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Presented by Rinus Bakker from Rhino Rigs, an international expert in his field, the course includes certification. "This is something we have wanted to do for a long time," commented Robert Izzett, Prolyte brand manager at DWR Distribution. "The South African market has cried out for it, and it's a privilege to have someone of Rinus' caliber and experience, heading up the training."

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"When I joined BOVTS I realised that the students were using cue lights that would break and were not easy to programme. I felt the students needed the chance to work with exactly the same systems that they would be using once they graduated. This brought me to Stage Electrics," commented Louise Matthews, production stage management supervisor, BOVTS.

Working closely with Matthews, Stage Electrics designed and developed their new table top stage management console. Ideal for use in schools, touring shows and professional theatres; this flagship portable desk concept is proven to be a popular choice across a variety of venues such as East 15 Acting School and B

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Provided by Creative Production & Design of Austin, Texas, 114 Chauvet Professional MVP 18 and 96 MVP 12 modular video panels made up for an impressive display, conceived in layers of video walls with a 3D feel. "The versatility of the MVP 18 panels makes it easy to use in many of our applications," said Daniel Wyatt, project manager of Creative Production & Design.

For high-resolution graphics 18 of the MVP 12 video panels worked as the façade for the DJ booth, while a 6-by-13 video wall of the same panels was placed in the background. In between these walls, 11 high columns of one-by-10 MVP 18 vide

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Arena Deck uses 1.5m x 0.75m octagonal shaped decks which are simple, lightweight and quick to install, and incorporate visually appealing glass hand rails. The new product provides a smooth, solid and safe surface suitable for feature areas and media and camera platforms at any height or configuration in both indoor and outdoor event environments.

Used for the first time at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics games, Arena installed a multi-tier Arena Deck into ExCel. This was used for sporting events including boxing, table tennis, fencing, boccia and sitting volleyball and offered easily accessible wheelchair ramps and viewing platforms. The new product was also utilised for fol

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Premier, who produced the premiere, brought in XL Events to supply the visual elements for the 'red-carpet' arrivals including stars Jamie Foxx, Samuel L Jackson, and Tarantino himself.

The special Django Unchained white carpet spanned the top side of Leicester Square leading to the door of the cinema. Alongside the carpet, XL Events hung six vertical screens each made up of 12 tiles of Pixled's lightweight, high-brightness F-12 LED. The screens displayed images of characters from the movie, as well as spelling out DJANGO.

At the far end of the carpet a stage was situated which was used for celebrity interviews conducted by Alex Zane, host of the Guest List movie show

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With unprecedented stocking orders from dealers and end users across the globe, the Octo-Pouch has already smashed predicted sales figures. Dirty Rigger's chief designer Steve Marshall said, "The new tool pouch is a completely new concept for Dirty Rigger and offers a level of design, flexibility and compatibility that's unique within our range.

"Initially built around our original Riggers Tool Pouch design, the Octo-Pouch evolved into a product of its own, where diversity of content, tool security and safety was paramount.

"Again, we must give thanks to the Dirty Rigger community for all their ideas and suggestions throughout the trial pe

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"Each month the subject of sound is given a new twist. Readers of 'Blue Stage' can expect inspiring stories delivered in an informative and innovative way", explains Uwe Greunke, director of strategic marketing at Sennheiser. 'Blue Stage' is designed to be a focal point for both long-standing and aspiring sound enthusiasts".

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The MAC Viper Profile features over 26000 lumens of power from a 1000-watt HID source and is convincingly brighter than 1200-watt fixtures and also outperforms them in terms of speed and compactness.

The 1500-watt MAC III AirFX is an extremely bright and highly versatile lighting fixture, a new concept that combines hard-edge, mid-air effects a

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It was established in 2007 by Ales Pirman, who first bought Robe moving lights in 2003 when running his previous lighting company, which was a smaller one-person operation.

The first purchases were 575 XT Washes and ColorSpot 575 ATs which were such a success that he continued down the Robe route after he set up Intralite.

"I needed good value, highly featured moving lights that were reliable and solid rental company workhorses," he explains. "Robe was a lot more accessible than any of its competitors on several different fronts," he comments, adding that the service, support and backup offere

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"The upcoming change in the frequency window of what we're allowed to use in Australia was an important factor in the purchases," he remarked. "The 780 - 820 MHz range will become progressively unusable or illegal to use in Australia at a certain point in the future so we needed to change at some point."

Having used the Shure UHF-R systems extensively over the past few months, Wilkie reports that their performance has been terrific.

"They're a lot more flexible and easier to set up than their predecessor," he said. "The IR to program the be

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Passion Pit is continuing its national tour after releasing its second LP, Gossamer. More dates are planned for 2013.

"I've never toured with Clay Paky lights, but these have been fantastic," Rothberg reports. "They're different from other lights of this type. They are smaller and brighter, and the zoom is amazing. They can go from a super tight beam to a super fat beam in an instant. They're brighter than anything else we've encountered."

Rothberg, who is also the tour's lighting programmer, had previous positive experiences with Clay Paky 700 fixtures but calls the 800 units "even be

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The new ISO Balancer DI converts unbalanced audio signals from sources including Computers, Tablets and Smart Phones to balanced, low impedance signals suitable for use with professional equipment and long cable runs. Transformer ground isolation ensures low-noise operation, preventing ground loops and other extraneous noise.

The ISO Balancer DI features industry standard 6.5mm Jack, RCA and 3.5mm Jack inputs to cover all connector types, and transformer balanced Left and Right XLR outputs.

As an added feature the Iso Balancer DI also features a Mono'ing switch allowing Stereo signals to be easily mono'd.

The ISO Balancer DI is a totally passive device with no power requirements, making it a truly universal and

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Over 100 Tannoy CMS 801DC in-ceiling loudspeakers are deployed throughout the facility, says Alex Donkle, of D.L. Adams Associates, Ltd., the firm tasked with designing THSSC's A/V and control systems: "They're everywhere; hallways, the lobby, the exam rooms, in three conference rooms equipped with video/teleconferencing systems and in the main simulation area, the Multimedia Room."

CMS Series is Tannoy's premium range of full bandwidth; highpower and high sensitivity ceiling-mounted loudspeaker devices specifically designed for applications requiring the combination of uncompromising sonic quality for

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Additionally, Gray lit two high profile off site shows - Aitor Throup's ground-breaking New Object Research at The Dog Eared Film Studio in Covent Garden and Jonathan Saunders' collection at Victoria House in Holborn.

Renegade also sourced and co-ordinated all the necessary lighting equipment and supplied their own hand-picked crews.

The Hospital Club was the official British Fashion Council (BFC) show space at the hub of the event, featuring up to four shows a day .

The space was almost square and surrounded by white walls, seating bays and runway floor. A central 'spine' truss was installe

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Southwell brings more than 20 years of experience in product management and technology leadership within the networking industry. Prior to joining Audinate, Southwell served as CTO at BTI Systems, where he focused on enabling new services and deployment for large-scale packet optical network and strategic planning of next generation video delivery systems.

"I am excited to join Audinate and I have been very impressed with strong momentum and adoption of Dante to date" says Southwell. "What's even more exciting is the enormous potential Dante can bring to enable new A/V networked applications."

"Audinate is a networking company, and we have captured a market leadership position, due to the vast expertise we h

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The Media version plays MP3 or WMA files directly from a USB device or SD memory card plugged into the front panel of the unit, via a simple set of playback controls. All standard data rates and sampling frequencies are supported.

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Midas brand development manager, Richard Ferriday comments, "We look forward to welcoming our American audiophile friends to booth B 5740 at NAMM, where we will have our product range hooked up to audio and ready to go. Visitors are invited to play with and listen to the consoles. Jay Easley, Kyle Chirnside and I will be on hand to answer questions, and we're confident that everyone who attends will enjoy the experience."

MIDAS launched the smallest of its PRO Series - the award winning PRO1 - at InfoComm Las Vegas in June 2012, followed by its European debut at London's PLASA in September.

In the past year Midas PRO Consoles have been the choice on an increasing number

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Retailers interested in more information on the scheme - either for themselves or a customer - should contact Fineline Media Finance on 020 8334 2100 or email sales@fineline.co.uk

Audio-Technica UK managing director Adrian Rooke said, "Audio-Technica is aware of the financial challenges that continue to face our customers in difficult economic times. We are dedicated to supporting them through these challenges where we can, so we're very pleased to be able to announce this finance package on two of Allen&Heath's most popular professional mixers."

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As in previous years, Alcons is providing the audio system for the extremely popular ISE 3D Theatre, with daily presentations taking place on the current status of 3D audio technology.

Partnering with LANG AG, Volfoni, LGE, Philips Digital Signage and Wolfvision, Alcons will be hosting multi-channel surround demonstrations through its CRMS reference sound system.

The main focus of the stand will be the QR24 pro-ribbon line-source column - a modular, two-way column-array loudspeaker to be used as in acoustically-challenging rooms. The compact QR24 delivers a full-range high SPL HiFi sound quality, with unparalleled speech intelligibility in even the most reverberant room

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"If you're doing the sound for The World's Largest Disco, the system has to be no-holds-barred," said Ray DiBiase, president of Northeastern Production Systems, which provided the sound, lighting and video systems for the event. "The music is the reason everyone was there and we had to move 7,000 people with loud, bass-heavy sound in a room that's the biggest dance floor in New York State."

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