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Twin Designs has worked with the artist for two years, although this was the first full production design they had essentially created specifically for Pitbull, as the previous tour had been a co-headliner with Enrique Iglesias.

Their brief included creating all the playback video content as well as designing the lighting and video systems and the set. Having control over all these visual elements enabled them to create a streamlined and harmonious show which Michael operated and directed on the road.

Having worked with Pitbull for two years, they had a good idea of the style and aesthetics he and his team

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"It was formerly Demsey's, a neighbourhood tavern that, after 24 years, had run its course," explained Rich Trombitas, regional sales & product manager with A/V manufacturer's rep firm Cardone, Solomon & Associates (CS&A). "It's the same owner, and he did a great job of ripping out the old and building in the new. It's in a young part of the city, and it now hits all of the high points for that group."

Trombitas drew on his own expertise and CS&A's representation of Ashly Audio and other manufacturers to assist NYC's local integration firm, Starview Satellite, with the Gray Mare's killer sound system.

"Starview Satellite's John Paturno and Hector Martinez needed a system that

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Organised by Coconut Events, the 10-day festival was staged in the Golden Memories Dome, and attracted 12,000 guests. Renowned Indian folk singers, Kirtidan Gadhvi, Nisha Barot and Jetal Soni, performed every day.

The organisers appointed pro rental company, Stagecraft, to manage the challenging brief. Stagecraft had recently purchased a second dLive system from Allen & Heath's distributor, Sun Infonet, comprising the flagship S7000 Surface with DM64 MixRack, to join its existing S3000/DM48 system. The S7000/DM64 system was selected as the FOH and monitor mixer for the festival, managing a spectrum of instruments such as 8 dhols, 6 drums, 5 floor drums, 1 kick drum, Indian acoust

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With this in mind, the team has invested in a new grandMA2 Light console and an MA Command Wing control console, which were purchased from Ambersphere Solutions.

Tom Chennells, director of production for Yes Events, explains why they chose the MA kit: "The Command Wing and grandMA2 Light are our first investments in MA Lighting control. Both were chosen after a rigorous selection process, informed both by our knowled

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In true rock n' roll style, the production is currently out on tour following this award winning West End residency. With a philosophy based around live music, the ultimate source, KV2 Audio products were the choice for sound designer Matt McKenzie when considering which sound system to tour.

Autograph Sound once again provided a complete KV2 solution for the eight-month UK tour. Top reviews follow many other recent collaborations between KV2 and Autograph such as Mamma Mia!, Annie, Kinky Boots and Bend it Like Beckham.

The tour takes in a wide variety of venues across the UK of various sizes. To tackle these, Autograph provided a range of products from KV2's ES, ESR and EX

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In recognition of its efforts, the festival has won the Groenevent Award 2015 for greenest festival in Flanders and the Groene Pluim award of Ieper.

This year, lighting designer Alexander Coppenolle continued the festival's tradition of blending punchy hardcore looks with planet-friendly green thinking by specifying Chauvet Professional Mavericks and Rogues for its indoor and outdoor stages.

"When it comes to lighting the Ieper Hardcore Fest, we're faced with a pretty impossible task each year," commented Coppenolle, who has b

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Among the fine contemporary architecture, restored listed buildings, three acres of contemporary art and culture, restaurant and bars, it is fitting that the new 500-capacity urban events space should occupy the original Grade II*-listed Boiler Shop itself, rich in engineering history.

It is today able to host a wide range of corporate, cultural and arts events as well as live performance and exhibitions - thanks to the versatility of an integrated Harman sound reinforcement network featuring mission-critical JBL loudspeaker sy

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For the occasion, lighting designer Eyal Tavory chose a large Robe orientated rig - including 35 x BMFL spots to give the impact that everyone was anticipating at a recent show at the Rishon Lezion Amphitheatre

The two artists played a major tour last summer for which the demand for tickets was so overwhelming they decided to add a series of extra shows this summer. The Robe reporting team caught up with Eyal and the team and asked a few leading questions.

Eyal has been working on Yehuda Polker's lightshow for 30 years which is a remarkable achievement in its own right. He started off as the lighting operator and became the stage and lighting designer two yea

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"The Royal Albert Hall is always busy," commented Britannia Row's project manager Lez Dwight, "but this was exceptional. It saw a Britrow crew load in just after midnight for rehearsals commencing at 2pm that Monday afternoon, with the show on the Tuesday, 1 November."

The show was in part a tribute to Sir Terry Wogan, the BBC Radio 2 presenter who was one of Children in Need's staunchest advocates. Stars willing to offer their talents for such an event were not in short supply: the show featured Olly Murs, Ellie Goulding, Rick Astley, Beverley Knight, Alfie Boe & Michael Ball, Take That and Gregory Porter.

"It was a tricky

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The tour started earlier in the year and included a festival run, with this leg being the first full on production design tour carrying a full lighting rig for which west London based Colour Sound made some new investments.

The design process started with Tom - who actively contributes ideas - requesting some frames onstage to give a basic form, so three - outlined with Martin Sceptrons - were the starting point of the design. The largest one in the centre is covered in gauze enabling the cheetah head from the album artwork to be projected - ach

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Amongst the company's corporate clients, regular use of wireless microphones is rapidly becoming widespread, and with channel counts that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago. By way of recent example, Peter Russell has recently returned from Barcelona, where Blitz|GES supplied the audio infrastructure during a large corporate event for a major computing sof

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Each show, long time lighting designer Paul Hoffman faces the daunting task of creating different looks for a band whose set list is famously decided at the last minute, while still putting out recognizable looks that jive with the music and theme of the show.

"I really do it pulling from a decade of experience lighting them - knowing the music beat-by-beat and note-by-note," Hoffman said. "I can use the equipment to compliment the mood of the music, being it hard and heavy or smooth a

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In these two decades the show has presented them with any number of audio challenges, but the team, formerly led by the late Derrick Zieba and more recently by Colin Pink, has always delivered on all audio fronts. For the past 14 of those years, they have had the support of Sennheiser, both in terms of equipment and technical assistance.

With increasingly RF-heavy environments, the use of Sennheiser equipment, particularly products such as its flagship Digital 9000 Series, which was used by the presenters including US singer Bebe Reixa, has proved increasingly important.

Eight channels of Digital 9000 were on hand for the guest presenters and award acceptance speeches ("On top of the

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Wet's fall Don't You tour confirmed their increasing popularity with enthusiastic crowds and a string of sold out shows. Lighting design for the tour was by Erich Meitzner and James Bailey, who used the ACL 360 Bars to stunning effect by creating dense, seemingly impenetrable walls of light that fully complemented the band's special sound.

Their first outing with the band, Meitzner and Bailey, creat

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Data can be exchanged easily between systems, such as Sennheiser's conference solution ADN - here, because control commands are transmitted via TCP/IP, the audio conferencing system's central unit, the ADN CU1, can be connected effortlessly to one of Cestron's media controllers. For example, when the talk button on a docking station is pressed, the media controller interprets the transferred information and triggers functions, such as aligning a camera with a speaker.

This device communication naturally works in both directions, meaning that Sennheiser communication stations can accessed remotely via Crestron touch

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Anolis is the architectural lighting division of Robe lighting and has offices in Australia, Czech Republic, Dubai, France, Russia, Singapore, Uruguay and the USA. Its UK operations are currently based in Northampton, with expansion plans set to incorporate a new site in London.

LTP Integration will provide design, integration, sales and support for interior and exterior architectural lighting schemes across the UK and Europe. The company now has access to the entire Anolis and Robe product range, offering distribution services into various core markets.

Anolis UK is exhibiting within the Lightspace Arena at Lux Live 2016 which takes place at ExCeL, London 23-24 November.

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Entrusted with its high-profile lighting design, Citylight S.L., a leading Madrid-based rental, sales and installation company, boosted its lighting inventory with the purchase of four Robert Juliat Merlin followspots to ensure the country's hottest fashion moments were bathed in light of the highest quality.

Citylight positioned the four Merlin spots front-of-house in the vast Feria de Madrid venue to cover the models as they paraded on the catwalk. "With throw distances of 30m to 40m, it was very clear we required the high quality afforded by the Merlins," Citylight stated.

Designed originally to endure the rigours of touring, the fully-featured Merlin followspots, supplie

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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 blazes into Broadway's Imperial Theatre this fall with multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban in the role of Pierre. The production audaciously retains the show's original staging concept, with the audience inches away from the action, which takes place throughout the theatre. Sound designer Nicholas Pope devised an innovative loudspeaker configuration with multiple small

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The installation was produced by Filmwork Factory to celebrate the centenary of the death of Battisti. The original idea of highlighting the mausoleum with 12 powerful beams shooting up into the night sky to match the 12 columns of the monument was Mariano's himself, pitched to the Municipality of Trento. He commissioned photographer Pierluigi Cattani Faggion to document the work.

The mausoleum is located on the top of Doss Hill in Trento and was designed by architect Ettore Fagiuoli and inaugurated in 1935. Its 12 columns are 15m high and follow a circumference of 75 metres. It is visible from all over the city and surrounding countryside.

The BMFLs were placed around the pe

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To create the paw-fect atmosphere, Hawthorn used the event branding as inspiration to deliver a chic and stylish production design. With black and gold making up the key colours for the evening, 60 linear metres of custom black and gold drapes were incorporated into the main dining space, helping to develop the overall style of the event whilst also creating an intimate atmosphere for the 748 guests.

Wanting to create a completely different environment to previous years, Hawthorn used two truss circles with

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The company asked customers to share stories about how they use microphones and offered a range of prizes, including a first prize of €2,500 (US$2,800) in DPA microphones and accessories.

"We were overwhelmed by the response and very surprised by the creativity of so many of our users," says Anne Berggrein, DPA's VP of marketing. "It was great fun hearing about the many different environments in which our mics have found themselves and the applications they have been used for. Picking a winner was hard because there were so many to choose from."

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KLANG:technologies innovative 3D personal monitor mixing system is a breakthrough development in in-ear monitoring which creates a natural and controllable spatial image around the musician, with a quality of sound that delivers new levels of accuracy and transparency.

"Our aim is to create the perfect in-ear monitor sound for musicians, enabling them to work with greater ease and focus on their performance", says KLANG:technologies' founder and marketing director, Dr. Pascal Dietrich. "Finding the right distributors that sh

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An introduction came about via mutual associates at the prestige Royal Danish Theatre, who have used TiMax systems for many years and respected Nordic Pro Audio's high standards of technical support and passion for groundbreaking audio products.

Out Board's Dave Haydon and Nordic's Torben Aalykke sealed the deal on the company's stand at a busy Monitor Expo show, where Nordic also won an award for Best AV Dealer.

Nordic Pro Audio MD, Torben Aalykke, says, "We are very pleased to distribute the impressive TiMax range of products through Denmark. It is a product that has a great deal to offer theatres and AV installations here, a