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This year, the roadshows took place in Dublin, Liverpool and Guildford, and included a prize draw for one of the limited-edition C414s at the end of each day's product presentations, technical Q&A sessions and PA masterclasses.

"This year's roadshows were the best attended ever," said Amanda Chester, marketing manager at Harman Pro UK. "It helps that we are releasing some great new products in 2007, including the excellent mics being produced by AKG in their 60th anniversary year, like the very popular C5 and D5. The venues were superb too - the Temple Bar Centre in Dublin is always lively, and the mass of students that atte

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"ChamSys continues its substantial growth and is delighted to be able to welcome another distributor to the ever-increasing network from around the World," says a company spokesman. This is an exciting time for ChamSys with the appointment of several new distributors about to be announced and confirms the growing popularity of the MagicQ range."

(Jim Evans)

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Instigated by Kirsten Eicher and operating from an office and small workshop storing and dispatching a small product range, Look Solutions soon found it necessary to move into its own large premises in Ronnenberg. Now, with distributors in 31 countries and a subsidiary in the US, Look Solutions is a truly global company.

"Our product range is very different from the small beginnings of ten years ago," explains Eicher. "We now produce machines which will cover all aspects of the market from the Viper range of fog generators to the Unique 2 hazer with its quick warm up time, the adjustable output and the very low fluid consumption.

"We have machines for specialised uses like the massive 9kW-g

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A total of 24 Y10's with 12 Y10 Subs were used. John Ryan calculated the shoot by fixing the maximum distance, right behind his head before the glass that separates the first seats from the hockey field. "I had practically no reflection from the empty Plexiglas seats and flat surfaces. The sound was evenly distributed throughout the floor," he says.

(Jim Evans)

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The Venue environment was specified as the resident system by Simon Honywill, system designer for the control system providers, RG Jones Sound Engineering. His decision was justified when around 85% of the main stage acts, spanning the gamut of artistic performance - from Shirley Bassey to the Arctic Monkeys, Paul Weller to the UK Youth Orchestra - had their sound mixed on a D-Show.

Two D-Shows piggy-backed between the main stage acts throughout the Festival, allowing the incoming sound engineers to pre-programme their mix, and these were output via AES into the master D-Show Profile for digital distribution to the loudspeaker system.

The consulting engineering team cons

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The system comprised 14 TA-890H three way mid/high enclosures, 18 TA-890L bass enclosures and six TSW-218 18" horn-loaded bass cabinets.

"We're using exactly the same cabinets, same array and the same Dom [Harter] from Turbosound, who came down to help put it in on the first day," says Britannia Row's sound crew chief for the Hyde Park events, John Gibbon. "We decided to stay with Aspect again this year because it worked so well last year and we have the same kind of bands playing. At one point the specification was changed, but as we know what works well in the kayam tent that hous

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The Butterfly Hi-packs were used along with 20 Subtech 218, and the system was powered by Outline T Series amplifiers. The system engineer for the maxi-concert was Sherif El Barbari.

This same Outline array will be used again at Wembley Stadium this weekend as part of the sound reinforcement for Live Earth.

(Jim Evans)

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Established in 1994 by the Pelita Harapan Foundation, UPH provides high-quality facilities including TV, photographic and scientific laboratories, and an international-standard sports centre. The University boasts 31 departments and 9,000 students. The latest addition to the campus is the 2,200-capacity Grand Chapel theatre based in the University's Digital Campus, which houses the Faculty of Music.

Local installer, Kairos MultiJaya, was contracted to design, supply and install the sound, lighting and video projection system into the Digital Campus. Central to the installation is an Allen & Heath iLive system, comprising an iLive-112 control surface and iDR10 stagerack, which

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The tour features a show-stopping stage design by Stufish (Mark Fisher) based on the shape of a conch shell, with a spectacular, gently asymmetric 55m wide, 3000sq.m Barco MiTrix screen forming its backdrop. At the rear of the screen are seven curved metal 'ribs' of varying heights up to 28m.

Thirty-three of the 50 Robe fixtures are attached to these seven ribs, with the balance of 17 ColorSpot 2500E ATs sited on the floor, upstage of the band's performance platform, and providing a powerful back-lighting source.

The towers were a starting point for Woodroffe's initial lighting design. The idea was that they would encompass the stage architecture, and that lights mounted on special pods rode up and down the ribs to cha

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This free event will gives attendees the chance to see the latest products from Selecon including the new improved Acclaim range, Rama Fresnel and the Performer range of follow spots including the RUA. There will be a series of demonstrations of the Selecon range as well as hands-on opportunities.

Sebastian Barnes from the Midland Arts Centre says, "The day is designed to coincide with a meeting of the, Midlands Technical Forum. Visitors and new members would be most welcome."

(Jim Evans)

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Broadcast live on BBC One and Two and presented by Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton, the Wembley show featured performances by Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, Keane, Corrine Bailey Rae, Genesis, Duran Duran, Paolo Nutini and many more.

Co-ordinating all the video elements between XL and the various event designers, producers and others involved in screen content, was screen producer Chris Saunders.

Although XL already had also a large video system installed at Wembley for the Princess Diana Tribute concert just six days before Live Earth, this all had to be removed in the meantime. Some kit from that system was then re-installed for Live Earth along with several new and different video elements.

Flanking both sides of

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The Pallas Theatre itself, a 1,500-capacity traditional auditorium, now boasts a Heritage 2000 at front of house, with Klark Teknik Square ONE Dynamics, Square ONE EQ and a DN500 Plus dual compressor/limiter. The adjacent Aliki Theatre has also been installed with a Midas H2000 while the new console in the Mikro Pallas is a Venice.

"It's great to have the Heritage here, and I'm very happy with

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The concert at the Dubai Autodrome was witnessed by a crowd of 25,000. The Protec team, headed by Rick Wade, provided and installed the show's set-up.

Shakira's tour lighting designer, specified his preferred lighting including, 43 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 575, 10 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200 and 213 Par Cans which was used to light up the 20mx40m stage. In addition, they brought with them 28 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1200 as part of their touring equipment. All of these were controlled by one GrandMA lighting console running the show entirely to time code.

(Jim Evans)

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The NSDF is a week long celebration of theatre, live performance, discussion and special events covering all aspects of theatrical performance including technical topics.

Stage Electrics - a regular LTM customer - initiated LTM's invitation to participate. The seminar was attended by technical theatre students and some who had recently left college and are now working in theatre after completing a variety of different courses, many of them geared towards sound and lighting.

NSDF technical director Anna Cole comments, "This year the technical workshop programme was the strongest yet. It was really fantastic for LTM to come to the festival, and feedback indicates that the workshop was interesting, and that it was encoura

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On the main stage, Russ Tite mixed The Kooks set on one of SSE Audio's four flagship Vi6 digital consoles, while another of their boards was on monitor duty with Kasabian's sound engineer, Mark 'Yogi' Novissimo.

SSE Audio's Pete Russell comments, "Sound engineers like Russ Tite really like the sound of the desk," he says. "One of the real plus points is that it has its own plug-in FX card with its own Lexicon DSP, so you can't run out of processing power. This is not the case with other digital desks, which can run out of DSP if you have lots of idle plug-ins."

He continued, "Bo

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The Prince Consort Rooms have been built in the shell of a Victorian drill hall. PSL has been chosen as a preferred supplier of AV and Production, and has already produced custom-designed sets for the venue. The Prince Consort Rooms have an inbuilt pinspot lighting scheme and audio visual infrastructure which will be augmented by PSL's high-tech inventory of display screens, digital sound reinforcement and state-of-the-art media servers and playback devices.

Diane Waldron, head of marketing and events at the HAC, says, "The City is short of flexible, large-capacity venues that can accommodate 300-pl

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The event's second year saw it expand to a capacity of 35,000 over two days, set against the backdrop of one of Scotland's best known natural attractions - Loch Ness. The line-up included the Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, The Manic Street Preachers and Daft Punk.

HSL's crew chief Howard Dean led a team of 22, and they once again worked closely with event producer Jim King of Loud Sound Events and production manager Lee Charteris. HSL also sub-contracted ML Executives to supply audio to these two principal arenas.

Mike Oates, HSL's overall project manager comments, "The first thing we did was get two world class lighting designers onboard to look after the two stages - Andy Liddle on the main stage and Dave Byars in the Clash Arena."

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Jack De Keyser, area sales manager for DIS Europe, comments: "CUK Audio has shown an excellent track record for developing business and, most importantly, they share our principles of strong technical support and customer service."

CUK Audio managing director Stuart Thomson says: "Our philosophy at CUK Audio, is to provide complete audio solutions for the market sectors in which we operate. Over the past two years we have supplied an increasing amount of product into the conference sector, but only in the areas of sound reinforcement and audio networking - we needed a core conference product to become a complete provider."

(Jim Evans)

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One of the resort's most renowned features is its impressive spa with indoor heated pools, 10 treatment rooms, gym and thermal suite, while other features include outdoor heated swimming pools, heated plunge pools on the villas, library, tennis, Wi-Fi and a business centre, as well as a selection of bars and restaurants.

Harman Pro's Portuguese distributors Custodio Cardoso Pereira (CCP) were awarded the contract to supply an integrated sound system, which could be networked using Soundweb London DSP devices from BSS Audio.

Design consultant on the project was Roland Hemming, with Miguel Mendes managing the project for Passion of Music (PoM). Installation contractors were

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Acha-Orbea says: "Avolites is a perfect compliment to our existing product range, and it's also an industry standard and extremely well respected, so I see a great future ahead."

Avolites' sales director Steve Warren says: "We're delighted to welcome Nacho and his team to the Avolites family. EES is an extremely efficiently run operation with a great enthusiasm for the industry and a strong culture of wanting to provide the very best products and services."

In the short time since EES has taken on the Avo dealership, the order book has already clocked up 24 Pearl Expert consoles, some of which have be

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Built in 1985, the theatre is the largest performing arts venue in Norway, with three multidisciplinary spaces offering a diverse programme of both in-house and outside productions. Increases in the technical complexity of shows and the changing nature of lighting design have demanded that the theatre replace its entire entertainment, house and work lighting systems with a more flexible network.

ETC's Norwegian distributor Bright AS was responsible for both the equipment supply and the installation. Project manager Geir Sire says: "The theatre was looking to replace all its existing dimmers like for like,

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14 March 2016

According to the terms of the acquisition, the Christie and Vista transition plan ensures no disruption to employees, customers or business partners, many of which are already shared by both companies.

"Christie's acquisition of Vista Controls Systems significantly increases our opportunities for deeper market penetration and reflects Christie's core strategic goal of establishing solid leadership in markets for professional display solutions," remarked Jack Kline, president and COO, Christie Digital Systems USA.

"Vista offers advancements in technology that no other image processing company has been able to achieve, making our two companies an ideal fit. We already share many of the same channel partners, philosophies and commitment

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Named in honour of the late Tony Gottelier, the industry innovator and commentator who passed away in 2006, the Gottelier Award is aimed at those members of our industry who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the advancement of entertainment, presentation or installation technology - whether in audio, lighting, rigging, staging, or any other related field.

Once the deadline for nominations passes this Friday (13 July), a shortlist will be drawn up of the most widely nominated people, and their names will be put forward, along with a brief summary of their achievements, to the Gotte

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Formerly The Zodiac on Cowley Road, AMG is investing £2m into the refurbishment programme and increasing the overall building capacity to 1,350, creating three, production-complete performance spaces.

Marquee Audio carried out a site survey and identified where they could overhaul and upgrade some of the existing equipment, re-cabling each room to allow them to be used as part of a site-wide network, for which they are designing an advanced control system.

Marquee Audio's project manager Scott Wakelin said that this installation was not only about what the integrators were able to achieve, but also the forward-thinking approach of Academy Music Group.

"Aside fr