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10 July 2025

Germany - The AStA Summer Festival in Paderborn has been attracting up to 14,000 music fans to the western German city’s university campus every year since 1998.

One of the oldest and largest student-organised festivals in the country, this year’s event which took place on 5 June had something for everybody from German rap, pop and indie to rock and techno, with established headliners including Zartmann, Blond and Ikkimel in the line-up alongside student performers and regional bands.

Paderborn-based event production specialists Sound Linear supplied sound for the event deploying their Nexo STM inventory on the mainstage in a system comprising main left and right hangs of nine STM M46 main modules and six STM M28 down fills, supplemented by adjacent hangs of B112 bass extension modules.

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10 July 2025

Europe - Highlite has announced the launch of the Infinity Furion FX402 Bar, a new addition to the Infinity Furion series. This fixture merges the capabilities of high-performance moving heads with the creative potential of a fully tiltable, zoomable, pixel-rich LED bar - delivering a bold new format for modern lighting design.

Designed to meet the demands of today’s lighting professionals, the Furion FX402 Bar offers an exceptional combination of motion, flexibility, and performance, all housed in a rugged, tour-ready IP65-rated enclosure. It represents the next evolutionary step in the Furion family – a series known for its strength, precision, and mythical inspiration drawn from the agility and intensity of a dragon.

“Moving bars are a key trend in modern lighting design,” says Peter Buckx, product manager at Highlite. “As the Infinity F

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10 July 2025

UK - Choosing Glastonbury Festival for their only live performance of the year, Friday headline band The 1975 relied heavily on their long-standing production designer Tobias Rylander and his team, to bring something special out of the Pyramid stage by way of high-octane visual impact.

Rylander, who has worked with the band for the past 15 years, designing “pretty much every live show they’ve ever done”, is noted for his ability to use video as a lighting tool. But for his ‘one-off’ Glastonbury design, thanks to GLP’s next generation JDC2 IP hybrid, he realised he could also convert lighting into powerful striations of video, bathing the band’s loyal fans in rich colour imagery. He was able to do this by deploying 211 of the super-bright fixtures - the biggest single consignment of JDC2 IP ever.

“We more or less framed the whole stage

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10 July 2025

Europe - DirectOut is used by system designer and engineer Ville Kauhanen to provide fail-safe stability for all his complex stadium-touring audio system designs.

Kauhanen has worked non-stop in the industry for nearly 30 years and with some of the highest profile artists on the planet. His recent work includes Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour, which concluded in December 2024. The tour visited 54 cities across five continents playing 149 shows and was the highest grossing tour of all time.

Kauhanen was the system engineer for the tour and provided the system infrastructure for each location. His method of working today is very different to when he first started, but, as he explains, his huge industry overview enables him to plan for the future, as well as succeed in the present.

“I’m old enough to have seen the transit

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10 July 2025

USA - ACT Entertainment has announced the appointment of two members of the lighting sales team to newly designated sales territories. Jonathan Schneider and Asha Washington have been named as regional outside sales reps – lighting for the South-Central U.S. and Southeast U.S., respectively.

“We are thrilled to continue growing the lighting sales team within ACT Entertainment,” says director of sales, Doug Mekanik. “Both Jonathan and Asha bring unique experiences to the overall team ranging in expertise from touring to prior sales territory management. Adding these two team members enables us to provide our growing customer base with the personal, tailored relationship and resources they need and deserve.”

Based in Dallas, Jonathan Schneider was a media server engineer, lighting tech and crew chief with Upstaging for the last 11 years. He w

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10 July 2025

USA - Thunderous sounds of the crowd greet every eventgoer at Portland’s fabled Providence Park. Completed in 1926, Providence Park is the oldest facility configured as a soccer-specific stadium for use by an MLS team and is one of the most historic grounds used by any United States professional soccer team.

Two professional soccer teams, the Portland Timbers of MLS and Portland Thorns FC of NWSL, use the facility as their home pitch, and both clubs rank among the top ten in attendance among professional soccer teams (men's or women's) in the United States and Canada.

The facility has undergone several recent renovations to expand its seating capacity to over 25,000, with associated infrastructure and AV upgrades. As expected with any MLS stadium, cameras abound around the stadium to catch the action from several simultaneous angles. The AV feeds a

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10 July 2025

UK - TMB has confirmed its partnership with Backup Tech, the charity dedicated to supporting technical professionals, production personnel, and crew working across the live events, music touring, theatre, and broadcast industries.

As part of this initiative, 10% of all UK sales of TMB’s award-winning ProPlex CodeClock will be donated directly to Backup Tech. These funds will aid in providing crucial financial aid, wellness support and mental health resources to those working behind the scenes in the industry.

The ProPlex CodeClock is a compact, rugged timecode display and distribution unit, winner of the Gear Product of the Year Award. Its large RGB LED matrix changes colour to show status, and it receives timecode via LTC (XLR3), MIDI (DIN), or USB MIDI - or can generate LTC itself. It redistributes timecode through three transformer is

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10 July 2025

Faroe Islands - Relocating to a refurbished commercial bakery in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Burn Fitness wanted to raise its audio game with a proven solution for its Spinning Room. With sound quality essential, the fitness centre owners selected AV integrator, AVLux. The brief was to deliver an audio solution with a simple user experience for the spinning instructors, in addition to energy and atmosphere in the room. AVLux chose the Optimal Audio ecosystem for its balance of quality, ease of control, and cost-effectiveness.

Adopting the old bakery’s original layout, the fitness machines dominate what was the storage room, the hand equipment occupies the old oven room whilst the spinning room utilises an adjoining space. The compact room features a low roof at the front – where the instructors' platform and the video screen are positioned – that slopes

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09 July 2025

Germany - The Adam Hall Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. With a piece of music history right in front of the entrance and over 800 guests on campus, the event technology manufacturer celebrated with a big staff party in the Experience Centre at its headquarters in Neu-Anspach, Hesse, on 4 July.

Together with its employees and their families, the Adam Hall Group looked back on 50 years of event technology history. One particular highlight was parked right outside the door: the restored 1972 Wings Over Europe tour bus which now serves as an exhibit in the company’s own Rock‘n’Roll Library.

Other highlights of the evening included the company’s own band, spontaneous jam sessions and a surprise performance by the Berlin fusion pop band Il Ci

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09 July 2025

France - Audio specialist Digigram, and noise and vibration analysis leader OROS are celebrating 40 years of excellence in 2025. For 40 years, these two Grenoble-based manufacturers have addressed their respective markets with premium digital audio solutions (Digigram), and high-precision solutions for noise and vibration analysis (OROS).

Anniversary celebrations include the organisation of an evening where partners, employees and clients enjoyed an immersive retrospective experience hosted at the Bastille site in Grenoble, but also the upcoming release of special contents designed for the occasion.

The motto ‘Everything happens for a reason’ was repeated several times by Jérémie Weber, president of the Digigram Group, as he recounted Digigram’s history alongside Philippe Girard-Buttoz, co-founder of Digigram.

Yannick Balter, general

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09 July 2025

Australia/New Zealand - 1 Sound has announced its partnership with JS Audio Solutions, naming them the official 1 Sound distributor for New Zealand, Australia, and the Oceania region.

This collaboration marks 1 Sound’s debut into the markets, broadening its global presence while aligning with a company that shares its core values of customer service, redefining audio expectations, and delivering high-end audio for commercial applications.

“At JS Audio Solutions, our foundational principles are customer experience, two decades of industry expertise, and overall excellence. When we choose a partner, it's paramount that they share our passion for these cornerstones,” said Juan Soothill, managing director/ senior systems engineer of JS Audio Solutions. “That's precisely what we've discovered in our partnership with 1 Sound. We're thrilled to intr

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09 July 2025

France - Direct Digital, the Panavision group division specialising in camera, lighting and grip equipment rental for moving-image and still photography, has announced the relocation of its Paris operations to a new, larger facility.

After 15 years of business in Paris, the company is marking a new chapter, moving into a modern business park just north of the city, with updated features and dedicated space for camera testing and more, offering an enhanced experience for customers. The new location is also conveniently situated near Panavision and Panalux Paris.

The newly refurbished facility is 20% larger than Direct Digital’s previous Paris location, providing the room needed to support the company’s ongoing growth and enhance overall efficiency. Opening on 1 July 2025, the new site, less than 100m away from sister companies Panavision and Panal

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09 July 2025

USA - Braxtin Pieper went through an array of different looks to support the freewheeling music of Shane Smith & The Saints when the band appeared at Red Rocks Amphitheatre recently. Moving seamlessly from soft monochromatic colour washes, accented by a touch of fog, to intense strobing effects and blinders, he utilised every inch of his rig in different ways, depending on the mood of the music in the 30-song set.

At least one thing was consistent though, throughout the concert, the sandstone rock formation behind the stage was always there enhancing his design.

“I have to appreciate the venue,” Pieper said of Red Rocks. “The upstage rocks are such a key part of the red rocks design. I love the tungsten backlight, but also the element of lighting the ‘trees,’ or the rocks for this show, gave it another level of colour that I strive to h

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09 July 2025

Germany - From 12-15 June 2025, the German Tolkien Society hosted a four-day festival in Geldern am Niederrhein. A total of 14,000 Tolkien fans and fantasy enthusiasts enjoyed a varied programme, including a concert evening featuring diverse artists and ensembles.

Technical audio production was expertly handled by Rockline Sound&Light from Issum, who deployed an extensively scaled Wharfedale Pro system to cover the broad musical programme.

The demands on the system were considerable. Initially, the Wharfedale Pro system needed to cleanly amplify classical ensembles with diverse acoustic instruments to various vocal performances. Later in the evening, volume and power were crucial for the headline performance.

The medieval metal band Feuerschwanz delivered an energetic set featuring a pyro and fire show. The Wharfedale Pro system provided

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09 July 2025

USA - Earlier this year, Live Events Productions was one of the first production and rental houses to invest in Elation’s Paragon moving head and has been using the multi-award-winning LED profile luminaire on projects ever since.

“Now that we’ve had them for a few months, we have found them to be incredibly useful across a wide range of projects. They check a lot of boxes and are versatile enough to be used virtually on any show from corporate events to broadcast to touring,” stated Ben Coker, VP of technology and assets at Live Events Productions.

Live Events invested in 52 Paragon M and debuted the fixtures on a nighttime spectacular in March for the Grand Opening Celebration of the National Medal of Honor Museum in Dallas, Texas. “The Paragon’s TruTone variable CRI engine gives us a lot of flexibility and the IP54 rating mean

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09 July 2025

UK - Allen & Heath has announced the release of dLive firmware V2.1, building on the landmark V2 release with powerful new processing and RackUltra FX, expanded wireless integration, group to group routing, and some of the most requested workflow features from the dLive community.

Headlining V2.1 is CompStortion, the DEEP emulation of the definitive hardware compressor. With a wide range of attack and release times, distortion modes, and Smash and Brit modes, CompStortion is designed for everything from vocals and guitars to drums and mix bus compression.

RackUltra FX card users will welcome the addition of Rhythm Delay where a pattern-based delay engine provides fully customisable repeat patterns and musical filtering. Rhythm Delay unlocks delay possibilities previously only achievable through top-end studio plugins.

V2.1 significantly e

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09 July 2025

Hungary - Lightware has expanded its popular cable product line with three new offerings - a Cable-PopUp and two newly launched USB-C cables.

Lightware’s Cable-PopUp offers a solution for managing cables in conference rooms and workspaces, particularly in environments where BYOD devices need to be connected temporarily. Tangled cables and messy desks are a thing of the past thanks to this built-in cable management tool. It provides an organised way to access connections when needed and hide them away when not in use, with an easy-to-use “Push to Open” mechanism. Caps labelled USB-C, HDMI and Ethernet are provided, along with an additional blank cap which can be customised.

The two newly launched active optical USB-C cables are a result of Lightware’s dedication to providing customers with new and innovative solutions.

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09 July 2025

APACMEA - Eddie Tan has been appointed HH divisional sales and tech support manager for the APACMEA region from 1 July. 

Reporting to Ian Wright, director of HH Audio, Eddie will be responsible for the overall growth of HH within the APACMEA territory and will also provide partners with technical support and product & systems training.

“Eddie brings HH considerable knowledge and experience in both the commercial audio and professional audio/live sound, and has a proven track record in sales, technical support and after-sales,” says CEO James Laney. “Eddie also has extensive technical qualifications, which boost the standard of the HH team as the brand continues to expand into a larger range of system solutions.”

Ian Wright, HH brand director, comments: “I am looking forward to working closely with Eddie on the development of th

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09 July 2025

UK - TiMax, has expanded the audio capabilities of TiMax SoundHub with a progressive new feature named, Scaling Surfaces. The new tool’s exclusive feature-set allows users to rescale a spatial show file from a studio playback environment to an auditorium – all with just two mouse clicks. It makes it easier to translate the work users do in the studio to the stage or from venue to different-sized venue, saving significant time.

Users can rescale their entire show for a new venue by simply changing the Scaling Surface size, shape, and, critically, height, and they can do this at any time. When an object is attached to a Scaling Surface, and that surface is moved, all spatial positioning and movement automation for that object, across the entire show file, moves with it.

Users can also distribute content without knowing the absolute scale of the pla

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09 July 2025

USA - Clear-Com has announce an expansion of the award-winning Arcadia Central Station with new software updates. Together, these releases enhance Arcadia’s functionality. It now supports the full Clear-Com product ecosystem, enabling connectivity across Clear-Com products as well as third-party Dante/AES67 devices.

The latest enhancements include support for V-Series IrisX Panels & flexible port allocation. Users can now connect up to 32 V-Series IrisX panels directly to Arcadia, enabling high-density keypanel workflows traditionally reserved for expensive and complex matrix systems, making this a true game changer. Port allocation flexibility also lets operators balance HelixNet digital partyline and I.V. Direct connections as needed, for the flexibility to suit almost any workflow.

“With this release, Arcadia moves beyond party line commun