In addition to the new Customer Care Centre, the company has launched a set of themed seminar days. The PRO(theme)days are intended for those customers looking for the direct contact with the manufacturer, searching f
But for Wetherby-based AV-Matrix it is certainly paying off - and the demand to service increasingly bigger functions has now led to them purchasing an RCF TT+ (Touring & Theatre) TTL33-A II, as the premier line array system in their hire fleet.
Managing director Mark Parker confirmed the order for 12 elements of the powered loudspeakers with RCF's northern sales manager (and TT+ touring specialist), Mick Butler. The order also included four TTS36-A subs - and the AV-Matrix MD stated that this was just the beginning.
Parker has been buying from RCF since setting up the company back in 2003. His company specialises in providing event solutions for functions ranging from conferences to exhibitions, product launches, fashion shows, corporate ev
Swiss AV consultancy company Tingo GmbH were responsible for the sound design of the main stage outside the cathedral, for which they specified a Stagetracker FX realtime performer tracking system from TTA. Sound engineer and audio consultant Dani Niedermann who works with Tingo takes up the story:
"I have been working on this festival since it was first inaugurated in 2006," he said. "
ARX managing director Colin Park said, "We're excited to be working with Dinh Viet Hung and the Stage Professional team in Vietnam, they're enthusiastic about the possibilities for ARX and our products amongst their extensive client base."
Stage Professional adds ARX to a distribution product portfolio that includes Digico, Outline, Funktion One, Martin and Avolites.
Recent clients of Stage Professional's very active rental division include Westlife, the Back Street Boys, Miss Vietnam 2012 and Vietnam Idol.
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Britannia Row was, as usual, the audio contractor for the Hyde Park shows, providing a large amount of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitors, with the standard stage set comprising SKM 2000 with 935 capsules and EM 2050 dual receivers along with 2000 series IEMs. Incoming regular Sennheiser users included Rita Ora, Madonna, Snow Patrol, Two Door Cinema, The Feeling, Alexandra Burke, The Temper Trap and The Wanted.
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Box office takings have more than doubled to £18.1m from £8.3m in 2010/11, when the company had reduced operations due to the refurbishment of the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres. Its audience almost doubled between the two seasons - up to 708,022 people in 2011/12. Percentage capacity remained static at 89%.
The results were reported at the RSC's annual general meeting in Stratford, which saw artistic director Michael Boyd and executive director Vikki Heywood hand over to Gregory Doran and Catherine Mallyon respectively.
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DM Audio have been servicing the event for many years, and working with show designer Mårten Ihre, they took the opportunity to swap out their conventional line array with MLA Compact, as soon as it became available.
Hosted by the Stockholm's Stadsteater subsidiary, Parkteatern (Park Theatre), the varied programme ranged from soft ballads to high-octane hip hop to modern Danish dance and opera. DM Audio responded by beefing up the LF end, running six DSX subs p
With a cast of 40 and an orchestra twice the size of most musicals, this international hit and landmark production dominated the 2008 Tony Awards picking up seven of the coveted awards.
One award recipient was sound designer Scott Lehrer and so the pressure was on for Norwest Productions to deliver a sound solution to ensure the Australian production lived up to its heritage!
Norwest's Adrian Riddell was appointed associate sound designer and it was his task to translate Lehrer's design to the Australian production. Lehrer has made no secret of wanting a quieter, more intimate s
Located in Dornach, near Basel, the iconic building is designed by Rudolf Steiner and dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who founded the philosophy of anthroposophy.
An iLive system comprising two iDR-32 MixRacks configured in DualRack mode with an iLive-T80 Surface in the control room, has been installed in the main 1000-seat auditorium, whilst a smaller iDR-16 MixRack has been purchased as a portable system, which can be used with a PL-10 remote controller in the venue's smaller lecture and conference theatres, or added via the network for additional I/O duties in the main auditorium.
There is also a gallery and lecture spaces, a library, a bookstore, and administrativ
A leading force in the pro audio installation market, CUK Audio has seen recent significant growth in its live sound business, resulting in the strategic decision to form a dedicated division for live sound and rental clients.
Managing director Stuart Thomson explains, "Our business is built on the high level of support and service we give our customers, and delivering this standard for the live sector now requires a more focused approach. Many distributors claim to service all markets, but one always wins out to the detriment of the others."
Cadac appointed CUK as its UK and distributor at last year's PLASA show, where interest in the iconic mixer company's new product range - particularl
Midas announced the gong during a pre-PLASA distributor's dinner and then later in the week on the Midas PLASA Stand during the European press launch of the PRO1 and VeniceU.
"The award was made in recognition of Britannia Row's design and application of the largest, most complex network of Midas consoles to date," explains brand manager Richard Ferriday. "The system was used on the hugely demanding Queen's Jubilee Concert where more than 250,000 people packed into The Mall, St. James's Park and at the Queen Victoria Memorial, to watch the stellar line up of bands, who performed in quick succession, as millions more watched around the world on TV."
"We are delighted to be
The nerve centre is the largest RTS professional intercom system for stage management worldwide with six interconnected individual stage-manager systems, and here they were prepared to accept no compromises. For this reason, the Hamburg-based specialist Amptown System Company was charged with the installation.
"The new intercom system had, above all, to guarantee one thing," explains Stefan Thomsen, Amptown System Company's specialist in communications and stage-management systems, "that all those involved in a production would be able to exchange information with each other at any time without any problem."
Furthermore, the system - however comple
Flare's specialist range of products, including the Triwave and Quadhorn ranges, use extensive knowledge of applied physics to create designs based on Nanoflow technology, says the company.
Founded in 2007, Flare's aim is "to set a new standard in professional audio, with both current and upcoming product lines focusing strongly on clarity, tourability and control".
Subsequent development and future products are seeing Flare provide product solutions relevant across the audio market, from touring, live events or studio use, to venues, clubs, pro-audio, DJ and commercial and
Aside from the Casino, this landmark venue, operating on five floors at the corner of Leicester Square, incorporates an intimate 182-seat cabaret theatre - The Matcham Room - set at the rear of the venue, on the footprint of the original stage.
The technology infrastructure has been specified and installed by Willow Communications, who challenged Harman Professional UK & Eire distributors Sound Technology with providing a 32-channel Soundcraft digital mixing desk at the 11th hour, after being let down at the last minute by the original manufacturer.
Realising the urgency required, with a show scheduled for that night, Willow MD Stephen Barlow contacted the Letchworth based
Unfortunately, the aging audio system at the University's Leslie C. Quick Jr. Stadium was not up to the same championship standards. Plagued by long-standing coverage and sound quality issues, the school's athletic director Jack Shafer called on Widener alumnus Art Kalemkarian, who designed a new system based around Community WET and R-Series all-weather loudspeakers.
The system includes six WET Series W2-2W8 loudspeakers covering the home team's bleachers from atop the press box. The visitor seating and the playing field are covered by a pair of R2-52Z long-throw loudspeakers, also located on the press box roof. The powerful R-Serie
Although the show attracted fewer visitors than last year, following a quiet - and gloriously sunny - Sunday, numbers picked up again for Monday and Tuesday, and after an unusually busy final day the overall visitor attendance reached 11, 500 (subject to ABC audit). Despite anecdotal reports of reduced international turnout, the overseas attendance was in fact a robust 25% of the total footfall, compared with 26% in 2011. The overall response from exhibitors, however, was vintage PLASA - excellent quality visitors and good levels of business - plus a strong sense of the buzz returning to
The venue, formerly a small art-house/repertory cinema, has recently been upgraded with a new t&mSystems audio system, designed and installed by Muenster-based Prosound Eventservice.
Bernd Arends has performed in large musical productions across Europe for over 20 years, including Beauty and the Beast, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady and many others. This has given him a wide experience of the audio system quality he wanted to achieve, but budgets were also an important consideration, as he explained, "to open a private theatre these days
Cooke will be responsible for ensuring clients receive a high level of service regardless of project size or location. Working closely with the VP of operations, Richard Maxfield, he will continue to improve and deploy strategic operational procedures, standards and initiatives, to ensure Electrosonic continues to deliver projects on time and within budget, says the company.
"I am delighted Marc has joined Electrosonic and the EMEA leadership team. He brings with him a wealth of AV operations experience along with a passion for excellence," commented Sarah
Launched at the PLASA Show, the Si Performer is a full-featured compact audio console featuring up to 80 inputs to mix and are the first audio consoles to incorporate DMX lighting control - designed for single-operator applications.
Director Dave Kay confirmed that the Liverpool based production company had ordered two Si Performer 2 (with 24 recallable mic pre amps) and two Si Performer 3 (with 32) for rental stock.
"Si Performer 3 can be used as a monitor desk to work alongside our Soundcraft Vi consoles and the Performer 2 will be popular in the corporate world as a FOH desk. We ha
The gift is a symbol of the ongoing relationship between Midas and the Lake of Stars festival. It follows Will's use of one of the first ever Midas PRO2C to be shipped, directly after its 2011 PLASA launch.
"The Lake of Stars project gave the PRO2C its first real world challenge," explains Midas brand manager Richard Ferriday. "It had to handle FOH sound in extreme conditions including hot air-born sand, high temperatures - up to 42°C - and high humidity. We hope the VeniceU will be equally useful to the Lake of Stars team."
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Winnerbäck is a very popular artist in Scandinavia and the 27-date tour took in shows throughout Sweden, Norway and Denmark, including headlining a number of festivals, as well as indoor shows.
With Front of House engineer Frans Ebbesson and monitor man Peter Larsson having been in place for five and eight years respectively, their recent upgrade to a DiGiCo SD11 at FoH and an SD7 on monitors has been a success.
"Peter and I started using DiGiCo D5s back in 2007," says Ebbesson. "We both fell in love with the user interface and touchscreens. We liked the fact that you could swap banks only a section at a time, whic
For the main PA, the company decided on EAW KF760 for the main rig with EAW KF730 for fills and delay, with Lab.gruppen amplifiers powering the entire event.
"We have about 60 Lab.gruppen amplifiers," said Pieter Verkooijen of Hoevenaars LGV. "Fifteen of those are PLM Series units, so we have that added flexibility.
"The integrated Lake Processing is definitely a big leap forward. The cohesion between the processing of the signal and amplification is far greater then when working with separate units. Using the PLM you can feel - and hear - that the unit was designed as an integrated processing and amplification
Ortics, together with a European partner, is supplying a key part of the new passenger information system for Metro trains in São Paulo, Brazil. Opened in 1974, the São Paulo Metro operates five lines with 64 stations, with an overall length of about 45 miles - including some underground sections.
The modernisation project, being realized by a Brazilian consortium, has begun and is set for completion in 2014. Ortics is outfitting 25 trains, each comprising six carriages, with modern voice communication, software and vehicle diagnostics systems. The project includes 16 Barix Annuncicom 155 units and two A
According to application engineer, Kari Eythorsson customers returned to the booth three or four times to discuss what Optocore/BroaMan tools could do for their applications, assisted by pens and sketchpads.
The main product focus at the show was the new addition to the BroaMan DiViNe (Digital Video Network) portfolio - which provides scalable, protocol independent, routing, repeating, transport and distribution of multiple professional video signals, such as SD/HD/3G-SDI, over optical fibre. This was in the form of the V3R-FX-INTERCOM-SDI, which conveniently packs up to six 3G/HD/SD-SDI I/O's and CWDM multiplexer, four ClearCom (or RTS) interc
