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UK - For the fourth year running Adlib supplied audio crew & equipment for Capital FM's Summertime Ball phenomenon staged at Wembley Stadium, London.

The line-up of A-List artists included David Guetta, Ellie Goulding, Miley Cyrus, Enrique Inglesias, Pharrell Williams, Calvin Harris, 5 Seconds of Summer and numerous others.

Adlib's resident KSE system engineer Tony Szabo once again designed and specified an L-Acoustics K1 / K2 PA system to complement the new stage design.

For the first time at the Capital shows, Adlib opted for DiGiCo for consoles at both ends of the multicore, this lead not only by artist requests but also Adlib's recent heavy investment in the premium audio console brand.

Full A and B line systems were run flip-flop style for the main stage revolve system. This was to facilitate the exceptionally tight changeovers. The unforgiving event schedule again fo

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UK - Blue Peter is one of the longest running shows in television history. So much history, it is a national treasure. Richard Martin Lighting (RML) has been involved in the show for a long time now and continues to support lighting designer Lee Allen, who is always keen to try out the latest innovations on his shows.

This was the case when RML invested in the new Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20. What makes interesting and different is a completely new feature: the front lens may be rotated to create lots of small bright compositions, which may be opened and closed like petals. By adding colours and dynamic graphics, the B-EYE generates never-seen-before graphic light effects.

Blue Peter was one of the first RML shows for the B-EYE's and Lee reports, "The great beam effects are very quick to achieve with the shape function, this mode keeps the number of channels

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Ireland - The flexibility of a Roland M-200i live digital mixing console configured with the Roland S-1608 Digital Snake proved to be the solution for Recks Audio for an unusual, one off outside broadcast from a lighthouse.

Working for national radio station Today FM, the Clara based professional sound company were tasked with broadcasting a live, three-hour radio show from the Hook Head lighthouse in Co. Wexford - the oldest intact operational lighthouse in the world. The broadcast included the presenter abseiling down the lighthouse (whilst presenting!) and a live band performing inside the lighthouse - as well as the production of the daily radio show itself.

With each element posing its own audio challenges, this outside broadcast required an audio setup with a small footprint yet with enough inputs and outputs to handle both sends and returns for the microphones, band and

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Czech Republic - Dancefloor, s.r.o. has completed the installation of an Audica Professional MICROseries system in Café Placzek in Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic and historic capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia.

Brno Café is located in a building that dates from the 1930s. Built by famous local architect Arthur Eisler, and renovated by the RAW studio, its striking style includes the attributes of 'First Republic', modern design, Viennese style and austere functionalism, and Dancefloor chose Audica MICROseries to provide an audio system that merged with the minimalist interior.

The side entrances to the café and the large glazed window are combined into the façade by steel sections lined with polished gold travertine, which is also abundantly used in the interior. With great attention to detail, the interior space is decorated i

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UK - Another month, another sporting success for Rubber Box. With the company's distro products having previously been used on such sporting events as the Commonwealth games, the Olympic games and Formula 1, to name just a few - this summer the Tour De France became the latest sporting event to utilise Rubber Box products.

"were delighted to be approached by The Technical Department (the team behind the power at the Tour De France 2014) to provide power distros to enable their services at this major sporting event to run smoothly - and of course didn't hesitate to help," the company says.

The Technical Department Ltd provided electrical services, crew, generators, cabling and switchgear for various aspects of the Tour De France Yorkshire leg. Video screens were laid out across the region, along with a 20,000 strong fan zone in Harrogate and support for the Marshals.<

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Asia - Powersoft recently kept up with its reputation to share knowledge in sound engineering by organising a Sound School training tour in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Tokyo with its distributors Electronics & Engineering in Malaysia and Matsuda Trading in Japan.

Attendees experienced what the Armonia Pro Audio Suite software has to offer through a practical hands-on live demo and to learn technologies behind Powersoft's amplification.

"Every single course attracted around 40-50 attendees," says Luigi Chelli, Sound School trainer and Powersoft sound engineer, "I was initially concerned about the level of difficulty but everything went smoothly. The audience was well prepared, receptive, and able to follow even the deepest technical parts of the training."

The Powersoft Sound School offers the highest level of professional training to sound system designer

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USA - The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), better known as the Detroit Auto Show, is one of the largest automotive shows in North America and annually features many national and worldwide introductions from the world's most renowned auto manufacturers.

Perennially held at Detroit's Cobo Center, the 2014 NAIAS showcased the industry's latest innovations to more than 800,000 attendees over the course of nine days. As a critical component of the show's experience, over 1,400 Martin Professional lighting fixtures were deployed by a number of leading production partners and lighting-provider Christie Lites across the entire show, including booths for Chrysler, Nissan, Infiniti, Ford, Lincoln, Acura, Volvo, and more.

Chris Wojcieszyn of Lighthaus Design teamed with Bruce Spillman, onsite lighting designer, who oversaw the execution and focus for Chrysler's booth, to d

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USA - When the world's biggest Spanish-speaking celebrities gathered in Miami for the 10th annual Premios Juventud awards show on 17 July at the BankUnited Centre, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) was once again backstage with a custom RF entertainment and intercom package to manage frequency coordination for the festivities.

Presented by Univision, Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) is an awards show that nominates Spanish-speaking celebrities to celebrate their artistic achievements in 27 unique categories within the areas of film, music, sports, fashion and pop culture. In an interesting twist, the awards show asks the public to nominate their favourite singers, athletes and actors for award consideration and to then subsequently choose the winners through an online voting portal. Past winners include high-profile pop culture celebrities such as Shakira, Daddy Yankee, Antonio

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USA - St. Madeleine Sophie is a Roman Catholic Church in Schenectady, New York. The church has a modern architectural design with a fan-shaped sanctuary and an attractive, wood-beamed ceiling.

St. Madeleine's open ceiling promotes good acoustic diffusion but its ceramic tile floor, hardwood pews and painted walls contribute to an overall 'live' sound quality. In this environment, St. Madeleine's previous point-source audio system was unable to provide good vocal clarity and it suffered from uneven coverage, frequent feedback and a noticeable rear-wall bounce.

St. Madeleine's contacted Dominick Campana of Pro Sound Associates in Guilderland, NY to design a new sound system. Campana chose a Community Entasys ENT-FR full-range column coupled to an ENT-LF low-frequency column for each side of the chancel and a Community dSPEC226AN DSP processor for loudspeaker management and syste

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Belgium - Arto, one of Belgium's leading service providers, has scheduled several high-profile events for its Nexo STM modular line array system. Among them, the Couleur Café, Franco Folies and Summer Festivals in Brussels, some of the biggest music festivals in the country.

Vincent Tempels and his team at Arto were among the first to invest in Nexo's new flagship line array technology. Arto added 36 sets of STM to its inventory at the end of 2012, and has deployed small, medium and large configurations, ranging from David Guetta in concert to civic and corporate events.

Building on a long relationship with Nexo concert sound products, Arto's engineers have found the STM concept and operation to be highly intuitive, and uniquely suited to the rental company business model.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary in its Tour& Taxis location in Brussels, Couleur Café is

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China - Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV, covering news, reports and entertainment programmes for more than 100m Chinese speaking people worldwide, has been supplied with Lawo consoles for their brand-new Beijing building.

The large facilities in Beijing comprise also a 600sq.m studio with a control room fitted with a Lawo mc²56 console. Two further sapphire mixing consoles are installed for the Phoenix TV news channel.

The state-owned but privately run Chinese company, popular with the middle class and management, serves one channel with recorded shows and talk rounds whereas the information channel provides news and reports on culture and religious issues. A very successful streamed IP TV channel distributes further information. The installations are planned to be completed by the system integrator by end of July.

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Canada - Wanting to showcase its charms, Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook commissioned Moment Factory to create Foresta Lumina, an illuminated night walk through the forest.

After nightfall in summer, visitors are invited to discover an enchanted trail winding 2 km through the woods. As they walk through the mysterious forest, visitors meet characters inspired by the area's myths and legends, who draw them into an immersive adventure.

The scenography, combining projections and lighting, is accompanied by an ethereal soundtrack. The result is an unparalleled sensory experience. The Moment Factory team custom-made the entire experience, including perforated metal panels resembling ancient manuscripts, lighting units designed to look like fairies, video mapping on natural elements and more. The multimedia installations are seamlessly integrated into the surroundings, creating an all

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USA - Wireless Solution Sweden AB's award-winning W-DMX was recently part of the famed Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with Visions Lighting once again supplying a superior lighting scheme for the show. The festival featured many past and current legends of music including Muse, Motorhead, Pharrell Williams, The Cult, Pixies, Beck, and Fatboy Slim, just to name a few. The two-weekend festival hosted more than 500,000 attendees.

Todd Roberts was on site as the overall production manager for Visions. Canin Campbell of Visions Lighting led the onsite team for set up of the system. Canin was supported by Daniel Baca and Steven Calley.

Roberts and his team were looking for a replacement of the Xenon searchlights used in previous years. The solution was the new Platinum Beam Extreme from Elation. Roberts and his team used eight Platinum Beam Extreme fixtures on each of the

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USA - Founded in 1891, Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university and law school in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighbourhood. More than 7,400 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools and colleges.

The university's Father LeRoux Conference Centre, located in the Student Centre building, is a large, multipurpose room used for live presentations and special events and for movies and video presentations. The Conference Centre can be subdivided with an air wall to accommodate two simultaneous events.

Last year, Seattle University hired Sparling, an engineering and architectural firm in Lynnwood, Washington to design AV systems for several of its venues. Morgan Sound, a Seattle-based full-service AV and control system integrator and large rental PA company, installed the university's new AV systems.

For the Conference Centre, Sparling's

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UK - It was Midsummer's Day at Victoria Park in Leicester and the kind of balmy afternoon that encapsulates the perfect English summer. Below the circling helicopter, the audience was gathering to see the homecoming gig from Kasabian, a band very much of the moment who are currently attracting critical acclaim and popular approval in equally large measure.

Kasabian's audio supplier is Britannia Row Productions, long regarded as one of the premier providers of PA systems for outdoor shows of this scale - the site boasted a capacity of 50,000 - and for this event Britannia Row supplied an L-Acoustics system.

The main arrays comprised a combination of L-Acoustic K1s and L-Acoustic K1SBs and L Acoustic K2s were used on side hangs. A formidable forty-eight L-Acoustic SB28 Subs were ground stacked along the front of the stage. Out on the site there were eight delay towers placed str

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UK - FOH engineer, Ben Hammond, has opened a new studio, the Vegas Rooms, in the Chairworks Studios with Allen & Heath's GS-R24 studio console as the centrepiece.

An award-winning mix engineer, in recent years Hammond has developed an impressive portfolio as a FOH engineer, mixing for bands such as Saxon, Deaf Havana,You Me At Six and No Devotion.

"Increasingly on tour I was getting demands for live recordings for single B sides, album additional tracks, or magazine covers, so there was always a need for studio time. I knew it was time to invest in my own studio when I found myself mixing the bonus tracks for Deaf Havana's deluxe edition album on a laptop on my knees," explains Ben Hammond. "The studio works alongside my touring work, opening up options for the bands I work with."

Hammond has used Allen & Heath's iLive digital mixing system for touring ov

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Germany - Rental and staging specialists Cassiopeia Veranstaltungstechnik has supplied Calibre UK LEDView530 Universal Rental/Staging/Events scalers to the annual German School Award ceremony aimed at raising the profile of primary and secondary schools across Germany.

Taking place in July, 2014 at the historic Heilig Kreuz Kirche und Passionskirche Church, Berlin, the event was jointly organised by Robert Bosch Stifung, Stern magazine and German broadcaster ARD.de, supported by local politicians and attended by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister of Foreign Affairs and representatives from over 100 shortlisted schools.

The event was broadcast live on Phoenix television network ending with the presentation of a 100,000 Euro grand prize to Anne-Frank Middle School, Munich for winning the prize of School of the Year.

Cassiopeia's technology manager, Martin Heuberger said, "

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USA - Parkview Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an active and growing church that reaches out to its local community through a number of activities and ministries. Throughout their mission, they maintain an eye on the future while also keeping a focus on savings in their daily operations. The church recently sought to update their main sanctuary's lighting system to energy-efficient LED lights, both house lights and stage lighting, and chose an Elation package of low power consumption LED fixtures.

The lighting upgrade includes Elation TVL Series white light LEDs, colour changing Opti Par LEDs and Design LED Par lights. The main driver behind the design was the TVL F1WW and the Design LED Par Zoom, says Jay Cid of Elation rep firm PSLP (Professional Sound and Lighting Products), who demoed the Elation products, worked together on the design and provided product and l

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UK - Working with marketing agency Arnold KLP and creative production agency DesignScene, XL Video have supplied an LED video wall for the Volvo V40 promotional roadshow currently being shown in some of the UK's largest shopping malls.

Through June and July 2014, the promotional display featuring the LED video wall visited the Bullring in Birmingham, Metro Centre in Gateshead, Cabot Circus in Bristol and finished up at the Silverburn in Glasgow.

The presentation area included a Volvo V40 R Design display car, which allowed shoppers to sit on board and experience the car, an array of touch-screen tablets equipped with an interactive quiz, and XL Video's 5m x 3m Barco NX6 LED wall which displayed advertising footage about the V40 and Volvo's current 'Swedish Adventure' contest.

For the project, XL's project manager, Jacqueline Rice, worked with Attila Keskin of Design Scene to

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France - Laurent Chapot, French rocker Bernard Lavilliers' long-standing, faithful and talented lighting designer, has come up with a creative, ingenious lighting design at the legendary Olympia in Paris. It is almost completely based on low consumption lights, provided by the French audiovisual equipment supplier Dushow.

Laurent Chapot has recently become "energy saving aware" and has started favouring "cleaner" light. However his choice is also motivated by a desire for a greater variety of easy-to-transport and easy-to-install lighting equipment, without ever compromising on light quality for any reason.

With this in mind, the French star's favourite lighting designer chose 24 Clay Paky Sharpys: 12 Sharpy Beams, whose success and quality need no proving, and 12 new Sharpy Washes, which he uses to create a stage backdrop and illuminate an elegant, sober c

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China - Chongqing Guotai Arts Centre in China has installed Allen & Heath's flagship iLive digital mixing system, the iLive-176 Surface and iDR10 MixRack as its new FOH console.

With a total area of 36,000sq.m, the Guotai Arts Centre is a versatile venue, which stages musicals, operas, drama, entertainment, exhibitions and commercial events.

Sanecore Group installed all the audio systems, which cover the performance system, public addressing system, intercom system, recording and broadcasting system, as well as the stage lighting system.

"At the end of the first show in Guotai Arts Centre, Zhuzhi Fengliu, both the production team and sound engineers praised the sound quality and said iLive was very easy to use, "said Chen Le, the sound engineer of the arts centre.

"Our previous mixer was an analogue GL3800, and the analogue-style strip design on iLive made i

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Slovenia - The first 12 Robe ParFect 100 fixtures in Slovenia have been purchased by the Španski Borci Culture Centre in Ljubljana, a high profile venue run by EN-KNAP Productions which is the largest privately managed facility for cultural activities in the country.

It is also home to Slovenian Contemporary Dance Company EnKnapGroup. Named in honour of the volunteers who sacrificed their lives in the fight for freedom during the Spanish Civil War, the venue was originally built in 1981 and extensively refurbished in 2009.

It features an up to 400 seat main hall and a 60-80 capacity flexible studio space with a lively programme of performing arts designed to be widely accessible. It stages around 400 shows and performances - including exhibitions - a year.

Luka Curk, the venue's technical manager, instigated the ParFect 100 purchase, with the units supplied by Robe's proact

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Switzerland - Nexo has installed its popular Geo S12 line array modules into the 15,700-capacity Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne. This is part of a recent run of stadium installs that also includes the larger Stade d'Anderlecht in Belgium.

Built in the 1950s, the Lausanne stadium urgently needed to upgrade its 30-year-old sound system in time for an International Athletissima athletics meet in July. It also needed to comply with the requirements of the FC-Lausanne Sport football club, based at the venue. As well as football and athletics, the venue can be used for concerts.

Philippe Martin from consultancy firm AER designed a stadium system comprising two identical setups on either side of the pitch, linked by a fibre optic Dante network. Each of the two grandstands has been installed with four clusters spaced 20 metres apart. Each cluster consists of five Geo S12 c

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Lebanon - An all Robe moving light rig was specified for the 2014 Beiteddine Art Festival in Lebanon - a vibrant, high profile annual summer music and cultural event with an all-star line-up of local and international artists that is staged against the magnificent backdrop of the 2000 year old Beiteddine Palace.

The venue is ensconced in the mountains about 70Km South of Beirut and this year's diverse range of performances included Joss Stone, Katie Melua, Kazem Al Sahir, Bel Canto tenor Juan Diego Florez and a collection of special performances and collaborations including world famous Lebanese director, Wajdi Mouawad's unconventional adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. The event was opened by a show-stopping set from Lebanese diva, Magida El Roumi.

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