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Midas keeps Beady Eye on the road

Josh Lloyd (monitors) and Dan Lewis (FOH) with Midas PRO6

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Liam Gallagher's new band, Beady Eye, have embarked on their debut tour with a dual Midas PRO6 system at FOH and on monitors, provided by Britannia Row Productions.

Midas has long been a favourite in the Oasis camp. FOH engineer Dan Lewis mixed the last few months of the band's final tour on an XL4, and along with Josh Lloyd on monitors, had no hesitation in spec'ing a pair of PRO6s for this tour.

The band has been playing small rock and roll venues such as Glasgow's Barrowlands, the Manchester Apollo and East London's Troxy, before hitting club venues across Europe and back to the UK for some academy dates in April.

Lewis had previously used an XL8 for Noel Gallagher's Teenage Cancer Trust performance. "This was the perfect opportunity to give the PRO6 a try,"

Martin Professional will focus on a wide range of new and established products

Martin Professional at Prolight + Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - At Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Martin Professional will focus on a wide range of new and established products.

The EC-10 is a high performance, true 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel that teams with Martin's EC-20 to form a fully compatible EC family of LED displays that can be mixed and matched for ultimate design creativity. The EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of brightness, colour, setup, curving, control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolution visuals in one system, says the company.

The MAC 101 moving head comes

The Marina Sands Bay resort in Singapore

LumenRadio in control at Marina Sands

Details: 14 March 2016

Singapore - LumenRadio's CRMX technology has been chosen as the preferred brand for wireless lighting controls at the Marina Sands Bay resort in Singapore. The project was developed by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and has been billed as the world's largest and most expensive gaming property at a staggering cost of S$8 billion.

The resort features 2,561 hotel rooms, a 120,000 m2 convention centre, a luxury shopping mall, seven 'celebrity chef' gourmet restaurants, two Broadway style theatres, two floating pavilions, an art & science museum, an indoor ice skating rink and a casino with 500

Vicoustic panels & paper at Frankfurt

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Portuguese acoustic solutions manufacturer Vicoustic brings an array of products to this year's Frankfurt Musikmesse. Recent releases featuring at the show include the Poly Fuser QRD and Visquare acoustic panels, as well as Iso Wall, the company's first decorative acoustic wallpaper.

The design of Vicoustic's solid-wood Poly Fuser QRD combines a quadratic residue sequence with a curve, creating a diffusion pattern that will effectively work on frequencies between 400 Hz and 5 kHz, breaking up strong reflection waves and flutter-echo effects. Suitablefor hi-fi rooms, houses o

The PLASA Innovation Award-winning BlackTrax will be shown

CAST Software gears up for Frankfurt displays

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - CAST Software is promoting three key products at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt next month.

The PLASA Innovation Award-winning BlackTrax will be shown with a display whereby the entire CAST booth will serve as a stage to show the full capabilities of the system. BlackTrax is a hardware motion tracking system for streaming positional data for people and objects in realtime. BlackTrax is designed to work either on a standalone basis, for the coordination of lighting, sound or other position-sensitive moving objects, or with CAST's game-changing BlackBox system of multi-directio

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