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14 March 2016

Project engineer at ITV Steve Usher says: "In the TV lighting world, operators are only interested in the lighting, and not the technology. The old desks needed increasingly frequent repairs, and it was becoming harder to get spares. We looked at lots of different options, but it was difficult to find one which all the operators were confident about using. We were looking for a desk which was sophisticated, capable and flexible."

To change the desks over, the studios needed to be taken out of use for a few days - and with the studios as busy as they are, finding a slot was difficult. Usher continues: "The previous desks worked on DMX, so we needed to completely recable for Ethernet. In fr

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At 25 times the life of halogen, the GE LED Cove Lighting System provides 280 useable lumens per foot and consumes just 6.5W of energy, providing significant energy savings and superior brightness. "End-user, specifier and distributor customers have come to rely on GE for its innovation and technology leadership," says Norm Sowards, general manager of commercial and industrial marketing, GE Consumer & Industrial. "Our new GE LED Cove Lighting System is emblematic of GE's innovative

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The new company, founded as an evolution of the successful relationship between Artistic Licence UK and the Hong Kong based Ptarmigan Consulting, will, like its UK counterpart, take an active role in both product and project based activities in the Far and Middle East.

"We have been working together on a less formal basis for the past two years," explains Artistic Licence managing director, Wayne Howell. "This has proved to be a great, and continuing, success allowing us to explore the market thoroughly and establish ourselves within it. We have decided the time is now right to formalise the relationship by forming an independent company, Artistic Licence Asia.&qu

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DJW Projects were contracted to undertake the sophisticated audio and lighting install, emphasising their own philosophy of "total integration of all systems." Dave Croxon, DJW's MD, commented: "One of the key issues we had to undertake was selecting a dimming and control system that was easy to use, provide enough useful features and was rock solid and reliable. After evaluating a number of commercially available systems, we chose the LSC EKO wall mount dimmers and e-PLATE wall controllers."

Croxon continued: "I was attracted to the EKO dimmer by the immediate support provided through the integrated touch screen on the front panel. No matter what else was happening in a commercial in

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For years, lighting designer Giovanni Pinna has been responsible for ensuring that Vasco Rossi's summer tours are even more exciting.

Set design is by Giò Forma Studio of Milan, who chose to decorate the stage with a background of round mirrors (the same ones you find used as traffic signals). Pinna incorporated a huge number of Martin fixtures: 63 MAC 700 Profiles, 50 MAC 700 Washes, 55 Atomic 3000 strobes, 78 Stagebar 54 L and 22 Stagebar 54 S LED bars, plus two Jem Roadie Compact fog and haze effect generators. The Martin gear was provided by Limelite of Rome.

Pinna turned to LED

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Colour Sound Experiment, who supplied the Comedy, Cabaret, Music & Film, Book Club, Poetry, In The Woods and Saddlers Wells in The Lake stages, also deployed six Avolites Pearls around the site.

Lighting for the four Siyan stages was designed by Steve Finch, who worked with their crew chief Ieystn Thomas and 10 others. It was based on creating something practical for all the incoming LDs, including moving lights and a selection generics, and he studied all their specs as a starting point.

There was also plenty of latitude (no pun intended!) in the designs for the Siyan FOH li

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The fixtures were incorporated into the new-look N6 and TC7 studios by set designers Jago Design as part of a consolidation of the news studios. When the studios came up for refurbishment the aim was to create continuity - enabling any news strand to be dropped into any studio via the video projection walls - but to create greater control flexibility and find a better way to light the presenters.

But the limitations of the smaller N6, home to the BBC News channel, created a major challenge. "Apart from the studios' physical size, it already has a low ceiling height and a massive air-conditioning duct brings it down lower still," said BBC lighting designer Dave Weighell, who oversees the news

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Taking both the Australian and US country music scenes by storm, the New Zealand born Urban heavily relies on the sound quality of the Vista 5 SR while on tour. The Studer Vista 5 SR was chosen by his mixing engineers who went through a vigorous evaluation process prior to the selection of the console but chose the Studer after it met all required criteria: Sound quality, flexibility/ease-of-use and reliability.

FOH Engineer Steve Law and monitor mixing engineer Jason Spence evaluated numerous brands of sound consoles before the tour. Spence noted he had never felt as comfortable with a new desk as he did during the week he was trying ou

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The Vector Red controlled a massive lighting rig included 24 Martin MAC 2000 profile, 24 Robe colorSpot 1200, 12 Robe ColorWash 1200, 24 Martin MAC 550, 40 Martin Mac 600, 26 Xenon 4K, 10 Atomic strobe, four Unique smoke machines and more than 200 dimmer channels.

"The lighting rig was huge and impressive and I really enjoyed programming the show with Vector consoles"; commented David Winnik, the operator of the show. "Programming is very intuitive an

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"I wanted to create a physical space of lighting within the performance area", explains Watson. He planned a three-dimensional array of 548 x Element Labs Versa Tubes HD that frame the band and act like a virtual stage forming a low resolution 3D video 'screen'. The Versa Tube HDs form curtains of six and nine meter long vertical strips from the back to the front of stage. The entire array is controlled from a custom 3D version of Catalyst, specially written by Richard Bleasdale for the tour.

Additional audience and band lighting comes from 48 x i-Pix BB4 and 48 x i-Pix BB7 LED fixtures. Floor lighting is from seven Color Kinetics iW Blasts, seven Pulsar ChromaFlood 200 TriColour and 12 i-Pix Satellites. A 2

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Done and Dusted managed the event for Channel 4, bringing in production manager Tony Wheeler of Nine Yards to look after all aspects of the live production. Wheeler comments: "This year's event grew most significantly. We like to keep our team consistent and once again entrusted Power Logistics to ensure there was uninterrupted power, particularly important for an event driven by its live television show. As ever they have been exemplary and taken all of the late changes an event of this nature throws up in their stride."

Tony Harpur led the Power Logistics te

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The B'z is Japan's best selling rock band. They have sold over 75m records and they were the first Asian artists to have their handprints and signatures put up in Hollywood's Rock Walk. For their Action 2008 tour, they worked together with renowned set designer Mark Fisher from Stufish. The mastermind behind stages for U2 and The Rolling Stones designed a 'magic carpet', a grand carpet-like LED screen, flying over the band.

The Stufish team worked closely together with Barco's Innovative Designs to turn their vision into reality. A total of 1,152 MiSTRIPs were used to create the experience

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Clifton supplied lighting for all the festival's auxiliary stages, all of which featured Robe at the core of their rigs. The event was project managed for them by Michael Parsons, who states, "Reliability was the key factor we looked for here, and that's why we chose Robe for this event."

For the Sydney and Brisbane legs of the tour, lighting for the main Future Music Stage was also operated by Parsons during the afternoon. He chose Robe ColorWash 2500 fixtures fitted with PC lenses, which were hung on side trusses and positioned so as not to impede on the Chemical Brothers' rig.

These were used to wash the stage and audience. "Their brightnes

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The Alphas created custom lighting for each artist so that each performance was characterised by a studied play of effects and colours. The light show was made attractive to both the large audience in the Arena and home viewers by the attentive layout of the numerous and different light sources including 120sq.m of Barco OLite 510, 24 sq.m of Barco 10 and about 400 sq.m of M LEDs LC2140. As in 2007 and 2006 the event was again controlled by a grandMA system.

PROCON Event Engineering Germany, was the general technical supplier and provided lighting, sound, video, stage building, rigging and power. Production designer was Goran Joksimovic. Sven Stojanovic worked as art director

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The visual design that united lighting, digital and video sources into one seamless atmospheric experience for all fivearenas and three terraces, was created by Nick Jevons and Phil Winward of Electric Fly Productions. Site wide lighting equipment was supplied by Blackburn-based HSL, and crew from both companies collaborated closely to ensure that it was one of the most visually memorable Global events to date.

The seven arena/terrace Avolites consoles included two Diamond 4s, two Pearls and three Tigers. Jevons says, "Avolites is the ultimate festival console - nothing else offers the flexibility or ease of use for the hands-on, live operati

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The touch-board channel layout view provides quick channel setup of the user's fixtures. A multi-track, touch-enabled mixer, controls with accurate precision. As a DMX data analyzer, data is displayed in realtime as a touch-scrollable overview of all channels in the input universe. Selecting a specific channel shows the current value, as well as the past 24 seconds of data in graph form.

Wireless connectivity allows users to be unchained from the mixer desk or patch-bay

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LSC's managing director, Gary Pritchard, explains: "Although the perceived financial benefits of manufacturing in Asia are tempting, the stories of inferior quality products and lost Intellectual property experienced by other companies exploring this option, have convinced us to invest here in Australia. We are very protective of our intellectual property (designs) and we pride ourselves on the high quality and enduring products we build. Both of these qualities, we felt, could be at great risk if outsourced to areas that are hard to directly control from Australia."

To show their customer base that LSC products ar

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The Festival, run by J&J Events, is set in the heart of the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens on the Wiltshire/Dorset borders. The Gardens were created by General Pitt Rivers in 1880 as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment" and are part of the outstanding landscape of Cranbourne Chase.

It's the third year that the west London based rental company has been involved with the event, which is limited to an intimate 5000 capacity and is renowned for it's very chilled vibes, quality international entertainment and amazing surroundings.

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"Several years ago, before video became a factor, ClearView wanted to improve its stage lighting, and they were told there was no way they could do this without spending a fortune on a new transformer," recalled Vaque. "We went in and showed them how they could do it on their existing circuitry, using intelligent lights. We installed several CMY colour-mixing intelligent lights, and the look was phenomenal."

But now with its membership passing 2,000, ClearView was growing into a need for quality video to cr

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Procon's order of LED equipment included a significant amount of Barco NX-6, MiTRIX and OLite.

"We always aim to offer our clients the latest products that are available on the market. As well as the increase in MiTRIX and OLite, we have now also decided on a Black Face LED system. The decision was made in favour of the NX-6 from Barco for reasons of its quality and flexibility", stated Morten Carlsson, managing director of Procon Event Engineering.

With this order, Procon has increased its stock of LED walls by more than 1,000 sqm this year. The company has also invested in projection equipment. The stock of Barco XLM H

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"We have been looking for a suitable and solidly reliable leasing partner for some time, and a lot of careful consideration has gone into our decision to team up with Leasing Services," comments Robe lighting MD Josef Valchar. "This agreement is a major step forward in Robe's evolution, and will greatly benefit a majority of our business partners and clients by facilitating a wide range of accessible, flexible, cost-effective finance options."

Interested parties will be able to fill in the initial inquiry forms on the Robe website www.robe.cz and send these directly

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Twelve of these, along with six BB4s were recently used on the London date of Duffy's UK tour, which has also been serviced by Siyan, and designed/operated by Bryan Leitch and Cate Carter.

"They are fantastic fixtures - bright, dynamic and unusual " says Leitch, who was actually specifically looking for a light-source that was similar in shape to the flower/petal appearance of the BB7. As soon as i-Pix' Chris Ewington had demonstrated the power and effect of the BB7, a seven- cell high powered homogenized 10 degree RGB lightsource, Leitch put in his order.

Six went directly onto the KylieX2008 world tour, with lighting designed by Leitch and Nick Whitehouse, where they were used in the o

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This move comes at a time of growth for Bandit and is the logical step in taking the firm to the next level, says the company. Heffernan began his full time relationship with Bandit Lites in 1978 and he has risen through the ranks. He served as lighting director and/ or production manager for a number of artists that toured on the international scene including Blackfoot and Quiet Riot.

Heffernan moved into an administrative position in 1985 and has performed a variety of roles in the last 23 years. He will be working with the staff and management overseeing the day-to-day operations.

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The building's grand façade was flooded for the occasion with architectural lighting from four PR Lighting Century Color 2500Ls to create a breathtaking effect.

These fixtures were provided by MEDIAM Sp. zoo, PR Lighting's Polish distributors for an evening which saw a performance by Polish singer, Natalia Kukulska, in front of an audience of around 400.

Mediam were brought in by professional creative agency and production company, Creative Media, with whom they have worked in the past - and the company's in-house lighting designer Maciej Bubula set to work on ingtegrating several PR Lighting fixtures with an LED screen (for the performance by Kukulska