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"Since the Grand MA Line of consoles continues to lead the pack in lighting control, I'm excited to add more to our inventory," said director of technical services Jake Tickle. "MA Lighting continues to pave the way we think about programming and expands the possibilities of creativity."

With 4,096 parameters and 15 motorized executor faders, the grandMA 2 Lite has become an industry staple that allows infinite possibilities for lighting designers and programmers while remaining cost effective.

Country music sensation Billy Currington's Summer Forever tour will feature the new consoles with lighting designer Chris Shrom while Mark B

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The course is the first JBL Certified VTX Training event to be held in South Africa. It will be hosted by Harman senior application engineer for tour sound, Ed Jackson. The course will cover in-depth line array theory and practical hands-on use of JBL VTX Array and Crown HD V-Racks. This provides a good opportunity for all attendees to rig the equipment and to listen to it when it is flown.

Sessions are open to audio industry professionals on a reservation basis, with preference shown to VTX or Vertec system owners.

All attendees must bring a laptop running Windows, with Performance Manager installed and operating before class commences.

Among the

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Unfortunately, the 24-year-old New Jersey-born rapper's magic ride came to a sudden pause in September 2015, when he suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident. A few months later, though, he was ready to resume touring. One of his first performances was close to home for a sold-out crowd at the SECU Arena on the campus of Towson University. Lighting designer Brett Angstadt of Round Peg Productions was ready to support the lyrical rapper's trap boom performance with a powerful light show anchored by 18 Rogue R2 Wash moving LED fixtures

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In preparing the production to travel across North America, projection designers Peter Nigrini and Dan Scully were asked to reimagine the original production with a new projection and LED video component that would allow the tour to maintain the same visually dynamic impact as the original design. Working with event technology provider WorldStage, Nigrini and Scully identified and implemented a LED video design comprised of 22 FLEXCurtain HD LED screens from PixelFLEX.

"I have worked with the design team behind If/Then for a number of years, and the idea for the redesign of the tour was really driven by the wonde

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With 68,000 spectators in attendance and millions more watching on television, the halftime extravaganza required a massive sound reinforcement setup with top-notch performance. To ensure the show went off without an audible hitch, loudspeakers from Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio were placed into service.

ACT Productions o

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The event will feature two sessions, starting at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. respectively, and is designed to illustrate the power and elegance of Coda Audio's innovative line array concepts, including the new AiRAY line array sound, together with their popular ViRAY and TiRAY systems, all of which will be working together with DiGiCo's range of flexible control solutions.

Adlib, among the UK's leading entertainment audio specialists, is a distributor for Coda's 'RAY' ranges, and - as of summer 2015 - a dealer for DiGiCo products, and both brands are supporting Adlib at this event.

The two sessions will feature presentations from Coda's Paul Ward and DiGiCo's Tim Shaxton, complete with live multi-track demos from FO

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Each yea, the company hosts the seminars in Dubai for AV professionals who would like to improve product knowledge and try out new technology and products from various manufacturers. This year instructors from Shure, Midas, Clear-Com, Williams Sound, Mackie, Roland and Rational Acoustics will be travelling to Dubai from different parts of the world to pass on their knowledge and experience to local audio market. The seminars will be held in Dubai during the month of May, free of charge.

This year's schedule will begin with DIS on 1 - 2 May, followed by Shure on 3-4 May and Midas on 8-9 May. Next, on 10-11 May, the focus will turn to Clear-Com, followed a one-day seminar on Roland. On

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Between all the venues and galleries, nearly 1700 cultural events are staged there annually, plus over 900 congresses, altogether attracting over 500,000 visitors to the Slovenian capital.

Cankarjev Dom also owns over 100 Robe fixtures and has just boosted its stock with the latest purchase of six Pointes and six more LEDWash 600s. This brings the current LEDWash 600 total to 18.

These join the 76 other Robe moving lights already in the house, the most recent being LEDBeam 100s, Robin 6

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14 December 2016

Badlands Pawn, Gold & Jewelry is an experience that opened its doors on Thanksgiving Day (26 November) 2015. Pawn shop, gold foundry, gun range, rock radio station, TV station and a tattoo shop by day, the 70,000sq.ft entertainment fortress' transforms weekly into a kicking rock venue at night.

The $2m, 32ft x 24ft concert stage has state-of-the-art lighting, a 26ft x 14ft LED screen, VIP viewing rooms, and seating for 1800, and has already hosted rock-giants KISS, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Rick Springfield, Rival Sons and Europe. More national headliners, amongst them Night Ranger, Steppenwolf, April Wine, Megadeth and Grand Funk Railroad, are lined up for later this year.

Badlands Pawn's visionary owner, Charles Brennan, has a long associ

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"Constellation has been an excellent investment because it brings an unparalleled entertainment experience to our guests and clients," says Sylvain Tremblay, administrator for the Cabaret. "The effect is truly incredible, as one feels fully immersed in the sonic environment created by the various programs. This gives us a strong competitive advantage relative to other event spaces in Montreal."

All audio, video, lighting, and theatrical aut

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MGG has always been a proactive investor in innovative premium brands and technologies, a strategy that's kept them at the forefront of the busy South African entertainment production industry, and that was also a driver in the Kinesys purchase, which comprises 16 x LibraCELL load monitoring shackles and a fully specified D8+ 8-way DigiHoist controller, supplied via Electrosonic, the exclusive Kinesys re-seller in South Africa.

Herman Mentz, head of rigging & structures at MGG explained that Kinesys motion control is a new concept for the South African market and something they had been considering for a while - to

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"We would like to thank Grothusen CEO Alexander Kr

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This was Kenny's first year doing the show and his first opportunity to use the award-winning Platinum FLX luminaire. "I'd been looking at Elation for quite a while," he said, "and had the chance to use 60 Platinum Series fixtures on last year's MTV European Music Awards show in Milan, which worked out really well. For the Pitbull New Year's Eve show, they wanted more of a live concert feel so I turned to the Platinum FLX fixture and was impressed with the looks it gave."

Kenny worked with full service sound and lighting company Beachsound & Lighting, who partnered with Main Light Industries of south Florida to provide the fixtur

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In short, music is a big deal at Stony Point. Different bands play each week with a lot of reliance on the congregation's many musically talented individuals. When the church built a new 500-seat sanctuary, everyone wanted a new sound reinforcement system that could help elevate the impact and emotion of its services. In consultation with the Richmond-based AV integration firm RTW Media, Stony Point installed a robust LCR system composed of Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers, subwoofers, and DSP-enabled amplifiers.

"Despite all the incredible musical talent at

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Top Israeli LD Ronen Najar created a lighting scheme for the latest series which was recorded at the Russell theatre in Ramatgan, Tel Aviv, where he included 11 x Robe BMFL Spots, six MMX Spots, together with eight LEDBeam 100s around the back of the audience in his design.

All the Robes were provided by lighting rental company Argaman Systems and programmed and run by Ronen on a grandMA2 console.

Now in its third edition, the series has no vote-offs or negative judgements. All the finalists get a chance to impress the audiences both live and on TV - who can vote for their favourite at the end of the series.

The th

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The 471 seat venue modelled on the Elizabeth Sneddon theatre in Durban hosts around four or five major productions throughout the year and is utilised by the Drama, Music and Art departments over the academic year. It is also a receiving house for outside shows including the yearly Think Theatre Shakespearian production on the KZN national curriculum, which this year is Othello.

The space is additionally used for school presentations, events and assemblies, and it's the main venue for the annual Hilton Arts Festival. Staged in and around the extensive grounds over three days

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The Atrium space, with eight of the fixtures, is primarily used for rock 'n' roll and jazz events, and occasionally for theatre shows, so the fixtures needed to be suitable for as wide a range of applications as possible. The remaining 28 units will be used to expand the lighting system in the main theatre space and to improve its existing setup.

Says Tom Vandermeulen, head of technical services at Dommelhof Neerpelt, "The ColorSource PARs are very user-friendly in comparison to our traditional tungsten fixtures. Previously, it took us a lot more time to change the co

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The event is being staged on Tuesday 23 February and Wednesday 24 February 2016 and comprises a full day session with a morning seminar, lunch, and an afternoon 'hands-on' workshop. Doors Open at 10am and visitors are invited to choose either the Tuesday or Wednesday events.

Products on demonstration will include the FBT Muse 2-way line array system, which features dual 10" custom Low Frequency drivers and dual 1" B&C high frequency drivers in birch ply cabinets. The dual 10" drivers offer great low frequency performance from this very compact design. The system has been massiv

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"Products and subjects relating to theatre and stage technology have gained greatly in significance for Prolight+Sound. Therefore, I am particularly pleased that, with this lecture by Guang Jian Gao, we can also present a special highlight for trade visitors from this segment at this year's fair", says Prolight+Sound Director Michael Biwer. "Our special thanks go to Florian von Hofen, CTO of Rouge AVE, who made contact with Guang Jian Gao and went to great lengths to make this extraordinary highlight possible."

China's leading stage designer, Gao has been honoured many times for his work a

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14 December 2016

Every networked audio product on the market was counted, with the assistance of representatives of each protocol's alliances - Audinate, MNA, RAVENNA and AVnu.

This year's count shows Dante increasing its dominance and significant increases from

RAVENNA. AVnu has a reduction in ProAV sector licensees and there is a reduction in the number of available AVB products.

The stats reveal the following:

For the first time the total number of networked audio products exceeds 1000.

Dante has 275 manufacturer licensees and 108 of those actually shipping product.

RAVENNA has 45 manufacturer licensees and 12 of those actually shipping product.

AVnu has 23 manufacturer licensees and

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. Housing two and four long-life 100W warm white 3,200K COB LEDs respectively, they provide a bright, high-density output that mimics the look of an incandescent source.

"I really like the flexibility of the Cuepix Blinders," stated Niclen CEO Bodo Valasik. "They are excellent white light audience blinders with a high CRI but can also be used permanently full-on so have use for tradeshows or other applications where a wide beam angle floodlight is required. It's also easy to mount two Cuepix WW4 Blinders together to make an 8-light audience blinder."

Marc Librecht, sales & marketing manager for Elation Europe, added, "We are very pleased that Niclen has chosen to add

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Bandit Chair and founder, Michael T. Strickland accepted the award, acknowledging the win as a shared success with Bandit's employees and clients. "We are again very humbled to be honoured by our peers in the industry. We credit this win to our phenomenal staff and to our wonder clients, without which we would not be where we are. We promise to work harder every day to deliver the world's finest people, service and gear in order that our clients shine as bright as they possibly can."

This honour marks the 24th 'Lighting Company of

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After investing in an initial batch of 40 to enable them to undertake projects at high profile locations such as Alton Towers, a further 60-plus units were requisitioned for use on the top of the London O2 Arena during the recent Rugby World Cup - at the request of Projection Artworks. Here they memorably delivered the flower effects onto a 'canvas' in support of the English rose - an O2 sponsored project, claimed to be the world's largest projection in terms of light output (totalling 1.42million lumens).

HSL's managing director Simon Stuart recognised that G-Spot, attached to the O2's masts, would comfortably withstand all weathers over the seven-week per

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PVRIS may still be in its infancy, but the band recognized the significance of this prime exposure, and were keen to invest time in ensuring their appearance was memorable. They turned to Okulus' lighting designers and programmers, James Scott and Louis Oliver, to bring their ideas to life.

Scott and Oliver decided the unique appearance and reliability of Ayrton's MagicBlade-R fixtures were a sure-fire way to achieve this and used them as a dynamic backdrop to the band's equally dynamic performanc