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14 March 2016

You're A Star's lighting was designed by Andrew Leonard and programmed by Peter Canning. Canning also co-ordinated the supply and design of the VersaTUBE feature and the Catalyst system used to run it, via his company Zencorp.

Dublin-based Zencorp specializes in digital media and LED fixtures and control systems. The company purchased a quantity of VersaTUBEs from UK and Irish distributor Projected Image Digital at the end of last year which have been in constant use ever since.

Leonard and Canning came onboard for this - their first - You're A Star series, having worked on a special charity edition of the show last year. For visuals, they broug

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The concept offers a range of support services for testing, piloting and commercialization of new products and services. The space can be used in product launches and pre-marketing as well as a tool in product design, etc.

Several key requirements were set as the basis of the design process: usability of the space, ease of maintenance, flexibility, expandability, modularity and innovation. Removable walls allow for easy expandability. The modules also include embedded box-shaped showcases and four electronic information displays are a

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Rimini Fiera Chairman, Lorenzo Cagnoni, announced the official figures of each of the key sectors of the two expos, which were hosted simultaneously at the expo centre until Tuesday 14 March: "Overall, between lighting, audiovisuals and complementary products, SIB represents a part of Italy's economy with a value of approximately 650 million euros. Last year, the sales of actual musical instruments, for which DISMA Music Show is the leading event, increased by 3.6% com

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14 March 2016

The project has been co-ordinated by Valley's Kids, a local charity working with children and young people in the area. The £2.4 million refurbishment of Capel Soar is a massive boost to Valley's Kids and a major step forward in offering interactive environments for learning, working and experiencing a range of activities from football and theatre to dance, cinema and everything in between.

Theatre Technical Consultant Iain Hill from Illusion International originally thought the roof aperture would be ideally suited to a CABLEnet system and put the idea forward. He's been involved with Valley's Kids for many years, and worked

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The AKG system was selected after numerous different systems were tested, both in rehearsal and live on stage, prior to the tour in the US. Production manager Bryon 'Hot Dog' Tate, and FOH mixer for the European tour John C. Clark III, unanimously elected the WMS 4000. "Intelligible vocals at high volume levels, road worthiness, and customer support were our main requirements, and AKG got the job done!" states Clarke.

The tour carries two C5900 equipped WMS 4000 systems for use by Kanye on stage. Eight AKG C 411 MicroMic condensers are also being used to mic the string section on the tour. These attach

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Incorporating the historic structure of an early Victorian carriage works and old Electric Press Building, the new venue is part of a £12 million commercial development of bars, cafés and restaurants grouped around a glass-roofed courtyard. Replacing the existing Leeds Civic Theatre, The Carriage Works offers two performance spaces - the 350 seat main auditorium and a Studio Theatre - in addition rehearsal and conference/meeting facilities.

The project was managed for J&C Joel by Tony Griffiths, who comments: "J+C Joel were proud to play an active role in such a prestige city centre project."

J+C Joel manufactured and installed a full stage depth counterweight wall frame accommodating up to 37 counterwe

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The consoles have been installed into the Katuaq Greenland, the country's primary multipurpose arts centre built in the capital city of Nuuk in 1997 to strengthen cultural life in the country. Having operated with its main console for the nine years since it opened, the venue's technical staff felt the time was right for an upgrade, and following a Midas demo, the Legend 3000 was chosen. A Venice 240 was also selected for use at smaller events at the Katuaq.

"We needed a good replacement board because the venue gets a huge amount of use, with jobs ranging from theatre and dance to conferences and corporate events, which include different complex setups," says the centre's technical manager Kim Larsen. &quo

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The MH3 replaces a Soundcraft Venue. Having previously worked with TMC to upgrade the theatre's reinforcement system, head of sound, Sean Pritchard, had begun looking around for a suitable upgrade and replacement for the venue when the MH3 was launched onto the market.

"We chose the MH3 on the basis of advice from Nick Bolton at TMC, and several others," explains Pritchard, "It was clearly the best buy for its price, with 40 channels and all the auxs - we are using all 12. The overall spec meant that it was a real bargain."

The MH3 was pressed into immediate service on the Everyman's pantomime over the holiday season. Installed just one week before the run of Rock 'n' Ro

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XL tendered for and won the contract on the strength of their previous West End work including Women In White. Theatre and arts expert, Malcolm Mellows, is handling the project for them. XL is working with video designers Scharff & Weisberg, who initially designed the system for the New York production at Radio City Music Hall.

Video is central to the show, and is divided into three main display device types: There are 70 tiles of Barco I-6 LED making up two downstage moving slabs of video, whilst upstage is 3630 clusters of Barco MiPix in custom fibre optic star effect frames. All LED is supplied complete with Barco D320 processing; and custom remote diagnostics. Finally, projections come from

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14 March 2016

Boys based the specification of his ProTools rig on FX's hire system following advice from the company's ProTools department, purchasing an HD2 Accel system with 24 IO on 192s, Sync IO, a Dual 2.7 GHz Apple Mac, 19 inch TFT screen , Glyph Firewire GT103 with Keydrives and a large selection of plugins including Waves.

"I used FX because I have known them for years and therefore I know they give good service and back-up," explains Boys about his choice to purchase ProTools from FX. "They were also very competitive on price."

Boys, who cut his teeth on the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and also recorded and mixed the Buena Vista Social C

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"This NASDAQ Capital Market listing is an important step in our program to enhance LOUD's visibility in the financial community," said chairman and CEO Jamie Engen. "As a leader in the rapidly growing professional audio industry, we believe that LOUD is on the right track as we continue to implement our strategy to increase revenue, improve margins, and build value for our shareholders."

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The event featured plenty of award action plus live performances from six acts including Dirty Pretty Things, Pete Doherty; Razorlight; The Sugababes; Plan B and Ian Brown.

Fleetwood recorded the show 'as live' and it was broadcast 90 minutes later to E4 viewers and re-broadcast n Channel 4 the following day. The audio team was led by Fleetwood's operations director Tim Summerhayes and Dave O'Carroll looked after any musical fixes and the Audio Dub. The OB Scanner for the event was supplied by Andrew Jones of 021, while Tony Gregory directed the show for Remedy.

Emma Sheldon, production manager for Remedy Productions, which commissioned Fleetwood, says: "This was the biggest Awards sh

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The new items are the Mediator Enterprise media asset manager system; the Exception alarm monitoring system; the Reflection browse system; the Transcoder file converter; and the Rewrapper MPEG2 processor.

Mediator Enterprise has been developed from the Mediator media management system and integrates media asset management, browsing and workflow control. It can perform automated ingest and transfer, automated transcoding and low-resolution previewing under Web browser control. According to the company, it has a greatly expanded ability to link disparate systems, to audit library content bookings and tape movements, and to handle the

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One hundred square metres of R16 went straight out on the Michael Flatley's Celtic Tiger tour (video director "Moose" Ray Shaw) in North America, and comes to Europe in April. The majority of this tour is back-to-back shows, where the quick and easy rigging of the screens is essential. The R16 will be a massive benefit to the tight daily schedule.

A further 75sq.m of R16 caters for current UK demand, i

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Still best known for their 1985 number one Don't You Forget About Me from the film The Breakfast Club, Simple Minds is playing all manner of venues, from the most intimate to the vast. The tour is predominantly one-niters, so the tight turn arounds and diversity in size of venues demand a flexible and easily programmed sound system.

Sub-hired from rental company Concert Sound to main supplier EML for the UK leg of the tour, it comprises an Adamson Y10 line array, half of which is flown and half ground st

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"He's got such a great voice, it's really refreshing," remarks Tony Villarreal, president of Detroit-based Thunder. The system traveling with Kem consists of 20 Milo high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers, with four UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeakers for frontfill. System drive processing was courtesy of a Meyer Sound LD-3 compensating line driver. A Soundcraft Series Five console handles the main mix, with a Yamaha PM4000 covering the monitor mix.

"The fidelity of the MILOs really shines on his music,"

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Opened in March ready for the 2006 season, Stealth is Europe's tallest, fastest Rocket Coaster, travelling 0-80mph in 2.3 seconds, and reaching 205ft. The coaster is designed with 1950's styling, including a period DJ booth playing music from the era.

Complete Light & Sound - working along side Bose special projects division - specified an iDR-8 mixing processor, plus iDR-in and iDR-out expanders, giving a full 16 x 16 matrix, with an iDR-switch control expander, all connected with CAT5 cable.

The racked system is installed in an offsite control room and there are control panels located in the ride ope

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Once again Metropolis has chosen hard wearing good quality brands including HK and JBL audio, Robe moving lights, LightProcessor lighting control and Alcon McBride and Kramer video switching. Project manager Shane Winterbourne says: "Although there are specific elements common to all Sorts Cafes, each building and installation is completely different, and each has its own set of challenges"

Metropolis's Sports Café projects are always technology driven. Immediately guests walk in the entrance doors, eyes are drawn to the wall of twelve 15 inch TFT screens behind the reception desk. Two HK Audio IL 8.2 ful

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In total, five Lighthouse screens were deployed. One - formed of 21x2 R6 6mm panels - was arranged in a circle, hung from the lighting grid, while two more were positioned either side of the stage, each comprising 4x13 panels of R6 screen.

Providing a memorable backdrop to the stage itself were two large Lighthouse R10 screens, formed from 103 panels each and curving in an arc from the centre of the stage

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14 March 2016

CEO Michael T. Strickland says: "The entire Bandit global team is very proud of the Pollstar Award and considers the award as the voice of the industry. We wish to thank Pollstar, the people in our industry that have allowed us to work with them, and our wonderful clients that made it all possible."

As 2006 unfolds Bandit is involved in a variety of projects globally. The Queen Reunion Tour continues with the US leg starting in March and it carries on into the year as it travels around the world with full service and support from Bandit Lites. The

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The hosts (Solihull Society of Arts) and organisers (UKSLC.ORG - UK Sound and Lighting Community) have assembled a top team of leading UK console manufacturers to deliver training on the latest lighting desks and entertainment technology throughout the day.

Brand names like Compulite, MA, Chamsys, ETC, Zero 88 and Robe are providing a wide variety of lighting control equipment for attendees to use, and their staff will be on hand to answer questions for console operators at all levels of experience.

The training sessions are designed to cater for everyone from drama pupils wishing to learn about 'real world' performance technology, to freelancers who want to practice on new consoles and seasoned LX

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14 March 2016

Scooping the Award over 11 other distributors in Europe, Orbital has fused its expertise and experience over the past year to deliver the DX wireless intercom series, which comprises the DX 200 and DX 100, to the UK's broadcast, live performance and installed sound markets.

The DX 200 was Awarded The ABTT Theatre Show's 'Best New Sound and Comms Product' in 2005. Boasting a 2.4 Ghz license free operation, its advanced digital design offers crystal-clear interference free two-way communications.

Its potential and ease of use has proved invaluable across a variety of applications. The DX200 has been embraced by organisations as diverse as Rose Bruford College, Ramber

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14 March 2016

Louisan's debut album spent nearly a year in the German charts, turning double platinum just as she released her second CD of songs that take their musical influences from samba, tango, waltz, chansons and jazz. She has now embarked on her second tour of Germany, with an all-acoustic band (plus electric organ) and, on both occasions, has carried a Camco/Nexo PA production system.

Concept and realisation of the sound reinforcement set-up for both tours was in the hands of Sound Linear GmbH from Paderborn under the management of Kalle Hogrefe.

In most venues, the systems was designed with left and ri

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Needless to say, Sai Baba's 80th birthday celebration was a highly anticipated event for some time. The city of Puttaparthi, home to Baba's residence, the ashram Prasanthi Nilayam (Abode of Peace), saw a massive influx of visitors, with an estimated million or more treated to meals and accommodation at the ashram.

The multi-day festivities concluded with a celebration held at Puttaparthi's sports stadium, a massive venue seating several hundred thousand. The ceremony was attended by several prominent politicians, as well as a number of India's top cricket stars. Performances from an internationa