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The series, which just finished its second season, shoots in and around Nashville with many of the musical performances staged in a purpose-built studio in town. Sometimes the musical sequences are shot on location; the recent two-part season finale featured performances at Fort Campbell, the US Army base on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, and at Nashville's LP Field.

"The storyline included performing for the troops at Fort Campbell and involved a mobile stage on the tarmac with Apache helicopters flying over the stage," says lighting director Steve Fallon, who works with DP Michael Lohmann on the lighting design for these segments. "Then we had the star of the show in the gra

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The new M-Series professional monitoring headphones are at the centre of Audio-Technica's activity at ABTT2014 - the well-balanced, natural sound of the M40x and M50x models is suited to live sound situations, with excellent acoustic seals ensuring isolation from ambient noise.

The Allen & Heath offering at ABTT will focus on the company's flexible GLD-112 and Qu-24 digital mixers with their flexible feature sets and wide-ranging recording options. The ease of use and compact nature of the GLD and Qu ranges makes the mixers perfect for theatre applications.

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The session will be taking an overview of the challenges faced in the world of high resolution digital displays, tackling both its problems and the solutions, including a presentation of Par4Keet, the flagship player of the AViary Video Tools range. We will also discuss our FlexRes codec, the new approach to media encoding focusing on non-standard aspect ratios and unconventional pixel counts.

"4K+ demands attention and at the Green Hippo's manufacturers training, we aim to deliver you the best in digital display solutions," says the company.

As the AV world continues

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As to be expected, Starlight, which is operated by the not-for-profit Starlight Theatre Association, has been through a few sound systems in its time, with the last one holding out for the past 14 seasons. But none of them have ever been able to deliver the critical combination of the intelligibility needed for theatrical dialog with the full-range frequency response necessa

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To commemorate its recent relocation from Redding, California, where it was based for 18 years, to Sacramento, the Jesus Culture band recorded Unstoppable Love, a live album and DVD, at Sacramento's prestigious Memorial Auditorium. With the help of Martin Professional lighting console and fixtures, lighting designer Robby Kurtz was able to both successfully represent the Jesus Culture movement and showcase the importance of its relocation. California-based rental house DPS Inc., provided the lighting production equipment.

Kurtz deployed 32 of Martin's MAC Viper Profile moving head luminaires and 26 Martin Atomic 300

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In addition to the weekly TV show hosted by Helen Chamberlain and Max Rushden, every year Soccer AM also host a live event with music and special guests. This year it included performances from Soul II Soul and rapper Tinchy Strider.

Long term LD Malcolm Reed designed the show which was supported by Richard Martin Lighting (RML).

Malcolm always sees this show as an opportunity to use the latest products available and this year was no different. The rig included Sharpys, Nexus 4x4s, Jarag-L's and RML's most recent purchase the Clay Pay A.leda B-EYE K20.

The high performance wash ligh

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Designed for professionals, Astro offers a state-of-the art flat, clean beam. The double condenser optics system delivers outstandingly high resolution for both A/B size steel and film transparency gobos.

LED dimming is fast and accurate with 512 step resolution controlled from a single DMX/RDM or from a local control knob positioned on the rear panel of the unit.

Fabiano Besio commented , "The followspot is a real step forward in this market field and the positive comments from the market reinforce our decision to not make any compromise in quality ."

Available in warm white at 3200K or cool white at 5600K, Astro has been designed for all applications and is particularly attractive where power supply is limited and where running

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Media and tech designers Blow Factory offered the Sentier the idea of providing some interactive fun and excitement, using Light Emissions creative LED video display system. Blow Factory owner Paula Guastella had worked with Light Emissions previously in London, and knew that the Art system could provide the brightness and pure video speed needed.

Blow Factory's Paula Guastella explains, "We wanted to surprise people entering the lobby. As they walk past this large glass wall with colourful moving images, they spot their own 'body shadow' shown on the screen. They stop, turn around and wave and have a little dance!&quo

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Lester Cobrin, head of concert touring for White Light, worked closely with tour manager Sacha Bambadji, production manager Peter Edmonds, and lighting designer Seth Jackson to determine the tour's equipment list and support requirements. This was the first time Jackson toured with White Light. "I've known Lester for years but had never worked with White Light before," he said. "When we started discussing the tour with Pete Edmonds, he suggested White Light and we didn't look back. It's been a great experience."

The show's staging was designed with grandeur in mind as several layers of red

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As in several of his sound installations, Fontana has selected a remotely powered IntelligentDC system from Meyer Sound to accurately reproduce his soundscape and immerse museum visitors. IntelligentDC systems will be featured in live demos at InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas this month.

Vertical Echoes is housed inside a 55m-high tower known as the AirShard, located at IWM North. To evoke battlefield dynamics, Vertical Echoes juxtaposes the crescendos of battle against a backdrop of softer nature sounds. Featuring recordings of a Sopwith Camel warplane and vintage field gun, the soundscape is reproduced by eight self-powered UPJunior-XP VariO loudspeakers with IntelligentD

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The lighting design was created by Juanjo Beloqui who specified 30 x Robe Robin Pointes and 30 x Robe Robin LEDBeam 100s - among other moving lights and generic fixtures - but the Robes were a major part of his show. Beloqui has lit the event six times since 2007 and is also the Director of Photography. Each year he ensures that there is a new look and a fresh aesthetic approach.

This year he collaborated closely with set designer Paco Redondo on developing the style and presentation for the event which was broadcast live on privately owned Spanish TV channel Divinity, part of the Mediaset empire.

The Robe Pointes and

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Speaking for LMC Audio Systems, managing director, Paul Hinkly, says, "This is a chance to work in meaningful partnership with a genuinely premium UK brand, meaning, not only top quality products from first class people but also a common purpose, to transfer the technical and commercial responsibilities and values, so expertly acquired through decades of leadership in the theatre market, to all engineers, PA co's and venues who similarly deserve and demand such respect and support for their investments and businesses."

Louisa Hinkly, marketing & PR manager, adds, "When we learned of Cadac's re-positioning for all liv

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Under the lights of a massive lighting rig containing over 80 x Robe moving heads, the 10 finalists performed in front a large audience at Tallinn's Nokia Concert Hall.

LumenRadio's Estonian distributor E&T, provided a CRMX system containing one dual universe transmitter and multiple single universe receivers. E&T's General Manager Olev Luhaäär explains, "It is really eye-opening to see how many moving lights that can be controlled with only one transmitter unit. When you plan a show of this size that involves a lot of fixtures, wireless lighting control is absolutely necessary."

Luhaäär continues, "The CRMX system

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The teams - made up of CIE-Group directors and members of the AV sales and technical support staff - will cycle from St Malo in the North of France to Bordeaux in the South, covering more than 550 miles in the saddle.

This will be the seventh year that CIE-Group staff has taken on a charity cycle challenge, having so far raised in excess of £13,000 for Cancer Research, The British Heart Foundation and local children's charity Derby Kids' Camp.

All three teams - riding under the 'HDBaseTeam' banner - are sponsored by UK AV Signal Distribution brand CYP, with the team name giving

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Main Light Industries, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware supplied Elevation Church with 35 B-EYEs for the Easter worship experiences, five for its primary broadcast location and 30 shared among nine other satellite locations.

"We place great importance on excellence in production," says Andy Bentley, lighting designer for Elevation Church and one of the technical directors. "Three of our locations are permanent facilities with AV and lighting gear installed. The other seven have portable rigs that are set up and torn down every Sunday."

The Easter worship experience featured seven different elements: four worship songs, an opener, a closer and se

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PLASA Events will lay down roots in two iconic European cities later this year. PLASA Focus events in Brussels and Glasgow represent a new era for the regional show format, which launched in Leeds, UK, in 2009. Having already expanded in to various North American cities, PLASA Focus: Brussels and PLASA Focus: Glasgow will answer market demand for more European events.

PLASA Focus: Brussels takes place at The Square Meeting Centre on 3-4 November. The show, which will attract visitors from across the Benelux region, has already received over 70 exhibitor applications. Those confirmed include Robe, Shure, TMB, Highlite, Soundsystem BVBA, Chauvet, EMD Music, XLR, Elation, Altman Lighting, and Total Solutions.

The recently developed conference and event venue is

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The event featured a lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, with Robe moving lights on the rig and equipment supplied by west London based Colour Sound Experiment.

Fifteen LEDWash 300s were joined by six LEDWash 600s and 12 x LEDWash 1200s, eight Pointes and eight MMX Spots, all from Robe's Robin series.

A glittering array of celebrities turned out in force to attend where they and a capacity audience of 2500 were treated to a rousing 90 minute set of Elton's classics.

As well as Patrick Woodroffe being Elton's long term lighting designer, his company Woodroffe Bassett Design are acting lighting consultants for the en

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This eight-hour training session will take participants through the steps required to properly install a Hearing Loop system. The course will introduce loop system principles and give greater understanding in the specification and design considerations of different kinds of loops systems, including basic, advanced, and phased-array. All attendees will gain both theory and hands-on practical experience of installing, setting up, testing, and certifying a hearing loop system. They will learn how to effectively set up and measure the

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Community Theatres was chaired by Henry Bonsu and took place at the Grade II (*) listed City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds on 24 April 2014.

Mhora Samuel, Theatres Trust director said: "We learnt how cultural well-being is being promoted through the new Community Rights agenda and that communities are taking control, determining priorities and working together to ensure there is a future for our theatres in towns and cities that reflects the diversity of communities across the nation."

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Mathew Street is one of Liverpool's most vibrant nightlife destinations. Each year thousands of tourists visit the street's Cavern Club, where the Beatles played on numerous occasions in their early career.

Situated just metres away from the Cavern Club and other entertainment venues on the street, ACSP were tasked with creating an energy friendly, architectural lighting solution to help bring the space to life at night inline with its lively surroundings.

Led by ACSP project manager, Lance Bromhead - a selection of low maintenance, energy efficient lighting products were specified for the project, including a n