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UK - d&b audiotechnik has confirmed its return to the ABTT's annual theatre show, taking place in the West Hall at Alexandra Palace from 24-25 June. Visitors can expect to see exciting new products from d&b, including two new amplifiers developed specifically for installation markets.

At stand A52, the latest amplifiers will be joined by the award winning Y-Series and the D20 amplifier, recently launched at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt.

On Wednesday 24th June 12:45 in The Roman Room Oran Burns of d&b Education and Application Support will present Line arrays unravelled. Through practical demonstration and simulation the seminar will explore line array directivity and examine some of the pros and cons of using this technology. The session will clarify commonly misunderstood

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UK - Marquee AV has announced the appointment of Paul Day as business development manager. Day joined the industry with PRS, progressing his career as regional sales consultant with Bose where he has enjoyed the last seven years. The position of business development manager is an expansion for Marquee AV and Day will work alongside the existing sales team.

"I've known Paul for many years and always admired his professional approach, enthusiasm and good humour," said Marquee AV's MD, Mark Brown. "He's one of those few guys always in the back of your mind as someone it would be good to employ if the opportunity arose. With our expanding business that opportunity became reality and I'm pleased to welcome Paul to Marquee AV. I'm sure he'll fit in well and help us achieve our future goals."

"The opportunity to join a company with the background and pedigree

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UK - HHB Communications has announced the appointment of Andy Copeland to the role of technical sales support engineer.

Andy is a graduate of the University of Huddersfield's Music Technology programme, where he completed work experience as an Avid Pro Audio sales advisor and qualified as an Avid Certified Support Representative (ACSR PT400). He joins HHB's award-winning Technical Sales Support Department in delivering first-line support for Avid Pro Tools customers and will help provide product configuration and installation, after-sales support, repairs and training for Pro Tools and other MAC and PC based DAWs.

HHB group sales director Steve Angel comments, "We welcome Andy in joining the most experienced team of professional audio support engineers in the industry. He came highly recommended from Avid and his experience will further increase our efforts to provide exp

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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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UK - Since its unveiling at Prolight+Sound in April this year, the new dot2 range of consoles from MA Lighting has been establishing itself as yet another of the MA family of consoles that ticks all the right boxes for all the right reasons, as Matt Cowles of Ambersphere Solutions' technical sales explains, "We always knew that there was a gap in the MA range that needed filling and so far it looks as though dot2 fits the bill perfectly. Its size, just 420mm x 550mm, its weight of only 7kg and its simplicity of operation are just some of the reasons that customers have been placing orders with us since its arrival in the Spring."

Graeme Sewell of Vortex Lighting reports, "Vortex has a long history of using MA consoles. We had the first MA1 Light console available for rent in the UK (Serial 2) and subsequently purchased both MA1 Micro Light and Full Size consoles.

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UK - How do you turn common but necessary stage gear into an integral part of the set design? Lighting designer Steven Douglas solved the dilemma by creatively mounting Solaris LED Mozarts, the versatile pixel-mapping RGBW fixtures, on key equipment for The Killers lead singer Brandon Flowers' Desired Effects tour.

"We mounted Mozarts on the downstage edge of Brandon's floor monitors," explains Douglas, "as well as attaching them to mic stands and the back line. We used iPad holders to rotate them into a diamond orientation."

Douglas adds, "After using the Solaris LED Flares for The Killers, I heard about the Mozarts and tried them on a shoot for the new Guitar Hero Live video game. I like the superior quality of light and their compact size - we can put them pretty much anywhere."

The European leg of the tour ends this month, followed by North

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Canada - Further strengthening CAST BlackTrax's growing global network, DWP Live has added BlackTrax real-time motion tracking solution to its projection mapping technology offering to corporate clients, agencies and designers.

Ben Ryle, chief technologist at DWP Live notes, "I love BlackTrax's plug and play design as it fits seamlessly into our workflow. For example, we can place the BT Beacons on a projection surface or performer, calibrate BT Cameras, build 3D models using a media server and then take everything into a 3D environment - all within minutes which is a valuable asset for live events working to increasingly tight time scales."

Ryle notes that BlackTrax can track a virtually unlimited amount of objects so large or small projection surfaces can be moved in and out and off stage. "Traditionally, introducing new pieces would be cumbersome and time con

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Singapore - The Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, two mid-sized venues joined by a central atrium and clock tower, have been a part of the region's cultural community since 1862. In 2010 the venues closed for renovation and underwent a four-year restoration process that sought to keep intact the original glamour and beauty of the building while supplying state-of-the-art features in its facilities.

Arup was employed by Singapore's National Arts Council as acoustician and theatre consultants. And a team led by Electronics & Engineering PTE Ltd including Desisti Asia PTE Ltd and Stage Technologies won the contract for the specialist theatre equipment, with Stage Technologies providing the design and supply of the majority of the rigging and automation for both the Theatre and Concert Hall.

The Victoria Theatre has 69 BigTow2-300 winches for the fly bars with winches in three de

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USA - While Hollywood star Steve Martin and singer/songwriter Edie Brickell might seem an unlikely pairing to write a musical, their shared love of bluegrass music resulted in Bright Star, a story of love and loss in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Delicate reproduction of the bluegrass score was vital to the show's success, which is why sound designer Nevin Steinberg chose an Alcons pro-ribbon sound system.

Bright Star's world premiere took place at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, where the combination of the show's music and the theatre's physical attributes lent themselves perfectly to benefitting from Alcons pro-ribbon audio technology.

"We were looking to deliver high resolution sound in a comparatively small theatre and I also needed the flexibility of line array," says Nevin. "I had been introduced to Alcons through trade publicat

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UK - The Warehouse Sound Services has been appointed by The National Theatre of Scotland to deliver sound for the theatrical tour of Yer Granny starring Rab C. Nesbitt's Gregor Fisher. The show is currently touring across Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Yer Granny, presented by the National Theatre of Scotland, opened at the Kings Theatre Glasgow between the 26-30 May and is now touring Kings Theatre Edinburgh, Eden Court Theatre Inverness, Lyric Theatre Belfast and the Dundee Rep Theatre.

The Warehouse Sound Services hire department was asked by Matt Padden, head of sound for the National Theatre Scotland, to supply the sound equipment for their production using the latest d&b audiotechnik Y-Series loudspeaker system.

The sound design by The Warehouse Sound includes d&b audiotechnik Y7P, Y8 and Y-SUB loudspeakers for front of house and EM Acoustics EMS-51 louds

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USA - Martin Audio MLA systems were deployed by 3G Productions on the Main Stage (Kinetic Field) and Stage Two (Circuit Grounds) at the Electric Daisy Carnival NY (EDC) festival to provide consistent coverage front to back and exceptional audio quality to a sea of energetic fans.

Held outside MetLife Stadium in Rutherford, NJ, the fourth EDC NY festival drew an estimated 100,000 fans over two days, appealing primarily to an ultra-high energy, rave-oriented crowd moving nonstop to the rhythms and beats of trance, dubstep, hardstyle, house, hip-hop and new combinations of each.

The extensive line-up of artists ranged from mainstream to underground dance music and far beyond, including notable performances from Carl Cox & Friends, Krewella, Martin Garrix, Martin Solveig, Hardwell, AfroJack, Andrew Rayel, Brodinski, Calvin Harris, Duke Dumont, DJ Snake, Kaskade and Dixon.

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Qatar - Airstar, inventor of the lighting balloon and provider of lighting solutions for the event industry, deployed 90 Pixocom balloons for the latest edition of Qatar National Day.

Many cultural activities are planned during this national commemoration, which celebrates Qatar's unification and independence, including fireworks, concerts, parades as well as a zoo specially set up for the occasion. The event took place on the outskirts of Doha.

All 90 Pixocom balloons were especially made to measure by Airstar for this event. Despite being designed for rental staging purposes, with dismountable elements, all the lighting balloons were developed with a permanent application in mind, in order to withstand potential sand storms and high winds.

Airstar Dubai, which successfully won the project, was in charge of lighting up the area, under the responsibility of Marcin Michna, de

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USA - On The Tragically Hip's latest tour, lighting designer Brent Clark was effectively charged with creating two shows in one when the band decided to break up their performance into multiple parts. The first and third sections would feature new music while the middle of the show would be songs from their 1992 hit record Fully Completely. Consequently, Clark deployed lighting fixtures by Martin Professional to create a look that was both modern and retro at the same time.

Fully Completely was a hit in the 1990's so Clark found inspiration in an old digital clock and a classic PAR can look. He wanted to recreate a 90's appearance in a modern way and by using 134 MAC 101 fixtures, Clark was easily able to build his PAR can look which proved to be impactful during the various parts of the show. To produce a "show within a show," the MAC 101 backdrop had to

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UK - RCF has announced a significant expansion of its UK operation, which will "add new efficiencies and impetus to the company's sales drive, as it continues to penetrate new market segments".

Central to the change is the appointment of industry stalwart Miles Brooke - who brings 20 years of experience in pro, commercial and consumer audio within the D&M Group.

Taking up the newly created position of regional sales manager (south) he will focus on installed sound/commercial audio and rental & touring customers, while Mick Butler will continue to represent RCF in the North of England and Scotland.

After a career dedicated to brand building Denon and Marantz - latterly as national sales and marketing manager with D&M Group's professional division - Miles Brooke previously worked with Denon distributors Hayden Laboratories, a company he joined in 1994. "RCF's di

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USA - Medialon will be showcasing its Overture facility-wide AV Management system to the US market at the upcoming InfoComm 2015 in Orlando.

Medialon's Overture was met with critical reception after its international ISE debut in January, resulting in the AV management system being integrated into a multitude of places including a conference center and a theme park.

Available for use in a range of locations including museums, concert venues, and sport stadiums, Overture makes it easy to control company-wide technology using one dynamic, innovative software.

"Overture was designed to be an AV Control System for the IT world. It is built on technologies that IT Managers and CIOs know and trust, and the response from the market has been fantastic," said Eric Cantrell, senior sales manager, Medialon.

Created by seasoned AV veterans for IT departments, Overture elimin

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USA - Elation will be launching "a revolutionary new product" during InfoComm 2015 at a special event held Thursday 18 June and invites lighting professionals to stop by Elation booth #6259 for a VIP invitation.

As further proof that the wheels of innovation are running in high gear at Elation, another world premiere product will also be on display at InfoComm, the EHD2.5, a 2.5mm pixel pitch high-definition LED video panel for rental and production applications.

Other innovative products that will be having their InfoComm debut include Elation's powerful hybrid Platinum FLX moving head; high-output ACL Series of narrow-beam LED effect lights; and Colour Series Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidal spot, Colour Pendant wash, and Colour Chorus 72, 48, 24, and 12 batten wash lights. Also on hand will be Elation's high-power Protron 3K LED strobe, as well as the pioneering and a

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UK - Central Presentations Limited (CPL) invested over a quarter of a million pounds in May, primarily in new lighting and rigging equipment, in preparation for an extremely action-packed summer.

The busy west Midlands based technical solutions specialist supplies full production - lighting, sound, video, rigging and staging - design and equipment to a diversity of live shows - from music and film festivals to corporate and industrial presentations to special events.

Business has increased generally for CPL in the last 12 months, and the lighting division is currently expanding rapidly in response to this organic growth which has prompted the latest round of premium brand purchases.

The existing stock of Clay Paky lighting fixtures is boosted with the addition of 16 x Mythos and 10 x A.Leda K10s with B-eye lenses, bringing the current total of moving lights available in-hous

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UK - Working with BBC election project and engineering manager, Tony Cahalane and production designer, David Marson, XL Video supplied high resolution LED screens, plus scenic curved LED and Barco screen management systems for BBC Cymru Wales and S4C's coverage of the 2015 General Election.

BBC Cymru Wales broadcast all-night election coverage on BBC1 Wales and the Welsh language channel, S4C, simultaneously from two studio sets at their studios in Llandaff, Cardiff.

Each set consisted of a wide, high-resolution curved LED screen, formed from XL Video's Unilumin 3.9mm LED, and measuring 10m wide by 3m high.

This main screen displayed a combination of playback content, election graphics generated live as results came in, and PiP broadcast footage from reporters around the country.

Surrounding the screen and set, each studio featured nine curved LED banners formed from XL's

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USA - Downtown Scottsdale is arguably one of the hottest spots for nightlife at the moment with several high profile venue openings of late, the most recent being The District, a lively entertainment venue in the city's blossoming entertainment district. The District combines an industrial-Americana atmosphere with high-end party culture, both aspects supported by a state-of-the-art Elation lighting and video system.

A project of Triyar Entertainment Group and owned by Shawn Yari, The District is a type of new-aged rock-and-roll bar that in the evening turns into more of a vibrant nightclub with DJs spinning a mix of music. Located next to Maya Day & Nightclub and just across the street from Livewire, a recently opened live music venue that also features a total solution Elation lighting package, competition for the entertainment dollar in Scottsdale is fierce.

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UK - Leading UK hire company, SSE, is providing iLive modular digital systems by Allen & Heath for two key tours taking place this summer by artists Paolo Nutini and Morrissey.

Having played the UK and Europe in the spring, Morrissey will be performing four nights at the Sydney Opera House, followed by a comprehensive tour of the USA throughout June and July. Meanwhile Paolo Nutini will be playing various outdoor and festival dates across Europe this summer with a control package from Wigwam Acoustics.

"iLive has been out on tour with both of these artists a number of times, and SSE is delighted to be able to fulfil the tour requirements by continuing to provide the systems," says Dan Bennett, hire project manager at SSE. "iLive has proved to be a great success on the road, it's easy to travel with, compact, quick to set up, and everyone is very pleased with the

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USA - Atlantic City, New Jersey is known for its casinos, boardwalk and beach. To this list you can now add one other attraction: the new multimedia show at the Tropicana Casino and Resort.

On Friday, 22 May, the Tropicana marked the traditional beginning of summer and the Memorial holiday weekend with the official debut of a sound-and-light programme displayed on the property's newly refurbished boardwalk facade. According to Tony Rodio, CEO and President of Tropicana Entertainment, as many as 10,000 people witnessed the high-tech extravaganza. Integral to the show are eight Syncrolite SXL automated Xenon Skylights. Three are mounted prominently above the centre tower and the rest are mounted on separate towers along the boardwalk frontage.

Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) was the project integrator and chose Syncrolite as its partner in this highly visible, challenging oc

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USA - Like a proverbial cat, the stately building on 412.5 Douglas in Kansas' largest city has gone through many lives. Starting out as a movie theatre, it later morphed into a penny arcade, pool hall, recording studio and cocktail lounge, before becoming a cabaret that featured theatrical performances for 22 years until closing its doors. Now as Roxy's Downtown, the building is back for an encore as a theatrical venue, this time with a plan to attract a broader audience thanks in part to an all- LED lighting rig featuring fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

"This old venue, which was called Cabaret Old Town, was a fixture among theatre lovers," said Sean Roberson, who remembers sneaking away as a high school student to see shows at the building. "We missed it when it closed, so when John Hammer reopened the building as Roxy's Downtown, all of us who grew up with

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