SYDNEY — Riedel Communications named Erik Miehs service engineer for Australia. In his new role, Miehs will boost Riedel’s ability to support existing customers and equipment rentals while contributing to the company’s continued overall growth in sales and rentals across the region.
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AUSTIN, TX — The Summerland Tour teamed Everclear with alt rock bands Soul Asylum, Eve 6 and Spacehog. Everclear LD Rick ‘Shaggy’ Ehmcke, pictured here with HES’ Richard Belliveau, chose the tour’s Austin, Texas show at the Moody Theatre to demo High End Systems’ new Shapeshifter fixtures.
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MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems supported the 13th annual “Opera in the Park” concert for the city of Madison. This free annual concert has become a summer tradition for the community and adds to the company’s history of promoting music and music education on both local and national levels.
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ROTHBURY, MI – For the main stage at this year’s Electric Forest festival, a four-day, multi-genre event held at the Double JJ Ranch here, Dodd Technologies provided a pair of grandMA2 consoles with VPU plus for video control. A total of five (four full-size grandMA2s and one grandMA2 light) were on hand during the show.
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NASHVILLE — To support LD Chris Lisle’s lighting design for country music artist Chris Young’s U.S. tour, Bandit Lites provided a rig that includes 22 Robe Robin Pointe fixtures. Lisle is using the Pointes to cut through and stand out among the ample video elements. Young is touring in support of country singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley.
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MOSCOW — In celebration of the 2014 World Cup final game, the three towers of “Vorobievy gory,” a residential complex in Moscow that faces the German Embassy, were lit during the match with the colors of Germany and Argentina’s national flags. With only a single day to light the towers, LD designer Sergey Babaliants of BaSinstall programmed the tower’s existing system, which includes 198 Martin Professional Exterior 200 fixtures.
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SUN VALLEY, CA — Lex Products named industry veteran Jeff deRecat as its new sales territory manager for the Western U.S. market. deRecat comes to Lex Products from Marinco/Advanced Devices, a manufacturer of entertainment and industrial wiring devices and CAM connectors, where he worked for 16 years.
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Kramer Electronics says its BC-HDKat6a cable builds on its proven BC-DGKat623 category cable and is designed to offer virtually identical performance in tests with 4K signals.
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On September 2nd, Robe Lighting is preparing to launch their latest products to the world in their live event, Robe Premiere. The live global announcement will be broadcast in English with subtitle for French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese & Korean. The announcement states that the Czech Republic based company is preparing to launch “something special”.
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ATLANTIC CITY – For the Peavey booth at the DJ Expo here recently, booth partner Canal Sound and Light turned to LD Jason Ayala of Jason Blends for the lighting design. Ayala specified Chauvet Professional fixtures for the project, including six Rogue R2 Spot moving heads, four Rogue R1 Beam moving heads, three Strike 882 strobe SMD panels, two COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour par fixtures and 32 PVP S5 LED video panels.
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The COLORado 2-Quad Zoom IP from Chauvet Professional promises to reliably light up stages and performers with intense, ultra-vibrant RGBW colors, whether used indoors or outdoors. The fixture features 14 15-watt Quad-Color (red, green, blue, white) LEDs, which emit up to 8,000 lux at 5 meters.
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CHARLOTTE, NC – Heavy metal icons Mötley Crüe are currently on their Final Tour, and drummer Tommy Lee is going out in style atop a custom-made “Crüecifly” drum coaster, aka the Tommy Coaster. The distinctive structure is lined with Elation Flex LED Pixel Tape. The tour visuals were designed by LD Sooner Routhier and lighting director/programmer Matt Mills.
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