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Air Guard continues to revolutionize the sanitation industry with the AG-1600
The AG-1600 features an incredibly powerful blast of sanitizing fog that can be distributed either vertically or horizontally to fill a large room very quickly. The AG-1600 features an intuitive built-in calendar and clock that allows for automatic and hands-free sanitizing at any time of the day or night. Paired

High-Profile Video Project for Artist Post Malone
Joe Sanchez, Sound Engineer and Owner of a boutique live sound and broadcast production company, was recently approached to assist with the communications integration for a high-profile motion capture video project involving American rapper, Post Malone. With an extremely tight deadline and a need for the primary shot callers to

Audix Ceiling Microphones
@Audix ceiling microphone solutions range from hanging to flush-mount and can be used in various settings, from the boardroom to the classroom. To see the full range visit: https://audixusa.com/product-categories/ceiling-microphones/ Save As PDF

Knebworth House in a New Anolis Light
Architectural LED lighting specialist Anolis – a Robe business – was approached by Robert Parker of the Historic Houses Association to assist in the specification of a replacement lighting scheme to illuminate the front of Knebworth House, a magnificent Grade II listed Tudor stately home in Hertfordshire, UK, dating to

Robe for Martin Jensen Site-Specific Shows
The pandemic period will surely be remembered for many things including the invention and creativity manifested by an entertainment and technical production industry determined to keep music and performance accessible and relevant during a world public health crisis and the resulting enforced isolation. Danish DJ and music producer

How to Boost Productivity Using Multi-Window KVM Systems – by tvONE
Did you know that tvONE blogs hold #1 positions for key KVM phrases on google? In this article, you will find out How to Boost Productivity Using Multi-Window KVM Systems. The “Zoom Generation” increasingly demands collaborative, multi-window environments as standard. When individuals do venture to their workplace,

Robe Launches New LEDBeam 350 Moving Light
Robe lighting launches its latest new moving light innovation – the LEDBeam 350™. To those familiar with the massively successful little LEDBeam 150™, this is a bigger, brighter – 6,600 lumen – variant, delivering even more punch and presence for those wanting crystal clear beams and beautifully rich colour

Audio FireBall, ultra-small professional dynamic instrument microphone
The FireBall™ dynamic instrument microphone is designed for harmonicas (both diatonic and chromatic) and beatbox. Clear, accurate, and capable of handling SPLs in excess of 140 dB without distortion, the FireBall™ is ideally suited for both live stage and studio recording applications. The FireBall™ microphone has a smooth, uniform frequency

DiGiCo delivers Quantum power for Gorillaz live stream
In mid-December, Gorillaz returned to the stage with ‘Song Machine Live From Kong’ for three separate fully live shows performed from the basement of Kong Studios, West London over the course of two days. Over a million viewers in more than 120 countries tuned in to the show via the

ONErack Spider Options
Choose from two different options to provide reliable, clean, dependable DC power for your mission-critical installations in healthcare, higher-education, broadcast, and control rooms. ONErack Spider Vertical Strip PSU Multi-Voltage PSU Strip with 23 voltage module slots; 14 voltage modules included Category: Racking & Power Manufacturer: tvONE SKU: 1RK-SPDR-STRIP-23

L-Acoustics delivers ultimate energy boosting sound experience for Egyptian MegaStar Amr Diab
For the fourth year running, THE Technology supplies K Series major festival in Dubai DUBAI, UAE – March 2021 – For four consecutive years, Egyptian MegaStar Amr Diab has performed to capacity crowds as part of January’s highly popular Dubai Shopping Festival. This year’s show was no less

KLANG Gets into the Flow at Seven Rivers Church
There is a difference when it comes to in-ear monitoring, this Florida church in the United States discovers, as its moves up to the top level of in-ear technology with a new DMI KLANG interface LECANTO, Florida – March 2021 – Founded in 1983, Seven Rivers Church, a

New PRO DMX cable series LX4 and LX5 with blue outer jacket and XLR by KLOTZ or Neutrik
In addition to the ultra-flexible DMX cable series LX2 and the double-shielded high-end LX3 and LX6 series, KLOTZ is expanding its successful PRO DMX cable range with two further double-shielded cable series LX4 and LX5 with blue outer jacket and high-quality XLR 5-pin connectors (3p. wired). (Above): LX4 series

Astera Academy
For anyone wanting to learn more about the Astera software and hardware, don’t forget the Astera Academy. During 2020, Astera created a wide range of tutorials which cover new products, features and ideas to use Astera. It’s all available on their website! Simply visit: https://astera-led.com/academy/ Save As PDF

Aurora Series by Absen
Absen is pleased to announce the Aurora Series, a lightweight panel ideal for both indoor and outdoor advertising applications. With a brightness of 10000 Nits and built to withstand outdoor weather conditions, the Aurora Series offers a five-year warranty, low energy consumption and a powerful cooling system

Waves audio plugins and signal processors from DWR
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio plugins and signal processors for the professional and consumer electronics audio markets. Heard on hit records, major motion pictures, and popular video games worldwide, Waves’ cutting-edge software and hardware processors are used in every aspect of audio production, from tracking to mixing

A beautiful sound at South African immersive audio demo
A powerful demonstration featuring L-Acoustic’s L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Technology and Klang:technologies, highlighted how a show could translate into a memorable experience for a live audience and those watching the broadcast from home via a live streaming platform. Presented by Immersive Show Technology, MGG and DWR Distribution, the four-day session

Astera AX2 PixelBar
LED Bar with built-in battery for stage, events and film lighting Astera’s Wireless PixelBar is a linear wash fixture with built-in battery pack. Each of its LEDs can be individually addressed and offers ultra-high color rendering, digital color calibration and a native 21° beam. Thanks to its

L-Acoustics Sonically Turns Up The Heat At Phoenix Suns Arena
A new Kara II sound system was installed just in time for the 2021 NBA season, part of a larger $230 million project to update the venue PHOENIX, Arizona – March 2021 – It’s had multiple names since it first opened in June of 1992, but the Phoenix Suns Arena—formerly

B-Station2 by Visual Productions
Wall-mount button panel Designed to offer a user-interface to your lighting project, the B-Station2 is a wall-mount panel with 6 push-buttons. The buttons can be configured to send out a multitude of control messages via DMX, UDP, OSC, Art-Net or sACN. The B-Station2 is the ideal device for triggering

Strand standardizes on DIN rail for Vision.Net
Dallas, USA – Strand, the original name in theatrical lighting and a Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) entertainment lighting brand, today announced that they are standardizing their portfolio of industry-leading Vision.Net architectural lighting components to use 35mm DIN rail for mounting. Strand’s new, modular family of hardware devices consists of nine new products, including

Czech Radio freshens up for 2021 with DiGiCo Quantum338
Nearly a century old, Czech Radio (Český rozhlas (ČRo)) is the largest public radio broadcaster in the Czech Republic and Europe’s second oldest radio broadcaster after the BBC. Established in 1923, Czech Radio offers four national services, 14 regional channels, numerous channels covering classical and jazz music, sports, children’s

Green Hippo’s HippoNet
The heart of Hippotizer™ is HippoNet, the networking protocol which connects all Hippotizer machines together so that one ZooKeeper can control all the networked systems at once. HippoNet distributes timecode, media and playback synchronisation between systems to effortlessly control even the largest systems. Hippotizer V4 supports CITP thumbnail exchange and

UK artist, Morag Myerscough, creates huge mural on Salt River landmark
More than a hundred bright murals painted on buildings and homes in Salt River, formed the fifth International Public Arts Festival (IPAF) hosted in Cape Town from February 10 to 14. London-based artist, Morag Myerscough, partnered with local art collective Ilukuluku, to create a large-scale mural with geometric patterns,

ProMotion by Robe Lighting
Take your venue, club and retail promotions to the next level with the futuristic Robe ProMotion™ moving head effects and video projector. Compact, stylish yet fast moving, this projector produces 1000 ANSI Lumens of creative output with its long-lasting LED source. With RGB and CMY colour mixing capability;

The Blank Space, a new venue in Cape Town
With travel restrictions in place, the show has to go on, albeit digitally! For an international fashion show, four South African fashion designers were able to shoot their latest work at The Blank Space, a venue created by the CCPP Group in Cape Town. While everyone missed the audience, the

Vectorworks Spotlight Training in JHB
Join Dylan Jones as he presents Vectorworks Spotlight Training from 15 to 19 March 2021 at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg. The course will be split up into Basic Training (15 March), Intermediate Training (16 and 17 March) and Advanced Training (18 and 19 March) and the cost is

Anolis Specified for leading London Venues
Anolis Divine 160 LED lighting fixtures are providing mood and house lighting for two of London’s leading multifunctional venues, Magazine London on the Greenwich Peninsula and Exhibition London in White City, West London, both initiated and operated by Broadwick Live and Venue Lab. The Anolis fixtures were specified by consultant

World Debut of Claypaky Tambora Batten Fixtures
One of the first and arguably the greatest of Russian rock bands, KINO celebrated its reunion with an online concert, which wowed the Russian rock community and teased KINO’s big stadium tour planned for thisspring. The online performance was the first show to use @Claypaky ’s new Tambora Batten fixtures,

Insane at Miss Soweto 2020
For the fourth consecutive year, Vimal Rawjee of Insane Sound and Lighting was appointed to supply the full technical for the Miss Soweto beauty pageant hosted at the Soweto Theatre in Jabulani, Johannesburg. The hybrid-event, accommodating one hundred guests and recorded for television, gave Vimal the opportunity to ‘share

Summer of the 17th Doll
Australian lighting designer Trudy Dalgleish appreciated the quietness and other features of Robe T1 Profiles and T1 Fresnels that are part of the new house rig at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide, which reopened in June 2020 after a major 2-year redevelopment. The State Opera of South Australia’s production of

Basic Rigging Training to be hosted Cape Town
DWR Distribution is pleased to present Basic Rigging Training in Cape Town, a two-day workshop presented by Robert Izzett which covers basic rigging hardware and calculations according to SANS 10366. The course, limited to twenty delegates, will be held at the on 15 & 16 March 2021 at the

Rhythm & Alps Festival closes 2020 with Hippotizer Karst
Cardrona Valley, New Zealand – It’s a comfort to know that somewhere in the world, 2020 ended with a music festival. That’s what happened in the shadow of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, where the Rhythm & Alps Festival saw off the year with a celebratory vibe enhanced by TomTom

DWR to close for Stock Take
The DWR Distribution offices will be closed this Thursday and Friday, 25 and 26 February, for our annual stock take. To our valued clients, please let us know if we can be of any assistance before then. The offices will reopen on Monday. Thank you very much for your

MDG’s magical atmosphere for Idols SA
Haze, glorious haze! For Idols South Africa, lighting designer Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier relied on two MDG units to enhance the lighting beams on stage and to create an emotionally charged feel. Season 16 of Idols SA, the largest talent search competition in the country, was hosted at

KLANG makes it personal with new immersive Kontroller for musicians
KLANG has announced the combined release of its new KLANG:kontroller, a hardware controller that is compatible with all KLANG immersive in-ear mixing processors, and its new processor, KLANG:vokal, bringing a whole new level of personal monitoring to musicians. KLANG:kontroller Serial Number 1 – along with a new DiGiCo Quantum225console

New Compact DiGiCo Quantum225 Brings Power and New Opportunity
In January, DiGiCo announced New Year New Hope, giving three lucky winners three great gifts – a DiGiGrid MGB MADI to SoundGrid Interface; the first of the newly launched KLANG:kontrollers – Serial Number 1; and a DiGiCo Quantum Range console. What those entering did not know

A Tribute to Marco Bartolini
The Robe Family is heartbroken to announce the death of Marco Bartolini, a hugely popular and well-known industry face in Italy and internationally, who passed away on 10th February 2021 following a short battle with cancer. Marco started working with Robe in 2004 when at SR Consulting, and since 2007

Astera for ‘Field of Dreams’ at Sydney New Year Celebrations
Lighting designer Hugh Taranto lit a vibrant array of artists performing on the Sydney Stage for the 2020-21 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s New Year’s Eve broadcast. The high-profile event culminated in a jaw-dropping pyro spectacular fired off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, stretching right across Sydney Harbour … watched in

Full Drama for Idols South Africa
The challenges of producing entertainment in the pandemic has seen some incredible imagination and resourcefulness from the industry in creating Covid-safe working environments so at least some sectors have been able to keep working, one of which is television. In Pretoria, South Africa, the State Theatre’s 640-seat Drama Stage hosted

Claypaky Sharpy Plus Fixtures Deliver Stunning Lighting Effects for Mexico City TD Bank Commercial
January – Mexican Lighting Designer Delher López harnessed the power of 50 Claypaky Sharpy Plus fixtures to create striking spot/beam lighting effects for a TD Bank commercial for the Mexico City region. An industry veteran with more than 19 years experience in lighting design, López has many live music

Hippotizer Reveals Visual Superpowers on The Masked Singer Finland
Finland – Helsinki’s Visual Monkeys design agency ramped up the visuals for Finland’s popular The Masked Singer TV show using Hippotizer™ Montane+ RTX and Karst+ Media Servers in December. Visual Monkeys’ founder Mikko ‘Bob’ Enäkoski, who says he’s on a mission to bring stadium looks to Finnish TV,

L-Acoustics K Series Positions Exhibition London as New Cultural Hub
Industry-standard K2 system installed at new, multi-purpose West London venue to provide optimum flexibility and meet demands of future tours. London, United Kingdom – February 2021. The recently launched Exhibition London event space is situated in the heart of London’s White City and Westfield London, one of

Lighting one of the highest buildings in the world: Canton Tower with grandMA3 system equipped
Canton Tower, formerly known as Guangzhou TV and Sightseeing Tower, is a 604-meter observation tower in Guangzhou, China and now the second tallest tower in the country and the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. It was topped-out in 2009 and became operational in 2010 for the Asian Games. The

Online funerals, weddings and events delivered by Belinda Saville
With creativity at her core, Belinda Saville from Durban recently launched Bee Events, an online broadcasting service for conferences, weddings, performances and funerals to help both the general public and corporate clients. It’s her personal touch that has made Belinda a respected event and projects manager over the

Large Array of Claypaky Fixtures Illuminates Colombian Rapper Nanpa Básico’s Live-Streamed KOSMO Concert
January – Colombian rapper and singer/songwriter Nanpa Básico held his virtual KOSMO concert last fall with a large complement of Claypaky fixtures lighting up the live-streamed show. A team from Arbol Naranja, led by Jorge Jiménez, Camilo Mejía and William Gallo, were challenged to craft a virtual concert that the

Astera for Idols SA
The South African State Theatre in Pretoria’s 550 seat Drama Stage hosted both the rounds and finale of the 2020 edition of Idols SA, complete with a lighting design by Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier and technical production delivered by Dream Sets for SIC Entertainment. This, the sixteenth series of

tvONE goes the extra mile for largest ever CORIOmaster® mini order
When Intronics, the tvONE (tvone.com) distributor for the Benelux region, received an enquiry for a major order of tvONE’s CORIOmaster mini video wall processors, they called on the manufacturer to see what was possible. Could the units be supplied in time? The request, from a major European integrator, was for 55

New line of closed-back studio headphones from Audix
Hear what you’ve been missing with the new line of dynamic closed-back studio headphones from Audix. With four models, there’s one for everyone. The A140 is the perfect choice for home studio and music enthusiasts alike. Featuring a professional, high-quality design, the A140 provides exceptional clarity and a tight, balanced sound

The headphones the pros are raving about
It’s a new year, and if you’re looking for new gear to upgrade your home studio, you might want to check out the new headphones line from Audix. We think they are pretty amazing, but don’t just take our word for it. First up, they recently made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen

World Debut for Robert Juliat Arthur Followspots in South Korea
Arthur, Robert Juliat’s new 800W LED followspot, made its global debut at Big Eoul Madang (Yongin Cultural Foundation) in Seoul, South Korea, which was proud to be the world’s first venue to receive the new followspot. Arthur is an 800W LED followspot with a 5.5° – 15°