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When owners Kassia Picone and Tristan Grier decided to install a background music system into their new venue, in the adjacent 100 year old bakery, they called upon Paul Morris of Morris Communications.

"Initially it was to be a simple background system neatly crafted into the existing building but a couple of days into the project Tristan decided that he wanted to have intimate live performances through the background music system," says Morris. "That changed everything. We had a frank discussion and I told him that what he wanted was completely different and the budget would need to incr

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"The second installment of our Middle East Roadshow in Doha was met with great attendance during all three sessions during the day," commented Moswain Antao, Roland video specialist. "We received great feedback and interest from the market for both our audio and video solutions."

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

German lighting designer Jerry Appelt specified masses of lighting to deliver different looks for the 43 competing countries, three interval acts and opening act for the Final broadcast. Over 2,100 moving lights were incorporated into the design, with the majority hung overhead, spanning the entire space of Düsseldorf Arena.

Twenty-four Falcon Flower 3000Ws made a massive impact at floor level with four placed on each side of the stage at its widest position and another 12 lined along the back LED stage wall. Four more were placed on the catwalks in front of the stage.Sixteen Falcon Flower 7000Ws were placed in the ceiling, with eight hung on a moving truss directly behind the stage. Lighting control was delivered via grandMA2 full-size consoles, t

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Dedicated to the Brazilian music genre known as Axé, with its roots in Salvador de Bahia, the event featured popular Brazilian artists such as Ivete Sangalo, Cláudia Leite, Chiclete Com Banana and Asa De Águia.

The 12-strong technical team from production company Estação da Luz ensured that the promoters - DM Promoções e Eventos - had a first class sound and lighting infrastructure (as they have for the past 10 years) - with SGM lighting providing the bulk of moving heads.

Marcelo Claudio Cesar's company has been building up an inventory of SGM fixtures, supplied by local distributors Hot Machine, over a number of years, and today runs 112 Giotto Spot 400, 24 Idea Beam 300 and 12 Ribalta LED colour

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The event, more than double the capacity of previous Big Weekends, will feature six stages of music. The majority of the tickets for BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012 are being allocated to people living in Hackney and the surrounding boroughs. The announcement was made during a special simulcast broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra from the Olympic Park.

Radio 1 and 1Xtra's controller Andy Parfitt said: "This is the most ambitious event in the station's 44-year history. We aim to enhance the overall London 2012 s

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14 March 2016

It's just a year since members of PLASA and ESTA voted to merge the two Associations, and in the intervening 12 months, PLASA has reinvented key elements of its operations introducing a new membership structure, a new Governance system and election process, granting the vote to Organizational and Individual members, and launching a complete new PLASA logo and identity.

Whilst the day will reflect on the achievements of the last year, it will also invite members to feedback on what they'd like to see PLASA doing for their specific business sectors, additional services they feel should be offered and the role they'd like to see PLASA taking in the wider industry.

The formalities however, are a relatively small part of the

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Lighting director Bernie Davis commented: "As soon as it was announced that the marriage ceremony was taking place in Westminster Abbey I knew that ELP were the right crew for the job. Over the last eight years or so I've used ELP as the lighting supplier on so many high profile broadcasts from the Abbey that by now ELP riggers and electricians know every square inch of the building. They are trusted by the facilities staff at the Abbey and virtually on first name terms with the Vergers...so when thinking about risk management, who else was I going to use?"

With so much cutting-edge digital technology on display from the words broadcast media - hi

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14 March 2016

"MK Light & Sound have impressed us by their dedication to supporting their customers and partners and we believe they will do very well in representing CRMX wireless lighting controls in Slovenia," says Anders Ardstål VPO of LumenRadio.

MK Light & Sound have already started a demonstration tour of CRMX products in Slovenia and the customer response so far has been" extremely positive".

"CRMX is the given choice for us in offering our customers reliable wireless lighting controls," comments Dean Karov at MK Light Sound . "The customers want something that always works, and CRMX is the only brand that can deliver on that promise as we see it. We are naturally excited to have started marketing CRMX products in Slovenia and alre

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14 March 2016

Currently in its fourth year, the Knight of Illumination Awards was established to recognise the talents of lighting designers working across the creative arts in the UK. Past winners include Bernie Davis, Baz Halpin, Cate Carter, Dave Davey, Al Gurdon, Andi Watson and Paule Constable.

The Awards are the only programme dedicated exclusively to the stage lighting designer's craft in the UK, and, in all likelihood, the only competition in the world where winners receive an authentic medieval battle sword - crafted in Toledo, Spain.

Neil Austin, who received his 'knighthood' for work on the London-staged musical, Parade, said: "The Knight of Illumination Awards are the gold standard. They are the only awards to honour lighting de

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14 March 2016

In the new office located minutes away from St Pancras London, Stageco and Tait Technologies combine over 50 years of experience supplying the events industry. The appointed UK representatives in the new premises are Stageco's international project manager, Dirk de Decker and Tait Technologies UK manager, Fanny Verschraege, who worked for global technology company Barco for seven years. Both companies are recruiting new staff to expand their UK based team.

Dirk de Decker comments, "The main benefit of this office is that we are committing ourselves to be more easily available to come and meet UK music and event industry professi

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Initially they had bought the two GIS EM electric chain hoists from John Jones (now of LTM) back in 1992. The hoists were linked using an extended bar to allow lifting of normal loads using either hoist or long loads using both hoists together. These hoists are required to raise goods from floor level to two mezzanine levels up to 10m high. Following the original site survey, two GIS EM 500kg capacity electric chain hoists were recommended with electric travel trolleys, as they needed to have fast lifting to speed up the loading process. The hoists were delivered and

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In 1980 the arena got its first roof (after 60 years in the open air) while over the years the audio system grew to become to a patchwork of dozens of different speakers in many different sizes, positioned in all possible corners of the roof and truss.

However, in 2009 the local audio company Phil's Concert and Showtechnique was hired to plan a new system, based around EAW components, which would replace the old hybrid.

Due to aesthetic reasons and the presence of the obligatory video cube, a central cluster was out of the question. Different dec

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14 March 2016

With over 105 band members playing a diverse range of musical instruments, the Indian TA band needed a system that would offer significant enhancements in the performance and ease of use. Faced with a myriad of choices, the Territorial Army brought in ElectroAcoustic Consultants Advance Acoustic Research in order to specify the appropriate sound reinforcement system designed to meet the demands of the band.

After assessing and comparing various equipment from different manufacturers, Mr Tikendra Singh, principal consultant of Advance Acoustic Research, recommended Tannoy VQ Series for the band.

After Mr Singh's recommendation, the Indian Territorial Army d

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Introduction to DMX & RDM (Wednesday 29 June) - This training day covers all the basics of the DMX and RDM protocols. Aimed at people who are new to the technology, it will start from the beginning of DMX, explain how it works, how it can be used and will highlight good working practices. The second half of the day will cover the new protocol RDM and show how this will benefit the industry.

Colour-Tramp (Thursday 7 July) - Artistic Licence Colour-Tramp control system is specifically designed to enable you to programme and control two and three dimensional lighting arrays.

DALI (Wednesday 5 October) - DALI training was the first of the Artistic Licence Engineering Training Days and has been so popular that extra dates have been added and an expl

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The F-30 was specified by Guetta's show/visuals designer and vibe engineer Ben Brett, who has developed a special piece of control software - Pilot - which is used to run the screen visuals. For this tour, in addition to the screen content, Pilot was running a back wall of 60 x LED moving lights positioned upstage of the rear section of F-30 screen.

The back screen comprised 105 panels of F-30 and in front of the DJ booth was a smaller one made up of 14 panels. With visuals flowing across both surfaces simultaneously, it became a genuine three dimensional digital set.

(Jim Evans)

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Leading the charge will be the first official live demonstration of Tannoy's VX Series and VXP Series, the latter featuring Lab.gruppen's new IDEEA (Intelli-Drive Energy Efficient Amplifier) power module. The new passive and self-powered sound reinforcement lines build on the success of the existing V Series range, with an expanded line-up that includes twin driver configurations and new QCW (Q-Centric Waveguide) transducer technology for optimal tonal clarity, LF performance and greater pattern control.

In another InfoComm exclusive, Lab.gruppen intends to give an advanced preview of

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14 March 2016

He has recently been engaged on mixing Pet Shops Boys' The Most Incredible Thing ballet CD and Honey Ryder's latest album.

For nearfield monitoring he has purchased a pair of JBL LSR 4328P and matched JBL LSR4312s subwoofer from JBL resellers, Batmink following a demonstration arranged by UK distributor Sound Technology.

These had been recommended by producer Jon O'Mahony, who owns the six-room LA Sound Studios in Acton, where Kraushaar's Pro Tools studio has been based for the past seven years.

"Instead of travelling around different studios the great advantage here is that I am listening to the same sound every d

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Hall 1 is a tiered, 1500-capacity auditorium and previously featured an analogue mixing console working with the venue's d&b Q series PA system. When the console reached the end of its cost-effective working life a replacement was sought, with a digital console the obvious step forward.

"A major criterion for the new console was its 'walk-up friendliness'," says ICC technical event services manager Paul Dipple. "The ICC plays host to many visiting engineers that often have very limited tim

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Arditti put together the spec for a top-end system that could also cope with later plans to tour the ballet, recognising that the in-house system at Sadler's Wells would not be able to cope with the score's large dynamic range. The main system is configured with four hangs of eight T-10s, each with a T-SUB, plus a centre cluster of 10 T-10s, with the addition of four d&b Q-Subs and four B2s to boost the low end performance.

"The T-10s are awesomely compact at just 30cm wide - to the extent that when

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The seminar began with a presentation of the numerous advantages and technical possibilities of the new series. The enthusiasm of participants for the USB audio interface of the PowerMate3 with its low latency and the powered mixer's loudspeaker protection functions was particularly evident.

"In addition to the technical features, we laid special emphasis upon the many and varied applications and uses for the system," reports Al-Harbi. "Participants were then able to try out the functions and feat

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14 March 2016

Audio quality is key to Real Life's contemporary services, with charismatic pastors and a five piece band flanked by backup singers. The church retained Sach AV of Florida, who recommended a system based on Renkus-Heinz's CF-Series modular point source line array.

"The room is quite

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14 March 2016

As one of the UK's most experienced event webcasting specialists, Lloyd was able to share what he's learned on the road and in the field about using Mediasite to record and stream live events and conferences. He addressed the major differences between installed and touring systems along with best practices and first-hand case studies of how to ensure a successful event.

His presentation was designed to help potential users understand major differences in deployment and the ease of incorporating Mediasite into an ad ho

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14 March 2016

With the help of Byron Connerly and Gil Parente of Entertainment Arts, the church purchased an Allen and Heath iLive T-112 digital mixing console as well as wireless in-ear monitor systems for the entire band. "The iLive-T series has a ton of great options when it comes to personal mixing," says Parente. "There are option cards that allow integration into various 'big brand' personal mixing systems. But we knew that the churc

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"Understanding the desires of the festival organizers to have the best in energy-efficient and sustainable lighting, we approached the organization with a great lighting package that would allow them to meet all their requirements," said Hans Alders, HA-Rental.

As the organizers agreed to the offer from HA-