NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Penton Media) - Penton Media's 2007 LDI, the largest trade show and conference for visual and sound technologies, will feature an expanded focus on professional audio and live sound production November 16-18, at the
Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. LDI's ET Live's annual outdoor exhibits will offer live entertainment demonstrations of concert sound products in a real world performance stage environment. LDI, with more than 400 exhibiting companies and more than 85 educational seminars, will be attended by more than 11,000 lighting, sound, production and staging professionals actively involved in live entertainment industry. For detailed information, visit www.ldishow.com.
Open to all LDI trade show attendees, ET Live exhibits give professionals interested in purchasing concert sound systems and staging the opportunity to experience products without the limitations of an indoor environment, room size, reverberation reflections, frequency build-up and other factors.
ET Live's six loudspeaker sponsors will demo their line-array speakers, console manufacturers will set up at their FOH position (and monitors), staging companies will present multiple concert stage configurations (from 32'x32'up to 60'x40') and large screen monitors and lights will illuminate the performances.
Each stage will demonstrate play of the same pre-recorded track and then feature a live performance in a round�robin format at 25-minute intervals. Demonstrations will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Each stage will feature a performance twice daily on November 16 and 17, and once on November 18.
Current ET Live manufacturer sponsors include:
Loudspeaker: A-Line Acoustics, D.A.S. Audio, d&b audiotechnik, EAW, Outline Audio, QSC Audio.
FOH Digital Consoles: Allen & Heath, DiGiCo, Digidesign, EAW, Stagetec.
Stages: Mega Stage, Mobile Stage Rentals, Prolyte Stages, Stageline, StagePro Mobile
Other Sponsors: Aggreko Event Services, Barco, Checkers, Daktronics, Lab Gruppen, Link USA, Media Numerics, SMAART.
For ET Live sponsor updates, visit www.ldishow.com.
In addition, LDI will offer expanded professional audio education seminars. Presented by Syn-Aud-Con, 'Sound Reinforcement for Operators' will take place November 12-13, followed by 'Sound Reinforcement for Technicians' Nov 14-15. A full menu of live sound conference sessions on Nov. 12-16 will include 'RF Spectrum Dilemma,' 'Line Array Design and Application' and 'Working with a Sound Rental Shop,' as well as 'Training the Sound Designer' and 'Introduction to Digital Audio'.
Technologies for Worship Magazine will also sponsor specialized audio classes for House of Worship venues. Finally, attendees can receive continuous complimentary hands-on training at the 'Audio Console Workshop' sound mixing workshops. For registration information for all sessions, visit www.ets-ldi.com.
For additional information, contact Betsy Carballo, Marketing Manager, LDI 2007 at 1-(913) 981-6140 or [email protected].
LDI is part of Penton's Live Design family of multimedia offerings for designers, programmers, and technicians involved in visual design for the entertainment and related industries. Live Design publications and events cover the latest news, tools, and technology that fuel innovation across live entertainment, corporate events, Broadway, houses of worship, clubs, and more. The Live Design family includes Live Design magazine; Theatre Quarterly supplement; Live Design Wire, TQ Now, and SRO Now e-newsletters; livedesignonline.com and Live Design Master Classes. Visit www.livedesignonline.com to learn more.
Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.
