Peavey Commercial Audio (PCA) launches its new website. Supporting all desktop and mobile platforms the site offers a more streamlined user interface, improved navigation, and the latest news and products from PCA’s top-selling brands: MediaMatrix, Crest Audio and Peavey. The enhanced functionality allows customers and dealers to find what they’re looking for faster and more accurately. Even under the present challenging circumstances, a new opportunity for a fresh start and perspective emerges. By redesigning the company website, Peavey Commercial Audio took something that was familiar and functional and made it even more useful and relevant. Visitors to PCA’s previous website…
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Germany’s most significant historical landmarks, buildings and venues will all be illuminated red as a blazing sign appealing for political awareness as events and festivals will likely be prohibited until at least the end of October 2020. The brainchild behind the Night of Light campaign and on the Board of Directors of LK-AG Essen, Tom Koperek, said the entire event industry is on a life support machine. “The event industry will not survive the next 100 days. The current requirements and restrictions make the economic implementation of events practically impossible.” This affects not only organisers, but also venues as well as…
The rules of the Eurovision Song Contest have been amended to ensure that there will be a Eurovision Song Contest on 18, 20 and 22 May 2021, and for many years to come, regardless of the uncertain global landscape. “The lessons learned from the spring of 2020 are that we need to plan for a global crisis, and we have tailored the rules of the Contest to that effect. We must be able to be more flexible and to make changes even to the format itself and how we organize the event in these challenging times,” said Martin Österdahl, the…
Broadweigh will support the much-anticipated Wires Crossed tightrope event in Galway, Ireland by supplying Monkey Rigging with the necessary tools to monitor the loads. The event, which was originally scheduled for August 2020, but has now been postponed due to the COVID-19 situation, is a European wide community participation project revolving around ‘funambulism’ – the art of tight-wire walking using a balancing pole. During the event, four hundred tightrope walkers from all over Europe will cross the Galway River for a duration of 2020 minutes. Andrea Mamolenti, founder of Monkey Rigging explained: “Monkey Rigging is working with Andrea Loreni –…
Sonosphere has confirmed that Commercial Director, Jamie Gosney and Creative Director, Henrik Oppermann have been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Recognising the growing appetite for immersive audio, Sonosphere was formed in 2019 and specialises in all aspects of immersive audio from content creation, system design, consultancy through to installation. The company also provides education, having developed an Ambisonics Workflow for Immersive Content Production training course. Aimed at sound professionals from both the film and music worlds, as well as music producers, audio engineers and immersive content creators and provides a hands-on, practical understanding of the immersive content production,…
Among the highlights of “Autokultur – from Hannover for Hannover”, a series of summer drive-in events held in Northern Germany, were two sold-out performances by German rapper, Sido. The artist used a custom finish Sennheiser SKM 6000 to wow the crowds on 11 and 12 May 2020. The handheld transmitter from Sennheiser’s Digital 6000 series was operated in the A1-A4 (470 to 558 MHz) frequency range and was equipped with a cardioid, dynamic MD 9235 capsule. A black handheld transmitter of the same type was available as a spare. The receiver was a Sennheiser EM 6000, which was placed in…
When multiple Norwegian GRAMMY Award-winner Emilie Nicolas played two shows in one day at the Oslo Opera House in late 2019, the audio team turned to an Alcons Audio pro-ribbon solution. The artist’s pop anthems and atmospheric ballads have a very wide dynamic range, from the quietest, nuanced vocal to the power of her up-tempo songs. Making sure that every detail was enjoyed by the sold-out audiences, FOH Engineer, Stian Sagholen only had one PA system in mind. “Stian contacted us after a show at Nidarosdomen (Nidaros Cathedral), Trondheim in May and said there was no other option than an…
The correct management of the energy radiated by subwoofers is crucial for the success of any event. Join K-array to learn how to design and implement a variety of subwoofer configurations, including electronic arcs and cardioid patterns. The free, live presentation is part of the K-array Webinar Series, will explain the concepts and techniques for producing a better bass coverage. Electronic arcs and cardioid subwoofer configurations will be analysed and simulated on the new 3D acoustical simulation software developed by K-array. Different times and languages are available, so sign up now for the slot that best fits your needs and…
The Arena Group has announced the merger of its UK & Europe and Middle East & Asia Divisions to form Arena EMEA. Under this new structure, the MEA Division’s reputation for innovation and delivery of design led solutions, offering temporary architecture with a permanent feel, will be introduced into the UK. This will allow the business to focus on the core of its competitive advantage and deliver a consistent offering globally with a ‘joined-up’ approach to innovation, expertise, and knowledge. Sadly, as a result of this merger, we will be losing the services of Chris Morris, CEO of the UK…
Toucan Productions has started to livestream weekly DJ sets from its facility in Oklahoma City using a festival-worthy setup that includes nearly 100% Elation lighting gear. Dubbed Secret Shop and hosted on Twitch TV, the livestream broadcasts feature multiple 45-minute DJ sets and run every Wednesday from 8:00 pm to midnight Central Daylight Time in the U.S. Arvol Dingess and Parker Shore, both of Toucan, have been instrumental in getting the Secret Shop livestreams up and running, an idea that emerged from COVID-19 downtime. “Sometime in May, Arvol, our video lead at Toucan, hit me up with the idea to…
HARMAN Professional Solutions has announced the addition of 10 free Live Workshops available for registration through the Learning Sessions program in conjunction with HARMAN Professional University. Available workshops, scheduled through the remainder of June, feature lighting or audio experts who have extensive industry knowledge and experience working with various artists including Akon, Aretha Franklin, Imagine Dragons, John Legend, Josh Groban, Logic, OneRepublic, Patti LaBelle, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others. The workshops now open for registration include: • June 15—Cable Diagnostics, Soldering Skills and Troubleshooting with Fedj (Jeff) Sylvanus • June 16—Lighting with LED for Television with Robert Grobler…
Audinate has announced a new ‘Authorized Implementer Program’ for manufacturers seeking to fast-track the development of new Dante AV products. The Authorized Implementer Program is ideal for manufacturers seeking to quickly add Dante AV-based products in the shortest possible time. The program gives manufacturers access to turnkey ODM products such as full-featured PTZ cameras and receive/transmit AV-over-IP video endpoints that can be “white-labelled” with the manufacturer’s brand. They also get immediate expertise in developing new video products, such as hardware design, software development, supply chain management and regulatory compliance. Working with a Dante AV Authorized Implementer, manufacturers get a head…
As part of the company’s efforts to position itself to work more effectively and efficiently in global product development activities Audio-Technica U.S. announces two appointments to its Product Management team. Kurt Van Scoy has been appointed to the position of Executive Director of Product Management for ATUS. In this position, Van Scoy will be responsible for directing the product development/management efforts at ATUS. In addition, Kurt will oversee the ATUS quality control department. Van Scoy is returning to the ATUS team, after four years serving A-T as Global Product Manager, based in Japan. In addition, Gary Dixon has been promoted…
Dutch production company Spectrum AV has created a blank canvas studio in its warehouse that it is renting out to promotors who wish to host virtual dance festivals during the COVID-19 lockdown. Featuring an impressive lighting rig, comprising 68 ADJ fixtures, it allows the atmosphere of a high-energy DJ set to be captured and live-streamed for fans to watch in the safety of their own homes. Established for over 15 years, Spectrum AV is a full-service lighting, video, audio and effects rental and production company based in the village of Udenhout, which is located between Tilburg and ‘s-Hertogenbosch in The…
Pliant Technologies adds three additional firms as part of its expanded manufacturer’s representatives initiative, with the appointment of Audio Biz, Mainline Marketing, and Pro Tech Marketing. By signing new manufacturer’s reps, Pliant has increased its scope of coverage and can offer its range of high-quality intercom solutions, including its CrewCom and MicroCom wireless systems, as well as its complete line of SmartBoom headsets to additional regions within the U.S. Audio Biz, representing industry-leading professional audio, video, and lighting products, will cover Central and Northern Illinois, Eastern Wisconsin and Michigan. “Given the current state of the world, we’re using this opportunity…
Analog Way announces the launch of its new range of powerful 4K60 multi-layer video mixers and seamless presentation switchers, the Midra 4K series. Ideally tailored to small/medium-sized fixed installations and live environments, the new series offers the highest reliability, the lowest latency, unrivaled ease of use, optimal image quality and state-of-the-art live 4K processing features. The range includes four products: QuickVu 4K, QuickMatrix 4K, Pulse 4K and Eikos 4K. The Midra 4K series presentation switchers feature ten inputs, including eight 4K60 inputs (four HDMI 2.0, two 12G-SDI and two DisplayPort 1.2) and two 1080p inputs with user-selectable HDMI and SDI…
Xilinx has introduced two real-time computing video appliances for easy-to-scale, ultra-high-density video transcoding applications. Based on the new Xilinx Real-Time (RT) Server reference architecture, these new appliances will enable service providers delivering applications such as eSports and game streaming platforms, social and video conferencing, live distance learning, telemedicine and live broadcast video to optimize video quality and bitrate at the lowest cost per channel for significant TCO savings over both software-based and fixed-architecture approaches. Designed for edge and on-premise compute-intensive workloads where video channel density, throughput and latency are critical requirements, the new Xilinx Real-Time Video Appliances feature optimized hardware…
Cast Swiss Light Consulting has announced its partnership with Verlinde in Switzerland. Cast Swiss Light Consulting specialises in the distribution of equipment for the theatre, television, conferences and professional events in Switzerland – offering advice, arranging project studies, sells and installs lifting structures, lighting and control systems. Cast is the exclusive distributor for some 15 brands which share the aim, according to Mr Silvio Cibien, the company’s founder, “of proposing quality products with true value-added”. This was the incentive for the distribution partnership with Verlinde whose range of Stagemaker scenographic lifting and handling equipment is acknowledged for its quality and reliability.…
