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Stinebrink notes: "We choose fixtures primarily for how they will incorporate into the overall design. We then consider the reliability of the fixtures - this is the one area that PixelRange has always excelled in. PixelRange are great fixtures, well put together and thought-out for touring applications."

Williams continues: "The speed of LED products that PixelRange has offered us, has allowed us to think of toning in a whole new way - and I am looking forward to the continued development of new fixtures. The main purpose

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When looking for audio equipment for the venue, club director Pete Winkelman - a former record-company executive who owns the nearby Great Linford Manor Studios - sought advice from two old friends in the music industry, audio consultant Gary Garner and Metallica sound engineer "Big Mick" Hughes. Hughes admits to "not having the slightest interest" in football, but stresses that "just because you're in another world, doesn't mean you should walk away from good sound."

Through the auspices of Hughes and Garner, as well as Taylor, Mich.-based rental company and long-time Meyer Sound user

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The team from the company's production facilities in Ottobrunn, Straubing, and Nuremberg, adorned with blue wigs, Elvis sunglasses and headphones, managed through the ingenious use of themed t-shirts to reproduce the entire signal chain - from microphones, to mixers, amps and loudspeakers - covered by the Business Unit Bosch Communications Systems.

With dance steps custom-choreographed for the occasion and a converted handcart providing a lightshow, sound from Dynacord loudspeakers and refreshments, the fleet-footed

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14 March 2016

In Ohio, Mike Volkerding of Cincinnati-based Frequency City Sound, with the help of Thunderbolt Systems helped move Senator Obama through three different campaign stops in a single day in February. With the first set for a boardroom conference at Cincinnati's Museum Center at Union Terminal, the following two landed at the Fifth Third Arena across town and the Nutter Center in Dayton.

"It was a real foot race," Volkerding says, "with only an hour between each event. That put us in a place where we had to have three different systems in place ready to go at each stop, with crews in place. The boardroom speaking engagement used Shure lavs and podium mics, while the arenas required full-blown PA rigs flown in front of

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14 March 2016

Managing Director of The Q2Q Group Koen van Geene stated that he was" thrilled to be able to take on the sole UK distribution rights for such innovative and modern products".

Eurotruss is one of the leading suppliers of aluminium truss systems on the international market. It offers a wide range of aluminium truss systems Both Eurotruss and Q2Q will be present PLASA 08.

(Jim Evans)

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Recent months have seen a landmark development for the events industry with the arrival of BS 8901, a major new standard set to radically transform the events landscape.

Launched at the end of last year and currently going through a series of pilot trials, BS 8901 specifies the requirements for a sustainable event management system. It encompasses all events, from large-scale tours and unique events such as the 2012 Olympics, to music festivals and amateur sporting events. It will take no prisoners, applying throughout the industry supply chain to venues, organising companies and industry suppliers and contractors.

Major event clients such as the London 2012 Organising Committee and the Greater London Authority are already referring to BS 8901 in their tenders. C

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14 March 2016

The World Youth Day 2008 event, which took place 15-20 July, is the largest youth event in the world, with the week-long series of events culminating in a Final Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The New South Wales State Government contracted The PA People to provide the World Youth Day organizers with a city-wide PA system for general anno

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14 March 2016

The theatre was badly damaged during the civil unrest which flared throughout France in the autumn of 2005. As a 'public' building it became a target for the rioters and was rammed by a car which was then set on fire, causing extensive damage.

The theatre closed immediately and had to be given a comprehensive refurbishment before it could be used for public performances again.

Overseeing the installation was Regis Lambin of Paris-based audio visual project management company IEC, working with sound design by French specialists Cinograph. They specified a Yamaha DME24N to manage the Amadeus Audio bi-amped line array system in the 500-seat auditorium, driven by four

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A 5m diameter pool of dancing water fountains was designed and installed by the company, offering a unique spectacle of water, music and lights amongst the greenery of other displays and live entertainment at Bradford's 2008 Garden Magic event.

What was not visible to visitors at Garden Magic was the high level of technology installed within the display - designed to soothe, relax and invigorate its audience with a fully choreographed sequence of movements.

Founder and managing director Byll Elliot says: "Transforming a truly urban space into something quite different for a temporary period has been an exciting challenge. As our team will be on site throughout the duration of Garden Magic, being able to sha

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This is a home it has claimed since 2002 and one that its audio provider, Dobson Sound, has joined it at for the past five years and this year, the company deployed DiGiCo digital mixing consoles at this laid back event.

"Andy 'Baggy' Robinson - who looked after the front of house D5 on the Castle Stage this year - got us involved initially when he was sound manager for the festival," says Paul Dobson, managing director of Dobson Sound. "For the first three years, we just did the Castle and the Open Air stages. Then, Just Add Water took over the festival's production and they wanted to bring the sound for the entire site under one roof - and we were asked if we wanted to do it all."

The system Dobson

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As a result of their rapid growth in both the corporate and theatre sectors, they have now purchased a further 16 channels of Trantec's S6000 wireless systems, bringing their total to 60 channels of S6000. This comes in addition to a recent purchase of 50 channels of Trantec S5.5 wireless mics.

Phil Hurley, Stage Sound's managing director says: "Despite all the current talk of downturns in the market, we have been going from strength to strength, and to keep up with this demand we have now taken our stock levels to over 100 channels of wireless. I have used Trantec ever since I founded the company and some of those original systems are still in use today. However, technology has moved on and knowing it was ti

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The Fencing Hall features 14 fencing strips, a warm-up room, stands for thousands of fans, a television broadcasting room, and lounge and shower facilities. With the conclusion of the games, the hall will now be converted to a convention hall. There are also numerous features aimed at lowering the environmental impact of the hall including an increase in energy savings and water conservation.

The main PA system features six Vertec line arrays, each containing six VT4888DP midsize powered line array elements and two VT4882DP powered arrayable subwoofers. The system also includes 400 Control24CT and 300 Control26CT ceiling speakers, along with 130 Control 300 series large-format ceiling speakers

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Carrie Underwood recently co-headlined with fellow Bandit client and country music star, Keith Urban. Award-winning lighting designer, Seth Jackson designed Underwood's rig so that it could coexist with Urban's set. Unlike most co-headline tours, Underwood was joining a production that was already on the road. Designed by Marc Brickman, the Urban show had a specific layout and lighting choices that Jackson said he needed to integrate with.

"After many phone calls, Marc and I got together with Chris Nyfield from Hindsight Studios and put both shows

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"Since day one, Shure vocal mics have been an absolute must on our tech rider," says Flat Stanley frontman Andrew Mac. "More recently, we've started to move into using Shure wireless technology to improve our performances as well. On a large stage at a big show, the last thing you want to have to worry about is cables! We have in-ear personal monitors, beltpacks for the guitarists, and

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Paul Keating, managing director of Delta, explains this strategic move:. "We have worked with Fred for a number of years, collaborating on a variety of projects, and have developed a very good relationship with him," he says. "Much of his work is in the television and broadcast industry, on shows such as Britain's Got Talent and X Factor, where he is well known and respected.

"At Delta, we are keen to expand our activity in this area. Fred's portfolio of clients dovetails perfectly with our own and his contacts both

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The company worked with Loudsound and Radio 1 presenter Rob da Bank, to put a "pioneering and robust" lost children system in place, which saw every child given a wristband with a phone number attached. Showsec provided lost children teams - adapting the idea of the traditional "rapid response" team - who would bring any lost children to a centrally located area run by the Isle of Wight Youth Trust.

(Jim Evans)

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The Titanick Theater is often described as the "most spectacular street theatre in Germany". Performances by the Münster-based troupe feature bizarre characters, fascinating props, spectacular special effects, atmospheric sets, and powerful live music.

For the production, Louis Altrogge relied on a Dynacord Cobra system for the main stage and an assortment of Dynacord D-Lite and Electro-Voice components for the mobile stage.

"The Cobra impresses me more with each performance," says Altrogge. "It delivers a

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14 March 2016

"Pandoras Box is a turnkey solution that perfectly unites state-of-the-art rendering technology with intuitive media control, and it is a tremendous honour for Coolux to be recognized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the engineering involved in developing this unique and very powerful solution," said Steve Gilbard, president of Coolux International.

(Jim Evans)

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A spokesman for SCV Audio notes: "The addition of Apogee products to our catalogue will enable us to offer a new level of quality and a great diversity of solutions to our specialised Hi-Tech dealer network, reinforcing our common leadership."

SCV Audio will assume the new role beginning 1 September 2008 and will integrate the entire Apogee product line into its "Hi-Tech" division.

(Jim Evans)

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PA company Sigma AV is servicing this UK tour, and has managed to fit all the travelling audio production into a long-wheelbase Sprinter van. That's a 20KW sound system, eight-way monitor system, digital console, mic stands, multicore and all cables in one Sprinter van.

Central to the compact nature of the Sigma rig is the new Roland V-Mixing System, incorporating the M-400 digital audio mixer, which weighs just 56 kilos in a sturdy flightcase, and two Cat 5-based Digital Snake multicores, with fully racked-up stageboxes.

Peter Barnard of Sigma AV bought into Roland Systems' V-Mixing concept especially for this tour, and is so pleased with the results that he

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14 March 2016

The Show Company was the official LED Display & Multimedia Control Systems vendor for The 2008 National Day Celebrations and was appointed the task of providing everything to run the visual aspects of the show. Jo Gan of The Show Company, who oversees system design, specified the latest Barco T-20 outdoor LED display as the solution for the demanding requirements of the show.

Gan said: ''Given the magnitude of the show and the stringent benchmarks associated with a national event like this, where the entire nation from the president, cabinet ministers to the common citizen is in attendance, the show demands nothing but the very be

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14 March 2016

The Pepsi Center in downtown Denver opened its doors to Democrat convention-goers on 25 August and hosted key speeches by Senator Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and other party stalwarts including Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Joe Biden. The conventi

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Sound reinforcement at the event in question - held at the city's highly modern Palau Sant Jordi - was entrusted to Planet Service of San Marino, a rental company with a stock of Outline arrays and one of the most qualified European companies in the corporate event field, with clients including Nike, Asics, Reebok, Mercedes Smart Tour, Upim, Villaggi del Ventaglio, Tecnocasa, Valleverde, Autogrill and many more.

The Butterfly system installed by Planet Service - supported by domestic rental companies Ajuste (Madrid) and Backlight (Lisbon), both of which have Outline arrays - consisted in a total of 88 CDH 483 Hi-Packs and 28 Victor Live subwoofers, the latter installed on the floor. Th

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Manufactured from 316 marine grade stainless steel with an IP68 rating and including an integral wicking barrier, the fittings are fully resistant to the ingress of water, dust and other contaminants. They provide heavy duty high performance coupled with a vandal-resistant OptiWhite lens system capable of withstanding point loads of up to 4200kg, says the company.

The LS343 fittings are using 35W Metal Halide CDMT lamps, while the LS843 fittings have th