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Star Events and Beaver 84 will provide all the staging, seating, production and broadcast structures for the concert, as well as most of the fencing, barriers and ground protection. The structures will also be used for the opening ceremony.

Project director for AEG Live, Jim King, said, "It made a lot of sense to work with Star Events on these prestigious events, due to the close working relationship between our team and theirs, and also because of Star's extensive experience of working in the Olympic Park both during and after the London 2012 Games."

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The first venue completed by Dancefloor was the Winter Stadium, the 6,000+ seat capacity home of the Orli Znojmo hockey club. The Winter Stadium is also used for international matches, hockey camps, figure skating training sessions and competitions, skating courses and public skating, but had long suffered with poor sound levels and intelligibility, lacking the ability to inform and involve visi-tors and produce an exciting atmosphere for events.

Libor Klemenc, Dancefloor's managing director, explained the choice of loudspeakers, "For high intelligibility and overall sound quality we chose Community R.5 12-inch, two-way loudspea

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TNDV's relationship with the Country Music Association is enduring, delivering full-service mobile production for several annual events including pre-show festivities for the CMA Awards each November. The CMA Music Festival is the most immense, encompassing many outdoor stages with live performances from well-known and emerging national and local musical acts. TNDV also provided onsite shooting, graphics and editing services across most stages, producing 30 original packages used in conjunction with an ABC TV special that aired on 5 August.

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This full concert version of Chess demanded a massive audio system. The production tapped the power of three SSL Live consoles, supplied by Bary Sales AS in Oslo, to handle the inputs from the live band, choir and the Arctic Philharmonic. This application is among the largest implementations of SSL Live thus far.

FOH and monitor consoles shared 64 inputs from the band and soloists on stage, while the third Live was used to submix 86 orchestra channels down to six stereo stems.

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The event is renowned for its eclectic line ups and friendly, family orientated atmosphere - and superlative audio, which has been supplied by Entec since 2006.

This year Mark 'Magic' Ellis-Cope, newly installed as Entec's head of sound after the legendary Dick Hayes' recent retirement, led the team who worked closely with Guilfest's production manager, Paul Warner.

Magic comments, "It is always a pleasure to work at Guilfest and we did miss it last year when there was a short break. The atmosphere is fantastic and everyone really pulls together to make it one of the nicest festivals on which we work".

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Adamson's Jochen Sommer assisted with system design and was on site to oversee the set-up and tuning of the Energia system. The festival line-up included a variety of popular performers including Joe Lynn Turner, Ian Paice, Ken Hensley, Pink Floyd Show UK and Russian heavy metal band Aria.

The impressive 35m stage was flanked by left-right Energia line arrays followed by large-scale video walls that delivered visual impact throughout each performance.

"In comparison to similar events, this was an extremely large undertaking," explains Oleg Ivanov, Adamson Russia. "The Adamson system performed extremely well delivering exactly what

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The Melbourne-based company was set up 24 years ago by CEO Steve Lincoln-Smith and boasts strong links with the major resellers and independents around the country. The company prides itself on providing high quality product and consistency of supply to its customer base.

"We market products that ensure long term customer success, and our partnership with Audient will help us maintain this trend. Audient's expanding range of DAW focused products comprises of leading edge products that feature the legendary ASP console mic pre's, top class Burr-Brown ADC, look great, and better still, come in at a surprisingly reasonable cost," he explains.

"We're partnering with prem

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Upcoming courses taking place in September include 'An Introduction to Sound' which will give attendees a good understanding of how sound behaves and hopefully inspire them to delve deeper into the world of sound and communications engineering, and 'Designing for Speech Intelligibility' which takes a look at the relevant British and European standards for speech intelligibility for voice alarm systems and gives an interpretation of their requirements. The course also takes a detailed look into the factors affecting speech intelligibility and how they can be controlled.

For more information, please visit: www.isce.org.uk/training-2014.

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Marvel Universe LIVE! is out on tour this month after debuting in Tampa, FL, premiering at New York City's Barclays Centre on Wednesday, 13 August and visiting 85 North American cities in its first two years before coming to the United Kingdom, with other global destinations to be announced. Produced by Feld Entertainment, this visually stunning multimedia production sees the Avengers, Spider-Man and members of the X-Men in a live production for the first time - doing battle with some of their most notorious foes, in a show designed to wow audiences of all ages.

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Dave Millard, founder of Full Fat Audio, was Project Audio's sound engineer for both events, working in partnership with Funktion-One 'chief' Tony Andrews and Project Audio's Ibiza system technician George Yankov: "We used the Live1 on the opening party but for the 25th Anniversary we needed to wireless mic a troupe of flamenco dancers on sta

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Hans, Arne and scoring specialist Daniela Mükisch have used Nuendo since version 2 was released, back in 2003. The team prides itself on the studio's excellent facilities, which have attracted a client base that includes virtually every high profile German actor and producer.

A total of six Nuendo workstations deliver a seamless workflow for transferring projects between the company's dedicated mixing, Foley and dubbing studios.

M&E has been using hardware control since ado

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The debut of the $200m-plus film, attended by Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry and other stars, was a huge event filling a hall inside the cavernous Javits Centre and illuminating a 75ft-wide screen hung on the hall's north wall. The showing also had to be able to reproduce the film's bombastic 5.1 surround soundtrack, but the Javits is no cinema; the same huge floor-to-ceiling glass wall that offers spectacular views of the Hudson River and New Jersey can also create uncontrollable aural reflections that would turn the hall into an acoustical nightmare.

Event producer Samantha Sackler Productions tapped NYC-based See Factor Industry, its

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Over the years, Tommy Lee has continually come up with creative ways to fly his drum kit with the latest incarnation a type of rollercoaster that has him bolted on and flying and flipping through concert venues. The truss structure required some dressing however and Matt Mills, lighting director and programmer on The Final Tour, (lighting designer is Sooner Routhier) turned to the ease of possibilities that Elation's Flex Pixel Tape offers.

"The main look Tommy wanted was one similar to the runway lights you see at the airport, the strobes that go in sequence to help pilots find the runway," Matt explai

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Set in Mechelen's vast Nekkerhal, an hour west of Brussels, the show is produced by entertainment company Studio 100 and features a set the size of two football pitches. The mobile bleacher moves the audience up to 150m within the set, so a complex audio system was needed to ensure fidelity of sound throughout the show. This required a versatile mixing console that had large i/o capacity.

"We chose DiGiCo because it's one of the favourite brands of all three audio guys involved - myself, Marc Luckx (sound designer) and Thomas van Hoepen

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The new system consists of Bose RoomMatch Progressive Directivity Array loudspeakers. Production World installed the system, which consists of three hangs - two outer arrays, each with four symmetrical array modules, and a centre array with two symmetrical array modules and two RMS215 subwoofers, all powered by four Bose PowerMatch PM8500N networked amplifiers. The system provides even, comprehensive coverage of the entire

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At the Temple stage on The Common, lighting designer Paul De Villiers provided a set to complement the video-mapped exterior design of the stage structure using the popular, powerful and versatile, Chauvet Professional Legend 412Z wash fixture and the full extent of its 8- to 33-degree zoom range to create a very wide beam stretching across the crowd - adding vital contrast with depth, colour and strobing to the overall lighting display in this Chichen Itza-inspired DJ zone.

Offsetting the intense colour of the structure's exterior, de Villiers counterposed the warm white wash of the Chauvet Professional Nexus Aw 7x7 LED panel wall system on the back of the DJ booth area. The Nexus

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The event's chief executive and producer is Brigadier David Alfrey and this year's theme is Our Home, Friends and Family with hundreds of Commonwealth participants playing a part in the show in a big year for Scotland, which has just hosted the hugely successful 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Ashton comments, "I always enjoy working on the Tattoo and with David and the creative team who are all keen on maximising the dynamic that projection brings to the visual picture. This year features another interesting storyline that has given us plenty of creative freedom to develop."

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With the Mina loudspeaker's small footprint measuring just more than 51 cm long, the technical staff at the 1,500-seat Deutsches Theater was initially sceptical. "We first thought we would need boxes with at least two eight-inch drivers for such a large house," says Stephan Kirschner, sound engineer for the Deutsches Theater. "But when we heard a Mina system at Jugendstil-Festhalle hall in Landau, we were quickly convinced. You could hear the same level of music everywhere, and the imaging was excellent, which is important in theatre."

The main system comprises left and right arrays of 13 Mina loudspeakers each, with an additional center array of 10 Min

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The boutique weekender attracted in excess of 20,000 festivalgoers keen to witness the multi-sensory experience. Contributing to the visual spectacle, a range of Avolites equipment supplied by London based Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) occupied the Front of House lighting positions on five of the most prominent areas, including the main stage. CSE also sent an 18-strong team hea

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Apex is an all-new "feature rich", 100 watt head design, boasting "an astounding sonic palette, outstanding power and grunt, and a unique dark and beautiful lacquered wood finish that distinguishes it from afar". The backstage demo room provided the opportunity for the assembled metal head musos to get hands on with the Apex; seen and heard for the first time outside of the company's UK workshop.

A three-channel all tube head design, all three channels feature independent Gain, Volume, Bass, Middle and Treble, plus Resonance and Sharpness controls. Each channel, additionally, feat

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Florida-based Pro Sound & Video, Inc. replaced the original processing system with two Symetrix Radius 12x8 Dante network audio DSPs and augmented their sixteen combined outputs with two SymNet xOut 12 audio output expansion boxes. All of the units network seamlessly via Dante and replace all of the old analogue processing, with plenty

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Steve Cardownie, Edinburgh City Council's festivals and events champion, added, "Edinburgh's Hogmanay has long been the envy of cities across the globe and the celebrations to bring in the start 2015 are set to be no exception. Headliner Lily Allen is sure to be a big hit with revellers, and coupled with an absolutely spectacular fireworks display

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The one day music extravaganza at Spaarnwoude, near Amsterdam was attended by 40,000 people who came to enjoy a sizzling line up including Steve Angello, Nicky Romero, DJ Chuckie and others on the main stage, together with eight other major action-packed arenas of dance music.

Beekmans used the Robe moving lights - 150 x LEDBeam 100s and 77 x Pointes to help achieve one of his spectacular trademark lightshows - which also included around 400 other fixtures including binders and strobes - all supplied by Dutch rental company, The Purple Group.

It was the second year that Beekmans and 250K have designed the festival in Velzen for organisers UDC, who wanting to seriously up the prod

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Many of ETC's staff also work as freelance lighting operators and designers, so it was no surprise that when Daniele Peroni, ETC's Rome-based field project coordinator, was asked to look after the lighting for the night. He jumped at the chance to see how the Cobalt desk would perform. The job required keeping thousands of clubbers entertained, using 140 fixtures