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In making the announcement, Jim Anderson remarked, "The AES has always drawn major artists including Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Jackson Browne and Mick Fleetwood. But they are generally focused on visiting the Exhibits or working with specific manufacturers. This year's show has attracted a trio of superstar participants, Tony Bennett, Ben Folds and now Judy Collins. We are extremely fortunate to provide their insights to our attendees."

Olympic Countdown - The National Youth Theatre is to welcome athletes to t

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All the overhead intelligent lighting for the stage and auditorium floor has been supplied by SGM, and comprises six fully-featured Idea Spot 575 (with 575W discharge lamp), four Idea Wash 575, 575W moving head zoom wash lights and two IDEA Colorchanger 575's, with 7-segment colour and effects wheels. These are all run off a sophisticated SGM Pilot 3000, capable of controlling up to 1024 DMX channels via two independent DMX outputs.

The contract for all the architectural and production lighting was won by Professional Sound Impact (PSi), working through Briliant Technologies Group, and the design was conceived by PSi founder, Sorin Stanescu.

Having spent nine years as sales manager with Stage Expert, SGM's Bucharest-based distributors, during whic

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Popular Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tito el Bambino, headlined a concert at the Feria de Xela in Quetzaltenango in a show of great success.

Local company The Best Music, who have also been PR Lighting's distributor for the past six years, fielded a vast array of the Chinese manufacturer's products as part of a complete sound, light and video package which dazzled the audience of 2,500.

Working for the production company, Audio Illusion, they fielded four of the new PR-5000 spots alongside eight XL 1200 spots, and eight each of the XL Beam 300 and XL 700 while a further eight each of the new XLED 590 and XLED 390 provided dazzling LED washes from 90 x 5W LEDs and 90 x 3W LED's respectively. Th

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The tour started in Bali at the newly opened Temple of Enthusiasm venue, where local rental company, Sumber Ria, supplied the system, which comprised an iDR-48 MixRack with iLive-T112 Control Surface.

FOH engineer, Tim Walter, mixed both the support act and WAS. "It was the first time in that area that iLive had been used and the results were incredible, especially as it was amid total chaos, including a domestic dispute that climaxed in a full bottle of beer exploding on the T112," reports Walter. "The surface and I were both covered in beer and glass but the local techs cleaned up the desk whilst I ran to the stage to mix from my laptop for a few songs."

WAS also

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The tracks were prepared for the live performance by project programmer Chris White, who was also responsible for making sure that they were triggered on cue during the actual performance. The BlackBox was situated by the monitor console, with feeds from the recorder going into the console.

From there, click tracks were sent to the conductor Andrew Skeet and other relevant performers, while backing track stems went to the FOH desk to be mixed with the orchestral channels.

"We discussed various options and settled on using a hard disk machine, as the idea of running on a laptop was too

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The system consists of six KARAi cabinets and four SB28 subs in cardioid mode per side, with three 8XT coaxials as front-fill.

"There were a few reasons why we chose an L-Acoustics system," says Ingo Rippe from German systems integrator Protones, which also owns a Kara system for rental. "The first reason was the performance of the KARAi and SB28.

"In addition, an advantage of L-Acoustics' amplified controllers is the possibility of remote monitoring, as well as AES/EBU and analogue signal connection. These options are always an advantage, but especially on board a ship where they are installed in a room quite distant from the stage and FOH position. As well as the cruise ship sta

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The amphitheatre was built specially for the festival, and EAW's territorial distributors were brought in to reinforce the traditional festival of folk music, which was attended by nearly 3,000 people.

The opening ceremony was attended by well-known Belarusian bands and artistes, such as Anatoly Yarmolenko, (the Belarus representative at the 2011 Eurovision International Song Contest), Alena Lanskaya, (winner of the Grand Prix of the International Slavonic Bazaar Festival of Arts in Vitebsk) and Tatiana Lozovskaya, (soloist of folk music ensemble, Byaseda). The event was also attended by the President of Belarus, Al

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With clubbers immersed inside 'The Box's' six-stack soundfield, the custom five-way hybrid system at the Ministry has already won prestigious IDMA (International Dance Music) awards for Best Club Sound System Design in both 2010 and 2011 - and its signature low-bass rumble created by two 21in ASX subs per stack, was re-optimised for the occasion.

The nightclub celebrated with a three-day party throughout an unforgettable weekend. Three generations of house music were represented - with an all star line up that included Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Eddie Halliwell, Nic Fanciulli, Matthias Tanzmann, Sean Tyas, Dennis Ferrer and CJ Mackintosh. Clubbers were taken on

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This is the first in-depth exhibition of art, design and architecture of the 1970s and 1980s, examining one of the most contentious phenomena in recent art and design history: Postmodernism. It shows how postmodernism evolved from a provocative architectural movement in the early 1970s and rapidly went on to influence all areas of popular culture including art, film, music, graphics and fashion.

The exhibition, designed by architects Carmody Groarke & APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life), briefed DALD that the lighting design should be bold and dynamic, with good tonal contrast.

The installation is set out in three of the main temporary gallery spaces. The first gallery opening section also introduc

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With the existing Vienna headquarters of sound, lighting and musical instrument dealer Klangfarbe literally bursting at the seams, the company's owners knew that a radical solution was required. They found it in a former, brick built gasometer, which provides 3500m2 of office and retail space.

The extra space in the circular, four-storey building has allowed many more products to be displayed and be available for demonstration. Taking advantage of this, project engineer Martin Plötzeneder was determined to find a high quality solution to the old problem of helping prospective buyers to A/B test different loudspeakers.

The answer came in the form of a Yamaha DME24N digital mixing engine, with MY16-CI

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LS-Live, HSL and Adlib will be collaborating to produce one of the biggest stands at the outdoor event services show, which takes place between 19th-20th October at the Newbury Showground in Berkshire. The joint exhibit will feature a full live rig based around LS-Live's Space Roof stage system.

The three northern-based rental companies will be demonstrating how their varying products and skills, which span the entire spectrum of live event production, can add value to live events, both independently as suppliers and together as a full production package.

Studio, staging and set construction specialist LS-Live will erect a 30m wide version of its Space Roof, with a thrust, B stage, stage set and other rental and automation products, which

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Says FACE MD, Karel De Piere, "Our credo to offer the best hardware, knowledge and service combination led to us recommending Martin Audio. It is about earning the customer's trust and confidence with a proven sound solution."

Founded by Gert Verhulst and Hans Bourlon Studio 100's theme parks receive more than two million visitors each year and this number is continually growing. Active in media, TV, musicals and theme parks, Studio 100's headquarters are based in Belgium, with branches in France, The Netherlands, Germany and Australia.

Since the first theme park, Plopsaland De Panne, opened in 2000, FACE has been involved in the desi

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In response to detailed user research and feedback, the latest console training videos have been designed in short, easy to manage chapters. Each clip lasts between two and four minutes allowing operators to pick and choose their exact learning needs. These new videos feature the new ORB series of fully featured lighting consoles and cover basic to advanced training.

The videos add to the existing training video clips already available for other Zero 88 lighting consoles and will soon be joined by multi-language versions. All clips can be found on Zero 88's dedicated YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/ zero88.

Content in the first set of available videos includes: product range introduction and overview, manual channel control, simple syntax, recording cues, playing bac

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Simple interface changes, from clarifying clock sources to flashing the transport controls while an operation is pending, provide a much slicker user experience, imparting more information to the user with greater speed and clarity. The Pre Fade Listen system, introduced in the BBR64-MADI development, now allows more rapid sweep through the channels wit

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Flare's owner and MD Davies Roberts encouraged project manager Arron Smith to approach 5 Star - initially on their booth at the PLASA exhibition in London in September - as he had memories of the name and reputation for quality dating back to when he worked on film sets with his father.

Smith and 5 Star's Keith Sykes chatted through some thoughts and options based on the need for an innovative casing system to house multiples of Flare's Triwave i10 loudspeakers. They wanted to be able to deploy these quickly and efficiently when flown as main left and right PA arrays once inside a venue.

The resulting case co

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Rick O'Neill of Light Source Inc. said the company has supplied various items of equipment over the years for Santana, but for this tour they are providing the complete system with 150 automated luminaires.

Gipson is in his ninth year as the LD for Carlos Santana, a gig that was supposed to be a two-week temporary job to help someone else in that position. Santana keeps him busy at least six or seven months of the year on tours, not including other special appearances. Santana is currently touring throughout North America, ending in October in Mexico.

Showgun 2.5s also appeared in Carlos Santana's rig while in his two-year residency at The Joint

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Mighty Rock is the brainchild of husband and wife team Tony and Tonie Miller, CEOs and founders of pioneering events outfit Production Works based in Hobart, Tasmania and sister company to Mighty Rock. Tony Miller has long been a Midas fan and holds an XL200, several Venice consoles and a Midas PRO6 in the Production Works inventory.

In 2010, Production Works upgraded its PRO6 to the PRO9, but with this year's acquisition of the to

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Kafe Pi Group predominantly targets university students, hosting a variety of events from concept parties to board game tournaments. Bronx Pi, which first opened its doors in 2009, appeals to its audience's avant-garde musical tastes, has a young, dynamic crew and stages groups from around the world such as Jay Jay Johanson, Louie Austen, Parov Stelar Band, Kosheen, Klaus Waldecek, Belleruche, Client and national musicians including Redd, Yasemin Mori, Gece, Sakin, Kaçak. It also hosts

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Lighting designer Luis Pastor says of the grandMA2, "After working for six years with the grandMA 'series 1', I can say for sure that grandMA2 has an improved graphical user interface. The flexibility of the user configurable views and layouts, as well as the bitmap effects and all the improvements in programming and operation are really great. After six months of hard touring I can say it is a very safe and reliable system - we'

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This is the first club/live music installation for these new fixtures and it's in the Beresford's 600 capacity Upstairs venue, which has just been refurbished by new owners, Merivale.

Mutton was asked to deliver a full lighting technical package - which also features eight Robe Robin 300E Spots - all supplied by Robe's Australian distributor ULA - three Giga strobe and a Road Hog console for control.

The lighting has to cover the stage, dancefloors and seating areas for a variety of shows and events, from rock bands to DJ sets to corporate events. It needed to be able to create atmosphere, mood and excitement whatever the occasi

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Henri Halioua, founder and owner of Casascène comments, "I am very impressed by the dBTechnologies product range. I am really confident about the impact it will have in the market, in particular the rental and installation fields, where I am sure the DVA Series will play a very important and leading role."

Created in 1996, Casascène provides a range of sound, lighting, and AV solutions to customers from all manner of business and entertainment arenas, including theatre, conference centres, DJs and nightclubs as well as rental and installation companies. Halioua continues, "We have daily events here in this territory, and as a result there is constant demand from rental companies for high quality, reliable systems.

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"The Apex Audio product range brings a plethora of solutions suitable for the highest levels of commercial installations, broadcast, and touring," says GT Pacific's marketing director Anthony Touma. "With innovative solutions including cutting edge speaker management systems, hardware gates, limiters and equalisers, as well as exceptionally high quality active direct input units, the Apex Audio brand is destined to enjoy widespread success in Australia.

"Many products provided in the Australian market lack the combination of sonic purity, practicality, reliability and a competitive price point," he continues. "Seeing the high demand for no compromise outboard solutions that could be used seamlessly in both commercial and live enviro

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The 1237 Lincoln Road location is a contemporary food lounge fusing a mix of modern design, international cuisine and creative cocktails in South Beach's busiest business district.

Chesal and Boles have collaborated before on producing differently themed environments, and both are big fans of the Anolis LED brand, "I needed a real quality and very reliable LED system to compliment the style and elegance of the Haven marque," explains Boles.

The design involves the installation of lighting absolutely everywhere in the venue - down-lighting the bar, dining area, strafing the walls, illuminating the tables, running