Events

AKG

Details: 14 March 2016

AKG (Harman Pro) gave its new large diaphragm, multi-pattern condenser microphone, the Perception 400, its first European outing at PLASA. The Perception, which features selectable cardioid, omni and figure-eight polar patterns is also equipped with a 10dB pad, bass cut filter and spider shock-mount. The introduction of the 400 completes AKG's range of large diaphragm microphones.

Apollo Design Technology

Details: 14 March 2016

Apollo Design Technology reported an excellent response to the Right Arm (which made its debut at PLASA) - its design enables it to add pan and tilt capabilities to a wide variety of lighting, video, and projection devices up to 40lb. Repositioning previously stationary gear via a console can reduce equipment and labour costs, as well as possible safety hazards, making the Right Arm a good choice for numerous applications. Shipping from January 2007. The company also showed its Smart Move Vertical - its latest 'Smart' gobo product. The (patent pending) Vertical features motion, time, and speed presets that create vertical movement of patterns or text - ideal for subtle movement of corporate logos and other retail, architectural, and theatrical applications.

YL Optics

Details: 14 March 2016

YL Optics manufactures a full range of precise optics and offers a design and manufacture service to meet customer requirements. Products feature in a wide variety of applications.

Robe Show Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Besides the usual upgrades and tweaks to its existing product lines, Robe Show Lighting introduced three new products - Digital Spot, StageQube 324, and the 700 Series.

StageQube is an LED videowall module, 800mm by 800mm, with an add-on diffusion cover for soft lighting type effects. Modules fit together through tapered spigots, weigh just 20kg and are IP54-rated. No IP address is required - it's done automatically in the software, just daisy-chain power and Cat 5 connectors.Low-resolution VGA input to the Qube software works best; the software can change focus through Gamma control, as well as access all the usual parameters.

DigitalSpot is a 5000 ANSI lumen moving head projector with QubeMedia Server resident in the head box above the moving yoke. On board, two digital gobo layers, 120 effects, full CMY, strobe, analogue and digital iris, with 80Gb hard disk. Digital keysto

EM Acoustics

Details: 14 March 2016

Just four years old, and appearing at PLASA for the first time, EM Acoustics (distributed in the UK by Autograph Sales) showed off their new DA1, a single 18" (utilising a Precision Devices driver) sub in a 9ft folded horn capable of reproducing high SPLs down as low as 30Hz, with a recommended upper roll-off at 200Hz.

Sharing the stand was Global 9, another new company to the PLASA show, showing their G9-G series of six installation speakers. Four cabinets are full-range and based variously on 6.5", 8", 12" and 15" drivers; low-end grunt can be added with either the G-212B (2 x 12") or the G218B (2 x 18") dedicated subs.Specialist analogue desk-only manufacturer APB also shared the stand with EM and Global 9. Having showed their prototype Spectra Series console last year, the full production version is now available.

Chevin Research

Details: 14 March 2016

Chevin Research were showing their new range of line level and audio amps on their stand at PLASA. Launched last year at Frankfurt, the S-Series are available in 100, 50 and 70V line configurations, where as theA-Series amps - increasing in power from the A2000 at 1.2kW through to the A6000 rated at 3kW into 2 ohms - were also on show. Bob Metcalf, UK sales manager, commented: "This has been a really good show for us. We have had a lot of distributors visiting the stand and we have been getting some great feedback on service."

Baltic Stages

Details: 14 March 2016

Baltic Stages were exhibiting their Stage Deck range. Designed for the professional market, Stage Deck is also suitable for schools, churches etc. The Stage Deck PRO range is designed for frequent use, and featuresanti-skid facing. Load capacity is 750kg/sq.m.

Beacon

Details: 14 March 2016

Swedish gobo manufacturer Beacon displayed their new high definition digital gobo range, issued as two series, each containing 12 clips. They are available in QuickTime, photo-JPG and 1920x1080/25 PAL code formats. Beacon also had their standard digi gobo ranges on display, and were specifically highlighting their customised digital content service.

GDS (Leisuretec) - Blues System

Details: 14 March 2016

GDS's Blues System, available in the UK through Leisuretec, is a new approach to performance working lights, replacing the bulkheads, fluorescents and theatre profiles currently used for performance blues. Manufactured from UV-stable polycarbonate, their sleek, compact and robust design is sealed to IP67, making installation possible in most environments. These design factors produce an extremely reliable fitting that will give many years of trouble-free operation. The Beam and Dome have onboard dimming which allows simple connection to a control line or dimming pot removing the need for other components. All fittings are directly mountable onto a conduit back box.

Martin Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

The occasion of Martin Audio's 35th anniversary saw attention firmly fixed on three areas of product development. In monitor world, the smooth lines of the new LE Series follow on after a decade of success with the 400 and 700 models. The LE1200 and 1500 sport a 12" or 15" with a 1.4" compression driver onto a 'differential' horn producing pattern control narrowing from 100° to 60° as you move back from the wedge's main axis. The LE2100 model is a bi-amp 3-way version with 2x12".

The Longbow addition to the Wavefront line array system was seen at last year's show: main features are an extended low-end response, down from 50Hz to 35Hz, and added SPL, now 142dB continuous in the high end.

Martin also featured 'Engineer' on it's stand; a matrixing product with some exclusive extra features, it is made by Team Projects in Holland. Besides the expected f

Outboard - TiMax Track The Actors

Details: 14 March 2016

This comprises a TiMax Audio Imaging delay matrix driven by a Track The Actors (TTA) system, comprising a TTA Cordis Radio Eye mounted above stage which receives signals from radio tags (pictured below) worn by each actor which are fed via Ethernet to the TTA software, which analyses them to derive positional information about the actors. The TTA software sends MIDI messages to the TiMax software which sets level/delay in the TiMax matrix to place the actors' audio images in the appropriate localisation zones on stage - automatically and in real time.

Marquee Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

Marquee Audio were showing the range of Optocore PTP32 point-to-point fibre network audio distribution system and the new DD6 interface that can provide access to Ethernet ports on the network. On similar lines, sales director Andy Huffer demonstrated the Auvitran range of EtherSound networked audio interfaces, including the AVB32-ES Ethersound AES/EBU bridge

Apex

Details: 14 March 2016

Apex had two new products to present to visitors at the show in the form of the dBC-8 compressor/limiter and dGB-8 eight-channel noise gate. These products were on display along with the company's flagship Intelli-X loudspeaker management system.

5 Star Cases

Details: 14 March 2016

5 Star Cases celebrated their 25th anniversary at the show, drawing the crowds in with their generous giveaways and their stunning transparent flight-case/aquarium, complete with tropical fish.

The '5 Star Speed Challenge' was housed in a custom-built 'Super Tour' flightcase, complete with racing seat, steering wheel and pedals. Each hour, the fastest speed won a limited edition anniversary briefcase with an overall prize of £2,500 to spend at 5 Star Cases for the fastest lap during the entire show.

Also on display was Pioneer's brand new DVJ-1000 player - a console system containing two twin DVJ-1000 DVD/CD decks, the latest Pioneer DJM-800 mixer, VSW-1 video switcher and triple TFT 6.5 " display monitors - for which 5 Star produces the flightcase, of course.

Global Design Solutions,

Details: 14 March 2016

Global Design Solutions, whose Award-winning Blues system was shown on the Leisuretec Distribution stand, were, needless to say, having a great show. A very pleased Matt Lloyd showed us a thick wadge of business cards which, we were informed, were all international distribution enquiries.

ADB Lighting Technologies

Details: 14 March 2016

ADB Lighting Technologies unveiled two new luminaires from its award-winning Warp series: The HMI Warp/Daylight - available in motorised and manual versions featuring electronic flicker-free ballasts and light output angles of either 12-30° or 22-50°. The Warp/Ceramic - based on the Philips Ceramic ST 250 HR discharge lamp - offers extremely long lamp-life, has the colour temperature of a tungsten halogen light source and produces the same output as a 1000W tungsten halogen lamp for only 250W power consumption. Two new dimmers were also on show - the Eurodim Sine Wave series and the Erack 50 Plus economy dimmer rack.

SGM

Details: 14 March 2016

Besides its well-known comprehensive range of moving yoke wash and spotlights, SGM now produces three models of LED colour mixing washlight based on high output Luxeon LEDs - Palco3, Palco3 Mobile and Genio Mobile, displayed on the stand of UK distributor, Lightfactor Sales. All use the same combination of RGB LEDs with interchangeable lenses to give 8°, 25° and 40° spread. All three are also available fitted with just white LEDs for simple floodlighting requirements. The two Mobile models have moving DMX-controlled yokes; the Palcos are both IP65-rated, the Genio IP33.

PLASA also saw the official UK launch of SGM's Pilot 3000 lighting desk - 1024 DMX channels, 2 DMX outs, 1 DMX in, TFT touch screen select, and it comes with 64MB Compact Flash back-up, and is fully Ethernet compatible. It also features four jog wheel encoders plus trackball, six programmable faders a

ShowFX

Details: 14 March 2016

From Rotterdam, manufacturer and rental company ShowFX launched their FoamMaster and SnowMaster 350 foam and snow machines at PLASA, both of which offer higher output and more efficient operation, plus their new Typhoon fan for inflatables. This is quicker, has confetti and smoke holes in the sides and space for rigging lights to illuminate the inflatable.

BSS Audio

Details: 14 March 2016

BSS Audio (Harman Pro) announced installations of SoundWeb across Europe, including the Norwegian Parliament building, Do & Co in Austria and the Rome Underground utilising London Architect and HiQNet: "Programming the DSP gain structure, using HiQnet London Architect couldn't have been easier," said BSS distributor Edisco's project manager, Gino Fioravanti.

Weifa Trussing

Details: 14 March 2016

Weifa Trussing from China illustrated their latest E Series trussing, designed for all sizes of exhibitions, shows and performance applications, plus their own tower systems and a selection of flightcases.

Raycom-SBS

Details: 14 March 2016

On the Raycom-SBS stand, international sales director Bardy Hayes was on hand to demonstrate the SLS range of Planar Ribbon Loudspeakers from the USA. Their outing at PLASA was the first in the UK and Hayes was happy to discuss the advantages of ribbon technology. With high power handling and low distortion, the units are ideal for line array and this is implemented in the RLA/2 and RLA/3 'true line arrays' as well as the PLS8695 self-powered column array, the LS6583S compact line array and the PS8R full-range double 8" two-way studio monitor.

Numark

Details: 14 March 2016

As ever, Numark had a swathe of new products on their stand at the show this year. All aimed at either audio or video DJs, the units are making the humble disc jockey look like a veritable techno junkie. Some of the best included the X2 Hybrid Turntable and MP3 CD player, which offers a full-size 12" platter from which to scratch and mix either humble vinyl or CD.

RVE

Details: 14 March 2016

From RVE (on the ESP stand) was a new sine wave rack-mount installation dimmer, previewed in prototype at Siel, and now in production. The 2 x 3kW plug-in modules will dim any type of lamp. Expect 1 x 5kW models in early '07.

PixelRange & James Thomas Engineering

Details: 14 March 2016

Micro battens are the latest addition to the PixelRange line of LED lighting products from James Thomas Engineering. Micro W is a powerful flood unit with 22 high intensity Luxeon LEDs; Micro E contains a dense field of 174 RGB LEDs. Both are housed in IP20-rated 205mm by 84mm enclosures.

A batten that is essentially designed to run video streaming is yet to be named: linear in construction, it is six pixels wide and is scalable in 12 pixel-long modules - a 72 pixel-long strip was on show. Self-contained with data and power in/out connections, up to 20 modules can be linked in a single run; input is DVA, patch into a media server, all will auto address and away you go. Will run DMX and ArtNet - use ArtNet to alter parameters.

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