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ILMC gains grant for live music safety guide

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The Safety Focus Group, set up by the International Live Music Conference (ILMC), has won a grant of 160,000 from the European Union to produce a vital safety guide. The guide is intended for use by live music promoters and workers throughout Europe and beyond, and will reflect best practice in a number of European countries. As one of the conditions of this grant, the Safety Focus Group must now raise a further 40,000 funding from the live music industry to secure the project.

The ILMC says that the safety guide will provide a tool for concert and festival organizers to assess and manage risks, and will be useful to everyone from the new event organizer to the most established promoters. Scheduled to be ready by late autumn of 2004, it will primarily be accessible via a specially designed website, although a limited number of hard copies will be produced. With its Euro

XTA for Hammersmith's AC/DC reopening

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The newly re-launched Carling Apollo Hammersmith celebrated its re-opening at the end of October with a one-off special concert by veteran rockers AC/DC - powered by Concert Sound, an EAW PA system and XTA loudspeaker control.

For one night only, on Tuesday 21 October, Carling brought Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson, Phil Rudd and Cliff Williams to London's landmark live venue to thrill a gathering of their most dedicated fans with a live show. The seats were also removed from the venue for the first time in its history, making it the biggest dedicated live music venue in London.

Front-of-house engineer Paul 'Pab' Boothroyd was at the controls of a Midas XL4, while long-time mix partner John Roden mixed monitors. Boothroyd opted for Concert Sound's new EAW KF760 line array system, flown as an impressive 14-a-side rig, "so I could maximize the power and cove

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MA, Zero 88 and Artistic with ACT

Details: 14 March 2016

California-based distributor ACT Lighting hosted MA Lighting, Zero 88 and Artistic Licence: first up, MA showed the latest addition to the grandMA family - the entry-level grandMA micro. This tiny version carries nearly all the power of the regular grandMA, with 1,024 DMX channels, 10 fader playbacks, 20 button playbacks and support for the Pocket PC remote; it's also compatible with DMX over Ethernet and the grandMA 3D visualization software. Other products included the Network Signal Processor (NSP) which allows you to up your DMX channels to 64 universes, should you so require.

Zero 88 showed its Illusion 500 console, which combines the functionality of the successful Frog range with the power of a theatrical tracking console. The 512-channel desk can control up to 24 moving lights and offers 108 sub-masters, allowing freedom for 'on the fly' changes. Zero also showed the Frog Scre

Midgets from Lycian

Details: 14 March 2016

Lycian showed its new Midget II followspots, available in two versions - a 350W arc and a 575W halogen. These, as the name indicates, are compact, lightweight followspots aimed particularly at clubs, schools, small theatres and places of worship, as well as for TV and film use. The Midget II models include a new dichroic glass reflector, a six-colour boomerang, a new cam-operated brake, fader, Nichrome iris, gobo slot and, importantly, a fast, tool-free lamp change.

Avolites

Details: 14 March 2016

Avo' showed the new D4 Desktop system, providing all the functionality of the D4 consoles by connecting a DMX output from to the PC Simulator and Off Line Editor program, together with the optional Pilot, a plug-in hardware surface. The system is designed for use on applications where physical space is at a premium, where the show is mostly automated or as a backup to a console.

ShowCAD

Details: 14 March 2016

ShowCAD's Rowland Hughes was ensconced on the stand of Techni-Lux, the Florida-based lighting supplier, where ShowCAD Artist controlled all the stand's lighting, which included SGM's Giotto fixtures.

SmartMoves for Apollo Design

Details: 14 March 2016

Obviously doing something right, Apollo Design collected yet another ESTA Dealer Award at LDI this year - for the fifth consecutive time. On show was their SmartMove DMX gobo rotator: this can hold one or two B-size glass or metal gobos thanks to a reversible retaining ring, and is compatible with all the leading profile fixtures - Altman Shakespeare, ETC Source Four, Selecon Pacific and Strand SL. It's a quiet unit, with belt-driven operation, and offers an infinitely variable speed range from 0-21 RPM in either direction. The usefulness of the SmartMove has also increased significantly as Apollo has introduced 150 new standard gobo designs to its catalogue, which now offers in excess of 1,000.

Other Award Winners

Details: 14 March 2016

We've mentioned some of this year's award winners already: other winners included Hoffend, who picked up the Rigging award for the Vortek rigging system; Barco, who won the Projection award for the MiPix Modular Intelligent Pixelblock; Yamaha, who won the Sound award for the DM1000 digital production console; TentTec, who won the Lighting Accessory Award for the ML Bracket; and finally, Lex Products, who collected the Widget award for the E-String.

Compulite's Vector

Details: 14 March 2016

Compulite's Vector lighting control system, which we featured in our coverage of the Australian 'Logies' in July 2003, is doing very well. Currently with 10 Vector units installed worldwide, including two at Channel 9 in Melbourne and another at the Palais du Sport in Paris. With up to 40 due to be in place by the end of the first quarter of 2004, Compulite's managing director Yehuda Shukrun was pleased with the system's progress.

Vari-Lite goes Quiet

Details: 14 March 2016

Vari-Lite's new toy was the Series 3000Q luminaire, an expansion of the powerful 1200W Series 3000 fixtures, but designed with low-noise operation in mind. With its 'Q' for 'quiet', the new fixture claims an audible noise output reduction of 50% from the original Series 3000 series, say VL. This reduction has been achieved by slowing the fixture's seven fans and redesigning some key elements to better handle the increased heat load. A high-performance UV/IR window filters unwanted non-visible wavelengths from the lamp that would otherwise be passed through the optical path; other changes include the use of higher temperature materials and more efficient airflow paths. The Series 3000Q features all operational features currently in the Series 3000 fixtures - the trade-off is strictly thermal, say VL.

Vari-Lite will provide a "Q-kit" which includes everything you need to conver

Enliten / White Light

Details: 14 March 2016

Enliten's Exhibition PAR has been a big seller to rental houses serving the auto show market in the US: now its incorporation of Osram's new 150W HSD 7000°K daylight lamp, as demonstrated at LDI, makes this a lighter, whiter proposition than ever before. White Light showed its VSFX range of moving effects projectors

Fourth Phase / PRG

Details: 14 March 2016

Fourth Phase showed the Mbox system. MBox integrates the versatility of video with the flexible control of automated lighting, enabling video, stills and real-time effects to be combined for visual effects that can be displayed by any projector, LED wall or monitor.

L&SI Networks with Cirque Du Soleil

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Lighting&Sound International magazine (L&SI) will stage its second Networking event in February, when it offers readers a unique opportunity to take a behind the scenes tour of Dralion, the latest production from the world-renowned Cirque Du Soleil, which comes to London's Royal Albert Hall in the New Year. The first Networking event was a great success, providing 56 delegates with a backstage tour and performance of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium.

For the next event, which will take place on 13 February, delegates will be able to join L&SI at the Royal Albert Hall and meet with members of the Cirque Du Soleil production team, the Royal Albert Hall's technical crew and representatives of the companies who have supplied lighting, sound and rigging expertise to the production.

The day will include a guided tour of the historic venue and modern produ

CKI accessories from City Theatrical

Details: 14 March 2016

City Theatrical's latest lighting tools included a line of versatile accessories for use with Color Kinetics' LED-based lighting systems. The first accessories in the line are for use with Color Kinetics' popular ColorBlast, ColorBurst and ColorBlaze units: standard accessories include accessory holders, top hats, half top hats, spread lenses, egg crate louvres, and barndoors. The company showed moving prototype versions of the Color Kinetics ColorBlaze 48 (pictured), while also on display was a moving version of ETC's MultiPAR-3, with Wybron CXI colour mixing scroller; both were motorized in the tilt axis with 180° of movement, 16-bit control, and encoder feedback.

Also from this prolific award-winner was Lightwright 4, which picked up the LDI Product of the Year award in the Software category. V4 is the latest version of Lightwright with a host of new features - among them a 62 DMX

Syncrolite

Details: 14 March 2016

The 'big' lighting specialist from Texas, Syncrolite showed a prototype of its new fixture, the MX1000 - but the unit is so new that we'll have to wait to tell you about it.

Pacific followspot from Selecon

Details: 14 March 2016

Selecon introduced the followspot version of the Pacific luminaire (pictured right, with Philip Sargent), bearing the familiar characteristics of the Pacific's innovative heat management technology. The Pacific followspot offers a wide choice of lamp sources to suit most throw requirements, is silent due to its fanless design, and is built with easy maintenance and ergonomics in mind.

Strand shows SLD

Details: 14 March 2016

Strand's new SLD sinewave dimmers received their world debut at LDI. The SLD dimmers feature true sinewave output, making for quiet lamps and accurate control. The SST (Solid State Transformer) dimmer modules can dim a wide range of loads including incandescent, inductive and capacitive devices from a fraction of a watt to full capacity, and produce less than 1% harmonic distortion. The units carry built-in short circuit and overload protection, and SLD status reporting and advanced waveform compensation is standard. The units are available with Single Pole, Double Pole and RCD circuit breakers.

Strand also introduced a new USB Key drive with its Designer Remote software built in. Plug the new drive into the USB port on a PC or Mac notebook with a wired or wireless Ethernet connection and you'll be able to access displays and controls on any Strand 300 or 500 series console.

Marquee ILC with Horizon

Details: 14 March 2016

Robert Bell was showing the new Marquee ILC (Intelligent Lighting Control) console, which received a good reception on the ET stand. The Marquee line - consisting of the 24/48, 48/96 and now the ILC - brings a theatre-friendly hardware interface to the power of the Horizon lighting control software which has previously found favour in architectural and worship markets. ILC features four attribute encoders, a dedicated level wheel and 14 pageable hardware playbacks. Many visitors made positive comments on the 'Century Array' - a panel of 100 buttons for fixture selection that serves as group and palette select: usually a feature of more expensive consoles, this is an inexpensive add-on option to ILC.

ILC also features what ET call a 'Flat' fixture model, presenting all moving lights (of whatever make or model) to the user in the same way, e.g. strobe values are shown in hertz and gobo r

I got RDM . . .

Details: 14 March 2016

ESTA's dedicated Interconnectivity Pavilion was designed to offer an engineering model of how Remote Device Management (RDM) actually works, and an illustration of the benefits it will offer the lighting industry. And the benefits are many: it provides an automatic equipment check, telling the controller exactly what fixtures are connected; it does away with the need for DIP switch/fixture display settings - parameters can now be set directly from the console or RDM controller (good news for manufacturers and for productions with DMX devices in inaccessible places); also, the controller is alerted with status and error messages, including faults and lamp hours. The Pavilion also ably demonstrated how the RDM data packets run through the DMX data stream with no ill-effects on performance, even on non-RDM compatible fixtures.

Robe Show Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Robe Show Lighting displayed their full range of luminaires, including the latest ColorSpot 1200 AT (for Advanced Technology) and the 1200E AT version - which includes an electronic ballast for flicker-free operation, improved light output and lamp life, and power-saving mode.

Tomcat opens TheLodestarStore.com

Details: 14 March 2016

Tomcat's John James had news of the company's new web venture - TheLodestarStore.com - which offers next-day delivery across the US for its CM Lodestar products. This site goes live on 1 January 2004, and the service extends to the global market from 1 April.

Martin Pro picks up Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

Martin Professional picked up the Entertainment Lighting Product of the Year Award for its Maxxyz lighting console and the Staging & Effects Product of the Year for Jem's ZR 24/7 Hazer. On top of this, to satisfy customer demand, they introduced a new moving head laser fixture - the MAC 250 Laser. This high intensity 532nm, 250mW (green) YAG laser offers 540° pan and 257° tilt, plug and play operation and a patented intelligent safety feature. It comes with a range of effects, including radial flowering effects and an upgradeable library of graphics. Other features include full range electronic dimming and a pulsating variable-speed strobe, while a high-speed, rotating, three-facet prism effect extends the effects capability. Martin also showed its Jem and Magnum brand smoke machines, seen in September at PLASA, while the audio branch of the family, Mach, showed the new, low profile SP

DiGiCo

Details: 14 March 2016

Perhaps surprisingly for what is predominantly a lighting-oriented show, J Eric Wade, the president and CEO of DiGiCo USA, said that he thought the 'immediate' response at LDI had been stronger even than that received at AES in New York; that could be because this is a more 'immediate' market; but whatever the reason Wade (pictured here with Dave Webster) was well pleased with the show.

LDI Orlando

Details: 14 March 2016

If the PLASA Show in September provided a much-needed boost of optimism to a largely struggling industry, North America's main showcase, LDI - The Entertainment Technology Show, has emphasized the perception that, at last, the economic downturn is becoming an upturn. With over 10,000 visitors on day one and palpably more buzz than in Vegas last year, LDI has, to quote one long-term exhibitor who no doubt echoed the thoughts of many, returned to the quality of business of three years ago. It's been a tough time economically, compounded by terrorism, disease and war - but things, it seems, are looking up.

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