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Sweden - Robe's DL series continues to impress theatre and performance venues with the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern (Royal Dramatic Theatre) in Stockholm recently investing in DLS Profiles.

The theatre, that produces over 1000 works a year across eight dynamic performance spaces, is the national theatre for spoken drama and was founded in 1788 and has occupied the current, majestic art nouveau building designed by architect Fredrik Lilljekvist on the waterfront at Nybroplan since 1908.

The theatre has many claims to fame including legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman who was its creative and managing director 1963 - 66 and directed numerous ground-breaking productions there. The Big Hall has a capacity of 720 and the Small Stage of 340, with both constantly busy producing an

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UK - Manchester-based production company, Audile has been enjoying a packed summer of events as director Rob Leach explains. "It's been back-to-back festivals all season: Snowbombing, Parklife, Creamfields, Bestival Boardmasters, Festival No 6 to name just a few of them. Very little of our stock has spent time on a shelf in the warehouse so it goes without saying that amongst our main priorities when considering equipment purchases are reliability and durability. Where lighting stock is concerned, we have to add flexibility to that list as we have to be prepared to adapt to a whole range of artist requests with little or no notice."

Audile has been a growing business since 1996 and now enjoys an extensive client list, ranging from dance music events, brand activations, touring and corporate shows as well as festivals. As a production house, they provide sound, lighting

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USA - Goya Foods is the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. Goya's new Northeast headquarters in New Jersey, which opened in late 2014, is part of a major company expansion programme and totals nearly 900,000sq.ft including office space and a 638,000sq.ft warehouse and distribution centre.

General contractor R.C. Anderson hired AVSI of Edison, New Jersey to design and install voice paging systems in the new facility. AVSI's Mike Venditte says, "The warehouse was especially challenging with its 50ft ceilings and 3.5-second reverb time. Ambient noise was also an issue. We measured occasional peaks as high as 100 dBA from forklifts and trucks at 12 cargo bay doors."

To overcome these challenges and achieve Goya's goals of fully audible and highly intelligible voice paging, Venditte designed an audio system based on Community RMG-200AT voice-range h

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UK - North London's trendy Nambucca venue recently played host to a day of eclectic live music. A mix of established acts, newly-signed artists, and emerging talent descended on the Holloway Road venue to get their live sets filmed in 4k, and recorded for broadcast, using DiGiGrid IOX units.

Luke Lockhart of production company, TF Music, is busy preparing for the show, which will see five bands play live sets over the course of the day for 360 Tune Box, an international broadcaster owned by SPI. TF is in charge of all things production, which constitutes setting up an eight-camera shoot [in 4k] and a 24-channel live recording setup. Lockhart and co. will be filming a string of different bands in various London locations over the coming weeks, before doing the same Stateside, if all goes to plan.

"360 Tune Box is kind of similar to Netflix; they have subscription channels,

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Europe - With the announcement that Audinate has now delivered their AES67-enabled firmware to their OEM partners in order to offer AES67 compatibility with their Dante protocol, the Ravenna community "welcomes them to the world of interoperability they created five years ago".

Andreas Hildebrand from ALC NetworX, developers of Ravenna, states, "This is great news for users, who can now interconnect audio devices using Ravenna, Q-Lan, Livewire and finally Dante."

AES67 cannot be used on its own, it simply allows different audio protocols to talk to each other, so manufacturers who want to enjoy the interoperability of AES67 need to choose a protocol that is AES67-compliant to fit into their products.

"We always intended that many different protocols should provide AES67 compatibility in order to offer the system designer and/or end-user as wide a cho

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USA - Bose Professional is now shipping four new dual-channel amplifier models from its broadened FreeSpace amplifier line. These models are optimised for premium commercial applications such as retail, restaurants and hospitality.

There are two mixer amplifiers (IZA 2120-HZ, IZA 2120-LZ) and two expansion amplifiers (ZA 2120-HZ, ZA 2120-LZ) each at 120 watts per channel. FreeSpace amplifiers can be quickly configured without the use of a PC, enabling each installation to be customised easily and intuitively. In addition, FreeSpace amplifiers offer a range of models and features to enhance any audio installation using Bose FreeSpace loudspeakers.

The IZA models include an integrated audio DSP providing Bose loudspeaker EQ, Bose Dynamic EQ, Opti-voice paging/ducking, audio mixing/routing, bass/treble adjustments, remote control options and an auto standby feature. The ZA models

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UK - At the PLASA exhibition in London this week, the d&b GB team and sales partner SSE/Wigwam took the opportunity to talk to visitors and answer questions about the recently launched V-Series point sources. And there was plenty to talk about following the announcement that the new V7P and V10P had been named in the 2015 PLASA Awards for Innovation.

"The new point sources attracted a lot of attention at the stand," said Gianni Abruzzese, d&b GB commercial manager. "They're actually a really good example of the way d&b products are designed to work systematically. The three-way passive V7P and V10P provide exceptional directivity control with a high output. We had a V7P cabinet with the sides cut out on the d&b stand, exposing the hornloaded mid-range section. It's this dual chamber horn, which provides a remarkable MF performance, especially in the vocal range, t

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USA - British heavy metal band, Bullet For My Valentine (BFMV), recently supported Slipknot on their latest tour, Summer's Last Standing, carrying Allen & Heath mixers to manage FOH and Monitors.

Comprising a GLD-80 at FOH, with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 rackmount Control Surface for monitors, BFMV's FOH Engineer, Dave Nutbrown, and monitor engineer, Adam Boole, connected the systems via ACE using a single Cat 5 cable.

"Adam controls the initial levels on iLive, the heartbeat of the system. I'm picking up the digital split on the GLD-80," said Nutbrown.

The Allen & Heath mixers were selected because of the excellent sound quality, reliability and compact size, which make them easy to take out on tour.

"Everything is right there in this great little package, it makes it so much easier for me. The FX are great and we are getting really good results durin

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Germany - Last weekend, the official celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Germany took place in Frankfurt am Main. In honour of the occasion, a lighting installation designed by Sven Sören Beyer and Björn Hermann illuminated 25 bridges across the Main as part of a spectacular light show on 3 October. For the technical side of things, they relied on products from Clay Paky, an Osram subsidiary.

Beyer and Hermann symbolically built a total of 25 bridges across the Main - taking the number of years since the reunification as his inspiration. Using 240 Mythos spotlights from Clay Paky, which were set up on 50 truss towers on both sides of the Main, they retold the history of the German people. "For me and for this event there was no alternative to using the Mythos spotlight, a mix of beam light and spotlight. The spotlights are not only extremely

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Singapore - Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd has been appointed to light up the city of Singapore during the 2015 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Night Race since 2013. Until now doing so with conventional flood lights, this year they opted for the LED technology by SGM.

Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd, formally known as Mozz Creation, dates back to 1997. The Singapore-based company has much experience within national and international events such as the digital projection for South East Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremony, setting Guinness World Record for the greatest light output in a projected image.

For their architectural illumination at the recent Formula 1 race in Singapore, Hexogon acquired 220 SGM P-5 wash lights, each consisting of 44 high power 10W RGBW LEDs. These were deployed to enhance the iconic and historic buildings around the race track including the Super Trees at th

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South Africa - Strictly Come Dancing has just concluded its eighth spectacularly successful season on South African screens.

Broadcast on SABC 3 and produced by Rapid Blue, this international format, is produced in nearly 50 countries around the world and sets the ballroom floor alight every week with a sparkling display of dancing and lighting.

The series was lit by Gearhouse's Robert Grobler primarily using a selection of Robe moving and static LED lightsources - nearly 150 in total - all supplied, together with other lighting and rigging elements by Gearhouse South Africa. Strictly SA was recorded at SABC's Renaissance Centre in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Robert was keen to continue using mostly LED fixtures, a path he took when lighting the show the previous year. He was given a free rein to create appropriate lighting by the producers based on certain givens, like the

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UK - Sales of ETC's iRFR and aRFR (Radio Focus Remote) application for iOS and Android devices continue to benefit industry professionals who are seriously ill or injured through the Behind the Scenes UK charity. At the recent PLASA Show, a cheque for £19,084.37 was presented by ETC's Luke Delwiche and Sarah Clausen to John Simpson, chair of the Behind the Scenes UK board of trustees.

ETC's CEO, Fred Foster, said of the donation, "Once again we're amazed at the amount of money raised from the purchase of the iRFR and aRFR apps, and by the incredible work that Behind the Scenes has done with the funds. Great support is at the heart of ETC, and we've been able to see that same philosophy spread throughout our industry with this program. We're humbled to see how many people have stepped up and supported their colleagues by simply downloading an app."

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UK - Blackout supported Achieving for Children, a Community Interest Company (CIC) creating a professional style performance stage with theatre curtains and drapes in its new youth centre.

Achieving for Children (AFC) is a social enterprise, set up to help provide better social, educational and community outcomes for children within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Following a recent investment from Richmond Council, AFC alongside of Richmond Council leading on project management and delivery of the project took action to revamp part of the popular youth centre - the Heatham House gym, to provide better facilities for the young people who attend, as well as those within the local community.

Heatham House is a Grade II listed building, situated in Twickenham, and is accessed by over 1,000 young people each year. Over the

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Italy - The iconic Palazzo Pisani Moretta, overlooking the famous Canal Grande in Venice, is one of those locations renowned for magnificent events in the Venetian style. As such, it provided the setting for a sophisticated private event. In fact, the Australian groom and Turkish bride chose the Palace as the place to share the most important day of their lives with friends and relatives gathered from several different countries.

For this special occasion, the main floor was furnished with imperial tables for the dinner. The room was lit with a delicate amber palette to show off the authentic Murano chandeliers, the paintings by Tiepolo, and the gilded stuccos. Guests could feel as though they were reliving the glorious past of the Serenissima Golden Age of Venice. The pied-à-terre was firstly lit in orange to welcome the guests. It was later turned into a luxurious dance area

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Poland - Aram, one of the biggest Poland-based event engineering company, member of AV Alliance, is the first to take delivery of a large quantity of Air6PIX fixtures from Italian manufacturer Prolights.

Aram's CEO, Rafal Mrzyglocki comments, "We never stop looking for new and diffreent lighting effects which can change every show! Air6Pix was discovered by one of the best lighting designers in Poland, Adam Tyszka, on YouTube and we simple jumped in a plane to see them in preliminary presentation in Italy."

AIR6PIX is a new moving batten that add a new dimension in the field of effects and pixel mapping. The light source is six times 40W RGBW LEDs, combined with a 67mm optic system which delivers 4,5° powerful beams by keeping high colour consistency.

AIR6PIX performs continuous double rotation on both Pan and Tilt axes and pivot function to inclinate the 2 LED

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USA - Charcoalblue's managing partner Andy Hayles and his team of theatre and acoustic consultants attended the opening of New York's St Ann's Warehouse last week. The official launch of the $31.6 million development of the waterfront theatre situated under the famous Brooklyn Bridge follows a transformation of the derelict Tobacco Warehouse by Marvel Architects with theatre, acoustics and architectural lighting consultancy by Charcoalblue.

The new St Ann's Warehouse is a 25,000sq.ft site housing two flexible performance spaces. Firstly, a 10,000sq.ft versatile theatre space, with capacity for 300-800 people, to accommodate St. Ann's core theatre and music programming, large-scale festivals, and special community milestone events. Secondly, a 1000sq.ft multi-use studio, dedicated to local artists and community groups, to especially suit intimate, smaller scale programmes and eve

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UK - When Dutch singer-songwriter Guus Meeuwis performed at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall in May, on the same stage as stars such as Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Adele, and Eric Clapton, the concert drew approximately 5,000 Dutch fans.

As if the venue weren't spectacular enough, 28 Sunpanels were set up around the band to project visuals and to create a blinder effect. These custom-made visuals served as the background for the band and enhanced the musical experience by adapting to the changing beat and style. The large panels, which featured quick-action couplings, were quick and easy to assemble.

Lighting designer for the show was Marco Driessen of The Art of Light (NL). Production/Rental was handled by Modestus Management (NL), Ampco-Flashlight Rental - Utrecht (NL).

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UK - Robert Juliat is delighted that its new LED cyclorama batten, DALIS, has been awarded the PLASA Award for Innovation at PLASA Show 2015.

DALIS is an asymmetrical 300W LED cyclorama light, consisting of 48 LED sources arranged in a double row. Each LED works in conjunction with a mini asymmetric reflector, or 'spoon', to deliver a perfectly smooth spread of light across any surface. Eight colours of LED are used in DALIS' construction - red, green, blue, royal blue, amber, cyan, warm white (2200K) and cool white (6500K) - which mix to create a huge variety of pastel and saturated colours, with perfect balance. Silent, fanless operation makes DALIS ideal for both theatre and television use.

The panel of PLASA Award for Innovation judges said, "The colour rendering from this product is beautiful. The fixture is well designed and elegant with a very good uniform beam pat

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UAE - With a new look stand (number 4-G12), Baldwin Boxall looks forward to welcoming visitors at Intersec Dubai in January. This is always a busy show for the company and staff on the stand expect to see many new faces, as well as catching up with contacts already well known to them.

Visitors to the stand will see the EN54 certified VIGIL voice evacuation system and the company's Omnicare EVC system and disabled toilet alarms.

Based in East Sussex, UK, the company prides itself not only on the quality of design and build of its products, but also on its customer service and support, which directors and staff believe is paramount to their success. Customer testimonials and a long-term customer relationships prove this to be the case.

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UK - Studiomaster is now shipping the new Livesys5 portable micro -PA and stage monitor throughout Europe.

Measuring just 290x210x175mm and weighing in at a mere 3.3kg - the 150W self-powered, integrated mixer, speaker system is a highly versatile solution for all manner of "carry-on" performance, playback, presentation and public address applications. In addition the LIVESYS5 is a powerful personal stage monitor system, either floor-standing or ingenuously mountable on a microphone stand for close personal monitoring (for drummers and percussionists, keyboard players, solo instrumentalists and singers, or DJs).

The class-D powered 5-inch speaker system, provides 150W continuous and 300W peak power, and features a low noise 3-channel mixer section with 2 mic/line inputs on XLR (balanced) / TRS (unbalanced) combo connectors and a line input on stereo phono or 35mm jac

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UK - ETC is celebrating winning the only Gold PLASA Award for Innovation at last week's PLASA Show. The Eos software version 2.3 provides unprecedented colour control options for LED fixtures, including abstract colour spaces and fade tools, allowing users to adapt their workflows in this constantly evolving art form. Giving the Gold award, the judges described the software, which also provides access to the OSC protocol for the first time, as "a game-changer."

The control desk itself was busy on the stand throughout the three day show, with Product Manager Anne Valentino giving hands-on demonstrations.

On the stand

Also popular on the ETC stand was the new ColorSource Spot fixture, and the new ColorSource Relay and Transmitter. ColorSource Spot follows the launch of the hugely popular ColorSource PAR, which marries RGB emitters with lime, completing gaps in

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