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Celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year, Robert Juliat is a three-generation family business which has specialised in the manufacture of lighting equipment since 1919.

With sections on profile lanterns, single lens luminaires, dimmers and a range of specialist products - in addition to its followspots - the new brochure gives insights into why Robert Juliat products are so popular and is the most comprehensive brochure to date.

(Jim Evans)

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The DS 830 Speaker Station, an eight-channel unit mounted in a smartly styled 3U cabinet, will debut at ASL Digital's stand at IBC and at ASL's UK distributor Polar Audio's stand F4 at PLASA09. Three more companion tabletop units - offering 16, 24 and 32 channel capacities - will also be available in the near future/in early 2010.

"Many theatres and concert halls have expressed a strong preference for the groundbreaking technologies in our new digital system," notes Susan McLohon, ASL Intercom's director of sales and marketing. "They are pleased that they can specify either tabletop enclosures or 1U rackmount units, or even select optional 19" rack mounting of

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The 50 mark was passed when Graeme Sewell of Vortex Lighting from County Durham in the north east of England purchased two DigitalSpot 3000 DTs.

It was his first investment in the Robe brand. His primary motivation for the sale is that in addition to servicing its own shows, Vortex undertakes a lot of dry hires to other north-east based companies who are busy with various corporate events - generally a mix of presentations, product launches and exhibitions of all types. "DigitalSpot is a special product and I think it will be very popular in this market, especially after people see its capabilities first hand."

Using DigitalSpots

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The team plans to increase its live sound activities with the help of SD8, taking advantage of the fact that Switzerland holds claim to having the most open-air events in the world.

Markus Zehnder, DreamSound business manager, is very happy with the new acquisition. "We have had a Soundtracs DPC2 in our studio for almost 10 years," he says. "The application software is consistent to a greater or lesser extent and that's half the battle. Our old MADI 19" I/O racks are still compatible with t

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Packages are all tailored to precise customer requirements. The result is a kit that is as flexible as Maltbury's staging systems. With backdrape you can construct a line of curtains to the height of your choosing which will follow the rear of your Maltbury stage - or do something quite different. As always, those decisions are left up to you, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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For the last nine years VME have been responsible for all technical requirements for the festival that took place in Abersoch, Wales. "To deliver everything from fuel for the generators, to speakers, lighting, LED screens and trussing is a good challenge every year," states Dion Davie, director of VME. The festival has grown from small beginnings to a respectful 30.000 visitor site.

"We use only Kling & Freitag speakers for all stages. They are reliable and the performance is unrivalled," André Davie, brother and

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The vibrant London festival was held in Victoria Park on the 18 and 19 July and was headlined by founders Groove Armada alongside Doves, Florence and the Machine and Duran Duran, whose set featured a special guest appearance from Mark Ronson.

Sunbaba produced 125 lightbox panels made from backlit PVC for the Relentless Dance Area. The company worked alongside Lovebox set designers and Spacial, the set builders, to create the panels which spanned from the stage to five surrounding tower blocks. This illuminated the area and created a 'rave environment' at dusk.

To keep costs low and waste to a minimum Sunbaba produced each of the 125 panels separately, instead of covering the whole of each structure. Each of the panels was coded so that th

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The iLive digital family will be central to the display. Following the recent launch of RAB2, iLive's latest remote audio card, it is now possible to 'mix 'n match' the flagship modular iLive hardware with the iLive-T fixed I/O MixRacks and Control Surfaces, increasing hire inventory flexibility and system integration.

RAB2 enables iLive digital mixing systems to work with a variety of common audio interface and networking standards. The new module

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The FlexDOT concept is simple - individually controlled, intelligent, full colour pixels mounted on a flexible cable that allows designers/architects to create unique and customized LED video displays. Each pixel (dot) consists of a bright RGB LED driven by its own processor and individually addressable for independent control of colour, special effects, and animation. Pixels can be arranged as needed and later mapped to the image using pixel mapping software. FlexDOT can be controlled from any DMX512 source such as Martin's Maxedia media server.

Standard pixel spacing is 100 mm or 200

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A 91st Birthday celebration party was staged in Mary Fitzgerald Square, with an eclectic line up of performers, attended by 16,000 people.

The previous week, Gearhouse SA supplied staging, lighting, sound and AV for the Nelson Mandela Foundation Lecture in Johannesburg City Hall. Professor Muhammed Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Grameen Bank addressed this annual landmark.

A strong party atmosphere pervaded Mary Fitzgerald Square, where the Gearhouse team was co-ordinated by project manager Bonni Meyer, working closely with show producers Out of The Box for the South African Music Promoters Association (SAMPA).

Gearhouse Structures built the scaffo

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"The Peavey Versarray 212 is a big leap forward for sound reinforcement technology," said Dave Summers, road and production manager for the Jägermeister Mobile Stage. "With this system, Peavey developed a line array that positions 16 loudspeaker components in a compact enclosure while delivering the highest levels of performance. It's the ideal system for modern touring situations, where

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R24 delivers the actual results as visualized for the project - as opposed to a mock-up image not based on industry technology. With wysiwyg's proprietary library of over 20,000 lights, gobos and trusses, there is no "cheating" needed so Shaded View and Renderings are replicable on stage, in the venue, on the set or wherever.

R24 is built on the significant advances made in R22 + R23. Its new visualization raises the standard for the industry. In addition to the new features and visualization, its developmental accomplishments have not sacrificed wysiwyg's robustness or performance. Indeed, a lot of work

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Lienau AV sells Audio-Technica's complete line of professional audio products to sound contractors and retailers in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Southern New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Audio-Technica held the awards ceremony during this year's InfoComm expo in Orlando, to honour its dedicated force of manufacturer's representatives. The A-T Rep of the Year recipient was congratulated for outstanding sales performance and bestowed with Audio-Technica's Samurai doll award. Lienau AV Associates was acknowled

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The plenary chamber recently saw a major upgrade to a Soundweb London system, relieving the older Soundweb Original system from its duties, which it has been performing since 2002.

The new system, installed during the Easter recess by Norwegian BSS Audio distributor, LydRommet AS, includes four BLU-320 break-in / out devices in an 8 x 8 configuration, and eight BLU-160 devices, all configured with four analogue inputs, four digital outputs and eight analogue outputs. Two BLU-10 touch screen remotes control the system locally, and the package includes a BLU-80 device located in the offices of the technical department for surveillance and monitoring of the entire system.

Al

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The BRDC Ball is held in a luxury marquee erected adjacent to the Members' Clubhouse on the Saturday evening of the 2009 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix weekend.

Personalities from the motor racing fraternity, including Jenson Button, Jodie Scheckter and David Coulthard appeared on stage to talk about their experiences to the BBC's and ex-Radio Caroline's Jonny Walker.

A.C. Special Projects., a sister company of BRDC Rising Stars Programme Patron, A.C. Entertainment Technologies, provided the Clubhouse's temporary architectural lighting installation for a second year. The scheme carried a similar theme to last year, with vivid colour washes onto the roof level

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Systems consultants WJHW designed the system, which includes a selection of powerful R.5 loudspeakers on the exterior lighting poles. Community i2W8 full-range two-way boxes ring the main seating bowl, providing under-balcony fill, with Cloud12 compact coaxial loudspeakers installed in the Club Lounge ceiling of the main concourse. Bay Area-based ProMedia / UltraSound provided the system's installation.

As WJHW's Kevin Day explains, the R.5s are mounted on the lighting poles that illuminate the building's exterior. "We selected the R.5s for their weather-resistant design," says Day, "and the architect was pleased at how well they match the lighting e

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Serena Water Park is the largest indoor water park in Europe with approximately 18,000sq.m in total space. The conditions are very extreme. The temperature is around 34°-35° Celsius without a crowd and can climb as high as 40°C with a full audience. The humidity is tropical, around 90%.

38 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 fixtures, plus eight Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300s, su

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A full-service lighting, audio and video production and rental company, PCE had purchased 48 of the Elation panels, which are modular in design and can be used to create vibrant video pixel screens, curtains and backdrops. Measuring 2'1" x 2'1" x 3", the transparent tiles are compact and lightweight, and with an IP65 rating, can be used indoors or outdoors.

PCE decided to host the open house to demo the product - which it refers to simply as The Wall. "We wanted to get the word out about The Wall, because it creates new possibilities for our existing clients, as well as opens opportunities for us to sell new markets," said Ryan Steidinger, PCE's director of operations.

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The Universiade is an international event that hosts university athletes from around the world. This year's Summer Universiade took place from 1-12 July in Belgrade. It hosted more than 9,000 athletes from over 140 countries, all of who competed in 15 different sports and 203 disciplines at more than 50 sport venues. This year's games celebrated three anniversaries for what some consider to be the largest and most important sporting event next to the Olympic Games: the 25th Summer Universiade, the 50th anniversary of Universiade, and the 60th anniversary of the International University Sports Federation.

For the largest sports venues, including so

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The KMS 104 plus is tailored to have an extended bass response, so it's especially suitable when extra weight is needed in the bottom end. For example, to enhance low end growl for female vocals and for any voices that need low-end enhancement. Having been developed with a wide range of professional vocalists, the KMS 104 plus delivers natural warmth, but without any loss in transparency, says the company.

In comparison with other handheld microphones, most of which use dynamic capsules, the KMS series, with its condenser capsules, has a high acoustic transparency, a wide frequency range and "excellent" feedback rejection.

All Neumann KMS microphones have a robust housing, tough enough for the rigorous demands of touring, and com