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Europe / USA - Long-term Sennheiser users Kings of Leon have spent most of 2014 on tour throughout Europe and the USA, promoting their latest album Mechanical Bull. Accompanying them at every show has been their trusty package of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitors.

The band and their engineers - Front of House engineer Brent Rawlings and monitor engineer Saul Skoutarides - have been dedicated Sennheiser users for over eight years. Vocal microphone of choice for the past six has been the MD 431, a microphone they are still very happy with.

"We have the MD 431 on all of the guys as it is very stable and has a very nice frequency response for vocals," says Saul. "It also suits Caleb (Followill, lead singer) better than any other mic we tried in the pas

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UK - Orbital Sound has supplied London-based corporate AV specialist Anna Valley Displays, with a large-scale loudspeaker system focused on the d&b audiotechnik T-series design. Taking advantage of the T-series' ability to be configured as a point-source or line-array system, Anna Valley required a versatile solution to deploy across a range of corporate and event applications.

Anna Valley's new sound system comprises of 12 d&b audiotechnik T-10 loudspeakers, four B-4 SUBS and four D-6 amplifiers, and was specified to help address the company's market growth in the corporate sector. Andrew Newport, project manager on Anna Valley's corporate events division, explained:

"We are seeing considerable growth in the corporate sector, and wanted an in-house solution that we could deploy quickly, with a high degree of versatility, to cover the broadest range of venues and applicat

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UK - Envy Productions, organisers of Norfolk's Sundown Festival and inaugural Reload Festival, appointed Mojo Barriers to supply the stage barriers for both events, ensuring the safety of the crowds across two weekends.

Held at Norfolk Showground, Sundown Festival lived up to its name and kept the rain at bay, with the 54,000 capacity crowd enjoying pop and dance acts Katy B, Tinie Tempah, Chase and Status, Clean Bandit and Ellie Goulding.

The following weekend, 5-7 September, saw the first ever Reload festival which bought classic soul to the streets of Norfolk with Kool & the Gang, Billy Ocean and Sister Sledge taking to the stage. With thousands of people in attendance the event used much of the same infrastructure as Sundown festival, including the same main stage and stage barrier layout.

Kevin Thorborn, general manager Mojo Barriers UK, said, "These two events att

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Denmark - Martin Professional has revealed a new online universe in celebration of passionate people in the lighting industry - the people without whom Martin would not be what it is today.

Wall of Dedication (http://wall.martin.com) is a collection of personal accounts from passionate people across the globe who are involved in the lighting industry. People share their stories of how they got into the industry, their sources of inspiration as well as pieces of advice and pearls of wisdom on a web-based platform. The people featured are a mixture of upcoming and well established, high-profile people and the ones in between with one thing in common; namely passion for their trade and for the industry.

Says the company, "It is clear to Martin that a large portion of the success can be traced back to the dedication of the people in the industry - people like the consumers. M

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UK - The Theatres Trust, the National Advisory Body for Theatres, presents its TheatreStage at PLASA London from 5 - 8 October at ExCel London. Following the success of the TheatreStage at last year's PLASA London, it will once more provide a focal point for members of the theatre industry to gather and network throughout the show.

The TheatreStage will be a hub for awards and announcements from leading theatre industry trade bodies and organisations including the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), BECTU, the Technical Theatre Awards and USITT - with the presentation of the Michael Northen Bursary Awards by the ALD, and an introduction of works by USITT's Young Scenic Designer 2014 - Patrick Rizzoti. We are also delighted to announce that for a second year running TheatreStage will host the Technical Theatre Awards.

The Theatres Trust also invites you to have coffee and

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UK - Bookings for PLASA Rigging Conference, running at ExCeL London, are up by fifty percent compared to this time last year, providing a clear indication that the new, one-day format is proving popular with the rigging community. The news comes as the conference announces two important additions to its programme - Matthias Müller's Raising Your Game and The Piece Rather than the Rigging presented by Alan Bartlett.

Raising Your Game will consider the role of the chain hoist as the industry's workhorse and address questions that are often overlooked when making an appropriate choice for a given task. Hoists are an integral part of almost every show or event these days, which makes these decisions more relevant than ever. The session's presenter, Matthias Müller, will look at why specification should be an informed and holistic choice, rather than simply bei

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UK - PRG Nocturne has announced that James Morden has joined their UK team as a senior account manager. With 18 years of video experience in the industry, Morden is eager to help PRG Nocturne continue to expand in the UK with innovative video services, gear, and support for concerts, public festivals, and corporate events.

"A core value of PRG Nocturne has always been to invest in people," notes PRG UK chief sales officer Rich Rowley. "Having James join our UK team underscores that commitment. He will allow us to continue to provide the meticulous level of customer support that PRG Nocturne is known for, especially as our UK operation is rapidly growing."

Morden has demonstrated throughout his career that he shares the PRG Nocturne focus on understanding and anticipating the needs of their clients. "Joining PRG Nocturne is a real honour, their products

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UK - Leisuretec Distribution Ltd have confirmed their new trade partnership with Laserworld (Switzerland) AG, manufacturers of show laser systems, effective September 2014.

Leighton Buzzard-based Leisuretec are distributors of professional and commercial audio, lighting, video and special effects to the trade.

Cliff Dounting, managing director, commented on the new partnership, "It's extremely exciting to see your growth plans continue to develop and by adding a whole new product category to our portfolio is fantastic. We are very proud to be partnering with Laserworld and to have the opportunity to provide our customers with a greater choice of products. These are amazing show lasers designed and built to a very high standard and backed by great technical support. We are very excited to be able to provide even greater value and added services to our clients."

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UK - Creative Technology have been involved with the provision of display technology to The Championships, Wimbledon for 15 years. In that time there have been numerous developments and evolutions, perhaps the most challenging taking place in 2014.

Alongside the large screen on the Aorangi Terrace (aka Henman Hill/Murray Mound), CT now provide 28 additional LED displays and a sophisticated production, routing and distribution system.

The four ticketed show courts each have a pair of full colour LED score boards and smaller ball speed indicators. The traditional flip dot displays were upgraded to full colour LED in 2007 to coincide with the redevelopment of Centre Court and the introduction of Hawkeye. Originally employing Barco's O-lite 612 system the displays were enlarged and upgraded in 2013 with Barco's new C8 technology.

Whilst the television viewer only ever sees the d

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UK - Audio-Technica has revealed its plans for the upcoming BPM and Pro events (Birmingham NEC, 13-15 September), including the first showing of new Allen & Heath DJ products, a series of free-to-attend seminars and on-stand DJ sets.

Allen & Heath's new Xone 23:C DJ mixer "brings together the best of digital DJing and conventional mixing in a compact, accessible format and is equipped with a premium quality, four stereo channel 96kHz 24bit internal soundcard" .

The Xone:K1 is Allen & Heath's new slimline DJ MIDI controller and will also feature at BPM for the first time. The unit is user-configurable for use with the DJ's choice of performance or production software and can be easily set up for fast access to level controls, triggering hot cues, adding FX and instant looping etc.

Other key products featuring at BPM and Pro include models from Audio-Technica's M-Ser

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UK - Sennheiser UK will be showing their range of DJ headphones, as well as Rane's DJ interfaces and mixers at BPM.

Sennheiser will be showing its HD8 DJ and the HD6 MIX dedicated DJ headphones, which have been developed in conjunction with some of the world's top DJs. Also on show will be XS Wireless from Sennheiser's range of wireless microphone systems.

From Rane, the ever-popular Sixty-One and Sixty-Two DJ Mixers and the SL2 two-deck, SL3 two or three-deck and SL4 four deck plug-and-play USB interfaces for digital DJs will be on show, along with demos from renowned DJs, which will take place throughout each day.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - JoeCo has released the latest addition to its award-winning BlackBox family of live multi-channel audio recorders and players - the new flagship BlackBox BBR1MP Recorder. The 24-channel, stand-alone, live audio acquisition solution delivers all the standard BlackBox functionality, while featuring 24 high-quality in-house developed microphone preamps, operating at up to 24bit/96kHz, which are integrated into the recorder's tiny 1U housing.

Primarily designed with the broadcast engineer and sound location recordist in mind, the BBR1MP Recorder offers a range of connection options including individually switchable mic/line inputs, balanced outputs, video sync, timecode and word clock inputs. User installable Dante and MADI interface cards are also available as options, adding 24 channels of Dante or MADI i/o to the BBR1MP unit. Microphones can either be connected to the unit v

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USA - The Penn State Nittany Lions play all of their home games at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania. With an astounding capacity of over 106,000, Beaver Stadium is the second largest stadium in the Western hemisphere (after the University of Michigan's stadium) and the fourth largest in the world.

A recent off-season upgrade to high-definition LED scoreboards inspired a parallel upgrade to a new high-definition sound system that relies on Danley Sound Labs Jericho Horns to throw sound from the south end zone clear across to the north end zone - and all areas between - with point-source, horn-loaded fidelity. Coverage is a remarkable ±2dB across that huge expanse, and eight Danley TH-812 subwoofers support the full-range content with honest, musical low end that shakes the stands.

Clair Solutions senior systems designer Jim Devenney designed the system with assi

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USA - Watermark Community Church, a prominent biblical community with a worship presence in three Texas cities, has chosen Renewed Vision's ProVideoPlayer 2 (PVP2) to create dynamic, high-impact multiscreen video presentations at its 3,500-seat Dallas worship centre.

The PVP2 installation is a significant element of a larger technology upgrade, which includes a dedicated fiber network to connect its Dallas location with a 500-seat worship centrein Fort Worth; and a third worship centre opening in Plano in early 2015.

Les Brown, technical director for Watermark Community Church in Dallas, was seeking a reliable and affordable solution to replace a six-year-old Green Hippo media playback server, which reached end of life and could no longer be upgraded. He researched PVP2 following recommendations from media technicians at other houses of worship and drew on his experience using

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UK - What have a raven eating a worm on a string, Dynamo the magician throwing Mr Bump at people and a man buying an £80 watch for £4,000 got in common? These were all things that actually happened at UKTV Live on 4 September 2014.

And if that all sounds too crazy for words, the logistics and systems to make this event happen were equally complex. An annual showcase of UKTV's new season shows, the event needed to be slick, exciting and wired with the latest technology. Cue Broadsword, a full service technical event company, who helped UKTV launch its upcoming programmes to the industry for the third year running, partnering with producers Momentum Events.

This year, the event was held at the Phillips Gallery in London. The open-plan venue was the perfect place to offer live stage shows coupled with lounge areas and exhibition booths. Key to this was using the space

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Portugal - When the famous Rock in Rio Festival returned to Lisbon (Portugal) this summer, and crowds of up to 350,000 swarmed to the Parque da Bela Vista, they zeroed in on the main Palco Mundo stage, the façade of which was spectacularly lit by 120 GLP impression X4 LED heads.

This provided the setting for top tier acts such as the Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park, Queens of the Stone Age and many more to perform over the four days.

Having worked with Rock in Rio, one of the largest festivals in the world, for the last decade, lighting design company, bright! GmbH again turned to GLP's successful impression platform.

Thomas Giegerich, who runs the German lighting company with brother Michael, confirmed that they had successfully built on the legacy of the original impression 90s. "We used all the X4 to bring the metal stage structure to lif

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Ireland - Chauvet Professional PVP LED video panel technology was specified by Dublin-based company, Just Lite Productions, to illuminate the main stage area at Ireland's Life Festival for the exclusively electronic music line-up, headlined by London's Groove Armada.

The back of stage area was rigged with PVP S7 LED video panels to create a 6-by-2m screen. The PVP S7 is a solid, high definition video panel with black face SMD LEDs and a tight pixel pitch of 7.8mm, suitable for a high-ambiance festival setting where high-resolution graphics and a high contrast ratio are required. The panels achieve equally crisp images in short- and long-viewing applications, as well as in the dark and in daylight.

The front of the DJ box featured PVP S5 LED video panels, providing a contrast with its tighter 5.2mm pixel pitch for shorter viewing distances. Again, the common PVP video technolog

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UK - Britannia Row Productions Training is hosting an Open Evening on Tuesday 16 September - 6.00pm - 8.30pm at its Wandsworth Training Centre in London.

Says the organisation, "Learn about the course from the world-class sound engineers who deliver our training, and who will be running practical demos for you. Explore the facilities and hear from students how our training has enabled them to start their careers in live sound. Come along and tell us how we can help you!"

(Jim Evans)

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Belgium - Production Resource Group (PRG) recently backed their Belgian division with a substantial investment in a new Adamson Energia system.

The company has taken delivery of 36 E15 line array enclosures with 24 E219 subwoofers scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter. The E15 line arrays were immediately put to work at Festivalpark in Werchter, Belgium. PRG EML provided the Energia system for the TW Classic, headlined by The Rolling Stones and then for Rock Werchter, featuring Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon and Metallica. The E15 system is now currently out for a Spanish tour with Negramaro.

"The Werchter Festival is one of the biggest festivals in Europe," explains Patrick "Duim" Demoustier, senior sound engineer for PRG EML. "The E15 line arrays performed extremely well - they were fantastic and I was very impressed."

The Adamson system - used

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UK - This year, the Bupa Great North Run was the first event of its kind in the world to reach its one millionth entrant. On 4 September both Newcastle and Gateshead Quaysides, along with the River Tyne were transformed into a huge outdoor arena marking the countdown to this year's run.

The stunning opening ceremony included mass choreography, live music, boats, giant floating sculptures, projection mapping, pyrotechnics and more to tell the incredible story of the North East, featuring a creative team who have previously worked on the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Opening Ceremonies.

Aurora Lighting Hire provided lighting facilities for the event working with lighting designer Oli Richards, assisted by associate lighting designer, Seb Williams. Working closely with the design team was production electrician John Nowell and Aurora project manager Sam Crook.

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USA - With 21 tour dates across the United States, the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, presented by Funny or Die, features 25 of the nation's hottest comics.

On tour, the audio challenge presented for the tour technicians is vastly different from those seen on concert or theatrical productions. Needing to be precise with their audio coverage, Front of house engineer Nick Walsh, monitor technician Mike Norfleet, and production manager Chris Warndahl are relying upon the services of Miller Pro Audio AVL and a full line of the their Omega Corps PA system.

"I have been out with the Oddball Festival for the last two years and having played a lot of these same venues previously, we knew the challenge would be that they are pretty steep with long throws making them hard to cover," began Walsh. "There are a lot of factors to consider so we try to cover ourselves

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