Robert Juliat has announced the launch of Arthur, its new 800W LED Long Throw followspot capable of matching the lumen output of a 2500W HMI RJ Aramis followspot and delivering up to 29,000 lumens. The move marks the arrival of the LED followspot the industry has been waiting for – one that opens up the use of LED followspots into large venues such as opera houses, musical theatre and live music venues, concert and touring venues, both indoors and out. Arthur’s powerful LED engine, narrow beam angle (5.5°-15°) and long-throw capability, ensures invincible performances with a minimum output of 2000…
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On May 19 the Sennheiser SoundAcademy will be discussing one of the hot topics of the day – immersive audio: Sennheiser hosts David Missall and Brian Walker have invited Leslie Ann Jones, Michael Romanowski, Steve Genewick, Jim Anderson and Ulrike Anderson to speak about this exciting area. The five industry experts will discuss their approach to recording, mixing and mastering the immersive sound experience, and share their views on how immersive audio can help open up new creative possibilities and connect listeners more intimately with music. Please note the new changed timing for this webinar: It will take place at…
Individuals, teams and companies are doing what they can to support their local areas and the people living there and Hartlebury-based creative communications group DRPG are proud to do its bit to help the community they have formed part of for 40 years. On 14 May 2020, as well as lighting up their Studios in Hartlebury in blue as part of the Light it Blue campaign to thank the NHS for their tireless work during the crisis, at exactly 9 seconds past, 9 minutes past 9pm (to denote 999) the video, motion graphics and production teams unveiled a huge surprise…
Elation Professional presents a very special 20 May edition of the Elation Hour as top theatre lighting designers Bradley King, Jeff Croiter, John Froelich and Jason Lyons join hosts John Dunn and Matthias Hinrichs to share their personal insight, experiences and tricks of the trade in lighting the theatrical stage. Elation is pleased to welcome Bradley King, a two-time Tony Award-winner for his work on Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017) and Hadestown (2019); Jeff Croiter, Tony award-winning lighting designer for Peter and the Starcatcher (2012) with over 25-years of Broadway experience; John Froelich, resident lighting designer…
Dan Graetz is a filmmaker who wears a lot of hats. He directs, shoots, writes, edits, colour grades, does voiceover, and produces his own political satire show, soup to nuts. But he never dreamed, until recently, that he would also do his own broadcasting—all out of his home studio in Brisbane, Australia. In the days of COVID-19 it pays to be resourceful. When his client Violent Soho, one of Australia’s top independent rock acts put the final touches on their new album, they knew traditional live tour promotion was out of the question. In the age of social distancing, even…
BB&S Lighting of Denmark announces the new Compact Beamlight BiColor which offers a range of 2700°-5700°K. With 98 TLCI, CBLs are ideal for professional studio, stage, architectural lighting and broadcast news studios that require a hard shadow beam. A Single fixture produces up to 2700-lumens and the 2×2, with its combined beam, provides up to 11,000-lumens. The beams fade from 100% at centre to 50% at the edges, cutting blinding glare so that mixing and overlapping other lights is smooth and easy. These LED fixtures have been installed for uses up to 90-ft/27-meter distances. With a low 40W power draw,…
Building upon their reputation as one of the industry’s most trusted entertainment and architectural lighting manufacturers, Altman Lighting is proud to introduce the simplicity of control with Genesis. Combining the ease-of-use of a fader-based controller with the power of an intuitive touch screen interface, the Genesis lighting console provides the programmer with a unique familiarity for the creative control of today’s complex automated and LED luminaires. “As theatres, churches, educational facilities and event spaces look to upgrade their lighting designs with the latest technology, Genesis is a user-friendly and affordable solution for the control of intelligent luminaires,” stated Jason Osterman,…
Everything from broadcasts, webinars, classes and interviews to worship sermons, theatrical performances and musical concerts are now being streamed to (and from) living rooms. As a result, production organizers are quickly developing new ways to provide valuable replacements for everyday communication and entertainment. In light of these latest trends, DPA Microphones has seen a rapid surge in popularity for its MMA-A Digital Audio Interface. Touted as a “sound engineer in your pocket,” DPA’s MMA-A pre-amp was designed for live and mobile productions. In recent weeks, this has expanded to those working from home due to social distancing. Compatible with any…
DTS has welcomed the arrival of Maurizio Gidoni who joins the company as Technical Director. His background education in electronic engineering is also featured with great skills in management and process industrialisation. Moreover, Maurizio’s problem-solving attitude and long experience in managing crowded technical teams, make him the perfect leader for our research and development department. The addition of Gidoni to our team is part of the ongoing process of DTS to strengthen the company position in the top segment of the professional lighting industry worldwide. During his 30-year career, Maurizio developed a strong leadership attitude, alongside with a fundamental teamwork…
Off the back of its recent announcement of the new Integrated Services Monitoring (ISM) model, Bridge Technologies has demonstrated the value and robustness of its approach with technology collaborators Appear, in a setup which facilitates end-to-end delivery and monitoring of data, uncompressed to compressed, from production to end user. ISM seeks to bring together the Bridge Technologies portfolio of products into a turnkey, easy-to-install media monitoring system. It represents Bridge’s recognition of the increasingly merged and hybridised nature of the industry, where single entities may now operate on multiple layers of the broadcast and media cycle; from production through signal…
d&b audiotechnik has announced a Product Warranty Extension Program to support customers into the future. The product warranty Extension Program is only one part of d&b’s overall COVID-19 response to alleviate customer anxieties and reemphasise d&b’s long-term commitment to the market. “While the entire live entertainment market is dealing with the effects of lockdowns and is facing uncertainty, our aim is to alleviate one of the concerns of our partners and customers who are suffering the effects of the pandemic,” said Amnon Harman, CEO, d&b audiotechnik. “This is one example of the measures d&b has introduced to support customers during…
Simon Thomas has been utilising an SSL Fusion while out on the road with American singer-songwriter, Halsey, to complement her vocal-driven production. From power pop to cleverly distorted sonics, the Fusion is a permanent feature on her vocal buss. Thomas started out in the industry as a lighting operator in the world of amateur dramatics, and because ‘no-one wanted to do sound’ he volunteered, soon moving into professional theatre and hospital radio, and eventually joining Britannia Row in the ’90s as one of the then ‘new school’ engineers. He worked as a monitor engineer initially – and for a number…
Art is wherever you find it, and wherever it goes inspiration and hope are sure to follow, even amidst a pandemic. This is beautifully evident to visitors the moment they pull into the parking lot of ARC Sound Stage and Lighting and find themselves immersed in a graffiti garden of 24 street art murals, and two graffiti covered sea containers that were used by the company prior to the COVID-19 lockdown. Driving through this parking-lot-turned-art-park provides people in Norwalk with a welcome reprieve from their daily, and unfamiliarly restrictive routines, allowing them to soak up the spiritual benefits of art…
CPL lit two landmark buildings in central Coventry, UK, to commemorate International Nurses Day and the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The action also recognised the central role the nursing profession has played worldwide in fighting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic along with the World Health Organisation, which has designated 2020 as ‘International Year of the Nurse’. CPL was working for Coventry 2021, the organising committee planning and overseeing events for the upcoming UK City of Culture year. The lit buildings were the original St Michael’s Cathedral and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The original St Michael’s was…
By way of an online showcase, StreamAustria is helping Austrian fans to get their live music fix in isolation, with a little support from Allen & Heath’s dLive mixing systems. Broadcast via Twitch from the chic Gӧsserhalle venue, a former beer warehouse in downtown Vienna, StreamAustria has hosted several live music performances and interviews each week since early April, including sets from Ina Regen, Josh, Nathan Trent and Wiener Wahnsinn. StreamAustria is a not-for-profit venture, with all donations from viewers going to the bands’ chosen charities. The audio setup for StreamAustria was devised by co-founder, Richard Redl, whose day job…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been keenly felt throughout the industry, but creative solutions for audio conundrums are never far from audio engineer, Phil Wright’s mind, as was the case recently when his friend Jaap Pronk of TM Audio in the Netherlands, contacted him for help with Celeste’s lockdown broadcast. Wright became involved in the project when Dutch national radio station 3FM was seeking an audio solution for a lockdown broadcast. Not unreasonably, they wished to capture Celeste’s performance as clearly and professionally as possible. 3FM contacted Jaap Pronk of Sound providers TM Audio in Utrecht for suggestions…
In March, when COVID-19 caused the cancellation of Machine Head’s remaining Burn My Eyes European tour dates, the band was still able to reach its deeply loyal fans by making videoed shows available on a subscription basis via Nugs.net. Niklas Fuchs of MartinKames.com ran the tour’s intense, but highly nuanced lightshows, which used between six and ten universes, on his ChamSys MQ100 Pro 2014 with an Extra Wing. “The two months we spent on tour were very memorable,” said Fuchs. “Each show was over three hours and our show file consisted of 314 fixtures.” Even in a musical genre populated by…
From a base in producing both original music and remixes a decade ago, Canadian electronic music duo Zeds Dead branched out to explore a vast range of genres including UK garage, electro house, hip hop, drum and bass and more. Now a staple on the international touring circuit, such diversity poses many challenges for the lighting team, led by production designer Erik Mahowald (of Bending Lite Productions). Recently they have been headlining package tours for their record label Deadbeats … a series of ‘one-off’ formatted shows in a varied combination of festival stage ‘takeovers’ and standard concert venue applications at…
