A statement issued by Outline reads: "Guido happily shared his experience and knowledge, and whoever listened to or read what he had to say (from youngsters to seasoned pros) was immediately struck by the passion with which he talked or wrote from the heart."
The company has asked friends and colleagues of Guido who would like to leave a message in his memory to do so by e-mailing Outline at the address provided below.
(Lee Baldock)
MC2 report that the team at BO-MAH has a wealth of experience gained from their collective experience across the audio industry as company directors Marijo Suica and Boris Mahovli? explain: "This experience has taught us to understand what our customers needs are and to use only the best quality equipment. This in turn provides potential buyers with personalised customer service to obtain the best result and value for money."
BO-MAH is a licensed distributor for some of the top staging and pro-audio brands, including Sennheiser microphones, headphones and wireless systems; Coda loudspeakers; Europodium staging, mobile stages and alu
"This wasn't a straightforward AMX installation, as the Barbican use the system in a unique way and we enjoyed the technical challenge," said Simon Ling, installation manager for Hawthorn.
Hawthorns have done over 12 AMX installations, for a variety of clients in the UK, over the past 12 months: "When we were asked to recommend a potential installation company by the Concert Hall, we had no hesitation in recommended Hawthorns who have done superb installations for us in the past and our customer feedback on their performance has been glowing," said Sarah Chiappi of AMX.
Ingo Reinhardt, deputy technical manager at the Barbican said: "We ar
Owner Gianluca Renna has just opened the restaurant and live music venue at the Harlock, which has been equipped with a JBL PA system, Crown amplifiers, and a Soundcraft GB8 for front-of-house audio control. The venue is hosting live music four nights a week, and plans are in place to double its capacity by utilising the upper floor, which has a gallery overlooking the stage.
Renna already operates a tour sound rental company, which carries JBL Vertec line array in its inventory. His businesses also include a promotion company, running its own festivals and gigs, a commercial graphic design an
FreeSpeak 10 brings the power of matrix communications to the wireless environment, combined with the coverage flexibility of a local cellular network. Up to 10 beltpacks can operate from a single 1-RU base station via individually located Antennae, and users can talk beltpack-to-beltpack or in small groups. Each beltpack is registered with a User ID that the base station will recognise. This prevents interferenc
In 2006 the record-breaking show boasted a record attendance representing a 5% growth, and packed the venue's three halls to capacity with over 100 exhibiting companies. Over 2400 visitors including theatre and venue managers, technical directors, technicians, technical managers, heads of drama departments, architects, consultants, designers, and building services managers attended.
To maintain this level of growth, the organisers are committed to focussing time and money into an expanded PR and marketing campaign that will raise awareness of the show and have a drive into both the educati
"Spy Bar's owners chose the Cobra as their new main room system after the DJ booth was renovated earlier this year," says Eric Dahl of Audiolines. "The Cobra has a small footprint, yet pumps out huge sound into the 30ft by 30ft room. Two stacks of two Cobra Tops and two Cobra PWH subs are ground stacked either side of the booth, standing about nine feet high, tucked in nicely under the 12ft basement ceiling. The Cobra hardly takes up any space, but it's taken the sound Spy Bar to another level."
"The Cobra is simply a great club system," Dahl continued, "one that opens up
Adlib has worked on many educational and schools projects over the years, gaining a great reputation for supplying appropriate kit that's practical for students and their teachers to use. The company is renowned for its policy of not over-specifying.
The overall installation project was overseen by Adlib's Roger Kirby. He also drew up the recording studio spec with Mark Burnley, while Adlib's head of lighting Pete Abraham, sorted out the visual elements. The Adlib team worked closely with Sean Back, Maricourt's head of music who also runs the recording stu
Replacing Gary Bradshaw, who piloted the band's European live tour from the front-of-house position this Summer, Woodhead set up the sound on Venue for the band's exclusive concert at Abbey Road Studios (for a Radio 2 taped broadcast), followed by a one-hour live television recording on London's South Bank for the ITV 1 show An Audience With Take That Live! the following week.
In the first ever live An Audience With, Take That performed hits from their back catalogue - including Relight My Fire - and latest single Patience before a host of celebrity guests.
The sound engineer had first been introduced to Digidesign's live sound environment by one of the system's early adopters, award-winning soun
Tempo celebrated with a birthday concert named Tempo Turns One on 4 November, which started at 4 p.m. Saturday and continued well into Sunday morning. Tempo's Founder, senior vice president and general manager, Frederick Morton chose his home island of St. Croix to host the concert, at the Cramer's Park Beach on the east end of the island. The concert was headlined by The Royal Family of Reg
Coordinated by Ibsen 2006 in cooperation with the Egyptian Tourism Authority and the Eqyptian Ministry of Culture, the event featured a large cast plus the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Opera Acapella Choir and singers from The Norwegian National Opera.
For the two 3000-capacity performances, the show's live audio designer Per Ola Holden brought in three DiGiCo consoles to ensure that the complex mixing requirements would be as easy as possible to handle. "I did three research trips down to Egypt, in February, in March and in April," says Per Ola, of DiGiCo's Norwegian
Mankowski has had a diverse career history to date, which has seen him working across many unusual projects; ranging from overseeing the entire audio-visual installation of the new Parliament in Kabul, to being a founder and head of creative for online magazine, Roadieworld.
The Solutions division within SPS provides creative services for events through the innovative use of technology and the latest production techniques for digital video and graphics, says the company. Their focus is on delivering clients messages effectively, with creative solutions which look great and engage the audience.
In his new role Mankowski will be working closely with SPS event producers to ensure that the technical solutions work seamlessly with the
Starring nine celebrities including Eighties pop icon, Steve Strange, actress and Dynasty star, Emma Samms and Right Said Fred frontman, Richard Fairbrass, the show was hosted by Presenter and XFM DJ, Alex Zane.
Lee Stafford - Britain's most creative celebrity hairdresser and his team managed the would-be snippers in the Celebrity Scissor Hands Academy, which was located at the heart of BBC Television Centre. Roll To Record's sound supervisor, Peter Vasey, has deployed Trantec for many years for the brand's reliability and flexibility and ease of operation. For
Nuno Vinhas of Garrett SA, RCF's Portuguese distributor, explained: "We have been working hard with the new TT+ system and have received very good technical coverage from the press. But this was the first time we had an opportunity to show the system live."
The event was done in conjunction with sound rental company Janita Sound using eight TTL33 and two TTS 28S subs. Vinhas again: "Janita Sound had already purchased 10 RCF 4PRO 3002SM monitors which they used at the event. I'm
As an independent union BECTU represents those working in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure, interactive media and allied areas. Primarily based in the UK. Featuring as part of the union's on-going services to its members, the course was tailored to their requirements, offering their members application based training.
Designed and presented by Simon Whitehorn for Orbital, 'Sound Fundamentals' dealt specifically with sound systems for theatre and the live entertainment industries. Covering a basic introduction to sound theory, the course was concentrated on giving the delegates as much h
Both the ZonePro and DriveRack product ranges consist of user configurable DSPprocessing engines that are controllable via Harman Pro's proprietary HiQnetprotocol and can be customised to route and process audio for use in a widevariety of environments. The ZonePro range is designed to drive commercial audiosystems typical of retail outlets, art galleries and bars, as well as smallentertainment venues. The professional DriveRack range is aimed at larger toursound or installed venues, and is designed to provide all the professionalprocessing and routing options live sound engineers need to apply between avenue's mixe
Beside the lectures of each manufacturer and product demos, there were also seminars of free-lance lecturers like Dipl. Ing. Matthias Domke about the regulation DIN 15905-5 or Chris Böttger, author of the reference book Praxis des Riggings about the topic "safety aspects for the system choice".
"We are very happy about the optimistic mood we experienced during the info days. The excellent feedback shows us that with the info days for entertainment technology, we have succeeded in crea
Noise Productions managing director Toby Mills says: "The Edge Systemis another incredible example of how Proel continues to deliver cost-effective high performance professional audio solutions. The Edge cabinetsare incredibly sturdy and the quality of their sound reproduction,particularly the top end is stunning. Some people only know Proel as acable or stand manufacturer, however products like the Edge concert seriesreally place them on par with some of the leading concert speakerproviders."
The Edge system was tested in a variety of scenarios ranging from a localvenue with extremely difficult ac
Cinema installation specialist GFD Communications Ltd was responsible for installing sound systems into all 11 theatres and sourced the JBL and Crown units from Harman Pro UK. JBL Professional 3000 Series speakers were used in the smaller theatres, while 4000 Series speakers were installed in the four larger theatres. GFD also installed projectors, screens and automation systems, including computer touch screens to activate the projectors.
For more than 30 years GFD has been providing full design, supply and installation services to cinema owners throughout Ireland and now boasts more than 280 cinema installations to its credit. The
The Unholy Alliance tour has recently shipped into Europe from the US and sound service provider, Eighth Day Sound elected to send the complete touring package over with them.
Quinby says: "When I was originally asked by management to specify this tour I asked for something else. Eigh
Accompanying the long-awaited tour is a profusion of Sennheiser and Neumann systems. The microphone choice for Michael is the Sennheiser SKM 5200 fitted with the Neumann KK 104 capsule, and this same mic configuration has been selected for a further six backing vocals. On front-of-house is Gary Bradshaw, and two monitor engineers are in control of the stage mix - John Roden for the band, and Andy Robinson balancing Michael's personal mix.
Robinson says: "It's important that an artist of George's stature feels completely comfortable with their mic. Combining the Neumann capsule with the Sennheiser wireless system has thrust the legendary Neuma
Edvardsen continues: "While having to think differently when installing the boxes, once you get the h
For the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, hosting a reception at the Museo for many distinguished foreign visitors, the challenge was to provide a sound reinforcement for speech and acoustic music, which would service a 70-metre long central space as well as the side chambers.
The solution was the revolutionary wireless So Cube system from Vieta. 16 cubes were deployed, the contents of Vieta's standard fl
Although the great hall seats around 500 and the small hall 100, the red and gold adorned architecture made scant provision for the sound control room. Resident house engineer, Andreas (Stanley) Lönnquist operates from the tiniest of sound booths, from where he often has to send a monitor mix to the performers as well as deliver a highly intelligible house mix to the d&b system in the auditorium.
Commissioned four years ago, the existing sound desk was ready to be upgraded. Top of Lönnquist's wish list was Digidesign's Venue - but h
