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dBLux to distribute LSC in Austria

Details: 14 March 2016

Austria - dBLuX has been appointed the Austrian distributor for LSC Lighting. Following the appointment, Thorsten Sattler of dBLux visited the LSC Melbourne headquarters to undertake three days of intensive training on the LSC range of lighting equipment.

"It was great to see inside the company and to meet all the people who work there," said Sattler. "Now I understand what will happen inside the company when I send my orders through to them. Richie Mickan spent a lot of time with me and he has showed me so much - products, people and anything else I was interested in.

"It was a great start for both of us. I have had the chance to get to know the guys more than I can do over phone. We had many discussions on what we can do together in the future and I am look

Hard Rock goes VersaTILE with PID

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Digital media specialist Projected Image Digital has supplied the Hard Rock Café London with a bespoke Element Labs VersaTILE installation for their newly refurbished Basement Bar. Hard Rock Café London, the first and most famous venue of this landmark brand, has just reopened after extensive renovations. Its interior was designed by Paula Reason of Cadmium Design, a London-based designer involved in creating many of the Hard Rock Café interiors worldwide.

Reason wanted a central light feature in the bar to continue an ongoing theme of using light to interact 'live' with the people within specific Hard Rock spaces. This had been started at previous Hard Rock projects and has taken many different formats. However for the new-look London venue she wanted something completely different.

Reason became aware of PID, and the VersaTILE product, and contacted

Blitz with Gordon Ramsay

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Blitz provided technical staging expertise for The Gordon Ramsay Scholarship Award held recently. Blitz supplied equipment for both the Final at the Restaurant Show in Olympia and for the awards ceremony at the Claridge's Ballroom. The Scholarship was created in 2001 by Gordon Ramsay to encourage and recognise the talents of young cooks across Britain.

Blitz's equipment included 61" and 42" plasma screens, DV cameras, a PA system and lapel mics. At the Restaurant Show the DV camcorders were placed to catch all the action taking place within the Cookery Theatre. The close ups were relayed to the plasma screens and the footage was edited onsite using an Avid for the evening's Awards Ceremony at Claridges.

Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz, explains "As there were large crowds gathered around the stand, using trailing cables for the cameras to transmit t

Allen & Heath at China's Love & Share

Details: 14 March 2016

China - China's third 'Love & Share' Beach Party was recently held at Haibin Beach, Zhuhai, using an Allen & Heath GL3800 multi-purpose live sound mixer and a Xone:62 DJ mixer to manage the numerous musical acts performing during the two-day event.

The party - a highlight of the National 'Golden Week' Holiday - was organized by the Zhuhai Tourism Administration, the Xiangzhou District Government, and the Zhuhai Broadcasting Station. The event attracted more than 20,000 visitors, who had come to see bands and DJs from Beijing, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Australia, and USA perform a range of musical styles from rock to hip-hop.

Allen & Heath's Chinese distributor, Eastern Acoustic Development Ltd (EAD), provided the sound equipment for the event, selecting a 32-channel GL3800 for the bands, and an industry-standard Xone:62 mixer for the DJs.

"The 'Love & Share' beac

ATC & Studer at flagship BBC studio

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A 5.1 surround system comprising ATC SCM Series Professional Monitor Loudspeakers anda wraparound Studer Vista 8 digital audio console have been installed has been installed in Studio One at BBC Television Centre in west London. The facility combines space of over 10,000sq.ft and audience seating for 384 people with technical capability for fast turnaround productions and live programmes such as coverage of national elections, awards ceremonies and charity telethons.

The new multichannel monitoring system uses a mix of large and small active 3-way monitors from the SCM Series. Left and right speakers are SCM 150ASL Pro monitors, using 15" super-linear bass drivers to give extended bass, headroom and dynamic range. The centre channel is an ATC SCM100ASL with soft dome mid-range driver and 12" bass driver. ATC SCM50s are used for the rear channel speakers.

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The DFS in action at The Fun Loving Criminals concert. (photo: Louise Stickland)

White Light's DFS in action

Details: 14 March 2016

UK / USA - White Light's Digital Festoon System, launched at the 2004 PLASA Show where it won a PLASA Award for Innovation, found its way onto a number of UK lighting projects this summer, and is now on its way to the ETS-LDI Show in Orlando, Florida.

A radical re-think of traditional festoon lighting, the Digital Festoon System offers users the ability to individually control the level of each bulb along a length of festoon, while still being formed from a traditional two-core festoon cable.

The first to use the system in a real-world project was lighting designer Gary Collins, on a large outdoor event for VS Creative. "VS Creative had asked me to come up with an efficient and cost-effective way to light a 400m path through the woodland grounds of the venue, allowing guests to return to the car park after dark," Collins explains. "Light levels had to be generou

i-Vision lights Oslo conference rooms

Details: 14 March 2016

Norway - i-Vision has supplied Norwegian lighting design and installation company Oslo Lysdesign with a mixture of their Lumos LED products for several high profile hotel projects, including the conference rooms at the newly refurbished Royal Christiana Hotel in Oslo.

Oslo Lysdesign's Gier Ove Langlo was asked to design and specify a new scheme for the conference spaces by hotel group Choice Hotels, of which the Christiana is a new flagship venue.The main conference space is a large area with sliding room dividers that break it down into three smaller spaces as required.Langlo illuminated the paths of these dividing walls from below with Lumos in-ground Spots. Around the sides of the whole room, he chose to light from the top down, using 58 of i-Vision's Lumos 3 fittings as down-lighters. In the foyer outside, he installed 26 Lumos 1200 mm LED strip fixtures into the roof soffit

Harlequin at Wells Summer School

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - British Harlequin's association with The Wells Summer School has continued into a fourth year, converting three major areas used for dance at Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells into suitable performance spaces

.Harlequin's roll out dance floors were laid in the main hall of the school, where the parquet floor was covered with Harlequin Studio. Harlequin Cascade, which is the same flooring that The Royal Ballet dances on at The Royal Opera House, was used to cover the wooden floor in the Auditorium and also for the large marquee erected in the school grounds.

Artistic director of The Wells Summer School Francesca Filpi, worked closely with British Harlequin. She said, "The wooden floors on their own are too hard and slippery for dancers and potentially dangerous, too. I am glad our students are able to enjoy the same quality of dance floors that we have

Barton (second from left) and Lee Tooze (holding the award) receiving the award from TV presenter Diane Louise Jordan. (photo: Charlie Hedley)

Forge Europa wins Social Responsibility award

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Forge Europa has been named the winner of The Pride of Cumbria 2005 Business of the Year Social Responsibility Award. The award was presented to Forge Europa's Directors Peter and Julie Barton by former Blue Peter and Songs of Praise presenter, Diane Louise Jordan at a special awards ceremony dinner held at Carlisle Race Course.

Forge Europa, an electronics company from Ulverston specialising in the design, manufacture and supply of LED lamps, displays and lighting, was particularly pleased to receive the award as it acknowledged its community work, charitable activities, positive attitude towards the environment and commitment to social responsibility.

"The Social Responsibility Award reflects the importance Forge Europa places on putting something back into the community and it challenges the often portrayed image of business being uncaring and purely financ

Soundcraft worlwide sales success

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Soundcraft reports strong worldwide sales over the past year for its GB4 and GB8 mixing consoles.

In Ireland, Redhouse's Vinnie Higgins has taken delivery of a 24-channel GB4, while over in Kilkenny Ray Brophy has added the same to his sound rig and engineer/producer Paul Gurney has installed a 16-input desk in his Longford sound studios.

On the other side of the world, Jeff Shoesmith at Jands in Australia reports that the GB4 is finding its home in a number of different locations, while inThailand, distributor, Mahajak, reports that a 24-channel GB4 has gone into Driftt Pub in Bangkok, and a similarly-configured desk has been sold to Ban Line Mai Restaurant in Phuket.

In Calgary, Canada, contractors Allstar Show Industries have been responsible for sales of GB4's and GB8's into tour sound companies, as well as equipping a live music venue in Calgary and the campus bar

Sir David Attenborough addresses the audience.

London museums get Wise to Nexo

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Specialising in event production within London's listed Unique Venues of London heritage sites, Wise Productions has become a leading player in this sector of the industry.

Coupled with Camco amplification, Nexo PS8's and PS10's - all supplied through Fuzion plc - have become David Wise's frontline solution for the high-end corporate market in venues like the British, Natural History, Science and Victoria & Albert Museums as well as Kensington and Hampton Court Palace.

"The control systems are pre-rigged off site because we generally only get 60 minutes set up time," says Wise, who started his company in 1992.

Most of the company's work is speech reinforcement, for which the PS series is ideal he says. "We tend to run these at low volume, and where there's a bit of punch needed we reinforce this with the LS500 subs. These are also great when we are

FX at Forefront of live to CD service

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - It is becoming increasingly common to find live CDs on sale at venues minutes after the band leaves stage, and FX Rentals has acted as technical consultants to the first British company offering this service, Live Here Now.

FX's technical manager Adam Pope worked closely with the live to CD company at its inception, recommending that the best way for Live Here Now to proceed would be to source a soundproofed, air conditioned truck into which duplication equipment could then be installed.

After further research, and to supply the required CD output, Pope also advised Live Here Now to invest in 50 seven-bay Magellen CD duplicators, together with a total of 14 Tascam CDRW750 and HHB CDR830+ single CD-R burners for creating master CDs, plus outboard equipment including limiters and compressors. Working in partnership with Will Shapland Mobiles, a Live Here Now engineer mixes

Marantz answer to Dutch questioning

Details: 14 March 2016

The Netherlands - In Holland, the Dutch police have adopted Marantz Professional's PMD660 Compact Digital Recorder to handle the critical job of recording interviews in interrogation rooms in police stations around the country.

17 of the PMD660 field recorders have been supplied so far by Niehoff High Tech Sound & Light, chosen by the Police because of three primary factors. The PMD660 offers exceptional recording time, three hours of mono recording on a 1GB card, but, by switching between different presets, over 17 hours of stereo MP3 and almost 36 hours of monaural MP3 audio is available. The unit will operate for up to four hours on four standard AA batteries. Due to its solid-state design, the unit has virtually no moving parts is therefore dramatically more reliable than cassette, DAT, or other tape/disc formats.

And it is simple to use. According to a police spokesman, &

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