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The Centre's 3700-seat James E. O'Neill Arena is home to the university's Cardinal basketball teams. The multipurpose facility can be segmented using movable walls, accommodating not just basketball, but everything from baseball practice, pole vaulting and shot putting to convocations, and even the occasional swap meet. The arena recently received a major sound system upgrade, overseen by Bret Emerson of Rockford, MI-based CommTech Design, installing a high-powered audio system featuring Renkus-Heinz

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Roxette began their current tour in February 2011, their first world tour since 1995, and have so far visited Europe, Russia, South America, and South Africa, with the 2012 leg covering Asia, Australia and Scandinavia, for a total of over 120 performances.

Calle Brattberg is the lighting designer, set designer, programmer, and operator for the tour, as well as creator of the wysiwyg design used for lighting the show.

The main lighting for the Fall leg of the tour was supplied by Starlight in Sweden, consisting of 40 Martin MAC 2000 Wash, 39 Vari*lite VL3000 Spots, 11 Vari*lite VL2500 Spots, 10 SGM Ribaltas, 11 Cromlech JARAGs, 14 Martin MAC 301 LED washes and 18 2-lights by James Thomas Engineering. Brattberg's own company, LXworks, is the supplier of the MA2 ligh

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Kilden Performing Arts Centre represents the largest financial investment in a cultural building in Norway since the construction of the Oslo Opera House (itself kitted out with Robert Juliat profiles and followspots in 2008) and, covering a total area of 15,000sq.m, is the largest ever to be built in Southern Norway.

On its opening last month, Kilden became the new home of three important independent institutions: the Agder Regional Theater, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and the regional opera company, Opera S°ør.

Kilden's special role as a cultural centre lies in its remit to accommodate everyone from local amateurs to international stars. It boasts an audience capacity in excess of 2270

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Produced for over three decades, the HHB Catalogue is a comprehensive guide to the latest pro audio technology for the broadcast, education, music recording, OB, post, radio, television and video games markets. The HHB 2012 Catalogue is the biggest edition yet, featuring information on products for file-based workflow, MADI, audio over IP, HD, loudness, Pro Tools, storage, and many more professional applications. Detailed descriptions, specifications, pictures and pricing for all available items are included.

The HHB Catalogue is also a trusted technical reference source due to its original editorial features w

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With over 16 years' experience in the Audio Visual Industry, Leader has worked for some of the foremost AV companies including Sanyo and Crestron, spending much of his career working on large projects with end-users, consultants and specifiers. Leader has been brought in to the company in a business development capacity and will be responsible for supporting POLARaudios' existing client base, developing new business and taking new technologies such as Biamp's AVB (Audio Video Bridging) to the AV and integration markets.

POLARaudio's managing director John Midgley commented, "We are delighted to welcome on-board the newest member of the team. Stuart possesses an abundance of experience and industry knowledge and will be a key part of our develo

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On display will be LumenRadio's full range of CRMX Nova, Outdoor, and Slim product series. CRMX technology for wireless DMX/RDM extends its functionality to Ethernet networks with native support for protocols such as Streaming ACN, Art-Net, ETC-Net, Strand ShowNet, PathPort, etc.

CRMX Nova was designed to meet the most rigorous requirements found in the professional entertainment lighting and event industry. CRMX Outdoor, intended for permanent outdoor installations, can withstand many years of adverse conditions in all types of climates thanks to its unique combination of an IP67 rated inner enclosure and a vandal proof metal cover and environmental shield.

LumenRadio's OEM Director, Hans Lau, will together with TMB demonstrate the

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Colin Cuthbert, Managing Director of Northern Light, said: "I'm delighted to announce the arrival of Ed Gamble, who recently started at Northern Light as a Business Development Manager. Ed brings with him a wealth of experience and is already well known throughout our industry."

Ed will head up the company's sales and service team and will be working across the UK to deliver advice, equipment sales and aftercare to Northern Light customers.

Ed commented: "Northern Light's ambitious growth plans make it an exciting time to have joined the company. I'm greatly looking forward to learning the NL ropes and implementing plans to expand my department and increase our market share."

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Following landmark installations in the iconic Paradiso and Melkweg clubs in the past few years, a Martin Audio W8LCi compact line array system has now been installed in latest Amsterdam rock venue (and cultural centre), Duycker.

Owned by the local government, and situated near Schiphol Airport (in the affluent town of Hoofddorp), the complex comprises two live rooms and a café bar, where sound reinforcement is provided by Martin Audio's AQ architectural range.

The Martin Audio W8LCi solution was chosen for installation in the large, 850-capacity room after the line array approach had been compared with modular systems by experienced freelance sound engineer, Gerald Chermin, who was brought in as technical director to

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The staging of live Olympics screenings and concerts planned for 2012 were not included in the review and the council agreed that an 18-day series of concerts will be held in the park to celebrate the Games and events related to the Queen's Jubilee.

Councillor Audrey Lewis, Westminster Council's Licensing chairman, said, "We have a duty to balance the needs of local residents with the desire of concert organisers to hold events and the compromise that the committ

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With six offices across Canada, their industry knowledge and high company profile is a great addition to the Dirty Rigger distribution network which is rapidly expanding across the whole of North America, says the company.

National expendables manager Vicki Brown says, "The Dirty Rigger products are well made, innovative and useful and as they are made especially to meet the unique requirements of our market, they will certainly be a perfect addition to our existing line-up of sales products and expendable goods."

Dirty Rigger's product manager Steve Marshall says, "To have Whites see the quality and durability of our range and be so keen to work with us is fantastic. I'm really looking forward to hearing their customers response

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Four W-DMX transmitters and 12 W-DMX receivers handled a flawless signal to 48 Moving Spot IM700, six Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500,12 Atomic 3000, 36 Moving Wash IM575, eight Laser System DMX, 60 Fire Machine DMX, 36 Par LED 3W AQUALED, and eight fog machines; 120 Canais dimmers plus control was from a grandMA Ultra Light console and a grandMA NPU.

Daniel Ridano, owner of Lighting Bits based in Sao Paulo, was both the technical consultant and distributor for W-DMX for the show. Ridano has a background in lighting consoles and DMX control and has been a W-DMX consultant si

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The first was a live broadcast by the BBC from Deptford Green School in Lewisham, east London, complete with satellite link to a school in Uganda. Later in the day, Gates and Professor Hans Rosling spoke and took part in a live webcast from the London School of Economics (LSE) in central London, addressing the 2012 Global Poverty Ambassadors and students. Gates also used this as part of the London launch of his Annual Letter.

PR was working for live event and communications agency Stretch who were event producers and for whom PR is a regular technical consultant and solutions supplier. PR's project manager was Justin H

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Flare Audio provided a 13 box flown Triwave i10 FOH System coupled with their Quadhorn Q218 bass enclosure.

"The sound produced by the system sounded incredible and the entire system was extremely fast to setup and de-rig," comments Arron Smith, project manager for Flare Audio.

The complex stage monitoring system was made up of the entire range of Flare Audio products; Stealth Array was used as side-fills, M15 as stage monitors, the V65 and V12 bass enclosures fitted perfectly into some of the smaller spaces where larger speakers would have restricted the athletes movements.

Davies Roberts from Flare Audio comments, "We were very honoured to have been selected to provide our new British designed an

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Chambers worked at AV Tech for nine years where he was in charge of the lighting department and managed the crew. In October last year he started freelancing.

"I enjoyed the lighting aspect of a show, the creativity involved," said Gareth. "But I'm looking forward to being in an environment that's a bit more structured."

Meanwhile, DWR Distribution bids farewell to JC Du Plessis who has joined Multi-Media.

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Already stocking the full Dirty Rigger gloves and accessories range, the addition of Le Mark's MagTape Professional Gaffer Tape, SlipWay Cable Tape and PAL Road Case Labels gained "unprecedented levels of interest and resulted in key show stock selling out, only two days in".

RL Sales MD Ruud Lansman says, "I was delighted with the interest shown to the new products during the show, as well as the continued growth in the sales of Dirty Rigger."

Export manager for Le Mark, Matt Every adds, "The show was fantastic and the response from visitors to bo

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HSL's business has expanded exponentially over the last four years and the company has completely outgrown the current building in Ribble Business Park and a second adjacent unit that came on stream two years ago.

In the new premises, there will also be room for future expansion into the rest of the space once the initial 165,000sq.ft 'phase one' development is complete.

Features in the new space will include a large technical department, complete with climate controlled test rooms from +85 to minus 20 degrees - including an anechoic chamber (dead room) - to enable the extreme soak testing of all products

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Austin City Limits shows claim ACL Live at the Moody Theatre for 45 days a year, with acts ranging from Janet Jackson and Steve Miller to Tony Bennett and Willie Nelson. "The consensus is that we have a great sounding room," says ACL Live's general manager, Tim Neece, after the first weeks of shows. "Overall, the response from both patrons and artists has been extremely positive. We haven't had anybody who wanted to fly their own system, even when it was right outsid

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Run by Silent Gig Ltd and supported by PA company The Audio Group, the December Sessions were a series of free performances to celebrate emerging UK talent hosted festival-style on an outdoor stage in the London Piazza at the O2. Allen & Heath's iLive digital system, comprising an iLive-T112 Control Surface at FOH and iLive-T80 on monitors both connected to iDR-48 MixRacks making use of Audinate's new Dante technology as a digital mic splitter, which also feeds the Dante virtual soundcard for full multitrack recording of the performances.

"The Audio Group is a long time user of the iLive systems. The flexibility

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Featured products will include the latest evolution of Lake's LM Series of digital audio system processors, LM 44, along with a sneak preview of the new developments with Lake Controller software. Also on show will be Tannoy's new VLS Series passive column array, following its international debut at ISE 2012 earlier this year.

Heading up the touring front will be Lab.gruppen's flagship PLM Series, including the TEC Award-winning PLM 20000Q.

Also on show will be the LM 44 digital audio system processor, the latest addition to Lake's LM Series that also includes the LM 26. Similar in many respects to the LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processor, the LM 44 is geared more towards the role of a Dedicated Audio System Proces

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Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is over 828m high with more than 160 stories. Oasis had intimate knowledge of the structure and connectivity having already worked on the contract to integrate and programme the festive lighting system comprising over 800 strobes. An on-site mockup test was scheduled within weeks and the concept was enthusiastically embraced by global property developer, Emaar Properties, who gave the green light.

The system comprises four 2kw and two 3kw xenon Falcon spotlights from A&O technology located on the upper terraces. Oasis technicians originally installed rental units to hit the deadline for EID ul Fitr marking the end