L-Acoustics has announced the appointment of Scot Wakelin as Regional Manager, responsible for the Balkans and Central European regions, as well as Israel, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta. The newly created position reflects the company’s commitment to emerging markets in Europe, which continue to represent growth for the brand. Wakelin, who holds degrees from the School of Audio Engineering and Brighton College of Technology, is based in the UK and brings over 20 years of experience in the professional audio industry. Most recently, Wakelin handled vertical sales for the Northern European Install and Touring Markets at the TC Group, as well…
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Grammy-Award Winning Hip-Hop and R&B artist CeeLo Green recently completed an 11-city “Love Train” tour celebrating the release of his new album Heart Blanche. Although past performances featured a full acoustic band, CeeLo wanted to “pull it back” for this tour and, for these audiences he performed with just a sax and flute player, a percussionist and a DJ. However, the simplicity of CeeLo’s stage masked a complex production with music ranging from hip-hop to jazz and a sophisticated audio system using an Allen & Heath dLive S5000 mixer and DM48 MixRack. Art Merriweather, CeeLo’s front-of-house and monitor engineer, used…
Ultra Miami 2016, a major U.S. EDM event staged along Bayfront Park in glamorous downtown Miami, attracted over 150,000 music fans and party people for three days of festive enjoyment with some of the best dance sounds on the planet. This year, Robe BMFL and Pointe moving lights were prominent on three major stages – the Main Stage, the Live Stage and the Carl Cox & Friends Arena – all helping create visually stunning environments. The production design for Carl Cox & Friends, and the Worldwide Stage was created by Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting. Contracted directly by Ultra, Steve…
Apex has announced the appointment of CUK Audio as the exclusive distributor for the innovative, all-in-one Liviau control platform throughout the UK and Ireland. CUK has already taken delivery of the first shipment of Liviau devices, and is preparing to hit the ground running. Liviau is available in two flavours: the first is Liviau R for conference room control applications, now with integrated Skype, YouTube and MirrorOp streaming software in addition to its high definition audio capabilities and all the other integrated services you would expect from a conference room control platform. The second version is Liviau S, now integrating…
Italian loudspeaker manufacturer Outline has announced the appointment of TRIUS Vertrieb as its new distributor for Outline’s complete family of professional loudspeaker and electronic products in Germany and Austria. Over the last 20 years TRIUS, based in Ibbenbueren, Germany, has become one of the most important A/V Distributors inside Germany and Austria. The company has separate pro audio, pro video, and musical instrument departments, as well as a related music distribution company – TMD. Trius is well known throughout Europe for supplying extensive customer training, high level technical support, well trained in-house sales and traveling rep teams, and a good…
The best cheerleading squads in the country met recently in Dallas, Texas, for the National Cheerleading Association All-Star National Championship with well-practiced routines performed beneath a large dynamic rig that included lighting and video gear from Elation Professional. Held 19 – 21 February at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, production company Gemini Light, Sound & Video of Dallas served as lighting and video vendor for the event, which was televised nationally on the CBS Sports Network. The visual centrepiece of the setup was a large upstage LED screen made up of 448 Elation EPT6IP LED video panels. The 6.7mm…
Utilising a series of adaptable ADJ fixtures, Trend Productions creates a visually stimulating display of colour beams, wash effects and strobing at European hard house festival Shockerz. Every good festival needs an energised atmosphere. And key to creating this atmosphere – aside from the music itself – is the lightshow that accompanies it. So, when Trend Productions took on the task of lighting the Shockerz hard house festival over in the Netherlands, they knew they could rely on a selection of ADJ’s most powerful, adaptable effects and fixtures to get the job done. Showcasing the very best hardstyle DJs, this…
Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, a veteran of Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and gold Sharpys to help light the milestone Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. A grandMA2 console controlled the pyro and media servers. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and MA Lighting products in North America. Super Bowl Halftime Shows always come with challenges, and the daylight-into-sunset timing of this year’s entertainment made it “much more complex from a lighting standpoint,” Barnhart noted. “We had fewer fixtures than normally because of the ambient sun and the…
At this year’s Prolight and Sound Frankfurt exhibition MA Lighting is dedicating a whole booth to its dot2 lighting control solution and features new software release version 1.2, driving the success story of MA newest product range. Multiple hands-on dot2 console stations will be available for users to familiarise themselves with the new software. Software version 1.2 adds lots of detail with respect to the overall workflow and makes the user experience even more intuitive. Customisable layout views, multi-patch for fixtures including dot2 3D, assignable DMX ports, Auto-Backup functionality, Effect Markers, Effect improvements and lots of other enhancements are now…
Kid Cudi, known for his distinctive atmospheric and emotionally-gripping live performances has just finished the first leg of a new US tour supporting his “Speeding Bullet to Heaven” tour, complete with a moody and evocative lighting design by Brett Lorins with Robe moving lights right at its heart. Lorins has worked with the artist for five years and coordinates both lighting and video aspects of his live performances. He’s been a big advocate of Robe for the past seven years and includes Robe products on his riders as often as possible. For this one, the rig included 10 x MMX…
Korean indie band, Standing Egg, embarked on a recent national tour with Allen & Heath’s dLive digital mixing system and ME personal monitoring system, supplied by rental company G Audio. Based in Busan, G Audio is a renowned rental company, which selected the dLive S3000 Control Surface with DM32 MixRack for FOH, and ME monitoring system comprising ME-1 mixers for each musician and a ME-U hub, from its hire stock. “Using dLive was a refreshing experience, the design is optimal and versatile for every engineer and live mixing application,” said Minkyu Kim, audio system manager at G Audio. “dLive has…
Huntington Beach, California-based Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) has added 16 Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Redline loudspeakers to their production inventory. PCE is a full service production company providing rental, sales, audio, lighting, video and installation services throughout the country. The PCE team had been looking for a powered loudspeaker solution that could serve as both a monitor and a 2-way stand-mounted system. The company serves the corporate AV market which oftentimes requires high audio quality that is also simple to use and operate. “We listened to a lot of products but could not find anything we were really happy with,”…
Last year saw White Light continue to expand its video services with the company investing in the very latest projection technology. In order to strengthen its existing hire inventory, the complete production solution specialist has now invested in a fleet of Christie Boxer 4K30 Projectors. Having launched to a string of awards, including the PIPA Award for Video/Projection Devices along with Projector of the Year at the AV Awards, the Boxer has already proven to be revolutionary in the world of video-mapping. Following this recent investment, these state-of-the-art projectors are now available for hire to WL customers. The Christie Boxer…
Continuing a long-running relationship with Waltham Services, producer for Autosport International’sLive Action Arena, PRG XL Video has supplied a state-of-the-art high brightness projection solution for the 2016 show, held at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. Autosport International is a globally renowned trade show, exhibition and performance car show created and managed by Haymarket Exhibitions at the NEC every January. Alongside appearances by current and former drivers and teams from a variety of motor racing series, one hall of the NEC holds the Live Action Arena, where members of the public can see an array of current and classic racing cars put…
With a raft of new products announced at ISE, Sennheiser UK has made two new appointments to its Systems Solutions team, Andy Dinneen and Jack Drury. Joining Sennheiser UK as Corporate Account Sales Manager, Dinneen brings a wealth of experience of selling conferencing technology to major clients during his time with LifeSize, a division of Logitech. Answering to Sales Director – Pro A/V & Systems Integrator UK & Ireland Simon Holley and in regular contact with Tim Schuette, Sennheiser’s VP Global Sales, System Integration, Dineen will be spearheading the company’s TeamConnect Wireless and other TeamConnect conferencing products in the corporate…
Hoist UK has announced the appointment of Colin Jones to their sales team as Technical Sales Engineer. Colin has been in the lifting industry for almost 25 years, having been previously employed by Chester Chain Co. where he started off on a temporary contract as a lifting equipment engineer, working his way through the ranks in various roles including site supervisor and works manager, until he became General Manager in 2013. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience of standard & specialised lifting equipment, along with his formal LEEA (Lifting Equipment Engineers Association) qualifications. “Having Colin join…
When it comes to naming albums, Lettuce is a band of few words. Following the success of its two previous releases, “Rage!” and “Fly,” the group came out with its latest record “Crush” in November 2015. Living up to its mononymous moniker, “Crush” is a pile driver of thunderously crushing grooves. Since its release, the album has barrelled all the way to the top of the US Jazz Albums charts. The recent Crush Tour delivers the big sound associated with its namesake album. It’s a sound made all the more powerful on stage by an appropriately potent lightshow by production…
Nearly 250 Robe moving lights helped shape the drama and magic at the high energy 2016 Reverze spectacular produced by Bass Events and staged at Antwerp’s Sportpalais in Belgium, which was packed to its 20,000 capacity with hard dance music fans. The theme for Europe’s largest indoor hard style event this year was ‘Deception’. A spectacular lighting, set and visuals design was imagineered by Kristof van Mensel, Patrick Bellens and others from Belgian visual design practice, TCF. Playing on the theme – which offered some serious latitude for invention – their starting point for both lighting and video designs was…
