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Winterville 2018
After supplying PA, Engineers and DJ equipment for over a month we are sad to see it go. Always full of interesting acts from, Drag Queen Karaoke and Mexican Wresting, Winterville is one of the highlights of our calendar. Click the link below to keep up to date with everything Winterville.
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Houghton Festival 2018
Houghton is among the world's most beautiful festivals, and it's clear why the challenge of curating it energised Richards so much. "As soon as I saw [the site] my imagination ran wild," he told RA in 2016. Houghton is essentially Richards' dream festival But this still doesn't fully explain Houghton's X factor. There was an air of extravagance about the whole weekend that was sometimes beyond imagination. Terminus, a sort-of-secret stage beyond the campsite, was reachable either by foot or a train that left every hour.
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Midas XL3 at the Science Museum
This specific XL3 was bought new from the manufacturer in 1990, by John Tinline of Encore PA, London and used by many well-known artists and engineers, including the legendary Happy Mondays show at Elland Road Stadium, and James Brown at Wembley Stadium, also in 1991. In 1996 it was installed in the Forum, Kentish Town, an Encore Venue, where it was used by most artists who played there, including The Who, Kings of Leon, Madness, Motorhead, Robbie Williams.
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A Robot, a Car Park and a Y-Series First - 2015
Encore Pro Audio Ltd, a company known to deploy loudspeakers on dog sleds in the Arctic Circle in the service of art, provided the recently launched Y-Series and reputable expertise. “They are fantastic,” said event producer Joana Seguro. “We installed a quad system of pole mounted Y10s on top of Y-SUBs around the rectangle of the performance area, described Encore’s Luke Turnbull. “All were facing inwards; the audience sat within the field of propagation on the perimeter of the performance space, the loudspeakers projecting across a twenty metre listening area, enabling a spatial dimension to sound reproduction."
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Tales From The Bridge - 2012
Encore for the Noise Boys - 2012
It all makes perfect sense, conduct an experiment for the Noise Abatement society and what’s the first thing you do? Rent in a PA system of course. It does make sense in one way, how else can you investigate the suppression of noise without first creating it, “but this was something completely different,” said John Tinline of Encore who provided the system.
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“The metaphor is 'the bridge is alive'. It was conceived originally as an interactive soundscape in which the people could play the bridge as an instrument. As the project evolved we changed to the idea of a dream; something contemplative to walk through.” Contemporary composer Martyn Ware describing one of the more diverting entertainments commissioned by the Lord Mayor’s office to delight visitors to London throughout this Olympian summer. “To give it meaning the music needed some narrative element.”
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Dancing in the Engine Room - 2011
“It’s what makes it work that matters,” comments John Tinline of Encore, “you’ve got to know the parameters and what the priorities are.” Such statements would be meat and grist to most members of the pro audio community, but then he’s talking about something quite extraordinary. “It’s a three dimensional soundscape in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern art museum in London.”
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From Liverpool to New York: a Journey Through Sound - 2015
To mark the 175th anniversary of the first Cunard Lines transatlantic crossing, the UK retail and leisure complex, Liverpool ONE, asked composer Martyn Ware to create a 3D soundscape celebrating the city’s historical and cultural connections with New York. “From that small beginning,” explained Ware, “I then suggested, why not make the experience a trip there and back. Almost 8,000,000 people emigrated to the United States through Liverpool. That's a strong narrative.” The result was an immersive experience, evoking the port, the people and their voyages to the new world, through music and the spoken word.
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Encore Installs at The Fridge - 2009
Encore's John Tinline explains that sound engineer AIan Hopkinson (Big Nobby) has been working with Neil Pickles, a director of Alchemea for some time in an advisory role as their Head of Live Sound. He was given the challenging task of specifying a system that would both attract promoters and bands back to the newly kitted out Fridge, and simultaneously be suitable for realising the Alchemea Live Sound Diploma's educational requirements.
Apart from their ability to offer all the kit, it was Encore's renowned service and attention to detail that sealed the deal and as a result, regular live music concerts are set to return to The Fridge for the first time in 15 years.
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Jess Glynn Tours 4018VL Capsule - 2016
Front of House engineer Alan ‘Big Nobby’ Hopkinson was one of the first live sound professionals to try out the new VL capsule for d:facto™, which was recommended by John Tinline, director of PA hire company, Encore.
John Tinline from Encore PA is also impressed with the new d:facto™ Linear Vocal Microphone and has already invested in the new VL capsules, making Encore the first company in the UK to have them available for hire.
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