Audio specialist Sennheiser today extended its portfolio of market leading audio-for-video microphones with the launch of its new MKE 200 in the Middle East. The mini-microphone is designed for easy on-camera use with DSLRs and mirrorless cameras as well as mobile devices, where it ensures clean and crisp audio and gives a professional touch to video clips. “With the MKE 200, we are offering creators the first step to upgrading their sound,” said Tobias von Allwörden, Head of Portfolio Management – Audio for Video at Sennheiser. “Improved audio significantly increases the overall quality of your content. The MKE 200 makes…
Author: James Robertson
The Expirat music venue brand was established in 2002, making it today the oldest and most popular open-format music club / live music venue in Bucharest. Owned by Andrei Șoșa and his wife Raluca, they opened their first location in Vama Veche (on the beach) and the following year a second venue appeared in the Romanian capital. However, in 2016 the latter relocated from its city centre basement home to its current venue, a medium-size warehouse within the Halele Carol complex. This is an industrial architectural jewel similar in aspect and logistics to the Melkweg Oude Zaal in Amsterdam, located…
Wanting to upgrade its acoustic system and provide an enhanced guest experience, the Playmaker Café hired IMS Indonesia, to design and install a cutting-edge HARMAN Professional audio solutions featuring JBL Professional loudspeakers. The Playmaker Café is a dining and entertainment destination in Thamrin, Jakarta. Opened in October 2019 and founded by the famous football presenter Ophan Lamara, Playermaker Café is a popular hangout spot for locals and tourists alike. The establishment consists of a stylish restaurant, meeting rooms for corporate professionals as well as a lounge, which hosts live music events twice a week and includes two mini billiard tables…
ETC has released the Eos v3.0 software, bringing three-dimensional programming and augmented-reality control to the Eos platform. The update marks the official integration of the much-anticipated Augment3d toolkit into Eos. With Augment3d, users can program moving fixtures with unprecedented speed and ease, visualise their cues in an imported model of their space, and even position lights with a flick of an augmented-reality smartphone “focus wand.” Over 5,000 beta users tested the software in recent months, and their feedback has helped to build one of the most exciting new Eos feature sets yet. The new software runs natively on all the…
Pioneer DJ Germany and CHAUVET DJ have taken a major step to meet the burgeoning demand for livestream productions by collaborating on a multi-functional broadcast studio. Located in CHAUVET DJ’s German headquarters, the new facility is fully equipped to accommodate a range of production needs, from talks and product demos, to DJ sets and live band performances. The production ready studio is outfitted with over 25 CHAUVET DJ fixtures. A full set of Pioneer DJ equipment is also in place, including the DJM-V10 Mixer, a DJS-1000 Performance-Sampler and the All-in-One unit XDJ-XZ. For CHAUVET DJ and Pioneer DJ, the new…
Grab your coffee and join Elation Professional’s Alistair Smyth and Frederik Afif on the 3 September edition of Elation Coffee Break, as they take a close look at Elation’s KL Fresnel series, WW and CW Profile HP ellipsoidal spots, TVL series of softlights, and new KL Panel, white light LED luminaires optimised for the unique requirements of broadcast, film, trade shows and theatre. The Elation Coffee Break with a focus on white light will air live on Thursday, September 3rd at 11am (CEST) on Elation Europe’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ELATION.Pro.Europe/live/. It’s easy to tune in and no registration is required. The…
The history of Cary Alliance Church in Cary, North Carolina stretches back to the 1970s, and the church has occupied a few different properties and worship spaces in that time. Cary Alliance Church currently occupies a 600-seat multipurpose room. At double the capacity of its previous location, the multipurpose room allows the church to accommodate the rapidly-growing population in southern Wake County and to help meet the community’s larger cultural needs with public space for a variety of activities. As the times have changed, so has Cary Alliance’s service style. Local AV integration firm AVCON recently designed and installed a…
The sprawling campus of Tulsa’s Redeemer Church, just a short drive from the banks of the Arkansas River, has long been a gathering spot for this south Tulsa neighborhood. From pre-school and teen activities to homeless ministry and outreach, Redeemer’s Evangelical congregation and staff have contributed to the local community. Redeemer moved to their current site several years ago, and have been involved in an ongoing process of renovating it to serve the needs of their congregation. Recently the church undertook a major project in their Redeemer Hall, involving room combining for the halls and four classrooms, as well as…
Kiloview has launched the Kiloview MG300, an embedded, high performance, NDI|HX 4K transcoder UHD multi-channel media gateway. The MG300 integrates functions such as multi-channel video decoding between NDI|HX, SRT, RTMP, RTSP, TS-UDP, and HLS to SDI and HDMI. The MG300 also provides multi-view output and streaming, video image segmentation, protocol cross conversion, streaming media and distribution services. It excels at connecting videos from different systems, manufacturers, types and encoding. The MG300 also works as a streaming media server with the capability for up to 100 concurrent access points. “In the IP streaming media world, we urgently need a product that…
NDI the free protocol enabling video over IP and a part of the Vizrt Group, is launching its own unique, digital-first communication platform under the banner of NDI TV. The new programming schedule on NDI.tv highlights relevant and tangible ways businesses and individuals are improving both their content and communications by harnessing the power of NDI and IP-based video. The platform will follow similarly in format to sister brands VizrTV and NewTekTV but offer unique and compelling content focused on NDI and creators who move video and, in doing so, move the world. Topics will span broadcast, professional and personal…
