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14 December 2016

Last year's Switch-On Festival attracted around 30,000 people to the arena across four events, including two music concerts, a comedy roadshow and a live CBBC broadcast, as well as Hollywood film director Tim Burton turning on the famous Illuminations display.

Details of this year's line-up are beginning to be announced, with special guest performers and the switch on star set to be unveiled in the coming weeks, while global TV channel Nickelodeon have already signed up to deliver a host entertainment across the resort during the weekend.

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14 December 2016

The Church is an Assemblies of God organisation that stresses the importance of godly living, Christian service and personal salvation. It recently relocated to an extensively renovated, 58,000 sq. ft. former industrial facility.

The Church's executive pastor, Danny Collins, approached Douglas Hood, president of Indiana-based CSD Group, to supply a lighting solution for the new building.

"Versatility was a recurring theme in our design meetings, with the hope of creating an environment where we could blur the lines between stage and seating using lighting," says Danny. "Therefore, we required colour-capable, fully-dimmable lighting which could be controlled fr

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14 December 2016

Shawn Smith is Dream City's media director. He says the church previously mixed on a large, analogue setup that had 112 inputs with 24 returns and took up 16ft of mix booth space. However, even this high channel count was barely adequate for Dream

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14 December 2016

This one-of-a-kind experience is live for the whole five weeks of the competition and has been created by Kings Cross-based event-makers and placemakers PRODUCE UK. Nine months in the making, the project was commissioned by Hyundai Motor UK to host 45,000 guests across 45 games. With the content reacting in real time to the action in live matches with everything from goals scored, red and yellow cards, penalty shootouts, national anthems and even injury time

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14 December 2016

"We invest in the high end," comments André Schneider, founder/MD of DEE Sound & Light. "Low-end or short-lived technology is not a good investment for a dry hire business. We need to know that a product will be in demand over the long term and that the manufacturer will continue to support and develop the technology. That's why we chose SSL."

DEE Sound & Light specialises in rental and production in both theatre and the music touring markets all over Europe and the world. Split into two main departments - DEE-Backline Rental and DEE-Digital Console Rental - the company rents out every productio

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14 December 2016

Fineline specified 16 Rogue R1 FX-B blade-style fixtures for the WOW! Stage, which was located in Glastonbury's Silver Hayes area and featured EDM and DJ artists. The company used 10 Maverick MK2 Spots at The Circus Big Top, where concert music gave way to stage performances by Pirates of the Carabina, Yvette Dusol, Eric McGill, plus many other acts.

Although the two stages featured very different forms of entertainment, Fineline Lighting was committed to giving each a fresh new look. "We have been working at Glastonbury for many years; it's the largest green field festival in the world and has always been a very diverse festival in terms of both the ac

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14 December 2016

Rane Corporation is well-known for its audio products for the DJ and professional sound markets. Founded and incorporated in 1981, Rane quickly established itself as a valuable supplier to the professional sound market, with products that introduced new and innovative features, with an emphasis on performance, value and reliability. Today, Rane's reputation for engineering excellence extends to a wide range of products, including DJ mixers, amplifiers, equ

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14 December 2016

Bristol Summer Series welcomed a host of international acts including headliners Catfish and The Bottlemen, Sigur R

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14 December 2016

Dan Woolfie, the band's tour manager, has been using a Shure PSM1000 in-ear monitoring (IEM) system on all the band's recent dates, as well as a KSM313 ribbon mic on Josh Dewhurst's guitar and the new KSM8 dual-diaphragm mic for vocals.

Blossoms had been using IEMs for only a matter of months when they recorded a session at Abbey Road and came across Shure's PSM1000 systems. In that instant the whole band agreed that this upgrade would make a huge difference to their live shows.

The PSM1000s provide dedicated monitor mixes for each band member, but their use on t

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14 December 2016

Kyle Nel from AVS and Sakkie Coetzer from Lowveld Sound had often quoted against each other for events. With both young men like-minded in work ethics and each backed up with a good crew, they started playing with the idea of integrating both companies a couple of years ago.

"It's nice to have back up and a person to second guess with," said Kyle. "Together we can become a dot on the map and we can raise the bar as technical suppliers."

Sakkie agreed that the merge would provide a solid infrastructure to enable the supply of large-scale shows or events. The new Prolyte pieces will expand their existin

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14 December 2016

Outside of his college obligations, Arnall has been busy building his own business along with his partner, Owen Price who is also at York College. "It was Owen who really got me into sound and lighting in the first place. We started out DJ-ing about four years ago but with very minimal equipment and cer

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14 December 2016

Aaron's lighting was a crucial element in creating the emotion, raw anxiety and political and moral issues of this incisive piece of theatre by Jason Robert Brown, which dramatizes the 1913 trail of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank for the murder and rape of 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Georgia.

HSL first met Aaron through their work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year where he had a production of Molly by company Squint. When this production took shape, and he needed support for the show, HSL's MD Simon Stuart was delighted to get involved.

"Aaron is a highly talented LD with a real passion f

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14 December 2016

All race day communications relating to the actual production (camera cues, commercial breaks, specific camera shots, commentator comments) were supported on an RTS ADAM intercom.

Six KP-5032 keypanels were located around the track in various camera and shot spotter locations, with two located in the track/event control room to enable seamless communications for a successful production of the anniversary event.

This was the first live demonstration of the new, soon-to-be-released RVON software package designed for the KP-5032s. In the past, implementing RVON required buying hardware daughter cards, pulling the keypanel out of service, in

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14 December 2016

Having been given a major overhaul for the 2016 season, the new look BB set at Elstree Studios hosts each of the live evictions as a full on 'rock and roll' event, complete with vast wrap around video screens, plenty of automated lighting and a curved 'catwalk' at its centre.

Working closely with gaffer Richard Shout, Aurora hassupplied the crew with a variety of heads including the versatile Clay Paky Mythos with its impressive spot and beam abilities providing precise colour and movement across the exterior of the set. For extra punch, powerful Novalight Super Novas have also been sited over the stage to deliver stunning aerial effects above the action.

A mix of MAC Auras and Rush PARs have been incorporate

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14 December 2016

Lighting designer Larry Foote rented 24 of the Chauvet Professional LED panels from 4Wall Entertainment for his Farr tour rig. Drawing on the versatility of his pixel mapped Nexus units, Foote has been able to create an impressive variety of looks for his client, while still meeting the objective of keeping his rig simple and flexible.

"We're playing a lot of festivals and venues of very differe

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14 December 2016

What makes the Norwegian Olympic Museum a must-see attraction for all is Lysgaardsbakkene roughly translated as 'Jump Hills'. It forms the centrepiece; a large-scale circular raised-platform interactive model measuring 3.5m in diameter, the Olympic jump hills. Local systems integrator Bright Norway achieved a true to life interactive presentation using AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Raw uncompressed 4K media servers and Wings VIOSO calibration software to manage and warp native video content across 4 edge-blended projectors.

Bright Norway was also responsible for multimedia and presentation equipment for la

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14 December 2016

Robe partnered with leading Slovakian rental company Q-99 for the 2016 Championships to supply over 100 of the latest Robe moving lights - Squares, BMFL Blades and BMFL WashBeams, Pointes and ColorStrobes - to the event's entertainment stage which was used for the Opening Ceremony, nightly concerts, featuring some of the most popular Czech artists, as well as for medal ceremonies throughout the prestigious and highly successful five-day event.

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14 December 2016

The Academy will be located at the new Analog Way facility in Metro-Atlanta which has been equipped with several rooms designed for hands on training. A technology instructor has also joined the company as a specialist trainer.

Strengthening the training offer in the Americas, Analog Way has always been committed to supporting its customers through training tailored to their needs.

Jay Gonzalez, president of Analog Way Americas states, "Developing training programmes for our customers is one of the main goals of Analog Way Americas. We want to offer product and technology training to integrators, consultants, freelance technicians, and end-users - training that will enable them to

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14 December 2016

In order to capture that same kind of expansive sound for Latin pop rock superstar Enrique Iglesias' current tour, the duo relies on microphones from DPA Microphones.

"Brad and I have been on tour with Enrique Iglesias and heard a lot of great things about DPA Microphones," says Caipo. "When we were offered a demo package to try out the company's mics, we were thrilled. We were both immediately blown away by the sound. The quality is above and beyond anything we were using in the past. It was immediately obvious that there was no going back to

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14 December 2016

"The Forum has a high reverberation time which translates into pretty bad acoustics," explains Chadi Akiki, owner of CKA. "The directionality of the Adamson PA was a tremendous help. The end result was quite exceptional."

CKA hung left and right line arrays, each made up of eight E12 modules, along with a centre cluster of six more E12s. Eight E218 subwoofers created a centre cluster under the stage for additional low end. CKA also utilized eight Metrix line array modules for front-fills along the lip of the stage. Out-fill was handled by left and right arrays of six S10 modules each.

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14 December 2016

System integrators, MGA Communication, won a competitive tender to provide an integrated Voice Alarm and a Communications network, working with RCF's Engineering Support Group to deliver the solution. RCF's DXT7000 Sound Broadcast and Emergency Evacuation System was selected to meet the requirements of the main terraces, corridors, and mass circulation areas, as well as toilets, private corporate boxes, meeting rooms, board rooms and bar areas.

To create a matched system, RCF's premier I

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14 December 2016

"Because Pentatonix is an a capella group, we had to make sure there was some sort of scenic and lighting," Sooner explains of her design and the ACL 360i's role in it. "We use the fixtures as a lighting backdrop for effects and lighting scenic. We use every feature in the light to help with the poppy effects programming for songs like the Daft Punk and Bieber medleys. At the same time, we can make them so

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Stone Free is a major new festival, featuring two days of classic rock music from leading artists, including Alice Cooper, The Darkness, Marillion, Therapy? and Steve Hackett. Rick Wakeman's headline appearance comprised the debut live performance of the revised album King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which has not been performed since 1978.

Supplied by Stone Free's PA company, Capital Sound, and sub-hired through SRD Group, the dLive system comprised an S7000 Control Surface with a DM64 MixRack and two DX32 expander racks loaded with seven analogue input cards and one analogue output card.

With a full band and accompanying orchestra, there was a total of 120 inputs on stage. Orche