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This is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles.

Over in Jordan, Amman-based R.B. Live Productions, the PR Lighting distributors, have been building ringside ground support trusses for Cage Warriors, an international association performing their art in more than five countries, with live television broadcast.

According to R.B. owner / operations manager, Emad Al Rabadi, "Generic and FX lighting are among the most important elements of the show, especially for the fighters' entrance and the Red / Blue colour changing

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TMB, together with specifiers, lighting designers, and other lighting professionals, has completed or initiated many exciting wireless CRMX projects during the quarter. The festival season was particularly busy with such noteworthy examples as Coachella in California, the Main Stage at Big Chill and the Live & 4Music stages at the Virgin Festival, both in the UK.

The Gold Trophy for CRM

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MTV EMA's spectacular set (designed by Es Devlin), transformed Belfast's Odyssey Arena with a complex combination of curved scenery at both ends and technical production equipment. Every inch of the venue was utilised to achieve the combined requirements of the live show and television producers for the broadcast to over 600m MTV homes around the world.

Blackout director Kevin Monks has worked with the MTV EMA producers all over Europe since 1998. And comments, "The MTV EMA is always a spectacular show and a technically complicated one to achieve. This year we were working to a very tight build schedule, which the brilliant MTV EMA event manager Maggie Mouzakitis delivered with calm assurance - and there were a lot of (crazy) creative ideas for us to accommodate with

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14 March 2016

Eight 72" Supernova Infinity Screens were supplied by dnp distributors, Wincomn Technology, and installed by Wincomnpartner, JinYanjing Technology Co., Ltd, who had successfully bid for the contract.

The facility is used for emergency management and the solution was based around a display matrix of Supernova Infinity Screens in a 2 x 4 configuration. These were recommended for their high output in a brightly lit environment, in a 20m x 8m room offering minimum space.

The display, which fills most of the back wall, was optimised using low gain 08-85 screen material, for extreme viewing angles.

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Travelling to countries as varied as the USA, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica, such was its success that it was nominated for Billboard's best live tour of 2010, yet it still had months to run.

Fernando Diaz, is a veteran of 30 years on the road and has worked with Sanz for the past decade. Using DiGiCo consoles since the company was formed, he was an early adopter of the SD7, along with monitor engineer Frank Aponte.

"I remember perfectly the first day, three years ago, that Tim Shaxson from DiGiCo came to Madrid to help us with setting up the SD7. My first impre

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The coolux Widget Designer PRO 3.0 was awarded the Parnelli Indispensable Technology of the Year Award and the PLASA Rock Our World Award.

The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour innovative achievement by PLASA members and to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer or integrator who applies it in a real world environment.

The Parnelli Award "recognizes pioneering, influential professionals and their contributions, honouring both individuals and companies."

The ongoing award success highlights the flexibility and reliability offered by the coolux

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"It's absolutely brilliant, it's revolutionised the show," he reports. "I've trained my deps on how to use it to its full potential with specific application to this show and they're complete converts, even the analogue junkies. The house technicians think it's a genius application of the right technology and Beardyman loves it.

"Feedback has been a massive issue with Beard's set-up up until now but with the DP548 he no longer needs to worry about it. In really extreme scenarios I have made use of the phase related filters in order to move bass nodes around the room and prevent localised coupling on stage which would otherwise be a show stop

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The movie was produced and released in conventional 2D, IMAX, Disney Digital 3-D, and IMAX 3D and included sophisticated computer generated 2D/3D visual effects, as well as many extensive and complicated location shots. That level of technical ambition, a very compressed production schedule straddling the Atlantic, and the pressure of a multi-billion dollar franchise would not leave anything to chance.

Josh Thatcher was responsible for the deployment and operation of LumenRadio's CRMX units as part of a gigantic lighting rig on the California set.

"Not only did CRMX Nova by far provide the best range

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This year's dramatic medley included Lord of the Flies, Beggar's Opera, with a children's version of Pericles running concurrently under it during the day time, and the light and entertaining Gershwin musical, Crazy for You. Walker explains the one common factor driving his sound design for this diverse mix of performances, "It's about pulling the audio image back to the performer, so tha

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The British band performed at the famous Spanish bull ring, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid on 26 October 2011. The performance was filmed by Anton Corbijn and streamed live on You Tube, where it was viewed by millions worldwide.

The band performed on a specially crafted circular 25m by 17m Stageco stage which was adjoined to an 'X' shaped catwalk to imitate the 'X' symbol from the new album - giving a special touch to the design.

Stageco also provided four single PA/Spot towers and a custom designed, transparent bandroof, which complimented the stunning backdrop of the venue and protected the artists from unpredictable weather conditions.

Stageco director Hedwig De Meyer started the 12 day project on 18 October an

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A who's who of pop music came to Belfast to celebrate the best of the past year in a glittering awards show that will be seen by more than 600m MTV homes around the world through the global TV network. Eleven live performances and a host of international stars took pride of place in Belfast's Odyssey Arena, as EMA gongs were scooped by performers including Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber. Across town, Irish favourites Snow Patrol and US singer songwriter Jason Derulo played to 15,000 fans on an outdoor stage at Belfast's City Hall, while - the Red Hot Chili Peppers rocked a third stage at Ulster Hall.

Showsec Director Simon Battersby was the 2011 MTV EMA director of security. He says, "We have

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"Cree's recent acquisition of Ruud Lighting and its BetaLED products brought together two leading LED lighting companies under one roof," said Chuck Swoboda, chairman and CEO of Cree. "Last month this facility shipped its 500,000th LED luminaire - further evidence of the market demand for the latest LED technology and a need to expand our facilities to maintain our leadership of the LED lighting revolution."

The expansion will extend component and product storage capacity and house several new manufacturing lines for ne

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Live performance, arts and other events are prolific in Israel, and Robe MMX fixtures have been used on several major shows including a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute at the Ha Ha'Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv-Yafo (LD Uri Morag); the final of popular TV talent show A Star Is Born (LD Ronen Najar) as well as for Swedish pop megastars, Roxette's recent concert at the Expo Ground in Tel Aviv, attended by a sold out audience of 12,000.

In all these cases the technical production was provided by the Mazuz Group from Petach Tikva, currently Israel's leading lighting, sound and AV operation. They have an extensive stock of Robe moving lights which have been supplied throug

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Mapp had previously relied on a Midas XL4 for every tour, before switching to digital desks a few years ago. "Why did I make the change to Midas Digital?" he says. "Tone, feel and most importantly, audio quality. I've had some great shows on other digital desks but nothing sounds and feels like the PRO9 does."

Citing the PRO9's EQ as one of the first features that won him over, Mapp continues, "It really blew me away, reminding me of what it was like to mix on a great analogue desk. I just pushed up the guitars, did a little tonal shaping and they sounded massive.

"Another thing I've noticed after bouncing from festivals to theatres on a variety

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Lighting designer Frederik Decker, principal of City Light & Sound, choose to focus on the impressive technology involved in the tightly controlled purification process and naturally stayed with a blue colour scheme to match the water theme. Decker, together with local firm Topas Technology, provided a lighting rig of powerful, yet inconspicuous, Litecraft LED fixtures from LMP to provide saturated colour washes and powerful highlights of key technical apparatus without adding much visible equipment.

The production team was initially concerned about a wirel

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It is here that Providence Maitreya Buddha Missionary Institute has found a place to set up its new monastery. The monastery offers facilities for arts and cultural events and is also designed to serve as a convention centre within its theatre hall (1446 seats). Together with its partner DLHG in Taiwan, MA Lighting proposed a MA Digital Dimmer dimMA compact installation (the space saving alternative to the modular dimMA range) as well as a grandMA2 ultra-light console.

"It was great to have Michael Adenau himself here to take a look. The circumstances have been pretty special and bringing in the founder and mastermind of MA Lighting sh

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Founded in 1994, Woodend Arts is run by a collective of paid staff and volunteers. The Woodend Barn hosts a diverse programme of music, theatre, comedy, dance, film, children's events, art exhibitions and workshops.

AC-ET had previously supplied lighting equipment and a background music system to the Woodend Barn project for their cafe/bistro. At that stage, plans to further develop the Barn were already underway, and more recently, additional funding enabled the investment in a new sound and cinema system.

Once funding was granted by Creative Scot

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DBs Music has opened a new music technology training centre in partnership with Cornwall College, choosing GS-R24M recording mixers for four production suites and several ZED-10FX. An addition to DBs' existing Plymouth centre, the new facility offers a variety of new training programmes in Music Performance and Music Production, with plans to add university-level courses in the future. All four GS-R24 mixers have been installed into bespoke furniture, connected to 27" iMacs with Pro Tools and Logic. There are also a few small ZED-10FX mixers installed in their custom built live and performance rooms.

Mark Trewin, who is DBs' development director,

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The venues were a selection of theatres and Wembley Arena in London. Adlib's crew of Ian Nelson and Otto Kroymann worked closely with Keith's own engineers - Dirk Durham (FOH), Bill Collyer (band monitors) and Russell Fischer (Toby Keith monitors) together with their systems tech, Scott Halle.

Durham specified JBL VerTec which he uses when touring in the USA, so Adlib supplied a total of 24 VerTec 4889 speakers with 12 VerTec 4880A subs and 10 x L-Acoustics Kara for front-fills and lip-fills.

For Wembley, they added side-hangs of another 10 VT4889s left & right, plus four additional subs a-side.

The FOH console was a Midas XL4 complete with a substantial array of outboard. These i

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With over 30 years' experience worldwide and boasting a client list that includes leading players in the music and entertainment industry, Tribal Staging will continue to be one of Australia's

premier supplier of Outdoor Stages, PA Towers, Screen Supports, FOH Towers, Signage Towers, and Decking Systems to the music and entertainment industry.

Providing safe stages is Tribal Staging's priority and every structure with no discrimination on size or height has a design certification and site signoff by an independent certified structural engineer and certified to Australian standards, says the company.

With regular scheduling of maintenance conducted, Tribal Staging consistently supplies structures that are tested a

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Lexair Entertainment founder Alex Mair says, "High End Systems is one of the true innovators in our industry, delivering high quality products that deserve the best support services available. Lexair Entertainment will provide Australian based sales, support, service and training for High End Systems' full range of Wholehog lighting consoles, automated and digital lighting products."

"We are excited to have Lexair Entertainment as a partner," said Betsy Childers, customer service manager of High End Systems. "Alex's long relationship with High End Systems goes back many years and his company will provide customers with great sales and service locally in Australia. This partnership strengthens our commitment to custome

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The system ran Jands' Vista v2 software, and on some sections of the tour operating duties were taken on by John Barker while Sinclair fulfilled other design commitments on his busy schedule - including tours by Peter Gabriel and Goldfrapp, also utilising Vista systems.

Sinclair's innovative design for Adele was sculpted using entirely white light, a bold aesthetic move which has won considerable acclaim. None of the moving lights were seen to move, there was minimal flashing, and was a real case of subtlety and suggestion to augment Adele's powerful performance and natural stage presence.

There was a distinctive back wall of 96 cone-shaped lampshades each illuminated from behind with a 60 Watt

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14 March 2016

Clear-Com's partnership with AudioPro signals a continued commitment toward growth in the region, coupled with a dedication to enhancing the customer experience. To ensure greater product availability for customers in the Netherlands, AudioPro will carry a local stock of Clear-Com and HME products, making it easier for users to purchase intercom systems for a live event or broadcast on short notice. AudioPro will also provide trained technical staff to assist in after-sales support and services.

"We here at AudioPro are very excited to be working

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The Growler Bites and Brews bar and restaurant is located in the Financial District on Stone Street, which is often referred to as Lower Manhattan's restaurant row and is the location of several of McDonald's other establishments. The new eatery is named after the traditional half-gallon jugs used to transport beer and sports a decidedly doggy theme, even offering a corral for its four-legged patrons while their owners chow down on organic hotdogs, micro