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The Eternity Playhouse is the result of a four-year renovation of the heritage-listed Burton Street Tabernacle by the City of Sydney, a 126 year old Baptist Church, unused for worship since 1996. In consultation with the City of Sydney and architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Darlinghurst Theatre Company has helped transform the building into a unique, state-of-the-art performance space that lovingly emphasises the building's original features while delivering high-quality technical results.

The Eternity Theatre is named for

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Lighting the two-hour Stellar Award broadcast presented a special challenge for LD Mark Carver (Mark Carver Designs, Nashville) and programmer Susan Rose. "Our overall vision for the design was to define the space on stage, while meeting the technical demands for broadcast quality in a live awards show," said Carver. "The Chauvet Legends were instrumental in helping us achieve this goal."

Carver and Rose's lighting rig included 24 Legend 230SR Beam fixtures from Chauvet Professional. They used 16 of the moving heads on eight truss towers positioned acro

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The celebration began in the early evening and featured star-studded performances on two stages by the likes of Miley Cyrus, Blondie, Melissa Etheridge and other crowd favourites. An estimated one million people gathered in mid-town Manhattan for the event, which culminated in the famous ball drop, with millions more watching on television and via live streaming throughout the world.

Powerful lighting effects and New Year's Eve go hand in hand with bursts of colour and light streaking through the air a natural part of the experience. Ente

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Designed by show designer Vince Foster, with visual content created by Paul Caslin, the widescreen style set comprised three portrait-hung LED Screens upstage, while the curvaceous set was visually sculpted using 600 horizontally positioned BARCO MiStrips.

The content featured a mix of pre-recorded content and live camera feeds mixed by vision director Steven Price, all powered by Avolites Media's industry-leading Ai infinity 8 Server with eight Full HD outputs.

Video specialists Creative Technology supplied the Avolites Media intelligent video mapping technology along with the LED screens, MiStrips and the technical team to run it.

"What made the Ai Media server particularly helpful for th

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After the successful introduction of the HOG4 platform in 2012-2013, High End Systems decided to further professionalize the sales of High End products in Europe through the concept of Master Distribution. AED Distribution, who has been Master Distributor for High End Systems in the BeNeLux, France and the UK in 2013, was appointed as European Master Distributor.

The European partnership includes all EU countries, incl. Russia, Turkey and Ukraine but with the exception of the Scandinavian Countries, Portugal, Italy, and Greece. AED Distribution already appointed AC Entertainment (UK), Interlight (NL), Lagoona (FR), Eclalux (FR), T&C (FR), Preworks (Austria), SIM (Russia) and Elit (Turkey) as Sub-Distributors.

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The equipment used features the 8", 10" and 12" inch tops and single 15" and double 15" subs. They also used MilTec's LA20 amps on one of the jobs. The Henley venue required a white finish which MilTec supplied from stock.

Colin Bannister, general manager of Leamington Sight and Sound commented, "I use the MilTec speakers because of the high quality sound at a very reasonable price. We get a very good frequency response with a nice warm British sound that needs very little EQ. I am specifying the Miltec speakers on many more jobs that we have lined up for 2014.

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Mannheim Steamroller debuted their first Christmas album in 1984 combining the group's signature mix of baroque instruments and rock 'n roll beats to give a fresh twist to holiday classics. This time two tours of six-member ensembles were playing 80 dates on a Christmas tour.

"Mannheim Steamroller is the longest-running, best-selling Christmas show of all time," declared Jackson, who has been the tour's lighting designer for the last five years. "I design the show with the production manager and lighting director for the other tour. I go out with one of the

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The latest exhibitors to sign up include Robe, Neutrik USA, Navigator Systems, Event Safety Alliance, Harrington Hoists, Cosmic Truss, Absen American, Rental Pointe Software, LSC Lighting Systems, and Luminex.

Five new sessions have been added to the PLASA Focus: Nashville 2014 Professional Development Program, a two-day programme of free educational seminars and workshops running alongside the event.

Access Anywhere: Rope Access, Fall Protection and Rescue will be presented by Impact Access and TES Inc. Hugh Biggle will explain how modern rope access equipment, techniques, and training can be combined to produce

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Festigal is an elaborate and high profile song and dance show for children staged for five weeks each year during Hanukkah in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Beersheva featuring many well-known Israeli singing and dance stars.

It's the biggest children's show in the country and In Tel Aviv it was staged in a 6500 capacity arena at the Exhibition Centre playing between two and four times a day - all sold out - keeping its young and demanding audiences enraptured.

This latest show was staged in-the-round with an X-shaped set designed by Nitzan Rafael and built by Irgunit, which was the starting point for Najar's lighting design. The lighting needed to be flexible, colourful and fluid to deal with the li

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As well as being designed in sleek, modern colours, the club boasts an impressive Funktion One sound system along with large-scale lights and lasers, CO2 cannons, gigantic party poppers and exciting extra sensory stimulation in the form of the venue's unique Geodome - a 'cage' of thousands of LEDS that fills the venue's second room.

Club owner, Jim comments: "The Geodome idea was born about five years ago after a trip to the Eden Project in Cornwall. The sheer scale of the building structure was incredible and I simply had t

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The creative industries careers event took place across Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield Theatres and the O2 Academy. It attracted over 350 14 -19-year-olds eager to learn about employment and career pathways in the creative industries. Live Nation's Paul Latham introduced the event by talking about how he got into the event industry, followed by talks from BBC Introducing's executive producer Lyndsey Boggis and Stealth Management's James Mountain.

Backstage Academy set up camp in the O2 Academy Sheffield where it aimed to inspire students about the career opportunities on offer in the backstage live events sector. It invited students to hear practical advice from in

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The relatively wide scope of the show enables Alcons Audio to display its broad portfolio of system solutions: On booth 6-N148, Alcons presents a selected choice of its point-source, point-source array, line-source and line-array sound systems, based around the company's patented Pro-Ribbon technology and its ongoing pursuit of audio perfection.

The main focus will be on the RR12 point-source array: with shipping started last December, the RR12 extends Alcons' famous line-source technology into different applications. By implementing the unique features of Alcons' pro-ribbon transducers in a modular concept, the RR12 has been developed as "building block" to create tight-packed (horizontal

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CS and RS slave models range from 60W to 360W, delivering stable, reliable power to multiple speaker systems, the company says. SMD circuit technology ensures dependable operation with options for DC battery power and low impedance outputs. All RM and RS models are provided with rack ears for installation into 19" cabinets, whilst a rack tray option is available for the CM and CS models.

Overall, this new, comprehensive range of amplifiers offers high performance with easy-to-use control options for a wide range of commercial public address installations, say

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A versatile high-end choice for live entertainment venues, rental companies, pro musicians and DJs, and installed sound, the ETX family features three two-way models (10-inch, 12-inch and 15-inch, all with a precision HF titanium compression driver), a three-way model (15-inch with a 6.5-inch MF driver and a precision HF titanium compression driver) and two subs (15-inch and 18-inch drivers).

Positioned above the ZLX and Live X families respectively, ETX completes a trio of recent EV portable loudspeaker offerings-each of which was designed to bring best-in-class performance to its price point. (Launched at NAMM 2013, ZLX wa

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In the field of video, Lawo presents the Lawo V - link 4 in its current version. This device is the professional broadcast tool for signal contribution, distribution and remote production via qualified LAN and WAN structures. V-link4 provides video-over-IP coding, signal processing and a video/audio lip sync measuring system - all in a compact tool. This gives more space in the rack, increases flexibility and saves setup-time and production costs. Also on show is the Lawo V-pro8, the compact, fully digital 8-channel video processor with all glue features that are required within broadcast production workflows.

Visitors can get hands-on experience at the Lawo mc²56 mixing console. This compact, flexible and versatile mixer has a lot o

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Qu-24 features a dedicated fader per mic input channel, 24 mic/line inputs, three stereo inputs, four FX engines with four dedicated sends and stereo returns, 20 mix outputs including 2 Stereo Matrix Mix Outputs and 2 Stereo Groups with full processing, patchable AES digital output with a further two-channel ALT output, dedicated Talkback mic input, and two-Track output.

The mixer i

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The M32 features the same award-winning mic preamplifiers as the PRO Series consoles and "1-million lifecycle" Midas Pro Faders. The new console is 96 kHz ready and features 192 kHz AD/DA converters.

The mixer also features Ultranet for "Acoustic Integration" with the new Turbosound iQ Series active loudspeakers or IEM systems.

Sporting an industrial design created by Bentley Motors industrial designer, the console makes use of high-performance material such as carbon fibre and aluminum, the M32 ushers in the next phase in Midas' legendary heritage, says the company.

Packed with processing p

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The largest contender at this show was the weather. The stage included a 10 x 8m Prolyte Roof and in the afternoon a gust threatened to stop the show. "I can't emphasise how big it was," said Rawjee.

Insane Sound had their safety infrastructure in place including large water ballasts for the roof. "We had to take off the sides of the stage while the band kept playing," said Rawjee. The wind howled into the microphones, but it actually sounded like an effect, say organisers. By the time the main artists were per

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The move comes on the back of a highly successful year in which the company has seen continued growth, particularly in the theatre, corporate and leisure sectors.

In addition to extended office space, the new premises provide improved warehousing facilities which will allow the company to achieve faster turnaround times, whilst a new technical suite will be used for product demonstrations and technical training. Customers will also be able to visit the company's new trade counter which provides fast access to its extensive inventory of audio, AV, lighting and staging products, together with a growing stock of consumables, including lamps, tapes, colour filters, and effects.

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The centrepiece of the launch was a 3D set that spelled 'HAPPY', and this was the canvas upon which Projection Advertising beamed the animation. While guests took their seats, the projection traced different coloured light around the 3D set and gradually filled each letter with solid colour. With everyone seated, the 'wow' animation began: a one-minute show with audio, introducing animal print patterns, each revealed strip by strip to the rhythm of C2C's track Happy until each letter was completely covered.