Managing director of The Effects Company, Martin Blake, says: "We have always sold directly to the end user or 'trade installer' in the USA but many enquiries 'go dead' when they cannot purchase directly in the USA. Now customers can purchase from Jireh Supplies, knowing their requirements can be shipped immediately from stock and have the full back-up and service of a reputable company. This pro-active sales agreement wi
While SmartFade is ideal for first time users, educational establishments and amateur groups, it nevertheless offers all the control performance required by lighting professionals. With three operating modes, SmartFade offers a simple Two Scene mode with 12 or 24 channels for novice users, or Normal mode, providing 48 or 96 channels with 288 or 576 memories and 48 sequences for more experienced users. DMX512 input facility also allows SmartFade to be used as a sophisticated backu
The band wanted a visual departure from last year's LED wall, which featured low-resolution imagery. They favoured a less technical stage look, but also wanted to continue with digital technology: this provided the starting point for lighting designers Andy Hurst and Vince Foster and the UVA team, who came up with the concept of a super low-res horizontal wall of Pixelline - 151 pixels wide by 161 high - with gaps in between the units.
Highlighting the band in silhouette, the Pixelline wall served as a dynamic (and very bright)
The event was staged over three locations: Pwellheli inner marina and Abersoch main beach were used for the wakeboard competition, while Penrhos was the music site, where headline act Kosheen was supported by the Ordinary Boys, Snatch and others. It took two and a half days to set all power, lighting and sound equipment across the site.
PA for the main area was Kling & Freitag's Access system: four T9 and T5 cabintes, with 12 B5 and four B10s as subwoofers, powered by Lab Gruppen amplification. At front-of-house were a Yamaha PM4000 and an Allen & Heath ML5000. For each desk was an outboard rack carrying a Yamaha SPX 900 and SPX 2000, a dbx
The effects created provided a spectacular accompaniment to the three-hour ceremony. The Chinese performance of the Beijing handover ceremony was given a dramatic finish using 15 of Le Maitre's Electric Air Cannons to fire yellow streamers from inside a giant lantern. The ceremony featured performances fro
For Air's performance, the Biomes were lit with a combination of James Thomas PixelPAR 90(A) architectural fixtures and Pixelline 1044 battens. The Biome D4 was operated by Fraser Elisha.
For the tour - a combination of own shows and festival slots, with lighting and sound production supplied by Entec - Byars needed a lightweight desk with compact dimensions that was easy to hoist up FOH festival towers. He also needed it to offer plenty of creative power, and found the D4 ideal from all perspectives.<
Meanwhile, The Chronicles of Riddick, starring Vin Diesel and Ja Rule, has made use of CITC's Stratosphere Haze machine. The film's special effect technician, Bill Orr, had three large stages in which to maintain a balanced haze. He commented: "It doesn't have to stay on very long to make six hours of haze that's even."
Morris was VP of worldwide marketing at HES from March 2003 to March 2004. He has spent the last six months running his own marketing consulting firm based in the Austin area. Prior to his stint at High End, Morris was employed by Dell Computer Corporation and was responsible for developing and implementing Dell's software sales and marketing strategy. In earlier years, he founded and managed a marketing and public relations firm based in Dallas, Texas.
HES CEO Frank Gordon says, "We turned to Bill for this position because we recognize that he is customer-oriented, he understands the business and the direct
The Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 LED fixture features a modular design, comprehensive fixing options and advanced effects engine, allowing users to create a versatile LED system using stock of just one fixture type. The product will be shown its many configurations and fixing options.
Also launching this year from Chroma-Q is the 4Play - a fault-tolerant, self-healing 4-way DMX buffer designed to fully isolate all outputs from each other. Supplied with 4 x 5 pin connectors, each output is separately generated and boosted from the origin
Schouw & Co's statement said: "Martin Professional is facing a number of vital challenges. Many new initiatives have already been launched, and several long-term measures are currently being considered. Recognising the long-term perspective of this process of change, Kristian Kolding believes that now is the time to hand over the reins to a new top executive."
Schouw & Co also expressed
HES CEO Frank Gordon comments: "I am looking forward to the synergy and leadership that Fons will bring to this sales region for High End. His 25 plus years of ind
Broadly based on GSM (mobile phone) technology, the wireless side works in the 2.45GHz radio band alongside Bluetooth and similar IEEE 802.11 (W-LAN) compliant products. However, unlike equipment operating according to the 802.11 standard, the W-DMX system uses Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) encryption along with Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) which allows greater data throughput as it is less affected by local 802.11 products.
The products are all DMX512A and RDM ready, and the firmware can also be updated using a separate data channel, which is also used for system set up. Up to 8192 receivers can be controlled form one system, and there are four differing types of transmitter - the differences being primarily in the quantity of DMX universes that can be co
Programming via the Internet is especially useful for architectural installations: the system makes it possible for a lighting designer or installer to access and change colour settings for a special event at a building in Los Angeles, for example, from his office in London.
The interface is able to establish a connection to a server and look for any new updates: the lighting designer just needs to put his new show on the server and the interface will download it at the next connection. The company explains: "It works a little bit like antivirus software, which looks for updates every day, or week." The interface can be connected to a WebCam, allowing the installer to up
Stardraw's Rob Robinson explains what sets it apart from other control solutions. "Stardraw Control creates stand-alone control applications that can manage any kind of product from any manufacturer as long as it can be controlled or monitored remotely. It is designed to support any communications infrastructure and any protocol such as LAN, Wi-Fi, IR, RS232, EtherSound etc. Furthermore, the application that you have created with Stardraw Control will run on any Windows-enabled device from PC to PDA to touchscreen panel, as well as Linux, Mac etc. To our knowledge, no-one else offers such
The system builds lighting displays in scenes - a scene defined as the state of each lamp pertaining to a given power unit. Each power unit can store up to 30,000 scenes and can play up to 20 scenes per second: combined with fast playback, this allows for long, non-repetitive and complex lighting effects.
A final feature of the DFS200 system is the ability for lamps to fade: conventional festoon lighting systems can only switch lamps on and off. W
Pandora's Box is a powerful media server, joining the new generation of digital lighting / video convergence technologies. Using multi-layer technology, its 3D rendering process allows one image layer to be used as a background while layering or fading other images on top. 3D rotation allows keystone correction even at extreme projection angles. Up to 9 separate layers can be created with soft crossfading of layers, variable tilting and zooming of images, RGB colour mixing, an extensive 3D effects library, 3D point-of-view shifting, perspective or orthogonal view selection, and firewire or optional capturecard input.
The LED-Kac
The Product Excellence Awards at the PLASA show have been a popular feature of the event for many years, highlighting the significance of the show as a focus for new developments for the industry. To reinforce this role, the awards have undergone an important change for 2004 with the focus being much more on genuine innovation and have been relaunched as the PLASA Awards for Innovation. The previous assessment criteria, which segmented the nominations into sectors, has been removed so that products were not judged within category lines, but on the grounds of their innovation alone. The judges looked for
17 different enclosures available to provide an unbelievable level of design flexibility. Up to five MR16 Hearts can be used on each output of the ChromaZone, allowing the use of up to 60 units from a single ChromaZone! An optional five-way splitter available, as is an an optional pin mounting kit available for enclosures that use the GU5.3 pins to support the MR16 module.
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"Mike brings over 16 years of lighting and eight years of senior executive and consulting experience with three of the largest lighting companies in the world, with emphasis in
Movement range is 540° of pan by 280° of tilt. Optical encoders at the base of the head automatically correct the fixture's position as necessary. Each colour wheels features five colours plus white. The effect wheel has two colours, two CT filters, two glass effects, a UV filter and one open position. One gobo wheel features nine interchangeable gob
Strand also displayed its new 2.8.5 console software for the 300 and 500 series control desks, boasting a number of enhancements. Key new features include extended luminaire attributes to support Catalyst luminaires, a new TrackBack command and a host of other new features. New software for Strand's wirel
HES chairman and founder Lowell Fowler says: "Most of the industry knows Craig and the recently-returned
ETC's passionate investment is an indication of the importance of the technology and is providing huge momentum to the acceptance of sine wave across the entertainment lighting market. ETC Chief Executive Officer Fred Foster said: "IES was the pioneer behind sine wave dimming technology in Europe. At the same ETC has been developing sine wave products in the US. With the acquisition of IES, we've had the unprecedented opportunity to unite the best people and ideas in the field and create sine wave solut
