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14 March 2016

Global Sales Management founders Ralph and Judy Quintero accepted the award, which recognizes a leading manufacturer's representative for outstanding commitment and dedication during the Audio-Technica 2007/2008 fiscal year. The firm is responsible for various territories in the Latin American region.

Shannon commented: "Global Sales Management has displayed exemplary commitment and dedication. We recognise them for their continued contribution to building the A-T brand in Latin America, and we congratulate Ralph, Judy and the staff for their outstanding performance."

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

Four of Massteknik's trailers have been installed with 56sq.m digiLED screens, each measuring 10m x 5.6m. The fifth houses a massive 88sq.m screen, which is designed for the larger events. All five screens are 16:9 aspect ratio and utilise the latest digiPRO HD processing technology enabling Hi Def images.

All trailers include a fully integrated TV-production and control room and a non-linear editing system. Several cam

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14 March 2016

Canegreen will continue as a trading name within the SSE Audio Group, offering Meyer andEAW alongside SSE Hire's Nexo, L-Acoustics and Adamson products, thereby offering the widest choice of systems to customers from any single UK supplier. Canegreen founders Yan Stile and Pete Edmonds join the board of SSE Audio Group as both directors and shareholders.

SSE's Redditch base will remain as Group Headquarters, with over 35,000sq.ft of warehouse space for the preparation, servicing and storage of hire equipment. The Group will retain Canegreen's London base in Tottenham, enabling the Group to service its hire contracts more effectively in th

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14 March 2016

"The operation of the grandMA has been similar to the last tour, but we upgraded our equipment inventory with new media servers with custom software," reports lighting director and programmer Patrick Brannon. "Our video house rack remained the same."

Brannon is convinced that: "we couldn't do what we do with any other console. As you learn and start adding bells and whistles on the outboard equipment you just add another parameter to the grandMA. grandMA enables you to build the system you need, because all the parameters are custom.&quo

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14 March 2016

The Toy House, a recently renovated building hosting offices in Kowloon's Canton Road, features a LED installation fitted by K&C Creation in collaboration with the owner. A wall of LED lights, behind 84 square glass panels, transform its façade in a sort of luminous matrix. Each panel is rear-lit by three SGM Palco 3 White LED with 25° lens, apart from the smaller ones, in the top and bottom rows, for which 40° lenses were chosen.

Palco 3 White LED can reproduce a colour temperature that goes from 2,000°K to 6,700°K: the lights behind the translucent cladding thus play on variations of tone ranging from absolute white to amber. During th

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14 March 2016

In recent years, Live at the Marquee has gained a reputation for featuring high profile acts as well as an eclectic mix of music and comedy. This year, the musical bill featured Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Pink, Paul Weller, Neil Young, Dolly Parton, Jay-Z, Massive Attack and Meatloaf throughout the two-week event, along with Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan charming the audience for three sold-out nights.

"This event is a real test for any system because there are so many engineers coming through the FOH position," says Aungier. "They all have their favorite

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14 March 2016

Located close to the centre of the city, the Moorings Bar has a capacity of just 200. However, its owners Craig and Laura Adams have shown commitment to providing the best sound quality for its audience.

Installed by Stonehaven-based Taylored Sound, the all-digital audio system features a Funktion One PA system (complete with delays), controlled by a pair of XTA DP448 processors, fed from a rackmount Yamaha mixing console and all controlled via a PC.

"We have used XTA for the last six years on our rental systems, including DP448s on our own Funktion One PA," says Taylored Sound's Nick Taylor. "The sound quality is always the first thing we look for, then it's build quality followed by ease of use. The XTA units tick all our boxes. We o

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14 March 2016

The lighting designer for the event, White Light's approved venue manager Steve Richardson, was working towards a brief to crate a "classy, exciting evening which slowly revealed a bit more of itself to the guests as they moved through the various spaces of the Globe."

To achieve this, he extended the Underglobe's existing stage, then built a 7m x 6m box truss around it, with a separate box on the upstage side to allow him to work around the venue's pillars and

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14 March 2016

Long-time Turbosound client Thunder Electronics specified weather-resistant TCS Compact series loudspeakers for the project. 12 TCS-121CW, 16 TCS-081CW, eight TCS-20 and eight TCS-215CW have been installed, with control by an LMS-D24 processor and sound from CD decks and DJ mixers.

"Sky Bar opens at 8pm each evening and functions as a chill-out lounge with food and background music," says Thunder Electronics' Louay Agha. "Then at midnight it fires up as a nightclub, with DJ sets and occasional live performances. So the loudspeakers need to be able to cope with a variety of different kinds of music and maintain excellent sound quality at different volume levels.

"Because of our

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14 March 2016

As last year, APR Audio provided sound reinforcement for the Jazz World Stage. This year's system deployed 10x X-Line Xvls and two Xvlt per side, with 10 x X-Subs per side ground-stacked on towers, and another 12x X-Subs on the floor. Front- fills were handled by 6 XLE cabinets.

All amps were P3000RLs running Iris-Net. The FOH console was a Midas XL4 with a Heritage 3000 on-stage with Helix and a Rapide for EQ. Wedges were EV XW15 with drum and side fill provision from X-Array systems.

APR's Matt Gunter was on hand as crew chief and primary system designer for a busy stage that hosted the Fun Lovin' Criminals, Eddy Grant, Buddy Guy and Estelle.

"Jazz World is generally regarded as the musicians' stage,&quo

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14 March 2016

As this year was the 10th anniversary of the festival, a fifth stage was added and a vast electic selection of hip hop, rock, reggae and techno artists invited to perform. French PA company Melpomen, which has provided PA support for the last decade, was able to utilise three generations of Nexo's Geo Series line array loudspeakers in their FOH systems.

For Nexo, this festival has always been a important platform to illustrate the benefits for larger stages in utilizing FOH systems based on cardioid technology. Out of the five stages, the two larg

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14 March 2016

"We have enjoyed considerable success in Asia over recent years and feel now is the right time to commit additional resources, to offer the full "added value" service of A.C. Lighting to help build our business even further in this key region." say's director Glyn O'Donoghue.

The new company is headed by Ruilin Zhang, a well-known figure in the Japanese entertainment lighting industry. She comments: "A.C. Lighting have a reputation for excellent support and competitive pricing over a wide range of

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14 March 2016

With the show a year on since its redesign, the one-floor, two-hall layout has been refined and expanded to allow for new and returning exhibitors, say organisers PLASA Events Ltd.

And with new products topping the 'wish list' of the majority of visitors, there's no doubt that PLASA08 will definitely deliver, according to show director Nicola Rowland. "There's a real buzz building around the wide range of technologies and expertise on offer at the show and how these can be applied across the industry. It's a unique chance to see how projects are being delivered, how lighting, sound and AV systems are bei

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14 March 2016

The first step was to organise a three-day seminar at the Tokyo Design Center Gallery Hall for all rental, theatre and TV operators exclusively focusing on the new partnership with the Italian firm. Speakers for PRG Asia included managing director Kobayashi-San, senior division manager Hisao Tanabe, sales manager Tanaka-San, marketing manager Miki Sasaki and vice-president John R Swain. On hand for Clay Paky were the Japan and America sales and marketing manager Francesco Romagnoli and project support manager Giovanni Zucchinali.

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14 March 2016

Previously known as Swansea Leisure Centre, the facility has recently re-opened after a £32 million refit as a state-of-the-art water park and health and fitness centre.

Llanelli-based VSI supplied 32 Mitsubishi LCD commercial displays of various sizes, which are installed around the building. In the reception area, a 10m semi-circular Trilite truss is flown in the ceiling, and fitted with five screens showing general information and opening times.

For the 'Peak' multi-level Gym, VSI supplied a full sound system consisting of two arrays of flown TOA F2000 speakers, carefully positioned to g

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14 March 2016

A culmination of almost two years of planning with Atlantis, Palm Jumeirah management, the contract marks the group's first foray into the high-growth venue services market in the United Arab Emirates.

Gearhouse Staging Connections will assemble an onsite team of 15 "world-class technical and client services personnel" from its Dubai and Australian operations to deliver conferences, concerts, launches and events of any scale at the prestigious resort. The company will also install a range of multi-million-dollar audio-visual technology into the resort's facilities.

Staging Connections Group CEO Michae

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14 March 2016

"In general we have adopted the philosophy that we want to have our own presence in key territories that have an international influence," says managing director Tom Back. "Germany is a domestic market that is very interesting to us in terms of volume, sales and appreciation of the technology we have and our success there has shown that our faith in this approach is justified."

Back continues, "The UK is important in many ways. It influences the European music scene and it also influences the US. We have noticed that through the relationships UK companies have in the US market. Taking all that into account, setting up the UK operation was never a matter of if, it was purely a matter of when."

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14 March 2016

The hall currently hosts a diverse programme of music and theatre, including concerts for television broadcast and is in need of extensive renovation. Munro Acoustics have been tasked with giving the hall's acoustics a complete overhaul.

Managing director Andy Munro said: "It is a great honour to be selected for such a prestigious project but I do not underestimate the technical challenges involved. Fortunately, we have been working on similar auditoria concepts for some years now and we have proven the techniques that will enable our design to achieve the client's objective of a truly flexible performance space."

The hall was originally designed

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14 March 2016

The company was looking for a high quality, general-purpose power amplifier, which could be used with a range of point source PA and stage monitoring systems and could also effortlessly cope with the diverse range of events that Brit Row services.

"We wanted to find a model of amplifier that can work in a wide variety of situations, will deliver consistently high performance levels and will be extremely reliable," says Brit Row director Mike Lowe.

"We have a wide range of systems in our rental stock, therefore having to maintain and service as few types of amplifier as possible has obvious benef

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14 March 2016

The light show accompanied the traditional annual Quatorze Juillet fireworks spectacle in the Trocadero square, located on the right bank of the River Seine facing the Eiffel Tower on the left bank. All lighting equipment for the event was supplied by Paris based rental house, Impact Evénement.

Preparations and rigging started nine days in advance and involved approximately 50 technicians who rigged lights and pyro onto three trussing circles - one with a 20m diameter and two with 6m diameters - placed in the centre of the Trocadero. These were then hoisted 60m into the air by cranes.

A combination of 94 Robe ColorSpo

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14 March 2016

The projection system utilises four Christie Roadie 25K DLP projectors and E//T//C's multimedia control platform, Onlyview, to manage the images. The projectors are installed in pairs, housed in two custom built cabins on either side of the Pont de la Concorde, located directly in front of the building.

Each cabin is positioned directly on top of the bridge's pillars, where they are designed to subtly blend into the surrounding architecture. Each pair of projectors is overlaid for brightness, and covers half of the Palais Bourbon's colonnaded front.

The eight-minute long show (on constant loop) is created by French scenographers and image designers Skertzò. Spectators are taken on a journey of the EU's

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14 March 2016

"Over the past ten years, Jamie has played a critical role in growing Loud Technologies into the industry leader that it is today. We appreciate his contributions and wish him the best," said Tom Taylor, the board member who led the search for Engen's successor. "We are fortunate to have a strong successor to take over the reins and continue our growth efforts."

Olson joins Loud Technologies after a decade with Cardinal Brands, a Kansas-based $170 million office products company, where he has served as CFO, president and, most recently, CEO for the past two year

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14 March 2016

Joel's world tour began in January 2006 and has been touring ever since. The 2008 segment kicked off in Philadelphia, PA in January, making stops in California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Ohio, Quebec, Louisiana, Connecticut, Virginia and finishing up with two shows in Flushing, NY at Shea Stadium. Joel resumes the second leg of his world tour with dates

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14 March 2016

The new bar and club is a joint collaboration between the Hilton, two of London's most successful nightlife pioneers, Nick House and Piers Adam, Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe and Marc Burton.

Open from 5pm every evening, with last entry at 2am, SDG's managing director David Graham knew instinctively how to transfigure the sound system in this sophisticated venue to optimum effect, having previously collaborated at the chic Mahiki for House and Adam.

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