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IIntellivox adds clarity to 10m athletics arena

Details: 14 March 2016

Ireland - The Athlone Institute of Technology recently added a high specification Indoor athletics arena to its campus. Representing a 10m investment this IAAF-standard six-lane track surrounded by 1,500 spectator seats, required a sound system that offered high intelligibility.

However, Dublin based Sound Productions were only introduced to the project after it had been completed. According to senior project manager Peadar Carley, the budget was limited and the performance of the PA system specified by the previous contractor had suffered as a result. Sound Productions were therefore asked to evaluate and propose a solution.

With an RT time in excess of five seconds Sound Productions wasted little time in specifying a solution that has stood them in good stead on many previou

The ISCE has announced a formidable programme of seminars

Seminar programme confirmed for ISCEx2015

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - With its relocation to Coombe Abbey Hotel in Warwickshire for next year's Exhibition and Networking Dinner, the ISCE (Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers) has announced a formidable programme of seminars to coincide.

The event, which takes place over two days (3-4 March) with a Networking Dinner as its curtain raiser on day 1 and the exhibition on day 2, continues to expand. "This is one of the reasons we have upgraded the location this year to this luxurious four-star country house hotel," says secretariat manager, Ros Wigmore.

The seminar programme will open at 10am on 4 March, when Kevin Sherwood, sales director of CIE-Group, will posit Is the Market Really Ready for Audio-over-IP?.

It will ask whether the installation industry is ready to adopt a whole new way of thinking for public address and whether clients are generally ready to let

Sound system configuration and equipment supply were handled by POOLgroup of Emsdetten

Germany celebrates with Meyer Sound Leo

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - To commemorate 25 years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel led Peter Gabriel and the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra in a celebratory spectacle that drew more than 100,000 people to the Brandenburg Gate. To provide utmost clarity for the music and speeches at this monumental milestone, the event organizers chose a Meyer Sound Leo large-scale linear reinforcement system.

"Leo has a slim profile, yet it has a massive sound and incredible output," notes Marcus Mechelhoff, production manager for Berlin-based event management company mediapool, who designed and coordinated all lighting, video, and pyrotechnics for the event. "It was the perfect tool for every requirement. Speeches were clearly heard everywhere, while rock, pop, and classical music were perfectly reproduced. I received only positive feedback about the sound q

The L-Acoustics sound system accommodates an eclectic mix of musical genres from folk and jazz, to pop and heavy rock

India's blueFROG clubs grow with L-Acoustics

Details: 14 March 2016

India - The blueFROG in Pune is the latest in India's classy line of blueFROG bars, which have built a reputation in the territory for successfully fusing fine dining, live entertainment, and a lush ambience, all under one roof. Pune is the third blueFROG venue; two successful establishments already exist in Delhi and Mumbai, the latter of which was recently voted in the top 20 bar designs in the world.

The blueFROG mission statement is to make every performance memorable for the artist, production team, and audience, by delivering "an unsurpassable aural and visual experience". The Pune venue would need to cater to a diverse, young and demanding local community. blueFROG commissioned Munro Acoustics India to specify a high-end sound system that could deliver enough power and warmth to accommodate the eclectic mix of musical genres that would grace the venue's stage, f

White Light gears up for PLASA Focus Glasgow

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light will exhibit at the inaugural PLASA Focus Glasgow event on 2-3 December. The event, held at Glasgow's SECC is the first PLASA Focus event to take place in Scotland.

On Stand A12, White Light will showcase the latest in LED, lighting control, and effects solutions for the entertainment and presentation markets. The company provides hire, sales, installation, and technical service to a variety of clients across the UK.

White Light sales director Peter Threadgold explains the value of the event, "The format of PLASA Focus events is very beneficial - visitors get to see new equipment and get their questions answered straight away. For us, it's a good environment to hear directly from customers and professionals in the region, so we can better deliver what they need."

White Light will bring a range of products to PLASA

The Silverstar venue officially opened with an in-house staff event

Tsogo Sun casino adds two venues

Details: 14 March 2016

South Africa - A new dome has been erected on Krugersdorp hill, forming part of Tsogo Sun's Silverstar Casino, based in Muldersdrift. The attractive structure, designed and built by Otto Wijnberger of In2Structures, has been equipped with a basic lighting rig, stage and PA System making it a suitable self-sustained venue for smaller gigs hosted by Silverstar. At the same time, a similar structure, though not as large, was erected at Tsogo Sun's The Ridge in Emalahleni (Witbank), Mpumalanga.

In2Structures, a member of the Gearhouse Group of Companies, created the portable structures - there is a SupaDome, 71m x 35m x 17m high, at Silverstar and a Maxi Dome, 49m x 28m x 13m high, at The Ridge. Unlike other conventional aluminium framed assemblies such as marquees, they have the ability to withstand large imposed loads such as suspended equipment and high wind pressure and importan

Volt houses stages in a 600-capacity main performance room, a smaller 200-capacity room and in a café/bar area

Dutch live music venue refurbishes with Elation LED

Details: 14 March 2016

The Netherlands - Volt is a new night spot in Sittard, The Netherlands that opened in March after a refurbishment that transformed the previous venue into a top quality, professional live music venue. A key element of the refurbishment project was a professional lighting package made up of Elation Professional LED moving heads and LED PAR Cans.

The reason behind the rebuild, a total refurb that saw only the outer walls remain, was to rebrand and expand the venue in order to attract bigger name bands. Installation of the Elation gear was by BOS Event Support, a full-service event production company located in Sittard.

BOS Event owners Jamie Borger, Davy van Onna and Dennis Siemonsma handle projects collaboratively, choosing equipment and suppliers carefully based on the needs of each individual project. "Eventually for the Volt install we chose Elation because of its favou

To create a big power look on stage, Guiney relied on 16 Legend 230SR Beam moving fixtures

Chauvet Professional fixtures For Killswitch Engage

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - At the heart of LD Darragh Guiney's lightshow for Killswitch Engage's appearance in the three-city Monster's Mosh tour was a trio of video walls created with PVP S7 LED video panels from Chauvet professional provided by JDI Productions. Providing a frighteningly heart-pounding background for the concert, the panels were used to create four video walls: a larger (4m by 2.5m) display positioned on upstage truss, and three smaller (1.5m by 1m) units in set carts that were arranged behind the drums, as well as on stage left and stage right.

The panels were used to display chilling scenes from scary horror flicks along with evocative images of the band. "Josh Mihlek, production manager for Killswitch Engage, buried himself in his office for weeks going through old stock footage of Hammer horror movies and other real old-style scary stuff," said Guiney. "We offset

The tour was a good opportunity for Mandylights to debut the Glowmotion Technologies Ghostband

Mandylights deploys Ghostbands to transform G.E.M.

Details: 14 March 2016

Australia - There's a fair chance you may not have heard of G.E.M. a Hong Kong based singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, and actress. Her stage name is an acronym for Get Everybody Moving and she is big in Asia.

G.E.M. is currently touring her G.E.M. X.X.X. Live World Tour, which stands for "more to eXpose, more to eXpect and more eXciting", and Mandylights, the Sydney collective of talented lighting designers, were charged with making it a tour to remember.

"I'd describe G.E.M. as the Lady Gaga of China and in the past year she has exploded in popularity," commented Richard Neville, director of Mandylights. "Her music is less mandarin-pop and more western-pop as her musical director is Austrian, in fact many of her team members are from outside of Asia."

Mandylights were required to design the lighting and visuals so that the live shows would

Brad Alder (EXSA) with Robyn DAlessandro, Melita Adams and Peter Thomas (Gearhouse SA)

Gearhouse wins at EXSA Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

South Africa - Gearhouse South Africa was recipient, for the fourth consecutive year, of the Best AV Supplier Award at the EXSA (Exhibition and Event Association of Southern Africa) Awards held at The Forum, Bryanston on 26 November.

"Exhibition work is a very exciting market for us because our service appeals on both the exhibitor and the organiser levels and we have solutions for pretty much every size and type of display" says Gearhouse South Africa's marketing manager, Robyn D'Alessandro.

"We have seen the exhibition market taking an increasingly strong position in the marketing mix of late. There is a growing trend for buyers to seek to engage with sellers in a face-to-face scenario and exhibitors are using a variety of technology combinations to engage the senses in that interaction. Luckily Gearhouse has been able to continually diversify to accommodate t

Sennheiser's LSP 500 PRO loudspeaker is an innovative wireless product that dramatically reduces installation times

Sennheiser UK takes the high road to PLASA Glasgow

Details: 14 March 2016

UK The first week of December sees Sennheiser UK head to Scotland for the inagural PLASA Focus Glasgow, which is being held at the SECC, Glasgow. Stand C04 will see the company showing products from its distributed brands including the K-array Kamoflague wall, DAS Artec series loudpeakers, Apart Audiocontrol12.8 and its own LSP 500 wireless loudspeaker.

K-array Kamoflage was developed by Sennheiser UK in response to the need for an 'invisible' loudspeaker system. This solution enables K-array loudspeakers to blend into any background or mounting surface, making them an attractive proposition for audio system designers tasked with installing loudspeakers into sensitive locations.

Available in both powered and passive configurations, the Artec series from DAS spans ten models, five of which are self-powered: the Artec 506A, 526A, 508A, 510A, and S15A subwoofer.

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The new Chroma-Q Color One 100 LED Par will be featured

AC-ET sets extensive showcase for PLASA Focus Glasgow

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) will be showcasing the latest product highlights from their extensive brand portfolio at the inaugural PLASA Focus Glasgow tradeshow - stand D19, the SECC, 2-3 December.

Recently launched to great acclaim at the PLASA London international tradeshow, and selected as a Finalist in the PLASA Members Choice Awards, the new Chroma-Q Color One 100 LED Par will be showcased. Featuring an innovative fully homogenised beam which virtually eliminates the colour separation and shadows synonymous with LED lighting, the Color One 100 delivers above Par performance from ONE source.

Other Chroma-Q highlights include the award-winning Chroma-Q Inspire and Inspire Mini LED house lights range - powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tools that can transform the look and feel of performance spaces and commercial, retail or leisure environments.

Bob Gordon of ACT Lighting accepts the Parnelli Award for B-EYE

Clay Paky wins the jackpot in Las Vegas

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - "Clay Paky's success this year at the LDI show was resounding from every point of view". Pio Nahum, Clay Paky CEO, did not mince his words to describe their accomplishments at the lighting show in Las Vegas.

After the PLASA Award for Innovation at PLASA in London, the Clay Paky Mythos has received an Honourable Mention at the LDI Award for Best Debuting Product of the Year "for providing a high-quality, feature-rich fixture with great optics".

Nahum stresses that "the secret of the Mythos lies in its ability to do what the most powerful effect lights do in half the space and with half the power". But the Mythos is even more than this: it is today the only light capable of perfectly combining a spot and beam light thanks to a special optical unit created and patented by Clay Paky.

The SuperSharpy and the Stormy also met with great success:

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