Calibre has announced that, despite the understandable decision to postpone DSE2020, the company is continuing its efforts to expand its distribution channels in both North and South America. At DSE, Calibre had planned to engage with potential channel partners in the Americas whose business would benefit from having access to Calibre’s range of leading-edge image processing and display solutions. “We have had considerable success in identifying excellent resellers throughout Europe and Asia – but we are still underrepresented in some of the single biggest markets that exist from New York to Los Angeles, and from Mexico City to Buenos Aires,”…
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UK TiMax developers Out Board have announced a Spring season of ‘One-on-One for One’ online training sessions with TiMax specialists in the UK and USA. Anybody interested in developing their leading-edge skills in the rapidly growing use of TiMax immersive audio, spatial mixing and showcontrol may well want to check this out. Sessions are open to all sound designers, sound engineers and production sound techs worldwide on a first-come, first-served basis. Simply register to download TiMax SoundHub software (Mac or Windows) from outboard.co.uk and enter “1on1” into the About You section. Alternatively contact Out Board direct on software@outboard.co.uk. Out Board…
PROEL has appointed Chris Walton as UK & Ireland Sales Manager for its Commercial Audio and Evac divisions and for the brand Axiom Pro Audio. “The appointment of Chris for the markets of UK and Ireland, is part of our new strategy for approaching those markets. We trust Chris will help us to improve the engagement with our end-users, and improve our presence, not only under a promotional point of view, but also as a technical assistance perspective”, says Elio Caia, Axiom International Sales Manager. “I have had a long history in the music industry covering all aspects of touring,…
Live event and brand experience company Freeman has made a major investment in Ayrton Ghibli LED profile spot luminaires. Almost immediately following the purchase, the Ghibli fixtures were used to light booths and corporate events at CES 2020 in the Las Vegas Conference Center. Ayrton is distributed exclusively in North America by ACT Lighting. Like many of ACT Lighting’s customers, Freeman needed LED profiles that suited myriad environments. To highlight its products, ACT Lighting staged a shootout pitting its Ghibli units against other competitive LED products for Freeman designers at the Dallas headquarters. “We spent a year looking for the…
Production services and equipment supplier, High Output, Inc. recently chose a Hippotizer Karst+ Media Server to control the visuals for the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) 2020 winter party, Shimmer. The event, themed on the early-2000s, showcased live fashion shoots, dance performances and a set from DJ Fumesco, as well as large-scale visual art installations in support of BCA’s artist residency programs. The artistic content was curated by visual artist and film-maker Ethan Vogt. High Output’s Nick Venti, Video Lead for the event, was responsible for running and shaping the video content for the event, which featured an unusually-shaped…
Neutrik has provided reassurance to its staff, distributors, resellers, suppliers and customers that, in the face of the current evolving COVID-19 emergency, it is rapidly adapting and innovating, wherever possible, to provide and maintain the greatest possible level of service. In the first instance, the company is taking every possible means to ensure the safety of its personnel, implementing all government and WHO recommendations relating to onsite hygiene and employee safety in the workplace. Wherever possible, those who can are already working from home. Having put these measures in place, it is able to fully maintain production, fulfill and ship…
American rock band Alter Bridge wrapped up a 4-week tour of U.S. cities in late February with Lighting Designer Joshua Light directing a Bandit Lites-supplied lighting system that included Elation’s mini yet multi-functional Smarty Hybrid moving head. Light adopted key aspects of a design created by the late Joe Eager for the band’s 2019 European tour, a large 5-truck show that included profile and beam fixtures. For the US tour’s trimmed setup, Light needed a more compact package and combining fixture types in a single hybrid fixture was the way to go. “I was looking for something that could replace…
Global infusion Group has issued a statement in regards to the COVID-19 outbreak: “In light of the exceptional circumstances that we’re facing within the event, production and entertainment industries we wanted to update you with how we’re responding to the challenges of coronavirus (COVID-19). We’re closely monitoring the situation and stringently following advice from the Government and World Health Organisation. The safety and wellbeing of our clients, suppliers, freelancers and employees is our top priority. “Some members of our team are now working from home however they have full access to our servers and systems. Having made the appropriate checks…
Recognising that the complete shutdown of the industry will have serious consequences across the globe, the Show Makers Symposium is beginning a series of free online webinars and podcasts with the aim to provide resources for those in need. They begin this Friday with a discussion about mental strength and resilience during the difficult days ahead. Hosts Misty Roberts and Jim Digby welcome their guest mental resilience specialists Taryn Longo (Trauma Therapist, The Mastery Studio); Dave Sherman ( Addictions Professional, The Road to Rehab). The webinar will focus primarily on the recognition of the challenges brought on by the Coronavirus…
Sennheiser is continuing its series of exclusive streaming concerts on the company’s Instagram account, which will be broadcasted via IGTV. After kicking off this afternoon, the concert series continues today, March 19, at 4 p.m. (EST) / 1 p.m. (PST) with Love Fame Tragedy. Further dates will be announced soon on http://www.sennheiser.com/anniversary. Beyond announcements of dates, the website contains numerous music videos with immersive recordings from jazz clubs, electro sets in a living room atmosphere as well as live recordings from recording studios. Just put on your headphones or turn up the speakers and dive into the music. For your…
Creative Technology (CT) UK is home to hundreds of media servers, each with the latest in GPU’s and processors. Ordinarily, these servers are key to delivering live events for our clients but following the outbreak of COVID-19 throughout Europe and beyond, and the related reduction in live events, CT has found a way to get creative with its technology. CT London has setup a server farm – doing all we can to support the Folding@Home project. Researchers from all over the world can now use the CPU (Central Processing Unit) and GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) capacity of our media servers…
Many artists have recently cancelled or postponed their live tours. In many countries around the globe, public life as we know it no longer takes place – and yet, now more than ever, the music must not stop. Therefore, Sennheiser is initiating a series of exclusive streaming concerts on the company’s Instagram account, which will be broadcasted via IGTV (Instagram TV). The well-known DJ and producer Mousse T. kicks off the series today at 3 p.m. Further dates will be announced soon on here. Beyond announcements of dates, the website contains numerous music videos with immersive recordings from jazz clubs,…
Following the developments of the Covid-19 outbreak over the past week, PLASA has cancelled PLASA Focus Leeds, which was due to take place on 12-13 May at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. PLASA Focus Leeds gave the following statement: “This decision was made in order to ensure the health and safety of both our exhibitors and visitors, as without all of your continued support, the show wouldn’t be the success it is today. We regret that we cannot now share the incredible programme we had planned, as well as two sold-out show floors full of industry figureheads. However, we…
ADAM Audio premieres the ADAM Academy, an informative video series on the company’s YouTube channel which provides all viewers from entry level audio students to skilled working professionals with valuable information, tips and tools that they can use to get the best performance from their loudspeaker monitor systems. The ADAM Academy video content includes information and instruction from ADAM Audio company personnel as well as valuable tutorials on specific subjects from ADAM Audio customers who are celebrated in their respective fields. ADAM Academy recent video topics include: How to Calibrate a Subwoofer; Studio Monitor Placement; Proper Monitor Maintenance & Cleaning;…
Prolight + Sound 2020 has been cancelled. On March 12, the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration – against the background of increased spread of SARS-CoV-2 infections – issued general orders to ban large events. Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt GmbH comented: “We did everything we could to hold Prolight + Sound 2020 as soon as possible after the original dates and would like to extend our thanks to the response and support from numerous companies and organisations that said they wanted to join forces with us to do so. We are very sorry…
For Lewis Capaldi’s Arena tour the sound crew turned to sound reinforcement products and technologies from d&b audiotechnik. “For me, the system is all about getting Lewis’ voice, clear, articulate, powerful, and loud enough to comfortably sit above a very loud, enthusiastic crowd without compromising the fidelity or tonality of the show,” said Andy Bush, Front of House Engineer, for Lewis Capaldi tour. “Fans have paid a lot of money to hear his voice and it needs to sound accurate, whether he is chatting to the audience between songs; singing in his quieter baritone voice; or singing in his louder,…
UK event production specialist CPL started the year with some major investments in carefully selected lighting and video products. This includes the acquisition of Barco UDM 4K22 projectors – one of the first three companies in the UK to invest in these brand-new machines – plus Portman P1 Mini LED fixtures, trending Astera Titan Tubes and OXO Pixyline 150 LED battens. This is in addition to the 40 new Robe LEDBeam 150 wash beam moving lights that joined the CPL lighting inventory in December 2019. This new kit will ensure that CPL clients in all sectors have a range of…
A Kinesys automation system and Vector control system have been on the road with a new and updated North America touring version of the musical We Will Rock You!, directed by JP Thibodeau and featuring the music of Queen, produced by Annerin Theatricals of Alberta, Canada. This is the first time Annerin has used Kinesys products – two 0.5t Elevation vari-speed hoists and the Vector – which is being supplied to the production by Christie Lites – and operated by Video Systems Tech, Pippa Bagley and Lighting Systems Tech, Adam Volk. The tour’s director of production is Bruce Hennel and…
