Australian systems integrator Bytecraft Entertainment was Lighthouse's local partner responsible for the installation of the 5 x 4 panel (38.4sq.m) video screen, which is positioned centrally in the Newcastle Stadium grounds in full view of the main spectator stands.
Metropolis, in Downtown Miami opened recently featuring LaserNet's 1W Argon air-cooled laser Matrix beam/scan projector, while new nightclub Tao in Las Vegas, billed as an Asian Bistro, features LaserNet's 5W Copper Bromide ScannerPro amid the Asian artifacts. The Pangolin-based projector targets 16 bounce mirrors over the dance floor.
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This weekend raises money and awareness for the Elizabeth Foundation for Deaf Children. Based in the Portsmouth area, the Elizabeth Foundation offers support nationwide to deaf children, from birth to five years old, and their parents.
This year's splash and dash event was held over two days, with 13 sponsored boats from the pro audio world competing over five races. Saturday evening's fundraiser event at Gunwharf Quays included dinner, auction, raffle and the obligatory pop quiz, all washed down with more than the odd tot of rum.<
Six Lake Contour processors are integrated into the audio system in the main Plenary Hall, a two-level, tiered seating venue that accommodates 3,000 people and is intended for concerts, opening ceremonies, conferences, and product launches. The processor system, controlled by a wireless touch-screen tablet, is being used to optimize a Left-Center-Right (LCR) speaker system. In addition to advanced sound, lighting, and audio-visual systems, the hall incorporates state-of-the-art conference facilities, including an interactive microphone system and built-in multilingual interpretation systems.
The smaller Plenary Theatre on the convention centre's third floor is outfitted with three Lake C
"These mixers are one of the best investments I've made in a long time. They've done quite a few miles on the road and I couldn't be more pleased with them," says Auger. "I don't need any DI boxes, I just plug the keyboards straight into the WZ and use the main outputs to feed the PA system."
Whether Auger is touring North America or Europe, the MixWizards are available to pre-mix his Hammond B3 organ and a Korg SG Pro X piano, as well as a rack-mount Korg X5DR module.
The consoles also allow the keyboard player to add reverb to his monitors as a performance aid. "In bigger halls, I use some reverb on the keyboards," he
"There is a large area of southern Germany where mobile LED screens are not currently available. We wanted the best product to serve that market and fit with our high quality lighting and sound portfolio," says Cassiopeia's Martin Heuberger. "You only get one chance to impress a customer, so it's vital that you get the best.
"Lighthouse is a global player," continues Heuberger. "We are the first to stock their products in this part of Germany and therefore fast technical support was very important. We asked other companies who own Lighthouse screens and they all said that the technical b
Ableton will be officially launching the already popular Ableton 5 software, whilst other leading manufacturers will also be there to demonstrate their latest products.
Absolute Music Solutions will be joined by demonstrators from Apple, who will be running a series of Logic demonstrations and workshops in Absolute's new custom built studios, aimed at both new and seasoned Logic users. There will also be the possibility to sign up for further in-depth training on specific gear and for specific applications.
Full details of the event have yet to be confirmed. Mo
Grant Bales-Smith, UK market manager for Zero 88 commented: "A.C. thoroughly deserve to receive this award, which is in recognition of the support and dedication their sales team has put into promoting the Zero 88 brand over the past 12 months, seeing a significant upturn in their overall Zero 88 sales."
A.C.'s Jonathan Walters commented: "I'm delighted to receive this award on behalf of the whole sales team. A.C. places great importance on being able to provide customers with a quick delivery turnaround, a team of highly trained staff and a full technical backup service,
Meanwhile, back in the West End, Simon Baker is busy transferring Ducktastic! into The Albery Theatre after a successful three week run in Newcastle, closely followed, with the assistance of Alan Lugger, by the new Tom Stoppard play, Heroes at The Wyndhams. Baker then goes to Canada to work on the musical version of
"They are a great bunch of lads," remarks Capital's Paul Timmins, who also serves as Kasabian's production manager. "They are having an absolutely meteoric rise at the moment, and it's great to be able to give them such a fantastic sound system."
The system design was anchored by main left and right arrays of 16 MILO cabinets each: 14 MILOs covering the long throw and mid-floor and two MILO 120 extended coverage high-power curvilinear array units splayed underneath providing downfill for the near field. Two side hangs comprising six MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers each covered the stage-sid
From January 2006, this Copenhagen based organisation will represent all Sennheiser activities in Denmark, Finland and Norway and will provide customers with even closer relationships to Sennheiser. Sweden will continue to be handled by the independent partner Sennheiser AB, Stockholm until further notice.
In a further extension of their global business strategy, Sennheiser has created the Northern/Western Europe Group which will include the new Sennheiser Nordic organisation, Sennheiser Netherlands, Sennheiser BeLux, Sennheiser UK and Sennheiser France. In addition to his board membership of Sennheiser Nordic, Paul Whiting has also been appointed vice-pres
The Cathedral Church at Dromore, serving a parish of the Anglican-connected Church of Ireland, was built in stages over several centuries. Major portions of the existing structure date back to 1661. "It was a nightmare, really," explains Robert Andrews of Andrews Audio (Portglenone), who designed and installed both systems. "They rebuilt and added on to (the building) to the point where there is absolutely nothing symmetrical about the church. The seating goes off all different ways, so there was no way to use a main cluster with delays in such a reverberant space."
Andrews' solution for Dromore's architectural mélange employs five UPM-1P compact wide coverage loudspeake
These were purchased by the college's Lighting department as part of a new investment in digital scenography, a move co-ordinated by Nick Hunt, lecturer in lighting design, and Rob Fowler for PID. The funding came from a 'Knowledge Transfer' scheme, designed to encourage partnerships between higher education and industry.
"With the 'convergence' of video and lighting becoming increasingly common," states Hunt. "We wanted to start building up a laboratory of kit to enable us and our students to explore this technology."
PID also supplied a selection of Artnet boxes
Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions' European MD, Ardy Azhir commented: "Our integrated fire and safety businesses in Europe have long been market leaders. Our position today is built on the credibility of these legacy brands - including Mather & Platt in France, Total Walther in Germany, Wormald and Tyco Integrated Systems in the UK and the rest of Europe.
"We chose to rename ourselves because our customers wanted to deal with one name but trade through the same local contacts. This change represents an excellent opportunity to strengthen the image of our business and take us into the future with far greater visibility."He continued, "We a
The diverse catalogue of artists featured on the show includes the Doves, the Subways, the Sugababes, McFly, Razorlight, the Scissor Sisters, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé Knowles, the Zutons, the Black Eyed Peas, Lee Ryan, Bloc Party, and Athlete.
"The GL2400 is my board of choice - it's so flexible and has an extraordinary amount of functionality for a mixer of its size. The matrix offers a great variety of feed options, such as IEM and delay fills," comments JHL's sound engineer, Simon Panos."I love the fact t
The South Essex Partnership NHS Trust, which provides mental healthcare to its local region, hosted its annual awards show at the Towngate Theatre in Basildon. PSL supplied all production design, sets, lighting and dedicated lighting designer John Montague, sound, vision mixing, a 2-camera DVD shoot plus a confetti cannon for the show finale.
Set designer Oliver Stewart comments: "I have to balance the musical elements with the fact that it is an awards ceremony in a theatrical space, and the design has to work in a multi-tiered theatre."
Video as shown on-stage on two 10ft x 7.5ft
Finding a loudspeaker system that would blend seamlessly into the glacial interior of the Swedish concept provided a challenge that was met by Martin Audio. The UK manufacturer had already produced 'invisible' customized perspex floor monitors for the Eurovision Song Contest in Latvia several years ago, and now they turned their attention to their classic EM26 - which formed the centrepiece of a complete audio fit-out of the four-zone, £1.5m development.
Icehotel partners, Below Zero London, had originally been looking at two loudspeaker options for the overall sound reinforcement via
The schedule featured a programme of classic films, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oscar-winning Japanese animation Spirited Away and the metropolitan premiere of the horror film Land of the Dead, as well as music sets from DJs as diverse as Asian Dub Foundation, Osymyso and Four Tet.
Blackout's Project Manager Kevin Monks collaborated with Somerset House's Events Manager John Howes to design and supply the integral giant cinema projection screen to his specifications.
Manufactured by Blackout France, the 17.5 metre x 7 met
According to Rod Nielsen, president and co-owner of Big House Sound, the first outing for the MH3 and one of the GB8's was the Shiner BASH in Dallas, featuring Dwight Yoakam, Aaron Tippin, Chris Cagle and Darryl Lee Rush.
"When Spoetzl Brewery originally booked the concert with us, it was supposed to be a much smaller event with lesser-known acts and a smaller crowd," says Nielsen. "Under normal circumstances we would have chosen to use our Series FIVE and SM20. But even though w
"The plan is to make a couple of articles available each month in an audio format," says Falconer. "Like the text archive I maintain on mikefalconer.net, the articles that will be part of the podcast will have been previously published; however, there may also be the occasional unpublished article." The individual MP3 files are also available for download from mikefalconer.net for users who do not wish to use the podcast.
Falconer has had articles published in industry trade magazines Lighting Dimensions, Lighting & Sound America, Lighting & Sound International and Projection Lights and Staging News.
Full details of Falconer's podcast and links to sever
Amongst the technology behind the exhibits are three Martin MAC250+ moving heads that can be positioned and controlled by a computer using the industry standard DMX protocol. "Multimedia developers ISO wanted a visitor-controlled trackball to move a spotlight in realtime over a projected map of Wales," says Adrian Ward, manager of Signwave UK. "We love a challenge and after a heavy period of research and testing, we showed that we could precisely position the spotlight on the map using custom software, and give the developers of the multimedia software a way to control the light in their code."
Signwave developed its DMXBridge software to bridge the gap between a visi
The Telex/EVI team led by Ralph Strader, Klaus Seitz, Nico Lewis and Manuel Brico presented a number of new products including the expanded RVON product range with its voice over IP capabilities. Commented Manuel Brico: "We've really caught the mood of the market there. The future belongs to voice over IP - something we foresaw long ago, which is why we've been working on this technology for years. For many visitors to
"The mic lends itself to giving you a great in-phase guitar sound that encompasses all of the bandwidth of the guitar," says Hughes. "It cuts out all of the alignment problems of using two mics on a cab, and them being, even slightly, out of phase much of the time."
As a result of the phase coherence of the AE2500's two capsules - one dynamic, one condenser - there are no frequency cancellation effects. "It just gives you this huge picture," continues Mick. "The combined sound of the condenser and the dynamic capsules is crus
The supply features a full set of black velvet and filled cloth masking drapes including legs, truss and screen borders. Some of the drapes were made from a special velvet material compliant to the German DIN flame retardant requirements. This is standard practise for touring shows to ensure that all the material is covered for whichever standards a specific country might have
