UK - British loudspeaker technology company, Flare Audio, have announced the release of a new series of bass enclosures whose objective is sonic invisibility of the loudspeaker box. Flare's Space and Vortex technologies combine to create high definition natural sound.

Applying Flare Audio's theory of Waveform Integrity, Flare Audio has revolutionised bass enclosures with the release of SB21, SB18 and SB12. These compact enclosures (less than half the size of typical 21", 18" and 12" sealed design bass loudspeakers) deliver clear strong bass over the driver's full frequency range without false enhancement.

The SB21C features a 21" 1400w driver in a 600mm x 600mm x 300mm 42kg enclosure, the SB18C houses an 18" 1200w driver in a 513mm x 513mm x 261mm 23.5kg

Benelux - Robert Juliat has appointed AED Distribution as its official distributor for the Benelux countries, with effect from 1 January 2014.

In preparation AED, which has represented Robert Juliat in Belgium and Luxemburg since 2011, will expand market coverage and commence sales of Robert Juliat solutions in the Netherlands from 1 October 2013. Lightco, which has been distributing Robert Juliat products until now, will continue to do so in parallel with AED until the end of December 2013.

AED Distribution is the exclusive distributor of several professional AV brands across the Benelux territories, supplying AV professionals only.

"I'm very happy to complete our product portfolio in The Netherlands with a state-of-the-art product like Robert Juliat," says Hans Vanderheijden, MD of AED Distribution HQ. "AED Distribution is careful never to compete with its o

Denmark - A year and a half ago, Peter Johansen took ownership of the Italian lighting company SGM and started up in humble facilities in Aabyhoj, Denmark. Now the entire production, warehouse and administration are combining in a new 6,500 sq. metre facility in Aarhus.

In the intervening 18 months since Peter Johansen became CEO, a complete new LED product range has been launched, a global distributor network established, top international touring references have appeared across the world's media - and now the entrepreneur aims to establish a dedicated Danish base. What this will mean is Danish manufacturing, Danish employment and - to a great extent - Danish and European sub-suppliers.

"We anticipate that this move will create up to 400 new jobs over the next two years," stated a bullish Peter Johansen, announcing the decision.

The strategy is based on the winnin

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UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) Ltd. will be on hand at the PLASA Show (stand Q41) to discuss how they can provide bespoke integrated solutions of lighting, audio and AV equipment - including the very latest technologies showcased nearby on the stand of their sister company (stand P40/P41) - to the performance, architectural, educational, corporate and retail sectors.

The company's highly experienced Project Managers can handle all aspects of a project and have a diverse portfolio of previous client examples ranging from theatres to nightclubs and bars, restaurants, schools, houses of worship, cruise ships and live performance venues.

With access to over 200 leading brands, ACSP can cater for any size of installation from a simple six circuit lighting bar with dimming and control, to a full blown multi-media theatre system.

Staff will be happy to discuss the company's full

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UK - Jands' award-winning Vista lighting and media control system has been embraced by leading designers, companies and venues around the world. The platform allows all levels of user to get the most from whatever mix of technology they have available, whether dimmers, moving lights, LED, or media. Utilising the same Vista v2 software, there's a choice of all-in-one Linux consoles and control surfaces running natively on a Mac or a PC.

Jands UK dealer, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (PLASA stand P41) will showcase models from the Vista hardware range, including the new Vista D1 playback processor. When connected to any host console from the Vista family, each D1 allows control of an additional 8192 DMX channels to help cope with the increasing channel counts being used in today's designs.

Jands will also showcase new features for their award-winning Stage CL conso

UK - Chroma-Q's award-winning lighting products deliver premium performance for - and have been adopted by leading users in - some of today's most demanding and prestigious lighting applications, including opera, theatre, film & TV, venues, touring, events, retail, houses of worship, and others.

The company's PLASA stand (P60) will feature models from the Color Force, Studio Force and Inspire ranges illuminating various surfaces, to demonstrate the LED products' colour accuracy and consistency, and precise theatrical grade dimming - features which together are designed to deliver the highest performance levels from a lighting instrument, says the company.

Making its PLASA London debut is the award-winning Inspire LED house light, a powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tool that can transform the look and feel of both large performance spaces and smaller commercial,

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Cameo's P6 is a future-proof LED profiler with a powerful 600 W RGBACL engine and 16,000 lumens. It’s an energy-efficient replacement for 2.5 kW halogen profile lights in theatres and venues. With excellent light quality and natural colour rendering, it fits perfectly in theatres, musicals, TV studios, congresses, and live events.

With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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Czech Republic - Søren Storm has joined Robe lighting's executive management team as international business development manager.

Søren's experience includes 16 years of working in top management for a leading lighting manufacturer, during which time he's built up an awesome amount of contacts worldwide and an impeccable reputation for integrity, in the process becoming one of the best known and liked 'personalities' of the professional lighting industry.

At Robe, he will be working closely alongside International Sales Director and CEO of Robe Inc. in the US, Harry von den Stemmen together with all of Robe's Regional Sales Managers in The Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Russia and the CIS states.

2013 has been a year of unprecedented growth for Robe. This has been boosted by the launch of a raft of highly successful products and recent expansion in the Mi

UK - Mackie has recently updated and expanded three of its most popular and enduring product ranges and PLASA London will offer the first opportunity to see these new models.

The SRM 1600W High-Definition Powered Loudspeakers deliver on Mackie's "Built-Like-A-Tank" SRM legacy in professional grade all-wood designs. The range features enhanced Mackie digital processing and provides new levels of SRM ruggedness, output, clarity and simplicity. The SRM550 and SRM650 are available in 12" and 15" LF driver configurations with 1.4" HF compression drivers, while the SRM1850 offers a powerful 18" subwoofer with integrated digital crossover.

The new VLZ4 analogue mixers now include not only Mackie's industry-proven Onyx preamps, providing the highest headroom and lowest noise possible but also deliver the rugged construction that has established the VLZ se

UK - Following its sell-out at the ABTT Theatre Show, additional copies of the new edition of Technical Standards for Places of Entertainment 2013, also known as the Yellow Book, are available for purchase during PLASA London at a special 'trade show' price.

Stock of this essential book - the first new edition in five years and now including material previously contained in the Model National Standard Conditions for Places of Entertainment - can be found on the ABTT's Stand, A53, at ExCeL London, from this Sunday 6 October, at a reduced rate, held for all four days of the show.

Edited by David Adams and published by the Association of British Theatre Technicians, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the District Surveyors Association and the Institute of Licensing, the book sets out the physical standards for buildings, their equipment and the good management of th

UK - In order to maintain a successful sound rental company Chris Hooke, of Swansea-based Total Sound Solutions (TSS), knows the importance of a regular inventory review in order to meet all requirements within his diverse customer base.

This includes a fleet of mixers to meet all budgets and demands. "For example we will typically use Soundcraft 16-channel EFX mixers for weddings and speakers - however, when we recently did Swansea Uni summer ball, with 4,000 people and three stages, we provided two Soundcraft Vi1 digital desks on the main stage."

Having just celebrated 10 years in the business, Chris Hooke's relationship with Soundcraft's new generation models began with the purchase of an Si Compact 24, and in April last year the company took delivery of its first Vi1. Exactly 12 months to the day, the company's second Vi1 arrived, along with the new popular, port

Switzerland - Merging Technologies has announced that from 1 October 2013, Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup Sdn Bhd (Stagetec Asia) has been appointed the distributor for Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand.

This appointment is the latest in a number of changes being made to Merging's worldwide distribution in a quest "to find young, dynamic companies that have sales and marketing ability and sufficient technical resource to satisfy demanding customers in rapidly growing markets".

Merging's sales and marketing manager, Chris Hollebone comments, "Stagetec Asia came highly recommended and the first time I met David Chan and his team, I was extremely impressed with how they presented themselves and their brands. Having now spent more time together, I know the choice is right."

Managing director of Stagetec Asia, David Chan remarked, &

UK - Renowned engineer, Ben Booker, employed an Allen & Heath Qu-16 compact digital mixer to sub mix eight channels of keys with scenes at the Stephen Lawrence Unity concert, held at the O2 Arena in London last weekend.

"I used the Qu-16 as it gave me an option to run each song as a different scene, so levels, EQ and compression could be change per artist," Booker explains. "I also used the QuPad app to remotely mix the keyboard levels and adjust compression and HPF on channels in rehearsals."

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France - XL Video was one of the principal worldwide technical production suppliers to Roger Waters' seminal The Wall Live world tour, which finally wrapped in Paris on 21 September with a sold out Stade de France show, exactly three years and one week after its opening show in Toronto in 2010.

Richard Turner, the tour's video director worked closely with XL's project manager Phil Mercer throughout, together with tour director Andrew Zweck and creative and video content director Sean Evans. The production featured both stadium and arena versions.

The show visuals were projected onto the wall by 36 of XL's new Panasonic PT-DZ21K 20K projectors - divided into nine screen areas - each covered by a quad stack rigged on standard Leyher scaffold platforms at FOH.

Seamless edge-blending was achieved by custom manual shutters clamped onto the scaffold towers. Physical shutter

UK - The British Safety Council has formally launched its 2014 International Safety Awards, which are designed to recognise an organisation's commitment to good health and safety management during the 2013 calendar year.

2014 will mark the 56th year of the International Safety Awards, which have made a significant contribution over that time to promoting and celebrating the benefits that well-managed and proportionate workplace health and safety bring.

The awards are open to organisations of all sizes and sectors, both members of the British Safety Council and non-members in the UK and overseas. Applications are welcome both from past winners and first time entrants; there is nothing to stop a first time entrant being successful if they can demonstrate clearly their commitment to good health and safety management in the application process.

Last year, 470 organisations from

Austria - Since the start of the 2013 season, the State Theatre in Salzburg, Austria has operated with a sound system from Dutch manufacturer Alcons Audio . The new acquisition was made because the existing sound system was not able meet the increased demands on the in-house sound system.

As a so-called 'Viersparten' (four artistic divisions) theatre, the State Theatre makes particularly high demands on sound reinforcement, as it offers its audience musical theatre (opera, operetta, musicals), ballet, drama as well as children's theatre. This wide range of productions had to be sonically supported to the highest standard.

"A sound system in this house must be in a position to reinforce a rock band, classical music, vocals and subtle music cues for theater plays with finest resolution", says Timo Hintz (head of sound) . In addition, the new sound system was expected t

UK - Hoist UK has been assessed and registered against the provisions of BS EN ISO 9001: 2008 in relation to the highest quality manufacturing systems and procedures for the design, manufacture, supply, installation, servicing and testing of industrial, entertainment and educational lifting equipment.

The certification was achieved from months of hard work by the Hoist UK staff to update and improve their quality management system with external auditing provided by NQA, who are a UKAS accredited certification body, ensuring that their systems operate to the very highest standard and fully meets the requirements of the standard.

Hoist UK director, Paul Jordan comments, "A good working relationship with our customers and keeping control of the quality of our products are vital in maintaining our success, and also gives our customers real value for money through continuous i

UK - MultiTouch Ltd has announced that the new Cornerstone 2, the company's own software development kit (SDK), will be available free of charge and supports hardware platforms other than MultiTouch's own MultiTaction Cell product line.

The new version, released 3 October, will be "a ground-breaking product in the world of advanced interactive displays, providing for the first time a free set of tools to take full advantage of MultiTaction Cells' scalability and advanced object and pen tracking features". The support for third-party hardware allows great flexibility for deployment and reuse of Cornerstone-based applications on a wide range of multi-touch displays from other manufacturers.

In addition to making its updated SDK free, MultiTouch has ensured that the new Cornerstone 2 also includes a far greater arsenal of tools to build the next generation of interactiv

UK - On display and available for demonstration on ETC's PLASA London stand this week are: Source Four LED fixture family, including the new CYC lighting adapter; Selador Desire fixture family, including the new Desire D22 luminaire; Cobalt 20 - the first of a new family of control desks from ETC; Eos Titanium - the flagship desk from ETC's Eos control line.

Plus ETC introduces the ETC PLASA Lounge and Power and data requirements PLASA seminar.

Fixtures:

Key to this year's ETC stand is company's newest and most innovative LED lighting fixtures - the Source Four LED CYC and the Desire D22.

Above the stand is a large 7m x 3m cyclorama, lit with ETC Source Four LED CYC, using the Lustr+ LED engine. One side of the cyclorama is a painted theatrical cloth to show the versatility and efficacy of the Lustr+ seven colour mixing system, highlighting colours as

UK - As Technical Partner to PLASA London 2013, Roland Systems Group (RSG) products and people will take an active role in the AudioLab Arena as well as hosting two seminars at the show, which opend its doors today.

The AudioLab Arena is a new purpose built pro audio demonstration facility where the latest products for club sound, mobile and large format systems will be showcased. The Roland V-800HD Multi Format Video Switcher will feature at the core of the set-up in the Arena which will host shoot outs from exhibitors such as Adam Hall, Dynacord and FBT.

Peter Heath, Sales and Marketing Director for RSG UK will present a business seminar in Seminar Theatre 1 on Monday 7th at 5.00pm entitled 'Maximising Sales Efforts'. This is a session aimed at sales people/managers about the benefits of pro-active calling and selling. It will also look at building and managing sales pipelin

UK - Featuring exceptional build quality, performance and reliability, the new Vision LED range will be receiving its worldwide launch at PLASA London. Showing on the stand of exclusive UK distributor, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (stand P40), the new Vision LED family delivers real value for money, says the company.

The product range can also been seen in action providing sole illumination of the stand (Q50) for industry-sponsored racing driver, Jack Goff - currently competing in the 2013 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).

"Each Vision product is manufactured using quality components, processes and materials, then tested to the very highest standards to deliver reliability and satisfaction time and time again," the company adds.

The Vision LED family features a 16° PAR, a 1 metre batten, and a zoomable moving wash, each using 10

UK - RC4 Wireless, maker of the award-winning RC4Magic Wireless DMX & Dimming system, is currently exhibiting at PLASA London on Stand J1, as well as the RDM Showcase and in the Innovation Galleries. Visitors can see the all-new DMX2Flkr, DMX4Flkr, DMXfb (miniature DC-AC inverter), DMXi2c (DMX gateway for chip-to-chip protocol), and the all-new LumenDim4 and LumenDimM4 with full RDM implementation.

The PLASA Awards for Innovation

RC4's new RC4Magic DMX4Flkr with RC4 Flicker Effects Engine has been nominated for the PLASA Awards for Innovation. "The DMX2flkr and DMX4flkr produce beautiful flicker and flame effects," says RC4. "Use the RC4 Flicker Effects Engine to define unique, personalised looks, not pre-packaged or canned effects. You determine - in real time with DMX channels - how oscillators and random-number generators modulate

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