Alcons Audio has appointed Elit Light and Sound Technologies, based in Besiktas, Istanbul, as its representative for Turkey. Turkey and the regions around it have a rich and diverse cultural history. The modern-day entertainment industry embraces music, drama, cinema, dance and sport, while the quality sound is also needed for mosques, hotels, corporate clients and broadcast studios, making it a key market for Alcons’ pro-ribbon technology. Since 2001, Elit has been delivering the highest levels of service to a wide range of customers, which makes the company an ideal Alcons pro-ribbon partner. “From the beginning, we have always distributed the…
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Hungarian-based TéDé Rendezvények has invested in a Martin Audio Wavefront Precision Series (WPC) system. The order, which included iKON iK42 amplifiers, was placed with the manufacturer’s territorial distributor, BG Event Kft. The new PA debuted at the 2-day Bősi Motoros Találkozó (Bősi Motorcycle Meeting), with 10 bands appearing in front of 2,000 people where it proved extremely popular. “We received a lot of positive feedback from visiting technicians, many of them amazed by the sound of the system. It not only delivered power but pure, highly intelligible sound in every way.” According to Balázs Szentiványi, Purchasing Manager, BG Event Kft., the…
Now in its 6th year, BottleRock is a 3-day music festival that hosts some of the most popular touring musicians at the Napa Valley Expo Center in the heart of California’s Wine Country. In addition to 3 days of music, the festival features gourmet food vendors from many of the region’s most celebrated restaurants and a culinary stage with numerous special guests. Held over Memorial Day weekend from 25-27 May 2018, VUE was back for their 4th round with the festival. Delicate Productions once again provided full production services for the event, including a complete PA from VUE Audiotechnik on…
British progressive rock pioneers Marillion are currently delighting fans with their hit world tour, which marks over 3 decades of the band’s music. A celebration of musical storytelling, the show is enhanced by a theatrical lightscape created by the band’s long-term lighting designer Yenz Nyholm, who selected the Claypaky Scenius Spot to deliver key animation lighting effects and rich, vibrant colour onstage. Integral to Nyholm’s design is an intricate back wall of light that surrounds an 8 x 5 metre projection screen. Above the top edge of the screen, Nyholm places a row of Scenius Spots to create a varied…
Arena Events Group announces the expansion of its product portfolio in the UK with the acquisition of Events Solution. The company’s equipment range covers pedestrian, front of stage and Metropolitan Police barriers, gantries and fencing. This product offer closely complements Arena’s Mass Participation division and has synergies with its structures, seating and scaffolding capabilities. Arena UK & Europe CEO, Grahame Muir, stated: “Our business strategy is to provide a comprehensive suite of services to event organisers. Events Solution Ltd is a very well run and invested business and one we believe has significant growth opportunities. Having a new northern base…
Welsh heavy-metal giants, Bullet For My Valentine, have recently embarked on their summer trek across the UK and Europe, supported by 2 Allen & Heath dLive S Class systems. Supplied by SSE Audio, the band’s set-up includes two S5000 surfaces, each paired with its own DM64 MixRack, covering FOH and monitors, with gigaACE split and Dante Cards for virtual soundcheck. “The Allen & Heath Range has been a ‘go to’ for a number of years now for me. I used to mix BFMV on iLive, then the GLD for fly shows, before making the move to dLive at the end…
It has been another outstanding year for multi-award-winning UK songstress, Paloma Faith. Now, Paloma and co. are touring The Architect and her engineers are using DiGiCo consoles to run the show, provided by UK rental company, Adlib. The show’s channel-count out front is at 75, which is broken down into drums and electronics, 20 lines of keys, guitars, vocals, and various drum triggers. The sheer size of the show meant a DiGiCo console was a must-have, said Paloma’s FOH engineer, Andy Williamson. “I could have done this show on an SD5, but we’re using that on monitors [with James Neale],…
disguise has announced that Bill Collis has been appointed Chairman of the Board. He brings extensive experience in the film and video industry to his new post: Collis was formerly CEO and President of The Foundry, which he led for over a decade. Collis built The Foundry organically transforming it from a London-based niche visual effects software company into a high-growth global force in the development and distribution of media post-production tools and product design technology. Collis currently works with several private equity-backed companies either as Chairman or Director. He is Chairman of Random42 and sits on the boards of…
The annual Billboard Latin Music Conference landed in Las Vegas in April with a series of star-studded events featuring Avolites-controlled lighting supplied by Miami-based production specialist 3G Productions. The 4-day conference was held at The Venetian hotel’s Marcello Ballroom and hosted a series of performances and talks from Latin music stars including Steve Aoki, Maluma and Bad Bunny. The conference’s audio, lighting and video were provided by 3G, who this year introduced Avolites consoles for the first time following the company’s recent investment in the brand’s Titan and Ai ranges. “We’ve been doing this event for 12 years in conjunction with our client…
‘Awesome,’ ‘clean’ and ‘transparent’ are just some of the superlatives Monitor Engineer Jamie Hickey uses when describing the effect DPA Microphones are having on Snow Patrol’s live drum sound. Hickey, who began working with the Irish band in January, says using DPA microphone’s d:dicate2011C Compact Cardioid Microphoneis ‘a bit like plugging your own ear into the mixing desk.’ “On a snare drum, for example, there’s no proximity effect – you don’t need to boost the highs or dip the mids to make it sit in the mix,” he explained. “The d:dicate 2011C is completely transparent and the transients are so…
Folk punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner recently played 4 vibrant and fully sold-out nights at London’s Roundhouse venue, performing 4 completely unique sets and presenting lighting designer Tom Mason-Smith with the task of creating 4 alternative lighting designs. Mason-Smith company Dragonfly Lighting provided a Robe specials package including 12 MegaPointes, 24 Robe BMFLs, 24 Robe PATT 2013s and 12 Robe CycFX 8s to cover the 4 shows and assist him to make each one a personal and memorable experience for Turner’s eclectic and loyal fanbase. Tom also used elements of the house rig including 18 Robe LEDBeam 100s. The second night was…
Creative Communication Group (CCG), a rental, event management and production company based in Doha, Qatar, makes a large commitment to Robe moving lights with the purchase of Robe MegaPointes and Robe Spiider moving lights for its rental inventory. CCG’s director of lighting Michel Khairallah explained that as a busy rental operation over the years, they have dealt with moving lights from several brands. “Having had good experiences in the past with Robe’s fixtures and knowing the reliability, toughness and quality of the light output, I was convinced that increasing our Robe stock was a solid investment”. The events CCG produces include many…
It is very fitting that confetti plays a prominent role in Above & Beyond’s global tour in support of their Common Ground album. Originating in northern Italy during the Middle Ages, confetti (literally “small sweet”) became symbolic not only of celebrations but also of the shared joyful experiences that bring people together. This ebullient mood resonates throughout the Grammy-nominated EDM trio’s latest music with every synthetic hook, bouncy turn and transcendent keyboard melody. Above & Beyond’s performance overflows with hope and inspiration, qualities that are reflected in their tour’s uplifting Neil Marsh-designed light show. Running his 48-universe show with a…
Since their start in Newbury Park, California in 2011, alternative indie rock band The Neighbourhood has gone on to chart multiple times in the US, release three albums (including the certified Gold album I Love You), tour internationally, and perform multiple times at Coachella. The band stepped up to an Allen & Heath dLive Digital Mixing System at FOH and monitors, with two C1500 Control Surfaces, a DM32 MixRack and a DM64 MixRack. Monitor engineer Jason Hines sums up the dLive system as being “intuitive and flexible.” Hines noted a number of particularly useful features for touring monitor engineers. “The…
John Moore launched Trinity Productions in the early 1990s in response to his frustration with the lack of truly professional sound production companies in Northern California at the time. He was trying to put on a “concert in the park” series and getting little help from the companies whose sole reason for existing was to offer help to event organisers and audio engineers like himself! Flash forward twenty-five years, and, in addition to expanding operations into A/V integration, Trinity Productions continues to raise the bar for the audio production industry. After extensive research, Moore recently added 2 Ashly digiMIX18 digital…
TW AUDiO is delighted to announce the appointment of Thomas Vestergaard will play key roles in the company’s customer product training, application and education sector. Vestergaard brings a wealth of experience to his new position, having held high-profile positions over the course of a career of more than two decades. A sound engineer at heart, he has worked as technical sales manager and senior application engineer for internationally respected brands, earning a world-class reputation for both his expertise and skill as a communicator. His appointment marks the continued expansion of the global TW AUDiO family, and a further deepening of…
TW AUDiO has appointed Mick Whelan to the position of Business Development Director for TW AUDiO Americas Inc. where he will join Vice President Philip Van Peborgh and his team. In this role, Whelan will be responsible for defining and creating the path to ensure long-term value between customers and the organisation. This role will also include market intelligence and identification of key opportunities, thus addressing new business opportunities effectively. The latest TW AUDiO recruit has extensive experience inside the professional audio community as both a purchaser and a provider through his touring career with major rental house Electrotec and…
Every year, the future graduates of the French school of architecture of Tournai organise the JNDA (Journée et Nuit de l’Architecture), an event that gathers over 4,000 visitors. A disused industrial site is specially transformed to host conferences as well as artistic and cultural performances. At dusk, the venue becomes a concert hall with 3 stages, where renowned and emerging bands entertain the crowds until late. For this 34th edition, the event took up residence in the former 7,000sqm Louis Carton industrial workshop. In order to cater to an eclectic crowd, 3 stages – each dedicated to specific music genres -…
