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Managing director of Merseysound, Colin Reader says: "We've been using JBL now ever since Harman started. We've been using JBL equipment for over seven years now and we're very happy with it. We can break the line array up into four hangs and again for the arena, we can split it up into twelve hangs per side at the front and then two lots of four at the back as delay lines. It's very flexible and if we're doing a smaller venue, we can ground stack it as well which gives us a little more versatility."

The line array is accompanied by 12 Crown iTech8000 amplifiers and two DBX DriveRack 4800 systems pr

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Tattoo events around the world follow a long-established template provided by the Edinburgh original. In this respect the inaugural Russian event was no exception. Marching bands from the Moscow Garrison and German Army Corps were joined by the perennially-massed Scottish bagpipers and drummers. The event's musical highlights included excerpts from Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, along with a special arrangement of Amazing Grace performed by the band of the British Coldstream Guards.

The sheer dimensions of the Moscow arena, however, added a further challenge for the sound design team, headed by E

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Led by Pod Bluman, the PSL team had to triumph against the twin enemies of time and the elements. PSL's participation in the Liverpool show was confirmed only three weeks ahead of the event, just one week before the Christmas slow-down.

"The concept of the show was to tell the story of Liverpool's history and culture," explains Pod Bluman. "Its location was the open space between the city's great civic buildings, using St George's Hall as the backdrop to the stage, and in some respe

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White Light's manifest included: seven Vari-Lite VL3000s with Condome protective domes, three High Ground searchlights, five Citycolour2500 exterior floodlights, 200 PAR64s, an assortment of ETC Source Fours, two Robert Juliat Korrigans and two Super Korrigans, as well as 40 sq.m of ColorWeb 250 LED lighting and 48 Encapsulites. Control included three WL Smart 48 dimmer/power racks, two Avo Pearl consoles and two ELC Showstores, plus stands, cables and an assortment of accessories to allow lights to be located just about an

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The harbor-side Playhouse, which has been designed by Danish architects Boje Lundgaard and Lene Tranberg, commands a prime location opposite the Royal Opera, also a customer of Studer's Vista technology. The Playhouse is the new home for the Royal Danish Theatre, and has three discrete performance spaces. The Main Stage seats 750 theatre-goers and its horseshoe-shaped galleries are inspired by northern Italian renaissance theatre. The secondary stage, seating 250, is named Portscenen (or 'The Gate Stage'), reflecting the fact that the large, gate-like doors in the northern wall can be opened to draw the stage out onto the q

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14 March 2016

Martin Professional will receive approximately $3 million in funding from the research foundation, with an additional $2 million to be added by Martin and $1 million from Aalborg University. The three-year, six million USD project will run through the end of 2010.

The goal of INLED is to develop new technologies for LED based fixtures as substitutes for existing more inefficient technologies, including improvements in optical systems, colour mixing, output, control, heat management and energy

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14 March 2016

A company statement says: "From its early days, Community established its reputation as an innovator. With its unique fiberglass horns and enclosures and industry-leading transducer and loudspeaker designs, Community products have always stressed high performance and unsurpassed quality supported by meticulous testing and documentation. Community's popular weather-resistant systems, including the R-Series and WET Series II lines, are the audio system centerpiece in arenas and stadia throughout the world.

"Community is a worldwide leader in professional loudspeakers, but the company hasn't strayed from Howze's original philosophy of innova

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Rogerson comments: "Jeremy offered us the training session when we bought the desk, and to maximise the experience for our students, he also brought along the new ETC Eos and Ion desks. We've also offered our facilities to ETC for future training sessions to other groups."

The two days of training - for which the students took a day out of their Christmas holiday - were conducted by ETC's Luke Delwiche and freelance programmer Florian Baeumler.

Jeremy Roberts says: "A day's training is never going to cover everything there is to know about the desk, but it can raise someone from starter to the point at which they

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Left and right ground stacks comprising two KV2 ES 1.0 lightweight, compact, mid/high cabinets with a single KV2 ES 2.5 high-output subwoofer and two KV2 ES 1.8 reflex horn-loaded single 18-inch subwoofers - with each stack controlled and driven by two KV2 EPAK2500R amplifier packs - were deployed.

The Gofer production team on the night were immensely impressed with the both the ease of set up and the quality and level of sound. FOH engineer, Nat Clarkson, commented: "It was so quick and pleasurable to sound check."

Production manager, Nic Forsdyke added: "We saved ourselves time using the KV2 Audio system and in this game that is

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The main system, comprising two arrays of 15 Milo high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers and one Milo 120 high-power expanded coverage curvilinear array loudspeaker per side, was augmented by two more side-hangs of six Milos each. 12 700-HP subwoofers per side provided a powerful bottom end.

Front-of-house engineer Dave Nicholls comments: "We don't use front-fills, as Mr. Manson is in the pit for much of the show."

Bruce Danz, Manson's monitor engineer adds, "At Thunder Audio, we know that no other system beats the Milo. It installs easily, and with no amp racks to deal with. It also saves a lot of time in setup and teardown."

The stage monitoring system includes four Mica curvilinear a

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"It was especially pleasing to find out that we were chosen by the Yates's team because of our programming team's ability to articulate a thorough historical understanding of the Yates's brand, and that we could also outline just what would be needed to help retain its status as a dominant force in licensed retail."

Each site's entertainment offer is controlled by tsg's promedia mms hard disk system; a compact, one-box solution, which caters for the updating of media content, scheduling and softwa

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FOH engineer Brent Rawlings reports: "The system is covering really well, I'm impressed. We are working on how to set things up so that when you have two stacks of bottom there's not just one strip of intense sub down the very middle of the PA. We want to have a very evenly dispersed bottom end everywhere and that takes a little experimentation, but we will get something nice."

The tour has taken in arena-sized venues and, generally speaking, the system has comprised two hangs of TA-890H and L flown five wide by five deep with a TA-500HM trapezoidal mid/high down-fill enclosure beneath each hang. "These are wedge shaped boxes that can face at a very steep angle towards the people that are standing underneath them and will cover right up to the stage,&quo

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Following an extensive £34m redevelopment, Doncaster Racecourse was officially reopened by HRH The Princess Royal for the St. Leger Festival, attended by a record modern day crowd of over 70,000. The development involved the replacement of the old Yorkshire Stand with the state-of-the-art Urban-i Stand and Lazarus Exhibition Hall, providing quality facilities to race-goers and exhibition and conference attendees.

Doncaster Racecourse's new custom-built public address and audio visual communications system was heralded a great success by the managing executive of the South Yorkshire venue. The system, designed by RaceTech, took more than two years to develop. Among the features created specifi

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The Austin office boasts a team of 40, including sales and marketing, service and support, R&D and production professionals. The office also features a fully equipped demonstration area, as well as R&D and production facilities.

Nils Thorjussen, CEO of Element Labs explains the expansion: "We have seen significant growth in our customer base and the level of interest in our products and solutions throughout North America. The relocation to our new Texas office thus forms part of Element Labs' continued investment in its growth and expansion strategy. The Austin office and its multi-disciplinary team will allow us to continue to keep our promise of delivering

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The centrepiece of the building is the Grand Temple which has recently had an Ampetronic induction loop fitted by Surrey-based contractor Scanaudio.

As well as the main 'floor', the Grand Temple features a balcony on three sides and the Ampetronic system, powered by a pair of ILD1000G loop amplifiers via an SP5 phaser, was required to cover the whole chamber and to meet new British Standard requirements for induction loop installations.

However, discreetness was imperative because of the sensitivity of the fine architect

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For its Main Stage, the Playhouse has commissioned TTA and its Scandinavian distributor Benum to provide a Stagetracker 16XR audio tracking and positioning system, which uses MIDI to control TiMax audio imaging software from British company Outboard Electronics.

From its position in the truss above the stage, a single intelligent Stagetracker RadioEye receiver is able to provide coverage of the entire 16m x 16m (52ft x 52ft) stage. The RadioEye calculates the actors' positions and feeds positional information to the Stagetracker software which also incorporates a 3D view of the stage, and gives a visual representation of the actor's movements in real time.

By adding a small radio transmitter the size of a matchbox, cal

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Sponsored by MMR magazine, the Dealers Choice Award is based on national voting by music dealers. American DJ was voted 'Lighting Line of the Year' by dealers for the second year.

"The fact that this award is the result of voting by the dealers who actually sell lighting products makes it especially gratifying," said Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group of Companies. "Dealers are on the front line, dealing with end-users all the time. They gave us this award, because their customers rely on American DJ and are excited about our products, especially our new LED fixtures."

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Autumn 2007 saw the filming of Hammer Films Beyond the Rave in South London. This online serial marks the return of the Hammer Horror genre after an absence of over 20 years. Lighting designer Jono Kenyon was responsible for lighting the all-important rave scenes using over 100 ACL lamps and MAC 550s from the Point Source hire stock.

"It was great working with the MAC 550s on a film

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In addition to this, Klotz will also provide all signal routing for the Main Control Room (MCR) and a Varizone digital public address system.

"We are honoured to have been chosen again by Austereo and are looking forward to being involved in this exciting project. Through the close work between the Austereo engineers and our staff, I believe that we have come up with a system design which will set the standard for a long time to come" says Patrick Salloch, newly appointed general manager of Klotz Digital Asia Pacific.

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Light contractor Sound D-Light srl performed the three installations. Pat Henry, lighting designer for the event, used a huge number of SGM fixtures including the Genio Mobile, Palco 3, Ribalta, Synthesis Spot 700, Pilot 2000 and Pilot 3000.

Henry, supported by Luca Domenicucci and Paolo Marcuzzi of Sound D-Light srl as lighting operators, stated: "We lit the big Christmas tree inside Aula Paolo VI, the back of the same Hall where the huge bronze statue the Resurrection is and the Christmas crib placed outside in St. Peter's Square. I essentially used Ribalta, Palco 3 and Genio fixtures to create the different white and colour hues - mainly violet and blue - both for the backgrounds and to give value

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Lasting 90 minutes, the show concluded with a high energy laser and firework finale. tarm Showlaser supplied four high-powered green lasers at the back, under the screen and four high-powered full-colour units at the front of the arena. All lasers were air-cooled and based on solid-state-technology.

Two of the full colour lasers fed the two 4m high and 1000kg h

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"The Jatim Expo is large, about 60m by 120m (197ft by 393ft), so it needed a lot of power," says Rudy Winarto, managing director of system supplier Melodia Sound & Lighting Systems of Jakarta. "We also had many open mics on stage. Fortunately, the directional control of the M3D and the M3D-Subs made it possible to get ple

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"Initial plans called for the columns to be covered in coloured paint, but of course if they wanted a change of colour the paint would need to be changed, which wasn't very practical," states Qader Mohiuddin of Martin Professional Middle East. "Mr. Tareq Darwesh (deputy GM) and Mr. Ali Shiri (architect) from the Tamdeen Shopping Center Development Company expressed to us their desire for a dynamic lighting solution instead."

Cinema architect, Va

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This year's five day course, to be held from 7-11 April, will follow its successful formula, filling five working days with in-depth theory lectures and practical hands-on sessions.

Both Orbital and The National are concerned that there is a skills shortfall - that young people entering the industry have little experience of the latest technology and techniques. The course is designed to enhance the 'skills sets' of students in line with the growing expectations of directors, producers and audiences.

The course offers an opportunity for students expressing an interest in theatre sound to gain an extra level of technical skill and artistic understanding.