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14 March 2016

The month-long ballot will decide places on PLASA's European and North American Regional Boards, together with a single seat on its over-arching Governing Body.

The role of the Regional Boards is to represent the interests of members affiliated to those regions, ensuring that PLASA offers strong on the ground support to members. Both the North American and European Regional Boards are looking to fill a number of places for 2013.

For the European Regional Board, Martin Hawthorn of Hawthorn's has put his name forward for a second term as Treasurer, Chris Parry-Jones of Gallowglass and Mark Surtees (incumbent) of Outback Rigging have put their names forward to represent Production Services members, Gerry Francke of Creative Technology and Noreen O'Riordan of Entec So

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Commenting on the acoustic solution, Mohammed Imran of Sinewave Studio said, "its acoustic properties are amazing. The room sounds so perfect, the ambiance is incredible and moreover it looks good as well. Every artist is pleased with the sound quality of the studio."

Grayson Soares, operations manager at Melody House added, "Studio owners are becoming increasingly aware that the best microphone or the best studio monitor is not sufficient. To provide the ideal environment for artists to record or perform in, studios need to ensure that their rooms ar

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Running from 16 September through 14 October, the tour - known as Back To Front - finds the group performing Gabriel's chart-topping So album in its entirety after an acoustic first set and electronic second set of the artist's other hits.

According to Firehouse Productions system tech Jamie Pollock, most of the stops on the 13-city tour utilize a FOH system featuring left and ri

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Highlight of the day was the official opening of the new premises by the guests of honour George Simons, Mayor of Peterborough, and Andrew Castle, vice president finance and administration Bosch UK. "Our sales team have long anticipated the opening of our new building including its fully equipped demo room", says Sean Maxwell. "It off

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Stéphane Ecalle, director of marketing says, "Given L-Acoustics' reputation and rider acceptance, we believe that these two 'plug and play' systems will prove themselves to be a solid and enduring investment for rental and fixed installation users. ARCS Wide and ARCS Focus are available in kits that are extremely scalable in both performance and pricing. In addition to providing a great offer our existing client base, we look forward to many others making the L-Acoustics dream a reality.

"The upcoming programme of demos provides an excellent opportunity to discover L-Acoustics technologies for application p

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Allan reports that he has received "only positive jealousy" from friends and colleagues, and very positive responses from clients looking to hire the CL5. He continues, "I hope to really add some colour with our new CL5. I really like the way Yamaha have integrated the best parts of their desks into the CL5. And I am really excited about using the Rupert Neve plug-ins."

Sam Simon-Norris, technical sales at LMC London comments, "The CL Series as a whole is a really exciting development from Yamaha; the consoles boast an impressive array o

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R29 was released to members only earlier this month and quickly received widespread commendation for the variety of new features that expand the software's potential. Particular attention has paid to the breakthrough Six Degrees of Freedom Camera and Shaded View Selection - next gen functionality acknowledged as having the power to help WYSIWYG professionals 'raise their game'.

The addition of another three degrees of freedom to the WYSIWYG cameras is of importance because it means the orientation of the camera is no longer restricted to a slightly robotic three dimensions. Users are now able to position the camera absolutely any way they cho

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14 March 2016

The latest addition to ALE's Rack Pack range, dVnet is aimed squarely at retail and architectural applications in which a media facade or light sculpture is to be controlled by video, and the complexity of a media server is not required.

dVnet is all a light artist needs to convert a video creation to light. The digital video input is in HDMI format. Configuration is simplicity itself, with less than ten mouse-clicks required to render video to a media wall.

dVnet can also playback any video clip manually loaded onto its internal hard drive, or via the incorporated pla

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The exhibition was designed by an external designer, Emily Pugh, and the projection system was engineered and installed by Electrosonic.

The exhibition is spread over two floors; the lower level presents the gowns from 1950 to the early 2000s including Princess Diana's 1989 'Elvis Dress' designed by Catherine Walker and a Norman Hartnell gown designed for Elizabeth the Queen Mother; and the upper level displays gowns by contemporary UK-based designers including Roland Mouret, Giles, Erdem, Roksanda Illinci

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The event is staged amidst the stunning environs of the Ferropolis peninsula, Gräfenhainichen, an open air museum featuring a selection of giant 20th century industrial machines, like coal mining diggers, that provide a unique skyline.

Lighting equipment for the Main and Gemini stages was supplied by Berlin based TSE AG.

Their brief for the production lighting design was to create rigs that were very flexible and could cater for the vast array of bands and DJs performing over the three days, many of which brought their own lighting designers and specials packages and also hooked in to the 'house' rigs.

TSE AG decided to spec Robe as it is one of the premium brands in their rental inventory, and b

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Lighting designer Lyndon Buckley has been a user of LSC Lighting's Clarity software control for four years now and chose to use it for this production.

"I'm very comfortable with Clarity and it was particularly ideal for this production," he said. "I purchased Arkaos Media Master Pro to use alongside Clarity as it integrates seamlessly."

Lyndon also used Clarity to trigger audio cues explaining that the production ha

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Among the items on the extensive sound, lighting and power equipment list for the Torch Relays were DPA d:fine headset microphones, supplied by DPA's UK distributor Sound Network. These were used at every one of the 70 locations to mic a wide range of dancers, actors, presenters and TV presenters.

"We chose DPA d:fine headset microphones for their discreet profile and sensitive capsules," says sound engineer Doug Maddison, who was responsible for the on-stage sound at the evening gigs. "We specified the cardioid version to try and reduce spill and feedback from the monitors and the PA. This was important as the presenters wer

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With so many passengers to take care of, it's important that any announcements made to the public are both clear and concise and can be heard by everyone who needs to hear it, whether it is travel information or emergency information being issued.

Traditional transport hub structures and building materials meant that this station suffered from poor intelligibility, with the reflective surfaces such as marble and glass causing high reverberation times. However, passengers are now enjoying crystal clear audio thanks to a recently completed overhaul of the audio system, which included installation of Tannoy's new VLS Series. The major upgrade to the PA system was handled by Glasgow-based TG Baker who were

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Replacing the university's aging sports complex, the new pavilion is not only home to the university's sports teams, but it also accommodates a dance troupe, fencing-, badminton-, judo-, and taekwondo clubs. The ground level is home to retail space for businesses such as banks and restaurants, the first floor houses a 2-level fitness center adjacent to a gymnastics room, while the third level features a two-lane oval track around the inside perimeter of the building.

The crowning feature of the Pavilion is a 5014sq.m gymnasium with gallery seating large enough to hold 5,792 people. The

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The VIGIL voice alarm system was activated, triggering pre-recorded messages to inform and guide the crowds. The systems emergency and fire microphones were used to broadcast live information ensuring everyone was up-to-date with the situation and how they should react.

Dave Unsworth, Northern sales person for Baldwin Boxall, was at the event and, seated in the control room, had a full view of the unfolding exercise and reports, " I took part in a staged major disaster at the Etihad Stadium home of Manchester City FC and can report that the

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The mega popular one day event was staged at the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, an exceptionally atmospheric location dating back to the first century AD.

Studio Berar provided full technical production for the Festival which also included the 'Take Me To The Hospital' stage and the 'Invaders Must Die' stage .... All featuring a stellar line up of international and national artists to sate anyone with a serious dance music habit.

Andy Hurst has been using LEDBeam 100's for Prodigy's 2012 summer festival world tour wherever possible, which kicked off at Download in the UK back in May, where the

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The programme will give visitors a unique opportunity to broaden their specialist knowledge and take part in discussions about innovative projects and cutting edge techniques.

Technical editor, Richard Cadena comments, "It's always been a dream to host a show like this in the Tri-state area, and with so much talent on our doorstep we've literally been spoiled for choice when putting this seminar series together."

Media, sales & marketing director, Jackie Tien adds, "Sharing knowledge and expertise is vitally important to the development of technology, techniques and talent. We wanted to produce a program that features current, h

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Stops in Guangzhou, Beijing and Hong Kong have already been held successfully with upcoming stops planned for the Prolight + Sound exhibition in Shanghai 11-14 October 11, and Chengdu and Wuhan in late October.

The Guangzhou seminar was held at the Guangdong Drama Troupe on 10 August with about 100 people attending from the entertainment, engineering, broadcasting and performance sectors. The emphasis was on two of Martin's award-winning lights - the MAC Viper Profile and MAC Aura LED wash light- along with the M2GO and M2PC lighting consoles. Dozens of Martin moving heads were installed on the Drama Troupe stage with a brilliant light show and music entertaining betwe

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All floors are covered with specially woven carpets, resulting in a fair absorption on the higher end. Most surfaces expect for the floors are covered with marbles and encaustic tiles from Iznik, Turkey. This unparalleled beauty has a price to pay acoustically, making the halls extremely reverberant especially on the lower end, thus making the electroacoustical design the ultimate challenge.

A Complete structure was modelled in EASE4.3 and the exhaustive design process started, adding and removing lots of speakers so as to keep the intelligibility a

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During this year's PLASA show at Earl's Court in September, 47 products were judged, 'live' in front of show visitors, as an independent panel of expert judges toured the show floor, camera crew in tow, to view presentations about each product.

"Nominees are asked to demonstrate a new style of thinking, an improvement in technical practice, an aid to safety, energy-saving or sustainability benefits, or new technology, materials or techniques," explains one of the judges.

Designed and manufactured in the UK, Avolites Media's Sapphire Media Infinity represents the next exciting step in Media Server technology, says Steve Warren, managing director of Avolites Media. "The powerful unit contains an incredible 8 Full HD outputs and conven

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Attendees can see a wide variety of gear, suited for multiple applications. Fixtures on exhibit are: Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 436Z-LED and Q-Spot 360-LED moving heads, COLORado 1-Quad Tour, COLORdash Batten-Quad 6, COLORado Déco Quad-1 Tour and COLORado 2 Zoom Tour static wash lights, Ovation E-190WW and Ovation F-165WW LED-fitted theatrical fixtures, PiXPar 24 pixel mapping wash and LED Followspot 75ST. Additionally shown is the new trussing line, TRUSST.

The technical focus of the exhibitions allows manufacturers to show product that attendees can get their hands on and have their technical questions answered. The variety of products includes the latest technology in lighting, audio, video and trussing equipment for schools, theatres, broad

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Comprising an iDR-64 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface, the system managed all of the three FOH speaker systems, the main performance PA, the small distributed speech PA, and the judges' near field monitor system.iLive also took care of the stage monitor system - approximately two to sixsends - and Tomcat used it as part of the audio department shout comms system.

"NZGT's audition tour is an audio marathon, comprising 35-40 acts a day with practically no sound checks and you are dealing with anything from a 60 piece choir to a singing basset hound," explains Andy Tait from Tomcat Production Services. "iLive coped with everything I threw at it without a hitch and of course the snap

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"I had heard about the Auras from other designers and programmers and speced them sight unseen," Sasic says, who uses them as floor fixtures set along the downstage edge of the stage as footlights, audience blinders, and to cast shadows of the performers on an upstage scrim and backdrop. "With a scant six fixtures the wide zoom creates a beautiful even field of color that fills the stage and covers all of the pe

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Located in the heart of Hong Kong's central district, Mella Club is the newest resident in the city's busy Lan Kwai Fong nightlife scene. Opened in July, the club's focus is on design with an impressive dance floor light show courtesy of MAC 101 and MAC 350 Entour fixtures supplied by Martin Professional Hong Kong.

In a raised VIP room at one end of the club, customers overlook a spacious dance floor lined with compact MAC 101 wash lights.

Encircling the club's streamline bar counter, MAC 350 Entour LED profiles splash gobos and ever-changing colour onto adjacent walls and floor with the occasional pr