d&b Group strives to strengthen its service-focused d&b solutions business with the acquisition of White Light. Established in May 2021, d&b solutions enables the d&b Group to offer end-to-end expertise to customers in the areas of system planning, installation, maintenance and managed services. The acquisition of White Light expands these offerings even further. d&b solutions has entered an agreement with the owners of White Light to acquire 100 percent of the White Light shares. The transaction is scheduled to complete in January 2022. “White Light is a strategic addition to the d&b Group. Their technology and expertise significantly increases d&b…
Author: James Robertson
Audiologic has collaborated with Technically Creative, to deliver an immersive experience at the Harry Potter Flagship Store, New York. Technically Creative, specialists in creating immersive audio-visual solutions, worked together with Audiologic to deliver an exciting brief to bring to life the magic of Harry Potter, in an immersive in-store experience. The experience store is 21,000 square feet of magic, housing the world’s largest collection of Harry Potter merchandise. The highly anticipated opening has had fans waiting over a year to walk through the doors of Hogwarts heaven. The main aim of the project was to deliver a store-wide sound system…
Martin Audio’s best-selling Wavefront Precision optimised line array system, WPS, is now available in white, as a made-to-order option, and is also accompanied by its cardioid subwoofer partner, SXC118. Designed to set a new benchmark for 8” line arrays, Martin Audio originally announced WPS in 2019—the fourth model in the award-winning Wavefront Precision series—and it has since gone on to be a firm favourite by owners and users alike. As Dom Harter, managing director, explains, “With WPS it was a ground up product development. We wanted to overcome the deficiencies and compromises of other 8” line arrays available on the…
Lawo has named Oliver Frenzel as Business Development Manager for its SMART line of IP network monitoring solutions. Oliver, who holds a diploma in Television Engineering and Electronic Media, is already well-known within the Lawo Group and to Lawo customers in his previous roles as Head of Support and Customer Care Manager. These tasks were followed by taking over the post of Lawo’s Business Development Manager SLA, developing quality structures for service level agreements for the entire portfolio. In his new position, Oliver will take on a central role for the market-oriented advancement of Lawo’s SMART product line and use…
Located in the eastern Dutch town of Hengelo, the Metropool is a long-established live music venue featuring a huge range of acts and genres. It moved to its present home in 2009 and at that point its console stock was updated to include three DiGiCo SD8s and a large-format analogue desk, covering all its audio mixing needs across its Jupiler and Jack Daniels halls. They were one of the first Dutch venues to invest in DiGiCo technology as Teun Zekhuis, their Head Technician recalled: “We chose the SD8 for its sound, interface, workflow and overall look and feel. Being one…
DTS Lighting has won Best Debuting Product Award at LDI 2021. The accolade, hosted during an exhibition in Las Vegas, was given to the Italian lighting manufacturer for its latest wash moving head – Alchemy 7. Alchemy 7 was designed in order to widen its range and offer a high-power, high-efficiency product. Much like its predecessors, it harnesses the creative capabilities of a Fresnel light on a moving head. With a 250mm lens, a two-blade framing system and a six-LED colour chip, Alchemy 7 is capable of light quality and a wide range of pastel shades. The product was introduced to the market, following…
Dedicated to providing Washington, DC with the greatest regional and world-class DJ talent playing everything from hip hop to house, as well as live bands ranging from traditional jazz and funk to reggae and more, Twelve After Twelve is an 8,000+ square foot, multilevel lounge that perfectly blends intimacy with action. The venue recently completed a massive sound installation, with most of the sound equipment coming from the Artec, Altea, and E11EVEN Sound catalogs of Valencia, Spain-based DAS Audio. The Babylon Group of Washington, DC, a hospitality group that markets, manages, and promotes nightclubs, bars, and restaurants, oversaw the installation…
NETRON EP2 is a no nonsense, no compromise Ethernet to DMX gateway solution for the professional lighting and AV markets. Part of the NETRON family of easy-to-use EtherDMX nodes, it offers a solution for systems that require rugged hardware, flexible configuration and a reliable Ethernet to DMX gateway solution at an affordable price. Ideally suited for the installation of distributed DMX Universes in venues, the universal housing of the EP2 provides mounting in 2-Gang boxes (US) as well as European Standard 50mm round boxes in the same extremely compact design. EP2 ships with a full metal back box and M10…
The new fly tower at Theatre Royal Drury Lane has been dedicated to Unusual Rigging Founder, Alan Jacobi, LVO, who passed away in April 2020. Iin front of an audience of 500 friends, family, colleagues and industry peers, Jacobi’s life was celebrated on the stage of the beautifully restored Theatre Royal with tributes from those who knew him during his early years, through to royalty and his closest friends and family members who were with him in his final days. The plaque, unveiled by Jacobi’s wife, Peta, during a live stream from the fly tower at Monday’s event, reads: ‘The…
Vejle Musikteater, one of the busiest and liveliest multi-purpose live performance venues in Jutland, Denmark, reopens fully after the pandemic period, complete with a new Robe ESPRITE house lighting package comprising 32 ESPRITES in total. Sixteen of these have been added as front lighting to the existing over-stage rig of 16 in the Main Hall. Head of lighting Rasmus Wiberg explained that during the Covid closure they used the time constructively to activate various renovations and changes needed in the venue, including the complete removal of the ‘advanced’ lighting bridge – the one nearest the stage – above the auditorium…
