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Having put the show on ice last year, allowing its exhibitors to "concentrate their efforts on optimising their businesses during the peak of the world recession," organisers feel the time is right for a recovery-boosting show.The show will follow the same format as the successful 2008 debut event, which saw 65 exhibiting companies attend - 60% coming from outside Italy - and 6,783 visitors from 35 nations.

APIAS, the Italian association of manufacturers and importers of equipment for the entertainment industry, which represents some of the most important and distinguished firms in the trade in Italy, confirms its utmost commitment to working together with

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Members of the pages will be the first to find out about industry news, PLASA news and show news and content Plus, PLASA 2011 is offering the first 1000 members the chance to win a pair of Sennheiser HD 380 Pro collapsible high end headphones! To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is "like" the PLASA 2011 page, then a winner will be picked at random.

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Organisers PLASA Events put the increase down to the quality of the products launched at the event with events manager Sophie Atkinson commenting, "The PLASA Show is a favourite place for companies to launch ground breaking innovations to an international market. There's a real opportunity for companies to make a big splash and our exhibitors are taking full advantage of that."

She adds: "The past few years at the PLASA Show have seen the industry's standout audio, lighting, video and stage technology products receive their international débuts. From the high profile mixing consol

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"This is the only event of its kind in Scotland," says Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane. "Our annual open days have always been really popular and this year's will be the biggest and best yet. It will be a great opportunity to see the latest developments in the industry and will save people in Scotland the trouble of going down to the London shows."

The event, which will run from 10am until 4.30pm on each day, is designed to be of real value to anyone working in the theatre, events or architectural sectors. Over the two days visitors will be able to talk to manufacturers and get a ha

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"This will allow for a quicker turnaround and access to more products with increased inventory," said Stéphane Gressier, international sales manager for Chauvet.

WELL, or Wireless Event LED Luminaire, is designed specifically to be a self-contained uplight for any event. Inside each WELL wash light are 12 3W tri-colour LEDS, similar to the 14 found in the COLORado 1-TRI Tour. It's powered by a 12-volt battery offering up to 12 hours of life to the fixture.

COLORado Range IP and COLORado Ridge IP are indoor/outdoor wash lights and feature RGBWA colour mixing. The us

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ENTECH 2011, which takes place at SCEC on 19 - 21 July 2011, will now include a new stream in its educational program featuring international speakers from PLASA's extensive global membership base.

Over 4000 visitors are expected to register for ENTECH 2011, and attendance at the seminars will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Visitors will be able to secure their seats for a seminar via the ENTECH website in the coming weeks.

PLASA's CEO, Matthew Griffiths said: "We are pleased to be involved in one of the premium industry events in Australia. We see this alliance as a great opportunity to support the future development of our indust

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Combined, the two companies offer a spread of solutions for lifting and control applications within the entertainment industry - from a theatre hand winch to an automated BGV C1 C-Force hoist and control solution with variable speed, positional control and load monitoring.

COW Lifting Technology will show the C-Force range of electric chain hoists, winches and control systems. C-Force products specialise in fixed or variable speed hoist and control systems to BGV C1 and up to SIL 3 performance standards.

LTM will show the popular LoadGuard electric chain hoists in capacities from 250kg to 5 tonnes as standard rigging hoists and to all current European entertainment standards such as the British Hoisting Entertainment Standard BS 79

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The two-day Education & Learning Programme proved a major success last year and this year PLASA Events have added a new strand of product demonstrations and training to the popular mix of case studies and seminars. The sessions run alongside a two-hall exhibition of new technology and are free to attend.

Kicking off the case studies is the RSC. The RSC's Vince Herbert, Jeremy Dunn and Adam Harvey - responsible for lighting, sound and stage automation respectively - will be joined by Jonathan Porter-Goff from Stage Electrics in a session entitled Build a Theatre, Rebuild Another and Refurbish a Third. This will be an opportunity to learn

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The VDT lectures will be held in Room 'Esprit', Hall 9.1, from 10.00 to 18.00 hrs on Friday, 8 April 2011, and are open to all Prolight + Sound visitors free of charge. The Association of German Sound Engineers is a professional association for professionals from all parts of the audio sector. Its members work in film, radio, television, sound studios, record production, theatres, event halls, the equip¬ment manufacturing industry, research and development, and in professions relating to sound-engineering activities.

At its congress, ALMA - The Int

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The first manufacturer to offer a total solution for EN54-certified voice evacuation systems, TOA continues to gain certification for additional products in its range, and has now confirmed that the PC-2369EN ceiling speaker, along with horn and box speakers BS-678BSB, BS-678BSW, CS-64BS, CS-154BS and SC-615BS as well as the PC-1867FC ceiling speaker and BS-680FC steel cabinet speaker have all been given EN54-24 approval. The entire VM-3000 Series PA/VA System and network-based SX-2000 Voice Evacuation Systems are approved. Next in line for certification is the company's VX-2000 Voice Evacuation System which should be certified within a number of weeks.

At the for

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The Professional Lighting & Sound Association of Germany is responsible for the Forum programme, which covers a variety of subjects from the fields of event security and safety, training in the event sector, building regulations and adherence to them, and new technical standards. The Prolight+Sound Forum will be held in Rooms 'Symmetrie' 2 / 3, Hall 8.1, from 6 to 8 April 2011. On Saturday, 9 April, the Prolight+Sound Forum will be held in Hall 11.0, Room 'Granat'.

Speakers will include: Jörg Braeutigam, Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Administrative Sector (Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft - VBG) and Hermann-Josef Weien, Project & Production; Falco Zanini; Thomas Völker, (Institution for St

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The Agora Stage is actually made up of two stages (A & B) which are run adjacent to each other, so to maintain sufficient coverage, three hangs of Peavey's Versarray line array system will be deployed: one hang dedicated to each stage, and a central hang serving both. Each hang will comprise eight Versarray 212 three-way tri-amped mid/high enclosures; and 24x Versarray 218 subwoofers will be arrayed beneath the stage to provide low frequency reinforcement.

Twenty-four Crest Pro 9200 amplifiers will be dedicated to the subs (one per sub); and the Versarray 2

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Legally Blonde won three awards including best new musical, while the National Theatre's revival of Terence Rattigan's After the Dance collected four awards. Despite being nominated in seven categories, the Phantom sequel Love Never Dies was left empty-handed.

Best Lighting Design went to Neil Austin forThe White Guard at the NT Lyttelton. Also nominated this year were Mark Henderson for After the Dance at the NT Lyttelton; Hugh Vanstone for Deathtrap at the Noel Coward; and Paule Constable for Love Never Dies at the Adelphi. The Award for Best Sound Design went to Adam Cork for King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse. Also nominated were Gareth

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Based in Southern Germany, Somix Audio Labs is a digital audio development company employing experienced professionals having broad expertise in digital audio, psychoacoustic, digital signal processing, mathematics, analogue and digital electronics, as well as computer hardware, software, and networking technologies. The company is headed up by Dr. Christoph M. Musialik, general manager of Somix Audio Labs and international R&D director of the Soundking Group.

Somix Audio Labs' focus is on hardware and software development, and DSP platforms, including high-speed design and layout, FPGA design, real-time operating systems, and AD/DA converters,

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New products will include 5 Star's Venue range of general purpose cases. This sees a slight departure for 5 Star, in that the main material used is a lightweight honeycombed polypropylene. This offers significant weight savings over traditional plywood carcass constructed cases, and will be suitable for small to medium sized applications of all types.

A 'nest' of four general purpose carry cases is available, utilising classic 'Russian Doll' methodology, whereby sets of cases in decreasing sizes are placed one inside the other for neat storage when not in use.

Other than the polypropylene panels, the case is furnished with the usual flight case type

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PLASA Events are attributing the increase in visitor registrations to a host of new features at the show, including an extended exhibitor list of 120 companies including 21 first-timers, a seminar programme that is twice the size of previous years, case study presentations from the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North, special interest seminars presented by some of the industry's leading bodies and new opportunities to book seats on 45-minute product demonstration seminars. Private meetings are also available for the first time, with the availability of three private conference rooms at PLASA Focus, with slots still available.

The 21 new exhibitors come from across the spectrum of audio,

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Rob Halliday is based in London and has been travelling the world working on theatre productions for more than 15 years, as lighting designer, lighting programmer or visiting speaker at drama schools such as the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and trade shows such as Showlight, PLASA and LDI.

Along the way he has written about the shows he has been involved with and any other interesting ones he stumbled across for a variety of magazines including Lighting&Sound International and Lighting&Sound America, the best of those articles now collected together in the books Entertainment In Production vols 1 and 2.

In the moments in between, he

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The EC-10 is a high performance, true 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel that teams with Martin's EC-20 to form a fully compatible EC family of LED displays that can be mixed and matched for ultimate design creativity. The EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of brightness, colour, setup, curving, control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolution visuals in one system, says the company.

The MAC 101 moving head comes with "a low price tag for revolutionary stage, dance floor and decorative lighting designs". The MAC 101 is available in three white light versions that expand its use to applications where high quality, pure white light is needed. The new variants incorporate cold and/or warm LEDs instead

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On Thursday 14 April, InfoComm will host the latest in its series of Academy Days, at the Royal Society of Medicine at Chandos House, London. Utilising a slightly modified format from previous such events, the day will feature four (as opposed to the previous three) 90-minute seminars - all delivered by industry leaders and all qualifying for CTS renewal units. Sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine and Kramer, the day will cost non-members £60 to attend, reducing to £40 for members or £20 if members use InfoComm EduBucks.

Topics to be covered during the Academy Day

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The new RobinMMX Spot is the first in a new generation of 1200 Series fixtures offering a neater, smaller, lighter and brighter more energy efficient package; the Robin 300 LEDWash is the smaller version of the best-selling 600 LEDWash; the Robin 600 PureWhite is a warm, cold and smart white light version of the successful 600 LEDWash RGBW specifically for studio environments, and the DigitalSpo

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"The first, an eight channel I/O module for the SD-Rack, is something we believe the industry would expect from DiGiCo," says managing director James Gordon. "The module allows our users to drop audio on and off a Dante network for connection to system control, amplifiers and general audio networks.

"The second is a little more unexpected and comes from our Solutions Division in the shape of Dante DMI (DiGiCo Multichannel Interface) card."

The Dante DMI card can be added to either a D-Rack or SD-Rack and allows the user to connect the I/O rack, via CAT5, to a standard PC or MAC.

Using the newly released DiGiCo-Control software, the user can control all the functions of t

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The multi-angle FOH speaker system offers power handling of 950 W rms. It is suitable for use as a full-range solution for all voice and music applications in large arenas, amphitheatres, stadiums and sport halls, with eight UA1 units covering an area of 360°.

In addition, the LD UNO array matches up with the V-218B 2 × 18" (1.6 kW) and VA-PS215 2 × 15" bandpass subwoofers for a more dynamic sub-bass. The uniquely-designed cabinets are made of multiplex ply and have DuraCoat LX coating, helping them stand up to the tough daily demands of touring and live applications.

According to Andrew Richardson, Managing Director of Adam Hal

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To complement the Aledin Profile, Robert Juliat will be launching the Aledin 330 LED Wash, the new, variable beam angle, LED washlight.

Aledin 330 Wash offers a choice of two colour temperatures (3500K or 5800K), a flicker-free, integrated, dimmable electronic ballast, a beam angle range from 20° - 98° and a 200mm Fresnel lens for maximum light output. Together with the Aledin Profile, the Aledin Wash provides the perfect low energy, high quality lighting solution.

Robert Juliat's LED capabilities are also extended to its followspot range: the Aledin LED followspot is an adaptation of the 575W MSD Buxi