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For the second time in its history, the festival took place over two weekends and included performances by Foster the People, St. Vincent, Beck, Iggy Azalea, Calvin Harris, Lorde, Skillrex, Eminem, Pearl Jam, and Outkast.

Those in attendance were also able to enjoy Austin's vibrant food scene at the festival's food court, aptly named Austin Eats which boasted multiple food trucks, legendary barbeque and even a food and wine festival showcase. The festival also featured a boutique store, art market, charity booths and kid zone.

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Utilising their bespoke electrical distribution system, The Technical Department runs cable from the basement of the 18th century buildings to distribute and supply power to the courtyard where the open-air ice rink is set in the midst of the stunning architecture.

"Having worked with The Technical Department over 10 years, their kit and knowledge is second to none," says Jon Howes, production manager for Somerset House.

Jerry Singleton, The Technical Department's director comments, "The quality and presentation of our electrical distribution equipment is very important to us. We regularly invest in new equipment and maintain our existing equipment to a high level.

"Our proactive

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"The market in Eastern Europe is very dynamic and growing fast," commented Tim McCall, L-Acoustics sales manager. "Joker is a known and respected sound provider and is already putting its L-Acoustics+ systems to good use for high-profile events across Bul

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The PIKO RGB 11 PD has a guaranteed output power of 10W RGB after aperture and is equipped with diode laser sources only. This ensures a great, linear colour fading behaviour and makes the unit suitable for professional projections as well as for smooth beam shows. The compact PIKO-housing makes the PIKO RGB 11 PD suitable for touring applications, rentals as well as for fixed installations.

Due to the beam specifications of ca. 4mm/<1.0mrad (full angle) it is possible to use small scanner mirrors on the Pangolin ScannerMax 506 Galvos (Standard ScannerMax, optional XScan are available at no extra costs) and thus reduce inertia - which allows for very good scan rates with 35kpps@8° ILDA.

The Pure Diode setup consists of diode a

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Coordinated by Robert Haigh, operations technician at Brolga Theatre, with design assistance by Meyer Sound Australia, the system includes the UPQ-1P wide coverage and UPQ-2P narrow coverage point source loudspeakers complimented by UPA-1P's as in-fill and USW-1P subwoofers from the system originally install some 14 years ago.

"Originally equipped with a Meyer UPA-1/UPA-2 system, the Brolga Theatre has always been a Meyer Sound client," says Robert Haigh, operations technician. "Over a number of years it became apparent that

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Six years on, and with Foreigner and Styx embarking on a joint headline tour, LED technology has evolved a long way. For Foreigner's UK dates earlier in the year he deployed impression RZ120 Zoom to light the 'Foreigner' sign. This allowed him to make visual comparisons with his favoured conventional pars on his way to moving up to the impression X4 series - GLP's current touring workhorse.

All the impression X4 fixtures used on the recent Fore

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According to director and show producer, Oeng Sokly, this is the first series of the popular global programme to screen in the country, Hang Meas HDTV having purchased the licence from Talpa Global. Viewers tune in every Sunday to see who is voted through, while the show itself is in HMHDTV Studio at 4th floor, Aeon Mall, Phnom Penh - the first and biggest mall in Cambodia.

As the first high definition TV station in the country, the station has been a regular user of PR Lighting's catalogue, having featured their fixtures on other live entertainment programmes such as Dream Palace, Teen Zone, Water Music, and Special Concert after sourcing the pieces from Phnom Penh-based LP Pro

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The 65,000 sq ft venue features both indoor and outdoor areas, including a rooftop party porch and all the VIP amenities you would expect from a club of this stature. The club embodies the attention to detail we've come to expect from nightlife mogul Victor Drai as well as Steve Lieberman, who has surrounded clubbers in an adrenalin-producing immersive lighting atmosphere.

A flexible Elation lighting package integrates with video throughout the 4,500-capacity v

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The stage was composed of four LED screens surrounding the singer to display graphics and content. To feed the screens, Barry Otto, owner of Colonel Tom Touring (CT Touring), selected Analog Way's NeXtage 16 (Ref. NTX1604), a powerful seamless video processor.

"My client needed to be able to manage multiple screen destinations with a small and powerful system. We looked at the show design, technical specifications and equipment space, and decided that the NeXtage 16 was the best solution for the show", comments Otto.

Sources for the NeXtage 16 included 4 x CamBall 3 remote cameras, plus the festivals' FOH camera. The NeXtage 16 served to

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Optimising their potential as specific solutions in an integrated systems' design, the PAX ProAV Group will position dedicated sales and support teams targeting the brands' individual market sectors.

Romano M. Cunsolo explains: "This was a strategic move to make it easy for our customers and internal staff alike to focus on the technologies and products in our portfolio needed for each individual project. Our sales and technical people have a wealth of experience in

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So when lighting designer Philip Lyons of Lyons Photography & Lighting Design Installation was appointed to install a pack generator system into two of the museum's new photographic studios, he brought Doughty Engineering on board. Having worked with the company on various other photographic studio installations, Philip knew he could count on Doughty to supply a range of equipment that would ensure the studio was kitted out to the highest specification, making it the perfect environment for photographing and cataloguing the museum's wonderful and ever increasing catalogue

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Leaver, who was appointed by Tate Modern to oversee the construction of the exhibit, brought Unusual Rigging on board to help develop a solution and to fulfil Tuttle's idea that those visiting the exhibition should "...feel like they're in heaven".

Leon Ingram, production rigger at Unusual, said, "This was cer

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The Palais 12 gig was the opening concert for Guetta's forthcoming world tour, so the technological wow-factor was set at the highest level. Setting up the sound systems for FOH engineer Hassane Es Siahi was Arto system tech Pierre-Laurent Babuine, who is a regular Guetta man.

For main PA, Babuine called on left and right arrays of 15 sets of Nexo STM, comprising 15x M46 Main and 15x B112 Bass Cabinets, together with 32x S118 subbass units. Flown in adjacent lines of main and bass modules, the arrays were completed by two diminuit

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The Cobalt desk was designed to make busking in live concert environments a breeze. For Car-Fest, head lighting designer Evgeniy Toma used the desk to control a rig of moving lights, LED par cans, strobes and strip lights. Toma could programme swiftly, thanks to Cobalt's full colour master-playback displays, which show the current state of the masters and allow the ability to quickly switch from page to page.

One feature that Toma especially enjoyed is Cobalt's ability for customisation. He assigned the de

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Algam, the leading distributor of MI and audio products in Europe, will take care of the supply chain, while Music Distribucion, a well-established distributor based in Barcelona, Spain, will be in charge of the sales and marketing activities.

"We're delighted that Music Distribucion has teamed with Algam," declared PreSonus Europe managing director, Michelle Lynch. "Algam is absolutely amazing; they're consummate professionals who know the market extremely well. In a relatively short period, they have already greatly improved our sales in France. We are confident that this new alliance will do won

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Double Act - TV duo Ant and Dec are to host the 2015 Brit awards, 14 years since the last time they presented the ceremony. The hosts of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talen

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"With Kongsted in Koncert we are creating an experience for the crowd that is different from my other shows," the artist explains. "Here we can control more parameters - light, sound, visuals, production design, décor etc. - in a way that is not possible on my more standard live shows. This gives us the opportunity to create a special experience linking together my music and playing style in perfect harmony."

To match his vision of creating an

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Best known for transformative projection mapping spectaculars, Danny Rose creates, directs, produces and animates artistic content.

The company's growth is stimulated by recent project successes including the Play Me! interactive projection mapping installation onto Customs House at Vivid Sydney 2014.

"Over the past 20 years we've firmly established ourselves with a solid foundation in creating a catalogue of shows, that can be localized according to size and requirements," said Sergio Carrubba, creative director and projection designer at Danny Rose. "Our content brings messages to life in a big way."

The Danny Rose team comprises experienced proj

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Portelli and lighting designer Michael Veerkamp, both of Team Imagination, added the Nexus panels provided by the Los Angeles office of 4Wall Entertainment Lighting to the hit game show for its second season.

"Our lighting team was new to the show this season and we wanted to give things a refreshed look, while still retaining the program's signature feel, which has been so popular," said Po

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The new dBs Music premises recently opened on St Thomas Street, Bristol to cater for a range of Higher Education Degree pathways in Sound Engineering, Music Production and Game Audio. The new facility features five studios, music ICT classrooms and a lecture theatre that will provide music production training for students across the West of England. dBs Music is also an authorised training centre for Ableton, Apple Logic and Avid Pro Tools.

HHB has been a long-term supplier to dBs Music and recently supplied a package of music technology equipment that includes an API 1608 analogue recording consoles with 17 motorised faders fitted with moving fader automation, Avid Pro Tools HDX systems, two sets of SSL XDesk contro

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The Paris showroom is located at Châteauform's new luxury City Le Cnit premises at 2 place de la Défense and includes a permanent installation of MultiTouch's new turnkey, medium-sized 4m x 2.5m MultiTaction iWall. Châteauform specialises in arranging full-service business events in its luxury, all-inclusive premises around Europe.

"We remain committed to European expansion, alongside incredible growth in North America and the Asian markets," explains Petri Martikainen, CEO of MultiTouch. "We've been searching for an appropriate location for a Paris showroom for a while, and the City Le Cnit premises offer the perfect mix of high-tech and traditional, 1950s style, creating an incredible venue for our

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Soundcheck owner Rodney van Zwol comments: "I was knocked out by the sonic performance of this iP24 and how easy the iPad control software operates. The on-board features are so easy to work with, and the amount of filter processing power is simply unbelievable."

A major advancement of Outline's proprietary iMode processing platform, the iP24 is a multi-purpose DSP loudspeaker controller housed in a single 19" rack space. For the first time, it provides all the features associated with the iMode platform, now able to control external amplifiers and passive sound reinforcement systems.

The iP24 iMode controllers were been sold by The Audio Specialists, O

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Nick Burns, managing director of Australian production company Forefront Productions, first mixed Front of House sound for Houghton on a tour of Australia and New Zealand a few years ago, on the recommendation of other high profile worship artists.

"It was a great call to get, as I have always been a fan. Since then I've continued to do dates around the Asia Pacific region with him and also some in the USA, when I'm there and schedules allow," says Nick.

For this tour Forefront was engaged to provide production management and the FOH mix, including the design and specification of the technical systems. Nick is a fan of DiGiCo co