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"This is the first time the SSL Live console will be shown at ABTT," commented HD Pro Audio's Andy Huffer. "The SSL Live sets new standards for audio quality and transparency, which are so critical in theatre sound. SSL has combined that ultimate sound quality with a compact foot print, rock-solid stability and incredible flexibility - it's a dream to use and provides the way forward that engineers want."

Huffer continues, "With such a premium range of audio products setting the standards for the performing arts, we're really looking forward to a very busy ABTT show."

HD Pro Audio will be on Stand 24 and Andy Huffer and Tom Turner will be on

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Schoeman started her journey by getting her hands on Tamia's music. "Tamia's sound is very chilled and after the first song, I thought pink." With soft pastel colours in mind, Schoeman used six Robe Pointes, eight Robin 100LEDBeams, eight Robin 300s, four Robin 600s, six Robe MMX Spots, four Martin MAC 550 Profiles and 12 MAC 575 Krypons and six bars of 6 LED pars to create something special and a design which was complimented by the event organizer.

"The Pointes were great," said Schoeman. "It was the first time I used them and I love th

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A platform to showcase fashion's future rising stars and known for launching careers of the likes of Stella McCartney and Julien MacDonald, this year's GFW attracted over 25,000 guests, hosted 20 catwalk shows and showcased over 40 talented universities.

The annual event, in its 23rd year, made the move to the edgier East End, deciding on the Old Truman Brewery as its new venue. Blackout's experienced rigging and draping team were called in to install two catwalk structures; one using ground supported truss and the other flown using 10 half ton motors.

"The two catwalks were held in completely difference spaces, Catwalk A was upstairs in a much lighter room with skylights and Catwalk B was located on the ground floor," explaine

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The company will be focusing attention on its MegaCOMMS System Network with the introduction of three key infrastructural network components - the CDC MC Router, CDC MC MADI Network Bridge and CDC MC Dante Network Bridge. MegaCOMMS extends Cadac audio performance across scalable digital audio networks of up to 3072 channels of 96kHz/24-bit audio, comprising multiple CDC I/O stage boxes and consoles. The extensive latency management system automatically manages all internal routing and associated processing latency; providing time-aligned, phase-coherent transmission with sub-0.4 millisecond latency, from analogue inputs on stage to analogue outputs on stage.

The 2U CDC MC Router is the hu

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Sennheiser's Digital 9000 Wireless Microphone system offers premium quality uncompressed digital audio for those theatre professionals who are unwilling to compromise on sound. With its intuitive, easy to navigate menu system and comprehensive feature list, including the ability to choose from up to 12 microphone heads for the handheld transmitter alone, Digital 9000 delivers unparalleled sound quality and takes professional users to a whole new level of dynamics, previously unavailable to wireless system users.

For those visitors on tighter budgets, Sennheiser's 3000/5000 Series of wireless products will also be on display. The SK 5212 II body-pack transmitter, along with the EM3732 II receiver, have b

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The Temptation tour, which travelled from Wolverhampton Civic Hall and finished at The O2 Dublin in April, replaced cancelled shows from 2013 and showcased music from his Disc-Overy album and the more mature grime-pop sounds from his recent album Demonstration.

LS-Live welcomed the opportunity to work with Tinie Tempah and the team once again to design, build and modify the set at its arena-sized rehearsal unit. LS-Live designer Gaz Mallon worked closely with show designer Anthony Randall and production manager Phil Broad to ensure their creative vision was aptly brought to life for the relatively brief, but big-bite, tour.

Said Gaz, "They wanted to create the look of an underground, grimy car park, like those you find beneath city apartment block

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Neil Macdonald, chief executive of amBX said, "We are delighted to have the unique capabilities of amBX recognised by such a major operator in this way. In addition to managing all the operational lighting requirement, amBX Light-Scene Engine will also be providing a flexible and dynamic solution to enhance how lighting can be used to enhance the experience of the venue."

The amBX Light-Scene Engine is the latest lighting control offering built on amBX technology. The Light-Scene Engine has been designed to be easily integrated

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Produced by Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar - responsible for the long running eponymous musical and numerous other shows along Gran Via Madrid's main theatrical artery AKA 'Spanish Broadway' - this show staged at the off Gran Via Rialto Theatre, and has been lit by award-winning lighting designer Felipe Ramos.

The overall theme of the show - inspired by some of the grand cabarets of Paris but with a definitely space age twist - gave him plenty of scope for imaginative lighting design - and he chose 12 Robe Pointes to be right at the core of the lighting rig.

A Marte Cabaret is his first collaboration with the producers, alth

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Appelt's design is an eye-opener, with the German lighting designer rigging a mix of over 100 x Clay Paky Sharpys, 26 x Alpha Spot HPE 1500s and 12 x Alpha Beam 1500s supplied by PRG Hamburg, in strict configurations across huge fingers of truss that reach out across the audience.

"The concept behind the design was not to worry too much about the stage and really play out to the audience," explains Appelt. "We built four vertical columns upstage upon which we rigged the Clay Paky beam fixtures. These columns then lead out into four 'fingers' of curved truss heavily rigged with Sharpys. The fingers are designed to reach out above the audience creating an all encompass

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Allen & Heath's distributor, Teleponto, supplied the consoles, designed the systems, and managed the live performances and global transmission of the carnival. Six teams and a total of 70 staff were required to ensure the successful operation of 6 straight days of transmission and 72 hours of live broadcasts.

The GLD-80 consoles were used to handle audio feeds sent from several remote locations spanning over 2km. In addition, four AR2412 and eight AR84 audio racks and over 7km of optical fibre cable were used.

"With more than 2m people in attendance and simul

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Estadio Mineirao was the first of three 2014 World Cup stadia to be completed using Community loudspeaker systems. Soundvision Engineering, the largest professional audio and video contract integrator in Brazil, was commissioned to design and install the audio systems by Emílio Miranda of Johnson Controls Brazil, the contract holder for Estadio Mineirao.

Soundvision's CEO, Antonio Tadeu Torquato, and new business manager, Leandro Freire, carried out an extensive evaluation of loudspeaker systems that would provide the best solution for the arena. They concluded that the first choice was Community, proven for all-weather reliability, well-defined coverage and high intelligibility.

After installation, performance a

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Trade In Trade Up, which runs for three months until the end of August, offers a £100 discount against any new Sennheiser evolution wireless microphone system or IEM for anyone trading in any old, out of date or unwanted wireless system, working or not.

"Since the move from Channel 69 to Channel 38 for general wireless microphone use across the UK, Sennheiser has been working hard to make sure that everyone who uses a wireless microphone, from the biggest tour to the smallest pub band, theatres and concert halls, corporate events and television and radio reporters, has the correct equipment," says Simon Beesley, Sennheiser UK product management. "This is vitally important as C

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Onyeabor's distinctive rhythmic, funkadelic, spacey synthesiser-orientated grooves were composed in the 1970s and 1980s when he was a prolific composer / performer, highly original and forward thinking. Since then he has gained a cult following amidst musicians and music aficionados.

An anthology of his old work Who is William Onyeabor? was released by David Byrne's Luaka Bop record label last year, and this was recently followed by a live concert tour to bring the Onyeabor experience to an inquisitive public.

Gray was approached directly by Luaka Bop who had seen his lighting

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Those gaining their Gold Circle certification include: Theresa Bartlett of Virginia Hearing Consultants in Norfolk, VA; Helene Levenfus of Cedar Audiology in Lyndhurst, OH; independent audiologist Analise Ludwig of Minneapolis, MN; Eric Nelson of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York; and Dale Radke of Hearing Consultants in Kittery, Maine.

The Gold Circle seminar teaches audiologists the specific skills required to successfully assist musicians and sound engineers, an outlook that includes

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Supplied by Sacramento Production & Lighting, the Elation lighting package was chosen for several reasons including durability and price point, a major consideration these days for the touring market, according to Dion Cook, Sacramento Production & Lighting's CEO.

Dion explains the concept behind the show. "The concept for the past five years has been to give the audience more than just a run-of-the-mill comedy show with a guy in front of a curtain," he says. "And by that I mean it needed to be an experi

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Temple of Tune comprises four studios, all connected by a network of hard disks, so that several can work on the same project at once, files can be quickly moved around, sound effects quickly accessed and so on. Working on major projects in Dutch, French and English, a regular part of the facility's work is in Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR).

All four studios have used Steinberg Nuendo for many years, which Fredo is happy to continue doing. But, as a company which is always trying to do make its workflow easier, quicker and more efficient, Nuage has solved one of Nuendo's

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C&C Lightway has worked with Robert Juliat for over 20 years, promoting the brand in a strongly competitive market.

"We are up against strong competition from long-established, premium-brand Japanese manufacturers, particularly for conventional fixtures like Fresnels and ellipsoidals," says C&C Lightway's Hwan-Soo Chung. "However, we have worked to raise awareness of Robert Juliat's great reputation to the same level it experiences in the followspot market where we have enjoyed a good market share for several years."

C&C Lightway, which has established long-term working relationships with all of its clients, has recently supplied Robert Juliat lanterns and followspots to Seogwipo Culture & Arts Centre,

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Stardraw Design 7.1 is the evolution of Stardraw.com's seventh-generation application for AV systems integrators. A powerful, fully integrated project design and documentation system with access to 70,000 symbols from over 700 of the industry's leading manufacturers, Stardraw Design 7.1 includes a host of important new features, all based on requests and feedback from Stardraw users in more than 80 countries worldwide, as well as a number of bug fixes and enhancements to existing functionality.

Amongst the most requested of features is Cable Bridges, a drawing mode that shows where cables cross without intersecting. The mode can be toggled and is parameter-d

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Managing director of Kinoton Korea, Inc., Mr Chris Bae comments on the partnership with the British manufacturer, "We, Kinoton Korea, Inc. are pleased to work with Audient and are very ambitious to promote the high-quality products to the Korean market and look forward to having great success and feedback from the market very soon."

Audient's sales & marketing director Luke Baldry confirms, "Audient's focus is on quality, which is supported by a proud heritage. Chris Bae and his team have a strong knowledge of the South Korean market, and we have every confidence that they will handle Audient sales, support and service at exactly the right level."

(Jim Evans)

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An industry veteran, Gilberto has worked in professional audio for 30 years, with roles including sound engineer for Grammy Award-winning artists like Carlos Vives 1994-2011, Franco de Vita 1992-1998, Luis Enrique, Julio Iglesias, and many others. Gilberto has also been involved in the technical production of shows such as Cirque du Soleil, Anthrax, Joaquin Cortes and Luciano Pavarotti.

A significant part of his work will be to increase Powersoft's presence in