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MDG supplied 15 Robe Robin 600 LEDWash and 16 Robe Robin 1200 LEDWash moving heads, plus a quantity of Chromlech Elidy LED lighting panels composed of 64 Elidy-Wall LED panels arranged in a 16 wide by 4 high video backwall, and 12 Elidy-Big and 12 Elidy-S panels rigged above and behind the band on stage. The tour marks the largest installation of the French lighting manufacturer's new product to date and the first project for MDG to supply with Elidy since its appointment as exclusive Canadian distributor.

MDG also provided two of its own dual fog and haze generators, MDG theONE. These were located on either side of the stage to provide a high

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"After 30 years with Metallica - and 15 years miking Lars' drums with another brand of microphone - I was finally persuaded to test DPA microphones by Morten Uldbæk, who is the Danish distributor for Midas consoles," says Hughes. "I have to admit I had never considered DPA as the right kind of microphone for live rock music, but after giving them a try I was really impressed with their brightness and crispness."

The final impetus to switch to DPA came from the studio engineers who were working on the soundtrack for Metallica's 3D film Through the Never, which will hadits first public screening at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in

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Doors open at 6 pm and everyone is welcome - entry is free and you do not need to be an MPG member to attend.

Producers Mick Glossop and Andrew Hunt from the MPG executive board will at the event to discuss initiatives and the scope of what the MPG can offer.

John Paul Braddock, MPG East Midlands coordinator, says, "Speakeasy events are a great opportunity to network. As many producer and engineers work in isolation, they provide a chance for music industry professionals to meet, exchange stories, discuss problems and develop new ideas and partnerships."

(Jim Evans)

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Green-i's Ian Woodall, in particular, had been a strong advocate of BSS Audio's early pioneering Soundweb platform, and as the Tiger Tiger footprints and zonal requirements became more ambitious, the iconic BSS SW-9088 'Green' DSP devices and remote SW-9010 'Jellyfish' local remote wall panels started to abound.

But in the world of digital processing and sampling rates, technology moves fast - and the Soundweb Originals were duly superseded by Soundweb London. This constantly evolving series offered more flexibility, enhanced I/O configuration, dual-redundant CobraNetTM audio

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The event's attendance read like a who's-who of the pro audio community, with such leading industry figures present as Chris Lord-Alge, CJ Vanston, Michael Bradford, Dave Reitzas, Herb Tarwick, Al Schmitt, Steve Genewick and Dean Martin Hovey.

"The event was a huge success," stated Phil Wagner, president of Focusrite Novation Inc. "Vintage King's Los Angeles facility was the perfect place to hold this event, because of their extensive installation network infrastructure and customer base. The quality time we got to spend with key members of the audio community was an invaluable experience. Everyone at VKLA

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Products will include all those launched at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt in April - The Pointe, MiniMe, CycFx 8, Cyclone and MMX Blade - highlighting some brand new concepts - all embracing Robe's smaller-lighter-brighter and more eco-friendly philosophies.

Newly launched at PLASA is the Parfect, a tough PAR-can styled plastic housing featuring Robe's LEDBeam 100 lightsource.

The Robe Parfect, is an LED source ACL beam at an affordable price that is made in Europe. This unit is a static version of the massively successful LedBeam 100 and retains all the key features of this, including both CMY & RGBW colour control, tungsten emulation, Zone Fx, selectable & variable colour temperatures ... and the really powerful, punchy 7° beam.

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Applying Flare Audio's theory of Waveform Integrity, Flare Audio has revolutionised bass enclosures with the release of SB21, SB18 and SB12. These compact enclosures (less than half the size of typical 21", 18" and 12" sealed design bass loudspeakers) deliver clear strong bass over the driver's full frequency range without false enhancement.

The SB21C features a 21" 1400w driver in a 600mm x 600mm x 300mm 42kg enclosure, the SB18C houses an 18" 1200w driver in a 513mm x 513mm x 261mm 23.5kg enclosure and the SB12C, a 12" 900w driver in a 374mm x 374mm x 178mm enclosure.

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In preparation AED, which has represented Robert Juliat in Belgium and Luxemburg since 2011, will expand market coverage and commence sales of Robert Juliat solutions in the Netherlands from 1 October 2013. Lightco, which has been distributing Robert Juliat products until now, will continue to do so in parallel with AED until the end of December 2013.

AED Distribution is the exclusive distributor of several professional AV brands across the Benelux territories, supplying AV professionals only.

"I'm very happy to complete our product portfolio in The Netherlands with a state-of-the-art product like Robert Juliat," says Hans Vanderheijden, MD of AED Distribution HQ. "AED Distribution is careful never to compete with its o

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In the intervening 18 months since Peter Johansen became CEO, a complete new LED product range has been launched, a global distributor network established, top international touring references have appeared across the world's media - and now the entrepreneur aims to establish a dedicated Danish base. What this will mean is Danish manufacturing, Danish employment and - to a great extent - Danish and European sub-suppliers.

"We anticipate that this move will create up to 400 new jobs over the next two years," stated a bullish Peter Johansen, announcing the decision.

The strategy is based on the winnin

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The company's highly experienced Project Managers can handle all aspects of a project and have a diverse portfolio of previous client examples ranging from theatres to nightclubs and bars, restaurants, schools, houses of worship, cruise ships and live performance venues.

With access to over 200 leading brands, ACSP can cater for any size of installation from a simple six circuit lighting bar with dimming and control, to a full blown multi-media theatre system.

Staff will be happy to discuss the company's full

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Jands UK dealer, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (PLASA stand P41) will showcase models from the Vista hardware range, including the new Vista D1 playback processor. When connected to any host console from the Vista family, each D1 allows control of an additional 8192 DMX channels to help cope with the increasing channel counts being used in today's designs.

Jands will also showcase new features for their award-winning Stage CL conso

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The company's PLASA stand (P60) will feature models from the Color Force, Studio Force and Inspire ranges illuminating various surfaces, to demonstrate the LED products' colour accuracy and consistency, and precise theatrical grade dimming - features which together are designed to deliver the highest performance levels from a lighting instrument, says the company.

Making its PLASA London debut is the award-winning Inspire LED house light, a powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tool that can transform the look and feel of both large performance spaces and smaller commercial,

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Søren's experience includes 16 years of working in top management for a leading lighting manufacturer, during which time he's built up an awesome amount of contacts worldwide and an impeccable reputation for integrity, in the process becoming one of the best known and liked 'personalities' of the professional lighting industry.

At Robe, he will be working closely alongside International Sales Director and CEO of Robe Inc. in the US, Harry von den Stemmen together with all of Robe's Regional Sales Managers in The Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Russia and the CIS states.

2013 has been a year of unprecedented growth for Robe. This has been boosted by the launch of a raft of highly successful products and recent expansion in the Mi

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The SRM 1600W High-Definition Powered Loudspeakers deliver on Mackie's "Built-Like-A-Tank" SRM legacy in professional grade all-wood designs. The range features enhanced Mackie digital processing and provides new levels of SRM ruggedness, output, clarity and simplicity. The SRM550 and SRM650 are available in 12" and 15" LF driver configurations with 1.4" HF compression drivers, while the SRM1850 offers a powerful 18" subwoofer with integrated digital crossover.

The new VLZ4 analogue mixers now include not only Mackie's industry-proven Onyx preamps, providing the highest headroom and lowest noise possible but also deliver the rugged construction that has established the VLZ se

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Stock of this essential book - the first new edition in five years and now including material previously contained in the Model National Standard Conditions for Places of Entertainment - can be found on the ABTT's Stand, A53, at ExCeL London, from this Sunday 6 October, at a reduced rate, held for all four days of the show.

Edited by David Adams and published by the Association of British Theatre Technicians, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the District Surveyors Association and the Institute of Licensing, the book sets out the physical standards for buildings, their equipment and the good management of th

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This includes a fleet of mixers to meet all budgets and demands. "For example we will typically use Soundcraft 16-channel EFX mixers for weddings and speakers - however, when we recently did Swansea Uni summer ball, with 4,000 people and three stages, we provided two Soundcraft Vi1 digital desks on the main stage."

Having just celebrated 10 years in the business, Chris Hooke's relationship with Soundcraft's new generation models began with the purchase of an Si Compact 24, and in April last year the company took delivery of its first Vi1. Exactly 12 months to the day, the company's second Vi1 arrived, along with the new popular, port

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This appointment is the latest in a number of changes being made to Merging's worldwide distribution in a quest "to find young, dynamic companies that have sales and marketing ability and sufficient technical resource to satisfy demanding customers in rapidly growing markets".

Merging's sales and marketing manager, Chris Hollebone comments, "Stagetec Asia came highly recommended and the first time I met David Chan and his team, I was extremely impressed with how they presented themselves and their brands. Having now spent more time together, I know the choice is right."

Managing director of Stagetec Asia, David Chan remarked, &

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"I used the Qu-16 as it gave me an option to run each song as a different scene, so levels, EQ and compression could be change per artist," Booker explains. "I also used the QuPad app to remotely mix the keyboard levels and adjust compression and HPF on channels in rehearsals."

(Jim Evans)

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Richard Turner, the tour's video director worked closely with XL's project manager Phil Mercer throughout, together with tour director Andrew Zweck and creative and video content director Sean Evans. The production featured both stadium and arena versions.

The show visuals were projected onto the wall by 36 of XL's new Panasonic PT-DZ21K 20K projectors - divided into nine screen areas - each covered by a quad stack rigged on standard Leyher scaffold platforms at FOH.

Seamless edge-blending was achieved by custom manual shutters clamped onto the scaffold towers. Physical shutter

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2014 will mark the 56th year of the International Safety Awards, which have made a significant contribution over that time to promoting and celebrating the benefits that well-managed and proportionate workplace health and safety bring.

The awards are open to organisations of all sizes and sectors, both members of the British Safety Council and non-members in the UK and overseas. Applications are welcome both from past winners and first time entrants; there is nothing to stop a first time entrant being successful if they can demonstrate clearly their commitment to good health and safety management in the application process.

Last year, 470 organisations from