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Sting's performances featured an unconventional setup of Sting with a 16-piece string section, multiple percussionists, a brass section and backing vocals, as well as a large selection of traditional English instruments such as the Welsh harp, lutes and Northumbrian pipes. Rehearsals took place over a two-week period in the Chapter House adjacent to the main cathedral.

Howard Page, Clair senior director of engineering, mixed the performances, utilising the Vista 5 SR to overcome the challenges

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14 March 2016

With 12 distribution centres across the USA, Almo is a leading value-added distributor that specialises in serving AV professionals in a wide variety of markets. The company will be adding to its offering Furman's Pro AV and home theatre lines of power management solutions, which protect sensitive equipment while ensuring clear, crisp sound and picture quality.

Leveraging more than 35 years of power management experience, Furman offers a wide variety of products for Almo's customers including power conditioners, UPS battery back-up systems, sequencers, AC power distribution

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14 March 2016

Produced by Yamaha and LIPA, the 2009 Make It Break It awards, whose judging panel is headed by Coldplay's Chris Martin, are considered the most prestigious national awards to acknowledge the UK's most outstanding young songwriters. This year's awards added new promotional partners EMI publishing, HMV retail and XFM Radio.

In addition to the priz

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14 March 2016

Presented by the Theatrical Management Association, the annual TMA Awards recognise work being produced in the regional theatres around the country; the Lighting category is sponsored by the Association of Lighting Designers.

At the same time, White Light and whatsonstage.com are announce that nominations are now open for the 2010 What's On Stage Theatregoers' Choice Awards; as in 2009, the Best Lighting Designer category is being sponsored by White Light.

Covering principally shows running in London's West End, anyone can nominate a person or pr

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14 March 2016

Jens Richter of publitec comments: "At the beginning of 2009, we launched the 'Content Competence Centre', allowing publitec to offer its clients comprehensive support regarding video content handling and multichannel image presentation. Our strength lies in our knowledge of video formatting and encoding as well as in the usage of well established media servers.

"Thanks to working with grandMA video for a long time, we are familiar with the MA-Net system and all its benefits, plus the second to none support of MA Lighting and its German distributor, Lightpower. So we're now very much looking forward to offering o

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14 March 2016

Cover It Up has worked in the venue on numerous occasions. They decked out the perimeter walls of the famous historic site in black wool serge, in a design that included careful back-filling of the arches in an operation that diligently and subtly maintained the integrity and shape of the architecture.

The brief also included the creation of a complete infrastructure of cloakrooms, a reception area, catering and washing up facility rooms, waiting staff holding areas, a green room and production office - all utilising drapes hung on catenaries.

The central columns of the main hall were clad by the Cover It Up team of eight in a vibrant sky blue material

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All of these activities, that benefit everyone either directly or indirectly, are under threat. This is because Ofcom, supported by Government, has decided to clear out and sell the radio frequencies that the industry relies on, and move those evicted elsewhere. The precise location of this new much smaller 'home' remains for the most part undetermined. Meanwhile, all proceeds from the sale of the old 'home' will go to the Government.

As a consequence of the enforced 'migration', the vast maj

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14 March 2016

Re-elected to second terms were Secretary Fred Mikeska, Vice President of US sales & marketing for A.C. Lighting Inc.; Dealer Vice President Dinna Myers, director of sales and marketing for Musson Theatrical; and Dealer Director Steven Way, president and co-owner of ALPS / Advanced Lighting & Production Services.

ESTA would like to extend its sincere thanks to Duncan MacKenzie and George Studnicky III as they complete their terms of office for their dedicated service to the Association.

The new Board members ta

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14 March 2016

Adding to over 300 Clay Paky Alpha Series already in stock, CCG has recently purchased 22 Alpha Beam 1500, 24 Alpha Spot HPE 1200, 24 Alpha Wash 1200 and 6 Alpha Profile1200.

In early 2009, Creative Communication Group was chosen by Clay Paky Italy to be the official agent and presenter to the brand in Qatar. Creative Communication Group is a thriving full-service event management and production venture based in Qatar under the direction of managing partner Jalal Dudin.

"Choosing Creative Communication Group to represent Clay Paky in Qatar is an outcome of a long-term business relationship, we are so pleased to represent a world level reference brand in

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14 March 2016

"AKG has allowed me to excel as a performer throughout my entire career," said Godkhindi. "Their dedication to quality is reflected in every product they make, which is why I have used AKG in every single one of my live and televised performances."

As one of the first Indian bamboo flute players to consistently turn to AKG for his performing needs, Godkhindi has emerged as AKG's brand ambassador to India. His loyal

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Dating from the 1920s - 1980s, the exhibits included profiles, followspots, magic lanterns, an electro-magnetic colour-changer, ancestors of the modern day PC and the first Robert Juliat followspot, the Comete.

The milestone event was marked with a party at Wednesday's nocturne, the late evening opening, during which a competition took place offering entrants the chance to win a five-day trip to Las Vegas with two tickets to one of the many shows there equipped by Robert Juliat, and a helicopter flight over the city. Further prizes included a Robert Juliat Espion DMX tester and a Leatherman.

Winner of the trip to Las

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14 March 2016

After Element Labs completed the 274sq.m City of Dreams casino project in Macau in June, Cobra has sold into numerous other applications around the world, including Times Square in New York. In addition, Element Labs has experienced increased demand for its industry standard products such as Stealth and Versa Tubes.

Element Labs products have recently been deployed for Britney Spears' Circus to

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14 March 2016

With speakers mounted near each entrance, on either side of the quarter-mile long imported steel trusses running the length of the stadium, the new system provides seamless pre and post-game production coverage to fans. The speakers, installed nearly 85ft from the ground, are secured to the trusses with custom One Systems 212IM-U brackets, designed specifically for these applications.

"We thought we would have to give up sound quality for aesthetics due to the architectural requirements, but the 312CIM's provide both," says Demetrius Palavos, senior sales and design engineer for Pro Media/Ultra Sound (PMUS). "The compactness of these speakers is incredible and wor

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"We chose Sennheiser equipment mainly for the IEM system," explains monitor engineer Jimmy Nicholson. "I have had plenty of experience with Sennheiser in-ears previously and found them to be extremely reliable. The lightweight, compact receiver packs in the G2 system are leagues ahead of the competition. The frequency agility is also vital. We are using B and C range, so we quite often have to tune all over the range to fit around local RF conditions. And aside from the frequency agility, the backlit LCDs on the

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The move follows on from Out Board's substantial successes with their own audio show control application of the Ubisense technology, TiMax Tracker, which tracks actors and performers around stages and arenas to automatically localise their amplified audio signature via real-time control of the TiMax2 SoundHub audio matrix processor.

Out Board has also supplied this highly versatile precision tracking technology to control other third-party audio show controllers such as the Meyer LCS system, and provided support to developments in further disciplines such as control of lighting, cameras, multimedia servers and advanced show control environments such as the CAST BlackBox

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Launched this year as a virtual ceremony - saving on cost of to both pocket and liver - the awards acknowledge the best products, companies and people in all sectors of the business, with each nominee put forward by people in the industry and the finalists picked by a panel of judges from the industry.

Delta's Lee Dennison, who designed and oversaw the project, is delighted that Delta has been recognised in this way and is full of praise for everyone involved, particularly equipment manufacturers EM Acoustics, Yamaha Pro Audio and Lab.Gruppen.

"The on-going support and consultancy that they have provided is phenomenal," says Dennison. "

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The Award, named after the Society's founder, was presented at the Society's 50th Anniversary ceremony held at the House of Commons and recognises innovative ways to deal with the problem of noise pollution. Sharps Redmore was honoured for its forward thinking approach to solving the problem of extraneous sound escaping from the cricket ground and potentially disturbing residents in neighbouring flats.

Three Ateis Messenger L loudspeakers were specified by Sharps Redmore's Clive Bentley to achieve this goal. The management of the Brit Oval has always c

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14 March 2016

Intense sources of artificial light in the workplace, particularly from UV radiation and powerful lasers can harm the eyes and skin of workers and need to be properly managed.

The Directive aims to ensure that standards are set and harmonised across the EU so all workers are protected from harm arising from exposure to hazardous sources of artificial light.

Workers in Great Britain are generally well protected from hazardous sources of light and the majority of businesses know how to manage these risks effectively. The draft regulations are designed to ensure that businesses do not face unnecessary additional burdens where there is no risk of harm to workers.

Common

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"Setron India Private Ltd is a very forward-looking company and we have been very impressed with the way that the company has embraced India's rapidly expanding and technically improving broadcast and live entertainment industries," says ASL sales and marketing director Susan McLohon.

"Setron has an excellent reputation for customer support and so, as a forward-looking company ourselves, we believe that it is the ideal partner to help expand our interests in the region. We are sure that it will prove to be a very rewarding relationship for both companies."

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"With the KSM9s I don't need to treat the sound of their voices coming in to the desk - it's pretty much just flat, natural sound. You don't really have to put any EQ on the desk as they're a very natural sounding microphone. We add some light compression, but nothing major like you'd find on pop vocals."

Whybrow continues, "During the show the mics com

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14 March 2016

Playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, one of the ideas of the show, says Lyons, was to have a flavour of 1980s rock lighting, "par can rock" as he calls it. He started by creating a configuration of MAC 2000 Washes that worked both theatrically and looked great in the air for the show's big numbers.

"The 2K Washes are amazing and punchy and perfect for this kind of task," he comments. "What we really needed was the ability to cut through the washes in a big way, both for punchy aerials and very powerful specials within full stage looks. The MAC III Profile fit the bill perfectly. Even with dense templates and saturated colour, the MAC IIIs really stood out as a major part of the stage picture.&

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14 March 2016

The system supplied by Rightway Audio consists of eight dV-Dosc line source cabinets with a dV-SUB low frequency extension unit for the central channel, and six ARCS for each left and right array. Two SB28 subwoofers have been flown per side, and the system also includes eight 115XT HiQ active stage monitors and six 12XT coaxial stage monitors. A further eight 12XT wedges are ceiling-mounted as effect speakers.

A total of 40 8XT compact coaxials have also been deployed, 24 of which are mounted on the three auditorium lev

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14 March 2016

"It is clear that the partnership between PLDA and Traxon Technologies will be incredibly significant for our future business, especially within the Architectural Lighting industry," said Lee Richards, European general manager of Traxon Technologies. "Architects and Lighting Designers are all seeking the right lighting solutions in response to their creative ideas and Traxon's vision of 'Flexibility, Simplicity and Innovation' is aligned with their objectives."

Richards added: "According to PLDA's key

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A crowd of 900 was gathered in the atrium space of the Great Court of The British Museum in central London, which event services supplier David Wise describes as "one of the most demanding environments we work in." His company Wise Productions is a preferred supplier to The British Museum, and, on this occasion, brought in a combination of Geo S1230 and PS10 cabinets to handle the speech-making.

Installation time was just 35 minutes to set up two Geo S1230 on tripods as main PA, and to arrange 12 PS10s around the stage as side, front and rear-fill. NXAMP 4x1s were used to power the system, NX242s to process it, and a Yamaha LS9-16 to mix it.

"The venue has told us that this was the best speech so