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Germany - This year's Oktoberfest in Munich was illuminated Leader Light. Approximately 6.4m guests came to Munich to be a part of the event of the year.

"We need to save energy" said the responsible architect of the Hofbr&0228;uhaustent at the Oktoberfest.

For many years on the 16 pylons in the tent featured PAR 56 spots (300Watt each). This year these luminaries have been replaced by Leader Light's energy-saving Stage beams, the same LED fixtures which were used at Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmo.

"We are very happy with the result because we didn't think, that LEDs are able to produce such a effective light and beam," said the architect. "Next year we will definitely use Leader Light's lighting again."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Sound engineer Ben Hammond is on tour with English heavy metal band Saxon, travelling with Allen & Heath GLD and iLive digital systems to manage FOH and Monitors.

The band is currently on a month-long tour of the USA and Canada, supported by American rock band, Fozzy.

A GLD-80 mixer is at FOH, accompanied by an AR2412 rack to manage I/O. The mixer takes inputs via Dante from the iLive monitor system, comprising an iLive-T112 surface and iDR-48 MixRack.

"I'm currently running a 39 input "festival patch" type channel list to fit both Saxon and Fozzy, and GLD has coped fantastically," explains Hammond. "I'm using all eight on board FX engines, which sound stunning - the EMT250 and ADT presets are personal favourites of mine. As well as the FX, so many great iLive features have been included in GLD, one of which that I find incredibly useful is the

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UK - Virgin Trains has invested in revolutionary LED lighting technology at Birmingham International Railway Station; this will significantly reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs.

In a bid to create more energy efficient railway stations, Virgin Trains has tasked Lorne Stewarts Facilities Services Division PLC to find innovative ways to reduce energy consumption at stations maintained by Virgin. In the latest phase of this project, Lorne Stewart PLC has used AVA branded LED lighting products to light up parts of Birmingham International Railway Station.

Lighting accounts for a significant amount of energy usage and AVA LED technology was specifically chosen by Lorne Stewart as a cost effective route in achieving 90 percent reductions in power consumption, when compared to outdated lighting technologies.

AVA branded T8 tube lights, lamps and panel lamps were chosen

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Brazil - As the first Latin American pontiff, it was unsurprising that Pope Francis chose Brazil as the destination for his first overseas trip since becoming head of the Catholic Church. Generating huge national interest, the visit climaxed with a Mass for World Youth Day on Rio's famous Copacabana beach, dubbed 'Popacabana' for the occasion. DiGiCo SD7 and SD11 consoles played a vital role in relaying the event to 3.5m pilgrims and a global media audience.

The newly-purchased SD7 was supplied by Mac Audio, one of Rio's leading audio production companies. As the audio supplier for event production company SRCOM, the Mac Audio team has considerable experience of large-scale events on Copacabana's 2.5 mile beach, but this was the first time they had used their new DiGiCo consoles.

"We invested in the SD7 because of its sound quality and dual engine redundancy," says t

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UK - PLASA London 2013 saw the launch of the new Compulite Vibe lighting console. Vibe is billed as a completely new concept in lighting control integrating conventional buttons and wheels with an innovative and dynamic touch screen based graphical user interface incorporating the latest computer and touch screen technology in an ergonomic and adjustable control surface.

Vibe has the minimum amount physical buttons with the touch screen environment giving the user the flexibility to layout his desktop exactly how he wants it with buttons, display windows and playbacks wherever he wants them. Different desktops can be configured for different parts of the show or for different users. There are no theoretical limits to the number of playbacks of desktop layouts, the user is not constrained by conventional physical hardware, and he can design his own control surface to suit the nee

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ETC Halcyon Silent

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USA - Harman Professional Division has confirmed the integration of Martin Professional US operations into its organization effective immediately.

The combining of Harman and Martin will result in operational efficiencies, including the closure of Martin's operations in Sunrise, Florida. The company will maintain a strong sales and product support presence in the Fort Lauderdale area and all staff from the facility have been offered positions within the Harman Professional organization, says the company.

"Today, we met with our team in Florida to announce our decision to integrate operations. This move will bring many long-term advantages to our customers and other stakeholders and will help sustain Martin's position as the industry's most innovative, best supported, best integrated lighting manufacturer," Brian Friborg, Harman Professional USA vice president of sale

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UK - David Ferraz has joined the White Light sales team as sales product support, further expanding the after sales support available to customers and dealers of White Light Distribution products. Ferraz began working with White Light in July 2013 and is focused on providing support for White Light exclusive product lines. He will respond to technical enquiries, as well as delivering product training sessions and on-site demonstrations.

"We are always happy to expand our offering of services and support for our customers," said Peter Threadgold, director of sales for White Light. "This means customers have a direct line of support from their trusted supplier. They can deal with one company across several brands and products, which will be especially useful for customers in our dealer network. Adding David as dedicated product support means we can continue to deliv

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Create new traditions – Cameo P6 - High Output Full-Spectrum Ellipsoidal

Cameo's P6 is a future-proof LED profiler with a powerful 600 W RGBACL engine and 16,000 lumens. It’s an energy-efficient replacement for 2.5 kW halogen profile lights in theatres and venues. With excellent light quality and natural colour rendering, it fits perfectly in theatres, musicals, TV studios, congresses, and live events.

With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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UK - Vaughan Sound Installations (t/a The PAI Group of Companies) has appointed Jeremy Eustace to the role of business development manager.

Eustace will work alongside the sales and business development team and is responsible for developing and nurturing new business across the UK, with a focus on expanding Vaughan Sound's reach across various markets.

A BSc Business Administration graduate, he brings with him a wealth of experience in the AV industry, having spent the previous five years as a BDM/Account Manager at Reflex, Reading.

Earlier in his career, Jeremy was an account manager at Roche Audio Visual of West Yorkshire for almost seven years, and spent a further year in AV/ICT Solutions and Service at Infacom, Newhaven.

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UK - Powersoft joined forces with Pioneer Professional Audio at this year's PLASA Show in London, to showcase the potent new club system which has taken Ibiza by storm this summer.

At ExCel, Pioneer introduced its new GS-Wave and XY series club loudspeakers in the AudioLab Arena - controlled and optimised by Powersoft's advanced electronics

Developed in conjunction with Gary Stewart Audio (GSA), the winning combination of Pioneer's new dance floor stack and Powersoft's flagship K-series amplifiers, with built-in DSP and presets optimised by Pioneer, made an impressive debut in Ibiza - the heartland of serious clubbing - during the recent season in Balearic dance capital.

The landmark installation of four GS-Wave stacks in Booom! Ibiza, powered by Powersoft, has been joined on the island by installations of Pioneer's XY systems at the Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel five-star party

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Russia - Cosmo AV, a specialist in the creation of video mapping images, participated in the third Moscow International Festival The Circle of Light which took place from 4-8 October 4-8, 2013.

Amongst the symbolic locations selected for the 2013 editon of the festival - which includes the Loujniki Olympic complex, the Tsaritsyno Park and the Manege - there is a particularly iconic one that evokes all the cultural influence from the Russian capital: The Bolshoi Theatre.

Cosmo AV was tasked with elaborating the content projected on the façade of this building, which acted as a screen, playing the audiovisual creations from the Cosmo AV teams.

Onlookers witnessed two dream-like shows which lasted for a total of 12 minutes, with mixed video and computer generated images, supported by a soundtrack revisiting masterpieces from some of the world famous classical music comp

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China - Following its supply of RJ Lancelot followspots to the Cotai Arena, Robert Juliat Hong Kong distributor, Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd, continues to answer ever-increasing demand for the French manufacturer's products by supplying a range of RJ 2.5kW profile fixtures and two Victor spots to Hong Kong's new Ko Shan Theatre Annex, along with two RJ Topaze followspots to the new Hong Kong Academy School.

The Hong Kong Academy School, which teaches age groups ranging from kindergarten to high school, opened a new site in Sai Kung in August 2013. The new site incorporates a 350-seat, multi-configurable auditorium with professional grade lighting and sound equipment, a 600-seat gymnasium with retractable seating capable of housing the entire school and an 80-seat studio theatre.

Hugh Chinnick, director of Pacific Lighting (HK), proposed the RJ Topaze 1200W MSD followspots within

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UK - Clay Paky's stand at PLASA London 2013 featured a 'bee-eye' design concept and was located in the Ambersphere village. Ambersphere Solutions, the sole distributor of Clay Paky and MA Lighting equipment in the United Kingdom and Ireland, supervised the arrangement of the stand, in coordination with Clay Paky, to give the exhibition space a strong impressive corporate image.

About the new ExCel exhibition centre, Pio Nahum, Clay Paky commercial and marketing manager, says, "The location is beautiful and modern, suitable to our needs, as exhibitors. In addition for the first time we were able to organise the Knight of Illumination Awards in the same location of the show, with the many benefits in terms of logistics, for us, and in terms of accessibility for the attendees. Our booth, inside the Ambersphere village, has been very popular, thanks in particular to our new B-E

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USA - Line 6 has introduced V75-40V, a new wireless microphone that combines Line 6 digital wireless technology with the renowned Earthworks WL40V premium hyper-cardioid capsule. Designed for use with Line 6 XD-V75 systems, V75-40V delivers "stunning performance and unmatched sound quality, representing a new standard in digital wireless performance".

"We're pleased to partner with Earthworks, an industry leader in high-definition microphones," said Max Gutnik, vice president of products, Line 6. "Together we've created a digital wireless microphone that delivers performance previously found only in the highest quality wired studio microphones."

"Line 6's expertise and experience in digital wireless coupled with Earthworks' precision microphone technology-stemming from our measurement background-lends itself to a superior product for the live

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UK - Pearce Hire is exhibiting at the Showman's Show on 23-24 October. With over 25 years' experience providing power, lighting, audio, staging, project consultancy and production services to the outdoor and indoor event, festival, entertainment and corporate event industries, Pearce Hire are a regular exhibitor at this exhibition, dedicated to outdoor and special events.

Pearce Hire has made a significant number of investments in equipment over recent months, with purchases ranging from Robe 1200 LED Wash Fixtures and an L'Acoustics Kara Line Array alongside a major investment in generators and power distribution.

The investment in power distribution and supply equipment includes Stephill 25 kVA silenced diesel generators ideal for small outdoor events and FG Wilson XD fuel-efficient diesel generator sets - 60 kVA and 100 kVA generators, all with full synchronisation and know

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Germany - Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, audio, AC/DC and short-range wireless technologies, has debuted the iW7025, a 16-channel LED backlight driver that delivers enhanced picture quality, robust, patented short protection and lower cost for next-generation 2D and 3D LCD TVs. Dialog's patented AnyMode dimming gives TV OEMs the industry's most comprehensive dimming options to improve picture quality and the most extensive set of short protection features to prevent circuit failures and safety issues, says the company.

The iW7025 was developed by Dialog's Power Conversion Business Group (formerly iWatt Inc.) and extends Dialog's addressable market into the LCD TV backlighting power management space.

A key challenge for LED TV designers is how to easily reduce motion blur and deliver a high contrast ratio. With conventional LED drive

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UK - After almost 30 years of trading, Richard Martin Lighting (RML) continues to provide lights for some of the biggest shows on TV. Current productions include:

Never Mind The Buzzcocks which is now being filmed from Riverside Studios. The BBC2 show continues its obviously successful formula with guest competitors from the world of entertainment, regular team leaders Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding, and a guest judge. Lighting designer Chris Kempton uses what he previously admitted as 'nothing exotic' to complement the industrial and urban design of the set.

Skavlan - Award winning journalist Fredrik Skavlan hosts the most seen talk show in Scandinavia with over 3m viewers. Since the TV talk show was premiered back in 2009, there has been a constant stream of international guests. Filming extra shows in London has meant that they have access to more stars who a

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Austria - Philips Entertainment brands Selecon, Strand Lighting and Showline recently signed distribution agreements with Austrian businesses dblux GmbH and Lighting Innovation at the PLASA Show 2013, ExCel. The two companies will collaborate to service the Austrian territory enabling them to expand product availability and the speed to market of the latest entertainment lighting technology solutions across Austria.

"Although Austria is a relatively small country the two companies will work together to ensure the Austrian customer base has expedient access to one of the most comprehensive portfolios of Entertainment Lighting equipment available today," says Philips Entertainment Sales Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czech Republic, Rainer Weggen."Philips Entertainment has added these market leading distributors to our list of partners to ensure that

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The Netherlands - Purple Haze is a technical solutions and equipment provider based in Woerden, The Netherlands. The company is run by the charismatic Andre van der Heyden and was founded by him 35 years ago - named after the song written and recorded by one of his heroes, Jimi Hendrix.

Andre bought his first Robe products in 2004 and has been a loyal and keen supporter of the brand ever since, continuing to invest regularly in Robe over the years. His most recent purchase - from Robe's Benelux distributor Controllux - has been 16 Pointes and eight MMX Spots.

These were in fact the very first Pointes in Holland - delivered after Andre saw them at Prolight+Sound Frankfurt and was extremely impressed. Being a man of action, he put his money straight where his mouth was ... and placed the order there and then.

As soon as Purple Haze's Pointes were delivered, they went straight

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UK - Leader Light, Slovakian producer of LED lighting and LED technology, attended PLASA London 2013 with its innovative LL stage CYC 6C.

The new compact six colour cyclorama was selected for a PLASA Award for Innovation thanks to its function and many advantages which it brings for the users. The luminary is specially designed for TV studios, concerts, theatres for back stage lighting or soft front lighting with high CRI (>95).

"During the exhibition the feedback about the product was superb. LL stage CYC contains six colours - red, green, blue, amber, white at 5600K and white at 3200K which is a really big benefit,", said managing director Julius Szaraz.

LL stage CYC 6C provides uniform light distribution, dynamic colour changing and its lifetime is 75.000 hours.

The next exhibition where you can meet with Leader Light is LDI SHOW in Las Vegas (22. - 24. Novemb

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UK - Newcastle and Yorkshire based event production company R&B Group scooped two medals in London's AV Awards, beating off competition to take home 'Live Event of the Year' and the overall accolade of the evening; the 'Grand Prix Award'.

The awards which were celebrating their 15th year were open to any company involved in the AV industry across Europe, from media production companies to manufacturers of any kind of equipment or software used in AV communication; so for this small firm from the North East this is an amazing achievement.

The Live event of the year category was awarded for utilising the newest technical ideas and was open to a wide range of corporate events, awards ceremonies, experiential events, sponsored events, sales conferences, product launches, exhibition events and more. Judges were looking for examples of absolute excellence in lighting, sound, project

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USA - Following in the footsteps of Coachella, the 12th annual Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival doubled its attendance at Zilker Park this year by expanding its usual three-day concert to two identical line-ups on consecutive weekends in early October. For sound reinforcement duties on one of the festival's largest stages - known as AMD on the first weekend and Lady Bird on the second - Houston-based LD Systems chose to deploy a full L-Acoustics K1 loudspeaker system.

Out of the more than 140 groups performing at this year's ACL Music Festival, AMD/Lady Bird hosted some of the biggest headliners, including Depeche Mode, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, fun., The National, Passion Pit and Atoms For Peace, featuring members of Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beck.

According to LD Systems director of production services Robert Ausmus, the stage was equipped with a total of

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