Audinate has announced that its line of Dante AVIO adapters are now shipping and already available from several key online retailers, including Full Compass, Dale Pro Audio and Thomann, in addition to key regional distributors around the globe. Dante AVIO adapters are a family of cost-effective endpoints that enable audio professionals to easily connect legacy analog and digital audio equipment to Dante networks. Starting with a list price of only $129 USD, the Dante AVIO series features six adapters including line-in and line-out analog adapters, a bi-directional AES3/EBU adapter and a bi-directional stereo USB adapter. The Dante AVIO Analog adapters…
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Singer, songwriter, and record producer Lorde has been out on her international Melodrama tour, which accompanies the new album of the same name. The show is also set to visit some of this Summer’s biggest festivals, and front of House Engineer Philip J Harvey has been along for the ride, with the special honour of engineering on the first international tour on the road with the new L-Acoustics L-ISA Live multichannel immersive technology. To complement this, Harvey needed a console that could do justice to the band and L-ISA, so he chose SSL Live. The stage set-up is relatively simple. An acoustic drum kit, guitar amp, and…
Catapulted into the role not long after graduating from London College of Music (LCM), Cosimini arrived loaded with zeal, ambition and an Audient iD14, all set for her You tour in October where the audio interface was invaluable in a live setup. Conor Cosimini, producer and studio co-owner got a call in 2018 asking him to join English singer/songwriter Dodie’s touring team as monitor engineer. “The iD14 has come on both tours – and every other show I’ve done since – and I couldn’t be happier with it,” confirms Cosimini in the afterglow of Dodie’s most recent ‘Spring Tour’ which…
AV Stumpfl, the acclaimed Austrian AV technology manufacturer, will allow InfoComm visitors a first look at its next-generation media server software solution PIXERA, scheduled to be released later this year. The 64-bit system for real-time media processing, compositing and management is built around the key theme of usability. Users can gradually discover the options and features and can smoothly transition from being a beginner to becoming a specialist. Actions in the 2D and 3D space follow the same mechanisms. The system was designed so that users can execute the most important basic actions in record time and with only a…
As a Platinum-selling songwriter and recent GRAMMY and ACM Award nominee, Eric Paslay has celebrated five No. 1 hits while also making a name for himself as a dynamic performer. With the debut of his latest single Young Forever and the launch of his 2018 tour, Paslay wanted to create a new experience for his fans out on the road. Once again working with lighting designer and programmer Mike Marcario and production manager Norwood Wood, the creative team needed a trusted tour provider for the updated lighting rig, and they turned to Nashville-based Elite Multimedia. “The lighting design seemed to…
Peavey Commercial Audio has announced the appointment of Audiens Norge AS as the exclusive Norwegian distributor for all PCA brands with immediate effect. The brands concerned are MediaMatrix, Crest Audio and Peavey PA products. Based 25km north-east of Oslo, Audiens is a leading specialist AV supplier offering solutions across a wide range of applications including education, worship, museums, hotels, sports facilities, auditoria and more. According to PCA operations manager, James Kennedy, Audiens is the ideal partner for PCA. “Audiens are clearly very well established in all the markets that relate directly to our products,” he said. “They go out of…
The Activity turns to Elation Professional IP65 moving head for special anniversary design element on Main Stage. Guest LDs incorporate Elation Professional Proteus into performances The world’s premier electronic music festival, Ultra Music Festival, turned 20 in 2018 and the occasion was marked, in part, by big beam lighting effects from an array of Elation Professional IP65-rated Proteus Beam moving heads that lined the top of the festival’s iconic Main Stage. Production and lighting design for the Main Stage was by The Activity, its 9th year of involvement with the festival. The Las Vegas-based production and design firm, headed by…
Singer-songwriter Adel Tawil is again on tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Prior to the tour, he used a number of festival appearances to present his current No. 1 album so schön anders before embarking on an extensive theatre tour that ended with 3 sold-out arena shows last Autumn. These included all the essential production elements of his other shows. The man responsible for the lighting design is Bertil Mark, who wanted to implement a symbiosis of clear spaces and chaos. Production rehearsals took place over 3 days at Black Box Music in Berlin, where most of the band now resides,…
A long-time user of Martin Audio PA systems, Norwegian-based AudioLight AS has made a major investment in the manufacturer’s new generation products, purchasing a package that includes 32-box Martin Audio WPC PA, along with 12 Martin Audio SXH218 subwoofers and 16 Martin Audio XE 300 monitors, all powered by Martin Audio iKON iK42 amplifiers. Located in Harstad, AudioLight has been a supplier of sound, lighting and staging, for small and large events across the northern part of the country for over 15 years. The order was placed with Martin Audio distributors, Atendi AS on the opening day of the ISE…
The brainchild of The Who’s guitarist and primary songwriter, Pete Townshend, Tommy – a rock opera that tells the story of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who achieves a personal breakthrough when he becomes an expert pinball player – was first performed on stage in 1969. Featuring some of Townshend’s best-loved songs, including Pinball Wizard and See Me, Feel Me, Tommy has enjoyed remarkable creative longevity as a staple of The Who’s live repertoire, as well as multiple theatrical and touring productions and a celebrated film directed by Ken Russell. For the musical component of the new production currently being staged at…
Described as the “world’s most sensational school concert”, the Voice in a Million charity concert drew a remarkable 10,000 schoolchildren to London’s SSE Wembley Arena in mid-March 2018, for 2 nights of performances by the UK’s most gifted children’s choirs. With technical production on a tight timescale, an Electro-Voice X2 line array system, part of the X-Line Advance family, delivered punchy, even coverage across the arena, while Electro-Voice ND86 dynamic supercardioid vocal microphones ensured each child’s voice was captured in perfect detail. Founded in 2006 by Robert and Jo Garofalo, Voice in a Million is a charitable organisation dedicated to…
British rock band Marillion treated fans to a series of immersive shows in April, with theatrical-style lighting controlled using an Avolites Tiger Touch II with Titan interface. The band worked with its long-serving lighting designer Yenz Nyholm to create a pitch-perfect light show, designed to synchronise with pinpoint accuracy to video content and on-stage action. “Each song on this tour required lighting that would act as if it were a mini-play, reflecting the stark nature of the music and immersing the audience into the experience,” says Nyholm. “The design was based on beautiful, symmetrical beams of light.” “Programming with Titan…
SLX has announced the successful applicants for its 2018 Bursary Scheme, which sees the company supporting 5 students enrolled in production courses with £3,000 of hire equipment as well as networking and development opportunities. Spanning the UK, the students attend different institutions and are enrolled on a variety of technical production focussed courses. Third-year students and graduating this year are Ashley Holdom (Rose Bruford) and Ryan Searle (Bristol Old Vic) and the 2nd year students receiving the bursary are Alex Silvester (University of Bolton – Backstage Academy), Georgia Wren – LIPA and Ben Linwood (Guildford School of Acting). As well as…
Philips Vari-Lite VL800 BeamLine The new Philips Vari-Lite VL800 BeamLine from Philips Entertainment Lighting is an LED effects luminaire offering unique, dynamic looks which will appeal to lighting designers working in show environments of all kinds. The first LED effects unit from the Philips Vari-Lite brand, it produces a distinctive, collimated, flat sheet of light in a 3.5° beam with advanced movement, colour control and pixel-mapping capabilities. A linear strip moving light with 12 RGBW LED emitters, the Philips Vari-Lite VL800 BeamLine features a newly-developed optical system which provides a bright, collimated and elongated beam of light, adding extra depth and…
Around 500 CLF Lighting fixtures were deployed during De Coolste Baan van Nederland, which was held in the Olympic Stadium of Amsterdam, built for the 1928 Olympic Games. Center of attention was the 400m long speed skating track that was used for the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2018 during the last weekend of the event. In cooperation with production company For Live, Lighting Designer Henk-Jan van Beek (Light-H-Art) chose different CLF Lighting fixtures to illuminate the speed skating track and all the areas around it. With 350 pieces, the CLF Lighting Yara LEDPAR was everywhere. The majority of…
Avolites and MA Lighting recently joined forces with the organisers of entertainment technology trade event Prolight + Sound to shut down the booth of prolific counterfeit operation PPL (Popular Lighting from GuangZhou, China). This is one more step that both companies have taken to prevent the distribution of counterfeits and to send out a clear message to all product copier that their actions are no longer tolerated. Sales Director Koy Neminathan explained: “Avolites synchronised efforts with MA Lighting and with the support of Prolight + Sound to successfully close PPL’s booth down before the Prolight + Sound show even opened.…
Flemish performer, Nathalie Meskens, whose soul music tour Meskens in Motown has proved hugely popular, selling out shows in theatres and concert halls across Belgium in addition to rocking numerous festivals. Front of House Engineer Peter Claes chose Studio Haifax, a customer of CODA Audio’s Belgian distributor Viladco, to supply the audio and in consultation with the Dilbeek-based rental company, settled on a CODA Audio ViRAY system. Claes recalled: “I’ve used CODA Audio AiRAY and ViRAY systems in the past and the flexibility they offer is key. This particular tour presented a mixture of venue types and sizes, so I…
Whatever your involvement in live events, the stage lighting industry needs your help. Proposed changes in the laws surrounding efficiency of lighting equipment has the potential to seriously adversely affect the industry. In a nutshell, the familiar A to G energy rating and labelling legislation may be extended to professional stage lighting, which is currently exempt. Many lights used in live events does not reach even the lower rating, even LED fixtures, developments in technology will not keep pace with the requirements. With domestic lighting, switching to low energy bulbs is a simple swap; for stage lighting, that is not the…
