News Archive - October 2017

Yamaha Announces Two New NXAMP MK2 NEXO Amplifiers

Yamaha Professional Audio announces two new additions to the NEXO range of NXAMP TDcontrollers. The NXAMP4x2 MK2 and NXAMP4x1 MK2 amplifier models are the result of close collaboration between R&D engineers from NEXO and ...

Chauvet DJ to Showcase New Eve Series Fixtures, Along with Atmospherics and Washes at LDI

A collection of powerful new par washes and atmospheric effects designed to offer cost-effective design solutions for the event lighting market are among the innovative offerings that will highlight the Chauvet DJ booth 1415 at LD ...

TMB Celebrates 400+ Years of Pro Cables Assembly Experience

In a modest ceremony this week at TMB Los Angeles, the 10-year anniversaries of three of the company's cable assembly technicians were celebrated. All three are part of a distinct companywide group of professional, highly-skilled ...

Firehouse Productions Sets Live Sound Ablaze with Dante Audio-over-IP Networking

As a sound production company specializing in live events, Firehouse Productions is regularly entrusted with the design, operation, and management of complex audio network infrastructures for concerts, TV shows, and special events. ...

FLEX Theatre at Carroll College Upgrades to Elation LED Lighting System

The theatre program at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, has been producing wonderful productions for the last 35 years, in spite of entertainment technology that is at least that old. The program recently updated their 120-seat FLEX ...

De Effenaar Upgrades with Robe DL Series Luminaires

In the fiercely competitive world of moving lights, Robe offers a range of quality solutions for a diversity of applications.
The DL series of refined and elegant LED luminaires was developed with theatre and television ...

d3 Technologies Grows Its APAC Footprint with Grand Opening of Redline's New Office in Shenzhen, China

Redline, the Beijing-based d3 Technologies sales partner (reseller), has expanded with a new office in Shenzhen, China. The grand opening featured the official launch of d3's gx range of media servers and Notch ...

Green Hippo Ensures that Lady Antebellum Looks Good

Lady Antebellum, with support from Kelsea Ballerini, is a formidable world tour offering. And, SRae Productions with the help of Clear All Visuals was the team tasked with ensuring that the video and lighting lived up to the ...

Philips Lighting's VLZ Profiles Are Picture Perfect for South Africa's Idols

Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting, announces that its latest lighting fixtures are playing a key role in enhancing the quality of the television pictures for the current series of South Africa's televised talent contest, Id ...

Bag End Ships Subwoofers for December UK Opening of Hamilton

Bag End has recently shipped eight double 12 low profile subwoofers and infra processors for the London premiere of Hamilton in the Victoria Palace Theater.
Sound designer Nevin Steinberg of Modern Projects ...

Harman Professional Solutions Supports the Fine Arts at Vietnam National Drama Theatre

Ba Sao Investment recently installed a complete audio system by Harman Professional Solutions at the Vietnam National Drama Theatre.
Founded in 1952, the Vietnam National Drama Theatre has hosted dramatic performances in ...

Old Town Temecula Community Theater Installs elektraLite SLA Retinas

Old Town Temecula Community Theater sits in the heart of the historic district of Temecula in Southwestern California. Surrounded by antique shops and quaint cafés, the theater is housed inside the old Mercantile Building on Main Street, ...

Preston Trail McKinney Church on the Move with Martin Audio WPM

A portable church setup designed to go in and out of a middle school gym every weekend, Preston Trail McKinney obviously required streamlined equipment for its audio, video, lighting, staging, and furniture setups. Given the venue's ...

Theatre in Review: Jesus Hopped the A Train (Signature Theatre Company)

At least three very different definitions of justice engage in open battle in Jesus Hopped the A Train, and it's a war without winners. This fascinating, troubling drama begins on a bleakly hilarious note, with a young man, ...

Theatre in Review: Knives in Hens (59E59)/Red Roses, Green Gold (Minetta Lane Theatre)

By sheer coincidence, this past week has delivered two of the more inscrutable productions of the season. The first question regarding Knives in Hens: Where and when is it taking place? The reviews of a recent London ...

Chauvet Professional Showcases Expanded Ovation Series at LDI

Chauvet Professional's Ovation series is taking the color mixing magic of its RGBA-Lime LED system to new places. At the upcoming LDI show, the company will be debuting the industry's first full-color RGBAL Fresnel and house ...

LynTec Offers Whole Venue Control Capabilities

LynTec, a manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, announces its new Whole Venue Control offering. Whole Venue Control gives customers the option to mix and ...

Mega Systems Inc. Announces the Mega Matrix Video Panels

The Mega Matrix Video Panel from Mega Systems Inc. is a newly designed panel perfect for production and installation with a vivid display constructed for both indoor and outdoor use.
This panel is IP65 rated with a 6.25mm pitch ...

Acclaim Lighting's New Compact, High Output Dyna Accent Mini for Outdoor Commercial and Landscape Applications

Acclaim Lighting, a provider of innovative and advanced lighting technology, introduces Dyna Accent Mini, a compact, high-power, LED floodlight designed for the tightest spaces in outdoor commercial and landscape applications. ...

TC Furlong to Host Meyer Sound LINA Demo

TC Furlong Inc., a Chicago, Illinois-area live sound rental and sales company serving the professional audio market for the last 45 years, will host a Meyer Sound LINA demo on Tuesday, November 14 at the Copernicus Center, ...

AES New York 2017 Attendees Experience Maximum Audio in the Big Apple

Declared a rousing success by attendees, exhibitors, presenters, and sponsors alike, the AES New York 2017 Convention once again hosted the year's largest annual contingent of pro audio professionals, students, and enthusiasts at ...

LD Mickey Fimbres and 4Wall Light First "Goalkeepers" Event Hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The inaugural "Goalkeepers" event, hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, took place last month at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner ...

SenovvA Highlights Latest Technologies and Services at Client Showcase

SenovvA, a design and management firm offering services to the entertainment, special event, architectural/construction, and media services industries, will be holding a special client showcase at its world headquarters in Los ...

Roland M-5000 OHRCA Digital Mixing Console Selected for Anthem Community Church in Gainesville, Florida

Anthem Community Church in Gainesville, Florida, holds itself to a high standard of contemporary worship, matching its affiliated church, Atlanta-based North Point Ministries, which is among the largest churches in the US. High-energy ...

Miami's Mix3 Expands EAW ADAPTive Inventory

Mix3 Sound, Inc., located in Miami, Florida, recently added 24 Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Anya array modules to their rental inventory, bringing their total up to 48 Anya and 24 Anna. The announcement was made by James ...

Powersoft OEM at the Heart of AccuGroove Powered Bass and Guitar Cabinets

When AccuGroove LLC founder Marc Wright built his first bass guitar speaker cabinet he had no intentions of starting a company. "I built that first cabinet for myself because I couldn't get the same sound live that I could ...

FBT Goes to the Rodeo

When Dave Bartholomew says it's not his first time at the rodeo, he really means it. In fact, after renting a system to the Isanti County Firefighter's PRCA Rodeo last year and installing one this year, he's now become their "go-to ...

Theatre in Review: M. Butterfly (Cort Theatre)

If ever a play awakened a sleepy theatre season, it was David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, in the spring of 1988. At a time when Broadway was showing distinct signs of arteriosclerosis, it had the effect of an electric ...

Theatre in Review: Off the Meter, On the Record (Irish Repertory Theatre)

For some reason -- maybe because Uber and Lyft are stealing their jobs -- cab drivers are taking over our stages. Just a couple of weeks ago, we had Ace, Ted Greenberg's account of life as a taxi-driving slacker, despite his Harvard ...

Absen and Local AV Partners Join Forces to Help in South Florida Hurricane Relief Efforts

Absen Inc., a provider of LED display solutions, has collected more than 850lb of non-perishable food and supplies to assist in relief efforts for those affected by Hurricane Irma and Maria in South Florida, Key West, and Puerto ...

Tracey Hill Promoted to A.C. Lighting Inc. Vice President, Operations

A.C. Lighting Inc., distributor of lighting, rigging, and video technologies, announces the promotion of Tracey Hill to vice president, operations.
Hill joins a growing roster of high-profile, dynamic, and professional ...

Focusrite Pro Appoints Mario de Arce as Western US Accounts Manager

Focusrite Pro announces the appointment of Mario de Arce to the role of western US accounts manager.
Reporting to Kurt Howell, national sales manager, North America, de Arce is responsible for growing sales of ...

Blackmagic Design Live Solution Used on the 2017 OneRepublic Honda Civic Tour

Blackmagic Design announces that a live production solution featuring the ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K, Teranex Express, and HyperDeck Studio Mini are being used for video production and IMAG projection on the 2017 OneRepublic ...

Stampede's Big Book of AV Tour & Conference Hits the Big Apple During Digital Signage Week on November 2

For technology integrators, resellers, and end-users looking to gain industry insight and deepen their knowledge on the latest AV technologies, New York City is the place to be when Stampede, a value-added distributor of pro AV ...

The World Masters of Projection Mapping to Debut in Amsterdam

A new competition dedicated to showcasing the finest in projection mapping has been launched as a cooperative venture between Amsterdam Light Festival, Integrated Systems Events, and the RAI Amsterdam. ...

Kinesys for American Idiot Copenhagen

A Kinesys automation system with Vector control is a key player in the cutting-edge production of Green Day's "American Idiot" being staged in Copenhagen at Den Grå Hal (The Grey Hall).
Benjamin La Cour's acclaimed ...

DiGiCo Helps Prove America's Got Talent

For a decade now, America's Got Talent has been proving the popular show's title assertion year after year: America can sing, it can dance, and it can do cool stuff. The NBC program, which has averaged 11 million viewers each season ...

ADAM Audio Introduces S Control Remote Software and Launches V1.2 DSP Firmware Update for S Series Range

ADAM Audio announces the introduction of their new S Control remote control software for their flagship range of S Series speakers, which allows Adam customers to remotely control all user parameters and EQ settings on the powerful ...

Audio Incorporated Supports Lincoln Center Summer Festivals with NEXO and Yamaha

On the southwest side of Lincoln Center sits the enclave of Damrosch Park, transformed during the summer first by Mid Summer Night's Swing, a lively outdoor dance hall, and four weeks later, the park morphs into a 4,000-seat concert venue ...

L-Acoustics Makes Light Work of Robbie Williams Heavy Entertainment Show

Following the success of his album Heavy Entertainment Show, Robbie Williams set out on tour in June. Starting in Manchester, the tour has visited stadiums, fields, and arenas in the UK and Europe. The tour's audio is being handled ...

Danny Gokey Dove Awards Performance Shines with Bandit Lites and Chris Lisle

Bandit Lites provided the lighting for Danny Gokey's performance at the 48th Annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. The GMA Dove Award winner took the stage October 18 with a lighting design by Chris Lisle, with ...

Danley Sound Labs Point Source Jerico Horns and BC-Subwoofers in Grambling State's Eddie Robinson Stadium

College football Hall of Famer Eddie Robinson holds the record for the second-most victories of any college football coach while leading the Grambling State University Tigers in over 50 seasons of play, from the 1940s to 1997. Robinson ...

Theatre in Review: People, Places & Things (Headlong/National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse)

Suddenly, this is looking like the season of Denise Gough. Not really known in the US, despite her extensive stage and television credits in the UK, she made a big impression as the embattled, pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper ...

Barco Announces New UniSee Video Wall Platform

Global technology company Barco announces the launch of a new LCD video wall platform that the company says surpasses all other offerings currently available on the market.
Barco UniSee is based on a modular platform, with ...

Allen & Heath's New SQ Series Is a Compact, 96kHz Digital Mixing Powerhouse

With their 96kHz XCVI FPGA engine, Allen & Heath's new SQ Series digital mixers bring the high-resolution audio performance of the company's highly acclaimed dLive Digital Mixing System to a compact and cost-effective platform that's ...

ETC Releases Touchscreen Station for Mosaic

A new tile has been added to ETC's Unison Mosaic family, the new Touchscreen interface. The 4.3" screen can be added to any Mosaic system running Mosaic software 2.4 or later, giving users a new option for monitoring and control ...

Audio-Technica Now Shipping U841R Boundary Microphone

Audio-Technica, an innovator in transducer technology for over 50 years, is now shipping its new U841R Omnidirectional Condenser Boundary Microphone. A new addition to Audio-Technica's acclaimed UniPoint line of microphones, the ...

Point Source Audio Announces Patents Issuance for EMBRACE Earmount Microphone

Point Source Audio (PSA), an audio equipment manufacturer specializing in the development of miniature microphones and headsets, announces that the US Patent Office has issued two patents for PSA's EMBRACE Earmount Microphone: ...

Trade Show Executive Recognizes The NAMM Show With Prestigious Awards

The NAMM Show has been recognized with the coveted "Greatest Trade Show of 2016" and "Do-Gooder" awards at the Gold 100 Awards and Summit, presented by Trade Show Executive magazine. The annual awards serve to recognize ...

Lighting Veteran Michael Totora Joins Acclaim Lighting

Acclaim Lighting, a provider of innovative and advanced lighting technology, named Michael Tortora as its eastern regional sales manager. With his extensive design and sales development experience in the lighting industry, ...

SGM P-2s and P-5s Light Up Cranes of Montreal

SGM's P-2 and P-5 wash light fixtures teamed up with Creativ Nation. Formerly known as Le Diplomate, Creativ Nation has made many business upgrades and changes over the past few months. Additional to their rebranding, their ...

Relevant Audio Visual Turns Bland to Grand with Elation Lighting at Global Leadership Summit

With a commitment to develop and mentor leaders worldwide, the Global Leadership Summit is a live HD broadcast that is simulcast to more than 600 satellite locations around the globe. On August 10th and 11th, Relevant Audio Visual, ( ...

Bryce Cherpelis Gets Intensity Up for Burning Man with ChamSys

An impressive yacht with wheels that help it sail through the sand sits glimmering in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Not far away, half-buried on the quiet playa, is a massive 747 jet made of foam, lights twinkling in its fuselage. Sights ...

GLP X4 Helps Cosmo Wilson Emulate Classic Old School Rock & Roll

Vastly experienced lighting designer, Cosmo Wilson, has been lighting Aerosmith's shows since 2012, working within a genre with which he is entirely familiar.
Having provided stage lighting for many of the world's most famous ...

Clear-Com, MW Comm Solutions Solve Tricky Intercom Challenge at MGM National Harbor Theater

Clear-Com, a provider of real-time communication and connectivity solutions, teamed with MW Comm Solutions of Plano, Texas, to solve a tricky intercom challenge at The Theater at MGM National Harbor. Serving the Washington, ...

Clair Brothers Delivers LCBC Church Signature Sound at New Satellite Location

On a crisp autumn morning in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, it's a day of worship at Columbia-Montour LCBC church as friends and new arrivals gather for what they wish to be, a life changing experience. But this is no ordinary church. LCBC ...

Theatre in Review: The Last Match (Roundabout Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre)

Tennis can be an unbearably suspenseful sport -- if a match is closely fought, its fate can hang on each volley -- so playwright Anna Ziegler is onto something in The Last Match, which is set in the minds and memories ...

Theatre in Review: Oedipus El Rey (The Sol Project/The Public Theater)

The Oedipus myth finds vivid, pounding, strikingly contemporary life in this new version. This is not a director's trendy concept staging, plopping down a classic tragedy in a familiar modern context: The playwright, Luis Alfaro, ...

QSC Announces the Availability of the TouchMix-30 Pro Windows Driver

QSC announces the release of the TouchMix-30 Pro Microsoft Windows Driver for the TouchMix-30 Pro compact digital mixer, the powerful, 32-channel mixer with advanced professional features. The new driver provides Windows users with ...

Mark Butts Defines OneRepublic's Global Identity with Ayrton MagicPanel-602

American rock pop band, OneRepublic, headlined this summer's 34-date Honda Civic Tour of North America, with support from Fitz and the Tantrums, and James Arthur.
Core to the strikingly impressive lighting design by Mark Butts, ...

The d&b Soundscape Inspires Visitors at AES New York 2017

The d&b audiotechnik demo room on the convention floor of the Javits Center was busy this past week with visitors eager to participate in the first ever d&b audiotechnik demonstration program at AES New York. Those sessions, ...

Stampede Celebrates Twenty Years of Innovation at Its 2017 United States Vendor Summit

In the ever-changing pro AV landscape, evolution and innovation are the keys to continued success. That was the point made by Stampede president and COO Kevin Kelly to vendors, industry professionals, and sales team members ...

d3 Solution Is System of Choice for Opera Companies across the US

As projected content increases on opera stages nationwide, the d3 Technologies solution has become the system of choice at The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Santa Fe Opera, and The Seattle Opera.
The Lyric Opera invested in the ...

American Idiot in Copenhagen with Robe

Lighting designer Sune Verdier of b-ql.dk and scenographer Benjamin La Cour collaborated to produce a thrilling, raw, and hugely dynamic lighting aesthetic for a new production of Green Day's uncompromising American ...

Victoria Warehouse Changes Moods with 165 Chauvet Professional COLORdash Fixtures

After falling into disrepair in the late 20th century, one of Manchester's most famous industrial revolution-era relics, the Victoria Warehouse, recently underwent a major restoration to begin a new life as a unique and multi-purpose ...

Robert Juliat Followspots Are Favorites at Spanish Festival

Robert Juliat added some French flavor to the celebrated Spanish music festival at Cap Roig, Girona this summer. Produced by Clipper's Live, Cap Roig Festival is one of the most recognized summer music festivals and takes ...

Fishman Expands Marketing Team

Fishman has appointed Ryan Fitzsimmons as marketing manager in an ongoing expansion of its marketing team. In this capacity, Fitzsimmons will be responsible for managing the company's website, social media, trade shows, ...

Brave Berlin and PRG Partner on Large Scale Projection Mapping for BLINK

BLINK, the largest light, art, and projection mapping festival in the United States was held in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 12 - 15. The event drew more than one million people, making it the largest-ever affair in the city known for its ...

Avolites Provides 360-Degree Control for Arcade Fire

Multimedia entertainment studio Moment Factory and lighting designer Christopher Bushell are the creatives behind Indie music heavyweights Arcade Fire's "most ambitious production to date" -- the Infinite Content tour.< ...

Vectorworks Works with German Beta Testers to Roll Out Braceworks

statico Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH is a team of experienced engineers that offers services in the field of static design and the construction of temporary stages, grandstands, LED structures, trade show booths, PA towers, scaffolding ...

BASSBOSS Sound System Provides Sonic Foundation for JPC Entertainment

Jeremy Conklin aka DJ Pressure had been a well-regarded professional DJ already for ten years before he decided to expand his company, JPC Entertainment, to include full-service production rentals. "I first created the ...

A.C.T Lighting Expands Entertainment Technology Services with Acquisition of AC Power Distribution, Inc.

A.C.T Lighting announced today that it has completed the acquisition of AC Power Distribution, Inc., a manufacturer of UL Listed portable power distribution for film/video, touring, and exterior event venues. AC Power is ...

Chroma-Q Inspire XT Bestowed New Product Award at WFX 2017

Chroma-Q, a brand of performance LED lighting solutions, manufactured in North America, announces that the newly released Chroma-Q Inspire XT won the New LED Fixture $1251 and above award at WFX trade show in Dallas, Texas, ...

SNAP Wins New Product Award at WFX

Having collected an award at rAVe InfoComm in 2017 already, SNAP can now add the WFX award to its accolades.
SNAP collects the WFX New Product Award in the lighting accessory category! High praise from the largest ...

CODA Audio UK Appoints Scott Fraser as Technical Sales Manger

CODA Audio UK, the newly-created, wholly-owned subsidiary of CODA Audio International, announces the recruitment of Scott Fraser to the position of technical sales manager. Fraser is a vastly experienced audio ...

Eastridge Church Moves to Roland M-5000 OHRCA Live Mixing Console for Digital Power and Analog Warmth

Eastridge Church is a dynamic congregation anchored in Issaquah, Washington, with additional campuses in nearby West Seattle and not-so-nearby Addis, Ethiopia. The technical infrastructure of the church is designed to support a ...

Star Dimensions Lights Historic Road to Ultra Show in Mumbai with Elation Lighting

The Ultra Music Festival cemented its place as the world's premier electronic music festival years ago. Held in Miami each March during Miami Music Week, Ultra is one of the biggest dance music festivals on the planet and consistently ...

Robe is a Prime Suspekt

Danish hip hop band Suspekt are known for their disturbingly intense lyrics and raw style. They once lurked uncompromising and almost exclusively on the dark side of Danish contemporary music, however more recently -- still gripping to the ...

PR Lighting Brightens Up the Stage for Grupo Siggno

Texas-based Mexican Tejano band, Grupo Siggno, recently staged an outstanding performance in San Antonio, Texas. Global Productions, owned by Adrian Gallegos and Daniel Martinez, helped brighten their stage by ...

Claypaky Lights Anniversary Events for International Brands Oriflame and Analpa

Moscow-based production company MAX MAX chose the award-winning beam shaper the Claypaky Scenius Profile to feature in two distinct lighting designs for two large-scale anniversary events. Both events -- the 50th anniversary ...

Harman Professional Solutions Helps Terminal 21 Korat Provide a World-Class Shopping Experience

Mahajak Development Co., Ltd. recently installed a complete Harman audio solution at Terminal 21 Korat, the largest shopping mall in the city of Nahkon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Terminal 21 Korat features 200 outlet stores, a ...

Allen & Heath Releases Major New Install Firmware Upgrade for dLive

Allen & Heath has released firmware V1.6, code name Fistral, for its flagship dLive mixing system. Its biggest release yet, V1.6 adds powerful automatic mic mixer (AMM) features, multi-surface capability, support for a range of new ...

VUE China Delivers Knock-Out Performance at WBO World Title Match

VUE China teamed with Jiexin Rental Company to provide audio for the now-historic WBO world title match upset at Shanghai's Oriental Sports Center Complex in late July. In a rags-to-riches ending, Japan's "no-hoper" Sho ...

Theatre in Review: Lonely Planet (Keen Company/Theatre Row)

Lonely Planet, a 1995 work by Steven Dietz, is an expression of agony, wrapped in artifice, inside a practical joke. It's a strange, sideways view of the AIDS epidemic, written as the disease was decimating the gay ...

PLASA Appoints Commercial Director

PLASA has announced the promotion of Christopher Toulmin to the role of commercial director. In this newly created position, Toulmin will oversee all sales and marketing activities in the organization, driving the success of ...

GearSource: 15 years and Still Going Strong, as a Global Leader in Pre-owned Gear

GearSource marks its 15th anniversary as one of the original and largest dedicated pre-owned professionals in stage lighting, pro audio, video, staging.
Quoting founder and CEO, Marcel Fairbairn: "We have achieved this ...

Bill Groener, Bill Morris, Scott Church, and Dan Abdalla Accept New Roles at 4Wall

4Wall Entertainment has experienced rapid growth resulting in additional locations and added lighting & video equipment. Scott Church, Bill Morris, Bill Groener, and Dan Abdalla have all accepted new ...

Alcons Extends Coverage of the QR24 Line-Source Column

Alcons Audio' QR24/110 is a modular 2-way column loudspeaker to be used as scalable vertical array system, for both permanent and (limited) portable applications. It combines a 1:1 linear and dynamic sound reproduction with ...

Leading the Way to a Connected Future at LIGHTFAIR International 2018

Light, technology, knowledge, and design connect in a convergence of global introductions, innovations, and thought leadership when LIGHTFAIR International returns to Chicago at McCormick Place May 6 - 10 (PreConference LIGHTFAIR ...

Hoist and Rigging Training Made Easier with Columbus McKinnon's New Website

Columbus McKinnon Corporation, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of material handling products, systems, and services, has launched its new training website, putting all of the information professionals need to get trained and ...

Stageco Takes to the Road with the Stones' Latest Touring Spectacular

Since building the support structure for Mark Fisher's iconic, fire-breathing cobra at every show on the 1994 - 95 Voodoo Lounge Tour, Stageco has been proud to have a close association with The Rolling Stones. And ...

Proel Appoints International Sales Manager for Axiom Brand

Proel announces the appointment of Elio Caia to the position of international sales manager for the company's Axiom professional loudspeaker brand. Effective from the beginning of October, Caia will be responsible for growing ...

Studio Gear Invests In SolaFrame 750s

Lighting production company Studio Gear has announced their first purchase of High End Systems SolaFrame 750 fixtures. The newest Sola Series luminaire was launched at the 2017 PLASA trade show in London, and will be unveiled ...

Muztorg.PRO Creates Multi-Faceted Looks at Loft With Chauvet Professional

In the downtown area of Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, a new venue is redefining standards of clubbing and evening entertainment. Loft is a "club," if you can describe it as such, that combines a bar, restaurant, café, and dancefloor over ...

Abundant Life Faith Center Chooses EAW Adaptive For Satellite Campus Sanctuary

Abundant Living Faith Center (AFLC) of El Paso, Texas, recently opened the doors at a second site, located on the west side of town. The new building boasts a sanctuary with seating for more than 2,000 members along with an Eastern ...

K-array Provides for Open-Air Opera in Astrakhan Kremlin

At the end of August, the city of Astrakhan in the southern Russia, hosted an impressive classical music event which gathered an audience of more than 5,000 people. Set Inside the old walls of the Astrakhan Kremlin, a stronghold fortress ...

Martin Audio MLA Rocks in Rio With Gabisom

Held in Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, the recent Rock in Rio Festival saw Gabisom Audio Equipment from Brazil deploy Martin Audio's premier MLA rig on the Palco Mundo main stage.
The seven-day event -- held across two ...

Theatre in Review: Torch Song (Second Stage Theater)

Oedipus and Jocasta. Coriolanus and Volumnia. Amanda and Tom Wingfield. Alexander and Mrs. Portnoy. To this list of classically fraught mother-son relationships you can add Arnold Beckoff and his Ma, here impersonated by Michael Urie ...

Theatre in Review: Squeamish (All For One/Theatre Row)

If anyone could convince an audience that drinking blood is a perfectly rational act, it is Alison Fraser. Over the course of a career that has ranged from musicals by William Finn to eerie abstractions by Edward Albee and Adrienne ...

DPA Microphones Amplifies its CORE

DPA Microphones announces the launch of CORE, a new amplifier technology that lives within its line of miniature lavalier and headset microphones.
Looking to minimize distortion as well as increase the dynamic range, or workable ...

Roland V-1SDI 3G-SDI Video Switcher Employed by JVC Professional Products for Low-Cost Studio Solution

The Roland Professional A/V V-1SDI 3G-SDI Video Switcher has recently been employed by JVC Professional Video as part of a new low-cost studio solution. The system pairs JVC's KY-PZ100 robotic PTZ production cameras and RM-LP100 ...

Allen & Heath Monitoring Systems Win West End Approval

Olivier and Tony Award-winning sound designer Gareth Owen has recently specified an array of Allen & Heath products across three of London's biggest theatre productions. Employed to solve the issues of personal monitoring for ...

sE Electronics Announces Updated sE2200 Condenser, New V7 X Dynamic Instrument Mic

New for this year's AES Show in New York City, sE Electronics announces two new microphones: an updated version of their sE2200 and V7 X. sE will also be showcasing their newest small-diaphragm condenser, the sE8, and the ...

Avolites Proud to be Part of Brighton Pride

An Avolites Tiger Touch II console was used to program and control the high-octane lighting design for the renowned Wild Fruit "Summer of Love" dance tent at the famous annual LGBTQ equality and diversity festival, Brighton Pride. < ...

PixelFLEX Heads Downtown to Macy's Brooklyn with Reflect

In recent years, few cities across the United States have seen the type of revitalization that has occurred in Brooklyn, New York. Included in this revitalization, retailers located in the New York City borough have also begun to undergo ...

Chris Reade Lights Vidya Vox's Musical Bridge With Chauvet Professional

Like social media itself, the music of international YouTube sensation Vidya Vox has a way of overcoming the barriers of time, place, and culture. Melding widely divergent musical influences into a beautiful swirl of cross-cultural ...

Meyer Sound LEOPARD Chosen for Focus and Clarity at Trinity Church in Lubbock, Texas

When health and safety regulations compelled Trinity Church in Lubbock, Texas to remove old asbestos insulation and install new sprinkler systems, the church leadership decided to seize the opportunity and transform the costly directive ...

Safety and Comfort for Both Sides of the Barrier

The wide range of high quality aluminum (EN AW-6082 T6) crowd barriers from LITEC provides safety and comfort for both sides of the dividing line. They allow users to firmly secure boundaries and restrict access for all types of ...

Danley Loudspeakers, Subs, and Amps/DSP Installed at Maryland's Lighthouse Church

Founded at the turn of the century -- this century, Lighthouse Church in Maryland has been growing apace since the day it opened the doors at its original, 24,000-sq.-ft. building. To accommodate the demand, the church opened satellite ...

Music City Food + Wine Festival Grows with Bandit Lites

The Music City Food + Wine Festival returned to Bicentennial Park for another weekend that celebrated the culinary crafting of world renowned chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, and self-proclaimed foodies. Bandit Lites joined forces ...

The Venue Berlin Celebrates Grand Opening with DJs and Live Music Powered by Stinger G3 from LD Systems

A new cultural meeting place opened on September 28 at the new premises in Berlin-Kreuzberg: The Venue Berlin. Live acts and DJs provided a great atmosphere for 350 guests invited to the opening party of the new venue for digital music and ...

Spectrum Invests in Adamson and Deploys E-Series at King Fahd Stadium

Addressing the rapidly growing demand for premium loudspeaker systems in the Middle East and Northern Africa, Dubai's Spectrum Entertainment Services has joined the Adamson Network with the purchase of a substantial E-Series system. ...

phase7 Stages Main Show of Hans Christian Andersen Festival with Elation Proteus Hybrid

For the past five years, the Danish city of Odense has honored its most famous son, Hans Christian Andersen, with a festival to call his own. With a long list of fairy tales that continue to find their place in the hearts of readers ...

Printhead Studio Shakes Up Digital Printing Industry with New Technology

Printhead Studio, the newly rebranded digital printing division of Rose Brand Inc., introduces its new direct dye digital printer and expanded capabilities. Executive vice president Josh Jacobstein says that "Our new ...

Acclaim Lighting Introduces Universal Dimming Module

Acclaim Lighting unveils the Universal Dimming Module (UDM), a multi-protocol driver designed to allow conversions between popular control protocols that allow for maximum control flexibility and integration with fixtures. ...

Tyler Wise Joins Westview Productions as Vice President

Westview Productions welcomes Tyler Wise to the team in the role of vice president: sales and marketing. Wise will oversee sales efforts, manage marketing and brand image, and also cultivate and implement corporate business ...

ETC Adds Features to Unison Echo Systems

ETC's Unison Echo family just got more powerful. A new operating software adds customer-requested features to the architectural control system, including tunable white and sequence control for the Echo DMX Scene Controller, and more ...

Loud Audio Names John Li as General Manager China and VP Global Operations

LOUD Audio, LLC. (LOUD) announces the appointment of John Li to the position of general manager China and VP global operations, based in Shenzhen, Southern China.
Prior to joining LOUD, Li held positions with Harman ...

Chauvet Professional Wins 5th WFX New Product Award

The Chauvet Professional Ovation B-565FC carried on a proud tradition at WFX 2017, when it won Worship Tech Director magazine's New Product Award for Lighting. The batten luminaire, which was introduced earlier this year, ...

Meptik Trips Out On Notch

MEPTIK is an Atlanta-based production and design studio specialized in custom design for live environments. It wanted to use the power of real-time for interactivity, but didn't want to have to learn a whole new workflow. The company ...

DiGiCo SD10 Desks Keep It Light And Tight On Tour With Halsey

Singer Halsey's Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour (Installment One), the live iteration of her ambitious, eponymously named, dystopian themed LP, recently kicked off in Boston on September 29. It's a complex production, one ...

Historic Crystal Ballroom Upgrades Audio with Bose Professional ShowMatch System

Over a century ago, on the eve of World War I, Ringler's Cotillion Hall was born in Portland, Oregon. The Romanesque building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings and is now known as Crystal Ballroom, has ...

CS Audio Supports Björk's Headline Festival Shows with KLANG:technologies

Paul Hatt's sound hire and production company, CS Audio, has been supporting the eclectic Icelandic musical artist Björk using KLANG:technologies' 3-D personal monitor mixing system for her string section at headline ...

Ghost Rockers in the House Tonight

The band at the heart of popular Belgian TV series Ghost Rockers -- produced by Studio 100 and syndicated throughout Europe -- hits the road for a series of gigs around Belgium this autumn ... complete with a fresh rock-tastic lighting ...

David Guetta Shines with Claypaky at New Romanian Dance Festival

DJ David Guetta used the Claypaky Scenius Spot as the exclusive lighting fixture in his bespoke diamond-shaped festival rig at the launch of Romania's inaugural TimeShift festival. The large-scale dance festival was held at ...

Coda Audio Scores Winner in France as 300,000 Attend Toulouse

It's been 18 months since CODA Audio established its French subsidiary and Coda Audio France is progressing extremely well. Coda systems are appearing at more and more venues and this summer saw the company's now familiar speakers ...

Theatre in Review: Time and the Conways (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)

The Conway family lives in a haunted house with a difference: It is filled not with shades of the past but those of the baleful future. J. B. Priestley's 1937 drama employs an unusual time scheme, introducing the fond, foolish ...

In Memorium: Nick Tochelli

Barbizon Lighting's New York office is saddened to report the passing of Nick Tochelli on October 4, 2017. Needless to say, we will all miss him more than words can express.
Tochelli started with Barbizon's sales ...

Artiste DaVinci WH Wins "Best Moving Light" Award at 2017 WFX

Elation Professional's new Artiste Dali LED moving head won a PLASA Award for Innovation only a short month ago. Now another in the company's Artiste series, the Artiste DaVinci WH, has been honored with a New Product Award as the "B ...

CAD Audio Enters Worldwide Distribution Pact with American Music & Sound

American Music & Sound (AM&S) has been appointed worldwide distributor for CAD Audio, an agreement which includes the company's expansive offering of popular wired and wireless microphones, headphones, commercial and consumer audio ...

Clark Completes World's First Installation of New Martin Audio Wavefront Precision at First Pentecostal

The recent audio upgrade by Clark at the First Pentecostal Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas featured the world's first installation of both Martin Audio's new Wavefront Precision Compact and Mini optimized arrays with iKON amps ...

Creative BackStage Revs Up Event For Naughty By Nature

When an event is billed as an "Old School House Party," you can't do much better than to book Naughty By Nature as your headliner. The New Jersey threesome of Treach, Vin Rock, and DJ Kay Gee defined hip hop in the 1990s, with some of the ...

L-Acoustics Joins the Puy du Fou Partner's Club

L-Acoustics and Puy du Fou announce they've signed a privileged partnership agreement. By joining the Puy du Fou Club of Partners, the France-based, world-leading manufacturer of sound reinforcement systems and the famous theme ...

Stone Sour Tours With Bandit Lites

American heavy metal band, Stone Sour is touring the nation with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The Grammy nominated group recently released its sixth studio album, Hydrograd, which debuted at No. 8 on ...

MegaPointes for Celine Dion Vegas Show

Canadian superstar Celine Dion's lighting designer Yves Aucoin has added Robe's brand new MegaPointe multi-purpose moving light fixtures to the rig for her popular "Celine" show at the Colosseum, Caesar's Palace, Las ...

HSL Lighting Horse of the Year Show

HSL supplied lighting, trussing, and rigging equipment to the two main arenas at the 2017 Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) for event producer and artistic director Nadia Raibin and her company, The Production Team. ...

Shea's Buffalo Theatre Sound System Enabled by Attero Tech

Stroll into Shea's Buffalo Theatre and prepare to be stunned. Over the past 18 years, more than $20 million has been poured into restoring one of the few remaining Tiffany-designed theaters in the country, and the 1926-vintage former ...

Saigon Sky Lounge Raises the Bar with Fulcrum Acoustic Loudspeakers

SOHY Sky Lounge & Dining is a premium entertainment and dining venue perched atop downtown Saigon's Centec Tower. Bringing the sights, sounds, and tastes of the city to life every night, SOHY includes an indoor/outdoor Sky Lounge, ...

WorldStage Helps Transform Hammerstein Ballroom for Philipp Plein's New York Fashion Week Show

Switzerland-based designer Philipp Plein presented his spring and summer 2018 men's and women's collections at New York Fashion Week in a runway spectacle that combined A-list entertainment with Plein's edgy designs. WorldStage ...

Theatre in Review: Tomorrow in the Battle (Stripped Scripts/Ars Nova)

The title of Kieron Barry's play is taken from Richard III ("Tomorrow in the battle think on me, And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!"), but don't expect anything as elegant as Shakespeare's tale of murder and ...

Transom Capital Acquires Brands, including Mackie, Ampeg, EAW, and Martin Audio, from LOUD Technologies, Inc.

Transom Capital Group today announced it has acquired all brands from LOUD Technologies, Inc., including the Mackie, Ampeg, EAW, and Martin Audio brands. The new company will be called LOUD Audio, LLC ("LO ...

Christie Introduces 630-GS Series High-Performance Laser Phosphor Projectors

Two new Christie GS Series laser phosphor projectors are being introduced today, bringing unsurpassed performance metrics to meet the real-world affordability demands of higher education, corporate, and rental markets. The Christie ...

PR Lighting Adds 350 Beam to New Aqua Waterproof Range

PR Lighting announces a new addition to its successful IP65-rated AQUA range, which has enjoyed a spectacular launch at key trade shows around the globe this year.
The waterproof and dustproof Aqua 350 Beam moving head features a ...

Sennheiser and Neumann Showcase Recording Microphones, 3D Audio Capture Tools, and Monitoring Solutions at AES

Sennheiser and Neumann (booth 724/demo room 1E04) will be showcasing their comprehensive suite of high-quality microphones and monitors for both professional and home studios at the 143rd AES Convention, October 18 - ...

Cadac Demonstrates Full CDC Mix Experience at AES

Cadac is exhibiting its latest industry leading CDC six and CDC seven live sound production consoles, and MegaCOMMS ultra-high speed, high definition audio network platform at AES, October 18 - 21, in booth 758 at the Jacob K. ...

OCA Alliance Members Present Key Instructional Networked Audio Sessions

The OCA Alliance -- the AV industry alliance promoting awareness and adoption of Open Control Architecture (the Audio Engineering Society AES70 standard) -- is promoting further understanding and wider awareness ...

Vintage Audio Gear on Display at New York AES

As the opening date approaches for this year's AES Convention in New York, the Audio History Library & Museum's Lou Manno invites all attendees to visit booth 650, October 18 - 21. He commented, "As 'gear-heads' by ...

TDC Masters Video Complexities of The Voice Australia Using d3 4x4pro

Part of the hit international franchise, The Voice Australia debuted in 2012 attracting millions of viewers to the show, which culminates in a six-week live competition phase leading to the grand finale. Season six, which wrapped up ...

BlackTrax Unveils Version 2.2

CAST BlackTrax brings a sharp new version of its award-winning BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system now offering centralized control of third-party systems and multiple GUI and system enhancements. ...

Green Hippo Controls the Wild Life

More than 45,000 music fans attended this year's Wild Life Festival and Digital Insanity used Hippotizer Media Servers to help direct stunning visuals throughout the two-day run. The resulting "all-LED wall" seamlessly ...

Harman Professional Solutions Helps Vietnam's Central Circus Theatre Continue a Tradition of Excellence

Ba Sao Investment, Co., Ltd. recently installed a complete audio system by Harman Professional Solutions at the Central Circus Theatre.
Located in the Hai Ba Trung district and founded in 1956, the Central Circus Theatre ...

Historic St. John's University Theater Refreshed with IC Live

Back in 1985, Saint John's University completed a $2.5 million renovation of its 500-seat Stephen B. Humphrey Theater. Since that renovation, the theater's sound system remained essentially unchanged until this year. "They put in a couple ...

Theatre in Review: Measure for Measure (Elevator Repair Service/The Public Theater)

Elevator Repair Service's eccentric revival of Measure for Measure is, I think, the first time I've experienced a company waging war on Shakespeare's words. The stage at the Public's LuEsther Hall features a U-shaped table on ...

Theatre in Review: I of the Storm (The Gym at Judson)

The man known only as RJ in RJ Bartholomew's solo piece tells us that he was once vice president of a major brokerage, but, having spent "two beltless years upstate for 'money crimes'," he is now homeless, having been "literally and ...

PSAV Acquires Hawthorn

PSAV, a global provider of event technology services, and Hawthorn Theatrical, Ltd. ("Hawthorn" or "company"), one of the largest live technical event production companies in the United Kingdom, announce the acquisition of ...

4Wall Purchases Lighting Assets of Paramount On Location -- New York

4Wall Entertainment, a national provider of entertainment equipment rentals and sales, has purchased the lighting assets of Paramount On Location -- New York, a provider of TV/film equipment rentals to major motion pictures ...

A Specialz Word from Cate Carter

"The ethos at the heart of Specialz is the company's completely open nature to a designer's ideas and concepts. Backed up by a breadth of experience, skill and, what could be best described as industry savvy, Dave and his team offer ...

Robe Helps Create Perfect Illusion for Lady Gaga Tour

When one of the world's most innovative, provocative, and interesting contemporary artists, Queen of art-pop Lady Gaga, and one of the most consistently edgy and inventive visual designers, LeRoy Bennett, team up ... the result will ...

VUE and R/T Pro Audio Pick Up Third Eye Blind

Starting with a sold-out show in Providence, Rhode Island on October 5, VUE and Pittsburgh-based R/T Pro Audio will provide audio services for Third Eye Blind's 31-city Summer of the Gods tour. To accommodate a wide ...

LD Victor Fable Chooses Elation LED for Survivor: Game Changers Finale

For the season finale of Survivor: Game Changers earlier this past summer, lighting designer Victor Fable decided the time was right to add more LED fixtures to the lighting rig of the popular competitive reality television ...

Felix Lighting Stays on Leading Edge with ProPlex

This year, Felix Lighting has added significantly to their rental inventory of ProPlex devices and cables. In addition to their ProPlex IQ Two 1616 and 416 Nodes, Opto-Splitters, hundreds of Ethernet cables and ten runs of ...

DPA Microphones and Craig Thomesen Come Together for Beatles Tribute Show, Classical Mystery Tour

For almost six decades, front-of-house engineer Craig Thomesen has worked with some of the biggest names in the history of music. With a résumé that includes Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Bette Midler, Shirley MacLaine, Ann ...

Dia De Los ALT Gets Visual Flow with Chauvet Professional

On September 17, 2014, radio station KDKB 93.3 shook up the Phoenix, Arizona media market by abruptly dropping its tried and true 43-year old rock format to become the city's only alternative music broadcaster. It hasn't looked back since! ...

Bandit Lites Joins the Journey with University of Tennessee

More than 82,000 individuals and corporate donors gave to the University of Tennessee's 1.1 billion dollar Join the Journey campaign, which focuses on making the overall cost of earning a degree more affordable, with funds going towards ...

Alcons Enables Jurlights to Realize Its Vision

Although Alcons Audio's pro-ribbon systems have steadily established themselves as a high quality solution for cinema, home theatre, and medium-sized live events, there have been doubts in the pro audio industry that the technology ...

Le Maitre Announces Ice Fountain, Large Scale Comets, and New Multi Shot Products

Le Maitre has added various new products to its extensive range of pyrotechnics.
The Multi Shot pyrotechnics consist of 10 effects fired from a single board with one integral igniter. The 10 effects are fired one after another, ...

Theatre in Review: The Home Place (Irish Repertory Theatre)

For his final original work -- he closed his career with an adaptation of Hedda Gabler -- Brian Friel, Ireland's contemporary bard of exile and displacement, focused on an Anglo-Irish family of landowners who, having lived ...

Sennheiser Receives Five NAMM TEC Award Nominations

Audio specialist Sennheiser has received five nominations for Outstanding Technical Achievement for the 33rd Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards. The company's innovative AMBEO VR Mic, Digital 6000, and XS ...

Lectrosonics Introduces the SMWB and SMDWB Wideband Transmitters

Lectrosonics introduces two new transmitters as the latest generation in the award-winning Digital Hybrid Wireless SM Series product line: the "wide band" SMWB (single AA battery) and SMDWB (dual AA battery). The two new ...

Le Maitre Adds Smoke Mines to Its Pyrotechnic Range

Le Maitre's newly launched Smoke Mines are now available to order.
These Mines project a fantastic array of vividly coloured stars 60', leaving trails of brightly colored smoke. The vibrant colors make them ideal for daytime use.< ...

Kraig Knight and Joe Adams Join Elation Professional as Regional Sales Reps

Elation Professional announces that industry professionals Kraig Knight and Joe Adams have joined the company's growing sales team as regional sales representatives. Both Knight and Adams come to Elation from ...

Lighting Design Alumnus Al Crawford Joins UNCSA Board of Trustees

Lighting design alumnus Al Crawford has been appointed to a two-year term on the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). A 1997 graduate of the school of design and production (D&P), ...

Artistic Licence Partners with The Lir Academy

Lighting controls provider, Artistic Licence, has been appointed official technical partner of The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin. The Lir Academy was established in 2011 to provide students with the ...

Clear-Com Expands Research and Development with Updated and Extended Facility

Clear-Com announces the opening of its new and expanded premises in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The larger office space houses the Clear-Com Research team, dedicated to advancing the company's global business with innovative, real ...

FYF Fest Rocks Los Angeles with EAW Anya

FYF (F*ck Yeah Fest), a major summer music festival in Los Angeles, California, recently used an Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Anya system to reinforce the lawn stage. The sold-out festival, which featured famous acts such as Missy ...

Meyer Sound Raises the Bar at Stade de France with Record-setting LEO Family System for Les Insus

It was a summer's-end extravaganza like no other when Les Insus, France's favorite home-grown rock band, filled the vast Stade de France stadium in suburban Paris for back-to-back, sold-out shows. To carry the full impact of the hard ...

Harman Professional Solutions Rises Above the Noise at Otahuhu Station

Bartons Sound Systems recently installed a JBL by Harman Intellivox audio solution in Auckland's Otahuhu Station.
Auckland Transport's Otahuhu Station is a new, integrated bus and train interchange serving the city of ...

iHeartRadio Theater New York City Hearts Its New L-Acoustics Sound System

The iHeartRadio Theater New York City is the ultimate ticket visitors can't get. The Manhattan venue, the East Coast counterpart to the company's flagship Los Angeles venue, regularly hosts a steady stream of A-list music artists, from ...

Toronto Will Turn to Technology When the Stampede Big Book of AV Tour Stops on October 20

AV resellers and their customers who live and work in the Greater Toronto, Ontario metropolitan area will have a unique opportunity to experience the latest in commercial AV, drones, IoT, and unified communications when Stampede, ...

Central Lutheran Church Installs Panaray MA12EX Modular Line Array Loudspeakers from Bose Professional

Central Lutheran Church has been a Minneapolis, Minnesota landmark since the large stone building was finished in 1928. This church community has a storied history of implementing cutting-edge communications technology to enhance its ...

Theatre in Review: The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons)

Max Posner's new play begins with The Son, who will be our host and narrator for the evening. Even before he introduces himself, however, he makes an attention-getting announcement: "In a week, or a decade, or a day, sometime in the ...

Global Scenic Services Announces Two Broadway Contracts

James Malski, president of Global Scenic Services, Inc., a fabricator of theatrical scenery, based in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announced that this Fall the company is building the sets for two Broadway productions: Bruce ...

Mojo Barriers US Appoints New Vice President

Mojo Barriers US office announces the appointment of Dan Gormley as vice president, joining fellow US vice president Jordi van Berkum.
Gormley states:
"I am delighted to be joining Mojo Barriers as the company ...

Royer Labs Hosts R-10 Release Party

On Thursday, October 5, Royer Labs, manufacturer of ribbon microphones, hosted a release party for the company's latest microphone: the Royer Labs R-10 Ribbon Microphone. Held at Center Staging, LA's premier rehearsal and backline ...

Milos Multicubes Go Heavy-Duty

The new heavy-duty Multicube from MILOS has no strength limitations when used in horizontal grids. It's just as strong as the truss! Additional bracing and reinforced corner connections make the Multicube HD more than twice as strong as ...

GLP Provides Infinite Content for Arcade Fire Tour

After spending the early part of the summer on the European circuit, Canadian band Arcade Fire have embarked on the first leg of their lengthy North American Infinite Content Tour to coincide with the release of their new album, E ...

Lighting the Queen + Adam Lambert Tour: Not Black Magic, But BlackTrax

When Queen and Adam Lambert were planning their 2017-2018 tour -- taking in the USA, Europe, and Oceania, set designers Stufish wanted to showcase the band in a new and immersive way, and Rob Sinclair was asked to design the ...

New Arena in Quebec One of First to Install NEXO

Place Bell is a 10,000-seat amphitheatre located in Laval, Quebec. Officially opened on September 1, the venue is the culmination of a major development initiative to provide local residents with a multi-function complex used for sporting ...

Avolites is "Champion" for Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim's long-term lighting designer, Stephen Abbiss, has chosen to use the live control capabilities of Avolites' Tiger Touch II console for the DJ's summer season of festival shows and one-off headline slots ...

Bandit Lites Illuminates Chris Young

Chris Young is rounding out the year with a new album and a tour run that covers the country as part of Jason Aldean's They Don't Know Tour. Bandit Lites is providing the lighting package for the American ...

LD Jason Kantrowitz Chooses 4Wall NY to Light Part of the Plan Musical

A new and hopefully Broadway-bound musical, Part of the Plan, opened to rave reviews this month in the Music City's Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC). The musical draws its score and inspiration from the deep catalog of ...

Chauvet DJ Engages Crowd At Big What Festival

Parades aren't the first thing that come to mind when you think of outdoor music festivals, but this didn't stop members of the alt rock group Big Something from taking alto saxophones and trombones in hand and marching through picturesque ...