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With immediate effect, ArKaos PRO will be working with A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd's regional sales representatives in Sweden, Lithuania and the UK, who will look after ArKaos customers in Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary and Latvia.

AC-ET will be responsible for promoting, distributing and servicing ArKaos PRO's Stage and Stadium media servers as well as the ArKaos MediaMaster Pro software across these twelve countries. The new arrangement will ensure that Arkaos products will be directly accessible to lighting designers, rental companies and all ArKaos customers.

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All sessions in these streams are presented by leading experts in entertainment technology, with two new theatres dealing exclusively in entertainment lighting and stage technologies, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Theatre, and an inside look at the extravaganza that is Eurovision. Visitors can register their interest in their preferred sessions at www.plasashow.com/education/

In a tribute to the National Theatre, which celebra

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Orange Events managing director Blurr Wong, said: "We are very humbled to be able to own a K1 system - the flagship product of L-Acoustics. It is the most rider friendly system and the first choice of every engineer. We are looking forward to many more opportunities in the future."

David Cooper, Asian sales manager for L-Acoustics, said: "With an increasing K1 rider demand in the region, expanding the K1 rental network in South East Asia was one of L-Acoustics' goals this year. Orange Events has been key for L-Acoustics in Malaysia over the last decade with their total focus on the brand, the technical expertise of th

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Martin Professional will have two new products on their booth; the MAC Viper Quadray and the Jem Ready 365 Hazer. The MAC Viper Quadray, the latest addition to the award-winning MAC Viper family of moving heads, allows for the projection of one, two, three or four individually-controllable rays of light. The Jem Ready 365 Hazer uses advanced water-based fluid which produces a haze ideal for large venues.

Group One will host a trio of Avolites' top-end consoles: the Titan Touch, Titan Mobile and Sapphire Touch. ElektraLite fixtures, including the eyeBall family of products, Dazer, ML601, eyeKandy, and ElektraFog+, and DiGiCo's SD11 dig

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Colour Sound also provided LED screen to the Dance stage and lighting for two silent discos and the Action Aid tent - and replicated all of this in Leeds. Additionally, two and half kilometres of Colour Sound's DMX controlled IMS LED Festoon was installed at Reading to enhance ambience and mood across the whole site. This element was nearly doubled from last year due to its massive popularity, particularly with the BBC, who recorded and broadcast the best of the event action.

As well as Reading and Leeds that same weekend, Colour Sound supplied lighting for the North and South (open air) S

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In addition to taking the lead in frequency planning and co-ordination for the entire conference, Audio-Technica will equip the IBC auditorium with 12 channels of wireless and microphones from its Artist Elite range. Wired microphone models including BP892 and BP893 headsets and gooseneck models from the Engineered Sound series will complement the wireless system in the venue.

The event's conference room will be served by Audio-Technica's new System 10 wireless, with a total of eight of the 2.4GHz systems providing coverage.

Alex Lepges, Audio

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This now means that users of these microphones are able to take advantage of the Røde Rec app on Apple iOS devices, recording high-quality audio direct to their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. With a large scale update of the app to be released later this month, this functionality will be further enhanced.

"The MiCon system was born out of frustration from working with other manufacturers' wireless systems." said Damien Wilson, Røde's global marketing and sales director. "With MiCon the idea is to allow anyone that invests in our microphones a versatil

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Show-goers will also have the chance to hear FBT speaker systems in action, as three systems have been entered into the PA Experience - BPM's PA sound off - featuring the latest speaker systems available. Entered into the Compact class is the Vertus Series, with the Evo2MaxX 4 and Subline 15 going head-to-head with other portable systems in the Road Warrior class. For club aficionados, the Mit

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Recent installations include the BBC new complex in Cardiff, Turkmenistan Media city, Kazakistan Media tower, and many more besides, making Freedom and its even more compact partner, Liberty, the most successful and best selling consoles in ADB's history.

Also on show will be the ALC4-2 multifunctional modular LED fixtures, Softlux TV fluo luminaires and other products.

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"We are very excited and honoured to be able to directly serve our customers in a market where Chauvet's brands are already known and valued," CEO Albert Chauvet said. The Mexican branch office is the second international branch office fully owned by USA-based Chauvet, which also fully owns Chauvet Europe, based in the United Kingdom. In other countries, Chauvet products are distributed via a network of authorized distributors.

Abraham Levit, who owned Novelti

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Malcolm Burlow and Dave Drane of Highlite UK brought eight panels of the P12.5 screen to the Stonehaven warehouse to do a full demonstration. "It was great to see and also for us to use our current vision mixer and our HD cameras with it. We were very impressed with the quality, brightness and picture output for a Pixelmesh - it's exactly what we have been looking for."

Granite City Events has invested in 24 panels, with flightcases, rigging and Arkaos software. Sheriffs s

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James King, marketing director, explains: "After a lot of soul searching to define what lies at the heart of the brand, what quickly emerged was the importance of the audience experience. It's what the company has been doing for over 40 years, from enabling 'supergroups' of the '70s to be able to play to larger audiences and be heard properly for the first time, through to MLA and its superlative consistency of coverage.

"The audience is central to the industry's success, so cr

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However celebrating history and all things antique should not stretch to the lighting department who were struggling with their old consoles.

"We had a Strand 550 and a 520i console for years and they were really at the end of their use-by date," commented Matthew Nankivell, head of lighting at His Majesty's Theatre in Perth. "More and more touring shows were coming through that couldn't use their show files with the Strand consoles. One of the main deciding factors on which console to choose was driven by the need to keep up with industry trends. Many of our shows have originated in a venue with an

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The automation elements are an integral part of the eye-catching set, lighting and production design created by show director Paul Normandale, while the load monitoring - including the new LibraRIG product - has been provided by Rigorous Technology to the tour's head rigger, Yose Lawson.

Normandale is known for his innovative and imaginative designs and stage environments and the design incorporates eight irregularly sized panels of 7mm LED screen upstage which move in and out to different positions and formats during the show.

This is achieved using 16 Kinesys-converted half-tonne Liftket motors and Vector control, specified by Normandale and provided by lighting contractors Lite Alternative. The LED screen is su

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The competition is open to any band in Europe, provided they have no current recording or publishing deal. Between 7 October and 27 December, entrants have to post one of their tracks to the competition web site (details below), together with a short video blog. Tracks posted must be original compositions (bands posting cover versions will not be accepted).

Once the competition has closed, Shure will w

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The finalists for the sixth annual Rock Our World Awards are:

GBLOCK - Gallagher Staging and Productions, Inc.

GCT (Guy Cable Tensioner) - Tomcat USA.

Mbox Extreme Media Server as used on Oblivion - Production Resource Group.

TiMax2 SoundHub and TiMax Tracker - Out Board.

AsteraTouch - Astera LED-Technology.

dmXLAN v4 Software - ELC Lighting.

Royal Opera House Muscat - Theatre Projects Consultants.

London Olympics Opening Ceremonies.

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In the 12 years since it launched, iLED has earned its clients' loyalty by providing expert advice founded on a commitment to continual education. iLED team members pride themselves on the depth and breadth of their AV knowledge, which includes all the latest cutting-edge solutions, as well as their ability to communicate that knowledge to clients.

"iLED is focused on educating members of the AV community in South Africa," said Mark Ullrich, international sales manager for Symetrix. "The company started iLED University in 2010 to offer free trainings on products, concepts, and techniques, and it has been a huge success.

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Fitted into a compact 1U rack design, ICE-16 and ICE-16D are capable of studio quality interfacing, converting and bi-directional streaming of 16 channels over high-speed USB or FireWire at 24 bit, 96kHz resolution. Alternatively, 16 channels can be simultaneously recorded straight to a USB hard drive or memory stick at up to 24bit 48kHz resolution as a .wav file. The unit is ex

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Lighting designer Tom Kenny worked the same style - blurring the lines between fine art and pop art - into multiple areas of the onstage lighting treatment, with 80 of Robe's new Pointe multi-purpose moving light fixtures, a vital element of his rig of over 1000 moving heads. These were supplied to the event along with 32 x Robe Robin LEDWash 600s and 20 x LEDWash 1200s by rental specialist, VER.

Robe's powerful, super-bright Pointes were positioned left and right of the stage and behind the VIP stage / seating area.

"I needed a big beam look and a wash light in the same position," explaine

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The bespoke 24-channel, 3U rack-mountable systems are based on BlackBox Recorder technology. The units feature highly accurate and dc stable input and output circuitry, with additional software and hardware functionality specifically geared towards industrial data recording and measurement applications.

Greger Svanström, senior engineer in measurement technique/product development, who led the team specifying Siemens' requirement, said, "The BBR Industrial has proved a valuable tool for gathering large scale measurement data. The use of a standard