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Under the new arrangement, the formidable and diversified resources of The AVC Group, SpeakerCraft, Proficient and Panamax/Furman brands will align under one centralised division with a focus on customer-centric product, brand innovation and dealer support.

Mark Terry, president of AVC Group, will leave the company. "Mark and his team have done an outstanding job combining the AVC Group brands together and creating a world class infrastructure to service our customers and dealers," stated Sean Burke, group president of Nortek's technology products segment. "Mark has decided to move on to other endeavours after providing his full support to this integrat

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Avolites, Cast Lighting, ETC, Green Hippo, Hawthorn Theatrical, HSL, MA Lighting, PRG, Rosco, and Wireless Solutions are all ramping up support for this September's event, which is the only awards ceremony dedicated to professional lighting designers in the UK.

The coveted 'gold' sponsorship position offers representatives from each company the opportunity to work with KOI organizers and present a specific award at the 2012 Ceremony, held in a central London venue.

"The response to the sponsorship opportunities available this year have been incredible," comments KOI coordinator and lighting designer, Durham Marenghi. "Equally the response from nominees and nominators from the theatre, televis

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QVC, which claims to reach 15.4m UK homes, has installed Triple E track systems in all four of its new Chiswick Park studios.

In Studios 1, 3 and 4 QVC has installed twin parallel Unicyc track systems, which feature dropout sections and points. This particular system facilitates the easy swapping of Cyclorama backdrops between tracks or allows them to be easily lowered to the floor, minimising the necessity to work at height.

Studio 2 has been equipped with Triple E 2WAY track, which will be used to create a number of variable sized spaces, specifically for close up camera work.

"Triple E was first approached in 2010 when the new studio project was at early planning stages," explains managing director for Triple E, David Edelstein

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The course was specifically designed so that graduates leave with the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue careers in the live production, technology and event industries.

Course leader, Simon Lewis and media technology lecturer, Kit Lane chose the Chroma-Q products from a wide selection of potential options.

The department already owned a quantity of Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 fixtures that they were very impressed with, so when it came to upgrading their lighting system, they were naturally keen to take another look at Chroma-Q.

Students on the course produce events in various venues around the city and the region; from small club gigs to gradua

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The system provided by ART-R consists of a left/right configuration of nine V-DOSC WST line source loudspeakers per side. There is also a centre channel of 12 d-VDOSC loudspeakers, with two further d-VDOSCs on stage providing side and front-fill. Eight SB28 subwoofers supplement the full-range audio from the arrays, and the system is powered by LA8 amplified controllers,

ART-R was able to provide a complete turnkey solution for the Ukrainian Palace of Arts, carrying out both installation and system tuning, the latter in conjunction with L-Acoustics application support engineer Andrew Nagel.

"The sound system provides the Ukraina National Palace of Arts with unpara

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Timed to coincide with the annual Earth Day, the event took place in Heap's Essex garden in front of 80 specially invited guests, plus an audience of half a million who enjoyed a live relay via Facebook and the artist's web site.

The central part of the show was a 'silent gig', which featured the assembled guests wearing Sennheiser UK RS 120 headsets to hear the performance.

Following the company's involvement with the December Sessions at London's O2, which included a 'silent gig' by The Feeling, the latter's front of house engineer Jon Sword recommended Sennheiser to Kumar

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The successful Newcastle Theatre Royal restoration project was honoured with both 'Project of the Year' and 'Building Conservation' Award.

The award showcases outstanding work in the conservation of a single building or a group of buildings or structures and covers renovation or conservation to a new or original use.

Newcastle's Theatre Royal reopened its doors to the public on Monday 12September 2011 following an extensive £5m restoration project that had drawn on the theatrical expertise of UK theatre consultants, Charcoalblue.

Managing Director of the company Andy Hayles explains, "The scope of the restoration for this Grade I listed theatre was particularly ambitious, and included complete internal redecora

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The stadium has a large capacity of seats and 120 executive boxes and it is the centre of a totally renewed area that also includes a large 34,000 m2 commercial mall, the first Juventus Museum, a parking area and many other facilities.

Thanks to the new stadium the fans have the possibility to enjoy a great new experience, hearing the players talking to each others, sitting comfortably on the new fancy seats offering a great view of the football pitch. The new Juventus Stadium is a major upgrade from the previous "Stadio Olimpico".

The Juventus Stadium complex is equipped with the latest technology. It is a very modern facility and all the a

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The annual festival, which drew some 100,000 attendees in 2011, has grown and evolved considerably from its inception as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000. This year, three of five stages will feature a Meyer Sound system.

"Our company was unaware of Meyer in a practical sense until we teamed up with Thunder Audio on the Movement Festival a few years ago," recalls Sam Fotias, operations manager of the Movement Electronic Music Festival and Detroit-based Paxahau Event Productions and Management. "We had tried other loudspeaker products, but nothing really gave us the raw power and, more importantly, clarity at high SPL that we were looking for until we wer

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"Given the intimate nature of this tour, we decided not to bring all of our PA equipment with us, but to use either whatever the venue had to offer or to work with local rental companies," confirmed Nata

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James Gosney, business development manager for audio commented, "We listened to a whole range of speakers and we were continually drawn back to the EM Acoustics products. The energy and philosophy of this small British manufacturer sits very well with our aims. We strive to deliver well designed and high quality audio and the EM range just sounds superb."

Director of sales Anna Western said, "We have had a really positive reaction from all the customers we have shown the EM Acoustics products to. The range of speakers is versatile and well thought out; we will be demonstrating a selection of the range a

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Commissioned by Arjun Bahl of Most Technical India who co-ordinated production for the event, sound design was by Out Board's Dave Haydon and involved multiple surround zones running parallel 3D surround and dynamic delay-panning effects simultaneously for the dance-floor, dining room and lounge areas plus, in a global first for the TiMax system, animated surround sound installed in the luxurious men's and women's washrooms.

A separate surround system ran a continuously looping atmospheric soundscape of heartbeats, industrial sound effects and

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The Oscar-nominated star, reportedly the highest paid British actress in Hollywood, confirmed her patronage this week.

Knightley is the latest in a long line of notable people from the world of theatre and film who are lending their support for the First Night Riders - an annual motorbike race touring parts of England to raise much-needed funds for industry charity The Theatrical Guild (TTG), the only charity dedicated to looking after the interests of backstage and Front of House personnel.

Renowned theatre design consultant Iain Mackintosh is joining part of this year's ride, travelling in a Morgan car alongside anoth

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DAS is particularly well known in the post production and recording world but has strategic plans to diversify into live and installed sound. This profile fits the Merging product range very well and mirrors the changing product mix coming from the Swiss brand, says the company.

This change brings to an end a long and successful partnership with Audio Export Georg Neumann & Co GmbH based in Heilbronn. Other brands handled by the company are mainly broadcast which is an important sector for Merging but recent product introductions have gone in other directions.

Commenting on the change, Chris Hollebone, M

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This latest purchase brings SSS's EM Acoustics inventory up to an impressive 359 cabinets in all, 139 of which are now EMS-61s. According to Stage Sound Services owner and

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With 12,500 fans barely seeming to notice that Turner and his backing band, The Sleeping Souls, weren't in one of their more usual theatre-sized venues, the one-off show required a large Sennheiser presence.

Regular sound and lighting supplier Nitelites provided most of the audio system at the show, just asking Adlib Audio to supply an L-Acoustics V-DOSC system. Nitelites supplied a large amount of Sennheiser equipment, including e 840 vocal microphones and e 901, 902, 904s, 905 and MK4s on the drum kit.

"I like the robustness of the 840s," says FOH engineer and tour ma

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"I give a lot of attention to detail, and I wanted to create the trendiest nightspot in Alexandria," says Club 35 Manager David Boulouys. "That meant that all the elements had to be top-notch, and that is why I chose Meyer Sound."

Located at the five-star Maritim Jolie Ville Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt, Club 35 is the first franchise to branch out from Cairo's 35 Restaurant & Lounge Bar (aka Club 35 Cairo).

Cairo-based events company Modern Touch Entertainment - one of Egypt's top entertainment companies and the country's exclusive distributor of Meyer Sound since 199

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"I addressed each element of the show separately, but also looked at the overall picture, looking for harmony," Rodriguez said. "The combination of music and lights reflected Ednita's personality - her fragility, passion and great talent."

Rodriguez lit a textured wall at the back of the stage with six COLORado Ridge IP high-powered luminaires, placed equidistantly while projecting intense red, blue, purple or green hues. The wall was a static element in the design, drenched in colour for most of the looks and serving as a base for a complex rig, featuring large video walls, n

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Mexico City-based architectural firm Inaki Echeverria constructed the façade from 20m long segments of precast concrete slabs joined together that rotate at 180° angles. To create a dynamic colour wash and highlight the architectural features, lighting designer Joseph Charles Vargas Rubenak used PR-8800 fixtures with built in W-DMX.

The PR-8800, which has been newly launched by PR lighting, features the design of the W-DMX signal transmission, a true outdoor IP67 waterproof rating, RGB colour mixing system and the environment brightness automatic adjustment

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"The troubles we were having with our existing in-ear systems were primarily due to the LED stage we have on this tour," explains Rat. "We experienced a whole new level of interference issues. When you have the artists actually standing on an LED surface, it means the beltpack is only three feet away from the RF noise, while the transmitting antenna is maybe 30 feet away. The result was a lot of dropouts from a system that had previously been very stable. We couldn't even do frequency scan

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"There are also the commercial bookings on top of that," explains technical manager Jonathon Spittlehouse, who originally specified the 36-channel desk back in 2006 when the studio moved to its present location and was brought fully under local authority control. As part of the broader Arts' Centre, Spittlehouse and his colleagues are tasked with engaging 13 - 19 year olds in projects of a variety of disciplines, which can mean the studio - and therefore the desk - is really put through its paces.

"The desk is bullet proof. We've been running it full on for six years and never had a problem. We've worn the decal on the talkb

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Providing intelligibility in the arena environment was a key requirement for Bill Daly of PRG Audio's design and engineering team. Working in consultation with Meyer Sound Tech Support, Daly plotted a mono system with front-hangs of 11 M2D line array loudspeakers each and 10 M2D loudspeakers at center. Filling the vast rear portion of the oval arena were three delay hangs of eight MICA line array loudspeakers each, augmented by two CQ-2 loudspeakers for spot coverage.

Seven MINAline array loudspe

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During a visit to Suscon, the sustainable construction training and research centre at The Bridge, the Minister viewed the range of products offered by 8point3 LED, which has recently moved into offices at the centre.

"The Minister's visit was a great opportunity to demonstrate the quality of light produced by LED lighting and outline the dramatic energy savings it brings when compared to traditional systems," said Ashley Bateup, managing director of 8point3, which designs and manufactures bespoke fittings for its public and private sector clients at a plant in Belvedere.

"The Minister showed genuine interest in our products and seemed impressed by their environmental credentials, stating

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Located on the site of the historic Village Gate in New York's Greenwich Village, when the new owners took over the interior was completely redrawn, and John Storyk (of Walters-Storyk Design Group), the designer behind Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios, helped design the room sonically.

The venue has since undergone various technical upgrades, including remotely controlled HD cameras, culminating in this latest investment, with the acquisition of 12 automated Spot One LED fixtures from 4Wall Entertainment Lighting, who have been providing LPR with high-level service for the past three years.

Said the club's director