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A pair of DiGiCo SD5 consoles handled front-of-house mixing for the Latina-American Super Bowl performances by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, while two Quantum 7 desks in monitor world were plenty for the 150-plus outputs for the singers, musicians and dancers on stage.

Germany’s rock group Rammstein have launched their first ever stadium tour. To cover the massive crowds, and rival the monumental pyrotechnics, an L-Acoustics K Series AVB PA system was provided by SSE Hire, whose parent company Solotech supplied the video systems.

SKALAR is a large scale immersive kinetic lighting and electronic music art installation created by light artist / designer Christopher Bauder and composer / music producer Kangding Ray. It has been reimagined for Amsterdam’s The Gashouder, a stunning circular space where the work is being presented by Audio Obscura.

Active Audio, the award winning French manufacturer of column array loudspeakers and solutions for acoustically-challenging environments, has announced the appointment of Allied ProTech as its exclusive distributor for the United States, effective immediately.

Madrix Radar software offers an all-in-one solution for addressing, configuring and monitoring a RDM based lighting installation.

In light of recent developments in the Coronavirus, the Adam Hall Group has decided not to participate in this year's Prolight Sound in Frankfurt. Instead the Adam Hall Group will present numerous innovations in a livestream on 31 March 2020 on the company website.

Rising-star indie rockers MisterWives just finished a sold-out ‘underplay’ tour in the US promoting their EP mini bloom, for which lighting designer Matt Guminski wanted to create something raw, fresh, different and stylish!

At ISE, Amadeus highlighted the version 1.5 of its HOLOPHONIX spatial sound processor, featuring many new functions, corrections, and improvements. The rewriting of his graphical interface, according to new Web technology standards, ensures optimal performances.

With an audience of more than 100 million, this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. 14 minutes of an extraordinary show, featuring JLo, Shakira and Sennheiser D6000 coupled with MD 9235 capsules for the latter.

The massive ‘Viva for Life’ concert fundraiser event organised by Belgian national TV channel RTBF used an ArKaos Stage Server Pro and Kling-Net protocol to save thousands of DMX channels and provide a fluid, real-time harmony between lighting and video effects onstage.

From 31 March to 3 April 2020, PL + S will welcome its 25th anniversary edition of Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt am Main. Mikki Kunttu, Award-winning lighting set and content designer, will give a keynote speech at the show.

Lighting designer James Scott (of Suluko) specified 96 impression X4 Bar 20 battens from GLP when London-based rapper / producer AJ Tracey played two shows at Alexandra Palace recently.

CODA Audio launched a brand new ultra-compact three-way line array at ISE 2020 show in Amsterdam. N-RAY is part of CODA’s latest N-Series, a range of lightweight, compact systems with the efficiency and power to rival much larger and heavier loudspeaker systems.

UK – Shopping in one of Llandudno’s central high streets became an immersive ‘Winter Light’ experience over the darker months as a parade of store fronts was transformed into a giant projection-mapped surface.

Munich based fibre network specialists, Optocore and BroaMan, have announced the promotion of Dawid Somló, with the company since 2015, to International Sales & Distribution Manager for both brands.