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Estonia - Estonia’s oldest theatre - Vanemuine in Tartu - received new audio, lighting, video, and communication equipment supplied by Amptown System Company (ASC) as part of a major conversion project.
Berlin-based Ingenieur Gesellschaft Wibbeke & Penders was commissioned with planning and implementing the structural conversion work while Dr. Reiner Chemnitius was responsible for working out the fundamentals for media equipment selection and installation.
Working together with ASC project manager Jan Vandrei and his team, theatre planner Dr. Chemnitius developed and customized the complex redundant audio/video fibre optic system based on Optocore and BroaMan components exclusively for the Vanemuine theatre.
Two management consoles with the real-time capable media control system by adunas were eventually selected. The larger main console to the right of th

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UK - Pro-audio provider The Warehouse supplied an advanced audio solution for Edinburgh International Festival’s opening event. The Aberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event: Five Telegrams celebrated the start of the 2018 International Festival and was attended by 15,000 people.
This audio and visual event highlighted contemporary responses to the communication infrastructure of the First World War. The work was a joint commission for the BBC Proms, 14-18 NOW and the International Festival, in association with the Royal Albert Hall.
For the event, The Warehouse worked alongside International Festival’s head of sound Tom Zwitserlood, production manager Murray Boyd, and technical director John Robb, together with Olivier Award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry, who recently won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for Harry Potter and the
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UK - This July saw the return of the Rock & Bike Fest in the historic grounds of Carnfield Hall, South Normanton. This year’s festival welcomed hundreds of campers and show-goers to Derbyshire for a 72-hour celebration of music, bikes and beer.
The live production of the event was provided by HK Audio commercial partners Dezign Audio and Sound Alliance, both of whom super-charged the sound via a fleet of HK Audio speakers and power amps.
Acts including Big Country, Lindisfarne, Fleetwood Bac, Women in Rock, Surreal Panther, Kesia Gill, and Grand Ultra entertained the crowds during the weekend, with the HK Audio Contour, Linear 5 and Premium Pro systems all involved in the set-up on the event's main stage.
Additionally, all performers benefitted from crystal clear on-stage audio thanks to the employment of HK Audio Contour and Linear 5 monitors. To bo

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China - McDonald’s latest ‘flagship’ outlets in China feature menu ordering, delivery to the table, a newly-integrated McDonald's App, WeChat applet member points, mobile payment and electronic menus.
Each of the outlets music and public address systems has a Bosch Plena Mixer Amplifier at its heart. This feeds to a LC6-100S-L ceiling mount Compact Sound Speaker System: a complete loudspeaker package. It consists of a high-performance, ceiling-mount, eight-inch subwoofer module with a crossover network to support the four-ceiling mount, two-inch, satellite speakers. Easy connections at the subwoofer support either 4 ohm or 70 / 100V signals.
For each of the floorplans used by McDonald’s flagship restaurants, Bosch has designed a special configuration of the commercial sound speakers to deliver sound. This was developed using acoustic-modelling software called

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USA - Effects Unlimited has recently completed the design and installation of a new sound system based around Community E Series column line source and point source loudspeaker systems for St. Nicholas Church in Wilkes-Barre.
St. Nicholas has been a landmark of the Wyoming Valley since the 1850s and the current neo-gothic church with its high vaulted ceilings and reflective surfaces was completed in 1887.
St. Nicholas turned to audio specialist Effects Unlimited to design a system that would deliver high intelligibility and complete coverage in the acoustically challenging space. Specialising in installation, as well as rental and live production services, Effects Unlimited is one of the largest providers of audio visual systems in the region.
Effects Unlimited designed the system using Community E Series loudspeakers, chosen for their audio quality, reliability

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Australia - Jay Productions and Events are lighting, vision, sound, staging, and operations specialists, covering AV for the corporate market, activations, and special events. The company has recently added Green Hippo’s Hippotizer Karst to their inventory.
Jason Ghazal, the owner of Jay Productions, comments: “We are increasingly incorporating complex lighting with mapping to LED screens, and projection mapping. We needed a media server that is versatile and easy to use. We got advice from everybody we knew that does specialised work with media servers, and they all agreed that that Green Hippo was the best.”
Jason and the team plumped for two Karsts fitted with the DVI and DP output card option, incorporating Green Hippo’s PixelMapper, SHAPE 3D projection mapping tool set, and Hippotizer V4’s multipurpose pre-visualisation tool into a 2RU, road-ready case.

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UK - CPL, working as technical partners for event producers Bright, returned to the Mojo Active Almondsbury site near Bristol for the annual OVO Energy summer party, an action-packed day of fun and entertainment for OVO employees, their friends and family, now in its fourth year.
The project included CPL’s delivery of audio, lighting, rigging and crew for two music stages - Main and Bar - featuring live bands and a DJ line-up respectively, and there were also a few ‘specials’ around the site, including flying a 1m diameter glitter ball flown from the apex of one the conjoined tipis making up the Bar area.
The CPL team was led by Mike Radford, and they worked closely on site with Bright’s production manager Nick Diacre and their project leader, Annabel Harrison.
For the main stage, a d&b Y8 line array sound system was specified, with three flown Y8s a

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UK - Over 180 years after its creator’s passing, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck continues to resonate with theatre audiences. This is very evident in the Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s recent production of the drama, which features intense imagery made more evocative by Lee Curran’s lighting created with Chauvet Professional Ovation, Maverick and COLORado fixtures.
In keeping with the open-ended spirit of Woyzeck, the Birmingham Repertory’s production of the play grew out of a change of plans on the part of the theatrical company. Initially, the company had planned to run a different show with a different director in its Spring-Summer 2018 season. When that director had to withdraw due to another commitment, Roxana Silbert, AD of the company, took over as director and decided to do Leo Butler’s adaptation of Woyzeck rather than the original show.

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Denmark - It may be a coincidence, but Denmark’s second-largest music festival Smukfest just happens to be located in the backyard of manufacturer of professional studio monitors, Dynaudio. Now, they have entered into a collaboration to debut Dynaudio’s new pop-up recording studio concept - called Unheard - in August 2018.
“Building a professional recording studio in a huge container might sound crazy to some,” says VP of sales and product manager for Dynaudio’s Pro division, Rune Holst Jacobsen. “To us, music is an expression where every little individual sound has a character of its own, a meaning and a purpose. It’s an intuitive and emotional connector that makes us feel alive. And that is exactly what we always aim to pass on to the producers working with our studio monitors. But now we want to take it a step further and assist in the artists’ purs

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USA - Rap artist Logic is touring North America with a visually ambitious show using two Avolites Ai servers to drive immersive content to multiple LED surfaces.
Logic’s Bobby Tarantino vs Everybody tour takes in performances at some of North America’s most famous venues, including NYC’s Madison Square Garden, the LA Forum and Las Vegas’s Park Theatre.
Production design, programming and Notch content for the tour has been masterminded by Visual Endeavors’ creative director Aron Altmark.
He comments: “We have a number of custom servers that we’ve built up for interactive and media server duties over the past year, and our Ai servers for the Logic tour are based around this robust build - namely, Intel i7 8th-gen hexacore processors coupled with Nvidia GTX 1080Ti GPUs and lots of PCIe solid-state memory. There are two servers on the tour for fu

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USA - The Dave Matthews Band is digging deep in their catalogue to serve up some old school favourites while mixing in new songs from their latest release on their current 2018 tour, which kicked off 18 May in Houston, Texas. The popular jam band is known as a must-see summer touring act and this year are selling out amphitheatres across the US beneath a rig that includes effects from Elation Chorus Line LED battens.
The band’s first tour since 2016 runs through 10 September, with the final show at the Hollywood Bowl in LA. The tour is in support of the band's new album Come Tomorrow that debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. Lighting design is by Fenton Williams together with Aaron Stinebrink of tour lighting vendor TMS of Omaha, Nebraska. Both Williams and TMS have been associated with the Dave Matthews Band for over two decades.
The designers use 30 Chor

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UK - Luminex GigaCore network switches provided a dual redundancy network for The Great Exhibition of the North's opening ceremony along the Tyne River, which featured spectacular live music, fireworks, and an 80m-long fountain and drone display.
More than 18,000 people lined the Newcastle and Gateshead Quayside for the opening ceremony to launch the festival, which celebrates the scientific and artistic achievements of the North of England.
Equipment hire and events company, SLX provided the complete audio and lighting production package and crew for the event. Audio hire manager Rob Collett, who oversaw the event's hugely ambitious audio & lighting production requirements, had been looking to invest in a high quality, easy to use network switch with Ethercon and rugged fibre connectors. After being impressed with SLX's stock of Luminex's Mk1 nodes, he decided to

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Spain - Located close to the azure waters of the Altea on the Alicante seafront - a famous refuge for poets, singers, painters and sculptors - is the renowed four-star Cap Negret hotel.
As part of a recent thorough renovation taking in the major seafront rooms, junior suites and public areas, audio integration company Sonido Limón, working on behalf of the hotel management, chose a variety of Work Pro sound reinforcement equipment. The installation includes BlueLine AoIP audio management systems and the stylish and discreet frameless C PRO speakers, which feature magnetic speaker grilles for fast and easy interior access.
The BlueLine system operates over Cat 5 cable, allowing seamless control of six audio sources across eight different zones via an existing IT network. This is how it is being used at Cap Negret, where the entire streaming audio entertainment and pagi

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Finland - With the festival season in full swing, Finnish singer / songwriter, Nelli Matula, has embarked on her summer tour, accompanied by a compact Allen & Heath dLive Wings system for both FOH and monitors.
Supplied by HÖG Light & Sound, the tour set-up consists of a dLive C1500 for FOH and a custom dual-touchscreen controller for monitors, both running in multi-surface mode from a single DM48 MixRack. The system also includes a DX168 expander for remote I/O, Dante card, and a Waves3 card for multi-track recording and virtual soundcheck.
Tour manager and FOH engineer, Temi Kinnunun, explains why dLive was an easy choice: “I'm a long-time Allen & Heath user and I’ve been using dLive ever since it was launched. The best feature of dLive is the user interface and the preamp sound.”
Running the touchscreen system with Director software for mon

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France - All of France marks the beginning of the modern French nation each year on 14 July, with events taking place all over the country. As in previous years, Lawo mixing consoles helped deliver the audio for more than 500,000 Concert de Paris spectators at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
The Concert de Paris is one of the largest classical music events held anywhere in the world, and is followed by a traditional firework display. The show – featuring the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Radio France, along with internationally renowned soloists – was relayed to TV viewers and radio listeners in France and beyond with the Lawo setup.
For the central celebrations on the Champ du Mars next to the Eiffel Tower – the highlight of the National Holiday – Radio France used an mc²96, Lawo’s flagship audio production console, for ultimate F

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China - Stage Electrics and Pacific Lighting have started work on Hong Kong’s new Freespace Theatre.
The joint venture between Stage Electrics and Pacific Lighting has proved successful in winning the contact to deliver production lighting, sound & video infrastructure, communication systems and rigging for the Freespace Theatre, one of the new performance venues located in Hong Kong’s new Cultural District.
Since signing the £1.7m contract in early 2017 the team have undertaken detailed off-site design work, liaising regularly with the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. Activity on-site has now commenced, including installation, termination and testing of the specialist works ahead of the planned official opening in 2019.
Pacific Lighting’s Hugh Chinnick and Virginia Kam have been key in providing local coordination, advice and guidance to t

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USA - New Found Glory followed up their 2017 20 Years of Pop Punk Tour by hitting the road earlier this summer in support of their ninth studio LP, Makes Me Sick.
Blow-your-head-back colours were part of the experience. The band eschewed video walls and projections, and instead relied on a backdrop of hand-painted psychedelic scenic elements designed to glow when hit by light. Providing that light was a design by Megan Alksninis of JDI Productions that added to the colourful panorama, with help from the COLORdash Par-Quad 7 LED wash from Chauvet Professional.
“The look of the Sick Tour is extremely colourful; it’s bright and loud to reflect the band’s music,” says Alksninis. “Their heavy energy pop punk show does not slow down - and our lights keep pace. I took inspiration off the backdrop and other scenic pieces to create my looks. Neon

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Iceland - Located in the Hali region of Suðursveit in South-East Iceland, Thorbergssetur is a culture centre and heritage museum dedicated to the region’s history and the life and works of writer Thorbergur Thordarson.
With a theatrical-style exhibition which includes glimpses into the life of the Icelandic author, the museum recently decided it was time to update their lighting design. Wanting to install a completely new LED system, Luxor lighting designer Alfreð Sturla Böðvarsson created an elegant, story-telling design using Gallery LED and PHX 150W LED profile luminaires from Altman Lighting.
“A director who I´ve worked with a few times was working in the museum this summer, and he asked me to give them advice on how to replace the outdated 12-year old system with a modern LED lighting scheme,” opens Böðvarsson. “They wanted to emphasize the many sce

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India - Munro Acoustics recently deployed an end-to-end Harman Professional Solutions audio system at the Flea Bazaar Café in the Lower Parel district of Mumbai.
Owned and operated by Impresario Group, the 7,000sq.ft café features 13 separate restaurants, a marketplace for local lifestyle brands and a bar that serves local beers and craft cocktails. The Flea Bazaar Café also includes a community performance venue that hosts stand-up comedy, plays, DJs and live music, and more. The space features a customised pulley mechanism that can quickly lift the tables and chairs to the ceiling and create extra space for audiences, as well as a van that serves as the DJ booth.
Impresario Group hired long-time audio partner Munro Acoustics to design an audio system that would complement the aesthetic of the Flea Bazaar Café and deliver even sound coverage in the highly reverbe

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World - Guns N' RosesNot In This Lifetime tour continues to steam its way around the world two years after kicking off with an appropriately impressive classic rock lighting and visual design using totally contemporary technology created by Phil Ealy.
Phil’s work with the American hard rockers dates back over 30 years - since they first hit stardom with their debut Appetite for Destruction album released in 1987. Ron Schilling is out on the road as lighting director for this one which is the first time that three original members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan have performed together since 1993.
Phil chose Robe moving lights to play a major role in the lighting scheme with the stadium version of the rig featuring 74 x BMFL WashBeams – five used as truss follow spots, 32 x BMFL Spots, three BMFL Blades and ten Pointes.
The BMFLs are rigged in

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UK - Edinburgh Fringe Festival returns for four weeks of innovative, provocative and entertaining new theatre and performance embracing all genres.
Over 100 x Zero 88 lighting consoles - including the new FLX range and a variety of legacy products - are working hard across the 300+ venues running in and around the city during the event, and the company has once again been at the forefront of offering comprehensive onsite training and support.
At least 25 of Eaton’s new Zero 88 FLX S range consoles alone are involved, just nine months after the desk was launched.
Zero 88 consoles and control packages are featuring at some of the busiest and most popular venues, with FLX range products at Assembly, Underbelly, Gilded Balloon, Summerhall and Pleasance, all of which offer multiple performance spaces throughout the Festival, each staging approximately eight to 10

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UK - The 2018 Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon and Half Marathon recently drew more than 22,000 participants to Liverpool’s streets, where runners and spectators alike were entertained by a wealth of stages located throughout the city.
For regional live event specialist IE Production Services, the sheer size of the event was reflected in the number of stages it served - no fewer than 17, each of which presented its own challenges in terms of sound reinforcement. Having considered the options, IE Production Services looked to K-array and the Italian innovator’s UK representative, 2B Heard, for a broad range of solutions.
Encompassing a 26.2 mile course with options to either tackle the full marathon, attempt a half marathon option or try a slightly more manageable 5k, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon draws on Liverpool’s musical heritage and has become an institution with

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Canada - Cosmo Music of Richmond Hill, ON teamed up with Canadian distributor SFM to deploy an Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Adaptive sound reinforcement system at Canada’s premier musical instrument and gear exhibition, Cosmo MusicFEST & Expo (CosmoFEST).
The free all-ages event saw more than 14,000 people pre-register and attendees took advantage of an outdoor main stage, indoor Cosmopolitan Music Hall, instrument and gear EXPO, retail store, Kidz Zone, Community Zone, food trucks, and beer garden.
“The stage was located at the far end of the area with food trucks located at the end of the audience area, roughly 225ft back,” explains Cosmo Music’s professional services division manager, Ryan McLeod. “We wanted the primary concert audience area to have solid, even coverage while maintaining a more family-friendly volume in some areas - this was easily ac

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USA - The Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, AL was originally a depression-era public works project. It opened its doors in 1938 as a combination city hall/movie palace and quickly became a symbol of its community’s determination to prevail during challenging times.
Now a state-of-the-art performing arts centre, Bama Theatre hosts over 200 shows a year, ranging from full-scale Broadway-style productions and music recitals, to dance programmes and film festivals. Supporting this diverse range of offerings is a flexible lighting rig featuring Chauvet Professional fixtures.
David Jones, the facility’s technical director, reports, “I have been working at the Bama Theatre in some capacity since I was 15, which is 26 years ago. I started with audio only and in the last 15 years or so I delved more into lighting. I started diverting most of my funds to improving the lighting
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