Before any entertainer ever sets foot on its stage, Club Regent Event Centre is already equipped to put on an amazing show with its computer-automated flexible seating system, which can adapt in minutes into over a dozen seating configurations for any kind of show: theatrical, concert, meetings, and more. Fortunately for patrons of this 1,400-seat venue in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which is part of the larger Club Regent Casino, the system sounds as amazing as it looks, thanks to an equally remarkable new L-Acoustics K3-based sound system. “This is a fairly complex sound system for a very flexible environment,” explains…
Author: James Robertson
disguise has released r20 software in six new languages. In addition to English, disguise’s Designer software is now available for use in Spanish, German, French, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. This localisation represents the next step in the company’s move towards remote, cloud-based collaboration following its recent acquisition of leading 3D content previsualisation platforms Mapping Matter and Previz. Trusted for over 20 years on some of the world’s biggest, most complex live shows, broadcasts and virtual productions, the disguise Designer software is a powerful toolkit for winning pitches, developing storyboards, creating camera fly-throughs, validating content, testing technical setups, and designing entire projects. Its timeline-based interface allows users to build a…
Two decades after it first opened to the public with its original Meyer Sound system, Philadelphia’s premiere concert venue, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, celebrated its reopening with a completely new system incorporating Meyer Sound’s latest technology, including LEOPARD line array and ULTRA-X Series point source loudspeakers. With 360-degree seating for 2,500 patrons, Verizon Hall, home of The Philadelphia Orchestra, is one of the largest venues on the Kimmel Cultural Campus in downtown Philadelphia. Opened in 2001, the hall features performances from the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philly Pops, and artists in the Kimmel Campus…
Starting 1 January 2022, Wuppertal-based Riedel will be structured in to three main divisions: Product Division, Managed Technology and Riedel Networks, headed up by CEOs, Rik Hoerée, Lutz Rathmann and Managing Director and CEO, Michael Martens, respectively. With this strategic step, Riedel Group CEO, Thomas Riedel will devote his attention to driving business development and expanding global partnerships and networks. Together with Group Chief Financial Officer, Frank Eischet, who is responsible for finance, HR and IT, Thomas will form the spearhead of the Riedel Group. “The last year has given us time to take a deep breath and reflect on…
HARMAN Professional Solutions has announced that Third Man Records, one of the top independent record labels in the US, selected JBL Professional, Martin, BSS, and Soundcraft solutions for their new store and venue in London. Located in London’s Soho district, the new Third Man Records store is the label’s third location and its first international storefront. Downstairs from the main store area, The Blue Basement is a live music venue designed for intimate and exciting shows featuring local and international artists. Label founder and musician Jack White is a well-known audiophile and personally designed the store’s audio systems to meet…
DiGiCo has named Austin Freshwater as its new Managing Director. Freshwater, who has been General Manager since 2017, takes the reigns from long-serving MD James Gordon, who remains CEO of parent company, Audiotonix. The move signals a new era for DiGiCo, which has revolutionised and grown to dominate the digital mixing console market since its inception in 2002. Audiotonix – which also owns Allen & Heath, Calrec, DiGiGrid, Group One Limited, KLANG:technologies, Solid State Logic, and newly acquired Sound Devices LLC – has been impressed with Freshwater’s performance over the last four years. His capabilities have been further emphasised against…
Audiologic has been named as an exclusive UK distributor for LEA Professional. The LEA portfolio of products is made of the Connect Series smart amplifiers, with both a standard and Dante format available. As the rest of the signal chain has continued to grow with smart connectivity with IoT integration, LEA have bought amplifiers right up to the forefront of the technology race. The Connect Series range scales across two, four and eight channel options with a host of power options. The amplifier has a fully capable on-board DSP providing all the processing you could need for the tuning, protection and optimisation…
Offering breath-taking 360° views over the Hudson River and Manhattan Skyline, The Glasshouse is a new multi-function, interconnectable event space in New York City. Able to accommodate almost 2,000 people, and with multiple outdoor terraces set within the 75,000 sq. ft footprint, the venue required a cutting-edge production infrastructure, including transparent audio transmission, state-of-the-art video and lighting and broadcast-ready cabling. The work went out to tender, and the successful bidder was Martin Audio partner, Audible Difference (ADI). “We were offered the contract based on our design, and the fact that Martin Audio system offered a robust and adaptable Dante platform,”…
Following a necessary pivot to a drive-thru attraction in 2020, this year’s Nights of the Jack Halloween experience returned to its original walkthrough format. Attracting thousands of visitors across its month-long run in October, the unique event featured thousands of hand-carved Jack-o’-lanterns arranged into a series of themed displays. ADJ IP65-rated LED wash fixtures were once again used to illuminate the attraction, while ADJ LED-powered ellipsoidals were utilized for the first time, serving as energy-saving alternatives to the conventional fixtures that were previously used. Thirty miles northwest of Hollywood, tucked in the Santa Monica Mountains, Nights of the Jack is…
Twenty-five Italian-made Powersoft amplifiers are handling the audio demands of the award-nominated Italy Pavilion at Expo 2020, one of the highlights of the recently opened world fair in Dubai. Over 28,000 people a day are expected to visit the Italy Pavilion, which centres on a spectacular 3D-printed, 1:1-scale reproduction of Michelangelo’s David created in Powersoft’s home city of Florence, over the next six months. The pavilion, based on the theme ‘beauty connects people’, is one of the 192 stands competing for visitors at Expo 2020, which comes to a close on 31 March 2022. The Italy Pavilion is already proving…
