Events

Mach (Martin Pro)

Details: 14 March 2016

Mach, the speaker division of Martin Professional is now firmly focussed on the install market: a complete new range designated 'C' addresses every size and configuration you'd want. Particular attention has been paid to mounting and ease of install. 13 new cabinets were on display; another seven will be with us by the end of the year.

City Theatrical

Details: 14 March 2016

City Theatrical, exclusively distributor of A.C.T Enterprises Inc, was showing its new device to hang moving lights from. The simple, inexpensive and versatile piece of hardware allows moving lights to be hung on the truss where the designer intends and not where the truss dictates. The newest members of the WDS family - the wireless Rx2 DMX receiver and OEM wireless DMX receiver - were also attracting attention.

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Rainbow Colour Changers

Details: 14 March 2016

Michael Strathmann from Rainbow Colour Changers said the company was having a good show and an extremely successful year with its scrollers. Future plans include increased flexibility with a lot of customized work in the pipeline.

Martin Professional

Details: 14 March 2016

Show Designer, Martin Professional's light show visualization and programming software, now offers much faster 3D rendering. Also from Martin, Stage Cyclo is a four-tube architectural fluorescent flood beefed up to make it robust enough for touring. A new set of Gobos for the MAC 2000 has been designed by Patrick Woodroffe. The Maxedia media server can run up to 20 layers simultaneously, while the new Maxxyz Wings are add-ons for the main Maxxyz lighting control desk. Good idea this: several different wing modules, all with the same construction, just different face plates. Rental houses will be able to mix and match wings to suit jobs, much as audio people have been doing for years. Martin also introduced several new lamps for the club market.

KV2 Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

KV2 Audio was celebrating its second year of trading. Now with a total of 30 distributors, the company is experiencing significant growth in the Asian and Australasian markets. The company also announced that it's teaming up with Allen & Heath to target the US market. This year, KV2 launched its high tech EX12 high-output active full-range speaker. Marcelo Vercelli, KV2 president noted: "Design of the EX12 took over two years as our goal was to create a product that would re-define the 12" two-way product category."

e:cue

Details: 14 March 2016

Flexibility is the key aspect of e:cue products. The company describes itself as "providing simple solutions for complex scenarios," and is currently looking for a UK distributor for its range of lighting controllers (see feature in L&SI October 2004, pages 81-83).

Audient

Details: 14 March 2016

Neo is a digital EQ and dynamics processor from Audient (under the aegis of LA Audio), with the ability to operate on a network system as a remote control. Features include 31-band graphics, shelving, dynamic EQ and an RT Analyser. Controlled from its front panel, or PC, a slave unit is promised shortly.

Chamsys

Details: 14 March 2016

A new name in the lighting control scene, Chamsys had a wide range of products from desks to DMX buffers on display. The blood red MagicQ MQ200 lighting console was the star of the ChamSys stand, providing six universes, 202 playbacks and 3072 channels in a package designed for simple programming and busking.

LDDE

Details: 14 March 2016

LDDE showed its range of creative lighting control solutions for architectural and entertainment applications, with a full selection of options for controlling anything from 10 devices up to 16,000! The e:note is specially designed for architectural use, working on one DMX universe with the ability to store up to 12 'shows', and controlled via timer, keypad or remote.

Cadac

Details: 14 March 2016

Cadac launched its new M16, a 16-channel remote mic amplifier. Controlled remotely through an RM16 via Cadac's SAM software, each mic channel has an active three-way splitter and in-built high pass filter. Also new, the D16 is a 16x16 digital mix matrix with dynamic control; four-band EQ (giving a digital reproduction of the 'J' type sound), high and low pass filters, compression and gates, plus adjustable level routing to 16 output mixes (Pre EQ, Post EQ, or Post fader). This will apparently form the core of a digital mixing console from Cadac next year.

Formula Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

PLASA stalwart Formula Sound launched its FF-6000 mixer, designed in conjunction with Tony Andrews of Funktion-One, after much DJ feedback. Features include a removable fader panel offering rotary or linear faders, while the design includes some thoughtful ergonomic touches.

MGC Lamps

Details: 14 March 2016

Hundreds of lamps are distributed by MGC. New this year was the Philips Broadway Gold - part of the double-ended MSR Gold range, complete with gold base and utilizing four new lamp technologies including P3 pinch protection for operation at up to 2500ºC! Also new was a full range of Luxeon LEDs, and the Cariboni range of architectural floodlights.

Artistic Licence

Details: 14 March 2016

Pride of place on the Artistic Licence stand was Jump Start, the all-singing, all-dancing remote device management (RDM) tool that uses the new RDM DMX protocol. For want of a better description, this hand-held device could take the place of a lighting desk. It's also backwards compatible with 'old' DMX. With this and other products attracting attention, Artistic reported that this was their best PLASA show ever.

Pro Light Concepts

Details: 14 March 2016

Pro Light Concepts, supplier of mobile disco equipment, was hosting a busy stand. The company's Mark Walsh was enthusiastic about the show and pleased to be supporting long-time Taiwanese associates Acme Effects, who he described as "a great team to work with".

Sunbaba Screens

Details: 14 March 2016

Sunbaba Screens showed its Digisound scrim material, which allows sound to pass through with almost no signal degradation. The revolutionary fabric can be printed upon with full colour, and has been tested at outdoor events over the summer with highly favourable reviews.

Cerebrum

Details: 14 March 2016

Cerebrum, the UK distributor for Japanese manufacturer San-Ei, was promoting the latter's range of highly engineered Xenon followspots, ranging between 1 and 4kW. Despite their size, these are flexible and easy to handle, and are constructed to last at least 25 years!

Le Mark Group

Details: 14 March 2016

Collaboration between Le Mark Group and the technical and production dept of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama led to the development of the Le Mark Bar-Fly tags. A simple but effective way of visually identifying items on flown bars the tag visually replicates the AutoCAD standard.

Vestax

Details: 14 March 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, Vestax was highlighting its new CDX05 single-slot CD player that can link to a Tascam TTM1, enabling a DJ to use vinyl to control CD and MP3 playback. The QFO turntable/mixer was also catching eyes. The first of its kind, the space-age looking combination device gives DJs the freedom to 'play' it more as an instrument. Also this year, Vestax's PDX2300 Mark II Pro turntable featured the J-shaped 'active balance' tone arm, a new 'super-stable' mechanism.

Robert Juliat

Details: 14 March 2016

Ginger and Alex are the new tungsten followspots from Robert Juliat. Featuring mechanical dimmers for constant colour temperature and a high performance double condenser optical system. Ginger has a 15.5-27° zoom whilst Alex has a 7-14.5° zoom.

KAM

Details: 14 March 2016

KAM has launched 71 new products over the last 18 months. PLASA saw the first showing of the IMS Pro series of speakers, a versatile injection-moulded mobile DJ rig with three passive full-range enclosures and two active ones and the choice of two different subs.

Lighting Innovation

Details: 14 March 2016

Lighting Innovation showed its latest SuperBeam beam light, with 1.2K/80V tungsten lightsource, which doubles the output of the classic beam light. The lamp also lasts three times as long as a traditional beam light source and contains two mirrors to optimize the output and direct the beam between 3-12°.

Cerwin Vega

Details: 14 March 2016

Catering for a wide range of PA requirements, Cerwin Vega launched its Intense portable system, comprising three cabinets, all with titanium compression drivers, plywood cabinets and HighRoad horns. Also on show were the now-shipping ProStax, Structural Design Series and top-of-the-range Vision lines.

Spectrum

Details: 14 March 2016

A stunning four-minute laser show featuring 24 pre-programmed lasers was a highlight of the Spectrum (UK) Lasers stand. Nigel Williams said the company was the first to introduce affordable three-colour lasers that offer yellow. Spectrum is the exclusive distributor of Actor Mate products from Taiwan.

Buster Cases

Details: 14 March 2016

Buster Cases was showing no new products this year, but the company reports that it looks forward to the positive benefits of PLASA for at least six months after the show.

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