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Technical director Kieran Hayes has been the driving force behind the Regal project over the last three years, which has seen the Grade II listed former cinema, opened in 1927, restored to its original Art-Deco splendour, and enjoying a new lease of life as an entertainment hub. Situated on Oxford's vibrant Cowley Road, the venue is already hosting a variety of dance nights, tours and live bands.

When it came to lighting, Hayes consulted Dave Parry of Most Technical and asked if he could help them with spec'ing and procuring a cost effective lighting rig that would give the requisite quality and dynamics.

Parry suggested that flexible control was a key element in accommodating the Regal's lighting production req

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The Echo Awards are given each year by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of the country's recording companies, and reward the highest selling artists of the preceding 12 months.

2008 was the third year in which Bushido has won Echo Awards and, with three major live tours having been undertaken in 2007 alone, it is unsurprising that he came top in both the Best National Live Act and Best National Hip-Hop/R&B artist categories.

Berlin-based Complete Audio provides the audio system for Bushido's live shows, using two XTA DP448 and one DP226 processors to control a large Martin Audio PA system.

"Bushid

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Alongside the Motorised WARP 12-30° 800W fixtures deployed in the Edwardian Spa Theatre is a large number of ADB F101 1.2kW fresnels, installed in both the Spa Theatre and the 1700 capacity (theatre style) 1930s Art Deco Royal Hall. All the fixtures were supplied by LSI Projects.

The historic venue will host its first show on May 31 with a sold-out gig by Yorkshire band The Pigeon Detectives, followed by a Raymond Gubbay Classical Gala on June 1, a Business Week Celebration Dinner on June 3 hosted by cele

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Created for sportswear giant Nike, the multi-projection is among the most complex and demanding ever performed, say Stark. The technical difficulties in achieving such a project in the urban centre of Beijing represent a technical and artistic challenge.

Paolo Buroni says: "This operation fits perfectly into my artistic career made up of invasions into, and virtual transformation of, th

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Located in the city centre, The Ivy had its soft launch in December 2007 and in the Spring of 2008 moved into full operation, with a series of restaurants, bars, cocktail lounges and live music.

The complex features 14 bars, nine restaurants, boutique hotel, swimming pool (with a dance sound system), gardens, penthouses, nightclub, cafes, delicatessens, ballroom, office space and retail outlets. It also houses a 1000-capacity function room and can cater for up to 3,000 people in total at any one time.

Providing an audio network that would place more than 40 zones on the same backbone presented an exacting task for system integrators Avsound Productions Pty. Installation contracts manager,

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Marenghi comments: "The main spectacular element of the television show, and likewise the tour, is the projection of the light onto the ice, even if the surface of the ice is four times larger on tour. There are five television cameras which film the presenters, the judges, the skaters and the 10,000 spectators at the ice rink."

Marenghi says he used Alpha Beam 300 lights mainly to light the perimeter of the rink, as the 'VIP' skaters are not experts and need to be able to see the edge of the skating area clearly during their performance. "The Alpha Beam 300 are ACL type projectors and provide incredible light. Moreover, they proved to be totally reliable and very practical for intens

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"The iLive has been a fantastic console for our events," says Grimes. "The layout is like an analogue console, so it is very familiar and any of our engineers or guest engineers can get up and running with it in five minutes. Also, the iLive sounds amazing, the preamps are beautiful and really, really clean. We have done several events with the iLive including the LoCash Cowboys at the Block, the Ying Yang Twins and Bubba Sparks at the Nightown Club, Ultimate Fighting at the Emerald C

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Clay Paky has announced the nominations for the 'Knights of Illumination' Lighting Design Awards that are to be awarded in association with the ALD and the STLD at the annual ABTT dinner in London on 11 June 2008. The awards are being supported by Clay Paky to recognise the UK's outstanding contribution to live performance and television. The awards are unique in honouring work across such a wide range of music, theatre, opera, dance and television.

On the personnel front,

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Although the neighbourhood has been upgraded in recent years, the premises - containing the seven separate units that constitute Symbol Budapest - has remained true to its traditions dating back more than 200 years.

Covering a total area of nearly 3,000sq.m, all the activity is arranged around the courtyard - with the Bombay Bar in the centre and terraces for all the surrounding venues. To one side is the Café & Lounge, to the other the Puskás Pancho Sport Pub, an elegant memorial to the late Puskás Öcsi. The 220-year-old preserved Cellar Restaurant is available for private functions, while

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"The venue was formerly the Beach Club, which had a Turbosound Floodlight system," explains Alastair Dixon, aka Big Al, a Brighton-based freelance engineer who managed the new installation, which was supplied through local company MBI. "They wanted to relaunch the venue and move away from house music, making it more of a multipurpose live sound set up. It's very band orientated now."

With a 500 capacity main room coupled to a 100 capacity café, the Coalition has already announced the launch of the new Brighton Club NME. Brighton visitors can also look forward to shows by major stars such as hip hop's Sway and BBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Cameo.

The new system comprises four Aspect Wide TA-500 three-way

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With only six 13 Amp power outlets available to drive architectural lighting for the whole Cathedral exterior - due to cabling issues preventing the use of generators - Cunniffe's only option was to use LED lightsources. This BB7 fixture consumes just 210 Watts at 240 volts, and proved ideal for the task.

The 24 units were floor mounted, and illuminated the upper and lower Portico columns of the Cathedral's main façade. Cunniffe also used a variety of other LED fixtures for the project which involved highlighting St Paul's full entrance facade, commenting that the BB7 was &q

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The event celebrates the best of South Africa's hugely diverse music culture, and this year, the 14th SAMAs featured 64 categories and was watched by over three million TV viewers.

The 24 StageQubes were supplied by Mark Gaylard of MGG, the first rental company in South Africa to invest in the medium resolution Robe LED panels. The lighting design - which also included Robe moving lights - was created by Robert Hoey, and the stage design featured additional low and high resolution LED surfaces and plasma screen columns. David Hossey of Strike Productions was production manager.

The StageQubes were placed centre stage beneath the main onstage hang of LED screen, mounted on two custo

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SGM has a wide range of professional products, including moving head fixtures, scanners, follow spots, colour-changers, lighting control consoles, dimmers, strobe lights and smoke machines.

SGM's VP of sales Franco Natalisays: "The synergy between our two companies will result in an excellent partnership which offers the customers and users of SGM good and fast service as well fast deliveries."

Mr de la Haige, founder and president of Highlite International BV says: "Highlite will give full support to SGM and their products. We are convinced that together we can offer an excellent product range to the Benelux market.

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Heading the new office as general manager of the Korean region is J.C. Chung who, with 20 years experience within the consumer electronics industry, is well placed to strengthen BBE Sound's presence in Korea, says the company.

Chung said: "The opening of the Korean office marks BBE's commitment to better serve our local customers. With our knowledge of and experience in this region, along with BBE's renowned audio technology, we will be able to provide Korean CE makers with unparalleled solutions."

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The core system comprises six W8LC Compact line arrays flown each side of the stage, with a W8LCD downfall enclosure at the base. Two stacks of four Martin Audio 218x subwoofers, isolated on concrete pillars, provide the bass rumble.

Additionally the club purchased a pair of Blackline F12s (and an S15 sub) from Capital Sound Hire to ensure the DJs had the best reference sound up in the control booth. The venue also bought the combination of Martin Audio MA4.2 and MA2.8 amplifiers, which power the entire system. In the DJ booth is a Soundweb SW9010 'Jellyfish' remote, which enables switching of the Martin Audio EQ presets between dance and live mode.

Upstairs in the Elite Room (which formerly trade

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The eye-catching interior was designed by Szabolcs Kövesi who also took an active interest in the LED lighting scheme, on which he worked with Colossal's Csanadi Csaba. Csaba had been involved with the club since its early planning stages and the bespoke LED design was optimised to suit the interior.

22 pieces of Anolis ArcLine RGB (a combination of Arcline 12, 24 and 36 units) have been installed on the walls and in the bars to give the club a special look and feel. Frosted glass is used throughout Tabu to maximise the brightness and washing potential of the lighting. The bar fronts all have special patterns which

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In his 30-minute presentation, VENUE and Pro Tools|HD or Pro Tools LE, Scovill will cover how to determine which Pro Tools recording system to use for various live sound applications. He'll also introduce viewers to the different Pro Tools hardware and interface options, archiving concepts, and more.

A total of five presentations are planned as part of the Live Sound Webinar series. The first, Introduction to VENUE and Mix Rack, was webcast on 23 April, 2008. The third webinar will take place on 25 June, 2008.

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"We were looking for a light line array system with a long throw range, compact dimensions, and lots of power," commented Andreas Röder. "In the past we had worked mainly with an American manufacturer and were not HK Audio users, but with other companies, the support situation is often not ideal. Dependability and good service are tremendously important to us.

Our colleagues from the German rental company Triacs have used Cohedra with success for a number of years, so firstly we figured we are just 100 km from the HK Audio company headquar

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This follows 5 Star's existing arrangement to supply DiGiCo with casing solutions for the SD7. Eighth Day Sound, based just outside Cleveland, Ohio, ordered two of the recently launched digital consoles, and required additional features as part of the flight case.

The cases were based on the DiGiCo supplied model with additional bespoke features specified by Eighth Day.

5 Star produced the two special SD7 cases for Eighth Day Sound in a tight timeframe but on schedule. These were immediately dispatched to DiGiCo's UK production facility in Glenrothes, Scotland for onward shipping to Ohio, complete with the SD7 consoles packed inside.

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The Middleton Grove lighting design specialist has installed one of the first pole-mounted external Symmetric luminaire LED lighting systems in the UK at Asda's Leeds city centre head office car park.

Results will be monitored closely and compared against Asda's energy usage and maintenance costs on its existing conventional lighting system. With output reduced from 460w to 257w, the estimated energy saving alone is 45%.

Graham Kemp, joint managing director of High Technology Lighting, said: "The system offers Asda the winning combination of reduced energy consumption, virtually maintenance-free ownership and high quality controlled light distribution.

"Our LED lighting solution also offers a user-friendly white light, which

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Last summer Gerriets provided eight Tube systems for a show in Las Vegas. The systems wind and unwind at a speed of 2 m /sec (6.5 ft/sec), are DMX compatible and provide state-of-the-art safety features.

For a company event in Baltimore, Maryland, Gerriets provided, in cooperation with All Staging Unlimited, seven large Carbon Fiber Roller screen systems. "We linked all seven of the controllers together via DMX interface and a laptop to allow single button control of all Tubes", explains Mark Gentry from All Staging Unlimited.

In January, Gerriets installed two Tube systems at a popular night club in Cancun, Mexico. The screens are an integral part of the club's new live music show. Two m

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The signs and labels are available free of charge to any facility with counterweight rigging, noted Tom Young, J.R. Clancy's vice-president of marketing. "We'll send you actual signs on sturdy plastic stock, or you can download files to print your own signs," he said. "Each sign has guidelines for operating the rigging system safely. While many operators are seasoned professionals with years of experience using a rigging system, it's important to have visible reminders to be sure that operators complete every step."

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"The new concert hall is primarily designed for chamber music," explained Elena Shabalina, acoustic engineer with Aris-Pro, a leading Russian pro audio specialist. "We were asked to tender at the beginning of last year. At the time a proposal for a sound reinforcement system had already been devised by an external audio consultant, and so Mr. Vladimir Fomin from the Department of Culture of Moscow City, the body responsible for the School, asked us to review and update the original design."

"The system tender proved to be far more than was required for such a venue. This is a small concert hall ideal for Chamber music, and caters for audiences of approximately 200. Considerin

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The quad preamp was used for the keyboards on stage to help replicate a smooth retro sound. Keyboardist and musical director of the show, Goziam comments: "We used the TL Audio to get a fantastic sound from the keyboards as just going straight through the front of house desk wouldn't cut it, we have been using loads of retro sounds and the quad pre really helps it to sound warm and authentic."

(Jim Evans)