SLX may be a relatively recently formed company, but they come with the experience and worthy credentials of emerging from the hire and live events Department of Stage Electrics. Dan Quayle and Russell Payne know their market and their clients so it came as little surprise to Ambersphere Solutions’ Matt Cowles of Technical Sales when he got a call about the Ayrton NandoBeam-S3 from Quayle. “At less than 9kg, the S3 is the smallest of the NandoBeam range but at up to 4,000 lumen it packs a powerful punch and offers designers accuracy, speed, optical flexibility and reliability all in one…
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The Qu-24 Provides Digital Mixing Versatility and Simplified Set Up. Audio Flair provides sound reinforcement services in the central coast area of California. Mike Bacciarini founded the company in 2004 with an Allen & Heath GL2200 analog mixer. Then, in 2015, he purchased a Qu-24 digital mixer with an AR2412 AudioRack. “I love Allen & Heath,” he said. “They make great sounding, reliable gear and with the Qu-24, I don’t need to carry around a 120ft, multi-channel analog snake and a signal-processing rack. I can do most shows with the Qu-24 and an amp rack. Everything’s on board the mixer except my CD…
As part of the Jason Aldean and Kid Rock concerts, a high-intensity light show was provided by Keith Hoagland that featured a floor package of Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving hybrid fixtures supplied by Bandit Lites. “We added the floor package, because we felt that the Rogue Hybrids would be an excellent complement to the other fixtures on our rig,” said Hoagland. “This was a very bright show, but the Rogues we had were intense enough not to be overwhelmed.” Part of Aldean’s Six String Circus tour, the Fenway concert kicked off on ninth September and was performed on a wide centre-field…
Britannia Row Productions took on the audio requirements for the North and South stages along with the Steel Yard using an L-Acoustics K1 / K2 system for this year’s Creamfields Festival. The Steel Yard was a new venue for Creamfields and Britannia Row Productions alike. Specially commissioned by LarMac Live, the Steel Yard has an enviable capacity for festival-goers, and has a ceiling at of 20m at its apex. This allows for weather proofed and festival-sized entertainment but also enclosed audio, lighting and AV effects. Substantial numbers of L-Acoustics K1’s, K2’s, KARAs, ARCs supported by KS28 Subs were more than up…
Canadian rental company Omnison has debuted NEXO’s STM modular line array system against the spectacular backdrop of the International Balloon Festival at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Omnison has a long history with NEXO products, with stock inventory of GEO T and GEO D Series systems, and over 60 cabinets of GEO S8. The company was an early adopter of the new STM Series line array in 2014, but has lately made a substantial investment in the system, supplied by Yamaha Corporation of America, adding STM mains, bass and sub modules, as well as additional RS subs, GEO S12 cabinets and many NXAMP 4…
Moonlite Productions, based in Aylesbury, has just taken delivery of the latest line array to roll off the legendary Electro-Voice (EV) production line, the X-Line Advance X2. The system consists of the high-performance X2-212/120, a two-way vertical line-array loudspeaker element providing 120° horizontal coverage, and the X-Line Advance X12-128 subwoofer, which produces the greatest low-frequency impact and performance EV has ever developed. This is all powered by TG-7 amplifiers and controlled by IRIS-Net. Moonlite is amongst the first in the UK to receive one of these highly acclaimed systems. The company’s owner James Iyengar, a live sound perfectionist…
Norwegian pro audio dealer and rental supplier, Kultur Support, has chosen Allen & Heath’s dLive as its leading rental system. Based in Sandefjord, the company purchased the flagship dLive S7000 Surface and DM64 MixRack system. “Having many years’ experience with iLive and GLD as reliable big players in their portfolio, choosing dLive was a natural step forward. Stability and reliability are extremely important factors for our business. After seven years with iLive never once letting me down, it wasn’t a difficult choice,” explained CEO Lars Petter Kristiansen. “I love the uncomplicated layout, and the fast access to all important features,…
The Montréal International Jazz Festival, produced by L’Equipe Spectra, marked its 37th year welcoming millions of visitors to more than 650 concerts at outdoor stages and indoor concert halls across the city. Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures and MA Lighting’s grandMA2 and dot2 consoles were featured on the Main Stage and Ste-Catherine Stage where crowds were entertained by an eclectic mix of artists. A.C.T Lighting, the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and MA Lighting products in North America, provided the kit. 20 Clay Paky B-EYE K20’s provided back lighting and effects lighting on the Main Stage. “The multiple beam…
Belgian engineering, animation and rigging specialist WIcreations has enjoyed an incredibly busy summer supplying a selection of their standard rental products like WI Towers and WI Touring Track to a diverse variety of music festivals and live events. Dominator 2016 Dominator 2016 is organised by hard style dance festival and event producers Q-Dance and is one of the largest gatherings for hardcore techno hard trance fans, staged each year in the park at Strand Eersel, Netherlands where WI provided six 11.5m towers for the Main stage used out in the crowd for PA delays and audience lighting. Two 10.8m WI…
Acclaimed Canadian pop/rock quartet Marianas Trench kicked off their debut European tour at the end of September with production support from Entec Sound & Light. Fronted by lead vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Josh Ramsay, the Vancouver band are performing at clubs and theatres including Manchester’s Sound Control, the O2 Academy in both Birmingham and Islington, before heading over to European venues such as Amsterdam’s Paradiso and Les Etoiles in Paris. In preparation for their European Vacation tour, Marianas Trench’s Tour Manager / FOH Engineer Melvin Godfrey and Monitor Engineer Mike Rowland liaised with Entec’s Head of Sound, Jonny Clark,…
One of Germany’s most influential artists of recent years is pop rapper Cro, who is just wrapping up an MTV Unplugged Open Air tour that played dates across the country this summer. Lighting design was by one of Germany’s preeminent designers, Gunther Hecker from CUE Design, who incorporated Elation Professional Platinum FLX hybrid moving-heads supplied by German production company satis&fy. Known for wearing a panda mask when he performs, Cro’s music is a catchy fusion of rap and pop that, based on his audiences, attracts fans of all ages. His popularity is at an all-time high and for the MTV…
This summer, on the Florence date of Sting’s marathon Back to Bass tour (the tour originally started in 2011, coinciding with the release of two compilation albums commemorating the 25th anniversary of his solo career), the artist and his stellar band performed at the city’s Cascine Park for an ecstatic sold-out audience, which was able to enjoy every nuance of Sting’s hits, thanks to an Outline GTO audio rig supplied by Emporio On Stage and helmed by the artist’s veteran FOH Engineer Howard Page. Page explained: “The secret to good live sound is to know your audience, so you make a…
Leading Brazilian lighting rental company LPL, based in Sao Paulo, has invested in 90 Robe BMFL WashBeams to service its immediate and ongoing work. They will join over 400 Robe fixtures that the company currently has in stock. LPL services around 800 shows and events a year covering multiple sectors including music and concert touring, festivals, corporate events. Caio Bertti, one of five directors at LPL, commented: “LPL believes that having BMFL WashBeams in stock will help to create a new demand for these workhorse high powered luminaires all over Brazil.” Already familiar with the reliability and build quality of Robe, several…
Mountain Productions, a global leader in staging and entertainment event production, announced that Ricky Rose as Chief Executive Officer. Rose is an owner of the company and previously served as a Staging Supervisor and as Director of International Development, where he established a European division based in Dublin, Ireland. As Director of International Development, he successfully built a network of transnational partners and clients, setting the stage for Mountain’s success in a global market and widening the impact of the company’s E-commerce efforts and brand recognition. “Ricky Rose’s diverse background across film, music and technology will be an excellent complement…
The device promises to make stacking case systems and loading trucks at a show or concert faster, easier and much safer than ever before. The product utilises a unique self-centring mechanism, developed by Penn Elcom’s R&D team, that stops the caster spinning and clicks it into the straight position when it’s being lifted or not bearing any load. The product is now available via Penn Elcom’s global online sales portal which went live earlier in the year. Penn’s Automatic technology is currently available for both braked and non-braked versions of their industry standard ‘heavy duty’ 10mm / 3.94-inch castor which…
At this year’s Milwaukee Summerfest, Clearwing Productions deployed a range of VUE audiotechnik loudspeakers, including the new al-12 Large Format Line Array System, to the festival’s Briggs and Stratton Big Backyard stage. Clearwing deployed a system based around VUE’s new flagship al-12 Large Format Line Array System, which is designed to deliver superior sonic performance for large-scale applications. The Truextent beryllium equipped al-Class FOH hybrid arrays, included al-12 speakers for the main system and al-8 Line Array Systems for down-fill, taking full advantage of VUE’s Continuous Source Topology (CST) which allows for consistent and seamless vertical coverage between all al-Class line…
Gaming event lighting guru Steve Thurkettle selected the Avolites Titan to drive his complex audio-visual design for the 58th Insomnia Gaming Festival, Insomnia58, the UK’s biggest ever celebration of gaming culture. The Insomnia Gaming Festival has been running since 1999. Organised by specialist gaming event producers Multiplay, it has become so popular that it has outgrown a series of venues and now takes place three times a year. For this vast event, Multiplay’s Senior Production Project Manager Steve Thurkettle was responsible for designing and co-ordinating all the audio-visuals – from staging and rigging through to lighting, audio and projection equipment. The lighting…
With over four million tickets sold to concerts that have taken place in 35 countries, The Australian Pink Floyd Show has amazed millions of concertgoers with an uncanny replication of the classic UK band’s legendary live show. Employing a lavish collection of visual aids (including lasers, inflatables and 3D stereoscopic projection), the group’s live shows recreate the look, feel and sound of Pink Floyd’s later world tours. For over 120 shows this year, the touring ensemble has had DiGiCo SD consoles on tour with it for the first time since it began touring in 1988. For the current North American…
