"The music is quite dense and layered," he said, "so I spend a fair amount of time adjusting fader levels." Findlay is using a Yamaha PM1D for mixing, and this is his first time back at live engineering for a decade. "These new consoles are amazing to me, truth is it’s a novel experience for me to move a fader just slightly and be able to hear a difference
Roger Quested will continue in his role as the designer of Quested loudspeakers, and says he is looking forward to the reinvigoration of the company under the new ownership. Steve Revill will be acting as consultant to Quested, on a full-time basis for at least three months, in order to ensure continuity of service to customers and to oversee a smooth handover to the new management. Wes Atkinson, with his detailed knowledge of
The competition was established to recognize the creative and effective integration of technology into projects that incorporate audio-visual equipment. All types of projects were considered, including corporate, worship, retail, education, medical facilities, urban design, historic buildings and hospitality and entertainment venues. Winners were voted for by an independent panel of judges, who considered concept, process, design, solution, results and creativity as guidelines when reviewing the entries.
At the awards ceremony on 3 June at Infocomm 2003 in Orlando, Florida, Electrosonic was presented with two of the six awards for their installations at Thinktank in Birmingham and the Imperial
Cadac's local Hong Kong distributor, Hiroshi Systems, was responsible for commissioning the J-Type, with director Joseph C Lee commenting: "We are delighted to be able to introduce the first-ever Cadac in Taiwan into Taipei's principal performing arts venue. The new sound system is currently being commissioned ready for the first performances later this year. Hiroshi has been working closely with the Hall's sound team to
According to FX Music’s Dave Beck, the six channels offered by the combination of the Helix master and slave together is a good template for most of their corporate work. "Generally, we require a channel each for Left and Right on the main system, and then four further channels for the bars of delays going down the room. The average capacity of the rooms we are dealing with tends to be around 1000, so we’re not talking small systems here, and it can go up to arena size. However, in corporate work, what we are always short of is space for our control equipment, and this is where the Helix system really comes into its
"It was thrilling to win," commented Levings, who was previously nominated for The King and I. The Tonys round out a successful New York award season for the Boheme design team: Levings and Martin also won the equivalent categories in New York’s Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk awards. Levings’ co-nominees were Donald Holder for Movin’ Out, Brian MacDevitt for Nine and Kenneth Posner for Hairspray, while
But it is the profitability rankings that have seen the biggest changes with average margins in the group a steady 3.2%. Only 10 companies have kept their same profit ranking, with 10 moving up and 20 falling. The number of loss makers has increased to 12 com
One of Brisbane's oldest taverns, St Paul's was recently rescued from being nothing but a dust trap, and has been refurbished into an outstanding venue for live jazz and blues, as well as for private functions. Each area of the venue features a Turbosound-based audio system, from the venue's small function room - equipped with four Impact 50 loudspeakers and two Impact 110 sub-bass un
The new 13,500sq.ft premises have been completely gutted and rebuilt by XL: in addition to an open plan office set-up, the building features a dedicated camera cleaning centre and a projector service area, allowing these specialist pieces of kit to be cared for in clinically clean environments. There’s also a large open prep area so equipment can be prepared to
Specified by Moloko’s FOH engineer, Graham Peacock, the equipment integrated seamlessly into Skan’s sophisticated system, as he explained: "I was introduced to these products by beyerdynamic’s Chris Hinds who asked if I’d evaluate the Opus mic range. From the moment I used them in rehearsals, I knew that they would play an integral role in the sound I wanted to create for this tour. I specified the Opus 87s for use on toms and snare - they’ve been such a success that they will definitely be used for the entire European leg of the tour."
The Opus 87 from beyerdynamic is a condenser microphone with a cardioid
This is a partnership between the Mayor of London and business in the capital, organized by the London Tourist Board and Convention Bureau (LTB). Totally London Month is a high profile campaign to encourage Londoners to who live in or commute into London to get out and about and enjoy the best of what the city has to offer. E//T//C UK is working via public relations agency Good Relations, who are utilizing projection for the first time in a campaign.
This is the second such event undertaken by E//T//C UK for LTB. The first was two months ago in the Great Court of the British Museum, which proved so successful that LTB decided to re-ign
Originally intended as a chance for visitors to catch up with the latest products and services offered by the various members of The White Light Group, the Open Day expanded into something of a mini-trade-show with many of the companies whose equipment White Light hire or sell, attending to demonstrate their latest products. Visitors to the Open Day could therefore make side-by-side, hands-on comparisons between, for example, ETC's Emphasis, the Strand range, High End's Wholehog III, the MA Lighting grandMA, the Compulite Vector and Martin's Maxxyz lighting controller.
Beyond the battle of the lighting controllers there was plenty to see: the many companies repres
Designed with superlative vocal reproduction in mind, the KMS 105 brings Neumann quality to the demanding sound reinforcement environment. With its supercardioid polar pattern, the KMS 105 exhibits low self noise and uncoloured off-axis pick-up. By employing a unique four-layer acoustic filter, the KMS 105 minimizes popping and wind noise, and with special mechanical and electrical filters, handling noise is virtually eliminated.
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The prestigious event took place at the University of Cambridge on 25 April, 50 years to the day after Watson and Crick published their landmark paper. Eminent scientists and researchers in the field of DNA, including Nobel Prize winners, members of Parliament and the University's Chancellor, HRH Prince Philip, gathered to discuss a range of subjects from the history behind the monumental discovery, to the progress made over the last 50 years by the science industry that resulted from it.
Cambridge Audio-Visual's general manager, Julian Berry explained: "Our available hire stock did not have the sound quality or number of chan
Technical manager and ISO co-ordinator David Foster said: "At TSC we recognize the importance of ISO as a quality assurance standard and the positive impact it contributes towards the company achieving its short term goals and objectives as well as its long term mission and vision."
TSC’s
ARB’s project co-ordinator Gaynor Molyneux managed the team on site throughout the event. As part of the company’s overall remit, ARB was the key temporary power supplier to the Epsom racecourse, with 16 generators on site for the Derby ranging from 30 to 320Kva, utilizing three miles of distribution cables and distro boxes all installed by specialist engineers to ensure the safe distribution of electricity. The company’s generators powered various hospitality areas including the Vodafone and Classic Marquees.
With thousands of people working on the racecourse,
Every console at the event was a Midas one, resulting in an impressive total of eight XL3s, three Heritage 3000s and a Heritage 1000, accompanied by a fair complement of Klark Teknik signal processing equipment. SSE employed its standard 'flip-flop' festival system for FOH across both stages. Three Heritage 3000s with an XL3 sidecar graced FOH for the main stage, while a further tw
When Derek Bater purchased the former 1000-capacity Eclipse nightclub with partner Edwin Amor he immediately contacted his old friend Phil Soltys at PSD. One of Soltys’ first jobs had been at the famous Tall Trees in Newquay many years ago when Bater had been the owner - and the two men have remained lifelong friends.The previous owner had taken it out of its reincarnation as a bingo hall, and when Messrs Bater and Amor inherited the venue - which they’ve renamed ‘The Club’ - they recarpeted and refitted the place. Taking advantage of the extra custom introduced to the Dudley area by the nearby Merryhill Shopping Centre, they are now presenting a full sound and lighting spec in a venue that hosts four bars.
Phil Soltys deci
Contracted by production company, Denham Technical Services, to provide a complete relay distribution - not only in the giant tented area, but also within some of the permanent function rooms - CT Screenco were in constant action. Their inventory - mostly supplied by CT-NEC - enabled corporate hospitality guests to have a permanent visual reference to the live action and looped highlights of the previous roun
The darkroom facility enables Forge Europa to provide precise, independently verified technical data on their range of LED lamps, displays and custom assemblies. In conjunction with the company’s existing spectral analysis equipment, this provides design engineers with the full range of measurements that they are likely to require for any particular application.
Forge Europa has recently launched a comprehensive multi-lingual CD catalogue with extensive technical supporting data using the new facilities. Luminous intensity, luminance, illuminance and chromaticity data, as well as wavelength and radiation diagrams, can
In a move which recognizes that the sales and marketing function has equal importance for the two divisions, Simon Taylor has been appointed sales and marketing director for both manufacturing and hire, while Peter Turner, previously production director for manufacturing, becomes operations director for both divisions. Adrian Brooks remains managing director.
Announcing the restructuring at a company meeting in the Wakefield head office last week, Simon Taylor told staff: "litestructures is bucking
The event was transmitted live and recorded by RAI, Italy’s state TV/radio broadcaster, and this year’s technical news was audio contractor Agorà’s decision to use three recently purchased DiGiCo D5 Live consoles. Daniel Tramontani was designer and head of the complex audio set-up for the entire event - FOH, monitor, recording and broadcast. "This year’s exciting challenge was to use Agorà’s three new DiGiCo D5 consoles at this very important
Last year’s event in Barcelona was quite different, where Blitz used TiMax to provide atmospheric soundscapes a
However beautiful the setting, and however precise the choreography of the military bands, the task of providing the sound reinforcement was no walk in the park. The team from the St Petersburg-based sound company Guildia of Masters had no fewe
