DirectOut announces the availability of PRODIGY.MX, the latest addition to its PRODIGY Series. Following its successful debut at the IBC Exhibition in Amsterdam, the first batch of the new Multiformat Audio Matrix is now shipping. PRODIGY.MX boosts an extensive channel count, offering up to 1664 inputs and 1668 outputs granularly handled by a single-channel routing matrix. This compact 2RU device converts, connects or even isolates various digital audio formats, including MADI, Dante, RAVENNA/AES67, SoundGrid, and AVB/MILAN. Optional HD SRC technology bridges different clock domains seamlessly. With this versatile internal structure, PRODIGY.MX excels as powerful infrastructure device that enables any signal flow while acting…
Author: Alicia Pollitt
Altman Lighting announced Bill Groener as its Chief Operating Officer. Groener’s distinguished career spans more than 40 years in the entertainment, themed and architectural technology sectors. Before joining Altman, Groener was the COO of The Lighting Design Group, President of Vincent Lighting Systems and the VP of National Business Development for 4Wall Entertainment. Groener has also held key positions with Color Kinetics, Barbizon, Elliptipar, and Strand Lighting. He was also the principal and sole owner of BGr + A. Groener relocated to Northern Colorado during the summer to join the Altman team as their Chief Operating Officer. “I operate from…
As Optocore dealers fac365 end the year, they can reflect on having further established the company’s portfolio, notably Festival Box and for major international tours with bands such as The Killers and Coldplay. One major source for this success has been rental house, Solotech UK supporting production with gear supplied from four warehouses spread across the UK. “We have sold a large number of items to Solotech over the past two years,” confirmed fac365 operations manager, Richard Newall, “most recently an M8 [MADI] package for a touring playback rig and X6Rs for their Control/Drive racks.” In the north of England,…
Christoph Schneider is responsible for the lighting design on the Alligatoah tour, which is promoted by ibb Booking and Boldt Berlin. He specified 46 GLP JDC1, 10 JDC Line 1000 and five impression X5 Wash to fulfil the artist’s vision. “Alligatoah is a very creative person who is heavily involved in the show design,” stated Christoph. “He designed most of the set himself, as well as the intro and choreography for individual songs. To complement this, I created the lighting design and programmed the show, further developing Alligatoah’s ideas and bringing the concept to life. This influenced, for example, the…
Danish hip-hop band, Suspekt, appeared in a one-off date at Copenhagen’s 47,000-capacity National Parken Stadium in September. Ayrton’s Zonda 9 fixtures were chosen for the lighting system that included 168 Zonda 9 Wash and Zonda 9 FX fixtures. The lighting was supplied by VIGSØ, Denmark, and the lighting and stage design was provided by Johnny Thinggaard of CMY. “The concert was a one-day event and the band’s biggest show to date. I chose to use the Zonda 9 Wash because of its large light surface – I really like the way that the lamp provides such a great visual fill…
TAIT is set to open a central London base in early 2024 at Tileyard London in the heart of King’s Cross. The new office will enhance TAIT’s collaboration with clients and partners, and establish TAIT’s presence in central London, a significant growth market as well as a gateway to Europe. This new office follows the trajectory of TAIT’s extensive growth both in the UK and globally. The current UK locations include super-factories, equipped for heavy entertainment engineering, in Wakefield in West Yorkshire and Haverhill in Suffolk, as well as training and R&D facilities in Hampton. Born through strategic acquisitions of…
DirectOut and Audio & Vision have joined forces to establish an exclusive partnership for distribution in Greece. With this alliance, Audio & Vision will now serve as the official distributor of DirectOut products in Greece. “We are proud to add DirectOut to our distribution portfolio in Greece,” said Mr. Alkis Kotsifas, General Manager of Audio & Vision. “With a 25-year track record in the professional audio, video and lighting solutions sector, we have been committed since the foundation of our company to provide our customers with the highest quality of products and services. We seek the best partners worldwide to…
The production design on the 2023 festival’s main stage embodied a diverse range of creative inputs. Defined by two high towers, each with a large vertically oriented video wall at its base, the towers were connected by horizontal rows of lights. Other rows of lights extended from each wall and sloped down to smaller stage left and stage right columns. Contributing to this visual panorama was a collection of CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied and installed by FeedBack Show Systems & Service, which provided all video, audio, and lighting services on the main stage. The spectator area around the main stage…
Front-of-house engineer Stanley Soares and producer/monitor engineer Chris Rakestraw have chosen to mix Megadeth’s recent stadium tour with Waves plugins. Soares’ current setup when mixing Megadeth includes a DiGiCo Quantum 338 in conjunction with Waves SuperRack, Waves’ Mercury, the Studio Classics Collection and Abbey Road Collection bundles, all powered by two Waves Extreme SoundGrid Servers. “The Waves integration provides a clean and efficient workflow, allowing me to keep focus on the mix,” Soares noted. “Several plugins are my go-to’s. I consider the F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ as the ‘The Swiss Army Knife’ of plugins. I’m a huge fan of dynamic EQs and the F6, with its real-time analyzer, is…
CHAUVET Professional’s will be at LDI booth (1261) showcasing classic and new products. Designed by Studio Lab, the booth utilises disguise, Unreal Engine and other emerging virtual production technologies to celebrate the fusion of the physical and digital. In the process, it also highlights the latest innovations from CHAUVET Professional, ChamSys, and Kino Flo. Entering the booth, visitors will be able to see and feel the effect of new products like the REM series of video panels. Featuring two products: the cinema-grade REM 1, an 800 NITS indoor panel with a 1.9 mm pitch, and REM 3IP, a 3.9mm pitch…
Claypaky is returning to LDI again to present its recent products in the Expo Hall, 3-5 December. The joint display, in Booths (179, 279, 285) in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, will feature the company’s products for the entertainment industry. Besides all the new products and technologies shown, it is also the first time since ARRI’s acquisition of Claypaky, that the two companies will be exhibiting together at LDI, thus presenting a broader product portfolio in addition to the entertainment-oriented product range. These activities demonstrate that ARRI has become a leading lighting provider for both motion…
INFiLED will unveil new technology at the LDI Show in Las Vegas on 3-5 December. INFiLED’s new CBSF technology will be launched at the show. INFiLED’s LDI booth #993 will feature an immersive xR area, products geared towards the live events market, and a daily roundtable discussion about the newest developments in xR/VP technology. Attendees will hear from industry leaders from INFiLED, Brompton, and VIVE Mars. “We’re excited to showcase our product innovations at LDI. You can look forward to seeing a full xR/VP stage outfitted integrated with our new M2 chip in products like our DB1.95 and X1.95mk2 with…
Rentman announced a $22 million (€20 million) growth equity investment from Expedition Growth Capital. The investment, Rentman’s first external capital since inception, will accelerate new customer-oriented investments, strategic acquisitions and Rentman’s platform development roadmap. Rentman empowers the companies and teams that make events and media productions happen with cloud-based software to efficiently manage their most critical resources: their gear and their crew. Rentman was founded by CEO Roy van den Broek, who previously owned and operated an audio-visual equipment rental company and experienced first-hand the pain of legacy software. Rentman launched to the market in 2015 as the first SaaS…
In its 25th year, Stagehand launched the Christmas fundraiser, #I Love Live 3. This year’s campaign recognises the immense challenges faced by the live event production industry and aims to provide crucial support to UK-based touring and festival crews dealing with serious physical or mental ill health. This year, #I Love Live 3 will see signed set lists from a star-studded lineup including Paolo Nutini, Prodigy, Nile Rodgers, Bring Me The Horizon, Duran Duran, James Bay, New Order, Natalie Imbruglia, Everything Everything, Blossoms, Wet Leg, Maisie Peters and The 1975, plus a drum skin from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.…
CDPQ has acquired a minority stake in Solotech. The goal of this transaction, which represents the largest investment in the company since 2013, is to support Solotech’s acquisition and organic growth strategy to expand its presence in various markets. “With this investment—the largest in the last decade for Solotech—CDPQ will support the company in its next growth stage. Aligned with CDPQ’s priorities, this means not only shifting activities into high gear, but also facilitating the company’s global expansion and promoting its audiovisual and technological know-how,” said Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President and Head of Québec at CDPQ. “CDPQ’s commitment is a gauge of…
Evolution a drone light show, brought to you by Yuup and Celestial, is coming to the skies of the UK in less than two weeks. The event is created by Yuup and Celestial in collaboration with venue partners Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol and Wolverhampton Racecourse in the West Midlands. The story, narrated by Tara Fitzgerald, starts with the Big Bang, the inception of the universe and journeys into the emergence of the sun, our solar system and the planets that inhabit it The cosmic voyage accompanied by a cinematic soundtrack, guides viewers through the origins of conscious life on…
Audinate Group Limited announced a refreshed brand identity for both Audinate and Dante, including a new logo, tagline, colour palette and narratives that capture the essence of Audinate and the Dante platform. The Dante AV-over-IP platform enables communication, experiences, inspiration and collaboration to be shared between people and spaces using one connection. This spirit is captured in the new Dante tagline, “One Connection. Endless Possibilities.” “Long the de facto standard in networked audio with more than 550 manufacturers producing over 3,800 products, adding video, control and management has transformed Dante into a complete AV-over-IP platform,” said Joshua Rush, Chief Marketing…
Audio-Technica has launched the latest in its Engineered Sound series of installation microphones: the ES964 compact boundary model. The ES964 has one omnidirectional capsule and two bidirectional capsules that can be matrixed into discrete directions and varying polar patterns. Designed to work with compatible mixers such as Audio-Technica’s ATDM-0604a or ATDM-1012 digital smartmixers or with an open-architecture DSP, the microphone provides 360-degree hypercardioid and cardioid polar patterns for pickup of all participants seated at the table. The low-profile design ensures that the table-top ES964 remains discreet at 22mm in height and 88mm in diameter. The ES964 offers intuitive touch controls…
