"I'm really big into using the 3D," says Watts. "I love the Full Ambient mode, where you just open up the mics and hear the room as your ears would be hearing naturally, I really appreciate that. It's extra cool during the show, because I get people coming up to tell me things, or when James
The actual unveiling was last year, two years since its notable revamp in 2013, which saw it returned to its 1932 former architectural glory; it remains one of the United Kingdom's biggest and best-preserved Art Deco super cinemas. Now, as the venue is halfway through a 10-year capital investment plan, the beautiful interiors, ornate plasterwork, marble staircases, and meticulous finishes, plus a new flat floor in the auditorium are all set to establish the venue as one of the most coveted private hire venues in the UK.
The venue has made significant investment in an aluminium modular platform floor produced by Prolyte Group, which can be installed overni
"The Museum is well known for its regular change of exhibitions and hosting world-famous speakers. We needed a console that is both reliable and with excellent sound quality," explains audio engineer, Kai Grumpe.
The Museum of Communications hosts various events throughout the year, including regularly changing exhibitions, private functions, concerts and conferences. The venue needed a new console that could manage a variety of functions, including live sound and broadcast feeds, for a diverse event programme ranging from jazz bands to panel discussions.
"Allen & Heath's Qu-16 offers everything we need to manage the Museum's daily business. It has stunning FX and very good sound quality,
Founded in 1997, the award-winning facility has produced the sound for projects by many high profile clients, including EE, O2, Renault, Nike, Three, eBay, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Harvey Nichols, BT, Sony and Samsung.
"We aim to be at the forefront of developments in audio technology," says Factory sound engineer Ben Firth. "We have a close relationship with Dolby and are always interested in new formats. We were introduced to Atmos at an early stage and, with an increasing volume of work, have been able to build two new sound studios, one with dedicated 9.1 surround
"V HyperSound & Light's is a well known and respected distributor of Professional audio and lighting products," says ARX MD, Colin Park. "Here at ARX, we're looking forward to working with Vassos Mouzouras and his team. They're the ideal partner to grow the market and user base for our digital and analogue product range throughout Cyprus."
"ARX fits perfectly into our portfolio, and will be of great interest to our installation, live sound, corporate, broadcast and studio customers," says V HyperSound & Light's managing director Vassos Mouzouras. ARX joins a distribution portfolio that includes Mackie, Clock Audio, Logic Systems and Pan Acoustics.
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Ronnie is a regular LD for Dutch hardstyle dance producer / promoter Art of Dance, with whom I-Motion co-promoted the most recent Syndicate event at the same venue.
On the strength of his work for that event, he was invited to produce the production lighting design for this leading house / trance phenomena.
The Robe count was impressive - 202 x Pointes, 121 x LEDWash 800s and 28 x CycFX 8s - all supplied by leading Netherlands based rental company, The Purple Group.
Ronnie created the visual design - lighting and video - working with Chris Das who coordinated the technical preparations for
Halpin and his co-designer Chris Nyfyeld, both of Los Angeles-based Silent House Productions, are creating a visual mood that manages to be both intimate and impactful on the 60-city tour with a lightshow that's anchored by 62 Strike 4 multi-formated war
The project was created by Ample Projects, with interactive lighting, sound effects and moving parts. The sculptures were presented with a great technologically advanced setup - the tender was won by Mandylights who created a colourful and atmospheric setting for the sculptures.
"The zoo is basically pitch black at night and in many areas we really had to start from scratch," commented Richard Neville of Mandylights. "There were some areas where we had complete free reign and others where we were complementing the lanterns."
Crucial to the lighting design were 130 x ShowPro Hex 18 LED PARs and 24 x ShowPro EX36 LED Floods, both of which have an I
With SJM Concerts again promoting the event on the Sussex coast, and the experienced Simon Barrington and Mike Oates in charge of production duties, Capital equipped three of the four featured stages with the MLA Multi-cellular loudspeaker arrays - including the Indoor Stage (Supercharged) for the first time.
Another first was that they were able to road test the new Beta version of Martin Audio's latest Display software release simultaneously in all three zones, with Robin Conway reporting 100% satisfaction. "The tonal quality is excellent as is the pan control of the lower freque
However, the thunder from the engines was, until recently, the only full-frequency effect at Atco. All of the sound reinforcement squeezed its way into the world through anemic paging horns. Now, fully-weatherproofed, full-frequency Danley OS-80 loudspeakers backed by Ashly processing and amplification keep up (if only sonically) with the dragsters at Atco.
"We've been working with Atco for years, but I was only recently able to convince them of how much better the fans' experience would be with full-range loudspeakers,"
The Delirium World Tour's North American dates, with audio production handled by Eighth Day Sound, include a full complement of DiGiCo mixing consoles - an SD5 at front-of-house with an SD10 available for opening acts, and an SD7 at the monitor position.
FOH engineer Joe Harling, who has been touring with Goulding for two and a half years, first started using DiGiCo desks three years ago. "I find that their routing flexibility and features such as two insert points per channel allow me to achieve what I want. They have a very neutral sound, whic
A live version of the trio's second orchestral album, Drinking from the Sun, Walking under Stars Restrung, the ambitiously grandiose tour took place in April and quickly sold out. It stopped at all five major Australian cities and featured the symphony orchestras of Sydney, Queensland (Brisbane), Adelaide, Melbourne and West Australian (Perth).
Owen made good use of Avolites' high-performance Sapphire Touch lighting console running Titan v9, which he used to create a stunning array of spectacular visual effects for the tour's larger shows.
"I really loved using the
The striking neoclassical circular landmark, now Grade I listed, was designed by James Gibbs and constructed between 1737 and 1748 to house the Radcliffe Library (as it was known until 1860). It was funded from the estate of Dr John Radcliffe (1650-1714), arguably the most successful English physician of his day, who left his trustees a large sum of money with which to purchase both the land for the new building and an endowment to pay a librarian and purchase books. It was officially opened on April 1749.
Much more recently, Richard Francis of Oxford based electrical contractors Monard Electrical was asked to work on the in
Besides enjoying the performances by the artists themselves, the audience were impressed by the lights. The swirls and beams from the lighting fixtures formed a show within the show. The crowd saw a total of at least 190 lights, installed throughout the stadium, perform in unison.
The lighting designer skilfully coordinated the lights to merge harmoniously with each other. The most prominent and notable fixtures were the lights from the Clay Paky range. Acoustic & Lighting were able to spot 70 Sharpys installed around the stage and stands. Furthermore, a total of 20 Clay Paky B-EYE K20s, 22 Alpha Wash 1500s and 10 Alpha Spot HPE 1500s were used throughout the event, a
The concert touring division in Hawthorn is drawing upon its wide range of hire equipment, supplying lighting to specification, including Martin MAC Viper Profile, Clay Paky Sharpy and ETC Source 4 Profile fixtures.
Lighting is controlled using an Avolites Arena console. Glux 10mm LED panels and a 30-inch mirror ball will also feature in the package, along with two Hawthorn technicians who will accompany the tour.
The kit provided by Hawthorn supplements the existing equipment provided by the festivals.
Mick Freer, head of concert touring at Hawthorn,
The new order was delivered via Robe's Benelux distributor, Controllux and the lights have been busy ever since on a wide variety of projects - from TV shows to major live events.
AFR's lighting operations manager Marco de Koff explained how Robe has been on their radar for some time, but it was 2010 when they started looking more closely at the brand with the launch of the Robin range, including the MMX Spot and the LEDWash series.
'It was clear that Robe was taking a very innovative route in its product development, a trend that's continued and impressed a lot of people," says Marco.
As AFR has started receiving more artist rider and event design requests for Robe they have
"Sales of FBT audio products and JTS microphones have increased so much during the past year that we had run out of space in our previous facility," he said. "What we needed most was a considerable increase in warehouse space so that we can make more products available for quick delivery. We have particularly increased stocks of FBT's growing installation and touring range of products, enabling us to offer next day, and even same day, delivery in some cases."
FBT AUDIO UK is now located at Unit 16, Stirling Park, Laker Road, Rochester Airport Estate, Rochester, Kent ME1 3QR. The company's telephone numbers remain unchanged: Phone: +44 0203 598 5162 - Fax: +44 0203 598 5163.
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Run by the Institute of Competitive Socialising (ICS), it not only hosts corporate crazy golf sessions for the business world - bringing the outside indoors - but then transforms the 16,000sq.ft of space into a more upbeat vibe after dark, with nightly DJs. It is described as an environment of "competitive socialising".
MSL are just one of a number of integrators who have made the CDD their 'go to' solution since its launch in Frankfurt 15 months ago. Director Darrel Olivier says that a
When Geraint Pughe from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts contacted joint head of theatre market, Peter Marshall, with a request for a long-term loan of some moving lights for students to experiment with and train on, PRG was happy to help.
Peter Marshall commented, "We were delighted to support Mountview, as we have previously done with many colleges, with a combination of Arc and LED sourced automated lights, namely the very popular Vari*Lite VL3000 spot and the GLP Impression LED RZ120 RGB zoom wash light."
Geraint explained, "It's important for us that all lighting students have access to up to date lighting technology in the classroom,
Bandit Lites once again worked with Lambda Productions to provide a lighting package for the weekend that featured a line-up including Pearl Jam, Dead & Company, LCD Soundsystem, J. Cole, CHVRCHES, Jason Isbell, M83, Halsey and Chris Stapleton.
Bandit's production manager Dizzy Gosnell designed the mainstage festival system to accommodate the three daily closing headliners systems, as each brought along a large portion of their own touring system which occupied a 40'w by 30'd footprint above the performing area.
Working in conjunction with their lighting design
With music being a key factor in the overall customer experience, the system was installed by Bose pro partner Tateside to offer managers on each of the floors overall control of the source music and volume. There are four iPads, each loaded with the Bose ControlSpace Remote app, which is designed specifically to give intuitive wireless control across multiple devices to end users wherever networked Bose system electronics are installed.
At The Lighterman, a Bose ControlSp
The production company last worked with promoter Reece Miller on the two-day event back in 2014, and with production values ramping up they were recalled this year by festival production director, Simon Barrington (of Sibar Productions), with whom they have collaborated on Above & Beyond shows (and last year's Wild Life Festival).
This year, with Fatboy Slim and Steve Angello headlining an all-star cast of international DJs (including Sven Vath, Richie Hawtin, Craig David and Armand van Helden) the upgraded stage enabled them to support a greater speaker payload and hence the additional MLA elements gav
WI has previously worked with Dragone on several projects, explains project manager Koen Peeters, and for this one the show creators turned to them to provide solutions for several staging conundrums, all of which had to be delivered in an extremely short timeframe.
With the tour starting in Russia, crew visas, paperwork and transportation needed special attention, in addition to all the engineering and physical creative work!
The first WI element of the project was to create 14 aluminium flying wings and a kinetic system to make them move. All of these flying elements have an i
