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The SD11 is DiGiCo's smallest sized sound desk to date. It is two consoles in one - a rack-mountable and a table top mixer with smart end cheeks and an arm rest - and an easy one-person lift from truck to table top, ready for action.

5 Star's design team was commissioned just before Christmas 2010 to create a special case for the SD11's planned launch at the recent Prolight+Sound 2011 exhibition in Frankfurt. "Once we saw the prototype SD11 at the end of last year, the first thing that was obvious to us was its neat and compact size," says 5 Star's MD Keith Sykes.

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The Award for A.C. Audio was presented at Nexo's annual distributor dinner/awards evening, staged this year at the Marriot Hotel during the recent Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt. Attended by around 150 people, the Awards honoured the best achieving dealers and distributors in key categories and sectors.

It is the first year that there has been an Award recognising UK sales. The new category was created after a restructuring of the entire Nexo distribution setup in the UK 18 months ago, and follows the conclusion of the first full financial year of trading in this new operational model.

Says A.C. Audio sales manager Peter Butler, "We were one

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Indonesian rental company Megaswara handled the sound requirements for the evening which included an Innovason Eclipse digital mixing console on monitors, with support from Innovason's Indonesian distributor, LaMesa.

LaMesa's Didi Kartanegara explained that the Eclipse was selected for monitors on this event - along with LaMesa engineer, Ahmad Rapii - as it was by far the most hectic situation for a live set up with an orchestra, and Megaswara didn'

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14 March 2016

Rockness, the recently announced winner of the 2011 NME Awards for Best Small Festival, is committed to achieving the highest levels of customer service for the 30,000 festival goers expected across the weekend of the 10-12 June. 2011.

Showsec area manager Scott Anderson says, "We are excited to be working with Rockness for the fifth year and we believe the decision to extend our services across the entire site demonstrates our continual progression across all areas of our service. This contract reflects our expansion in the Scottish market, with an ever-increasing local staff capability underpinning our growth."

Jim King, festival director at Rockness, sta

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XL was working for marketing and event producers Jack Morton Worldwide, who co-ordinated four similar format/concept sites across London for the wedding. An estimated 1m people lined the streets to catch some of the action, which was broadcast worldwide to a global audience of approximately 2bn. It was the most important UK Royal event for 30 years.

The screens were both made up from Lighthouse R7 panels and were positioned around Nelson's Column. One measured 80sq.m and faced the National Gallery, and the other was 40sq.m, facing eastward pointing down the Strand. Both were rigged on special screen support 'goal post' structures.

A stage was also built

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The Department of Media and Culture planned and implemented a wide ranging transformation of the capital city to host the Royal Wedding, engaging the Arena Group months ahead to manage the temporary media structures for host broadcasters, the BBC and ITV.

Arena Group senior project manager David Moynes worked with 'built asset consultancy' E.C Harris to plan the design and position of multiple temporary media facilities for the BBC and ITV, before installing them ready for the big day.

Working with these multiple stakeholders and security agencies at some of London's most sensitive locations, the Arena Group successfully managed the UK media compound in Green Park behind C

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At owner Ping Ge's IN-Bar in Taizhou, Zhejian, 24 D.A.S. Audio Avant 15A powered, two-way, compact full-range loudspeakers were deployed. A combination of six LX-218A powered, high performance subwoofers - three enclosures ground stacked in a centre mono sub configuration and another three units placed as delay subs - deliver low frequency support. An additional five Avant 118A powered horn-bass subwoofers complete the setup. A D.A.S. Audio DSP-2060 processor handles time alignment and limiter duties.

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Located in the heart of the West End, the Phoenix Artists Club is conveniently placed for lighting designers, lighting programmers and theatre technicians to get hands on with Zero 88's flagship lighting control range. Orb Specialist Richard Lambert explains, "We're very lucky to have such a brilliant training venue that's right in the heart of Central London and to be able to show the Orb on this newly installed theatrical moving light rig."

The training courses are proving very popular with participants attending from a wide range of venues and productions. Last month's session included lighting designers Richard Hillier, Chris Withers and Maximi

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The most recent affiliates are up-and-coming Dijon-based rental company Scene et Son who specialise in corporate events, and Able who are headquartered in Lyon. Both companies have invested in a Uniline system, opting for a total of 14 x UL210 and 10 x UL115B. A conscious choice was made on behalf of each company to invest in the same system configuration for maximum compatibility and versatility when handling major events.

Eric Chopin, managing director of Able comments, "Uniline is powerful, versatile and extremely simple to implement. Having positioned ourselves as both a rental company and full service provider in the Rhone-Alpes region of Franc

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Too fragile for public exhibition, the display of dresses was open to the world's leading media in order to allow a wider audience to experience them. Ahead of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey, the dresses received global coverage, filmed by BBC, ITN, Channel 4, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN as well as Australian, Canadian, French, German and Japanese broadcasters.

The extremely delicate and intricate task of lighting the six wedding gowns fell to Richard Lambert

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The Darkroom has created a world-first projection (watch it here), which was shown on an 80ft billboard from April 8 - 17 in the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles, for the US promotion of the show.

The projection was designed and produced by The Darkroom's creative director Bruce Ferguson, who designed the projection to be exclusive, while staying true to the design elements of the show, such as the gate, shields, and the sword, along with the series strap-line, 'winter is coming'.

This projection included a wall that looked like ice - based on a crucial location in the series - which came alive with projection mapping and themes from

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Richard Martin Lighting (RML) embraced the opportunity to be involved in something fresh, exciting and 'different from the norm', by supporting lighting designer Jamie Cairney who chose VL3000 Spots for the show.

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Held every October at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes and its surrounding areas, MIPCOM is the world event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content. It provides the people involved in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry a market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

Warner Brothers International Television hired the private beach belonging to the Hotel Majestic Barriere for the duration of the show, creating an exclusive venue that consisted of the hotel beachside restaurant and a specially constructed bar area as well as a private pier for meetings and rel

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The Martin Road Show van will soon be in Italy, hosting local events in Milan (10, 13 May) and Rome (19 May), before heading to France for a number of dates. Those events will be followed by a visit to the Lounge exhibition in Antwerp (31 May 31-1 June) and then additional stops in France, including the Stadia & Arena trade show in Marseille (15-17 June), before heading to the UK. In late summer and fall, the Martin Road Show will be visiting Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Scandinavia.

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The band's lengthy One Province One Concert (OPOC) tour, which started on 1 April and runs until 15 December, will take in all 76 provinces throughout Thailand.

Acoustic & Lighting System, who have been working with PR Lighting products since July 2005, took the opportunity to expose the new LED heads, which have been programmed into the scenography alongside conventional spots and washes by Chaiwut Panomchon and operated from a Road Hog Full Boar console.

Acoustic & Lighting System are headquartered in Selangor, Malaysia, and their Bangkok-based branch manager, Veera Lee, says, "We like the XLED 590 as it is extreme

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On debut was Igor Strawinskys Suite No. 2 for small orchestra with a series of four dances (march - waltz - polka - gallop) followed by Lucernaris - a concert for trumpete, live electronic and orchestra of the young Swedish composer Tobias Broström. The Great symphony in C major by Franz Schubert concluded proceedings.

The reproduction of the live electronics was realized by a 5.1 reinforcement. Hartmut Lissner, technical director of Konzert- & Kongressgesellschaft opted for Versio active systems VL 750 plus VSS 18 subs, positioned on the gallery achieving a balanced sound dispersion within the entire hall.

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"Black Light did a superb job," says Dr Miles Gregory, the Maltings' chief executive & artistic director. "They were courteous and professional to deal with, and the finish they achieved was exactly to the specifications we demanded. The new Henry Travers Studio is a beautiful room, which delivers the flexibility we wanted as well as looking like a high-quality theatre space. We love it."

The project involved reviewing the plans for the refurbishment of the 100-seat studi

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The Arena Group's increased international capabilities now extend into the Far East, with a permanent base set up in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. This new venture is underpinned by significant investment, broadening the company's global services to now provide temporary events overlay, temporary structures, seating, interior design and fit-out to prestigious clients from offices across three continents.

Greg Lawless, Arena Group CEO, says, "The global Arena Group has developed from a highly respected UK based business, with an exceptional 'blue ribbon' client base and a reputation for delivering consistently high quality events infrastructure. The logical step for the business, in response to client's requests and bu

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The standard refers to the quality of the management and other systems in place and the company's overall commitment and ability to deliver outstanding customer service, products and general support and efficiency to its clients.

ISO9001 is designed to encourage excellence in companies and organisations and to help them understand and instigate the best and most appropriate processes for delivering the premium services.

A rigorous audit, including a comprehensive inspection and report precedes the certification being awarded or renewed annually.

CPL has just doubled its West Midlands warehouse and office facility in a recent expansion which will help strea

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"OSA and MLA are a perfect fit," said Mark Graham, Loud's CEO. "Show after show, the MLA has drawn enthusiastic attention from the Pro Audio community and audience members alike. By delivering an unprecedented level of coverage, consistency and fidelity through its true generation-2 technology, MLA has reset the standard, and expectations, above legacy live sound equipment. And true to their first-to-move strategy, Mario [Educate, OSA founder] and Jim [Risgin, OSA vice president] immediately s

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Since the show finished on April 28, the company has already supplied equipment to a significant number of new clients in the region and is now following up many requests for quotes. Such positive indicators lead the company to book its stand for 2012 before this year's event closed.

Unusual Rigging & Engineering's recent projects have included the Zaha Hadid Pavilion at the Abu Dhabi Festival, the Laureus Awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi, the Kuwait Centre of Autism and Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi.

Alan Thomson was on the stand with project manager Leon Ingram, along with Denis Bramhall, the UK's Operations Manager and S

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The microphones were located in key areas of the Abbey; a computer touchscreen showed the operator their exact positions within the building. The ES935ML6 microphones were switched on and off locally by the user or controlled remotely by a verger using any of the touchscreens. Additionally, several U851R microphones were used on the altars.

Greg Pinto, Audio-Technica US vice president, marketing, said, "We are incredibly honoured to have our microphones employed for such a momentous occasion. The royal wedding was one of the most highly watched events on television, and we believe it speaks to the quality and dependability of our p

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At the Austerlitz Railway Station in Paris, the process has just begun and will last until 2025. An important part of the new look is illumination of the lattice structure of the main hall in order to visually bring it in step with the 21st century.

During initial contact with the Austerlitz managers, the frame of the project was already well developed - to bring animation to the station without disturbing the daily activity or altering the architecture. Starting from this brief, Martin France was able to propose several ideas, including the decision to use the main structure as a

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"With shows and projects getting bigger and bigger, Coachella being one of them, we thought it would be important to make our Fly Pak system as flexible as possible," states Ian-C. Charbonneau, mixing engineer LeMobile. "We added four MADI cards to the DM2000 allowing an all-digital interface between our Pro Tools rig, Apogee converters, and the console. The MADI cards also provide more flexibility when using the console with our other recording systems, like Le Box or even Le Mobile."

"I had used MADI previously with the Studer digital recorder and knew this format was one