Germany - Philips' entertainment lighting brands Vari-Lite, Selecon and Strand, alongside product range Showline, will be unveiling a broad portfolio of exciting new creative tools for lighting designers at Prolight + Sound this month.

Following the success of the award-winning Vari-Lite VL4000 Spot comes the new VL4000 BeamWash, a luminaire that combines stunning wash capabilities with intense beam functionality and the ability to produce a powerful column of light.

Visitors will be able to see the VL4000 BeamWash in action at the dedicated Vari-Lite booth, in Hall 11, Stand D71, situated close to and operated by valued Philips distributor Lightpower.

"We're very much looking forward to showing off the brand new VL4000 BeamWash and the proven VL4000 Spot. These products

Germany - RC4 Wireless will be displaying a range of their RC4 Series 3 devices and technologies at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. This is the first RC4 European exhibition since winning the PLASA Award for Innovation at PLASA London last October.

Since the October release of these small and portable packages powered by batteries and controlled by wireless DMX, RC4 Series 3 devices have seen touring across Europe in Disney's Violetta Live!, and used extensively in the world premiere of An American in Paris at the Théatre du Chatelet, now opening on Broadway.

RC4 Series 3 wireless dimmers directly drive halogen lamps, LEDs, servo motors, relays, solenoids, and much more. RC4 technology seamlessly and transparently integrates into scenes and cues, indistinguishable from traditional wired fixtures. RC4 Series 3 devices provide a family of powerful features avai

USA - Leopard and the 900-LFC join Meyer Sound's flagship Leo family as its smallest and most versatile members. Boasting serious power-to-size ratio with ultra-low distortion, the patent-pending Leopard line array loudspeaker and the 900-LFC low-frequency control element­ offer an unprecedented level of clarity, power, precision, and ease of use, says the company.

With "state-of the-art design, groundbreaking engineering, and premium quality components", Leopard and 900-LFC are designed to create an exceptional listening experience across a wide variety of applications from rental to install and rock 'n' roll to classical.

"I've always followed my own path in this business, never satisfied until something is the best it can be," said John Meyer, founder and CEO of Meyer Sound. "With the Leo Family we set out to reduce distortion to the theoretical li

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USA - The Portland Trail Blazers enjoy a passionate following among NBA fans, whether in the stands of their home court at Moda Centre, or listening to live radio streams over the air or online.

Recently, the franchise turned to LineQ, the chief distributor of Barix products in the United States, to improve the fan experience. The solution employs three Barix Instreamer IP audio devices to encode live game feeds into files for streaming over the Internet and to mobile devices. The streams additionally incorporate live closed-captioning for hearing-impaired fans.

Because they own rights to their broadcasts, the Trail Blazers can create an entire programme at Moda Center for distribution to their network of 30 radio affiliates throughout Oregon. The program not only includes broadcasts of all the games-both home and road-but also all commercial content, announcements, and pre- a

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China - For the fifth year in succession PR Lighting were able to report a 100% positive reaction to their new product showcase at this year's GET Show 2015.

Held once again at the Poly World Trade Expo Center in Guangzhou, by Industry Association of South China Entertainment Equipment (SCEE), all the major Chinese lighting and audio manufacturers participated.

In fact, PR Lighting increased their presence by taking two large 108sq.m stands this year - one booth dedicated to professional lighting, the other strictly to entertainment lighting. Said sales director, Ernie Armas, "This not only demonstrated the strength of PR Lighting - by being able to show over 350 working units - but enabled visitors to see our products from a different perspective."

Aside from the busy footfall that dominated their stands during the four days of the show, the week effectively start

Poland - ARAM, Poland, was responsible for the design and technical production of largest gaming event in the world - the ninth edition of the World Final of the Intel Extreme Masters .

For the second year in a row, this event was held in Katowice, this time spread to two locations - Spodek and the newly built International Convention Centre. Event broke all records of audience and visitors.

The event lasted for a total of four days, and ARAM was responsible for the design and implementation.

"Work began many months before the show," says Michael Mrzyg?ocki. "We were responsible for the execution of the set design of projects for all three stages." The ARAM team worked closely with both the client and the executors, among others, Jack Van Daniels.

The resulting total of three scenes, including an impressive main stage with a total span of 60m, located i

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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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USA - The Journey North Community Church near Brainerd, Minnesota has been steadily growing since its first service in 2004. That day, 130 people showed up to a rented room in the city's community centre, a space that would serve as the church's temporary home for many years.

Recently, Journey North acquired an old Lutheran church school building in nearby Baxter, Minnesota and set about the task of converting its reverberant gymnasium into a contemporary worship space.

Twin Cities-based Audio Video Electronics (AVE) assisted, repurposing old classroom acoustic tiles and using other low-cost ideas to give the worship space vastly improved acoustics and lighting. Importantly, AVE installed a Danley Sound Labs SH-96 for main coverage and two Danley SM-60Fs for side-fill. Danley's point source phase coherence maximized intelligibility and fidelity, and its tight pattern control k

USA - Before Enrique Iglesias set out to play some of the world's largest venues for his 2014 Sex and Love Tour he consulted Travis Shirley, his longtime creative director and show designer. To make the show's production elements specialized yet easy to replicate in any tour destination, Shirley deployed several classic lighting fixtures from Martin Professional and one new one - the MAC Quantum Profile.

Over the last decade, Shirley and Iglesias have done 12 tours together. The Sex and Love Tour was a first, however, in that Iglesias shared the role of headliner for some of the shows with Pitbull, which challenged Shirley to design a show concept that was distinctly Iglesias's style but could be augmented by Pitbull's creative team when necessary. Furthermore, the tour's far-reaching itineraries made local product availability a key concern.

"The show design that I sold

UK - Rock band Placebo continue their acclaimed Loud Like Love world tour which entered its third year after starting in September 2013, with lighting and visuals designed by Jvan Morandi of Placing Shadows Ltd. who brings his characteristic eye for style and flair to the imaginative equation.

For the first time, west London based rental company Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment and LED screens - for the latest section of the tour - which has just completed an extensive run through UK academy venues.

Jvan's original design concept has been adapted several times for the various legs of the tour, which have already included two full production runs and two festival seasons. This time it was modified again to fit the academy sized venues, retaining the raw, gritty aesthetic with lots of moody back-lighting and quirky video that has created such an interesting cr

Germany - GLP will present iadditions to its popular impression range of LED moving lights at this week's Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt (on booth #11.0, B17).

For the first time in Frankfurt, the German company will showcase its new impression X4 Bar 10 and impression X4 Bar 20 fixtures. Alongside these, GLP will be showing its very latest fixture to join the range, the fully pixel mapping impression X4 L, and also previewing its new impression X1 for the first time anywhere in the world.

GLP's new impression X4 Bar 10 and impression X4 Bar 20 - two high performance battens that offer flexibility across multiple applications - use high output RGBW LED's that are packed tightly to give a full batten of light.

The one metre long X4 Bar 20 uses 20 LED's, while 10 LED's feature in the shorter 50 cm X4 Bar 10. High quality optics ensure a smooth, homogenized output across the

The Netherlands - The Hard Dance electronic music event Masters of Hardcore celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015 under the banner 20 Years of Rebellion. The 28 March event attracted an audience of 25,000 in the Brabanthallen in S'Hertogenbosch.

To celebrate this event in an appropriate way, the organizers decided to go for a massive laser show setup on four of the six stages, which meant that more than 16 high power lasers were set up on the main stage, and 16 more fired on the other floors.

Reliability as well as quality of the equipment is essential at such large scale productions. Laserfabrik did the laser show performance on all stages and decided to go for a massive laser setup of RTI NANO, RTI PIKO and RTI FEMTO show laser light systems.

The laser show control was executed with a combination of DSP controllers and grandMA2s, which triggered the pre-programmed

Germany - XLNT Advanced Technologies is launching the new CyberHoist II system at ProLight+Sound, Frankfurt in Hall 9.0, booth E88.

CyberHoist II is the second generation of the world's first intelligent, variable speed chain hoist specifically designed for heavy-duty, worldwide touring and large-scale events. The system has already proven to be an instant hit with safety conscious professionals across the world.

Designed and manufactured by entertainment motion control systems expert XLNT, CyberHoist II has - right after its release - been ordered by customers in Europe (Germany, Belgium, Finland, Georgia and The Netherlands) and Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Israel and Kazakhstan), with first performances on projects varying from Linkin Park's critically acclaimed dynamic set for the band's European tour to the recent KinKi Kids arena shows in Japan, to name but a few.

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USA - Avid introduced the flagship Avid Venue | S6L live sound mixing system at NAB, featuring a modern, intuitive touch-based interface that "enables audio professionals to easily handle the largest, most complex tours and events". Thanks to tight integration with industry-standard Pro Tools, Avid Venue | S6L functions as the perfect front-end to the Avid MediaCentral Platform, billed as "the most fluid end-to-end media management and distribution platform in the industry".

Chris Gahagan, Avid's senior vice-president of Products and Technology comments: "In the ten years since we first introduced the Venue live sound mixing system, Avid has continued to be on the forefront of live sound innovation, and now we are setting an even higher benchmark with Venue | S6L."

"With Venue | S6L, Avid is poised to lead the market forward again with unprec

UK - Luminex Network Intelligence, the Belgium-based developer of Pro AV and lighting control data distribution equipment, will introduce its latest developments at Prolight+Sound 2015 in Frankfurt this week.

First up is the new Ethernet-DMX8 Truss MkII. This 8-port truss-mounted converter brings all the well-known features of a Luminex converter in a rugged and versatile form factor. Fitted with eight fully isolated DMX ports, and two Ethernet ports, the unit is designed as a solution for converting a high number of DMX channels, using the benefits of the powerful Luminex Ethernet-DMX engine.

Also on show will be a demo of the beta version of the upcoming 4.2.0 firmware for the Ethernet-DMX range. This beta includes the following new functionalities: Support for BlackTrax (Cast) protocol; Fade between sources for triggered control; Synced outputs.

In Hall 8, E0 Stand K37, t

Italy - Outline has announced the appointment of Luca Giaroli to the position of business development manager.

An accomplished and skilled marketing manager, Luca will focus his energy on expanding the company's global presence on all levels. He will be responsible for building sales, imaging and branding, as well as field training and education initiatives for all of Outline's professional sound reinforcement programs, and will report directly to the company's board of directors.

"My mission here is simple, although challenging - I will be hitting the road to meet with our distributors; engage current and new customers; speak with sound engineers and technicians; organize demos and high profile events to showcase our proprietary technologies; spend time with friends and fans of Outline to gain new perspectives and insights; and assess our competitors - in order to identi

USA - Flightcase and speaker component manufacturer Penn Elcom has announced the appointment of Max Wasinger as vice president of sales for the AV racking division of its business in the US.

Based in California, Max will bring his vast experience in consumer electronics, his considerable skills and charisma, excellent contacts and enormous energy to the Penn Elcom Inc. team, where he will focus on evolving their industry standard 19 inch racking technology into a new and refined product range, tailored to commercial and home installation markets.

Penn Elcom Inc.'s CEO Phil Stratford comments, "We are extremely fortunate to have someone of Max's calibre on-board. We welcome him and look forward to expanding our brand presence in the commercial and home automation / installation sectors under his leadership."

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UK - TSL Products has appointed Matt Colman to the role of audio product manager, effective immediately. Matt's role will see him championing TSL Products' range of audio monitoring solutions as well as supporting product development across the entire audio product range.

Matt joins TSL from SKY TV New Zealand where, as a senior audio engineer, he led the OB live sound team as well as working on post-production projects and providing expert guidance on multi-channel issues across various projects. Prior to this he spent six years at Dolby Laboratories in the UK and UAE in various broadcast engineering roles.

Chris Exelby, managing director, TSL Products, said, "Matt has gained a great deal of practical audio engineering experience and technical expertise across a wide range of projects, and knows first-hand what our customers need to make their audio great and their jobs

Germany - At Frankfurt (Hall 8 Booth C-60), WORK Pro will feature the new ultra compact line array system Arion 28, the first on the market that can be adjusted using OSC protocol.

Arion 28 is a 1000W self-powered line array system with inner DSP controlled through ethernet. Each loudspeaker adds an ethernet switch which allows to link the units between them in Daisy-Chain for control purposes. Arion 28 can be controlled through OSC protocol using tablets or smartphones with the free application developed by the brand OSCillation app.

Prolight + Sound will also be the backdrop for the presentation of the new Zeus Pro 15A self-powered monitor. Its main feature is its versatility: it can be used as a monitor as well as a full range loudspeaker. It integrates a 15" coaxial woofer with a remarkable frequency response and sensitivity. These features along with its 1000W power

Nigeria - With an audience of over 700,000, The Experience is Africa's largest live concert and possibly the biggest annual, single stage live music event in the world. London-based Subfrantic looks after the complex mixes, with Yamaha CL series digital consoles a vital part of this challenging, all-night production.

Founded and hosted by Pastor Paul Adefarasin since 2005, The Experience is an interdenominational gospel concert which takes place in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, every December. So popular is it, however, that an adjacent cricket pitch is also needed.

Featuring many of the highest profile names in gospel music, alongside acts from Nigeria and other African countries, Subfrantic managing director Steve Davies first became involved in 2013.

"I was brought in following a long professional relationship with House on the Rock (HOTR), the church which organises

Germany - Luminex Network Intelligence, a Belgium-based developer of pro AV and lighting control data distribution equipment, will introduce its latest developments at Prolight+Sound 2015 this week (Hall 11, E0 Stand B41B).

Ethernet-DMX8/Truss MkII is an eight- port truss mounted converter that brings all the well known features of a Luminex converter in a rugged and versatile form factor. Fitted with eight fully isolated DMX ports, and two Ethernet ports, the unit is "the perfect solution to convert a high number of DMX channel, and to take benefit of the powerful Luminex Ethernet-DMX engine".

The team will also demo the beta of the upcoming 4.2.0 firmware for the Ethernet-DMX range. This beta includes the following new functionalities:

The GigaCore RPSU is a redundant power supply unit for the GigaCore 14R and 16Xt switches. Fitted in a 19" enclosure, the un

Germany - UK LED lighting manufacturer i-Pix takes to Prolight+Sound this year, on Stand B23 Hall 11, to launch the latest version of its inventive Db1, a new hybrid video and lighting projector that harnesses i-Pix' proprietary Light Valve Video Projector (LVVP -- Technology.)

LVVP unites two distinct elements of visual technology: The power of a soft edged wash light, driven by both DMX (intensity and strobe) and video (HD 1080p or SDI) inputs.

Chris Ewington, inventor of this and other technologies like the PixelLine LED batten and BB series' LED wash fixtures, comments, "Db1 is a truly immersive experience that is full of creative potential. So if you are bored with the same old ideas being recycled ... then the Db1 is for you."

The Db1 light valve projects a light forward from the screen in a defined, soft-edged beam. It is not a wide-angled beam or a video pr

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