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14 March 2016

Total Technics, under their registered name Stageline Bvba, have been in the lighting entertainment industry since 2004 and have worked on a number of notable projects within all aspects of the industry including TV, film and live entertainment.

Kurt Bethuyne of Total Technics technical sales says: "We have used the maXim Lighting Control Console for a number of years now and constantly received lots of positive feedback, and because of its proven quality and reliability we have been very keen to access the entire range of LSC products for the Belgian market place."

Total Technics have a comprehensive range of LSC products available and in stock now. LSC's products will be featured and demonstrated at the Total

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The ceremony celebrated the year's most popular used cars, as voted for by visitors to the Auto Trader website and viewers of ITV 4's The Used Car Roadshow, while the event was hosted by the television show's presenters Jason Dawe and Penny Mallory.

The event itself took place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel and, with ITV 4's outside broadcasting crew on site, space was at a premium. The Infinite Plasma screen offered the highest possible resolution images for the lowest physical footprint, says the company. With its almost seamless display, the screens provide high quality performance at a lower cost than equivalent LED options.

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Both the operating company and their audio contractors Complete Production Solutions Group (CPS) have a long history of working with proprietary Martin Audio dance systems, and as the new venue (to be named Crank) was taking shape, Future 3000 MD Richard Carr could already see the opportunity to replicate his epochal dance brand Slinky by again employing the Martin Audio principle to boost a new Friday night called Bedbug

.With Armand van Helden booked for the opening night, Martin Audio's national sales manager Simon Bull proposed a custom stack system, with raw aggression as its imprint.

CPS director Richard Colegate had already seen how effectively a perimeter of six carefully-optimised stacks had

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14 March 2016

The JumboLifts, each of which has a lifting capacity of up to 3,000kg, will be used to manoeuvre a chandelier in the 55m-high lobby of the new building. When the clinic opens, it will be possible to move this twelve-ton 'jewel in its crown' at variable speeds.

The 500kg VarioLifts are destined for a different purpose: moving the clinic's lighting trusses. These lifts, which conform to the BGV-C1 code of practice and are notable for the exceptional precision and reproducibility of their movements, will be subject to the direction of a comp

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14 March 2016

LD Simon Tutchner chose to use 160 projectors, of which 68 were Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1200s and 40 Alpha Profile 1200s, supplied by PRG Europe. "They create the most excellent graphic effects, both quantity and quality wise," says Tutchner. "I had little time to prepare the show and the alternatives that these projectors give me seem truly endless. I chose the effects that could interact best with the scenography, which entails a huge curtain and seven mega LED video-walls, on which fantasy images and close-ups of the four singers were alternated."

The Alpha Spot HPEs and the Alpha Profile 1200s are installed on the three stages, two of which are in the background and a third, circular, in the middle

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STL Lighting's Iain Austin, who has already been involved in the Summer Concerts held at the castle, took charge of putting together an impressive array of City Color architectural lighting fixtures and Martin Mac 2000s near the waters edge of the castle.

The lighting configuration made it possible to set different atmospheres as the story of a Mythical Dragon unfolded in front of the 12000+ audience, with

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14 March 2016

With a substantial amount of Alcons pro-ribbon line-arrays, Megaforce have become the latest The Ribbon Network member in Germany. The initial order contained 36 x LR16, 12 x LR14, ALC2 and ALC4 amplified loudspeaker controllers, all fitted with Digital Drive Processors (DDP), including all (transport and flying) logistics.

Mark Liese, MD of Megaforce comments: "Alcons offers us a compact, high-resolution, full-range capable system, which we can use for almost, if not all, applications we encounter. It is absolutely convincing in terms of sound, handling and overall built-quality."

Megaforce is a large, full-service rental company, with focus on corporate events. Located in the south of Germany, Megafor

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Established 15 years ago in Vara, in the southern part of Sweden, Andreas Karlsson's rental company is particularly well-known in corporate circles, where they handle the lion's share of big staff parties for client companies such as Carlsberg. Always working in live music, their projects take them mainly into clubs and large sporting venues and arenas.

The arrival of the first Geo S12 system in Sweden has surprised clients and engineers. "On the first show, the band's sound engineer was pretty shocked," explained Andreas Karlsson.

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14 March 2016

The new system features 10 M2D cabinets, 20 M1D cabinets, two M1D-Sub ultra-compact subwoofers, and one M2D-Sub compact subwoofer. Six UPA-1P compact wide coverage loudspeakers provide coverage to the seating surrounding either side of the hall's famed pipe organ. A Galileo loudspeaker management system handles system drive and processing.

The design collaboration between Sound By Design's principal engineer Phil Wright and systems engineer Dave Shepherd resulted in a system that can be reworked in

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14 March 2016

PlayMotion's software enables users to physically interact with fun, educational and fully interactive programs that are projected onto FogScreen's projection screen. Participants can engage in virtual games and activities using their hands and bodies to experience 'superhero powers', build virtual landscapes, and play sports - all in mid-air.

"We are very excited about this new partnership with FogScreen," said Scott Burkett, CEO of PlayMotion. "The synergy between PlayMotion's interactive platform and the FogScreen device opens the doors for creati

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14 March 2016

XL's project managers Jo Beirne and Phil Mercer have been involved with supplying the band's video needs throughout 2007, and the latest leg of their hugely successful Neon Bible tour is the largest yet in terms of production.

"Working with Richard is always interesting and brings visually stunning results as the show is constantly evolving and growing" says Jo Beirne.

Stembridge was brought into the equation by lighting designer Paul Normandale, who was looking for a specific style and approach to facilitate what he anticipated would become a video-driven show. Normandale is well known for his offbeat designs and imaginative daring. He wanted someone with a fresh and non standard approach to vide

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14 March 2016

Ascon Trading has recently completed a whole series of fixed installations, including sports centres in Odense and Hjallerup, a metro shopping centre in Aalborg, a cultural centre in Nibe and swimming baths in Ringsted, in each case employing components from Dynacord. Morten Larsen, Ascon's marketing manager MI, says, "Dynacord enjoys the same kind of reputation here as BMW or Audi in the automobile world. Like BMWs or Audis, Dynacord products are associated with high prices, but also with absolute reliability and real quality. And, at the present time, with the market increasingly flooded by cheap products from China, pe

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14 March 2016

The Solar Decathlon competition is hosted every year by the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy, Efficiency and Renewable Energy. It's a highly prestigious event, attracting competition entries from academic institutions all over the world - the USA, Canada, Germany and Spain. Teams must design a solar house, with every last watt of electricity used by the house being generated by the solar panels on the roof. The houses are displayed to the public on the National Mall in Washington DC and the winning house will to

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14 March 2016

Davies's live sound engineers Tristan Mallett and Chris Wibberley have been using C414s on the guitars and as drum overheads on all of the concerts Davies has performed this year in support of his new album, Working Man's Café, and introduced Davies to the new C5 and D5 stage mics when they were released earlier this year.

For the Electric Proms concert at the Roundhouse, Harman Pro UK supplied them with an Elle C microphone for one of Ray's female backing singers, while the man

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14 March 2016

PSL's Pod Bluman and his team ran a five-night campaign, across seven different locations - Trafalgar Square, the Haymarket, Chinatown, Covent Garden, Brick Lane and the Science Museum in Kensington. Each night, they premiered a different song from the new album release, playing it just once before packing up and moving onto a new location.

Performances of Black Dog, Whole Lotta Love and Kashmir were prefaced with a five-minute countdown, the project

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Lighting designer Tim Speechley was responsible for the visual element of the performance by the nine-strong vocal group and he hit upon the idea of using the band's LP covers as an image. He ordered a number of coated polyester backdrops, emblazoned with images of the group's LP covers, which themselves told the story of Ladysmith's illustrious heritage at the heart of the anti-apartheid struggle.

"When I was planning the look, I realised that they had released about 40 LPs during their career and some of the covers were very impressive," he explains. "There

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Blitz is providing a full range of services for the show, supplying AV equipment including video control systems as well as a complete sound solution. The show began its journey in Hackney and is set to tour around the UK in 2008.

Blitz provided a d&b speaker system, Sennheiser radio mics and a Yamaha M7CL mixer. This technical setup was pioneered by sound designer Ian Horrocks-Taylor for the Lazy Town production, and Blitz worked alongside him to ensure consistency in the quality.

Ian Horrocks-Taylor explains: "Lazy Town carries an important message which is portrayed to the audience in a fun and highly entertaining manner so our te

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14 March 2016

CyberHoist USA, part of Tomcat Global Corporation, will provide a comprehensive sales, service, training and rental customer support operation for the USA and Canada from its base in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mitch Clark, president of Tomcat Global, said: "The future is looking incredibly exciting for the CyberHoist marque in North America. It's by far the best designed, fastest, and most flexible motion control system out there, as well as one of the quietest systems on the market. CyberHoist meets what our clients in the touring, theatre and corporate show markets have been asking for. I think they will be delighted to get access and full support, based r

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14 March 2016

Full knew that in order to put a new twist on an old standard, he would have to adjust the show's signature sound. "The director (Michael Grandage), music department, and I agreed that, since the musical is so well-known, we should approach this tour as a new piece of theatre," says Full. "This had a noticeable effect on the score, as we ended up with a very modern sound, but still retained the underpinnings of a classic big band. So, to reproduce the frequency range and SPL required, we needed a cabinet that could deal with a huge dynamic range."

Full and Jardine's design utilises

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The HDTV/5.1 broadcast was mixed and monitored by a team of top-tier professionals, all relying on Genelec to provide them an accurate monitoring environment. The audio portion of the broadcast was supervised by award-winning Audio Producer Tom Davis; the audio coordinator was Michael Abbott; the music mixers included John Harris and Jay Vicari.

John Harris, XM Productions/Effanel Music's lead music mixer, stated: "We had such success the first time we used the Genelec DSP system a

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14 March 2016

Nick Chubb of Show Hire purchased a number of Electro-Voice Zx100T loudspeakers and PA2400T amplifiers from Shuttlesound, after a successful test-drive of the equipment at the Badminton Horse Trials earlier in the year. At Burghley, the new 100V line compact cabinets were mounted on poles around the large arena, where the dressage and show-jumping elements of the three-day eventing competition are staged, along with demonstrations, workshops and prize-giving ceremonies.

"Everything we do at Burghley is temporary," explains Nick Chubb. "We can't even concrete a

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14 March 2016

Showsec has enjoyed a strong working relationship with AMG management for the past ten years at its other venues including Shepherds Bush Empire, London, and Carling Academy venues in Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle.

Showsec's area manager, London, Steve Reynolds said: "We are proud to be working with the AMG team at the new Carling Academy Oxford, where we will be ensuring artists and clients enjoy a consistent standard of security and crowd management alongside their other award winning Academy venues."

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It was the first 'full Adlib experience' for The Fray's FOH and monitor engineers Mark Maher and Brian Joseph, and they were pleased with the results. James Neale looked after FOH and Richie Nicholson was on monitor duty. Joseph reports: "Richie and James are way above and beyond what we expected as crew - in terms of their knowledge, professionalism, hard work and total dedication to the job."

The sound system was a JBL VerTec line array. This varied in size day to day due to the wide variety of venues on the itinerary, with the full system running at 10 VT4889 elements per side, together with four VT4888s for front-of-stage in-fills, and eight VT4880 subs per side. All Adlib's VerT

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Sollitt was given a free hand in the lighting design and needed a lighting rig with plenty of creative options to match the band's intensely energetic live performance.

The 12 ColorSpot 575E ATs are all rigged on the back truss. Four of the ColorWash 575E AT Zooms are attached to the top of four vertical trussing sections stood behind the band on the deck, with the other two on the floor. The rig is a precursor to the one that Sollitt is designing for them next year, which steps up to much larger venues.

The 36-date Pigeon Detectives tour is carrying a large lighting 'specials' package supplied by Zig Zag Lighting which includes the four vertical trussing sections, with the Robe's prov