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Pagliocca wanted to embrace good production values and was prepared to allocate a decent budget on lighting and sound. O'Neill was given a blank canvass in terms of design, and has produced an elegant lighting design to match and complement the contemporary interior created by Burns Design, also based in Glasgow.

The Classic Grand is located in Jamaica Street and houses two spaces (250 downstairs/550 upstairs), which present live music and club nights. The site has

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Install @ PALME will be staging the inaugural Middle East Lighting Design Awards (MELDA), which represents a unique opportunity for the region to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the world's leading lighting designers. Winners of MELDA (which includes the Middle East Lighting Designer of the Year), will be presented at an extravagant Gala dinner held at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel in Dubai on May 21.

MELDA is endorsed by the world ren

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BSR E1.22 - 200x, Entertainment Technology - Fire Safety Curtain Systems, describes the materials, fabrication, installation, operation, testing,

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"The London Eye has become a 21st Century symbol for Britain, and it's a thrill to see this long-planned project come to realization. We've achieved an ambitious goal in bringing dynamic, visually appealing colour to the structure while at the same time eliminating the maintenance costs and requirements of the previous fluorescent system. We're extremely pleased with the results, and believe Londoners and visitors alike will agree," said Kevin Dyer, head of technical operations for the British Airways London Eye.

Color Kinetics was approached to replace this system with an LED-based alternative. Approximately 640 ColorCast 14 uni

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LTP's Terry Reeves was asked to design and specify a lighting scheme by HSP Architects from Leighton Buzzard, who oversaw the build. The independent owner is Stuart Sexton, who also owns a wholesale wine importation business.

The five metre wide by two metre high stainless steel wine rack dominates the area behind the bar. Reeves' brief was to come up with an innovative and effective way of lighting it, thereby making it a central feature of the room.

He chose

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Comprising of five galleries in Edinburgh, and two partner galleries in the North and South of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland's collections of fine art are amongst the best in the world. The five Edinburgh galleries are the National Gallery of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Academy Building, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery, which also houses administration offices and the office of the director general.

In a recent refurbishment of the director general's office it has been upgraded to include an AV system for meetings and presentations. Richard Hamilton, audio visual technician for the National Galleries of Scotland, wanted a very

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Sunlight is collected by a Parans Solar Panel on a building's exterior and transported into the selected room where it shines through a Parans Luminaire When the sunshine hits the Parans Solar Panel, two layers of lenses focus it into optical fibers. These optical fibres form the Parans Optical Cable which is drawn to the area in the building that shall be illuminated with natural light. The cable diameter is only 30 mm and can be 15 meters long which normally covers the three top floors in a building. If sunlight is to be taken to lower floors in high buildin

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Praesideo Version 3.0 has recently achieved a number of certificates and accreditations. It is the first product in the market to receive full certification by the TUV organisation for IEC60849 and BS5839-8. Also, after much hard work by Bosch in Germany, and the development team in Breda, it has received the certificate from Eisenbahn Bundesamt, which is a requirement for Deutsche Bundesbahn projects and Bosch has now had its first order. Part of the criteria for this certification is to be EN50121-4 compliant - which is achie

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"vLearning webinars are perfect for users who are looking for short,self-contained workshops on VectorWorks topics they'd like to learn moreabout, at their own convenience," says Frank Brault, Nemetschek NorthAmerica's director of training and technical support. "Our new virtualtraining series is designed as another option for users who might notprefer to devote several

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While the karaoke equipment, including the 42" Samsung plasma screens, was supplied direct from KoD (Karaoke on Demand) in Hong Kong, The Sound Division Group were tasked with providing a custom-coloured LED solution in each room. They consulted with Ian Kirby's Lighting Effects Distribution to see how the company's X-Chip PCB-based RGB colour change LED could be rebated into the ceiling periphery of each room.

Each room has the ability to create individual mood settings using colour and music. For example for Hen parties a palate of reds is predominantly used, whilst for corporate e

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"We handle everything from presidential conventions to rock concerts to lectures, along with a handful of annual television broadcasts," says Doukas, "so we need a mic splitter to deliver reliability, high sound quality and flexibility. And, being

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Décor in the venue is smart and stylish, so the sound system was required to complement the aesthetics as well as provide the highest quality audio to meet the expectations of its clientele. Peter Smith, proprietor of PSL explains: "The system also had to be dual purpose, providing a high power, DJ-driven system for weekend use in the bar and a more subtle quality ambience for the restaurant. We have recently started using Community loudspeakers on suc

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Created by RHWL Architects, the hotel also offers unsurpassed conference and events facilities. These include an entire floor of the hotel that features a groundbreaking arrangement of moving partitions, allowing the floor to be used as a single, large space or configured as up to ten individual rooms.

TGM Solutions specified and installed the audio system. The company's Ian Kersen says: "The partitions can be arranged in many different configurations, allowing the conference space and A/V facilities to be re-organised according to client-specific requirements," says Kersen. "Being a brand new, four star h

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C Bar is an L-shaped venue with a relaxed yet elegant feel, where curves predominate, from its entrance - right the way through to its furniture. Also installed is a Turbosound loudspeaker system that comprises eight TXD-121s, four TXD-215s, four Impact 80s and a TXD-118 subwoofer all controlled by an LMS-D24 Loudspeaker Management System, installed by Louay Agha's Lebanon-based installation company, Thunder Electronics.

"The entrance to the bar is on the small side of the 'L'," explains Louay. "This is where we have installed the Impact 80s [compact passive 2-way loudspeakers with 8" LF drivers] with TXD-118 subs, as this area has a more subtle type of music. In the

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Staged in the V&A's John Madejski Garden, the O-Lite is arranged into 46 columns mounted on 6 x 7 grid, each column consisting of 24 O-Lite modules stacked on top of one another. These measure 2.5 metres in height by 12cm wide, and the columns are placed 2m apart, each with a speaker on top.

UVA's Ash Nehru explains: "We've worked with XL in the past, and they have always been excellent, so were an obvious choice to supply the hardwa

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According to Peter Freeman: "The inspiration for Light Elements came from the proximity of the two bridges and how they form a circle of traffic movement around a basin oasis of calm with fishermen and pedestrians on the riverbanks in between. My aim was to create a light installation that would be informed by the structure of the bridges, visually connect the two bridges, and create a dialogue between the bridges and the space between them using reflections and animated coloured light." Freeman also opted to make Light Elements interactive, with the public able to text phrases

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The Ciampi family called in local installation company A.I.S (Audio Installation Services) of Bedford to devise an audio system that would enhance the environments. Luke Magliaro of A.I.S. in turn called in the services of David Howe of Shuttlesound, the projects support specialist for Electro-Voice in the UK.

"Initially, the design brief from the client was pretty straightforward," explains Howe, "they simply wanted to send any audio signal from any area into any other area of the hotel. Not an unreasonable request but managing all the local inputs from the function suite, conference rooms, bars, restaurant and the multiple sa

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Jands (NZ) Ltd of Auckland and Deacons Retrovision of Taupo, have designed, supplied and commissioned a new audio system for the highly acclaimed Taupo Museum of History and Art, with a dbx ZonePRO 1260 digital zone processor at the hub.

The town of Taupo is situated in the central North Island of New Zealand, on the edge of the largest freshwater lake in the Southern Hemisphere. Lake Taupo is actually an active volcanic crater that was formed some 200 million years ago in what has been described as the world's largest explosion. Taupo is thus a tourist mecca and attracts thousands of visitors each year as it is the gatew

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In the beginning, Meyer Sound bought drivers and modified each one to meet the company's specs. By the mid-1990s, with the company growing and introducing self-powered systems, this was no longer a workable system. So, Meyer Sound made a commitment to fabricating its own loudspeaker drivers. Since the company was already bursting at the seams in its original building, the decision to make drivers meant making a major expansion and constructing an entirely new facility.

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The company responsible for the technical design of Bangaluu's sound and light systems was Atlantis Sound of Berlin. Managers Andreas Seeringer and Benjamin Preuß had already had very positive experiences with HK Audio products on earlier projects, and so for their new project they again contacted the sound specialists from southwest Germany.

HK Audio Installation Line speakers were selected for all areas of Bangaluu. The bed-filled restaurant, an area of 220 square metres, was equipped with four IL 12.1 loudspeaker cabinets, four IL 12.2 cabinets, and two IL 218 subwoofers, all in white, driven by a DSM 20

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Ian Dittbrenner, audio director, senior original content producer and production systems analyst, Yahoo! Music, designed the Digidesign Venue-based performance sound and audio recording systems with the aid of Delta H Design, headed by Hanson Hsu , who also acoustically designed the performance space set.

The Live Sets soundstage, located at the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, made its debut in late 2006 with a performance by Christina Aguilera and has since hosted artists such as Tony Bennett, Incubus, Beck and John Legend. The live music performances, interspersed wit

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The design consists of two left & right main arrays of four SpekTrix 5 degrees boxes, with a single 15 degree SpekTrix Wave box at the bottom of each hang. A centre cluster of two Adamson SpekTrix and two SpekTrix Waves fills the centre of the seating area and the extreme front rows in front of the stage.

The Speakers are powered with QSC PLX 1104 and PLX 2502 amplifiers and processed with XTA Dp448 processors. The system design was executed by Rutherford Design, a consulting firm based in Northridge, California; using Adamson's Shooter Software. The Mission Church's house sound Engineer is Mr. Duho Kang.

(Jim Evans)

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"It became clear that our old desk was not up to the demands we were making of it," explains technical manager Gareth Chell. "We test drove a few consoles and decided that the Congo jr was by far the best of all of them. It's made a real difference to the quality of lighting at the theatre, and we're really proud that we got one of the first desks in Europe.

"We chose the Congo jr as it has all the features and more that we were looking for and has the flexibility to meet with the demanding needs of a very diverse building. We al

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Designed and installed by Eastern Acoustic Development (EAD), the new system has been installed to manage three executive floors at the Happy Valley racecourse, which house the offices of the chairman, vice-chairman, and board members, as well as various meeting rooms. Each floor has two iDR-8 digital mixers with PL-10 LED display rotary fader panels to manage the audio distribution to different zones. The system is accompanied by Lab.gr