News Archive - August 2012

New Exhibitors Line Up for PLASA Focus: Stamford

Momentum for PLASA Focus: Stamford 2012 is growing fast with a host of new exhibitors choosing their positions on the show floor. The free two-day event takes place November 12-13 at the Stamford Marriott, Connecticut, and will ...

WorldStage East Moves Back to Manhattan After 10-year "Make LIC Hip" Project is Completed

After more than a decade in Long Island City, WorldStage has moved its administrative offices to midtown Manhattan in a newly-designed space at 259 West 30th Street. WorldStage, the new brand for Scharff Weisberg and Video ...

Robert Juliat at PLASA 2012

Robert Juliat will be exhibiting at PLASA 2012 in stand 2-R18 in the White Light Zone.
PLASA marks the official launch of TIBO and ZEP, Robert Juliat's latest LED profiles which enjoyed a successful preview at Frankfurt's ...

LDR's Alba 200W LED Profile Spotlight Exhibiting at PLASA 2012 as First Major Order is Delivered to Estonia

Italian theatre lighting company LDR announces that their largest single order for ALBA 200W LED zoom profile spotlights to date is for the Vanemuine Theatre in Tartu, Estonia. Local distributor E&T Ltd is currently upgrading ...

Elation Professional Announces "Leading Lights" Facebook Contest

For lighting professionals, there are plenty of good reasons to follow Elation Professional's Facebook page, from news of the latest, most exciting and innovative products to networking with fellow professionals and DJs. But the ...

Avolites Ltd Appoints New Directors

Avolites Ltd has appointed Koy Neminathan to the position of sales director and JB Toby as technical director, effective immediately.
Since joining Avolites Ltd in February 2000 Neminathan has become an ...

Apollo's PrintScenic Gobos Available in Plastic or Glass

Apollo Design Technology, Inc. expands their gobo technology with PrintScenic printed gobos. PrintScenic gobos are available in either plastic or glass. Apollo president, Joel Nichols, states, "PrintScenic gobos will change ...

displayLED to Launch The Pixel Depot - Open Days September 4-5

displayLED announces they will open their inaugural showroom this September, featuring the latest in innovative LED displays from leading manufacturers.
The Pixel Depot, a state of the art showroom and industry resource designed ...

Lombardi SLR joins Adamson's Energia in Italy

Sting headlines the Italian debut of Adamson's Energia E15 system, closing the 2012 Umbria Jazz festival in Perugia, Italy.
Provided by Lombardi SLR, the first full service hire company in Italy to purchase E15's and join ...

Edens Edge Tours the US with Rascal Flatts and Harman's AKG C520 L Head-worn Microphones

With deep country roots, all connected through similar upbringings in Arkansas, Edens Edge is an up-and-coming modern country trio currently touring as the opening act on the Farmers Insurance Changed Tour, headlined by Rascal ...

Renewing Calvary Chapel with Wybron's Cygnus LEDs

Calvary Chapel, a non-denominational church in Broomfield, Colorado, offers contemporary style worship and music every Sunday for their devoted congregation. Pastor Richie Furay, a past member of the nationally recognized bands -- ...

North Point Community Church Pixel Maps with Chauvet in Atlanta

Over 250 Chauvet Professional LED fixtures are part of the stage design for the 60-minute worship services held at North Point Community Church, one of five churches in the Atlanta, Georgia area that make up the North Point ...

NSCA to Exhibit and Provide Industry Networking During InfoComm 2013

In response to a story reported yesterday that indicated NSCA would no longer be present at the InfoComm show, NSCA would like to set the record straight. While the NSCA and InfoComm contract under its current arrangement has ...

Philips Vari-Lite Celebrates 30 Years at PLASA 2012

It's been thirty years since the famous "eureka" moment that saw the first ever Vari-Lite luminaires roll of the production line and onto the world's stages. This moment opened the creative lighting designer's door to a world of automated ...

Daktronics To Exhitit at PLASA 2012 Show in London

Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, will give attendees at the September 9 - 12 PLASA 2012 show in London a hands on opportunity to experience the latest in automated stage rigging technology. Daktronics will be exhibiting ...

New Structure at Stardraw.com

Software developers Stardraw.com announces major changes to the company's structure and operation, starting with the announcement that Rob Robinson, currently marketing director, is to become CEO with immediate effect. Davi ...

Dirty Rigger Launches Venta-Cool Gloves

New for 2012, the Dirty Rigger Venta-Cool was a design concept put forward by the Dirty Rigger community, looking for a durable rigger glove designed to minimize the "sweaty hand effect" when working indoors or in hot outdoor ...

DiGiCo SD11i Used on New Production at Linbury Studio, London

The Linbury Studio theatre, housed within Covent Garden's spectacular Royal Opera House in London, recently accommodated a 14-night run of SUM, a new opera based on David Eagleman's best-selling book Forty Tales from the ...

PR Lighting Dynamics Boost Russian Star's 60-Date Tour

Soviet and Russian pop singer, songwriter, and producer, Philip Kirkorov, is using fixtures from PR Lighting to support his latest 60-date Eastern European DruGoy tour, designed to promote his new album. ...

L-Acoustics KARA Installed in Tokyo Concert Hall

L-Acoustics' Japanese distributor, Bestec Audio, has supplied a KARA/KUDO WST line source system to Orchard Hall in Tokyo's Bunkamura complex. Located in the Shibuya district, the huge cultural facility was the first of its ...

XL Events Adds a Futuristic Look For Total Recall UK Premiere

XL Events, working with Premier PR, supplied LED for the London premiere of Total Recall starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel.
Premier PR designed a "red carpet" experience which complemented ...

Watchout Brings Renault Megane III to Life in Columbia

Dataton Watchout multi-image display and presentation software was provided by Dataton premium partner, Omagica to Bolivia-based projection specialists Vinilolab Laboratorio Audiovisual for use in Bogota and Medellin ...

Victorian College of the Arts Looks to the Future with Vista

Joseph Mercurio, lecturer in performance technology at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne, Australia, is on a mission to ensure that his students have access to the latest in lighting technology -- and he insisted ...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Opens Visitor Center Featuring Interactive Exhibits Facilitated by Electrosonic

With the opening of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's (BBG) new visitor center and gateway, visitors can now orient themselves to the garden, learn about its current blooms and plantings, and browse the event schedule via a series of ...

PLASA Rigging Conference Announces Over 30 International Speakers and Panelists

The third annual PLASA Rigging Conference will welcome over 200 international attendees at the Earls Court Conference Centre in London, September 10-11, 2012.
With UK and worldwide bookings well up on last year and with a strong ...

Philips Selecon Launches New LED Profile and Fresnel at PLASA 2012

Philips Entertainment Group brand Selecon is launching a new range of professional LED luminaires at PLASA 2012, at Earls Court in London, running September 9-12. Selecon will join Philips Entertainment brands Vari-Lite, ...

Artistic Licence Sponsors the Knight of Illumination Awards

Artistic Licence will be getting out its glad rags on September 9, 2012, when it sponsors the Knight of Illumination Awards at STLD and ALD.
Artistic Licence owner, Wayne Howell, explains the company's decision to ...

Pharos Showcases Custom Mobile Web Apps at PLASA 2012

Pharos will be showcasing a range of custom mobile web apps that have been produced to meet the specific needs of clients at PLASA 2012, running September 9-12 in London's Earls Court. Pharos will be exhibiting in stand 1-G43 ...

Mackie Unveils the New Shape of Sound with Ultra-Compact, 2000W DLM Loudspeakers

Mackie announces a new line of ultra-compact, powered loudspeakers offering an innovation in portable sound reinforcement -- DLM series powered loudspeakers. Packed with cutting-edge technology, DLM speakers each feature 2,000W of ...

Martin Audio Names Spennacchio Eastern Regional Sales Manager

Martin Audio has announced the appointment of Sam Spennacchio as eastern regional sales manager for North America.
An audio industry veteran with over twenty years of experience in sales and management, Spennacchio will be ...

Stage Research, Inc. Announces New Pricing for Classrooms

Stage Research introduces new academic classroom site license pricing for SoftPlot and SFX. SoftPlot 9 is a CAD application specifically for lighting which allows plot lighting and management of paperwork for all levels of ...

Forman and Associates Expands Sales Team

Forman and Associates announces the appointment of Brett Paddor to the sales team as distributor sales manager. Paddor joins Forman from ELS where he specialized in architectural and entertainment lighting system sales in the ...

Peavey Hollywood Plans Grand Opening Celebration

Peavey Electronics will host a star-studded grand opening of its first showroom in Hollywood next weekend, September 1-5, with appearances by comic legend Stan Lee, guitar virtuoso Alex Skolnick, founder Hartley Peavey, and more. ...

MIDAS PRO2 Brings "Heavenly" Sound to Nevada Ski Slopes

Moon Lighting & Sound is a full service provider of audio, video, and lighting, located in the Reno/Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. "We have a long history of providing sound for major musical events in our region, as well as taking on ...

Symetrix Promotes Brooke Macomber to Director of Marketing

Symetrix announces that its former director of business development, Brooke Macomber, is now director of marketing. In her new role, Macomber will manage the planning and execution of Symetrix' worldwide promotional efforts ...

Harman's JBL Professional Goes Universal in Sri Lanka

The island of Sri Lanka is probably one of the last places one would expect to find global stars as diverse as Billy Ocean and Olivia Newton John performing -- and local production company, Universal Sound fielding a top-spec Harman's JB ...

Video Equipment Rentals Purchases Harman's JBL VTX Series Line Arrays

VER (Video Equipment Rentals), one of the largest AV/audio/broadcast equipment rental companies providing AV/tour solutions, recently added Harman's JBL VTX series line arrays to its inventory of products for the rental, ...

Nortek Launches New Core Brands Group

Nortek, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTK), a global diversified company with technology-driven products and solutions for residential and commercial applications, announces the formation of Core Brands, a new group that combines the product ...

ETC Selador LED Fixtures Light Up Highest Train Station in Europe, Alps' Jungfraujoch

The train journey to the Jungfraujoch station in the Swiss Alps is one of the world's most spectacular. Stunning views from the platform, restaurants, and a geological station greet visitors when they finally reach the top. And now, with ...

Paul Normandale Chooses Philips Vari-Lite on Coldplay Mylo Xyloto World Tour

Acclaimed lighting designer Paul Normandale is set to wow arena audiences in Europe on Coldplay's Xylo Myloto tour with a dazzling lighting design crammed with Philips Vari-Lite luminaires. ...

Connecticut's Calvary Life Church Re-Emerges with Help From Elation And Global Truss

On Wednesday morning February 2, 2011, Calvary Life Family Worship Center had the roof fall in -- literally. During one of the snowiest winters in Connecticut history, the Cheshire, Connecticut church's three-year-old building collapsed ...

311's Unity Tour Calls for Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500s

Alternative rock band 311 is playing 40 amphitheater shows on its Unity tour with Slightly Stoopid this summer, and Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500 automated fixtures are along for the ride.
Lighting designer Joe Paradise ...

Robe LEDWashes for Placebo Tour

Acclaimed UK band Placebo is using 90 Robe ROBIN 300 LEDWash fixtures in custom touring frames for their current European festival tour, specified by lighting designer Jvan Morandi.
Morandi is well known for his fresh and ...

Chroma-Q Color Force Specified for Are You Normal America ? TV Show

Lighting designer Michael Veerkamp recently specified Chroma-Q Color Force Compact fixtures and Color Force 48 LED battens to light the first series of Are You Normal America? (AYNA), a lively new TV games show currently ...

Countryman E6 Omni Earset Mics Custer

If you want to train young actors to project, throw them into the heat of battle; in this case, the Battle of Little Big Horn. For a recent production of playwright Robert Ingham's Custer -- a fictional account of General George ...

CTS Audio Uses New Yamaha CL Consoles at High Profile Christian Events

Women of Faith, the nation's largest live event for women has unveiled its most transformational tour yet entitled Celebrate What Matters. The cross-country tour highlights some never-before-seen elements including a live worship ...

Robert Juliat Lancelots Light Southbank Centre's Rain of Poems

Two Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HTI followspots, supplied by exclusive UK distributor White Light, illuminated a spell-binding rainfall that fell on London's Jubilee Gardens in June.
A Rain of Poems fell from a ...

Coda and DiGiCo Rock Denmark

The end of June saw the annual Thy Rock festival held in Thisted, north-west Denmark, celebrating the best of Danish music. This year's festival included a Coda Audio PA system and multiple DiGiCo consoles featured on the job ...

Charcoalblue Paves the Way for the Return of Live Performance to the London Hippodrome

Exactly 30 years after Jo Longthorne appeared in the final Talk of the Town production at the Hippodrome, the historic London venue has reopened. This follows a major £40million refurbishment, which drew on the innovative theatre design ...

Martin 25th Anniversary Celebration Coming to PLASA 2012

If you're wondering where the party will be at this year's PLASA, look no further. Show sponsor Martin Professional is celebrating its 25th anniversary and will be holding a number of celebratory and VIP events at stand 1-F44 ...

Behringer Rolls Out Free PC Control App for X32

Just as initial shipments of Behringer's X32 Digital Mixer are hitting store shelves the company is rolling out its latest enhancement to the X32 experience. Offering near-complete control over the X32 from a wired or wireless ...

Rental and Staging Network Partners with Providers at Leadership Symposium

Providing clients with a vision for turning their events into a memorable experience through state-of-the art event staging technology, is a top-of-mind issue among rental and staging companies today. At the Rental and Staging Network

Germany's The Dome Gets GLPs Wash One and impression 90

German lighting designer Nik Evers has been using GLP's impression Wash One and impression 90 for Germanys most popular music show on TV.
The Dome has become known as Germanys' most popular music show on TV. Since 1997, ...

Oracle Revolutionizes the Meeting Experience Featuring Video and Interactive Elements from WorldStage

When Oracle held The Experience Revolution, a special event at New York City's Gotham Hall, event producers InVision Communications turned to WorldStage to deliver four different video and interactive elements supporting ...

Marshall University's Cam Henderson Center Gets In the Zone With Harman's BSS, Crown, and JBL Audio Components

Marshall University's 9,100-seat Cam Henderson Center is the college's primary indoor athletic facility. First opened in 1981, the center was ready for a sound system installation upgrade, which was handled by Newtech Systems, Inc., ...

HSL on the UK's Global Gathering

UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL continued its busy summer supplying lighting equipment, LED screens, trussing, and rigging for the main stage and five tented arenas at the 2012 Global Gathering event, staged at Long ...

Masque Sound Wraps Up Another Season at the Muny

When The Muny kicked off its 2012 musical theatre season, Masque Sound, a theatrical sound reinforcement, installation, and design company, was backstage, providing audio equipment and services for the St. Louis, Missouri ...

West Palm Beach Church Re-Energized with Ashly NE Amps and Processors

Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in West Palm Beach, Florida has seen tremendous growth in its fifty-eight year history. In the military surplus warehouse that served as its first sanctuary, early sermons competed with wildlife, rain, ...

D.A.S. Audio Deployed at Metro South Church in Detroit Area

As a non-denominational independent Christian church located in the southern suburbs of greater Detroit, Michigan, Metro South Church is a vibrant, growing organization that caters to more than 1,500 people during their four weekend ...

WATCHOUT at Expogestión Caribe

Dataton WATCHOUT multi-image and display software was supplied by Watchout premium partner Omagica to Colombia-based multimedia experts Big Video to display content across three seven by five meter screens at the ...

Girl Scouts 100th Anniversary Experience to Mark Milestone at 2012 State Fair of Texas

A Texas-sized experiential exhibition, The Girl Scouts 100th Anniversary Experience, will bring together Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX), alumnae, fairgoers, and Girl Scouts across the United States to celebrate Girl Scouts 100th ...

PLASA Show Announces New Venue, New Dates for 2013

PLASA has announced a new home and dateline for the PLASA Show in 2013. The UK's only international event for entertainment and installation technology will take place at ExCeL London for the first time, from October 6 ...

Soundcraft Launches Si Performer Digital Console Range, the Only Audio Console with Integrated DMX

It takes something completely different to make a digital audio console stand out from the crowd these days, but Harman's Soundcraft has done exactly that with the launch of the Soundcraft Si Performer range of mixers, which, thanks ...

Elation's Platinum Beam 15R Pro Takes Popular ACL Effect to Next Level

When Elation Professional introduced its groundbreaking Platinum Beam 5R last year, the ultra-bright, compact ACL beam effect quickly became a favorite of lighting designers, appearing everywhere from high-profile events like Super ...

Martin Expands Controller Support Team; Adds Dedicated 24-hour Controller Support Hotline

Martin Professional has recently added Kris Van Hullebusch in the position of test and support engineer at its lighting controller development center in Belgium, providing global support, training, and service. ...

Pixled at PLASA 2102

European designed LED brand Pixled will show its new F-10 i/o tile product at the PLASA 2012 show in Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, running September 9-12.
This latest innovation from Pixled is an all-round 10.4mm ...

Shure Axient Wireless Takes the Stage at the 46th Montreux Jazz Festival

The 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival, which ran from June 29 through July 14 in Montreaux, Switzerland on the shore of Lake Geneva, welcomed various world-class artists and bands performing on 15 different stages. For the 19th consecutive year, ...

Robe MMX Spots on Musiek Trivia TV Show in South Africa

Leading South African technical production company Blond Productions supplied Robe Robin MMX Spots and 600E Beam moving lights to a new games show, Musiek Trivia, recorded at ZSE Studios in Johannesburg. ...

Dreamgirls Goes Wireless with Chauvet in St. Louis

For an outdoor production of Dreamgirls, lighting designer Seth Jackson called upon wireless and battery-operated Chauvet fixtures to light six 16' mobile truss towers that freely move across its 94' stage. ...

Yamaha CL Console Lights Up Atlantic City's Orion Festival

Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey, over a recent summer weekend was the site for the Orion Music + More Festival featuring Metallica on the main stage along with 30 plus bands and over 33,000 in attendance on each of the two-days.

Network Seven Adds DiGiCo in Australia

Audio Systems Australia (ASA) has been specializing in live music broadcasting since its formal inception in 1992, with head of sound Randy Fransz managing a varied, high profile range of clientele. The company's primary client is ...

Chroma-Q Color Force 72 Excel at Australian University

The Venue and Events department of the University of New South Wales in Australia has recently invested in seven Jands Chroma-Q Color Force 72 / 1.8m LED battens to provide wash lighting effects for its various productions. The ...

Our Own English High School in UAE Moves to Digital with Allen & Heath

Our Own English High School in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, has upgraded the sound system in its auditorium from Allen & Heath analog to iLive digital control.
The school was using an Allen & Heath analog console and decided to ...

Joseph Jefferson Nominations Announced

The nominations for the Joseph Jefferson Awards, which honor achievement in the Chicago professional theatre community, have been announced. The nominations cover shows that opened between August 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012. The ...

Introducing New Martin M-Series Lighting Controller Software

Martin Professional announces the release of a new operating system for its M-Series lighting controllers, which encompass the M1, M2GO, M-PC, and Maxxyz consoles. The new software, version 2.90.400, includes over 70 new features ...

Bandit Lites LD's Back GLP's New Spot One

Having maintained a long relationship with GLP Inc. since the original impression 90 (first used on the WWE circuit), Bandit Lites has embraced every subsequent generation of the German company's LED platform. ...

Symetrix Expands SymNet Audio DSP with Radius 12x8

Symetrix announces the Radius 12x8, a Dante-networkable, fixed I/O, open-architecture digital signal processor expanding the innovative SymNet platform.
Radius may be installed as a standalone processor or used in conjunction ...

Total Structures Announces Outdoor Stage Roof Workshop in Las Vegas

Total Structures announces they will be hosting an Outdoor Stage Roof Workshop in October in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday and Thursday, October 17-18, before LDI. The primary objectives for this event are safety, education, and to ...

133rd AES Convention Introduces Networked Audio Track

Networked audio presents a host of technological and operational advantages, and an equal number of workflow issues and potential quagmires. 133rd AES Convention co-chair Jim McTigue reports that networked audio track chair, Tim ...

Delicate Productions Inc. Names Jason Alt President

Delicate Productions Inc. has appointed Jason Alt as president. He will be responsible for operations, sales, management, growth, and strategic planning, and will oversee Delicate Productions' Camarillo and San Francisco ...

AED Rent Increases Clay Paky Stock to More Than 2,500 Fixtures

Pan European AV solutions provider AED Rent has announced it now has a stock of more than 2,500 Clay Paky fixtures.
AED Rent, which has headquarters in Willebroek, Belgium but also has offices in the Netherlands, France, ...

Line 6 StageScape Visual Mixing System Debuts at Padre Serra Parish in Camarillo, California

One of the biggest challenges to presenting contemporary worship music is achieving professional sound quality with a staff of volunteers who may have a wide range of technical experience. Padre Serra Parish, a large Roman Catholic Church ...

Professional Wireless Systems Provides RF Coverage at Lollapalooza 2012

For the second year in a row, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound Company and supplier of wireless systems for live and broadcast events, was contracted to handle frequency coordination for the wireless microphones, ...

EAW Loudspeakers Provide Natural Voice and Music Reinforcement for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Ford Audio-Video Systems Inc. (Ford AV), an audio-video integrator with offices across the US, has installed EAW QX series, AX series, and UB series loudspeakers at the newly constructed J.W. "Jack" MacGorman Chapel on the campus of ...

DiA Events Provides dBTechnologies For Billings, Montana Symphony in the Park

DiA Events, located in Billings, Montana has been providing sound reinforcement for the Billings Symphony Orchestra's Symphony in the Park for the last eight years. The event is free to the public and marks the end of the ...

Charcoalblue to Open New York Office

Theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue is crossing the pond to open a studio in the heart of New York's fashionable Chelsea district.
Since completing the Royal Shakespeare Company's new award-winning headquarters in Stratford ...

Over 1,000 DJs Attend American DJ's Customer Appreciation PizzaFest

What started out as a pizza buffet turned into a party as over 1,000 people came to American DJ's first annual Customer Appreciation PizzaFest for pizza with all the fixings and stayed for the dancing, socializing, and great ...

Community's Distributed Design Series Now in Basic Black

Community's Distributed Design Series of in-ceiling loudspeakers has been expanded to include a standard black version of its flagship D6 model.
The new D6-B provides the same exceptionally high quality sound with very wide, ...

EnvironmentalLights.com Launches RGB ColorChase LED Tape

EnvironmentalLights.com, a source for energy-efficient LED lighting, recently launched RGB ColorChase LED tape lights. As one of the newest technologies in the LED market, chasing LED tape lights stands apart from standard color ...

Pro Audio Stash Extends 19" Rack Enclosures and Accessories Range

Pro Audio Stash (PAS), a UK 19" racking designer, manufacturer, and supplier, announces the release of multiple new products boosting its already comprehensive range of 19" rack cabinets, enclosures, and accessories. ...

displayLED Showcases Dramatic New Generation digiFLEX Tile

International screen specialist displayLED has launched a new generation of the flexible LED tile, digiFLEX. The new digiFLEX is a more robust version of displayLED's previous award winning flexible screen, upgraded to be production ...

Harman's Studer Appoints Rob Hughes to Position of Market Sales Manager

In a move to strengthen the company's sales presence in the live sound for broadcast and theatre communities, Harman's Studer has appointed Rob Hughes to the position of market sales manager. In this position, Hughes will be ...

Robe at the 2012 PSL Awards in South Africa

The 2012 PSL Awards were staged at the Lyric Theatre in Gold Reef City, Johannesburg, and honored South African football players, coaches, and officials. This year the event was lit by Nicholas Michaletos from technical solutions ...

The PA People Call on Harman's JBL Loudspeakers to Deliver High-Impact Audio at Ausgrid Stadium in Australia

Ausgrid Stadium in Newcastle, Australia (formerly Energy Australia Stadium), home to the professional rugby team the Newcastle Knights, has undergone a dramatic facelift with the redevelopment of its western grandstand. This state-of-the ...

Rosco Helps Global Broadcasters Capture their Olympic View

London's Olympic Stadium has become the jewel of London during the 2012 Olympic Games and every broadcaster wanted to have the stadium, or other elements of Olympic Park, behind their anchors while they recorded their coverage of the 30th ...

Innovason Out in Force at 2012 Les Vieilles Charrues Music Festival

Les Vieilles Charrues celebrated its 21st birthday in July this year. Founded in 1992 in Brittany with the aim of making the widest possible range of music genres accessible to everybody, Les Vieilles Charrues, often cited as a French ...

Colour Sound Experiment on the Secret Garden Party

Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) supplied lighting for five main operated stages and about 30 other performance areas dotted around the Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK-site at the 2012 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event, as the unique ...

PLASA 2012 Audio Lab Announced

A new pro-audio feature at the heart of the PLASA 2012 show will include a full-volume demo area dedicated to the demonstration of loudspeakers and will provide visitors the chance to listen to products in a real-world environment.

Robe Works With Winners at PLASA 2012

Robe celebrates its tenth birthday and ten years of "Working With Winners" at PLASA 2012, referring to its amazing international distribution team, most of whom have been with the company since its first PLASA in 2002. ...

4Wall DC Relocates to Modern, Updated Facility

4Wall Entertainment's DC location has moved, effective August 13, 2012. Previously located in Halethorpe, Maryland; 4Wall DC can now be found in its new home of Columbia, Maryland.
In addition to moving closer to the capital, the ...

Out Board debuts TiMax PanSpace and CAB5 Cable Tester at PLASA 2012

At PLASA 2012 running September 9-12, Out Board, exhibiting in stand 1-H9, will debut the new TiMax2 SoundHub PanSpace graphical sound-effects pan programming map which works in conjunction with the TimeLine editor. Users can ...

American DJ Expo Express Contest Winner Adam Moyer Enjoys His Prize at the DJ Expo

Usually when people head to Atlantic City, they hope they'll have some luck there. For Adam Moyer of Silver Sound DJ's, his luck came before he even left home. As the winner of American DJ's Expo Express contest, Moyer ...

A Star is Reborn: New Diva by Wenger Delivers Numerous Enhancements

Following its impressive 1995 debut, the newly redesigned Diva full-stage acoustical shell from Wenger Corp. features numerous functional and aesthetic improvements. Handling and setup are now easier, with more size and design ...

Kinetic Lighting Adds New ETC Source Four LED Fixtures to Rental Inventory

Kinetic Lighting has added ETC Source Four LED fixtures to rental inventory. The company is now renting the Lustr+ model, based on the popular seven-color LED light system unique to ETC's Selador line. ...

TMB ProPlex Network Helps Make Olympic Magic

Billions of people worldwide watched the 2012 London Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies, where producer Danny Boyle masterfully deployed mystical elements of the gods -- light, color, and fire -- in a celebration of British ...

Community Professional Helps Bar Sport with the Winning Solution

Oxfordshire-based RealSound and Vision has completed the installation of a Community sound system for Cedar Sports Management Ltd. at Bar Sport in Maidenhead, Berkshire UK.
The new Bar Sport venue is located at Grenfell ...

Harman's Soundcraft Vi Series Consoles Travel The World With Kaiser Chiefs

While on tour with five-piece indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, sound engineer Chris Leckie, relies on Harman's Soundcraft Vi series consoles for all front of house and monitor needs. Kaiser Chiefs, who released their debut ...

PR Lighting Arrives on Maldives' Celebrity TV

The holiday resort destination of the Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean, has provided the exotic location for PR Lighting's latest foray.
Local event management company, BeamOn, is using the popular XS1200 Spot on the ...

Clay Paky Sharpys Hit the Road with the Dave Matthews Band

After taking last summer off, the Dave Matthews Band is back on the road with a North American tour previewing their upcoming album, "Away From The World," due for release in September. The tour features 16 Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures ...

Steinigke Showtechnic Names Inner Circle Exclusive Distributor in North, South America

Steinigke Showtechnic Names Inner Circle Exclusive Distributor in North, South America Steinigke Showtechnic billed as the biggest distributor in Europe for show equipment, covering lighting, truss, staging, decoration, sound, ...

Stage Technologies at PLASA Show

Automation specialists Stage Technologies are planning a more extensive presence at PLASA 2012 than in recent years. (The PLASA Show runs September 9-12, at Earl's Court London) The company will be presenting a seminar at ...

Meyer Sound Ships Steerable CAL Column Array Loudspeaker (with Video)

Meyer Sound has begun delivery of its CAL column array loudspeaker this summer. Available in three models, CAL is a self-powered installation product that, the company says, introduces an unprecedented level of vocal ...

Crown Audio Introduces VRACK 4x3500HD Complete Multichannel Amplification System

Harman's Crown Audio is adding to its VRACK amplifier management line with ...

Allen & Heath Announces GLD Digital Mixing Training Sessions at WFX Show Atlanta

Allen & Heath will showcase the new GLD digital mixing system during this year's WFX Show in Atlanta, September 19 - 21, offering free, hands-on, digital mixing training sessions at Booth #303. ...

Mackie Delivers Update to Master Fader Control App for DL1608

Mackie has updated the Master Fader control app for the Mackie DL1608. Updates include the ability to store and recall presets for all plug-ins. This allows the user to quickly dial in a channel, with factory and user-defined ...

Phil Mercer Back in UK to Head XL Video Concert Touring

Following three years at XL Video in the US where he oversaw the Los Angeles office, Phil Mercer has returned to his native UK to take up the role of group head of concert touring.
Mercer's brief is to develop the ...

Star Events Gives CyberMotion its UK Début for BT London Live Hyde Park Shows

b>Star Events Group, the first UK purchaser of the new CyberMotion stage automation system from XLNT's UK sales partner Lift Turn Move, has given the system a début on three weeks of BT London Live shows in Hyde ...

Chauvet Colors Kauffman Center for MLB 2012

To celebrate the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, held at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium, the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association created a marketing campaign for the city's "FanatiKCs." Part of the ...

Martin Professional MAC Aura on Tour with Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquin Sabina

Spanish lighting designer Oscar Gallardo has turned to a Martin Professional MAC Aura lighting rig supplied by MFO S.L. Productions for Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquin Sabina's current tour, which is ...

MILOS Group Acquires Litec and Tomcat

Czech Republic-based trussing and staging manufacturer MILOS Group announces the recent acquisition of two leading trussing and staging brands: LITEC and TOMCAT.
The new deal reportedly makes Milos the largest ...

Harman Professional Ships JBL HiQnet Performance Manager Version 1.0

Following six months of Beta system testing and refinement, Harman Professional announces the market availability of JBL HiQnet Performance Manager sound reinforcement system design software. ...

Chauvet Professional Names Business Development Manager

Chauvet has named John Dunn business development manager; he has been the company's West region business manager for two years.
John will focus on two of the Chauvet sub-brands, Chavuet Professional and Iluminarc, both of which, the ...

Allen & Heath to Launch Two New Products at PLASA Show

Allen & Heath, the British pro audio mixer manufacturer will launch two new products at this year's PLASA Show, September 9-12, Earl's Court, London, and will also showcase the recently released ZED60-10FX and ZED60 ...

Second International coolux Connect Conference Announced

coolux GmbH, maker of the award-winning Pandoras Box product family, announces that the international coolux connect conference will be repeated in January 2013; the company says the first conference, held in 2011, was a "g ...

Data Projections Maintains InfoComm International Diamond - Level Designation Certification

Data Projections, Inc., an audiovisual systems designer and integrator, has been named an InfoComm International Diamond Certified AudioVisual Solutions Provider (CAVSP) for the fifth year in a row. The program, launched in ...

Kaiser Electric Receives Regional Excellence Award for Peabody Opera House Renovation Project

Kaiser Electric was recently honored with a regional excellence award from St. Louis Construction News and Review (CNR) for its work on the Peabody Opera House historic renovation project. ...

Drape Kings Covers Met Life Stadium

Drape Kings draped Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with almost two-and-a-half miles of its custom-made green mesh drape for the 12th reading of the Talmud by the Agudath Israel of America. This event, ...

Clay Paky Sharpys at Miss Florida USA 2013 Pageant

Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures made their debut on the Miss Florida USA 2013 pageant, which was televised from Davie's Bailey Concert Hall on the campus of Broward University. Lighting director Stefan DeWilde

Genelec 8240A Monitors, 7270A Subwoofer at New Jazz Space in Former U.S. Mint

The Jazz Theater, located on the top floor of the Old U.S. Mint Building in New Orleans is designed around the music itself: The small (120-seat) rectangular room is intimate and acoustically pristine, fitted with complex ...

More Sessions Added to Program at PLASA 2012

A number of important additions to the London edition of the PLASA Professional Development Program have been announced.
The 80 free-to-attend sessions form the backbone of the 2012 edition of the PLASA Show, which takes ...

ETCP Promotion for New Theatre Test Form Pushed to October

Due to increased interest in the theatre examination, the ETCP Council has decided to push the launch of the new theatre rigging test form to October 1 instead of the original launch at the beginning of September. To gather the ...

One PLASA Photometric Standard in Public Review

ANSI E1.35 - 2007, Standard for Lens Quality Measurements for Pattern Projecting Luminaires Intended for Entertainment Use, is being revised to increase the accuracy of the measurement procedure while still keeping it simple. The ...

The Long Reach Long Riders Complete Ninth Annual Charity Motorcycle Ride

The Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR) are very happy to announce the successful completion of their 9th annual charity motorcycle ride. The ride, which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The ESTA Foundation's Behind the ...

Avolites Releases TITAN 6

Avolites has released TITAN 6, a new version of the Avolites operating system. Titan is the heart of Avolites lighting control consoles including Pearl Expert, Tiger Touch, Titan Mobile, and the new Sapphire Touch< ...

BASSMAXX Launches CCM112 YesMon Powered Monitor

BASSMAXX has launched the bi-amped CCM112 YesMon powered monitor. The CCM112 is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of 2012. "Big things can definitely come in small packages," said David Lee, president and ...

Fulcrum Acoustic Adds Four Models to RM + RX Series Loudspeakers

After premiering the RM28ac installation loudspeaker at Infocomm, Fulcrum Acoustic has announced further details of its new Rmac product range. The latest additions to the RM installation loudspeaker series, the Rmac ...

RATstands Introduces SOLO LEDlight

RATstands announces its SOLO LEDlight, a professional single LED music stand light. It is available in two versions: The SOLO LEDlight can be fitted onto RATstands' Opera stand, and the SOLO LEDclip Light is ...

Dirty Rigger Invests in Dealer Support

Dirty Rigger reports that its new dealer support program from was trialled with great success at USA's Witsend Group.
Designed to offer dealers and distributors unrivalled support, the new scheme allows dealers to have ...

Gator Cases Launches New Line of Waterproof Mic Cases

Gator Cases has added of a new line of waterproof injection molded microphone cases. Available in a two styles, it is billed as offering heavy-duty protection and security for up to six or 16 handheld microphones. ...

Jeremy Choate, Designer and Light Artist, Dies at 33

Jeremy Choate, a Houston, Texas-based lighting designer and light artist has died, the victim of a hit-and-run traffic accident. He was 33.
The Houston Press quotes Jennifer Wood, artistic director of Suchu Dance, a local ...

Three PLASA Control Protocols Draft Standards in Public Review

Three draft control protocol standards are available for public review on the PLASA website until early October. They may be downloaded for free at http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php. ...

LightFactory Version 2.10 Now Available

Dream Solutions announces the latest release of its LightFactory controls software. Release 2.10 brings more features designed to make programming shows faster and more streamlined. This release is a free upgrade for ...

Peavey MediaMatrix NION Training Seminar Heads to Vancouver

Peavey Commercial Audio will host a two-day ediaMatrix NION certification training course in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 16-1.
The training course instructs AV professionals on the fundamentals of ...

Rome Selected as Host City for 134th AES Convention

"We take great pleasure in announcing that the 134th Audio Engineering Society Convention will be held in Rome, May 4-7, 2013," reports AES executive director Bob Moses. "Set in the heart of the 'Eternal City' at the new Roma ...

Clay Paky Congratulates Russian Partner DOKA on 25th Anniversary

Italian entertainment lighting manufacturer Clay Paky has congratulated its long-term Russian distribution partner DOKA on 25 years in the business at its annual seminar in Moscow.
More than 300 movers and shakers from ...

Elation Platinum Beams at Southern Baptist Convention

Everything about the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is big. As the largest Protestant body in the United States, the 167-year-old organization boasts over 16 million members from 45,000 congregations. The SBC's 2012 annual ...

Lighthouse and TS Sports Put LED Video Display Constellation Field

Lighthouse and TS Sports have installed four 20mm LED video screens at Constellation Field, in Sugar Land, Texas, home of the Atlantic League baseball team Sugar Land Skeeters.
The main screen, fitted within a ...

Macy's Brasil Campaign Kicks Off With RCF Loudspeakers

Macy's recently kicked off its tribute to Brasil with in-store celebrations at key locations across the county. The purpose of the "Brasil: A Magical Journey" campaign is to celebrate and bring awareness to the culture and history ...

coolux Appears with the Erlich Brothers

Master Illusionists the Ehrlich Bothers entertained an audience of 10,000 on Friday, July 13 at the TUI Arena in Hannover, Germany.
During the two-and-a-half hour long show, the audience was presented with an extremely varied ...

Theatre in Review: Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote (Primary Stages/59E59)

Wharton, Texas is loaded with natural resources, having produced cotton, sugar cane, oil, and the plays of Horton Foote. Under the name of Harrison, this town of 9,200 has been the setting for so many works by one of our most ...

Drape Kings Opens Chicago Office

Drape Kings, the event drape specialist, is expanding into Chicagoland, opening its third regional office. Effective immediately, Chicago event planners and staging professionals have access to Drape Kings' extensive inventory of ...

grandMA2 and Clay Paky Sharpys Step Out on the Country Scene

grandMA2 and Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures have gone country playing key roles on the Brothers of the Sun Tour, with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, and at the fan-favorite CMA Music Festival, which held ...

Artistic Licence Engineering Showcases Multichrome Tube for Bow Arts Trust

Bow Arts Trust, the East London arts educational charity, is the recipient of the first major installation of Artistic Licence Engineering's new modular Multichrome Tube LED fixtures. ...

Jands Vista L5 Takes Control for Queen and Adam Lambert

A Jands Vista L5 was chosen by lighting and visuals designer Rob Sinclair to control lighting and media for British rock legends, Queen. The group's recent string of high-profile shows featured American Idol ...

Foreigner Tours with Lectrosonics

The popular rock band Foreigner has been touring extensively this year and, relying on Digital Hybrid Wireless technology from Rio Rancho, New Mexico-based Lectrosonics.
Albuquerque-based Lorenzo Banda is ...

4Wall New York Lights Justin Bieber at the Apollo

Justin Bieber hit New York's world-famous Apollo Theater in June for a special concert to promote his new album. 4Wall New York provided lighting for the event, which was also filmed for Bieber's NBC television ...

CrossRoads Nazarene Church Chooses L-Acoustics KARAi

CrossRoads Nazarene Church, in Chandler, Arizona, recently became one of the latest North American houses of worship to install a KARAi line source system from L-Acoustics.
AVDB Group, of Phoenix, provided the ...

Theatre in Review: Bring It On: The Musical (St. James Theatre)

No, it is not the George Bush story. In point of fact, Bring It On is a bright and breezy entertainment, staged with plenty of pizazz and featuring a cast of personable young people who, in addition to possessing awe ...

Cross Pointe Ministries Opts for WorxAudio Loudspeakers

Cross Pointe Ministries' campus in Tupelo, Mississippi recently opened a new building that provides seating capacity for over 1,000 worshippers. The church installed a new sound system-with components drawn from the TrueLine ...

Robe MMX Spots on Israeli Edition of Dancing with the Stars

The Israeli television lighting designer Ofer Jacobi specified ROBIN MMX Spots, together with LEDWash 1200 and 600s for the latest series of Israel's edition of Dancing With the Stars, now in its seventh ...

Entec Lights 2012 Larmer Tree Festival

West London-based Entec Sound & Light supplied a substantial stage, architectural, and garden lighting package to the 2012 Larmer Tree Festival, staged in the picturesque environs of Larmer Tree Gardens at Tollard Royal, ...

Dataton WATCHOUT at Rand Merchant Bank Awards Ceremony, South Africa

Dataton's WATCHOUT multi-image display and presentation software was delivered by multimedia specialists PENMAC Audio Visual for Rand Merchant Bank's (RMB) annual awards presentation and staff event held in ...

Morpheus Lights Helps Kick Off Wrecking Ball North American Stadium Tour

Morpheus Lights will help Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band kick off its Wrecking Ball North American Stadium Tour when it swings into Center Field of Boston's Fenway Park on August 14. The next leg of the ...

Check out the LSA show report on PLASA Focus: Nashville!

Before the exhibition floor even opened at PLASA Focus: Nashville, some of the attendees already had a taste of what was to come, compliments of Tony Award-winning scenic designer Donyale Werle. An hour before hundreds of ...

American DJ Launches Ruby Royal Tri-color Laser

American DJ launches the Ruby Royal, which utilizes a 150mW red laser diode and a 150mW violet blue laser diode to create red and blue patterns, and magenta as well/
"A magenta laser is truly unique," says Alfred ...

Kinesys Names Cristiano Giavedoni Marketing/Business Director

The expansion plans of the UK-based motion control company Kinesys continue to unfold with the news it has hired Cristiano Giavedoni as marketing and business director.
Dave Weatherhead, managing director at ...

Auralex Now Shipping HoverMat Isolation Platform

Auralex Acoustics, Inc., the maker of acoustical treatments soon to celebrate its 35th anniversary, is now shipping its new HoverMat Isolation Platform. Like Auralex's HoverDeck, the HoverMat isolates a drum set from the ...

Sensaphonics Adds Two More Audiologists into Golden Circle

Sensaphonics, the in-ear monitoring technology company, has graduated two more audiologists to its exclusive Golden Circle. The company's two-day Golden Circle seminar teaches audiologists the specific skills required to serve ...

Iluminarc Launches Ilumipanel 40 IP

Iluminarc, the architectural and architainment lighting division of Chauvet announces the release of a new powerful interior/exterior wash light, Ilumipanel 40 IP. Designed as a mid-range architectural wash light, ...

Texas Scenic Supplies Gear to Witte Museum, San Antonio

Texas Scenic Company (TSC) has completed installation of specialty lighting equipment for the new Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center at San Antonio's Witte Museum. ...

FocusTrack Helps Red Relocate To Los Angeles

FocusTrack is currently helping lighting designer Neil Austin recreate his Tony Award-winning design for the play Red in Los Angeles.
This acclaimed production opened at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2009, then ...

Milestone AV Technologies Helps Habitat for Humanity

This summer, Milestone AV Technologies' employees took advantage of several opportunities to help with Habitat for Humanity projects around the Twin Cities Metro area.
Milestone kicked off its series of Habitat events on ...

Alanis Morissette Tours with Outline GTO And Britannia Row

Canadian-born singer songwriter and actress Alanis Morissette recently embarked on a short summer tour in support of her forthcoming album Havoc And Bright Lights, which is due for release in August. ...

Tony Awards Telecast Relies on Shure Wireless Microphones

Broadcast live on CBS, the 66th annual Tony Awards was notable for the fact that virtually every stage microphone at New York's Beacon Theatre was a Shure wireless microphone. Firehouse Productions of Red Hook, New York ...

TAIT Creates Custom Staging Concepts for Metallica Tour

Metallica has kicked off the next leg of its tour in Mexico City, with elaborate staging concepts created by the team at TAIT. The band will perform eight shows in Mexico before heading to San Francisco and onward to Canada. ...

Czech Point Robe Gets Gold Medal in London

Czech technical solutions provider AV Media invested in a substantial amount of new Robe moving lights and Anolis LED fixtures, which are installed at the Czech House Pavilion, a base for all sports fans and ...

Atomic Design Sets Up Shop in Los Angeles

After over a decade of exporting its scenic goods and design services to the West Coast, Atomic Design has opened an additional location in Los Angeles.
The expansion comes on the heels of Atomic's recent involvement with NBC's ...

Scenex Lighting Expands Range and Adds Custom Design Support

Scenex Lighting from GLP has recently increased their investment and range of flexible LED tapes, adding a full inventory with black backing as opposed to the more common white backing which has traditionally been offered. ...

The d&b rendezvous with the Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology

Arriving at booth 410 in Ontario's London Convention Centre between August 16-18, visitors will be presented with two distinctly different loudspeakers from the diverse range available from d&b audiotechnik. ...

Audio-Technica US Appoints Javier Tiburcio as Training and Sales Support for Mexico and Central America

Audio-Technica US announces the appointment of Javier Tiburcio as training and sales support specialist for the territories of Mexico and Central America. He will be responsible for providing product training and sales ...

Genelec Unveils SpeakerAngle App for iOS Devices

Genelec, a manufacturer of active monitoring, introduces the SpeakerAngle app for iOS devices, the first digital tool which allows anyone to correctly set and match the angling ("toe-in") of both stereo and 7.1 surround sound ...

Stage Technologies Support the Second NATEAC

The 2012 North American Theatre, Engineering, and Architecture Conference (NATEAC) wrapped up in New York last month, with attendees praising the presentations and organizers already planning the 2016 event. Stage Technologies ...

CPL Takes Delivery of its First Yamaha CL5 Console

West Midlands, UK-based video and AV specialist Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) is taking delivery of the latest and highly acclaimed Yamaha CL5 digital mixing console.
CPL already has a large stock of Yamaha LS9 and other ...

Scene Change Expand Their Vista Family With A Vista S1

An Australian-based company with offices in all major cities, Scene Change, which bills itself as "the #2 AV company," has purchased a Jands Vista S1 console to accompany their existing Jands Vista I3 console. The Vista S1 is ...

Sparks Fly for Event and RCF as Olympic Torch Comes to Chelmsford

In the finale of a day-long series of events (collectively known as Sparks Will Fly: Essex) the action moved to Hyland Park where local sound company Event Sound & Light (ESL) fielded the largest combined RCF TT+ PA system ...

Kenny Chesney Moves to Shure Axient with KSM9/HS for Stadium Tour

With a large, loyal fan base and a long history of spectacular performances, country icon Kenny Chesney is on the road again, teaming with Tim McGraw on one of the biggest draws of the 2012 touring season. Audio for the tour is being ...

Robe Makes a Grand Exit in Serbia

Over 130 Robe moving lights were supplied by Serbian technical solutions provider Studio Berar to the three biggest stages -- main, dance arena, and fusion -- at the 2012 Exit Festival.
Exit is staged in the picturesque ...

Xone:92 Mixers for Space Opening Party in Ibiza, Spain

Space Club in Ibiza recently held its summer season opening night, installing three of Allen & Heath's industry standard Xone:92 mixers in the main room to fulfill the rider request of a majority of the performing DJs. ...

Bay Community Church Installs Lowell Racks in Second Alabama Location

When Bay Community Church was in the process of building its second campus, in Mobile, Alabama, to complement its first location in Daphne, just across Mobile Bay, they turned to The ESB Group, a leading audio, video, lighting, and ...

Theatre in Review: Into the Woods (Delacorte Theatre)

In our revival-happy world, the distance between productions is getting shorter and shorter. Broadway has seen A Streetcar Named Desire three times in the last 20 years. This season, we're getting Cyrano de Bergerac and Gl ...