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d&b Soundscape presentation indigo at The 02, London. Hosted by SSE Audio.

On October 23, 2018 d&b audiotechnik gave a presentation of their Soundscape immersive system, at indigo at The 02. The afternoon demo also included the venue's newly installed J-Series house PA, installed by SSE Audio. Simon Duff reports.

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Final Ecodesign consultation period

The EU Commission has released a revised version of the proposed Ecodesign and energy labelling regulations that exempt a large number of significant tungsten lamps used in the entertainment, but there are still some important areas that need to be addressed.

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Lancelot rides with Iron Maiden

Robert Juliat is very excited that Robert Coleman, lighting designer for Iron Maiden, specified 6 (not 666!) Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HTI followspots for the band’s current Legacy of the Beast World Tour.

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Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound 2019: Stronger together!

Next year’s Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound will be held concurrently, from Tuesday the 2nd to friday the 5th of April. new event called Musikmesse Plaza will take the form of a pop-up market with numerous musical events and direct exhibitor sales on 6 April.

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Avolites Ai R8 Servers Map Complex Stage Design at Elrow Town

When the ‘bombastic’ Elrow Town festival landed in East London’s Olympic Park it had one main aim: to take revellers on a psychedelic trip. Challenged with serving up the eye-curdling visual effects was Philip Mayer of GaiaNova, using Avolites Ai R8 servers.

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Nexo Recruits an engineering Support Manager

To set up the installation technical files by participating in the measurements and adjustements, to animate trainings, you have to be graduated of a higher education School, in Audio, Acoustic, Electroacoustic and you have an experience in a similar position.

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Rycote acquisition by Vitec Group PLC

Vitec enters adjacent audio capture market with the acquisition of Rycote Microphone Holdings Ltd. This acquisition will therefore provide Rycote with the platform for continued growth, as well as providing Vitec with a great opportunity to their customers.

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Musikmesse 2019: new competition to honour innovative therapy instruments

Messe Frankfurt and the German Music Therapy Society (DMtG) will hold the ‘New Therapy Instruments’ competition on the occasion of Musikmesse 2019. Instrument makers, artists and music therapists are invited to take part. The award is worth € 2,000.

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Ayrton appoints Ampco Flashlight Sales as distributor for Netherlands

Ayrton announce the appointment of Ampco Flashlight Sales as its latest exclusive distributor in its international network. Ampco Flashlight Sales will be responsible for the distribution of the portfolio of Ayrton products across The Netherlands, with immediate effect.

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Anolis and ArKaos Announce Partnership

Architectural LED lighting manufacturer Anolis and real-time visual processing technology provider ArKaos announce an innovative collaboration on several future product developments. This will result in benefits to clients using ArKaos and Anolis.

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Denny Arndt Fuses Light And Nature At Berlin With Chauvet

The Berlin Botanical Garden welcomed the Botanische Nacht live show. It was built around the theme “The Light of Nature.” Lighting Designer Denny Arndt brought performances to life by using 150 Chauvet Epix Strip IP fixtures and created a vibrant panorama.

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Blue Parrot invests in MDG

Theatre and live event production company, Blue Parrot, of Edinburgh has recently enhanced its rental inventory with the purchase of an MDG ICE FOG™ Compack HP low fog generator and an MDG ATMe™ haze generator.

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In Memoriam, Jo Mulders, ADJ Group of Companies

It is with deep sadness that the ADJ Group of Companies announces the sudden passing of our friend and colleague Jo Mulders on Monday, September 17, 2018. An esteemed and beloved colleague, Mulders, 61, worked as General Manager for the ADJ Group for over 15 years.

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Ampco Flashlight invests in Ayrton Ghibli and MagicPanel FX

Dutch rental company, Ampco Flashlight Rentals, has invested in Ayrton Ghibli and Ayrton MagicPanel FX fixtures for its rental stock to meet the demands of its customers. The company is very excited at the prospect of making these units available to its customer base.

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DiGiCo Makes Life Easy At Pukkelpop

Pukkelpop showcases an incredible variety of musical genres. A major part of the audio production is handled by production company PRG. DiGiCo was its choice of console for three of the festival's stages including the Main one, which hosted some of music's biggest acts.

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‘The Biggest Rock Band On Earth’ Relies On Yamaha

In July 2015 a thousand musicians perform Learn to Fly in Cesena Italy and Foo Fighters duly performed in the city four months later. But that was just the start... Now an annual event, this year Yamaha digital mixers were tasked with mixing a band of over 1500 members.

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Scenius Unicos selected by Nick Whitehouse for Justin Timberlake’s Tour

Justin Timberlake has launched his “Man of the Woods” tour with Claypaky Scenius Unico fixtures supporting the show as it travels the world.

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Ayrton Digital Lighting Appoints Bary AS as exclusive distributor for Norway

Ayrton Digital Lighting announce the appointment of Bary AS as its new, exclusive distributor for Norway. Bary AS is one of Norway’s largest suppliers of technical solutions and equipment.

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Yamaha Shows New Products And Updates At IBC2018

Yamaha has a digital mixing solution suitable for every type of broadcast need. All will be on show at IBC2018, including new products and updated firmware. Yamaha systems will also be mixing keynote speeches and other presentations throughout the show.

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Harman Professional systems to showcase Studer Vista 5 Black Edition on HHB Stand at IBC 2018

HHB Communications Ltd (HHB), a global leader in professional audio technology, announced HARMAN Professional Solutions will showcase the Studer Vista 5 Black Edition on the HHB Communications stand 8.D56 at IBC2018.

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Ayrton’s Bora official video presentation

Ayrton introduces Bora, a sophisticated and fully equipped compact 750 W double wash fixture, the Stage and the True Color. The Stage delivers a record-breaking output of 38 000 lumens. Both will be launched at Plasa, Sunday, Sept. 16th. Click to see the official video.

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High End Shine at Live You Play

Music Inside Rimini (MIR) and LIVE welcomed a host of lighting companies including High End Systems to take part in the annual Italian event ‘Live You Play’. LIVE events. This year, there was both a Virtual and a Live show organised at the event.

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RCF GROUP announces the acquisition of EAW

RCF Group, one of the fastest growing group in the Pro Audio market today announced that it is acquiring Eastern Acoustics Works (EAW), an iconic company in the history of Install and Touring sound headquartered in Whitinsville,MA from LOUD Audio LLC, a portfolio company of Transom Capital Group.

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39,000 lumens-750W LED, Ayrton launches Bora and Khamsin at PLASA

Ayrton brings yet more innovation to PLASA London with the launch of two fabulous new products Bora-S led washlight and Khamsin-S Led Profile spotlight, when it exhibits, with exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions, on Stand K40.

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WI for Us + Them Outdoor Shows

Belgian-based creative engineering specialists WIcreations are involved in the design and fabrication of three bespoke set elements - all optimised for air freight - to be used on a series of epic outdoor shows on Roger Waters’ current “Us + Them” world tour.

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Adam Hall Group Strengthens International Sales Team

As a global provider of integrated event technology solutions, the rapidly growing Adam Hall Group responds to its continued business development with further expansion to its sales team.

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Electro-Voice helps audio to quality soar in a Conference Center in Beirut

For AMAC Company, overcoming the acoustic challenges that were inherent to The Dome, part of Middle East Airlines’ Beirut-based Training & Conference Center, was the kind of challenge that could only be overcome with experience and superior technology.

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Allen & Heath ships 96 kHz Dante card for SQ

Allen & Heath is now shipping a new Dante card for its SQ series. SQ is the first compact mixer to provide a full 64x64 channel, 96kHz interface to a Dante network.

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Philips Vari-Lite VL6000 Beams enhance the drama of Pink's Beautiful Trauma

The current Beautiful Trauma world tour by US rock star Pink is benefiting from the Philips Vari-Lite VL6000 Beam luminaire. Lighting designer Baz Halpin is employing the fixture to provide dramatic punctuations to the energetic and spectacular production.

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Ayrton adds architecture to Appelt’s Eurovision splendour

Ayrton is proud that Jerry Appelt chose more than 700 Ayrton fixtures for the Eurovision Song Contest. He chose not to incorporate any video element in the show, instead returning to a lighting-based design in which Ayrton fixtures were a key creative feature.

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Showcore and Elation IP65 Fixtures Shine at the St. Paul Winter Carnival

The massive St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace was built out of ice blocks harvested from a lake in Minnesota and constructed in Rice Park in downtown St. Paul. Showcore used Elation SixBar 1000 IP™ LED battens within the structure to glow the palace walls.

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Studer by HARMAN Announces More Powerful Infinity Core & Compact CoreLink Card for Infinitely Scalable Solution

HARMAN Professional Solutions has announced significant upgrades to the Studer Infinity Core Mixing Processor, utilizing Moore’s Law benefits to increase processing power with new models offering 300, 600 and 1000 MEQ channels, and the new Studer Compact Infinity Core, providing Studer processing in a compact 2RU frame with 300 and 600 MEQ versions, each with 4 A-link ports and redundancy.

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ADB, a direct link with users

ADB who recently released an updated enhanced version of its well-known Hathor software, is posting a series of English (and French) language tutorials on its new YouTube channel.

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Dalis 860 has Philippe Decouflé’s Nouvelles Pièces Courtes covered

Nouvelles Pièces Courtes is a collection of short contemporary dance pieces, created in May 2017 by world-renowned French choreographer Philippe Decouflé. Lighting designer Begoña Garcia-Navas used Robert Juliat Dalis 860 Cyclight LED batten fixtures to light the massive cyclorama backdrop.

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Meyer Sound Granted First Patent on Breakthrough Technology in Bluehorn System Studio Monitor

Meyer Sound has been awarded a United States patent on proprietary digital technologies that enable the Bluehorn™ System to reproduce complex musical signals with absolutely flat frequency and phase response across the full audio bandwidth, an unprecedented achievement in high-power studio monitors.

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Ayrton Ghibli on Brett Eldredge’s Tour with Nick Whitehouse

As soon as Nashville-based Premier Global Production took delivery of 26 Ghibli fixtures, Ayrton’s first LED spot luminaire with a factory-equipped framing system, they quickly sent them on tour with country music singer/songwriter Brett Eldredge.

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Jacob Dinesen Counts the Mega Ways with Robe

Chart-topping rising star Jacob Dinesen played two spectacular arena shows to kick off his 2018 summer tour with Robe MegaPointes and Spiiders prominent on the rig!

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Meyer Sound LEO Family Beast Prowls on Post Malone Tour

The 26-city tour of mixed arenas and outdoor sheds of the Post MaloneTour was supported by a massive Meyer Sound LEO® Family reinforcement system supplied by VER.

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Heidecksburg Castle Goes Paladin Green from Elation for St. Patrick’s Day

For St. Patrick's Day, the castle of Heidecksburg has been washed in green by LB-TEC thanks to Paladin from Elation.

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ISE to relocate to Barcelona in 2021

Integrated Systems Events, the producers of the Integrated Systems Europe exhibition, has announced that its 2021 editionwill be held at Gran Via, part of the Fira de Barcelona exhibition complex in Spain on 2-5 February, To give the exhibition a chance to grow.