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Sovis Optique

Details: 14 March 2016

For Jose Dervin of Sovis Optique the primary reason to come to PLASA is to meet with existing customers. He says: "It is the number one exhibition for the entertainment industry. It is not our principal objective to seek out new customers, however every year we leave with a few more!" Sovis Optique provides optical components for manufacturers such as ETC and Robert Juliat, amongst many others.

APB Dynasonics

Details: 14 March 2016

In only two short years, American company APB Dynasonics has become recognised in the live sound arena as a provider of quality analogue mixing consoles. The company used PLASA to launch the MixSwitch, which enables easy switching between two consoles such as main act and support, or in SUM mode allows the simultaneous use of both consoles. A digital version of MixSwitch is also available, allowing the switching of AES/EBU inputs and outputs.

Triple Onda

Details: 14 March 2016

With 25 years' experience, Triple Onda is a major player in the Spanish and European sound market. This year, the company displayed its Full XLA V3/4/6 three-way line array system. The unique feature of this system is that it does not require any separate sub-bass units to make it full-range - boasting a frequency response down to 35Hz. The XLA array is self-powered and DSP-controlled and is also available as a two-way system for use with external subs if required.

The Full XLA has been used on over 300 events since April 2005 and was recently put to the test at the Tele Taxi Radio Anniversary celebrations in Can Zam Park, Spain, where just 32 cabinets were used to cover an audience of over 700,000 people.

Metalworx<

Details: 14 March 2016

Metalworx are a UK trussing manufacturer for lighting support, exhibition stands and outdoor concert systems. Their range includes trussing, clamps and couplers, light bars, and accessories for exhibitions and conferences. On the same stand were Penn Fabrication, manufacturers of flightcase and cabinet hardware, and other industry essentials.

CableJog Ltd

Details: 14 March 2016

CableJog Ltd director Eddie Zych was on hand to demonstrate the AudioJog Pro, which is now manufactured into a metal box for the desktop version, while the rackmount version and prices stay the same. The AudioJog testing system can also be used to complete end-to-end testing where cables are installed using two units and has the added ability to store correctly wired cable configurations for later comparison.

Link srl

Details: 14 March 2016

Italian company Link srl manufactures and distributes cables, connectors and accessories for the entertainment and broadcasting industry. At PLASA this year, the company showcased its wide product portfolio including the Eurocable product range, comprising single, multipairs, microphone, speakers, digital audio, video coaxial, DMX512, Ethernet etc - and its range of LK Connectors for a wide range of audio and lighting applications.

Stage Technologies

Details: 14 March 2016

Connect is a service support software package from Stage Technologies, tailored to analyse critical data from any of the myriad installations made by this innovative theatrical motion control specialist. Essentially,a London-based secure server network is linked over the web directly to installation control systems, e.g. Nomad. Data, cue updates, button pushes, every operation of the system is recorded within minutes of it happening. Thus when faults occur, the 24/7 coverage provided at the London office means a technical examination of the distant installation can be analysed immediately.

Complex show systems, even those onboard cruise ships, can be supported, the much larger preliminary data can be stored directly onto the server by the Stage Technologies personnel who physically install the system. Thereafter, update data, being relatively much smaller, can be transmitted via

Mico Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Mico Lighting, distributors for all the major lamps from Osram, GE, Sylvania and Phillips were experiencing great interest in the new Phillips Fast-Fit replacement high intensity discharge lamp - which promises to significantly redcue overall fixture size in the future.

Studio Due

Details: 14 March 2016

Studio Due displayed various new products including the City LED - a smart-looking RGB LED DMX-controllable fixture for architectural application. Housed in an IP67-rated aluminium case, it provides high output light fittings for sign and letter illumination and video graphics. Also on show were new models of the City Color CC2500/C and CC1800/C IP54 - the use of a new asymmetric bracket giving the fixture greater tilting capacity. Also new was Control Five - a controller with 512 DMX channels, shape function, MIDI in/out and through, DMX in, and 32 parameters.

Stanton

Details: 14 March 2016

Stanton was pushing its new C.314 tabletop CD player which incorporates MP3 technology and scratches like a turntable. Also new was the first DJ-branded monitor, offering studio quality sound reproduction in the DJ booth. It's a product that will appeal to all pro DJs and anyone concerned with good sound foldback in this area.

HB Laserkomponenten

Details: 14 March 2016

From Stuttgart, Germany, HB Laserkomponenten were demonstrating the two main systems which they have developed and use regularly. The LightCube 3 is a 3W RGB system with full-colour and graphics capabilities for indoor use. The LightCube 8 is a high powered system for external applications. Their multimedia control platform, Titan, handles lighting, lasers and sound and is suitable for time coded and sync'ed shows.

Power Gems

Details: 14 March 2016

Power Gems - After a successful company restructuring exercise, PowerGems Ltd were focussing on their Entertainment High Frequency range of Power Supplies known as Cleararc. Designing and manufacturing electronic ballasts centred around OEM application for architectural, intelligent / effect and theatrical lighting fixtures. The 575,700 and 1200W HMI power control systems offer increased reliability and are cost effective.

MDG

Details: 14 March 2016

MDG showed its full line of products, including the MM Series (foggers), ATM Series (haze generators), MAX Series (fog generators), Ice Fog Series (low-lying fog generators), and the Professional Modular Fog System.

VMB Effects

Details: 14 March 2016

Spanish company VMB Effects highlighted their well-known and loved Towerlift range, plus the new PIRAM range line array lift, which was flying its own Lynx line array speaker system. Also showing were their VMB trussing, dimmers and digital processors.

Adamson Pro Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

Shown last year in prototype, the production version of Canadian speaker system manufacturer Adamson's T21 sub is now available. A 6kW unit running two 21" drivers with 6" dual coils on double spiders, this beast produces super powerful extended low-end. Shifting one box in a stack of three back one quarter length - and using some slick DSP - can eliminate most of the backward firing energy of what is generally an omni-directional radiator at such low frequencies.

Outline

Details: 14 March 2016

Italian innovator Outline continued its own trend by again launching new products at PLASA 2006. The first of these was the LAB 15 self-powered 15" sub, capable of 134dB/1m SPL continuous and which can be used on its own or in stacks.

Outline was also showing pre-release versions of the Mini COMPASS Line Array. The ultra-compact, self-powered system is an install version of the COMPASS, which won an Award for Innovation at last year's PLASA Show. It has variable dispersion from 60-150° in 15° steps (manually adjusted), and will be available in the next two to three months.

PLASA '06: In review

Details: 14 March 2016

This year's PLASA Show was as positive an event as ever, with that unique buzz of business and networking that the show seems to call its own. Even the fifth Beatle was doing a bit of window-shopping. The L&SI team of Steve Moles, Sarah Rushton-Read, Rob Speight, Louise Stickland, David Barbour, Lee Baldock and Chris Henry report from Earls Court . . .

For me, the four days of the PLASA Show generally flash past, leaving a hundred encounters and conversations fighting for space in my memory banks. This year's show was like that, only more so. One conversation was memorable for the gloomy picture the person portrayed of the show's future: it was never going to attract a strong international audience, because it was so difficult and expensive for people to visit the UK, they said, and for that reason, the PLASA Show would never compete with Frankfurt's ProLight&Sound.

Thankfully, by wa

Le Mark

Details: 14 March 2016

Le Mark's beach themed booth drew some fantastic comments from visitors, and Le Mark reports that the orders began flowing from the Sunday morning.

The new catalogue and the IRONCLAD glove range launched proved to be excellent crowd pleasers. Le Mark secured three new dealers at the show including one from Russia

White Light

Details: 14 March 2016

White Light's stand was the launching point for a range of new products from the various manufacturers it represents (see other entries), including ELC, LDDE, Robert Juliat, Look Solutions and LSC Lighting - for which the company announced its appointment as exclusive distributor to the UK and Ireland at the show. The stand also served as a showcase for the company's own products - including the Digital Festoon System, the VSFX and the Tubular Ripple. Also very popular was the return of the 2way-15amp adapters or Grelcos (designed the old-fashioned way), plus the latest edition of its Catalogue and Reference Guide

Lightstorm Trading

Details: 14 March 2016

Lightstorm Trading showed products from TDE Light-Tech in Holland and Amptown among other manufacturers. The stand was made up of TDE Light-Tech's RGB Dancefloor Tiles, which are solidly constructed with a weight loading of 1200kg, measuring 1m square and divided into 16 sections, allowing readable text to be scrolled across a length of them at a height of 2m or more. Amptown showed its latest 600W tungsten and HMI 575 moving lights, both of which have CMY colour mixing and a motorised focus.

MA Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

New additions to the capabilities of MA Lighting's GrandMA desk through GrandMA Video (a software media server launched last year) include a pixel-mapping function. Can also playback most media formats frame synchronous throughout the network. Other features include multi-layer preview giving a 3x3 display of all six layers. GrandMA video can also follow blind programming of the console from additional PC or laptop while the desk output is unaffected.

MA also support Schnick Schnack Systems and showed their new LED panel, the Paneel C100, in 1m square panels - a backlight fixture for use behind a projection screen (optimum distance 3") to create full-colour mixing than can be smooth or tile pixelated. Needless to say, it's fully DMX controllable.

Osram

Details: 14 March 2016

Osram showed a variety of new bulbs. The 4ArXs HCD ceramic metal halide lamp for creative architectural lighting and the double-ended Baby SharXS HTI, with a length of just 93mm were shown alongside new lamps in the aluPAR family, billed as being 66% lighter and up to 10% brighter than conventional halogen PAR 56 lamps for stage and show lighting. The HMI 18000 W/SE is a new addition to the company's range ofhigh-output single-ended metal halide lamps; the 575 W HPL Long Life (1,500 hours) burns nearly four times as long as the standard lamp, while the 750W version lasts up to five times, the company says. Another addition to the HPL Series is QXL Quick eXchange - thanks to its unique twist-and-lock cap, the lamp can be replaced without opening the luminaire. The company's new series of mains voltage halogen lamps for the entertainment, show, and stage sectors are manufactured in

LED (Lighting Effects Distribution)

Details: 14 March 2016

LED (Lighting Effects Distribution) had their latest colour-changing x-Chip multi-coloured LED strip light on the stand, a large quantity of which has just been used to kit out a TV studio in Athens. They also have a new LED truss warmer using 12 x 1W emitters, specifically designed to fit into standard triangular MiniBeam trussing. LED has also just started distribution of GLP (German Lighting Products) moving lights.

Community (CUK)

Details: 14 March 2016

The Veris range of speakers took pride of place on the Community (CUK) stand. Good for anything from a small dance studio to the demands of a big club environment, Veris sports 18 models, mostly two-way cabinets, with - at the top of the range - three 3-ways and two dedicated subs. All are of plywood construction, with Community's ownwell-known Dynatech voltage protection. Available in the UK in early '07.

Also on the CUK stand, the Kind products, offering install quality multi-channel amplifiers (MCX and KDL range) with integral digital limiters, perfectly complement Veris, said a spokesman. So too Ethersound products from Digigram - also available through CUK Ltd.

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