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UK - Highlite International (Stand N-E7) will this year be launching a whole range of new products at PLASA Focus, of the back of a very successful Pro Light & Sound Show, Frankfurt.

Highlite International will be showing the New Range of LED Theatre Luminaires, The Performer Range, Including the Performer 1000 Led Fresnel (with manual focus) Performer 2000 Led Fresnel (with on-board dmx focus), Performer 600 Led Profile (with a 24 degree beam), Performer 5000 LED theatre flood (with wide electric zoom & adjustable colour temperatures).

The Showtec Expression 1800 Battery Uplighter (now with Q4 led chip RGBW & lithium battery making it much lighter at only 5.5kg in weight). The Showtec XS-6 Led Centrepiece, which incorporates six 10w led dichroic colours and nine metal gobos' in

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UK - Interspace Industries will be presenting a number of new products at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013.

The USB Bal Box provides high quality balanced audio on XLR. The unit requires no drivers for current USB devices and ensures clean audio from your system with selectable Stereo/Mono and Ground lift switching.

The USB AiO has an output stage similar to the Bal Box but includes an output level control and an input consisting of 2x XLRs with Mic/Line selection and a level control on each input. A Clip LED provides visual indication to the technician if the level is too high.

The SoundConnect is a passive audio balancing unit designed to fit in to a standard XLR fixing; ideal for wall & lecterns and has a simple connection for computers and iPads alike.

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UK - ETC is getting ready to show a range of new and updated products at this year's PLASA Focus in Leeds.

The newly released Eos v2.0 software, which introduces a new Magic Sheet function, will be available for demonstration. Designed to make programming even easier with Eos-line control desks, Magic Sheets allow users to set up customised, interactive live/blind displays organise and work with channels in ETC's traditional tombstone view or via channel symbols.

Eos v2.0 software is released simultaneously with the latest addition to the Eos control desk line, the Eos Titanium, which was first seen at Prolight + Sound in April and which uses new hardware and features to make designing and programming even easier.

Also on the stand and available for demonstration will be the new 50W ETC Source Four Mini; and Source Four LED Studio HD.

At 23cm long and weighing just 740g, t

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UK - Visual Productions will be attending PLASA Focus in Leeds next week. Although regular attendees to PLASA Focus this is the first time that Visual Productions take their own stand, RA-A15.

Following on from the successful launch of two new products at Prolight+Sound, Visual Productions now bring these direct to the UK market: CueluxPro software lighting control and the B-Station, networked button interface. These two new products really complement and enhance the current Visual Productions product line.

CueluxPro is an advanced and scalable software lighting control application. The software is designed to control medium to large lighting installations, for both architectural and live entertainment situations. CueluxPro works in combination with the CueCore and IoCore as its DMX and IO interfaces and with the new B-Station user-interface.

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UK - Software provider Stardraw.com has announced a significant enhancement to their most sophisticated design/documentation product yet, the award-winning Stardraw Design 7 software package. The upgrade follows a period of intense beta testing by a select group of Stardraw Design 7 'Power Users'.

The principal object of the beta was to test a new version of SD7 with optimized memory handling for a noticeably faster, smoother and better overall experience, particularly when working with very large project files. The new version offers all the same features and functionality as before but a huge amount of low-level work has been carried out with the result that file operations are faster, file sizes are generally smaller and overall memory usage is significantly reduced.

Rob Robinson, CEO at Stardraw.com, commented, "As always happens with software, Power Users emerge that

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Germany - Intelligent LED lighting manufacturer, Chroma-Q unveiled their new Inspire LED house light at this year's Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.

The new Chroma-Q Inspire LED house light is a powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tool that utilises some of the innovative core technologies found in the popular Chroma-Q Color Force range. Providing a choice of beautiful whites, soft pastels and bold saturates, the Inspire incorporates industry standard DMX-512 control, fully homogenised colour mixing, a high CRI of 90, a powerful 4,000 hot lumens output and an adjustable CCT.

Featuring a compact, energy-efficient LED design, the Inspire house light has an incredibly low power consumption of 110W - which will show you a significant return on your investment with its high energy efficiency.

The Inspire's custom optical design provides a smooth, uniform output, mat

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Juno Awards - Carly Rae Jepsen has won three Junos at the annual Canadian music awards, including album of the year, pop album of the year and single of the year for her hit Call Me Maybe. The 27-year-old's album Kiss beat Justin Bieber and Celine Dion. Bieber took home his fourth Juno in the fan choice category with Mumford & Sons winning best international album. k.d. Lang was inducted into the Canadian music hall of fame. Leonard Cohen, who started his music career in the 1960s, won two Junos for songwriter of the year for the album Old Ideas and artist of the year.

Opera Awards - Tenor Jonas Kaufmann has won best male singer and the readers' award at the inaugural International Opera awards. Known as the "new king of tenors", Kaufmann debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2006. The reader's award was voted for by readers of

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UK - TV Lighting specialists Aurora Lighting Hire, based in Greenford, has announced that Samantha Wiseman (formally Dean) has recently joined their team.

Samantha has been appointed as Business Coordinator and commented: "I am very excited to join Aurora in their rapidly growing business and happy to be back in the lighting industry. I have had time out getting married and becoming a mum and now my boys are at school, I felt ready to get back into work and was thrilled when this opportunity came up."

She started her career at Brilliant Stages just out of college and then moved onto Vari Lite/VLPS for many years and has nearly 10 years' experience working in the lighting industry.

Nick Edwards, Managing Director added: "I am delighting to welcome Samantha to Aurora. We have known each other for many years working together at VLPS/PRG. Samantha has a lot of kno

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UK - The London-based audio consulting firm, RH Consulting, has recently welcomed two new members to the team. Stuart Gillan is an audio professional with over 30 years' experience in live touring, location music recording, location tv/film and broadcast post-production. He will be focusing mainly on system design, while Henny Schuett, a native German speaker, will be joining RH Consulting on a part-time basis, concentrating mainly on projects in the German market.

Gillan has an impressive CV demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the industry and a flexible approach to his work. Since 1997 he has moved gradually towards consulting and audio design work, focusing exclusively on those activities for the last few years. His past experience in outside broadcast, audio engineering and sound recording combines an understanding of operational requirements and logistics with technical k

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Germany - SGM used Frankfurt's Prolight+Sound to demonstrate the growth it has experienced since coming under Peter Johansen's ownership just over a year ago.

The booth was permanently packed with visitors wanting to be among the first to witness the global launch of the new IP65-rated G-Spot, and make sure it lived up to its claim of superior optics and weather-resistant body. A constant stream of water splashing across the chassis left no-one in any doubt.

But equally important, SGM has built up a family of loyal and highly-motivated resellers during the intervening period and the company CEO was able to welcome partners from across the world to a pre-show dinner, awards presentation and distributor conference, so they were primed for action when the curtains were raised on the opening day.

Once again, Peter Johansen, made sure everybody got what they came for - with a bol

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UK - West London based rental specialist, Entec Sound & Light supplied lighting equipment for a massive one off show by chart busting Hong Kong based band Big Four at London's O2 Arena, working for producers, Netherlands based Orient Touch.

Entec's team was production managed by Simon Tutchener and crew chiefed by Pete "Pepper" Schofield. The challenge was getting a substantial one off loaded in and set up and rocking in the same day ... although this is something that Entec has honed to a fine art! Soundcheck/rehearsals were scheduled for 1pm.

The Entec team - project managed by Noreen O'Riordan - worked to a lighting plot submitted by Big Four's lighting designer Lund and his assistant Boris.

The lighting rig comprised three straight trusses and two bespoke trussing constructions which flanked an upstage centre LED video screen that was supplied by XL Video.

Th

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Germany - Martin Audio can reflect on its most successful trade show appearance ever following its participation at this year's Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show.

Sharing its stand with German distributor Atlantic Audio the centrepiece was the global premier of the keenly-anticipated MLA Mini loudspeaker array. Partners and customers from around the world flooded the booth - all wanting to be among the first to witness this third generation deployment of Martin Audio's unique and award-winning Multi-cellular technology, following the successful launch of the original platform at the same show three years earlier.

Stated Martin Audio marketing director, James King, "The introduction of MLA in 2010, MLA Compact in 2012, and now MLA Mini at this show, represented to customers a complete offering of venue solutions. Not surprisingly, interest was overwhelming with all our distrib

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UK - The Bodyguard, the hit musical from producers Michael Harrison and David Ian, has already won Best New Musical in the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards. Richard Brooker, no stranger to such mammoth productions having worked on some of the industry's biggest theatrical productions, including Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music, Chess and Cabaret, took on the challenge of the show's sound design. He has once again deployed a DiGiCo SD7T digital mixing console at Front of House, with an SD824 at the monitor position, to help him meet some new challenges.

Playing at the West End's Adelphi theatre and based on the 1990s Oscar nominated film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, the stage adaptation of The Bodyguard is directed by Thea Sharrock and sees Heather Headley take Houston's role alongside Lloyd Owen, who plays Costner's

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. will be showcasing products at PLASA Focus 2013 from a selection of the leading brands which it distributes, including Chroma-Q, Jands, High End Systems, Spotlight, SGM, PixelRange, Chauvet, LedGo, Green Hippo, Christie Nitro, Soundcraft, RCF, BroadWeigh, Columbus McKinnon and many more - on stand N-E2.

Chroma-Q's new award-winning Inspire high output, RGBW colour-changing LED House Light and AutoLED II ultra-bright (16,430 lumens) daylight white LED moving head fixture will share their UK tradeshow debut at PLASA Focus 2013. Also on show from Chroma-Q are a selection of other intelligent LED lighting products including the Studio Force multi-purpose and Studio Force Phosphor broadcast-sector ranges of white LED fixtures available in daylight, tungsten and variable white, the hugely popular Color Force range of RGBA colour fixtur

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Germany - The combination of new products, expanding networks and record attendances at this year's Prolight + Sound ensured Funktion-One had an extremely busy and very positive show. Attendees flocked to the stand in Hall 8 to see the new products and to chat with the team, and to the demo room, which saw a constant rotation of enthusiastic audiences over the four days.

The BR (Bass Reflex) Range made its global debut, while the MST (Modular Stadium Technology) Horn made its second tradeshow appearance, after landing at ISE in January. As well as the official launches, the show offered Funktion-One the chance to whet appetites with previews of products that are due for release later this year. The Funktion-One demo room hosted the first public showing of the company's new flagship PSM318 DJ Monitors.

Reflecting on the show, Ann Andrews said, "Frankfurt is always a really

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UK - POLARaudio recently invited leading systems integrators and members of the press to attend two events organised to present the Behringer Eurocom range of products. The first of the events took place at the Music Group Research and Development Centre in Manchester. Set up by Music Group as a UK Centre of Excellence for developing cutting edge digital audio technology, the facility occupies 24,000 square feet and is home to many of the group's 300 UK employees. Two days later, Mercedes-Benz World at Weybridge provided a fitting backdrop for the presentation, in a similarly high-calibre environment of merit and quality.

Anchoring the proceedings was Music Group senior VP marketing, Costa Lakoumentas, whose infectious and engaging delivery was matched by his obvious genuine conviction that here was a range of products to seriously challenge the status quo. Although now operatin

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USA - In order to meet market demand for Martin Professional's M2GO lighting controller, Christie Lites has purchased no less than 200 of the compact consoles for its rental inventory.

"We were looking for the best console for everyday rental and found that the M2GO made the most sense," says Christie Lites CEO Huntly Christie. "It was the only console in its category to offer powerful onboard processing with a small footprint."

The M2GO is equipped with a fast, dual-core processor with no external computer required. Having set Martin records earlier in the year for the largest number of pre-sale orders for a lighting controller, it continues to establish itself as the lighting control choice for rental houses.

"We are extremely pleased that Christie has added the M2GO to their inventory," states Martin product manager Paul Pelletier. "It w

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UK -Stage Electrics have recently supplied the Baglan Community Church with a Roland M-300 Digital Live Mixing Console and two S-1608 Digital Snake Stage Boxes as part of a full audio, visual and lighting installation for their recently renovated multi-purpose venue in Port Talbot.

The renovation of the venue, previously a social club, which was started in August last year and is due to be completed later this month, took the building back to 'bare bones' allowing the audio installation to be designed utilising newly fitted Cat5e points. The venue is currently used primarily to host church services for the 220+ church members, but once the renovation is complete, the intention is to hire out the building to the community to use as a conference centre or hall. The audio solution therefore needed to be digital with a flexible setup to cater for a number of uses from varying live b

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Finland - Finnish rockers Sunrise Avenue used Robe LEDWash 600s and MMX Spots on their recent Big Band Theory Tour 2013 European tour which were specified by their LD, Timo Saarinen.

The 16 x LEDWash 600s and 10 MMX Spots formed the core of the lighting rig and were used for a variety of tasks and effects including washing the stage with many colours and hues, and for creating complex multi-layered effects with the MMXs.

Timo was hugely impressed with the reliability of the fixtures - which was 100% for the whole tour!

He's looking forward to using more of Robe's latest technology on upcoming festival dates this summer and also for Sunrise Avenue's ongoing touring work which is scheduled to continue into 2014.

The fixtures were supplied to the tour by Finnish rental company RMC Light & Sound based in Vantaa, who bought them from Robe's Finnish distributor, Live Nati

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UK - For the sixth year of BBC Worldwide's CBeebies on Tour, XL Events joined in the fun once again, supplying LED, camera system, playback and custom LED set elements.

The huge tour, which saw Justin Fletcher MBE bring together his favourite CBeebies characters for the very first time, was a brand new Easter egg-stravaganza!

The spectacular rock and roly-poly show, which toured UK arenas across the three week Easter school holiday, playing up to three shows per day, included Robert The Robot and Little Monster from Justin's House.

The main upstage screen was made up of XL's Lighthouse R7 LED, with five additional custom-built moveable screens on the stage constructed from Pixled FX-11.

"As always, it's a pleasure getting the team together for another CBeebies run," commented XL Events' director Rich Rowley.

"This year we changed the mix slightly in

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UK - Richard Martin Lighting supplied 30 of the MilTec Batten2s to the BBC for the main Red Nose Day broadcast.

Steve Wells, RML operations manager commented,"Comic Relief is one of those National Treasures that as a company we are always so proud to be involved in and support. For a rental company or manufacturer, high profile show such as this are an ideal opportunity to showcase their most recent products and it goes without saying, that as a company, RML will always help the lighting designer achieve their desired look. With this in mind we provided Chris Kempton with the MilTec MTC-Batten2 LED Batten, the ideal choice to match his chosen specification."

(Jim Evans)

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