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UK - Presentation specialists PSL has devised a portfolio of low-entry packages to enable event producers to take advantage of a tailored staging solution. PSL's scalable audio visual options incorporate projection, mics, speakers and lighting. Each can be customised to individual requirements (including client branding) and come with full technical support.

Remarked PSL managing director, Gary Davis: "These have been created as a flexible and cost-effective alternative to custom design and build, or off-the-shelf display and set systems. Whatever the presentation needs, these packages provide outstanding value - including everything required to stage an event at a fixed price."

The six separate alternatives - which range from simple wall-flats to more striking and multi-textured set designs - can be mixed and matched to suit client requirements and venue limitations

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UK - Bandit Lites UK supplied all lighting equipment to LD Nick Jevons and his company Electric Fly Productions for the main stage at Radio One's One Big Weekend event in Hetherington Park, Sunderland.

Electric Fly has supplied innovative and exciting visuals for all the One Big Weekend events, of which this was the sixth. "I always use Bandit" Jevons states, "I would not go anywhere else. The kit and the service is excellent". General manager of Bandit Mark Powell handled the show.

Jevons traditionally uses the One Big Weekend occasion to introduce new and exciting visual tools and ideas - particularly video orientated ones - into the lighting design mix, and the Sunderland event was no exception. He clearly sees the creative potential of integrating video effects as lighting features, and many of the LED fixtures now on the market are proving a gre

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USA - Robe Show Lighting moving lights were specified by lighting designer and programmer John Westermann at the recent Home Depot Drive 2 Zero Safety Meeting event, staged at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. It's north-west Atlanta's only full-service hotel, featuring over 60,000 sqft of meeting space.

Dillon Production Services, Inc, an Atlanta, based rental house run by Matt Dillon and Westermann supplied lighting equipment. Dillon Production Services has been designing light shows for The Home Depot and Coca Cola for over ten years.

The fixtures utilized for this event were eight Robe 1200E AT Spots flown downstage and mid-stage; and four Robe 1200AT E Washes, two flown mid-stage, with two mounted upstage on the ground upstage. These 12 fixtures were used to produce the main effects and colour washing lighting.

Other fixtures on the rig included

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UK - Lighting designer/director Martin Kubanka specified over 50 Robe Show Lighting moving fixtures in his design for the final of the Slovakian Miss Universe qualifier. The show, directed by top Czech Republic-based Ji?i Adamek, was broadcast live on Slovakia's largest private television channel, Joj TV (pronounced 'Yoy') in front of a live audience of 4,000 at the National Tennis Centre in Bratislava.

It is one of Slovakia's largest annual media events, and attracted a phenomenal domestic audience of four million people - 80 per cent of the country's population for its Thursday night prime time slot. The 12 finalists were chosen from over 1500 initial applicants.

Lighting and sound production was supplied by Slovakia's number one rental house, Q-99, co-ordinated by Marek Adamik. Kubanka is the country's highest profile TV lighting designer/director and works on some of the t

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Among Le Maitre's extensive range of atmospherics was the powerful Stadium Hazer, which boasts a patented delivery system designed for easy maintenance, and programmed to self-clean on start up and shut-down. The company also showed the new Speedfogger Active, which features Rapid Change Technology (RCT) to allow the easy change of a plugged block by the user. Also on show, the Freezefog Pro is a new low smoke machine, designed to be used in conjunction with a Freezefog-enabled unit such as the G300 to produce a powerful dry ice effect.

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UK - Essential Lighting was asked by Andy Ayres of Mantaplan to provide lighting for the 60th anniversary of VE day, in Trafalgar Square. Under the direction of Mark Kenyon, Essential's Tony Hall took on the challenge of installing two 40ft trailers worth of equipment into the Square.

The site was particularly difficult, given a very limited back stage area, and many hours were spent playing "flightcase Tetris". Over a three-day fit up period, 145 moving lights (mainly Martin MAC 2000 units of various types) were rigged in and around the Square, to Kenyon 's specifications. The spec included 16 City Colours to light the National Gallery, City Beams for the fountains, 60 MAC 2000 wash lights and 60 MAC 2000 profiles, with eight MAC 2000 Performances thrown into the mix. Additional effects were from 60 Chroma cans, and 24 Chroma banks.

Control was under the mighty fin

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Making its official world debut, the ice*lighting super-batten from Telectra provides stunning lighting effects with efficient control. Designed and engineered by transferring technologies developed for the aerospace and electronics industries, each batten contains over 300,000 micro lenses providing colour blending effects with very little attenuation of the light. The blending is enhanced by the use of 384 individually controlled tricolour LEDs per batten, giving high definition pixelization with no apparent point sources.

With only 8 DMX channels per batten, control sequences across 1152 emitters, offering the potential for complex sequences, individual batten control, speed control, freeze frame and frame nudge facility in real-time RGB control and real-time dimming. Shows and sequences are saved in solid-state memory and triggered by DMX control, and are uploaded to battens via Et

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USA - Following the letter in the last issue from Brett Kingstone, president and CEO of Super Vision Inc, L&SI put some further questions to Color Kinetics regarding its recent US patents and patent applications.

L&SI: Patent application (20050044617) for 'Methods and apparatus for illumination of liquids', was filed on 3 March 2005, and another, very similar Patent (6,869,204) was granted on 22 March 2005. The abstract of the granted Patent 6,869,204 'Light fixtures for illumination of liquids' appears to be very close to that of the latest application. What is the purpose of applying for the second, very similar patent?

George Mueller, Color Kinetics: "The patent applications referred to here (dated 2005) are actually continuations of previously filed, issued patents and pending applications, dating back as far as 1997. The specific details are c

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The A&O Falcon Beam is a large-format Xenon beam lamp on a moving yoke, developed by German based A&O, built in the UAE, and sold by TMB. Available in 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8kW versions, TMB claim the unit is far more dependable than any of its main rivals.

Attracting even greater interest on the TMB stand was the Pharos architectural control, a small install type Ethernet based programmable lighting controller. Highlighted in L&SI in March 2005, this unit will control a, "whole hog load of different lighting fixtures," said Tommy Stephenson of TMB, and more significantly, "can be controlled and re-programmed over the phone via direct connection."

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Two Italian manufacturers - LDR and Studio Due - teamed up to introduce 'a new concept in lighting' - the Xpress Moving, which combines the high technology of a Studio Due moving head with the functionality of an LDR colour scroller. The fixture uses standard colour gel filters, and is precise and completely silent in use, making it ideal for theatre, TV and live events.

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A raft of new offerings from Robe Show Lighting covered a range of markets. First up, the MediaHub 2X4 D is a media server located inside the base of Robe's ColorSpot 575AT, for easy rigging. It has four parallel outputs and combines two digital layers with a selection of up to 255 video clips or images per layer. It supports MPEG1, MPEG2, PNG and BMP.

The StudioWash 750H AT, which is based on the functionality of the ColorWash 1200E AT, is the first fixture from the company to use a halogen source. Also from Robe, the ColorWash 250 AT completes the AT line of moving heads and boasts a new optical system which, Robe says, makes it 50% brighter than its predecessor, the Wash 250XT. Next, the latest additions to Robe's Club and Bar series are the ClubRollers 250 and 150CT and the HIP-HOP. DMX controllable, they offer stand-alone or master-slave operation.

On the fog front, the new Robe

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MA lighting highlighted a powerful new software tool for LDs and programmers: grandMA video is capable of controlling, via grandMA consoles, any commercially available PC server hardware and the video projector plugged into it. In cooperation with Publitec, MA also offers an integrated system solution consisting of special 19" server hardware (publitec proVideor) and moving video lights (beaMovers). The grandMA consoles are at the heart of the system and can be network-linked to a maximum of 15 grandMA video applications using MA-Net. This interactivity ensures that grandMA video can be used at full capacity, including the entire range of effects available.

As grandMA video is a fully integrated part of the grandMA network system, it is not just triggered via DMX. This has many advantages.

On the one hand a minimum of setup and configuration is required due to bi-directional com

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LSC Lighting previewed the company's soon-to-be-released lighting desk, Xtc. Based on the proven maXim engine and advanced moving light control from the popular PaTPad touch screen module. Offering a multitude of playback masters - up to 29 simultaneously, 500 memories, 100 fixtures, 100 groups, 100 presets, 100 palettes and 1024 DMX output channels. With no faders, it has dedicated latching and flashing buttons with a tri-colour status LED for each playback. Also on show was LSCs range of installation digital dimmers - EKO. Available in a number of formats, designed to make the installer and operator's life easier, its mounting frame allows termination of load and data wiring prior to the dimmer being on site. Connection of the dimmer to the frame and output wiring takes less than five minutes. Alan Graham, sales director told me that Spectra Stage & Event Technologies AB has recently t

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Clay Paky showed its Alpha range of high quality effects projectors introduced in the autumn of last year, including the Alpha Spot HPE (offering a 10°- 40° zoom, electronic focusing, full CMY colour mixing and up to 20 gobos which can be used in conjunction with a graphics disc) and the Alpha Wash Halo (Halo signifying its Halogen lamp source), which is aimed at high-spec applications including theatre and television, say the company. The Alpha Wash halo offers CMY colour mixing, a 14°-64° linear zoom, variable frost, indexable ovalizer, electronic dimmer and a stop/strobe effect.

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Osram added to its modular SharXS lamp range with the HTI 1200 W/D7/75, offering a colour temperature of 7500K. As with all SharXS lamps, the metal halide lamp is compact and double-ended and features short arc and eXtreme Seal (XS) technology, allowing them to handle thermal stress up to 450°C. Its main areas of application, say Osram, include stage, film and television, and its improved heat handling offers benefits in terms of reduced cooling, smaller housing requirements and quieter operation.

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UK - All budding lighting designers should be hard at work as the submission deadline looms for the annual Michael Northen Bursary, organized by the Association of Lighting Designers in conjunction with ETC and the Mousetrap Foundation. With the competition closing on 31 May, judging will take place in mid June at the ABTT theatre show.

Last year the judges were so impressed with the standard of entries that, in an unprecedented move, they agreed to present two runner-up prizes of £250 each, in addition to the first prize of £500. Judge Mark White, ETC's UK regional manager for UK and Ireland, said: "I had no hesitation in saying that ETC would augment the main prize with a further £250 for each of the two runners up and am pleased to confirm that ETC will be doing the same this year. The level of work we saw last year was of the highest calibre and it is only right that

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USA - SurgeX has re-engineered its one-rack-space (1U) surge protectors and power conditioners to feature new Advanced Series Mode surge suppression and proprietary power-conditioning technologies such as Impedance TolerantEMI/RFI filtering, SurgeX ICE inrush current elimination, and COUVS catastrophic over/under-voltage shutdown.

Advanced Series Mode technology is the latest generation of SurgeX's proven Series Mode circuitry, which uses an inductor as the first and primary surge-suppression component to intercept and contain destructive surge energy. There has never been a failure of Series Mode protected equipment. Unlike other approaches, Advanced Series Mode technology does not rely on metal-oxide varistors (MOVs) as a sacrificial component. In addition, it creates no ground-wire contamination or common-mode surges and has zero let-through voltage.

SurgeX 1U products prov

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UK - West-London based Projected Image Digital, has supplied and installed a series of bespoke Element Labs VersaTUBE LED display systems for telecoms giant O2. PID was working to the specification of leading UK brand experience and production company Imagination.

The installations - involving nearly 300 TUBES - are now operational in the shop windows of selected flagship O2 retail outlets around the UK. Inbuilt into customized two-metre wide racking, the VersaTUBE linear LED fixtures are running a 15 minute loop of high-impact, low-resolution video visuals.

Imagination wanted a turn-key solution for the project. It also sought a supplier able not just to specify the right product, but to offer the requisite amount of technical expertise, support and back up, both during the installation and thereafter - in the specific area of digital media. This is why PID was chosen for the

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UK - Siyan Lighting recently supplied 20 Chroma-Q Color Blocks for use on alternative rock band Athlete's three night residency at Brixton Academy in April. Athlete is currently touring the UK to promote the bands No.1 album, Tourist.

Siyan lighting designer Bryan Leitch and co-designer Dom Smith decided to add an extra visual backdrop during particular songs in the band's set. This involved using White canvas drops, just above stage height, washed with vibrant colours to provide a strong contrast to the stage backlighting.

Lighting the drops required an LED batten solution that could be floor-mounted directly below each of the four 0.75m wide canvas strips. The fixture needed to be very bright to effectively up-light the full height of the drops and produce the richness of colour required. Leitch required varying lengths of batten and having heard of the modular design

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UK - Following the Junior Scan 2, the Junior Barrel is available with a 150W discharge lamp. Barrel scans spread the single beam into many beams. Featuring 15 dichroic colours plus white, two multicolor effects and 19 Gobos (two exchangeable).

In addition the Junior Barrel has a 4.5mW laserdiode and mechanical shutter for high-speed strobe effects (like all fixtures of the Junior range), DMX addressing and adjustment of all functions like Audio stand alone and Master-Slave is made very easily via the display. The fixture is available in black and silver.

The lamp is an Osram discharge lamp HSD 150/70 with an average service life of 3.000 hours and colour temperature of 7.500 k. The unit offers a mirror barrel with a pan of 230°. The unit also features a laser 4,5 mW laserdiode with DMX control.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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UK / UAE - The recent PALME 2005 show launched James Thomas Engineering's PixelRange officially into the Middle East lighting market with their newly appointed distributor - Avolites ME. Avolites had one of the largest stands at the PALME show and certainly the best entrance position to demonstrate the PixelLine and PixelDrive system to all visitors entering the show, say JTE.

This even included a royal seal of approval on the second day, when before the show opened Avolites received a royal visit to the stand by HH Sheikh Hassan Lottah with his entourage and Dubai TV crew. As a customer of Avolites, the Sheikh personally chatted with Avolites MD Tony Shembish regarding the show's activities and once the royal party had left - the show opened to trade professionals.

Avolites designed their impressive PALME stand around the LED PixelRange. The PixelDrive software running the Pi

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USA - James Thomas Engineering's new PixelLine 110ec batten is making its touring debut on Alicia Keys' The Diary US tour. Specified by LD Michael Trifillis and supplied by Nebraska based Theatrical Media Services.

PixelLine 110ec is a high brightness linear wash device comprising of five cells, each of which uses five blue and green 3W Luxeon emitters and six red and amber 1W Luxeons. These high intensity emitters can produce 42 million colour combinations. Trifillis is using 24 PixelLine 110ec's in total and it's also the first time he has used James Thomas's LED units.

Twelve are used primarily as 'toners', to light several upstage drapes including the main beige scenic drop, two beige swag drapes and white chiffon drapes in between the two swags. Drapes play a major scenic role in the stage, set designed by Paul Pape. The beige was chosen to give the drapes a differ

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USA - New Jersey-based Circuit Lighting has announced a number of changes as it continues to modernize its operation, including modernization of its offices, the introduction of a new logo and the launch of a new website. Company president Richard Tilley says he felt it was time to create a new logo to symbolize the many changes and his desire to create a fresh, sunny and bright company outlook.

Circuit Lighting's office modernization has seen the addition of a new warehouse distribution computer system that barcodes all inventory. New Robe Show Lighting fixtures will replace its existing moving light inventory, ensuring superiority and latest technology in the production field. Circuit Lighting's fleet of new trucks will deliver anywhere within the United States on time, say Tilley.

Finally, on the personnel front, Circuit Lighting has announced the addition of Mark Toth to i

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Australia / USA - Australian manufacturer Enttec, producer of popular DMX tools including the Datagate and the Open DMX USB Pro, has announced the opening of its US warehouse, distribution and repair centre, in Maryland, USA. The new site, opened to service the company's ever-growing client base in the US, carries stock of the full Enttec range and all US-based orders are now sent from there, thus minimizing transit time and offering overnight shipments for urgent orders, say the company. The staff at this centre can also perform repairs on all Enttec devices.

Enttec is now looking to expand its dealer network in the USA and Canada.

(Lee Baldock)

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