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Chauvet reflects many moods of Beartooth

‘The 37-city tour has included a wildly mixed bag of shows’ (photo: Ben Zucker)

Details: 29 August 2023

USA - Things never got “routine” for the Beartooth production crew this summer. The Loudwire and Metal Hammer award winners’ 37-city tour has included a wildly mixed bag of shows, as they’ve moved from headlining their own appearances, to supporting bands like Breaking Benjamin and Disturbed, with a healthy sprinkling of festivals thrown in.
“It was just kind of all over the place on this run,” said the band’s lighting designer Dan Michie. “This made it critical to have a floor package that was not only very versatile, but could also be set up and torn down fast.”
Michie got what he wanted, and more, with a versatile, easy-to-work-with rig from Squeek Lights that featured a collection of compact, but powerful Chauvet Professional fixtures. “The Squeek

Pro Lab will provide sales, marketing, and technical support for Linea Research products

Linea Research appoints Pro Lab Middle East distributor

Details: 29 August 2023

UAE - Linea Research has announced its partnership with Pro Lab in the GCC and the wider Middle East.
"We can't contain our enthusiasm as we join forces with Linea Research, exclusively representing them across the Middle East," commented Rami Haber, CEO of Pro Lab. "Linea Research's track record for pushing the boundaries of innovation and their steadfast commitment to delivering exceptional audio solutions align seamlessly with Pro Lab's core mission of bringing our customers advanced and dependable products. Through this partnership, we're gearing up to elevate our client service and tackle their audio necessities head-on."
"We are excited to appoint Pro Lab as our distributor," said Martin Hildred, sales and marketing manager for Linea Research. "Pro Lab's extensive experience in the market, coupled with their strong commitment to customer satisfaction, make them

Duncan Peberdy - business development manager, integrated solutions

Duncan Peberdy joins Polar

Details: 25 August 2023

UK - Polar has announced the expansion of its team with the appointment of Duncan Peberdy to the post of business development manager, integrated solutions.
Duncan has wide-ranging experience of both the IT and AV worlds acquired through a variety of roles with resellers, distributors and manufacturers. His recent roles include senior lead for digital learning at Jisc and territory manager for Europe at T1V. He is the author of a number of books on the subject of digital technology.
During his time with T1V, Duncan forged a close relationship with Polar, the exclusive UK distributor for ThinkHub and T1V Story, so his introduction to the company’s Integrated Solutions division will bring great benefits according to head of integrated solutions, Will Turney:
“We’re very pleased to welcome Duncan to the team. His experience, expertise and personality will stre

On debut - the Forte Fresnel PC and iForte LTX

PLASA Show 2023: Robe schedules triple launch

Details: 25 August 2023

UK - Robe looks forward to the buzz and energy of another PLASA expo at Olympia where it will be launching three new products and debuting a new live performance concept on stands A70 & C28. Designed to create drama, excitement and anticipation, visitors will be drawn to the booths by Robe putting a real live production at the heart of the event.
Robe’s partner companies Anolis and Artistic Licence will be on adjacent stands and this area of the show floor will be a lively and interactive ‘takeover’ space where all are welcome to enjoy the tech, innovation and drama.
Products being launched at the show include:
iForte LTX WB is an ultimate long throw LED wash beam for all environments, developed for stadium shows, concerts and all events and spectaculars where serious intensity is needed over massive distances. The iForte LTX WB can create an imposin

The event brings together over 30 international exhibitors representing more than 70 brands

IPS turns up the volume on Pro-Audio Show

Details: 25 August 2023

UK - The Institute of Professional Sound (IPS) is turning up the volume on its Pro-Audio Show 2023 at Greenford Hall in west London on Saturday 14 October. The event is totally dedicated to sound professionals.
With live Q&A sessions, over 30 international exhibitors representing more than 70 brands, and UK debuts of a number of technology products, the free one-day event caters for ‘everybody with a passion for professional sound’. In addition to providing access to technology experts from across Europe, the IPS says its remit stretches even further.
“Depending on working genre, the nature of sound work can be quite solitary from a craft point-of-view, and the IPS Pro-Audio Show is about redressing that balance,” says show coordinator Ian Sands.
“While the show serves the entire sound community across TV, radio, film, production, post, live events,

Bandit and Datum Creative light Dispatch tour

Details: 25 August 2023

USA - Indie folk rock band Dispatch is back touring with a lighting package from Bandit Lites. Comprised of Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan, the Boston-based band were ready to release an album and tour when the COVID-19 pandemic happened. The band utilised the time to retool and deconstruct songs and released their eighth studio album Break Our Fall in August 2022.
They kicked off their summer tour with performances alongside the National Symphony orchestra, requiring lighting designer David Singleton of Datum Creative to engineer a design that could adapt to the special shows and additional festivals.
“The design came about from various conversations with the band and the band's management,” explained Singleton. “They love the look and feel of tungsten fixtures. I wanted a little more flexibility than just the tungsten look, so I went with fun unique

A wide range of music was offered on three stages (photo: Damien Brouns)

Rogue Outcasts light Monheim City Festival

Details: 25 August 2023

Germany - Situated between Cologne and Düsseldorf, the Monheim am Rhine community of under 50,000, bills itself as the “town for everyone” and backs up the claim by offering “a combination of natural beauty and urban sophistication, ancient ruins, and a thriving modern art scene”.
For three days this summer, the town’s commitment to diversity was on full display at the Monheim City Festival, a popular event that served up a spread of attractions, from art to interactive activities and, of course, a wide range of music on three stages.
At the open-air stage in the Gartzenweg, fans gathered until late in the evening to enjoy an array of performances representing different musical genres. The Stadtkapelle Monheim played pop, rock, and musical tunes. Air Flik and Micha Deutz rocked the turntables. DJ Fedde Le Grand, known for hits such as Let Me Think About I

Customers will be able to gain access to a growing range of community features

Genelec creates MyGenelec portal resource

Details: 25 August 2023

Finland - Genelec has announced the creation of the MyGenelec customer portal. At the time of launch, this free online resource provides customers with a single unified access point for all Genelec products, services, software downloads and more, and will progressively develop into a comprehensive community and knowledge base for all Genelec users worldwide.
The new MyGenelec portal currently provides customers with a convenient registration point for all Genelec services - both hardware and software - and allows access to personal product information, the ability to organise products into locations and rooms, subscription details, expert support, downloads and manuals. By using the MyGenelec portal to register their products, customers can also take advantage of the 5 year parts-and-labour warranty that Genelec now offers on its designs.
After creating their MyGenelec

The event will be hosted by Gary Trenda and Cody Heimann

Sound Devices hosts L.A. wireless workshop

Details: 25 August 2023

USA - Sound Devices has announced that they will be holding a free wireless training event at the Group One headquarters in Chatsworth, CA on Wednesday, 30 August from 10am PST to 3pm PST.
The event will be hosted by Sound Devices’ RF applications engineer Gary Trenda and technical specialist Cody Heimann and will cover a range of both basic and advanced topics in wireless operation across a variety of use case scenarios.
The wireless workshop is divided into two sections - Basic Wireless and Advanced Wireless. Basic Wireless will focus on core foundations of wireless operation while Advanced Wireless will approach common challenges found in the field and tips and tricks for getting the most out of your wireless workflow.
Attendees will have the opportunity to explore wireless gear close up, including the Sound Devices Astral Series A20-Nexus and A20-Nexus Go

The club hosts cricket, football and tennis sections

Village sport hub invests in HH portable PA

Details: 25 August 2023

UK - Lacey Green and Loosely Row Sports Club (LG & LR SC) situated high in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire is an archetypal English village hub. Run entirely by volunteers, the club hosts cricket, football and tennis sections, all of which rely on subscriptions and fundraising to sustain sport for the benefit of the whole community.
The club’s simple pavilion which comprises changing rooms, kitchen and function room with bar, provides the focus for a wide range of social activities, including fundraisers, charity events and parties. The club’s forward-thinking committee is always looking to improve its facilities whilst simultaneously ensuring it obtains maximum value for every investment made.
Sound reinforcement plays an important part in almost every social function staged at the club, and with this in mind the committee wished to invest in a flexible

Los Chicos del Coro premiered at the Teatro La Latina in Madrid

Llorens lights Los Chicos del Coro with Cameo

Details: 25 August 2023

Spain - The musical Los Chicos del Coro (The Choir Boys) production is based on the Oscar-winning film The Children of Monsieur Mathieu and premiered at the Teatro La Latina in Madrid in late 2022.
The multi-award-winning production unites renowned musical performers with an 80-member children's choir and celebrates the creative power of music. For the METjor award-winning lighting design, internationally renowned lighting designer Juanjo Llorens used Cameo moving lights from the Opus and Evos series.
The musical production directed by Juan Luis Iborra relates the contrast between the harsh realism of the dreary everyday life at the boarding school and the emotional power that arises from the friendship between the students and their music teacher. For Juanjo Llorens, the first scene of the musical sets the visual direction: "The boarding school

Hope Church is among the first customers for the X-PARs

OSA invests in GLP Fusion X-PAR 12Z

Details: 25 August 2023

USA - With offices in Chicago, Nashville and Las Vegas, as a full-service provider OSA International carries a vast inventory of show production solutions.
One of the most recent acquisitions from its Las Vegas HQ has been the first tranche of 100 Fusion X-PAR 12Z, affectionately known as the ‘Oom-Par’ in recognition of its German manufacture. Powered by a 120W RGBL light source and Fresnel optic, other than its sheer power and colour palette the IP65-rated product has an 8.5° to 55° wide zoom.
According to OSA head of lighting design Duke Carlisle, aside from replacing old generic PARs in their inventory with modern LEDs it has already found favour as an installation item in a modern church and been deployed on a number of blue-chip corporate events.
“We didn’t want to do the whole retro-fit single colour and we had tried a few other options that didn

GoVision delivers digiLED screen for Speedway

Details: 25 August 2023

USA - Due to be unveiled at the end of September, the new Big Hoss TV, a GoVision project featuring a digiLED VISION ULTRA screen, will deliver a significantly bigger, brighter experience for fans at Texas Motor Speedway, in Fort Worth, Texas. Owned by US leading sponsor Speedway Motorsports LLC, the venue is one of the country’s largest sports facilities.
The screen replaces the original, Guinness World Record winning, Big Hoss TV which has graced the venue since 2014. The new and improved screen, sited on the backstretch of the track, measures a massive 22,692sq.ft, the equivalent of 4,331 42” TVs, and with over 8.2m pixels, boasts a 22% rise in pixel count, one of the largest screens in the world.
“As the saying goes, ‘everything is bigger in Texas,’ so it’s only fitting for Big Hoss to get bigger,” says Speedway Motorsports president and CEO Marcus Sm

The partnership will bring more creative audiovisual solutions to the market

Lightware accelerates expansion into China

Details: 25 August 2023

China - Lightware Visual Engineering has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Tico ZhiSheng Information Technology Co to further accelerate the company’s expanding business operations in China.
Tico ZhiSheng was established in 1994 and has grown impressively since, cementing a reputation across China as a product supplier and service provider of audio and video product system solutions, with a proven track record in integrating design consulting, equipment supply, after-sales debugging, and after-sales service. It has developed five national sales and service centres, with headquarters in Beijing and Foshan, branches in Shanghai and Guangzhou, and a joint branch and technology exchange centre in Chengdu.
"We are pleased to become a partner of Lightware in the Chinese market, responsible for the sales and promotion of Lightware's complete solutions,

The product at the heart of the partnership is Powersoft's Mover Direct Drive

STS gets immersive with Powersoft partnership

Details: 25 August 2023

USA/Italy - Strong Global Entertainment has announced that its subsidiaries Strong Technical Services (STS) and Strong/MDI Screen Systems have entered into a partnership with Powersoft. The partnership includes the resale, integration, and installation of Powersoft products, supported by STS, as well as the enhancement of Strong/MDI’s Seismos immersive product line with the implementation of Powersoft’s Mover Direct Drive.
The product at the heart of the partnership is Powersoft's Mover Direct Drive. The Mover Direct Drive is a patented low-frequency transducer that has been designed to reproduce sound through haptic perception, which is the human body’s capability to feel low-end frequencies through bone conduction. This technology brings a different and immersive dimension to the audio experience, making it more tangible and participatory.
“Complete immersio

Lilidorei delivers an enchanted world inhabited by fabulous creatures

d&b Soundscape adds magical dimension to Lilidorei

Details: 25 August 2023

UK - A new family play-world has opened at The Alnwick Garden, with its imaginary inhabitants realised by the spatial sound capabilities of a d&b Soundscape system. Installed by Southby Productions, the system helps to bring the world’s magical inhabitants to life, via the work of award-winning theatre sound designer, Gareth Fry.
Ten years in the making, Lilidorei delivers an enchanted world inhabited by fabulous creatures - dwarves, trolls, fairies, hobgoblins, and more - all of them invisible. With the only clues to their existence provided by special effects and immersive audio, much is owed to the d&b Soundscape.
The behind-the-scenes story of Lilidorei’s creation - the result of the vision of Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland - is revealed by a six-part television documentary. The Duchess And Her Magical Kingdom began on Channel 4 on 2

HERE features one of the UK’s first d&b XSL installations

CGI designs Outernet Venues

Details: 24 August 2023

UK - One of London’s most talked about new openings, Outernet Venues, has put its trust in Clair Global Integration (CGI) for audio and networking solutions throughout three of its spaces.
CGI worked on three state-of-the-art music venues: HERE at Outernet, a 2,000-capacity space frequented by touring artists, The Lower Third, a 250 capacity live music venue for smaller acts and DJs, and Forge, a 50-person capacity cocktail bar that caters for intimate singer-songwriter acoustic performances.
Together, these contrasting spaces form part of an arts and entertainment hub built beneath the streets in the beating heart of Central London. Each venue required its own custom audio, network, and infrastructure for both independent and collaborative use, with all three utilising d&b audiotechnik loudspeakers, and HERE marking one of the UK’s first d&b XSL installat

PLASA Show 2023: AHG majors on Cameo and LD Systems

Details: 24 August 2023

UK - At this year's PLASA Show from 3-5 September in London, the Adam Hall Group will present the latest product highlights of its two brands Cameo and LD Systems on stand B13. The focus will be on the lighting solutions from Cameo, which has been nominated for one of the renowned PLASA Innovation Awards in the form of the new PixBar G2 IP65 LED Bar series.
In 2022, the Adam Hall Group's participation in the PLASA Show was all about MAILA - the ground-breaking Modular All-Round Intelligent Line-Array System from LD Systems. This year, the Adam Hall Group is turning the spotlight particularly on its Cameo lighting brand. In addition to the PixBar G2 series, visitors can look forward to the OTOS SP6 IP65 Spot Profile, the OPUS SP5+ Profile Moving Head with optimised LED engine, the compact AZOR S2 Spot Moving Head and the S2 IP65 LED Softlight Panel.
The Cameo Highlights

Girl Named Tom recently wrapped a several-month US tour

Girl Named Tom on the road with Sennheiser

Details: 24 August 2023

USA - When pop music siblings Girl Named Tom - Bekah, Josh and Caleb Liechty - first set out in 2019 they would travel from city to city and gig to gig in an old minivan. Then, in 2021, Girl Named Tom made history as the first trio to ever win NBC’s The Voice, placing four songs concurrently on the iTunes Top 10 charts, with two of them reaching #1, during the show’s 21st season.
Now playing to larger audiences in bigger venues across the United States, Girl Named Tom recently wrapped a several-month tour on which they used the new Sennheiser EW-DX digital wireless system for vocals as well as electric and acoustic guitars and the EW G4 wireless in-ear monitoring system for all five musicians in the band.
“We were honoured to be the first American touring act performing with this specific set up, and we are thrilled to report that these microphones are th

One of the chief features of the complex is its state-of-the-art events venue

WSDG delivers for City of Roses complex

Details: 24 August 2023

Switzerland - Located in the heart of Rapperswil, Switzerland’s picturesque City of Roses on the banks of Lake Zurich, the ENTRA residential and commercial complex has rapidly established itself as a centre of bustling social and commercial activity.
One of the chief features of the complex is its state-of-the-art events venue. The foundation of the complex’s design encompasses a modular space that can be configured to serve a versatile array of community programming needs including live music performances, corporate events, and cultural events.
To ensure that the space would excel in all of these applications with high quality acoustics and sound reinforcement, the ENTRA leadership turned to global acoustic architectural consulting and A/V systems design firm WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group).
The 1050-capacity events space was designed by architecture offi

The new L550 Plus was initially put to work at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (photo: Rafael Rosales)

Houston’s LD Systems adds SSL L550 Plus

Details: 24 August 2023

USA - Earlier this year, LD Systems in Houston, Texas added a Solid State Logic Live L550 Plus mixing console to its sound equipment rental inventory to service the needs of the company’s diverse clients. The new L550 Plus was initially put to work at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world, which runs for three weeks during February and March every year.
“We decided to make the purchase of an additional SSL Live console so that we could have redundant L550 Plus systems managing the live announcers and program content mix for one of our largest annual events, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo,” says Thomas Ruffner, audio dept. operations manager for LD Systems. “The engineer at this position manages roughly 50 sources, including announcers’ mics, all video rolls, and a multitude of FX mics placed throughout t

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