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This year, the ever-popular seminar programme offers practical guidance for industry professionals with early highlights including multiple sessions from Soulsound as Justin Grealy hosts A Sound Engineer's Guide to Guitars and Guitarists and Dug Gutherie (Soulsound / Surfing Cow) looks in-depth at Category Cables for Touring Applications. Steve Jones from d&b's Education and Application Support team will present Why Size Matters exploring how loudspea

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Event technical production specialist Maestra London was asked by live event and TV producers TBI Media to provide creative lighting for the inaugural broadcast which took place aboard a Virgin train running from Manchester to London. It was hosted by Virgin Radio presenters Edith Bowman and Matt Richardson complete with special live sets from a number of bands including The Feeling, Travis, Mystery Jets, Walking on Cars and Gavin James.

Maestra's Jack Jury designed the lighting and project managed this aspect for the east London based company. They rose to the challenges of insta

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Found111 is a pop-up theatre performance space run by Emily Dobbs Productions in the old Central St Martins School of Art & Design on Charing Cross Road. Emily explained her reason behind embarking upon such a project. "When the prospect of taking on an alternative space in the heart of the West End came along, what really attracted me to it was the chance to create a level of intimacy that is rare in the West End.

"A venue where the space become

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"The Operettenhaus is a very dry sounding theatre, so we're using short reverb time presets throughout the show to add a beautiful, natural acoustic ambience to the room," says Potter. "We also use Constellation to enhance the drama by completely changing the acoustical space, like when we use longer reverb times for scenes in the phantom's lair and shorter ones for outdoor scenes."

In addition to transforming the theatre's acoustics to suit each scene, Constella

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Anchoring the dramatic design by IPS client Limited Edition Event Design was a massive video wall display. Lining the red carpet, the display was made of 14 individual 2m x 2m x 5m high Layher towers positioned in zig-zag formation; each tower sporting a 1.5m wide by 2.5m high matrix of Chauvet PVP X6IP panels. The panels displayed visual content and pictures of the various comic book figures in the film, in addition to Batman and Superman lettering.

"The 6.9mm pixel pitch

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Representatives of ETC were present at the very first meeting discussing the creation of the TSP and have always been active on TSP Working Groups. Steve Terry, ETC's vice president of research and development is also a long-time member and former chair of the Technical Standards Council and Maya Nigrosh, senior software engineer, is currently serving as co-chair of the Control Protocols Working Group.

Steve presented a cheque for the first instalment of their pledge at the recent USITT show to Technical Standards Council co-chair Mike Garl, commenting, "From ETC's point of view, the ES

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A networking lunch was rounded off with final instruction from BTS Golf Day judge, jury and executioner, Lee Dennison. The teams departed to their holes and the game was afoot. Never one to let people enj

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Without the help of Behind the Scenes, these people - and many more - would have been in real financial difficulties as a result of illness or injury. By Design Day, a major fundraiser for the charity, is being held this year on Saturday, 23 April. It is the day for members of the design community to make a personal donation, hold a collection at work or support the day by giving a day's royalties.

Raising money for Behind the Scenes in both North America and the UK, By Design Day returns this year supported by a galaxy of well-known champions. Neil Austin, Ken Billington, Paule Constable, R

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Both the Outline GTO C-12 line array and the Powersoft amplifiers were supplied by UK distributors CUK Audio, while this compelling combination also reflects the long OEM trading relationship the two Italian manufacturers have enjoyed, dating back to 1996

Said Capital Sound project manager, Robin Conway, "We have friends in the industry who have long promoted Powersoft and when we set up a demo at O2, and CUK Audio showed us the X Series, it became a no-brainer. These new amplifiers are just so powerful, compact and clever, with a ridiculous amount of features.

"At O2 we were able to drive the majority of the demo rig off just three amplifiers," he continued. "We

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14 December 2016

Twenty-two of Robe's new LED strobes were right at the heart of the design which is being looked after on the road by lighting director / associate designer Marc Brunk Hardt.

The design's architecture is formed from five raked pods flown above the stage and loaded with lights. The idea of this 'roof' can be altered and adapted to fit into different sized venues on the tour - with capacities of between 2000 and 12000 - whilst retaining the basic depth and integrity of the design. It's also a great solution for dealing with varying headroom - looking equally good with

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Plus 4 owner Stewart Chaney's history with L-Acoustics dates back to the 1990s, when he first heard the company's V-DOSC system. "I was just blown away by it," he says. "I was system engineer with it out in Spain for the first time and I think like most people when it was first on the market, I was amazed at what I was hearing. Adding the K2 means we've got pretty much every L-Acoustics product," says Stewart, "from the small coaxial boxes, and smaller line ar

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14 December 2016

Established over 65 years ago, Joseph Electronics has offices in both Illinois and California and represents over 100 premier brands in the broadcast and AV sectors. Particularly experienced in the burgeoning HDTV market, JE prides itself on being a full service solution provider offering dedicated sales and technical expertise at every stage of the project.

According to DirectOut's Jan Ehrlich, JE was an obvious choice for the Distributor of the Year award for 2015. "We've been with JE since 2010 and they have always shown stable and steady growth, both in terms of DirectO

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The Nicky Minaj concert organised by the newly formed 117Live, headed by Thomas Oveson (who was previously with Done Events) was held at Dubai's latest entertainment venue - named Autism Rocks Arena. Protec provided lighting, video and rigging for the sh

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The Audio Specialists BV is a leading provider of products and services to theatres, theme parks, sports stadiums and resort and leisure complexes as well as to re-sellers, rental companies and AV companies.

Silvio Cibien, sales manager for ELC Lighting commented, "I have every confidence that The Audio Specialists BV is the perfect fit for the Green-GO brand. The market for this innovative Green-GO range is versatile and we feel it is vital that we choose the best partners to take our products under their wing. The Audio Specialists BV already supports some of the leading names in the AV industry and we look forward to working together to drive the brand forward."

Axel Natgegaal, CEO, The Audio Specialists BV added, "Until no

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The 3-Chip DLP Solid Shine series, which has been designed specifically for large venue applications, is the brightest projector Panasonic has ever launched.

Lang supports many of Europe's leading projection mapping events, including the Bucharest iMapp Festival and Moscow's Circle of Light, where it will look to integrate the PT-RZ31K in future shows.

Tobias Lang, CEO of Lang AG, said, "We are convinced that, over the next few years, the rental market will fully transition to laser technology. In order to lead this shift, Lang AG has carried out a technical evaluation of the RZ31K projector and its alternatives. We feel that due to the robust and reliable laser concept, the outst

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The show is based on several of the classic Goosebumps novels and features 19 rooms populated with spine-tingling scary scenarios. The lighting designer for the production is Charlie Morgan Jones. He comments, "This is the first time I've worked on an immersive production and it's fantastic seeing the a

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"We've chosen DiGiCo as it's the number one desk on all major tours in the market," commented Denzil Smith, general manager at MGG. "The S21 was introduced to cater for smaller events in the industry while maintaining the DiGiCo backbone. The S21 is versatile for everyday conferences and corporate events. It's perfect for when you don't need the big channel count but the full processing and equalizers."

Kyle Robson, the new DiGiCo sales and technical support "go to person" at DWR, was as pleased to ring the brass bell in the sales office. "The S21 is a console DiGiCo needed and fits in with what they do," said Kyle. "For MGG, it wi

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Supplied by LMC Audio, the main PA in the American-themed bar comprises four CDD10 (10") mounted on four pillars, firing into the centre. These are supported by a pair of ultra-compact CDD5 (5") that will be used as DJ monitors, and a CSX212 (2 x 12") compact subwoofer which is also situated in the DJ booth. Managing and optimising the system is Martin Audio's dedicated DX0.5 controller.

The venue had decided that an upgrade had been necessary in its downstairs bar. Although a refurbishment had already taken place on both floors of the venue, owner Stacey Thomas sensed the need to invest in

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Muse made history on Friday, 15 April 2016 when they played to a record-breaking 21,000 fans at The O2 Arena, London.

The Drones tour combines tracking, lighting, videos, flying elements and a lot of creativity, to create visuals and spontaneous interactivity unique for a live rock concert like this one.

BlackTrax real-time motion tracking solution from CAST BlackTrax Ltd is used to track and manage three technical elements, from band members to massive drones that fly above the audience as well as for projection-based storytelling. The area tracked is BlackTrax's largest to date!

Drones wa

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Tour sound requirements were supplied by Denmark's Nordic Rentals, the company having worked with Runrig for a number of years.

"Nordic stocks DiGiCo and Martin Kolbro was using an SD10 at monitors," says John. "I knew they had an SD7 in their inventory, I hadn't used one before and I thought, why not? But then I had a look at the desk and got a little nervous - it can just do so much! - so I called my old friend Bob Doyle [one of DiGiCo's original founders] and he put me on to head office in Chessington. I spoke with Dave Bigg there and organised a day's training with him. By the time I left, I was rearing to go."

While he was with Dave, John took the

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Outside, the once hidden Italian sunken gardens, a lily pond and rose gardens have all been re-discovered and brought back to life, whilst inside the grand staircase entrance, drawing room, liibrary, dining room and ballroom have been transformed into elegant spaces suitable for private dining, parties and celebrations.

In keeping with the sumptuous furnishings and beautiful decor, the owners

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Visiting a variety of different sized venues, Sooner's starting point for the design was a series of corrugated, metal, graffiti art pieces in set carts which are positioned onstage. These were inspired by artwork that Canaan had created on his smartphone, bringing a real personal touch to the performance space.

The 12 x Pointes and eight LEDWash 600s were also rigged on the set carts and in various other positions on the floor and overhead trusses to get a good mix of focus positions.

Pointes were chosen because they are a small beam / profile lumin