With its ambitious use of audiovisual content, South Africa’s Ghoemas Music Awards had adopted Dataton’s WatchOut multi-image display and presentation software. Initially, however, the accompanying audio presenteted problems.

The solution lay in Merging Technologies’ Ovation media server/sequencer, as PenMac Audio Visual’s Malcolm Finlay disovered at the 2013 ISE show. As the local WatchOut Premium Partner, PenMac advised the awards organisers that advanced audio could be added to the presentation...

Comprising 23 shows in six countries, James Last’s One More Time tour gave German rental company Sound Linear to opportunity to put the claimed flexibility and scalability of its Nexo STM loudspeaker system to the test.

With London’s Royal Albert Hall and the 02 World in Berlin to accommodate, the tour presented a range of challenges: ‘On one hand, we needed a small system that wouldn’t intrude visually on the production design,’ says Kalle Hogrefe. ‘On the other, we needed an arena system because of the distances involved in the larger venues. Using STM M46 main cabinets with S118 subs on top, we were able to fulfill both criteria perfectly. Any other system that could do that would have had a much larger footprint.’

Founded by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Art of Living Foundation is among the world’s largest volunteer-based humanitarian and educational non-governmental organisations. One of its retreats is The International Center for Meditation and Well-Being in America’s Great Smokey Mountains.

The retreat’s Meditation Hall is a large, multi-purpose space that is used for yoga and meditation classes, as well as dance events and performances. As with all such spaces, its reflective surfaces present problems to anyone installing a sound system...

Situated beneath London’s famous Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Underglobe events space has hosted a long series of corporate functions – many served by London-based live production company ARC Sound. Opened to the public in 1997, the reconstruction of the original wooden Elizabethan playhouse, has never allowed, or indeed attempted, a full production set-up in the main theatre space itself.

The celebration of Shakespeare’s 449th birthday, however, saw a concert audio production set-up allowed into the 1,500-capacity space for the first time...

Recording a specially commissioned double DVD of two operas, the sound team at the Parco Della Musica Auditorium in Rome placed a premium on audio quality. Performed as part of the Santa Cecilia Opera Studio, an educational programme devoted to the Italian bel canto tradition opera tradition, the challenge was further complicated by the need to hide the recording mics from the video footage.

Sound engineer Giacomo De Caterini struggled to work out how he could comply with the director’s brief…