Located in the stunning landscape of Mont-Mégantic National Park in southern Québec, the ASTROLab offers visually-rich, interactive presentations designed to engage and educate visitors about astronomy. When the ASTROLab upgraded its theatre to 4K projection last year, it turned to the ProPresenter live presentation software from Renewed Vision to provide smooth and reliable playback of video and images from the centre’s vast media library. The ASTROLab hosts thousands of visitors every year in its 95-seat auditorium for informative presentations about topics including cosmology, space exploration, light pollution, and more. While portions of the sessions are pre-scripted and delivered linearly, what…
Author: James Robertson
Lectrosonics has announced the introduction of the DCR822 digital, dual-channel portable receiver. The new receiver is compatible with all the current Lectrosonics mono and stereo digital transmitters and is backward compatible with any of the Digital Hybrid Wireless transmitters made in the past 18 years. The DCR822 provides two independent receiver channels at the highest level of RF and audio performance available with a versatile feature set in a compact design for field and location production. The DCR822 offers next generation capabilities that surpass even the company’s UCR411a, the acknowledged gold standard for RF performance in the industry. The DCR822…
NEC Display Solutions and BrightSign, LLC have collaborated to deliver a family of large format displays with integrated digital signage capabilities. The full range of NEC MultiSync V Series large format displays are now available with the BrightSign OPS digital signage media player included. “As businesses emerge from the pandemic, digital signage plays a key role in welcoming customers and employees back with informative and important digital content,” said Nils Karsten, Strategic Alliance Manager at NEC Display Solutions. “Integrating BrightSign’s OPS media player is the ideal complement to our V Series displays, and we can now jointly deliver an all-in-one,…
The Kaho Theater in Iizuka City, Fukuoka, has survived many difficulties since the original building appeared in1922 and along the way this playhouse has been designated a Japanese national registered tangible cultural property. The predecessor of the current Kaho Theatre, Nakaza, was originally opened as an entertainment place for people working in coal mines in the Chikuho region. Mainly traditional drama, Kabuki, standup comedy, juggling and silent films were performed during that era. In recent years, it has been used as a multi-purpose event venue, and at full capacity can host audiences of 1200. In addition to traditional performing arts,…
Even though celebrations for Merging Technologies 30th Anniversary have been muted by Covid-19, nothing could stop major enhancements to all three of the company’s software platforms. Pyramix is celebrating its 25th Anniversary but Ovation has not been overshadowed. The release of Ovation 9 brings a number of highly significant changes that make this product more accessible and dramatically improves the immersive audio options for live events. While Ovation natively offers a powerful spatial audio rendering engine, Ovation is now able to seamlessly connect to Flux Spat Revolution (audio + custom mapped OSC metadata by Merging and Flux) or a Dolby…
High End Systems has released the new HPU hardware for Hog 4, along with an update to Hog 4 OS with v3.14 software. HPU replaces both the DMX Processor 8000 (DP8K) unit and the Rack Hog 4 in a modern, 2U rack mounted unit. This processor unit can be run in either Console mode or in Processor mode with a 64 universe capacity. The new Hog 4 OS v3.14 Software includes several advancements in functionality in addition to bug fixes. A new patching structure allows users to patch to internal universes, which then get mapped to outputs on consoles, DP8Ks,…
Since 1878, First Christian Church (FCC) has been growing and changing with the times. The Elizabethtown, Kentucky campus took its latest technological leap with the addition of an Allen & Heath AHM-64 audio matrix as the hub of their children’s area expansion. A shared pre-K and elementary school worship area was built over the summer to support two worship areas as well as 10 classrooms, all designed to double as a space that could be used as a daycare center during the week. Church leaders required control in each room for local inputs as well as control over shared audio…
Decisions often involve a trade-off, as taking steps to address one challenge may complicate another. Philipp Reister, the Event Technician at the famed Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, understands this issue firsthand. Philipp values the flexibility of moving fixtures, especially since changing lights on the Z Bridge at the school’s performance hall is a time-consuming process involving a mobile crane. On the other hand, the moving fixtures that had previously been installed at the school, while providing the desired flexibility, raised the issue of noise. In the past Philipp and the team at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg have worked diligently to…
Grace Community Church has provided reformed Baptist worship services to the Glen Rose, Texas community for more than 20 years. In light of the COVID pandemic, Grace Community recently began live streaming its Sunday service for the benefit of infirmed and elderly members. This was made possible through a pair of KY-PZ100 PTZ cameras and an RM-LP100 controller from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation. Church member and AV consultant Chris Blake oversaw the acquisition and installation of the equipment, which was purchased in 2019 and was fully running by January 2020. In order to capture the…
Virtually invisible, the tailor-made sound system for French restaurant, Tortuga has been perfectly integrated into a decor that invites underwater daydreaming; and to accompany the sustainable gourmet cuisine of chef Julien Sebbag. The acoustics of the room have been tuned to enhance the hip and cosy feel of the place by the use of first reflections only instead of reverberation. On the audio side, in order to comply with various regulations of sound diffusing public places, a DSPecialists Harvey Pro processor ensures solid rock band limitation in accordance with impact measurements ensuring that occasional festive atmosphere won’t disturb the surrounding…
