Events

New 'Vocal Management' from Court Acoustics

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A new product from Court Acoustics Ltd, the Vocal Management System has been designed by Stephen Court in a joint venture with Recording Studio Design Ltd, and is "the first piece of kit developed entirely for the vocalist - arguably the most important member of the band, yet traditionally the one person who has no capital expenditure for equipment".

Stephen Court told us: "Ever since we left the recording studios to help our clients achieve the same sound on stage - the quality difference between the studio and a live performance has been a problem, and the singer's voice in particular. Traditionally, in a studio, the vocals are processed through a lot of expensive and complicated equipment. Even if a singer could afford to take all that gear on the road, it would be an almost impossible task to set up. We took samples of singers' voices in both studio and i

Trade Show Innovations for ProLight + Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - At the ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt, Kling & Freitag will present the close-to-production prototypes of the new digital speaker controllers CD 24 and CD 44. The digital controllers replace the previous analogue system controllers.

The development goal during the conception of the CD 24/ CD 44 was to set new standards for sound quality and operating safety. In doing so, a high-resolution DA/AD converter (96 kHz / 24 bit) and a sophisticated limiter concept were used. Two fully automated independent limiters monitor and limit the cone excursions and the thermal load of the speakers using a sense connector at the amplifier output. Despite this complex circuit technology, the latency time is only 0.7ms. Every output channel can be used with individually parameter sets (macros) and saved as new pre-sets. The controllers operate with a mains voltage of 90 to 240 volts.

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PSL wins Farnborough contract

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Farnborough International Ltd, organiser of the world's largest airshow, has appointed ATC/PSL as its official AV and IT equipment supplier for its July 2006 event.

Farnborough International Airshow 2006 is again set to be the biggest, most internationally attended aerospace event in the world.

Although Potters Bar-based ATC (Aviation Television & Communication) has been a regular supplier to the Farnborough Air Show, this is the first time that the joint resources of ATC and its new parent group PSL will be combined, providing seamless and fully integrated delivery of the Show's AV and IT equipment requirements from a single source.

"We believe we can make it more successful for Farnborough International Ltd than ever before," says PSL's managing director Gary Davis. "It's a very prestigious contract for PSL, and one of the biggest events in the calendar

Lightfactor Sales at ARC 06

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Lightfactor Sales highlights the latest products from its control, display and architectural ranges of lighting at ARC 06. This includes the latest LightProcessor architectural dimmers and control solutions, along with luminaires from SGM, LDR and Xilver. SGM and Xilver products will be controlled wirelessly via Wireless Solutions' Wireless DMX, and Prolyte trussing will also feature on the stand.

SGM's PALCO LED colour-changer is featured. The fixture is ideal for both indoor and outdoor use (IP65 rated). PALCO uses of a series of high-power Luxeon LEDs (with RGB colour mixing - five blues, 20 greens and 24 reds). It's available, with 3W LEDs.PALCO Mobile is a new IP22 rated version of the fixture with motorized pan and tilt movement. It's DMX controlled with optional remote control unit. The fixture has RGB colour mixing and a combination of high-power Luxeon 3W/1W LEDs (

Dates set for Hawthorn@Home 2006

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Following their success in 2005, Hawthorn has organised a new series of events to take place at its base in Old Dalby in Leicestershire. The 'Hawthorn@Home 2006' events will give lighting, sound and AV users the opportunity to get 'hands-on' with the latest equipment and technology. The events also aim to give manufacturers, suppliers and users to discuss the products and to gain an insight not normally available outside large tradeshows, say Hawthorn.

The days will kick off with lunch and an informal get together, followed by the hands-on/demo of the equipment. The first three events are:

3 March: Moving Lights and Lighting Desks'
Companies participating include Avolites, Martin Professional, ETC, MA Lighting, Robe and Zero 88. Hawthorn will also have on show its range of Clay Paky Alpha Spots and Washes, as well as other moving lights in their rental and sales

Silver Dome for Turin

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy - Turin is set for the Winter Olympic Games, which open today. The Games have generated a great deal of work for Italian Prolyte distributor Decima and its client Ital Stage. On Gold Medal Plaza, a silver Dome has been taking shape, looking impressive even in its unfinished state.

Ital Stage, partly based on consultancy from Prolyte, has developed the main construction for the silver Dome. The stage structure is a mix of steel and aluminium. Prolyte S52SV truss is used for the middle grid, B100RV truss for the main grid, combined with S36R truss which will act as supporting structure for an inflatable on top of the stage.

The inflatable structure provides a flow of heated air to prevent snow accumulation on top of the roof structure: the circular roof has an overall height of 22.8m and a clearance of 17m. The structure has a cantilever of 16m at the front, which is suppo

Berlin Film Festival goes digital with Barco

Details: 14 March 2016

Belgium - Barco have announced that organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival have selected D-Cine Premiere DP100 and D-Cine premiere DP90 projectors for all digital screenings.

The festival is taking place from 9 to 19 February 2006. In total, four Barco digital projectors will be used for a full agenda of digital screenings in theatres throughout Berlin, on this year's "Berlinale". "We are delighted to be cooperating with Barco, as they really have a long-term commitment to high quality leadership in digital cinema," says Dieter Kosslick, festival director. "We have worked with them during the Berlinale of last year. Audiences were thrilled with the system's performance."

Based on DLP CinemaTM technology of Texas Instruments, Barco's digital cinema projectors answer the demanding needs of the cinema industry. Barco today counts over 5

NAMM - Anaheim, USA

Details: 14 March 2016

Although the 'N' in NAMM residually stands for 'National', the organisation is actually a very active international association for music products. Certainly the annual show in Anaheim, California is increasing its global pull year on year, notwithstanding the bedrock of banjo dealers from Arkansas. Professional audio, as a result, is benefiting in much the same way as it has across the pond in Frankfurt - if not on quite the same scale. MusikMesse bolted on to ProLight & Sound, but as yet there is no sign of an equivalent in Orange County.

The habit of using the show's concentration of delegates without exhibiting, imported from Europe as it happens, is on the up. Pro audio movers and shakers, sensing the new globalised year and a glint of movement in well targeted sunglasses, come to dip a toe in the water. This is almost literally true, given that the main arena for 'off-axis' busin

Alcorn McBride

Details: 14 March 2016

Alcorn McBride caters for a niche theme park market with its range of AV products. Their Digital Binloop now provides 16- and 24-Bit digital audio and/or MPEG-2 digital video in a compact and highly reliable package designed for continuous daily use. Ethernet, CobraNet, and SDI video outputs have also been added. The system has been designed to provide flexibility, with a confident 10-year warranty.

Audio-Technica

Details: 14 March 2016

Audio-Technica showed the latest additions to its UniPoint range of microphones, first seen at PLASA last autumn. Main features include 'UniGuard' technology - a new approach to shielding from RF interference; the 80Hz UniSteep filter for removal of unwanted low frequencies, without affecting vocal quality; and the robust, easy-to-adjust goosenecks.

Beyerdynamic

Details: 14 March 2016

The conferencing market was the source of perhaps the biggest news at the show: beyerdynamic's announcement of its acquisition of Interkom, and also of the resulting new product, Revoluto, certainly drew attention. Revoluto's 'line array microphone' technology results in a neat, toblerone-shaped desk-top block - no more goosenecks - and a pick-up pattern that promises to cater for even slouchy delegates. The proof of the pudding will be at the system's live demo in Frankfurt in a few weeks' time.

Christie

Details: 14 March 2016

In the shoot-out at the large venue display area, Christie certainly came out guns blazing with the latest Roadster S+16k 3-chip DLP projector. Again aimed at the rental and staging market, this very bright (16,000 ANSI lumens) compact projector certainly set the bar high, offering detail and depth of colour, and with contrast ratings as high as 1600-2000:1.

Christie's Brant Eckett says that their competitors' products have a head start: so Christie continues to go beyond the basics in terms of user-friendly detail. Designed with built-in handles and multiple rigging points, this projector is designed to travel with maximum ease. Replacement lamp costs are low, and Christie offers two-year parts and labour warranties (excluding the light engine).

Martin Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

Martin Audio was again present, showing its install products including the AQ Series, AM Series and Contractor Series of loudspeakers. While not having a bad show by any means, Martin Audio, interestingly, hadn't experienced the same level of interest from visitors as at the previous ISE event.

Shure

Details: 14 March 2016

Shure presented a selected product portfolio for the install market at ISE: highlights included the new conferencing processor, and the digital conferencing processor which integrates unique echo- and noise-cancellation, with their DFR and Intellimix technologies. Expected availability is Summer 2006. Other products included the UHF-R Wireless system as well as their line of Microflex installed microphones, and DFR22 Digital Feedback Reducer. Shure also presented audio seminars on automatic mixing and wireless technology as part of the show's education program.

Barco

Details: 14 March 2016

Barco showed what it says is the most silent 20,000 lumens projector on the market, the FLM series, specifically built for the rental and staging market. The company hopes that the projector's "extreme brightness, compact design, and low noise" will prove the perfect solution for these applications. The first projector in the range is the FLM R20+, and has a contrast ratio of 1800:1. Existing lens ranges can be used on the FLM series. The projector was on display in the large venue display area, and has advanced 10-bit processing which ensures exceptional video performance, say Barco.

Panasonic

Details: 14 March 2016

Panasonic showed the world's largest plasma screen - a huge, and hugely impressive 103" monster. With full 1920 x 1080 HD resolution and a 3000:1 contrast ratio, the screen incorporates Panasonic's high-speed pixel drive. Don't attempt to lift this one on your own . . .

Danish Interpretation Systems

Details: 14 March 2016

Danish Interpretation Systems showed its range of systems, incorporating a host of features including integrated automatic camera control. See Technical Focus for more.

Allen & Heath's digital line-up for Frankfurt

Details: 14 March 2016

UK / Germany - Allen & Heath will be showing its latest products at the forthcoming Pro Light & Sound show in Frankfurt, 29th March - 1st April 2006, with primary focus on the iLive digital mixing system and Xone:3D mixer/controller.

The heart of the iLive system is the iDR-64, a 19" rack-mounting modular mix engine, providing 64 channels into 32 mixes, which is a stand-alone mixer comprising 8-channel audio interface cards, DSP processing, and communication ports. The unit is controlled via an Ethernet network and can be connected to a variety of controllers, including a range of newiLive control surfaces, Allen & Heath's PL range of remote units, or a laptop/PC.

Two EtherSound ports are provided for low latency remote audio distribution, connection of an additional unit to expand the system to 128 channels, FOH/monitor signal splitting, and the connection of multi-track

ISE 2006, Brussels

Details: 14 March 2016

Belgium - ISE spread its wings even further at its third event, held in Brussels at the beginning of February. The show which broadly styles itself 'The European meeting point for AV systems Integrators' is proving to be just that: with a huge increase in both exhibitors (about 50%) and visitors (in excess of 30%) in 2006, it's an undeniable force on the installation technology circuit.

With regard to the elements particularly of interest to L&SI (i.e. installed audio and lighting, show control and display technologies for professional, as opposed to home markets, and with the emphasis on entertainment and leisure, rather than industrial applications) the growth was perhaps less significant, although still worth a look.

KME

Details: 14 March 2016

German manufacturer KME showed its latest loudspeaker products including the Pano mini line array and the RCM V2.0 remote control module for its self-powered speakers - the follow-up to the TCP/IP remote control module. Hardware improvements include a Power Over Ethernet circuit which gives the user a redundant power supply for added reliability in installations, and an automatic speaker impedance control system.

Lighthouse

Details: 14 March 2016

Lighthouse introduced its highest-ever resolution LED screen (in a pre-production version). The 4mm pixel pitch P4 and R4 screen offers high quality viewing from as near as 3m, say the company. The design adopts the fanless approach of the company's P10 and R10 screens, making them ideal where silence is a requirement. Features include light weight, wide vertical and horizontal viewing angles, 2000 NITS brightness, and remote monitoring of LED failure, power failure and temperature. Of interest to display designers, the screen modules are of the same dimensions as the company's 6mm and 10mm pixel pitch screens, allowing displays of varying resolutions to be created.

Evolvision

Details: 14 March 2016

Evolvision offered eye-catching screen products designed to surprise, challenge and trick your brain. Displayed to great effect was the pyramid screen - literally a pyramid-shaped screen surface (viewed point-on). Content is distorted over the four planes to create an image from the optimum viewing angle that appears to be flat, yet 3-dimensional in depth. Alternatively, this multi-dimensional screen can project four different images at the same time, using only one projector. Various-shaped screens work on the same principle, but in different forms. The pole, for example, has a 360° viewing surface, requiring two projectors.

Stardraw

Details: 14 March 2016

Stardraw told us that day one of ISE was more successful for them in financial terms than all the exhibiting they did in the whole of 2005 put together - and they did a lot of exhibiting in 2005. No small boast then, and it's all down to Stardraw Control, which now seems to be reaching its tipping point.

This all-singing software package, which allows system integrators to create control systems which can address any piece of equipment via any protocol now seems set to fulfil the promise it made when it picked up its PLASA Award in 2004. Over 3,200 downloads of the free software have now been made, and new users are signing up at the rate of around 250 per month. Meanwhile, agreements with manufacturers such as 3touch and Simply Reliable Software, both of which were announced at ISE (see news, page 8), open up whole new avenues, bringing potentially thousands of new users to the fold.

KEF Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

KEF Audio, known more for their high-end home entertainment loudspeaker products, showed the latest pro custom installation speakers, including adjustable, motorised in-ceiling and in-wall units. Among them was the Ci3-80QT - a quiet, motorised 3-way, 4-driver system, incorporating a 75mm Uni-Q drive-unit array, plus two 75mm LF units in a sealed white enclosure. Mounted in a rectangular flush baffle, it's designed for in-ceiling applications.

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