Events

Compulite

Details: 14 March 2016

Compulite was showing its Vector lighting control series, offering advanced console design for handling conventional and automated fixtures, dual processor design for high performance and stability, a familiar Windows XP environment, VX Works real-time operating system, and an interactive toolbar for rapid programming. The Vector comes in three colours (Red, Green, and Blue), each of which has specific capabilities.

Furman Sound - reissue of Q-Series Eqs

Details: 14 March 2016

The reissued Furman Sound's Q-Series II Equalizers comprise the Q-2312 two-channel, 31-band, 1/3-octave graphic equalizer; the Q-1311 single channel, 31-band, 1/3-octave graphic equalizer; the Q-2151 two-channel, 15-band, 2/3-octave graphic equalizer; the Q-2152V long throw, two-channel, 15-band, 2/3-octave graphic equalizer with VU meters; and the Q-1312V long throw single channel, 31-band, 1/3-band octave equalizer with analogue VU meter.

Enttec

Details: 14 March 2016

Enttec, the Australian manufacturer whose Datagate was a nominee at the PLASA Show's Awards for Innovation this year, was also at LDI. The company's Nicolas Moreau reports that the response to Datagate has been good since PLASA. Sharing the company's stand at LDI was another Antipodean lighting innovator, Martin Searancke, who demonstrated his Light Factory PC-based lighting control software. His motivation in developing this system was a realization that most software on the market tended to cater for moving lights; he was also conscious, he explains, of other packages' poor use of 'screen real estate'. Light Factory, he says, is "a no-compromise approach of traditional dimmer control and fully featured moving light support". Introduced just one year ago, Light Factory is now in its third version and has established a respectable core of users in that time.

L-Acoustics

Details: 14 March 2016

A few blocks away from the convention centre, in the Continental Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, L-Acoustics mounted the launch of what the latter-day pioneer of the technology called the "next generation" of line array - so expectations were high. Kudo (below right) was duly unveiled, and described by technical support manager for touring, Paul Bauman, as "something a bit different from the usual line source array".

Kudo apparently gets its name from 'K-Louvre Modular Directivity', a patent-pending technology designed to enable users to change the coverage pattern of the array mechanically - either vertically or horizontally. It incorporates the company's now-famous WST waveguide fundamentals, and comprises a medium-format, active 3-way system with two12", four 5" and two 1" components. But uniquely, K-Louvre itself is a system of control panels that s

Vari-Lite

Details: 14 March 2016

Vari-Lite introduced its new VL2500 spot and wash lights, however it was the VL3500Q that was one of the stars of the show. Even the normally understated Philip Norfolk became animated when it came to discussing this fixture: with 50% audible reduction in noise output from the standard VL3500, it is ideal for theatre use, perhaps even FOH. It has an incredibly even field of intensity and very fast colour mixing potential: however, the shutter system must truly be the highlight of this fixture, with a nine-motor system it can go incredibly small and still remain very sharp - and the shape is totally repeatable.

TMB

Details: 14 March 2016

With media servers being one of the buzz words at the show, TMB was showcasing the Hippotizer range from Green Hippo, which received much attention at PLASA this year. In addition, G-Lec announced the appointment of TMB as its exclusive sales partner in North America and launched its first for-sale unit, the LightFrame. The TMB stand was also the base for the men of Carallon, namely Nick Archdale and Richard Mead, the former Flying Pigs who have been keeping themselves busy since leaving the High End Systems fold earlier in 2004. Their new Pharos solid state architectural controller was receiving an excellent response at LDI, Mead told us. The system offers a cost-effective solution for controlling entertainment and LED lighting in architectural environments. Pharos offers real-time control of playback selection and lighting levels; playback of scenes, sequences, effects video clips and

A.C.T. Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

At A.C.T. Lighting the folks from MA Lighting (distributed in the US by A.C.T) were on hand to explain the latest refinements and additions to the grandMA console. The grandMA version 5.3 features a full blind editor, which works parallel to the live programmer. In addition, the console now supports WYSIWYG autofocus functionality via Ethernet directly. Keeping up with the times, MA has released the grandMAVideo, a new media-server application for all grandMA consoles, and coming soon is dimMA sine-wave, a new module with IGBT technology; the dimMA sine-wave modules will feature 4x3 kVA and 2x6kVA dimmer channels and will be based on pulse-width modulation with 40 kHz for extremely smooth waveforms. Also distributed by A.C.T. is the Frog 2 console from Zero 88. In this edition of the Frog line, there are no restrictions imposed by the hardware design. Multiple playback, user-definable co

Rane

Details: 14 March 2016

Rane was demo'ing its Scratch Live system - an interesting product with some pretty clever technology. The Scratch Live interface connects almost any computer to an ordinary pair of turntables or CD players. It can then faithfully track every subtle movement of the stylus on the included control records. The same movement is then instantly applied to any digital audio file in the user's collection, producing a sound and feel that is indistinguishable from vinyl. All Rane products are manufactured in the USA.

Jireh Supplies Inc / The Effects Company

Details: 14 March 2016

Jireh Supplies Inc announced that it is now the exclusive North American distributor for The Effects Company from the UK, and proudly showcased the full product range on stand. There were also live demonstrations of the spectacular CO2 Jet system and Cirrus Lowsmoke. Gene Byce, of Jireh Supplies was very excited about the potential of all The Effects Company's products, particularly their quality and ease of use.

Artistic Licence

Details: 14 March 2016

Less than a month after PLASA, Artistic Licence had even more new innovations on its stand. The latest product is Visual Patch - a fabulous invention for those using lots of fixtures with plenty of channels per fixture. Combining RDM protocol, a lighting console and a video camera, the system allows you to simply point the camera at the stage and press the Visual Patch button. The console then uses RDM to turn each lamp on, analyzes the position, shape and size of the lamp via the video camera, adds it to the patch and automatically sets the lamp start address, solving that dreadful problem of complex number crunching when patching. Soon it'll be possible to forget the boring numbers bit for good!

Outboard Electronics

Details: 14 March 2016

With 16,153 attendees and a near-record 415 exhibitors, San Francisco's AES Convention at the end of October displayed a genuinely positive mood. On the show floor, the typical reaction was expressed by Outboard Electronics' Dave Haydon - surveying four days of the exhibition from his vantage point in aisle one. "Certainly from the point of view of being one of the wallflowers round the edge, it's been very busy," he said. "It seems to me that the ideal combination of having both the quality and the quantity of traffic has applied here.

"There seems to be an AES habit of starting round the edges because you already know who's in the middle and you'll get to them eventually, but there's a lot of cool stuff from small companies in the end booths that kind of sneaks in from the outside. So, even as in some ways a peripheral participant, we've been very much part of it

GE Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

GE Lighting had several additions to its Showbiz line of bulbs. The Showbiz CSR800/SE/HR lamp is designed for film production settings, the result of a close collaboration with Mole-Richardson. A series of four CSR metal-halide lamps, the CSR400/S/DE, CSR575/S/DE, CSR700/S/DE, and CSR/1200/S/DE are designed for use in moving lights. The 80W F80BX/Cinera Plus 32 and 36W F36BX/Cinema Plays 32 are designed for indoor film shoots using 3,200° Kelvin tungsten lamps. The CHM150/PAR56 lamp is designed for architectural and retail applications.

Meyer Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

Exhibiting on its own doorstep, and two days after a lavish 25th anniversary party at the HQ in Berkeley, Meyer Sound announced that it had finally developed a proprietary digital loudspeaker management system. Called Galileo 616, the product represents the company's first foray into DSP, and comes after a typically cautious watching brief on the true potential of the technology.

"We weren't going to approach it until we could do it with 115dB of dynamic range," said director of European technical support, Luke Jenks. "It's not just a management system; it's also a line driver. So if you put it across your system, it has to perform at low output levels without noise, and at high output levels without clipping. That's where you really need the dynamic range. We have a huge stake in what happens after the DSP stage, so we only embarked on this once we were satisfied that t

Aviom - A-Net Pro64 ASIC

Details: 14 March 2016

A new version of the A-Net protocol behind the company's A-16 (right) Personal Monitor Mixing System, promising increased data capacity and signal control in this and future live performance audio networks.

"Because A-Net was originally conceived for live stage monitor applications, the protocol was designed to transmit in only one direction: from the A-Net input module or distributor hub out to the performers' mixers," said Carl Bader, president and CEO of Aviom.

"A-Net Pro is fully bi-directional and has dramatically increased capacity, while preserving the central performance specs of A-Net: uncompressed, low-latency in a plug-and-play system. The new version of the protocol carries up to 64 audio channels on a single wire pair in a Cat 5 cable, still at 24 bits. In specialized networks, A-Net Pro can carry 256 channels without sacrificing performance."

Adamson - SpekTrix Wave

Details: 14 March 2016

The SpekTrix Wave cabinet has been added to the company's SpekTrix line array system, complete with Adamson's proprietorial wave shaping sound chamber. The product won a PAR Excellence award presented by Pro Audio Review. Shauna Kennedy marketing manager commented: "The PAR Excellence award recognizes promising new audio products that show a combination of innovative uses of technology and performance value for the professional user, we were honoured to receive it."

The 15° trapezoidal cabinet allows for extreme downward angles at the bottom of an array for front row coverage, as well as wide vertical coverage arrays such as multiple-balcony venues.

It's a 3-way cabinet with two Adamson 8.5" Kevlar, neodymium drivers - one ND8-L mid-bass driver and one ND8-M mid-range driver - and a 1.5" compression driver mounted on the wave shaping chamber. This produces a slig

Lee Filters

Details: 14 March 2016

Lee Filters' sales director Ralph Young gave a warm welcome, and reported that the show was going very well and that there had been a great deal of interest in the new designer colours released by Lee earlier this year. The stand also featured an amazing piece of dichroic glass sculpture, which we'd rather like for the office.

Robert Juliat

Details: 14 March 2016

New from Robert Juliat is the Espion 2, a hand-held, battery-powered DMX analyzer with features including a DMX cable tester, DMX input receiving, DMX output sending (memories/macros), level catpure (memory recording), DMX input analyzer and reformer, moving light test facilities (library), and USB connector. Linked to a computer through the USB interace, Espion allows you to check all parameters plus DMX stream, in real time, on your computer screen.

Osram

Details: 14 March 2016

Osram introduced its new Ostar compact high-powered LED offering more than 120 lumens output and measuring 3cm x 1cm. Ostar's RGB lightsource consists of one red, one blue and two green thin-film chips, a ceramic carrier for interconnection andthermal management, and supporting electronics for over-voltage and over-heating protection. Also shown was the QXL 750.77 Quick eXchange lamp, which offers1500 hour lamp life, utilizes eXtreme Seal Technology and is designed for use in theatres, studios and architectural applications. The SharXS 200 HTI, a double-ended metal halide lamp, also uses eXtreme Seal technology, delivers exceptional brightness, and can withstand increased thermal stress. The new Osram SFc10-4 is a pre-focused socket that can be wired for either end and is designed to work with all of the lamps in the SharXS series. The Osram Planon flat lamp technology was also displaye

Apollo Design

Details: 14 March 2016

Apollo Design showed the new Smart Color line of colour changers. The three models feature quiet operation, a dual speed single fan, variable scroll speed, and a self-tensioning gel string. Apollo premiered three new gel colours - Putting Green, Margarita Green and Green Diffusion, as well as 90 new gobo patterns, 45 of which are glass.

Alcons Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

Nat Hecht, Principal and CEO of Transmission Line Marketing, established his company 18 months ago for "pro audio and video distribution throughout the Americas", and clearly has an eye for innovative European technology. As well as, on this occasion, helping to introduce TiMax to an AES audience, Hecht hosted Alcons Audio's debut appearance at a US trade show - along with its signature ribbon-based loudspeaker technology.Alcons MD Tom Back had this to say: "Contrary to the popular belief that ribbon technology is very fragile, has low impedance and poor power handling, after selling hundreds of products over nearly two years we haven't had a single one returned. We don't even have a price for a replacement diaphragm."

Back went on to reveal that the LR16 compact line array, designed for small to medium applications and receiving its US launch at the show, has been

Lycian

Details: 14 March 2016

Lycian showed the prototype of their 3k-xenon short-throw spotlight that features three dichroic slots, a left/right top/bottom chopping shutter and side mounted gobo slots. For long-throw applications, the 1294 SuperArc 4k features a nichrome/steel iris/zoom lens system and achieves 5,000 foot-candles at 100 feet.

PRG

Details: 14 March 2016

PRG, having merged with VLPS, got to show the latter company's Virtuoso EX1 media server, with features that include real-time rendering, keystone correction, three interactive 3-D objects, two separate background layers, positional camera, ambient and directional light source, crossfading of all elements, colour-mixing, object mapping of textures, videos or still images, the ability to interact with cues, and high-resolution (16-bit) control of most parameters. The product uses the first 218 channels of a DMX-512 universe.

JBL - new system design software for VerTec, SRX700 portable series

Details: 14 March 2016

JBL Professional announced a new suite of system design and operation tools for use with VerTec line array systems. All-new DSP presets, expanded array DLLs for use in EASE 4.0 acoustic modelling software, and an upgraded version of JBL's Line Array Calculator are included in the package.The SRX700 series maintains the established SR and SRX series loudspeakers' claims to offer most advanced driver technology available in a portable PA. System weight has been reduced even further, even while the enclosures are made from hard-wearing birch.

Doug Fleenor Design

Details: 14 March 2016

Along with the newly-revised DMX Coffee Pot, Mark II, Doug Fleenor Design was also showing the Remote Addressing Device (RAD). The RAD gives users status information on their fixtures, and can be used to set DMX addresses. The LED300 Power Supply features six 4-pin XLR outputs to power up to six Color Kinetics Color Blast 12-style fixtures. The LED300 Power Supply also features numerous built-in effects, and can be used without a console.

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