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Founded in 2002 by Louisville native JK McKnight and named for the superstructure at the bow of the ship where the crew is housed, the Forecastle Festival draws tens of thousands of fans to relax and unwind. Artists at this year's event included The Black Keys, The String Cheese Incident, Ole Crow Medicine Show, Big Boi, The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, The Avett Brothers, Robert Plant and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals.

Bandit Lites worked with Hadden Hipsley of Lambda Productions to provide a festival lighting package to three stages, including the main stage where The Black Keys finished their 16 month tour under a Bandit supplied rig.

The equipment list includes Clay Paky Sharpys, VL 3000 spots, MAC Auras, Martin Atom

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Kai Ulrich, FOH engineer for Garrett, was first attracted to Leo's headroom, which would allow him to eliminate delay loudspeakers for many shows.

"Everything sounds so effortless with LEO," says Ulrich. "You can really feel the headroom, even though the David Garrett show is not very loud. The first time I used the system I was actually completely overwhelmed by the sound, and I am not at all 'brand religious'."

David Garrett's touring Leo system featured up to 12 Leo-M line array loudspeakers per

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The ETCP Examinations will be given at LDI 2013 in Las Vegas, NV. All three ETCP examinations will be given in one session the morning of Saturday, 23 November, 2013. Candidates who wish to take more than one exam should contact ETCP. Interested applicants must submit their application, along with supporting materials and fee, to the ETCP office no later than 28 October, 2013.

Candidate information, including eligibility requirements, applications and study tactics, is available on the ETCP website (http://etcp.plasa.org/ldi2013.h

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To mic drummer Laust Sonne's snare drum, Slot uses a combination of a DPA d:dicate 2011C Twin Diaphragm Cardioid Microphones and DPA d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones, with the former positioned above the snare and the latter below. The d:votes are also used to mike the toms, high hat and cymbals, with reinforcement provided by a DPA d:dicate 4011 Compact Cardioid Microphone positioned underneath the cymbals. He also uses the 2011Cs to pick up Jacob Binzer's lead guitar. The musician has two cabinets that give a great combination of clean and dirty sound so Slot positioned the 201

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The event, held on 11 July at The New Inn pub in Walton, raised £3,000 towards the restoration and saw LS-Live and Backstage Academy's Adrian Brooks present a cheque for their £5,000 donation.

Said Unity Hall director Chris Hill, "The fantastic lift that Unity Hall will give to the centre of Wakefield, turning Westgate away from a heavy drinking street to a place everyone can go to enjoy themselves with galleries, cafés and retail, will make that whole area the cultural heart of a new university city.

"The fundraiser was just further proof th

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Three of the largest dry-hire companies in Germany - Motion Light from Fürth, Conrad Licht & Rigging Support from Bergkirchen in the Hafenstrasse and Dortmund based NicLen - have all placed their orders with LMP for LEDWash 800s.

Together they will take over 1500 units, which will be readily available for designers and production companies wanting to use them on their shows and events.

The Robin 800 LEDWash was originally manufactured as a special request and soon became an additional production model - added to the 300, 600 and 1200 models in this successful range.

The enhanced LEDWash 800 fixture util

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Along with his award, Stuttard received a Focusrite ISA One and an sE Electronics mic of his choice donated by two of this year's sponsors. Stuttard said, "It has been an absolutely amazing experience, and to learn from professionals as talented as Greg Haver and Dan Turner (USW) has been a phenomenal opportunity."

Now in its third consecutive year, the course steered 12 selected students from JAMES accredited courses through five days of recording on both analogue and digital systems. This year's tutor Greg Haver commented, "My week with the graduates surpassed all of my expectations. Working with such enthusiastic, well trained engineer

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Covering 92,000m2, the complex is located in the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Woking-based LSI Projects was invited to work with technology consultants CCW Singapore to fine-tune the plans for the sound, lighting and communications infrastructure. Once finalised LSI, under project director Bob Peill and project manager Jakub Krzeminski, supplied, installed and commissioned the equipment, as well as providing staff training.

Two Yamaha M7CL-48 V3

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White Light has supplied lighting equipment and support for this and many other productions with Shattered Windscreen, often working with lighting designer Ken Allford to strike the balance between increasing creative demands and tightening budgets.

With Wild Oats, based on John O'Keeffe's original 1791 play, James McLure has morphed the setting forwards in time to America's Wild West and left no cliché unturned! With scenes reminiscent of Mel Brooks' film classic, Blazing Saddles, the production deligh

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The sale involves 16 x Pointes, 18 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x LEDWash 1200s and 36 x LEDBeam 100s - all from Robe's Robin range of 'smaller-lighter-brighter' luminaires. These were delivered to Bandit by Robe Lighting Inc., coordinated by Eastern region business development manager, Kevin Loretto.

Jackson has worked with Selena Gomez since her first We Own The Night tour in 2011. His very talented creative team for this tour includes Scheuer, video & media designer Brent Sandrock and lighting director David "Fuji" Convertino who will be out on the road with the equipment.<

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The deal will see Show Supply, located in Schöhnbühl, Switzerland, become the primary contact for all three brands in the country, with exclusive access to Tannoy professional loudspeaker products, as well as preferred access to all products from Lab.gruppen and Lake.

Chris Häfliger, Director of Show Supply, commented, "We are extremely happy to begin this new partnership with TC Group's professional install and tour brands. Tannoy is an innovative company with many leading product lines, and one which we are excited about working with. Along with Lab.gruppen and Lake, we are sure that these new additions will help us to continue to deliv

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The 400-capacity club is based around an open-air pool complete with swim-up bar, sun loungers and seating areas. Operating as a restaurant during the day, by nightfall the volume and pace are turned up as Hot Mess moves into club mode, with poolside dancing and drinking providing entertainment into the small hours.

The Nexo system was provided by local distributor Light and Sound Design, who designed and installed a system of six PS10-R2 high power cabinets and four LS600 sub bass units driven by NXAMP 4x4 amplifiers, plus two Yamaha MSR400 active monitors. The PS10-R2s have been positioned around the

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Constant Technology were called upon to design, supply and install an audio system, and fortunately budget was not an issue!

"They wanted a system that would sound great, be well distributed and would offer control of all areas independently," commented Con Constantinou, managing director of Constant Technology. "The venue has eight audio zones, including a main restaurant, pastry area and outdoor areas, which is quite a lot for a venue of 400m²."

The pastry kitchen and reception area has fifteen JBL Control 42C in ceiling speakers plus three

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St. Joseph's original sound system used ceiling loudspeakers to cover the sanctuary and had been augmented with loudspeakers in the organ chamber. However, coverage was uneven in many locations and very poor in the back of the church.

Through a referral from another church, St. Joseph's contacted Mike Flaherty of Nelson White Systems in Baltimore. Flaherty recommended a system based on Community's Entasys column line arrays. He had used Entasys in other church sound systems and knew they would provide smooth coverage throughout the sanctuary and p

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The ESB and Macy's partnered on the 37th annual fireworks show. As part of the celebration the ESB tower light show was created by world-famous lighting design artist Marc Brickman and choreographed to music curated by Usher for the finale of the fireworks. Last year the ESB unveiled its one-of-a-kind new LED tower lights with a show Brickman designed.

For the Independence Day spectacular the light show competed for attention with the fireworks by displaying dramatic and fun bursts of colour, ripples, sweeps and chases on the top tiers and spire of the ESB. More than 3.900 LE

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The largest dedicated indoor concert space in the area, Echostage hosts anywhere between two and five shows per week. Though the converted warehouse attracts a wide range of world class DJ's and is known for electric dance music, the venue is used for various other live music as well, drawing crowds of thousands. Proud of the clear sight lines on the large first floor dance area, and comfortable lounge seating in the balcony, the team strives to provide everything the fans and artists could need

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The celebration included the Annual Fashion Show at the Academy of Music, followed by the Spirit of Innovation Gala and Awards Ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt at The Bellevue Hotel.

Lighting Designer Bill Murray of Pro Vision Production Inc. worked with freelance LD/programmer Richard Dunn to create a magical space for the gala, incorporating High End Systems DLVs, TechnoArcs and Hog 4 control.

The most formidable challenges to the design team were time and space. Dunn explains: "Fo

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The showroom demonstrates a wide range of vertical market applications, including digital signage, education, rental and staging, video conferencing, video walls, workstation, interactive, home entertainment, broadcasting and corporate.

"It has been exciting to connect our brands and bring our compreh

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To make the recordings, the inputs from a DiGiCo SD8 desk were fed into a Roland S-MADI REAC Bridge which converted the signal from MADI to REAC (Roland Ethernet Audio Connection) to go into the R-1000. The S-MADI REAC Bridge is a bi-directional signal converter between REAC and MADI enabling connectivity between MADI-equipped digital audio mixers/systems to any REAC-based devices. A Roland S-4000 chassis was custom loaded with SO-DA4 output cards and used as an output device from the R-1000 via REAC to break the signal into analogue lines to feed into the Midas XL4 desk in use at F

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Robe is looking forward to the show in its new location at ExCeL London, and will celebrate this with a brand new and enlarged stand design.

Products will include all those launched at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt which include some brand new concepts - all of which embrace Robe's smaller-lighter-brighter and more eco-friendly philosophies . . .

Robe is again a platinum sponsor of PLASA, which brings additional benefits to guests including the Robe Fast Track Entrance and a chance to win one of 12 Apple iPad Mini tablets by completing your PLASA visitor registration through Robe.

Sister architectural LED brand Anolis will be on an adjacent stand, and all of Robe's International team will join the Robe UK crew to ensure th

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Escondido, California-based Sound Image was chosen to providing sound reinforcement for the US portions of the tour. The Nashville office heads up the production.

"When we received the bid, it came down to determining which system would provide the SPL, flexibility and sonic quality the band required," explains Andrew Dowling, systems engineer for Sound Image. "The band needed the ability to do full size sheds and arenas as well as smaller venues."

FOH Engineer Scott Eisenberg and production manager Eric 'Shakes' Grzybowski ultimately decided that the Adamson Energia E15 line arrays would provide everything

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The festival - under the artistic direction of Lak Mitchell and Chris Rutherford - is one of the UK's most and vibrant events and the Lion's Den Stage is acclaimed for its awesome line up of established reggae artists and emerging talent.

Boomtown is the world's biggest pop up city with over 1km of set/scenics and over 40 individual themed venues of which the Lion's Den is the largest.

CPL's Nick Diacre was on-site as production manager for the Lion's Den, coordinating all technical production, site management and related business in this area, including Health & Safety.

The stunning 16m high Aztec temple themed Lion's Den pe

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Built in 1997 and run by the local municipality, the 580-seat venue hosts mainly live music and theatre, but also presentations and conferences. After 17 years of near-constant use the audio system needed a significant upgrade because cables, connectors and other components required replacing, plus the PA was no longer sufficient to meet the demands of contemporary shows.

Supplied by French audio specialists Lagoona, the new PA system comprises flown arrays of Nexo Geo S12 and S1230 loudspeakers, plus ground-stacked RS18 subs and PS10 R2 front-fills. The