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15 July 2025

France - changeNOW, the European sustainability summit, presents an audio engineer's ultimate challenge: 20 simultaneous performance zones operating across Paris's reverberant Grand Palais. The three-day event hosts 40,000 attendees from 140 countries in a format that combines international conferences with live artistic performances.

Six main stages plus 14 additional performance areas must function simultaneously throughout the event, creating massive sound spill challenges in the glass-domed venue. Previous editions relied on headphone systems to solve the interference problem, but this isolated audience members in individual audio bubbles.

This year, changeNOW and events agency Moma Event - led by production director Catherine Durand and technical director Olivier Duraton - challenged Fleik, their audio partner to eliminate those headphones entir

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15 July 2025

Norway - Perched atop the historic Folketeater Building in Oslo, Byens Tak is an event space that offers stunning panoramic views of the cityscape, fjords, and surrounding forests. Once known as Stratos, this 12th-floor venue has long been a hub for cultural and social gatherings.

When Rodeo Architects took over the space, they envisioned a venue that blended modern functionality with its rich historical character. To achieve this, they needed a dynamic audio solution that could deliver quality sound while preserving the venue’s aesthetic integrity. That’s where Renkus-Heinz came in.

Byens Tak is a versatile space, hosting everything from corporate events and conferences to concerts, club nights, and private celebrations. The venue’s architectural heritage presented a set of challenges for audio installation. With its long, narrow layout and in

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15 July 2025

UK - As the first higher education facility in the UK to bring an esports broadcast course to market, the University of Staffordshire offers students professional-level training in state-of-the-art facilities.

The spaces provided to students at the University’s Stoke-on-Trent campus include a 60-seater esports arena, two broadcast galleries and well-equipped studio. Created as part of a recent multi-million pound expansion project, the facility can be run in parallel (with one gallery linked to the arena and the other to the studio), or as one large production suite.

Digital Garage (UK integrator and supplier) partnered with Audio-Technica on the audio components of the esports broadcast facilities. This was delivered via network solutions, including eight channels of Audio-Technica 3000 Series Digital wireless and two Allen & Heath Avantis dig

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15 July 2025

UK - Martin Audio’s Blackline Series of affordable professional loudspeakers has been available for over 25 years.

BlacklineQ provides ‘a comprehensive reimagining’ of this series. The nine-strong product range comprises improved passive two-way point source loudspeakers, all-new column speakers and a suite of subwoofers. The entire series features intelligent design details, making it equally at home in portable or install applications, such as portable sound reinforcement for live sound, theatre, DJs and corporate events; unobtrusive stage monitoring; and permanent installation in clubs, hospitality venues, conference rooms and houses of worship.

In sync with Martin Audio’s design philosophy, BlacklineQ extolls the virtue of meticulous driver design to deliver improved coverage, consistency and control. For the first time in its class, both

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15 July 2025

UK - Celestion has introduced the Truvox 1225, a new 12-inch mid-bass driver offering ‘exceptional performance at a highly competitive price point’.

Designed for two- and three-way sound reinforcement systems, the Truvox 1225 is available through retailers, making it an option for DIY builders or as a drop-in replacement/upgrade to rejuvenate overworked PA set-ups, by restoring the energy, richness and emotional impact of the mid-bass-frequency domain. The driver will also be available as standard to manufacturers, direct from Celestion, in OEM quantities.

With a continuous power handling of 600 watts and a rated, high-sensitivity efficiency of 96dB, the Truvox 1225 will provide "years of unwavering service in high-powered full-range systems in small or medium-sized venues".

Several aspects of the Truvox 1225’s construction contribute t

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14 July 2025

World - The latest issue of LSi is out now, and can be read online for free here.

‘90s music has seen a resurgence in popularity of late. Just look at the current Oasis reunion tour, and high-charting new albums by the likes of Pulp, Suede and more. Another ‘90s heavyweight enjoying the limelight once more is this month’s cover star, Robbie Williams. Currently on this road with the Britpop Tour, Robbie’s energetic, ambitious show features a giant, articulated rocket structure – and a complex lighting and sound set-up. Phil Ward catches up with the crew for his report.

Also inside, Ian Cullen gets the production scoop on The Great Gatsby, and we bring you a r

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14 July 2025

China - Rightway Audio Consultants (RAC) has been appointed Optocore distributor for China, Hong Kong and Macau. This marks a strategic elevation of the existing reseller partnership between the two companies, which has flourished for a number of years.

“It was a mutual decision to deepen cooperation, which aligns with the long-term mutual benefits sought by both parties,” stated marketing director, Nan Hu. “This will create broader synergies in the future.”

Hong Kong-based RAC has immediately set up a programme of Optocore demos and training for its customers and partners. However, it has long been familiar with the German fibre company’s tech as Eric Liew, RAC’s product director, explains: “We have successfully deployed Optocore in large-scale projects in the past, such as the Tianjin Grand Theatre – as far back as 2018/2019.”

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14 July 2025

USA - Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) played a critical behind-the-scenes role in the grand opening of Universal Orlando Resort’s Epic Universe. The massive, multi-day media event included coverage from NBC’s The Today Show, Access Hollywood, Telemundo’s Hoy Día, livestreams, influencer content and an array of international news outlets, which all relied on PWS’ expertise to stay connected and interference-free.

The newly opened Universal Epic Universe is the most ambitious theme park project in Universal’s history. Spanning over 750 acres, the park introduces entirely new lands, attractions and immersive experiences based on franchises such as The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic, Super Nintendo World, How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk, Dark Universe and Celestial Park. Universal’s Epic Universe, which

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14 July 2025

USA - PK Sound, the robotic line array company, has advanced its longstanding partnership with Moonlight Productions, a production technologies provider based in Montana. Moonlight recently expanded its inventory of PK’s robotic line source technology with an investment in a new T8 compact line array system and complementary T18 intelligent subwoofers.

“PK Sound’s variable robotic coverage control remains an impressive and highly beneficial technology for our work,” says Moonlight co-founder Greg Ostrander. “Our rigging time decreases significantly when flying the arrays, and the ease of adjusting vertical and horizontal dispersion angles in real-time is absolutely key to the diverse list of applications and venues we handle. It’s also just a showstopper when clients see it in action for the first time, not to mention the high-fidelity audio and

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14 July 2025

UK - When Jake Staff began crafting custom looms and fly racks from his spare bedroom, he couldn’t have predicted the scale SA Touring would one day reach. Now operating from a dedicated workshop in Norwich, it serves clients across the UK including artists like Ella Eyre and Mae Muller, with Van Damme at the heart of its operation.

“Everything we use has to be the best - from the cables to the heat shrink,” says Staff, now managing director of SA Touring. “Van Damme is just the best on the market - it has a good aura in the industry. It doesn’t melt, it doesn’t shrink back - it’s reliable and consistent. Even the guys in the workshop can tell the difference.”

SA Touring became a limited company in 2022, after years of informal growth that started just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit. As the demand for custom cabling continued to grow, S

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11 July 2025

Spain - Located in the city’s Raval district, The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) hosts exhibitions, debates, festivals, concerts, film cycles, courses and lectures around the core themes of the city and urban culture.

The CCCB features a variety of event, hospitality and learning venues including the Hall, a 730sq.m space with a capacity of around 400 people.

A recent public tender for a new sound system in the Hall required that it should be powerful and versatile enough to accommodate all types of performances without the need to hire in supplementary equipment. The contract was awarded to Barcelona-based event technology specialists Imesde who installed a Nexo system.

“The original tender specified a line array system from another manufacturer but, working with Nexo’s NS-1 system configuration and prediction sof

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11 July 2025

UK - The Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) has announced the call for nominations for the Stephen Joseph Award 2025, as an ongoing tribute to Stephen Joseph’s contribution to our theatre culture.

This Award recognises innovative and inclusive theatre excellence in today’s British theatre and celebrates the variety of ways contemporary theatre and its practitioners continue to break new ground in engaging audiences.

Now open for 2025 submissions, a wide variety of practice is eligible including the ongoing work of a theatre company, a specific production, an individual theatre artist or director, or an innovative theatre building design or performance space.

Submissions are welcome from theatres, practitioners, or the general public as long as nominations are accompanied by suitable evidence.

In 2024, the Stephen Jo

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10 July 2025

USA - Walk through the front doors of Telemundo Centre in Miami, and the sound of JBL is everywhere. Literally. From the glass-walled atrium to the broadcast control rooms, post-production suites, and live event spaces, NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language division has built an expansive audio environment around JBL Professional’s end-to-end loudspeaker ecosystem.

That integration begins in the building’s most acoustically challenging space: the atrium. A visually striking but highly reflective all-glass venue used for premieres, town halls, and client events, the atrium required a solution that could deliver clarity without overwhelming the space.

“When coming into this project, we had to look at minimising energy in the space as it is all glass and very live,” said Robert Acito of Acoutech, the audio contractor for the installation. “We were

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10 July 2025

Germany - The AStA Summer Festival in Paderborn has been attracting up to 14,000 music fans to the western German city’s university campus every year since 1998.

One of the oldest and largest student-organised festivals in the country, this year’s event which took place on 5 June had something for everybody from German rap, pop and indie to rock and techno, with established headliners including Zartmann, Blond and Ikkimel in the line-up alongside student performers and regional bands.

Paderborn-based event production specialists Sound Linear supplied sound for the event deploying their Nexo STM inventory on the mainstage in a system comprising main left and right hangs of nine STM M46 main modules and six STM M28 down fills, supplemented by adjacent hangs of B112 bass extension modules.

Six cardioid pairs of STM S118 subs were gr

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10 July 2025

Europe - DirectOut is used by system designer and engineer Ville Kauhanen to provide fail-safe stability for all his complex stadium-touring audio system designs.

Kauhanen has worked non-stop in the industry for nearly 30 years and with some of the highest profile artists on the planet. His recent work includes Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour, which concluded in December 2024. The tour visited 54 cities across five continents playing 149 shows and was the highest grossing tour of all time.

Kauhanen was the system engineer for the tour and provided the system infrastructure for each location. His method of working today is very different to when he first started, but, as he explains, his huge industry overview enables him to plan for the future, as well as succeed in the present.

“I’m old enough to have seen the transit

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10 July 2025

USA - Thunderous sounds of the crowd greet every eventgoer at Portland’s fabled Providence Park. Completed in 1926, Providence Park is the oldest facility configured as a soccer-specific stadium for use by an MLS team and is one of the most historic grounds used by any United States professional soccer team.

Two professional soccer teams, the Portland Timbers of MLS and Portland Thorns FC of NWSL, use the facility as their home pitch, and both clubs rank among the top ten in attendance among professional soccer teams (men's or women's) in the United States and Canada.

The facility has undergone several recent renovations to expand its seating capacity to over 25,000, with associated infrastructure and AV upgrades. As expected with any MLS stadium, cameras abound around the stadium to catch the action from several simultaneous angles. The AV feeds a

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10 July 2025

Faroe Islands - Relocating to a refurbished commercial bakery in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Burn Fitness wanted to raise its audio game with a proven solution for its Spinning Room. With sound quality essential, the fitness centre owners selected AV integrator, AVLux. The brief was to deliver an audio solution with a simple user experience for the spinning instructors, in addition to energy and atmosphere in the room. AVLux chose the Optimal Audio ecosystem for its balance of quality, ease of control, and cost-effectiveness.

Adopting the old bakery’s original layout, the fitness machines dominate what was the storage room, the hand equipment occupies the old oven room whilst the spinning room utilises an adjoining space. The compact room features a low roof at the front – where the instructors' platform and the video screen are positioned – that slopes

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09 July 2025

Germany - The Adam Hall Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. With a piece of music history right in front of the entrance and over 800 guests on campus, the event technology manufacturer celebrated with a big staff party in the Experience Centre at its headquarters in Neu-Anspach, Hesse, on 4 July.

Together with its employees and their families, the Adam Hall Group looked back on 50 years of event technology history. One particular highlight was parked right outside the door: the restored 1972 Wings Over Europe tour bus which now serves as an exhibit in the company’s own Rock‘n’Roll Library.

Other highlights of the evening included the company’s own band, spontaneous jam sessions and a surprise performance by the Berlin fusion pop band Il Ci

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09 July 2025

France - Audio specialist Digigram, and noise and vibration analysis leader OROS are celebrating 40 years of excellence in 2025. For 40 years, these two Grenoble-based manufacturers have addressed their respective markets with premium digital audio solutions (Digigram), and high-precision solutions for noise and vibration analysis (OROS).

Anniversary celebrations include the organisation of an evening where partners, employees and clients enjoyed an immersive retrospective experience hosted at the Bastille site in Grenoble, but also the upcoming release of special contents designed for the occasion.

The motto ‘Everything happens for a reason’ was repeated several times by Jérémie Weber, president of the Digigram Group, as he recounted Digigram’s history alongside Philippe Girard-Buttoz, co-founder of Digigram.

Yannick Balter, general

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09 July 2025

Australia/New Zealand - 1 Sound has announced its partnership with JS Audio Solutions, naming them the official 1 Sound distributor for New Zealand, Australia, and the Oceania region.

This collaboration marks 1 Sound’s debut into the markets, broadening its global presence while aligning with a company that shares its core values of customer service, redefining audio expectations, and delivering high-end audio for commercial applications.

“At JS Audio Solutions, our foundational principles are customer experience, two decades of industry expertise, and overall excellence. When we choose a partner, it's paramount that they share our passion for these cornerstones,” said Juan Soothill, managing director/ senior systems engineer of JS Audio Solutions. “That's precisely what we've discovered in our partnership with 1 Sound. We're thrilled to intr

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09 July 2025

Germany - From 12-15 June 2025, the German Tolkien Society hosted a four-day festival in Geldern am Niederrhein. A total of 14,000 Tolkien fans and fantasy enthusiasts enjoyed a varied programme, including a concert evening featuring diverse artists and ensembles.

Technical audio production was expertly handled by Rockline Sound&Light from Issum, who deployed an extensively scaled Wharfedale Pro system to cover the broad musical programme.

The demands on the system were considerable. Initially, the Wharfedale Pro system needed to cleanly amplify classical ensembles with diverse acoustic instruments to various vocal performances. Later in the evening, volume and power were crucial for the headline performance.

The medieval metal band Feuerschwanz delivered an energetic set featuring a pyro and fire show. The Wharfedale Pro system provided

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09 July 2025

UK - Allen & Heath has announced the release of dLive firmware V2.1, building on the landmark V2 release with powerful new processing and RackUltra FX, expanded wireless integration, group to group routing, and some of the most requested workflow features from the dLive community.

Headlining V2.1 is CompStortion, the DEEP emulation of the definitive hardware compressor. With a wide range of attack and release times, distortion modes, and Smash and Brit modes, CompStortion is designed for everything from vocals and guitars to drums and mix bus compression.

RackUltra FX card users will welcome the addition of Rhythm Delay where a pattern-based delay engine provides fully customisable repeat patterns and musical filtering. Rhythm Delay unlocks delay possibilities previously only achievable through top-end studio plugins.

V2.1 significantly e

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09 July 2025

APACMEA - Eddie Tan has been appointed HH divisional sales and tech support manager for the APACMEA region from 1 July. 

Reporting to Ian Wright, director of HH Audio, Eddie will be responsible for the overall growth of HH within the APACMEA territory and will also provide partners with technical support and product & systems training.

“Eddie brings HH considerable knowledge and experience in both the commercial audio and professional audio/live sound, and has a proven track record in sales, technical support and after-sales,” says CEO James Laney. “Eddie also has extensive technical qualifications, which boost the standard of the HH team as the brand continues to expand into a larger range of system solutions.”

Ian Wright, HH brand director, comments: “I am looking forward to working closely with Eddie on the development of th

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09 July 2025

UK - TiMax, has expanded the audio capabilities of TiMax SoundHub with a progressive new feature named, Scaling Surfaces. The new tool’s exclusive feature-set allows users to rescale a spatial show file from a studio playback environment to an auditorium – all with just two mouse clicks. It makes it easier to translate the work users do in the studio to the stage or from venue to different-sized venue, saving significant time.

Users can rescale their entire show for a new venue by simply changing the Scaling Surface size, shape, and, critically, height, and they can do this at any time. When an object is attached to a Scaling Surface, and that surface is moved, all spatial positioning and movement automation for that object, across the entire show file, moves with it.

Users can also distribute content without knowing the absolute scale of the pla