LEA Professional has made Connect Series amplifier speaker tuning data for Renkus-Heinz CX and TX Series loudspeakers readily available to end users for free. LEA Connect Series speaker tunings are an easy and fast way to provide integrators with the DSP settings they need to optimise system performance for speakers that pair with LEA amplifiers. “We work hard to make sure our products offer the best and easiest amplifier solutions available, and our support doesn’t end after the install,” said LEA Professional Director of Application Engineering and Consultant Relations, Bradley Drummond. “Integrators and end-users alike need quick ways to customise…
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Video Illusions has been named the official video supplier of Heritage Live sites until 2025. “Over the years I have worked with just about every supplier of video screen for touring, outdoor concerts and television. Video Illusions are by far the best I’ve ever worked with. Their professionalism, attention to detail and reliability are unsurpassed and I’d be the first to recommend their services,” GCE Live / Heritage Live Director and Royal Variety Performance Executive Producer, Giles Cooper of Giles Cooper Entertainment commented. Video Illusions will tap into its arsenal of INFIiLED ER4mm LED panels, IMAG screens and upstage screens…
Managing Director, Paul Robson completed Medialease’s first ever agreement in December 2001. Its first official customer was Grand Central Sound Studios, who are still a customer to this day. Before setting up Medialease, Robson originally got into the leasing industry by arranging asset finance on huge excavators for open cast coal miners in Scotland and the North. While not passionate about that industry this was an excellent introduction to the benefits of leasing and Robson felt a draw to this role of helping customers find finance for investment in kit. After a few years, Robson moved companies to work within…
AV Stumpfl has announced the creation of a new management position inside its screens sales department with Jan Walter joining as Global Business Development Manager of Screens. Walter began his AV industry career as a field application engineer and recently worked as a senior regional sales manager for an internationally known technology manufacturer. The focus of his new role will be expanding AV Stumpfl‘s international projection screens distribution network. Walter explains the reasons for taking on the new role: “Ever since I started working in the wider area of projection technology, AV Stumpfl screens have been a household name. I…
In March of 2020, Cirque du Soleil’s touring operations were brought to an abrupt halt with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this most unwelcome pause from live performance, the downtime afforded Cirque du Soleil’s production team an opportunity to test, evaluate and verify its entire equipment arsenal for its touring operations. “When all the shows shut down, most of the gear that was in North America was trucked back to our warehouse and just put on a shelf,” stated Cirque du Soleil Sound Specialist, Matthew Steuart. “But in May 2021, we started on a show called KOOZA and…
Ryan Thomas and Phil Goldsworthy have taken over UK Sales and Systems Integration leadership for SSE Audio, Wigwam Acoustics, Capital Sound and BCS Audio. Both Thomas and Goldsworthy report to Solotech UK Managing Director, Bryce Jewell, working in close collaboration with Solotech Live Productions leaders as well as overseeing corporate functions. They took over after the departure of Alex Penn, who served as Sales and Systems Integration Managing Director at SSE Audio before leaving to pursue other professional interests. Goldsworthy brings over 17 years of experience at Wigwam Acoustics and two years as the UK Group’s Systems Integration Manager to…
In yet another demonstration of the company’s unique remote production capabilities, Remote Recording Network (RRN) delivered audio fidelity for a hybrid livestream performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10 — newly completed 194 years after the composer’s death — on 27 October 2021, at Hamburg’s renowned Elbphilharmonie. The event was a revolution on two technological levels. First: Through a Deutsche Telekom project, international musicologists and artificial intelligence (AI) experts developed an AI to analyse Beethoven’s work and notes on the unfinished symphony, then created a complete version of the composer’s final work. Second: The Remote Recording Network team responsible for ensuring…
Outdoor Digital Productions (ODP), a collaborative enterprise between ADI, JA Productions and Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces (OPUS), has been chosen to deliver the official Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Festival Live Sites. ODP will transform multiple city locations from large capacity venues, such as Smithfield, to civic and community green spaces, into accessible hubs for cultural placemaking and collective celebration during the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Live Sites will include showpiece creative staging, participatory activations and live arts performances with a focus on locality and sustainability. Emily Muirhead, Live Sites Project Manager at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, commented: “We’re excited to…
Alistair Smyth, a veteran of the industry, has been hired as Brand Manager at zactrack International. After earning a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Kingston University London, he worked for Vari-Lite, High End Systems, Christie Lites, A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC–ET) and Flashlight. Most recently, he was a Technical Sales Advisor at Elation, where he was responsible for product demonstrations, sales support and technical communication. Smyth commented: “I am proud to join the Lightpower family of companies and be a member of the zactrack International team. I look forward to meeting our valued distributors, customers and users. The zactrack products…
Sculpting a fluid and kinetic visual collage aligned with the heartbeat and spirit of rave culture was a task Lighting Designer, Eran Klein relished at Black Coffee’s recent incendiary performance at Drumsheds in north London. With a rig of Robe moving lights at his fingertips, Klein engineered nearly 12 hours of superlative electronic musical experience culminating in a three-hour set by the DJ and music producer. The event was a co-production between Imma.nence by Oren Heknin – a longterm client of Klein’s – Live Nation Israel, Metropolis Music and Shaked Minuskin. Klein’s lighting design took full advantage of the venue’s…
Optimal Audio has appointed BTX Technologies as a distributor in the US. Optimal Audio, part of the Focusrite Group, manufactures a one-stop solution of control, amplification and loudspeakers for small to medium sized commercial installations, with a focus on supporting multi-zoned venues. Its streamlined product-offering works seamlessly to deliver simple-to-install, high quality sound systems that can be easily operated by anyone, not just engineers. For more than 50 years, BTX has helped its partners overcome technical hurdles with a wide array of integration products. Optimal Audio Managing Director, Dom Harter stated: “BTX is a trusted and highly respected name in…
Since being set up in the early 1980s by brothers Ad and Gert-Jan Gomes, DSL Geluids- & Lichtverhuur has grown steadily into a full-service supplier of sound and lighting in the Netherlands. The wide range of productions serviced by the company — ranging from dance to pop and from business events to theatre productions — requires equipment that can be widely deployed, with Martin Audio systems occupying a prominent place within the DSL warehouse. Recently they added two further Martin Audio speaker systems to their inventory: a WPL high output line array and a TORUS constant curvature array, supplied by…
NEC Group has signed a multi-year contract with Anna Valley. Under the agreement, Anna Valley’s dedicated on-site team will continue to be responsible for maintaining audio-visual equipment installed at the NEC and will also collaborate with organisers to deliver events at the venue. Anna Valley’s team will be based out of a soon-to-be renovated shopfront on the Atrium side of the venue, providing organisers with easy access to technical design and delivery capabilities. NEC Group Conventions Sales Director, Donna Cunningham said: “With a busy programme of events scheduled for 2022, it’s great to be expanding our long-term collaboration with Anna…
Not only has Lighting Director, Nick Chang been on the road with the Kane Brown’s Blessed and Free Tour, handling lighting on shows across America on the country-pop stars, the touring schedule allows him to travel back to his hometown of Nashville where he oversees lighting for services and other events at Church of the City. On staff at the church since March 2021, Chang was called on to light Church of the City’s 2021 Christmas services and specified a rig of Elation Professional Artiste Mondrian and Artiste Monet LED moving heads, as well as Platinum Seven wash fixtures, all…
Developed entirely in-house by its engineering team, Outline’s Warped Finite Impulse Response (WFIR) filters are now protected by a domestic patent. WFIR filters are one of the key features found in Outline’s Newton FPGA processor. Its design and computing power – in a single rack space, networkable chassis – reportedly provides the perfect ecosystem for WFIR filters. According to its developers, WFIR filters offer fundamental technical improvements over traditional FIR filters in that they operate on a semi-logarithmic scale, similar to the nature of human hearing. This means that they are able to maintain high filtering resolution over the entire…
Designed with both touring and permanent installation applications in mind, ADJ Lighting’s new D4 Branch RM is a four-way DMX splitter and booster. The robust and reliable unit offers all the features lighting professionals need to distribute a DMX signal, packed into a compact and lightweight unit. The D4 Branch RM features DMX input and thru connections in addition to four independent DMX outputs that are electronically isolated from each other to ensure uninterrupted data. Both three-in and five-pin sockets are included for each of these, allowing integration into any DMX-512 system and complete flexibility for rental applications. Signal amplifiers…
CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala 2021 kicked off on the evening of 21 September at Xingyue Lake Wetland Park near Qionghai, Xichang. LED manufacturer, Gloshine joined forces with CCTV to build a 360° immersive circular stage – marking the biggest stage of the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala to date. The Mid-Autumn Festival Gala stage was set up on Xingyue Lake. One side is close to Qionghai, Xi Chang, and the other side is a modern new city. The main stage is set in the Jianchang ancient city in Xichang, and the “root carving” Ficus virens Ait coiled on the ancient city…
Pliant Technologies’ latest CrewCom firmware and software update, version 1.10, adds two new major features as well as several enhancements to its already long list of capabilities. Topping the list is the addition of a new High Density mode, which is a selectable mode of operation that allows user densities to increase by more than five-fold. When implemented, this new software-selectable mode supports up to 32 Radio Packs (RPs) on a single Radio Transceiver (RT) while allowing any of the RPs to communicate using four available full-duplex talk paths. In addition, users will have the flexibility to simultaneously deploy “Normal” mode-enabled…
