Philip Giffard, President, Sales and Systems Integration Division, has announced the appointment of Peter Woods as Director of Operations for the Solotech’s Toronto office. Reporting directly to Giffard, Woods will be responsible for the planning, enhancement and management of operations, thereby ensuring the overall continued successful performance of the Systems Integration Division in Toronto. Drawing from nearly 30 years of experience in the North American audiovisual industry, including at Crestron Electronics, Jason Sound and AMX, Woods brings an extensive knowledge in project and financial management and possesses all the qualities of a team leader. “His vision, leadership and analytic skills…
Author: James Robertson
Prolight Concepts Group was recently approached by Lynx Pro-Audio to distribute its sound reinforcement product offering. All Lynx Pro-Audio products are designed in-house by their team of engineers and manufactured by highly qualified staff in their headquarters in Valencia, Spain. Prolight Concept’s Group’s recent visit with Lynx Pro-Audio allowed it to experience the quality sound reproduction and master cabinetry first hand. Prolights have already added multiple product ranges manufactured by Lynx, going forward it looks to expand the range further to offer its customers even more audio solutions. Lynx Pro Audio’s Ben Sinclair commented: “Prolight Concepts have grown very quickly,…
With over 45,000 audience members per night, over three consecutive dates, the Scandinavian dance trio returned to live performing – following a six-year hiatus – with a huge production at Sweden’s Tele2 Arena. Production managed by Mattie Evans and mixed at FOH by sound engineer Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Sargeant, the SHM team chose to use Britannia Row for the highly-anticipated gigs. Rabbit, whose connection with Brit Row spans two decades, noted that the company is great to work with as all of the team: “get fully involved in the design of the system; it’s always good to have the best people…
Lighting Designer Jacopo Ricci selected a high-impact lighting system for Italian rapper Fedez’s latest shows, consisting of 52 Mythos 2 units and20 Claypaky B-EYE K20s, all supplied by Mister X service based in Grumello Cremonese. Ricci said: “I chose Mythos 2 units for the great versatility they allowed me. With these units, I could go from beam light to spotlight depending on the needs during the individual parts of the show, and I could program the fixtures differently during the show while exploiting the same installation points. I don’t normally use beam lights very much, but in this case, the…
Production AV supplied the camera, projection and IMAG screen solution for Jack Savoretti’s Wembley date in May 2019. “We had just a seven-day turnaround to design and deliver the camera and screens package to Savoretti’s tour team, managed by Production Manager Neil Anderson,” explained Pete McCrea, Production AV MD. “As this was the big one – Wembley! – they wanted to ramp up the production and include video to enhance the audience experience. David McIntyre had created a real visual spectacular with the lighting, and they wanted to enhance this by relaying live on-stage footage as well as pre-recorded content…
Hung on five 30’ truss fingers that rise at a 30° angle as they go from upstage toward the audience, the Chauvet Professional Nexus Aw 7×7 fixtures at the heart of Greta Van Fleet’s lighting rig suggest the feeling of a plane taking flight. It is an apt metaphor for the hard rockers from Frankenmuth, Michigan, who have risen from obscurity to the heights of stardom with the speed of a supersonic jet. Eric Cathcart, the band’s lighting designer, has a firsthand appreciation of this dizzying trajectory. The owner of Bigtime Lighting Design, Cathcart was with the quartet on some…
Kheong Sen Lim has joined d&b audiotechnik as Business Development Manager for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, based in the company’s Singapore office. Sen Lim has spent the last thirty years working in various capacities in the audio and performing arts industry. He has hands-on experience in sound system design, distribution sales, system integration and project management. Fluent in English, Malay and Chinese, Kheong will travel across the APAC region, predominantly focusing on enhancing reach and awareness of the latest developments from d&b, including the SL-Series and the Soundscape system. Most recently, Sen Lim was a Senior Consultant for Marshall Day…
WHATSIT, the French video mapping consultant and mega events specialist, has announced the launch of Lumings – a plug-in for the 3D design and modeling software application Sketchup, whose purpose is to simulate the technical rendering side of video mapping in the most realistic way possible. The video projection design tool is set to save valuable time and substantially reduce technical costs for technical videographers, scenographers and project managers alike. Lumings makes it possible to design an entire scenography before setting foot on site, thanks to its accurate and precise models and information. Another advantage, and what makes it unique…
BishopSound, the UK PA company, is making its debut at the Glastonbury Festival 2019, Wed 26th-Sun 30th June. BishopSound speakers are to be used exclusively on a new stage being run by the long-established Glastonbury suppliers, Bristol based A1 Entertainments. For the brand-new stage, which will be used to host up and coming DJs, BishopSound has supplied four Beta BB118 enclosures and four Beta BB215s. The BB118 is a passive sub-woofer particularly popular with DJs for its tight, well-defined bass frequency response. Each speaker will handle 1,000 Watts RMS from 35-100Hz with 107dB sensitivity. The BishopSound Beta Twin 15 BB215…
RealMotion, the pioneering designer of content management and creation software and hardware, today announced its new Gold Series servers, which utilize the latest video hardware and the RealMotion content creation platform to deliver up to four 4K content streams and enable interactive and generative FX installations. The new product line was launched at InfoComm 2019 in Orlando, Florida at Booth #201 in the Orange County Convention & Visitors Center. According to RealMotion Director Geoffrey Platt: “Our goal is to provide a superior real-time content management and creation platform that empowers creativity by enabling the prototyping, execution and deployment of next-generation…
Coda Audio launched its brand new ultra-compact 2-way Arrayable Point Source N-APS at this year’s InfoComm exhibition in Orlando. Combining the versatility of a point source with the perfect arrayability of a line array, N-APS creates a unique category of sound reinforcement system for small to medium size venues by delivering twice the power handling, as well as significantly more low-end, than other comparable sized systems. The ultra hi-fidelity N-APS delivers large dynamic range, incredible flexibility and variable horizontal directivity. N-APS is the supercharged smaller sibling of CODA Audio’s APS system. Where APS addressed the limitations of traditional point source…
Area Four Industries introduce the Milos Armor Cart, a new hoist utility vehicle that provides safe and convenient transport and storage for up to four of your hoists. Constructed from light and durable aluminium, the Armor Cart comes in two versions – model MAC-01-4025-A1 holds 4x 250kg hoists and model MAC-01-2100-A1 holds 2x 1t hoists. Due to its compact form factor, and the possibility of stacking Armor Carts on top of each other, transport volume is reduced up to 50% compared to flight cases. In addition, its open-air design reduces humidity within the interior and allows your hoists to dry…
Bandit Lites kicked off festival season illuminating the Hangout Music Festival, a three-day event hailed as a music vacation along Alabama’s white, sandy beaches. Now in its tenth year, Hangout’s line up included Travis Scott, The Lumineers, Cardi B, Kygo, Khalid, Vampire Weekend, Hozier and The Weeknd. Attendees were also treated to a surprise performance from longtime Bandit Lites client Jimmy Buffett. For the festival’s main stage, Bandit Lites supplied nearly 200 fixtures, including HES Solaframe 3000 fixtures, Claypaky Mythos 2, Claypaky B-EYE K20, Claypaky Sharpys, Elation SIXBAR 1000 IP, Elation CuePix WW2 Blinders along with four Lyican M2 long…
Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks has announced the pending acquisition of connectCAD, a systems design solution geared for the audiovisual industry. Since 2009, connectCAD has been offered as a plug-in for Vectorworks software, offering the ability for designing broadcast, AV, lighting and IT networks or any other type of connected system. connectCAD ensures that as-built drawings and cable lists exactly match the completed cabling architecture, avoiding expensive or even impossible reworking with other methods. connectCAD is used worldwide to design and coordinate complex AV installations such as exhibitions, casinos, conferences, churches, staging events and theme parks, as well as…
Avnu Alliance, an industry consortium enabling open, standards-based deterministic networking, welcomes Italy-based professional audio manufacturer, RCF as a new member to the organization’s pro AV segment, to support the Milan networking protocol. Milan a standards-based, user-driven deterministic network protocol based on Audio Video Bridging (AVB) for professional media, that assures devices will work together at new levels of convenience, reliability and functionality. Created and maintained by pro audio market leaders in the Avnu Alliance, Milan is the first tangible solution for promising deterministic, reliable, and future-proof delivery of networked media. RCF joins other leading pro audio manufacturers that make up…
mdc licht.gestalten. & Co. KG from Mettmann were responsible for the lighting, video and set design of country band BossHoss’ recent Black Is Beautiful tour as well as the programming of the show. The lighting design was created by the company’s own Jonas König, who also accompanied the tour as an operator. The design brief was typical BossHoss: a classic rock ‘n’ roll stage with plenty of unconventional elements, in which a variety of different looks could be created. “The stage didn’t want to be too ‘clean’, but at the same time had to be able to carry the rock…
Legendary Polish blues rock band Dżem celebrated a landmark 40 years of thrilling fans with their highly energetic live performances with a massive special show at the Spodek Arena in Katowice. The lighting was designed by Michal Parzych from design collective Green Beam Design (GBD) who has been involved in all Dżem’s special events for around the last 10 years, and on this one, he again worked in collaboration with the band’s regular LD, Marek Gubala. Together, they specified 131 Robe fixtures – 30 MegaPointes, 56 Spikies and 45 LEDBeam 800s, all of which were delivered by leading Polish rental company,…
From now on, three Neumann&Müller (N&M) business units are each to be given an autonomous market presence. The idea is to enable the System Integration, Digital Media, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) units to sharpen the focus on their individual service portfolios in presentations to clients. “In addition to the traditional fields of event technology – audio, lighting, video, rigging, staging and conferencing – the last few years have seen the emergence of areas with their own particular domains, which need a separate communications strategy,” said N&M managing director Alex Ostermaier. “System Integration” provides turnkey implementation of semi-permanent and…
