ADB's WARP lighting fixture range was on display, with new improved features and discharge light sources. A low-noise colour changer with an adaptor plate that reduces spill light from the front of the fixture has been introduced. WARP/HMI is a new fixture range that uses HMI/MSR discharge lamps and flicker-free electronic ballasts; the fixtures are silent due to their fan-less design.
ADB's Phoenix and Mentor console
"It's a legacy thing," said Ian Gregory, product manager at BSS Audio. "The development cycle for SoundWeb London just predated HiQnet, at which point it was decided that a completely new software application would be written from the ground up. This would then be the central control softwar
"The more digital we go, the fewer racks will be needed. Some will remain for the esoteric units, and there are those who don't have the budget to go h
"Contour follows on from Cohedra and Cohedra Compact," explained HK Audio's Marketing Manager Philipp Wrede. "But unlike Cohedra it's an active system, something the market demanded from us. It's very fast and easy to set up, with presets according to how many units you're using and whether you're flying or stacking - great for small-to-mid-range applications, say between 200 and 800 people. Cohedra remains the large-scale fl
The W8LCD is a downfill addition to each of Martin Audio's line array series, with 120° horizontal dispersion, 20° vertical. "It means you can run the array straighter," added Cousins, "so you get more projection and it works more like a line array should. It completes the range. But, as with other Martin line array, you can use it separately i
The DCP 1248 Conferencing Processor includes 12 mic/line level inputs, each with logic inputs and outputs, four line level inputs, and eight line level outputs. Through Shure's CABus network, up to eight units can be linked, resulting in up to 96 x 64 auto-mixable microphone channels.
Also launching was a wired version of Shures's KSM9 wireless capsule. KSM9 is the first live vocal microphone with a dual-diaphragm design and switchable cardioid/supercardioid polar pattern, crafted to deliver vocal subtlety, flexibility and durability, say t
Each station contains 14 capsules, but the unit is no larger than conventional gooseneck models. Revoluto is also a networked system, enabling up to 1,400 stations to operate from one control unit, distributed around multiple rooms or buildings and PC-configurable into precise scheduled sessions - all of which thinking has arisen from Beyerdynamic's acquisition of Interkom, the German conferencing technology manufacturer and, by sheer coincidence, neighbour of Sennheiser.
New products actually on the beyerdynamic stand included the Opus 89 dynamic microphone, and the expansion of the Tourgroup series of m
"We now have control software so you can run every parameter in the box from a PC, using a really slick user interface," explained Audient-LA Audio product specialist Ross McFarlane. "You can do that to control a single unit, already built into the box, or with an optional network card you can do it for up to 100 units. It looks and behaves much like a Pro Tools plug-in, so it's really easy to understand."
It also allows you to store and recall banks of programs, so with multiple units in comparable systems it's possible to transfer data from one en
