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Sabine, an engineer who has been working in the field of technical service for the past 15 years, including at General Electric, comes to Martin from solar panel manufacturer Sungrow where she managed the company's European service department. She heads the service department at Martin Germany and started in her new role on 15 June.

"We're committed to raising the level of service across our German-speaking markets and Sabine's hiring is an important step in that direction," states Torben Kaae Poulsen, regional service manager at Martin EMEA. "She is a highly competent engineer with an impressive technical background and the leadership skills to really make an impa

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The south coast-based production and hire company has added 12 Kara cabinets with eight SB18 subwoofers, three LA8 amplified controllers and flying hardware to its inventory.

This is C3's first L-Acoustics purchase, and the company chose Kara because it needed a medium format high quality line array to use across live music, performance arts and corporate live events. "Our mission statement is to provide our customers with the latest and highest performance technology and this system enables us to deliver that," says C3 director Jon Crawley. "We investigated all the systems currently available on the market and felt

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The majestic 76m wide Lovell Radio Telescope was also used during Elbow's performance as a projection screen, with Pod Bluman Associates also taking a feed from XL's PPU system and projecting onto the Telescope using 6 overlaid 20K projectors.

Additionally, XL - whose Paul Wood is project managing - is supplying a touring video package spec'd by video director Jon Shrimpton for Elbow's festival itinerary.

Onstage at the Jodrell Bank event, Pixled F-11 LED screen was arranged in five upstage columns of three different sizes - designed by Shrimpton - who mixed the IMAG cameras using a Grass Valley Kayak switcher.

Of the 11 ca

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From the end of July until mid-August, Shure UK's offices will be manned from 8am to 8pm daily, with an extended last order deadline for next day delivery and a wider window for collections from the company's headquarters in Waltham Abbey. As an additional measure, Shure Distribution UK's applications team will be on hand 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with technical support and advice, on- and off-site.

"No-one can predict the exact impact of the games on trade," comments Peter James, managing director of Shure Distribution UK. "However, there is little doubt that we will all experience some form of disruption. Our customers expect prompt and predictable delivery of items from UK stock, togeth

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The recipe is the work of Restamax management group; the largest independent restaurant chain in Finland they have over 50 locations nationally. The Ilona chain is a relatively new development, the first two opened in 2011, the Tampere venue being the first, three more are scheduled this year. "Part of that success is the great sound, "said Pesonen. "I f you provide the quality in everything you do, food, d

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"I'm looking forward to developing new markets and expand our buisness in western Switzerland with Riedel. Riedel is a company that always amazed me in regards to technological innovations and I'm thrilled to contribute to this vision", said Engel who has more than 20 years of experience in the professional broadcasting market and was responsible for sales engineering broadcast at John Lay Electronics until recently.

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The two performance spaces - Muriel Kauffman Theatre and Helzberg Hall - were designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie. Both were created using ultra-modern, sound-isolating building-within-a-building construction; a foundation, walls, and roof surrounded by fully independent foundation, walls, and roof.

The 1600-seat Helzberg Hall, home to the Kansas City Symphony, offers seating in a semi-circular 'vineyard-style' configuration that surrounds more than 270 degrees of the massive 2700sq.ft stage, placing no seat more than 100ft away.

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For the Gran Finale show, XL Video was tasked with providing a spectacular projection on to the Cathedral above Dalt Vila.

Unlike the usual preparation for a projection mapping project, the mapping had to be done based on photographs and on-site measurements, and then line-up and programming were done on location in Ibiza by XL Events' technical director, David Mulcahy.

Special permissions were required to turn off the architectural lighting on the buildings and a set of custom masks were applied to ensure the projections didn't spread t

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AVnu promotes the adoption of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB), and the related IEEE 1722 and IEEE 1733, standards over various networking link-layers. The organization works to create compliance test procedures and processes that ensure AVB interoperability of networked A/V devices, helping to provide the highest quality streaming A/V experience.

Specifically, Waves is planning to collabor

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"While Waters still has a few Walls left to build on his itinerary, Springsteen also has a long way to go before the end of the Wrecking Ball tour, and still could finish with the year's top outing," wrote the magazine.

In the US so far this year ticket sales for the 100 largest concerts are up 1.2% thanks to big stars like Lady Gaga, Madonna and Paul McCartney all touring there. However Pollstar said "today's economic realities"

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Genting's Arena of Stars, a 5300-seat venue, has staged over 1300 concerts since its conception 12 years ago. The venue has welcomed top international performers such as Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, Kenny G, Black Eye Peas, Vienna Boys Choir from Austria, Kitaro, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Sam Hui and Sammi Cheng.

When it was first opened in 2000, one of the first venues of its kind in the region, the amphitheatre was equipped with a state-of-the-art audio system from Nexo - the

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Frederiksen has held a variety of senior management positions in programme and technology management, which has given him broad experience and insight on how to develop and market products. Among other positions, he has served as strategic marketing and innovation manager for Philips, and product and technology manager for ST-Ericsson.

"I have been involved in the development side, but have also had time in front of customers. I hope to bridge the two sides at Barix," said Frederiksen. "What is important in any market is to bring innovative technology to the customer at the right time and price."

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QVC UK is the largest TV shopping channel in Britain, and broadcasts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with 17 hours of live programming each day from two studios.

UK company Light Emissions were chosen by LED design consultancy LED Poison to supply a dynamic video visual product for this unique install, while LED Poison also provided and installed all LED lighting and visual elements for both studios.

Managing director of LED Poison, Simon Deary, comments: "The area in w

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New products making their regional debut at Focus Nashville included: Martin Professional's new MAC III AirFX; MAC Viper Profile; M2GO, M2PC VC; d&b audiotechnik's E4 and E5 loudspeakers; Elation Professional's IP65-rated RGBW wash; Clay Paky's A.LEDA LED moving head range; Chauvet's new PVP S7 high-res video panel, new moving yokes Q-Spot 360-LED and Q-Spot 460-LED, Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yoke lights and MVP 12 modular video panel - and many more.

The free to attend Professional Development Programme attracted over 1000 registrations for sessions that ranged from The Green Scene: Recycling Sets

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The highlight of the evening comes when the audience - in white dress code - are splattered with UV-active paint via a series of compressed air canons placed around the room to provide the colour as the scene changes from monochrome to glorious Technicolor.

Event producers for the German leg of the tour included Whateversclever from Hamburg and technical solutions provider Rec-Tec SFX & Technic Solutions from Sinzig who joined forces to present Nonsplash at the 10,000-capacity Essener Grugahalle.

Taking the party out of clubs and into large arenas called for a completely different concept

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PRG and VARI Internacional collaborated as technical advisors to the Pepsi Centre, which will host national and international productions including concerts with Mexican singer Alejandro Fernandez Bob Dylan, Megadeth, Yes, Meat Loaf and others. The 14,000sq.m, 7,500-capacity venue was constructed with flexibility in mind, with the option of functioning in auditorium or arena mode. As well as hosting musical concerts and performing arts, the venue is also suitable for conventions and sporting events.

This flexibility extends to the soun

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Sapsis Rigging provided design consultation and rigging equipment for all performer harnesses. Sapsis also provided onsite supervision at all venues.

"It was, to say the least, a very exciting day," noted Bill Sapsis, president of Sapsis Rigging. "Each of the locations provided a unique set of challenges, but it was the London Eye that demanded the most attention."

The performance on the Eye, which began at 10:15 pm, involved performers completing a serious of acrobatic manoeuvres while han

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Basing the system on the design by Dallas, Texas' Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams, Inc.

(WJHW), EAW worked closely with WJHW to provide the customised system for LP Field, meeting an extremely tight deadline. The WJHW-designed distributed system replaces the stadium's former point-source PA.

Over the course of the project, EAW was able to schedule manufacturing and delivery of components, including 96 TT12Si-T64-PL-WP custom-engineered enclosures; over 36

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It's one of Cork's largest annual events and the second year that PSI has been the lighting supplier, after delivering such a smooth and successful package last year. It was project managed for them by Ciaran Tallon, with the equipment coming out of the company's Dublin facility.

With the range of artists appearing, an overall production lighting design was created by client Conor Jacob, with the idea that it was as flexible as possible to provide a solid platform for lighting all of the performers and genres of music.

The stage was 20m wide and 11 deep and the trim went f

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Two of the eight mono channels have high impedance jack inputs that can take a normal line level or a low level input from a guitar pickup, so guitars can be plugged straight into the mixer without the need for DI boxes. These inputs have been crafted to recreate the sound of a classic tube preamp in a combo or head amp for incredible definition and warmth. Two stereo inputs are provided for MP3/CD players or keyboards.

The ZED60-14FX also comes with configurable USB audio in/out, making it easy to capture a stereo recording at the gig or in the studio. The mixer is equipped with professional XLR

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With a diverse background in retailing, Howard was previously marketing manager at international sports event management company Byrom Plc, which is responsible for all aspects of logistics, ticketing and accommodation packages for the World Cup and the Ryder Cup events. He has also worked in design and marketing for global marketing communications agency McCann Erickson and the Halstan Printing Group.

Said Howard: "I am excited about joining LS-Live and combining my professional experience and passion for the events industry with a team of dedicated and enthusiastic individuals. I believe that we now have the ri

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The second annual Battle of the Bands event saw nine student bands battle it out in a professional live environment in front of their peers and a judging panel that included Jude Abbott from Chumbawamba, on Sunday 15 July.

Horbury High's group Uneven Symmetry were crowned the winners of 'Best Original Song' and St Wilfrids' group Mongoose in the Pumphouse won 'Best Performance'. The bands won a prize trophy, a tour of the LS-Live rehearsal studios and one of the company's stage hire packages for the school.

Both bands were overjoyed to win the competition, which has now become a coveted annual police and partner lead event. Sgt Alan Studd from Pontefract & Knottingley police sai

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"Steve comes to us with what I would consider an ideal background in installed sound, spending nearly 16 years as a sound contractor designing and installing systems before serving 12 years at Atlas Sound, most recently as VP sales & marketing," says Costa Lakoumentas, senior VP marketing at Music Group. "I am thrilled to have a person of Steve's experience and integrity take over the management of Eurocom and take it to the next level."

"I am very excited to begin telling the story of Eurocom" says Young, "The commercial audio marketplace

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One was in the Moving Motor Show where approximately 40% of visitors entered the event, and the other was at Škoda's Pavilion stand in the main exhibition area. Commissioned by A1 (Events & Exhibitions), based in Milton Keynes, XL Events was asked to provide video screens for both the inside and outside walls of the main Pavilion.

The main challenge when specifying the LED for the outer wall was to identify a product that was both light enough to hang on the exterior of a temporary structure, and that offered high resolution at short viewing distances.

Pixled's FX-11 was chosen as it is lightweight and suitable for outdoor use.

For the interior of the Pavilion, XL Events supplied two LCD seamless di