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Shirley says that the Coemar Infinity lights play a substantial role ion lighting the backdrop scenery. By operating the lights with the zoom open, the Coemar Infinity lights provide an even, soft zoom. Shirley adds that "the colour-mixing abilities are phenomenal."

The atomic strobes are placed asymmetrically, enabling very intricate chases top be performed. The Martin Atomic Colors and Color Kinetics Colorblasts also prove to be beneficial by adding texture and colour to the drum kit.

This is the second collaboration this year between B

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The Iconyx Series uses advanced technology to provide natural music and intelligible speech in the highly reverberant environments typically associated with architecturally distinguished buildings. Their slender "thin stick" vertical profile mounts flat to the wall, blending easily with both classical and contemporary architecture. Iconyx arrays are available in 8, 16, 24 and 32 channel sizes to sui

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"We already knew how well the X-Line works as a rock box," says Systems Tech Mike 'Monk' Shear of LD Systems, "and it's done an equally impressive job handling the electronic music on the Fundamental tour. What sets the X-Line apart is its smooth HF response; digital signal reproduction can be a bit harsh in the high frequencies, but this rig sounds seamless and warm up in the mids and highs. We can hear the HF details without pushing them too hard."

"I rate X-Line very highly," says FOH engineer Colin Boland. "It's so easy to get a good mix on this system. I can hear the slightest EQ adjustments through t

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Design/build firm Pro-Comm and its division, The Music Room installed AV systems and automatic shades in all 120 hotel rooms. Hotel 1000's nine boardrooms and conference rooms also feature an AV distribution system installed by The Music Room using SymNet audio networking equipment.

"We were referred to the product specifically by our A/V designer, Stan Holt. We

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Adlib director Dave Kay, who specified the systems states, "I have been a great fan of Sennheiser wireless for many years, and my global FOH duties means it is essential that I can rely on equipment that won't let me down on the night. I find this is especially important when touring internationally and have to integrate a system with the available frequencies out there."

Kay, who won the 2006 Total Production International Award for Sound Engineer of the Year, is curre

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"This is what I've wanted for years," says Francis. "I've tried everything - at least demoed everything. This is the first console I've wanted to own. I've always looked at the others as a temporary step. Even though some of them I used for four or five years, I was just waiting for technology to advance."

Ebert is equally enthusiastic: "I had used digital consoles before, but I never really liked them because of their sound quality and the fact that they're so complicated to operate. What I'm looking for in a digital console is someth

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Western and Central Europe sales director Michiel Hettinga and Western & Central Europe sales manager Jens Schelde presented introductory sessions of Lighthouse Technologies and its technologies at the Polish, Czech Republic and Hungarian shows, whilst Southern European sales support manager presented at the Turkish event.

Lighthouse Technologies also took the opportunity to demonstrate its ultra-high resolution R4 4mm and best-selling R6 6mm indoor LED screens, both of which were greeted very favourably by Roadshow attendees.

"The Istanbul show was

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Sound Control sales director, Ray Miller says: "These displays demonstrate the proactive approach that we share with Sennheiser. It is quite unusual to utilise freestanding units in stores and we felt this was a good way to draw attention to the products. Today's retailers are more conscious than ever of making every square foot count, and we think this is an innovative and creative way of presenting a product range. This format is an attention-grabbing system, and also means our customers can get touchy/feely with the Sennheiser range

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Andy Tait of Tom Cat & Associates, the Auckland-based sound company that provides production and broadcast audio for NZ Idol, has just ordered the second Vi6 in the country. His experiences using the console on a 12-week trial basis during NZ Idol proved so positive that he decided not to give it back to Jands NZ, Soundcraft's New Zealand distributor.

"I only had about an hour to get my head around it before having to use it to mix a live-to-air music TV show," recalls Tait. "I didn't get a chance to read the operators' manual of course; but thanks to the excellent layout and functi

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The event was hosted by Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan and it featured performances from Beyonce, Nelly Furtado, Enya, Andrea Bocelli and Katie Melua. R&B star Chris Brown, backed by dozens of dancers, opened for Michael Jackson who was making his first UK appearance since 1997.

A total of 130 panels of Lighthouse R16 16mm LED screen formed the arch - measuring 15m in height, with each leg being 3m wide. Processing was via Lighthouse LIP-KX processors with Supervisor LH Universal Display optimisers for scaling.

Three projection screens provided for IMAG requirements: one central rear projected and two front projected screens, stage left and right. Additionally, 60 plasma TVs were arr

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Students of architectural lighting from around the world teamed with prominent lighting designers to create six intriguing architectural lighting environments around the city. Martin Architectural, whose manufacturing facility is located in Frederikshavn, was strongly represented, both in terms of personnel and lighting fixtures. The six lighting environmentsare outlined below.

Kattegat Silo - lighting design by Jesper Garde Kongshaug (Denmark): The recently renovated Kattegat Silo is the first building you see when entering Frederikshavn. Triggered by the arrival and departure of ferries, a range color mixing Exterior 600 and Exterior 1200

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Hosted by SAP, supplier of enterprise software applications and businesssolutions, Sapphire '06 Paris is an International customer conference heldfor three days for decision makers and businesses from more than 25 industriesworldwide.

To host and support the many different elements of the conference, a largeand intricate infrastructure was supplied. Blackout staff were involvedwith not only with the supply of product, but were also on site to helpwith the rigging of the venue, which included 800 rigging points and 6km ofBlackout truss to support over 3,700 lights.

Over two kilometres of drapes were used as well as cyclorama and banners.Blackout allocated, partitioned and dressed each area. Exhibition space wasdressed

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Two of Maher's three shops - in Welwyn Garden City and Fleet - have been equipped with the technology and they are already paying dividends. Tony Maher says the development is in line with his company's policy of providing a more welcoming environment in which to shop, conscious that 50% of the population never ventures into a book shop. "We wanted to create a bright, contemporary design, with the infrastructure that would enable our staff to be able to offer an exceptional service to customers," he said.

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One grandMA full-size, one NSP, grandMA on PC and one grandMA ultra-light for pre-programming, showed their full capability over the duration of the festival. "We decided to use the grandMA system, due to the easy programming," explains programmer Pablo Hernando, "We felt really comfortable during the programming time. The whole system is very reliable and strong. Also the software tools that go along with the system are extremely useful and easy to understand."

The lighting rig for the main stage included 12

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For the current George Michael tour, celebrating his 25-year career, a massive nine metre wide and 25 metre long screen was designed, incorporating 3000 of Barco's MiStrip LED modules. This giant backdrop flows onto the stage and beyond via both concave and convex curves to create a stunning visual element, strong enough to be both stood and danced on. Barco specialists were involved in the set design from the very beginning and worked closely with XL Video to design the spectacular stage.

Phil Mercer, project manager of XL Video, says: "The project was very ambitious, demanding for extremely high re

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"Besides looking for a new fixture we were looking for something that is less power consuming than the 2K," says Joel Wojcik. "It's basically half the power draw with almost the same output. And the speed is incredible."

Of the 18 MAC 700 Profiles only two grace an overhead truss with the rest on staggered T's two, four and six feet below the truss. "It gives the multi layer look without the trouble," Wojcik says. "All our li

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Entec's systems engineer Stef Serpagli confirms that the system has been pushed to astonishing limits with the exceptionally high SPL levels demanded by the Tool sonic experience, "It's basically on 11 all the time, and it's holding up really well!"

The most common configuration for the arrays is 12 J-8 tops and four J-12s a side for the main hangs, plus six C4 tops, flown two wide, and four C4 subs per side as the side hangs to give 180 degree coverage. For Wembley, the main hangs were increased by four J-8s per side - adding up to the most J-Series that Entec has hung to date. Sub bass is provided by 14 J-Subs and 12 B2s, run in cardioid mode, arranged in a delayed

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A carefully selected assortment of video clips, graphics and animations are critical to the show. Off the Wall's video designer and manager Paul Barker has produced a full show's worth of material.

The DS 5000 DT is being looked after by LD Paddy Sollitt and his crew, and Zig Zag is also supplying all of the lighting equipment and lasers. In addition to projecting the video (stored on a separate video machine with VGA signal sent to the DS5000), the DigitalSpot 5000's onboard digital media server is also being util

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Stage Technologies worked with set building company Scena to create this scenic piece which is raised and lowered from the grid and also rotates along horizontal axis, all of which is controlled by an Acrobat control console.

As well as beautiful mountain backdrops, the story of the problematic Maria unfolds amidst the stone walls of an abbey and the beautiful Von Trapp family mansion house. Large automated trucks bring the house on stage in four sections. The synchronisation and millimetre positioning of these trucks is vital to bring each piece toget

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Super Vision will drop its pending claim of infringement against Color Kinetics with respect to US patent #4,962,687, known as the '687 patent, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Color Kinetics will drop its declaratory judgement claim of non-infringement of the '687 patent filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Color Kinetics will grant Super Vision a royalty bearing license to its worldwide patent portfolio,

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During the pre-programming phase, lighting designer Günther Jäckle and his team used grandMA 3D. For the actual shows, 3 x grandMA full-size, 1 x grandMA ultra-light, 2 x grandMA mediaPC with grandMA video and 7 x NSPs were employed. Connected via fibre optic cable they controlled the complex network. In total 24 x VL3500 and VL3000, 24 x VL2416, 8 x Robert Juliat Aramis, 15 x 8-Light Blinder with Rainbow Colour Changers, 6 x Publitec beaMover and a wide range of high-class LEDs were used.

The set consisted of two centre-stages connected b

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Rack 1 is used for video, Rack 2 for the VTRs and Rack3 for audio - the 10u racks provide all the monitoring. Each of the 17u racks has a sliding tray which provides a control surface for the three operators - camera control vision mixer / director and sound engineer. The system provides four broadcast cameras, audio and video for two VTRs together with full communications and monitoring.

PBDS, part of the Wescom group of companies, provides custom system engineering solutions from outside broadcast vehicles to major studio systems. This is the second order PBDS has placed with 5 Star - following a series of cases

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"This year at LDI we were honoured to receive both awards on top of the extraordinary feedback from attendees on the show floor. We were very happy with the response at the show before Saturday night's awards, but we were really happy on Sunday morning," says Tom Young, vice president of marketing for JR Clancy. "We're particularly pleased by these awards because the LDI award is from judges who are end users and specifiers of the product and the ESTA award is from dealers, who we consider our partners."

The PowerAssist allows the user to automate existing counterweight rigging sets, as well as add motorised rigging to new proj

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The Box represented another challenge, that of being able to contain and control sound without creating external noise pollution. In this case the Odyssey complex is surrounded by a multi screen cinema complex, an IMAX cinema directly above and several well know chain restaurants in the surro