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Clay Paky adds CRMX to product line

Clay Paky has partnered with LumenRadio to bring the CRMX technology to their product line

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy / Sweden - With an over 30-year heritage of designing and manufacturing leading edge products for the worldwide entertainment market, Clay Paky has now partnered with LumenRadio to bring the CRMX technology to their product line.

After extensive testing, Clay Paky approved LumenRadio thanks to its quality and reliability. The LumenRadio Coexistence technology allows smarter use of the frequencies by continuously scanning the radio spectrum and dynamically adapting its frequency-hopping pattern to the surrounding environment. This eliminates interference and maximizes performance.

Select models of the extensive product portfolio that consists of a wide range of professional fixtures and accessories for stage and studio lighting as well as architectural applications, will no

PLASA and ProSight in safety standards partnership

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - ProSight Specialty Insurance, a global specialty insurance carrier in the film and live events industry, has announced that it is partnering with PLASA, the global leader in developing technical standards for the entertainment industries. The organisations have collaborated to advance PLASA's Technical Standards Programme to increase safety throughout entertainment production. Together ProSight and PLASA are ensuring that every professional in the business has access to all PLASA Technical Standards by making them available to anyone free of charge.

According to Lori Rubinstein, executive director of PLASA, North America, "Our alliance with ProSight will have a significant impact on the entertainment industry by allowing all those involved in the creation of entertainment events free access to standards that will make their lives safer and easier. We are thrilled that

Two power configurations are available, IPD 1200 and IPD 2400

Lab.gruppen debuts IPD Series Amplifiers

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - The introduction at ProLight+Sound 2013 of the new IPD (Intelligent Power Drive) Series from Lab.gruppen, marks a breakthrough in networked and DSP-enabled power amplifier. In an ultra-compact package, IPD Series amplifiers unite - for the first time - renowned Lab.gruppen performance and reliability with cutting-edge DSP features and surprising affordability, says the company.

Thorough inspired design, IPD Series "packs more features and greater power density into a 1U frame than found in most competitive 2U platforms". Two power configurations are available, IPD 1200 and IPD 2400, with power outputs (at 4 ohms) of two 600 W and two 1200 W, respectively. Both incorporate integrated DSP, networked monitoring and control via computer or iPad, a four-channel input matrix, fully configurable front panel controls with graphic display, analogue and AES3 inputs (wi

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The rocking annual Potch Rag festivities

MGG Productions rock at Potch Rag

Details: 14 March 2016

South Africa - For the tenth consecutive year, Johannesburg rental company MGG Productions were commissioned by csquare to provide the lighting for the rocking annual Potch Rag festivities held at Jool Plaas in Potchefestroom.

The Potchefstroom University sport grounds were alive as students built floats for a street parade which was followed by live performances from local band including Karen Zoid, Prime Circle and Die Heuwels Fantasties besides others.

It was the first time that Kevin Rieck of MGG had free rein on the design on the concert. On a permanent outdoor stage, the MGG crew built a box truss (4.5m x 10m) with three mid sections and a back truss for the Martin LC 2140 LED Wall. The show included Robin 100LEDs, Robin 600 LED Washes and Robin 300 Spots and beam work by Clay Paky Sharpys. All lighting and the LED wall were controlled on a grandMA full size and a grandM

The 12th annual Metro FM Music Awards held at the Durban ICC Arena

Robe lights Metro FM Music Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

South Africa - Robe was the lighting choice for the 12th annual Metro FM Music Awards held recently at the Durban ICC Arena. Dream Sets were commissioned by Blue Moon Corporate Communications to provide the set and the technical elements of this prestigious event.

With an objective to deliver the best Metro FM occasion to date, Dream Sets' Robert Hoey, Eben Peltz and Sean Hoey were the technical directors. They collaborated with Gearhouse Durban who were the main technical suppliers.

Francois van der Merwe of Wizardry Group was the lighting designer and operator. "While I had free reign, Dream Sets wanted the show to be spectacular with theatrical looks and with lighting good enough for the television broadcast," he said.

Van der Merwe programmed on a grandMA2 full size and incorporated video on a MA2 server. He had some 66 Robe fixtures at his disposal. "Ther

Throughout the season, the companies will be working together on a number of projects

Sennheiser and Infiniti Red Bull on the grid

Details: 14 March 2016

China - Race Day at the Formula One Shanghai Grand Prix: The excitement mounts. Second only to the incredible spectacle of the cars is the intense sound, as the air fills with the roar of engines. It's a meeting of sound, vision and passion. Reflecting this fusion, Infiniti Red Bull Racing and Sennheiser are joining forces for the 2013 racing season.

The audio specialist has been named as the first Official Audio Supplier, supplying professional audio solutions for the Factory debriefs, driver interviews and powering the DJ booth in the exclusive Paddock Club. The cooperation kicked off at the Shanghai race with a special DJ set from Chinese superstar DJ, Jamaster A, and the creation of an exclusive edition of Sennheiser Momentum headphones.

While Infiniti Red Bull Racing takes winning performance to the track, Sennheiser will take premium sound backstage as the first ever Off

GLP impressions in action at the 2013 MOD Awards

GLPs make impression at MOD Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - When California-based Barten Production Service recently provided technology reinforcement for the 2013 MOD Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, the set design depended heavily on Volkslicht Zoom and Spot One LED fixtures from GLP's impression range. Barten have been providing sound, lighting, AV, and production management services for the event, which honours the best modular trade show exhibits and event designs, for several years.

Dave Barten's eponymous company has a long association with the event, as it does with GLP - having first been introduced to the German company's LED solutions as a result of being the 'trussing partner' of Cosmic Truss, for which GLP is the distributor for the Americas. Today they own 12 Volkslicht Zooms and eight Spot Ones, which are regularly out on duty.

"The amazing thing was that at the MOD Awards we were able to handle

Case Study: Hans Zimmer Live

When award winning film composer Hans Zimmer brought his smash-hit tour Hans Zimmer Live to North America fall 2024, the show's audio team sought out to bring infrafrequency bass to the show to add new depth to the show's audio experience. The team chose Danley Sound Labs.

Anthony Touma of GT Group collecting his award from Denis Baudier, Nexo sales director

Top Nexo award goes Down Under

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - The Nexo Awards are presented annually in Frankfurt, and this year, the big prize was carried off to the other side of the world. Group Technologies, the Melbourne-based company that was the first to launch and make sales of Nexo's new flagship STM Series, was named as Distributor of the Year 2012-13 at the Prolight+Sound show Awards ceremony.

Beating off competition from Chile, Mexico and China, GT Group won the top Nexo Award for its impressive launch of STM at the end of 2012, described by those who attended as 'simply the best product introduction we have ever seen'. GT was also the first to bring an STM system into use in the real world, signing up Australian rental company Monitor City as an early pioneer of Nexo's modular line array. Anthony Touma of GT was in Frankfurt to pick up the Award from Denis Baudier.

Other winners included Iemke Roos of the Netherlan

First Baptist Church-Broad reopened in November of 2012, and has been putting the new d&b system to good use, drawing nearly eleven hundred people for worship every week

Unity through worship with d&b

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - With six separate vocal choirs, full worship band, and energetic services, First Baptist Church-Broad in Memphis Tennessee presents as a healthy and vigorous place of worship. It's also growing just as vigorously; the new church building has an auditorium that seats fifteen hundred people; as such a new sound system was a high priority. "Music can break barriers of both language and culture," said Rod Vester, Minister of Music at First Baptist. "Within a city that has struggled with racial division, we are thankful to be known as a 'love to love' church. All are welcome to worship, so the sanctuary has to be equipped to support us."

"The new worship centre was constructed to maintain the rich history of the church while looking to the bright future," reflects director of operations, Reverend Craig Freeman. To accomplish this, First Baptist Chu

JD also added an R2-52 on the press box aimed to cover the visiting team bleachers

Eastern High School upgrades with Community

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Eastern High School, in Voorhees, New Jersey, is a regional district school with 2100 students. Its main outdoor stadium is a 2500-seat, multi-season venue used for football, field hockey and track and field events. In 2012, Eastern began a major renovation that will conclude with new artificial turf and a new track in time for June, 2013 graduation ceremonies.

As part of the renovation, Eastern upgraded their stadium sound system with Community R-Series, WET Series and iBOX loudspeakers. The stadium previously had four Community R-Series model R2-474 loudspeakers on light poles - two at both ends of the home team bleachers. JD Sound and Video refurbished these, added Polar Focus brackets and re-aimed the R2s for better coverage. JD then added a pair of WET Series W2-218s on the press box to cover the home-team bleachers and delayed the original R2s to avoid artificial ech

SGM LED balls add bounce in Helsinki

Details: 14 March 2016

Finland - SGM has made a breakthrough with its LED products in Finland, notably with Jaakko Peltomäki Ltd. After the Helsinki-based events company saw the Danish company's impressive display at Prolight+Sound 2012 Jaakko Peltomäki himself made the decision to invest, after being particularly impressed by the LB-100 LED Balls.

"We were looking for some new ideas for our productions - and these were perfect," he said. Seeing how they could be formed into curtains to deliver alluring 3D spatial effects, they invested in 550 strings, each containing seven 34mm Balls, 20 TLD-612 pixel drivers to run it ... and some extension cords.

The 21-year-old company has a versatile work roster, ranging from fashion shows to retail, and they have full turnkey capability, with sound equipment, trussing, video and LED screens. "In fact I was looking for the LED screens when I ha

The sold out tour featured a set created by show designer / director Misty Buckley

XL Video on Biffy Clyro arena tour

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - XL Video supplied full video production - including 457 tiles of Pixled F12 LED, PPU / cameras, Catalyst media servers and crew for the recent UK arena leg of Biffy Clyro's Oppositesworld tour.

The Ayrshire rockers' sixth studio album has been their first to take the Number One slot creating huge excitement. The sold out tour featured a set created by show designer / director Misty Buckley, an intricate tree-like structure at first glance which at second squint could morph into of a pair of lungs, complete with the arterial / branch complexity of both structures. This set piece also featured integral video elements.

It was combined with a lighting design by Oli Metcalfe and live camera direction by Richard Shipman to form a colourful and interesting visual aesthetic and backdrop to the band's incendiary performances which earned rave reviews!

XL's project manager

Martin Professional keeps busy at Prolight + Sound

MAC Vipers and RUSH effects star in Frankfurt

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - At Prolight+Sound Martin Professional celebrated the world premiere of no less than six new MAC Viper Family moving heads, as well as a completely new range of RUSH effect lights and the response was nothing short of fantastic, says the company.

"To have more tools to work with from the same tool set is a massive advantage," stated lighting designer and show visitor Paul Collison, who got an up close look at the newest Viper fixtures. "The Vipers are clearly a replacement workhorse and a family of fixtures that will be around for a long time." Martin product manager Peter Skytte was clearly satisfied with the response from visitors. "There was great interest from the opening bell," he said.

It was a packed house Thursday evening at Martin's Prolight + Sound party at Gibson Club where lighting industry professional's partied late into the

DPA adds colour to Sam Lee's voice

Details: 14 March 2016

Denmark / UK - Folk singer Sam Lee finally ended his long search for the right vocal microphone when he discovered DPA Microphones d:facto vocal microphone.

Lee, who was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize in 2012, was introduced to the DPA d:facto Vocal Microphone by Front of House sound engineer Jamie Orchard-Lisle.

"Finding a microphone to match my voice has never been easy," Lee says. "After successive attempts to find the gear to capture the full colour and dynamics of my voice, I've always been left feeling a bit cold. It wasn't until Jamie introduced me to the DPA d:facto Vocal Microphone that the full Technicolor really left the stage and illustrated the depth and clarity of my range."

Multi-talented Lee is not just a folk singer - he also teaches and hosts radio and TV programmes. His debut album Ground of its Own is an unusual folk collec

Founded in 1912 by the clown and animal trainer, Vladimir Durov, the famous children's theatre and circus is an historical entertainment venue

Durov Theatre upgrades with Allen & Heath

Details: 14 March 2016

Russia - Moscow's renowned Durov Theatre recently upgraded its sound equipment selecting the new Allen & Heath GLD digital mixing system to manage FOH and monitors.

Founded in 1912 by the clown and animal trainer, Vladimir Durov, the famous children's theatre and circus is an historical entertainment venue. The theatre's audio equipment had not been updated for 30 years and was not providing even sound coverage to the amphitheatre-shaped hall. Consequently, a QSC line array was installed, along with a GLD digital mixing system, comprising the GLD-80 console supplemented by GLD-AR2412 and GLD-AR84 I/O audio racks, all supplied by Allen & Heath's Russian distributor, MixArt.

"GLD was selected for this project for several reasons. Firstly, it has a user-friendly interface similar to that of analogue mixers, so it is easy for the theatre's sound engineers and technical staff

Comic Relief does Glee Club with RML

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The fund raising show has been so successful of recent years, that even if you never watched the series Glee, then you would still understand the concept of what it is about.

As part of Comic Relief or Sports Relief, CBBC's Sam and Mark, along with Naomi Wilkinson, present the all singing all dancing talent contest, in which groups performed in front of celebrity judges (vocal coaches David and Carrie Grant and choreographer Sisco Gomez) to be crowned the nation's best young Glee Club. Those select few groups were whittled down through week of previous auditions held across the country.

Long standing LD Roger Williams designed the spectacular lighting show which was provided by Richard Martin Lighting (RML). The show is filmed at BBC Glasgow and is overseen by local company TSL and Tony Kennedy.

The rig comprised of VL500s, Atomic Strobes, Alpha Beam 700s, Sharpy

The Chutney Soca Monarch competition held at Skinner Park in Trinidad's San Fernando

PR Lighting at Trinidad Chutney Soca Finals

Details: 14 March 2016

Trinidad - With 15 of the biggest Chutney Soca artists in the world taking part, the recent Chutney Soca Monarch competition, held at Skinner Park in Trinidad's San Fernando, was the biggest of its kind in the world, showcasing talent from North America, the Caribbean and the UK. This event has been taking place for the past 18 years under the organisation of George Singh's South Ex Event Management.

With 10,000 people attending, the event is a launching pad for many careers in the industry and has triggered an international awareness of this music genre overseas, creating some massive productions. Prevalent in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Surinam,'Chutney Soca' itself is described as a crossover style of music incorporating Soca elements and Hindi-English lyrics, with the indigenous 'Chutney' music complemented by Indian instruments like the dholak and dhantal.

This year fiv

d&b ArrayCalc Version 7 at PLASA Focus

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - For any installer or integrator the new ArrayCalc Version 7 offers the ability to perform acoustic simulations quickly, easily and intuitively. One can now choose from a selection of d&b point source loudspeakers, most notably the xS-Series from the White range as well as Black range Q and E-Series loudspeakers.

The sophisticated additional algorithms of Version 7 address the requirements of a d&b style simulation and planning tool for a complete installation project as well as corporate and AV rental markets. It also offers a new printout section for any of these options and simplifies the process of creating remote control workspaces via an export function into the d&b R1 Remote control software.

There will be a working display area on the d&b stand (N-A24) at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013, providing a hands-on opportunity to learn more about this latest software advance.

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RUSH marks Martin's focus back onto a market they know well

Martin targets installation market

Details: 14 March 2016

Denmark - Martin Professional is targeting the installation market in a big way with the launch of an all-new, cost-effective line of effect lights - RUSH by Martin. RUSH will comprise a comprehensive range of affordable effect products with the first RUSH lights launched recently at the Prolight+Sound trade show in Frankfurt.

RUSH marks Martin's focus back onto a market they know well. Villads Thomsen, vice president of global sales at Martin, comments, "We are extremely excited about this brand new range as it again brings everything that Martin stands for to the market for installation effect lights. This is by no means new territory for us however as our roots lay in the market for effect lighting. It's a market we have great experience in.

"The response at Prolight+Sound was overwhelmingly positive. We feel the time is right to re-energize this segment and are c

The Salamander in action at ProLight+Sound

Le Maitre reports busy Frankfurt

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Le Maitre reports a very successful Prolight+Sound, with much interest shown in the new Salamander and HazeMaster, which were launched at the exhibition.

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Optocore launches generic interfaces

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Optocore has expanded its series of intercom interfaces - following the development of proprietary intercom systems for various OEM partners.

The new generic X6R-FX-INTERCOM-IC444 and V3R-FX-INTERCOM-IC444 interfaces made their world debut at this month's Prolight+Sound 2013 in Frankfurt.

The nomenclature is derived from the IC444 board, which is equipped with two 37-pole connectors -one male, the other female - and provides four Line Inputs, four Line Outputs and fourGPIO. The X6R-FX can be equipped with two IC444 boards while the V3R-FX can be equipped with a single IC444 board.

These latest solutions are the result of fulfilling a custom request from Norwegian state broadcaster, NRK. On that occasion Optocore's sister company, BroaMan, populated the 4LI/4LO board with four GPIO's to enable bidirectional communication - but provided SDI enhancement, to allow came

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