Sound and Light was contracted to design and deploy the Coliseum's new SR system. Pete Barbaree, the person responsible for the D.A.S. Audio system's sale, design, and installation, elected to deploy a setup that include

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