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USA - Lighting designer Carlos Colina who was responsible for Univision's Premio lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina awards show, selected a pair of grandMA2 light consoles to control approximately 400 fixtures illuminating the gala special. The 23rd annual show honoured Latin artists chosen by fans in online and mobile phone voting. It aired live from Miami's American Airlines Arena.

"The show was probably one of the largest TV programs that the grandMA2 light has done," says Brett Puwalski, vice president of operations at Atomic Lighting in Lititz, Pennsylvania, which supplied the grandMA2.

"Using the grandMA 3D software that MA offers as freeware really helped us with the pre-viz," he addss. "Univision has a very tight schedule, and the network uses

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USA - Lighting designer Justin Garrone of Innovative Show Design incorporated Martin's compact MAC 101 wash light into the set of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, an annual poker tournament held in the United States and produced by the NBC television network.

Held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 27 February - 7 March, the championship was the first poker event ever to be televised on and produced by a major US television network.

The set design depicted a Roman coliseum and the 101s were chosen based on size, weight, brightness and speed, Garrone says. "I

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Canada - Salle Albert Rousseau has weathered the ravages of time better than most. It has been well cared for by the citizens of Quebec City and despite self-imposed changes from being principally a classical music venue to the more contemporary multi-purpose centre, it has lost none of its charm or character.

Recent revamps have seen the house sound system totally replaced and the stage entirely remodelled to accommodate current trends. Steering that remodelling was the audio consultant Alexandre Forgues of 20k inc.

"I started my career as a system engineer and had visited the

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UK - When Tannoy's VQ Live system was launched in 2009, it quickly found favour in the live sound market. Andy Linklater, the FOH engineer for the recent Steve Harley acoustic tour, has found that the system performs equally as well when sheer loudness isn't always the main concern.

"I'd heard about the loudness of the system, but I was really looking forward to hearing how it performed at a lower level," says Linklater. "My big praise for it, really, is the vocal definition. I mean obviously, there is the volume side of it as well; it is a very powerful system. But the

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UK - Adlib Audio has recently completed a sold-out arena tour in the UK and Ireland with alternative Irish rockers, The Script. The Science and Faith tour, now currently in Australia, culminated the UK leg with The Script's biggest production to date at London's O2 Arena.

Adlib provided all the sound equipment for both FoH and monitor systems based around an L'Acoustics K1 PA system. Adlib also supplied seven LM 26 digital audio loudspeaker processors from Lake for FoH and monitor system processing, along with a number of Lab.gruppen PLM 10000Q Powered Loudspeaker Management sy

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