The £22m development which also includes a 400-seat concert hall and 160-seat theatre is due for competition within the next few weeks.
The two 120m2 polished wood rehearsal studio floors will be protected by Le Mark's EventFloor during student events. RWCMD's technical manager Simon Denman-Ellis says, "We were so impressed with the flooring, we may even use EventFloor on the main stage in the new 400 seat concert hall."
(Jim Evans)
Some of Colour Sound's latest purchase of 32 GLP Spot One LED moving lights from A.C. Entertainment Technologies also had their first outing at Rockness.
For Rockness, Colour Sound produced a production lighting design for the main stage of this popular event staged on the shores of Scotland's most famous Loch, which was based on the spec's of the three headline acts - Kasabian (LD Nick Gray), The Chemical Brothers (LD Paul Normandale) and Paolo Nutini (LD Jason Hyne). All three also bought in their own specials packages, of which N
It was the second year of the London Electronic Dance Festival (LED) - and since Deadmau5 is a client of Capital Sound Hire, the London based sound production company were brought in by the consortium of promoters (Cream, Goldenvoice and Loudsound) seizing the opportunity to fire up the MLA system outdoors for the first time.
"We knew how the system sounded indoors, but I wanted to evaluate it outside, and see how it would fare in propagation tests," said Capital technical manager Ian Colville. "Thanks to the tight micro-control the system can be programmed to enable the sound to taper o
The recent installation was performed at Mount Laurel, New Jersey's Twelve Thousand Building Conference Centre, housing training room and boardroom spaces for TD Bank. Xantech products, including the WIC1200Web Intelligent Controller and CWTC1010.4-inch Wireless Touch Controller, now form the foundation for the A/Vdistribution in several rooms in the building.
The ceremony was attended by APA's VP of sales and production Dave Pedemonti; Xantech president Graham Hallett; and Xantech director of business development Rick Seegull.
Pedemonti stated, "We are very proud to have completed Xantech's two-millionth installati
Today, the eclectic line-up ranges from New Orleans jazz to electronic musicians, and from local artists and street performers to superstars. With 37,000 spectators breaking last year's attendance record the scene was set for this year when the event celebrated its 30th anniversary with the return of many artists who have previously played the festival, and a finale comprising a 'Crazy Parade' through the Coutances town centre.
With so many venues in use, an advanced network was required for the week-long festival, with appearances by Eric Bibb, Jamie Cullum, Charlie Musselwhite and Malted Milk.
This included an Optocore signal distribution system, provided by sound engi
Although the amount of boxes may vary depending on the size of individual stages, the core Peavey set-up comprises two hangs of Versarray 212 mid/high enclosures, with Versarray 218 subwoofers providing low frequency reinforcement beneath the stage. Crest CV-20 56 Premium and HP-Eight (40 frame) consoles are deployed for FOH and monitor work respectively; and all power is provided by Crest Pro 9200 and 7200 amplifiers.
Upcoming festivals include Sonisphere at Knebworth on 8-10 July, where The Defiled will headline the Jagermeister stage; Splendour Festival in Nottingham
Richard Martin Lighting supports lighting designer Dave Davey's design. The design brief set out for Davey when he first joined the production, was to "make the set look colourful without spill onto Projection screens". To achieve this he opted for VL1000TS' "All hanging, focussed on to backing flats".
When asked about his choice of fixtures Dave said, "The VL100TS is the right tool to apply colour and texture to the Mock The Week! set to enhance all of the backings and the main desk."
(Jim Evans)
Held during the ABTT Theatre Show, the party took place at a pub close to the exhibition venue and was well attended by the two companies' customers, suppliers and manufacturers alike.
John Simpson, White Light's chairman, said, "As we suspected, our industry pals were all too happy to have a drink or two provided for them to celebrate our fortieth birthdays! It was great to see so many customers and colleagues in one place, helping us to toast our four decades of success."
John Allen, director at Northern Light, added, "Having known John since we founded our respective companies in 1971, I very much enjoyed reminiscing about our early days and observing the next generation of the entertainment
Six Robert Juliat Aramis 2500W HMI DMX and four Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HTI followspots highlighted the main performers from front of house positions during each number, with five Robert Juliat Victor 1800W MSR followspots used as backlight from truss seats suspended behind the stage.
The show needed followspots that were powerful enough to pick out the performers amid the quantity of light put out by over 2000 moving lights and vivid video backdrops. All the Robert Juliat followspots were provided by Cape Cross of Cologne.
(Jim Evans)
The AGM featured presentations from PLASA's Acting Chair Ed Pagett, Treasurer Martin Hawthorn and CEO Matthew Griffiths, covering the early stages of the merger and operational and financial reviews of the past 12 months. In the year since the merger was first voted for by members, PLASA has restructured its membership, run new-style elections, introduced a more representative Governance structure with Regional Boards and an international Governing Body and launched new services and research projects.
Whilst the merger was a key focus of the day, it was not the only subject under discussion and in a lively Q&A session follo
Profit increased from 3.8m Euros (in 2009) to 22.6mEuros. Volker Bartels, spokesperson of Sennheiser's Executive Management Board, stated that "All product groups and all markets have contributed to this positive result." He added, "One of the important factors which contributed to this result was the revival of the professional side of our business and the highly positive growth at the end of the year, particularly in the consumer segment. Now we have to stabilise this dynamic growth and further expand our business."
The largest part of the company's turnover c
The 65th Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre were broadcast live on CBS television. One of the major challenges of this year's ceremony was the new location as the event was moved from the Radio City Hall to the much smaller Beacon Theatre. This meant that the equipment that usually would have been installed next to the stage, now needed to be installed in trucks and tents outside the venue resulting in a more complex setup.
For providing the live
Many, many people entered the draw to be in with a chance of going home with the 1971 Speyside single malt from the Macallan distillery, but there could only be one winner.
At 4 pm on Thursday 16 June, PLASA's Ruth Rossington kindly did the honours and drew the winner - who was Anne Valentino, ETC's EOS product line manager.
(Jim Evans)
As the original home of the Ibiza Rocks live gigs, it was largely responsible for reintroducing guitar based music to the island, and the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Babyshambles, and Kaiser Chiefs have all performed on stage under the Ibiza Rocks banner. The list of DJs to grace the bar also reads like a who's who of dance music; Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Calvin Harris, Doorly and Eddie Halliwell have all made regular appearances.
Ibiza Rocks approached Prolyte Group back in March
Modeled after the highly successful PLASA Focus: Leeds (UK), which recently broke previous attendance records in its third year, Focus: Austin will bring together members of the entertainment technology community to do business and network in a relaxed and friendly setting.
The two-day show will be reasonably priced for exhibitors and free to registered visitors. A unique hard wall booth package-including furniture, power and lighting-will level the playing field and give exhibitors a simple and affordable exhibiting experience. The show'
"CRMX has been recognised worldwide as the premium brand for wireless lighting controls, and has recently proven its superior reliability in the most challenging of installations," says Steven Cai at Leafun. We are proud to bring the benefits of the CRMX technology to the greater Chinese market. We have numerous new government and other high profile projects in the pipeline and will have three dedicated sales and support people working to drive the CRMX wireless revolution in China. We will also immediately start
Ideas for illuminating the Sheikh Zayed Bridge began over a decade ago when colored illumination was promoted by Nour Assafiri, CEO of Martin Middle East, to the Municipality of Abu Dhabi. They liked the idea and accordingly asked the bridge's prestigious architect Zaha Hadid to consider the concept.
Named after the country's former president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the bridge features a captivating illumination of dynamic lighting from 204 Martin Exterior 600 and 130 Martin Exterior 200 colour changing luminaires, as well as 956 Martin Cyclo 01 linear fluorescent luminaires.
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Attendance at Event 2011 was up by 20% on last year, and it really showed, as the two marquees, the demonstration theatres and outside areas were bustling throughout.
Visitors were entertained by live music across two stages delivered through HK Audio Elements PA with musicians including Bob Henrit, Bad Company's Dave 'Bucket' Colwell, Thomas Blug, John Verity, Jamie Mallender, Paul Rogers Band guitarist Paul Guerin, and virtuoso blues guitarists/ chanteuses Chantel McGregor and Clare Free. JHS very own Gav Coulson hosted the JHS Rock All-stars, as MC, MD, bass pla
Based near Ibbenbüren in northern Germany, the company extended its already large EAW fleet by adding 16 of the KF740 full range enclosures, containing four 10in woofers in dual phase-aligned pairs, along with eight matched dual 21in SB-2001 subs - and eight MicroWedge MW15 stage monitors. The deal was concluded at the recent Prolight+Sound expo in Frankfurt and the order fulfilled by Trius GmbH & Co, EAW's German distributors.
L&S MD Tobias Berghaus comments, "Having used many other line array systems in the past we are familiar with the market - and it was simply that the EAW / Trius combination offered the best price/performance ratio. Since Trius are based just 15 minutes away we know we can rely on them for fast back-up response."
The timing
The main users of the hall will be the Radio Symphony Orchestra (YLE/The Finnish Broadcasting Company), the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sibelius Academy. The 1700-seat hall is also in demand for other types of music; for example, Finnish cello rock band Apocalyptica have been booked to play the venue later this year.
"The objective was to maintain even SPL and smooth tonal balance for all sections," says Starlike's Pauli Molnár. "This led to the choice of speakers with similar physical properties: consistent tonal balance and technology. An L-Acoustics line source system was deemed to be the ideal choice, as the modularity of its curvature ensures excellent homogeneity of coverage, even tonal balance and
"The SD9 is big enough to cope with most of the shows we work on and we wanted to offer a different option to other rental companies in our region," says Cash Sound owner Sasan 'Ciro' Cirkovic.
Supplied by DiGiCo's Slovenian distributor MK Light Sound, the console is Cash Sound's first DiGiCo product and will be used on broadcast projects as well as for live shows.
"We have had the opportunity to look at other manufacturers digital consoles via acts that have performed in Croatia and key benefits for us were that the SD9 has a really good sound and is a stable platform," Ciro continues.
"In our opinion, compared t
Considered as the smallest PA system in the family of HK Audio, the L.U.C.A.S. Smart consists of two satellites with a 6.5" speaker and a 1" dome tweeter, both of which are powered by a 250-watt RMS digital power amp integrated with a 10" subwoofer. Although the system is relatively small, it is engineered to throw a generously wide, uniform pattern.
"The LUCAS Smart system is a compact, portable yet powerful system which makes it a very convenient system for all sorts of portable applications," commented Dino Drimakis, business development manager at Melody House. "Eeducational institutions like the SAE will find that they have made the right investment as it is no
Partly rented from PA company, SRD Group, the system comprised an iLive-80 Control Surface and an iDR0 miniRack at FOH, digitally split from an iDR-48 MixRack and an iLive-R72 Control Surface at monitor position.
"I think it's a great sounding desk with so much headroom. I mix pretty loud and I tried really hard to run the outputs into distortion but I failed," reports FOH engineer, Chris Fillery. "The parametric EQ is great and musical. I also enjoy the choice of compressor types, it's nice to have elements which help you add a bit of character to the mix. The FX are excellent - the reverbs sound really good and the ADT and sub bass synthesis are well thought out."
Chris Fillery used the iLive-80 control surface wi
The products of Kling & Freitag will be represented by Linfair's sales manager Paul Chang who comments, "We are delighted to represent Kling & Freitag in the Taiwanese market. We feel that the superior quality fits well with our range of products and look forward to grow it in Taiwan."
Linfair has already lined up a couple of interesting projects, which will be planned with speakers from the German manufacturer. (Jim Evans)
