Events

Amptown Cases & GSL Power Distribution

Details: 14 March 2016

Getting the low-down of what's new in the world of flightcasing on the Amptown Cases stand, over a German beer, provided some respite from the bustle of the show. As it turns out, a lot is new in the world of cases, with Amptown showing a nifty box mechanism: for those cases with front and back removable lids (that someone takes to catering as a tea tray and never returns), the new mechanism has a slider whereby the lid remains attached and can slide into the case on both sides.

GSL Power Distribution were sharing a stand with Amptown, offering power racks, housed in sturdy Amptown cases, with one of GSL's distro' systems taking its place in the Awards for Innovation Gallery. Launched by Garry Lodge, GSL offers the entertainment industry and rental operations in particular a new approach to providing power solutions with its interchangeable power modules, unveiled at the

Dolby Laboratories - Dolby Lake Processor

Details: 14 March 2016

The Dolby Lake Processor provides advanced control and flexibility over complex speaker systems for live events, fixed installations and studio settings. The processor is easy to integrate into any audio system and the software interface is intuitive, saving sound engineers' time in set-up and handling. Via its four front-panel portals and the wireless tablet, engineers have easy access to monitor the system and make adjustments in real time. The basic platform offers complete, native-digital signal-processing functionality, with support for up to 4-in by 12-out for loudspeaker applications and eight-in by eight-out for EQ applications.

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Abstract AVR

Details: 14 March 2016

Abstract AVR's main show focus was the CRX motorised LED strip light and their brand new LED helicopter light. The pitching LED strip is an 800mm long LED strip containing 1W emitters. Also highlighted were other AVR club and dancefloor lighting effects and their CRX AR 1-11 wall LED fixtures.

MC2 Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

MC2 Audio were proudly showing a product previewed earlier in the year at Frankfurt. The E475 has just come into production and the company was happy to announce that it already has 100 units on back order. The4-channel amp can provide 750W per channel and is designed for touring monitor systems.

Canford Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

Tecpro2 - currently being Beta tested - is the new offering from Canford Audio, consisting of a Master Station and extender unit. It's more powerful than the original Tecpro unit and with additional extender units offers up to four individual full duplex comms circuits. Additional useful elements include remote mic kill and an 'announce' feature. It will be retro-compatible with previous Tecpro products.

Genlyte Group

Details: 14 March 2016

Following the Genlyte Group's acquisition of Strand Lighting and the subsequent shut-down of the UK operation, Strand Lighting Inc was on stand to reassure existing customers of its continued commitment to the European market. The company also launched its new Palette lighting console. Strand's Ed Twentyman reported that the Palette was "superbly received and generated huge interest". Visitor numbers to the stand were excellent and the level of enquiries very good, said Strand.

Wango's

Details: 14 March 2016

Wango's were busy changing the face of staging. As UK distributor for American manufacturer Staging Concepts, Wango's can offer a range of staging that requires only one tool to put together. With no working under decks, risk of injury has been reduced; the system is quick to assemble and Wango's say they have saved on truck size. Their primary focus is sales, but Wango's do have some hire stock too.

LDDE

Details: 14 March 2016

Also sharing distributor White Light's stand LDDE displayed its 100% dimmable colour changing fluorescents - the SpectraConnect T5. LDDE also introduced its SpectraLed*144 - the first LED colour-mixing unit with an RGBAW configuration of 144x1W high-power LEDs. It offers flicker-free fades from 0-100% intensity and can be run inline with the SpectraConnect T5 units.

A.C. Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Yet another eclectic spread of products on the A.C. Lighting stand: in no particular order, a new 15A Grelko that cannot be cross/half-plugged; the new Chroma Q+ colour scroller which can now handle 20 frames; Cross Pole from Manfrotto - as the name implies, a gaffer's pole for horizontal mount between adjacent walls, to rig lights from, with a 75kg capacity at 6m; the DTS range of lamps from Italy - everything from Par cans to the new Delta range of colour mixing floodlight fittings rated IP65.

DTS had their own stand and were also exhibiting the new XR9 and XR8 moving head projectors. DTS's Pierluigi Gasperoni said: "Year after year we experience that PLASA is the best stage to show our news and to meet professionals from all over the world. PLASA is a top level event that attracts the best audience we could look for, that's why D.T.S. always introduces its new products d

All4Light

Details: 14 March 2016

German company All4Light BV prides itself on its almost indestructible LED fixtures. New products on show included: CrystalColor 5 (ColorMotion) - a DMX-controlled colour-changing IP68-rated fixture; CrystalColor 5 -a colour-changing IP68 fixture that simulates white light ranging from 2750°K to 8000°K; CrystalColor 7 - a small IP68 spot featuring multi-mirror precision lenses, supporting various beam angles from 12° to 120° x 140° - and WaterVision WV15 - a new underwater fixture which exceeds the light output of a 300W PAR 56 Halogen spotlight!

Tarm Showlaser

Details: 14 March 2016

Renowned German laser production company Tarm Showlaser highlighted their range of services with a funky new brochure and DVD. This was their second PLASA Show, and reflects the growing international nature of their business. Major display projects for the company this year have included the opening of the Winter Olympics in Turin and a World Cup show at the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin.

Duran Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

Duran Audio were previewing an extension to its successful Intellivox system at PLASA. The updated versions now incorporate HF drivers, improving the steerable array's frequency response up to 18kHz.

In the last year, Duran Audio has enjoyed several high-profile installations with one of the latest being in London's King's Cross and the Berlin Hauptbahnhof in Germany, where AXYS Intellivox and AXYS IntelliDisc-DS90 were installed respectively. The latter was the first installation for the IntelliDisc product, the world's first fully integrated, digitally controlled, two-dimensional loudspeaker array. Joining the team on the stand was new marketing man, Ian Bowler, who is charged with overseeing the AXYS brand.

TMB

Details: 14 March 2016

The latest thing at the TMB stand was Toplight, an integrated, hanging lighting system from FinnLight, run by noted US television lighting director Bruce Finn. Toplight provides high-output illumination from six PAR 64 lamps, with configurable diffusions for a variety of soft light looks.

TMB also showed products that build on existing product lines. The company's DecoPAR range of pinspots and floods now includes PAR 16 and PAR 20 versions. Also, the ColourPix range of large-scale LED video displays now features new high-resolution modules comprised of interlocking panels that are custom-configured for pixel-pitch and size. The ProPower HPS 24- and 48-way Hot Patch Systems allow the use of rackmount dimmers with flexible output options. Also, the ProPower RPD Rack Panel Distribution systems can be custom-configured for each customer or application. The ProTester DMX tool checks

Goboservice

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy's Goboservice announced the appointment of Projection Advertising as its exclusive UK distributor in July 2006. Goboservice is a totally bespoke service and does not offer standard gobos.

Seltron

Details: 14 March 2016

Seltron has been busy this year developing new faders specifically with Stanton and Pioneer in mind. The new Pro X-Fade cross fader is the latest development in the range, smaller than previous models but just as robust. In addition, Seltron's new line fader is being supplied to manufacturers including Soundcraft. These products add to the company's growing range of faders, connectors, switches and encoders.

Goboland

Details: 14 March 2016

Goboland's Vicky Fairall, who began heading the Belgian company's London branch last year, said the company was having a "brilliant" show. "I just can't tell you how good it's been," she said, "It seems that every visitor to the stand is a new customer." As usual, the company was also offering some traditional Belgian hospitality, in the form of very strong beer, and very nice chocolates.

Griven

Details: 14 March 2016

PLASA Show launches from Griven included the LED Dazzler and Shaper products. The Dazzler is a powerful 6-way unit offering six clusters of 18 LEDs complete with independent pan and tilt operation for each cluster - ideal for studio and live applications. The Shaper is a linear RGB colour changer also offering six clusters and independent pan and tilt control. It uses 24 DMC channels when full pan/tilt control are required over each cluster, and four when all clusters are operated as one.

Traxon UK

Details: 14 March 2016

Traxon UK displayed its new professional LED lighting range, including the successful 64PXL DMX series, available in Matrix, Wash and Mirror formats. Also on display were Traxon's new wall washers, spotlights and accent lighting.

Edirol

Details: 14 March 2016

Edirol introduced its V-440HD video mixer, which the company says creates new standards in the market. It's an 8-input console that combines 4 inputs of standard definition video with 4 inputs that can be either high definition video (1080i or 720p) or RGB at any resolution from VGA (640x480) to SXGA (1280x1024) - and then output all of these at the resolution that the user chooses. With other features including keyers and picture-in-picture on SD and HD, plus the ability to split output over multiple units, the V-440HD is a single-box solution that "answers every event manager's needs at a price that nobody thought possible" the company says.

SGM

Details: 14 March 2016

Italian moving light manufacturer SGM (represented in the UK by Lightfactor Sales) launched the Pilot 3000 lighting console - an expediently-sized but powerful control surface with many features you'd expect to find on larger lighting desks. They also had the new 2.5 release of their own media server - the Imago Mediasynth (badged by Brash Technologies and recently featured on the Eros Ramazzotti tour). Also new was the latest in the Palco range of LED fixtures, the Palco 5, utilising the new K2 LEDs.

Shure Distribution

Details: 14 March 2016

Shure Distribution's extensive stand was evidence enough that this company provides more than just microphones: "We are a one-stop shop for our customers," said new marketing manager Uzo Onuora. With new products from Radial Engineering, a new distribution deal for Shure (including a range of DI boxes and mic splitters), Shure's very own Performance Gear radio microphone systems, Sound Devices' range of recording devices including the 702 and 722 two-channel units to name just few, visitors were treated to a feast of shiny electronics! The Sound Devices units were proving popular: the 702 records only onto removable Compact Flash cards, while the 722 is also able to record directly to its internal 40GB hard drive or Compact Flash.

"We have had a lot of really good quality customers come and see us on stand," enthused Onuora.

Sennheiser

Details: 14 March 2016

A dizzying array of new products was on display from Sennheiser, not least TourGuide 2020-D, a digital, six-channel, rechargeable headset system that automatically turns on when the head band is opened by the wearer. A personal volume control is built into the body of the headband - which hangs below the chin and is easily viewed - so too the channel selection. Weight is just 65g.

The A5000-CP is a circular polarised helical antenna that provides a more robust solution to difficult or cluttered stage environments. The A5000 is linear across the entire wideband range 450-960MHz; its unique propagation characteristics mean greatly reduced dropouts.

Also new, Sennheiser's SDC 8200 is a fully RoHS-compliant conference and interpretation system.

A smaller, smarter body pack transmitter, the SK 5212 runs on just one AA cell (six hours), is more frequency agile, and possesses a two

Yamaha

Details: 14 March 2016

Once again, Yamaha have done the Japanese thing and made an already good product even smaller and more affordable with the addition of a new digital desk, the LS9, aimed squarely at the small format analogue mixer market. In two variants, 16 or 32 channels, the LS9 uses many of the usual recall features from the highly successful M7CL launched at PLASA last year.

An ever-strengthening range of amplifiers sees the addition of the TN amplifiers, a range from 1900W to 2500W output (stereo at 2 ohms) and using Yamaha's high-efficiency, patented 'EEEngine'.

By licensing the Ethernet-based standard (announced worldwide from the PLASA show) Yamaha has made EtherSound networking technology part of its inherent strength, making the integration of Yamaha digital consoles into audio networks even easier. Plus, three new EtherSound-enabled DME Satellite models were added to the recently-launched

K.M.E.

Details: 14 March 2016

German loudspeaker manufacturer K.M.E. presented the CBA700D self-powered sub and the QL1215 down-fill unit at PLASA this year. The CBA700D contains a 15" direct radiating driver and Class D 500W amplifier, and is designed for use with K.M.E.'s CSA range. The QL1215, on the other hand, complements the company's PANO line array by giving 120° horizontal dispersion from two 8" and two 1" compression drivers.

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