Audiologic has been acquired by European AV Group (EAV Group), an alliance of leading value-add distributors of professional AV products and services, headquartered in Germany. EAV Group, serving until recently the Benelux and DACH territories exclusively, specialise in the distribution of professional AV products, sharing many of the unique values of its recently acquired partner. Both companies drive their business on their vision to deliver consultative sales and service led competences. EAV Group, like Audiologic, also offers dedicated training academies, marketing expertise and excellent relationship management with manufacturers, integrators, and dealers. Andy Lewis, Managing Director of Audiologic commented: “Leading our…
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Taking place from 18 to 20 October, brands and manufacturers from the live events and entertainment industry will come together at The Messehallen Convention Centre in Hamburg, Germany for the first time for LEaT con (Live Entertainment and Technology Convention) 2022. With just four weeks to go, LEaT con – a brand new networking convention for the event and entertainment industry – will make its debut. Over 150 brands will take part in the premiere at the Hamburg Messe & Congress site and, as exhibitors, are looking forward to an intensive exchange with visitors in the four thematic squares. From the…
The BeachLife Ranch Festival in Los Angeles is focused on Country and Americana music, hosting headline artists such as The Lumineers, Hall and Oates, Brandi Carlile, and Wilco. For performances at the Four Sixes Speakeasy stage, two Allen & Heath digital consoles were implemented: a Qu Series mixer at front of house, along with a 64-channel Avantis for multitrack recording and broadcast to Volume.com’s live music streaming platform. The Avantis was paired with a GX4816 stagebox, which provided 48 remote mic preamps to receive audio via a split snake. The console also housed a 128-channel 96kHz Waves module – allowing…
Neutrik Group has completed two new FIBERFOX production lines, now in operation, at the group’s Connex Oldenburg plant in Germany. As a result, market demand for NEUTRIK FIBERFOX products will be significantly better served going forward, with one third reduction in standard delivery times. Dietmar Rottinghaus, Managing Director of Connex, said. “Since joining the Neutrik Group in 2021 our sales have gone from strength to strength. The completion of these production lines supports that success and invests in our continuing growth, with new products for the AV and Industrial sectors planned for announcement in 2022”. FIBERFOX’s hermaphroditic coupling – the…
To provide GRAMMY Award-winning hard rock band Halestorm with simple but impactful lighting for their 2022 US tour, Bandit Lites deployed a dynamic rig using Martin Professional lighting solutions. With budget and gear constraints still affecting the live music industry following the COVID-19 pandemic, the band wanted a lighting rig that heightened their classic-meets-modern rock sound and provided maximum impact for their fans despite the logistical limitations. To meet these goals, Lighting Designer, Craig Richter worked with Bandit Lites and Scott Anderson from Martin to design a rig featuring Martin VDO Atomic Bold, Atomic 3000 LED and MAC Viper Profiles.…
The art of lighting design lies not only in how it heightens an audience’s visual experience, but also, in what it shields an audience from seeing. Guillaume Fournier and Victor Lagiewski from Chromatik mastered both ends of this artistic spectrum recently at the Fous Chantants d’Alès concert, featuring Pascal Obispo. A 1,000-member choir joined the superstar singer/songwriter on a 50m open stage for his performance. To preserve the dramatic impact of their arrival, they had to step on to the stage unseen by the audience in the Arènes du Tempéras arena. This was not a simple endeavour, given that the…
As planning began for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show the creative team behind the project knew the production needed to encapsulate the essence of the renowned designer’s life, a life far from ordinary. Located at the unique Roundhouse Theatre in London from 15 July to 28 August 2022, the production required an audio experience that could cater to the theatricality of the show as well as address many acoustic issues the show presented, all challenges that d&b Soundscape could provide a solution for. Since debuting in 2019 at Folies Bergère in Paris, Fashion Freak Show has taken audiences through…
Michael Bublé’s ongoing Higher Tour could best be described as an intimate party on a grand scale. It’s a full-tilt production in every respect, replete with a massive four-tier stage set to accommodate a full orchestra and backup singers – augmented on occasion by strings and a 10-piece choir – plus extensive lighting effects and four giant video screens. For audio support, Bublé is again carrying a “dual hybrid” Meyer Sound reinforcement system, comprising both main stage arrays plus massive centre-hung arrays which function as an over-specified delay system when Bublé is on the main stage and as an in-the-round…
Summer 2022 saw the return of all major festivals, some of which have made their comeback after two years of cancellations. Creative Technology (CT) worked on a multitude of the UK’s largest and most popular major outdoor music events and festivals this summer – no small feat which has taken a hard-working and dedicated team of skilled people to make it all happen. May marked the start of festival season for CT’s audio team with the return of The Great Escape Festival, followed by BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Coventry, delivering LED main screens along with LED columns and…
American Express presents BST Hyde Park returned in 2022 boasting a stellar line-up. Among the festival’s highlights were two back-to-back headline sets from grunge royalty, Pearl Jam, which saw 100,000 fans gather across two nights in July. Although the band travels the world with their Rat Sound Systems stage package in tow, Britannia Row Productions was called in to provide audio support for their European run, which included the huge headline shows in Hyde Park. “I’ve been working with Account Manager / Company Director, Lez Dwight and Brit Row for over a decade now, and they’re truly one of my…
Between May and September 2022, Berlin band SEEED were busy playing open-air and festival dates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland – including eight concerts in their hometown alone. Lighting Designer, Timo Martens has been with the band for 22 years, and both musicians and crew are like family to him. On the other hand, 16 GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid, the new IP65-rated strobe wash hybrids, with the much-praised RGBL colour mixture of the X5 Series, were travelling for the first time. The lighting and stage design inspiration for the open-air tour dates back to a room design from 2019 that…
Broadcast, live entertainment and AV installation are among a host of markets that will benefit from Skylark BLE, a new Bluetooth Low Energy digital wireless module that has been launched by Belfast-based Audio Codecs and New Zealand-based RF consultancy Virscient. The Skylark BLE Module is based around the Nordic nRF53 platform and boasts audio in/audio out latencies of less than 10ms, as well as a significantly more robust link. Available as a stand alone and a licensed OEM product, Skylark BLE gives users the dual benefit of a popular platform and professional grade audio performance. Alongside established markets, it also…
The 1972 Summer Olympic Games shaped the Bavarian capital of Munich like no other event. By way of commemoration, the City hosted a series of events this summer to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their staging. The celebrations began with a gala evening held inside the iconic Olympic Hall, designed by the architects Behnisch & Partner, and used for the last half-century as a venue for premier sporting and entertainment events. With a capacity of 15,500 the legacy arena hosts a who’s-who of global superstars from the worlds of pop, rock, jazz and classical music, and was the natural home…
Big Creative Education is an innovative college of excellence based in Walthamstow, East London, which caters for post 16 education. With a mission to develop talent, transform lives and create careers, the college specialises in the creative field, offering courses across a wide range of subjects from media, game design and music, to sports studies, dance, drama and fashion. The college recently opened the BCE Creative Academy, a £21m development housing industry-standard facilities in a complex that includes a 200-seat theatre, gym, community cafe, outdoor performance areas, as well as technical studios for music, dance, drama, fashion, make-up and TV.…
Clear-Com has welcomed Andreas Schick to its applications engineering team in EMEA. The latest recruit holds the title of Applications Engineer II and brings over a decade of professional experience in the AV industry. Schick previously worked as a commissioning engineer at Salzbrenner, a Germany-based systems contractor for AV and media technology. His role allowed him the opportunity to work at several venues around the world, including music and production theatres, state parliaments, and even the Sydney Opera House. Notably, he helped implement a new stage management and audio system in the Bolshoi Academic State Theatre in Moscow, as well…
Bad Bunny enjoyed a celebrated sold-out tour in early 2022 and is currently repeating the success, this time in stadiums across North and South America on his World’s Hottest Tour. Production/Show Designer for the tour is Travis Shirley, who is using Elation Professional’s new Proteus Rayzor Blade linear light as an effect workhorse on the show. With his latest album Un Verano Sin Ti breaking records, ticket sales for the tour have been through the roof with the Puerto Rican superstar selling out across the US. A Latin American leg is set to kick off in October. Shirley first worked…
Adam Hall Group has appointed Nik Gledic to a newly created global management position of Global Sales Director. The new recruit will be tasked with spearheading the strategic orientation and implementation of the company’s worldwide sales division of the event technology company based in Neu-Anspach, Germany. Before joining Adam Hall Group, Gledic gained many years of experience at Shure Germany and Shure Europe, among others, in management positions in sales and marketing and, most recently, as Senior Director Retail for the Western European business of the US pro audio manufacturer. “The development of the Adam Hall Group as an international…
The fifth annual Elements Music and Arts Festival took place at a new site less than a two-hour drive from Midtown Manhattan, adjacent to the NASCAR Pocono Raceway, but as far as fans at this three-day event were concerned, it could have taken place a million miles from anywhere. Nestled within the region’s Northern Hardwood Forest with its sugar maples and yellow birch trees, the festival immersed fans in a beautiful natural canopy that transcended time and place. In keeping with its setting, Elements drew power from an onsite solar panel farm and was fed with locally sourced organic foods.…
