Avolites will be visiting Sterling Event Group in October, as they hit the road again with their Level 1 & Level 2 of the Titan Academy Course.

These training courses will be run in our new warehouse space, and are open to everyone.

The Level 1 training works through everything you would need to know to build a show file from scratch on the Titan range of consoles. From patching fixtures into the console through recording playbacks, palettes and some of the effects engines that are built into Titan. Level 1 also covers cues lists, which is used for everything from corporate to circus, and theatre to gigs.

Level 2 covers more advanced programming options and set up available already within Titan. As well as networking, Avolites will cover some ways to speed and aid your programming. Level 2 also covers external triggering and working with timecode.

Those attending both levels of the course can then take an optional assessment. Based on the result of this you can be certified or accredited as a programmer on the Avolites website.

For availability and to book please visit https://www.avolites.com/training/book-training

Sterling Event Group will be exhibiting at the upcoming V+E Live 2019 event exhibition due to be held on the 23rd & 24th September 2019 at Manchester Central, Manchester.

Venues + Events Live is one the UK’s favourite events show attracting hundreds of venues, restaurants, hotels, bars, blank canvas spaces and event suppliers.

With some of the industry’s best exhibitors and a variety of features including exciting sessions and hands-on masterclasses, Venues + Events Live lets you explore a world filled with unlimited creativity and ideas for planning your next event.

Venues + Events Live is free to attend and is not to be missed if you’re an event planner or organise any kind of event.

The team look forward to hosting you on our stand!

Register to attend – https://www.venuesandevents.co.uk/

As part of our new expansion tripling our warehouse space, we have a number of new opportunities for talented people to join our team, based full time within our offices & warehouse by Manchester Airport.

• Warehouse Manager
• Head of Staging and Set
• Vision Prep Technician
• Cable Prep Technician
• Warehouse Assistant

Please visit our Careers part of the website for full job descriptions.

If you think you have got what it takes then we would love to hear from you!

Sterling Event Group will be exhibiting at the upcoming Confex North exhibition due to be held on the 3rd & 4th July 2019 at Victoria Warehouse. 

For 36 years International Confex, London, has been the key calendar date to bring together event professionals for 2 days of networking, free to attend education and supplier inspiration. Now in its second year, Confex North exists to offer the same great opportunities for discovery but in a more convenient location for the northern events community.

Register to attend by clicking here.

The team look forward to hosting you on our stand!

Sterling Event Group has added further Catchbox Modules to hire stock to allow us to increase our offering of this popular and innovative Q&A solution for our clients.

The Catchbox Module is a microphone module with auto muting technology that converts beltpack transmitters into throwable microphones.

As a rental partner to Catchbox, Sterling Event Group can offer the state-of-the-art product along with optional fully brandable covers to suit your brand or theme.

See further details on the product here – Engage Your Audience with Catchbox, the World’s First Soft Throwable Microphone.

Contact the team today and see how Catchbox can revolutionise your next event!

Sterling Event Group are proud to be part of the upcoming British Drift Championships that will be happening at Teesside Autodrome on the 6th – 7th April 2019. 

A big focus for the organisers this year is to make sure that the overall experience is as enjoyable and memorable as possible. Due to the amount of off-track entertainment that they have lined up for this years Round 1 event, they needed an AV setup that would deliver loud and clear audio across their audience and over the noise of the track.

Sterling Event Group will be supplying a professional D&B Q Series range to achieve the desired outcome.

Tickets to the event are available here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/british-drift-championship-18380716622

Read more on the partnership here – BDC2019

Sterling Event Group will be exhibiting at the upcoming International Confex 2019 exhibition due to be held on the 26th & 27th February 2019 at Olympia London.

The event is set to be one of the largest gathering of event professionals, service providers, thought leaders and buyers in the UK, with the sole purpose of creating an environment of convenience to help support, inspire and drive the events industry forward.

Register to attend by clicking here.

The team look forward to hosting you on our stand!

As part of our warehouse expansion in 2019 we have a number of opportunities for talented people to join our team based full time within our warehouse by Manchester Airport. With the addition of a further 20’000 sqft of warehouse space we are looking to add to a number of experienced technicians to the warehouse operations team along with a great opportunity for a warehouse assistant who may be new to our industry but keen to learn new skills and develop as part of our team.

We are currently recruiting for the following positions;

• Lighting and Rigging Prep Technician (2 vacancies available)
• Vision Prep Technician
• Warehouse Assistant

Please visit our Careers part of the website for full job descriptions. If you think you have got what it takes then we would love to hear from you!

Sterling Event Group has invested in Astera AX1 Wireless Pixel Tubes to further enhance its lighting stock. 

The Astera AX1 Pixeltube is an IP65 waterproof, pixel controllable LED RGBW baton that can be mounted or used anywhere. While it is designed primarily for event use, the AX1 can be used for Film & TV as either a substitute for practical light sources, or for special effects.

The lights work with a specially optimised RGB color space: AsteraRGB. This system eliminates the need to control each colour individually. Instead, the light calculates the optimum combination of all colours based on an RGB value. It considers each LED chip’s temperature as well as an optimal colour rendering.

The lights are constructed out of polycarbonate, and feature metal end caps. The AX1 Pixeltube offers several mounting options. For a quick vertical setup an included stand can be screwed via its M5 thread onto the tube. For hanging the tube there are hangers that can be fixed with screws to wooden surfaces or fixed to truss via a 1/4” Manfrotto stud and a Manfrotto clamp.

The ability to utilise these lights in a variety of ways, opens up the possibilities of their use across conferencing and events.

The lights can be controlled via the AsteraApp, an IR remote control or through Wireless DMX (2.4GHz) and can display static colors or replay a number of predefined effect patterns with a customisable colour palette – something that will prove useful when designing a lighting show for events. Lights can be controlled individually but they can also be grouped into sets, and effects can be used over up to 32 lights.

Contact the team today to discuss your next event.

Northwest based technical production supplier, Sterling Event Group, has invested in Sennheiser’s latest Digital 6000 series to further enhance its audio offering.

Having grown the business substantially in recent years, Sterling, who supply services to the live events industry, wanted to further increase and enhance its audio fleet to complement their other recent kit investments.

The investment including EM 6000 digital 2-channel receivers, SKM 6000 handheld transmitters with MD 9235 capsules, SK 6000 beltpacks and L 6000 charging stations will allow Sterling to futureproof its inventory and offer clients a digital solution. As part of the company’s investment, Sterling have also purchased additional Sennheiser 2000 Series IEMs to further increase its current stock.

Sterling’s Head of Audio Ben Marshall commented “With increased restrictions on available spectrum for radio microphones and In Ear Monitors we needed a solution to give us the channels we require even in the most challenging RF environments. By utilising Sennheiser Digital 6000 which is intermodulation free we can place frequencies in an equidistant frequency grid to maximise channel counts without issue. We have also found the 6000 series to be both rider and sub-hire friendly satisfying our live production and dry hire clients.”

“The ability to incorporate the EM 6000 receivers into a redundant Dante network and have parameters such as battery and RF level information displayed on CL and QL mixing consoles is also a huge advantage.”

“Sterling have fully embraced Digital 6000,” comments Mark Haigh, Channel Sales Manager for Sennheiser UK’s Pro Audio Solutions division. “It’s great to see them onboarding staff with training sessions and using the product. It will undoubtedly give them more flexibility in our ever-changing RF landscape, and ultimately help broaden their customer-base”.

A main motivator for the investment is a feature that is particularly important for corporate use and that is the switchable AES 256 encryption. Sterling MD Richard Bowden said “With our involvement in a number of party conferences and other events involving sensitive client information we have had a requirement for an encrypted wireless solution. The 6000 series provides this along with the highest quality audio and integration with our Dante networks.”