Event production specialist Ethix Management has marked an exceptionally successful 12 month trading period by appointing Doug Maddison to the position of Technical Director.

Olympic Games, natural disasters, and bombings – cameraman Matthew Allard has reported about almost everything for Al Jazeera, the international news broadcaster that has its headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Award-winning singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ellie Goulding has switched to a DPA d:facto™ Vocal Microphone after trying it for the first time at the Chime for Change concert, which took place in London in June.

Luan Santana is Brazil's new music star. At only twenty-two years of age, Santana is one of the highest paid artists in the country. His first live album was a best seller throughout 2010 selling over 500,000 copies. His second album was recorded live in December 2010 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro and released in 2011. His first single "Adrenalina" reached the top of the charts.

At the Toei Eiga-Mura, Kyoto’s famous movie theme park, one of the main attractions combines acting, stunt work and projection mapping to create a popular Ninja themed action show. The name of the show, Jiraya, refers to a popular folk hero with the ability to use magical formulas in order to reach his goals.

Designing shows for artistes ranging from Sheryl Crow to Fleetwood Mac over a long period, experienced LD Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie has been increasingly finding GLP’s impression X4’s an essential component in his touring inventory.

For 10 years now, ABC Products cranes are used for broadcasting the football worldcup and are thus well established pieces of equipment of the World and European Championships. Once more at the world cup in Brazil in 2014: 27 ABC Products Crane 120 9m with Remote Head Pelé are on the order list. In each stadium, three cranes will be positioned – two beyond the goals and one in the coaching zone.

Neutrik, the worldwide leading supplier of professional entertainment connector products establishes yet another milestone. Today, you can hardly imagine any stage, concert or public event without wireless applications. Therefore, Neutrik undertook intensive research looking into the subject of wireless audio data transmission.

Q-Ball remotely controlled camera equipment from Camera Corps televised the world's newsmedia as they converged on London to report the birth of the new heir to the crown of the United Kingdom.

Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that it is providing a comprehensive intercom system for the state-of-the-art IBC auditorium at IBC2013.

Thursday 4th July, at the Clay Paky head office in Seriate, the Moto3 250cc four stroke engine was unveiled after one year of toil by Rumi-Sport Engineering.

coolux, the creators of the award winning Pandoras Box product family, released their new Pandoras Box Version 5.5 and the Widget Designer Version 4.5 on July 17th. coolux CEO Jan Huewel is keen to highlight the fact that both innovative new features and general user-friendliness lie at the heart of the new releases.

Playing to a crowd of more than 20,000, Seattle-based grunge band Soundgarden recently performed at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City during its international tour, running through summer 2013. The band’s 26-song set list was highlighted with the band’s extensive catalog and was brought to life by a HARMAN Martin lighting system, deployed by OCESA PRG Mexico.

South Africa’s Dimension Television Facilities (DTF), which provides mobile broadcast services to local and international markets in Africa, has selected a range of Grass Valley® live production solutions to equip its new OB van, which is expected to be complete in October 2013. Grass Valley is supplying DTF with a Trinix® NXT digital video routing switcher with multiviewer, an Apex Plus™ digital audio routing switcher, two Kayak™ HD video production switchers, and four HD LDK 8000 Elite Series® cameras.

Sennheiser’s evolution microphones are among the most popular stage microphones altogether – and now, the audio specialist is presenting a series of short tutorial videos on how to get the best out of them. With the help of these videos, even newcomers can perfectly mike and record their music and polish their performance. In addition to the most important product features, the short tutorials also provide many useful tips on positioning the microphones at an instrument and help vocalists to choose the ideal mike.