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Alongside students training in music, dance and drama, Guilford Young teach the theatre technicians of tomorrow all the skills they'll need to work in professional venues; lighting, sound and mechanical skills. Fitted with a fly tower, students learn how to fly sets and equipment using a mixture of manually operated counterweights and motor-driven systems. With lighting, sound and scenic elements flown above the heads of those on stage, safety

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Adlib first 'met' 5SOS at the 2014 Summertime Ball event at Wembley Stadium in London where they were co-ordinating all things audio. The band's FOH engineer John Delf, asked Adlib's Ben Booker to mix monitors for the band's headline shows at London's Islington Academy and then Birmingham Academy 2. This was back in October 2013. At this point Ben saw the potential of the band and jumped on board full time.

Ben and John Delf were extremely happy when Adlib was chosen for this, 5SOS's first major headlining European production tour.

John Delf specified the L-Acoustics K1 system after hearing it used at the 2014 Summertime Ball. The seven week arena tour traversed through Europe and the UK, culminating in three sold-out shows at Wemble

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With precise touch encoders and command keys for the most commonly used operations, the Martin M-Touch is a true hybrid surface for programming and playback. It reads user input strength and lets him or her interact with performances and shows of any scale. Its unique pressure sensitive buttons with no mechanical parts will ensure indefinite functionality. The integrated DMX output connection allows direct control over any DMX device without the need of further hardware.

The Martin M-Touch can be connected with a simple USB cable to the Martin M-PC software or connected to any M-Series console as a powerful extension. No e

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Involved with promoters Future Noise Ltd from the beginning has been Creation Live's Tom Whittle, who in addition to working with Martin Audio's Cheshire-based partners (and event production company) VME is also the festival's operations manager.

He recalls that the potential of the site had been clear from his first visit back in September 2009. But it was only this year that the four-day festival could banish its noise pollution issues by adopting the magic control technology of Martin Audio's MLA Compact sound system. This not only contained the off-site perimeter sound, but at the same time boosted the SPL at the main F

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Featuring multi-screen video and 3D sound from 145 loudspeakers, the cutting-edge, multipurpose facility launched this semester to bring creative artists, educators and audiences together. Dante media networking plays a key role in the university's goal of complete immersion across various research, experimental and live performance projects taking place in The Cube - while reducing overall costs and labour in the process.

The Cube's unusual dimensions (50' w x 40'l x 32' h) and high loudspeaker count ignited discussions early in the project about how to effectively mov

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It is the first theatre in the country to invest in Robe's BMFL range which will be delivered by Swedish distributor, Bellalite.

The Stadsteater is located in a large metal-clad modernist building designed by architect Peter Celsing at Sergel Square in the heart of Stockholm's vibrant commercial and political centre. It also contains the Kulturhuset and a plethora of activities including libraries, theatres, debates, art exhibitions, film, dance and music - all attracting more than 3m visitors a year.

The Stadsteater has seven performance spaces including a 700 seat Main stage, a 320 seat Medium stage and a 200 seat Small stage plus four other performance spaces

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The crew of 25 was chiefed by Andy Melleney, and in addition to these key areas of the site, the company also supplied the touring lighting rig for Friday night's Other Stage headliners Rudimental (LD Jonny Gaskell) and kitted out over 20 major bars around the site with practical and effects lighting.

Colour Sound's Hayden Cruickshank commented, "Being involved in some of the edgier more off-beat and imaginative elements of the festival is always exciting. The event continues to be loved and appreciated worldwide for offering the most diverse and interesting performance experiences for so many people ... and we are very proud to be part of it."

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"We've built a long-term relationship with Chauvet because we share the same values regarding build quality and providing value-for-money.The durability of Chauvet products makes them an obvious choice for installations such as this one," said OneBigStar director Simon Taylor.

Guaranteeing full colour changing capabilities and e

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The 3,400-seat arena, which opened in 2013, had a basic audio system for announcements. However, the arena quickly outgrew the system's capabilities and often rented equipment to supplement its sound level and music quality for rodeos and other events with high levels of crowd excitement.

In 2014, Kansas Star turned to McClelland Sound of Wichita, KS to upgrade the arena's audio system. McClelland's Paul Colella designed a distributed loudspeaker system with eight clusters of Community Solutions Series SLS960 main loudspeakers and ILF218 subwoofers. The system covers the arena seating and floor and allows selected loudspeakers to be muted for smaller events that use half of the aren

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Part of the re-development programme included within GBE's scope of works is the installation of the new PA/VA system, disabled refuge and WC alarms throughout the grandstand and new royal and private boxes.

The Jockey Club's objective is to have a PA/VA system that provides state-of-the-art evacuation messages throughout the venue and sound reinforcement for the comprehensive AV system. The technically demanding specification involved GBE performing extensive acoustic surveying and sampling to provide an accurate

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The high school itself focuses on sports talent development, and in an effort to improve the classroom element of their learning programme, it constructed a new wing with many large 'picture' windows to help students enjoy natural light throughout the day.

But while this creates a great, open environment for learning, with video presentations becoming increasingly part of the curriculum, students and teachers were experiencing washed out images in the new classrooms. The challenge was to find a screen

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Award-winning production sound mixer Ben Osmo chose DPA's d:screet 4063 miniature microphones with low sensitivity and low voltage to record dialogue during the shooting of action scenes that involved fast, furious and bumpy chases across the Namibian desert. He also used DPA d:screet 4062 Miniature Microphones with extra low sensitivity for cabled recordings of various vehicles, and these were held firm inside each vehicle by DPA magnet mounts.

Osmo, who has won numerous awards for his work, says the choice of DPA microphones was an easy one to make as he had used them many times in the past and always

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Thriller Tour - Thriller Live will embark on a UK tour in October, as the West End production of the show undergoes a creative overhaul. The London run of the Michael Jackson producti

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Forming part of the lighting design by Lukas Goldberg and Michael Holstein for these venues were six powerful Beam 5000 moving discharge lights from PR Lighting - the brightest moving beam effects in the company's portfolio.

These were supplied by Holstein's company, eigenARTevents.com. He was aware that the fixtures contain a Philips MSR Gold 1500W Fast-Fit Bulb, with sufficient power to satisfy all the requirements of both the stadiums and the designers.

Jens Ottenhus from Focon Showtechnic, the Chinese lighting manufacturer's German distributors, notes, "PR Lighting is starting to get specified on more and more of the biggest events in Germany. One reason for this is the high quality that their fixtures offer."

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"I realized at the demo that Leopard not only provided a remarkable listening experience but a new definition of live sound reinforcement," says Denis Gaillard of Prilly-based Megasound. "Regardless of output level, the instruments in the music remain in perfect balance. The power, transparency, and phase coherence create a deep sense of space, even at the limits of the primary coverage area." Adding to its Meyer Sound inventory of 70 lou

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Lumières - The Play of Brilliants exhibition, organized by Light Collective, was Primary's second installation following a period at the PSAS Gallery in Perth last summer. For the Paris exhibition, Talbot re-scaled the piece to be around 10% smaller than its first incarnation and chose to use PLprofile4 luminaires instead of the PLprofile1 units he originally specified.

"Due to having a smaller space to work with I felt Primary was a bit too large at its original size," explains the Australian designer. "It also meant the luminaires I used had to be positioned closer to the piece, which is why I turned to the PLprofile4 this time aro

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In 2014, Pure Groove and Danley Sound Labs joined forces to create sound systems targeted at festival and nightlife industries. Pure Groove Systems are designed by Tom Danley of Danley Sound Labs, who was the former director of electroacoustic research at NASA and holds 30 loudspeaker and aerospace patents and is noted as the first person to demonstrate levitation using acoustics in space research.

Making their outdoor festival debut in the UK, Pure Groove will feature their J1 Jericho and Synergy Horns.

The J1 consists of 6 x 18" woofers, 6 x 6" mid-range drivers and 3 x 1.4" coaxial high frequency

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Designed for use in small venues, home studios, or as a practice amp, GIULIA Y offers 50W of bi-amplified power. The amp is equipped with a 5" woofer and 1" dome tweeter and has a frequency response of 80Hz-18kHz. Its inputs accommodate XLR and 1/4" Jack connectors making it compatible with a wide range of microphones including Schertler's DYN and STAT series, as well as the BASIK universal pickup. Phantom power (48V and 10V) is provided. Inputs can also be used for guitars or other high level line sources, with

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The Martin M-DMX is a rugged aluminium extruded device and is built with two XLR 5-pin DMX ports, a USB 2.0 Connection and a K-lock slot for securing the device. The interface also features a new stackable design, LED indicators and isolated dual output. The M-DMX is compatible with Martin's LightJockey and M-PC software, M-Series Consoles, Fixture Upload software, and is backwards compatible with Martin's Duo-DMX interface. Both DMX ports support RDM for fixture communication and DMX input for remote playback control and capturing of existing lighting cues.

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Bandit has supplied the lighting for the three day weekend that takes place in a 700 acre field affectionately known as "The Farm" since its inception in 2002. With the event now hailed as "Disneyland for music lovers," Bonnaroo boasts 90,000 camping ticket holders in attendance.

Billy Joel closed the weekend und