The workshops will be of interest to custom and professional installers, buyers and resellers of AV Systems, designers, meeting planners, agencies and IT consultants.
The Roadshow will visit four key cities over an eight-day period and will include four i
Designed by King George IV's favourite architect John Nash, All Souls is a 'Waterloo' church, built in 1823 as part of the nation's thanksgiving for the victory of Wellington over Napoleon. Constructed from Bath stone, the design combines a graceful 160 ft Gothic style spire and a classical rotunda 'body'. It is the last surviving John Nash church.
LTP was contacted by designers LUXX, whose Martin Richman and Dominic Berning have worked with them on numerous other interesting, idiosyncratic and innovative architectural lighting projects. LTP's Terry Reeves says: "It's always a challenge working on Martin's projects - they push the a
Any item is eligible and suggestions so far include: the multi-tool; a 17mm box spanner; the hard hat; knee pads; Pilbrow's Stage Lighting Design; a sound pressure level meter; personalised crew room coffee mug; and, a walkie-talkie that works in the nearest pub.
Submissions should be sent to techequip@catherinecooperevents.co.uk by the end of October and include a contact number. One entry chosen at random after the closing date will receive a year's free ABTT membership subscription.
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In actual fact, the Geo D system has been designed by Adlib's Mark Burnley to be moved in and out of the Hall; it can work as a stand-alone system or in conjunction with visiting productions, which may prefer to bring in their own equipment. Kelsey Acoustics has created a bespoke multicore system to facilitate this.
Refurbished in 1995 at a cost of over £10 million, the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall boasts a classic art deco interior. As well as being home to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world's oldest co
Club AV Pty Ltd, a well respected installation and design company for over twenty years, installed the giant video wall - a task that both consultants and others said could not be done.
"The requirement was very difficult to work with," explained Andrew Wood, Queensland operations manager for Club AV. "The Client wanted a full forty metre digital video system that would handle the requirements of a unique experience for his patrons as well as handling any colour, video or image for the venue if ne
A new state-of-the-art scissorlift, extending to a dizzying 7.9 metres, has been a welcome addition to the Hippodrome's technical crew who will use the lift onstage for tasks such as focusing lighting and building scenery whenever a new production arrives in town.
Stars of the ballet, opera and musicals will shine even more brightly with the arrival of 24 Source 4 lanterns containing revolutionary lens tube technology for the main stage, making the Hippodrome one of the first UK venues to install this latest version of a lighting industry benchmark.
Being an independent, not-for-profit charity, the money raised by Birmingham Hippodrome Friends and throug
The £16 million project included the reopening and re-branding of the City Halls and the old Fruitmarket, two historic live music venues dating back to the 1840s at the epicentre of Glasgow's Merchant City. The City Halls have now become the permanent home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Music Centre and will host regular concerts by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
CableNet was originally specified by the project's theatre consultants Arup Acoustics, as the safest and most effective way of providing high-level access across the entire roof void.
Arup's Ray Carter first approached Slingco back in 2001. It was interesting from a structural viewpoint explains Slingco
Benares is the first independent venture by acclaimed chef Atul Kochhar. Interior designer Ou Baholyodhin has transposed the beauty and vibrancy of the Northern India city of Benares into a contemporary setting in the prime central London location of Berkley Square.
Having been open for three years, it was time to upgrade the sound system to one offering the same standards of excellence and quality as the food and ambience. CP Sound has engaged in several other high profile restaurant/bar projects including various Zinc bars around the UK, Cocoon on Regent Street, Eclipse Bars in London and the Terraces in Brighton.
Pattenden initially visited and assessed the situation. Some
A perfect example of its technical 'superiority' can be seen in the Sequoia Adventure attraction: a roller coaster set in a late 19th century American sawmill, which has client's adrenalin pumping, thanks to the feeling of being suspended in mid-air as they turn upside-down repeatedly, almost as if in slow motion, during the ride. Designed by an American firm that is one of the world's major high-impact attraction builders, Sequoia Adventure is the first installation in the world of this type.
Another important example is Escape from Atlantis, the largest (15,000sq.m) water attraction in Europe, which was also used as the set for an eye-catching publicity spot aired by major Italian and foreign television broadcaster
The theatre - designed by renowned architect Bertie Crewe and completed in 1913 - has re-opened as a major receiving house following a £4 million facelift, with many of its original features restored to their 1913 splendour.
The project was managed for J&C Joel by contracts director Mark Taylor, who worked closely with Theatre Search's David Wilmore, main contractors Sapcote and architects Samsome Hall.
A major aim of the project was to restore the building to its original form. However, there were precious few illustrations or visual references available showing how the theatre draping and interior would have initially looked. By researching other similar period buil
The Community Life Building is the epicentre, to its 1,600-member congregation serving as the worship space, the gymnasium for church sporting events, as well as the meeting place for fellowship meals. From an AV standpoint, the building was both a technical and creative challenge for dB.
"Sugarloaf's staff and volunteers are highly competent in media ministry and knew their functionality requirements," says Stanford. "They wanted high-fidelity audio and complete cove
Traditionally, venues have been designed to have acoustics optimised for specific uses: theatres are designed for plays, concert halls for music, lecture halls for speech, cinemas for film surround sound. To use one of these venues for an application with different acoustical needs meant either putting architectural solutions in place or compromising a performance with inappropriate acoustics. But variable architectural solutions can be very expensive and have a limited range of effectivene
The sound system utilises a combination of Community WET and R-Series weather-resistant loudspeakers throughout the park, including 60 WET 2W8 2-way systems and 28 WET 920H 3-way cabinets, as well as more than 100 R.25 and R.5 horn-loaded two-way systems covering the general seating areas.
Buddhists and residents alike are happy to hear the beautiful music through the Proel sound system. "Now the music from the new sound system enhances the solemnity of the atmosphere and keeps our minds peaceful," says people in the neighbourhoods.
The sound system is mainly composed by TPRK8P speakers - installed in the courtyard - and MO5T speakers for the sanctuary of this temple. The first one is a model from the TPRKMARKII series, featuring a new and unique design, while the second speaker is a two-way 60W monitor, supplied with mounting bracket.
It is mainly used for speech - for ceremonies, background music - for events and holidays, and Buddhist music appreciation.
Each week, two teams of celebrities led by renowned chefs Sergi Arola and Mario Sandoval, were tasked with preparing a menu for 25 people, whilst living together in a reality TV house for the duration of the programme. An iDR-8 16x16 matrix mixing processor and iDR-In and iDR-Out expander units were installed to manage the audio distribution to and from all the zones around the house set.
None of the competitors carried microphones, instead AT3031 Audio-Technica microphones were installed throughout the living space, monitoring the housemates 24 hours a day.
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Lighting designer João Guedes explains: "I have known grandMA from the beginning. The evolution it's had over the last few years makes it the best console on the market today! It convinced me, not only because of its many possibilities for every kind of lighting, but also because you get free and regular software updates. MA Lighting's doing a great job and we have a console that we can use for any kind of show."
The grandMA full-size offers real-time control for up to 64 DMX universes (Expansion Mode), extensive networ
As digital audio networks continue to expand and become more complex, higher CobraNet channel counts are a necessity. The popular CobraLink unit, now fully-loaded with its maximum CobraNet channel count right out of the box, serves to bridge SymNet SymLink hardware to any industry-standard CobraNet audio network. It also provides a means to network SymNet Express Cobra units with SymLink hardwa
After winning the tender to provide their expertise in ensuring that the technical aspects of the production lighting and sound were installed to the highest standards possible, Northern Light went on site in January 2006.
In addition to the efforts of Northern Light's drawing office, project management and technical staff, the company's manufacturing division had a tough challenge to face on this project. Due to the performance space and very nature of the Young Vic's artistic direction, Northern Light was called upon to custom make various aspects of the technical requirements.
Simon Cooper, head of projects at Northern Light, said: &q
Steff Langley, the Barbican's head of sound, ordered the desk from Richard Nowell Sound Services with a brief, "to keep us as mobile as possible. All our outboard is also flightcased, as we move systems not only between the various venues here at the Barbican, but also outside the theatre, to other locations. There's no point in spending £50K on a console, but not spending £1K on a flightcase."
The Barbican's 2006 progra
Situated in Warwick Street, the venue comprises an informal bar and dining room with 80 covers on the ground floor, and a downstairs cocktail lounge bar, with seating available for 100 people.
The operation is a joint venture between successful Soho operator Brenhan Magee, and entrepreneur and Crystal Palace FC chairman Simon Jordan. Magee has worked with The Breakfast Group over the past 11 years and was instrumental in setting up bars and restaurants including Jerusalem and recently Salvador & Amanda.
Having been heavily involved with the Breakfast Group over the years, and worked on the sound system installation at Salvador & Amanda, Marquee Audio tendered succe
According to EAW systems application specialist Steve Badham, the key criterion for the audio installation was flexibility. Comprising three bars and two performance spaces of 750 capacity (1500 capacity when combined) as well as shops an
Macon-based Total Systems Audio, Video, and Consulting have supplied vast amounts of technical equipment to the Church; no coincidence as their managing director is also the Church's technical director.
Recently the Church took delivery of a LSC Lighting Systems maXim LP console and are getting ready to purchase a maXim XXLP through LSC's USA dist
Multi-purpose in use, promedia mms runs Que Pasa's bespoke music and music video profile and controls all aspects of the sites entertainment offer be it scheduling on-screen graphics, programming lighting effects, controlling what is seen on each screen, and adjusting the audio presets throughout the trading week. And in addition to this, promedia mms ably assists the on-site DJ with its integral fully featured touch-screen DJ console.
As well as supplying the promedia mms system, tsg specified and installed a robust screen and lighting system and also tweaked and brought up to date the existing audio system
Having been a preferred supplier of audio-visual services to the award-winning Brewery for the past seven years, the London event services company PSL was the ideal candidate to handle the design and installation of new production facilities. "PSL is familiar with the building, and we're very comfortable with PSL," says Lawson. "They've led the design process throughout but we've been closely involved, especially when it came to the replacement of the sound system."
The Brewery has worked closely with PSL and the Corporation of London on
