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Monitor engineer Graham Blake, whose 25 years' experience includes working with Queen, Live Earth, Spice Girls and the Classical Brits as well as the last five years with Simply Red, says, "The band all commented on the warmth and richness of the sound. They really noticed the difference. I've never had a band respond to new equipment like that before.

The tour provided Blake with an opportunity to use the XL8 on the road for the first time, having completed the training with Midas' brand development manager Richard Ferriday some eight months earlier. "Even with that kind of gap it was easy to pick up," says Blake who was won over by the XL8's scope and versatility, and eager

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With its external chairlift, the Swiss Pavilion is an eye-catching element of during the Expo. The chairlift takes visitors up to the flower beds of the green roof, as a symbol of the natural environment. In contrast, the interior area stands for the urban part, where 21 Barco CLM HD8 projectors are used to create a 360° projection showing visitors images of the cities Zürich, Basel and Geneva.

Winkler VST is responisble for the planning and technical realisation of all AV equipment. "We have experience with Barco's CLM HD8 projectors and have learned that they are ideal to use in multi-p

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Eric Porter, experienced independent rigger, trainer, adviser and committee member for the PLASA National Rigging Certificate, led the two-day course. A structure was built in the studio area that allowed delegates to carry out working at height training, truss building, motor flying and rigging exercises, with a separate classroom area for theory work.

The course included an evening out allowing people attending the course to get together and enjoy a meal alongside staff from A.C. Rigging and Litestructures.

Jay Bridges, technical manager - produced, for the Derby LIVE group of venues, commented, "I was looking for a forma

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The workshop will be held in English and will focus on all aspects of a live gig, including planning and setting up the public address system, miking and frequency manage¬ment, and finally fine-tuning the monitor and FOH sound. Prominent sound engineers and event professionals will assist participants, while the band Rauschenberger will perform the live act. The Live Mixing Workshop is organised by Sennheiser Sound Academy and supported by co-sponsor Yamaha, the SAE Institute and Fischer Amps.

"What makes the Live Mixing Workshop so special is its practical orientation," explains Kirsten Wessendorf, manager of

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Stage Electrics is one of the biggest suppliers of technical equipment to the Edinburgh International Festival and Festival Fringe.

This year, Stage Electrics will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of successfully supplying the prestigious Assembly Rooms.

Along side this, the company is supplying more venues than ever before, with over 55 performance spaces in total including the Gilded Balloon, Underbelly, Universal Arts, The World Festival and many other shows and venues around the city.

Adrian Searle head of technical and hire comments, "This year sees the Assembly Rooms cele

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In the five years since the company's creation, i-Pix's products have proved popular with lighting designers for concerts and live events - including forming the core of the design for Radiohead's 2008 world tour, and more recently as a key element of the Kick Off Celebration Concert for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The current i-Pix product line-up includes the BB1 'building block' modular LED light-source, the BB4 LED washlight, the BB7 beamlight/washlight fixture, and the versatile Satellite.

"In our five year history, we have doubled our revenues year on year, and both our product range and expertise have increased," notes i-Pix founder Chris Ewington. "We have worked directly with l

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Confirmed exhibitors include: Christie Lites, Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), EPIC Production Technologies, GerrAudio Distribution, JD International, MDG Fog Generators, Ontario Staging, Roland Systems Group, ROSCO, Sennheiser Canada, Show Distribution, Technically yours Inc (TYI) and ZFX Flying.

A limited number of three-minute showcase slots are still available for the New Product Breakfast on Friday August 13 from 8am to 9am.. Book your slot today! Open to Trade Show Exhibitors.

A Conference highlight will be the Annual CITT Awards Banquet on Saturday 14 A

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This marks a digital first for Keyes, who has never before taken a digital console on the road. She has been mixing monitors since 1991 and, in recent years, more usually opted for a Heritage desk.

"In the past," says Keyes, "we have not been able to get (vocalist) Eddie Vedder on a digital because we've not got the sound quality but the PRO6 has really delivered. We have found no issues with latency and the band loves the sound."

Keyes herself quickly felt at home on the PRO6. "I felt pretty comfortable with it after the first show," she says, "and the factory support from Midas is amazing.

"The key to mixing monitors for Pearl Jam is keeping my eyes on Ed and the band

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The Fabulous Feasts menu, designed specifically to suit the family-oriented Oxfordshire audience, was freshly prepared on site from their newly built bespoke temporary catering facility.

Hugh Phillimore, director of Cornbury Festival, comments, "Cornbury is thrilled to welcome Jamie's Fabulous Feasts to their first summer festival. Cornbury is famous for its family audience, its great music and wide range of international food; so it's a perfect fit for Jamie's new events catering company.The Fabulous Feasts team have shown that it is possible to bring fresh, tasty, responsibly sourced food to the public at large scale events like this one."

(Jim Evans)

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For years, the church battled with a poor monitoring system that did not effectively meet the needs of the musicians and singers in the worship band. Frustrated musicians complained that they could not hear themselves while the volunteer audio staff said the musicians' high monitor volumes made mixing for the congregation impossible.

As part of an upgrade to its monitoring setup, the church moved to an Aviom personal mixing system, installed by First Live Sound Sdn Bhd and supplied by Coda Audio Services Pte, to help overcome the challenges. With the Aviom Personal Mixers

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AC-ET has been supplying Sound Technology brands to dealers and end-users in the core production markets for many years. Combined with their sales and warehousing operations in the North and South of England, the strategic alliance provides Sound Technology customers with increased access to stock in the UK .

As part of the agreement, AC-ET holds stock and demo units of key lines in the Sound Technology portfolio, such as Soundcraft's latest Vi1 digital mixing console.

Sound Technology sales director, Greg Niven, comments, "Having enjoyed a close working relationship for a number of years we are very pleased to add AC-ET to our

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The nerve centre for all television operations and the world's news agencies during the World Cup, the IBC was set up at the MTN Expo Centre.

Gearhouse Broadcast's head of sound, Ryan Campbell, configured a system for the Sports Programming Network based around Optocore converters. Analogue feeds were distributed to the Yamaha M7CL desk, fitted with Optocore YG and YS cards in the audio control room, with fibre distribution between the voice over booth and master control room - via a series of DD32E network devices and Optocore X6 I/O interfaces.

Says Ryan Campbell, "The Optocore rig util

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The south London-based company, the UK member of the Synco Europe Network, was lead contractor for the audio production. On the busiest weekend of the European festival calendar, with over a million watts of Synco by Martin Audio line array hardware deployed by Synco Network members at festival stages across northern Europe, RG Jones brought in London neighbours Capital Sound to supply the left and right PA hangs, and co-designed a cardioid sub-bass array with a Martin Audio team headed by Jason Baird.

RG Jones audio production manager and FOH engineer Steve Carr ran the crew on-site, with his 'wingman' Damion Dyer and system tech Mark Edwards, assisted b

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"It was clear early on in our discussions that the range of dBTechnologies was exactly what we had been looking for," says Tave president, Se-Keun Lee, who met with dBTechnologies at ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt in this year. "All products are technically advanced and include digital powered speakers; they are at exactly the right quality and price point."

Lee continues, "We have been monitoring the growth of dBTechnologies and its expanding range for some time and feel honoured to have the opportunity to represent this strong and professional brand in South Korea."

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The tour is a genuine ABC of Britain's city and provincial venues, ranging in size from 500 to 1500 capacity. From having actors visibly working the puppet characters to a sound that's loud enough, but not overly so, everything is geared to making the show enjoyable and interactive - but not overwhelming or frightening - to its very young audience.

Designed by Ian Horrocks-Taylor and supplied by Blitz Communications, at the core of the audio system is a Yamaha LS9-16 mixing console, SB168-ES stage box a

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Decked with four DVX D15, two S20, two Flexsys F15 and one Flexsys F10 powered speakers, the vehicle is to be used for outdoor promotions of products and events in the region. Nipul Shah of Nairobi-based Sound Creations comments, "The dBTechnologies gear was chosen for its clarity; technically it's great. Without much effort the sound travelled almost 100m, with a really good bass. It's really easy to set up, and the price to performance ratio is a bonus too."

Commissioned by Siqqel Holdings, the truck's inaugural appearance was in the town of Tala earlier this month, where crowds gathered for a Mulika Mwizi event. "Everyone was satisfied and the occasion was a

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On air since 1996, Storytellers is a programme that bases its popularity on the intimate meetings between the stars and the audience who can ask their favourite stars questions. Over the years the programme has had guests such as Sting, Elton John, Alanis Morissette and Coldplay.

On 13 June it was the turn of Christina Aguilera, with lighting designer Tom Kenny opting for 16 Infinity ACL, 24 Infinity Wash XL and some 50 ParLite LEDs.

(Jim Evans)

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The events which took place over a two-week period in June, saw some of the UK music scene's hottest and developing talent take centre stage at Regents Park- London, Stanley Park-Liverpool, Castle Park- Bristol and the Vale, Birmingham.

The four events were project managed by Stage Electrics' Andrew Siddon who used EAW KF965 loudspeakers and a Yamaha M7CL console to mix the live bands. Stage Electrics also provided all

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TESS has worked with Glastonbury since 2002 and in the past eight years has promoted a health and safety culture within the UK festival. The most prominent change is that TESS has successfully engaged the Glastonbury suppliers in improving health and safety in their own specialist areas.

Tim Roberts from TESS comments, "By being realistic, positive and getting everyone on message, we have created an empathetic understanding that what we want to do is a necessary requirement and is beneficial to everyone on the event."

This year was the first time TESS was appointed head of fire safety at Glastonbury; this new area was headed up by Mike Herbert, who developed a new strategy, working closely with the Devon and Somerset Fire Brigade. TESS was invo

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"We have a very nice studio set-up, with a full live room and tracking studio," says Ryan Williams, director of the recording department at the school. "But with up to 20 students in a class, we needed an efficient way to give them experience with the real basics of recording and mixing."

To give students experience in multi-track recording without having to take turns on the main console, AIM

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This installation represents the largest Duality in an educational institution. The expansion was part of the Full Sail Gateway Studios project encompassing a live performance hall, a game production studio and the new, state-of-the-art recording studio.

Duality joins three SSL J Series, 13 SSL AWS 900+ and seven SSL Matrix consoles to offer an industry standard user interface for all levels of study.

"We were building a studio called the Audio Temple, so it had to be the best of the best for our students," says Dana Roun, director of audio programmes for Full Sail University.

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Built in 1918, originally as a concert hall, Konsertpaléet screen 1 (KP1) is the premier cinema auditorium in Bergen and attracts cinephiles from across Scandinavia to enjoy its quality surroundings, sound and vision facilities. Recently it underwent a major refurbishment programme to become a true reference class cinema, with owning company Bergen Kino keen to provide filmgoers with a cinema experience that was in a league of its own.

Alongside contractors providing new seating, lighting and improved interior design, Bergen Kino contracted Unique Cinema Systems to inst

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The system consists of six Kinesys Elevation 1+ variable speed motor controllers and Kinesys converted 1Tonne, 10m/min, 20m HOL Liftket chain hoists. The Elevation 1+ controllers, as well as the hoists, were all supplied in a customised white finish, and the system is controlled using Kinesys' Vector PC based motion control software.

The Kinesys motors and controllers are used in the dramatic finale of the show for which the custom white lighting trusses are flown in at variable speed for the final crescendo, featuring the whole cast onstage singing the anthemic ABBA numbers, Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia! and Waterloo.

The trusses have to fly in with precise timing and speed and then stop exactly o

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The museum asked the AV integrator and provider Bowen Technovation to update the gallery with the latest in AV and information technology to provide visitors with unique experience.

Bowen Technovation selected Medialon to be the main AV controller of the entire museum.

When entering the museum, visitors are immersed into media-rich presentations, meaningful testimonials and historical exhibits which offer them a better understanding of what the Pacific War was like for the US and how it impacted the world.

A wide array of exhibits are spread throughout the museum, each of them including specific video, sound and lighting effects. "We had to find a control system that would receive and deliver the in